Excerpt from The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: Wherein Is Affirmed That There Are Many Sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and Divers Persons Under a Passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy; But That There Is a Corporeal League Made Betwixt the Devil and the Witch Do not dedicate thit piece ofnty Labonrt unto/yon, there. By to beg proteaion for it, as fearing either it; weak. Neft, 'or the malevolent confurer of the. Ignorant; for: 1 over] well know, and ham experienced, that it irtbe nfual property of idle and pragmatical perfont' to pleafe their own malignant humorr, with the condemning and [cofiing at the painful lucubrationt of otherr. And I have efverjndg'ed that nothing ought to be publi/bed, that like a Noun Sub/lag. Cannot fland by' it [elfl without being fupported by any other adjoined help. Neither is thit forth of a main confidence or an overweening of mine own abilitier, though I very well know that fame are it: much in [awe with the brood of their own rbraine, at othert are with the fruit of their lainer Be cau f e I have for many year: been as war) and wigilant, l 05 any could be, to watch ower my f elf, that I might both know, and keep a clear difiine'iion, betwixt flattering Phantafie, and true and found judgment. But Ijhall in brief jhewyou the true reafimr of my prefenting of this poor piece to your reading and judgmentr.

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