thereof from the Center of the Earth 3. That the Head thereof be Sphaerical or near Sphaerical But for my own part as I was not furnished with Instruments proper for this purpose so I cannot hear of any one of our Learned English Astronomers and we have not a few such in Oxford and elsewhere in England unless at London the Reader of Gresham Colledge that made any Curious Observations thereof What was done by Gassendus Bullialdus Hevelius or other Famous Observers in Foreign Parts will doubtless e're long be produced to Light The Diameter of it as it appear'd to the Eye was not so little as 15 Inches I mean when it seemed greatest And therefore if as saith the Gentleman formerly and but now instanced All the Symptoms thereof agree with those which have been evinced to be Coelestial it must needs be of a huge and incredible Magnitude Which imports the Fame Renown and Vehemency of its Effects For quo major est Stella eo est Efficacior The greater any Star or Comet is the more Efficacious Nevertheless it is true and I instance it by way of Caution that lesser Stars do often-times Operate more effectually upon Sublunary things than others that be greater but it is when nearer thereunto The like knowledge should next be had of the Magnitude of the Tail thereof which nevertheless is more uncertain by reason of the inconstant vibration and ejection of its Rays but having not the distance of the Comets Head nor the distance of the extremity of the Tail thereof from the Centre of the Earth neither the apparent distance of the Head from the extremity of the Tail which three things are necessarily requisite hereunto I forbear further mention thereof 5. The Fifth and last thing Observable are the Fixed Stars near to which this Comet first appeared Touching which we must note That this Comet first began in the last part of the Bull 's Asterism wherein are the Horns of the Bull Aldebaran and the Hyades Stars so called of the Nature of Mars So likewise the Buckler Foot and left Shoulder of Orion of the Nature of Mars Mercury Jupiter and Saturn and which are usually the Causes of Lightning Thunder and Fiery Impressions Thus then it appears that the quality of the Events presaged by this Comet are clearly of the Nature of Mercury and Mars And to tell you what they are is the next thing intended The Dominion of Mercury portends great Calamity unto all those that Live by their own Industry and such as love and favour the Muses with the Death of some great Personage Wars Famine and Pestilence of Diseases the Phrenzy Lethargy Epilepsie and griefs of the Head Mars presageth of Sickly Contagious and unpleasant Winds the drying up of Fountains and Rivers Scarcity and Putrefaction of Fruits much and often Thunder Coruscations and Lightning The Seas pester'd and troubled more than ordinary with frequent Ship-wracks of Brawlings Contentions Wars Vexations Tumults Seditions and other Mischiefs Of Diseases most cruel Dysenteries or Bloody-Fluxes Pestilent Fevers and Tertian Agues and Swellings full of heat and redness commonly called St. Anthony's Fire Phrensies Untimely Births and hot Sicknesses the Hemorrhoides or Piles Dotages Acute and Chronick Diseases with others of like Nature And saith Cardan habet ut dixi semper hoc praecipuum Cometes à deliquio distinctum ut Martis de Mercurio furentium damna significet A Comet as I have told you hath always this special distinction from an Eclipse That it signifies losses and hurt to be done by the Outrages of Souldiers and Mercurialists He adds further Dissidium permutationem Fulgura Tonitrua Terrae Motus Ventos graves Saevas tempestates Novas Artes Inventiones omnes tamen humano generi perniciosas That is Deceit and Bartering Thunder and Lightning Earthquakes Grievous Winds Cruel Tempests New Arts and Inventions yet those Mischievous to Humane kind Moreover the same Cardan tells us Seg. 3. Aphor. 117. Cometae Mobiles bella indicant ab externis That movable Comets do proclaim Wars from or by means of Foreigners and Strangers Again in another place Semper videntur quae contra ordinem Signorum feruntur mutationes Legum significare Those Comets which are moved contrary to the Order of the Signs are always observed to signifie Change of Laws And he gives the Reason thereof Quod motus is primi Coeli fit atque ob id à Deo vel supremo Rectore Because that motion follows the Primum Mobile and is therefore from God or other Supream Governour of our Affairs Haly Rhadoan is likewise of Opinion that a Retrograde Comet doth signifie Haereses Legum turbas c. Heresies and varieties of Laws than which saith he none are crueller seeing that in all other Evils Men may know they work Mischiefs but in the Breaches and Debates of Laws and Heresies and in Wars that be raised by reason of different Laws when Men exercise their Cruelty upon Infants and little Children and kill Men with Torments and Fire lead away Captives into Bondage spoil the Fields and destroy whole Cities with Fire some think they do God good Service others play the Hypocrites And our Learned Dee Aphor. 88. plainly tells us that Planeta Retrogradus c. A Retrograde Planet or Comet seems after a sort to infringe the constant Order of Nature in that it finishes its daily Motion in shorter time than doth the Aequator it self Let us yet hear what Junctinus says fol. 318. Si apparuerit aliqua ex Stellis Cometis c. If any one Comet saith he shall appear in Gemini it foreshews an appearance of Wantonness and Fornication with a Reverence of Venereal Incests in Men That Religious Persons and Men serving God shall be cast down and nothing regarded It shall signifie Brawling and Contention Seed-Plots of War and Sicknesses whereby shall follow the Death of Children and Young Men especially Moreover Abortive-Births Destruction of Birds Famine Thunder and Coruscations with strong Winds that shall tear up young Trees by the middle Again Si apparuerit aliqui ex Stellis Cometis in Tauro c. If any Comet saith he shall appear in Taurus it imports the bad state and condition of Men that little of good shall befall them and the Injuries of Rebels that be in those Regions or Countries towards them It is also wont to portend the Death of some Great Man Captivities Wrongs and a Toleration of Unlawful things Besides Detriment unto whole Herds and Droves of Cattel strong Winds Corruption of Corn and Fruits very much Cold in its Season with a horrible Earthquake Vehement Sicknesses and dry Diseases as Scabs and Itches And thus much of the Quality or Nature of this Comets Effects 2. The Second thing to be enquired after are the Places and Persons thereby threatned and endanger'd For the knowledge whereof we must consider 1. The inclination of the Comets Tail or Rays for look what Regions or Countries the same did respect and those shall
and almost at the Brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the First Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly augmented proportionably to the Motion thereof being at this Day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a Flourishing Estate But shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike swiftly God so pleasing hasten to Destruction Indeed according to Tycho and others of the besâ— Astronomers the Eccentricity is already notably increased viz. unto Part 2. 9′ or thereabouts Lausbergius makes it Part 2. 6′ 21″ Insomuch that if the Christians of Europe could but henceforth lay aside their Ambition and Avarice and Live at Peace among themselves the God of Nature presents them with an Age wherein they may totally subvert and lay waste the Empire of â—he Turks and put a speedy Period to the Law of their Prophet Mahomet A Third Cause is the change of the Obliquity of the Zodiack which when at the greatest according to Bullialdus is 23° 52′ 53″ And this was Anno Nabonassari 381. 367 years before the Nativity of Christ. When at the least 23° 31′ 7″ and that fell out Anno Christi 1434. so that the mean betwixt these is 23° 42′ 00″ In the year 1653. the greatest Obliquity of the Zodiack was 23° 31′ 55″ For the Motion of the Anomaly of the Zodiack's Obliquity was 6s. 21° 49′ The Prosthaphaeresis 0′ 48″ which added to the least Obliquity 23° 31′ 7″ gives us 23° 31′ 55″ as before So that the Obliquity of the Zodiack is now likewise increasing for it still increaseth and diminisheth with the Suns Eccentricity Whereby it appears that the Axis of the Earth's Poles by little and little changes its Inclination to the Plane of the Zodiack through some Motion of the Libration But to find out the Physical Cause thereof my Reason concludes it almost impossible For as Bullialdus truly saith Scimus rem esse sed causam motus illius ignoramus nâ—c potest humani Ingenii acumen pervidere causas illas We know saith he there is such a Motion but are ignorant of the Cause thereof nor can the subtilty of Humane Wit throughly perceive those Causes A Fourth Cause is â—he Conjunction of the â—wo Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter which according to Cardanus is three-fold Great Mean and Lesser The Lesser are they which happen in Signs of the same Nature or Trigon with others preceding them and so cannot occasion any great Change yet are not without their peculiar Effects as you may see in Cardâ—n Seg. 5. Aphor. 48. Of these there be ten in Number which do orderly succeed one another in the space of less than 200 Years The Mean are they which fall out in a differenâ— Trigon yet not in such as are altogether contrary is qualities that is when the Conjunctions pass from a Fiery into an Earthy Sign out of an Earthy into an Airy or from an Airy into a Watry Sign as from Ariâ—s into Capricorn out of Capricorn into Libra from Libra to Cancer As touching these it is certain they produce sundry Operations For they alter in one respect or other the Estate of Empires Kingdoms Common-wealths and Countries causing some new Empires and Kingdoms to emerge Like as that of Alâ—xander the Great in an Airy the Persians in an Earthy and that of Mahomet in a Watâ—y as you may read in Cardan Sâ—g 1. Aphor. 73. And of these Conjunctions if so be you account frâ—m the change of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy thâ—re falleth out always three within the space of 596 Yearâ— The First in the Earthy the Second in the Airy and the Third in the Watry Trigon But they are called Great Conjunctions which begin to be Celebratâ—d in the Fiâ—ry Trigon chiefly in Aries the first Sign of thâ— Zodiack For when there shall be a Transit made from a Watry into a Fiery Sign which are as contrary â—ach to other in thâ—ir prime quâ—lities as Fire is to Water then also do great Mutations succeed all the World over And this is clear'd to all Men who have been â—ut never so little conversant in History For if we Calculate backward and allow for each of these Great Conjunctions 794 Years and about a half we shall be reduced from the Year 1603. in which there happened a Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittary to the Year of Christ 809. in which the Roman Empire Destroyed by continual Wars is at length reformed and augmented under Charles the Great Thence to the Year of Christ 15. soon after which succeeded a great Mutation both of the State Ecclesiastical and Political From thence to the Year preceding Christ 779 soon after which followed the Institution of the Olympick Games and Times the Birth of Romulus and Râ—mus the Building of Rome and a grievous Affliction of the Kingdom of Israel by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians and at length a Destruction thereof by Salmanassar his Successor Hence we recede to the 1574. Year before Christ near unto which Moses was Born who afterwards led the People of Israel out of Egypt by a Divine Power Thence to the Year 2368. within one Age after which followed the Universal Deluge afterwards to the Year 3163. and at length to the Year 3957. about which God Created the World of Nothing And 't is good Reason that like as Rome was Built a little after the beginning of the fifth Fiâ—ry Trigon the first being that under which the World was Created and afterwards by little and little increased and amongst other Cities the great Assembly of the Inhabitants People and Kingdoms she has subdued bore up her Head until at length about the sixâ—h Fiery Trigon she had reduced very many Kingdoms of Europe Asia and Africa to the Form of a Monarchy and Sovereign Empire and flourished in great Glory and that from thence the Empire bâ—ing divided into two East and West was observed to be fallen to decay been troubled with Intestine Wars and exhausted by the Alienations of Kingdoms and Provinces until about the seventh Trigon it was restored by Charles the Great and in some sort received its Pristine Beauty So also shall this Empire at this time under the eighth Fiery Trigon sustain great Mutations which I rather leave to Experience than Prostitute my own Judgment at so easie a rate Nor do only the Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions of the two Superiours but also their Opposite and Quartile Configurations design great Mutations in the World as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 49. and Seg. 7. Aphor. 6. Other Causes are Comets or counterfeit Stars c. such as that whereof Josephus Bell. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. makes mention which appeared for a years space in the form of a Fiery Sword over the City Jerusalem fore-warning her Destruction or as that at the Death of Mahomet seen at High-Noon in the shâ—pe also of a Sword which continued the space of a Month
