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 haue heertofore paed in print, which hath wrought much incredulitie in harts of all men generally, inomuch that now a daies fewe thinges doo ecape be it neuer o certain, but that it is embaed by the tearm of a lye or falce reporte. In the reading of this tory, therfore I doo firt requet reformation of opinion, next patience to perue it, becaue it is publihed for examples ake, and latly to cenure thereof as reaon and widome dooth think conueniēt, conidering the ubtilty that Sathan veth to work the oules detruction, and the great matters which the accured practie of Sorcery dooth effect, the fruites whereof is death and detruction for euer, and yet in all ages practied by the reprobate and wicked of the earth, ome in one ort and ome in another euen as the Deuill giueth promie to perfourme. But of all other that euer liued, none was comparable vnto this helhound, whoe tiranny and cruelty did well declare he was of his Father the deuill, who was a murderer from the beginning, whoe life and death and mot bloody practies the dicoure following dooth make iut reporte.