towards the lande, cryed out as he had heard, that the great God =Pan= was deceased: Hée had scant ended those words, when immediatly there followed a great groning, not of one man, but of many, being admixt as it were with great admiration. And because many were present in the ship, (they said) the same hereof was spéedely spred abroad at _Rome_, and =Thamus= sent by =Tiberius= yͤ Emperour, who gaue so much credit vnto the matter, that he diligently enquired, and asked who that =Pan= was. The learned men whome he had in great number about him, supposed that =Pan= was he, who was the sonne of =Mercurie= and =Penelope=, &c. [Sidenote: De preparatione Euang. li.5.chap.9.] [Sidenote: Paulus Marsus.] These and such like things, (=Eusebius= who also reciteth this historie) affirmeth to haue chaunced in that time of =Tiberius=, in the which Christ being conuersant amongst men, expelled all maner of diuels from the societie of them. Other most godly professours of our Religion, affirme, (as namely =Paulus Marsus=, in his Annotations vppon the first of =Ouids Fasti=) that this voyce was heard out of _Paxe_, the very same night ensuing the day wherein our Lorde suffered, in the 19. yeare of =Tiberius=, which was the same yeare that Christ was crucified in: by the whiche voyce being vttered in a wildernesse of solitary rockes, it was declared that our Lord and God had suffered for vs. For the word =Pan= in Greeke, signifieth all: and then the Lord of al the world was crucified. He addeth moreouer, that =Theodosius= doth say, that the _Archadians_ doo worship this God, calling him τὸν τῆς ὔλης κύριον, meaning thereby to signifie a Lorde and Ruler, not of words, but of all manner of materiall substances: whose power is suche, that it is able to create the essence and substaunce of all bodies, whether that they be heauenly, or earthly. And albeit he referre this vnto the Sunne, yet if a man marke diligently, his mysteries haue a higher meaning, &c. [Sidenote: Hunting of Diuels.] Hereunto belongeth those thinges which are reported touching the chasing or hunting of diuels, and also of the daunces of dead men, which are of sundry sortes. I haue heard of some which haue auouched, that they haue séene them. No man is able to rehearse all the shapes wherein spirits haue appeared, for the diuell, who for the most part is the worker of these things, can (as the Poets faine of =Proteus=) chaunge himselfe into all shapes and fashions. These walking spirites sometimes stoppe the way before men as they trauell, and leade them out of their way, and put them in suche great feare, that sometimes they become grayheaded in one night. I remember I haue heard the like historie of my olde friende =Iohn Willing=, a godly and learned man, of one in the Countie of _Hannow_, who not many yeares ago, méeting with a walkyng spirite in the night season, was so much altered, that at his returning home, his owne Daughters knewe him not.