marked by a different Letter he hath quite expunged whereby it is plain that this Aphorism hath but little force unless that Jupiter were in the fifteenth degree of Cancer which now he is not or that he received the disposition of the Fortunes which in this Revolution he doth not for Jupiter is in the 28 deg 25 min. of Cancer and within 3 degrees of Malevolent Mars whereby he is much afflicted and weakened And although he be in the Sign of his Exaltation yet he is there slow in motion Occidental of the Sun and Retrograde and Planeta Retrogradus nihil boni significat donec dirigatur A Retrograde Planet hath no signification of that which is good until he be direct It is true that within five days he begins to move slowly forward yet that brings him to a perfect Conjunction with Mars the 23 d. day of March and they will not be fully separated from each others Beams of a sudden by which Jupiter is very much debilitated And notwithstanding that Mars is in his Fall yet he is the strongest save one in the Figure so that I cannot perceive upon what ground in Astrology he should Prognosticate of Peace and Tranquility from the Position of Jupiter in the latter part of Cancer considering him so weak and unhappy by reason of his Conjunction with Mars c. and that he stays no longer in that Sign than the 15 of April Besides let him consider what Massahalach tells him Conjunctio Jovis Martis significat accidentia quae fiunt ex pluviis nivibus corruptionem aëris atque bellum Si autem vincit in eorum Conjunctione fortuna significat fortunam si malus malum Scito etiam quia quotiescunque juncta fuerit fortuna cum malo apparebit natura fortioris eorum c. The Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars hath signification of such Events as are caused of Rain and Snow It fore-tells corruption of the Air and War And if a Fortune predominate at the time of their Conjunction he signifieth that which is wholsome and good but if a Malevolent the contrary Understand also that so often as a Fortunate Planet shall be joyned with a Malevolent the natural Effects of that which is strongest shall appear Now if William Lilly could but have set a Figure rightly to the apparent time of this Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars which happens by the Rudolphine Tables upon the 23 d. day of March at seven a Clock and 14 min. P. M. in the Meridian of London and would but have taken the pains to collect the several Fortitudes and Debilities of each Planet at the time of their Meeting he might have found Mars much stronger than Jupiter and likewise elevated above him secundum Latitudinem he might also have observed the Conjunction to be in Scotland's Horoscopical Sign and near the Cusp of the 10 th House Saturn their Senators Significator unfortunately posited in the House of Death c. And the Moon His Majesties as being Lady of the tenth House and Dispositrix of the Conjunction in the fifth in a mutual Reception with Jupiter beholding Saturn with a Sextile Aspect and the Sign Cancer with a Trine and Venus yet in her Detriment and applying to the Quartile Aspect of Jupiter and Mars And the Sun the other Significator of His Majesty in his Exaltation c. with Mercury in the 6 th House from the Ascendant Which several Positions being deliberately considered and rightly applyed could have afforded him but small ground of pronouncing Peace and Tranquility Moreover Conjunctio Jovis Martis significat mortem divitis magnae famae idque eo fortius si fuerit in Signo fixo The Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars portends the Death of a Rich and Famous Man and so much the rather if it happen in a fixed Sign but Cancer is a moveable Sign and by so much the less fear there is of the Death of such a Person I raâ—her conceive that this Aphorism presages only thaâ— some such Person shall have his Honour and may be his Life questioned and be thereby in some peril of being deprived of both However you may perceive by what hath been said that William Lilly hath greatly deceived the Reader by this false Quotation out of Bonatus and that all things considered he had no cause or ground in Astrology to delude the World with a vain hope of Peace and Tranquility when nothing but Contention Warring and Bloodshed is threatned by the great dominion of Mars and the infortunate positure of Jupiter in the Revolution And if Lilly would learn when this shall happen Leopaldus will tell him Belli tempus est cum fuerit Mars in opposito vel Quartili aspectu Jovis vel Saturni When Mars shall be in an Opposite or Quartile Aspect of Jupiter or Saturn And when 's that Let but our Ephemeris-Master look in May 1647. and against the 22. day he shall find a hateful Square beâ—ween Saturn and Mars and in October following upon the 21 day will be a most terrible Opposition of Saturn and Mars which will be very dreadful and Ominous to many parts of England and Scotland and upon the 28 day of the same October is another Square betwixt Jupiter and Mars And no doubt but we shall hear of much Contention and Blood-shed about those times I have noted every of these Aspects before mentioned in my Kalendar for 1647. against the day of the Month whereon they happen to which I refer you Lilly In the interim lâ—t those whom it may concern and many are herein concerned receive from me this Astrological Cabal Judgment either in jest or in earnest as they please c. He or they King or Kings Prince or Princes Nobles Gentlemen or of any Quality soever shall endeavour the advance of a Foreign Army or State amongst us as it is certainly determined to Yoke us and destroy this present Parliament he or they shall never attain his or their desires shall pâ—rish in the Design shall never again make his or their Peace with this Kingdom of England I know we are threatned it must be so but woe to the Invader Invaders or procurers of our Invasion the Invaded shall prevail viz. the Parliament and Commonalty of England and although we shall be in danger of betraying yet shall we behold another Providence contradicting that Treachery even in the nick of time for this Kingdom of England is not ordained until the Worlds end to be any more Conquered we shall give but not receive Laws c. Wharton All the Ambition and Aim of this trifling Fellow is to be thought a Necromancer a Conjurer another Lullius Trithemius or the Ghost of Agrippa or what ever you will have him to be so he may but obtain a popular esteem and by that means more easily cozen and cheat the poor People of their Money for otherwise why should he muster such a confused heap of ridling trash without giving any Reason or
Mid-heaven not of Rarity For as to this they are of equal Power as was before demonstrated But for that Reason that the Planets are joyn'd they do conduplicate their Power by the second Rule And hence another thing follows viz. That some Conjunction of Venus and Mercury shall be far more Powerful than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter or of the Sun and Moon Because the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter or of the Sun and Moon may be in the same degree only and the Conjunction of Venus and Mercury Corporeal I call that a Corporeal Conjunction when the Planets are not more distant one from another than the Aggregate of their Semi-diameters as Venus and Mercury not farther than Eight Minutes in Longitude and so Venus from the Moon not above Twenty three Minutes And if such a Conjunction be made also in respect of Latitude it will be far more effectual and valid Nevertheless the Latitude doth not so much as the difference in Longitude because the distance of Latitude impedeth not but that both the Stars may be moved in the same Circle passing by the Poles of the Zodiack And the greatest distance that can be of two Planets in Latitude is betwixt Mars and Venus viz. When Mars is in the utmost extremity of his Southern Latitude and Venus in the like of her Northern Latitude for then they are distant fourteen degrees and a half A Second way whereby the Conjunction of Venus and Mercury may be greater than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter I omit then what they might be with some Fixed Star or in the beginning of Aries and with Saturn and Jupiter in the end of Virgo for that were to multiply the Conjunction and make it Triple as for Example this Venus and Mercury may be in the Degree of the Ascendant and Saturn and Jupiter in the end of the second House And this by the third Rule A Third manner is That in One Nativity wherein Venus and Mercury are conjoyn'd they may be Lords of the Ascendant In another wherein Saturn and Jupiter are joyned neither of them may have any Power at all in the Ascendant as when the tenth Degree of Virgo or Taurus Ascendeth or but very little as when the tenth of Leo Ascendeth where only Jupiter hath but the Dignity of a Trigon and especially if the Nativity be by Day A Fourth Mode is if whilst Venus is joyn'd to Mercury a Comet should appear in the Heavens or that the Sun and Moon be in Conjunction the rather if there be an Eclipse for then also because it may not behold the Place this Conjunction of Venus and Mercury shall be more Powerful than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter wherewith none of these great Causes happeneth And Note That there are six great Causes in Heaven The First is the Conjunction of the Ecliptiques of the Eighth and Ninth Spheres and of the Heads of Aries thereof for this excelleth all the rest The Second a Comet which confounds both Sea and Land and all things else The Third an Eclipse which for the most part troubles and disturbs one certain and determinate kind of Creatures The Fourth is the Conjunction of the Luminaries whereby all moist things are governed Therefore the Seas Crabs Fishes Diseases Fâ—ll'd or Lopped Wood and the like The Fifth is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in what place soever it chanceth whereby Laws Empires and Regions are Governed The Sixth and Last the Conjunction of the Luminaries with the Fixed Stars whereof the Solar Conjunctions govern the Winds the Lunar the Seas 19. The Nineteenth Conjunction is that of Venus and Mercury which may be called Irregular for that it hath no certain Circuit Yet is there one assigned the same being Collected and Divided from many Conjunctions and this is called the Mean Circuit of Five Months and three Days or thereabouts 20. The Twentieth is the Transits of the Absides out of one Sign into another which is in the space of about Three thousand Years some say Four Thousand others Twelve hundred and another sort Sixteen hundred But it is not as yet determined in what time precisely the Apogaeon absolves one Sign nor consequently one Degree as Petavius hath Observed and therefore I forbear any Judgments thereon A Brief Account of the Causes of Earthquakes THere are Four Causes of Earthquakes as admitted and owned by Philosophers and Naturalists viz. Efficient Material Formal Final The Efficient Cause of all Earthquakes is the Heat of the Sun and therewithal the Subterranean Fires assisted by the Astringent Qualities of the three Superiour Planets The Material Cause is the Spirit or Vapour confin'd within the Bowels of the Earth striving to break out The Formal Cause the concussion of the Earth and the Agitation of the Vapours and Exhalations therein inclosed The Final Cause is a Sign of an Angry God justly provoked by the Scarlet Crimes or a Sinfâ—l People according to that of King David Commota est contremuit Terra fundamenta Montinuâ— conturbata sunt commota sunt quoniam iratus est eis i. e. The Earth shook and trembled the Foundations also of the Hills moved and were shaken Because He was wroth 2. Of their Species ARistotle Lib. 2. cap. 8. de Meteor maketh only two Species of them viz. Tremor and Palsus a Trembling and Beating or Thrusting Others have added a Third which they call Hyatus a Gaping Rending or Cleaving of the Earth Many more there are whereof you may Read in Pliny Seneca Possidonius Fromundus and others I willingly omit them 3. Of their Antecedentia THE Antecedentia or Signs preceding Earthquakes are Calmness and Tranquillity of the Air Dimness of the Sun a more than ordinary quietude and Solitariness of Birds Nevertheless a Raging of the Seas Putrefaction and Troubledness of the Waters of Pits and Wells of any Depth Great Noise and hideous sounds under Ground resembling groans and which is more the very Thunder 4. Of their Consequentia AND now the Consequentia or Effects of Earthquakes the which I only aim at are 1. Ruine of Buildings and the Destruction of many People as you may see in Lanquet and Eusebius their Chronologies Tacitus Lib. 2. Fromund Lib. 4. Meteor 2. The Conversion of Plain Fields into Mountains and the raising of Islands in the Sea as Thia Therasia Delos Rhodes and others 3. The Levelling of Mountains sinking of Islands and other Grounds as Helice and Buris So likewise of the Earth which once was where now is only that deep Pit in the County of Durham commonly called Hell-Kettles in the 24 of Henry 2 d. 4. The driving away or cutting the Neck of some Isthmus from the Continent For thus saith Seneca was Sicily divided from Calabria Spain from Africk and if Verstegan say true Britain from France 5. The Translation of Mountains Buildings Trees c. from one place to another As that did a whole Town in Lumbardy in the Reign of Henry the First And that other
appear Attended on by all the Saints i' th' Year Nor am I one of those that can Repine Cause I am Clouded to see others Shine The Freedom you Indulge is Wealth enough And which is more hath made me Cannon-Proof Heav'ns Bless your Majesty increase your Powers No Guerdon's like to that of being Yours The Humblest of Your Majesties most Faithful and Obedient Subjects and Servants G. WHARTON In his Kalendarium Carolinum for the Year 1662. are these Excellent Poems 1. Under the Table of Kings SOme Princes have been Sirnam'd Red some Black Some Tall some Crook'd as well in Mind as Back Some for their Learning some for Valour stand Admired by this Learn'd and Warlike-Land Our Gracious King 's both Black and Tall of Stature Learn'd Valiant Wise and Lib'ral too by Nature But that Adorns Him more than all the rest Is Mercy in his most Religious Breast Which mix'd with Justice makes him thus to Shine Th' Incensed Glory of the Royal Line 2. Under the Terms Now that the Saints have ceased to Purloyn And Plunder let 's indulge 'em an Essoin Charles's Appearance shew'd them their mistake And he Forgave shall we Exception make No no râ—is Blest Return refresh'd Three Nations God keep 's from any more such Long Vacations 3. In January Behold the Two great Martyrs of this Age Embracing Heaven despising Vulgar Rage Blest Laud All-glorious Charles whose Cruel Death At once astonish'd both the Heav'ns and Earth Whose Horrid Murder Clouded Church and State 'Till Second Charles did both Illuminate 4. In February Let Winchester remember Burleigh's Blood Pontsract will witness Beaumont's who withstood The unrelenting Rebels and laid down Their well-spent Lives for Charles's injur'd Crown Some Crimson-streams do stain each Leaf we turn No Month but what affords us Cause to Mourn 5. In March Heroick Capel and Couragious Hyde Both mount the Scaffold both are Crucify'd Brave Bushel Son of Neptune lost his Head His Lamp was in great haste extinguished The Fifth Commandment keeping all their Crime A grievous Sin in that All-grieving Time 6. In April Their deadly Rancour floateth now amain Whilst silly Women harmless Babes are slain By their devouring Swords Boys Act Men's parts And Scarlet Gowns look on with trembling Hearts Three Red-Coats then with Bells about their Necks Were Force sufficient London to perplex 7. In May. But O the Precious Blood this Month was shed Valour its Right-hand lost Wisdom her Head Whence the Mis-judging Rude and Brainless Croud Made Earth and Skies but one Big-belly'd Cloud Till Gracious Charles Return'd whose warmer Rays Dissolv'd it turn'd black Nights to Sun-shine Days 8. In June Thrice Reverend Hewyt Noble Slingsby Dy'd Destruction was design'd them before Try'd The very Noise poor Rats and Mice did keep Amus'd the Tyrant broke his troubled sleep How could he chuse indeed but be afraid So long as Slingsby breath'd or Hewyt pray'd 9. In July And yet the Monster means not to desist His Wo's denounc'd against the Royallist Undaunted Gerard daring Ashton dye And many more whose Hearts could not comply No Constancy like that of Cavaliers Which never shrink with Force nor sordid Fears 10. In August The Valiant Lucas Death-despising Lisle And Gallant Andrews Sacrificed while The Holy Rabble Triumph and declare How Just how Innocent their Murders were Yet still methinks the Guilt sticks in their Face Vengeance pursues 'em to their proper Place 11. In September Think now of Worcester's Great Deliverance Let 's pay our Vows 't was something more than Chance That sav'd Great Charles and Us with Him did jerk The lewd Posteriors of th' Unhallow'd Kirk And taught 'em for the future to Misken Whom once they stiled Their Dear Brethren 12. In October Lo here again how fast the Wolf pursues Let him but Catch he cares not who Accuse Darby's great Earl unto the Block he brings No Blood he spar'd when once h' had spilt his Kings Thus the Revengeful whilst they are most keen In wounding others keep their own Wounds green 13. In November Lamented Kniveton doth the next appear Martyr'd not once but Martyr'd every Year Who to assure the World his Cause was Good Let not to Seal it early with his Blood Thus Martyrs suffer yet are never slain Thus Martyrs sow themselves to grow again 14. In December The Tyger follows yet His Thirst is great And nought but Humane Blood allays his Heat Sweet Norwich Holt and Downham his Rage saw They saw the Judges too but saw no Law Judgment was turn'd to Wormwood in that day Nor Truth nor Justice challeng'd any sway In his Kalendarium Carolinum for Anno 1663. We find these Excellent Verses 1. Upon the Great Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ in â™ FOrbear Enthusiasts and aim no higher Y' are Purg'd or quite Consum'd by this New fire The many Waters whilom drown'd the Land Must all Return and keep within their Strand Kings will be Kings their Awful Scepters sway The People Prompt and Zealous to Obey Now Holy Church will offer Holy things And burn her Incense under Angels Wings No Leper shall approach her Sacred Quire None touch her Altars cannot touch the Lyre Old Laws shall be Reviv'd and New ones made Wise Men arise and Fools run Retrograde Empires and Monarchies confirm'd Erected Churches Repair'd and Holy Ground Protected Tranquillity succeeds our Brutish Wars Balsoms our Wounds pours Oyl upon our Scars Commerce and Traffique then receives Increase Merchants adventure all things but their Peace Fanatick Spirits in short time forget What Principles they own'd in their Mad Fit Repining Tradesmen and Poor Handicrafts Turn Morning-Lectures into Morning-Draughts And wonder by what Wild-fires they were Led To feed on Thistles ' stead of wholsome Bread So Plain so Ugly now the Cheat appears 'T is lay'd aside for half three hundred Years 2. Under the Table of Kings The Presbyterian Oracle's a Witch For true it is as bruted by the Bitch We shall turn all Idolaters Who can Now Britain's Monarch so much more then Man Enjoy's an Angel darts such Rays Divine Do less than Worship Charles and Katherine 3. Under the Table of Terms Our Sacred Laws dispens'd with Spotless Hands Secure our Lives our Liberties our Lands But whilst th' unhallow'd Oliverian Crew Profane the Bar we hazard All anew I wonder with what Foreheads they appear T' Advance what by themselves subverted were 4. In January What still more Mischief yet more Plots on foot Design'd and Manag'd by the Rabble-Rout Plots of mean Extract and low Undertaking Shews Lord nor Lady save of Cromwel's making But such poor Snakes as our own Bosoms bred Which being all Tayl want Brains to make a Head 5. In February But form'd they have another Sion's Plea Full fraught with Treason and the Canting-Yea For Liberty to Plunder Fire and Kill First whom they can and next who e're they will Caesar himself from whence our Peace doth spring Shall have no Quarter 'cause they 'd have no King 6. In March The
