Now since yee haue satisfied me nowe so fullie, concerning _Magie_ or _Necromancie_ I will pray you to do the like in _Sorcerie_ or _Witchcraft_. EPI. That fielde is likewise verie large: and althought in the mouthes and pennes of manie, yet fewe knowes the trueth thereof, so wel as they beleeue themselues, as I shall so shortely as I can, make you (God willing) as easelie to perceiue. PHI. But I pray you before ye goe further, let mee interrupt you here with a shorte digression: which is, that manie can scarcely beleeue that there is such a thing as Witch-craft. Whose reasons I wil shortely alleage vnto you, that ye may satisfie me as well in that, as ye haue done in the rest. For first, whereas the Scripture seemes to prooue Witchcraft to be, by diuerse examples, and speciallie by sundrie of the same, which ye haue alleaged, it is thought by some, that these places speakes of _Magicians_ and _Necromancers_ onlie, & not of Witches. As in special, these wise men of _Pharaohs_, that counterfeited _Moyses_ miracles, were _Magicians_ say they, & not Witches: As likewise that _Pythonisse_ that _Saul_ consulted with: And so was _Simon Magus_ in the new Testament, as that very stile importes. Secondlie, where ye would oppone the dailie practicque, & confession of so manie, that is thought likewise to be but verie melancholicque imaginations of simple rauing creatures. Thirdly, if Witches had such power of Witching of folkes to death, (as they say they haue) there had bene none left aliue long sence in the world, but they: at the least, no good or godlie person of whatsoeuer estate, coulde haue escaped their deuilrie.