At any cost the Vergilian tradition must be preserved and accordingly there could be no keener shaft to wing an argument than an apt quotation from some classical source. We must not then be surprised to find that Boguet continually appeals to Roman story and repeatedly cites the Latin poets, although to us such allusion may seem far from germane to the matter in hand.
Henry Boguet, honoured and respected by all, died in 1619.
It has been said that the Discours des Sorciers in spite of its popularity, in spite of its wide and continued use, in spite of no less than a dozen known editions—and it is plain that several issues have completely vanished—has become a book of the last rarity, and the explanation of this is sufficiently remarkable. It appears that certain wealthy members of Boguet’s family were of an exceedingly sceptical and hostile turn of mind. These persons united in a cabal, and pooling no small part of
