[46] London, 1656.
[47] In Ady's second edition, A Perfect Discovery of Witches (1661), 134, Gaule's book having meanwhile come into his hands, he speaks of Gaule as "much inclining to the Truth" and yet swayed by traditions and the authority of the learned. He adds, "Mr. Gaule, if this work of mine shall come to your hand, as yours hath come to mine, be not angry with me for writing God's Truth."
[48] "... few men or women being tied hand and feet together can sink quite away till they be drowned" (Candle in the Dark, 100); "... very few people in the World are without privie Marks" (Ibid., 127).
[49] Ibid., 129.
[50] In giving "The Reason of the Book" he wrote, "The Grand Errour of these latter Ages is ascribing power to Witches."
[51] See a recent discussion of a nearly related topic by Professor Elmer Stoll in the Publications of the Modern Language Association, XXII, 201-233. Of the attitude of the English dramatists before Shakespeare something may be learned from Mr. L. W. Cushman's The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature before Shakespeare (Halle, 1900).
[52] About 1622 or soon after.
[53] See, for instance, Mr. W. S. Johnson's introduction to his edition of The Devil is an Ass (New York, 1905).
[54] 1634. This play was written, of course, in cooperation with Brome; see above, pp. 158-160. For other expressions of Heywood's opinions on witchcraft see his Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels, 598, and his ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΙΟΝ: or Nine Books of Various History concerning Women (London, 1624), lib. viii, 399, 407, etc.
[55] Act I, scene 1.