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<P>&Ngr;&Egr;&Ogr;'&PHgr;&Ugr;&Tgr;&Ogr;-'&Agr;&Sgr;&Tgr;&Rgr;&Ogr;'&Lgr;&Ogr;&Ggr;&Ogr;&Sgr;: THE Novice-ASTROLOGER INSTRUCTED: IN A NEW-YEARS-GIFT TO Mr. <HI>William Lilly;</HI></P>
<P>Occa&s;ioned by the Scurrility, Scandal, Ignorance, and Flattery of his Merlin for the en&s;uing year.</P>
<P>With two Dedicatory Epi&s;tles; the One to the Learned Divines, the Other to the Hone&s;t A&s;trologers of this Nation.</P>
<P>By <HI>G. J.</HI> or <HI>J. G.</HI> which <HI>Lilly</HI> the Para&s;ite plea&s;eth.</P>
<Q>See&s;t thou a man wi&s;e in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool, then of him, <BIBL><HI>Prov.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>The Cretians are always lyars, evil bea&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q>
<Q>Wherefore rebuke them &s;harply <HI>[cuttingly, <GAP DESC="foreign">]</HI> that they may be &s;ound in the faith, <BIBL><HI>Tit. 1.12, 13.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>E. C.</HI> and are to be &s;old at the <HI>Royal Exchange, We&s;tmin&s;ter-hall,</HI> and <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Learned Divines of this Nation, whether Presbyterians, or Independents.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Learned Sirs,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ALthough by rea&s;on of the &s;elf-ends and private Intere&s;ts of vain-glorious and ignorant per&s;ons, the Science of A&s;trology hath had the misfortune to be thought repugnant to your Sacred Studies; yet if it be duly (and without prejudice) con&s;idered, they may not only both &s;tand together, but be a&s;&s;i&s;ting unto each other: <HI>The one, con&s;ulting the Le&s;&s;er</HI> [though the more Divine] Book of Scriptures; the other, the Greater [and the more Natural] Book of Creatures.</P>
<P>In ancient times, among the <HI>Aegyptians</HI> (as your learned &s;elves well know) there were none admitted into your Holy Order without being ve&s;ted with a competent knowledge in A&s;trology. I readily ac|knowledge, that the Errors vented, and Impo&s;turi&s;ms practi&s;ed under the Golden wings of this Art, are &s;ufficient to antici|pate your better thoughts from a &s;erious In&s;pection and examination thereof. And it were a thing &s;uperlatively unju&s;t, to enforce you, with the good Wine thereof, to drink the Dregs al&s;o.</P>
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<P>A&s;trology is a fair and beautifull Virgin, though by many rendred a Notorious &s;trumpet! The Fair <HI>Urania</HI> is every way mo&s;t accompli&s;hed and lovely! It is my humble reque&s;t therefore, that you would not con&s;ider it as it is rendred by Ignorant per&s;ons practi&s;ing it; but as it is (untain|ted) in it &s;elf. The Lute is a mo&s;t melodi|ous In&s;trument, being touched by the skil|ful fingers of a Ma&s;ter in Mu&s;ick; but hand|led by a Porter, or Carman, from a Barn|door you may hear as plea&s;ing a &s;ound. It is A&s;trologies greate&s;t unhappine&s;s, that her <HI>pretended favorites</HI> are her <HI>greate&s;t enemies.</HI></P>
<P>Learned Friends! The De&s;ign of this little Book is to take off the ugly and deformed vizzard from the face of A&s;tro|logy, that for many years it hath been compelled to wear, by the &s;ubtill cunning of one, who under pretence thereof hath been (<HI>&s;ine ratione, vel religione</HI>) too bold and &s;awcy, not only with her, but your Learned &s;elves. The Author hereof wi&s;heth all honour to a Learned &s;etled Mini&s;try, and A&s;trology freed from Sycophantique Practi&s;ers; and that the learned Divine and hone&s;t A&s;trologer (as in times pa&s;t) might &s;hake hands with each other, and Divinity and A&s;trology &s;tand together.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Hone&s;t A&s;trologers of this Nation.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>GENTLEMEN!</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>YOu need not wonder at the &s;ight, or &s;ubject of this &s;mall Tractate; for it drives at nothing but</HI> the Salvage of A&s;trologers Ho|nour and Credit, and your own Reputati|on. <HI>If you would know</HI> why I oppo&s;e Mr. Lilly, (<HI>who pretends him&s;elf the onely Ma|&s;ter of</HI> A&s;trologie) <HI>it is becau&s;e</HI> he hath op|po&s;ed his Art, and turned his back upon the truth thereof. <HI>Had he been true to the Sci|ence, unto which he &s;o largely pretends, I had forborn this pains, and prevented your trou|ble of peru&s;al:</HI> But he appearing &s;o re|pugnant <HI>(as I have &s;hewed)</HI> to his Art in every thing he writes, <HI>hath not onely made Shipwrack of his own Repute, but [like a pro|digious Prodigal] lays the Honour of A|&s;trologie, and your &s;elves (al&s;o) in the du&s;t.</HI> For what per&s;on is he, that can be brought to believe there is life and moi&s;ture remai|ning in the &s;maller Trees, when the [pre|tended] Cedar is dry and &s;aple&s;s?</P>
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<P><HI>I well hoped that &s;ome of you (more able) would have ea&s;ed me of this task,</HI> and un|mask'd this Arch Pretender before now. <HI>But &s;ince his Errors are &s;o eminently &s;pread and promoted, to the great &s;candal of A&s;tro|logie, and hitherto no one hath offered to que|&s;tion him</HI> &mdash; I adjudged it convenient <HI>(in recompence of his &s;currilities)</HI> to &s;top his cour&s;e at this time, le&s;t in the height of his folly, he &s;urfeit more dangerou&s;ly, and run mad beyond the cure of all probable Rea|&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>If, for this my pains, I am not requited with a</HI> Trepan, <HI>I &s;hall not need to fear the force of my</HI> Antagoni&s;ts Pen; <HI>being con|&s;cious to my &s;elf, I have not mi&s;-repre&s;ented him in a &s;yllable. However, if he judge him|&s;elf injured, or find him&s;elf troubled at any thing in this Di&s;cour&s;e,</HI> let him, rationally, <HI>(not railingly)</HI> acquit him&s;elf from tho&s;e Errors charged upon him; or el&s;e by his &s;ilence, acknowledge him&s;elf as great an Impo&s;tor, as this Treati&s;e pronounces him; <HI>that &s;o the world may be undeceived, and the Honour of Your Selves and Art, pre&s;er|ved.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Vale.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>&Ngr;&Egr;&Ogr;'&PHgr;&Ugr;&Tgr;&Ogr;-'&Agr;&Sgr;&Tgr;&Rgr;&Ogr;'&Lgr;&Ogr;&Ggr;&Ogr;&Sgr;: The Novice-A&s;trologer INSTRUCTED: IN A NEW-YEARS-GIFT TO Mr. <HI>William Lilly.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO &s;ooner came the <HI>Merlin</HI> of <HI>Lilly</HI> (that Arch-Para&s;ite) from the Pre&s;s, flying about into the world, after its wonted rate; but being informed that he had brought his <HI>Legs to the Stocks,</HI> and his <HI>Stiff Neck to the Halter of Confe&s;|&s;ion,</HI> I was de&s;irous to &s;ee whether he had acquitted him&s;elf <HI>like a true Penitent, &s;ou|&s;ing his &s;ear'd Con&s;cience in the brini&s;h tears of Contrition;</HI> acknowledging (with &s;or|row) his Mi&s;takes committed, and all tho&s;e Errors and Ignorances charged upon
<PB N="2" REF="5">him, in the <HI>King of Swedes Nativity,</HI> and <HI>the Spurious Progno&s;ticator.</HI></P>
<P>But behold! upon a due Examination of this his pretended <HI>Recantation Alma|nack,</HI> I finde him ly&s;ping and jabbering after his wonted non&s;en&s;ical manner, as if he were every way uncapable of rendring one wi&s;e Sentence or Word in his own defence. And although he hath been &s;o notably baited, even to the loo&s;ing <HI>the No&s;e of his Reputation and Credit in the Art he profe&s;&s;eth,</HI> he pa&s;&s;eth his <HI>Hunters</HI> like a &s;lye Deer, and gives all their Checques, and Counter-Checques a fair go-by, even as he were none of their game, or any thing at all concerned in their cha&s;ing him. Onely thus &mdash; (that you may adjudge him &s;uf|ficiently heated and affrighted) he frisks up his dirty tayl in a fury, and like the <HI>Scythi|an Bea&s;t,</HI> &s;quirts out his filth (thereby ho|ping the better to e&s;cape) in the Faces of his Pur&s;uers. &mdash; <HI>Complaining of his being hard dealt with by Stitching Pens, and by Botchers, not Arti&s;ts; and that it is be|neath him to an&s;wer a Boy, or impudent ranting Fool, that dares not own his name to be</HI> G. J. <HI>or</HI> J. G. &s;ays <HI>he &s;hould render him|&s;elf ridiculous (being an Eagle, an Owl ra|ther)
<PB N="3" REF="5">to catch at a Flye;</HI> and in&s;inuates to his Readers, <HI>That he hath no Antagoni&s;ts but Ranters and Atheists,</HI> (both which E|pithets the be&s;t befit him&s;elf of any that I know.) After all which <HI>Billings-gate</HI> Lan|guage, (in&s;tead of a &s;olid Vindication) with a company of Ignorant, Contradicto|ry, Groundle&s;s Quacks for the <HI>Swede,</HI> and a Bundle of Abu&s;es to A&s;trologers, and A&s;trologie be&s;ide, &mdash; <HI>Exit Merlinus Anglicus.</HI></P>
<P>Of all which Barbarous and Ridiculous Stuff, I need in &s;trictne&s;s, take no further notice then this &mdash; <HI>LILLY WRIT IT! A Fellow that cannot tell how to rea|&s;on, but to raile onely! That knows nothing of A&s;trologie, but the name; which he makes u&s;e of, as a Cloak to cover his Ignorance! That knows neither how to take, or to make an Argument! That complies with any Go|vernment, &s;o that he may be thought the State-A&s;trologer!</HI> In which re&s;pects, I ac|count him beneath the revenge of the Pen of any ingenious Per&s;on or Scholar; and would have him therefore to know, that the grand rea&s;on why I &s;et not my name at length in my Books again&s;t him, is, the probability of my purcha&s;ing the cen&s;ure
<PB N="4" REF="6">of the ingenious and learned Arti&s;ts, for entering the Li&s;ts <HI>per Nominem,</HI> with &s;o ba&s;e and low-orb'd a Fellow; unfitting for a Man to Cope with, much le&s;s an Arti&s;t.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, in regard of my promi&s;e to the world in my la&s;t La&s;h of this Quack, entituled, <GAP DESC="foreign">; or, <HI>The Spurious Progno&s;ticator;</HI> and le&s;t that he &s;hould cry Victory before he be harne&s;&s;ed for the Battel, and &s;o in his own conceit pa&s;s for a Conqueror; &mdash; I will rip him up, and &s;hew his Nakedne&s;s and Folly to the world, &s;omewhat more largely then he hath done, although his own Pen hath been a &s;uffici|ent Index thereof, in his idle and addle Fi|ctions for the en&s;uing year. Wherein (as briefly as I may) <HI>I will prove him to be the greatest Enemy to A&s;trologie that this age hath brought forth; a meer Ignorant in it, though he quack &s;o much under the Canopy of it; an Illiterate, Abu&s;ive, Pragmatical Fellow, void of Civility, Ingenuity and Lear|ning.</HI></P>
