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CHAP. VI.
Apparitions.
CYnthia [Propertius's Mistress] did ap∣pear to him after her death with the Beril-Ring on her Finger. See Propertius Eleg.—
St. Augustin [in—] affirms, that he did once see a Satyr or Demon.
The Antiquities of Oxford tell us, that St. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury did sometimes converse with an Angel, [or Nymph] at a Spring without St. Clements Parish near Oxford: as Numa Pompilius did with the Nymph Egeria. This Well was stopped up since Oxford was a Garrison.
Charles the Simple, King of France, as he was hunting in a Forest, and lost his Com∣pany, was frighted to simplicity by an Appa∣rition.
Philip Melancthon, writes, that the Ap∣parition of a Venerable Person came to him in his Study, and bade him to warn his Friend Grynaeus to depart from him as soon as he could, or else the Inquisitors would seize on him: which monitory Dream saved Grynaeus life.
Mr. Fiennes Morison in his Travels, saith, that when he was at Prague, the Appariti∣of