Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 But notwithſtanding his politike procee|ding thus to auoyde all incouenience that might happen: ſhortely after Hengiſt returned,Hengiſt retur|neth. & what by force and ſubtill ſhiftes, at length got poſſeſ|ſion of the more parte of Brytaine, ſo that the Brytons were conſtreyned to flee into Wales, whither alſo Vortigerne fledde and remayned there a certaine time, til at length Aurelius Am|broſius and Vter the ſonnes of king Conſtan|tine came ouer out of little Brytaine, and be|ſieging Vortigerne in a caſtell,Vortigerne brent. brente him with the houſe and all, when they could not otherwiſe come by him, according to that which Merlyne the Brytiſh ſoothſayer had propheſied before. It is fooliſhly ſuppoſed that this Merlyne was got by a ſprite of that kinde whiche are called Incu|bi, that is to vnderſtand, ſuch as cõueying mans ſeede from him, and therewith by illuſion (taking vpon them the ſhape and figure of man) do lie with women, and vſe them after the manner of carnal copulation. In this place Hector Boetius by the way reciteth a like tale or two, of ſuche il|luſions of ſprites wrought not long before his time in Scotland, whiche ſomewhat abridging the ſame we haue here infarſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare .1480. ſayth he,Illuſions of ſpirites. it chaunced as a Scottiſh ſhippe departed out of the Forth to|wardes Flaunders,A tale of a woman abuſed with a ſprite. there roſe a wonderful great tempeſt of winde & weather, ſo outragious, that the Maſter of the ſhip with other the Ma [...]iners wondered not a litle what the mater ment, to fee ſuche weather that tyme of the yeare,About S. Bar|nabees day. for it was aboute the middeſt of Sommer. At length when the furious pyrrie & rage of windes ſtill encrea|ſed, in ſuche wiſe that all thoſe within the ſhippe [figure appears here on page 119] EEBO page image 120 looked for preſent death, there was a woman vn|derneath the hatches, called vnto them aboue, and willed them to throwe hyr into the ſea, that all the reſidue by goddes grace might yet be ſa|ued: and therevpon tolde them, howe ſhee had bene haunted a long tyme with a ſprite, dayely comming vnto hir, in mans lykenes, and that euen as then, hee was with hir vſing his filthye pleaſure after the maner of carnall copulation. In the ſhippe there chaunced alſo to bee a prieſt, who by the maiſters appointment going downe to this woman, & fynding hir lyke a moſt wret|ched and deſperate perſon, lamenting hir greate miſfortune and myſerable eſtate, vſed ſuche hol|ſome admonitions and comfortable aduertiſe|ments, willing hir to repent and hope for mercy at the handes of almightie God, that at lengthe ſhe ſeeming right penitent for hir greuous offen|ces committed, and fetching ſundry ſighes euen from the bottome of hir heart, being witneſſe (as ſhould appeare) of the ſame, there iſſued foorthe of the pumpe of the ſhippe, a foule and euill fa|uored black cloude, with a mightie terrible noiſe, flame, ſmoake and ſtinke, which preſently fel in|to the ſea. And ſodeinly therevpon the tempeſte ceaſſed, and the ſhip paſſyng in quiet the reſidue of hir iourney, arriued in ſafetie at the place whe|ther ſhe was bounde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Not long before the hap hereof, there was in lyke maner a yong man dwelling in Gareoth,A yong man haunted with a ſprite. within a village there, not paſſing .xiiij. myles from Aberdyne, right faire and comely of ſhape, who declared by way of complaint vnto the Bi|ſhop of that dioceſſe, howe there was a ſprite which haunted him in ſhape of a woman, ſo fair and beautifull a thing, that he neuer ſaw y^e lyke, the which would come into his chãber a nights, & with pleaſant enticementes allure him to haue to doe with hir, and that by no maner of means he could be rid of hir. The biſhop like a wiſe mã aduiſed him to remoue into ſome other countrey and to giue himſelfe to faſtyng and prayer, ſo to auoyde his handes of that wicked ſprite. The yong man folowing the Biſhops counſel, with|in few days was deliuered frõ further tentation.