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<P>&para; An A&s;trological Di&s;cour&s;e vpon the great and notable Con|iunction of the tvvo &s;uperiour Planets, SATVRNE &amp; IVPITER, which &s;hall happen the 28. day of April, 1583.</P>
<P>With a briefe Declaration of the effectes, which the late Eclip&s;e of the Sunne <HI>1582.</HI> is yet heerafter to woorke.</P>
<P>Written newly by RICHARD HARVEY: partely, to &s;upplie that is wanting in co~mon Progno&s;tications: and partely by praediction of mi&s;chiefes en&s;uing, ei|ther to breed &s;ome endeuour of preuention by fore|&s;ight, &s;o farre as lyeth in vs: or at lea&s;twi&s;e, to arme vs with pacience beforehande.</P>
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<P><HI>AT LONDON:</HI> Imprinted by Henrie Bynneman. Anno Domini. 1583.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, IOHN, BISHOP OF London, and his verie good Lord: RICHARD HARVEY <HI>wi&s;heth long life, with increa&s;e of all honourable vertues.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_RIGHT REVEREND, my dutie in mo&s;t humble wi&s;e remembred, I am to be&s;eech your good Lord&s;hippe, to vouch&s;afe me that fauour, (if not for mine owne &s;ake, or the worthines of the thing it &s;elfe, yet for Cambridge &s;ake, and that e&s;peciall affection, whiche you haue alwayes borne towards Vniuer&s;itie men, and namely your &s;ingu|lar curte&s;ie toward my brother Gabriel, when he &s;hould haue trauailed to Smalcaldie, which curte&s;ie he doth of|ten recogni&s;e) that as it hath plea&s;ed you alreadie to commit the peru&s;ing of the A&s;trologicall Di&s;cour&s;e fol|lowing, to your mo&s;t learned &s;onne in lawe, M. Doctor Squire, who can verie well iudge, and hath verie friend|ly allowed thereof: &s;o it may now like your Lord&s;hippe, to admit of the &s;ame for the be&s;t New yeares gift, that
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&s;uch a &s;choller on &s;uch a &s;uddaine can be&s;tow. Which al|beit in re&s;pect of the ba&s;e handling, it be nothing wor|thie either the view, or the handling of &s;uch a per&s;onage, as I can not but know your Lord&s;hip to be: yet con&s;ide|ring the great importance, and con&s;equence of the argu|ment, I am both per&s;waded by &s;ome friends, who are to ouerrule me in a greater matter, to aduenture the publi|cation thereof, (in&s;omuch that I haue made my good Lord of Roche&s;ter, and M. Doctor Lewen priuie there|unto, who like well of the impre&s;sion) and with all am incouraged to craue your good leaue, that vpon your priuate liking, (which notwith&s;tanding my &s;elfe of my &s;elfe can not greatly hope for) you would &s;uffer it to pa&s;&s;e vnder the title of your good Lor&s;hippes publique maintenaunce, and patronage. I may ea&s;ily pre&s;ume too much of your accu&s;tomed fauour, &s;o a&s;&s;uredly knowen as well in both the Vniuer&s;ities, as abroad in your Lord|&s;hips Dioce&s;&s;e, and other parts of the Realme: and there|fore (notwith&s;tanding the importunitie of tho&s;e my friends, and the grauitie of the argument it &s;elfe) being loth to be ouerbold, where I owe &s;o much reuerence and dutie, I haue thought good, not to v&s;e your name without your owne licence, but wholy to commit the publi&s;hing, or &s;uppre&s;sing of this Di&s;cour&s;e to your Lord&s;hippes li|king or di&s;liking. You may haply maruell what I meane, either to deale my &s;elfe in any &s;uch matter of A&s;trologie being &s;hortly to profe&s;&s;e Diuinity, (&s;o &s;oone as my place in the College &s;hall call me thereunto) or to dedicate a Treati&s;e of anie &s;uch contents vnto one, that hath both &s;o many yeres, euen in King Edwards, &amp; Queene Maries daies, (as appeareth by his owne, and others writings) ca|ried &s;o &s;ingular credit for his knowledge, and practi&s;e in Diuinitie, &amp; now by Gods prouidence is in place, to be|nefit and countenance tho&s;e, that being admitted to that vocation, &s;hall de&s;erue to be well accepted therein. But for the one, be&s;ides that I might alleage for my defence,
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the examples of Melancthon, Chytraeus, Iunctinus, Mae&s;t|lyne, our M. Doctor Fulke, your M. Doctor Squier, and &s;ome other of like credit: who being profe&s;&s;ed in Di|uinitie to their owne &s;peciall commendation, &amp; the ge|nerall benefite of the Church, were not afterward a&s;ha|med both to defend, &amp; to practice A&s;trologie: the verie &s;ubiect and matter of the Arte it &s;elfe is &s;uch, that none, which knoweth it in deede, can iu&s;tly charge it with the lea&s;t contrarietie or repugnancie either to Diuinitie it &s;elfe, or to the &s;ounde&s;t partes of Morall and Naturall Philo&s;ophie. <HI>Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei;</HI> and Platoes opi|nion is, that our eies were principally giuen vs, for this v&s;e and end, to be occupied in the contemplation of the heauens; whereunto he attributeth &s;o much, that he thinketh A&s;tronomie and wi&s;edom to be &s;o in&s;eparably linked and chained togither, that neither a very wi&s;e man can want A&s;trologie, nor a very good A&s;trologer want wi&s;dom. To which effect, that notable &s;aying of his, de|&s;erueth to be as famous, as your Lord&s;hip knoweth it to be amonge&s;t the learned: <GAP DESC="foreign">. Which verie &s;aying &s;eemeth vnto me to import &s;ome part of that Diuinitie, whereof &s;o many ages he hath caried &s;o high, and honourable a &s;urname: the ra|ther becau&s;e the &s;ingular and incomparable wi&s;edom of Salomon, as your Lord&s;hippe be&s;t remembreth, is thus particularly de&s;cribed, in the booke intituled, <HI>Liber Sa|pientiae. Deus mihi dedit harum rerum cognitionem veram, vt &s;ciam di&s;po&s;itionem orbis terrarum, &amp; virtutes, effectione&s;que elementorum, initium, &amp; finem, &amp; medium temporum, &s;olsti|tiorum vici&s;&s;itudines, &amp; con&s;ummationes temporum, &amp; morum mutationes, annorum orbes, &amp; &s;tellarum &s;itus, ac di&s;po&s;itiones, &amp; naturas animalium, &amp; iras bestiarum, &amp; ventorum impe|cus, &amp; cogitationes hominum, &amp; &s;tirpium differentias, &amp; ra|dicum virtutes: &amp; quaecunque &s;unt ab&s;condita, &amp; improui&s;ae didici, cum me omnium Artifex docuit Sapientia.</HI> For which verie kindes of knowledge, (albeit I beleue neuer anie
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had them in that full mea&s;ure, that it plea&s;ed God to be|&s;tow vpon Salomon) our chiefe&s;t A&s;trologers, e&s;pecial|lie the mo&s;t learned Arabians, &s;o often as they are occa|&s;ioned to cite, or mention any of their predece&s;&s;ors: call them commonlie by the name of <HI>Sapientes,</HI> which &s;ome I know merrily tran&s;lated Wizardes, but how wizardly, (if they &s;peake generally without exception of the bet|ter &s;ort) let the prouerbe te&s;tifie, which &s;aith, <HI>Scientia non habet inimicum, ni&s;i ignorantem.</HI> What &s;hould I &s;peake of Thales Mile&s;ius, who being the fir&s;t, that among the Graecians was called <GAP DESC="foreign">, as Diogenes Laertius repor|teth&punc; was al&s;o the fir&s;t among them, that &s;earching out the &s;ecrecies, and mi&s;teries of A&s;trologie: both foretold the conuer&s;ions, and eclip&s;es of the Sunne, as Eudemus witne&s;&s;eth in his A&s;trologicall hi&s;torie, and found out <HI>Vr&s;a minor</HI> with hir litle &s;tarres, whereby the Phoenices direct their nauigation, as Callimachus te&s;tifieth in his Greeke ver&s;es: and fore&s;eeing a verie great dearth of oliues, and thereupon purpo&s;ing to &s;hewe, howe ea&s;ie a matter it was for Philo&s;ophers to grow rich, gat into his hands by a rea&s;onable price, all the oliue gardens in Mi|letum, and Chium, the winter before, whereby after|ward making his owne price at his plea&s;ure, he gained exceeding great &s;ummes of money: as is crediblie re|corded not only by Hieronimus Rhodius, and Ari&s;totle in Greeke, but al&s;o by Tullie <HI>De Diuinatione,</HI> and diuers other in Latine: Ari&s;totle &s;aying, one while he did it, <GAP DESC="foreign">, an other while, <GAP DESC="foreign">: and Solon the wi&s;e Lawmaker among the Athenians, following his adui&s;e, &s;et downe certaine A&s;trologicall ob&s;eruations of the <HI>Aequinoctia,</HI> and corrected the Attique yeare, as ap|peareth by manie hi&s;tories: and finally by the defects of the Moone and Sunne, he progno&s;ticated the defects and &s;ubuer&s;ions of certaine &s;tates and kingdoms in A&s;ia, as out of Plinies Naturall hi&s;torie, I haue &s;pecially no|ted in my briefe Treati&s;e of the late eclip&s;e. I &s;hould be
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ouer tedious vnto your Lord&s;hip, if I &s;hould go about to recite the tenth part of tho&s;e te&s;timonies, and auctori|ties, which I coulde ea&s;ilie alleage to the &s;ame effect: whereby it is certainlie euident, that as wi&s;e, and wor|thie men, as euer were in the world, both made verie &s;peciall account of this &s;tudie in other, and trauailed ex|ceedingly therein them &s;elues: as namely Iulius Cae|&s;ar, Octauius Augu&s;tus, Ptolomey, Theodo&s;ius, one of the be&s;t Emperours, Fredericke the &s;econd, (who cau|&s;ed Ptolomey, Me&s;&s;ahalah, and diuers other princi|pall A&s;trologers, to be tran&s;lated out of the Arabian in|to Latine: <HI>Hos quia con&s;ilijs regum conducere &s;en&s;it:</HI> as Hellerus writeth to Erne&s;tus, Prince of Hennenberg:) Alphon&s;us the mo&s;t excellent King of Arragonia, and Naples: Matthias Coruinus of Hungarie: Charles the fift of famous memorie, and &s;undrie other, as well Prin|ces, as &s;ubiectes of the mo&s;t notable &s;ort. But I can not praetermit that A&s;trologicall conference betwene Cae|&s;ar, and the Aegyptian Prie&s;t in Lucans Phar&s;alia, where Cae&s;ars owne confe&s;sion of him &s;elfe is thus deliuered: <HI>media inter praelia &s;emper, &s;tellarum, coelique plagis, &s;uperi&s;que vacaui: Eudoxi Fastos noster &s;uperabit &amp; Annus.</HI> Which he in deede performed, correcting and reforming the Romane yeare by the helpe of So&s;igenes, as Solon did the Attique yeare by the helpe of Thales: an other ma|ner of reformation, than that of the Calender, which the Pope Gregorie the xiij. hath newly publi&s;hed, by the helpe of I knowe not what A&s;trologers. As for the re&s;t, lea&s;t I &s;hould &s;eme to forget my &s;elfe, in not hauing that regard to your Lord&s;hips per&s;on, which I ought, wil re|&s;erue their A&s;trologicall commendations vnto &s;ome fit|ter place, thinking it &s;ufficient for this pre&s;ent, to &s;tande vpon the Rea&s;ons, which Melancthon, a man as your Lord&s;hip be&s;t knoweth, of a &s;harpe, and &s;ounde iudge|ment in mo&s;t &s;chollerly points of learning, alleageth, in a notable preface of his, <HI>In Theoricas nouas planetarum</HI>
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Georgij Purbachij directed to his mo&s;t learned countri|man, Simon Grynaeus: wherein he &s;heweth how neede|full Iudiciall A&s;trologie is, both for priuate v&s;es, and for publike. For priuate v&s;es, fir&s;t <HI>in medendo:</HI> then, <HI>ad regen|dos mores:</HI> thirdly, <HI>ad deligenda &s;tudia: plurimum enim re|fert intelligere, quo quemque natura ducat:</HI> (I v&s;e not a word, but his owne:) be&s;ide, <HI>fortuna &s;aepe comitatur mores: &amp; quanquam aliae quoque cau&s;ae funt humanorum euentuum, ta|men res loquitur ip&s;a, interdum in Astris cau&s;ara e&s;&s;e, cur vt He&s;iodus inquit: ip&s;e dies quandoque parens, quandoque no|uerca, &s;it.</HI> Fiftly, <HI>conducit tempestatum ob&s;eruatio ad Oeco|nomiam:</HI> la&s;t of all, <HI>hi proximi anni aliquot &s;atis claras &s;igni|ficationes praebuerunt, &s;idera magnam vim in aere, &amp; re|bus na&s;centibus habere, idque palam testantur in&s;ignes &s;ide|rum congre&s;&s;us</HI> (which maketh directly for the pre&s;ent Di&s;cour&s;e.) And as for the publike v&s;e and nece&s;sitie thereof, he goeth forwarde thus, in my &s;imple opi|nion, both very politickely and diuinely: <HI>Existunt &amp; inrebus publicis fatales tempestates, in quibus admoniti ab hac arte, multa prouidere po&s;&s;unt, vel ad cauenda, vel ad mitiganda pericula. Saepe enim fata con&s;ilio in melius flecti queunt, &s;aepe fatorum &s;aeuitiam lenit Deus, placatus pio|rum votis. Quare haec quoque grauis cau&s;a fuerit, rerum futurarum &s;ignificationes animaduertendi.</HI> He addeth for rea&s;on. <HI>Prodest enim commonefieri homines atrocibus &s;ide|rum minis, vt &agrave; Deo opem implorent; deinde, vt bonitatem Dei magis agno&s;cant, cum viderint aliquam e&s;&s;e &s;uperiorem ac meliorem naturam &s;ideribus, quae tristes &s;ignificationes miti|gat.</HI> To the breeding of which politike, and diuine con&s;iderations in the mindes of &s;ome or other, I would to God, this &s;lender Di&s;cour&s;e of mine might be anie meanes. Melancthon leaueth not thus, but &s;till goeth on, as it were in a certaine feruent zeale towards this profe&s;sion. <HI>Nec dubia est harum Artium fides: nam &amp; motuum ratio demonstrationes habet, quarum e&ograve; est &s;uaui&s;&s;i|ma cognitio, quia delectat animos certitudo, &amp; harmonia,
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&s;eu con&s;en&s;us in tanta varietate argumentorium: &amp; Diui|natricem &s;i quis prudenter ad Phy&s;icen referet, intelliget eam habere graues cau&s;as; &amp; tuetur eam experientia peri|ti&s;&s;imorum hominum: rect&egrave; ver&ograve; Galenus de hac ip&s;a arte inquit: Sophisticum e&s;&s;e, contra experientiae testimonium, rationes quaerere.</HI> Finally, to aun&s;were common ob|iections, and &s;uche ordinarie contradictions, as A|&s;trologers eares are well acquainted withall, he at la&s;t breefely decideth, and determineth all &s;uch doubtes in the wordes following. <HI>Nec eo detrahenda est arti fi|des, quia aut artifices aliqui inepti &s;unt, aut non omnes e|uentus humani in arte monstrantur: &s;unt enim &amp; aliae quae|dam praeter &s;idera, euentuum cau&s;ae. Et&s;i autem in tantis tene|bris humanae mentis, multa pro&s;pici nequeunt, tamen ariis beneficium non leue ducendum est, quae pleraque interim; &amp; ad vitae &s;ummam pertinentia monet. Quoties fallimur in le|uioribus artibus, &amp; in ijs rebus, quae &s;unt, vt ita dicam, in manibus? Neque tamen propter eiu&s;modi errata explodan|dae &s;unt artes; &s;ed prudentia est, ad vitae v&s;um inde, quan|tum po&s;&s;umus, transferre.</HI> His re&s;olution and conclu|&s;ion there is. <HI>Illud etiam rect&egrave; institutis iudicare facile est, quis e&s;&s;e modus Diuinationum debeat, &amp; qu&ograve;d religio approbet has Diuinationes, vt Medicorum iudicia, aut cae|teras Phy&s;icae partes.</HI> Which rea&s;ons of Melancthon, I doubt not but your Lord&s;hip will admit, and allow for effectually materiall and good. Now I &s;ee not greatly, what remaineth to be yet obiected: vnle&s;&s;e haply &s;ome will oppo&s;e the olde decrees of the Romane Senate, and &s;ome newer imperiall lawes, again&s;t all &s;uch, as were vulgarly called <HI>Mathematici, Chaldaei, Arioli,</HI> and <HI>Di|uinatores,</HI> of whome Vlpian the famous lawyer trea|teth <HI>libro</HI> 7. <HI>de officio Procon&s;ulis,</HI> vnder the title, <HI>De Ma|thematicis, &amp; Vaticinatoribus:</HI> Which verie title I haue hearde &s;o alleaged. Whereunto, fir&s;t I might aun&s;were, that they di&s;pute not <HI>ad idem:</HI> tho&s;e lawes being made only again&s;t &s;uch, as Moy&s;es condemneth in the XVIII. of
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Deuteronomie, who vainly tooke vpon them, to diuine by magicall and &s;uper&s;titious &s;orceries, numbers, lottes, characters, charmes, interrogatories propounded to the dead, in&s;pections of birds, entrals of bea&s;tes, and &s;uch other mon&s;trous, and abhominable meanes: for &s;o &s;aith A. Gellius in his fir&s;t booke of his <HI>Noctes Atticae: vulgus quos gentilitio vocabulo Chaldaeos dicere oportet, eos Mathe|maticos vocat;</HI> &amp; Seruius Honoratus vpon the fourth of Virgils <HI>Aeneidos: Cum multa &s;acra Romani &s;u&s;ciperent, &s;em|per magica damnarunt; probro&s;a enim ars habita est.</HI> Second|ly, that albeit tho&s;e Romane lawes had in deede bene de|ui&s;ed as well again&s;t their A&s;trologers then, as again&s;t a|nie other Diuiners or Sooth&s;ayers: what rea&s;on is there, they &s;hould make more again&s;t ours now, than the like lawes make again&s;t our Rhetoricians, Philo&s;ophers, Phi|&s;itians, and in a maner again&s;t all other profe&s;&s;ours of a|nie liberall arte? All &s;uch being by one Romane decree or other, at one time, or other, vpon one &s;uddaine occa|&s;ion, or other, bani&s;hed the citie, as trouble&s;ome, and needele&s;&s;e per&s;ons, in a politike and martiall &s;tate, &s;o long as the rage of that tempe&s;t endured. Thirdly, admit their A&s;trological diuinations were lawfully forbidden, being found commonly deceitfull and fal&s;e, by rea&s;on that the art it &s;elfe was then verie vnperfect, and vncer|taine, as it continued to the age of Ptolomey, who flo|ri&s;hed but in the time of the Emperour Antoninus Pius, which &s;ucceeded Traian and Adrian: yet may ours ne|uerthele&s;&s;e lawfully &s;tand, the art being nowe generallie of the mo&s;t and be&s;t acknowledged to be much more perfectly reformed, and a right art in deede: or if that &s;eeme more, a right &s;cience in deede. For which two la&s;t rea&s;ons, I am to thanke a late conference, that I had with my brother Gabriel, about Hallowmas la&s;t, touching the validitie of tho&s;e Romane lawes. As for other later lawes, &amp; &s;tatuts, either forreine, or our owne, I know not anie that vniuer&s;ally and &s;implie condemne A&s;trologie:
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and as for tho&s;e, that condemne &s;ome particular abu&s;e thereof, I mu&s;t needes confe&s;&s;e, they are verie wi&s;e, and nece&s;&s;arie ordinaunces, to meete with the lewde practi|&s;es, and impo&s;tures of manie, that vnder the pretence of their figure commit intolerable villanies, wherein for my parte, I doubt not, but they de&s;erue the penalties, in|flicted vpon them by law, thinking them worthily puni|&s;hed, <HI>Pro men&s;ura con&s;ultationis,</HI> as Vlpian &s;peaketh of his <HI>Mathematici</HI> in the forenamed title, with this addition of his, following immediatly after in the &s;ame place: <HI>qui de principis &s;alute, capite puniantur, vel qua alia grauiore paenae afficiantur:</HI> extending withall the force of the law in that point, euen to the puni&s;hment of other &s;imple wizardes: <HI>Qui contra quietem, imperiumque populi Romani, improbandas artes exercent:</HI> and finally alleaging the example of the Emperour Marcus, <HI>Qui in Syrum in&s;ulam eum relegauit, qui motu Ca&s;&s;iano vaticinatus erat, &amp; multa qua&s;i in&s;tinctu Deorum dixerat:</HI> Neither dare I excu&s;e either Thra&s;illus, or A&s;cle|tarion, or Gauricus: whereof the fir&s;t foretold the de&s;tru|ction of Tiberius the Emperour: the &s;econd of Domi|tian: the third of the Bentiuoli in Bononia: or the Prie&s;t, that gaue out the rumour of the future murthering of Galeacius Sfortia, Duke of Millaine, (who were all wor|thily rewarded for their folly) or anie other, that by their Horo&s;copicall predictions might &s;eeme to harten, &amp; ha|&s;ten one con&s;pirators, to the atchieuing, or attempting of their Princes death, but in that ca&s;e would wi&s;h all A|&s;trologers, either not to deale at all, or el&s;e to deale pri|uately and priuily with the Prince him &s;elfe: &amp; then too, to hold Cardanes rule, &s;et downe among&s;t eight other like conditions, in the end of his booke, <HI>De Astrologicie interrogationibus: principi ne magnum malum firmiter vn|quam praedixeris, &s;ed periculum:</HI> howbeit Cardane him &s;elfe dealt more plainly, and therefore more daungerou&s;ly with our King Edward the VI. as appeareth in the Iudi|cials of his natiuitie, giuen out in the beginning of his
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<HI>Duodecim illustres geniturae. At mihi, ex innata &s;inceritate, &amp; quod mi&s;erum adole&s;centuium amarem, &s;orti&s;que eius mi&s;ererer</HI> (quoth Cardane there) <HI>certum erat, etiam cum manifesto vitae di&s;crimine, omnia patefacere; quamuis futurum crederem, vt me irriderent.</HI> But what followeth? <HI>Ergo volentibus fatis, nec &s;ingularis hu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">s artis cognitio prode&s;&s;e regi potuit: nec bo|nitas, atque &s;implicitas ingenij, mihi obe&s;&s;e.</HI> Which good &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e of Cardane, was partly to be attributed to his owne di&s;creete handling, free from all maner of &s;u&s;pition, but &s;pecially to the innocent, and &s;ingular good nature of that mo&s;t noble young King, who accepted &s;o fauoura|bly of his affectionate intention. But, neither this &s;pe|ciall priuiledge of his being withall a &s;traunger of ex|traordinarie credit, nor anie like per&s;onall example can warrant other priuate men, to intermeddle in like &s;orte in the natiuities, and de&s;tinies of their Princes, otherwi&s;e than is before limited, or vpon the Princes owne direct commaundement. And yet if either this way, or any like, the art happen by &s;ome bu&s;ie, and fonde fellowes to be abu&s;ed, it hath but the &s;ame fortune, that all other artes and &s;ciences haue be&s;ide: &amp; the Lawiers rule, <HI>Abu&s;us non tollit v&s;um,</HI> will &s;till iu&s;tifie the right, and commendable practice thereof. The bounds of which limitation, I ha|uing no way exceeded in anie parte of the Di&s;cour&s;e fol|lowing: I hope, there is nothing therin contained, which, con&s;idering the premi&s;es, might not proceede, euen from one, that were already profe&s;&s;ed in Diuinitie. And, then I tru&s;t, in re&s;pect of the matter, I haue committed no in|conuenience, in recommending the &s;ame to the fauour and patronage of &s;uch a Diuine, as all England knoweth your Lord&s;hip to be: who I doubt not, can iudge exactly thereof. For the maner, I am humbly to craue pardon, be|ing neither practi&s;ed in writing Engli&s;h, nor purpo&s;ing anie &s;uch publike dedication at the fir&s;t. It may perad|uenture be an occa&s;ion, that hereafter I &s;hall acquaint my pen better with enditing in our owne tonge. In the meane
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time, I am to be&s;eech your Reuerend Lord&s;hippe, to re|&s;pect rather what is here &s;aid, than how it is &s;aid: pre&s;u|ming that I haue litle erred in my iudicials, what&s;oeuer defects may chaunce to appeare in the &s;tyle. And yet for the verie con&s;equence of the matter too, I mu&s;t &s;ay with Tullie, <HI>Optanda quidem optima: expectanda deterrima: ferenda quaecunque erunt.</HI> How Gods omnipotencie ouer|ruleth all cau&s;es, and effects, as well particularly <HI>in &s;pecie, &amp; indiuiduo,</HI> as vniuer&s;ally <HI>in genere,</HI> I haue &s;ufficiently vt|tered as it were by the way in other places: our la&s;t re|medie is Chri&s;tian pacience, if there be no other reme|die. But that is a Theologicall argument, worthie your Lord&s;hips handling: and I &s;ee I haue already pre&s;umed ouermuch of your Lord&s;hippes pacience, in being thus trouble&s;ome, and tedious vnto you, beyonde the com|pa&s;&s;e of an ordinarie Epi&s;tle, or Preface. Which neuer|thele&s;&s;e I dur&s;t in no re&s;pect haue done, but vpon cer|taine a&s;&s;urance of that fauourable acceptation, which from time to time, it hath plea&s;ed you to vouch&s;afe the like writings of diuers Vniuer&s;itie men, being litle pa&s;t my &s;tanding there, and namely my brothers <HI>Antico&s;mo|polita,</HI> when he was not much aboue the &s;ame conti|nuaunce. In full hope, and affiance whereof, I will here mo&s;t humbly take my leaue, committing your Lord|&s;hip to the protection of God, who giue you many pro|&s;perous Newyeares, and long pre&s;erue you, to his owne glorie, and the benefit of his Church. Here in London this 23. of Ianuarie. 1583.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your good Lord&s;hippes most humble, <HI>RICHARD HARVEY.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>T. S. Ogdoas in R. H. Progno&s;ticon.</HEAD>
<L>_CEdite Francitali, florenti cedite vati,</L>
<L>Harueius meruit nomen habere Sophi.</L>
<L>Spirat in ore Furor, Baccho&abque; &amp; Apol|line dignus,</L>
<L>Palladis vt no&s;cas Mercurij&abque; genus.</L>
<L>Erg&ograve; agite Anglorum proceres, legitote Propheta~,</L>
<L>Memphiticis &s;imilem, nobilibu&s;&abque; Magis.</L>
<L>Vade Liber, liberi ingenij, genij&abque; beati</L>
<L>In&s;igne, &amp; Patriae pulpita &s;cande tuae.</L>
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<HEAD>Coeli &s;chema &s;ub Coniunctione Saturni &amp; Iouis.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>To my verie good, and mo&s;t louing Brother, Ma&s;ter Ga|briel Haruey, at his chamber in Trinitie Hall.</HEAD>
<P>_GOod Brother, I haue in &s;ome part done my endeuour to &s;ati&s;fie your late reque&s;te, wherein you aduerti&s;e m&eacute;e either not &s;o much to addict my &s;elfe to the &s;tudie, and contemplation of Iudiciall A&s;trologie, or el&s;e by &s;ome euident and &s;en&s;ible demon&s;trati|on, to make certaine and infallible proofe what general good I can do my countrie thereby, or what &s;peciall fruite I can reape thereof vnto my &s;elfe. I confe&s;&s;e greater wittes can work greater matters: and mine owne principall &s;tudie as yet, is but Philo&s;ophie and Phi&s;ick, wherein I pray God I may &s;p&eacute;edily growe to any rea&s;onable mediocritie, that I maye the
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&s;ooner proc&eacute;ed to my final Profe&s;&s;ion: But &s;e|ing it is your de&s;ire to practi&s;e me, &amp; as it were to oppo&s;e m&eacute;e in this kinde: you &s;hall heare, what I can briefly &s;ay touching the great Co~|iunction of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter,</HI> the next y&eacute;ere immediately following. I am to &s;ubmit my opinion to the cen&s;ure and correction of tho&s;e, that are longer &s;tudied, and more profoundly &s;een in this facultie: but that you may not con|ceiue, I haue altogither mi&s;pent my time this way, I wil endeuour my &s;elfe to make proofe in &s;ome &s;orte, how I haue profited in the &s;tu|die. Your &s;elfe haue often willed m&eacute;e to goe roundly to the matter, withoute eyther glori|ous in&s;inuations by way of Preface, or plea|&s;urable and conceited floori&s;hes by waye of di|gre&s;&s;ion: and therefore I pre&s;ume you wil not blame m&eacute;e, though I take a direct and plaine cour&s;e in the di&s;cour&s;e following. Fir&s;t, that Iudiciall A&s;trologie is neither any vaine and idle &s;tudie, nor forbydden and vnlawful Arte, your &s;elf hauing long &s;ince, taken &s;ome rea&s;o|nable paines therein, and b&eacute;eing able to &s;ay &s;o much in the defence thereof, out of many olde and new hi&s;tories of approued authoritie and credit, can &s;ufficiently (I know) and wil rea|dilie (I think) te&s;tifie. The &s;light arguments of <HI>Picus Mirandula, Cornelius Agrippa,</HI> and
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diuers other to y^e co~trary, haue b&eacute;en throughly an&s;wered, by <HI>Balantius, Schonerus, Melancto~, Cardane,</HI> &amp; &s;undry other, but &s;pecially of late by <HI>Iunctinus,</HI> who in his confutatio~ proc&eacute;edeth compendiou&s;ly, and directly from argument to argument, leauing in a manner nothing vn|touched, that hath b&eacute;ene, or can b&eacute;e obiected in di&s;grace of this knowledge. And if the autori|ties of men, that haue giuen them &s;elues that way, make any thing for the purpo&s;e, what goodlyer wits in y^e worlde, than &s;ome in euery cuntrie, that haue made &s;pecial accou~t, &amp; be&s;to|wed much trauel in this diuine &s;tudie? To let &s;trangers go, the&s;e of fre&s;h memorie haue bene none of the ba&s;e&s;t &s;cholers in England: <HI>M.D. Buttes,</HI> principal Phi&s;ition to king <HI>Henry</HI> the eight. Sir <HI>Thomas Eliot,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Smyth,</HI> who as you be&s;t knowe, and haue both truely and honourably te&s;tified in your <HI>Mu&s;arum la|chrymae,</HI> excelled therin. <HI>M.D. Recorde,</HI> both the <HI>Digges, M. Dee,</HI> who hir maie&s;tie vouch&s;a|feth the name of hyr Philo&s;opher: <HI>M. Securis, M. Buckma&s;ter, M. Moun&s;lowe, M.D. Twyne,</HI> be&s;ides mo&s;t of our chiefe Doctors in Phi&s;ike, as namely our <HI>M.D. Baro,</HI> in Cambridge, and <HI>M.D. For&s;ter</HI> in London, and &s;ome of our very chiefe&s;t Philo&s;ophers in either Vniuer&s;itie, y^t &s;halbe nameles, being not &s;o certainly profe&s;|&s;ed
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and renowmed that way. But to omit for breuities &s;ake, al other arguments and autho|rities that might plentifully be alledged in the mayntenaunce of Iudiciall A&s;trologie, I wil content my &s;elfe, and I thinke, I &s;hall content you with that only famous te&s;timony of <HI>Me|lancton,</HI> among&s;t many of his to the &s;ame pur|po&s;e, &s;et downe in an excellent epi&s;tle directed to the two noble &amp; honorable Lords, <HI>George</HI> and <HI>Huldrich Fuggeri,</HI> in commendation of A|&s;trologie. <HI>Norunt omnes &s;ani pror&s;us nece&s;&s;ariam e&s;&s;e doctrinam, quae anni metas &amp; ordinem o&s;tendit. Quam ob cau&s;am &amp; &s;apiens antiquitas hanc cura~ public&egrave; docti&s;&s;imis hominibus, qui cu&s;todes erant re|ligionis, commendauit, vt Solis circuitus &amp; inter|ualla, &amp; aequinoctia, &amp; &s;ol&s;titia ob&s;eruarentur, &amp; men&s;ium &s;patia, ad Solis iter accommodarent.</HI> But what followeth? <HI>Alteram parte~ quae Diuinatrix nominatur, multi acerb&egrave; vituperant, de qua alibi co|pio&s;i&ugrave;s dixi. Quanquam autem nequaquam omnium euentuum humanorum cau&s;ae &s;unt, &s;tellarum po&s;itus, &amp; &s;apienter cau&s;ae di&s;cernendae &s;unt, &amp; vitandae prae&s;tigiae fal&s;arum Diuinationum&punc; tamen certum est, multas in Elementis mutationes, ab A&s;tris oriri: &amp; in cra&s;i humanorum corporum, et ingeniorum in|clinationibus lumen coele&s;te magna~ vim habere. Pro|de&s;t autem ad valetudinem tutandam no&s;&s;e cra&s;im corporum, &amp; moribus prodest, cernere inclinationes
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coelestes, &amp; eas arte regere, aut fraenare, &s;icut Pega|&s;um Bellerophontes, ita dem&ugrave;m rect&egrave; gubernauit, cu~ Pallas aureum ei fraenum iniecit.</HI> Wherein for his opinion <HI>de cra&s;i corporu~ humanorum,</HI> he iumpeth with the auncient and mo&s;t renowmed Phi&s;i|tion <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> who in his booke <HI>de aere, aqua &amp; regionibus,</HI> b&eacute;eing tran&s;lated into engli&s;h &s;ai|eth thus much in effect: If we &s;hall con&s;ider du|ly of the highe&s;t cau&s;es and b&eacute;eings, we &s;hall finde that A&s;trologie is not the lea&s;t portion of Phi&s;icke, for it behooueth y^e Phi&s;ition to know the moone, and the &s;igne of heauen wherin the moone is, when anye patient beginneth to fall &s;ick, &amp; &s;o foorth. But hereof more at &s;ome other time, remitting you in the meane while to y^e learned Apologie of <HI>Iunctinus,</HI> who is copious in the&s;e pointes, touching the defence of Iudi|ciall A&s;trologie. Now to come &s;p&eacute;edily and di|rectly vnto that, whereunto at this pre&s;ent y^e particuler occa&s;ion draweth me. In this yeare en&s;uing, <HI>1583.</HI> which from the creation of the worlde is <HI>5545.</HI> (to ouerpa&s;&s;e other n&eacute;edle&s;&s;e computations and Chronologies: as how long from <HI>Noahs</HI> floud? how far from the de&s;tructio~ of <HI>Troy?</HI> how many yeares from the A&s;&s;irian, Per&s;ian, &amp; Macedonian monarchie, &amp; &s;o forth) The <HI>28.</HI> of <HI>April</HI> being Sunday, about high noone, there &s;hal happen a very greate and no|table
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Coniunction of the two &s;uperiour and weightie Planets <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter,</HI> which Coniunction &s;hall be manife&s;ted to the igno|rant &s;ort, by many fierce &amp; boy&s;terous windes then &s;ode~ly breaking out &amp; continuing certain daies before and certaine dayes after the &s;ame Coniunction. The&s;e two high planets &s;hal be conioyned in the la&s;t minute of the <HI>21.</HI> degre of <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> a &s;igne (as is commonly knowne) of the watery Triplicity, feminine, nocturnall, &s;ep|tentrional, commune, cold, moy&s;t, flegmatick, that is wholy of the nature &amp; quallitie of wa|ter: the e&s;&s;ential hou&s;e of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> the eraltatio~ of <HI>Venus,</HI> the gouernour of the f&eacute;ete, which Co~|iunction may, and ought to &s;&eacute;eme &s;o much the more fearful &amp; terrible vnto vs, by how much the more it is very &s;traunge, maruelous, rare, and mo&s;t &s;pecially noted of the learned. This is called of A&s;tronomers, <HI>Coniunctio planetaru~ maxima, quippe qua reguntur leges, imperia, regio|nes:</HI> as <HI>Ptolomey</HI> the Prince of A&s;trologers writeth, and <HI>Cardane</HI> more at large in hys Philo&s;ophical, and A&s;trological Commenta|ries vpon <HI>Ptolomey,</HI> This is that Coniunctio~ <HI>quae &s;ignificat prophetam, &amp; de&s;tructionem quorun|dam Climatum, &amp; &s;ectas, &amp; regnum: damna plu|uiarum &amp; pe&s;tile~tiae,</HI> as <HI>Me&s;&s;ahalah</HI> witne&s;&s;eth, who&s;e bookes haue bene much e&s;temed of kin|ges
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and Princes. This is that Coniunction which <HI>Alboazen Haly</HI> &s;aith doth <HI>prae&s;agire mor|tem regis magni &amp; potentis, multam tri&s;titiam ho|minibus, damnum in diuitibus et nobilibus, etiam in illis qui &s;u~t &s;icut Proph&eacute;tae, et multas locu&s;tas.</HI> This is that Coniunction which <HI>Guido Bonotus</HI> af|firmeth, to <HI>praemon&s;trare res magnaes &amp; mirandas venturas in mundo.</HI> This is that Coniunction, which <HI>Iohannes Molitor</HI> &s;urnamed of his con|try <HI>Regiomo~tanus,</HI> a man in my opinion, little inferior in worthine&s;&s;e, or fame to the former more auncient A&s;trologers, doth report to <HI>por|tendere continuas aquaru~ inundationes, &amp; particu|laria diluuia.</HI> Finally, this is that Coniunction <HI>quae minatur multum mali,</HI> as <HI>Iunctinus Florenti|nus</HI> te&s;tifieth, a great writer at this day, a Co~|iunction and m&eacute;eting, or ioyning togiter of y^e very wor&s;t &amp; very be&s;t planet, <HI>Saturne &amp; Iu|piter,</HI> whereof the one is tearmed <HI>Infortunium maius,</HI> barbarou&s;ly <HI>Infortuna maior,</HI> the other, <HI>Fortuna maior,</HI> both &s;ingular in their kinds, the one being (as it were) the Lorde of horrible mi&s;rule, and tragicall mi&s;chiefes, the other a pre&s;ident of &s;ouereigne bounty &amp; felicitie, both Heauenly in&s;truments, ordayned by God to tho&s;e high purpo&s;es and intendementes, wher|in they are employed, more auncient ind&eacute;ede than in name, euerla&s;ting workers of contra|rie
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inclinations, and effectes in the worlde, to he &s;hort both mighty Princes and potentates in their &s;euerall actions, &s;o farre as it plea&s;eth God to auctorize their proc&eacute;edings, &amp; v&s;e their mini&s;tery to his owne glory. Touching who&s;e great coniunction, it is doubtles the more hard and difficult, to &s;et downe any certaine effects &amp; Accidents, therof to en&s;ue, becau&s;e the For|tune and Infortune are equally matched, and as it were, indifferently encountered wyth power and &s;trength: For if the Infortune had bene greater and &s;tronger than the Fortune, as if <HI>Saturne</HI> hadde bene ioyned with <HI>Venus,</HI> which is called <HI>Fortuna maior, <HI>Saturn</HI></HI> no doubt would haue chalenged the prerogatiue or pre|eminence vnto him&s;elfe, as being mightier &amp; of more force: or if <HI>Iupiter</HI> had b&eacute;ene ioyned with <HI>Mars</HI> him&s;elfe being <HI>Fortuna maior,</HI> and the other <HI>Infortunium minus,</HI> he would &s;o haue repre&s;&s;ed the &s;turdines and furie of <HI>Mars,</HI> that the operations and effectes of that Coniuncti|on &s;hould haue bene indifferent, that is rather good than euill. Wherevpon in this ca&s;e <HI>Gui|do Bonatus</HI> a famous and renowmed A&s;trolo|gian of <HI>Italy,</HI> (as you knowe) in his fift Trea|ti&s;e <HI>de <HI>146.</HI> Con&s;iderationibus,</HI> &s;etting downe <HI>4.</HI> e&s;peciall wayes and principall points, where|in an A&s;trologer may &s;oone&s;t be deceiued, and
