or lively feeling into a body of gold, silver, bread, or wax, as is ima∣gined? If either priests, devils, or witches could so do, the divine pow∣er should be checked and outfaced by magicall cunning, and Gods crea∣tures made servile to a witches pleasure. What is not to be brought to passe by these incantations, if that be true which is attributted to witches? and yet they are women that never went to schoole in their lives, nor had any teachers: and therefore without art or learning; poore, and therefore not able to make any provision of metals or stones, &c. where∣by to bring to passe strange matters, by natural magicke; old and stiffe, and therefore not nimble-handed to deceive your eye with legierdemaine; heavy, and commonly lame, and therefore unapt to flie in the aire; or to dance with the fairies; sad, melancholike, sullen, and miserable, and therefore it should be unto them (Invita Minerva) to bancket or dance with Minerva; or yet with Herodias, as the common opinion of all wri∣ters herein is. On the other side, we see they are so malicious and spite∣full, that if they by themselves, or by their devils, could trouble the e∣lements, we should never have fair weather. If they could kill men, children, or cattel, they would spare none; but would destroy and kill whole coun∣tries and housholds. If they could transferre corne (as is affirmed) from their neighbours field into their owne, none of them would be poore, none other should be rich. If they could transforme themselves and o∣thers (as it is most constantly affirmed) oh what a number of apes and owls should there be of us! If Incubus could beget Merlins among us, we should have a jolly many of cold prophets.