♦At the alps in Arcadia.♦ ♦_Card. de Var. rerum. lib. 15 cap. 80._♦ ♦_August. Lib. 18. de civit. Dei._♦ —————————————————————————————_ô quàm Credula mens hominis, & erectæ fabulis aures!_ [*]_Good Lord! how light of credit is the waveriug mind of man! How unto tales and lies his eares attentive all they can?_ ♦[*] [Rom.]♦ ♦_Englished by Abraham Fleming._♦ Generall councels, and the popes canons, which _Bodin_ so regardeth, doo condemne and pronounce his opinions in this behalfe to be absurd; and the residue of the witchmongers, with himselfe in the number, to be woorsse than infidels. And these are the verie words of the canons, which else-where I have more largelie repeated; Whosoever beleeveth, that anie creature can be made or changed into better or woorsse, or transformed into anie other shape, or into anie other similitude, by anie other than by God himselfe the creator of all things, without all doubt is an infidell, and woorsse than a pagan. And therewithall this reason is rendered, to wit: bicause they attribute that to a creature, which onelie belongeth to God the creator of all things. ♦_Canon. 26. quæ. 5. episcopi ex con. acquir. &c._♦ The fourth Chapter. _A summarie of the former fable, with a refutation thereof, after due examination of the same._ Concerning the veritie or probabilitie of this enterlude, betwixt _Bodin_, _M. Mal._ the witch, the asse, the masse, the merchants, the inquisitors, the tormentors, &c: First I woonder at the miracle of transubstantiation: Secondlie at the impudencie of _Bodin_ and _James Sprenger_, for affirming so grosse a lie, devised beelike by the knight of the _Rhodes_, to make a foole of _Sprenger_, and an asse of _Bodin_: Thirdlie, that the asse had no more wit than to kneele downe and hold up his forefeete to a peece of starch or flowre, which neither would, nor could, nor did helpe him: Fourthlie, that the masse could not reforme that which the witch transformed: Fiftlie, that the merchants, the inquisitors, and the tormentors, could not either severallie or jointlie doo it, but referre the matter to the witches courtesie and good pleasure.