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mo&s;te ea&s;ily ouer&s;hoote him&s;elfe, maketh this the fourth, <HI>Difficile erit aliquid certi iudicare, &s;i ae|quales fuerint Fortunae cum Infortunijs.</HI> Moreouer the&s;e two planets doe not beholde one ano|ther by any a&s;pectuall radiation, as either by <HI>Trine</HI> or <HI>Sextile,</HI> which are a&s;pectes of amity &amp; frend&s;hip, or by <HI>Quartile</HI> and oppo&s;ition, which are a&s;pectes of enmity and hatred, for then it had bene &s;omwhat y^e ea&s;ier to determine there|of in re&s;pect of the general Iudgeme~t, but they are ioyned togither in one degr&eacute;e, and one mi|nute of the &s;elfe &s;ame degr&eacute;e and &s;igne, whiche is termed of the A&s;trologers, <HI>Corporalis congre&s;|&s;us, Coitus,</HI> or <HI>Coniunctio,</HI> being alwayes of more power, &s;trength, force, and efficacie, than anye other a&s;pect, becau&s;e as <HI>Stoeflerinus</HI> writeth in his <HI>12.</HI> Propo&s;ition: <HI>In ea radij maxim&egrave; propter v|nionem conden&s;antur,</HI> which al&s;o <HI>Hermes Tri&s;|megi&s;tus</HI> him&s;elfe affirmeth <HI>in verbo &s;eptimo,</HI> where he &s;ayth: <HI>A&s;pectus non pote&s;t diminuere &s;ig|nificationem Coniunctionis, Coniunctio ver&ograve; minuit &s;ignificationem a&s;pectus,</HI> why? <HI>nam fortior est a&s;pe|ctu,</HI> as there followeth. And yet by nature it is &s;implye and e&s;&s;entially neither good nor euill, but &s;ometimes good and &s;omtimes euil, accor|ding to the nature and di&s;po&s;ition of the pla|nets, which are conioyned, &s;o that con&s;equent|ly, <HI>quia Coniunctio honorum bona est, malorum au|tem
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mala, difficil&egrave; admodum erit iudicium in Con|iunctione illa, quae &amp; bona re&s;pectu Iouis &amp; perni|tio&s;a re&s;pectu Saturni iudicatur.</HI> Diuers of y^e lear|ned in this facultie &amp; namely <HI>Alboazen Ha|ly, <HI>Capite</HI> 4. <HI>partis octauae</HI></HI> &s;aith, <HI>qu&ograve;d Iupiter iun|ctus cum Saturno prohibet omne malum,</HI> whereas <HI>Franci&s;cus Iunctinus</HI> auoucheth the contrarie, to wit, that <HI>Coniunctio boni cum malo, mala est,</HI> al|leaging this very Coniunction of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> for example, but on both &s;ides they co~|clude with this clau&s;e or definitiue &s;entence, <HI>hoc tamen pro natura &amp; di&s;po&s;itione planetae vin|centis in figura iudicandu~ est.</HI> This therfore now only remaineth, to con&s;ider which of them &s;hal be &s;tronge&s;t, and of mo&s;te vertue, power and might in the heauen at that in&s;tant. For <HI>Me|&s;ahalah</HI> in his excellent Treati&s;e <HI>de Coniu~ctio|nibus planetaru~,</HI> deliuereth this iudgeme~t, <HI>Scito qu&ograve;d cum Iupiter fortior fuerit Saturno, &s;ignificabit bonum in eadem Coniunctione, &s;i ver&ograve; Saturnus prae|erit &s;ignificabit detrimentum atque tribulationem,</HI> which is al&s;o generally agr&eacute;ed vpo~ with y^e re&s;t. Wherfore we are to vnder&s;tand, that <HI>Iupiter</HI> is ioyned with <HI>Saturne</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> which is hys owne proper and naturall hou&s;e, but by night, and not by day, which is a little the woor&s;e, be|cau&s;e him &s;elfe being a ma&s;culine, diurnal, and fortunate planet, he doth not &s;o much reioyce
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in a feminine, nocturnal, and infortunat &s;igne, as he doth in a &s;igne of his owne di&s;po&s;ition &amp; qualitie. For &s;o <HI>Alcabitius</HI> one of y^e mo&s;t nota|ble Arabians, very well concludeth <HI>in I&s;agogae a&s;trologicae prima differentia: Fortitudo Planetae re|boratur quando est in &s;uo Alhaiz, id est in &s;ua &s;i|militudine ma&s;culinus &s;cilicet &amp; diurnus in &s;igno, &amp; gradu ma&s;culino &amp; diurno: nocturnus ver&ograve; &amp; faemininus contra,</HI> which is likewi&s;e auouched by his <HI>Commentator <HI>Ioannes</HI> de Saxonia.</HI> whereof by a contrary &s;equele it foloweth, that a ma&s;|culine and diurne planet is &s;omewhat depre&s;|&s;ed and weakened in a feminine and a noctur|nall &s;igne, and yet becau&s;e it is the hou&s;e of <HI>Iu|piter,</HI> and him&s;elfe re&s;ident therein, as in hys owne man&s;ion place, and court (albeit Sagit|tarie be the hou&s;e of his &s;pecialle&s;t delight and ioy) he receiueth fiue dignities thereby, b&eacute;eing by &s;o much the more &s;trong, and vertuous, ac|cording to that &s;en&s;ible axiome of <HI>Guido Bo|natus, <HI>capite</HI> 19. <HI>primae partis. Dum planeta est in domo &s;ua, est &s;icut vir existens in propria domo: est autem quilibet fortior in domo &s;ua de Iure, qu&agrave;m in aliena, &amp; vt plurim&ugrave;m de facto qu&agrave;m alius, qui ali|&agrave;s e&s;set fortior eo&punc; vnde</HI> Trutanus, <HI>Ante &s;uam gal|lus &s;tat portam qui&s;que va&s;allus.</HI></HI> But yet <HI>Iupiter</HI> is not &s;o highly promoted &amp; exalted by hys owne hou&s;e, but is well nigh as much humbled and
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weakened by his vnlucky placing in the eight hou&s;e of Death wherby he loo&s;eth foure prero|gatiues, then is he there al&s;o afflicted and op|pre&s;&s;ed by the pre&s;ence &amp; company of frow|ning <HI>Saturne,</HI> and in the termes of <HI>Mars</HI> hys deadely enemy, <HI>in quarta coeli faeminina,</HI> &amp; Me|ridional di&s;cende~t, which do al&s;o much decrea&s;e and abate his courage. So that it euidently ap|peareth, that the good planet <HI>Iupiter</HI> is but in|different: &amp; that as he will not do much harme &s;o he can not doe much good. Now concerning <HI>Saturne,</HI> as <HI>Iupiter</HI> was neuer the better, be|cau&s;e he was <HI>in &s;igno faeminino &amp; nocturno,</HI> &s;o <HI>Sa|turne</HI> b&eacute;eing in the &s;ame &s;igne, and al&s;o a diur|nall and ma&s;culine planet is much the wor&s;e. For <HI>Me&s;&s;ahalah</HI> in his golden booke, <HI>de reuolu|tione annorum mundi,</HI> the chapter intituled <HI>de an|no timendo,</HI> &s;aith plainely <HI>Saturnus in &s;igno diurno et ma&s;culino minus impedit,</HI> &s;o that by an argume~t drawen fro~ y^e co~trary I may logically co~clude y^e <HI>In loco nocturno et faeminino magis impedit,</HI> but this impedime~t is nothing to &s;peak of or verie &s;mal in co~pari&s;on of y^e re&s;t: for be&s;ides that he is in a feminine and nocturnall &s;igne, &amp; place of hea|uen contrary to his proper nature, he is with|all peregrine too, and out of al his e&s;&s;ential dig|nities in the &s;ame &s;igne, wherby he hath fiue debilities or impedimentes. Furthermore he
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is placed <HI>in domo octaua,</HI> whereby he hath foure more hinderances, &amp; &s;low in motion, where|by he hath two detrimentes. In &s;o much that if we &s;et and oppo&s;e his <HI>11.</HI> debilities, and the debilities of <HI>Iupiter</HI> again&s;t his fiue vertues, which is two to one, there is no doubt, but we wil &s;oone &amp; may truly conclude, <HI>Si illius Fortuna cum huius Infortunijs comparetur, nihil est: <HI>Iupi|ter</HI></HI> is Orientall, &s;o is <HI>Saturne: Iupiter</HI> is direct in motion, &s;o is <HI>Saturne: Iupiter</HI> is fr&eacute;e from combu&s;tion, &s;o is <HI>Saturne: Iupiter</HI> is little the better for his vertues, becau&s;e his hinderances are full as many, but <HI>Saturne</HI> is much y^e wor&s;e for his debilities, becau&s;e hys vertues b&eacute;e not &s;o many. For as <HI>Guido Bonatus</HI> notably de|termineth, <HI>Mali Planetae quant&ograve; magis &s;unt im|pediti, tant&ograve; efficiuntur deteriores, &amp; augmentatur eorum malitia, &amp; eorum impedimentum.</HI> S&eacute;e the infortunate di&s;po&s;ition of infortunate planets the more they be troubled, di&s;turbed or intan|gled, the wor&s;e and more malicious they are and con&s;equently do hurt and annoy the more &s;pitefully. The conclu&s;ion &amp; &s;umme of al mu&s;te nedes be this, that the veheme~t hatred, de&s;pite &amp; malice of the vnlucky planet <HI>Saturne,</HI> hathe by his mi&s;chieuous importunitie ouercome &amp; vanqui&s;hed the good, whol&s;ome, &amp; &s;wete nature of the beneuolous and fauourable planet <HI>Iu|piter,</HI>
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which victory (I feare me) and I thinke I am too &s;ure thereof, will cau&s;e great aboun|dance of waters, and much colde wether, much vnwonted mi&s;chiefes &amp; &s;orow, much enuie, de|bate, quarelling, hatred and &s;trife, many grie|uous and bitter contentions, muche going to lawe one with another for deade mens goodes and olde reckonings, manifold troubles, and &s;odain vproares, much violent oppre&s;&s;ion, ex|treame pouertie, hunger and mi&s;ery to the ne|dy and impotent &s;ort of people, great per&s;ecu|tio~s of eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons, much de&s;pitefull, iniurious, and wrongful dealing, as al&s;o the tragical ruine &amp; de&s;tructio~ of &s;undry greatmen and noble per&s;onages, bothe olde and young, wherof &s;ome &s;hall trecherou&s;ly be entangled &amp; entrapped, &s;ome violently ouerthrowne wyth &s;hameful di&s;grace and di&s;honour, lo&s;ing bothe e&s;timation, goods and life too. Greate feare and dreade &s;hal come &s;odainely vpon the people, a great &s;terilitie and barre~ne&s;&s;e of the earth &s;hal en&s;ue, manifold &s;ubmer&s;ions, &s;hipwracks, ex|u&s;tions, burnings, and &s;uch other, waterie and fierie calamities wil followe: finally, a verie greate and &s;ore mortalitie, with many gene|rall contagions, and pe&s;tilent di&s;ea&s;es, both a|mong men and bea&s;ts, and &s;pecially an extra|ordinarie death and de&s;truction of fi&s;hes, and
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al other creatures liuing, by, in, or vpon y^e wa|ters. Al which euils and mi&s;eries, (howbeit I knowe euery man &s;hall not per&s;onally f&eacute;ele them, yet if there appeare not a &s;en&s;ible diffe|rence betwene certaine yeares immediately following, and other ordinary yeares, let me lo&s;e the credit of my A&s;trologie) &s;hall b&eacute;e the more dreadful and terrible, becau&s;e the good &amp; amiable planet <HI>Iupiter</HI> is &s;o much aba&s;ed and humbled in the eight hou&s;e, being &s;imply the very wor&s;t place of the heaue~s that can be, cal|led commonly of the A&s;tronomers, <HI>domus inca~|tationum, veneficiorum, timoris, magni infortunij, et etiam mortis:</HI> who will al&s;o begin to &s;hrink and go backward the <HI>10.</HI> day of Iuly, vntil y^e <HI>4.</HI> day of Noue~ber, which &s;hrinking too wil not a litle hinder his good and pro&s;perous influence. All which time, frowning <HI>Saturne</HI> &s;hal be retroce|dent al&s;o, beginning his retrogradatio~ the <HI>25.</HI> day of Iune, and &s;o continuing til the <HI>10.</HI> day of Noue~ber, yea and that which is more notable for the &s;pace &amp; continuance of the&s;e whole fiue or &s;ixe years togither, they &s;hal both be very of|ten retrograde, and more than commonly they v&s;e to be: and this withall is to be ob&s;erued y^e the&s;e two &s;uperior planets <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> &s;hall the &s;econd time al&s;o be very nigh the one y^e other, y^e <HI>26.</HI> day of October, this pre&s;ent yeare <HI>1583.</HI> being then almo&s;t conioyned againe togi|ther
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in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> but both retrograde, &amp; not long before, at the beginning of the &s;econd Reuolu|tion, and third part of the A&s;tronomical yeare: to wit, at the Sunnes entrance into the E|quinoctial &s;igne <HI>Libra,</HI> mo&s;t vnluckily and ilfa|ringly placed in the <HI>10.</HI> hou&s;e, which mu&s;t n&eacute;eds greatly increa&s;e their malice, and make their operations the more vnhapy &amp; vnfortunate. The vnlucky con&s;tellation and con&s;titution of the other planets, doth al&s;o &s;&eacute;eme to helpe for|ward &amp; augment the lamentable eue~ts threat|ned by this Coniunction'. For fiery and furi|ous <HI>Mars</HI> peregrine &amp; occidental in the fourth degr&eacute;e, and &s;ixt minut of <HI>Leo,</HI> and placed in <HI>Ga|codaemone, In domo vbi tristes, tragici, &amp; exitiales euentus notantur,</HI> hauing there no le&s;&s;e than <HI>12.</HI> impediments, whereby he is much afflicted, &amp; gretly di&s;graced, but y^e more perniciou&s;ly hurt|ful and malicious, portendeth wonderful con|tention, &s;edition, trea&s;on, rebellion and warre: many tumults, mutinies &amp; vprores, with hor|rible &s;hedding of bloud, and warranteth this terrible Progno&s;ticatio~, that huge multitudes &s;hall be &s;poyled, &s;ubdued, de&s;troyed and mur|dered of their enemies, who &s;hal furiou&s;ly a&s;|&s;aulte, &amp; cruelly, vnmercifully and barbarou|&s;ly oppre&s;&s;e them perforce, with &s;word &amp; fire, And becau&s;e <HI>Mars,</HI> who is a fierce, violent, and outragious planet, is placed in <HI>Leo,</HI> a hot, cho|lerick
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&amp; fiery &s;igne, which notwith&s;tanding of all the &s;igned of y^e Zodiaque is mo&s;t excellent and mo&s;t noble, for that it is &s;o goodlily &amp; gal|lantly adorned and decked with &s;o many beu|tiful and notable fixed &s;tarres, bearing &s;ignifi|cation onely of high and great matters, concer|ning &s;tates, kingdomes and empires, b&eacute;eing y^e naturall, e&s;&s;entiall, and onely proper hou&s;e of the mighty &amp; roial planet <HI>Sol,</HI> who is the &s;igni|fier of Princes, Potentates, and high Magi|&s;trates: but a mortall and deadly enimie vn|to <HI>Mars,</HI> who is now mo&s;t infortunately &s;eated in his hou&s;e: many tragicall mi&s;chiefes and notorious calamities and pre&s;aged to &s;ome great rulers and mighty gouernours, placed in &s;oueraigne and &s;upreme authoritie, or el&s;e it is vehemently to be feared, that in the Ea&s;t, and Southea&s;t cuntries, a de&s;perate company of vile and villanous ra&s;cals &s;hall flocke togi|ther, and &s;editiou&s;ly, rebelliou&s;ly, and traite|rou&s;ly ari&s;e in armes again&s;t their Princes and Magi&s;trates: who, (as a dogge hath a day, and a &s;pider proui&s;ion of ill fauoured g&eacute;ere to &s;erue hir turne) &s;hall for a time violently &s;et vpon, and vehemently afflict many: which maugre their heads, mu&s;t &s;uffer grieuous and &s;pitefull indignities. And yet becau&s;e he is Lord and Ruler of the <HI>9.</HI> Hou&s;e, wherein <HI>Mer|cury</HI> is mo&s;t vnluckily appointed, being not
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longe &s;ince muche di&s;couraged and di&s;comfi|ted of him by a hatefull Quartyle A&s;pect: it &s;&eacute;emeth that diuer&s;e per&s;ecutions are threatned vnto &s;undrye Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per|&s;ons, which &s;hall be muche di&s;quieted and vexed by their rage. All which maladies &s;hall be the more hurtfull and vehement, becau&s;e he is entred into a fixed &s;igne: ac|cording to that maxime of <HI>Haly, <HI>Capite quar|to partis octauae. Siquando Mars fuerit in &s;ig|no fixo, &s;ignificat fortes lites inter Reges, &amp; eie|ctos,</HI></HI> and in another place his iudgement is: <HI>Si Mars fuerit in &s;igno fixo, &s;ignificat lites &s;ine rati|one &amp; cau&s;a.</HI> Be&s;ide, he wil do the more harme al&s;o, becau&s;e he is in a ma&s;culine and diurnall &s;igne: <HI>Nam in &s;igno foeminino &amp; loco noctis, mi|noris impedimenti est:</HI> as <HI>Me&s;&s;ahalah</HI> &s;ayth in his booke, <HI>De Reuolutione Annorum mundi,</HI> the <HI>2<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> chapter. <HI>Item, Mars in Leone,</HI> and in the <HI>12.</HI> place from the Horo&s;cope, threatneth great lo&s;&s;e and de&s;truction in all kindes of bea&s;tes, that haue hoofes, or fl&eacute;eces, and with all pro|gno&s;ticateth that pi&s;mires, wa&s;pes, and o|ther flyes, and vermyne &s;hall not greatly abound. Furthermore, becau&s;e he is &s;eated in the eyght hou&s;e from the Moone, <HI>ip&s;e &s;igni|ficat interfectiones &amp; infirmitates magnas in h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|minibus.</HI> To all which euills they &s;hall be mo&s;te &s;ubiect, which inhabite &s;uch regions,
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prouinces, territories, and cities, as are vnder the partition of the hotte &s;igne <HI>Leo. I|tem, Sol</HI> Lorde of the A&s;cendent, but pe|regrine, and out of all his e&s;&s;ential digni|ties in the &s;ixt&eacute;enth degr&eacute;e, and eyght and for|tieth minute of <HI>Taurus,</HI> the night Hou&s;e of <HI>Venus,</HI> and re&s;ident in the tenth hou&s;e, (the hou&s;e of dominion, and power, wherein he would greatly haue reioyced, had he not bene &s;o infortunately di&s;graced by his weake|ne&s;&s;e) will al&s;o helpe to increa&s;e the furie and outrage of <HI>Mars,</HI> cau&s;ing much trouble, vexation, and &s;orrowe, to &s;ome noble men, and honourable per&s;onages: yea this his pla|cing doth furthermore &s;ignifie, that manye Magi&s;trates &s;hall be thru&s;t out of office, and depriued of all dignitie, and other aduaun|ced to their roomes, who peraduenture &s;hal &s;carcely be &s;o good, but mo&s;te likely to ve|rifie the Prouerbe, Seldome commeth the better. <HI>Item, <HI>Venus</HI></HI> Ladye of the tenth hou&s;e, being both peregrine, and com|bu&s;t, doth increa&s;e the &s;ignification of the Sunne, who becau&s;e he is Lorde of the A&s;|cendent, and infortunately &s;eated in her hou&s;e, &s;ignifieth a badde &s;tate, not onely of Princes, but of their &s;ubiects too: which badde &s;tate &s;hall &s;pecially be founde in the coun|tries &s;ituat betwene the Ea&s;t and the Wea&s;t:
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Moreouer <HI>Venus,</HI> who naturally is very for|tunate, and a planet of a good and amiable nature, being withall &s;etled in the <HI>11.</HI> hou&s;e, the hou&s;e of amitie, friend&s;hip, &amp; good fortune, would haue pronounced much good, if &s;he had not bene &s;o vnluckily peregrine in the &s;econd degr&eacute;e, and third minut of <HI>Gemini,</HI> being there al&s;o combu&s;t, and accompanied with the mi&s;|chieuous <HI>Catabibazon:</HI> which is with all as vn|happy, and pernicious, as may be, by rea&s;on of hir fall in <HI>Geminis, in domo ca&s;us &s;ui.</HI> For which cau&s;e &s;he is therefore to &s;ignifie much &s;uttle di&s;&s;embling, and fal&s;e packing amonge&s;t men: litle faithfull and &s;ound friend&s;hip, but much counterfait and fained amitie: naye, manye through vncurteous dealing, and fal&s;hood, &s;hal breake of friend&s;hip, &s;o that one &s;hal hardly re|po&s;e any tru&s;t in another: be&s;ides, &s;he fore|&s;heweth that much hatred, di&s;cord, and &s;trife, much matter of diui&s;ions &amp; factions, much de|bate &amp; co~tention &s;hal en&s;ue: &amp; yet &s;ome naugh|ty &amp; vngodly per&s;ons, (wherof the world &s;hall neuer be to &s;eeke, but what remedie?) are like to accord &amp; agr&eacute;e togither wel enough, or rather ill enough. For much &s;hameful &amp; filthy whore|dom &s;hal be &s;ecretly committed, diuer&s;e &s;hall giue ouer them &s;elues to plea&s;ure, voluptuou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, ryot, vnlawful concupi&s;cence, lecherie, forbidden lu&s;tes, and other vncleane mi&s;de|meanours.
