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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07418	Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster Rather the arraignment of artlesse astrologers, and fortune-tellers, that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come, of telling things that are past, finding out things that are lost, expounding dreames, calculating deaths and natiuities, once againe brought to the barre. By Iohn Melton.	Melton, John, Sir, d. 1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 17804; ESTC S112560	60,603	93

vaporum ex vorasitare cruditate in caput redundantium The Sanguine complexion from the aboundance of blood causeth men to dreame of the Incubus which Physitians hold is the cause of a future Apoplexie And that is the reason that many ignorant people that are of sanguine complexion and feed on flesh egges veale and drink wine and such like which causeth blood that beleeue that in their sleepes they often feele the Night-mare or an Incubus which is nothing else but a disease arising of vapors disturbing those that are at repose in the night whose externall force doth seeme to euade their sences and to presse their bodyes with their ponderous weight and this is the reason that Phisitians hold that the Incubus is a sign of a future Apoplexie because the Apoplexie is a stupefaction of the Nerues in the whole body with a priuation of the sence and motion Apoplexia slupefactio neruorum totius corporis cum priuatione sensus motus a verbo Graeco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod est percuti● attonitum reddo Againe some hold that the cause of dreames ariseth from the businesse and affaires a man is most imployed in the day time so that the impression of them sticking in the Table of the Fantasie makes a man dream of those things in the night which he hath done in the day as for example Men giuen to drinke much often dreame that they are in the bottome of some noble mans seller drinking of healths And men according to their employments dreame of their businesse ouer night Your Lawyer he dreames of Angels a most blessed dreame and if he chance to talke in his sleepe it is most commonly of Demurs Habeas Corpusses Sissararas Writs Latitats and Procidendos The Phisitian he dreames of a great Plague and if he talks it is of nothing but Purgations Vomits Glisters and Pills I knew a Player dreamt that his braines were beaten out with the Corke of groate Bottle of Ale and as he was speaking the Prologue it hist at him because he spake it so scuruily The Cutpurse and the Catchpole most commonly dreame of a Michaelmas Terme for that is their best time to picke pockets and cheat in and so of all the rest according to their imployments therefore this makes mee not of Symonides opinion who held that all dreames are sent from God which all honest men will deny because they know that God is not the author of any ill Again dogs and kine dream especially when they haue lost their whelps or calues who suddenly will wake out of their sleeps run howling lowing into diuers places to finde them Nor must we beleeue these Negromancers in their diuellish worke of working in our Fantasies by dreames that they can doe any thing that is true as when they cause vs dream of gold or siluer we chance to find it instantly to affirme with many old women that all dreames are true for this is but a tricke of the deuill to bring vs into superstition which tricke is not much vnlike that he hath put vpon the Papists making them beleeue that at the sight of the Crosse he cannot be in quiet but must flie away from it but there is no true Christian will thinke that the Deuill is afrayd of a peece of wood gold or siluer but flyes from the Crosse of purpose to draw them into the superstition of adoring the crosse The Deuills tricke in flying from the crosse and kneeling to it instead of adoring him that once hung on the Crosse for although it bee a Crosse yet it hath no more vertue and influence in it then when it was a peece of wood stone or siluer Thus then you see we must trust to no dreams except they come by the inspiration of God and the Holy Ghost of which God spake in the 12. of Numbers I will speake to him in a dreame this was now by a good Angell that God warned Ioseph to flye into Aegypt And oftentimes God suffereth the Euill Angel to delude the minds of men The euill Angell so that many times they haue beene banquetting with gallant Ladies and by the phantasticall illusion of the Deuill thinke that they haue beene in the company of diuers women that rid on the backs of Cats Dogs Hogs