retain his Loyalty and Integrity and he did so to the last For being now as we have said with all the Loyal Party left naked and devested of every thing nay almost of his Hope too and his Arms of no longer use to him unless he would joyn with the Rebels a thing he totally abhor'd He patiently and chearfully betakes himself to his Arts of which he had formerly worthily proceeded Master at Queens Colledge Oxon. And rather than not serve the King his Soveraign Lord at all he condescended to write among other things even Almanacks and thereby took occasion to assert his Majesties Honour and Interest and in that contemptible way to make known and enlarge his Authority as much as in him lay to do when he could perform it no longer by his Sword And for his several Loyal Endeavours by his Pen he had soon made way for New Troubles to attend him being for that Cause looked upon as a great Eye-sore to the Men in Power of those Tyrannous Times and had provoked them so far as you 'l find in several Parts of these his Works that they thought fit frequently to seize his Person and restrain his Liberty hoping thereby to restrain his Pen and accordingly clap'd him up close Prisoner in the Gate-house and Newgate sometimes and other whiles in Windsor-Castle in which several to him doleful Places he constantly though like a Bird in a Cage continued singing forth his Ditties of Loyalty thereby remembring the then Ruling Rebels that there was a Lawful King still in Being though God had suffer'd him to partake of a large and dolorous Exile unto whom they all ought to pay their Duty Allegiance as he himself truly did Thus we see that even Prisons the most hated and loathed of Places and a Reduction to the very lowest Ebb of Fortune cannot permute a truly well-grounded and inbred Loyalty nor yet the greatest Temptations of Gold and Glory in such a despised Condition prove an Annulet of Power sufficient to warp or bend a worthy Mind from his Allegiance In this suffering Condition he continued from the Surrender of Oxford which was on June 24. 1646. sharing in the common Fate or Misfortunes of all the Kings Friends feeding upon the Garlick and Onions of the Usurpers Tyranny rather than to eat Quails at the Tables of Rebels keeping a more than Twelve years Lent being little better than a Hewer of Wood and Drawer of Water at the Command of those who in Right and Justice were but his Fellow Subjects I say in this Condition he continued until the most happy and Glorious Restauration of his present most Sacred Majesty which was on May 29. 1660. And when the true Son of Great Britains Hopes appear'd the Clouds that had most enviously so long benighted all Loyal Honest Men began to scatter apace And then our worthy Author among the rest crept out of his Obscurity and received Warmth by those powerful Solar Rays his Majesties most happy appearing had so seasonably scatter'd over the Nation to the acquitting of it from its many years bewilder'd Condition and had a Re-admission into his former Place and Office And not only so but in a short time after He received also an Additional Preferment of good Consequence which Places of Trust he discharged so well and so faithfully that his Majesty thought sit in Consideration of his former Sufferings under and for his Royal Father and particular Services to himself to confer the Honour of Baronet by Patent upon him and his Heirs for ever which Honour his Son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now most deservedly enjoys Thus this truly Loyal Person lived in the Favour of two of the Best of Kings and was thought worthy to be rewarded by them both and died in the Favour of his present Majesty possessed of that Honour and Office the King had so freely bestowed upon him and thought he so well deserved This is a true though short Description of his Loyalty his Sufferings and Rewards And I hope some others that knew him better and are better furnished for such an Vndertaking will present the World with a larger Account of this worthy Persons Original Life and Actions and thereby make amends for my Defects whatever they shall appear to be which would be I confess an extraordinary Delight and Satisfaction to me that have thus meanly endeavour'd to preserve his Memory For I would have a Worthy Good Man no more forgotten though dead then I would have the Sun forget to shine again after it hath left our Horizon in an Evening And when such Persons are suffered to slide to the Shades of black Oblivion unremembred it is no small sign of a wicked vitious and profligate Age. Secondly as to his Learning This our Author was not only Naturally Loyal but was blessed with a great acquisition of Learning too He was both an Excellent Schollar and singular Artist understanding both Languages and Sciences as sufficiently appears by this Miscellaneous Treatise here published which is of excellent Service to all men that are inclined to a Courtship of the Muses So that we may most justly say of this Collection as it is reported once a learned Critick said of Virgils Works viz. That if all the Books in the World were burnt and that only remaining some Vestigia of all kind of Learning might be found therein And that you may know that this is no Romantick Story but more than Fancy or Opinion even a very real and demonstrative Truth be pleased a little to observe with me how many several sorts of Persons and Sciences we shall find obliged by these his Learned Labours 1. If this Excellent Treatise fall into the hands of the Venerable Theologue to say nothing of the near Relation Astrology hath to Divinity as the Learned Dr. Gell Dr. Swadlin and others have most learnedly proved here he will meet with the Original of all the Fasts and Feasts of the Jewish as well as Christian Church so excellently and elegantly set forth and with such aweful Respect to the Preservation of the Honour of God and the Continuance of Sacred things in Vse among us that had he been bred to that Holy Function more could not have been said in so short a room upon that Weighty Grave and Tremendous Subject Sure hereafter such mistaken Clergy-men who have drank too liberally at John Calvins Fountain and thereby imbib'd his Poyson breath'd forth against the Stars and the Magnifiers of God in his Works without either serious Examination or Consideration will cease to Calumniate Astrologers and the laudable Science of the Stars and be brought to confess upon their reading this Treatise that some of them at least believe they have Souls as well as Bodies and do as the Holy Church it self assert their Immortality and hope for Salvation by the Blood of the blessed Jesus abandoning all sorts of Atheism Blasphemy and Imposture 2. Should the Reader hereof be a Learned Physician whose business it is
Porcum quam Puerum Better it was to be Herods Hog than his Son But touching this see the Learned Mr. Gregory in his Episc. Puerorum For the rest of the Saints and Martyrs as it cannot be expected they shall all of them be couch'd in this small Volume so neither are they especially in favour with the times and therefore forbear I any further mention thereof Of the Ember Weeks THe Ember Weeks so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e. i. Dies are four in every year as may be seen in the Calendar and anciently Wednesday Friday and Saturday in each Fasted according to the old verses Post Cineres Pentec postâ—rucem postque Luciam Mercurii Veneris Sabbatho Jejunia fient They are of great Antiquity in the Church and called by the Latin Fathers Quatuor Anni tempora For beside the first Institution of them for quarterly Seasons of devotion proportioned to each part of the year as the first Fruits of every Season that the whole and each Division of it might be thereby blest and again beside their answerableness to those Jejunia quatuor or Solemn Fasting days of the Jews before mentioned that we Christians may not be inferiour to them in that Duty an admirable use is assign'd to them in the Church in imitation of the Apostles Acts 13.3 Others think they are call'd Ember days or days of Ashes from the no less Antient than Religious Custom of using Hair-Cloath and Ashes in time of publick Piety and Penance Or from the Old Custom of eating nothing on those days till night and then only a Cake baked under the Embers or Ashes which was called Panem subcineritium or Ember-bread Of the Vigils or Fasting Eves of Festivals IN the Apostles days and some time after when the Poor Christians durst not appear in publick because of the continual Snares Treacheries and Persecution of Tyrants and Enemies of their Religion they were forc'd to meet in the Night time for the Exercise of their Devotion And in the first Church after the times of the Apostles when they stood not in Fear of any Persecution they publickly watched and Fasted in their Churches all Easter Week long but especially on the Eve of the Resurrection The Vigils of this Feast saith Eusebius lib. 4. de vita Const. were made as Light as day by hanging out great Waxed Lights throughout the whole City and Lamps mystically expressing the light of Salvation which was then ready to shine forth Whence grew the Custom both for Christian Men and Women to watch and Fast on the Eves of great Solemnities in their Churches and at the Sepulchres of Saints and Martyrs whereof Flavianus and Diodorus of Antioch are said to be the Authors Afterwards by the perswasion of Leontius Bishop of Antioch this Custom of Watching and Fasting at Sepulchres was restrained to the Church only about the year of Christ 375. But forasmuch as in process of time these Nocturnal and promiscuous Watchings occasion'd much wickedness therefore were the Women interdicted access thither eò quod saepe saith the Canon sub Obtentu orationis scelera latenter committantur At length the Vigils themselves were inhibitâ—d and these Fasts which are kept on the Eves of the greatest Festivals and observed as well as the Holy Fast of Lent instituted in their stead howbeit they are still called Vigils as being the Name of a Duty therein And this was confirm'd by Innocent the 3. about the year of Grace 1210. For the very purpose of the Church of God saith Judicious Hooker both in the Number and in the Order of the Fasts hath been not only to preserve thereby throughout all Ages the remembrance of Miseries heretofore sustain'd and of the causes in our selves out of which they have risen that Men considering the one might fear the other the more but farther also to temper the mind lest contrary affections coming in place should make it too profuse and dissolute in which respect it seemeth that Fasts have been set as Ushers of Festival days for prevention of those disorders as much as might be wherein notwithstanding the world always will deserve as it hath done Blame because such Evil being not possible to be rooted out the most we can do is in keeping them low and which is chiefly the Fruit we look for to create in the minds of Men a Love towards frugal and severe Life to undermine the Pallace of wantonness to plant Parsimony as Nature where Riotousness hath been studyed to harden whom pleasure would melt and to help the Tumors which always fulness breedeth that Childrâ—n as it were in the Wool of their Infancy dyed with hardness may never afterwards change Colour That the Poor whose perpetual Fasts are Necessity may with better contentment endure the hunger which Virtue causeth others so often to choose and by advice of Religion it self so far to esteem above the contrary that they which for the most part do lead sensual and easie lives they which are not plagued like other men may by a publick Spectacle of all be still put in mind what themselves are Finally that every man may be every Man 's daily guide and example as well by Fasting to declare Humility as by Praise to express Joy in the sight of God although it have herein befallen the Church as sometimes David so that the speech of the one may be truly the voice of the other My Soul Fasted and even that was also turn'd to my Reproof A Learned and useful Discourse touching the right Observation and Keeping of the Holy Feast of Easter occasion'd by a Complaint against the Almanack-makers to the King and Council Anno 1664. as if they all had been mistaken in the Celebration of this great Feast IN the year 1665. the Holy Feast of Easter falls out on March the 26. which is the Sunday following the first Full Moon nexâ— aâ—ter the Vernal Equinox And therefore I hope we Almanack-writers shall not this year be accused for mistaking the time thereof as all of us were the last year 1664. a whole week though without any just cause on our part Nevertheless somebody who would be thought wiser perhaps than yet the world thinks him made it look'd upon as a great discovery and more gloried in it than ever I heard Columbus did of his discovering America yet was so purblind as not to discover Five whole Weeks of the like Errour but the very year before Our Easter then falling not till the 19 of April which should have been the 15. of March according to the good old Rule of the Church Nor indeed was it any new thing or any Errour at all of ours that the Celebration thereof should the last year fall seven days later then it ought to do that being the twentieth time it hath so happen'd since the year of Christ 1600 viz. In the years 1602. 1609. 1610. 1613. 1616. 1619. 1620. 1623. 1626. 1630. 1637. 1640. 1643. 1646. 1647. 1650. 1653. 1657. 1661.