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But let tho&s;e that are &s;o corruptly, &amp; vilanou&s;ly affected, beware in time, bea&s;t for euery dram of momentanie plea&s;ure, they be rewarded with a pound of durable &s;orow. For be&s;ides that many therby &s;hal be &s;hrewdly en|dammaged, &amp; pre&s;ently puni&s;hed, according to the qualitie of their de&s;erts: the re&s;t of that vn|gracious crew, vnle&s;&s;e they repent, and amend the &s;ooner, &s;hal altogither mo&s;t wofully peri&s;h, &amp; be vtterly de&s;troied, both goods, body, &amp; &s;oule too. <HI>Haly</HI> his iudgement is, y^e <HI>Venus <HI>iuncta cum cauda Draconis, &s;ignificat destructionem futuram in mulieribus:</HI></HI> and this he al&s;o as re&s;olutely affir|meth, that <HI>Venus <HI>infortunata in vndecima domo, prae&s;agit leguminum caritate~.</HI></HI> Finally, I am per|&s;waded, that &s;he will cau&s;e very many winds, bringing very much raine, by rea&s;on of her oc|cidentall combu&s;tion in <HI>Geminis,</HI> in the hou&s;e &amp; termes of <HI>Mercury.</HI> And, as for <HI>Mercury,</HI> he <HI>in &s;tatione &s;ecunda,</HI> placed <HI>in domo peregrinatio|num, itinerum, rerum &s;acrarum, &amp; religionis:</HI> but peregrine, and much afflicted in the <HI>21.</HI> degr&eacute;e, and <HI>20.</HI> minut of <HI>Aries,</HI> in the hou&s;e &amp; termes of <HI>Mars</HI> his mortall enimie, doth &s;ignifie many iorneys, and voyages, much trauailing, great remouing from place to place, (for <HI>Aries</HI> as e|uery one knoweth, is a moueable &s;igne, and <HI>Mercury</HI> a conuertible, and wauering pla|net) but not without many lo&s;&s;es, dammages,
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and troubles: &s;o generally true it is, that is commonly alledged in a manner to this very purpo&s;e. The rowling &s;tone, &s;eldom gathereth any mo&s;&s;e. For &s;undry grieuances, much theft, many violent robberies, and &s;poylings, with wilfull murder, and cruell interfections &s;hall be committed, in &s;uch wi&s;e, that plaine, inno|cent, and true meaning men, (whereof our world now a dayes is not greatly laui&s;h) and the hone&s;t and faithfull dealing marchaunt, &s;hall eft&s;oones goe in daunger of lo&s;ing both goods and life. Furthermore, this his vnlucky con&s;titution doth portend the irreligious, and impious behauiour of diuers wicked, ob&s;ti|nate, &s;tubborne, and di&s;orderly per&s;ons, who will not care mo&s;t de&s;perately to con&s;pyre, e|uen again&s;t heauen it &s;elfe, and mo&s;t horribly to abu&s;e, euen Ie&s;us him&s;elfe, in not e&s;teeming his &s;acred &amp; ble&s;&s;ed word, in reuiling his zea|lous preachers, in making no account of reli|gion, pietie, and godlines, in abandoning God him &s;elfe out of their companie, and betaking them &s;elues to all villanie. Likewi&s;e this his infortunate &s;tate, threatneth like troubles, de|triments, and daungers vnto tho&s;e, that are Mercuri&s;ts, as namely, vnto Emba&s;&s;adors, &s;e|cretaries, Notaries, Regi&s;ters, Clarks, Scri|ueners, Me&s;&s;engers, Factours, Mercers, &amp; &s;uch other: as al&s;o vnto diuers of the learneder
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&s;orte, among&s;t whom &s;ome hote controuer&s;ies, and contentions are like to ari&s;e, touching &s;ome new contrary opinions, and here&s;ies, which &s;hal be inuented, publi&s;hed, and maintained by cer|taine bu&s;ie fellowes, and factious heads, too affe|ctionately wedded to their owne conceits. Item, <HI>Luna</HI> peregrine in the fourth degr&eacute;e, and <HI>58.</HI> mi|nut of <HI>Sagittarius,</HI> decrea&s;ing in light, and accom|panied with hir Dragons head, in the fourth hou&s;e, and nigh the fift, being but &s;ixe houres be|fore, mo&s;t infortunately in oppo&s;ition, and at de|&s;tance with the gentle and mercifull planet <HI>Ve|nus,</HI> of whom I &s;pake before, betokeneth many heauie calamities, impri&s;o~ments, di&s;turbances, and tribulations, with much thought, angui&s;h, and &s;orrow among&s;t the common people, who not with&s;tanding &s;hall not be puni&s;hed or afflic|ted, but according to their owne rebellious de|&s;erts, and mi&s;demeanors: for hir oppo&s;ition with <HI>Venus,</HI> ladie of the <HI>10.</HI> hou&s;e, &s;ignifieth the di&s;|loyall and vnfaithfull hartes of many frowarde and di&s;obedient per&s;ons, rebelliou&s;ly &s;et again&s;t their Magi&s;trates, helping forwarde the mi&s;|chiefes and horrors pre&s;aged by the infortunate con&s;titution of <HI>Mars.</HI> And through hir companie with the Drago~s head, <HI>ip&s;a &s;ignificat con&s;umptio|nes, multas aquas, &amp; damnu~ in frugibus,</HI> as a cre|dible author te&s;tifieth. And hir application vnto frowning <HI>Saturne,</HI> by an a&s;pectuall radiation, I
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meane, a malitious quartile a&s;pect: <HI>denotat, qu&ograve;d accident hominibus infirmitates mortiferae, &s;omnia horrenda, &amp; opiniones expaue&s;cibiles, prouenientes ex abundantia melancholiae.</HI> And, what &s;aith <HI>Haly, <HI>Cap.</HI> 4. <HI>Part.</HI> 8? <HI>Sol est anima mundi, qui &s;i quando maleficus fuerit, intemperie afficietur A&euml;r, vt c&ugrave;m Luna malefica est, afficitur terra.</HI></HI> An other iudge|ment of his is thus deliuered in the thirde chap|ter of the &s;ame eight part: <HI>Si quando tota Tripli|citas ignea fuerit infortunata,</HI> (as now it is in the figure erected for the time I &s;peake of) <HI>accident damna, &amp; occa&s;iones magnae Dominis, Regibus, &amp; claris hominibus. Idem &s;ignificat &s;igni vndecimae Domus, &amp; eius oppo&s;iti, &s;cilicet, &s;igni quintae Do|mus,</HI> (in which &s;igne <HI>Luna</HI> is now placed) <HI>mala, &amp; infortunata constitutio.</HI> Item, <HI>Saturne</HI> pla|ced in the eight hou&s;e, and lord of the &s;ixte hou&s;e, which is <HI>domus aegritudinum, morborum, &amp; &s;erui|tutis corporis,</HI> fore&s;heweth many dangerous, and mortall di&s;ea&s;es, which are like to raigne and rage in their kind: as al&s;o the &s;tubberne, di&s;obe|dient, and ill di&s;po&s;ed affections of diuer&s;e &s;er|uaunts towardes their Lordes and mai&s;ters. Moreouer <HI>Saturne</HI> lord of the <HI>7.</HI> hou&s;e, which is <HI>domus Coniugij, Inimicitiae, Contentionum foren&s;iu~, furti, &amp; aliorum &s;celerum,</HI> threatneth many trou|ble&s;ome, and terrible euents, which are like to be as mi&s;chieuou&s;ly acco~pli&s;hed. But, as touch|ing this his lordly gouernment of the <HI>6.</HI> and <HI>7.</HI>
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hou&s;es, togither with certaine other Incidents, which by the figure erected might A&s;trological|ly be gathered, for breuities &s;ake, and for &s;ome other good con&s;iderations, I adde nothing, ac|knowledging that the heauenly and almightie <HI>Iupiter,</HI> (that I may &s;o &s;peake) &s;itting aboue <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Luna</HI> in his euerla&s;ting maie&s;tie, ruleth both <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter,</HI> at his gratious will and plea&s;ure, as al&s;o furious <HI>Mars</HI> him &s;elf, with <HI>Venus,</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> too: <HI>quae inclinant mod&ograve;, non nece&s;sitant,</HI> as is truely an&s;weared in an olde di|&s;tinction. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, I am verily per&s;wa|ded, that no Nation, or Countrie &s;hall beholde this great Coniunction vnpuni&s;hed: but amo~g&s;t the re&s;t, they I graunt, &s;hall e&s;pecially feele the vehement force, and violence thereof, that inha|bite &s;uch regions, as are &s;ubiect to the fir&s;t, and &s;econd Climat.</P>
<P>Thus, as compendiou&s;ly, as on the &s;uddaine I could, I haue here, Brother, written downe, in what &s;igne, and parte of heauen euery planet &s;hall be placed: how affected and di&s;po&s;ed in the cele&s;tiall &s;cheme, at that very in&s;tant and mo|ment, in which this great, and wonderfull Con|iunction &s;hall happen, with the &s;euerall, and &s;pe|ciall &s;ignifications of eche of them particularly, according to the place of their re&s;idence at that time: agr&eacute;eing wholy w^t the A&s;trological iudge|ments, and predictions of the mo&s;t auncient and
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be&s;t approued writers in this profe&s;&s;ion. Which I haue done to this ende, to &s;hewe as it were in a gla&s;&s;e, what concordaunce and agr&eacute;ement, there &s;hall then appeare betw&eacute;ene one planet and another: and what good or euill euery one of them &s;hall for his part procure: good, by dimi|ni&s;hing, &s;laking, and repre&s;&s;ing the mi&s;for|tunes which are pre&s;aged by the Coniunction: euill, by helping forwarde, and encrea&s;ing the perilous malice, and as it were, venemous &s;pite thereof.</P>
<P>Nowe, to treate &s;omewhat more &s;pecially touching the weather, &amp; con&s;titution of the aier, I haue good coniecturall Arguments to per&s;uade me, that great &s;tore of rayne and colde is lyke to en&s;ue, that w&eacute;e &s;hall haue much haile, thun|der, and lightning, much vn&s;ea&s;onable, immo|derate, tempe&s;tuous, and boy&s;terous weather, that huge waters &s;hall ari&s;e, that floudes extra|ordinarily &s;hall increa&s;e, many ouerflowings happen, diuer&s;e irruptions of waters &s;uddain|ly breake out, cau&s;ing &s;ome lo&s;&s;e by lande, but muche greater decaye of &s;ub&s;taunce by &s;hip|wrackes on the &s;eas, whereby very many &s;hall be &s;hrewdely endammaged, and not a fewe vt|terly vndane. Whiche operations and effectes the late Eclip&s;e of the Sunne, which happened the la&s;te yeare <HI>1582.</HI> the twentie daye of Iune in the watrie &s;igne <HI>Cancer,</HI> &s;hall meruai|lou&s;ly
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helpe forwarde and augment, e&s;pecial|ly in winter this yeare, <HI>1583.</HI> for the&s;e fore|&s;aide Accidentes &s;hall continewe vntill the be|ginnyng of the nexte &s;prynge after, <HI>Anno <HI>1584.</HI></HI> At which time about the ende of March, and the beginning of Aprill, there &s;hall hap|pen a wonderfull, &s;traunge, and rare Coniun|ction, conuent, or a&s;&s;emblie in a maner of all the planets in <HI>Aries,</HI> a fierie &s;igne. So that then both <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> &s;hall for&s;ake <HI>Pi&s;|ces</HI> the la&s;t &s;igne of the watrie Triplicitie, and inhabite <HI>Aries</HI> the fir&s;te &s;igne of the fierie Tri|angularitie: which alteration from one contra|rie triplicitie to his contrary, cannot be without diuer&s;e newe effects oppo&s;ite to the former. For &s;o <HI>Haly</HI> concludeth, <HI>Duo planetae pondero&s;i,</HI> (as <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> are) <HI>&s;emper faciunt diuer&s;i|tates &s;ua mutatione de vna triplicitate in aliam, &amp; de vna natura in aliam, &amp; de vna haiz in a|liam.</HI> Wherefore now the watrie Trigone &s;hal peri&s;h, and be turned into fire. <HI>Iupiter</HI> &s;hall be ioyned with <HI>Sol,</HI> with <HI>Mercury,</HI> and with <HI>Luna: Saturne</HI> &s;hall be ioyned with <HI>Venus,</HI> and with <HI>Mercury: Mercury</HI> &s;hall be in Coniunction with <HI>Iupiter,</HI> and with <HI>Mars: Luna</HI> &s;hall be one while ioyned with <HI>Saturne,</HI> another while with <HI>Venus,</HI> another with <HI>Mars,</HI> with <HI>Iupi|ter</HI> the &s;econd time, and then with <HI>Mercury,</HI> and la&s;tly of all, there &s;hall be a great Coniunction
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of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> which is the third waightie planet, and in malice litle inferiour vnto deuou|ring <HI>Saturne</HI> him &s;elf. After which kind of Con|iunctions, &s;ome terrible, and fearfull Comet, or blazing &s;tarre is like pre&s;ently to en&s;ue: for the congre&s;&s;e of planets in a fierie &s;igne, doth com|monly fore&s;hew, and in d&eacute;ede naturally cau&s;e a blazing &s;tar. As by induction of examples might at large be di&s;cour&s;ed, but one for euery &s;igne &s;hall &s;uffice. In the yeare <HI>1556.</HI> in the &s;ame mo|neth of March, when there was the like coacer|uation of both &s;uperiour and inferiour planets in this very &s;igne <HI>Aries,</HI> there followed imme|diatly a great Comet. <HI>Anno <HI>1434.</HI></HI> after the like m&eacute;eting of the planets in the &s;econd fierie &s;igne <HI>Leo,</HI> their appeared likewi&s;e a fierie Comet. As al&s;o after their Coniunction in the third fierie &s;igne <HI>Sagittary, Anno <HI>814.</HI></HI> before the death of the inuincible and mo&s;te renowned Emperour <HI>Carolus Magnus,</HI> there en&s;ued in like manner a terrible, and tragicall Comet. And if a Comet, as I haue now problably inferred, &s;hall ari&s;e, the&s;e effects mu&s;t be looked for, much &s;corching and vehement heate, the drying vp of ponds and d&eacute;epe waters: barren, and vnfrutefull fieldes: and con&s;equently, a dearth of all victuals, be&s;ide a &s;ore death of cattel, and many pe&s;tilent di&s;ea|&s;es among&s;t men. But if no Comet appears, there &s;hall doubtle&s;&s;e be &s;&eacute;ene other horrible and
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rufull vi&s;ions in the Heauens, and many very &s;traunge &amp; terrible &s;ights in the middle region of the aier, as fierie Meteors, fla&s;hings, and fla|mings of fire, wonderfull traiections, and im|pre&s;&s;ions, much lightning, and thunder mixte with haile. Whereby many &s;hall be perillou&s;ly terrified, and &s;ome mi&s;erably vndone. For euen at the very &s;elfe &s;ame time the operations and effectes of the &s;unnes Eclip&s;e, which hapned the la&s;t yeare, <HI>1582.</HI> as al&s;o of this great &amp; &s;traunge Coniunction &s;hall &s;till continue: which &s;hall af|terward be accompanied with another fearefull and pernicious Eclip&s;e, <HI>1585.</HI> in <HI>Tauro,</HI> nigh the head of <HI>Medu&s;a,</HI> called of y^e <HI>Arabians, <HI>Caput Al|gol,</HI></HI> a mo&s;t hurtful, violent, cruell, and mortall fixed &s;tarre, of the nature of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Venus.</HI> Who&s;e &s;ignifications for &s;o muche as they are not alike, the one threatning vehement heat, the other extreame cold, and with all the great Con|iunction of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> a watrie &s;igne: and the great Coniunction of <HI>Iupiter</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Aries</HI> a fierie &s;igne, both in Aprill next, <HI>1584.</HI> being thereunto ioyned, whereof al&s;o the one threatneth exce&s;&s;iue cold, the other exc&eacute;eding heate, there mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily follow very great inequalitie of the aier, &amp; very much incon&s;tancie and alteration of the weather, which mutual in|fraction of qualities, <HI>non ni&s;i coru&s;cationes nubium &s;equentur,</HI> as <HI>Leouitius</HI> &s;peaketh, yet the force
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and power of this Coniunction &s;hall heare mo&s;t effectuall &s;waye, e&s;pecially in March, Aprill, May, and Iune, <HI>Anno <HI>1584.</HI></HI> bycau&s;e then mo&s;t of the planets &s;hall runne there cour&s;e in hote and drie &s;ignes, as al&s;o <HI>1585.</HI> in March, A|prill, and May, when <HI>Mars</HI> a hote and fierie fel|lowe &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e a hote and drie &s;igne: with whome <HI>Saturne</HI> &s;hall fellow&s;hip him&s;elfe, be|ing then too &s;eated in a fierie &s;igne, &amp; one while in Co~iunction with <HI>Venus,</HI> another while with <HI>Sol,</HI> with <HI>Mercury,</HI> and with the Moone, with whom al&s;o <HI>Mars</HI> and the other planets &s;hall be mingled: which Coniunctions &s;hall al happen in firie &s;ignes. And this y&eacute;ere &s;ay I, is like to proue an vnhappie yeare for diuines, &amp; religious per|&s;ons. Item, in April, <HI>Anno <HI>1586.</HI></HI> the effects of the&s;e m&eacute;etings &s;hall euidently appeare at which time, there &s;hall fall out a Coniunction of <HI>Sol</HI> &amp; <HI>Saturne, Mars</HI> and <HI>Venus, Mars</HI> &amp; <HI>Mercury, Ve|nus</HI> and <HI>Mercury, Saturne</HI> &amp; <HI>Mercury, Saturne</HI> &amp; <HI>Venus, Sol</HI> and <HI>Luna, Saturne</HI> &amp; <HI>Luna, Mars</HI> &amp; <HI>Luna, Venus</HI> &amp; <HI>Luna, Mercury</HI> &amp; <HI>Luna,</HI> and la&s;t|ly of <HI>Saturne</HI> &amp; <HI>Mars,</HI> which is a great Coniun|ction, and therefore the wor&s;e, and more terrible. Which Coniunctions for a&s;much as they &s;hall all happen in the &s;ame &s;igne <HI>Aries,</HI> a fierie &s;igne, there mu&s;t n&eacute;edes en&s;ue diuer&s;e &s;traung effects, much ferue~t &amp; exc&eacute;eding heat, many rare &amp; dread|ful impre&s;&s;ions in the highe&s;t region of the aier,
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and con&s;equently a &s;ore and perillous drought. To make &s;horte, in this yeare &s;undrie wofull, and cruell euils, togither with many &s;traunge and horrible euents &s;hal &s;en&s;ibly appeare, which &s;hall principally mole&s;t and afflict the wea&s;t|warde countries. But of the&s;e terrours, one of vs, eyther I, or if my ley&s;ure, by meanes of my finall profe&s;&s;ion, happen to fayle me, my brother Iohn will treate more particularly hereafter, (if God &s;pare vs lyfe), in there &s;eue|rall and &s;undrie yeares, according as the effects, and operations of the afore&s;aide Coniunctions &s;hall &s;pecially worke, and take place: as al&s;o of the Comet with the Eclip&s;es of the Sunne and Moone, which I haue onely touched here, re&s;er|uing euery &s;uch notable particular Accident, to his proper time and place, then &s;euerally to be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed eyther by me, or by him. This alone I will adde, as a n&eacute;edefull Caution and admo|nition for tho&s;e, which in there natiuities had <HI>Aries</HI> placed in their Horo&s;cope, accompanied with other planets, or which had the &s;uperiour planets placed then in the &s;ame &s;igne of the Zo|diaque, as al&s;o for tho&s;e, which had y^e great light of heauen, the Sunne I meane, or the lord of the a&s;cendent, or the lord of the natiuitie pla|ced in <HI>Aries, illi enim in primis ad choraeas coe|lestes inuitabuntur, aliqu&iacute;dque noui molientur,</HI> the iudgement carrieth &s;ufficient authoritie.
