Opening the text

The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth Webster, John

Religion

The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth

Name: The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth
Author: Webster, John

Webster, John

Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800

But to make this more plain and certain, we shall add a Story of a
notable Impostor, or Ventriloquist, from the testimony of Mr. _Ady_;
which we have had confirmed from the mouth of some Courtiers that both
saw and knew him, and is this: “It hath been (saith he) credibly
reported, that there was a Man in the Court, in King _James_ his days,
that could act this imposture so lively, that he could call the King by
name, and cause the King to look round about him wondering who it was
that called him, whereas he that called him stood before him in his
presence, with his face towards him: but after this Imposture was known,
the King in his merriment would sometimes take occasion by this Impostor
to make sport upon some of his Courtiers, as for instance; There was a
Knight belonging to the Court, whom the King caused to come before him
in his private room (where no Man was but the King, and this Knight, and
the Impostor) and feigned some occasion of serious discourse with the
Knight; but when the King began to speak, and the Knight bending his
attention to the King, suddenly there came a voice as out of another
room, calling the Knight by name, Sir _John_, Sir _John_, come away Sir
_John_; at which the King began to frown that any Man should be so
unmannerly as to molest the King and him: And still listning to the
Kings discourse, the voice came again, Sir _John_, Sir _John_, come
away, and drink off your Sack; at that Sir _John_ began to swell with
anger, and looked into the next rooms to see who it was that dared to
call him so importunately, and could not find out who it was, and having
chid with whomsoever he found he returned again to the King. The King
had no sooner begun to speak as formerly, but the voice came again, Sir
_John_, come away, your Sack stayeth for you. At that Sir _John_ began
to stamp with madness, and looked out, and returned several times to the
King, but could not be quiet in his discourse with the King, because of
the voice that so often troubled him, till the King had sported enough.”

[Sidenote: _Hist._ 3.]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.