. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . to tell you fimply my opinion in this, if any fuch thing hath beene, Itake it to haue proceeded but of a naturall fuper-abundance of Melancho-ly , which as we reade, that it hath made fbme thinke themfelues pitchers,and fome horfes, and fbme one kinde of beaft or other, fb fuppof e I that ithath fo viciat the imagination and memory of fbme, as per lucida interuaUa,it hath fo highly occupied them, that they haue thought themfelues veryWoolfcs ind
. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . to tell you fimply my opinion in this, if any fuch thing hath beene, Itake it to haue proceeded but of a naturall fuper-abundance of Melancho-ly , which as we reade, that it hath made fbme thinke themfelues pitchers,and fome horfes, and fbme one kinde of beaft or other, fb fuppof e I that ithath fo viciat the imagination and memory of fbme, as per lucida interuaUa,it hath fo highly occupied them, that they haue thought themfelues veryWoolfcs indeed at thefe times- and fo haue counterfeited their actions ingoing on their hands and feete, preaffinp; to deuoure women and barnes,! righting and (batching with all the towne dogges,and in vf ing fuch like o-therbrutifh actions, and fb to become beads by a ftrongapprehenfion, as L 3 lS[ebu- n6 T)£monologie» Third Booke. Daniel 4. Luke ij. Too i. Nebuchad-ne^ar was feuen yccres: but as to their hailing and hiding ortheir hard and fchelly Quiches, I take that to be but eiked, by vncertainereport, the author of all lies. C H A P. I I. A R G The defcription of the next twokinds of Spirits, thereof the one foJowes outward*ly, the other pojfeffes inwardly theperfons that they trouble: Thatjince allpropke*cies and *vifions are noT» ceafed, all fririts that appeare in theje formes are gttilL Philom forward now to the relt of thefe kinds of fpirits. Ep 1. As to the next two kindes, that is, either thefethat outwardly trouble and follow fbmeperfbns, or elle in-wardly poifeile them,I wil conioine them inone,becaufeaswell the cauies arealike in the perfbns that they areperrnit-ted to trouble- as alio the wayes whereby they may be remedied and Whatkindeofperlons are they that vfe to be ib troubled?Ep 1. Two kindes in fpeciall, either fuch as being guiltie of grieuousoffences, Godpunilhes by that horrible kinde of icourge; or elle beingperfbns of the bell; natur
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