The like doth [k]_Nazianzene_ report of _Cyprian_ before his conuersion (though some thinke it [l]was not he whose learned and religions writings are extant, and for the profession of his faith and doctrine was crowned with Martyrdome) but another of that name, toward _Iustina_, whom hee lasciuiously[m] courted, and vnlawfully lusted after. It were easie for me to instance this in many, and to adde more testimonies, but my intended purpose was, to set downe onely some few propositions, whereby the iudicious reader might be stirred vp to a deeper search, and further consideration of these things: for often they driue men to a madnesse, and other such desperate passions, that they become murtherers of themselues. But this alwayes must be kept in minde, as a granted and infallible truth, [n]That whatsoeuer the Witch doth, it receiueth his force from that society which she hath with the Diuell, who serueth her turne in effecting what she purposeth, and so they worke together as [o]associates. [Footnote k: _Oratione in laud[~e] Cypriani eandem historiã refert Nicephorus Calustus lib. 5 cap. 27._] [Footnote l: _Prudentius +peri stephanôn+ de passione Cypriani, vnus erat iuvenum doctis. artibus sinistris, fraude pudititiã perstringere. & c_] [Footnote m: _Ouid. lib. 2. de art. amand. philtra nocent animis, vimq; fauoris habent. Propertius lib. 4. in lænam quandam consuluitq; striges nostro de sanguine & in me, hippomenes fætæ semina legit equæ. Vide de his Aristotelem de natura animali[~u] lib. 6. cap. 22. Plini[~u] l. 8. c. 42._] [Footnote n: _Aug. de doctr. Christ. l. 2. c. 22. & 23._] [Footnote o: _Iaquerius in flagello hereticor[~u] fascinarior[~u], cap. 6. Martinus de Arles, p. 436._] Now concerning beasts they doe oftentimes kill them out-right, and that in sundry manner, or pine and waste them by little and little, till they be consumed. For [p]the Elements, it is an agreeing consent of all, that they can corrupt and infect them, procure tempests, to stirre vp thunder & lightning, moue violent winds, destroy the fruits of the earth: for God hath a thousand wayes to chasten disobedient man, and whole treasures full of vengeance by his Angels, Diuels, Men, Beasts. For the whole nature of things is ready to reuenge the wrong done vnto the creator. [Footnote p: _Ioh. Gerson in Trialogio Astrologiæ Theologisatæ propos. 16. Palanus in Syntagmate, l. 5. c. 13_] It were but fruitlesse labour, and ill spent, to bestow long time in confirming this so manifest a truth, and not much better then set vp a candle to giue the Sunnelight when it shineth brightest in mid-heauen: yet to satisfie those who doubt here-of, I will giue a small touch of an example or two.