to be a Witch my selfe, or at the least would
faine sweare your selfe prentise to that craft: Alwaies as I may, I shall
shortlie satisfie you, in that kinde of conjurations, which are conteined
in such bookes, which I call the Deuilles Schoole: There are foure
principall partes; the persons of the conjurers; the action of the
conjuration; the wordes and rites vsed to that effect; and the Spirites
that are conjured. Ye must first remember to laye the ground, that I tould
you before: which is, that it is no power inherent in the circles, or in
the holines of the names of God blasphemouslie vsed: nor in whatsoeuer
rites or ceremonies at that time vsed, that either can raise any infernall
spirit, or yet limitat him perforce within or without these circles. For
it is he onelie, the father of all lyes, who hauing first of all
prescribed that forme of doing, feining himselfe to be commanded &
restreined thereby, wil be loath to passe the boundes of these
injunctiones; aswell thereby to make them glory in the impiring ouer him
(as I saide before:) As likewise to make himselfe so to be trusted in
these little thinges, that he may haue the better commoditie thereafter,
to deceiue them in the end with a tricke once for all; I meane the
euerlasting perdition of their soul & body. Then laying this ground, as I
haue said, these conjurationes must haue few or mo in number of the
persones conjurers (alwaies passing the singuler number) according to the
qualitie of the circle, and forme of apparition. Two principall thinges
cannot well in that errand be wanted: holie-water (whereby the Deuill
mockes the _Papistes_) and some present of a liuing thing vnto him. There
ar likewise certaine seasons, dayes and houres, that they obserue in this
purpose: These things being all readie, and prepared, circles are made
triangular, quadrangular, round, double or single, according to the forme
of apparition that they craue. But to speake of the diuerse formes of the
circles, of the innumerable characters and crosses that are within and
without, and out-through the same, of the diuers formes of apparitiones,
that that craftie spirit illudes them with, and or all such particulars in
that action, I remit it to ouer-manie that haue busied their heades in
describing of the same; as being but curious, and altogether vnprofitable.
And this farre onelie I touch, that when the conjured Spirit appeares,
which will not be while after manie circumstances, long prai