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Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule].
- Gaule, John, 1604?-1687
- Date:
- 1652
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fide with fome of his companions askt them what they would give him, and he would make the Boatman (that then paffed: by with a load of earthen veflels ) to break all his own wares, with his own Oare > Something they promifed him, and he- muttered a few words, and it cameto pafie accordingly. The man being askt after that, why he was fo mad as to break his wares ? anfwered, he thought he faw before him anugly great Serpent ready to devoure him, which ftill crept neerer to him’ the more he ftruck at ic, and when all his pots were broken in pieces then it vanifhed.. For this and other ridiculous pernici- ous tricks,he was férved as. Araon was, fe» had his eyes put out ; an apt punithment for all peepers,and Star-gazers, In vain was all che Pagan-reformation of Magick and Aftro- logie. For they put the Artis or practitioner away with one hand,and puli’d them to them with another: witnefle the edi&s of A uguftassTiberins Nero, Vitellins, Domitian,&c, and their own repealing a&s, and efpecially the Senate that banithed ALaritha the Syria prophetefle : and-yet a little after retained and im- braced Batabacus a predi@ing diviner. The Hiftertan therefore faid wel and truly on both parts. This kind of men,treacherous to Potentates, and delufive to all confalters and confiders, are alwaies inhibited our City,and yet alwaies retained in it. I fay no more of Imperiall edi&s : nor of thof after the Emperours became Ghriftian ; nor of provinciall Lawes, nor of municipal] Statutes; nor of generall Councels , nor of Ecé clefiafticall Canons; nor of Fathers fentences, &c. All thefé are fufficiently colle&ed againft them. | onely conclude with an animadverfion to our own Countreymien: = Se aN ANS SBS, Z < : ar ae, - - a” ARS CANS * e = ae Ww) S ER NGS eet Oe 3 #, SBS io pau Ss 2 3 ted ~~ Nod Liny (writing of Magick) faith, that in his daies the Art ~ a” thereof was highly honoured by the Sritaines,and the peo: ple of chat Nation fo deeply devoted thereunto,and the praQtis fes of it performed with fach complements of all ceremonies, that a man would think, the Perftans had learned all their ma- gickskill fromthem. And in truth ourown hiftories report, that the firft Ruférs of this Land, were Magicians, Aftrologers, Diviners, (fachas were Sansotbes, Magus,Sarron,Druis; Bards) and that under acolour to teach men the knowledge of the Stara:they. brought men to the. worthip of the Stars. Yea, & that: they: yy . ax - NN = jiwe = MS hike FER atae aN Ry he RS SAS yo ~ Se 4 Re its ARN efile = “ARN ul « FAR Ma A \S ae fi«* Af \* nfke ZAIN * fd 4 N+ & Aa a? AN. chk at 4, N](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30328962_0002_0425.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
