A Magical Vision, Or a Perfect DISCOVERY Of the FALLACIES Of WITCHCRAFT As it was lately represented in a pleasant sweet Dream to a Holy sweet Sister, a faithful and precious Assertor of the Family of the Stand-hups, for preservation of the Saints, from being tainted with the Heresies of the Congregations of the Doelittles.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Palmer, at the Crown in Westminster-Hall. 1673.   

TO THE READER.  
KInd Reader bened a shamed to embrace Truth,  
Though Naked couched in these few sheets (insooth.)  
She is but little ('tis folly for to lie.)  
But than she as th' other good commodity,  
She's Pretty, pleasant, brisk and debonair.  
And no less witty, that I can assure;  
Which I dare to avouch, you won't deny  
So soon as once observed Her linx his eye,  
How she doth launch out in discovery,  
O'th' juggling tricks e ' th' fond Fraternity.  
The Humours, Fopperies, which now do reign,  
In these impost'rous elements o'th' brain.  
Then vieu Her well; and tell me when you've done.  
How often you have met with such a one,  
So little, and so pretty, and so all  
Complete▪ if you in love do with her fall  
I shall be glad, and may a thousand more  
Be of your mind, and buy them by the score.  
I shall be glad, for you will reap Delight  
I trust, and I the Profit; So good Night.  
T.P.   

WHat strange conjunction 's this? here's grown  
A Molehill and the towering Alps in one.  
Or rather truth; the golden Legend shut  
Once more within the cloister of a Nut.  
Then throw your Euclids by, andonly look  
To th' propositions of this little Book;  
And you'll conclude, Truth doth as clearly lie  
Here, as i'th' maxims of Philosophy.  
But (naked) properly I cannot say  
Cause clad in so most sumptuous array;  
As if the Author meant in this small piece,  
Forthwith to sum the Arts and Sciences.  
But some may say this Volume is too small,  
To rear an Hermian Arch, or Escural  
To his dilated Fame— O, 'tis not much  
Perpetuates our Memory, but such.  
Age is not summed by years but hours, as Times  
So Works are balanced▪ not by Leaves but Lines.  
In contract, (Sir) the naked truth is this,  
Your pithy Treatise most ingenious is.  
And more than that, just is the Accusation  
You're charged with, this learned Accumulation  
Subverts the Fundamentals, 'tis your crime  
T' upbraid the State Poeticks of this time  
With wit so exquisite, though Phoebus be  
The Pleader, our votes ne'er can set you free.  
There's none needs now go travel▪ we may see  
At home both Sodom and fond Nineveh  
You've made the Devil blacker; dressed in white▪  
Proving the zealot the worst Hypocrite.  
Pulling the Veil from the Reformers face,  
To expose th' fond Fiend to just disgrace.  
The splay-mouthed Brother and his Tabytha  
In their Caresses unawares betray.  
The reeking steam sure of their Villainies  
Would spot the Stars, and menstruate the Skies  
Had you not their lewd paths and ways uncouth  
So dexterously descried in naked Truth.  
FINIS.   

THat there are Witches (in the common signification of the word) hath been confidently asserted, and as briskly opposed by the ingenious Penns of several modern Authors: Henceforwards none need doubt of it, that have but Faith enough to credit our relation of the following adventure; whereby we seek not to commit a Rape on any man's belief: But if any will persist in a state of infidelity, we leave them to be converted from their Errors by the horrors of some such like ghastly Apparition.  
