“ We are simple men; we do not know what’s brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling. ”
 William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602). copy citation

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“Old woman! what old woman’s that? IV. 2. 150 Mrs Ford. Why, it is my maid’s aunt of Brentford. Ford. A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does she? We are simple men; we do not know what’s brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling. She works 155 by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as 230 this is, beyond our element: we know nothing. Come down, you witch, you hag, you; come down, I say! Mrs Ford. Nay, good, sweet husband!—Good gentlemen, let him not strike the old woman.” source