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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03207	The hierarchie of the blessed angells Their names, orders and offices the fall of Lucifer with his angells written by Tho: Heywood	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 13327; ESTC S122314	484,225	642

shooes could water tred And neuer hasard drowning The like fame Another that Othimius had to name Behinde him left Hadingus King of Danes Mounted vpon a good Steed by the raines Th' Inchanter tooke and crosse the main sea brought him Safe whilest in vaine the hot pursuer sought him Oddo the Danish Pyrat by the aid Of the like Sp'rits whole Nauies durst inuade And with his Magicke Charmes could when he please Raise mighty stormes and drowne th●m in the seas At length by one of greater practise found Aiming at others Wracke himselfe was drown'd Some Authors vnto this accursed Tribe Of watry Daemons Deluges ascribe And flux of waters Such we reade were knowne Whilest Damasus was Pope when ouerthrowne Were many cities in Sicilia And By Historiographers we vnderstand The like chanc'd in Pope Alexanders dayes In Italy afflicting diuers wayes Both losse of beasts and great depopulation In Charles the fifts time by an Inundation Happend in Holland Zeeland Friseland these Had their maritime shores drown'd by the seas In Poland neere Cracovia chanc'd the same And in one yeare if we may credit Fame In Europ besides Townes and Cities then Perisht aboue fiue hundred thousand men To these belong what we call Hydromantia Gastromantia Lacomantia Pagomantia Touching the Spirits of the Earth there bee Of diuers sorts each knowne in his degree As Genij the Domesticke gods and those They Lares call Spectars Alastores Larvae Noone-Diuels Syluanes Satyrs Fawnes And they frequ●nt the Forrests Groues and Lawnes Others th' Italians F'oletti call Paredrij there are too yet these not all Now what these Genij are Philostratus Eunapius Athenaeus Maximus With all the other Platonicks profest Them to be Sp'rits of men before deceast Who had they liv'd a good life and vnstain'd By licence of th' Infernall Pow'rs obtain'd In their owne houses to inhabit still And their posteritie to guard from ill Such they call'd Lares But all those that lead Liues wicked and debosht they being dead Wandred about the earth as Ghosts exil'd Doing all mischiefe such they Larvae stil'd And of this kinde that Spirit we may guesse Remembred in the booke of Socrates Who in the shape o● Moses did appeare The space togethe● of one compleat yeare I' th Isle of Creet persuading with the Iewes There liuing That he such a meanes would vse That if they met at a fixt day with ease He would traject them dry-foot through the seas To which they trusting by appointment meet All who that time were resident in Creet And follow their false Captaine lesse and more Ev'n to the very margent of the shore Then turning tow'rds them in a short oration Bespeakes them thus O you the chosen nation Behold as great a wonder from my hand As your fore-fathers did from Moses Wand Then with his finger points vnto a place 'Twixt them and which a Creeke ran no great space And seeming shallow All of you now fling Your selues saith he and follow me your King Into this sea swim but to yonder strand And you shall then arriue vpon a land From whence I will conduct you ev'ry man Dry-foot into a second Canaan He plungeth first they follow with one minde In hope a second Palestine to finde But hauing past their depths the rough windes blew When this Seducer straight himselfe withdrew Leaues them to ruin most of them bee'ng drown'd Some few by fish-boats sav'd he no wher● found With these the Spectars in some points assent Bee'ng tow'rds Mankinde alike maleuolent Whose in-nate malice nothing can asswage Authors of death depopulation strage By Origen they are Alastares nam'd By Zoroaster bloudy and vntam'd Concerning which the learned mens opinion Is That Abaddon hath of them dominion What time Iustinian did the Empire sway Many of these did shew themselues by day To sundry men both of good braine and sence After which follow'd a great Pestilence For to all such those Spectars did appeare It was a certaine signe their death drew neare King Alexander of that name the third That reign'd in Scotland if Boethius word May be beleev'd by match himselfe ally'de With England tooke Ioanna to his Bride Sister to the third Henry She bee'ng dead And issuelesse he after married Marg'ret his daughter Did on her beget Prince Alexander David Margaret These dying in their nonage and she too With sorrow as most thinke