himselfe cutting his lip, could by no meanes restraine the flowing blood, vntill he charmed it, and then presently stanched:  but dare not affirm whether his owne confidence, or the words did make this restraint.  I might adde to these, that infallible meanes (as is supposed) by finding out a thiefe with a Siue and a payre of Sheares, with that coniunction [y]_Dies, mies, Iescet, &c._ and the rest of such sencelesse and monstrous tearmes, a Riddle that Oedipus himselfe could not vnfolde.  But because this conceit of charming hath ouer-spread it selfe in this Sunneset of the world, and challengeth a lawfull approbation from the authority and practise of ancient [z]Physitians, yea and found some [aa]Diuines to be their Patrons respectiuely, and with clauses of mitigation, I thinke it very necessarie to shew the vnlawfulness thereof.  Wherefore,

[Footnote n:  Of these characters and Images, Iohn Gerson de erroribus circa art[~e] magicam dicto 3. litera O. Martinus de Arles de superstitionibus.  Binfeldius in comentar. ad titulum Codicis de maleficis & mathematicis; and examples Hector Boetius l. 2. historia Scotic[e,], de rege Duffo, and Thuanus lately in the reign of Charles the ninth king of France in the 57.  Books of the historie of his times.]

    [Footnote o:  Binfeldius in titulum codicis de maleficis &
    mathematicis.  Martinus de Arles in tractatu de superstitionibus.]

    [Footnote p:  Spartianus in vita Antonini Caracallae.]

    [Footnote q:  Ammianus Marcellinus lib. 19. non procul a fine, &
    lib. 29.]

    [Footnote r:  Lampridius in Antonino Diadumeo.]

    [Footnote s:  Balsamon in commentarijs ad conc. 
    Constantinopolitanum in Trullo cap. 61.]

    [Footnote t:  Stromateon libr. 1. gestauit +duo daktolious
    gegoeteumenous ouk apothano de homos dolophonetheis kai toi
    prosemenantos tou psophou.+]

    [Footnote u:  Odissea 19. vulnus Vlyssis +Autolukou philoi paides
    desan epistamenos epaoide de haima kelainon echethon.+ Cato de re
    rustica.  Plin. li. 28. ca. 2.  Bodinus Daemonomanias l. 2. c. 2.]

    [Footnote x:  De subtilitate libr. 18.]

    [Footnote y:  Georgius Pictorius in epitome de Magia. cap. 21.]

[Footnote z:  Vide Ritherhusium in notis ad Malchum de vita Pythagorae.  Alexander Trallian. libr. 10. de colico affectu, in fine.  Serenus Sammonicus de pr[e,]ceptis medicinae cap. de Hemitritaeo depellenda.  Ioh.  Langius epistolarum medicinalium lib. 1 epist. 33. & 34.]

    [Footnote aa:  Aquinas in summa secundae quest. 96. articulo 4.]