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S. MENDACIO. Tome the fourth, y Ur last inform’d you how our re ‘Hero was like to have been ’ | Kidnap'd in his‘infancy by the Fairies. On further search into the Diary of his Life, to this day carefully preserved in Fantegrael's Library, we finde, That he often run the risque of the same danger afterwards . Fox as we are there informed , some peopic ambitious of Fase , assam’d to thet selves his aewe and alions, and would needs make the world believe that all his Exploits, ‘pay his very Person were their own. Tam not to upstart an Author as of, We ignorant that the World is now adays sufficiently pester’d with Plagi #és.5 but who could imagine they we at many years ago proceed to that deree as 0 Steal a man out of his sfeif 16 pight of his teeth, and with sgning 2?However, every Perkin Waerbeck is not a Prince, and a ack- Dan till continues to , though ag in Eagles Feathers. Poor Ro ' temperidem , one that vigo ‘pursued his studies, yet if ever te fea a good Book, it was only as Con jurers and ‘Rebels ase Sacred Oracles, to do, railchief, with them.” You was not wodder that I couple’these two te gettier ; for a Witch is only a Rebel fig Physickiy and a’ Rebel a Witch in Fol ticks 3 banked by the Devil's inspirag trop against the order of Nature and Law. To fit him for this, his Princi ples ‘were chiefly instill’d from the Raps Catechism and the Fanaticks Primer ; yet he never own'd ‘any other Creed than Ovid's Aehamorphosis , and made the Fables of the Poets, articles of his Faith. He would tarn over a Book and tell you by ‘telling’to it, whether ‘it trea ted of Politicks or Bawdry 's For he was a youth of wonderful capacity that two ways . But his beloved Au thors were Dottor Fesifer and the Wise men of Gotham, being naturally additted to State and Magick. Of his profounded Skill in the latter, he gave a notable Experiment , whilst yet at School in the west. For walking out one day to a Farmer’s house, finding the woman all alone a churning, he, according to his ustal practice, bege’d a little Small Beer; and whilst ‘her back” was turn'd to draw it, poppd in a small quantity of soap or Sugar, which’ it was. Authors do not well agrrée, but all ‘occult Philosophier’ conclude either of them will do the Feats’ which oc casion’d. ‘such confusion' ‘ty ‘her Chin,’ flae the ‘Botter' absolutely’ refile d ‘it. Wome'to perfection . And this made the’ good Wife infallibly: conchide ie, beck: Noe conle aif Ait
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