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If it should be demanded why the horse would not ride as well with only the Bridoun, without the Bit? my answer is that suppose your horse becomes hard and heavy in hand, on being rode by both Bit and Bridoun, where they have both acted together: you on this shorten your Bit-reins whereby they act alone the Bridouns becoming slack, your horse instantly becomes light in hand, as though touched by a magick stick, reining his neck properly, is immediately light before, gathers himself upon his haunches, and what appeared, but now a garronly sluggish beast wears the appearance of a well dressed horse.

to the chosen few Who dare excel, thy fost'ring aid afford, Their arts, their magick powers, with honours due Exalt; but be thyself what they record . Johnson had called twice on the Bishop of Killaloe before his Lordship set out for Ireland, having missed him the first time. He said, 'It would have hung heavy on my heart if I had not seen him.

The following are some of the shorter pieces 'Magick, 'Friendship, 'Imprisonment, 'Anger, 'Revenge, 'Duells, 'Cruelty, 'A Defence of some of the Ceremonies of the English Liturgie to wit Bowing at the Name of Jesus, The frequent repetition of the Lord's Prayer and Good Lord deliver us, Of the Doxologie, Of Surplesses, Rotchets, Canonnicall Coats, etc.

These I guessed to be a Party of Punns. But being very desirous to get out of this World of Magick, which had almost turned my Brain, I left the Temple, and crossed over the Fields that lay about it with all the Speed I could make.

In 1648, Bishop Wilkins published a book, Mathematical Magick, which was full of rather grotesque projects and which contained one chapter on the possibility "of framing an ark for submarine navigation."

Upon this, Enothea fixt her self between us, and moving her head a while; "I," said she, "am the only one that can give remedy for that disease; and not to delay it, let him sleep with me to night; and next morning, examine how vigorous I shall have made him. "'All Nature's works my magick powers obey, The blooming earth shall wither and decay, And when I please, agen be fresh and gay.

But those Supernatural things which oppose not God and his Holy Word, belong unto Magick, and do the Soul no prejudice.

These deceivers dealt most of them with Magick, and that cheat ended not when Jerusalem ended, though one would have thought that had been a fair term of not further expecting Messias; but since the people were willing to be deceived by such expectation, there rose up deluders still that were willing to deceive them. Lightfoot, vol. ii. p. 371. Read the stars no longer.