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 Wherefore if his Book be Writ only to prove there is no such thing as a Witch that Covenants in Parchment with the Devil by the Advice of a Lawyer, and is Really and Carnally turned into a Dog, Cat, or Hare, &c. and with carnal Lips sucked by the Devil, and is one with whom the Devil lies Carnally; the Scope thereof is manifestly impertinent, when neither Dr. Casaubon, nor any one else holds any such thing. But as for the true and adequate Notion of a Witch or Wizard, such as at first I described, his Arguments all of them are too too weak and impertinent, as to the disproving the Existence of such a Witch as this, who betwixt his Deceivers, Impostors and Melancholists on one Hand, and those gross Witches he describes on the other Hand, goes away shere as a Hare in a green Balk betwixt two Lands of Corn, none of his Arguments reaching her, or getting the sight of her, himself in the mean time standing on one side amongst the Deceivers and Impostors, his Book, as to the main Design he drives at being a meer Cheat and Impostor,

C. C. C. May 25,