the quantity or quality thereof breaks out violently The which Hippocrates seemeth also to grant Lib. 4. de Morbo saying Conturbatur homo dumfebricitat cujus reisignum est quod horror alià s atque ailà s per corpus transcurrit The Extâ—â—nal cause is from some Alteration of the Spirit or Air namely when the Humours are changed from what they were by Nature as from a Cold to a Hot or from a Dry to a Moist condition contra For Hippocrates Aphoris 6. and elsewhere in his Book De Nat. Hum. tells us that Heat and Moisture in the Body move forward the Crises For saith He some Diseases proceed from naughty Dyet others from the Air we attract by means whereof we Live Wherefore Dyet as it breeds such and such Humors is the Internal and Air attracted the External cause of the Crisis That the Qualities are alter'd by the Influence of the Stars and especially the Luminaries is a thing not now to be doubted it being sufficiently apparent in the four seasons of the year how the Air with all Plants and Animals c. do diversly admit of Alteration and therefore the Watry Humors and the Spirit being Aerial are observed to operate more when they are excited than otherwise As when the Harp is touched it moves men to Dancing when the Trumpet Sounds to War like Employments Hence it appears that the universal Cause of all Crises is the Influence of the Heavens For the Coelestial Bodies by their Heat Light Motion and Configuration or Aspects to which St. Augustine adds Afflatum that is Inspiration or Instinction and St. Thomas Aptitudinis Efficaciam a virtual Aptitude or fitness do rule and govern not only the Four Elements but all Elementary Bodies and especially Man from the very first Moment of his Birth until the Ultimate Minute of his Death inciting him sometimes to Mirth another while to Sorrow now to be Sick anon Well again For as Aristotle saith Ex irroratione Coelorum felicia infaelicia germinantur in Terris c. But as touching the Efficient Radical cause thereof the Philosophers making a deeper Scrutiny thereinto do attribute it to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity as that which primarily and radically governs the whole Universe as the Agent and first Act from which by which and into which all things are at length Resolved Wherefore the Pythagoreans named the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity Apollo because that as from Unity all Numbers take their Original and Encrease So are all things not otherwise than from One alone Surely the same Act which is the Word works centrally and alone from the Center to the Circumference for God is contained in the Heavens as a Center is within its Circle but by a different manner according to the variety of the Subject whereon it appears The Form or Essence of the Agent not being changed which is always Permanent and the same Wherefore it is evident that there is but only One Agent in every Region of this World and but only One Act of his yet divers and sundry Effects according to the manifold condition of the Organical Subject the thing Receiving or Suffering Whereof more in Dr. Flud in Cris. Mysterio There are two Principal sorts of Crises the One as in Acute Diseases and Lunar The Other in Chronical Diseases and Solar Such Crises as take their Original from their proper Principle or from an Internal cause as do the Crises Synochorum depend upon the Motion of the Moon But such as Proceed from the Air or from an External Cause as do the Crises of all Pestilential Feavers are govern'd both of the Sun and Moon Of the Sun if respect be had of the year if of the Month only then of the Moon Wherefore Acute diseases follow the Motion of the Moon and her configurations or Aspects to the place she was in at the first beginning of the disease But here we must Note that in Acute Diseases the Aspects or Radiations of the Moon viz. her Quartiles and Oppositions are not to be counted as if they should begin from her Conjunction with the Sun but from the degree and minute she is in at the Beginning of the Disease until her return to the same Radical Point which is performed in 27 days 8 hours or thereabouts Of Acute Diseases some are Acuti simpliciter simply Acute some Acuti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Decidentia or from Mutation and Degeneration some Peracuti very Sharp others Perperacuti Exceedingly Sharp Acuti simpliciter are they which from the 8. to the 10 11 14 20 and 21 day Run to the very height some whereof are called Menstrui because absolved within the space of a Lunar Month. Acuti ex decidentiâ from Diminishing or Degeneration are such as are judged imperfectly For sometimes they wax worse in respect of the Symptoms and are sometimes Remitted according as the Moon meets with the Good and Evil Aspects of the Good or Bad Planets And oftentimes they Degenerate from being Acute and become Chronical As when a Pleurisie turns into an Empiema or an Ulcer in the Breast So when a Quotidian Feaver becomes a Hectick or from an Intermittent degenerates into a Quotidian Contrà And these Diseases are judged within 40 Days Peracuti are such as are judged the 5 6 7 and 8 days in which number are the Febres causones Synochae Cholera Angina Peripneumonia Lethargus and the like Perperacuti be such as are absolved within the Space of 3 days or 4 at the utmost and in that time terminated either with Recovery or Death of which sorts are all Pestilential Feavers the Apoplexy Pleurisie Phrensie c. Chronical Diseases follow the Motion of the Sun Acquiring a Crisis after the 40 th day and Judgment when the Sun attains to the Quadrates as is Evident in Hectiques Dropsies and Quaternaries When he comes to the Sextiles and Trines there are only some Indicative Motions made of such Effects as follow in the Opposition Nevertheless they are oftentimes Anticipated or Protracted according as the Planets he meets with help or hinder and for the better if by Nature those Planets be Benevolent if Malevolent for the worse And the like we are subject to in the whole course of our Lives Nam Morbus est Modus vitae Partialis as Campanella Lib. 4. Medicinal most ingeniously observes Moreover the Crises are thus generally distinguished viz. Salvae Dubiae seu suspiciosae Judicatae seu periditatae non Judicatae Crisis Salva or safe is that which happens without any great and Pernicious Accidents Crisis Dubia doubtful or Suspicious which appears with great and Pernicious Accidents and is the most dangerous Crisis Judicata or Hazarded is when on the 4 th day the Signs of Concoction do appear and therefore pâ—aesage the Disease to be judged on the Seventh day Crisis non judicata or not Judged is when the Crisis is absolved the Seventh day yet was not to be Judged the Fourth
Radical Place of the Moon in the third Indicative Jupiter benignly Irradiating the Moon by a Trine about the same time denounced a propitious Crisâ—s to â—nsue The Twenty-third day about Nine a Clock in the Evening the Moon perambulating 10 degrees 19 min. of â™ wherein fell the second Critical day applyed to the Trine of Venus At which time she Produced a wholsome and propitious Crisis For on this very day the Feaver began to leave him and soon after he râ—covered his Health Quod sanè miram rerum Medicarum cum coelo Harmoniam consensum arguit Now that the Cause of this Crisis arising from the Stars may yet more plainly appear I will hereunto add a Coelestial Figure erected after the Rational manner with a Judgment Astrological thereupon Judicium Astrologicum ex Figurâ Decubitus Rationali Figura Decubitus Rationalis Ad Annum 1641. Mens Januarii Die Hor. Min. 2. 8. 00. Lat. 480 50′ T. Ap. ☽ ad âš¹ ♂ ☌ ♀ The Principal significators of this Figure are 1. The Ascendant and 2. Mercury Lord thereof in Capricorn a movable Sign Retrograd and Combust in the Fifth House 3. The Sixth House and 4. the Lord thereof in Aquarius a Fixed Sign strong and powerful in his own House the Moon in the Cusp of the Sixth House in Aquarius The Sun in the Fifth afflicted at the beginning of the Disease by a Quadrate of Mars in Aries a Fiery Sign and Lord of the Eighth House Whence it appears that the Disease proceeded from Choller ingendred of a Churlish Melancholy Humor according to the Aphorisme Sol à Marte ad Initium Morbi quovis modo infortunatus aegritudo erit Cholerica ex humore bilioso orta Furthermore Jupiter in a movable Sign in the Fifth House which rules the Stomach Liver and the Sides c. combust and wounded by the Quartile of Mars brought the Pleurisie upon him and because Mercury Afflicted by the Malevolent Planets is hereby rendered Malevolent he gave him the Dry-Cough Moreover the Moon in Aquarius applying to Saturn argues that the Cause of the Disease proceeded from the Weariness of a Journey according to the Doctrine of Hermes and Hippocrates Now for determining the length or shortness of the Disease consider these Aphorisms Sexta Domus in Signo Fixo Morbi Longitudinem pollicetur Item Saturnus existens Dominus sextae in Signo Fixo longum praesagit morbum Rursum Saturnus Dominus Sextae Domino Ascendentis fortior Morbi Incrementum denotat Postremò Luna Domino Sextae applicans Incrementum Morbi portendir Seeing therefore that Mars in a fiery Sign afflicts both the Luminaries namely the Sun by a Quadrate and the Moon by a long Sextile which is equivalent to a Quadrate I gather that the Principal Authors of this Disease are Saturn and Mars which together excited a very long Burning Feaver Then Mercury the dry Cough and at last Jupiter the Plurisie the which together with the Cough sooner ended than the Feaver for that Mercury and Jupiter were both constituted in a movable Sign Of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms c. IT will not be I hope ungrateful to the Ingenious if I recollect and commend unto their and my own contemplation the Causes of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms and Commonwealths and the rather because as I suppose Time never produced an Age so full of Prodigies nor a Generation of Men so inclin'd to Novelty as now the present wherein every day presents a New Inquiry every Month a fresh Vicissitude The Politiques distinguish the Causes of all Mutations into Two sorts First and Second The First cause is God the Creator and Governour of all things For notwithstanding the Actions of all Individual Human Creatures be in a Human Power yet the Constitutions Governments and Conservations of Human Communions and Societies or Republiques are not so in the Power of Men but depend wholly upon the First and Supreme Cause and the disposition thereof And for as much as God performs his greatest works in the world by Angels it is not impossible or strange if I say and aver that every Empire Kingdom and Republique hath some certain Angel and Genius peculiarly appropriated thereunto as a Governour ordained by God For this is the constant opinion of the Jews who believe that every Person and Place hath a certain Guardian Angel set over it nor do a few Doctors of the Catholick Church believe otherwise whilst in Dan. 10 11. there is mention made of an Angel Governour of Persia and Grece and that the Apostle Ephes. 3. expresly constitutes a certain Order of Angels which he calls Potestates Rulers or Potentates or as our English Translation hath it Principalities and Powers God hath set certain Intervals and Periods of times to all Empires c. amongst which Periods the 500. and 700. years are accounted most Fatal as you may see in Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. but especially in Richterus Ax. 1.2 seq And the natural reason hereof is for that in this space of time there clapseth the sixth Generation of Men which abateth of and more and more declineth from the simplicity strength and fortitude of those Men who at first obtained and preserved Empires by such vertues For like as the Bodies of Men became weak and feeble in the fourth and fifth Generation even so also decreaseth the strength and fortitude whereby Kingdoms are acquired preserved and propagated Besides it hath been observed that at the end of every 30 th year there usually falls out some one or other Mutation in Empires c. because that after so many years such men as formerly had the Government of Affairs and things therein do for the most part leave their Station and that from thenceforth New Ones succeed them who in the space of Thirty years more grow up and introduce new Customs and Opinions in the Commonwealth as you may read in Richterus Axiom 9. Moreover it is certain that as God hath appointed fatal Bounds and Limits of time to all Empires c. so hath he the like Bounds and Limits to all other particular places and when any change of Empires c. is imminent he commonly raiseth up some great Heroes whom he useth as Organs to punish or amend them yet first revealeth such future changes by certain Signs and Prodigies Vid. Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. Richt Axiom 19. And thus much of the first cause of the Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Republiques c. The Second Cause is either Natural or Moral The Natural cause is either Superior or Inferior The Superior Natural Cause is the Motion and Influence of the Planets and Stars upon these Inferiours touching which the Ingenious Keckerman Lib. 1. Cap. 26. delivers this Canon Coelum Efficacissimè agit in Corpus humanum sibi maximè cognatum atque adeo etiam in corpus tum ipsius Principis tum Subditorum ita nempe ut in corporibus mutat temperamenta
mutatis autem temperamentis mutantur mores mutatis moribus Principum Subditorum Sequitur mutatio Reip. Heaven saith he most effectually Operates upon a Human Body best agreeable to it self and so also on the Body both of the Prince himself and his Subjects to wit so as that it changeth the Temperaments of Mens Bodies and with those Temperaments their manners or conditions and the manners or conditions of Princes and Subjects being changed a mutation of the Commonwealth followeth And with him agrees that excellent Mathematician and Astrologer Origanus part 3. Membr 2. Cap. 1. Non modo in Regnis varias mutationes translationes animadvertimus dum modo hos modo illos Regnare atque aliis Dominari comperimus verum etiam in ipsa superficie terrae nihil esse perpetuum ex collatione temporum locorum Siccum humido humidum sicco permutari terrasque alias aquis aboleri alias assurgere deprehendimus We Observe not only sundry Changes and Translations of Kingdoms whilst these and these Planets reign and bear Rule with others but also that upon the whole surface of the Earth there is nothings perpetual and by comparing of Times and Places perceive Siccity chang'd into Moisture Moisture to Siccity some Countries destroy'd others increas'd by Waters Thus He and that very truly For although God the Author of Nature and the First Cause of every Good thing changes Countries and Transfers Kingdoms at his pleasure yet seeing he hath engraven in the Book of Nature and chiefly in Heaven which measureth Times the Motions and Mutations of all things things that be Invisible even his own eternal Power for the greatest part yea and exposed Heaven unto our view that it might be for signs of Present and Future things I shall not think it contrary to true Religion or Good Manners if with Fear and Reverence I enquire the Superior Natural Causes of those Mutations so long as I ascribe no necessity thereunto Maugre the Croaking and Coaxation of some few Epileptique Prophets and other Religious Lunatiques who prate and perswade the Contrary The First Cause is the Change of the Absides of the Planets whereby the Five Planets together with the Sun transfer the Places in which they are highest and most remote from the Center of the Earth so also the Places wherein they are lowest and nearest thereunto and together with those Places their swiftness and slowness of Motion into several parts of the Zodiaque according to the succession of the Signs whereof Cardan Seg. 1. Aph. 37. in these words Permutationes Absidum Regna Regiones Religiones mutant Changes of the Absides alter Kingdoms Regions and Religions Thus from the Change of Saturn's Absis into Cancer Mahomet had his growth and by the Change thereof into Capricorn the Sign Opposite thereunto receives he Detriment and at length a final Destruction Spinaeus an Excellent Astrologian and Physician to the Duke of Mantua in his Catastrophe Mundi Genuinely English'd by the Polite Quill of my Oaken Friend Elias Ashmole Esq tells us that Mahomets Destruction initiated Anno 1630 c. and this he chiefly deduces from the Change of Saturn's Absiâ— out of Sagittary into Capricorn which indeed I confess fell out according to the Prutenick Tables in the end of the year 1630. But by the more accurate observations of latâ—r Authors the Absis of Saturn continues in Sagittary for many years yet to come For by the Philolaique Tables the best extant it enters not Capricorn until the beginning of the year 1728. and therefore it could not in the least be unless we will have the Effect precede its Cause that Mahomets Destruction commenc'd in this respect in or near the year 1630. Nevertheless I believe with Spinaeus that the many Revolutions of the Heavens in and about that year have already produced a sensible Commencement of Detriment unto him yet conclude not his final Destruction until after the year 1728. Wherein Saturns Absis will be Changed into Capricorn and that several other Causes concur to extirpate him and his Law There is no other change of the Absis of any Planet falling out in our time save only the Absis of Mars and this happen'd according to Bullialdus in the latter end of the year 1647. which was from Leo to Virgo and what a strange mutation ensued the year following viz. A Dissolution of the English Monarchy c. the whole World can witness which very thing signally confirms that of Ludovic de Reg. Aph. 9. Mutantur Regna Dominia Fides Sectaeque ac opiniones hominum dum mutantur Auges Planetarum de signo in signum dico illarum gentium quarum significator erit Planeta Augis permutatae Kingdoms and Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of Men are changed when the Auges or Absides of the Planets are changed from one Sign to another I mean the Kingdoms Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of such Nations as have for their significator the Planet whose Auge is changed Now all men know who know any thing of this Nature that Aries is the Ascendant and Mars Lord thereof the significator of England and so he is of France Germany Denmark and several other places who are herein no less concern'd than the English as a few years will assuredly manifest Mutatioque erit ad bonum vel malum secundum Naturam significatorum superiorum illorum temporum secundum Naturam signi mutationis And this change saith that same Author and Aphorisme shall be to Good or Evil according to the Nature of the chief significators of those times and Sign of Mutation We know Saturn Mars and Mercury have born the greatest sway in almost every Eclipse Revoâ—ution and other notable Configurations of the Planets 〈◊〉 and since that year especially in Two of the Three Eclipses of 1652. and in the great and Total Eclipse Anno 1653. in March And as for the Sign into which this change was made it is Virgo the principal house of Mercury a Cold and Dry Melancholy Barren Sign whereby we may easily judge of what Nature the Change is I spare to Expatiate Another Cause is the Change of the Sun's Eccentricity described of Copernicus cap. 20 lib. 3. Revol by the Motion of a little Circle having the Center of the Eccentrick in its Circumference and finishing its Period in 3434 years The year 1653. Offers it the least that can be according to Rheinoldus and Copernicus being 32190. such parts as the Eccentrick hath 1000000 or Part 1. 55′ 53″ 24‴ where the Semidiameter of the Suns Eccentricity hath 60. The greatest viz. 2° 3â— 7″ happen'd 36 years before Christ about the beginning of the Roman Monarchy Georgius Joachimâ—â— Rheticus callled this Circle the Wheel of Fortune by whose Revolutions saith he the Monarchies of the world assume their Commencements and Changes For like as the Roman Empire obtain'd its Highest Dignity when the Eccentricity was greatest so the same decreasing it is very much Impaired
