* Which.
   That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well
   known to the ancients.  Virgil, and many others state the
   fact:--{Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis.}  "In
   the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation."

 * charming never so wisely.  or, be the charmer never so
   cunning.
  De 18:11  Isa 19:3