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sea, or craft of evil spirits, is more than our judg- 

 ment can sound/' He was presented there with a 

 book which enabled him to " practice physic and 

 chirurgery, though he never studied or practised 

 either all his life-time before;" but it is to be re- 

 marked that his ancestors were hereditary physicians. 

 The book supernatural or not still exists in the 

 library of the Irish Royal Academy, and I regret 

 having had no opportunity of examining it. 

 And so : 



" With betonye ende I, 

 And begyne with centorie.* 



* See the " Stockholm MS." 



