Well, to the question before proposed by _Saule_, she answereth and lieth, that she saw angels or gods ascending up out of the earth. Then proceedeth she with her inchanting phrases and words of course: so as thereby _Saule_ gathereth and supposeth that she hath raised a man. For otherwise his question dependeth not upon any thing before spoken. For when she hath said; I sawe angels ascending, &c: the next word he saith is; What fashion is he of? Which (I saie) hangeth not upon hir last expressed words. And to this she answered not directlie, that it was _Samuel_; but that it was an old man lapped in a mantell: as though she knew not him that was the most notorious man in Israell, that had beene her neighbour by the space of manie yeeres, and upon whom (while he lived) everie eie was fixed, and whom also she knew within lesse than a quarter of an houre before, as by whose meanes also she came acquainted with _Saule_. Read the text and see. ♦1. Sa. 28, 4.♦ ♦1. Sa. 28, 12.♦ But she describeth his personage, and the apparell which he did usuallie weare when he lived: which if they were both buried togither, were consumed and rotten, or devoured with wormes before that time. Belike he had a new mantell made him in heaven: and yet they saie Tailors are skantie there, for that their consciences are so large here. In this countrie, men give awaie their garments when they die: if _Samuel_ had so doone, hee could not have borrowed it againe; for of likliehood it would have beene worne out in that space, except the donee had beene a better husband than I: for the testator was dead (as it is supposed) two yeares before. The xiii. Chapter. _The residue of 1. Sam. 28. expounded: wherin is declared how cunninglie this witch brought Saule resolutelie to beleeve that she raised Samuel, what words are used to colour the cousenage, and how all might also be wrought by ventriloquie._ Now commeth in _Samuel_ to plaie his part: but I am persuaded it was performed in the person of the witch hir selfe, or of hir confederate. He saith to _Saule_; Why has thou disquieted me, to bring me up? As though without guile or packing it had beene _Samuel_ himselfe. _Saule_ answered that he was in great distresse: for the _Philistines_ made warre upon him. Whereby the witch, or hir confederate priest might easilie conjecture that his heart failed, and direct the oracle or prophesie accordinglie: especiallie understanding by his present talke, and also by former prophesies and dooings that were past, that God had forsaken him, and that his people were declining from him. For when _Jonathan_ (a little before) overthrew the _Philistines_, being thirtie thousand chariots and six thousand horssemen; _Saule_ could not assemble above six hundred souldiers. ♦1. Sa. 28, 15.♦ ♦Ibidem.♦ ♦1. Sam 13, 5.♦ ♦1. Sa. 13, 15.♦