'Tis something above a Month ago, that having trifled away the best part of a Morning, in amusing myself with Doctor Dee's Legend of Spirits; I resolved on a walk to dissipate those vain ridiculous imaginations, which had thence invaded my Brain: To this purpose, I carelessly steered my course to a small Grove, whose stately Trees view their Branches in the Crystal streams of a Neighbouring Brook. In which pleasing solitude I had not wandered half an hour, but a sudden drowsiness seized my Spirits, and I perceived an intruding Broomstaffe that violently thrust itself between my Legs, making me (spite of my Teeth) bestride it; mounted (like a delinqent Soldier) on the wooden Pegasus: I presently felt myself fly swister than a Parthian Arrow through the yielding Air, and without remembering the place where I was taken up, was set down again on my feet in the midst of a vast desert; where I could find no path, seeing there no footsteps of humanity: I presently fancied it to be some new World, and like an adventurous Columbus would needs discover further, but all my struggling endeavours only satisfied me in the impossibility of getting forwards, and to add to my astonishment, in a moment (as if I had journyed to the Antipodes) Noon was turned to midnight, I saw the Stars shine in the Firmament, with a faint bluish Fire like wasted Candles sunk into their Sockets, the Moon was in her full, but paler much than ordinary, she was thrice Eclipsed, and thrice sunk down below her Circle: The murmuring fountains were now grown mute, and the Birds had forgot their Chattering; not a Cock durst crow, and yet the Lions throughout the Wood trembled like the leaves of Asps, neither the Serpents dreadful hisses, not the howl of Ravenous Wolves, nor the screechings of Male-ominous Ravens could be heard, all Creatures had no more motion than was necessary to express their fear by, and the horror of an astonishing silence that governed in every place, made it appear Nature was in suspense of some terrible accident: my fear began to grow as great as that, which the face of the Horizon seemed troubled withal, when by the glimmering Moonlight, I saw ascending out of a vast Grot or Cave situate at the foot of a Craggy Rock, o'er spread with Ivy and Bushes, a tall venerable old man clothed in a party coloured Vest of White and Green, with an austere countenance and swarthy Face, his Eybrows thick as a Copse, and long as a Horses main, were curiously turned back, and wound up about his Ears, a wall and frightful Eye he had, sunk above two Inches into his Head, his Beard carelessly thrown over his left Shoulder, and his Temples anointed with Oil of Nightshade: On his Head he had a large Hood of Vervain, and about him a Girdle of May-Fearne Artificially wooven in Tresses; upon his Gown, near his Heart was fastened a Bat and a Toad both half dead, and about his Neck he wore a Collar, set with seven several precious stones, each of which wore the Character of that Planet that governed it: Thus mystically dressed, and carrying in his left hand a Triangular Vial full of May-Dew, with his right a Sappy Elder Rod, one end of which was well tipped with a mixture of all Metals, and the other served as a handle to a little Brazen Censer filled with the choicest susfumigations: He kissed thrice the floor of his Grot with a kind of superstitious Reverence, and having pulled off his right foot shoe, and flung it over his left Shoulder, and grumbling brought out certain words from the bottom of his Stomach; he went backwards Nine paces, till he came under the Boughs of an old Oak overrun with Misseltoe, Four foot from which he drew three Circles one within the other, and the Earth obedient to his Necromantic charms, which ready trembling, put herself into those figures, which he designed to have made in her. In these Circles he wrote with his Middle finger, the names of the intelligences, as well of the age and Country as of the Year, Season, Month, Weak, Day, Hour and Minute, each in its different Character and proper place, every one under its constellation, and with their respective due Ceremonies.  
This tedious operation being dispatched, he put his Glass in the midst of the Circles, and opening it made a report louder than that of Cannon or Thunder, the small sharp end of his Rod, he placed between his foreteeth, lay down with his face towards the East, and betook himself to his Repose; I (who you may think at that time had little mind to sleep) watched him very narrowly, admiring what might be the upshot of so many strange formalities: about the midst of his Nap (which exceeded not half an hour) I saw Seven Fearn-seeds drop into the Vial, which when he waked he took out, and put two in each Ear, another into his Mouth, the Sixth again into the Glass, and the last he threw out of the Circles; but no sooner was it out of his Hand, but I saw it encompassed by more than a Million (if my Arithmetic fail me not) of Mal-ominous Creatures, as well infects as others: He touched with his enchanting Caduceus, an Owl, a Fox and a Mole, which making a frightful Noise, instantly flung themselves into the Innermost Circle; And he with no less speed began to rip open their bodies with a brass Knife, and taking out their Hearts, he wrapped them up in three Bayleaves, and a little Moss, & swallowed them, he took away their livers, which he squeezd over an Hexagonal Vessel, and then reiterating the suffumigations, mixed the Dew and the Blood together in a Basin, dipped in it a Glove of Virgin Parchment, which he put on his right Hand, and after Four or Five horrible howl, closed his Eyes, and thus began his invocations.  