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And e&s;pecially let <HI>Germanie</HI> and <HI>Italy</HI> beware, for many grieuous calamities, with &s;uddaine chaunces and chaunges are threatned to the countries there aboutes, by this forcible con|cur&s;e of planets in <HI>Aries:</HI> the&s;e nations b&eacute;eing chiefely and principally vnder the regiment of that &s;igne, wherevnto our A&s;trologers adde namely the Regions, and Seigniories follow|ing: <HI>Britaine, Fraunce, Bastarnia, Syria, Phili|&s;tim, Polonia minor,</HI> highe <HI>Burgonie, Sueuia</HI> of <HI>Germanie, Syle&s;ia &s;uperior, Pars Westriae, Naples, Florence, Capua, Ferraria, Verona, Vicentia, Ber|gamum, Imola, Padua, Bru&s;uicum, Vtricha, Lin|dauia, Cracouia, Mar&s;ilia, Sarago&s;&s;a,</HI> with cer|taine other Territories, and Prouinces neare adioyning. <HI>Praetere&agrave;,</HI> the &s;ame &s;igne beyng the hou&s;e and man&s;ion place of <HI>Mars,</HI> there are portended many lamentable, and wofull ca|&s;ualties in battayle, vnto the Germaine and Italian &s;ouldiers: whiche &s;hall fall out, ey|ther by treacherie, and prodition, or through the carele&s;&s;e &s;ecuritie and &s;luggi&s;hne&s;&s;e of their Captaines, two perillous and deadly enimies to Martiall proc&eacute;edings, as by all hi&s;tories is mo&s;te manife&s;t, &s;pecially to you, that are &s;o perfectly acquainted with them. Now, touch|ing the whole continuaunce of the afore&s;ayde &s;traunge effectes, and operations of this pre|&s;ent
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great Coniunction, I &s;uppo&s;e it will &s;uf|fi&s;e to quote the iudgement of the famous Phi|lo&s;opher, and Phi&s;itian Cardane, deliuered in his Commentaries, vpon <HI>Ptolomeis <HI>Quadri|partita Constructio,</HI></HI> concernyng that poynt. Who&s;e wordes are thus &s;et downe <HI>verbatim</HI> in the &s;econde booke, ninth chapter, and <HI>LIV,</HI> Text of tho&s;e excellent Commentaries. <HI>Effectus du|rant ad reditum, vtpote Coniunctio Saturni &amp; Iouis, v&s;que ad aliam coniunctionem: &amp; Saturni ingre&s;&s;us in initium Arietis, v&s;que ad alium ingre&s;&s;um in initium Arietis, quia nihil datur inane in natura, &amp; ideo &s;i effectus non duraret v&s;que ad reditum, e&s;&s;et circuitus Mathematicus, non Naturalis, &amp; cau&s;a &s;ine effectu, &amp; impoten|tia quaedam. Quamobrem, proportio circuitus ad circuitum, vt temporis ad tempus quod erat probandum. Vnu&s;qui&s;que tamen horum circui|tuum redigitur ad dimidium, nam ab oppo&s;itio|ne finitur coniunctionis vis, attenditurque ip&s;a op|po&s;itio.</HI> Whiche place of <HI>Cardane</HI> may &s;umma|rily &s;uffi&s;e for warrant of the continuaunce, &s;o farre as Art, and mans fore&s;ight extendeth. For otherwi&s;e, <HI>vt caetera omnia, &s;ic planetae in Manu Domini,</HI> who is truely termed of the olde Philo&s;ophers, <HI>Ens Entium,</HI> and <HI>Cau&s;a Cau&s;arum,</HI> wherin I am to &s;ub&s;cribe to the opinio~ of the no|ble Mathematicia~ &amp; A&s;trologer, <HI>Petrus Pitatus,</HI>
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who in the Proeme to his <HI>Diaria,</HI> giueth out this learned iudgement: <HI>Ex futurorum euen|tuum generibus; &s;unt, quae habent cau&s;am deter|minatam, &amp; infallibilem, vt motus coeli, ortus, &amp; occa&s;us &s;ignorum, Coniunctiones planetarum, &amp; luminarium Eclip&s;es, &amp; &s;imilia: in quibus est de|terminatio, &amp; infallibilitas ex parte motoris, atque etiam omnis impedimenti remotio, ex parte quali|bet, ni&s;i in quantum &s;ubiacent diuinae voluntati, &amp; Prouidentiae, quae tamen &s;emper Ordinat&egrave; a|git:</HI> with much more importing the &s;ame con|clu&s;ion, his onely exception is, <HI>ni &s;ecus &agrave; prima cau&s;a, &s;ecundae miraculo&s;e impediantur.</HI> And thus much touchyng the notable effectes, and operations of this great Coniunction, in the la&s;t face of <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and the fir&s;te of <HI>Aries.</HI> Now, by a &s;en&s;ible conference of the &s;ame with other Coniunctions, whiche haue heretofore happe|ned in the watrie Trigone not without cer|taine famous, and mo&s;te notable euents con&s;e|quently en&s;uyng: I will pre&s;ume, to &s;et downe certaine Conclu&s;ions, collected out of auncient iudgementes and predictions of A&s;trologie, whereby it &s;houlde in greate likehood appeare not onely that &s;undrie, rare, and wonderfull e|uents mu&s;t n&eacute;edes follow, but al&s;o that the ve|ry frame of the worlde, cannot endure long af|ter. Wherefore, to &s;peake onely of the watrie Trigone, which &s;hall now beare rule for a time,
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which Trigone con&s;i&s;teth of the&s;e thr&eacute;e &s;ignes of the Zodiaque, <HI>Cancer, Scorpio, Pi&s;ces:</HI> it &s;&eacute;e|meth a re&s;olute ca&s;e, (vnle&s;&s;e my induction mar|ueylou&s;ly faileth me) that their neuer hapned a|ny great Coniunction of the &s;uperiour planets in any of tho&s;e thr&eacute;e &s;ignes, but &s;ome extraordi|nary chaunge, and notorius alteration en&s;ued. Fir&s;t, after the mightie Coniunction of the two highe&s;t planets, <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> in <HI>Cancer,</HI> which is reckened the fir&s;t &s;igne of the fore&s;aide watrie Triplicitie, (which Coniunction hapned <HI>in angulo quartae domus,</HI> the ninth moneth from March fir&s;t called of the Romanes, and now of vs Nouember) the world was ouerflowed with that wonderfull exceeding deluge, which to this day doth, and &s;hal euer beare the name of <HI>Noahs</HI> floude: &s;uch a floude as the world &s;hall neuer &s;&eacute;e againe. Secondly, this fourth Monarchie, called the Romane Monarchie, to follow the common di&s;tinction, (how&s;oeuer <HI>Mon&s;ier Bodine</HI> proba|bly rea&s;oneth to the contrary) wherein we now liue, and are &s;till to preferre before the Turki&s;h Monarchie, &s;&eacute;eme it neuer &s;o ample and huge, be|gan vnder the dominio~ of the watrie Trigone: for the <HI>47.</HI> yeare before the glorious natiuitie of our &s;auiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and fiue yeares before the de&s;tructio~ of the mo&s;t valerous and pui&s;&s;ant captaine, <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar</HI> there hapned a great Co~|iunction of the &s;uperiour planets in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> the
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&s;econde &s;igne of the &s;ame Triplicitie, at whiche time that mo&s;t Memorable and notorious ciuill war betw&eacute;ene <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> and <HI>Pompey,</HI> was verie hote and violent, the end whereof en&s;ued a litle after the &s;ame Coniunction, whereupon <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar</HI> hauing oppre&s;&s;ed the contrarie force, and valiantly &s;ubdued his enimies, whiche defen|ded their auncient &s;tate, and common libertie, did fir&s;t e&s;tabli&s;h this fourth mo&s;t noble Monar|chie. Thirdly, not long after this, namely, &s;ixe y&eacute;eres before the happie birth of our Red&eacute;emer, there hapned a Coniunction of the&s;e mighty &s;u|periour planets, <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter,</HI> in the la&s;t face of <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> which is the la&s;te &s;igne of the watry Trigone, &amp; the beginning of <HI>Aries,</HI> which is the fir&s;t &s;igne of the fierie Trigone, which Coniunction hapned neuer &s;ince, but only in the daies of the worthy chri&s;tian Emperour, <HI>Caro|lus Magnus, <HI>Anno.</HI> 789.</HI> whiche is almo&s;t <HI>800.</HI> yeares ago, but is now to happen once againe in this pre&s;ent yeare <HI>1583.</HI> Touching which, fora&s;|much as it is the la&s;t Coniunction that euer &s;hal happen in the end of the watrie Trigone, I am A&s;trologically induced to this co~iecture, that we are mo&s;t like to haue a new world, by &s;ome &s;ud|daine, violent, &amp; wonderful &s;traunge alteration, which euen h&eacute;eretofore hath alwaies hapned, at the ending of one Trigone, &amp; beginning of an o|ther, but now mo&s;t e&s;pecially is like to happen,
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bicau&s;e y^e co~trarie Trigone &s;ucc&eacute;edeth his co~tra|rie, the fierie followeth y^e watrie, vnder which, or the like &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, a notable mutation hath al|ready hapned two &s;euerall times: to wit, in the time of <HI>Iulius</HI> &amp; <HI>Augu&s;tus Cae&s;ar,</HI> when as this fourth Monarchie (as I &s;aid before) was e&s;tabli|&s;hed with much effu&s;ion of bloud: &amp; againe in the time of <HI>Carolus Magnus,</HI> and his father <HI>Pypin,</HI> (as I al&s;o &s;aid before) at which time, as hi&s;tories report, <HI>Monarchia haec eneruata aliquantum re&s;pi|rauit:</HI> yea, your <HI>Paulus Iouius,</HI> as you be&s;te re|member, after two or thr&eacute;e other mo&s;te honou|rable gr&eacute;etings, &s;aluteth this noble Emperour with the&s;e gallant Titles, <HI>Salue Christiani Im|perij propagator augu&s;ti&s;sime, Pontificiae dignitatis a&s;&s;ertor &amp; vindex, aureaeque demum aetatis condi|tor:</HI> which la&s;t addition of <HI>Iouius,</HI> maketh mo&s;t for our purpo&s;e, togither with that &s;uperlatiue Iu&s;tification of his &s;urname not much before, <HI>non magni mod&ograve;, &s;ed Ter Maximi cognomento di|gni&s;sime</HI> &s;o that withall we forget not what the &s;ame <HI>Iouius</HI> &s;hortly after writeth, continuing the fore&s;aide braue Apo&s;trophe, directed vnto <HI>Charlmaine</HI> him &s;elfe: <HI>Te Au&s;pice, Italia in primis, quae iampridem &agrave; Gothis, &amp; Vandalis de|formata, prostrataque, ferrei &s;aeculi iniurias per|tulerat, &s;e v&s;queadeo faelici rerum omnium prouentu erexit, vt pristinae amplitudinis ornamenta recipe|ret.</HI> hauing a litle before giue~ out certaine other
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commendations of his martiall prowes, tempe|red with deuotion and wi&s;edome, in the&s;e ho|nourable Terms: <HI>his long&egrave; optimis belli &amp; pacis artibus, non indomitos mod&ograve; Saxones, &amp; peruicaces Cantabros, perpetuis victorijs deuictos, ver&ugrave;m, quod ad perenniorem laudem nobilius fuit, Longobardos arroganter &amp; impi&egrave; &s;acro&s;ancto Pontifici infaestos, Deo vltore, funditus exci&s;os videmus.</HI> But, to leaue the &s;econd foundation, and as it were, the reedifying of the imperiall Monarchie vnder <HI>Charlmaine,</HI> which is farre better knowne vn|to you, than vnto me, (how be it by the way it would not be forgotten, that <HI>Romanum Imperium apud Graecos perstitit &agrave; Constantini Magni Tem|poribus, v&s;que ad Tempora Caroli Magni, in quem nomen duntaxat Imperij tran&s;latum est ad Germa|nos,</HI> as <HI>Agrippa</HI> writeth in his inuectiue di&s;|cour&s;e, <HI>De Nobilitate:</HI>) and to returne now to the pre&s;ent Coniunction, co~&s;idering that this fourth Monarchie began fir&s;t about the ende of the wa|trie Trigone, and was afterwarde weakened and decayed vnder the &s;ame, as appeareth by the premi&s;&s;es: maye it nowe &s;&eacute;eme likely and probable inough, that it &s;hall al&s;o finally be en|ded and de&s;troyed vnder the &s;ame Trigone? And, for &s;omuch, as our Lord and Sauiour tooke our humane nature vpon him, beyng borne of the virgin Marie in Bethlem, at the ende of the watrie Trigone, and the beginning of the fierie
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Trigon: the &s;ame now happening againe, may it not al&s;o &s;ignifie and portend, &s;ome wonder|full and maruelous alteration &s;hortly after to en&s;ue? yea, why not euen that great, &amp; dread|full time, wherin the &s;ame Ihe&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;hal come againe in vn&s;peakeable maie&s;tie, to iudge both the quicke and the dead, con&s;uming the whole world by fire? for now &s;hall the fie|rie Trigone raigne, and all the Coniunctions of the &s;uperiour planets which hereafter &s;hall happen, &s;hall continually be in fierie &s;ignes, till the accompli&s;hment almo&s;t of <HI>200.</HI> yeares. In the raigne of <HI>Carolus Magnus,</HI> albeit the like Coniunction happened, yet the world could not then be at an ende: howbeit euen at that very time, there were exc&eacute;eding great Co~|tentions amonge&s;t Princes, debated with ma|ny fierce battailes, horrible murders, &amp; much &s;hedding of bloud: to which effect I can not but remember tho&s;e goodly ver&s;es of the excellent Italian Poet, <HI>Honoratus Fa&s;itellus:</HI>
<Q><L>&mdash;tum prim&ugrave;m Gallica &s;igna</L>
<L>Boetis, &amp; infractus victricia &s;en&s;it Iberus.</L>
<L>Intremuere A&s;iae Reges, ia cu&iacute;tque &s;ubacta</L>
<L>Punica terribili tellus concu&s;&s;a duello.</L></Q>
Which are to be vnder&s;toode of that &s;elfe &s;ame time&punc; yet then I &s;ay, could not the con&s;umma|tion of the world be, becau&s;e <HI>5000.</HI> yeares from the Creation of the world, were not yet expi|red,
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but now the influence and effects of this pre&s;ent great Coniunctio~ enduring and conti|nuing, as I haue &s;ayd, how litle to &s;peake of, &s;hall remaine wanting, to make vp the com|plete number of <HI>6000.</HI> yeares, which account is originally grounded vpon the auncient fa|mous prophecy of <HI>Elias,</HI> concerning the worlds continuance, foretelling that the &s;ame &s;hould &s;tand <HI>6000.</HI> yeares: <HI>2000.</HI> vaine: <HI>2000.</HI> y^e lawe: <HI>2000.</HI> Chri&s;t: which togither make in all the fi|nal number of numbers <HI>6000.</HI> yeares. Wher|of it hath already continued <HI>5544.</HI> &s;o that not &s;o much as <HI>500.</HI> yeares doe now remaine, of which al&s;o, &s;ome euen of tho&s;e that are yet be|hind, &s;hall be abridged in re&s;pect of our infinite &s;innes, &amp; exc&eacute;eding wickednes, as it followeth in the &s;ame prophecy. Yea our Sauiour Chri&s;t him &s;elfe hath promi&s;ed in his Go&s;pel written by S. <HI>Mathew,</HI> the <HI>24.</HI> chapt. that he wil detract &s;omewhat of y^e appointed time, &s;aying: Except tho&s;e daies &s;hould be &s;hortned, there &s;hould no fle&s;h be &s;aued, but for the elects &s;ake, they &s;hall be &s;hortned. So that all circum&s;tances being weyed, and all A&s;trological likehoods togither with prophetical predictions con&s;idered, what doubt is there, but we may, and ought to per|&s;wade our &s;elues, that the foundation of the world is in a manner worne out, and al&s;o this goodly frame ready to fall vpon our &s;houlders?
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for if &s;o be there yet remained another great Coniunction of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Iupiter</HI> like to the fir&s;t, then &s;houlde there be required a <HI>Re|manet</HI> of almo&s;t eight hundred yeares moe, which being added to the yeare of this great Coniunction, would amount to the number of &s;ixe thou&s;and and almo&s;te foure hundred yeares: which manife&s;tly oppugneth the pro|phecie of <HI>Elias</HI> aboue rehear&s;ed, and <HI>Plato,</HI> before <HI>25.</HI> of tho&s;e yeares were ex&s;pired, would bid vs whoe. Almighty God, through his infi|nite power, and vn&s;peakeable wi&s;edom, in &s;ixe dayes created heauen and earth, the &s;ea, and al thinges therein contained, but the &s;euenth day he re&s;ted, and hallowed the &s;ame: wherein &s;ome haue repo&s;ed a high mi&s;terie, imagining, and per&s;wading them &s;elues, that by the &s;a|cred mini&s;terie of his holie worde in this pre|&s;ent life, within the compa&s;&s;e of <HI>6000.</HI> yeares, he will al&s;o gather togither his Church, wher|with in the &s;euenth he wil celebrate and k&eacute;epe holy his eternall and euerla&s;ting Sabaoth. To which purpo&s;e they affirme, that the pro|phecie of <HI>Elias,</HI> was as it were allegorically borrowed from this number of the &s;ixe dayes Creation, applying to euery daye, <HI>1003.</HI> yeares, alledging to that effect, out of the nynetie P&s;alme, for a thou&s;and yeares in thy &s;ight, are but as ye&s;terday, &amp; citing withal that
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place of Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> in the third chapter of his &s;econd epi&s;tle, Dearely beloued, be not ig|norant of this one thing, howe that one day is with the Lorde as a thou&s;and yeares, and a thou&s;and yeares as one day. But how &s;oundly the&s;e te&s;timonies be applied to the enforce|ment of my conclu&s;ion, it is for learneder men to determine, my &s;elfe dare not be ouer bold with Textes of &s;cripture, which are &s;o reue|rently, and religiou&s;ly to be handled, and ther|fore take it be&s;t, to &s;tand rather vpon the pro|babilitie of A&s;trologicall predictions, and namely, vpon that olde, and common prophe|cie, touching the yeare <HI>1588.</HI> which is now &s;o rife in euery mans mouth, and was &s;o re&s;o|lutely defended in a publique di&s;putation in the la&s;t Commencement, by one, &s;ufficient to maintaine his a&s;&s;ertion. That yeare hath ma|ny hundred yeares agone bene &s;pecially fore|told, and much &s;poken of amonge&s;t A&s;trolo|gers, who haue, as it were, <HI>vnanimi con&s;en&s;u,</HI> progno&s;ticated, that either a maruelous feare|ful and horrible alteration of Empyres, King|doms, Seigniories, and States, togither with other wonderfull, and very extraordinary Ac|cidents, as, extreme hunger, and pe&s;tilence, de|&s;perate trea&s;ons, and commotions, &s;hall then fall out, to the mi&s;erable affliction, and oppre&s;|&s;ion of huge multitudes: or el&s;e, that an vtter,
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and finall ouerthrowe, and de&s;truction of the whole world &s;hall en&s;ue. Which prophecie for &s;o much as it is reputed of &s;o great con&s;eque~ce, and withall &s;o nearely toucheth the &s;cope of the pre&s;ent Treati&s;e, I will here &s;et downe, as it is deliuered by <HI>Leouitius,</HI> in Latine ver&s;es, made, as mo&s;t &s;uppo&s;e, by <HI>Regiomontanus,</HI> but tran&s;lated out of a former &s;tyle, farre more au~|cient, as were al&s;o the Dutch ver&s;es of <HI>Stoe|flerinus</HI> importing the &s;ame Contents.