<P>And that I may not loo&s;e him in my Cha&s;e, I will ob&s;erve the &s;ame Method as in my la&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> Fir&s;t, to begin with <HI>his Epi|&s;tle;</HI> Secondly, his <HI>general Prog;</HI> Thirdly, his <HI>Monethly Fictions.</HI> And then I &s;hall
<PB N="5" REF="6">appeal to the world, whether he be not an Owl, rather then an Eagle in A&s;trologie.</P>
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<HEAD>SECT. 1. <HI>His Epistle Examined.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>WIlliam Lilly</HI> in the beginning of his E|pi&s;tle, makes his Introduction to his Excu&s;e, with a notorious Contradiction of him&s;elf, and a mo&s;t high and injurious Scan|dal to A&s;trologie, and the ingenious Stu|dents thereof, in the&s;e words&mdash;<HI>The ma|ny turnings, and windings, and changes of Go|vernment in</HI> England <HI>in</HI> 1659. <HI>what Man or Angel could predict?</HI> &mdash; And a lit|tle further he &s;aith, &mdash; <HI>They</HI> (meaning the Changes, <HI>&amp;c.) were not in any way demon|strable, or to be found out by the &s;harpe&s;t Rules of A&s;trologie.</HI> Had Mr. <HI>L.</HI> been Friend, either to Him&s;elf, A&s;trologie, or A&s;trologers, he could never have made &s;o Contradictious, Sen&s;ele&s;s and Ridiculous an Excu&s;e: for (1.) herein, he gives the Lye to all that ever him&s;elf hath formerly, and now written: and (2.) he be&s;patters all tho&s;e ingenious Arti&s;ts that did predict
<PB N="6" REF="7">(and that from the known Rules of A&s;trolo|gie) tho&s;e many Changes that happened in <HI>England</HI> 1659. And (3) he ca&s;ts dirt in the beautiful Face of A&s;trologie it &s;elf, in&s;inua|ting an incertainty, or deficiency of its Rules and Aphori&s;ms, and a perfect im|po&s;&s;ibility of any Man or Angel to predict tho&s;e Changes mentioned thereby.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>He giveth the Lye most broadly and &s;hamefully to him&s;elf;</HI> for in all his party|works formerly, he rantingly (and ravingly al&s;o) argues again&s;t the Divines&mdash;<HI>That in the great Book of Heaven, are all Changes on Earth written; and that him&s;elf was born to predict them, &s;ometimes more tacitely, at other times more largely.</HI> See his Alm. 1655. and his Epi&s;tle to his Alm. 1658. in particular, where he &s;ays,&mdash;<HI>There is no Emergency, good or bad, that happens on Earth, but hath a full manife&s;tation from the Configurations of the Heavens. And that</HI> Italy, France, <HI>and his</HI> Holine&s;s <HI>him&s;elf, have cau&s;e to remember how ominous his Predi|ctions have proved to them.</HI> Nay, he cracks more largely in his <HI>Worlds Cata&s;trophe, &mdash; That what he cannot do by Common Rules of A&s;trologie, he can by Angels and Spirits:</HI> yea, &s;o well is he acquainted with &s;uch
<PB N="7" REF="7">Whim&s;ies, and Vanities (as he proclaims it him&s;elf) <HI>that he &s;hall go near</HI> (when time &s;erves) <HI>to give every Nation of</HI> Europe <HI>a touch of its duration and continuance, from con&s;idering the Angel, or Genius of it.</HI> But now neither He, nor Man or Angel is able to predict any thing of Mundane Affairs, from the Rules of A&s;trologie: by which it con&s;picuou&s;ly appears, that Mr. <HI>L.</HI> and his skill al&s;o is &s;ubject to a &s;trange kind of Fluctuation.</P>
<Q><HI>Nunc huc, nunc illuc, exemplo nubis aquo&s;ae.</HI></Q>
<Q><HI>Now here, &s;oon there, much like a Watri&s;h Cloud.</HI></Q>
<P>But tell me, Mr. <HI>L.</HI> can&s;t thou expect to pa&s;s thus to the world undi&s;covered, and &s;till be thought an A&s;trologer? Do&s;t thou think and believe, all men are as ignorant and contradictious as thy &s;elf? If not,&mdash;
<Q><L><HI>Oh!</HI> William! William! <HI>mon&s;trous</HI> William Lilly!</L>
<L><HI>How cam'&s;t thou here, to &s;hew thy &s;elf &s;o &s;illy?</HI></L></Q></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>He abu&s;ively be&s;patters all ingenious
<PB N="8" REF="8">Arti&s;ts too.</HI> For, doth it hand&s;omly follow, becau&s;e Mr. <HI>L.</HI> is ignorant in A&s;trology, and (by con&s;equence) of predicting tho&s;e eminent Changes which hapned in 1659. that therefore all Ingenious and true-born Arti&s;ts are &s;o too? If Mr <HI>L.</HI> like an unexpert traveller, mi&s;&s;eth the way he is to go, and tumbleth into a Bog, or Quag|mire, Mu&s;t he therefore be angry at tho&s;e per&s;ons acquainted with the Road, that they do not tumble in with him for com|pany? What fault was it of Mr <HI>VVharton, Trigg, Tanner, Wing, Gadbury,</HI> &amp;c. that Mr <HI>L.</HI> pre&s;ented him&s;elf an Ideo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (in&s;tead of an Arti&s;t) to the World, in his botching, bungling Predictions? That he mu&s;t thus traduce their skill, and impeach their Reputation in A&s;trology, as if they were as very ignorants therein as him&s;elf.</P>
<P>But Mr <HI>L.</HI> having proved him&s;elf a per|fect Ignorant in the Art he profe&s;&s;eth, by his unclerklike and unwarrantable Predi|ctions, (and <HI>&s;eeing R.L. P. gone, and his Northern Lion Rampant going,</HI>) is re&s;ol|ved, as much as in him lies, to down with <HI>A&s;trology</HI> al&s;o, that the <HI>honest A&s;trologers</HI> them&s;elves may fall likewi&s;e: Who&s;e ruine and de&s;truction it is plain he thir&s;ts
<PB N="9" REF="8">after, for their pre&s;uming to detect him and his Ignorance, he being (it &s;eems) capti|vated by that Ranting and Tyrannical Principle, de&s;cribed by the Poet,&mdash;
<Q><HI>Pereant amici, dummodo una &amp; inimici pereant.</HI></Q>
<Q><L><HI>He cares not though Friends ruin'd bee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>So Enemies bear them company.</HI></L></Q></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>He casts dirt in the face of A&s;trolo|gy al&s;o: for if by the Aphori&s;ms and Rules thereof, others were enabled to predict tho&s;e Changes &s;poken of, then is not A&s;trology &s;o incapacious or deficient, as Mr</HI> L. <HI>here renders it, but by the Rules thereof other per&s;ons</HI> (viz. <HI>tho&s;e &s;everall men before men|tioned) were enabled to predict tho&s;e Chan|ges,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Ergo,</HI> &amp;c. But Mr <HI>L.</HI> &s;eeing plainly enough his own Reputation begin to &s;ink, and his Writings every where hi&s;&s;ed off the Stage with di&s;paragement, <HI>is not con|tented to fall alone, but would fain give A|&s;trology its fatall blow, that both might peri&s;h together.</HI> Not unlike the <HI>Devill,</HI> or <HI>Dra|gon,</HI> mentioned in the Revelations, who not well plea&s;ed to tumble headlong from
<PB N="10" REF="9">Heaven &s;ingly, drew down a third part of the Stars with him. But how will Mr <HI>L.</HI> excu&s;e his Gyp&s;ie-like Jugling (to &s;ay no wor&s;e of it) to the <HI>King of Sweden?</HI> Or, hath he promi&s;ed him victory over the <HI>ri&s;ing King of Denmarke</HI> by an Art more certain and indubitable than he believes A&s;trologie? If &s;o be he hath &s;o done, <HI>he can|not but &s;uffer a cloud of &s;orrow to pa&s;s over his brazen brow, and Vermilion to di&s;tain his &s;hamele&s;s cheeks, to hear of the &s;ucce&s;s that hath an&s;wered his &s;purious pre&s;ages.</HI> But of this more anon.</P>
<P>I proceed to &s;ome other pa&s;&s;ages. M.<HI>L.</HI> is now come to Apologize more particu|larly, and endeavours to excu&s;e him&s;elf for flattering <HI>R.L.P.</HI> thus&mdash; <HI>Ob&s;erving</HI> Ri|chard, <HI>by con&s;ent of the Council of State, and Officers of the Army, owned Protector&mdash; And &s;eeing him courted by Emba&s;&s;adours and Agents in</HI> October, <HI>at what time we were writing our monthly Ob&s;ervations, for we write tho&s;e first, in regard that the Ephe|meris and Table of Hou&s;es are difficult to Print, &s;o that nothing &s;eriou&s;ly (as we ought to have done) we laid it as a po&s;itive foun|dation (without ob&s;erving the</HI> punctum tem|poris <HI>of his fir&s;t admittance, or birth,</HI> &amp;c.)
<PB N="11" REF="9">The&s;e are the wi&s;e words of <HI>William Lilly:</HI> Now, let but the Ingenious Reader behold the notable Non-&s;en&s;e and unconnexed|ne&s;s of them; and if he can (after a due and impartiall &s;canning thereof) make ei|ther head or tayl, truth or &s;ence of them, I &s;hall not in the lea&s;t envy his happine&s;s; but I mu&s;t prote&s;t impartially my igno|rance of them. I have pointed them ex|actly, and truly related them, as I find them in his Book, that he may not com|plain of Abu&s;e, or mi&s;-repre&s;entation.</P>
<P>But to run them over a little,&mdash;I would demand of Mr <HI>L.</HI> what &s;tead this Apology &s;tands him in, if I &s;hould admit he means &s;omething by it? What is it to us, or to the wiping off the ignorance and impo&s;turi&s;m that &s;ticks and clings as clo&s;e as a Convul|&s;ion to him, to &s;ay &mdash; <HI>That he writes his E|phemeris and table of Hou&s;es first?</HI> As if the World were any thing concerned which part of his fooleries fir&s;t pollute the Pre&s;s: but were there any kind or colour of excu&s;e in this &s;illy conceit, it is never|thele&s;s a meer forgery. &mdash; <HI>For he writes neither the Ephemeris, nor Tables of Hou&s;es him&s;elf; but hone&s;t</HI> J. Sponge <HI>tran&s;cribes the Ephemeris for him, and the Table of Hou&s;es
<PB N="12" REF="10">hath been &s;tanding (ready compo&s;ed) this ten years and upwards at Mrs</HI> Brudenels <HI>within Newgate;</HI> &s;o that the edge of this pitifull Apology is perfectly blunted, and the difficulty of his Table of Hou&s;es to Print, clearly invalidated. (2.) I would demand of <HI>Lilly</HI> what he means by this &s;trange Parenthe&s;is &mdash; <HI>(as we ought to have done)</HI> &mdash; for it hath no manner of relation, nor is any way kin unto the pre|mi&s;es; unle&s;s we &s;hall adjoyn it to &mdash; <HI>So that nothing &s;eriou&s;ly</HI> &mdash; This way, I con|fe&s;s, although we cannot make &s;ence of it, we may Truth&mdash; For <HI>Lilly</HI> in his Almanack hath done nothing &s;eriou&s;ly, or like an Ar|ti&s;t, as he ought to have done. So that you &s;ee he is catch'd with a truth before he is aware.
