Whereby partlie you may see what constant opinion can doo, according to the saieng of _Plato_; If a mans fansie or mind give him assurance that a hurtfull thing shall doo him good, it may doo so, &c. _A charme to open locks._ As the hearbes called _Aethiopides_ will open all locks (if all be true that inchanters saie) with the help of certeine words: so be there charmes also and periapts, which without any hearbs can doo as much: as for example. Take a peece of wax crossed in baptisme, and doo but print certeine floures therein, and tie them in the hinder skirt of your shirt; and when you would undoo the locke, blow thrise therin, saieng; _Arato hoc partiko hoc maratarykin_. I open this doore in thy name that I am forced to breake, as thou brakest hell gates, _In nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti, Amen_. ♦Theevish charmes.♦ ¶ _A charme to drive awaie spirits that haunt anie house._ Hang in everie of the foure corners of your house this sentence written upon virgine parchment; _[a]Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum: [b]Mosen habent & prophetas: [c]Exurgat Deus et dissipentur inimici ejus_. ♦This is called and counted the Paracelsian charme.♦ ♦[a] Psal. 150.♦ ♦[b] Luk. 16.♦ ♦[c] Psa. 64.♦ ¶ _A prettie charme or conclusion for one possessed._ The possessed bodie must go upon his or hir knees to the church, how farre so ever it be off from their lodging; and so must creepe without going out of the waie, being the common high waie, in that sort, how fowle and durtie soever the same be; or whatsoever lie in the waie, not shunning anie thing whatsoever, untill he come to the church, where he must heare[*] masse devoutlie, and then followeth recoverie. ♦[*] Memorandum that hearing of masse be in no case omitted, quoth Nota.♦ ¶ _Another for the same purpose._ There must be commended to some poore begger the saieng of five _Pater nosters_, and five _Aves_; the first to be said in the name of the partie possessed, or bewitched: for that Christ was led into the garden; secondlie, for that Christ did sweat both water and bloud; thirdlie, for that Christ was condemned; fourthlie, for that he was crucified guiltlesse; and fiftlie, for that he suffered to take awaie our sinnes. Then must the sicke bodie heare masse eight daies together, standing in the place where the gospell is said, and must mingle holie water with his meate and his drinke, and holie salt also must be a portion of the mixture. ¶ _Another to the same effect._