rendring his Death no less Prodigious than was the course of his Life Or that of the Year 1572. in Cassiopâ—ia surpassing of the quantity of the Earth 500 times Or those of the Years 1604. and 1618. which were no less Miraculous than that the Sun should stand still as we read it did in the Days of Joshua or return ten Degrees backward as once upon the Dial of Abaz or be Eclipsed so near a Full Moon as at our Saviour's Passion being all of them alike â—strang'd from the accustomed Order of Nature In like manner the Eclipses of thâ— Luminaries are the Causes of many Changes that ensue in the World because their Effects are general pouring forth theâ—r Influence not only upon Cities but even whole Regions subject to the Quadrangle the Sign more especially wherein the Defect happens and no less on particular Persons who have any affinity in their Genitures with the Schemes of such Eclipses So likewise are the strong Genitures of Kings c. Geniturae validae Regna mutant Mighty Genitures change or translate Kingdoms Causes adjuvant are Revolutions of the World the Progression of the Great Orb of Great Conjunctions before the Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like I could much enlarge my self upon the Progressions of the Great Orb Great Conjunctions c. but shall forbear in regard the most of them concern Foreign Parts excepting that of the Great Conjunction before the Flood which in the Year 1653. was come to the Sign Cancer and did therefore afflict according to Albumazar Tract 4. Differ 4. the Countries of Scotland and Holland with many Changes and Conversions of things from one condition to another a Famine and Poverty proceeding from Siccity and Drought and a general Fear to possess the People of those places because of their Enemies Great Mortality and Slaughters amongst them with abundance of such Creatures as are destructive to the Earth Thus far have you seen the Superiour Natural Causes of the Mutations or Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Common-Wealths how far wherein and when they concern us and other Nations The Inferiour Natural Cause is either within or without Man That within is the Disposition of the Temperament of the Bodies both of Princes and Subjects aâ—d â—o both different Births and Deaths as well of them that Govern as those that be Governed in the Common-Wealth That without is a Mutation either of Fire or Water and of the Earth and place where the Common-wealth is constituted Unto which do belong House-burnings Earthquakes Change of Ports Barrenness Famine Pestilence and all other Natural damages by the which Common-wealths are changed The Moral Cause of Mutation is either Internal or External The Internal is either on the Prince's or Subject's part The Internal on the Prince's part admits this general Canon The beginnings of Princes are for the most part good but their Progress worse From which Change arise great Mutations in Publick Affairs and things The Internal Cause also of Changes in respect of the Prince is either Ethical or Political Touching Ethical Causes there are these Canons 1. Intemperance and Lust of Princes occasion change of the Common-wealth 2. The like when Princes are Effeminate and Cowardly For like as Empires are obtained maintained and kept by Warlike Fortitude so on the contrary are they lost or dangerously changed by softness and Pusillanimity Political Causes of Changes are either in respect of the Foundation of the Principality or of the Office and Care of the Prince As touching the Causes respecting the Foundation of the Principality there be these Canons 1. It is impossible any Common-wealth should long be safe where the Prince comes to Rule either by a violent Invasion or a crafty Subreption without any access to the Principality 2. The Perjuries of Princes that is when they keep not their Oaths made to their Subjects at the time they were called to Govern bring upon Kingdoms dangerous Changes and Conversions 3. The Authority of a Prince decreasing produceth Change and when the Periods of Empires are divolved the Authority of those that Govern faileth The Causes that respect the Care or Office of the Prince have these Canons 1. When the Prince listens not to Wise and Faithful Councellors Changes are imminent 2. When Publick Judgments are corrupted and hainous Impieties remain unpunished Changes are at hand 3. When the Prince affords not the Subject a Lawful and necessary Defence but suffers him to be vexed and trampled over by Incursions of Enemies Changes ensue 4. When the Revenues of a Kingdom decrease of necessity a Change must follow For Moneys are the Nerves of Empires 5. When the Prince doth too much Poll his Subjects with heavy Tributes and Exactions a Change succeedeth 6. When the Potency and Amplitude of Kingdoms arrive at an exceeding greatness a Change follows for the most part and the Empire falleth by its own weight 7. Foreigners rashly irritated or called into a Kingdom do introduce a Change thereof These are the Causes of the Prince his part there now remain the Causes on the Subjects part which are also either Ethical or Political Touching the Ethical Causes these be the Canons 1. When grievous Wickedness is committed amongst the Subjects and all Reverence of the Laws shaken off and that they Live Licentiously in Lust and Luxury Mutations follow 2. When Subjects degenerate from their Pristine Fortitude and become Unwarlike and Effeminate Kingdoms are Changed Political Causes have these Canons 1 When Subjects begin to have their Princes in hatred and grow weary of them Changes will assuredly follow 2. Pâ—nishments and Changes do ever succeed Infidelity of Subjects 3. Changes of things do always accompany the Disobedience and Contumacy of Subjects 4. Where neiâ—her the Laws nor Magistrates are had in Honour there the Common-wealth cannot be safe or durable An Excellent Discourse of the Names Genus Species Efficient and Final Causes of all Comets c. THE Order which Nature observeth in all things Created doth plainly enough teach us That whatsoever is Born passeth and hasteth towards Death And that all things which have a beginning necessarily and interchangably roul towards their End And as in Humane Bodies some are more strong vigorous and of better Constitution than others and therefore of longer continuance Even so in Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealths some preserve themselves longer for that either they are by Nature more strenuous and stable as having propitious Stars and they well Fortified at the time of their first Foundation Or because the Situation of them is Naturally stronger than others as we see at this day in the Signory of Venice The like holdeth in Cities and Towns in particular Families Laws Conclaves and Councils in Religions Heresies and Schisms The consideration whereof prevents my Wonder at the Vicissitudes and Changes here on Earth I account it no Miracle to see a Monarchy Eclipsed in its greatest Glory and the ruine of one the raising of another I stand not
Thousand and seven hundred German Miles Longomontanus and Cysatus found the true Diameter of the Head of the Comet in 1618. One hundred and seventy five German Miles and in proportion to the Diameter of the Earth as 377. to 3600. the length of the Tail continually variable and very uncertain excepting only the 29 of December on which day it was observed to be 445 Semi-diameters of the Earth which answers to three hundred eighty two thousand and seven hundred German Miles 9. The Situation of the Tail in respect of the Sun Venus or Mercury and of the Quarter of Heaven towards which it seems to incline PEtrus Apianus first Observed that Comets projected their Tails to the adverse part from the Sun and to him Cornelius Gemma Cardanus Maestlin Cysatus Blananus Longomontanus and Tycho subscribed The last of whom speaking of the Comet in 1590. hath these words Ex iis vero quas indicavimus caudae porrectionibus evidenter colligitur ubique à sole fuisse ad amussim versam si modo solis positus cum capite Cometae locis quos iisdem temporibus obtinuerunt in vicem conferantur viz. By these Porrections or stretchings out of the Tail saith he before expressed it is evidently gathered that the same have been every where exactly averse from the Sun if so be the Positions of the Sun and the places of the Comet 's Head which at those times they possessed be compared together Nevertheless Tycho acknowledges that the Tail of the Comet in 1577. was directly opposed to Venus not the Sun which he rather attributes to some secret Optical Cause than he would admit Venus could cast out such strong Rays But whether for some hidden Optical Reason as Tycho thinks or because the Head of the Comet is not exactly Sphaerical as Cabaeus supposes certain it is that the Tail sometimes seems to recede a little from the place opposite to the Sun for so Kepler himself acknowledges pag. 54. Solemne hoc est Cometis quod caudae ipsorum nonnihil ab opposito Solis deflectant This is ordinary saith he with Comets that their Tails do somewhat incline from the places opposite to the Sun The like may be said of the Comet in 1618. the Tail whereof Kepler the 9 th of December found to be rather opposed to Mercury than the Sun Johannes Hommelius likewise Observed that the Tail of the Comet in 1556. did not exactly oppose the Sun so long as it was distant from him less than a Quadrant or 90 degrees but that afterwards it tended directly to the Quarter opposite to the Sun By all which it appears that this deflection from the opposite place of the Sun arises per accidens from the Position of the Sun the Comet and Observer other secret Causes perhaps concurring in the matter and shape of the Head or from the transverse distance and motion thereof But doubtless of it self it always respects the Region opposite to the Sun Whence it is as before I noted that Matutine and Oriental Comets are bearded their Rays being projected Westward but the Vespertine and Occidental Tailed their Rays being averse from the West Eastward 10. The Quarter of Heaven in which they arise to which they are carried and where extinct AS to this we read of none that were moved by a direct Tract from any one Quarter of Heaven to another opposite thereunto but all obliquely unless it was that observed by Haly Anno 1200. because he saith the same was carried by the motion of the Primum Mobile from the East Westward Those of the Years 392. 405. 1471. 1475. 1532. 1533. 1539. 1556. and 1618. were moved from the East Westward but all of them obliquely inclining Northward So on the contrary Those that move from the West Eastward incline either Southward or Northward As that great Comet of the Year 373. before Christ seen and described of Aristotle which begun in the West Aequinoctial point and came thence to Orion's Girdle where it extinguished In like manner the Comet in September 1607. began to shew it self betwixt the North and West Aestival point having almost 50 degrees of Northern declination and by a continual Motion according to the Order of the Signs the 10 th of October it was got beyond the Aequator ad Serpentarii Tibiam praecedentem where it vanished having twelve degrees and upwards of South declination Others have first appeared in the North and been moved thence Eastward as that Anno 54. in Nero's time others towards the South as those of the Years 1313. and 1551. Others have at first appeared in the North as that at the Death of Julius Caesar in the 44 Year preceding Christ with many more 11. Their Motion according to the Succession of the Signs or contrary and of the Motion of the Primum Mobile SOme Comets have moved according to the Succession of the Signs as those of the Years 1592. and 1607. Some contrary as they of the Years 1556. and 1618. with many others Some that were at first Retrograde have become direct as that in 1556. and some that were at first Direct have become Retrograde or Stationary as were those of the Years 1569. and 1582. That they have a Diurnal Motion or a Motion agreeing to that of the Primum Mobile is evident because that the most part of such as appeared in the Morning have return'd in the dawning of the day or before but were not to be seâ—n at Sun-set or Twilight in the same place where they were in the Morning as they should have been if they had remained in the same place or had moved only by their own Motion In like manner the greatâ—st part of those that are seen in the Evening do so appear after Sun-sâ—t above the West part of the Horizon that notwithstanding their Motion according to the Succession of Signs some set in the West before Midnight others at least before the Sun rise next Morning yet among these some rise in the Evening and set in the Morning as the Comet 119. Some are visible all the Night long or set not at all as did those included within the Circle of â—hose Stars that never sâ—t viz. the Comets of the Years 1513. 1533. and 1556. and that in 1618. from the 20 of December But whether the Comet that hung over Rome Anno 13. before Christ and that other of the 70 Year after Christ which appeared a whole Year over the City Jerusalem had any common or proper Motion will not easily be determined 12. The Arch or Way of Comets and the Quantity thereof AS touching the Arch or way of Comets there hath been great Controversie whether all or the most of Comets are moved by a right Line as Kepler Galilaeus and some others thought or by a Circle as the most suppose and if by a crooked Line whether in the Plane of a great Circle of a Sphere as Regiomontanus Tycho Longomontanus and many Modern Astronomers have demonstrated This apparent Arch hath been
in some shorter in others longer the quantity whereof is gathered from the Diurnal Motions in its own Circle collected into one Sum or from the Point whence its Motion began to the Point wherein it vanished the way of the Comet being traced in the Superficies of the Globe and measured by the Compass or else by a bare Ocular Observation of the Astronomer 13. The swiftness of Comets IF by a few we may judge of the rest their Motion is unequal and that very probably for so much as we find not even among the Planets themselves an equality in their apparent Motion Some have been swift at the beginning and by little and little become slower such were those of the Years 1577. 1585. 1590. 1607. and 1618. Some have been swifter at the middle than at last as that in 1472. observed by Regiomontanus and that in 1531. by Apian so likewise the other in 1556. by Hommelius and some swiftest at the end as that observed by Pontanus in the Year 1471. 14. Their Distance from the Earth FOR the place or distance of Comets some will needs throw them all below the Moon in which number are Regiomontanus Pontanus Fracostorius Apian Junctinus Scaliger Claramontius and Dassipodius Others will have them all above the Moon as Seneca Cardanus Tycho Longomontanus Galilaeus Blanchanus and Rothmanuus Another sort do allow either of some above and some below or of some that are sometimes below and sometimes above In which Rank are Maestline Apian Camerarius Gloriosus Clavius Maurolicus Fromundus Licetus Cabaeus and Resta Kepler and Gisatus aver one and the same Comet hath been one day above and another day below the Moon yet for the most part above her But the greatest part of our late Observers distinguish them into Elementary and Sublunary The Coelestial is maintain'd by many Arguments whereof that is the strongest which is taken from the Parallax or diversity of Aspect For from hence Tycho and Kepler do prove that a Star or any other visible Body impending or moving in the Air by how much lesser Parallax it hath is by so much the higher elevated from the Câ—nter of the Earth And because many Comets have been found to have lesser Parallax than the Moon they therefore conclude them further distant from the Earth and to have had their Course among the Planets 15. The Colour Smell and Diaphaniety of Comets FOR the first some have been clear and splendent like the Sun as were those of the Years 1264. and 1521. Some red and rutilant as those of the Years 1526. and 1556. Others of a yellow or Gold colour as that in the Year 1533. Others Silver colour'd as that which Haly observed 1200. Others of a Leaden Pale Ashy colour as that in 1607. Some of a dim red inclining to a brown refulgent colour as those of the Years 1477. and 1585. And others of sundry yea indeed all manner of colours as was that in 1513. Touching the Second there was only one in the Year 396. accompanied with a Sulphurous noisom smell For the last Seneca seems to attribute a Diaphaniety to all Comets per Cometas aciem transmittimus We see saith he through Comets And Tycho tells us in Epist. p. 143. that he saw the Fixed Stars through the Tail of the Comet in 1577. 