Astaroth
Astaroth Dux magnus & fortis, prodiens angelica specie turpissima,
insidensque in dracone infernali, & viperam portans manu dextra.
Vere respondet de præteritis, præsentibus, futuris & occultis.
Libenter de spirituum creatore, & eorundem lapsu loquitur, quomodo
peccaverint & ceciderint. Se spontè non prolapsum esse dicit. Reddit
hominem mire eruditum in artibus liberalibus. Quadraginta legionibus
imperat. Ab hoc quilibet exorcista caveat, ne prope nimis cum admittat,
ob fœtorem intolerabilem quem expirat. Itaque annulum argenteum magicum
in manu sua juxta faciem teneat, quo se ab injuria facile tuebitur.
Astaroth is a great and a strong duke, comming foorth in the shape of a
fowle angell, sitting upon an infernall dragon, and carrieng on his
right hand a viper: he answereth trulie to matters present, past, and to
come, and also of all secrets. He talketh willinglie of the creator of
spirits, and of their fall, and how they sinned and fell: he saith he
fell not of his owne accord. He maketh a man woonderfull learned in the
liberall sciences, he ruleth fourtie legions. Let everie exorcist take
heed, that he admit him not too neere him, bicause of his stinking
breath [lit. "because of the intolerable stench which he exhales"]. And
therefore let the conjuror hold neere to his face a magicall [silver]
ring, and that shall defend him.