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[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men
the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their
cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which
common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.