16. The Matter Place and Efficient Cause of Comets 1. SOme think Comets not to be any real and distinct thing from other prae-existent Bodies but rather a meer Emphasis or Apparency made by the reflection or refraction of the Sun or Moons Rays in almost such sort as the Rain-bow Halo and Parelii 2. Some account them not any thing existing de novo but rather a meer Symphasis or Co-apparency of many known Stars united by a corporal Conjunction and by that means representing a kind of a longer Star 3. A third sort think that a Comet is a wandring Star or some Planet not of the seven commonly known but some other strange one seldom appearing either by reason of its nearness to the Sun it 's too far distance from the Earth or the grosser parts of the Heaven and Air where it is and which after some space of time coming to a more convenient distance from the Sun or nearer the Earth or else by reason of some intercurrent more Diaphanous parts of Heaven or the Air or for some other secret Cause becomes conspicuous 4. Another sort suppose that Comets are an aggregate of many incorruptible little Stars formerly joyned together as one entire Body and which afterwards separating cease to be visible 5. Aristotle and his followers hold that a Comet is a Fiery Meteor newly generated of the great plenty of Exhalations drawn up from the Earth and Sea into the Supream Region of the Air where it is easily distinguished from the thin Air and being well compact obtains a consistency and for that it is carried about by the Motion of the Primum Mobile by which the Supream Air is also moved begetteth Fire and retaineth the same until the Sulphurous Unctious Fat and Nitrous plenty of Exhalations gathered together either at first or successively administreth Matter or Sustenance of a Flame which ceasing the Comet by little and little diminisheth and at length is wholly extinguished 6. There are others that think it generated of an Elementary Matter that is of the more subtil Exhalations which are mounted so on high by their own Levity they ascend above the Moon and by their Crystal-like clearness do as it were drink up the Rays of the Planets especially the Sun and afterwards transmit themselves into a Tail or Beard 7. Another sort That a Comet is a Sublunary Matter arising from the most subtil breathings or vapours but not so much inflamed as illustrated of the Sun like as it were to Glass Pots distain'd with a yellow or Ruddy colour and full of water for the Diaphaniety or transparency thereof 8. Others be of Opinion that Comets are made de novo of a Coelestial Matter not by Generation of a new substantial Form but by condensation with a mixture of Opacity and Diaphaniety which receive and transmit the Light of the Sun Or by an addition of Light made in the parts of Heaven 9. A Ninth sort suppose they are generated de novo in Heaven of a Coelestial Matter and afterwards all or many of them corrupted 10. Kepler was the only Man believed them generated of Coelestial Matter but that nevertheless some descended below the Moon 11. Another Opinion is that if not all yet that many Comets are â—ither created by God of nothing as Maestlin supposed or made of what Matter soever it pleaseth him Coelestial or Elementary and put into any form or shape to terrifie Mortals and to threaten Calamities to the World but moved where he pleased by Angels and Intelligences 12. The twelfth and last Opinion is not differing from all the rest but rather distinguishing Coelestial from Elementary Comets in respect of their Place and Matter
and last Particular laid down by Ptolemy and that is the time of these Events In due search whereof we are to consider the Habit of the Comet in respect of the Sun Cometa Orientalis effectum suum citius ostendit Occidentalis tardius An Oriental Comet doth quickly shew its Effects but an Occidental as this was more slowly And this in the general In Specie saith Cardan quantum temporis requiritur Prolemaeus non dixit Ptolemy hath left us no special Rule whereby to know the precise beginning of a Comets Effects Howbeit Cardan is of Opinion that the beginnings thereof are as in Eclipses deferred so many Months as there shall be inequal hours intercepted between the Comet and the Ascendant of the Figure erected to the middle time of its appearance Yet saith he Hoc unum interest quod semina corum quae pâ—r Cometam significantur diutius proferuntur This one thing is considerable that sometimes the Generation or Seeds of those things which are signified by a Comet are deferred longer And he gives the Example of our Saviour at whose Birth there appeared a Comet in the East which the Wise Men saw and came therefore to Worship him They called it a Star by a common name as well because Comets are called Stars as also for that it was most fair and beautiful and resembling those that usually shine by Night Which Star or Comet saith he pronounced the Seditions and Troubles that succeeded by the Promulgation of the Faith of Christ These many Exiles and Martyrs and afterwards the Kingdom of Peace and Salvation to be established The Author and King of which CHRIST was born in the very Glory of the Comet because it appeared in the East Nevertheless the Effects thereof that is to say the Preaching and Promulgation of his Law the Seditions and Tumults of the People the Persecutions Banishments Deaths Wars and Kingdoms erected in a Christian Name scarce had their Commencement Thirty Years after and persevere until this very day So on the contrary in 1264. there appeared an unhappy Comet in the East extending its Hairs or Rays if we Credit the Story to the Mid-heaven which Comet continued almost Nine Months together Nâ—ither sooner vanished it than Pope Urban dyed After whose death Charles with an Army of Frâ—nch marched against Manfrâ—dus and having Vanquished him possesses himself of the Kingdom of Naples Two Years after the Paeni or Carthaginians invaded Spain and there committed great Cruelty nevertheless they were afterwards repulsâ—d and slam At the same time there were great Tumults raised in Hetruria What followed In the third Year after the Comet Banducar or rather Bandoduchar King of Babylon and Assyria invaded Armenia with a mighty Army Conquered Antioch and committed most grievous slaughters upon the Christians In the fourth Year after the Comet Conradinus the Suevian being Vanquished and taken Captive by Charles Earl of Provence and Sicily and as Aemilius writes the declared King of Jerusalem was Beheaded In the fifth Year Lewis the Ninth King of France passing into Africa was taken at Carthage or as others say at Tunera and dyed of a Flux the greatest part of his Army being first destroyed by Famine and Pestilence Whose Death was no sooner heard of than the aforesaid Charles enforced the King of the Carthaginians to a Yearly Tribute In the Sixth Year the Scythians now called Tartars assisting the Armenians the Assyrians or Saracens being Vanquished and fled freed Asia and long kept it by the consent of the Christians So that the measure of time limiting the beginning and ending of a Comets Effects cannot be prefixed unless as Ptolemy describeth for so indeed they may be conjectured But to adventure on feigned proportions of time where none is in Nature were ridiculous Diuturni Cometae effectuum magnitudinem diuturnitatem stabilemque in perturbatione quam afferunt statum significant Effectus minores minus stabiles minus Diuturni Cometae afferunt Comets that continue long saith Origanus import the Magnitude and continuance of their Effects and a stedfast condition in the Trouble or Aâ—â—iction they bring But such as continue a shorter time lesser Effects and not so durable This Comet continued twenty three days or thereabouts and 't is probable the Effects may continue as many Years but I dare not conclude so For although that proportion should hold true where the Effects of Comets meeting with no obstruction terminate per se their virtue being extinguished like as it falls out in all other Natural Causes Yet when another Comet Eclipse or Great Conjunction supervenes which is of a contrary Nature it everts the Decrees of the former and so eludes us as to any certain proportion of time limiting their Effects Teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus viz. Johannes Baptista Morinus Doctor in Physick and Physician in Ordinary to the Duke of Luxemburgh after his Epistles to the South and North Astrologers for restoring of Astrology Printed at Paris Anno 1628. delivers these six following Articles c. as necessary for the Confirmation and Demonstration thereof by Principles which Articles c. I have faithfully Translated and here inserted in hope some Noble Spirits endued with Ability of Parts and Purse may timely attempt the Prosecution thereof 1. FIrst to Collect from the Histories of several Nations of the World the most Eminent and Notable Changes that have therein happened in respect of Sects Empires Kingdoms Wars Famines Deluges c. with the exact times of their Changes and the true postures of the Constellations and Planets preceding the same 2. To observe the Changes of the Air in respect of Heat Cold Moisture and Drought as also the Winds throughout the whole Latitude of the Earth And then the different places of Longitude in their Natures and Qualities at the same and at several times Erecting Coelestial Figures most congruous for that purpose and to mark well how from thence Plants Brutes and Men are affected and all these Observations to compare one with another 3. To erect the several Nativities of such as dyed not long after they were Born of those that be Sickly or any ways Hurt Blind Lame Ulcerated Wounded Burnt Mutilated c. diligently observing the Parts so affected the which may most conveniently be done in a spacious City such as Paris is where are many Hospitals and Poor People innumerable many Chirurgeons and every day various Casualties 4. By help of the Physicians to find out if possible the Beginnings Species Accidents and Solutions of all Acute and daily Diseases that every where abound Erecting Coelestial Schemes to those Beginnings And that especially at Paris where the exorbitant Practice of frequent Blood-letting does much disturb Natures Motions and Crises in Diseases and very often elude and frustrate the Astrological Predictions of the Ancients concerning them 5. What the Ancient Astrologers have delivered on every Subject the same to Collect and Observe in several by diligent reading thereof and to
Correct the Figures of their Experiments in respect of the Errors of the old Astronomy 6. To Argue and Determine by Physical and Astrological Reasons concerning the System of the World now so much controverted betwixt the Copernicans and Tychonists For as much as in this thing although both Mensurable and Visible Geometry and the Sight are both defective Neither can the quickest sighted Man living conclude any thing thence for certain with what Telescope soever Because the same Phaenomena are deduced from both the Systems For albeit the thing it self be sensible yet does it elude and surpass the sense of Man the truth whereof so much concerns Astrology that Tycho and Kepler thought fit rather to destroy her than that their own new Systems should not be established Afterwards out of the confused sayings of Ancient Astrologers and the Observations of past and present things with the proper and Corrected Schemes of Heaven by accurate Speculation and dividing rightly to attain unto the first Causes of Effects which are the first Principles of this Science few in number both in this and other Sciences yet so valid that from thence they being firmly established the whole Science of Astrology and her innumerable Conclusions may easily be drawn to a Method Whence I dare boldly affirm that Astrology which is partly a Physical partly a Mathematical Science may be more certainly and evidently demonstrated yea and in a more Excellent Method than either Natural Philosophy or Physick have hitherto been by any Man whatsoever Yet seeing many times for the restoring of Astronomy and once in the Kalendar many Men Learned in these Arts have met together at the Charge of Kings Emperours and of his Holyness the Pope no Man I suppose will imagine that one Man's Life or Labour can suffice for the above-mentioned work it being so very great so difficult and sublime but that every one of the Articles require several Persons proper thereunto and to be encouraged with fair and liberal Allowances All whose Labours he who being endowed with Understanding and Wisdom is made Praefect or Ruler of the Sixth Article must receive and Govern that thence he may know how to discharge his Duty But 't is much to be fear'd this Malignant and to Scholars most Ingrateful Age the so long wish'd for and present Opportunity being slighted will either defraud it self and Posterity of so great a Benefit or else retard the same for some more Myriads of Heavenly Revolutions or at least-wise scorn to see it now compleat and perfect When verily this Science is more Divine than all other Natural Sciences howbeit through the want of Demonstration and Abuse it hath hitherto undergone the Contempt and Hatred of Ignorant Men. But let no Man think I enforce or attempt any thing against the most Holy Roman Church For I embrace not only the Ninth Rule of the Index of Books prohibited by the Council of Trent but also the Bull of Sixtus Quintus against such as profess the vain and false Science of the Stars and Constellations which I extreamly abhor and endeavour with all my might utterly to extirpate Moreover I deny not but that the very true Science of the Stars which what sober Man will deny if with a Mind elevated above the dregs of the Earth and the Clouds of the Air he fix his Eye upon those truly sublime but yet Naturally known Powers of the Coelestial Bodies and their manner of Operation may no less Lawfully be forbidden by the Church in respect of the Abuse thereof than the Reading of the Holy Scriptures according to that of St. Matthew Cap. 18. If thy Hand or Foot offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee It is good for thee c. However from those Excellent Principles of Astrology newly discovered it may be Lawful at least to assure you that I can so strongly assert the truth thereof it shall abundantly appear to all Men that as it is a Holy and Godly thing to inveigh against all Diabolical Practisers Vain Ignorant and Superstitious Astrologers and to deter Men from all vain and sinful Curiosity so to rage and rave against the Substance of this true Science whether in Pamphlets or Pulpits is in an Ignorant Man unjust and rash in a knowing Man very Malicious and that indeed it were far better for Men even in order to their Salvation that the Truth and true Use of this Science might be known than the Falsity Ignorance and Abuse thereof should any longer continue and GOD be defrauded of that Glory which is by right due to him for his Creating the Heavens Neither let it trouble any Man that I pronounce Sixtus ab Heminga whom the Enemies of Judiciary Astrology so much Glory in to be a very Ignorant Fellow When I can easily make it appear by Experiments and solid Reason too that both Cardan and Ptolemy himself being too much addicted to Universal Causes not well weighing particular did lead Posterity into no finall Errors But if the Blind lead the Blind what Wonder is it if they both fall into the Ditch In the mean time I must Humbly intreat those Rare and Renowned Masters of this Science if they have gotten or observed any thing in it that is Excellent they would vouchsafe ingeniously to impart it to me Thus far Morinus and enough I suppose to satisfie any Reasonable Man that Astrology is demonstrable and not only Lawful and True but Divinely Excellent and necessary for a Christian And that none but the Ignorant and Malicious will condemn or oppose the same Cardan Seg. 1. Aphor. 25. Difficile est Judicare per ea quae scripta sunt longè difficilius artem ipsam tradere Difficillimum autem artem ipsam invenire The Cabal of the Twelve Houses Astrological from Morinus I Shall not dispute how much Astronomers differ among themselves concerning the Number Site Motions and Nature of the Heavens Neither here undertake to compose such a strife nor to censure any Mans judgment therein forasmuch as at least in this they do many of them agree That there is one supream Heaven and first Moveable which by its own motion from East to West accomplisheth its Revolution about the Earth in the space of 24. hours and causeth such a force of stupend Motion in the bodies subordinate that it manifestly carrieth with it from East to West whatsoever is betwixt it and the middle Region of the Air. 'T is true Kepler the Lynceus of the last Age denying with Copernicus such a first Moveable makes the Starry Heaven to be supream and immoveable And maintaineth that the Earth called a Planet by Pythagoras and placed between the Sphaeres of Mars and Venus performs by its own Motion from West to East an enâ—ire rotation about its Axis in the space of 24. hours the Sun being placed in the Center of the World Which supposed so as indeed it is by the most Learned of this Age yet in this doth the Starry Heaven perform