<Q><HI>Saepe quod in&s;ipiens finxerat e&s;&s;e, fuit.</HI></Q>
<Q><L><HI>VVhat for a time this fellow fain'd to be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He's prov'd at last &s;o in reality.</HI></L></Q> Or, if his &mdash; <HI>&s;o that nothing &s;eriou&s;ly,</HI> &amp;c. can bear any other interpretation, it mu&s;t be this &mdash; That he writes altogether in je&s;t! (3.) I would fain be informed by
<PB N="13" REF="10">Mr <HI>L.</HI> what he intends his Reader &s;hould under&s;tand by the&s;e words &mdash; <HI>We laid IT as a po&s;itive foundation?</HI> If the Re|lative <HI>IT</HI> have any Antecedent, it mu&s;t then be, either his Ephemeris, and Table of Hou&s;es, or el&s;e, the Addre&s;&s;es made to <HI>Richard</HI> L.P. The Ephemeris and Tables of Hou&s;es cannot be the Antecedent, be|cau&s;e they are no foundations of A&s;trolo|gicall Predictions; but a time truly propo&s;ed or known, with the figure of hea|ven &s;et thereunto, is the true Radix of them. Nor can the Addre&s;&s;es to R.L.P. &amp;c. be the Antecedent, unle&s;s we conclude, that <HI>Lilly</HI> writes altogether by Ghe&s;s: It mu&s;t therefore follow, &mdash; That <HI>Lilly</HI> is guilty of gro&s;s Non-&s;ence in the pa&s;&s;age urged before us. Thus we &s;ee that <HI>Lilly,</HI> by endeavouring to excu&s;e him&s;elf, contracts greater Errors; making his writings the only pattern of <HI>Penelope's</HI> Web: Ju&s;t as if he were either be&s;ides him&s;elf, or haunted with that evill Spirit mentioned by the Poer.&mdash;
<Q><HI>Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis.</HI></Q>
<Q><L><HI>He puls all down, he &s;ets up all again,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Squares for rounds are changed in his brain.</HI></L></Q>
<PB N="14" REF="11">A little after Mr <HI>L.</HI> comes to confe&s;&s;ion in earne&s;t, and thinks he explains him&s;elf to purpo&s;e, when he acknowledgeth,&mdash;<HI>Our too much credulity upon the many addre&s;|&s;es, &mdash; led us into an errour.</HI> Did it &s;o? Do you not therefore de&s;erve to be la&s;hed for the &s;ame? What had you to do to mind the Addre&s;&s;es? You pretend to A&s;trology: Unle&s;s by this you implicitely confe&s;s your &s;elf a States-Mountebanke, and one that Quacks under pretence thereof; and ac|knowledge your &s;elf thereby to be (as in truth you are) only the A&s;trological News-monger. May not any man, perfect|ly ignorant in A&s;trology, predict prejudice or happine&s;s to Protectors, Kings, and Nations, as well as wi&s;e <HI>VVilliam Lilly,</HI> that ghe&s;&s;es thereat (as he confe&s;&s;es to have done) by the Addre&s;&s;es and Complexions of the times? Is this to be the mo&s;t faith|full propagator of an Art? Or, an Eagle in Chri&s;tian A&s;trology? Is it not rather to be an Impudent-ignorant Quack? Oh, the &s;ordid Ignorance and quacki&s;m of <HI>VVilliam Lilly!</HI></P>
<P>After he hath made him&s;elf thus ridicu|lous, as you have heard; to prove him&s;elf (yet) more &s;otti&s;h and vain, he cracks of
<PB N="15" REF="11">his predicting the change of Government in <HI>England</HI> to &s;ome of the Protectors friends privately: telling them, that the Government was too heavy for his &s;houl|ders. &mdash; And then makes an Appeal to the Court of Equity in the indifferent Reader, (concluding him&s;elf ca&s;t at the Common Law of Sence and Rea&s;on). <HI>VVhether, if he had di&s;covered his di&s;&s;olution, it had been either wi&s;dome or di&s;cretion to have been publikely free in his Judgement unto the Pro|tector or the World,</HI> &amp;c. To which I an&s;wer:</P>
<P>If you had known any thing thereof, it had been your duty to have acquainted the World therewith; or el&s;e to what pur|po&s;e, or under what pretence, do you in|vade the World with your Spurious Ora|cles? Be&s;ides, <HI>VVilliam Lilly,</HI> if my memo|ry fail me not, you were of another opini|on, when you ignorantly &s;cribled again&s;t Captain <HI>George VVharton;</HI> the Example of <HI>Gauricus</HI> could no way &s;tartle your &s;tubborn &s;pirit then, although you hope to creep out at that hole now. But why not tell the Protector, or the world thereof, as well as &s;ome of his private friends, I pray Sir? Surely, &s;urely, Mr <HI>Merlin,</HI> if you had had but the lea&s;t knowledge or informa|tion
<PB N="16" REF="12">of the downfall of <HI>Richard,</HI> you would have pre&s;ented him (as you did the long Parliament in 1652. when you were truly told what the Souldiery would do with them) with an Epi&s;tle, thereby premo|ni&s;hing him of what he &s;hould expect: And made the world to have heard of the Change from your Para&s;itical Pen, <HI>Battus</HI>-like, on both &s;ides;
<Q><L>&mdash; <HI>Sub illis</HI></L>
<L><HI>Montibus, inquit, erant, &amp; erant &s;ub monti|bus illis.</HI></L></Q>
<Q><L><HI>By yonder Mountains were thy Kine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Kine by yonder Mountains were.</HI></L></Q> Yea, and although you had received the &s;ame, as you did the news of the long Par|liaments di&s;&s;olution, you would have pre|tended to have read poor <HI>Richard's</HI> down|fall in the book of Heaven, as then you did theirs. But neither the&s;e confident Cracks, nor yet the two fir&s;t &s;heets you as vainly refer us to, as tattle or boa&s;t of, your &s;elf, do any way make it appear that you had the lea&s;t knowledge thereof, by infor|mation, or that you under&s;tood &s;o much of
<PB N="17" REF="12">Art as to direct you thereunto: Only you boa&s;t and brag of things that are not, ho|ping by &s;uch &s;illy &s;hifts and &s;leights to re|deem your (near) &s;hipwrack'd Reputation. And it is every way as unlikely, and &s;trange to the truth &mdash; That <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;hould acquaint any of his (that is, <HI>Ri|chards</HI>) private friends therewith; for he dur&s;t not lay or adventure a wager thereof him&s;elf with a Gentleman that de&s;ired the &s;ame of him, for &s;atisfaction in that particu|lar. Oh! <HI>William, William,</HI> all the world are not &s;uch Ideots, as to be wrought upon &s;o ea&s;ily, as <HI>A Chalk-Jury.</HI> But &s;uppo&s;e we &s;hould admit that you had known any thing thereof, and had &s;aid &s;omething of it in your two fir&s;t &s;heets, (which were an affront to &s;ence to conclude:) I would then fain know, how you came to repent for your folly and ignorance therein? Surely, Mr <HI>Lilly,</HI> the morning before he writ this Epi&s;tle, made &s;ome &s;uch like &s;upplication at the Altar of the Godde&s;s <HI>Laverna</HI>&mdash; as this&mdash;
<Q><L>&mdash; <HI>Pulchra Laverna,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Da mihi fallere, da ju&s;tum &s;anctum&abque; videri,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Noctem peccatis, &amp; fraudibus objice nubem?</HI></L></Q>
<Q><PB N="18" REF="13">
<L><HI>Godde&s;s mo&s;t fair! this &s;ute deny me not,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That quack and lye I may, and yet be thought</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Per&s;on just: my knavi&s;h frauds ore&s;pread</HI></L>
<L><HI>With &s;able-clouds, that they may ne'r be read.</HI></L></Q> Certainly, <HI>William Lilly,</HI> your great Pa|trons cannot but &s;hake their heads at you, when they &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider what a &s;illy Jack-daw, in&s;tead of Eagle, they have for many years protected. Would any man think, by the&s;e your contradictions and ig|norances, that you were the Per&s;on, who&s;e Pen formerly was accounted of equall va|lue to a Regiment of Hor&s;e? May we not more rationally believe rather, that a Par|rot may prove as good an A&s;trologer as &s;imple <HI>W. Lilly?</HI> Oh! but <HI>William</HI> was mind|full of his Commitment in 1652. where he lay 13. daies together, labouring to be bayled (in no &s;ad condition &s;ure, for he was fea&s;ted at Serjeant <HI>Birkhead's</HI> Table all that time, and paid no fees at la&s;t) and what was his fault for&s;ooth! he &s;aid in effect, <HI>that the Parliament &s;tood upon a tottering foundation, and that the Army would di&s;&s;olve them.</HI> By which words he would needs in&s;inuate him&s;elf to have been a <HI>Quondam</HI> true Prophet in A&s;tro|logy.
<PB N="19" REF="13">But I pray, M. <HI>Merlin,</HI> deal fairly with the world, and then tell them truly, That your commitment was not for what you &s;aid in effect, but for the &s;awcine&s;s which you u&s;ed plainly to that Power you had a protection from, and a <HI>quondam</HI> Salary too; as I have heard your &s;elf confe&s;s. But <HI>Lilly</HI> was then in hopes of a better Ma&s;ter of old <HI>Oliver;</HI> therefore (when every man el&s;e as well as he, &s;aw plainly that the Soul|diery would di&s;&s;olve the Parliament) out peeps wi&s;e <HI>William</HI> like a Po&s;itical Para&s;ite, and pretends A&s;trologically to predict it. An admirable Piece of Art to be boa&s;ted of!</P>
<Q><L><HI>And is not he, a Quackist &s;ingular,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When things are done, that reads them in his Star?</HI></L></Q>
<P>Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> not forgetting his u&s;ual can|ting clawing humour, is come to flatter the pre&s;ent Power; and in his Quacking-&s;train, pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ends to demon&s;trate the Armies Declarations &s;atisfactory to the whole Engli&s;h Nation; and mentions &s;ome of the heads thereof, the better to in&s;inuate him&s;elf into their Favours and Affections. For <HI>Lilly</HI> cannot fill an Almanack of &s;ix
<PB N="20" REF="14">&s;heets of Paper, (although he have three of them done to his hand, as I have before proved) without relating a packet of News. But <HI>Lilly!</HI> I would fain know what you have to do with any thing of News, or the humour of the times at all? Doth <HI>Guido Bonatus, Haly, Junctine, Ori|gen, Ptolomy,</HI> or any other A&s;trologer war|rant any &s;uch cour&s;e? I am confident, Mr. <HI>Merlin,</HI> they do not: and you prove your &s;elf but an impudent indigent Quack in A|&s;trologie, and make that al&s;o to be looked upon, but as a higher degree of <HI>Lieger-de|maine,</HI> by doing it. But Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> goes on, &s;aying, <HI>That no mortal man could have con|ceived that</HI> R. <HI>L. P. &s;hould have lo&s;t his Go|vernment, without one or two broken heads.</HI> But I be&s;eech you, Sir, what is this to A|&s;trologie, whether he lo&s;t his Government by force of blood, or peaceably? I am &s;ure, notwith&s;tanding your in&s;ulting over that mode&s;t Gentleman thus ba&s;ely, you your &s;elf are like to loo&s;e your Credit in A&s;tro|logie at a far ea&s;ier rate; and if you con&s;i|der every thing, you cannot but &s;ee it plain|ly. For whereas you thought to be famous in after-Ages for your skill therein, you are now like to dye ba&s;ely, ignominiou&s;ly, and
