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dependethon ic^ that in all things of the world that are commendable^
as there is fomewhat which is true and real, fo fomewhat alfo which is
counterfeit and falfc. There is beauty Natural, faith he, and there is Artificial
beauty by painting and trimming. A true, found,healthy complex-
ion, and that which makes a good fhew, but is not found. True, real
gold and filver, but divers thmgsalfo that maybe taken for gold andfil-
ver at a diftance, or by them that judge at the outward appearance. So,
true , found Ratiocination , and that which feems fo to the unlearned,
or to corrupt judgments, though it be very fahe. They that confiderwcll
of this, may the fooner come to the knowledg of truth in all things.
Well: we goon.
There wasm/^/x { Af tit Sext't^ ^T\c\tnx\y ^ no\v Jquenfis (jVitai) in 'Prorvence
(a. County of F/jnce Co called) in the year of the Lord i 6 1 i . a Ro-
mifhPrieft tryed, convicled, and by Sentence of the Court or Parliament
condemned to be burned alive for abominable pradtifes, and horrid things
by him upon divers (fome perfons of quality) committed with and by
the Divel. He had long deiircd it and fought it j at laftthe divel appeared
to him in the habit of a Gentleman. The Ifoiy is in divers books, Frifich
and Latine, and tranflated (at that time I believe) in divers languages. I
would goe forty miles with all my heart to meet with that man that could
tell me ^ny thing whereby I might but probably be induced to believe, or
at leafl: to fufpctt, that there might be fomemiflakein the particulars of
his Sentence. For my reafon, I muft tonfefle, was never more pofcd in
any thing that ever I read of that nature. GaJJtudus indeed in Tereskius his
life, hath fomewhat (as I remember) of Tireikius his Opinion , as if he
thought (omc of thofe things hcconfelTed might be aicribedunto imagi-
nation ,•
but
I fee no realbn given : neither are the things of that nature
that can admit any fuch fufpicion. Befides, Trijlan^ of the LtVes of the Em-
perors and their Coynes, will tell you (bmewhat which may nfakeadoubt '.
whether Gajfendus ou^ht to be believed in all things that he reporteth con-
cerning that famous man. I am not very much fatisficd of what Religion
(though truly a very learned man) Gaffendus was. And by the way
( which is fomewhat to the cafe of Witches in general) if I be not miftakcn
(fori have it not at this time) there is a relation in that very book of
fomewhat that hapned to Tereskiushy Witches when he was a child. That
wicked Sorcerer which was burned at Aix, foretold before his death that
fome misfortune would be done at the time and place of his execution ,
which hapned accordingly, and very ftrangely too. Somewhat again, I
muft confeffc , I have feen printed (Mimica Viabolt, Sec.) to take away the
fcandal of fome part of his confeflion, or the Devils faying ol Maife, &:c,
fome part of which things might perchance with fome colour be afcribcd
to imagination :
him
but that is not it that troubles me. But enough of
What man is he, that pretends to learning , that hath not heard, and
doth not honour the memory of Joachimus Camerartus , that great light of
Germany 'i
fo wife (andfor his wifdom, and other excellent parts, loughc
unto by many Princes) fb moderate a man (an excellent temper for the
,
attain-