Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

But how now, Alaz Short for Alazonomastix, More’s pseudonym., what ails you? Have you left me upon the sudden to fall upon a whole kingdom? You have observed an epidemic disease, and you will be an epidemic physician; you will cure a nation by indignation. Be sure in your next to give me an account of this disease—in what books or persons you have found it—or I shall think your long observation in the kingdom is like your short observations on my book: a lie, and a loud one. But you go on; you tell us of high swoln words of vanity, and I tell you, I have found them in your ballad, and you did well to tail it with an interpretation. Now at last you begin to be moral. Surely, Alaz, you would instruct us; you speak of sober truths, motions, cautions, purified minds, and improved reasons. When was your mouth made clean, sirrah? Do you live as you preach? No, you are a wealthy beggar; you have all this, and you lack it. But you have grown a prophet; you foresee you will be my prisoner, and you petition me for your freedom. Did I not tell you, you were a beggar? But you pre...