<PB N="21" REF="14">un-bemoaned; and (that which is wor&s;t of all) will always be e&s;teemed of, as a Quack and Impo&s;tor in A&s;trologie, and a notori|ous Incendiary among Nations. However, it is &s;ome Credit to A&s;trologie, and Com|fort, (yea, and Honour al&s;o) to A&s;trolo|gers, that this Arch-pretender is unmask|ed and di&s;covered in his life time, to be what he is; and that he dare not, or can|not, an&s;wer for him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all this, <HI>William Lilly</HI> thinks he hath dealt by his Reader like a good Chri&s;tian A&s;trologer, when he &s;aies, <HI>We &s;olemnly profe&s;s our mi&s;take concerning</HI> R. <HI>L. P. yet it is not &s;o great, as to bla&s;t us perpetually; if our Writings &s;ince</HI> 1644. <HI>be civilly peru&s;ed by Arti&s;ts, not Botchers.</HI> What this Addle-headed Fellow means by his <HI>civilly peru&s;ed,</HI> I under&s;tand not, except it be this,&mdash;That for him to be read with applau&s;e, whether he de&s;erve it or not, is to be <HI>civilly peru&s;ed:</HI> or to read him, with|out taking Cognizance of his Ignorance; or if we take notice thereof, yet not to tell the world of it: this &s;urely is to <HI>read him civilly.</HI> But Sir I although I have avoi|ded all the&s;e Para&s;itical ways, (which, as your Trade is to flatter, &s;o you love to be
<PB N="22" REF="15">flattered, yet) <HI>I have civilly peru&s;ed all your writings &s;ince</HI> 1644. (<HI>i. e.</HI> I was not, I dare aver, &s;o drunk with Wine, when I read them, as you with Ignorance, when you writ them:) and really, I find them every way &s;o empty and idle, that it is a &s;hame for any but <HI>William Lilly</HI> to own them. But to particularize &s;ome of them:&mdash;Take from your <HI>Introduction</HI> (which is the be&s;t you dare to boa&s;t of) what you have &s;tolen from <HI>Haly, Origanus,</HI> and <HI>Albubater,</HI> con|cealing their better names, to make the world e&s;teem it yours; and then it will prove the exact Emblem of your ignorant &s;elf. As for Example: Who but a <HI>Botcher in Art,</HI> would have printed a <HI>Nativity with Directions no le&s;s then &s;even or eight years fal&s;e;</HI> as you have done the <HI>Moons</HI> in your <HI>Introduction?</HI> Or would any but a Novice in A&s;trologie have given the <HI>Sun,</HI> and <HI>Mid|heaven</HI> two different Right A&s;centions a|piece, as you have? And is not he a <HI>&s;illy Stit|cher,</HI> and mo&s;t <HI>notorious Botcher in Art,</HI> that knows not <HI>Apogeon,</HI> from <HI>Perigeon?</HI> The&s;e with a hundred more, are to be found in <HI>Lillies Introduction.</HI> And all his other Pamphlets are exactly of the &s;ame Com|plexion.</P>
<Q><PB N="23" REF="15"><HI>Nec lac lacti; nec ovum ova &s;imilius.</HI></Q>
<Q><L><HI>'Twixt Milk and Milk, the likene&s;s is not greater;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nor Egge to Egge, more parallel in feature.</HI></L></Q>
<P>And as they may call each other <HI>Bre|thren,</HI> by rea&s;on of their exact &s;imilitudes; &s;o they may truly call him <HI>Dad,</HI> it being impo&s;&s;ible for them to be begotten by any other. But <HI>&egrave; diverticulo viam.</HI> I &s;hall re|turn to his &s;olemn profe&s;&s;ion concerning <HI>Richard</HI> L. P.</P>
<P>Since you are come to the Stool of Re|pentance, (though mo&s;t unwillingly) why do not you (to make but one work of all) &s;olemnly profe&s;s all your other mi&s;takes, which are at large charged upon you in <GAP DESC="foreign">; or, <HI>Spurious Progno&s;ticator,</HI> and in the <HI>King of Swedes Nativity?</HI> This you ought to have done, if you had any hopes of being received into mercy, or ex|pected to e&s;cape <HI>bla&s;ting perpetually.</HI> Can the <HI>accur&s;ed Murtherer,</HI> any way <HI>rea&s;onably</HI> hope to be reprieved from the Gallows, by confe&s;&s;ing a petty Fact of Theft he hath committed? Sir! it is not your acknow|ledging
<PB N="24" REF="16">your Errour concerning <HI>R.</HI> L. P. that any way excu&s;es you from the unpar|donable Crime of betraying the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> under pretence of telling him, you read what you writ for him, in the Hea|vens: Neither doth this &s;imple Blind, you ca&s;t before the eyes of the world, any ways protect your ignorance all along in Art; <HI>viz.</HI> in &s;etting Figures forty one minutes of time fal&s;e; and in rai&s;ing your Whim|&s;ical Judgements (under pretence of judg|ing according to Art) upon &s;uch deformed and erronious foundations. Nor is it le&s;s then an ignorant and effeminate &s;leight, and juggle of you, to in&s;inuate to the world <HI>that your Antagoni&s;ts are Botchers, not Ar|tists.</HI> If they are <HI>Botchers in Art,</HI> is it not the ea&s;ier work for you to an&s;wer them? And would it not more and better become you to invalidate their skill there|in, and weaken their many charges again&s;t you, then for to rail thus upon either their Per&s;ons or Parts? Or, are they Botchers in Art becau&s;e they write again&s;t &s;o wor|thy a Work-man as they have proved you to be? Surely, &s;urely, <HI>Lilly,</HI> it is more evi|dent then your knowledge in A&s;trologie, that you have proved your &s;elf a Botcher
<PB N="25" REF="16">and Bungler al&s;o, in the Art you pretend to &s;teer the Affairs of Kings and Kingdomes by, in not vindicating your own Repute, but &s;uffering it to be trampled upon at plea&s;ure; even by the ignorant &s;ort, as well as the ingenious and skillful. The Tongue of each Child, is now become a Trumpet of <HI>William Lillies</HI> ignorance.</P>
<P>But <HI>wi&s;e William Lilly</HI> comes here, &s;im|ply endeavouring to an&s;wer that which is urged again&s;t him concerning the <HI>Swedes,</HI> thus: &mdash;<HI>We were not obliged to give an account of any thing which might prejudice him; (the Swede) or give encouragement to his many enemies.</HI> And why not, I pray Sir? Were you bribed to &s;ecrecy, that you might the better betray him, by puffing him up with fal&s;e hopes? Or did you flatter him with the weak Winde of your Cathedral Cunning; thinking thereby his Enemies were &s;o Pu&s;illanimous as to be affrighted at your Quacking Skill? If the fir&s;t, have you not &s;hewn your &s;elf a plain <HI>Ambo|dexter?</HI> If the latter, what Ideot (be&s;ides <HI>Merlinus Anglicus</HI>) would have been guil|ty of &s;o gro&s;s a piece of Pride? But that you may adjudge <HI>Lilly</HI> to be in earne&s;t, he interrogates&mdash;<HI>Is</HI> Pomerania <HI>quite lo&s;t?
<PB N="26" REF="17">or is he beaten out of</HI> Pru&s;&s;ia? <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And behold! at the &s;ame time that he wrote tho&s;e Boa&s;ts and Cracks, (as if Providence intended to &s;tigmatize him for a notorious Lyar) the K. of <HI>Swedes</HI> leaves his Leaguer, and flees to <HI>Cronenburgh</HI> Ca&s;tle, having lo&s;t all his Army in <HI>Fuenen.</HI> Which News is &s;till fre&s;h in memory, and cannot but make <HI>Lillies</HI> Ears to tingle, and Cheeks to blu&s;h, unle&s;s he hath &s;old him&s;elf an ab&s;o|lute Va&s;&s;al to Impudence and Quacki&s;m. But <HI>Lilly</HI> like a Lyar of the fir&s;t Magni|tude, goes on, interrogating further: <HI>Is not the King of</HI> Swede <HI>still strongly encamped before</HI> Copenhagen? <HI>which City we hope God will give him.</HI> Indeed, Mr. <HI>L</HI> he is not be|fore <HI>Copenhagen,</HI> but in <HI>Cronenburgh,</HI> po&s;&s;ibly blocked up him&s;elf by this time: And what rea&s;on (I pray) had you to hope God would give him <HI>Copenhagen?</HI> None in A&s;trologie, I am &s;ure; although you ignorantly report|ed that it &s;hould be taken in <HI>Novem.</HI> 1658. Be&s;ides, hath it not been in print re&s;olved according to the Rules of Art, that the K. of <HI>Swede</HI> &s;hall never gain <HI>Copenhagen?</HI> You &s;hould have rendered the Author of that, a per&s;on mi&s;taken, or a Botcher in Art (as you &s;ay all your Antagoni&s;ts are) before
<PB N="27" REF="17">you had promoted your own &s;imple hopes in the room of A&s;trology; which if you know any thing therein, you cannot but confe&s;s plainly, denies <HI>Copenhagen,</HI> and in|deed any part of the <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> Territories, to be long curbed by the King of <HI>Swede.</HI></P>
<P>Well, but what of all this? &s;aith this Pa|ra&s;ite, <HI>the King of</HI> Swedes <HI>condition is not &s;o bad as rendred by &s;ome &s;titching Pens.</HI> If by &s;titching Pens he mean the Pen of <HI>Mer|linus Verax</HI> for one, who hath publi&s;hed this Princes Nativity, I &s;hall tell him, that that Per&s;on hath &s;o Art-like whipt and &s;titcht him up, that he appears to the world a meer bundle or lump of Non&s;ence and flattery, in&s;tead of an Arti&s;t. And hath in|deed given that King more and better ad|vi&s;e for nothing (as is to be &s;een by the Book, to be &s;old at <HI>William Larnar's</HI> upon <HI>Ludgate Hill</HI>) touching his pre&s;ent affairs, than ever <HI>Lilly</HI> did, or indeed was able to do, for the Gold Chain he received from him. And he hath &s;hewn more Art, and done A&s;trology greater honour, in that &s;mall Tract, than <HI>Lilly</HI> ever did in all his Idle and Addle Stories, which he nick|names his works, &s;ince 1644. But if by &s;titching Pens, he means &s;ome Taylors
<PB N="28" REF="18">Pens, that have been active to di&s;cover his ignorance in Art; Is it not a &s;hame that he can an&s;wer for him&s;elf no better? But were there any &s;uch thing, doth not <HI>Lilly</HI> appear to be an Impudent, Proud, Pragma|ticall, Domineering fellow, &s;o to forget his own Original as to complain of &s;titching Pens? What was <HI>Lilly</HI> at fir&s;t him&s;elf? was he not a Taylors boy, <HI>viz.</HI> an Apprentice to old <HI>Pawlin</HI> in the <HI>Strand?</HI> Ask the Wa|ter-men that ply at <HI>Strand-bridge,</HI> and they will affirm it: Or if you are loath to take that pains, read Captain <HI>Wharton's Merlini Anglici Errata;</HI> who proves him not only a Taylor, but a womans-taylor, in which re|gard he might perhaps have proved a bet|ter A&s;trologer for Queen <HI>Chri&s;tina,</HI> than <HI>Carolus Gu&s;tavus</HI> King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Come <HI>William Lilly,</HI> I would have you hereafter to knit your knots better in A&s;trology, to prevent the being marked for an Ideot therein by &s;titching Pens; that is, to keep your &s;elf within compa&s;s, and not give &s;uch large opportunities to men of your own Trade to &s;titch you up, as you have done. And do not hereafter bewray your own Ne&s;t; for had not your own Pen been the Index of your Pride and Folly, the world
<PB N="29" REF="18">had willingly rocked your Taylor&s;hip a|&s;leep; and were indifferently well conten|ted that you &s;hould pa&s;s for a Quack in A&s;trology among them, without any re|gard had to the Botching you prove your &s;elf guilty of, in tran&s;lating <HI>Ptolomies A|phori&s;mes.</HI> But <HI>William, William,</HI> if you are &s;o Lord-like grown, as to forget the &s;tayers of your Taylor&s;hip, by which you have cli|med (as you think) to your Eagle&s;hip in A&s;trology, can you be angry, if tho&s;e whom you (&s;currilou&s;ly) term botchers, (not Arti&s;ts) in a ju&s;t recompence, pre&s;s down the Plumes of your Pride with your own Taylors Goo&s;e? Oh, <HI>William, William,</HI> re|member <HI>Talion's</HI> Law.</P>
<P>But Mr <HI>Lilly</HI> telleth us, <HI>he writes this year in great perplexity of &s;pirit.</HI> I am content to believe you Mr <HI>Lilly;</HI> It appeareth &s;o in|deed, by what you have pre&s;ented us with! And what either Art or &s;ence can we ex|pect from a di&s;tempered man?</P>
<P>To conclude his Epi&s;tle, he &s;aies&mdash; <HI>Ma|ny will expect that he &s;hould &s;ay &s;omething touching the Northern Quarrel.</HI> Do they &s;o Sir! Who are tho&s;e many you mean, I wonder? I am certain they cannot be of the number of the Learned and Ingenious.