<Q><L>Post mille expletos &agrave; partu Virginis annos,</L>
<L>Et post quingentos rur&s;us ab orbe datos:</L>
<L>Octoge&s;imus octauus mirabilis Annus</L>
<L>Ingruet, is &s;ecum tristia fata feret.</L>
<L>Si non hoc anno totus malus occidet orbis,</L>
<L>Si non in nihilum terra, fret&uacute;mque ruet:</L>
<L>Cuncta tamen mundi &s;ur&s;um ibunt atque retror&s;um</L>
<L>Imperia, &amp; luctus vndique grandis erit.</L></Q>
Which Latine ver&s;es, after the maner of our rude m&eacute;eter, I not long &s;ince at aduenture en|gli&s;hed, for a friend of myne, but I make more account of &s;o &s;olemne a prophecie, than to di&s;|grace it here with my poore tran&s;lation. You &s;ee what therein &s;erueth to my purpo&s;e, that ei|ther a finall di&s;&s;olution, or a wonderfull horri|ble alteration of the world, is then to be expe|cted. I might alledge many other arguments, and authorities, implying the &s;ame conclu&s;i|on, but I auoide to be ouer tedious. And yet
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am I violently brought to a further con&s;idera|tion of the premi&s;&s;es, by &s;uch extraordinary, and as a man would &s;ay, pre&s;ignificatiue Ac|cidents, as the&s;e following: When were there euer &s;&eacute;ene &s;o many dreadfull Eclip&s;es of the Sunne and Moone? When &s;o many &s;traung, and wonderfull copulations of planets? when &s;o prodigious Comets, not without their tra|gicall operations? When &s;uch terrible Ex|amples of fierie Meteors, coru&s;cations, tra|iections, impre&s;&s;ions, and inflammations in the Aier, as haue bene already ob&s;erued in our Age, and will more fearefully appeare within fewe yeares? When was the Earth &s;o violently &amp; terribly &s;haken with an Earth|quake, as it was the &s;ixt of Aprill, <HI>1580.</HI> not onely in Ingland, and Scotland, but al&s;o in other Countries, and Nations further off? which Earthquake, (notwith&s;tanding your plea&s;ant Entrance into that Philo&s;ophicall Di&s;cour&s;e, deliuered thereof by you <HI>ex tempore</HI> in company of hone&s;t gentlemen, &amp; gentlewo|men a&s;&s;e~bled togither to make merry) &s;&eacute;emeth yet vnto me a matter of no &s;mal con&s;equence, wherevnto your &s;elfe al&s;o &s;&eacute;eme to incline in the earne&s;ter part of that Di&s;cour&s;e. Were not &s;uch &s;ignes and tokens foretold by our Saui|our Chri&s;t? hath he not forewarned vs, that they &s;hould appeare &amp; &s;hew them &s;elues, as it
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were in their terrible likenes? a litle before, or in his very comming? doth not withall the contempt of good learning, the co~tempt of good maners, y^e contempt of good lawes, the conte~pt of good Magi&s;trats, the contempt of all good go|uernment, nay, doth not the contempt of good religion, good pietie, good charitie, &amp; al goodnes, which &s;ince the&s;e latter daies neuer &s;o vniuer|&s;ally raigned, as now it doth? doe not the&s;e ge|neral abu&s;es &s;&eacute;eme to argue &amp; import as much? whe~ was y^e world &s;o quite deuoid of care? whe~ &s;o &s;ecure, &s;o reckle&s;&s;e, &s;o bent again&s;t all di&s;ci|pline, and order? when &s;o vainly wicked or &s;o wickedly vaine? when was innocencie more ridiculous, faithfulne&s;&s;e more contemptible, vertue more abiected, holines more propha|ned, loue more hated, duty more neglected, ho|nour more di&s;honoured, hone&s;tye more de&s;pi|&s;ed, good life more wounded to death, than now a daies? Finally, when &s;uch vnnatural partes, &s;uch mon&s;trous corruptions of bodye &amp; mind, &s;uch vile &amp; ab&s;urd indignities, &s;uch inordinate, &amp; barbarous proc&eacute;edings, without any re&s;pect to law, or con&s;cience, &s;o vniuer&s;ally put in pra|cti&s;e? when euer y^t like general lu&s;tine&s;&s;e, &amp; iol|litie, with &s;uch de&s;perate wilfulne&s;&s;e, and &s;elf-loue, not in one or two more highly minded, or hawtily &s;et than their fellowes, but euen commonly in the whole world to &s;peake of?
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when euer &s;o iu&s;t occa&s;ion of complaint with the Poet? <HI>Omne in praecipiti vitium &s;tetit.</HI> What is now the Conclu&s;ion? Truely, that the &s;e|cond comming of the &s;onne of man draweth nigh, which &s;hall be as were the dayes of <HI>No|ah,</HI> for as in the dayes which were before the floud, they were eating, and drinking, marry|ing, and giuing in marriage, euen till the day that <HI>Noah</HI> entred into the Arke, and perceiued nothing, till the floud came, and ouerwhelmed them all, &s;o &s;hal al&s;o the comming of the &s;onne of man be. <HI>Mathew 2<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> May we not nowe &s;en|&s;ibly perceiue, that the&s;e dayes of ours, and the dayes immediatly following, are y^e very daies here expre&s;&s;ed: yea, euen tho&s;e dayes which Chri&s;t him &s;elfe did &s;o certainely, and more than prophetically fore&s;hewe vnto his Di&s;ci|ples, preaching vnto them of the de&s;truction of the Temple, the ende of the world, and the lat|ter dayes? Why then doe we &s;till dwell in &s;e|curitie, and deceiue our &s;elues with vaine con|ceits, building vp a mountaine of mi&s;eries, in+&s;teade of the right felicitie? If we knowe our Lordes will, and doe it not we &s;hall worthily be beaten with many &s;tripes. Wherefore let vs now at the la&s;t, &s;p&eacute;edily and carefully call vpon our mercifull God, le&s;t he con&s;ume vs in the heate of his heauy wrath, and indignation: let vs humbly &s;ue for grace, and hartily craue
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pardon and fauour at his hands, le&s;t &s;uddaine de&s;truction ouerwhelme vs: let vs with peni|tent, and obedient harts fall downe before the throne of his cele&s;tiall maie&s;tie, a&s;king remi&s;|&s;ion of our manifold &s;innes, and villanies, and with a contrite affection, earne&s;tly and vnfai|nedly embrace the glad&s;um tidings of his holy Go&s;pel, that through his infinite goodnes, and exc&eacute;eding mercy, we may be &s;afely protected, and wholy deliuered from all the&s;e horrible e|uils both of body and &s;oule. For &s;&eacute;e what com|fortable and &s;w&eacute;ete words the Lord of Ho&s;tes hath vttered with his owne mouth: If ye walke in my Ordinances, and k&eacute;epe my com|maundements, and doe them, I wil &s;end you raine in due &s;ea&s;on, and the land &s;hall y&eacute;eld hir encrea&s;e, and the tr&eacute;es of the fielde &s;hall giue their fruite and your thre&s;hing &s;hal reach vnto the vintage, and the vintage &s;hall reach vnto the &s;owing time, &amp; ye &s;hal eate your bread in plenteou&s;nes, and dwel in your land &s;afely, and I wil &s;end peace in the land, and ye &s;hall &s;l&eacute;epe, and none &s;hal make you afraid, and I wil rid euil bea&s;tes out of the land, and there &s;hal no &s;word goe throughout your land, and ye &s;hal cha&s;e your enimies, and they &s;hall fall before you vpon the &s;word and fiue of you &s;hal cha&s;e an hundred, and an hundred &s;hal put ten thou&s;and to flight, and your enimies &s;hall fall
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before you vpon the &s;word: for I will haue re|&s;pect vnto you, and make you increa&s;e, &amp; mul|tiply you, and &s;et vp my couenant with you, and ye &s;hall eate olde &s;tore, and carry out the olde, becau&s;e of the new, and I wil make my dwelling place among you, and my &s;oule &s;hall not loath you: I wil walke among&s;t you, and will be your God, and ye &s;hall be my people, and &s;o foorth. The&s;e are the goodly and ble&s;&s;ed promi&s;es, which the Lord of Heauen &amp; Earth wil a&s;&s;uredly and plentifully performe vnto tho&s;e; that doe faithfully feare, and truly wor|&s;hip him, in that integritie of holines &amp; righte|ou&s;nes, that him &s;elfe requireth. For no doubt, he is a mo&s;t merciful God, &amp; a mo&s;t louing fa|ther, ful of compa&s;&s;ion, full of pacience, &amp; long &s;uffering, ful of goodnes &amp; pitie. And yet as he is excedingly merciful to the repentant &s;inner, &s;o is he al&s;o iu&s;t &amp; terrible to the wilful &amp; ob&s;ti|nate reprobate. For thus on the other &s;ide hath the Lord of Lords from the throne of his om|nipotent Maie&s;tie thundered: but if ye walke contrary vnto me, and wil not harken vnto me, I wil al&s;o walke contrary vnto you: I wil bring vpon you fearfulnes, con&s;umption, and the burning ague, to con&s;ume your eyes, and gender &s;orrow of hart, and ye &s;hal &s;owe your &s;eede in vaine, for your enimies &s;hal eate it, and I wil &s;et my face again&s;t you, and ye &s;hal
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fall before your enimies: they that hate you, &s;hall raigne ouer you, and ye &s;hal flye when no man followeth you, and I will breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as bra&s;&s;e, and your labour &s;hall be &s;pent in vaine, for your land &s;hall not giue her encrea&s;e, neither &s;hall the tr&eacute;es of the landes giue their fruites: I will al&s;o &s;ende in wild bea&s;tes amonge&s;t you, which &s;hall robbe you of your children, and de&s;troy your cattell, and make you fewe in number, and make your high wayes to be de|&s;olate. And if ye may not be reformed by the&s;e thinges, I will puni&s;h you yet &s;euen times for your &s;innes, and I will &s;end a &s;worde a|monge&s;t you, that &s;hall auenge my couenant, and when ye are gathered togither within your cities, I will &s;end the pe&s;tilence among you, and ye &s;hall be deliuered into the handes of the enimie. And when I haue broken the &s;taffe of your bread, ten wiues &s;hall bake your bread in one ouen, and they &s;hall deliuer you your breade againe by waight, ye &s;hall eate, and not be &s;ati&s;fied. And if you will not yet for all this harken vnto, but walke again&s;t me, I will walke contrarye vnto you al&s;o, and will cha&s;ti&s;e you &s;euen times more for your &s;innes: and ye &s;hall eate the fle&s;h of your Sonnes, and the fle&s;he of your Daughters
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&s;hall ye deuoure: I wil de&s;troy your high pla|ces, and cut away your images, and ca&s;t your carka&s;&s;es vpon the bodies of your idols, and my &s;oule &s;hall abhorre you: and I will make your cities de&s;olate, and bring your &s;anctua|rie vnto naught, and will not &s;mell the &s;a|uour of your &s;w&eacute;ete odours: I wil bring your land vnto a wilderne&s;&s;e, and your enimies which dwell therein, &s;hall wonder at it. <HI>Le|uitic. <HI>Cap.</HI> 26.</HI> Nowe, Lord, can any be &s;o vn|graciou&s;ly &s;tiffe necked, and hard harted, as not to be terrified and a&s;toni&s;hed with the horrour of &s;uch maledictions? then, alas, let him that hath an eare, heare what the Crea|tor &s;peaketh vnto the Creature, the Lorde of Lordes, to his rebellious &s;ubiect, Almighty God to man, to clay, to du&s;t, and a&s;hes: let euery one remember, what he hath receiued and heard, and hold fa&s;t, and repent: he that ouercommeth &s;hall inherite all thinges, and I will be his God, and he &s;hall be my &s;onne, &s;ayth he that &s;itteth on the Throne. But the fearefull, and the vnbeleuing, and the abho|minable, and murtherers, and whoremon|gers, and idolaters, and &s;orcerers, and all li|ars, &s;hall haue their part in the lake that bur|neth with fire and brim&s;tone, which is the &s;e|cond Death. Let vs therefore repent with Ni|niuie, lea&s;t we be con&s;umed with Sodome,
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and Gomorrha: let vs doe his commaunde|ments, that we may be ble&s;&s;ed, that our pow|er may be in the tr&eacute;e of life, and that we may enter in, through the gates into the citie, and take the water of life fr&eacute;ely. Babylon is made a dwelling place of diuels, a cage of vncleane birdes, &s;pirits and goblins &s;hall walke in hir pallaces, fearefull wilde bea&s;tes &s;hall lurke there: &s;critchowles, and o&s;triges &s;hall walke in hir hou&s;es, Apes and Satyres &s;hall daunce in hir beautifull buildings, wilde Cats &s;hall cry therein, and Dragons &s;hall there abide, no voice of men &s;hall be heard in hir, no &s;ou~d of a bell, or a mill &s;hall be heard, no light of a candle &s;hall be &s;&eacute;ene, but perpetuall &s;olitude, de&s;olation, and &s;orrow &s;hal remaine and dwel there for euermore. But, we will faithfully prai&s;e the name of our Lord Ie&s;us, and in pa|cience po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e our &s;oules, that when &s;uddaine de&s;truction &s;hal come vpon the careles world, we may lift vp our heades, and behold our redemption at hand. We will no more looke for life, but where it dwelleth, in the fle&s;h of Chri&s;t alone there it re&s;teth, all promi&s;e and hope of life is in him, he hath alone the words of life, he is alone the bread of life, the water of life, the autor of life, the word of life, the tr&eacute;e of life, the onely life, he that bel&eacute;eueth in him, hath euerla&s;ting life. We will cry no
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more vpon Angels: we will looke no more vnto our owne workes: we will tru&s;t no more in our owne prayers: we will no more call for the helpe of creatures, they are all &s;ubiect vnto vanitie: there is no life, but in Chri&s;t aboue: the Elders, the Angels, the Bea&s;tes, all Creatures they giue this ho|nour vnto Chri&s;t: &s;aluation is of him, that &s;itteth vpon the Throne, and of the Lambe, and altogither they cry, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>You will maruell, Brother, to &s;&eacute;e me thus vehemently, &amp; zealou&s;ly affected in a priuate Di&s;cour&s;e, but truly the incomparable great|ne&s;&s;e, and importance of the Argument, to him that hath entered into any rea&s;onable con&s;ideration of &s;o vniuer&s;all future calami|ties, as dayly threaten vs, mu&s;t n&eacute;edes &s;&eacute;eme to require much more, than I haue here &s;ayd, or can po&s;&s;ibly &s;ay.</P>
<P>The la&s;t notable thing, that I haue to ob&s;erue this yeare, <HI>1583.</HI> is, that there &s;hall not appeare vnto vs in our Horizon, any E|clip&s;e, either of the Sunne, or of the Moone. Marry, fora&s;much as the influence, and wor|king of that Eclip&s;e of the Sunne, which happened the la&s;t yeare, <HI>1582.</HI> beginneth to take place and effect but in this pre&s;ent yeare, <HI>1583.</HI> in Maye, perduring till that tyme Twelue moneth, <HI>1584.</HI> I haue thought it
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not inconuenient, to pro&s;ecute the&s;e mat|ters &s;omewhat further, and to deliuer my &s;imple Iudgement touching that E|clip&s;e, pre&s;uming herein of your pacience, as in the premi&s;&s;es.</P>
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<HEAD>Of the Eclip&s;e of the Sunne, which happened the la&s;t yeare, 1582.</HEAD>
<P>_IN this la&s;t yeare <HI>1582.</HI> vpon the <HI>20.</HI> day of Iune, immediatly af|ter fiue of the clocke in the mor|ning, the bodie of the Moone at hir chaung, being directly put be|tweene the Sunne and the Earth, or betw&eacute;ene our &s;ight, and the Sunne, and thereby depri|uing vs of the full light of his beames, there appeared within our Horizon at Cambridge, (as you remember) A &s;mall Eclip&s;e of the Sunne, the Sunne and Moone being at that very in&s;tant conioyned in the &s;euenth Degr&eacute;e, and <HI>24.</HI> minut of the &s;igne <HI>Cancer,</HI> within two degr&eacute;es, &amp; <HI>39.</HI> minutes of <HI>Catabibazon,</HI> which Eclip&s;e albeit it were of &s;mal continuance, the Sunne being bodily eclip&s;ed or darkened by the Moone, but vnto thr&eacute;e fingers, or points, and &s;euen minutes, hath notwith&s;tanding the proper influence and peculiar effectes: for as <HI>Me&s;&s;ahalah</HI> a cunning and perfect A&s;trologer witne&s;&s;eth, who&s;e bookes (as I &s;ayde) haue bene muche e&s;t&eacute;emed of mightye Princes, and as Experience hir &s;elfe teacheth, There neuer happeneth anye Eclip&s;e of the Sunne, which doth not pre&s;ignifie and fore&s;hew &s;ome
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great Accident to come to pa&s;&s;e, and <HI>Ptolomey</HI> him &s;elfe the Prince of A&s;trologers affirmeth, that the fatall conuer&s;ions, ouerthrowes, and de|&s;tructions of kingdomes, may A&s;trologically be fore&s;&eacute;ene, and progno&s;ticated by the Defects and Eclip&s;es of the Sunne and Moone. Whereby <HI>Thales Mile&s;ius,</HI> as <HI>Plinie</HI> credibly reporteth, did certainly foretell, &s;undry chaunges, and alte|rations of &s;tates, and kingdomes, to happen in <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> which afterward came effectually to pa&s;&s;e, euen according to his A&s;trologicall prediction: &amp; the like is auouched by diuer&s;e other, of &s;ome other well &s;&eacute;ene the &s;ame way. Whereupon E|clip&s;es haue bene the more &s;pecially regarded, and ob&s;erued of the be&s;t A&s;trologers, as is very well exemplified by <HI>Stadius:</HI> but I will returne to the pre&s;ent Eclip&s;e, from whence I haue a litle digre&s;&s;ed. It is fir&s;te to be noted, that the Sunne was eclip&s;ed in <HI>Cancer,</HI> which is the na|turall and e&s;&s;entiall hou&s;e of the Moone, wherein &s;he reioyceth mo&s;t, and wherein al&s;o the mo&s;te beneuolent and fauourable planet <HI>Iupiter,</HI> cal|led commonly, <HI>Fortuna maior,</HI> doth a&s;cend, b&eacute;e|ing therein chiefly eleuated, and exalted: a &s;igne of the partition of the watrie Trigone, femi|nine, nocturnall, northerly, moueable, of direct a&s;cen&s;ion, whom <HI>Capricorne</HI> doth obey by rea|&s;on of his &s;uperioritie, vn&s;auery of ta&s;te and ef|fect, beyng naturally colde and moi&s;t, and of the
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flegmaticke complexion, gouernour and ru|ler of the brea&s;t, the mouth of the &s;tomacke, the lunges, euen almo&s;te to <HI>Diaphragma,</HI> or the Midriffe. Nowe the nature and properties of the &s;igne being knowne, con&s;idering that it is a colde and watrie &s;igne, it betokeneth, accor|ding to the Iudicials of A&s;trologie, that greate aboundaunce of rayne is like to en&s;ue, with many perillous ouerflowinges by rage of wa|ters: whereby a great number &s;hall be &s;hrewd|ly hindered, and endammaged, it will al&s;o cau&s;e much rawe, incon&s;tant, and di&s;temperate wea|ther, euill for all kinde of cattle, but e&s;pecially for &s;h&eacute;epe: it portendeth the de&s;truction of much fi&s;he, and water foules: great enuie, &s;trife, de|bate, contention, and &s;edition with many pri|uie con&s;piracies, vnlawfull fraies, violent op|pre&s;&s;ions, robberies, and murders, yea and much martiall proui&s;ion, and preparation for warre, be&s;ide &s;undrie lo&s;&s;es, and grieuous perils vnto tho&s;e, that get their liuing by toyle and labour on the &s;eas, or other waters, which &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, by meanes of tempe&s;tuous, and immode|rate weather, wherewith many &s;hippes &s;halbe ouerthrowne, many mariners, and watermen drowned, many townes and cities de&s;olate, nigh vnto the &s;ea. Moreouer there &s;hall followe a great death, and ouerthrow among&s;t the ba&s;er, and poorer &s;ort of people, according to that iudge|ment
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of <HI>Proclus. <HI>Cum acciderit Eclip&s;is Solis in Cancro, ob&s;curae turbae, ignobili&s;que plebeculae inte|ritus &s;equitur, diuturnae bellorum &s;editiones, &amp; a|quatilium, marinorumque, &amp; aliorum in aequore degentium magna pernicies.</HI></HI> Which &s;aing of <HI>Pro|clus,</HI> the infortunate con&s;tellation and con&s;titu|tion of the other planets do &s;&eacute;eme to verifie: for <HI>Saturne</HI> was retrocedent in a feminine and no|cturnal &s;igne, to wit, in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> which is a &s;igne of the &s;ame complexion and qualitie that <HI>Cancer</HI> is of, being al&s;o flegmaticke, cold, moi&s;te, and of the nature of water: <HI>Mars, Venus, Mercury,</HI> and <HI>Luna,</HI> two of them in a drie and colde &s;igne: the other two in a colde and moi&s;t &s;igne, and al|&s;o in a moy&s;t man&s;ion, will likewi&s;e increa&s;e the colde watrie operations of this Eclip&s;e, and for their part, helpe forwarde the effects there|of. And as for <HI>Iupiter,</HI> he too was much aba&s;ed and weakened by his Retrogradation in <HI>Aqua|rio,</HI> a moi&s;t &s;igne. Item <HI>Mars</HI> being in <HI>Tauro,</HI> and in oppo&s;ition to his owne hou&s;e, is become more &s;turdie, and infortunate: and being lord of the <HI>10.</HI> hou&s;e, he noteth that Lordes and Nobles wil much afflict and oppre&s;&s;e their poore tenants by enhauncing their rents, &amp; putting them to huge fines, without regard of co~mon rea&s;on, equitie, or pietie: &s;o that the poore farmers &s;halbe &s;carce|ly able to liue, and maintaine their nece&s;&s;arie charge. He &s;ignifieth futhermore the vtter de|&s;truction,
