In a Comedie or Tragedie, we call this man =Saule=, that =Samuel=, an other =Dauid=, whereas they do but betoken and represent their personages. So saith =Virgil=, in his first booke of =Æneidos=: They wonder at =Æneas= gifts, and haue =Iulius= in admiration. And yet was it not =Iulius= or =Ascanius=, but =Cupid= feining himselfe to be =Iulius=, whereby he might the easiler pearce the heart of the ignorant Quéene, with his dart of Loue. Sainte =Augustine= in his seconde Booke and ninthe chap. _De mirabilibus scripturæ_ saieth, that holie Scripture doeth sometimes applie the verie names of thinges to the Images and similitudes of the same. Hée alleageth there this example, that the foule spirit is called =Samuel=, because hée did falsely beare =Saule= in hande, that hée was =Samuell=: whiche fraude of the Diuell, coulde no waies turne to =Samuels= reproach. For who would say, that it should be a reproach for an honest man, if some knaue would terme himselfe by his name, as if he were he himselfe. The false prophets sayde, they were true Prophets, and Gods servauntes, yea (which is more) they feined themselues to be the verie =Messias=, the Sonne of God. And that Scripture dooth not so muche as in one word make mention, that this was verie =Samuell= in deede, but rather some spirite, we must thinke that it so came to passe, for this cause, that all men by the Lawe of God might vnderstand, that Magike and enquirie of things at the dead, did much displease God. =Saule= himselfe before by the counsell and motion of =Samuel=, slewe all the Magitians that he could any where finde. And God is not accustomed in this wise to interprete Figuratiue spéeches: for many of them are soone descried by such as giue diligent héed to them. A vaine and superfluous spéech it were, if a man woulde say that is =Peter=, this is the Image of =Peter=, whiche by a Figure, is called by the name of =Peter=. [Sidenote: 1. _Cor._ 1.] [Sidenote: 1. _Cor._ 10.] [Sidenote: _Iere._ 10.] [Sidenote: _Psal._ 96.] Furthermore, holie Scripture dooth vse to speake of things, rather according to the opinion and iudgement of men, than according to the substaunce and true béeing which they haue indéede. So Iesus is called the Sonne of =Ioseph=, and =Iosephe= named his father, whereas notwithstanding, our Sauiour Christ Iesus, was borne of a chaste and vnspotted Virgine, without any helpe of man. And yet neuerthelesse many of the Iewes, imagined, that he was the Sonne of =Ioseph=. In the =1.Cor. 1.= the Gospel it selfe is named foolishnesse, because that men did account the great wisedome of God but as méere foolishnesse. So in the first Epistle to the =Corinthians=, and tenth chapter, the scripture tearmeth them gods, which be nothing lesse than so indéed. And that for this cause onely, for that the Heathen tooke them for gods, and so did worship them. Euen so the scripture doeth tearme the Diuell =Samuel=, because =Saule= thought him to be =Samuel= in very déed.