<PB N="30" REF="19">But 'tis no matter; be they who they will this I can tell them, they are like to loo&s;e their longing: for <HI>Lilly</HI> hath not yet had intelligence &s;ufficient to officiate their de|&s;ires. And that which is more con&s;idera|ble, he is not engaged (yet) to Pimp for either of tho&s;e two able Engli&s;h Generals, as he flatteringly &s;tiles them, in hopes (per|haps) he may be entertained to Quack for one of them under pretence of A&s;trology. But I &s;hall advi&s;e them both, rather to implore the Du&s;t of Mother <HI>Shipton</HI> for Coun&s;ell, than either the Addle Pate, or Yeilding Pen of this Proditorious Para|&s;ite. And &s;o I pa&s;s from his Epi&s;tle to his Book, which the ingenious Reader, as well as I, &s;hall find as empty and void of Art, as this his Epi&s;tle is of good Apology, Inge|nuity, Sence, or Learning.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. 2. <HI>His Generall Judgements examined.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MR. <HI>L.</HI> being a little entred into his General Judgments, lets glide from his Pen a truth before he is aware&mdash;telling us &mdash; <HI>That he will deliver his WEAK
<PB N="31" REF="19">CONCEPTIONS upon the two E|clip&s;es, which hapned in</HI> October, <HI>and</HI> No|vember, 1659. Certainly Sir, you are not in earne&s;t now; you were wont to &s;et a better value upon your own Commodi|ties. What? Is our Eagle-like-skill in A&s;trology, and our deep knowledge in the Doctrine of Angels, and our &s;harp under|&s;tanding in Theurgie and the Chri&s;tall, all on a &s;udden departed! Never a <HI>Dick-Mye</HI> left to &s;trengthen us? Nothing left us but weak Conceptions? This is hard indeed! but po&s;&s;ibly Sir! by this your humble &s;tile, you expect that others &s;hould deem your Conceptions &s;trenuous; which <HI>(Sine dubio)</HI> they will have little rea&s;on to do, when they have once read you over. But by the Complexion and Temperature of your Conceptions, we &s;hall (I hope) ere we make an end, be able to pa&s;s a Judgement upon their weakne&s;s, or worth.</P>
<P>To proceed &mdash; Mr <HI>L.</HI> tels us&mdash;<HI>That the Lunar Eclip&s;e on</HI> Octob. 19. <HI>portends, that as</HI> Venus, <HI>Ruler of it, leaves her own hou&s;e for a wor&s;e, approaching</HI> Saturn's <HI>pre|&s;ence; &s;o near the&s;e Months</HI> (he names none, unle&s;s we mu&s;t under&s;tand <HI>October</HI> in the Plurall!) <HI>do many unhappy per&s;ons (made
<PB N="32" REF="20">&s;o) either by an uncomfortable Mini&s;try, or the Rigor of the Law of Nations, leave good and large po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</HI> &amp;c. Why <HI>Venus</HI> her propinquity to <HI>Saturn</HI> &s;hould undoe peo|ple by Mini&s;ters, either comfortable or un|comfortable, I under&s;tand not; neither doth Mr <HI>Lilly</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e; for his Art takes no knowledge of any &s;uch thing; what his di&s;affection to the Mini&s;try may, I trouble not my &s;elf to enquire. But that he may di&s;cover his unparallel'd hatred to Mini|&s;ters, he runs over his old &s;ong again in a higher &s;train, thus, &mdash; <HI>As</HI> Venus <HI>is ha&s;tening to a Conjunction of</HI> Saturn, <HI>he much que&s;tions whether the meer illiterate man will not get ground of many of tho&s;e LAZY MEN, whom we call Go&s;pell-Ministers, Church-Divines, or Preaching Divines.</HI> Al|though <HI>Venus</HI> (as I &s;aid before) and <HI>Saturn</HI> have nothing to do with the <HI>Mini&s;try,</HI> yet <HI>Lilly</HI> (the better to &s;pit his venome at the per&s;ons of that Sacred Order) wre&s;ts his Art from the true meaning thereof, to bring that within the verge of his Sawcy Pen. But the main rea&s;on why this Envi|ous-in&s;olent-fellow cannot Print a foo|li&s;h Pamphlet without di&s;honouring that Heavenly Function, is, becau&s;e the Moon
<PB N="33" REF="20">is in &s;quare to <HI>Jupiter</HI> in his <HI>Swini&s;h Ge|niture.</HI> But pray Sir! What is the rea&s;on that you tell us not when this Eclip&s;e be|gins and ends by your Calculation; that we may &s;ee what rea&s;on you have (by the figure thereof) to predict at &s;o malicious a rate of Mini&s;ters? but you (I pre&s;ume) under&s;tand the Doctrine of Eclip&s;es, and that of Angels, a like.</P>
<P>But why <HI>Lazy men, which we have cal|led Go&s;pell-Mini&s;ters,</HI> &amp;c? Really, I judge it impo&s;&s;ible for any of them you mean to be &s;o lazy in Divinity as you are in A&s;tro|logy. And why (I pray) <HI>&s;uch as we have called Go&s;pell-Mini&s;ters?</HI> &amp;c. Do you be|lieve them to be per&s;ons not de&s;erving that Title? Or, are you turn'd Anabap|ti&s;t or Quaker all of a &s;udden, that you thus grudgingly give them the Epithets that are their proper due? But your love and affection to the Mini&s;try, is &s;ufficiently known; your &s;currilous Pen hath been the Conveyer of your Gall towards them for many years together. Which very thing &s;hould, me thinks, make you more civill toward your Antagoni&s;ts (or your &s;elf ra|ther) than to brand them as Ranters and Athei&s;ts; when you cannot but be &s;en&s;i|ble,
<PB N="34" REF="21">that there are none &s;uch notorious Ranters and Athei&s;ts as tho&s;e that &s;canda|lou&s;ly abu&s;e God's deare&s;t Me&s;&s;engers. But <HI>Lillie's Religion</HI> and <HI>A&s;trology</HI> are known to be of a &s;tamp.</P>
<P>After many Tautologies and imperti|nencies, <HI>Lilly</HI> is pa&s;&s;ed from the Moons Eclip&s;e to that of the Sun, on <HI>Novemb.</HI> 4. but gives us neither the time of beginning or end; only pre&s;ents us with the middle, and duration, and Digits eclip&s;ed, though not truly. <HI>The middle</HI> (he &s;aith) <HI>is at</HI> 9. <HI>min. pa&s;t</HI> 3. <HI>in the Evening.</HI> But he is &s;trangely out in this; for Mr <HI>Wing</HI> hath calculated it, and my &s;elf hath proved it, the middle thereof was at 4. min. 30. &s;ec. pa&s;t 3. So that ob&s;erve what difference there is between 4. min. 30. &s;ec. and 9. min. for &s;o much is M. <HI>L.</HI> di&s;tant from the truth. The Duration, he fal&s;ely &s;aith, was 2. h. 3. m. But the true Duration was 2. h. 21. m. 19. &s;ec. as is demon&s;table by <HI>A&s;tron. In&s;taur.</HI> So that Mr <HI>Lilly</HI> is no le&s;s than 18. mi. di|&s;tant from the truth in this al&s;o. <HI>Then he &s;aith the Digits eclip&s;ed were</HI> 7. <HI>deg.</HI> 32. <HI>&s;ec.</HI> but the true Digits, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> eclip&s;ed, were 8. deg. 48. min. 1. &s;ec. So that ignorant <HI>Wil|liam Lilly</HI> is out no le&s;s than one whole
<PB N="35" REF="21">digit, 47 <HI>min.</HI> 29 <HI>&s;ec.</HI> in the quantity of the Eclip&s;e. Now from all the&s;e Errors in Calculation, is not <HI>Lilly</HI> likely to make ex|cellent Predictions? <HI>But as are his Calcu|lations, &s;o are his Judgements, without either Art or Order.</HI> Neverthele&s;s, <HI>hence</HI> Lilly <HI>can take opportunity to abu&s;e</HI> Scorpio, <HI>and call it a rugged treacherous, violent Signe, ac|counted &s;o by all wi&s;e men.</HI> But, I pray <HI>Sir!</HI> how prove you that? except you con|clude, what your &s;elf agrees to, <HI>all wi&s;e men mu&s;t needs con&s;ent to.</HI> Certainly, Mr. <HI>Lilly,</HI> you cannot have &s;o &s;hort a head, as to think that the fortieth part of wi&s;e men under|&s;tand any thing at all of <HI>Scorpio.</HI> And I &s;uppo&s;e you would not be &s;o under&s;tood, as to cen&s;ure all men for Fools, that under|&s;tand nothing thereof. This therefore mu&s;t pa&s;s for one of your wooden <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>(i.e.) ranting boasts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>But why, I intreat you, Sir, is</HI> Scorpio <HI>grown &s;o odious in your eyes?</HI> Is it becau&s;e <HI>Saturn</HI> is therein, in your Nativity, and in Oppo&s;ition to your <HI>Sol?</HI> Or is it becau&s;e you have an ignorant (unde&s;erved) hatred to any, that have it Horo&s;copical at Birth? If &s;o, were I a <HI>Scorpioni&s;t,</HI> I &s;hould tell you, You have foamed out your filth in &s;canda|lizing
<PB N="36" REF="22">and abu&s;ing a noble, fixed, immove|able Signe of the Zodiack, as violent, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> whi&s;e you are compelled to draw your poi&s;onous breath under a more treache|rous, di&s;&s;embling, and double-bodied &s;igne of your own, <HI>viz. Pi&s;ces;</HI> perhaps a main rea&s;on of your forked tongue and actions. <HI>Scorpio &s;corns the ignorant, cold, effeminate, rea&s;onle&s;s Eva&s;ions, and low-orbed &s;illy come|off's, of</HI> Pi&s;ces; and that galls mutable, and turn-about <HI>William Lilly,</HI> &s;o that he mu&s;t needs wreak his weak and worthle&s;s re|venge in Print again&s;t it.</P>
<P>But what will <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;ay, if I prove he hath be&s;pattered <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> in as ba&s;e a manner as he hath <HI>Scorpio?</HI> and that in this very Al|manack of his too? Will he not confe&s;s him&s;elf more rigling and uncertain in his Judgement than an Eele? Let him be plea&s;ed to peru&s;e what in page two he hath written, <HI>viz. &mdash; When the Angles of the Figure of any Eclip&s;e are of double-bo|dyed Signes, as tho&s;e of the Lunar defect are, the Councels of the then times are uncertain, various and mutable, treacherous, carryed on with abundance of Fraud, Violence and Jugling, &amp;c.</HI> But perhaps <HI>Lilly</HI> will &s;ay,&mdash; Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> is no double-bodied Signe:
<PB N="37" REF="22">Indeed it is no matter what he &s;aies; for by this notorious Contradiction, <HI>We may e|&s;timate his Con&s;cience to be as large, as his Pen liberal.</HI> But pa&s;&s;ing the&s;e things, let us hear him in his Pontificalibus of Lan|guage, threatning the poor City of <HI>London:</HI> Mars <HI>in</HI> Gemini, <HI>gives us great cau&s;e to fear</HI> LONDON <HI>will be the place, and Plague or Pe&s;tilence the devouring Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. &mdash; <HI>God defend it from more,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>for it was here, here, here, that &mdash; and it mu&s;t be here, here, here, that&mdash;</HI></P>
<P>What this Frenzie-Fellow &s;hould mean by his three Couple of HERES, unle&s;s it &s;hould be <HI>to hear an ignorant Quack &s;imply prate,</HI> I under&s;tand not. Is it not a &s;igne by this, that he writes not onely in per|plexity of &s;pirit, as he complains of, but in di&s;traction of minde al&s;o? Howbeit, he can (in this di&s;tracted temper) ignorantly threaten <HI>London</HI> with a Plague, although A&s;trologie doth not (yet) this three years. He hath indeed done &s;o ten years toge|ther, and mi&s;&s;ed; po&s;&s;ibly he may hit it at la&s;t; if the <HI>M.C.</HI> ad &quadrine; <HI>Saiurn &amp; Solis</HI> give him leave to pre&s;ent him&s;elf a &s;cribbling Fool in print to the world a little longer.</P>
<P>But he advances, &s;aying, &mdash; <HI>The
<PB N="38" REF="23">Clergie run high, &mdash; and &s;tir up Tu|mults: a thing very frequent with men of that Order, the&s;e &s;ix or &s;even&s;core years last pa&s;t; yea, in all ages,</HI> &amp;c. Still you &s;ee this Fellow mu&s;t be abu&s;ing the Mini&s;try, and make that the main burthen of his bung|ling Predictions. Had his Antagoni&s;t been guilty of any &s;uch Crime, he mu&s;t have been rendered a <HI>Ranter, Athei&s;t,</HI> and what not? And doth <HI>Lilly</HI> think that we &s;hall e&s;teem him any other then a Ranting-raving A|thei&s;t, that thus be&s;patters tho&s;e worthy Lights of the Church, that con&s;tantly &s;pend their Lamps of Life, to di&s;pel the dark Clouds of Ignorance, that &s;uch Athei&s;ts and Scoffers endeavour to bring upon the Sun of our Religion? Or can he take him|&s;elf to be le&s;s then a per&s;on of a foul &s;ur|feited Soul, that thus licentiou&s;ly traduces the whole Body of Chri&s;ts Mini&s;try with the Poy&s;on of his polluted Pen? But he thinks he can come off from all this, by colloguing thus: &mdash; <HI>Still we retain all Civility both in Heart and Soul for the godly Mini&s;ters.</HI> Here you may behold the true Emblem of this Hypocrites di&s;&s;embling A&s;|cendent, <HI>viz. Pi&s;ces.</HI> Fir&s;t, he mo&s;t ba&s;ely and unde&s;ervedly abu&s;es the whole Mini|&s;try,