the Office of the First Moveable That the same part of the Earth by the motion of the whole body thereof continually cometh into the Aspect of New parts of the Stellified Heaven whereby that part of the Earth shall be forthwith changed de novo unless we deny it all power of Operating thereupon Whether therefore there be no other Heavens above that of the Fixed Stars unknown I confess to the Aegyptians Chaldaeans Plato Aristotle Hyparchus and even to Ptolomy himself Or whether More according to the Alphonsins yet this is most certain and not contradicted by any That in Mundane Bodies as the Earth Water Air Fire and Heavens there is some First and Supream than which there cannot be any higher otherwise should they be infinite in Operation And also that these very Bodies are the universal Causes of Physical Mutations and subordinate one to another in Operation Therefore in that Subordination there must likewise be one first and supream Physical cause which acteth by it self and borroweth not of any former the power of Operation And from that the Middle and from these the Lowest do receive their vertue of Action Otherwise this Subordination of Causes should it self be quite overthrown For why should the Middle be said to be Subordinate to the Supream and the Lowest to the Middle in their Operation if that which is lower received no influx or vertue from that which is Superiour unto it And can the Lowest without the Influence of the Middle or these without the Influence of the Highest of themselves produce any Effect The First Cause therefore of all things can be no other than the Supream Heaven which if according to the Doctrine of the Ancients it move it moveth also the Bodies that be thereunto inferiour yet is not it self moved by any other Body superiour unto it And if according to Kepler it be immoveable and indued with Stars it hath influence at least upon the Bodies that be subordinate to it but receiveth not influence from any other Therefore either way the First Heaven shall be the First Cause or the first Physical beginning of Physical Effects and Changes For 't is but expedient that the First beginning in every kind should be the most perfect Therefore shall the First Heaven be in the Lineage of Efficient Causes which are of the most universal and powerful Active vertue which is the greatest perfection of an Efficient Cause so that there is no Inferiour Corporeal Cause which it moveth not or into which it instilleth not a vertue or power of Operation and nothing anew generated in the whole World which this vertue of it self toucheth not Which being granted how can any Man doubt but that every thing which is generated and born de novo should be referred to that First Cause thereof For it must be referred either to some part of that Heaven or to that whole Heaven But it ought to be referred to the whole Heaven For the First heaven is not the First and most Universal Cause secundum aliquam sui partem according to some part of it but secundum se totum according to the entire Body thereof Therefore every Sublunary Effect so far as it may be considered secundum se totum to wit in its Beginning Vigour Declination and Destruction must be referred to the whole heaven yet not confusedly but distinctly and orderly as the most orderly motion of Heaven it self requireth For as the whole Effect and whatsoever doth happen from Heaven during the same correspond to the whole Heaven and yet the Beginning is not the End thereof so what was in Heaven of it self the Cause of its Beginning this same thing shall not of it self be the Cause of the End thereof for so no Effect should continue nor indeed any be produced But as the Beginning Vigour Declination and End of things do differ and succeed one another So the Coelestial Causes of these likewise differ amongst themselves and must succeed one another But in Heaven Difference and Succession are not unless in respect of the parts thereof Therefore in Heaven are certain parts that be the Causes of the beginning of things or which do govern the same Others succedent to those which rule the Vigour others that rule their Declination and lastly such as govern the End or Destruction of things What part of Heaven then Nature her self guiding and teaching us shall we call the First Cause of the Natural Beginning of every thing Surely that which in the very Beginning of the thing ariseth above the Horizon thereof and arising causeth the thing it self also to arise For certain it is that of all the places of Heaven the East is more powerful than the rest as is testified by all Astrologers concerning the Rising Culminating and Setting of the Stars and as Experience it self convinceth in the Change of Air. But a Cause is said to be onely more Powerful in respect of a stronger and more difficult Effect Therefore the stronger and more difficult Effect of things must be attributed to the Ascendant Part of Heaven which none will deny to be the Rise or Production of those things But successively that Part of Heaven which is more elevated above the Horizon and possesseth the Mid-heauen in the Rise or Beginning of the thing shall have the Government of the vigour and Operative vertue thereof That which setteth at the same time the Declination of it from its perfect estate And lastly That which obtains the Bottom of Heaven shall be taken for the Cause of its Corruption And this is the simple and of all others the first Division of Heaven whereby it is truly and rationally fitted for the Begetting Increase and Alteration of all Physical things from their own Nature and at length corrupting them And which onely the Ancient Astrologers frequently used in their General and Particular constitutions of Heaven as appears by Holy in the Figure of the Comet which happened in his time For that either a more scrupulous Division of Heaven was harder in those days for want of Astronomical Tables Or because this Division might generically contain whatsoever another could more specially But when once some Astrologer had observed that Heaven was both made and moved rather for the sake of Man than any other Animate or Inanimate Creatures and how many things agreed to Man himself in respect of his more Divine Nature which did not in any wise to more ignoble Creatures He supposed that for Man's own sake also the whole Circle of Heaven was rationally Divided into Twelve parts by great Circles drawn through the intersections of the Horizon and Meridian and cutting the Aequator in so many equal parts which he called Houses the first whereof he placed in the East and delivered to Posterity That it governed the Life of Man and from thence might be had and drawn a conjectural knowledge and judgement concerning Life That the 2. which followâ—th the first according to the Motion of the Planets
I therefore Anagrammatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for several years together and continued unknown unless to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniencies and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my self nor abused the Country where I lived And whatever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I took no delight as they do to be termed a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and endeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful and unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgments from Astrology against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossess the Kingdom with a vain fear that His Majesty and his designs should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorism or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guilty I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sense thereof either to make for his Majesty or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the Loyal party thus to be trampled over it is for their sins and carâ—ies with it a supernatural Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortal eye No Symptome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by such man in the great Book of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your own sense imploys ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my self so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom he is therein pleased to term Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunity to require him but the thing I have proposed to my self is first to ferret the poor Quack inpoint of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgment The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647 wherein indeed he hath taken a great deal of pains and deserves to be commended for this indefatigable Labour but withal I must tell him that he hath theâ—ein greatly betrayed his own ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himself exceedingly negligent and careless in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sun Venus and Mercury but especially the Moon to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and Aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdom And this Error he hath been guilty of throughout the two former years whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline when they think they have the places of those Planets therein exactly Calculated to the Noon-tide of every day at London for although in the higher Planets whose motion is but slow there be no sensible difference yet in the Sun Venus and Mercury there is an apparent error For when they are in their swift motion their places at noon as Lilly hath set them will differ about 2. min. and often 3. min. from the truth And in the Moon whose motion is far swifter than any other of the Planets her Error is intolerable especially when she is in her swift motion For example the first of January 1647. the Diurnal motion of the Moon is 12. degr 24. min. being then but in her slow motion The difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge to which place the Longitude of the Planets as Wil. Lilly hath printed them were Calculated by Eichstadius is 50 minutes by his own confession in his Anglicus 1645. Page 54. that is the Sun cometh later to the Meridian at London than he does at Uraniburge by 50. Min. of time so that how much soever the Moon moveth according to Longitude in that space of time by so much hath Lilly erred in the Moons true place at noon for every day in the year which what it is for the said first of January I examine thus If the Moon in 24 hours move 12 degrees 24 minutes in Longitude What moves she in 50 min. of time Facit 26 min. ferè And by so much hath Lilly erred from her true place the said first of January at Noon So that whereas he hath placed her that day in 21 degrees 10 min. of Pisces she ought to have been in 21 degrees 36 min. of the same Sign And when she is in her swift motion he commits a greater Error as the tenth of March 1647. if you examin it according to the former rule you shall find just half a degree or 30 min. error and in stead of 26 degrees 3 min. of Virgo wherein Lilly hath put her that day she should be in 26 degrees 33 min. of the same Sign The next thing which I mean to take notice of is his Scheme erected to the Apparent time of the Moons Eclipse upon the tenth of January 1647. at 9. hours and 19 min. P. M. as he hath taken it from Eichstadius by deducting 50 min. for the difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge and to the same time I erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus and comparing his printed Scheme with that which I had more curiously set I find Lilly still bungling and botching but without any result of truth For whereas he hath made the Cuspe of the tenth House 22 degrees 20 min. of Gemini according to exact Calculation it is no lâ—ss than 23 degr 30. minutes whereby it appears that Master Lilly hath mistaken 1 degree and 10 min. in the Cuspe of the Medium Coeli And in the Ascendent of the same figure he haâ—h mistaken above one whole degree viz. 1 degr 10 min. for he hath made the Cuspe thereof but 23 deg and 51 min. of Virgo which should have been 25 degrees and 1 min. and the like Errors follow in the seventh house of the Figure and proportionably in all the rest which makes me wonder with what face this sensless botcher dares term me an A. B. C. fellow when all men may perceive him so shamefully ignorant in the very fundamentals of the Art he pretends to and that I am able to correct him in every point and particle of his profession For I desire
We had been all alike Good Christian-Men T is Birth and Education which doth make Religion that which Seals it is the Stake The Astronomers from Nabonassarus of Egyptian Years consisting each of 365 days 2401. They of all others can account the best Yet are accounted of but like the rest The snarling Priest who Numbers never knew More than to tythe his Pigs or whence they grew But like the Ale-wife chalks behind the door And sets even Christ and Moses on the score Gains more belief in striving how to bribe Our Reason than do all that Learned Tribe But know fond Men the Bible was not writ For you to draw Chronologies from it To prop up Faction warrant Breach of Laws Absolve from Oaths and Chain us to your Cause To teach Men Trades or Sciences or Arts 'T was made to rectifie and steer our Hearts Wretched those Souls who thus by you are fed With Tares and Husks instead of Heav'nly Bread From the Death of Alexander the Great 1976. He who Conquered all the spacious Earth Was Conquered himself for want of Breath He that whilst living could endure no Bound Rests now contented with six foot of Ground His Birth his Valour his Exploits and Glory All tumbled in a heap of Doubtful Story Even so at length Great Conqu'rours shall you be Or'e-come confin'd as close as low as he Ten Thousand Armies strength will not defend Your Conquests and your selves must have An End Nor can they yield you Comfort when you die Be'ng nothing but a splendid Robbery Since the Julian Institution 1698 Since the Gregorian Emendation 71 Our State have been Reforming twelve long Years The Church Court Country City Hair and Ears Should they the English Kalendar omit 'T will be forgot when they begun to sit Ages to come who thirst to Celebrate Their Famous Deeds shall find them without Date And know no more when CHARLES or Strafford dy'd Than some When Christ was Born or Crucify'd Perhaps mistake the Persons with the Times Finding so like their Suff'rings and their Crimes 2. Under the Feasts and Fasts What Changlings were the Presbyterian-Crew Who pull'd Old Crosses down to set up New And burnt Christs Picture whilst they did embrace Those Antick Draughts of Calamy and Case That durst adventure on such dangerous shelves As to un-Saint th' Evangelists themselves And leave us not a Festival beside What they so called and had Sanctifi'd But Heav'n is just For lo they 're forc'd to bow The Synod's down and stinking Elders too Only they bark at Moon-shine now and then To witness they are Dogs more like than Men. 3. Under the Kings c. I 've said y' are Gods Who dare you Tyrants call Since Good or Bad y' are his Vice-gerents all But you shall die like Men This I allow For Men must die So did our Saviour too When once the Rulers Priests and People cry Away with him Pilate must Crucifie 4. Under the Table of Terms Lawyers prefer the sharpest Laws as best To keep a Common-wealth in Peace and Rest If so why should those Gown-men Frown and Puff To see the Courts of Justice lin'd with Buff No Plea ere moved as a Sword can do For that or'e-ruleth Judge and Jury too 5. In January Welcom ye pregnant times whilst you shall be As cross to some as they were curs'd to me Welcom Prodigious Births wherein appear No fewer Monsters than are days i' th' year Thrice welcom are ye For y' are none of mine A Poets Issue is A Princely Line 6. In February Disturbed Heav'ns produce disturbed Pates Confused Councils more Confused States A Quarter-witted Clergy half undone Their Grand Impostures clear as is the Sun Whence Giddy Zelots take the Craft in hand And breath a Holy-madness through the Land 7. In the Month of May. Whither an Army now Well! I could say Who 't is will get or who shall lose the day Thrasillus-like inform you who shall prove Victorious in 's Ambition who in 's Love But I am silent Nay I must be dumb 'T is TREASON now to Pray Thy Kingdom come 8. In November The Nation mourns because of Monstrous Oaths Her Scarlet sins cause want of Bread and Cloaths Diseases rage and strongly multiply Our New-Republick's sick and like to die London bewails beshrews her lewd pretence Of begging for a Posture of Defence 9. Where speaking of the Mutations of Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealts he pithily Concludes Thus Changes come thus Changes will ensue Till these Corrupted Bodies change for new And put on Incorruption Men and Things Whole Countries Cities Beggars Princes Kings He who but lately wore a Crown of Gold Crown'd now with Thorns Exil'd or basely Sold He clad in Rags and fed with scraps before Now Thron'd in 's stead and surfeiting with store A Glorious Church and Kingdom but to day To Morrow both the Wolf and Foxes Prey The Learned Lawyer Orthodox Divine Once high esteem'd now rank'd with fi lt by Swine The Hospitable Lord erst fed the Poor And cloath'd the Naked nak'd turn'd out of Door His sorrowing Wife and helpless Children gone To try their Friends perhaps be frowned on And he in 's hoary-age Petition bare Those that his Grooms at best but lately were The Fool in 's Coat the Wise-man in his Chair Th' Indulgent Father and the Hopeful Heir The griping Land-lord and the greedy Clown The glittering Tissue and the gray-friz'd Gown The Rosy-Cheek and the unfurrowed Brow The Freckled Wainscot-Face that Milks the Cow The Flowry Bride girt with chaste thoughts about Will all once changed be their Lamps must out Nay Heav'n it self grows Old and will away It had a Birth and shall a Dying-day All all to Change and Dissolution tend Poor Almanacks ev'n they must have an end In Hemerosc 1654. this Ingenious Person wrote these following Heroick Verses 1. Of the Feasts c. GO ring the Bells let Priests and People Pray I know no Treason in a Holy-Day 2. Over the Table of Kings c. Here stands the Regal Table till it be Convict and Banish'd for Malignancy Under the Kings Call me no more Malignant since the Term Hath Hydra's Head I Hercules his Arm And though no God nor Worshipped at Tyre Remember yet great Jupiter's my Sire Let States and Kingdoms whirle mine shall not fall Except when time is done this Globe and all So Wolf and Lamb salute the first for blood The second to be offer'd for our good 3. Over the Terms Thus may the Terms begin thus may they end As yet we know not what we do intend Under the Terms Friends send your Sons no more to th' Inns of Court But breed them Souldiers Men of loud Report So need they fear no rude Return of words Or Writs nor yet Exception 'gainst their Swords So shall their Terms be never out of Date Nor liable to change but with the State So may they chuse the Trade most Profit brings Set up or Lawyers Priests or Petit Kings
