Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
Black spiritts, and white; Red spiritts and gray;
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.
Titty, Tiffin, keepe it stiff in;
Fire-drake, Puckey, make it luckey;
Liard, Robin, you must bob in.
Round, around, around, about, about.
All ill come running in, all good keepe out!
1 WITCH. Heer’s the blood of a bat.
HEC. Put in that; oh put in that.
2 WITCH. Heer’s libbard’s bane.
HEC. Put in againe.
1 WITCH. The juice of toad; the oile of adder.
2 WITCH. Those will make the yonker madder.
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HEC. Put in; there’s all, and rid the stench.
FIRE. Nay, heer’s three ounces of the red-haired wench.
ALL. Round, around, around, about, about.
All ill come running in, all good keepe out!
HEC. So, soe, enough: into the vessell with it.
There, ’t hath the true perfection: I am so light
At any mischief; there’s no villany
But is a tune methinkes.
FIRE. A Tune! ’tis to the tune of dampnation then, I warrant
You that that song hath a villainous burthen.
HEC. Come my sweet sisters; let the aire strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moone.
_Here they daunce. The Witches daunce and Ex{t}._’
After this introduction to and instruction from the Devil, the novice has
to do homage to her master. Still quoting Reginald Scot:
‘Sometimes their homage, with their oth and bargaine is receiued for a
certeine number of yeares; sometimes for euer. Sometimes it consisteth in
the deniall of the whole faith, sometimes in part. The first is, when the
soule is absolutelie yeelded to the Diuell and hell fier; the other is,
when they have but bargained to obserue certeine ceremonies and statutes
of the Church; as to conceale faults at shrift, to fast on sundaies, &c.
And this is doone, either by oth, protestation of words, or by obligation
in writing, sometimes sealed with wax, sometimes signed with bloud,
sometimes by kissing the Diuell’s bare buttocks; as did a Doctor called
_Edlin_, who (as _Bodin_ saith) was burned for witchcraft.
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