<PB N="39" REF="23">and exhibits an impious and unju&s;t Charge again&s;t them, <HI>viz.</HI> of &s;ix or &s;even|&s;core years long; nay, as long as the age of the world; and almo&s;t in the &s;ame breath, &mdash; <HI>He retains all Civility of Heart for them.</HI> Oh, the notorious Hy|pocri&s;ie and Di&s;&s;imulation of this Cloven|hearted Fellow! If this be your Civility, pray Sir, let me partake of your Moro&s;ity.</P>
<P>To render him&s;elf as weak in parts, as hypocritical and di&s;&s;embling in Spirit, in the &s;ame Page he writes thus: &mdash; <HI>But if he &s;hall judge according to the genuine Rules of the MORE P&V;RER A&s;trologie,</HI> &amp;c. Can Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> tell (I wonder) what him&s;elf means <HI>by the Rules of the MORE PU|RER A&s;trologie?</HI> Had that Per&s;on whom Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;o wi&s;ely terms <HI>Athei&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Ran|ting, Impudent Fool,</HI> been guilty of jumbling Comparatives (unlawfully) thus together, we &s;hould have heard of him in &s;ome &s;uch like Language:&mdash;<HI>Behold the ignorance of this impudent ranting Boy, that cannot write &s;ence! a ridiculous Fool, that hath need to go to School again; and not pre&s;ent him|&s;elf to the world in print, until he under&s;tand true Engli&s;h!</HI> All which Epithets, I &s;hall in mode&s;ty &s;pare Mr. <HI>Lilly,</HI> becau&s;e he is, in
<PB N="40" REF="24"><HI>viridi Senectute,</HI> his green old age. Yet neverthele&s;s I may be bold to tell the world, &mdash; That by this pa&s;&s;age of his <HI>MORE PURER,</HI> it appears, he under&s;tands true Engli&s;h, as much as he doth A&s;trolo|gie, and no more. And &s;o I pa&s;s his idle Di&s;cour&s;e of Eclip&s;es, and come to his Ver|nal Figure. Which he &s;et to 6 <HI>h.</HI> 9 <HI>m. p. m. March</HI> 9. but by his own Ephemeris is con|&s;picuou&s;ly fal&s;e. Examine it thus el&s;e.&mdash;
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>March</HI> 1660. 9. <HI>D.</HI> &Sun;'s place. &Pisces; 29 <HI>d.</HI> 43 <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>March</HI> 1660. 10. <HI>D.</HI> &Sun;'s place. &Aries; 0 <HI>d.</HI> 42. <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Difference in Longit. 0. <HI>d.</HI> 59 <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;tance of &Sun; from fir&s;t point of &Aries;, 17 <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Wherefore I work by this Rule:&mdash;If 59 <HI>m.</HI> give 24 <HI>h.</HI> what &s;hall 17 <HI>m.</HI> give? <HI>Facit</HI> 6 <HI>h.</HI> 54 <HI>m.</HI> So that Mr. <HI>L.</HI> is out no le&s;s then 45 <HI>m.</HI> in time, if we make his own Book the Judge. But the true time is at 6 <HI>h.</HI> 51 <HI>m.</HI> 24 <HI>&s;ec.</HI> So that had Mr. <HI>L.</HI> been true to his own Ephemerides, I &s;hould have &s;pared him here. But I admire how <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;tumbled &s;o near upon the truth in his E|phemeris, and yet his Figure &s;o fal&s;e. Surely he hath been pilfering from <HI>V. Wing,</HI> for reduce <HI>Eich&s;tade</HI> he cannot, unle&s;s Mr. <HI>Sponge</HI> help him. But 'tis no matter, be his Figures true or fal&s;e, he proceeds to judge|ment,&mdash;and
<PB N="41" REF="24">tells us, Libra <HI>a&s;cends, and the Significatrix of the people</HI> (which mu&s;t be <HI>Venus,</HI> if the A&s;cendent &s;ignifie them) <HI>is well dignified, and in A&s;pect of the two Su|periour Planets,</HI> &amp;c. but <HI>Venus</HI> Sir, is in de|triment; and by your Figure in <HI>Octava Domo,</HI> and beholds neither <HI>Saturn</HI> nor <HI>Ju|piter;</HI> are not you therefore a notorious Ignorant in Art? Who is the Botcher now? Sure I am, <HI>if</HI> William Lilly <HI>under&s;tood his Taylors Needle no better then his Astro|logers Pen, we may ju&s;tly conclude him a ve|ry botching and bungling Fellow at both.</HI> Are not tho&s;e Kings and States in a &s;ad condition, that are nece&s;&s;itated to take ad|vice about their mo&s;t emergent Affairs, from &s;o indigent a Fellow?</P>
<P>But <HI>William Lilly</HI> hath learned to talk big, and to utter high-&s;welling words of va|nity, that the common people may believe his head is periwig'd with the Clouds; and tells us&mdash;<HI>That toward the latter end of</HI> May, <HI>or beginning of</HI> June <HI>or</HI> July (&s;ome time or another, 'tis no matter when) <HI>the Conglomeration of no le&s;s then five Planets in the Signe</HI> Scorpio, <HI>a fruitful Signe</HI> (here <HI>Scorpio</HI> is grown into favour again with this two-tongued Ideot) <HI>may ju&s;tly import
<PB N="42" REF="25">a meeting together of many people,</HI> &amp;c. But Sir, there is no &s;uch Conglomeration of the Planets in any of the moneths menti|oned, nor in many moneths after; (what Conglomeration of Impudence, Ignorance and Folly, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> there may be in your brain, I know not;) your Judgement therefore is as idle, as your in&s;inuation fal&s;e.</P>
<P>But <HI>Lilly</HI> fearing &s;ome Change of Go|vernment, I &s;uppo&s;e (for you mu&s;t know, that he would have the world believe, that <HI>Revolutions</HI> as are &s;ignally pointed at by his Pen, as the Vici&s;&s;itude of the Air is foretold by his rotten Carca&s;e) begins to tell his Readers&mdash;<HI>That as &s;ome Pratlers abu&s;e</HI> Oliver <HI>Protector,&mdash;Thus do other vi|perous Tongues and Pens deprave even the whole line of the</HI> Stuarts <HI>Family, and call it accur&s;ed; whil&s;t their own is owned more abominable.</HI> All that I &s;hall return to this pa&s;&s;age, is this:&mdash;That if he can finde any man in <HI>Europe</HI> that hath dealt more vipe|rou&s;ly with that <HI>Family</HI> then him&s;elf, both in Tongue &amp; Pen, let him bring them with|in his La&s;h; if not, let him pa&s;s under his own Cen&s;ure, for a fellow of a viperous Tongue and Pen, and con&s;ider what he hath written in his Monarchy, and his Al|manacks
<PB N="43" REF="25">for the years 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654. and other his fooli&s;h Pamphlets: But perhaps he thinks, to write again&s;t an honourable Family, is not to a|bu&s;e it.</P>
<P>So from his Vernal, <HI>I</HI> follow him to his Ae&s;tival Ingre&s;s; where he a&s;&s;erts that <HI>Sol</HI> enters <HI>Cancer, June</HI> 10 <HI>d.</HI> 9 <HI>h.</HI> 12 <HI>m. P. M.</HI> but this is as true as the former, as <HI>I</HI> &s;hall make appear by his own Book. Which (&s;etting a&s;ide his Printers errors) <HI>I</HI> exa|mine thus.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>June</HI> 1660. 10 &Sun;'s place. &Gemini; 29 <HI>d.</HI> 36 <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>June</HI> 1660. 11 &Sun;'s place. &Cancer; 0. <HI>d.</HI> 33. <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&Sun;'s Diurnal Motion. 0. <HI>d.</HI> 57. <HI>m.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>His di&s;tance from the fir&s;t point of &Cancer; is 24 <HI>m</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Then <HI>I</HI> &s;ay, If 57 <HI>m.</HI> give 24 <HI>h.</HI> what 24 <HI>m? Facit</HI> 10 <HI>h.</HI> 6 <HI>m.</HI> So that here you &s;ee, he is mi&s;taken no le&s;s then 54 <HI>m.</HI> in time, as his own Book proves again&s;t him. <HI>Oh! Mon|strum horrendum! An A&s;trologer, and cannot &s;et a true Figure!</HI></P>
<P>However, Mr. <HI>L.</HI> adventures upon this Scheme al&s;o, to deliver his WEAK CON|CEPTIONS, and &s;ays&mdash;<HI>The Heavens do not at all &s;mile upon the Actions of Kings,
<PB N="44" REF="26">Princes, Supreme Magi&s;trates and Autho|rities.</HI> For which pa&s;&s;age I &s;hall account with him anon. But although Mr. <HI>Lillies</HI> A&s;trologie fail him, yet his good Tutelary or Pre&s;identiary Angels do not &s;ure, whom he &s;aith,&mdash;<HI>Generated that very quick Comet in</HI> 1652. (not &s;o quick neither as an <HI>ignis fatuus;</HI> for it la&s;ted a whole moneth to|gether) <HI>as the Precur&s;or of &s;ome eminent Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, or their ri&s;ing unto honor in</HI> Europe, &amp;c. Before Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> had ad|ventured to predict ought to depend upon the Influences of Comets, he &s;hould have made his way clear, by removing the &s;tum|bling block that lay in it. For <HI>I</HI> deny (and &s;o doth learned <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> and mo&s;t Natu|rali&s;ts) that Comets are generated by his <Q>Tutelary or Pre&s;identiary Angels, but are engendred of <HI>Ignean Vapors,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of a vi&s;cous, &s;ulphurous, and compacted mat|ter, attracted from the Earth by the E|nergie of the Coele&s;tial Movers, into the highe&s;t Region of the Air, &s;ometimes into the Starry Region, whence it is clo&s;ely conglutinated into a great Lump, by rea|&s;on of the continued &s;upply it hath from below: and being thus compacted, is &s;et on fire in time convenient, by the exce&s;|&s;ive
<PB N="45" REF="26">heat of the place where it re&s;ts, and burns either long, or a little while, accor|ding to the paucity or plenty of the mat|ter of which it con&s;i&s;ts.</Q> This is the opi|nion of the learned generally. And &s;urely Mr <HI>Lilly,</HI> it will be no ill-concluding Ar|gument, to &s;ay &mdash; He that is igno|rant in the Generation of Comets, mu&s;t be &s;o al&s;o in their effects. But Mr <HI>L.</HI> tattles of Comets, and Angels, to cover his igno|norance in A&s;trology only; he poor man! knows no more of the natures or effects of either, than the &s;illie&s;t Potter that trots about the Streets of an Errand, or his poor Si&s;ter (the Wa&s;her-woman) in <HI>Milford-Lane.</HI></P>
<P>But whether he under&s;tand Comets, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or not, he boa&s;ts as if he under&s;tood all things; and quackingly tels us, &mdash; <HI>The Au&s;trian forces &s;eem to be threatned near this time, either with the lo&s;s of &s;ome battell, or town, &amp;c. if any thing at all he be con|cerned in war or quarrel with the not conque|red</HI> Swede, <HI>who&s;e forces now, where in Action, will make it appear they fight for a good King, and in a good hone&s;t cau&s;e.</HI> And how comes it about that the Au&s;trians mu&s;t be thus menaced? Is it meerly upon this &s;up|po&s;ition
<PB N="46" REF="27">grounded, if they fight again&s;t the not conquered Swede? But pray Mr <HI>Lilly,</HI> what Rule in A&s;trology have you to pre|dict the Swedi&s;h King to be good, and his Cau&s;e hone&s;t? Will you never leave your clawing Para&s;iticall Practi&s;es? But a little further good <HI>William!</HI> If the King of Swedes be a&s;&s;ured victory over the Au&s;tri|ans,&mdash;How comes it to pa&s;s that <HI>Lilly</HI> pre|dicted that <HI>the heavens &s;mile not upon the Actions of Kings,</HI> &amp;c. as before you have heard him? Are <HI>Lillies</HI> Angels of no better u&s;e to him, than thus to &s;uffer him to run into Errors and Contradictions? Or, hath his good Genius left him? But what will <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;ay, if the Swedes and Au&s;trians ne|ver quarrell?&mdash;If they do not, then creeps he &s;neakingly out at his <HI>great IF!</HI> For his Predictions depend upon <HI>ifs</HI> and <HI>ands,</HI> although the Coele&s;tial Edicts do not. All his pre&s;ages are whim&s;ical Ca|&s;tles in the aire; and If the sky fals, <HI>Lilly</HI> and his Swedi&s;h King may catch Larks together.</P>
<P>But &s;aith <HI>Lilly&mdash;The Swedes cannot be made &s;ubject to tho&s;e misfortunes, as &s;ome &s;cribling Pens would have them.&mdash;If the Comet in</HI> 1618. <HI>did fir&s;t appear in</HI> 25. <HI>d.
