himselfe cutting his lip, could by no meanes restraine the flowing blood, vntill he charmed it, and then presently stanched: but dare not affirm whether his owne confidence, or the words did make this restraint. I might adde to these, that infallible meanes (as is supposed) by finding out a thiefe with a Siue and a payre of Sheares, with that coniunction [y]_Dies, mies, Iescet, &c._ and the rest of such sencelesse and monstrous tearmes, a Riddle that _Oedipus_ himselfe could not vnfolde. But because this conceit of charming hath ouer-spread it selfe in this Sunneset of the world, and challengeth a lawfull approbation from the authority and practise of ancient [z]Physitians, yea and found some [aa]Diuines to be their Patrons respectiuely, and with clauses of mitigation, I thinke it very necessarie to shew the vnlawfulness thereof. Wherefore, [Footnote n: Of these characters and Images, _Iohn Gerson de erroribus circa art[~e] magicam dicto 3. litera O. Martinus de Arles de superstitionibus. Binfeldius in cõmentar. ad titulum Codicis de maleficis & mathematicis;_ and examples _Hector Boetius l. 2. historia Scotic[e,], de rege Duffo_, and _Thuanus_ lately in the reign of _Charles_ the ninth king of France in the 57. Books of the historie of his times.] [Footnote o: _Binfeldius in titulum codicis de maleficis & mathematicis. Martinus de Arles in tractatu de superstitionibus._] [Footnote p: _Spartianus in vita Antonini Caracallæ._] [Footnote q: _Ammianus Marcellinus lib. 19. non procul a fine, & lib. 29._] [Footnote r: _Lampridius in Antonino Diadumeo._] [Footnote s: _Balsamon in commentarijs ad conc. Constantinopolitanum in Trullo cap. 61._] [Footnote t: _Stromateon libr. 1. gestauit_ +duo daktôlious gegoêteumenous ouk apothanô de homôs dolophonêtheis kai toi prosêmênantos tou psophou.+] [Footnote u: _Odissea 19. vulnus Vlyssis_ +Autolukou philoi paides dêsan epistamenôs epaoidê de haima kelainon echethon.+ _Cato de re rustica. Plin. li. 28. ca. 2. Bodinus Dæmonomanias l. 2. c. 2._] [Footnote x: _De subtilitate libr. 18._] [Footnote y: _Georgius Pictorius in epitome de Magia. cap. 21._] [Footnote z: _Vide Ritherhusium in notis ad Malchum de vita Pythagoræ. Alexander Trallian. libr. 10. de colico affectu, in fine. Serenus Sammonicus de pr[e,]ceptis medicinæ cap. de Hemitritæo depellenda. Ioh. Langius epistolarum medicinalium lib. 1 epist. 33. & 34._] [Footnote aa: _Aquinas in summa secundæ quest. 96. articulo 4._]