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of some ministers of the reformed Religion, the Divels in the [Obsefsed?] Laughed and said that they were not [added in above the line with a caret: at] all affraid of them for the [underlined: Calvimin?] and they were very good friends. The Jesuites [ri?] = sult with [those Serimonies?], as if they were Divine Oracles. But the Father of Eyes is now to be be = leived; Hee will utter [twenty?] great truths to = make [way?] for one Eye. Hee will [accifo?] Twenty witches [illegible, appears to be two faint letters?] [therby?] he can bring one Inōcent person into trouble. Hee [misceth?] truth with Eyes, that to [truths?] giving [God it unto?] Eyes; men may believe both and so be [deceived?]. Falling down by the Cast of the Eye proceeds not from [an a her all?] but an Arbitrary Cause. not from any poyson in the Eye of the Witch, but from the Agency of Some Demon. 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 in?] [underlined: Perkins] as fond as (o) old [underlined: Seiny?] Speaks of People that Killed folk by Looking on them, and he adds that they had two [Apples?] in Each Eye. [Underlined: Fully] writes that [illegible, possibly a word scratched out?] men who had two [Apples?] in one Eye alwayes did mischeif with their [mere?] Lookes. So [underlined: Ovid] - [word crossed out, "pupula" written above] [underlined: duplex fulminat]. And [underlined: 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 [glafs?]. Others write if a [word scratched out] fa:[line break]scination by a mere [psoLation? One letter appears to have been corrected] of words. and for