the King doth woo Iolanta the faire daughter as some say Vnto the great Earle of Campania Being as 't seemes most ardently inclin'd After his death to leaue some heire behind In the mid Reuels the first ominous night Of their espousals when the roome shone bright With lighted tapers the King and the Queene leading The curious Measures Lords and Ladies treading The selfe same straines the King looks backe by chance And spies a strange intruder fill the dance Namely a meere Anatomy quite bare His naked limbes both without flesh and haire As we decipher Death who stalks about Keeping true measure till the dance was out The King with all the rest afrighted stand The Spectar vanisht and then strict command Was giv'n to breake vp reuels each 'gan feare This Omen and presage disaster neere If any aske What did of this succeed The King soone ●fter falling from his Steed Vnhappily dy'de After whose death ensuing Was to the land sedition wracke and ruin The Syluanes Fawnes and Satyrs are the same The Greekes Paredrij call the Latines name Familiar Spirits who though in outward shew They threat no harme but seeme all good to owe Poore ambusht mankinde though their crafty Mines And snares do not appeare by ev'dent signes Yet with malicious hate they are infected And all their deeds and counsels are directed To make a faire and flatt'ring preparation Vnto the bodies death and soules damnation And of these Spirits as Macrobius saith The mount Pernassus in aboundance hath Neere to mount Hecta And Olaus writes The like appeare most frequently by nights And verbally deliuer kinde commends To men from their deceast and shipwrackt friends Vsing their helpe one Iohn Teutonicus By Acromaticke Magicke sported thus This Iohn was knowne a bastard and yet had Great fame for learning who in Halberstad Had for his worth admittance to a place Where none but the Nobilitie had grace To be in Commons yet it seemes so great Was his repute with them he sate and eat But yet with small content the yong men proud Of their high noble births much disallow'd His company and tooke it in great scorne To sit with one though learn'd yet basely borne And whether they were serv'd with flesh or fish His bastardy was sauce still in his dish But skil'd in hidden Arts I will thought he Some sudden means deuice henceforth to free My selfe from all their scoffes and taunts Hee then Inuites vnto his chamber those yong men Who most seem'd to oppose him feasts

so sooner done but instantly there appeared to grow out of his forehead an huge paire of Harts hornes of that height and greatnesse that it was not possible to draw his head in againe and thus he kept him for a good space to the peoples great sport and laughter But at length being released and gtowing angry and impatient of such an injurie and as it seemes dealing with a greater and more powerfull Diuel he bethought him of a more deepe and dangerous reuenge He drawes with a cole the picture of a man vpon the wall and commanded the former Magition who had before insulted ouer him to enter and hide himselfe within that Effigies But he seeing before his eyes the terrour of imminent death began to quake and tremble and beseech him on his knees to spare his life But the other inexorable injoyned him to enter there as he had commanded which hee with great vnwillingnesse being inforced to doe the wall was seene to open and giue way to his entrance and shut againe but neuer returned his body backe dead or aliue More gentle and of lesse malice were those Iudifications and deceptions of Zedechias the Iew who liued in the time of Ludovicus Pius He tossed a man into the aire and dismembred him peece-meale limbe from limbe and after gathering them together re-jointed him and made him whole and sound as at the first He seemed also to deuour and eat vp at once a cart full of hay the Carter and horses that drew it with their teeme-traces and all But in the end for poysoning Charles the Bald King of France he was drawne to pieces by foure wilde horses A certaine Lady descended from the Earles of Andegonia a prouince of France from which Family Henry the second King of England deriueth his descent was a great Inchantresse and as Polidorus testifies comming one day into the Church where the holy Sacrament was to be administred the Diuell her master snatched her vp aliue and carried her through a window her body nor any part thereof being euer seene after Iamblicus who had for his Magicke skill great estimation amongst the people at length as Eunapius hath left related despairing by reason of his former wicked courses dranke poison and so died