Next Links and Torches, &c.

That the Roman Emperors were wont to have Torches born before them (by day) in publick, appears by Herodian in Pertinace. Lip. in Tacit. p. 16.

Vefpafian being daub'd with Dirt.

C. Cæfar fuccenfens, propter curam verrendis viis non adhibitam, Luto juffit oppleri, congefto per milites in prætexta finum, Sueton. in Vefpaf. C. 5.

Has not this prefent Parliament
A Ledger to the Devil fent?

The Witch-finder in Suffolk, who in the Prefbyterian times had a Commiffion to difcover Witches, of whom (right or wrong) he caus'd 60 to be hang'd within the compafs of one Year, and among the reft, the old Minifter, who had been a painful Preacher for many Years.

Did he not help the Dutch to purge
At Antwerp their Cathedral Church?

In the beginning of the Civil Wars of Flanders, the common People of Antwerp in a tumult broke open the Cathedral Church, to

demolish

demolish Images and Shrines; and did fo much mifchief in a fmall time, that Strada writes, there were feveral Devils seen very bufy among them, otherwife it had been impoffible.

Sing Catches to the Saints at Mascon.

This Devil at Mafcon deliver'd all his Oracles, like his Forefathers, in Verfe, which he fung to Tunes: He made feveral Lampoons upon the Hugonots, and foretold them many things which afterwards came to pass; as may be feen in his Memoirs, written in French.

Appear in divers shapes to Kelly,

And Speak i' th' Nun at Loudon's Belly.

The Hiftory of Dr. Dee and the Devil, publifh'd by Mer. Caufabon, Ifac. Fil. Prebendary of Canterbury, has a large account of all thofe Pallages; in which the Style of the true and falfe Angels appears to be penn'd by one and the fame Perfon. The Nun of Loudon in France and all her Tricks, have heen feen by many Perfons of Quality of this Nation yet living, who have made very good Obfervations upon the French Book, written upon that occafion.

Meet

Meet with the Parliaments Committee
At Woodstock on a Pers'nal Treaty :

A Committe of the long Parliament fitting in the King's Houfe in Woodstock-Park, were terrify'd with feveral Apparitions, the particulars whereof were then the News of the whole Nation.

At Sarum took a Cavalier.

Withers has a long story in Doggerel, of a Soldier of the King's Army, who being a Prifoner at Salisbury, and drinking a health to the Devil upon his Knees, was carried away by him through a fingle Pane of Glafs.

Since old Hodg Bacon.

Roger Bacon, common call'd Friar Bacon, liv'd in the Reign of our Edward the I. and for fome little skill he had in the Mathematicks, was by the Rabble accounted a Conjurer, and had the sottish story of the Brazen Head father'd upon him, by the Ignorant Monks of thofe days. Robert Grofthead was Bishop of Lincoln in the Reign of Hen. III. He was a Learned Man for thofe times, and for that reafon fufpected by the Clergy to be a Conjurer, for which Crime being degraded by

Pope

Pope Innocent the IV. and fummon'd to appear at Rome, he appeal'd to the Tribunal of Chrift; which our Lawyers fay is illegal, if not a Pramunire, for offering to fue in a Foreign Court.

Which Socrates, and Chærephon
In vain affay'd fo long agone.

Ariftophanes in hisComedy of the Clouds, brings in Socrates and Charephon,meafuring the leap of a Flea, from the one's Beard to the other's.

Was rais'd by him, found out by Fisk.

This Fisk was a late famous Aftrologer, who flourish'd about the time of Subtile, and Face, and was equally celebrated by Ben. Johnson.

Unless it be that Cannon-Ball.

This Experiment was try'd by fome Foreign Virtuofo's, who planted a Piece of Ordnance point-blank against the Zenith, and having fir'd it, the Bullet never rebounded back again; which made them all conclude that it fticks in the mark; but Des Cartes was of opinion, that it does but hang in the Air.

As

As lately was reveal'd to Sedgwyck.

This Sedgwyck had many Perfons (and fome of Quality) that believ'd in him, and prepar'd to keep the Day of Judgment with him, but were disappointed; for which the falfe Prophet was afterwards call'd by the Name of Doomefday Sedgwyck.

Your Modern Indian Magician,
Makes but a hole i' th' Earth to pifs in.

This compendious new way of Magick is af firm'd by Monfieur Le Blanc (in his Travels) to be us'd in the Eaft-Indies.

Bumbaftus kept a Devil's Bird, &c.

Paracelfus is faid to have kept a fmall Devil Prifoner in the Pummel of his Sword, which was the reason, perhaps, why he was fo valiant in his Drink, Howfoever it was to better purpose than Annibal carry'd Poyfon in his, to difpatch himself, if he fhould happen to be furpriz'd in any great extremity; for the Sword would have done the Feat alone, much better, and more Soldier-like. And it was below the Honour of fo great a .Commander, to go out of the World like a Rat.