<PB N="47" REF="27">of</HI> &Scorp;&mdash;<HI>Then we find the</HI> &Sun; <HI>in that very degree at the King of Swedes birth, apply|ing to a</HI> &trine; &Jupit; <HI>in M. C. and</HI> &Moon; <HI>applying to his</HI> &sextile;. <HI>Remove the&s;e Configurations out of the Heavens, and then his enemies may rant and prate, as &s;ome very botchers, not workmen, impertinently have done,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>But &s;ith either he or they are men of no quality, but Name|le&s;s Botchers, he or they are below our Pen to take a full Cognizance thereof, their prating or per&s;ons</HI> &mdash; Aquila non capit Mu&s;|cas; <HI>we &s;hould make our &s;elf ridiculous to an&s;wer a boy, or a ranting-impudent fool, that dare not own his Name to be</HI> G.I. <HI>or</HI> I.G.</P>
<P>If I do not prove this ambitious Para|&s;ite as botching a Fellow, and of as mean Quality, and a verier Boy in Art, than him whom he &s;currilou&s;ly &s;tiles &s;o, yea, though his Pre&s;identiary Angels &s;hould take his part;&mdash; Let <HI>William Lilly</HI> again &s;ay, he hath but a Boy to deal with. Fir&s;t, his citing the Comet 1618. to favour the King of <HI>Swede,</HI> is both vain and fooli&s;h. And if it &s;ignifie any thing (It happening 4 years before he was an Embryo) it mu&s;t be mi&s;chief: Yea, and &s;uch as tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">i&s;ts (whom this Botcher terms Scriblers) have mentioned. <HI>Ari&s;totle, Pliny,</HI> and <HI>Cicero</HI>
<PB N="48" REF="28">&s;ay,&mdash;<HI>Comets are the Me&s;&s;engers of great Calamities, and of the death and destructi|on of Kings,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>but never of any good to them.</HI> The Noble Hi&s;torian <HI>Suetonius,</HI> wri|ting on <HI>Claudius, Cap.</HI> 26. hath the&s;e words &mdash; <HI>Pre&s;agia mortis ejus precipua fuerunt exortus &s;tellae crinitae, quam Cometa vocant: The Principal pre&s;ages of his death were ari&s;ings of the hairy &s;tar they call a Co|met.</HI> But &s;uppo&s;e I &s;hould (for di&s;cour&s;e &s;ake) admit the Comet in 1618. to &s;igni|fie good to the King of <HI>Swede,</HI> becau&s;e his &Sun; fell to be in the degree of its fir&s;t appea|rance; yet his &Moon; happening in the oppo&s;ite point thereof, if the one portended any good, the other mu&s;t evill; and <HI>William Lilly</HI> &s;till appear a &s;illy-&s;hifting fellow, that would force that to &s;peak for Kings, that in truth hath neither heart or face to do &s;o.</P>
<P>Yea, but &s;aith <HI>Lilly, the</HI> &Sun; <HI>applies ad</HI> &trine; &Jupit; <HI>in M.C. and</HI> &Moon; <HI>to his</HI> &sextile; <HI>al&s;o.</HI>&mdash;All which I grant; and <HI>Merlinus Verax</HI> hath made as much of tho&s;e things for the Swede, as A&s;trologically they will bear. But <HI>Lilly,</HI> you appear very partiall in not relating the Bad, as well as the Good, as he hath done: for to balance tho&s;e good Ar|guments
<PB N="49" REF="28">you mention, he tels you that &Jupit; is retrograde in the tenth hou&s;e, afflicted by the corporall pre&s;ence of &Saturn;, and both in &quadrine; &Venus;, Lady of his A&s;cendant; and that the Luminaries are in oppo&s;ition from cruell and molicious places of the Heavens; Be|&s;ides the mo&s;t pernicious Direction of <HI>M. C. ad</HI> &Mars; &Saturn;. which he now groans and labours under, who&s;e effects are the&s;e: &mdash; <HI>Maximas indignitates &amp; odia Princi|pum aut Magnatum judicit; vario quoque malorum genere, dignitates, officia, honores atque favores &s;ubvertit: Negotia cum tar|ditate natum proficere facit, facinoro&s;a vero &s;celere excitat, &amp; nonnunquam mortem lata judicis &s;ententia portendit.</HI> &mdash; But it may be <HI>William Lilly</HI> boggles thus at the King of Swedes Fate, hoping to baffle the ef|fects of &s;uch a like direction, that will &s;hortly happen in his own Nativity. But <HI>William,</HI> I can a&s;&s;ure you upon my hone&s;t word, that the <HI>M.C.ad</HI> &Mars; <HI>&amp;</HI> &quadrine; &Saturn; portends more than a fit of the &s;tone; &amp; this you will &s;hortly find true, unle&s;s you can implore the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;ome of tho&s;e Angels you boa&s;t of, to remove malignant &Saturn; out of the Heavens. But <HI>Lilly</HI> confe&s;&s;es, that others have catechi&s;ed him for this his folly; but
<PB N="50" REF="29">&s;aith, <HI>they are Namele&s;s impertinent Botch|ers, and per&s;ons of no quality; and therefore they are beneath his Pen to take Cognizance of; Aquila non capit Mu&s;cas.</HI> All this Sir is but your <HI>ip&s;e dixit;</HI> for the Fame of tho&s;e that have di&s;&s;ected your Ignorance, is every whit as &s;plendid as <HI>William Lillies,</HI> although they began to labour in the har|ve&s;t of A&s;trology long after him. It is true, they are not (as I hear of) famous for trepanning Kings; or for Star-gyp&s;ies, or Planet-Quackers, or Angel-Mongers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And that perhaps is the rea&s;on why <HI>Lilly</HI> terms them per&s;ons of no quality. If by men of no quality, <HI>Lilly</HI> mean in re&s;pect of their birth, or parts; His poor leather-jacqueted Father of <HI>Di&s;eworth,</HI> an ob&s;cure Village in <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> were he alive, could not but &s;hed tears for grief that ever he &s;hould breed up a Son to &s;o much Arrogancy, and vain-glory; as knowing it impo&s;&s;ible for any man to come of a meaner &s;tock than him&s;elf.</P>
<P>But why doth <HI>Lilly</HI> urge the Adage, <HI>A|quilo non capit mu&s;cas?</HI> Doth he hope to excu&s;e his Credit, by in&s;inuating his Anta|goni&s;t a Flye? O doth he &s;uppo&s;e there is as great a difference between the per&s;on
<PB N="51" REF="29">he calls impudent Boy and him&s;elf, as is be|tween an Eagle and a Fly? <HI>Lilly,</HI> I know it is above an <HI>Eagle</HI> to catch at a <HI>Fly!</HI> But <HI>Bubo!</HI> it is not above a <HI>Buzzard</HI> to an|&s;wer a <HI>Boy! But why &s;hould</HI> William <HI>e&s;teem him&s;elf an Eagle?</HI> In knowledge it cannot be, I am &s;ure; and I have heard &s;ome &s;ay, not in E&s;tate neither. In the fir&s;t, he can|not but &s;ee I have proved him an Owl ra|ther, and this all along: and would have him therefore, if his Almanack go any more to the Pre&s;s, to correct his Errata, and remember for <HI>Aquila</HI> to in&s;ert <HI>Bubo.</HI> In the &s;econd, he cannot be an Eagle neither, if <HI>Vox Populi</HI> be true; for they &s;ay, As he hath gotten an E&s;tate like a K&mdash;he hath parted with it like a F&mdash;and is become a poor Tenant for his life. <HI>But why make your &s;elf ridiculous to an&s;wer a Boy?</HI> ex|cept you &s;uppo&s;e your &s;elf uncapable of excu&s;ing tho&s;e errours the Boy chargeth upon you, without contracting as many more? That (I readily acknowledge) were the way to make your &s;elf ridiculous in|deed! But why mu&s;t you childi&s;hly throw the <HI>Boy</HI> at your Adver&s;ary? I can tell you Sir! He is no &s;uch Boy, but that he is able
<PB N="52" REF="30">to crack your crown, as he hath done your credit in A&s;trology. And perhaps he would too, were not the Amulet of AGE your protection and &s;ecurity. However, I &s;hall return you in exchange for your Boy, the Adage, &mdash; <GAP DESC="foreign">. But this is the de&s;pight of it, <HI>Lilly</HI> is &s;uch a Boy in Learning, he cannot Engli&s;h it.</P>
<P><HI>But why Ranting-impudent Fool?</HI> If Fol|ly be a privation or defect of wi&s;dome, or ingenuity, <HI>Lilly</HI> is the ab&s;urde&s;t Fool that ever I either read or heard of. And for the concomitants of his Fool &mdash; <HI>Ranting and Impudence;</HI> I think it impo&s;&s;ible for any man to &s;urpa&s;s him. Well, but &s;aith <HI>Lilly,&mdash; This Impudent, Ranting Fool, or Boy, dare not own his Name to be</HI> G.I. <HI>or</HI> I.G. Here, Mr <HI>Merlin,</HI> you do homage on|ly to the Father of lies, (whom it may be you are better acquainted with, than with the Angels you tattle and boa&s;t of.) For he hath owned <HI>G. I.</HI> as the initiall Letters of his Name in the &s;purious Progno&s;ticator, to your &s;orrow: but <HI>Lilly</HI> hath little li&s;t to cope with either the Author, or the Book; the one being &s;o repugnant to his Principles, the other to his skill. But be|&s;ides, it is not for fear of <HI>Lillies</HI> Pen, that
<PB N="53" REF="30">the Author forbears to &s;et his name at length, but for the forementioned Rea|&s;ons.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> having fluttered and beat his Eagle&s;hip out of breath, in the <HI>Ae&s;tival Quarter,</HI> is now come to the <HI>Autumnal,</HI> and &s;aith, &Sun; <HI>enters</HI> &Libra; <HI>Septemb.</HI> 12. <HI>at noon.</HI> Yet if you con&s;ult his own Ephemeris, you will find <HI>Sol</HI>'s place that day at noon, in 29 <HI>d.</HI> 58 <HI>m.</HI> &Virgo;. Could any Boy of a moneths reading in A&s;trologie be guilty of greater Impudence and Ignorance, then this? Or did ever any man rant &s;o vainly under the Canopy of A&s;trologie, and know &s;o little thereof, as doth this Owl <HI>Lilly? No more Eagle Sir! until your skill be mended.</HI></P>
<P>Howbeit &s;aith <HI>Lilly,&mdash;This Figure and Vernal Scheme agreeing with the King of Swedes Nativity,&mdash; Let his Maje&s;ties Enemies brag of this ill po&s;ition of Heaven, which by Gods ble&s;&s;ing may render him vi|ctorious in the Acqui&s;ition either of a Battel if he be in</HI> Campania; <HI>or a City or Town if in the Siege of one; or if at Sea, a Maritime Vi|ctory.</HI> If fal&s;e Figures promi&s;e Victory, <HI>Lilly</HI> may prove a true Prophet in &s;ome of the&s;e things: but certainly from fal&s;e Figures, fallacious Victories mu&s;t be pre|&s;aged.