Conjuro & confirmo vos Schamaim Athaliel Chiliarchus raquiem, Alchocodonean, Tapthathara, Tossoffacan, Hamaguliel, Zonthonphanchia, Heydonia, with a many more cracking, thumping, blustering Terms, which had not my fears frighted the Art of memory out of my Head, and the place been inconvenient for Writing Shorthand, I would have registered for supplying the courteous Reader with terrible words, to still his bawling Children with. During all this Devilish Prayer, he was raised from the Ground above a hands breadth, and ever now and then would fix his Eye on the Nail of his left forefinger; his Face was inflamed, and he foamed at Mouth, like an overriden Hackney. But after this exercise concluded, and many groan and ghastly contortions, he fell prostrate on his face, and I heard in his Throat a humming as of many Voices together, from whence arising he became more strong than man, insomuch that without stirring, he stood the monstrous shock of a horrible wind, able to blow a Mountain up by the Roots, he caught a falling Thunderbolt in his Hand, and puffed out a Cloud full of Lightning; all which dreadful Artillery (I perceive) was discharged to force the old Gentleman to abandon his Circle, but he with an undaunted resolution maintaining his ground, the Circles themselves began with an incredible swiftness to whisk about under him: this was followed by a storm of Hail redder than Blood, which gave place to a much more terrible torrent of Bituminous Fire, that roared like Mount Gibello when it burst, and seemed to rend the Air with dreadful claps of Thunder.  
This served as an Epilogue to all this Tragedy of Horror, for immediately a fair Light dissipated these sad meteors, and a brisk young man in a Flame coloured Mantle appeared, he came riding post through the Air mounted with his right Leg on an Eagle, and the other on a Lynx, and in as Gentile and respective a manner, as if he had been one of Belzebubs Pages of honour, presented the Magus with three small Vials full of Nobody knows what Liquor: The cunning man in requital made him a present of three Hairs, one plucked off from his Forehead, the other two from his Temples, whereupon he was gently struck over the Shoulders, and between the Eyes with a small wand that his Spirit held, and then every thing vanished, and methoughts it appeared about that time, when Stars grown pale at the arrival of their illustrious Monarch the Sun, joined colour with the Heavens, I emboldened by this approach of day was just going to seek my way home.  
But the old Magician it seems was unwilling we should part so, and therefore once more presented himself, he did not walk but glide along, and got home before I saw him stir, his Hand was so cold, that mine whereon he laid it, was benumbed for a fortnight after, he neither opened his Eyes nor his Mouth, but in deep silence conducted me out of the wood, and over some Fields to the dreadful ruins of a long since dismantled Castle, where the ages for this 100 years have been labouring to carry the Chambers into the Cellars, under which in a deep Vault was his constant Residence.  