where she overflows The Fertile Banks yet never further goes Without a Miracle tâ—an Natures Bounds Or if we think she do 't is where some Towns Encroach upâ—â— hâ—r 〈◊〉 â—or she Is full as constant fâ—r more just than we 7. In January All hail my Masters I must now implore Your Ticket for a twelve Months Recreation I know no Plot save that which keeps us poor And this of mine to gain your Approbation All my Designs lurk in these Rural strains My Guts Conspire indeed but not my Brains 8. In February I Honour all that have a Soveraign Pow'r Extol their Prowess be it more or less Admire them growing in a golden showre Observe but point not at their vain excess The Sun's defects seen in a line direct Hurt th' Eyes not when in Water they reflect 9. In March I pray for Kings and think 't a Pious deed Good Princes very well deserve our Pray'rs But thereof bad ones sâ—and the most in need For such be sure do stand on slippery stairs And like to Iron generate the rust From their own substance turns 'em into dust 10. In April I 'm hugely taken with the Golden Train Those lofty Stars which glide along this Sphere Yet Greatness without Goodness I disdain A Spungie Head full ill becomes a Peer Persons of Honour should have Princely parts No empty Cock-lofts or deceitful Hearts 11. In May. I Reverence Justice on the meanest seat She was a Vertue once though now a wonder I like sweet words intended not to cheat And works of Mercy not too far asunder But Cruelty how that would make me swagger Were it not common both to Sword and Dagger 12. In June I love the Ministry all but the name That Motly and promiscuous Appellation Which mingleth Dung-hill Dirt with Austin's Fame With Holy Writ pretended Revelation Give me the Priest disdains to tell a Lye That Priest who dare for his Religion die 13. In July I like the Comm'nalty that Sov'raign Pow'r Whilst not to Faction or Revenge dispos'd But Commons over-stinted or too sowre Are best improved when they are inclos'd Who gives a Giddy Multitude the Reins O're-whelms the State betrays his want of Brains 14. In August I own the Camp where Gallantry Commands Where Arts and Arms advance their awful Crosts But wish the Cramp befall such Victors Hands As cannot Conquer their Ambitious Brests Success enlarges Mens desires nay more It breeds some thoughts they dream'd not on before 15. In September I hug the Souldier dreads no violent end For stoutest Men such Fortune often have It is the Cause not Mode of Death shall send Us Glorious or Inglorious to the Grave He who'll avoid a shameful Death must run The danger of a brave one and 't is done 16. In October I fancy well our great Metropolis She harbours store of Men and store of Riches There is no sounding of that vast Abyss What wonder then if London wear the Breeches Yet must this Darling now and then untruss Correction keeps her most Obsequious 17. In November But O the Country free from jarring-strife Where Plants and Flow'rs abound with Eloquence Where ev'ry Hedge and Tree doth breath new Life Where pratling Birds do captivate my sense There I sequestred from the World abide And if needs must there I 'le be Crucifi'd 18. In Decembâ—r Thus in an Humour purely Innocent I add one Year more to a careful Age No more of this till freed from my Restraint I cannot chant like Birds within a Cage Yet know I have although my aim's not high Seleucus-like an Anchor on my Thigh 19. His Conclusion Thus have our melting Eyes England beheld With smooth-fac'd Peace and wanton Plenty swell'd Into a Monster so unweildly grown Her own vast weight depress'd her Princely Crown A Brutish War â—ore Church and State asunder Fool'd us with Fears fill'd all the World with wonder The fairest Sâ—â—rs losing their sacred light And cheâ—rfâ—l dâ—y turn'd into drowâ—ie Night Th' Aâ—tipodes true Mirrour of the Cause Re-aâ—ted through three Nations with applause Bâ—t EXIT OLIVER whilst yet we lend Oâ—r Patience till the PLAY be at an end In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1660. We meet with thâ—se several Excellent and true Verses 1. Under the Regal Table WHere 's now the Sultan What remorsless Star Remov'd that Famous Idol Olivar Unwelcom Death But what flint-hearted Fate That Mushrome-Prince his Son Our glorious State Thus then we see what luck Protâ—ctors have A restless Life or Ignominious Grave 2. Under the Table of Terms Lo here 's a Trade surpasseth all the rest No change annoys the Lawyers Interest His Tongue buys Lands builds Houses without toyl The â—en's his Plough the Parchment is his Soil Him Storms disturb not nor Militia-Bands The Tree Roots best that in the Weathâ—r stands 3. In January And is He gone indeed Then farewel He Farewel to all our New Nobility Good-night Illustriousness Adieu old Joan The Kitchen better fits you than a Throne Lay ' side your Purple and your Râ—bes off cast Play'rs are but Princes while the Play doth last 4. In February About my Muse and try if thou can'st find What pow'rful Charm rais'd that Prodigious Wind Some dis-affected Conjurer I trow Did long to hear what News there was below But others think the Devil was matched so His breath grew short and so was forc'd to blow 5. In March But where be those fine Juglers did Address Such sugred Phrase such smooth Obsequiousness That vow'd to live and die with Richard yet Ne'r blemisht when they saw his glory set Such Hypocrites run with the stream of things And will keep Time whatever Dance begins 6. In April O for a Besom now to sweep the House And rid the Palace both of Fox and Goose Some choice Perfumes withal would be design'd Ill Spirits ever leave ill scents behind And when 't is cleansed and things sweeter grown Great Berecynthia's Sons go claim your own 7. In May. What 's to be done now all are grown so Wise And our fore-Fathers Wisdom counted Lies Were all the many Ages that are past Mistaken until this un-erring Last Good God! how sped they shall none saved be But Schismaticks Then what becomes of me 8. In June But 't is the Mode Come come let 's all comply There 's no firm footing on Integrity For having said and done all what we can The Pliant Willow is the Precious Man Whose Oaths of one day though of fair pretext Vail to an Inspiration of the next 9. In July Down then with Tythes they are a burthen great For which the Parson never soundly sweat Yet let 's remember maugre all new light He that detains them robs God of his right And though to him the tenth we should not pay The Publicans will sweep it all away 10. In August Let 's lay the Clergy by What need we Priests Or Ministers w' are all Evangelists The Bible's English thank the Bishops for
't The Spirit 's in us why not we exhort Yet let 's beware before we farther boast And think who 't was receiv'd the Holy-Ghost 11. In September Let 's fell the Church and Colledge-Lands Away With Humane Learning that 's but for a day Down with the Steeple-Houses melt the Bells And own no Metal but what 's in our selves But stay first let us Learned Spelman read And then perhaps we may abhor the deed 12. In October Let 's tear our Ribbons burn our Richer Laces Wear Russet and contrive betwitched Faces With Thee and Thou let us go quack a while And cheat the World in Quakers garb and stile But do not trust 'em more than well befits Th' are Presbyterians run besides their Wits 13. In November Or were they not yet fool not over-fast For this Religion too shall flag at last Naylor himself will never for it burn Nor let us use 't but for our present turn On such sad Mummers grace will not be had Much longer than the Multitude are mad 14. In December But now th' Apostates are restor'd their Wits And Plots and Plotters crumbled all to bits A Blessed Reformation will I hope At last succeed in spite of Turk and Pope Till when and always let 's observe the Laws And truly Celebrate The Good Old Cause Which Good Old Cause England is now again by Gods especial Providence Blessed with to the great satisfaction and rejoycing of the Inhabitants thereof who by reason of their Sufferings in our late twenty Years Confusion cannot but give their joy the greater Latitude at this so happy and by many almost unexpected Revolution of Government viz. of turning from Anarchy to the most Natural of all other Governments MONARCHY In his Kalendarium Carolinum 1661. are found these Worthy Verses 1. Under the Table of Kings STand there Great Charles in your successive Might Our King by Miracle our King by Right The Number now is even and You are He Which must compose the Odds if any be Your Glorious Father by his Matchless Pen Made Jews turn Christians You make Beasts turn Men. 2. Under the Table of Terms 'T was Will not Law 't was Envy not Right Reason Condemn'd ev'n Majesty it self for Treason But now both Law and Reason taking place Who doubts the Issue of an Honest Case Yet with your Case bring Coyn and Cap in Hand Else Lawyers will it not well Understand 3. Explanation of his Kalendar Martyrs and Saints my Kalendar displays No private Fastings nor yet Lecture-days No nor such Martyrs pearch on Tow'rs and Gates To shew how truly High and Mighty States Triumphant Charles Blest Strafford Glorious Laud I Celebrate as Martyrs without Fraud These these and such as these deep-dye my Pages The Shame of this Wonder of After-Ages Nor do my Saints wear Buff or Bandaliers Or are they known by their Prodigious Ears Short Hair and Hatchet-Faces to delude A Monster-headed Giddy-Multitude No no th' are Saints rejoyceth Heav'n to see Yet would the rest were all such Saints for me 4. In January All hail Great King Thrice welcom to your own Your own good Subjects your Imperial Throne Renowned Charles whose Glory let it be Your blest approach hath set three Kingdoms free Whose powerful Influence whose chearful Rays Make all the Year consist of Halcyon-days 5. In February King Charles return'd What Heav'nly News is that Nay more Enthron'd where's Martyr'd Father sate Thanks Noble Monk whose gen'rous Vertue brought To pass this Miracle-transcending thought May all that 's Good requite you Let your Name Be Crown'd with Lawrels of Eternal Fame 6. In March King Charles restor'd how 't glads my wounded heart That Deathless Name breath's Life to every part Now now my Blood runs smoothly and my Meat And Drink 's Digested with more Active Heat My boyling Stomach rages craves full Mâ—als What surfeited before now Feeds and Heals 7. In April King Charles at Westminster How happy we Whom Heav'n reserv'd this Glorious Prince to see Whose greedy Eyes surcharg'd with fresh Delight Neglect all Mediums fix on that fair Light We Reverence both the Cassock and the Gown But Charles his Presence Consecrates the Town 8. In May. Holy silent are the Rumpers whilome steer'd Our Reeling Bark so furiously Carrier'd 'Gainst Truth Peace And trod down all before them Save the dull Rabble destin'd to adore them Observe the Good Old Cause how fast it sleeps See how Rebellion on the Belly creeps 9. In June Thus have we seen the modern Use of Saint What 't is to cozen with Religious Paint And Herod-like when you intend to Kill To offer Worship and profess no ill What fair Advantages the Devil affords To Frantick Garbs starch't Faces Canting Words 10. In July Thus have we seen what 't is t' insinuate And kindle Jealousies within a State To give Alarms of Dangers where are none And talk of Grievances were never known To hold forth Liberty and Freedom when Ye meant t' enslave your very Brethren 11. In August Thus have we seen what 't is to Preach and Pray 'Gainst Kings and Curse them in a Holy way T' incite the weak and wavering to Rebell Proclaiming To your Tents O Israel Absolve from Oaths and other Sacred Ties Suborning Scripture for the loudest Lies 12. In September Thus have we seen ye ' midst your Wickedness Exult and Prune your selves with wish'd Success Your Prosperous Mischiefs urged to invite Our troubled Reason to confess you Right Prevailing Sins dangerous Temptations prove Unless to him well Armed from Above 13. In October Thus have we seen ye Temporizing Slaves Act all things any thing like subtil Knaves Observe the Point whence came the fairest Gales Spread and receive them in your swelling Sails Abjure your God Religion all you know Might Skreen you from the Beams would make you grow 14. In November Thus have we seen what 't is to slight your King Stain the fair Model of his Governing Asperse his wisest Actions and pretend Gross Lapses which no Mortal yet could mend To dress him like a Tyrant and what 's worse Destroy him On your selves entail a Curse 15. In December And now I hope w'have seen enough to Pray God save the King And send him long to Sway Great Britain's Scepter That the grumbling Frie Will warning take and cease to cogg the Die For now their Cheats are so well known I fear Their Trading will not last another Year 16. After his Gesta Britannorum Thus ends the Chapter Here 's a Period To our Rebellion Charles that Earthly God Invested in his Throne The Traitrous brood Lurking in Corners gaul'd with Guilt and Blood They would have Built but Heav'n would no such And so confounded Language Tower and All. Wall His Dedication to the King Vouchsafe Dread Soveraign to accept this Mite This Pedlar's Trash this one Year's Over-sight I have not yet approach'd your Sacred Feet To beg one Boon Let that Great Sir be it I was none of the Crowd though now
of Jupiter In the root of the Fore-finger 3. of Saturn In the root of the Midâ—le-finger 4. of Sun In the root of the Ring-finger 5. of Mercury In the root of the Little-finger 3. FERIENS THE Feriens or Smiting part taking its name à Feriendo or Percutiendo is that part of the Hand which we turn about in giving or receiving of things And this is the Mount comprehended betwixt the Mensal and Discriminal Lines under the Tuberculum of the Little-finger the which is attributed to the Moon 4. CAVEA THE Cavea is the Hollow place in the middle of the Palm wherein the Three Principle Lines Cardiaca Epatica and Cephalica make the Triangle And this is given to Mars 5. MENSA THE Mensa is the Interval or Space betwixt the Thoral and Epatica the which is given to Fortune Whence the Thoral is called The Line of Fortune VERSUS Est Pollex Veneris sed Jupiter Indice gaudet Saturnus Medium Sol Medicumque tenet Hinc Stilbon Minimum Feriente candida Luna Possidet In Cavea Mars sua Castra locat Venus the Thumb and Jove the Index guides Saturn the Middle Sol the wanton Brides Stilbon the Least Luna the Ferient And Mars in Cavea doth pitch his Tent. Here we must Note That there is some difference amongst Authors concerning the places of Mars Venus and Mercury For some give the Tuberculum of the Thumb to Mars The Cavea to Mercury The Regioâ— of the Little-finger to Venus Now to satisfie my self I first of all observed such Men as were Venereal that is such as were given to Jeasting Fair Merry Agile Lovers of Musick c. And thesâ— I found had the Region of the Thumb plainly Marked with decent Signs comely Notes and Characters And that not without their Nativities portending the Luxury of Venus she being either collocated under her Proper Prerogatives in a competent place of the Figure or in a good Aspect of some Planet The like regard I had concerning Mercury Wherefore the Cavea belongs to Mars The Practical part of Chiromancy The Practick of Chiromancy is that which gathereth probable Predictions from Lines the Places of the Planets in the Hand and From the Notes and Characters every where posited in the Hand and Fingers Wherefore let this Series be Observed for Method-sake 1. Cardiaca or the Line of Life 2. Epatica or the Liver Line 3. Cephalica or the Line of the Head and Brain 4. Thoralis or the Table Line 5. Restricta or the Dragons Tayl. 6. Via Solis or the Suns way 7. Via Lactea or the Milky-way 8. Via Saturnia or Saturn's way 9. Cingulum Veneris or the Girdle of Venus 10. Via Martis or the way of Mars 11. Mons Veneris or the Mount of Venus 12. Cavea Martis or the Cave of Mars 13. Mons Jovis or Jupiter's Mount 14. Mons Saturni or Saturn's Mount 15. Mons Solis or the Sun 's Mount. 16. Locus Lunae or the Moons place 17. Mons Mercurii or Mercury's Mount 18. Mensa or the Table 19. Pollex or the Thumb 20. Index or the Fore-finger 21. Medius or the Middle-finger 22. Annularis or the Ring-finger 23. Auricularis or the Little-finger QUESTION Whether we must Judge by the Right-Hand or the Left IT is certain that in one Hand the Lines and other Signatures are very often more manifest and by their Featness more perspicuous than in the other as well in Men as Women Wherefore a Question hence arises whether in both Sexes the Right or Left Hand is to be taken Or whether the Right Hand in a Man as some teach and the Left in a Woman only ANSWER THat Hand in both Sexes which shews and exhibits the Lines thereof most clearly and abounds with a Series of Characters and Signs yet so as that the other whose Lines are more obscure may pay its contribution If in both Hands they consent and appear to be fair and comely they declare a Constancy of Fortune and Health The cause of which diversity is this He who is Born in the day time and hath a Masculine Planet the Sun Saturn Jupiter or Mars Lord of his Geniture bears the more Remarkable Signs in his Right Hand especially when the Sign Ascending is also Masculine The contrary befalls those that are Born by Night so oft as a Feminine Planet predominates and the Sign Ascending is Feminine If both Hands agree it must needs be that in a Day-Nativity the Feminine Planets Rule Or that there falls out a Mixture of Masculine and Feminine So in the Night by the contrary Reason Which Diversity must necessarily be observed 1. Of the Line of Life This is also called Cardiaca or the Heart-Line 1. WHich being Broad of a Lively-colour and decently drawn in its Bounds without Intersections and Points shews the Party Long-Lived and subject but to few Diseases 2. If slender short and Dissected with obverse little Lines and deformed either by a Pale or Black colour It presageth weakness of the Body sickness and shortness of Life 3. If orderly joyn'd to the Natural Mean and beautified in the Angle with Parallels or a little Cross it argues a good Wit or an evenness of Nature 4. If the same have Branches in the upper part thereof extending themselves towards the Natural-mean it signifies Riches and Honour 5. If those Branches be extended towards the Râ—stricta it threatens Poverty Deceits and Unfaiâ—â—fâ—lness of Servants 6. If in this Line there be found some confused little Lines like hairs be assured of Diseases and they to happen in the First Age when they appear below if towards the Cavea in the Middlâ— if towards the Epatica in the Declining Age. 7. If this Line be any where broken it threatenâ— extream danger of Life in that Age which the place of the Breach sheweth For you may find out almost ad unguem the Dangerous or Diseased Years of your Age if this Line be divided into 70 parts you begin your number and account from the lower part thereof near the Restricta for the number falling where the Breach is determines the Year 8. If the Character of the Sun as commonly it is made by Astrologers be found in this Line it presages the loss of an Eye But if two such Characters the loss both Eyes 9. A Line ascending from the Vital beneath the congress of it and the Epatica to the Tuberculum of Saturn designeth hominem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is An Envious Man who rejoyceth at anothers Calamity the scite of others concurring This also frequently shews a most perillous Saturnine Disease as is the Plague c. in that part wherein it touches the Vital And so much the worse if it cut the same 10. But such a Line passing from the Vital to the Annular or Ring-finger promiseth Honours to ensue from or by means of some Famous Woman or Queen or the gainful Favour of some Lady of Honour 11. The Vital Line thicker than ordinary at the