Note 566 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
Cum. volui, &c.] Ovid, Met. vii. 199, where the first line is
“Quorum ope, cum volui, ripis mirantibus amnes:”
but I find it quoted, as in our text, by Corn. Agrippa, Occult. Philos. lib. i. cap. lxxii. p. 113. Opp. t. i. ed. Lugd.; by R. Scot, Discouerie of Witchcraft, l. xii. c. vii. p. 225, ed. 1584; and by Bodinus, De Magorum Dæmonomania, lib. ii. cap. ii. p. 130, ed. 1590. From the last-mentioned work, indeed, Middleton seems to have transcribed the passage, since he omits, as Bodinus does, a line after “Vipereas rumpo,” &c.