Divels seeme Saints, and in these[34] hatefull times, Deceite can beare apparraunt signes of trueth, And vice beare shew of vertues excellence.
The accusation of the saide Geillis Duncane aforesaide, who confessed he [Fian] was their Regester, and that there was not one man suffered to come to the Divels readinges but onelie hee.
Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits andDivels by John Deacon [and] John Walker, Preachers, London, 1601.
The Divels Delusions or A faithfull relation of John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott two notorious Witches lately condemned at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer in St. Albans .
Thomas Nash in his Four Letters Confuted (London, 1593) refers to it in a non-committal way as a work treating of "the diverse natures and properties of Divels and Spirits.
See The Divels Delusions or A faithfull relation of John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott .
The odd Effects produced upon the sufferers by y^e look or touch of the accused are things wherein y^e Divels may as much Impose upon some Harmless people as by the Representacôn of their shapes.
That the Divels have a natural power w^ch makes them capable of exhibiting what shape they please I suppose nobody doubts, and I have no absolute promise of God that they shall not exhibit mine.
Helpe, Bacon; stop the marriage now, If divels or nigromancie may suffice, And I will give thee fortie thousand crownes.
Marry, sir, three or foure as honest divels and good companions as any be in hell.
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