As soon as we entered this Enchanted Mansion, boast thyself young man (said he turning towards me) to have seen face to face the famous Agrippa whose Soul by Metempsichosis heretofore was incorporated in the renowned Doctor Faustus, and long since inspired the Learned Zoroaster King of the Bactrians: Since (almost two ages) that I have disappeared to men, I have preserved myself with aurum potabile in such a vigorous state of health, that no disease durst ever invade me, every twenty years I swallow a quantity of the Universal Medicine, which renews my youth, and restores to my Body its decayed forces: didst thou (continued he) consider the three Vials presented to me by the Prince of the Fiery Doemons: The first of them was full of this Elixir, the second of powder of projection, and the third of Oil of Bones. Nor art thou a little obliged to me since I have made choice of thee amongst all mortal Race, to be present at these mysteries, which I celebrate but once in four Lustres; and that thou mayst not be ignorant who it is has done thee this honour; let me tell thee, 'tis (by my charms) in my power at my pleasure to render a Country fruitful or barren, I stir up Wars by breeding dissension amongst those Genii that govern Kings; I teach the Wolf's Pater Noster, and the cunning man how to manage the Shears and turn the Seive; I send jacks with Lanterns, and Will with Wisps to Marshes and Fens, to allure benighted Travellers out of their way, over Hedges, and drown them in Ditches, I send out the Fairies and Elves to Dance and Revel together by Moonlight, and encourage the Gamesters to look under the Gallows for the Four of Clubs; I raise at Midnight the silent Ghosts from their Dormities, wrapped in a sheet to plague their negligent Heirs, for not performing those Vows they made to them at their Deaths; I command Spirits to haunt old Monasteries, and uninhabited castles, and to strangle all that come to Lodge there, till some resolute fellows compels them to discover the treasure they so long have Brooded over; I make those whom I would enrich find hidden wealth, and teach Thiefs to burn Candles of Dead-men's Grease to lay Folks asleep, whilst they Rob their Houses. I give the flying Money that return again to the Pocket after 'tis spent, and cheat covetous Misers with a bagful of dry Oak Leaves instead of Guinnys and George's; I make those Annulets that render the wearers Musket proof, and Philters to ingratiate Lovers with their mistresses. 'Tis I clatter the doors when they are fast bolted, and invisibly humble the Dishes and Glasses without breaking them; I learn Mountebanks to drive away an Ague by writing Abacadabra on Virgin Parchment, and old Women to cure a Fever by another charm equally Nonsensical and blasphemous; I awaken the Country Fellow on Midsummer Eve to gather his Herb fasting and in silence, and young Wenches to watch on St. Agnes Night; I teach Witches to assume the shape of Wolves and eat Children, to turn themselves into Hares, and be hunted all Day, and at Night make their escape from the Hounds in at a Window, and when any happen to cut off one of their Legs (which to morrow proves such an old woman's Arm) I forsake them; when they are tried, I keep them above Water like bladders, that they cannot sink, and leave them in the power of Justice, yet at the Gallows allow nothing to Tuck them up but a With; I send to the discontented and envious, the tall man in black with the Cloven Foot, who makes them promises of great riches and other felicities: If they'll but make him a Feeoffment with Livery and Seizing of their Souls, and then blind them that take bargains of him; for when they agree for a term of Life of thirty years, I make them see the (3) before the (o) which I have placed after it; 'tis I that strangle those that raise me out of a wanton curiosity, and give me neither employment nor reward, but very civilly take leave of those, that when they have called me up, give me a hair, an old Shoe, or a straw; I take away from dedicated Churches the stones that are not paid for, and often demolish in the Night what was built in the Day; I make a Conventicle of Witches seem to those that are invited to Sabat, nothing but a troop of Cats, of which Marton is Prince; I send all the confederates to the offering, and give them the Goat's Tail (seated on a Joynt-stool) to kiss; I treat them splendidly, but allow them no salt to their meat, and if any stranger ignorant of their laudable customs offer to say Grace, I cause all forthwith to Vanish, and leave him Five hundred Miles from his own home in a desert of Nettles and Bramble-bushes; I sometimes play the Pimp by sending plump succuba's to old Lecher's Beds, and furnish with incubuses those wanton Widows that will not go to the charge of Dil— I am the Sire of the Oak, and the first that contrived the Legerdemain of the Changeling; I convey Hobgobling in the shape of a long piece of Marble, to lie by those that go to bed without making the Sign of the Cross; I teach Necromancers to destroy their Enemies by making a