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and ouerthrowing of tho&s;e, which &s;hal rebelliou&s;ly &s;et them&s;elues again&s;t their rulers and magi&s;trates: for he is in oppo&s;ition to the &s;ame his owne hou&s;e, him&s;elfe remaining <HI>in an|gulo Quartae Domus, vnde emittit &s;ur&s;um, &amp; a&s;|cendunt eius calores &amp; malae naturae ad omnes alios planetas,</HI> as <HI>Haly</HI> &s;aith) and there &s;eated in <HI>Tauro</HI> the night hou&s;e of <HI>Venus&punc;</HI> which importeth much clo&s;e whoredome, and &s;ecrete vngodline&s;&s;e a|mong&s;t many vncleane &amp; wicked per&s;ons, that haue &s;haken of the awe, which the feare of God &s;hould br&eacute;ede in them, and onely haue re&s;pect to the impious pollicie, vttered in a common pro|uerbe, <HI>Si non cast&egrave;, tamen caut&egrave;.</HI> Which pollicie too will fayle them in the end, and lay their corrup|tion open to the generall vew of the worlde, and &s;hamefull reproch of them&s;elues, &s;o vniuer&s;ally true it is, that the Poet writeth:
<Q>Quicquid &s;ub terra est, in apricum proferet aetas.</Q></P>
<P>I might here rehear&s;e &s;undrie examples of diuer&s;e Eclip&s;es of the Sunne in <HI>Cancer,</HI> &amp; there|by declare, both what de&s;tructions, and deaths, &amp; al&s;o, what other &s;traunge and rufull accidentes haue en&s;ued, but among&s;t the re&s;t for &s;hortne&s;&s;e &s;ake I will only report two, or thr&eacute;e of the mo&s;t notable, with the &s;euerall operations and effects thereof: that euery man of any rea&s;onable con|ceite, and capacitie, may thereby gather a &s;en&s;i|ble rea&s;on &amp; cau&s;e of fatall conuer&s;ions, changes,
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and alterations by conference of the antecedent cau&s;es, and &s;kilfully with di&s;cretion and iudge|ment apply the &s;ame to a farther con&s;equence of times and matters to come: for as <HI>Stadius</HI> in the preface to his Ephemerides excellently noteth: <HI>Dum cau&s;as praeteritorum interpretamur, eadem quoque Methodo &amp; futurorum docemus, nam futu|ra &agrave; praeteritis non &s;pecie, non genere differunt, &s;ed tempore tantum, quod eadem vt accidens comitatur.</HI> A very wi&s;e rule, not onely &s;eruing for the&s;e A|&s;trologicall ob&s;eruations, but much more to be extended to the right v&s;e of ancient hi&s;tories, and politique practi&s;es, deliuered to po&s;teritie for their imitation, in like nece&s;&s;ities, and affaires. But, to containe vs now within our bounds, in the yeare <HI>1424.</HI> the <HI>26.</HI> daye of Iune, in the eue|ning, as is credibly recorded, there appeared an Eclip&s;e of the Sunne in <HI>Cancer,</HI> the <HI>14.</HI> degr&eacute;e: at which time, <HI>Charles</HI> the king of <HI>Fraunce</HI> being valiantly &s;et vpo~ in battaile by the Ingli&s;h men &amp; Burgundians, was expelled his owne realme: warre was hotely maintayned betw&eacute;ene the Danes, &amp; the Sle&s;uicians: the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Breame</HI> prouoking the Hollanders to battaile, was grie|uou&s;ly wounded of them, and taken pri&s;oner: a terrible plague, and mo&s;t vehement pe&s;tilence and mortalitie of men en&s;ued, continuing fierce, and hote a long time: afterwardes, certaine Princes of Germanie, entring <HI>Bohemia</HI> with a
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great armie diuided into thr&eacute;e partes, were for|cibly repelled and driuen backe of the Hu&s;&s;ites, whereby the bounds of <HI>Bohemia</HI> were enlarged, and &s;pread abroade, towardes <HI>Mi&s;nia,</HI> and <HI>No|ricum:</HI> finally, all the fruites of the earth, as corne, graine, vinetr&eacute;es, and &s;uch like, peri&s;hed through vn&s;ea&s;onable pinching colde, and extre|mitie of weather.</P>
<P>In the yeare <HI>1569.</HI> the ninth day of Iulie in the morning, there likewi&s;e appeared an Eclip&s;e of the Sunne in the <HI>26.</HI> degr&eacute;e of <HI>Cancer,</HI> the in|fluence, &amp; effects wherof continued two yeares: when the Turkes martially a&s;&s;ayling and in|uading <HI>Pannonia,</HI> called otherwi&s;e <HI>Hungaria,</HI> and <HI>Syria,</HI> a countrie lying in the ea&s;t partes of Ger|manie, a portion whereof bordereth on Hunga|rie, (&s;auing which part y^e whole country be&s;ides is altogither mou~taini&s;h) forcibly carried away many pri&s;oners, &amp; captiues, with ouer &s;en&s;ible proofe of their might &amp; furie. <HI>Mathias Hunnia|des,</HI> &s;urnamed <HI>Coruinus,</HI> a mo&s;te fortunate prince, and as happie a warrier, who fiue y&eacute;eres before was crowned king of Hungarie, by <HI>Fre|derick</HI> than Emperour, denou~ced &amp; proclaimed warre again&s;t the Bohemians, being reque&s;ted, and per&s;waded thereunto by the Pope, &amp; at that time by force of armes, tooke fro~ them <HI>Morauia, Sile&s;ia,</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;atia.</HI> The &s;ame <HI>Mathias</HI> co~tinued as fierce warre with <HI>Ca&s;imire</HI> the king of Po|lonia,
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couragiou&s;ly inuaded the Turkes, often di&s;comfiting and vanqui&s;hing them: gatte away <HI>Vienna</HI> from the Emperour, &s;ubdued, and con|quered diuer&s;e other nations, and territories ad|ioyning, in &s;o much y^t at his death, he de&s;erued this noble Epitaph of <HI>Antony Thaebaldeus:</HI>
<Q><L>Coruini breuis haec Vrna est: quem magna fatentur</L>
<L>Facta fui&s;&s;e Deum, fata fui&s;&s;&egrave; hominem.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Prince of the Tartarians at the &s;ame time, a&s;&s;aulted and &s;poyled <HI>Ru&s;sia,</HI> vpon whiche countrie <HI>Tartaria</HI> boundeth on the wea&s;t. The King of Denmarke was &s;uttelly entrapped and taken by the craftie wiles, and cunning fetches of <HI>Sweden,</HI> There en&s;ued a &s;harpe battaile be|tw&eacute;ene the French, and Burgundian, <HI>Anno <HI>1571.</HI></HI> the force and influence of the Eclip&s;e &s;till continuing, many princes, and mightie poten|tates died: and among&s;t the re&s;te, <HI>George</HI> the king of Bohemia, whom <HI>Ladi&s;laus,</HI> &s;onne to the king of Pollonia &s;ucc&eacute;eded. To conclude, <HI>Hen|ry</HI> the &s;ixte King of Ingland, was within the reach of this Eclip&s;e, taken by king <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth, in the Bi&s;hops palace at London, and by him committed to the tower, where afterwards he was murdered: as more fully appeareth by our owne Ingli&s;h Chronicles.</P>
<P>La&s;t of all, <HI>Anno <HI>1536.</HI></HI> there hapned an Eclip&s;e of the Sunne in the &s;euenth degr&eacute;e of <HI>Cancer,</HI> that is iu&s;te in the very &s;elfe &s;ame
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degr&eacute;e, wherein the Sunne was darkened this la&s;t yeare <HI>1582.</HI> After which Eclip&s;e there aro&s;e hote warre in <HI>Picardie,</HI> wherby both the French &amp; Burgundians receiued mutuall harmes and dammages diuers wayes, which are reported to haue bene very great and grieuous. At the &s;ame time, the &s;ouldiers of king <HI>Ferdinand,</HI> brother to the Emperour <HI>Charles,</HI> being conducted by their Captaines to re&s;i&s;t the force of their enimies in Hungarie, were, as you know, trecherou&s;ly be|trayed into the handes of the Turkes by one <HI>Catzianerus:</HI> of whome they were almo&s;t all mo&s;t cruelly &s;laine, their chief Captaines taken captiue, and carried away to <HI>Constantinople</HI> the Turkes chiefe&s;t citie, where they liued in mi&s;e|rable &s;eruitude and bondage. At the &s;ame time the <HI>Geldren&s;es</HI> &s;editiou&s;ly rebelled again&s;t their Soueraigne. At the &s;ame time, the mo&s;t fruite|full, bewtifull, and noble Ilands <HI>Sicilia</HI> and <HI>Ca|labria,</HI> were wofully de&s;troyed with fire, which did &s;traungly breake out of the &s;ealand b&eacute;eing dried vp. At the &s;ame time their was heard at Rome, a mo&s;t fearefull, and horrible thundering in the aire, b&eacute;eing al&s;o the more extraordinarie for the very time of the yeare. At the &s;ame time, an auncient tower of <HI>Helderberg,</HI> being &s;uddain|ly bla&s;ted with lightning, did cau&s;e a &s;ore ruine, much mi&s;chiefe and great mi&s;erie to that citie. At the &s;ame time, in high Germanie, their hap|ned
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an exc&eacute;eding great inundation, the force and rage whereof, was pa&s;&s;ing wonderful, and mar|uelous &s;traunge. And after the &s;ame Eclip&s;e (which we in Ingland, ought chiefly to remem|ber) twoo notable &s;editions and in&s;urrections did &s;hrewdly trouble, and di&s;turbe vs h&eacute;ere in Ingland: which fell out in the <HI>18.</HI> yeare of the raigne of the mo&s;t mightie and pui&s;&s;ant Prince king <HI>Henry</HI> the eight. Whereof the fir&s;te was ray&s;ed principally for religion among&s;t the com|mons of <HI>Lincolne&s;hire,</HI> who had gathered togi|ther nigh <HI>20000.</HI> per&s;ons, to &s;erue their turnes in the atchieuing of that rebellious enterprize. The &s;econde beganne farther of, in <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> which northeren commotion was al&s;o attemp|ted for matter of religion, the people there floc|ked togither, amounting to the number of fortie thou&s;and. Again&s;t tho&s;e of the fir&s;t in&s;urrection, the King &s;ent out the Duke of <HI>Suffolke,</HI> with a &s;trong and princely power, which when the re|belles did vnder&s;tand, they &s;traight waies brake vp there armie, and &s;uddainly departed. A|gain&s;t tho&s;e of the &s;econde in&s;urrection, whiche was &s;o farre the greater, his Maie&s;tie &s;ent the Dukes of <HI>Northfolke,</HI> and <HI>Southfolke</HI> both, with a farre &s;tronger power, and mightier ho&s;t of &s;ol|diers: vpon who&s;e comming the battaile was appointed to be fought betw&eacute;ene them on <HI>Simon</HI> and <HI>Iudes</HI> day, but the &s;ame night it rayned &s;o
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extr&eacute;emely, that the twoo armies coulde by no meanes m&eacute;ete according to that appointment. Wherupon the rebels (as lightly they are woont fir&s;t, or la&s;t) were glad to craue pardon the &s;e|cond time, &s;hewing them&s;elues very de&s;irous to depart, with due &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to their mo&s;t noble Prince: &s;o that both the&s;e &s;editions were finally pacified, and di&s;patched with the death of a fewe Archerebelles, and Captaine commotioners, whiche were &s;hortly after executed for example &s;ake, according to the haynou&s;ne&s;&s;e of their di&s;|loyall, and de&s;perate attemptes. The &s;ame E|clip&s;e might peraduenture be accompanied with &s;ome other &s;emblable Euents: but the&s;e are the chiefe&s;t, that I can pre&s;ently call to minde, and are &s;ufficient, I &s;uppo&s;e, to inferre my Conclu|&s;ion, what h&eacute;ede is to be taken of like Eclip&s;es, and namely this of late. Whereunto if we &s;hall nowe con&s;iderately apply the examples before alledged may we not generally conceiue, what &s;equele of troubles and euils, is like to be prog|no&s;ticated by the &s;ame? And yet to &s;peake indif|ferently according to the rules of Arte, I per|&s;uade my &s;elfe, that the mi&s;fortunes threatned thereby, &s;hall neither be fully &s;o hainous, nor of &s;o long continuance, as were tho&s;e of the former Eclip&s;es. My rea&s;on is, bicau&s;e the quantitie of the Eclip&s;e hauing bene but very little &amp; &s;mall, (not one quarter of the Sunne b&eacute;eing darkned)
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the quantitie of the influence and effects is like to be proportionable. For &s;o <HI>Me&s;&s;ahalah</HI> iudgeth in his booke <HI>de Rebus Eclip&s;ium,</HI> the <HI>7.</HI> chapter. <HI>In Eclip&s;i Solis &s;emper &s;ignificatur magnum ali|quod Accidens, &s;ed tamen &s;ecund&ugrave;m quantitatem ip&s;ius Eclip&s;is.</HI> Wherefore the quantitie of this late Eclip&s;e b&eacute;eing &s;o &s;mall, I pre&s;ume, the o|perations, and &s;equeles thereof &s;hall be both the le&s;&s;e in quantitie, and the &s;horter in continu|ance. Nowe, as concerning the Regions, Pro|uinces, territories, and cities which &s;hall chief|ly be afflicted and oppre&s;&s;ed with the euils en&s;u|ing, (whiche euery man will be readie to de|maund) it is &s;ufficie~tly knowne, which are prin|cipally vnder the dominion, and regiment of the &s;igne <HI>Cancer:</HI> as <HI>Numidia, Africe, Bithinia, Phry|gia, Colchis, Carthago, Regnum Franciae, Regnum Scotiae, Regnum Granatae, Comitatus Burgundiae, Pru&s;sia, Hollandia, Selandia, Constantinopolis, Thumi&s;&s;a, Venetiae, Mediolanum, Genua, Luca, Pi&s;a, Lubecum, Treueris, Magdeburgum, Gor|licium, Berna, Ciuitas S. Andreae, Yorchia, &s;iue Eboracum,</HI> as they are confu&s;edly heaped to|gither by our chiefe&s;t A&s;trologers, re&s;pecting rather matter, than forme. Of whiche very countries, and cities, tho&s;e per&s;ons too &s;hall e&s;pecially f&eacute;ele the violence of this Eclip&s;e, whiche had <HI>Cancer</HI> placed in their Horo&s;cope. And this in effect is all, that I haue pre&s;ently
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to &s;ay, touching the influence, and &s;equele of the fore&s;ayde late Eclip&s;e&punc; For, as for tho&s;e two in|&s;taunces, which you in your chamber, not many moneths &s;ince, <HI>obiter,</HI> and as it were, <HI>di&s;putan|di cau&s;a</HI> obiected agayn&s;t me, rea&s;oning then fa|miliarly of the ob&s;eruation, and h&eacute;ede that was to be taken of Eclip&s;es: the one of <HI>Agathocles,</HI> the famous captaine, and tiranne of <HI>Syracu&s;ae,</HI> the other of <HI>L. Sulpitius Gallus</HI> a noble Ro|mane: whereof <HI>Agathocles,</HI> as I remember, in his wars again&s;t the Penians, when &s;o euer anie Eclip&s;e was to happen the day before their battaile lea&s;t his &s;ouldiers &s;hould take any pre|iudiciall or &s;uper&s;titious conceite thereat, v&s;ed, as you then alledged, to di&s;cour&s;e vnto his ar|mie the whole rea&s;on thereof: &s;hewing them, that what &s;oeuer &s;houlde chaunce there, was to followe by cour&s;e of nature, &amp; appertained no|thing to their Militarie affaires: <HI>Sulpitius Gal|lus</HI> vnder&s;tanding likewi&s;e on a time, that an Eclip&s;e was at hande, a&s;&s;embled his &s;ouldiers togither, and warned them thereof afore hand, expounding vnto them all the rea&s;on, and na|turall cau&s;es of Eclip&s;es, lea&s;t they &s;hould igno|rantly mi&s;take them, for heauie, and vnluckie tokens: As for the&s;e two in&s;tances, I &s;aie, I mu&s;te n&eacute;edes graunt, they were good martiall pollicies, and wi&s;e <HI>Stratagemes</HI> for the pre&s;ent, to abandon &s;uch feare, as their &s;ouldiers might
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haply otherwi&s;e haue conceyued, by &s;uch &s;hews of &s;ome infortunate chaunce, to befall them, but as according to <HI>Ari&s;totels</HI> &s;aying in his Poli|tiques, <HI>Non est tuta Regula hominum voluntas:</HI> &s;o I thinke, the&s;e, and &s;uch lyke Militate deui|&s;es, are not of force, to proue, or di&s;proue any other Conclu&s;ion, but this, that in the time of nece&s;&s;itie, or extremitie, e&s;pecially in warre, it is wi&s;edome, to make the be&s;te of euery &s;uch Accident, and to interprete it in &s;uch wi&s;e, as may &s;&eacute;eme mo&s;te behouefull for the incourage|ment of tho&s;e, whom it concerneth, to be kept in harte, and to be deliuered of all by feare, that might any way daunt, or a&s;toni&s;h their minds. Which no doubte was <HI>Aeneas</HI> his politique co~|&s;ideration, where <HI>Virgil</HI> writeth of him: <Q>Spem vultu &s;imulat, premit altum corde dolorem.</Q></P>
<P>In which ca&s;es, not &s;o much the very truth and con&s;equence of the matter is commonly re|garded, as what is mo&s;t expedient, and auaile|able, to &s;erue pre&s;ent turnes. At an other time I remember, you vrged vpon me the like hi|&s;torie out of the fourth booke of <HI>Q. Curtius, <HI>de Rebus gestis Alexandri.</HI></HI> Where it appeareth, how <HI>Alexanders</HI> &s;ouldiers were at the fir&s;te terrified, and a&s;toni&s;hed, with a terrible E|clip&s;e of the Moone, and how againe afterward recomforted, and &s;ati&s;fied, by a cunning and &s;ut|tle interpretation of certaine learned Egyp|tian
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A&s;trologers, there pre&s;ent in the campe. The place is very notable, and therefore I haue thought it worth the recyting. Fir&s;te, their maruelous feare, and agonie is thus de&s;cribed. <HI>Prima fer&egrave; vigilia luna deficiens, prim&ugrave;m nitorem &s;ideris &s;ui condidit, deinde &s;anguinis colore &s;uffu&s;o, lumen omne foedauit: &s;olliciti&s;que &s;ub ip&s;um tanti di&s;criminis ca&s;um, ingens relligio, &amp; ex ea formido quaedam incu&s;&s;a est: Dijs inuitis, in vltimas terras trahi &s;e querebantur: iam nec flumina po&s;&s;e adiri, nec &s;idera pristinum praestare fulgorem, vastas ter|ras, de&s;erta omnia occurrere: in vnius hominis ia|ctationem, tot millium &s;anguinem impendi: fasti|dio e&s;&s;e patriam: abdicari Philippum patrem: coe|lum vanis cogitationibus petere.</HI> Then follow|eth <HI>Alexanders</HI> remedie, and meanes of pacifi|cation, more politique for the effect, than true for the cau&s;e. <HI>I am pro &s;editione Rex erat, cum ad omina interitus, Duces, Principe&s;que militum frequen|tes ade&s;&s;e praetorio iubet, Aegyptio&s;que vates, quos coeli ac &s;iderum periti&s;simos e&s;&s;e credebat, quid &s;en|tirent, expromere iubet. At illi, qui fatis &s;ci|rent temporum orbes implere destinatas vices, Lu|namque deficere, cum aut terram &s;ubiret, aut &s;o|le priuaretur, Rationem quidem ip&s;is perceptam non edocent vulgus,</HI> but what Rea&s;on then? <HI>Cae|ter&ugrave;m affirmant Solem Graecorum, Lunam e&s;&s;e Per|&s;arum, quotie&s;que illa deficiat, ruinam, &s;tragemque illis gentibus portendi: veteraque exempla percen|&s;ent
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Per&s;idis Regum, quos aduer&s;is Dijs pugna&s;&s;e, Lunae ostendi&s;&s;et Defectio.</HI> Whereupon <HI>Q. Cur|tius</HI> interlaceth this politique iudgement: <HI>Nul|la res efficaci&ugrave;s multitudinem regit qu&agrave;m Super|&s;titio, alioquin impotens, &s;aeua, mutabilis, vbi va|na religione capta est, meli&ugrave;s vatibus qu&aacute;m Du|cibus &s;uis paret.</HI> For the effect of that forged interpretation, or rather, of that counterfaite Stratageme, was this: <HI>Igitur edita in vulgus Aegyptiorum Re&s;pon&s;a, rur&s;us ad &s;pem, &amp; fidu|ciam erexere torpentes.</HI> So ea&s;ie a matter it is, by any colourable deui&s;e, or pretence of rea&s;on, to content the vnquiet mindes, and a&s;&s;wage the reging furie of the multitude. In whiche ca&s;e, many both Martial and Mercurial experiments haue bene practized, that are not to enforce any rule of Art, other than this, what way a poli|tique man is to take in time of like extremitie. As for that efficacie, and &s;equele of Eclip&s;es, that I here &s;peake of, found out by induction of Examples, and ob&s;eruation of cunning A&s;tro|logers, it is not to be iudged vpon by any &s;uch Stratagematicall co~ceit either vttered in word, or practized in d&eacute;ede, at the point of nece&s;&s;itie: but to be credited &s;o farre, as the iudgement of the learned in this facultie, and the fore&s;ayde Ex|emplifications may giue it credite. <HI>Artifici in &s;ua arte credendum:</HI> e&s;pecially if that <HI>Artifex</HI> be &s;o <HI>expertus,</HI> as he ought to be, &amp; as here I make
