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. |
A poesie in forme of a Vision | ||
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.
A poesie in forme of a Vision | ||