Accordingly they all went in to the king and prostrating themselves before him, said to him, "O king, beware lest this youth ensorcell thee with his sorcery and beguile thee with his wiles.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Not any one of all these honord parts Your Princely happes, and habites that do moue, And, as it were, ensorcell all the hearts Of Christen kings to quarrell for your loue, But to possesse, at once and all the good Arte and engine, and euery starre aboue Fortune or kinde, could farce in flesh and bloud, Was force inough to make so many striue For your person, which in our world stoode By all consents the minionst mayde to wiue.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham