Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

continue the same candor in your Observations on my following piece. And do you think then, in good earnest, that you have been very fair with me? I pray tell me: what does it mean to be very foul? But have I provoked you? How? Wherein? Was it your body I troubled, or the ballad of your soul? I will tell you what this provocation means. You fancied your Psychodia More’s long philosophical poem, Psychodia Platonica. was a rarely profound piece, and that Timæus A dialogue by Plato concerning the nature of the physical world. was inferior to your coplas Short, simple verses.. This is true, my friend; but when my book came to your hands, your ignorance and insufficiency in the Platonic philosophy appeared. This was what vexed you, and though you did not understand me in one position, you conceived it glory enough to rail at my person. But I pass over to your second ribaldry, where you have promised me some candor, and truly, I shall find you as candid as a Blackamoor A common historical term for a person with dark skin; the implication is that he is not candid at all.. Here you call me a fool in a play, a jack-pudding buffoon, a thing wholly set in a posture to make the people laugh, a giddy, fantastical conjurer, a poor kitling kitten, a calf's-head, a vaunting mountebank quack doctor/charlatan, a pander, a sworn enemy of reason, a fickle...