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concern’g the Matter of the Laste Extremite and What to doe regard’ yt. I am not dispos’d to followe you in go’g Away on acct. of my yeares, for Providence hath not ye Sharpeness of ye Bay in hunt’g oute uncommon Things and bringinge to Tryall. I am ty’d up in Shippes and Goodes, and cou’d not doe as you did, besides the Whiche my Farme, at Pawtuxet hatht under it What you Knowe, that Wou’d not Waite for my com’g Backe as an Other. But I am not unreadie for harde fortunes, as I have tolde you, and have longe Work’d upon ye Way of get’g Backe after ye Laste. I laste Night strucke on ye Wordes that bringe up Yogge-Sothothe , and sawe for ye Firste Time that face spoke of by Ibn Schacabac in ye ⸻. And it said, that ye III Psalme in ye Liber-Damnatus holdes ye Clavicle. With Sunne in V House, Saturne in Trine, drawe ye Pentagram of Fire, and saye ye ninth Verse thrice. This Verse repeate eache Roodemas and Hallow’s Eve, and ye thing will brede in ye Outside Spheres. And of ye Sede of Olde shal One be borne who shal looke Backe, tho’ know’g not what he seekes. Yett will this availe Nothing if there be no Heir, and if the Saltes, or the Way to make the Saltes, bee not Readie for his Hande; and here I will owne, I have not taken needed Stepps nor founde Much. Ye Process is plaguy harde to come neare, and it uses up such a Store of Specimens, I am harde putte to it to get Enough, notwithstand’g the Sailors I have from ye Indies. Ye People aboute are become Curious, but I can stande them off. Ye gentry are worse than ye Populace, be’g more Circumstantiall in their Accts. and more believ’d in what they tell. That Parson