Exotic pets, 1656 edition

...and yet there was an honest woman (so always formerly reputed) executed at Cambridge in the year 1645 for keeping a tame Frog in a Box for sport and Phantasie, which Phantasie of keeping things tame of several species is both lawful and common among very innocent harmless people, as Mice, Dormice, Grasshoppers, Caterpillars, Snakes; yea a Gentleman, to please his Phantasie in trying conclusions, did once keep in a Box a Maggot that came out of a Nut, till it grew to an incredible bigness...

--From A Candle in the Dark--

Ewww!

Hocus Pocus, 1656 edition

...I will speak of one man more excelling in that craft than others, that went about in King James' time, and long since, who called himself, The King's Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so he was called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo...

--From A Candle in the Dark--