do, and namely three days before he go to work, and in the third day when the night is come, and when the Starrs do shine, and the element fair and clear, he shall bath himself and his fellows (if he have any) all together in a quick well-spring; Then he must be cloathed in clean white cloathes; and he must have another privy place, and bear him ink and pen, wherewith he shall write this holy Name of God Almighty in his right hand ✚ Agla ✚ and in his left hand this name ✚ 〈☐☐☐☐〉〈☐☐☐☐〉 ✚ and he must have a dry thong of a Lions or of a Harts skin, and make thereof a girdle, and write the holy names of God all about, and in the end ✚ Α & Ω. ✚ And upon his brest he must have this present figure or mark written in Virgin Parchment, as it is
here shewed. And it must be sowed upon a piece of new linnen, and so made fast upon thy brest. And if thou wilt have a fellow to work with thee, he must be appointed in the same manner. You must have also a bright knife that was never occupied, and he must write on the one side of the blade of the knife ✚
Agla ✚ and on the otherside of the knifes blade ✚
〈☐☐☐☐〉〈☐☐☐☐〉 ✚ And with the same knife he must make a circle, as hereafter followeth: the which is called
Solomons circle. When that is made, go into the circle, and close again the place, there where thou wentest in, with the same knife, and say;
Per crucis hoc signum ✚ fugiat procul omne malignum; Et per idem signum ✚ salbetur quodque benigum; By the sign of the Cross ✚ may all evil fly farre away, and by the same sign ✚ may all that is good be preserved; and make suffumigations to thy self, and to thy fellow or fellows, with Frankincense, Mastick,
Lignum Aloes: then put it in Wine, and say with good devotion, in the worship of the high God Almighty, all together, that he may defend you from all evils. And when he that is Master will close the Spirit, he shall say to∣wards the East with meek and devout devotion, these Psalms and Prayers as fol∣loweth here in order.
The two and twentieth Psalm.
O My God my God, look upon me, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farr from my health, and from the words of my complaint? And so forth to the end of the same Psalm, as it is to be found in the Book.
This Psalm also following, being the fifty one Psalm, must be said three times over, &c.
HAve mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness, according to the multi∣tude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. And so forth to the end of the same Psalm, concluding it with, Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. Then say this verse: O Lord leave not my soul with the wick∣ed; nor my life with the blood-thirsty. Then say a Pater noster, an Ave Maria, and a Credo & Ne nos inducas. O Lord shew us thy mercy, and we shall be saved. Lord hear our prayer, and let our cry come unto thee. Let us pray.
O Lord God Almighty, as thou warnedst by thine Angel, the three Kings of Cul∣len, Jasper, Melchior, and Balthasar, when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem; Jasper brought myrrh; Melchior, incense; Balthasar, gold; worship∣ping the high King of all the world, Jesus Gods Son of Heaven, the second Person in Trinity, being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell, and Lady of all the world: at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings, that they should take another way, for dread of peril, that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings,