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Cap.vi.J<br />

DE NUGIS CURIALIUM.<br />

risum est possumus, nihil quod ad lachrymas. Ex illis enim exuli-<br />

bus coeli sum, qui sine coadjutorio vel consensu culpaj Luciferi<br />

vagi post fautores scelerum fatue ferebamur.* Quos si dejicit in-<br />

dignos coelo Dominus indignans, misericorditer tamen turn in vas-<br />

titate solitudinis turn in locis habitationis prd qualitate delicti<br />

puniri permittit. Nos antiquitus populi decepti dixere semideos<br />

aut semideas, pro forma corporis assumpti vel apparitionis nomina<br />

ponentes discretiva sexus. Ex locis autem incolatus vel permissis<br />

ofRciis distinctius appellamur Monticolae, Silvani, Dryades, Orea-<br />

des, Fauni, Satyri, Naiades, quibus ex eorum impositione pree-<br />

sunt Ceres, Bacchus, Pan, Priapus, et Pales. Verumtaraen quae vidimus<br />

ab initio notavimus. Quia concessa nobis a <strong>De</strong>o rerum<br />

cognitarum experientia, docemur astutiam, et ex pra3teritis futura<br />

conjicere, prsesentia quoque, sicut spiritus ubicunque moraraur<br />

aut quocunque terrarum transferimur metiri certissirae scimus,<br />

nostrisque deditis et susceptis palam facere curamus, ut proinde<br />

status omnium hominum manifestos habeant, possintque si velint<br />

in incautos irrumpere subiti, paucisque surripere multitudinem, et<br />

totas tractare pro voto provincias, nee nobis interesse licet si profana<br />

peregerint. Manifestare possumus eis, ipsi secundum<br />

quod sunt miserentur aut perdunt. At tu nos ex librorum times<br />

sententiis, cum non simus ex his qui caveri docentur. Immo<br />

certe meo fratrumque meorum consilio tua sperabitur a vena-<br />

toribus animarum conditio, fatalemque tibi praenunciabimus diem,<br />

ne quod ipsi cupiunt obdormias in mortem. Praevidebimus enim<br />

tibi pro salute tua diem tuum, ut possis ilium poenitentia praeve-<br />

nire. Nee fallemur, omnium enim rerum experientiam didicimus<br />

tarn coelestis quam terrense, peritiam physicse scilicet astrorum,<br />

specierum, herbarum, lapidum, et lignorum notitiam, causasque re-<br />

* It was a prevalent superstition at this the other demons. Several amusing stories<br />

period that a part of the Angels who fell illustrative of this superstition will be<br />

with Lucifer became hobgoblins, who were found in the Itinerarium Cambriae of Gi-<br />

constantly occupied in playing tricks upon raldus Cambrensis, and in William of<br />

mankind, but who were not malignant like Newbury's history.

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