Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

both Truth-Tellers, and our tales contradictory? Alas, where is your logic? Why, this is a miracle greater than all magic. Assure yourself, one of us must be lying. Oh, that Gill Alexander Gill the Elder, a harsh schoolmaster and critic. lived in these days! It would be a just punishment to put you in the stocks the next time you appear in Saint Paul's Churchyard The center of the London book trade, where controversial pamphlets were often sold. and whip your backside. You pitiful, undone thing! I will make you curse the hour you ever took pen and ink in hand. I will render you such a perfect ass that, when posterity wants to describe anything that is utterly ridiculous, they shall say, "A Moore."

But he proceeds, and to further his ruin, he falls to it again, though with some fear, for once more he calls me his brother. It is a relationship, Mastix The name More used in his anti-Vaughan pamphlet, meaning "scourge.", I can in no way allow: my brothers were all "white boys" A term of endearment or a reference to a particular faction; here, simply meaning "good/genuine fellows."; there was not a "Moore" among them. Come on then, Sir Bubo A reference to an owl, symbolizing a foolish or nocturnal creature., for now your note is loose and you begin to howl. I am, you say, like Simon Magus A biblical figure often associated with sorcery.. You rascal! You lie, and you must needs do so, for you never saw Simon nor myself. But I am very charitable, and wish for the conversion of the