or that they haue beene sayling on the maine Sea in ships no bigger then egge shells that in the peace of midnight they haue trauelled through many parts of the world Holy Iob prayeth against such illusions saying Thou doest terryfie me by dreames and dost shake me with horror by visions There are many Monks as the Golden Legend testifies S. Dominicus that report this of their holy S. Dominicus that his mother before he was borne dreamt that she bare a huge dog in her wombe holding a burning firebrand in his mouth who entering into the world set it on fire This dreame the holy Monkes did thus expound that the vision was not vaine seeing Preachers in the Scriptures are called Dogs But I will giue then a truer exposition then this not sparing their Holy Order It was certaine that this Dominicke was the author of one of the foure Mendicant Orders and the first that found out the burning and firing of the Professors of the Gospell Therefore his Imitators haue peculiarly challenged to themselues the Inquisition and many other such places to exercise their Fire and Sword And so by this was signified the burning Fire-brand Dominicus held in his mouth by which an infinite company of godly men were consumed into ashes Thus by this Dreame did the Deuill delude Dominicus Mother and many more that did beleeue the interpretation of it by the Monks But in generall Dreames are not to be beleeued for they are most wicked and odious in the sight of God that thinke so as may appeare in the 19. of Leuiticus Deutronomie the 23. Ibidem 18. Ecclesiasticus 24. and many other places of the Scripture Thus much for your Diuination by Dreames Sometimes they doe diuine by a Spirit Pythonissa and that is called Pythonissa Sometimes they answer to that they are called for by diuers Figures Men or Women set in polisht Stone Iron Brasse Steele Glasse or the Nayles of ones hand and this is called by the generall Name of Geomancie Geomancie And most commonly to such as these they chuse out Women and Children And I my selfe haue knowne many old Women old Dogge at this kind of Diuination who hold that if the Nayles of the Hand grow yellow it is a great signe of ill lucke and that specks are the true signes of future ill lucke If these apparitions appeare in the Water then it is called Hydromancie Hydromancie These I haue heard are very incident to Catch-poies Bum-baylies and the like when they are duckt vnder Water at a high Tyde at one of the Temples If these apparitions are in the Ayre Aeromancie then it is called Aeromancie If in

for Cattell They haue Saints also for Cattell as Saint Anthonie for Hogges Saint Loy for Horse and Kine Saint Gallus for Geese Saint Wendelin for Sheepe and Saint Gertrude poysoneth all Rats and Mice so that none of these Vermine were euer knowne to gnaw any Fryers Cheese or Bacon Saints for Diseases For Diseases they hold that Saint Iohn and Saint Valentine keepe Men especially Women from the Falling-sicknesse that Saint Anthonie heales all kinde of Fires though they be as hot as euer came out of any French Hospitall Saint Roch the Pestilence and that 's the cause they say so few of them dyed the last great Plague-time Saint Roman restores all Mad people to their Wits Saint Iob is good for the Pocks Saint Appolin is as good at the Tooth-ach Saints 〈…〉 part of the Body A●●● for euery Limbe in M●ns 〈◊〉 they haue a Saint for S. O●●●a keepes the H●●d in stead of Aries S. Blasius is appo●●ted to goue●●e the Necke in stead of Taurus S. Lawr●nce keepes the Backe and Shoulders in stead of G●n●m Cancer and Leo S. Erasmus rules the Belly with 〈◊〉 ●ntrayles in the place of Libra and Scorpius in the stead of Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces the Holy Church of Rome hath elected S. Burgarde S. Rochus S. Quirinus S. Iohn and many others which gouerne the Thighes Feet Shinnes and Knees All these things being truly considered I admire there are so many Tradesmen breake so many great rich men dye and so many Sicknesses and Diseases in Italy and England seeing their Saints haue such power to driue theirs away and our Cunning Men and Women so many Charmes to fright away ours But sure if these things were true Doctors Apothecaries and Chirurgians would be as poore as Fidlers Poets and Alchymists But I will giue as much credit to the Romish Saints as to our English Mountebanks Spirits which were first inuented by subtill Fryers and craftie Knaues only to beguile the poore people of their Money It may be Sir at the first you supposed me to be because of my plaine Countrey Habit a Woodcocke fit for your Sprindge but to be plaine with you Sir