There was (saith he) a noble Gentlewoman at _Lions_, that being in bed with a lover of hirs, suddenlie in the night arose up, and lighted a candle: which when she had done, she tooke a box of ointment, wherewith she annointed her bodie; and after a few words spoken, she was carried awaie. Hir bedfellow seeing the order hereof, lept out of his bed, tooke the candle in his hand, and sought for the ladie round about the chamber, and in everie corner thereof. But though he could not find hir, yet did he find hir box of ointment: and being desirous to know the vertue thereof, besmeered himselfe therewith, even as he perceived hir to have done before. And although he were not so superstitious, as to use anie words to helpe him forward in his busines, yet by the vertue of that ointment (saith _Bodin_) he was immediatlie conveied to _Lorreine_, into the assemblie of witches. Which when he sawe, he was abashed, and said; In the name of God, what make I heere? And upon those words the whole assemblie vanished awaie, and left him there alone starke naked; and so was he faine to returne to _Lions_. But he had so good a conscience (for you may perceive by the first part of the historie, he was a verie honest man) that he accused his true lover for a witch, and caused hir to be burned. But as for his adulterie, neither _M. Mal._ nor _Bodin_ doo once so much as speake in the dispraise thereof. ♦_J. Bod. lib. 2. de dæmonomania. cap. 4._♦ ♦This agreeth not with their interpretation, that saie, this is onlie done by vertue of the legue; nor yet to them that referre it unto words: quoth nota.♦ It appeareth throughout all _Bodins_ booke, that he is sore offended with _Cornelius Agrippa_, and the rather (as I suppose) bicause the said _C. Agrippa_ recanted that which _Bodin_ mainteineth, who thinketh he could worke wonders by magicke, and speciallie by his blacke dog. It should seeme he had prettie skill in the art of divination. For though he wrote before _Bodin_ manie a yeare, yet uttereth he these words in his booke _De vanitate scientiarum_: A certeine French protonotarie (saith he) a lewd fellow and a coosener, hath written a certeine fable or miracle done at _Lions_, _&c._ What _Bodin_ is, I knowe not, otherwise than by report; but I am certeine this his tale is a fond fable: and _Bodin_ saith it was performed at _Lions_; and this man (as I understand) by profession is a civill lawier. ♦_C. Agrippa. cap. 51._♦ The sixt Chapter. _A disproofe of their assemblies, and of their bargaine._