my intended purpose was, to set downe onely some few propositions,
whereby the iudicious reader might be stirred vp to a deeper search, and
further consideration of these things: for often they driue men to a
madnesse, and other such desperate passions, that they become murtherers
of themselues. But this alwayes must be kept in minde, as a granted and
infallible truth, [n]That whatsoeuer the Witch doth, it receiueth his
force from that society which she hath with the Diuell, who serueth her
turne in effecting what she purposeth, and so they worke together as
[o]associates.

[Footnote k: _Oratione in laud[~e] Cypriani eandem historiã refert
Nicephorus Calustus lib. 5 cap. 27._]

[Footnote l: _Prudentius +peri stephanôn+ de passione Cypriani,
vnus erat iuvenum doctis. artibus sinistris, fraude pudititiã
perstringere. & c_]

[Footnote m: _Ouid. lib. 2. de art. amand. philtra nocent animis,
vimq; fauoris habent. Propertius lib. 4. in lænam quandam
consuluitq; striges nostro de sanguine & in me, hippomenes fætæ
semina legit equæ. Vide de his Aristotelem de natura animali[~u]
lib. 6. cap. 22. Plini[~u] l. 8. c. 42._]

[Footnote n: _Aug. de doctr. Christ. l. 2. c. 22. & 23._]

[Footnote o: _Iaquerius in flagello hereticor[~u] fascinarior[~u],
cap. 6. Martinus de Arles, p. 436._]

Now concerning beasts they doe oftentimes kill them out-right, and that
in sundry manner, or pine and waste them by little and little, till they