MAGUS

Sir, let me never use my Great Art more, if my love to You be not greater then my Art: the Spirits that I Command, shall not be so quick in my Ambassages, as the Spirit of my Love, in the effecting your desires, ti's as my Circle, most capacious and without End. I warrant you Sir, as securely as with and Inchan ted shield: (and now Sir to Descend to Realities) I will brief lie acquaint you with some of the Mysteries of our Sacred Science; and first with this. There are three ways, by one of which your desire may be effected, the first I Fascination; the second Conjuration, and the third Medicine. The first can be wrought only by opportunity, by being in company with Astronomia. I will Sir; This Fascination is, when one does work love in a woman by looking on her. Oh, Sir, in a moderate sort very familiar; I have known a man and a woman by and earnest looking one upon another, when they fell in love, both become stark blind. Sir, my care shall exempt you from that fear; but to unfold unto you the manner of this admirable operam cion — It is thus: The instrument of fascination is a vam pour pure, and subtle, arising from the heat of the heart, out of the purer bl ud, which through the eyes does project beams Like it self; those beams do carry with them a pure vapour, which sometime carrieth with it blood, (as we see in blear-eyed folks, who hurt by looking on) which being eiaculated upon the eyes of a woman (being sent forth with a labouring violence) enter into her eye, pierce her heart, in fect the blood and Spirits, then by a continuance of the eia culation, produce and assimilation in the object. There are a sort of your Philosophers that deny this; but (alas!) unexperienced fellows, that never went be yond the Circle of their Science; but we men of practice correct and surpass the narrow bounds of their empty Spe culations: and now Sir for the guarding of your self, and the more powerful operation, I will furnish you with and Uncti on of Doves, or Sparrows blood. Sir, by that I can present unto you, your love. Presently. What will I not for you? Well, stay you here then, I'll but step forth. Exit. Come, Sir, stand you here, and move not beyond this Circle, and speak not a word; and now prepare your self to be satisfied with the beauty of your Love. Bael, Agares, Marbas, Pruflas. Loray, Valefar, Morax, N berus. At the end of each of these four names is made a great noise within, Like thunder. Classialabolas — Amduscias, Zagan, Elauros, Orobas. Hagaenti, Wall, Zaleos. What a fainthearted Lover is this? I must send them away again, before they are come. Vam, Vam, Vam, Acim, Acim, Acim, Ei, Ei, Ei: Hau, Hau, Hau. Procul hinc, procul item profani; redite, redite. Come, Sir, will you rise to see your Love? Why? Do you love her so well, that you would have her gone? Not endure her? Marry you love her well then t'is likely. Geometres rises. Well, Sir, that do's not belong to you. No, Geometres: what device dost thou think should be in that? Come, you're a brave Mars for a Venus! Exeunt. COme, Lasses: faith I have been arraigned, condemned and executed, without holding up my hand at a Bar. Why, Physiognomus, did Poeta seem to you, to be well? Well, Medicus, where's the messenger? Back then, in all haste, and by her servant send him poison, that if he be sick he may die: and so one may be removed out of Geometres his way. And if the poison chance to be discovered, thou mayest pretend 'twas her treachery, be cause he does not love her, and that thy physic was good. But, Physiognomus, are you sure 'twas he? did not you mistake him? What, I prithee? what? What's in't? what's in't? What's this? Anacreon? and old bawdy Poet? a fit companion for such a Gallant. But a murren, how couldst thou possibly get these things from him? Good, good, prithee let's see the paper. Anacreons Niobe, or his Lyrics to his love, beginning with the daughter of Tantalus or Niobe, thus, in non-Latin alphabet in non-Latin alphabet . Translated by me this morning upon occasion of my celestial vision. in non-Latin alphabet in non-Latin alphabet . Well, let's read them. NIOBE, as they say, once stood Turned to a stone by Phrygian flood, PANDIONS daughter (so fame sings) Changed to a Swallow had swift wings, But I a Lookingglass would be, Still to be looked upon by Thee: Or I (my Love) would be thy Gown, By Thee to be worn up and down. Or a pure Well full to the brims, That I might wash Thy purer limbs. Or I'ld be precious Balm to 'Noynt With choicest care each Choicest joint. Or, if I might, I would be (feign) About Thy neck thy happy Chain. Or would it were my blessed hap To be the Lawn over Thy fair Pap. Or would I were thy Shoo to be Daily but Trod upon by Thee. Pretty, pretty, by the dimpled chin of my Astrologiam, pretty; I'll give the rascal his Anacreon again (because I cannot tell what to do with it) for this trick, and tell him I found it, and so make him fallen in love with me most poetically; well, my little rascals, expect a better booty of some richer body the next time; be gone: but be in readiness, there is to be a ban quet at Ethicus his house, for the reconciling of Logicus, Grammaticus, and this Poeta, if he can be there, and I with Astrologiam are invited thither, wherefore if there should be a nigh occasion of employment for you, be at hand. Now, Astrologiam, take that powder, and according to my instructions at the banquet, see that Astronomia drink it off, and I warrant her then, it'll make her love our more loved Geometres. Farewell; I must to Geometres, or else faith he'll Conjure me for staying. Exit Magus. FOr the learning of your languages, Sir, I must confess, I do highly approve of it, but I see no such necessity of tram vailing, beside the danger and expense that must be un dergone. No Sir, these are nothing but the names of the Sacred Professors of this Divine Science. Alas, Sir! it's not so easy a matter to work effe ctually in our Sacred Science, as most men think it is, and as I will most manifestly declare unto you; for this is a rule, you must be first and Absolute Astrologian; upon which fundamen tall Supposition I thus proceed: before you can obtain the knowledge of Astrology, you must be a most Grounded Phi losopher, a found Physician, and and exquisite Mathematici and; by the helps of which Sciences you shall know the cour ses of the Stars; the number of the Orbs; your Poles; the Circles; the Vertical and Pedall points; the Azimuth, or For ticall Circle; the Almucantarath or Circles of Altitude; the Concentricity and Excentricity of the Orbs; the Ascen dent, and Descendent Knots, or Syndesmes, that Cut the E cliptike; your Orbs Aequant, Epicyclicall, and Deferent of the Apogeum, and Perigeum, or of the Highest and Lowest Absis; the Planetary Aspects, or Configurations, either Right as Conjunction and Opposition, or Collateral as Sextile, Quadrate, and Trine; the Direct motion of the Planets, their Retrogradation & Station; then Sir, your Astrology is either Canonical for the Influence of the Stars, or Thematical for the Erection of a Scheme of the Heavens, wherein is to be known the Order of the Domiciles, and the Inscription. Then there is your Judiciary, which is either Genethliacal, or Catholic instructing in predictions, either Idiomaticall or Symptomatical; the eight and twenty Mansions of the Moon; the Symbolization of Occult qualities in Herbs, with the Planets; Signacles, Pentacles, Planetary Suffumiga tions, Unctions, Pailters, Rings, Alligations, Suspensions; the twelve Scales of the Numbers; the Duodenary Scale, either Cabalistical or Orphicall; the Characters, Seals, and Bans of Spirits— Yes Sir, yes. Then are there diverse kinds of your Magic, as Necromancy, Anthropomancy, Gastromancy, Cheiromancy, Coscinomancy,— Sir, One and twenty. I'll begin them over again, if you will. Necromancy, Anthropomancy— I, and put them out of their wits, if we list: But then, Sir, to know the Spirit of Every Day, and Hour; his Name, Power, and Legions under him, his Form of appea ring, whither Like a Dragon, or and Horse, or a Wolf, or a flame of fire; the Region whence he comes; the Gift he be stows, whither Learning, Riches, Beauty; his Name, his Characters: these, these, are the wonders, the amazements of our Spiritual Science; Spiritual I may justly call in, since eve rye Art receives and Excellency from its Object; and yet (alas!) I confess, I am but young in it yet, and have scarce served a 'prentice-ship in it, if it may be called a servitude, wherein there is such Freeness, and Evagation of spirit in such exqui site knowledge; nay, Dominion over Spirits. Far stranger, far