Empedocles of Agrigentum who as Suidas saith for those black Gothicke Arts had great name and fame when as the Etesij or Easterne windes blew vehement and high insomuch that the fruits were in great danger of blasting caused certain Asses to be stript out of their skinnes and with diuers vnknowne charms and murmurations vttered commanded them to cease their tempestuous gusts To which they seemed to obey insomuch that he was called Ventorum Coactor i. The Tamer of the Windes Of himselfe hethus boastingly sung Pharmaca queis pellas morbos tristemque senectam Percipies quae cuncta tibi communico soli Compescesque truces ventorum rite procellas Ex orto insanis c. ¶ Thus Englished Med'cines from me diseases how to cure And make sad Age in strength long to endure Thou shalt receiue with things of higher rate Which solely I 'le to thee communicate The stormy Windes thou shalt command to cease Lest their mad gusts destroy the Earths encrease I 'le teach thee how the riuers to reclaime And force their streams to turne from whence they came Calmes from the midst of tempests thou shalt bring Cause timely showres in Haruest or in Spring And at thy pleasure make the Welkin cleare Or if thou call'st on dead Ghosts they shall heare But what was the end of this great Boaster notwithstanding his practise and proficience his profound learning and iudgement his great respect that he had from the Philosophers of his time and the reuerend opinion conceiued of the multitude yet this great Artist ended his dayes most wrerchedly in the sulphure flames of AEtna In a certaine part of Germany we reade of a Circulator or jugler who amongst many other his illusions standing in the midst of a throng of people he would aduance himselfe into the aire and in his flight a woman hold him fast by the heele and behind her a yong childe hold by one of her heeles and thus they would sport in the aire many houres together But notwithstanding all his agilitie and cunning being brought within the lapse of the Law for certain sorceries and witchcrafts he was burnt at a stake being then forsooke of the Diuell when he had most need of his aid Nicetas reporteth of a Sorcerer called Michael Sidecita This Fellow sporting with others vpon the battlements of the great Imperiall Palace in Constantinople in that part that prospects vpon the water he spied a Lighter or Boat which was laden with pots pipkins portingers dishes and all kinde of earthen vessels some plaine some curiously painted with diuers colours and to shew some sport with those Courtiers that were in his company by whispering some Magicke charme to himselfe hee caused the owner of the boat suddenly to arise from his seat and with his oare neuer cease beating the brittle Vessels vntill hee had almost pownded them to pouder Which done hee was perceiued to recollect himselfe and after to wring his hands and pluck himselfe by the beard and to expresse signes of extraordinarie sorrow And after being demanded What madnesse was in him to make such spoyle of his wares as where before they were all vendible now to make them worth nothing Hee sadly answered That as hee was busie at his oare hee espied an huge ougly Serpent crawling toward him and ready to deuour him who neuer ceased to threaten his life till hee had broken all his merchandise to pieces and then suddenly vanished This the Conjurer did to make his friends sport but he was suddenly after drowned in earnest Gulielmus Nubrigensis writeth of an English Magition called Eumus who was likewise an Heretique and was wont to shew the like prestigious trickes to the people He could so effascinat the eyes of the spectators that he seemed to feast great Princes lords and Barons at his table furnished with store of seruitors and waiters extemporarie dishes with delicates being brought in and all the rarieties that could be imagined with waiting-gentlewomen of extraordinarie beauty and feature attending the Court Cupboords being richly furnished with siluer and guilt plate Hee would likewise shew them pleasant and delightfull gardens decked with all sweet and fragrant floures with greene Orchards planted with trees that bare all manner of ripe fruits euen in the depth of Winter Yet he that could do all these things could nor preserue his owne life for being condemned by the Councell of Rhemes he suffered by fire notwithstanding his many and loud inuocations on the Diuell for helpe to deliuer him from that torture Scafius a notorious Sorcerer in the jurisdiction of Berne would brag in all places where he came That to escape the persecution of his enemies he could at any time