[Sidenote: Sometimes Laye men beguile the Priests.] Before I procéede any further, this is also to be obserued, that plesaunt conceited fellowes, may oftentimes deceiue the priests, themselues. For when the priests did brag, that they coulde coniure Spirits and deliuer mens soules, it may be that other being wrapped in shéets, hauing vnderneth them liue coales in an earthen pot, appeared vnto priests, who by and by were persuaded they sawe saules which required their helpe to be deliuered. =Erasmus= in his =Colloquio= or talke which he intituled =Exorcismus, vel spectrum=, or a coniuration or vision, writeth howe one =Polus= maruellously deceiued a priest called =Faustus=. But there is no doubt but that priests being many times deceiued in iest by the lay men for pastimes sake, haue on the other side more often times beguiled them in earnest. [Sidenote: Men walking by night.] I haue spoken hitherto of men being awake, and now I will adde a fewe words of such as sléepe. There be many which haue such a kinde of disease, that they walke in their sléepe: which thing we reade to haue bin true in one =Theon= a =Stoicke=, and in =Pericles= seruant, who in their sléepe climed vp to the top of the house. I haue hearde of some which in their sléepe haue done that which béeing awake, they could not do by any meanes. If a man sée such a one walking in the night, either apparrelled or naked, and after here him say he was at the same time in his bed, he will straight thinke, it was his soule that he sawe, the like will he do if he heare such a one at his owne house. CHAP. XI. That many naturall things are taken to be ghoasts. [Sidenote: Fayries of the earth.]