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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86059	Neophuto-astrologos. = The novice-astrologer instructed in a New-Years-gift to Mr. William Lilly; occasioned by the scurrility, scandal, ignorance, and flattery of his Merlin for the ensuing year. With two dedicatory epistles; the one to the learned divines, the other to the honest astrologers of this nation. / By G.J. or J.G. which Lilly the parasite pleaseth.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G93; Thomason E2112_3; ESTC R212656	26,210	71

true time is at 6 h. 51 m. 24 sec So that had Mr. L. been true to his own Ephemerides I should have spared him here But I admire how Lilly stumbled so near upon the truth in his Ephemeris and yet his Figure so false Surely he hath been pilfering from V. Wing for reduce Eichstade he cannot unless Mr. Sponge help him But 't is no matter be his Figures true or false he proceeds to judgement and tells us Libra ascends and the Significatrix of the people which must be Venus if the Ascendent signifie them is well dignified and in Aspect of the two Superiour Planets c. but Venus Sir is in detriment and by your Figure in Octava Domo and beholds neither Saturn nor Jupiter are not you therefore a notorious Ignorant in Art Who is the Botcher now Sure I am if William Lilly understood his Taylors Needle no better then his Astrologers Pen we may justly conclude him a very botching and bungling Fellow at both Are not those Kings and States in a sad condition that are necessitated to take advice about their most emergent Affairs from so indigent a Fellow But William Lilly hath learned to talk big and to utter high-swelling words of vanity that the common people may believe his head is periwig'd with the Clouds and tells us That toward the latter end of May or beginning of June or July some time or another 't is no matter when the Conglomeration of no less then five Planets in the Signe Scorpio a fruitful Signe here Scorpio is grown into favour again with this two-tongued Ideot may justly import a meeting together of many people c. But Sir there is no such Conglomeration of the Planets in any of the moneths mentioned nor in many moneths after what Conglomeration of Impudence Ignorance and Folly c. there may be in your brain I know not your Judgement therefore is as idle as your insinuation false But Lilly fearing some Change of Government I suppose for you must know that he would have the world believe that Revolutions as are signally pointed at by his Pen as the Vicissitude of the Air is foretold by his rotten Carcase begins to tell his Readers That as some Pratlers abuse Oliver Protector Thus do other viperous Tongues and Pens deprave even the whole line of the Stuarts Family and call it accursed whilst their own is owned more abominable All that I shall return to this passage is this That if he can finde any man in Europe that hath dealt more viperously with that Family then himself both in Tongue Pen let him bring them within his Lash if not let him pass under his own Censure for a fellow of a viperous Tongue and Pen and consider what he hath written in his Monarchy and his Almanacks for the years 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654. and other his foolish Pamphlets But perhaps he thinks to write against an honourable Family is not to abuse it So from his Vernal I follow him to his Aestival Ingress where he asserts that Sol enters Cancer June 10 d. 9 h. 12 m. P. M. but this is as true as the former as I shall make appear by his own Book Which setting aside his Printers errors I examine thus June 1660. 10 ☉ 's place ♊ 29 d. 36 m. June 1660. 11 ☉ 's place ♋ 0. d. 33. m. ☉ 's Diurnal Motion 0. d. 57. m. His distance from the first point of ♋ is 24 m Then I say If 57 m. give 24 h. what 24 m Facit 10 h. 6 m. So that here you see he is mistaken no less then 54 m. in time as his own Book proves against him Oh! Monstrum horrendum An Astrologer and cannot set a true Figure However Mr. L. adventures upon this Scheme also to deliver his WEAK CONCEPTIONS and says The Heavens do not at all smile upon the Actions of Kings Princes Supreme Magistrates and Authorities For which passage I shall account with him anon But although Mr. Lillies Astrologie fail him yet his good Tutelary or Presidentiary Angels do not sure whom he saith Generated that very quick Comet in 1652. not so quick neither as an ignis fatuus for it lasted a whole moneth together as the Precursor of some eminent Person or Persons or their rising unto honor in Europe c. Before Mr. Lilly had adventured to predict ought to depend upon the Influences of Comets he should have made his way clear by removing the stumbling block that lay in it For I deny and so doth learned Aristotle and most Naturalists that Comets are generated by his Tutelary or Presidentiary Angels but are engendred of Ignean Vapors consisting of a viscous sulphurous and compacted matter attracted from the Earth by the Energie of the Coelestial Movers into the highest Region of the Air sometimes into the Starry Region whence it is closely conglutinated into a great Lump by reason of the continued supply it hath from below and being thus compacted is set on fire in time convenient by the excessive heat of the place where it rests and burns either long or a little while according to the paucity or plenty of the matter of which it consists This is the opinion of the learned generally And surely Mr Lilly it will be no ill-concluding Argument to say He that is ignorant in the Generation of Comets must be so also in their effects But Mr L. tattles of Comets and Angels to cover his ignonorance in Astrology only he poor man knows no more of the natures or effects of either than the silliest Potter that trots about the Streets of an Errand or his poor Sister the Washer-woman in Milford-Lane But whether he understand Comets c. or not he boasts as if he understood all things and quackingly tels us The Austrian forces seem to be threatned near this time either with the loss of some battell or town c. if any thing at all he be concerned in war or quarrel with the not conquered Swede whose forces now where in Action will make it appear they fight for a good King and in a good honest cause And how comes it about that the Austrians must be thus menaced Is it meerly upon this supposition grounded if they fight against the not conquered Swede But pray Mr Lilly what Rule in Astrology have you to predict the Swedish King to be good and his Cause honest Will you never leave your clawing Parasiticall Practises But a little further good William If the King of Swedes be assured victory over the Austrians How comes it to pass that Lilly predicted that the heavens smile not upon the Actions of Kings c. as before you have heard him Are Lillies Angels of no better use to him than thus to suffer him to run into Errors and Contradictions Or hath his good Genius left him But what will Lilly say if the Swedes and Austrians never quarrell If they do not then creeps he sneakingly out at his great IF