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THAUMATURGIA,
OR
ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS.
BY
AN OXONIAN.
1835
"Bombastes kept the devil's bird,
Shut in the pommel of his sword,
And taught him all the cunning pranks,
Of past and future mountebanks."
Hudibras.