your Worship is deceiued of me for I can perceiue you to be an arrant Knaue for your trickes are so thin and sleight that a Man of a very dim vnderstanding may see cleane through them Your discourse is neyther knit together with the Nerues of Vnderstanding Wit Art Iudgement or Discretion it hath no Realitie or Essence in it but you huddle a companie of Astronomicall words together wanting both Coherence Methode and Congruitie you powre out whole Dictionaries of strange Words talke as though you could repeat Dutch Gallobelgicus or English Hollings-head without booke ●●●●●pulent 〈◊〉 and lye as if you had held Herodotus Penne while hee writ the Nine Muses To tell you true Sir I came not hither to find out a Chayne for indeede I haue lost none but first to find out then to expresse your Roguerie therefore I thinke if you had beene a true Wizard it were impossible I should put a Tricke vpon you that is so excellent at the most Cousening Cheating and Conycatching Art of Astrologie I perceiue by your sweating I am very tedious to you but good Sir be patient for I haue giuen your Tongue an vncontroulable libertie to speake in the defence of your Art that hath been so beneficiall to you therefore I hope you will giue me leaue if not I now will be so bold as to take it to speake in the disprayse of it because it hath beene so preiudiciall to many Ordo praepostorus Confutatio vulgaris If Figure-Casting be an Art or Science why is it not a Liberall Science as well as all the other or why is it not studied as freely and as lawfully as the rest but that the Professor of it is forced to flye into such by places darke Corners and Garden-Allyes as these If you are ashamed to shew the reasons I will not but truely reueale them which are either because the generall eye of the world may not take notice of the foolery of those people and so giue them warning or that the roguery of you that entice them may not be apparant and so you come to a deserued punishment Or that you may bee thought more famous in the opinion of the ignorant who suppose that such melancholy places best suite with such as study these Arts. Figure-Casters Cunning Men and Women This may appeare by the cunning Man on the Bank-side Mother Broughton in Chicke-Lane yong Master Oliue in Turnebole-street the shag-hair'd Wizard in Pepper-Alley the Chirurgion with the Bag-pipe Cheeke Doctor Fore-man at Lambeth and you here in More-fields and many such Impostors that like the Birds of Wonder flye the light of the Citie Againe there is no Art or Science but the definition shewes the excellencie of it Grammar is the Science of speaking and writing truly Grammar the Fountaine and Originall of all Arts. Logicke the Art of Arts Logicke the Science of Sciences that makes way for the beginning of all Methodes and an Art that by disputing finds out the Truth Rhetoricke is an Art Rhetoricke teaching to speake elegantly by Tropes and Figures Arithmaticke is the Doctrine of Numbers Arithmaticke Musicke the harmonious facultie of weighing the differences of Sounds by Sence and Reason Musicke Geometrie the Discipline of Immoueable Greatnesses Geometrie and the contemplatiue description of Formes Astronomie a certaine Law and Rule Astronomie considering the Motion of Superior Bodyes Philosophie the knowledge of Diuine and Humane things Philosophie ioyned with the studie of liuing well Physicke the Art of curing and healing the sicke and diseased Physicke But for your Astrologie your Sacred Astrologie your Diuine Astrologie I neuer read that any Diuine Father or Preacher euer gaue any commendable description of it Indeed some of that wise Sect you professe your selfe to be of haue endeuoured to illustrate and beautifie with one of whose Authoritie I will not allow of because Diuinitie the Queene and Mistresse of the Arts doth deny it Therefore because there is no true description of this Art if the Students of it will thinke themselues beholding to me I will furnish them with one A new and true description of Astrologie AStrologie i● an Art whereby Cunning Knaues cheat plaine honest Men that teacheth both the Theory and Practicke of close Cousenage a Science instructing all the Students of it to lye as often as they speake and to be beleeued no oftner then they hold their Tongues that tells truth as often as Bawds goe to Church Witches or Whores say their Prayers or neuer but when the English Nones and the Greeke Calends meet together This is the true description of your Art Now the vertue and power of your Art is to calculate Deaths and Natiuities cast Figures finde out things that it may be were neuer lost