<PB N="54" REF="31">And &s;uch will tho&s;e be, that the K. of <HI>Swede</HI> obtains about this time; not|with&s;tanding <HI>Lillies</HI> Para&s;itical Pen. For <HI>Saturn</HI> is now in Quartile to the place of the dire Direction but lately mentioned; and to the Cu&s;p of the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> hopes in his Radix and Revolution al&s;o. But <HI>Lilly</HI> is to be read backward, as men read Hebrew: when he promi&s;eth Victory, let the King of <HI>Sweeden</HI> be &s;ure to expect lo&s;s.</P>
<P>For conclu&s;ion, <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;aith, <HI>It was his in|tention, had he not been prevented, to have delivered &s;omewhat of the Tutelary and Pre&s;identiary Angels.</HI> &amp;c. and boa&s;ts of the Expo&s;itors that follow the Septuagint, and of the Fathers, <HI>viz. Diony&s;ius, Origen, Ba&s;il, Nazianzen, Clemens Alexandrinus, Dama&s;cen, Hillary,</HI> &amp;c. But he under&s;tands the Doctrine of Angels, and tho&s;e learned Fathers, both alike: <HI>(i. e.)</HI> as much as he doth A&s;trologie, <HI>viz.</HI> onely to brag and boa&s;t with, that he may the better pa&s;s for a Scholar among the ignorant. And to this end, &s;teals three or four &s;ayings (which he under&s;tands not) out of <HI>Dingley</HI> of An|gels, (who cites tho&s;e Authorities he im|pertinently mentions) and would needs enforce them upon the world as the fruits
<PB N="55" REF="31">of his own Phlegmatick and Drow&s;ie Con|templation and Studies: and for a farewel, triflingly concludes, &mdash; <HI>This learning will finde cold entertainment with Athei&s;ts, Ran|ters and Paddies.</HI> Certainly if Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> be the Author of it, 'twill be fit onely for the reading of &s;uch kind of Fellows; and tho&s;e (perhaps) are his principal Acquain|tance and Di&s;ciples. But what Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;hould mean by <HI>Paddies,</HI> I cannot devi&s;e, (for <HI>Rider</HI> and <HI>Thomas</HI> own no &s;uch word) unle&s;s he mean one that be&s;trides the King of <HI>Swedes</HI> Sumpture Hor&s;e; which if he do, now he hath crackt his Credit in A&s;trolo|gie, I would have him become Probationer for the place. So I de&s;cend from his general Progno&s;tications, to his monethly Ficti|ons; which I &s;hall but lightly examine, and &s;o pa&s;s them, until the whole year &s;hall more particularly inform me of his failings. For I que&s;tion not, but his Predictions, and tho&s;e of <HI>Montelion</HI> Knight of the Oracle, as they are calculated for one and the &s;ame Meridian of Truth, and have one and the &s;ame foundation in Art, &s;o one and the &s;ame &s;ucce&s;s will crown them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<PB N="56" REF="32">
<HEAD>SECT. 3. <HI>His Monethly Fictions examined.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN <HI>January</HI> Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> predicts, &mdash;<HI>Not|&s;tanding the ranting and ryming Pam|phlets of illiterate Fellows, we hope &s;ome con|&s;iderable victory will be gained by the Swedes,</HI> &amp;c. Indeed Sir, the <HI>M. C.</HI> ad &Mars; &Saturn;, comes on too fa&s;t for this to be true. But if the King of <HI>Swede</HI> had no &s;uch Direction ope|rating, what Rea&s;on or Authority hath <HI>Lilly,</HI> to prefer his own ignorant hopes in the room of Art? or doth all his skill in A&s;trologie depend upon hopes and expe|ctations, without any &s;olid demon&s;tration? Doth this ignorant fellow think, that <HI>Mars</HI> his now &s;quaring &Jupit; in the King of <HI>Swedes</HI> Nativity, and at the &s;ame time tran&s;iting the tenth hou&s;e thereof; (together with a Quartile of <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> from the third and fifth Hou&s;es both of his Radical and Revolutional Figures) do any way aug|ment or encourage his hopes? <HI>Lilly!</HI> the&s;e
<PB N="57" REF="32">Arguments will prove you an ab&s;olute Lyer. I confe&s;s, had the Swede only rant|ing and riming Pamphlets to oppo&s;e him, he might e&s;cape the better, although he never con&s;ulted <HI>Lillies</HI> lying-Alma|nack.</P>
<P>In <HI>March</HI> he &s;cramblingly writes, &mdash; <HI>If the &s;ea&s;on permit, the &s;crambling Pens of Ideots will prove fal&s;e Prophets.</HI> Did ever any man, that pretended to un|der&s;tand &s;ence, render him&s;elf a more &s;crambling Ideot than <HI>Lilly</HI> doth here? Prethee, Mr <HI>Lilly,</HI> tell me what &s;ea&s;on that is, which the &s;crambling Pens of Ideots (or others) prove Prophets in; let them be either true or fal&s;e. Is it Spring, Win|ter, Summer, Autumne? I prote&s;t for this conceit, I could afford to Chronicle thee, <HI>WISE WILLIAM LILLY</HI> in the next Impre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Erra Pater;</HI> but that were to abu&s;e thee more than this book is de&s;igned to do; for 'tis the office and duty of this to &s;peak truth. <HI>But</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>&s;ome happy &s;ucce&s;s near this time is de&s;igned for his Majesty of</HI> Swede. If any &s;uch thing be de&s;igned, it mu&s;t be either by the energy of the Heavens, or &s;ome other power: by the Heavens there is no &s;uch thing de&s;ign|ed,
<PB N="58" REF="33">but the contrary; as <HI>M. C. ad</HI> &Mars; &Saturn;, (nearly touching now) denotes, it being attended on by an &Mars; of &Jupit; and &Merc;, celebra|ted in the Twelfth and Sixth Hou&s;es of his Radix and Revolution al&s;o; pre&s;aging much Treachery and Infortunacie, in the room of the happy &s;ucce&s;s <HI>Lilly</HI> boa&s;ts of. If it be promi&s;ed by any other power, <HI>Lil|ly</HI> &s;hould have told us &s;o: but a Golden Bribe can bend a Buzzards Pen any way.</P>
<P>In <HI>April</HI> he rantingly writes&mdash; <HI>Let men and devils, or all earthly devils do their wor&s;t, the Noble</HI> Swede <HI>will now again be &s;ucce&s;sful, according to his pre&s;ent condition, even by Sea or Land, or near it.</HI> This good Chri&s;tian A&s;trologer, complained of A|thei&s;ts and Ranters, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that were his An|tagoni&s;ts; but could any Athei&s;tical or Ranting Fellow in the world, write more Rantingly and Athei&s;tically, then him&s;elf hath here? <HI>Let Men and Devils, and all earthly Devils, &amp;c.</HI> Sure this ranting-ra|ving Fellow &s;uppo&s;es, that the <HI>Swede</HI> hath, not men, but devils to encounter with; or el&s;e what doth he mean, by &s;uch ranting helli&s;t, expre&s;&s;ions? But why earthly De|vils? Doth he believe there are any De|vils in Heaven? But (&s;aith he) <HI>Let tho&s;e
<PB N="59" REF="33">Devils do their wor&s;t, the K. of</HI> Swede <HI>will be &s;ucce&s;sful.</HI> If the <HI>Swedes</HI> Enemies, (which this malicious Fellow terms De|vils) do but their wor&s;t, the <HI>Swede</HI> may then be &s;ucce&s;sful, as he groundle&s;ly writes: But Sir! they are like to do their be&s;t, and not their wor&s;t; and &s;o will leave you a devilli&s;h Lyar to Po&s;terity. But <HI>he will be &s;ucce&s;sful by Sea or Land, or near it;</HI> &s;aith this Barbarian in Art and Learning. Cer|tain I am, the &opposition; of &Sun; and &Saturn;, and &Mars;'s tran|&s;iting the radical place of &Jupit;, con&s;idered, together with his &s;ad Revolutional Fi|gure, denies him &s;ucce&s;s at Sea or Land. What he may (by Mr. <HI>Lillies</HI> Ptedictions) expect near it, I know not: perhaps he dream't of &s;ome airy happine&s;s and &s;ucce&s;s, when he writ this vento&s;itous Fancie.</P>
<P>In <HI>May</HI> this Impo&s;tor predicts, &mdash; <HI>The Heavens &s;hew much hope for &s;ettlement of</HI> France <HI>and</HI> Spain, <HI>in league and amity.</HI> This he perfectly reads in the Heavens too, (O rare Monthly Ob&s;ervator!) although the peace betwixt tho&s;e Princes was con|cluded &s;ix Months before, as the News-Books had acquainted him: for you mu&s;t know, he &s;tudies them more then he doth old <HI>Ptolomy.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Lilly</HI> skips from <HI>April</HI> to <HI>September</HI> without mentioning the lea&s;t particle o the Swedi&s;h King. And then (too late) tells him &mdash; <HI>The Heavens give cau|tion to him,</HI> &amp;c. For then his game (in de|&s;pite of <HI>Lillie</HI>'s flattery) is near at an end. This coun&s;el <HI>(Lilly)</HI> you &s;hould have given him at the beginning of the year, if you had dealt as fairly by him, as he hath nobly by you.</P>
<P>In <HI>October</HI> this pedantick Para&s;ite cants &mdash; <HI>That the K. of</HI> Swede, <HI>in de&s;pite of all oppo&s;ition, cannot fail of many &s;ucce&s;&s;es in or near this month:</HI> Surely Sir! &s;piteful &s;uc|ce&s;&s;es, will do the Victor no durable &s;er|vice. But what mu&s;t the&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;es be, I wonder? why &s;aith <HI>Lilly, Such as his pre|&s;ent occa&s;ion requires.</HI> Now if the K. of <HI>Swede</HI> (being a Souldier) &s;hould happen (for want of conveniency) to be invaded with a Souldiers Fortune, <HI>viz.</HI> to be &s;trong|er within, then without; and in this con|dition obtain the happine&s;s (or &s;ucce&s;s) of a clean &s;hirt, <HI>Lilly</HI> &s;hall have the honour of predicting it A&s;trologically. But one pret|ty piece of Policy I meet with in <HI>wi&s;e Wil|liams Octobers Ob&s;ervations,</HI> that makes me &s;mile at the writing thereof: 'tis this: It
<PB N="61" REF="34">then being about Almanack time, and <HI>Lil|ly</HI> believing that he &s;hall be la&s;h'd, as the la&s;t year, (for he knows he hath notoriou&s;|ly de&s;erved it) and that you may think he reads the &s;ame in the Heavens, he learned|ly (by this his &s;harp Prae&s;cience) predicts &mdash; <HI>Some botching Athei&s;t now be&s;pat|ters him.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>And is there any Delian Wizzard can</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Planet-Quacking match this cunning Man?</HI></L></Q>
<P>In <HI>November</HI> he again temporizes with the <HI>Swede,</HI> thus: &mdash; <HI>Either with full peace, or much happine&s;s, the</HI> Swedes <HI>are ble&s;&s;ed according to their pre&s;ent condition.</HI> Prethee, <HI>Lilly,</HI> tell me, how thou came&s;t to be &s;o ba&s;e a Flatterer? Do&s;t thou &s;ee &Mars; upon the place of &Sun;, and &Sun;, &Mars; and &Merc; in &Mars;, and all in &opposition; to &Moon;'s Radical place, in the King of <HI>Swedes</HI> Geniture? I am per&s;waded, thou make&s;t thy &s;elf a Para&s;ite on purpo&s;e, or el&s;e thou knowe&s;t not &Mars; from thy Tay|lors Bodkin.</P>
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<P>But to conclude all his wi&s;e work, In <HI>Decembers</HI> right-hand-page he writes, &mdash; <HI>The guilty find friends.</HI> And in the left, verifies it in him&s;elf, thus &mdash; <HI>If Ju|piter were not in Libra,</HI> (his Printer hath made it <HI>June,</HI> but I &s;corn as much to retort that upon him, as he thinks it be|neath him to an&s;wer a Boy) <HI>Saturn would afflict poor</HI> Anglicus. <HI>Providence &s;till pro|vides for him friends.</HI> Go on <HI>William!</HI> Con|fe&s;s all your &s;ins, and guiltine&s;s of all kinds; and con&s;ider that your end draw|eth on, and the <HI>M. C. ad</HI> &quadrine; &Saturn; <HI>&amp;</HI> &Sun; is com|ing apace; and flatter not your &s;elf as you have done the King of <HI>Swede.</HI> You will begin to claim the Title of an aged Para|&s;ite in A&s;trology: Flatter not your &s;elf therefore. For it is not &Jupit; in &Libra; that can any way &s;tead you. Is not &Saturn; returned to his own place, and the oppo&s;ite place of the Sun? Is not your Revolution notori|ou&s;ly cruel, and mi&s;chievous al&s;o? And how &s;hould &Jupit; in &Libra; help you? Doth &Jupit; be|hold either the A&s;cendant, or &Sun; in your Nativity? Is he not in &quadrine; of <HI>Luna?</HI> Flat|ter not your &s;elf, I &s;ay: Learn A&s;trology (for once) from a Boy; And if at la&s;t &Jupit; in &Libra; fail you, &s;ay you had an enemy dealt
<PB N="63" REF="35">more faithfully with you, without a Gold Chaine, than you did with the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> for one. So I leave <HI>William Lilly</HI> in the mid&s;t of his Flatteries and Igno|rance, as I found him.</P>
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<P>Page 34. line <HI>Antepenult,</HI> read 8 <HI>digits.</HI> P. 37. l. 25. r. <HI>Saturni.</HI> P. 48. l. 9. r. <HI>the ari&s;ings.</HI> P. 50. l. 25. r. <HI>Aquila.</HI></P>
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<P>A <HI>Per&s;on of Honour, by Name</HI> Montelion, <HI>or the Knight of the Oracle, having ta|ken great pains in the calculating divers Nativities, &s;ome of</HI> Jury-Packers, Chalke-Merchants, Wife-Poy&s;onners, Widdow-Undoers, Trepanners, <HI>&amp;c. and the Genitnres of Mrs.</HI> P. W. L. Grace L. <HI>and</HI> I. F. <HI>at large; be|ing a true and perfect Emblem of
<PB N="65" REF="36">the cro&s;s match mentioned in Dr.</HI> Dee's <HI>Book of Spirits: it is therefore de&s;ired, that the</HI> Lear|ned Mini&s;ter <HI>(Lilly mentions) would in&s;ert the&s;e in his intended Book of Nativities, that his Colle|ction may be the more compleat.</HI></P>
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