word _Necromancie_ is a Greek word, compounded of {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} &
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, which is to say, the Prophecie by the dead. This last name is
given, to this black & vnlawfull science by the figure _Synedoche_,
because it is a principal part of that art, to serue them selues with dead
carcages in their diuinations.

_Phi._ What difference is there betwixt this arte, and Witch-craft.

EPI. Surelie, the difference vulgare put betwixt them, is verrie merrie,
and in a maner true; for they say, that the Witches ar servantes onelie,
and slaues to the Devil; but the Necromanciers are his maisters and
commanders.

PHI. How can that be true, yt any men being specially adicted to his
service, can be his commanders?

EPI. Yea, they may be: but it is onelie _secundum quid_: For it is not by
anie power that they can haue over him, but _ex pacto_ allanerlie: whereby
he oblices himself in some trifles to them, that he may on the other part
obteine the fruition of their body & soule, which is the onlie thing he
huntes for.

PHI. An verie in-aequitable contract forsooth: But I pray you discourse
vnto mee, what is the effect and secreets of that arte?

EPI. That is over large an fielde ye giue mee: yet I shall doe good-will,
the most summarlie that I can, to runne through the principal points
thereof. As there are two sorts of folkes, that may be entysed to this
arte, to wit, learned or vnlearned: so is there two meanes, which are the
first steerers vp & feeders of their curiositie, thereby to make them to
giue themselves over to the same: Which two meanes, I call the Divels
schoole, and his rudimentes. The learned haue their curiositie wakened
vppe; and fedde by that which I call his schoole: this is the _Astrologie_
judiciar. For divers men having attained to a great perfection in
learning, & yet remaining overbare (alas) of the spirit of regeneration
and frutes thereof: finding all naturall thinges common, aswell to the
stupide pedants as vnto them, they assaie to vendicate vnto them a greater
name, by not onlie knowing the course of things heavenlie, but likewise to
cling to the knowledge of things to come there