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52 the curing of diſeaſes, but it happened that there was ſome difference betwixt him and a neighbour of his, a carpenter, who ſo exaſperated him by ſome urging words, that in a few days after he cauſed the poor carpenter, by his magical arts, to fall into grievous diſeaſe: the poor carpenter ſent for this magician, and intreated him to help him in his extremity: the magician, under pretence of friendſhip, though with inward deſign of revenge, gave him a potion compoſed of ſuch venomous herbs and roots that the man by taking it ſoon after died; whereupon the carpenter's wife accuſed the magician of murdering her huſband, and the cauſe is heard before the ſenate of Ibena, who, upon examination of all circumſtances, cauſed him to confeſs the murder, and many other villanies; for which he was faſtened to a ſtake, and burnt to death.—Beard's Theatre.

XV. Delrio, in his magical diſcourſes, gives this relation: Two magicians met together in the Queen of England's court, as I have it from unqueſtioned witneſſes; theſe two agreed, that in any one thing they ſhould infallibly obey one another; the one therefore commands the other to thruſt his head out of the caſement of a window, which he had no ſooner done, but a large pair of ſtag's horns were ſeen planted on his forehead, to the great pleaſure of the ſpectators, who joked upon him with a thouſand abuſes and mocks; he reſenting the diſgrace, and thirſting after revenge, when his turn came to be obeyed, he with a charcoal drew the lineaments of a man upon the wall, and then commanded the ſame magician to ſtand under that picture, that the wall ſhould immediately give place to receive him; the other apprehensive of the extreme danger he was in, began to beſeech him that