Jacobean Witchcraft in a European & Social Context

 




   Besides, when any Errour is committed
Whereby wee may Incurre or losse or shame,

That wee our selves thereof may be acquitted
Wee are too ready to transferre the blame
Upon some witch: That made us do the same.
It is the vulgar Plea that weake ones use
I was bewitch’d: I could nor will: nor chuse.
But my affection was not caus’d by Art;
The witch that wrought on mee was in my breast. (1)