little image in Wax, which they throwing into the Fire of pricking. The original is sensible of those Torments they expose the Figure to; I make Witches insensible in those parts where the Ram hath set his Seal, and give a secret virtue to Nolite fieri, when said backwards that it hinders the Goodwives Butter from coming, whom yet I teach to be even with the Hag, by stabbing the Cream with a red hot Spit▪ I entrusted Blanvel— to dispossess persons Bediveled, and white Witches to marvel the enchantments of black ones, I taught plow Jobbers to lay under the ground of that Sheepfold they have a mind to destroy, a Lock of hair or a Toad with three curses that kills all the Sheep that pass over it, as also to stick a broken Needle in the threshold of the Bridal Chamber, or tie such a knot at the moment that the Ring is first put on, as shall make an eager lusty young Bridegroom, impotent; I let lose the Hobgoblin against the Christmas Holy days, and order him to roll a Barrel, draw a Chain, or hutry a Coach along Streets in the Night, that he may have the happy opportunity of wring off their Necks that look out at Windows; I teach Crundal the composure of Charms, Laments, Sigils, Talisman, spells, Crystals, Pentacles, Magic Looking-glasses, and Geomantic Figures, how to find the Misselto of the new Year, the wand'ring Herbs, the Gamahely, the Weapon Salve, and magnetic Plaster; I send the Goblins, the Shodmule, the Nightmare, the Spirits, the Hobgoblins, the Hags, the Night-bats, the Breaknecks, the black Men and green Women, the Familiars, the Pugs, the Ghosts, and the Shadow. In fine I am the Prince of the Airs Viceroy, Deputy Lieutenant to the degraded Seraphin, the fairy Protector, the Jew-Errant, the High Priest of the Holy Crofs, the Genius of Nostredamus, the Doemon of Mascoon, and the Drummer of Tedworth; I am he would have proceeded with a tedious Harangue of his power and Titles, had not a small spiritual officer in the shape of a Flittermouse interrupted him by a whisper in the Ear, which obliged the Magician to tell me, he must omit the rest he intended to have said, till another opportunity, for at present he was stayed for by a gang of Lap-Land Witches that came to treat with him about a new Bargain of Bottled wines, whereby they proposed to themselves to make very considerable advantages during these Wars, saying thus, he mounts a flying Dragon that presented itself ready Bridled and Saddled, and in the twinkling of an Eye disappeared.  
When thinking to Ruminate a while on the strange Novelties of this uncoucht Adventure: I found myself in the before mentioned Grove, under the shade of a spreading Sycamore, carelessly laid along, on a rising Bank that was covered with a fresh green Mantle Embroidered with Cowslips and Violets, and have ever since strongly suspected not only this formidable apparition, but most other stories of that Nature to be nothing but Dreams.  
FINIS.   

A Catalogue of Books Printed for Thomas Palmer at the Crown in Westminster-Hall. 1671.  
1. Room exactly described, or a Relation of the present State of that Court, made at the late Council of Pregadis, in two curious Discourses, by the most Excellent the Lord Angelo Corcaro Ambassador from the most serene Republic of Venice, written in Italian and made English by john Bultol Gent. large Octavo. price 1 s. 6. d.  
2. Putanism de Roma, or the History of the Whores and Whoredoms of the Pope's Cardinals and Clergy of Rome, discovered by a Conclave of Ladies convened for the Election of a new Pope, written in Italian by the Author of Cardinalismo and Nepotismo and now made English by I. D. Esq in large Octavo, price 1. i s. 6 d.  
3. Oxford Drollery Refined, being new Poems and Songs written and collected by a Person of Quality, the Author of westminster Drollery made upon several Occasions, by the most Famous and Eminent Wits of the said University, price 1 s.  
4. Venus' Cabinet unlocked, and Nature's chief Miracle and Rarities laid open, being a curious Collection out of the two Eminet Physicians, Levinus Lemnius and Simbaldus made English by R. Miller; M. D. in Twelves, price 1 s. 6 d.  
5. Naked Truth, or a Plain Discovery of the Intrigues of Amorous Fops, and Humours of several other whimsical Persons, in a pleasant and profitable Dialogue, between a Precious Saintlike Sister called Terpole, and Mimologus a Scoffing Buffoon, written by Don Francisco Baltheo de Montalvan, and faithfully translated out of the Original by W. H. M. D. 1. s.  
6. Little Venus unmasked, or a perfect Discovery of the French-pox, comprising the opinions of most Ancient and Modern Physicians, which the Author's Judgement and Observations upon the Rise, Nature, Subject, Causes, Kind's, Signs, and Prognostics of the said Disease; together with several nice Questions, and twelve different Ways, and Methods of curing that Disease, and running of the Reins: the second Edition, with large Additions of new matter, and of a new Tract of a Scorbutick-pox, a second Tract of a Mangy-pox, together with their several Cures. price 1 s.  
FINIS.