.NDI.MjIzNTU

of some ministers of the reformed Religion, the Divels in the obsessed Laughed and said that they were not [added in above the line with a caret: at] all affraid of them for the _Calvinists_ and they were very good frinds. The Jesuites in= sult with those Testimonies, as if they were Divine Oracles. But the Father of Lyes is nev'r to be be= leived; Hee will utter twenty great truths to = make way for one Lye. Hee will accuse Twenty witches [illegible, appears to be J P] therby he can bring one Inōcent person into trouble. Hee mixeth truth with Lyes, that so these truths giving Credit unto Lyes; men may

believe both and so be deceived.

Falling down by the Cast of the Eye proceeds not

from a naturall but an Arbitrary Cause. not 

from any poyson in the Eye of the Witch, but from the Agency of Some Daemon. The Opinion of Fascination by the Eye is an old fable. and [illegible note in margin at the beginning of this line, looks like a date?] (saith Mr _Perkins_) as fond as (o) old _Seiny_ speaks of People that Killed folk by Looking on them, and he adds that they had two Apples in Each Eye. _Tully_ writes that [scratched out word] men who had two Apples in one Eye alwayes did mischeif with their mere Lookes. So _Ovid_ - [word crossed out] _ pupula duplex fulminat_. And _Plutarch_(p) writes that some persons had such poyson in their Eyes as that their friends and familiars are fascinated therby. Nay he? Speakes of one that bewitched himseff Sick by Looking on his own face in a glass. Others write if a [word scratched out] fa= scination by a mere [proLation? One letter appears to have been corrected] of words. and for