M. B. I do wonder, not so much at your ignorance as at this,

that I was ever of the same mind that you are, and could not
see mine own folly.

GOODWIFE R. Folly! how wise you are become of a sudden! I
know that their spirits lie lurking, for they foster them;
and when anybody hath angered them, then they call them forth
and send them. And look what they bid them do, or hire them
to do, that shall be done: as when she is angry, the spirit
will ask her, 'What shall I do?' 'Such a man hath misused
me,' saith she; 'go, kill his cow'; by-and-by he goeth and
doeth it. 'Go, kill such a woman's hens'; down go they. And
some of them are not content to do these lesser harms; but
they will say, 'Go, make such a man lame, kill him, or kill
his child.' Then are they ready, and will do anything; and I
think they be happy that can learn to drive them away.