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Account he is, con&s;idering what alreadie hath bene alledged, and may father be iu&s;tified. But, for this pre&s;ent, <HI>&s;ufficiat, quod &s;atis est.</HI> For mine owne part, as I hope the be&s;te, &s;o I feare the wor&s;t, enclyning in &s;ome &s;orte to the olde rule, <HI>addi&s;centem oportet credere.</HI> What &s;oeuer befalleth other places, I tru&s;t Ingland is &s;till to continue in Gods fauour, who from day to day, and from yeare to yeare, mightily pre&s;erue our gracious <HI>Queene,</HI> as hitherto ha hath done: who graunt hir mo&s;te excellent Maie&s;tie, a long and pro&s;perous raigne ouer vs, that w&eacute;e may &s;till enioye this happie continuaunce of peace, wealth, health, and other our &s;peciall fe|licities, whereas the &s;worde, penurie, and &s;o many plagues, haue ioyned their forces, in a manner again&s;t all other nations. Who for his exc&eacute;eding mercie &s;ake, vouch&s;afe vs his &s;ingular accu&s;tomed fauour more and more, and conti|nually ble&s;&s;e hir &s;oueraigne Highne&s;&s;e more and more. I doubt not, but euery true Ingli&s;h harte will &s;ay, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>I haue now deliuered what I thought con|uenient in this kind: vnle&s;&s;e haply you will fur|thermore enioyne me, to &s;et downe my A&s;trolo|gicall iudgement particularly &amp; &s;euerally of the foure quarters of this yeare <HI>1583.</HI> after the ordi|nary manner of our common Almanack ma|kers: which although it be le&s;&s;e n&eacute;edefull, be|ing
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already performed by them, yet to take a|way all matter of &s;u&s;picion, which other wi&s;e you might perhaps in &s;ome part conceiue of my in&s;ufficiencie this way, and withall to di&s;|charge a p&eacute;ece of my promi&s;e in the former di&s;|cour&s;e, I haue briefly noted &s;o much, as I would thinke nece&s;&s;ary for common in&s;tructi|ons, to &s;erue either publique, or priuat turnes, and namely Oeconomical proui&s;ion, if this Treati&s;e were to come into more hands.</P>
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<HEAD>A &s;hort Iudgement of the foure partes of this yeare, 1583.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> THe Spring time en&s;uing, is, in my opinion, like to be very moy&s;t, very windie, and &s;omewhat cold.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> Summer, I &s;uppo&s;e, will be rather moi&s;t than dry, with &s;ome haile, thunder, and light|ning, e&s;pecially in Iuly, and September.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> Harue&s;t will be diuers, and incon&s;tant, moy&s;t, windy, cloudy, temperate, and dry.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4</HI> The Winter &s;ea&s;on is mo&s;te like to be vn&s;ea&s;onable, tedious, &amp; very long, not with|out great &s;tore of haile, raine, &s;now, many boi|&s;terous windes, and very much colde, harde, &s;harpe, and tempe&s;tuous weather.</P>
<P>The whole yeare, to &s;peake more vniuer|&s;ally,
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is like to proue but a bad yeare for al ma|ner of cattel, but e&s;pecially and principally for &s;h&eacute;epe. Pea&s;e &amp; Beanes, I &s;uppo&s;e, wil be plen|tifull, &amp; good cheape: but wheat, by my conie|ctures, wil be &s;carce, &amp; very deare. Barlie &s;hall be indifferent, but yet of the two, rather deare than cheape. We are like to haue good &s;tore of Honie, &amp; &s;ufficient plenty of Oyle. Butter &amp; Ch&eacute;e&s;e, &s;hal be &s;omewhat deare: we are not to looke for any &s;tore, or aboundance of fruite: a dearth of victuals is much to be feared: grie|uous lo&s;&s;es by &s;hipwracke: &s;undry dammages by fire: many &s;hamefull whoredoms, thefts, robberies, &s;poiles, oppre&s;&s;ions, treacheries, and mutinies greatly to be dreaded: perillous fa|ctions, &s;editions, tumults, in&s;urrections, &amp; vp|rores, togither with hot preparance for warre to be loked for, e&s;pecially in y^e Northea&s;t cun|tries. Many infirmities, &amp; di&s;ea&s;es, &s;hall gene|rally raigne both amonge&s;t men, wome~, &amp; chil|dren, proc&eacute;eding of vnnaturall moi&s;tnes, &amp; di|&s;temperate heat, as by y^e Euent wil more &s;en|&s;ibly appeare. The death of &s;ome mighty, &amp; re|nowmed Magi&s;trate by all A&s;trological Con|iectures is to en&s;ue: &amp; finally a &s;ore mortalitie is very like to inuade many places, as well &s;omewhat neare hand, as farther off: which God of his euerla&s;ting goodnes, &amp; mercy, turne from his Elect, continuing our happy &s;tate and quietnes in Ingland, to his gracious plea&s;ure.</P>
<P><PB N="75" REF="46">Hauing thus much pre&s;umed of your pacie~ce, co~trary to my maner in &s;uch priuat writings, I wil yet aduenture, to trouble you a litle far|ther, with y^e view of a certain Phi&s;ical &amp; A&s;tro|logical table of Phlebotomie: which, (vpon oc|ca&s;ion) I haue lately drawne, &amp; already co~mu|nicated w^t a friend or two, &s;tudious this way &amp; de&s;irous thereof. I will not &s;ay, but &s;ome error may peradue~ture &s;cape me therin, as in y^e re&s;t: &amp; if you happen to light vpon any &s;uch I am to craue pardon, as in y^e re&s;t. The only preamble, I here thinke n&eacute;edeful, is y^e notable A&s;trologi|cal, &amp; Phi&s;ical iudgement giue~ out by <HI>Hermes Tri&s;megi&s;tus</HI> him &s;elf, in y^e very ende of his <HI>I&auml;|tromathematica, ad <HI>Amonem Aegyptium,</HI></HI> thus tran&s;lated into Latine by <HI>Stadius,</HI> in the <HI>Prole|gomena</HI> to his Ephemerides. <HI>Multu~ refert in quae hora primus morbi in&s;ultus deprehe~detur, ob&s;eruare, an eo te~pore benefici in ortu &s;int, aut mediu~ coeli occu|pent, plus n&aacute;mque &s;ic co~stituti, collap&s;is ali&oacute;qui viri|bus: opis &s;ubmini&s;trabunt, &abquam; praestanti&s;simus po&s;sit Medicus: &s;crutari igitur &amp; die~, &amp; hora~ decubitus exact&egrave; oportebit, &amp; mundi po&s;itu~ examinare: nihil enim homini &s;uperuenit, quod ex coele&s;ti con&s;en&s;u, &amp; &s;ympathia non oriatur, &amp; originem ducat.</HI> Which famous &amp; authenticall Maxime of <HI>Hermes,</HI> to|gither with the long approued ver&s;e, borrowed from <HI>He&s;iode: <HI>Ip&s;a Dies, hodie Mater, cras ip&s;a Nouerca,</HI></HI> may generally &s;uffice for the iu&s;tify|ing
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of that difference, &amp; di&s;tinction of houres, dayes, and times, which either here is, or els where may A&s;trologically and Phi&s;ically be maintained. And &s;o with my dutifull Com|mendacions, I hartily commit you to the pro|tection of God: being loth to be ouertedi|ous in officious wordes, or &s;entences of curte&s;ie, how&s;oeuer other whiles I may chaunce to ouer&s;hoote my &s;elfe in matter of Di&s;|cour&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>A COMPENDIOVS Table of Phlebotomie, or bloud|letting, &s;etting downe by diui&s;ion the ge|nerall and &s;peciall con&s;iderations thereunto belonging.</HEAD>
<P>_AS in other things, &s;o in Phle|botomy, or letting of bloud, the Cau&s;e is fir&s;t &s;killfully &amp; circum&s;pectly to be con&s;ide|red, as that it be to purge the bodye of &s;ome vnnaturall, naughty, and &s;uperfluous humor, who&s;e &s;ub|&s;tance is either &s;imple, or mixt: &s;imple, when it doth of it &s;elfe, without the admixtion of any other, degenerate, as bloud doth, when it pu|trifieth in the veines, the pores being &s;topped: mixt, when it is mingled with &s;ome that is already corrupted, as in the Drop&s;ie, where the bloud is mixt with water, then the Cau&s;e being thus allowed vpon, &amp; certainly knowen for n&eacute;edefull and good to the pacient, (for other|wi&s;e letting of bloud is very daungerous, and openeth a way to many grieuous infirmities, and withall here would generally be noted, that it is not co~uenient either for a very leane &amp; weake man, or for a very fat, &amp; gro&s;&s;e man to be let bloud) there remaine to be con&s;idered:</P>
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<ITEM>How it &s;ta~|deth with y^e Pacient.
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<ITEM>inwardly
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> for his complexion.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> age.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>outwardly
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> for the time of the yeare, and moneth generally.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> for the time of the day, and diet particularly.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>1. Complexion.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> In the com|plexion is to be con&s;idered, whether he be
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> Sanguine, that is, hot and moi&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> Collerick, that is, hot and dry.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> Melancholy, that is, cold and dry.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Phlegmatick, that is, cold and moi&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>2. Age.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> In his age, whether he be
<LIST>
<ITEM>in his youth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>in his manly, or middle age.</ITEM>
<ITEM>in his elderly age.</ITEM>
<ITEM>in his crooked old age.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>3. The time of the yeare.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Concerning the time of the yeare, he is to be adui&s;ed, what partes thereof are
<LIST>
<ITEM>good, as the Spring: from the midde&s;t whereof to the beginning of &s;ummer is &s;imply the be&s;t time for this purpo&s;e: howbeit &s;ome thinke Autumne rea&s;ona|ble good, as no doubt it is, in compari|&s;on either of &s;ummer or winter: being o|therwi&s;e in it &s;elfe, to be reckned rather for bad, than good.</ITEM>
<ITEM>bad
<LIST>
<ITEM>very bad, as Summer and Win|ter, for their extremitie of heate &amp; cold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>more tolerable, as Autumne, be|ing &s;omewhat more temperate.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>4. The time of the moneth.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Concerning the time of the moneth, the&s;e generall Cau|tions are to be ob&s;erued, that he be not let bloud in any member, with any chirurgical in&s;trument, ei|ther&punc;
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Moone being in <HI>Tauro, Geminis, Leone, Virgine</HI> or <HI>Capricorno:</HI> or the la&s;t halfe of <HI>Libra,</HI> &amp; fir&s;t of <HI>Scorpio.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sinne, the Moone, or the Lord of the Horo&s;cope, being in the &s;igne, that ruleth that member.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Moone being in any part of <HI>via la|ctea,</HI> or in <HI>via combu&s;ta,</HI> or in <HI>domo ca&s;us &s;ui,</HI> or being <HI>vacua,</HI> or <HI>tarda cur|&s;u&punc;</HI> or in <HI>terminis infortuniorum,</HI> or in the duodenarial diui&s;ion of the twelue hou&s;es, placed either in <HI>1.6.8.</HI> or <HI>12.</HI> place thereof, or applying to the Lorde of the <HI>8.</HI> hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The day before, the day it &s;elfe, the daye after the change of the Moone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Halfe a naturall day, that is <HI>12.</HI> howres before, and as many howres after the quarters of the Moone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A day before, and a day after the full of the Moone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A daye before, and a day after the Con|iunction, Quartile, or oppo&s;ition of the Moone with <HI>Saturne,</HI> or <HI>Mars.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A daye before the Coniunction of the Moone with <HI>Mercury,</HI> or <HI>Venus,</HI> or the head of the Dragon, or taile of the Dragon infortunate: be&s;ide other in|fortunate dayes in euery moneth, &s;e|uerally noted in euery Almanack: and expre&s;&s;ely &s;et downe in certaine olde Latine ver&s;es to be &s;eene in many aun|cient Calenders: which kind of ver|&s;es for the matter commonly are cur|rant enough.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>and then the conuenien|te&s;t time of the moneth, for the
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> Sanguine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> Chollerick.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> Melancholy.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Phelgmatick</ITEM>
</LIST>
the Moone being in
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> Any of the &s;ignes fol|lowing.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2. Cancer,</HI> or <HI>Pi&s;ces.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3. Aquarius,</HI> &amp; fir&s;te halfe of <HI>Libra.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4. Aries</HI> or <HI>Sagittarius.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ratio. Contraria contrarijs curantur.</HEAD>
<P>Howbeit, &s;ome &s;pecially commend <HI>Cancer, Aequarius,</HI> and <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> for letting of bloud: but <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> can not be &s;o good, being a common or bi|corporall &s;igne.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>al&s;o the be&s;t, and mo&s;t laudable A&s;pects for this pur|po&s;e, or the&s;e, accor|ding to our &s;ounde&s;t writers in this kind.
<LIST>
<ITEM>the coniunction of the Moone with <HI>Iupi|ter,</HI> or <HI>Venus,</HI> are &s;imply and principally be&s;t: &s;o that <HI>Venus</HI> be not combu&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>the trine or &s;extile of the Moone with <HI>Iupi|ter, Sol, Venus,</HI> and <HI>Mercury,</HI> are good, but e&s;pecially with <HI>Iupiter,</HI> or <HI>Mercury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>the quartile or oppo&s;ition of the Moone with <HI>Iupiter</HI> or <HI>Venus,</HI> doth well.</ITEM>
<ITEM>the trine or &s;extile of the Moone with <HI>Mars,</HI> are rea&s;onable good, or indifferent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>the time of the moneth for
<LIST>
<ITEM>Youth: from the chaunge to the fir&s;t quarter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Middle age: from the fir&s;t quarter to the full.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Elderly age: from the full to the la&s;t quarter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Olde age: from the la&s;t quarter to the chaunge.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<HEAD>Ratio. Simile gaudet &s;uo &s;imili.</HEAD>
<P>Howbeit, no child would be let bloud before fourt&eacute;ene yeares of age: nor old man after &s;e|uentie, vnle&s;&s;e his &s;trength be the greater, and &s;omewhat more than ordinarie at tho&s;e yeares.</P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>5. Time of the day, and diet.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The time of the day mu&s;t be either
<LIST>
<ITEM>Morning: after the ri&s;ing of the Sunne: when a man is yet fa&s;ting: which is &s;im|ply the be&s;t, excepting the houres of <HI>Sa|turne</HI> and <HI>Mars:</HI> and choo&s;ing &s;pecially the houres of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> who&s;e nature is mo&s;t temperate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>After none: after rea&s;onable good, or ra|ther perfect dige&s;tion, and expul&s;ion of &s;uperfluities.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And withall, regard mu&s;t be had of the aier y^t it be not either too hot, or too cold, or clowdie, but calme, cleare, and temperate: the winde being then either Northerly, or el&s;e, We&s;ter|ly: for the South wind is no friend to Phlebo|tomie.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ratio. Callidum nimium di&s;&s;oluit: Frigidum nimium refrigerat.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Exception.</HEAD>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding the premi&s;es, if this bloud letting be for the Phrene&s;ie, the Pe&s;ti|lence, the Squynancie, the Pleuri&s;ie, the A|poplexie, for a continuing headach, proc&eacute;eding
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of choler or bloud, or for any hotte burning fe|uer, or other extreame paine, a man in &s;uch a ca&s;e may not tarie a cho&s;en time, regularly &s;et downe by the A&s;tronomer, or Phi&s;itian, be|cau&s;e haply, the pacient might mi&s;carrie in the meane &s;ea&s;on, but incontinently with all con|uenient &s;p&eacute;ede, he is to &s;&eacute;eke his remedie, this way: vnle&s;&s;e either him &s;elfe be very weake, or like to &s;ounde, or the Moone be in the &s;ame &s;igne that ruleth that verie parte of his bodie. Marrie, in the fore&s;ayed ca&s;e of extreamitie, bloud is not to be let in &s;o great a quantitie, as otherwi&s;e it would, if a cho&s;e time might conueniently be ex&s;pected.</P>
<P>As before bloud letting the&s;e circum&s;tan|ces of complexion, age, and times, are to be con&s;idered, &s;o after bloud letting, like con&s;ide|ration is to be had of our meates, and exerci&s;e. For meates we mu&s;t take none, but &s;utch as are of an ea&s;ie, and light dige&s;tion.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>For exerci&s;e, we are to ab&s;taine from all, vntill the fourth day, exclu&s;iue, not only tho&s;e, that be vehement, as,
<LIST>
<ITEM>riding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>running.</ITEM>
<ITEM>leaping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>vawting.</ITEM>
<ITEM>wra&s;tling.</ITEM>
<ITEM>fen&s;ing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>tenni&s;e, &amp;c.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>But al&s;o, &s;uch as are more mild: as
<LIST>
<ITEM>walking.</ITEM>
<ITEM>bowling.</ITEM>
<ITEM>bathing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>and &s;pecially venerie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><PB N="83" REF="50">Which both antecedent, and con&s;equent limitations, being duely &amp; orderly ob&s;erued, I doubt not, but I may effectually conclude with that auncient commendation of Phle|botomie, giuen out in two common ver&s;es.</P>
<Q><L>Exhilarat tristes: iratos placat: amantes</L>
<L>Ne &s;int amentes, Phlebotomia facit.</L></Q>
<P>And thus much, or rather thus litle of Phle|botomie: hoping you will fauourably accept of this A&s;trological and Phi&s;icke table, togea|ther with the other rude papers: vntill better oportunitie, and greater lea&s;ure, accompanied with more reading, &s;hall afforde &s;ome p&eacute;ece of worke otherwi&s;e laboured, and more &s;choller|ly handled, than on &s;uch a &s;odaine this coulde be. Rome, they &s;ay, was not builded in a day, nor any worke of price huddled vp in ha&s;t: e|uerie thing mu&s;t haue a rea&s;onable time, and it is impo&s;&s;ible for a beginner, or nouice in a|ny facultie, to attaine vnto that perfection, which long experience, and much meditation, haue hardly bred in men of farre riper yeres, &amp; greater &s;tudie. The be&s;t is, I know vnto who~ I write: and I tru&s;te at my retourne, I &s;hall finde you (as I haue alwaies) rather a gentle reformer, than a &s;harpe controller. You know I v&s;e not to dote vpon mine owne errours, but as in all things el&s;e, &s;o in this pamflet, am ready, to correct, or amend any thing that &s;hall
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be found ami&s;&s;e, being glad to holde the aun|cient rule, <HI>Errare po&s;&s;um, haereticus e&s;&s;e nolo,</HI> which I pray God, I may alwaies follow, as well in the conclu&s;ions of this &s;cience, as of any other. But truly, brother, I feare me, I haue now bene too vnrea&s;onable tedious vnto you, and therefore wil here once againe take my leaue, and bid you hartily farewell: wi&s;hing you as my &s;elfe. From my fathers in Walden the <HI>6.</HI> of December. <HI>1582.</HI></P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your louing brother, euer at commaundement, <HI>RICHARD HARVEY.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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