The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl
[♦] And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
That time best fits the work we have in hand.
20 Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,
[♦] We will make fast within a hallow’d verge. [Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the circle; Bolingbroke or Southwell reads, Conjuro te, &c. It thunders and lightens terribly; then the Spirit riseth.
[♦] Spir. Adsum.
[♦] M. Jourd. Asmath,
By the eternal God, whose name and power
[25] Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;
For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.