Parr.3.Setl:.2. Love-Melmcholy. ~ Memb.x.Subf.r; 434 & 24. andfome others ll:oudy deny ir, that rhc divellhath any carnall - - -copulation with women, that the Divell takes no pleafure in fuch facts they be meere phamafies all fuch relations of Tncuhi, S11ccubi, lies and tales: But A1111in.lib.r5 .duivit. Dei doth acknowledge ir, Eraftm le ::'!:t:ilt£:i;.Lamiu,Iacob'!' Sprenger and his colleagues :X~· 'Zanchim cap. r6.lib. zmaginarionir 4.d~ oper. Det. D.mdziJm tn Arift. de Anzma_lzb. 2. T_ext. 29. com. 30 • .,;m,!.ferre Bodm lzb.2,C:7· &. P.racelfm,a gre.atc~amp!On ofthts Tenent amongll: "b'/ft,'"' the rell:, whtch gtve fundry pecuhar mfiances, by many tdlimonies "' ' """"'· proofes and confe!lions, evince it•. Hec1or BoethiM< in his Scottifil hifio= ry, hath tbree orfoure fuch examples, which Cardan confirmes out of him lib.r 6.cap.43• offuch as have had familiar company many years with them, and that in the habit ofmen and women. Philoflratm in his fourth booke devita .Apollonii, hath a memo~able infiance in this kinde, whiclil may not omit, ofoneMenippm Lycim a young man 25. yeares ofage,thatgoing betwixt Cenchre,u and Corinth, met fuch aphanrafme in the habit ofa faicegendewoman, which taking him by the hand, car. ried himhome to her houfe, in the fuburbs of Corymh, and told him lhe • ,.,,..,.m was a Phrrnifian by birth,and if he would tarry with her, u he f/•ould htar :,:;;•;;~~·· her ft~g ~nd pl•y,and drink fuh n>ine tU never any dranke,& noma~jhortld quale aoua motif! htm;but jbe hemgfozre And /qvely wortld /rve and dye rrmh htm,that ~ij!t:;r:;:;iu n>as.foireand lovely toheh6ld, The yo~og manaPhilofophcr, ?therwife rurbabir nu- fbtd an<li dtfcreet, able to moderate h1s pa!lions ,though not tlm oflove, lu.,pulcbta tarried with her awhile to his great content, and at bft married her, tc> ::;,~;;1~~:' whofe weddi~gamongfi other guefis came Apollonim1 ':'ha by fome .,am,($' mo· probable conJeCtures, found her out to be a ferpenr, a Lamta,and that all riar. ) her (urniturc;, was like Tantalm gold defcnbed by f!omer, no fubfrance bur mcerc illufions. Whet:~ fhe faw her felfe defcned, llte wept,at:~d de. fired Apollonim to be filent, but he would not be moved,and thereupon, %0rlulti •- Shte, Plate, Houfe,andall that was in it vanilhed in a~infbric: x man1 llumhoc ~g- thoufands took notice ofthu fatl,for tt w,u done m the mzdJI ofGreece. SanfJ'IJire, quod bin in his comment on the I oth of Ovrds mctamorphofis, at the tale of in me~aGr~· orpheus celleth us ofa Gentleman of Bavaria, that for many months to. j;:.&' "'" gether b~wai!ed theloffe of~is deare wife? at length the Divell. in her habit came and comforted htm, and told h1m becaufe he was fo tmpor. tunatefor her, tl1atlhe wouldcomeand livewithhim&gaine, on that condition he would be new married, .ncver fwear and blafpbeme as he U· y Xcm '"""'fed formerly todoe,for if he did, lhelhould begone:Y Hevowedit,mardomefticam, ried, andlivedwith her ,Jhe brought him children, andgoverned hi& houft, ;[;;[;~;fo;fr;.. httt ;,,.. flill pale andfod; ,and fo contim,ed, ti!i one ilay filling out n>ithhim, beror.fimper hefc!!ajwwi'ng,Jbe vanifbedlherettpoll, andrvasn~vera_(ttr (cene. •This tamtn ~iftu I have heard, faith Sabine, from perjons ofgoodcreatt, rvhteh told me thAt ':i.~~~~divi the D11keo{Bavaria did tell it fora certainty tothe Duke~[Saxony, One d multi< ftde more I will relate out ofF/orilegm,adannu r o58, an honefi hill:orian of p.~::.t~~,ar' our nation, becaufe he tellcth it fa confidently, as a thing in thofe daies Jucem B•~•- talked of all over Ettrope:A young Gentleman of .Rome the fame day that ri2eadem re- he was married, after dinner with the bride and his fnends went awalk- :',!!;~;;~ ing into the fields, and cowards evening. tO the Tennis-Court to recreate veru. himfelfe; whilft he played, he put his nng upon the finger ofrtnfl4 flattta,
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