Lastly, being thus divided from truth in themselves, they are yet farther removed by advenient deception. For true it is (and I hope I shall not offend their vulgarities,) if I say, they are daily mocked into Error by subtler devisors, and have been expressly deluded by all professions and ages. Thus the _Priests_ of Elder time, have put upon them many incredible conceits, not only deluding their apprehensions with Ariolation, South-saying, and such oblique Idolatries, but winning their credulities unto the literal and down right adorement of Cats, Lizzards, and Beetles. And thus also in some Christian Churches, wherein is presumed an irreprovable truth, if all be true that is suspected, or half what is related; there have not wanted many strange deceptions, and some thereof are still confessed by the name of Pious Frauds. Thus _Theudas_ an Impostor was able to lead away Four thousand into the Wilderness. and the delusions of _Mahomet_ almost the fourth part of Mankind. Thus all Heresies, how gross soever, have found a welcome with the people. For thus, many of the Jews were wrought into belief that _Herod_ was the _Messias_; and _David George_ of _Leyden and Arden_, were not without a party amongst the people, who maintained the same opinion of themselves almost in our days. [Sidenote: _The Author's Censure upon Judgment by Urine._] Physitians (many at least that make profession thereof) beside divers less discoverable wayes of fraud, have made them believe, there is the book of fate, or the power of _Aarons_ breast-plate, in Urins. And therefore hereunto they have recourse, as unto the Oracle of life, the great determinator of Virginity, Conception, Fertility, and the Inscrutable infirmities of the whole Body. For as though there were a seminality in Urine, or that, like the Seed, it carried with it the _Idea_ of every part, they foolishly conceive, we visibly behold therein the Anatomy of every particle, and can thereby indigitate their Diseases: And running into any demands, expect from us a sudden resolution in things, whereon the Devil of _Delphos_ would demurr; and we know hath taken respite of some dayes to answer easier questions. [Sidenote: _Places in_ Venice _and_ Paris, _where Mountebanks play their pranks._] _Saltimbancoes_, _Quacksalvers_, and _Charlatans_, deceive them in lower degrees. Were _Esop_ alive, the _Piazza_ and _Pont-Neuf_ could not but speak their fallacies; mean while there are too many, whose cries cannot conceal their mischief. For their Impostures are full of cruelty, and worse than any other; deluding not only unto pecuniary defraudations, but the irreparable deceit of death.