stranger; most amazing trans formations; why, there was Apuleius so skilful in this Art, that he turned himself into and Ass, and Luncian was turned in to and Ass, before he studied it. O, there was Hermolaus Barbarus, when he stum died Philosophy, and less understood any place, he would call up a Spirit to instruct him; so the famous Cardans father carried one always in a Ring on his finger; and Agrippa had his Dog with a Characterized Collar. Any thing. Why, I can do it by Coscinomancy. By the turning of a Sive. Ah, it's more general, and that you shall see; stay here, I'll but step forth. Exit Magus. Come Sir, here are Sheeres and a Sive; I must fa sten the Sheeres? now do as I bid you; Hold up the side of the Sheeres with your finger. (he puts the wrong finger) Nay, come, your middle-finger: So; now must I say a mystical form of powerful words, and then name those that we sus pect shall have her; and amongst them name you also; and at whose name the Sive turns, he shall have her. Nay, then it must go for nothing, for it must turn of its own accord. Be silent now. Die mies, Ieschet, be doefet, Dowim , Enitemaus. Who shall have Astronomia? Shall Poeta? (It stands still.) Who shall have Astronomia? Shall Logicus? Oh vile! peace; now must I begin again. Diet mies, Ieschet, Be doefet, Dowima, Enitemaus. Who shall have Astronomia? Shall Poeta? (It stands still.) Who shall have A stronomia? Shall Logicus? (It stands still.) Who shall have A stronomia? Shall Geographus? (It moves a little.) Who shall have Astronomia? Shall Geometres? (It turns round.) Shall he obtain her by Conjuration? (It stands still.) Shall he ob taine her by Medicine? (It moves a little.) Shall he obtain her by Fascination? (It turns round.) Nay but, Sir, you must Measure your joy; diverse have died with overmuch rejoicing, and so may you; and then you'd both break your vow to the Goddess, and loose your Love beside. Beside, you must use a means you see, Fascinati on; which you shall use at the Banquet, which (you know) we are invited unto. Beside, there was a little moving, you saw, at the name of Geographus: to signify he will be fair for her too. And again, there was a little moving at the word Medicine, and therefore that must be used too: but for that take you no care. Measure your joy, I say. Come, let's in. Exeunt Geometres & Magus. MArry, and I be thus troubled with you when you woo me, and seek to please; what should I expect and we were married once? They go leisure lie about him, saying this charm. Ye gods that dwell In darkest cell Of lowest Hell, We would obtain This, for this swain, Whom wine does chain. O, far tougher then a Tanners: I have herd of a Poet, that having been buried a matter of two or three hundred years, has been taken up again whole, with out the least perishing of his skin, as fair as any Ʋ ellome. But, I hope, that wench shall not be Astronomia. Well, Ravens, croak here, and whosoever comes by, make a prey of him; in the mean time I'll to Astrologiam, for I know not what's the reason on't, but my Spirits cannot in form me of any thing she does, so that I must of necessity to Astrologiam, to know how things proceed: but there's one Galilaus and exquisite Mathematicean, and Italian: whom I came very lately acquainted with, by admirable luck; and he has promised to help me to a glass, by which I shall see all things as perfectly represented in Astronomia's house, as if I were there: till which time I must take the pains to have it by relation; but to your charge, to your charge; croak Ra uens, croak. Worse, worse: my spirit Glassialabolas appeared unto me, and being skilful in the knowledge of future things, most lovingly has foretold me of great danger coming to wards me; and he said it would happen when I did least sum specked it, and amongst my acquaintance too; he appeared in his wonted shape Like a Dog with the wings of a Griffin, but he looked most horridly, most horridly: and me thought when he went out, there followed him four, joust Like to us four for all the world. Just Like to us four; and they cried exceedingly as they went: and I ventured to call him back again, but he would not come. I protest I was in a doubt whither I should tell thee at all or no, it was so terrible. Well, let then all our ill luck come together, if it will: indeed