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A poesie in forme of a Vision

briefly inueying against the moste hatefull, and prodigious Artes of Necromancie, Witchcraft, Sorcerie, Incantations, and diuers other detestable and deuilishe practises, dayly used under colour of Judiciall Astrologie. Compiled in Metre by I. H.

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Go novv to thy coniurers, and to the multitude of thy vvyches, vvhom thou hast bene aquaynted vvith all from thy youthe, yf they maye here the or strengthen the. Thou hast hetherto had many counsels of them. So let the heauen gasers and beholders of Starres , come on novve and delyuer the: yea and let them shevve, vvhen these nevv



thinges shall come vppon the. Beholde they shall be lyke stravve , vvhyche yf it be kyndled vvyth fyre, no man maye ryd it for the vehemencye of the flame. And yet it giueth no sinders to vvarme a man by, nor cleare fyre to sytte by. Euen so shall they be vvhome from thy youthe thou haste frequented. Euery one shall shevve the hys erroneus vvay, yet shall none of them defende the.

ESAYE. 47.