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the Governor of the Towne, and inquire of him whether 

 there be any wine to be had that we may offer it to the 

 Satyre, wherunto all consented, and they filled foure 

 great Egyptian earthen vessels with wine, and put it in 

 the fountain where their cattel were watred : this done, 

 Apollonius called the Satyre, secretly thretning him, and 

 the Satire, inraged with the savour of the wine came ; after 

 he had drunke thereof, Now, said Apollonius, let us sacrifice 

 to the Satyre, for he sleepeth, and so led the inhabitants to 

 the dens of the Nymphs, distant a furlong from the towne, 

 and shewed them the Satyre saying ; Neither beat, cursse, 

 or provoke him henceforth, and he shall never harme you. 

 " It is certaine, that the devills do many waies delude 

 men in the likeness of Satyres ; for, when the drunken 

 feasts of Bacchus were yearely celebrated in Parnassus, 

 there were many sightes of Satyres, and voyces, and 

 sounding of cymbals heard : yet it is likely that there 

 are men also like Satyres, inhabiting in some desart 

 places ; for S. lerom, in the life of Paul the Eremite, 

 reporteth that there appeared to S. Anthony, an Hippo- 

 centaure such as the Poets describe, and presently he 

 saw, in a rocky valley adjoining, a little man having 

 croked nostrils, homes growing out of his forhed, and 

 the neather part of his body had Goat's feet ; the holy 

 man, not dismayed, taking the shield of faith, and the 

 breastplate of righteousnesse, like a good souldior of 

 Christ, pressed toward him, which brought him some 

 fruites of palmes as pledges of his peace, upon which he 

 fed in the journey ; which Saint Anthony perceiving, he 

 asked him who he was, and received this answere ; I am 

 a mortall creature, one of the inhabitants of this Desart, 

 whom the Gentiles (deceived with error) doe worship, 

 and call Fauni, Satyres, and Incubi : I am come in 