Astronomia's perfectly recovered, and I saw but now Geographus and her with Polites; which can bode no good: and afterwards I met with Geometres, and he passed by, without saluting me, but looked sullenly towards me: I know not what's the matter; but I fear me, he has scarce learned the Rule of friendship, to keep secrets. Well; come what will, we will not accuse our selves by a foolish retiredness or fear; and if we should chance to be convented, we must be very obedient, and that will argue and innocency: and let them prove what they can, it may be they can prove nothing, and then we are free; if they prove the worst they can, and con demne us to death, we'll patiently hear our sentence of con demnation; but when they are about to carry us to prison, then you shall see my art: [he takes four rings out of his pocket.] See, here are four rings, there's each of you one, and here's a fourth for my self: put them in your pockets, and when your condemnation is pronounced, and they think to carry us a way, privily slip those rings on your little-fingers, and then cry aloud Glassialabolas three times, and we shall all four im mediately become invisible. Come, now let's go securely. We? We yield our selves to your Honours mercy. Glassialabolas, Glassialabolas, Glassialabolas. O violence! O violence! We go. Heaven and Hell conspite Magus and Astrologia's ruin; and yet they will not ruin us. Nay, I Conjure you both; by our present meeting, that you go not out of the Circle of harmless mirth. Nay, will you, Poeta? you make Astronomia blush. Why, Poeta? It may be, Poeta, you measure Geometres his looks by your own. Astrologiam, follow her, and see you be never from her all the while she's sick. Astronomia in a fit of and Ague? I never understood the Motus trepidationis of the Heaven before. Nor I. Nay, pray let's have no fighting. Alte dormi, Irioni, Chiriori, Essera, Chuder, Fere; Pax, Caspor, Prax, Melchior, Max, Balthazar, Ymax, Adi max, Galbes, Galbat, Galdes, Galdat, Hax, pax, max, alte dormi. Poeta snores: Magus waves his rod over him, and runs round about him. O, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho; Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Dragons fly swift lie, Dragons fly swiftly. He's about to swear sure by somewhat. O, here's a brave Dreamer! Let me alone; I warrant you. Hay day! he's at's Hexameter and Pentameter For ses in our tongue: sayeth I think in some such humour this kind of Verses was first made amongst us. Altè dormi, pax, prax, max; aliè dormi, Galbos, Gall bat: Galdes, Galdat: pax, prax, max, alte dormi. Poeta falls down again. Let's see it, why, whats here? Verses! He takes the paper and reads it. Translated by me upon occasion of Ethicus his inviting me to Supper. The fruitful Earth does drink the rain; Trees drinks the fruitful Earth again. The Sea does drink the liquid Air; By the Suns beams the Sea-waues are Drunk up; which is no sooner done, But straight the Moon drinks up the Sun. Why then, companions, do you think I may not with Like freedom drink? This had been lost, if I had not given the Rogue his Anam creon again. Is this the rich Purse? Come, in-faith wee'll even serve for a Voider, and carry him away, while he is drunk, rid the room of him. oh deal with spirits? lie a Grometrician, it is law full for you to deal only with bodies: but if you will un dertake Our Superior faculty, it's not only lawful, but most honourable; why Sir, it's one of the greatest gifts of the Gods to have command over Spirits; but for the approbati on of it, you may only look back unto the antiquity thereof, which is drawn from more then eight hundred years before the Siege of Troy, in the time of Agonaces, and of the renowned Zoroaster a King of the Bactrians, who de scribed the high Mystery of this Divine Science in and hun dreaded thousand verses; after these there flourished Iobeth, Toluscol, Zamolxis, whose admired fame was afterwards e mulated by Almadal, Alchindus, and Hipocus Arabians: A puscorus, Zaratus, and Cobares, Medians: Marmaridius, a Ba bylonian: Zarmocenidas, and Assyrian, Abbaris, and Hyperborean, Thesphetion, and Aethiopian, Arnuphis, and Egyptian, Theur gus, a Chaldean: with these I may recite Cambyses, Zamares, Charondas, Dam gorgon, Gobrias, Arbatel, Apollonius, Gog, Hostanes, Atyr, Choastes —