Berith
Berith Dux magnus & terribilis: tribus nuncupatur nominibus, à
quibusdam Beal, à Judæis Berith, à necromanticis Bolfri. Prodit ut miles
ruber cum vestitu rubro, & equo ejusdem coloris coronaque ornatus.
Vere de præsentibus, præteritis & futuris respondet. Virtute divina
per annulum magicæ artis ad horam scilicet cogitur. Mendax etiam est. In
aurum cuncta metallorum genera mutat. Dignitatibus ornat easdemque
confirmat: Claram subtilemque edit vocem. Viginti sex legiones huic
subsunt.
Berith is a great and a terrible duke, and hath three names. Of some he
is called Beall; of the Jewes Berithi [Berith]; of Nigromancers Bolfry
[Bolfri]: he commeth foorth as a red souldier, with red clothing, and
upon a horsse of that colour, and a crowne on his head. He answereth
trulie of things present, past, and to come. He is compelled at a
certeine houre, through divine vertue, by a ring of art magicke. He is
also a lier, he turneth all mettals into gold, he adorneth a man with
dignities, and confirmeth them, he speaketh with a cleare and a subtill
voice, and six and twentie legions are under him.