Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

skull, no good Christian, an otter, a water-rat, Will-o'-the-wisp, and Meg with a Lanthorn, Tom fool in the play, and lastly, a natural fool. Now, readers, take notice of the honest man and his Puritan profession; he made use of these terms out of an implacable enmity to immorality. Will you believe him then in any other point, who has lied so egregiously in this? He has professed against bad manners to make you believe he has good ones, and rails against my philosophy to persuade you to his folly. Assure yourselves his ethics and his physics are of a stamp. Cambridge! Cambridge! What a monstrous mother are you! I never thought the same womb could labor with Moors and Christians. But enough of the Jakes A privy or toilet; a metaphor for filth.; I am now sirrah mastix A play on More's pseudonym "Alazonomastix.", through all your dirt and dung, your stable of immoralities, coming up to your fooleries. You are (as you say) an implacable enemy to them also. Certainly, you would be thought a very wise man, but before we part I shall prove you the greatest friend to foolery in England and leave you a pure coxcomb a vain, shallow person upon record.