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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

Merlinus Anglicus Of all which Barbarous and Ridiculous Stuff I need in strictness take no further notice then this LILLY WRIT IT A Fellow that cannot tell how to reason but to raile onely That knows nothing of Astrologie but the name which he makes use of as a Cloak to cover his Ignorance That knows neither how to take or to make an Argument That complies with any Government so that he may be thought the State-Astrologer In which respects I account him beneath the revenge of the Pen of any ingenious Person or Scholar and would have him therefore to know that the grand reason why I set not my name at length in my Books against him is the probability of my purchasing the censure of the ingenious and learned Artists for entering the Lists per Nominem with so base and low-orb'd a Fellow unfitting for a Man to Cope with much less an Artist Nevertheless in regard of my promise to the world in my last Lash of this Quack entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Spurious Prognosticator and lest that he should cry Victory before he be harnessed for the Battel and so in his own conceit pass for a Conqueror I will rip him up and shew his Nakedness and Folly to the world somewhat more largely then he hath done although his own Pen hath been a sufficient Index thereof in his idle and addle Fictions for the ensuing year Wherein as briefly as I may I will prove him to be the greatest Enemy to Astrologie that this age hath brought forth a meer Ignorant in it though he quack so much under the Canopy of it an Illiterate Abusive Pragmatical Fellow void of Civility Ingenuity and Learning And that I may not loose him in my Chase I will observe the same Method as in my last viz. First to begin with his Epistle Secondly his general Prog Thirdly his Monethly Fictions And then I shall appeal to the world whether he be not an Owl rather then an Eagle in Astrologie SECT 1. His Epistle Examined WIlliam Lilly in the beginning of his Epistle makes his Introduction to his Excuse with a notorious Contradiction of himself and a most high and injurious Scandal to Astrologie and the ingenious Students thereof in these words The many turnings and windings and changes of Government in England in 1659. what Man or Angel could predict And a little further he saith They meaning the Changes c. were not in any way demonstrable or to be found out by the sharpest Rules of Astrologie Had Mr. L. been Friend either to Himself Astrologie or Astrologers he could never have made so Contradictious Senseless and Ridiculous an Excuse for 1. herein he gives the Lye to all that ever himself hath formerly and now written and 2. he bespatters all those ingenious Artists that did predict and that from the known Rules of Astrologie those many Changes that happened in England 1659. And 3 he casts dirt in the beautiful Face of Astrologie it self insinuating an incertainty or deficiency of its Rules and Aphorisms and a perfect impossibility of any Man or Angel to predict those Changes mentioned thereby 1. He giveth the Lye most broadly and shamefully to himself for in all his partyworks formerly he rantingly and ravingly also argues against the Divines That in the great Book of Heaven are all Changes on Earth written and that himself was born to predict them sometimes more tacitely at other times more largely See his Alm. 1655. and his Epistle to his Alm. 1658. in particular where he says There is no Emergency good or bad that happens on Earth but hath a full manifestation from the Configurations of the Heavens And that Italy France and his Holiness himself have cause to remember how ominous his Predictions have proved to them Nay he cracks more largely in his Worlds Catastrophe That what he cannot do by Common Rules of Astrologie he can by Angels and Spirits yea so well is he acquainted with such Whimsies and Vanities as he proclaims it himself that he shall go near when time serves to give every Nation of Europe a touch of its duration and continuance from considering the Angel or Genius of it But now neither He nor Man or Angel is able to predict any thing of Mundane Affairs from the Rules of Astrologie by which it conspicuously appears that Mr. L. and his skill also is subject to a strange kind of Fluctuation Nunc huc nunc illuc exemplo nubis aquosae Now here soon there much like a Watrish Cloud But tell me Mr. L. canst thou expect to pass thus to the world undiscovered and still be thought an Astrologer Dost thou think and believe all men are as ignorant and contradictious as thy self If not Oh! William William monstrous William Lilly How cam'st thou here to shew thy self so silly 2. He abusively bespatters all ingenious Artists too For doth it handsomly follow because Mr. L. is ignorant in Astrology and by consequence of predicting those eminent Changes which hapned in 1659. that therefore all Ingenious and true-born Artists are so too If Mr L. like an unexpert traveller misseth the way he is to go and tumbleth into a Bog or Quagmire Must he therefore be angry at those persons acquainted with the Road that they do not tumble in with him for company What fault was it of Mr VVharton Trigg Tanner Wing Gadbury c. that Mr L. presented himself an Ideo● instead of an Artist to the World in his botching bungling Predictions That he must thus traduce their skill and impeach their Reputation in Astrology as if they were as very ignorants therein as himself But Mr L. having proved himself a perfect Ignorant in the Art he professeth by his unclerklike and unwarrantable Predictions and seeing R.L. P. gone and his Northern Lion Rampant going is resolved as much as in him lies to down with Astrology also that the honest Astrologers themselves may fall likewise Whose ruine and destruction it is plain he thirsts after for their presuming to detect him and his Ignorance he being it seems captivated by that Ranting and Tyrannical Principle described by the Poet Pereant amici dummodo una inimici pereant He cares not though Friends ruin'd bee So Enemies bear them company 3. He casts dirt in the face of Astrology also for if by the Aphorisms and Rules thereof others were enabled to predict those Changes spoken of then is not Astrology so incapacious or deficient as Mr L. here renders it but by the Rules thereof other persons viz. those severall men before mentioned were enabled to predict those Changes c. Ergo c. But Mr L. seeing plainly enough his own Reputation begin to sink and his Writings every where hissed off the Stage with disparagement is not contented to fall alone but would fain give Astrology its fatall blow that both might perish together Not unlike the Devill or Dragon mentioned in the Revelations who not well pleased to tumble headlong from Heaven