————
P. 117. “_Marmaritin_”, etc. In i, 2, he copies these names, altering
only their order for the sake of the verse, and probably for the same
reason omitting “Mevais”.
“I could give thee
Chirocinata, adincantida,
Archimedon, marmaritin, calicia,
Which I could sort to villainous barren ends.”
P. 124. “Needles wherwith dead bodies are sowne or sockt into their
sheetes.” [Noted amidst charms procuring love and hate.] In i, 2,
following the marmaritin passage, we find—
“More I could instance
As, the same needles _thrust into their pillows_
That sews and socks up dead men in their sheets.”
This is the more noteworthy, as to sock a corpse seems to have been a
Kentish phrase. “A privy gristle”, etc., as given by Middleton, was, I
presume, one of the other things which, “for reverence of the reader”,
Scot omits, though whence the former got it I know not.
——— Among other “toies which procure love” are, “a little fish called
Remora”. In the same scene of the _Witch_, we find—
“_Hæc._ Thou com’st for a love charm now
* * * * * *
I’ll give thee a remora, shall bewitch her straight.
* * * * * *
... a small fish.”
——— Scot also gives “the bone of a greene frog, the flesh thereof being
consumed with pismers or ants”. And Middleton’s Hecate adds—
“The bones of a green frog too, wondrous precious,
The flesh consum’d by pismires.”
——— “The haire growing on the nethermost part of a woolves taile ... the
braine of a cat.” In ii, 2, Almachildes, speaking of love charms, says:
“The whorsom old hellcat would have given me the brain of a cat ... and
a little bone in the hithermost part of a wolf’s tail.” In the words
“bone” and “hithermost” he may have erred in memory, or there may in
the latter word have been a copyist’s error.
P. 153. Hecate, i, 2, enumerates “Urchins, Elves, Hags, [fairies]
Satyrs, Pans, Fauns, Sylvans, Kitt-with-the-candlestick, Tritons,
Centaurs, Dwarfs [giants], Imps [...], the Spoo[r]n, the Mare, the
Man-i-the-oak, the Hellwaine, the Fire-drake, the Puckle!” [...].
These, except the omissions marked by ... and by [ ], are exactly those
mentioned by Scot, and in the same order.
P. 184. Scot, from J. B. Porta. Neap., gives a receipt to be used by
witches when they would transport themselves through the air. “℞ The
fat of yoong children and seethe it [etc., etc.].... They put there,
into Eleoselinum, Aconitum, Frondes populeas and Soote.... Another
receipt.... ℞, Sium, acarum vulgare, pentaphyllon, the bloud of a
flittermouse, solanum somniferum, & oleum.”