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A06859 The diall of destiny A booke very delectable and pleasaunt: wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course, disposition, qualities, effectes, and influence of the seuen planets ouer all kyndes of creatures here belowe: also the seuerall and sundry situation of countryes and kingdomes. Compiled and discussed briefly, aswell astrologically, as poetically, and philosophically by Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte. Maplet, John, d. 1592. 1581 (1581) STC 17295; ESTC S120741 65,061 168

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Plinie in his fourtenth chapter of the aforesayde boke doth report that alwaies at the Moones increase her hornes are turned from the Sunne as contrariwise as she decreaseth shee turneth her hornes toward the Sun Many Moones at once There haue appeared Many Moones at once but neuer more thē three at one time And three appeared at one tyme manifestly as in the secōd booke of the sayd Plinie and xxxii chapter is recorded that is to say in the tyme of the preheminēce or consulship of Cneius Domitius Three moones seene at one tyme. and Lucius Annius which were called of some then the night Suns Likewyse it hath bene seene the same Author doth affirm it to be true lib. 2. cap. 32. that there hath appeared such lightes in the night as that it hath bene in a manner all one with the day light As for example In the tyme of Caius Cecilius and Cneius Papirius they beyng consuls Lights in the Night like the day vvhē such lights were seene in the night as that the brightnes thereof could not be discerned from the brightnes of the noone day And at diuers other tymes in ages and yeares synce such straunge sights ther haue bene seene such sightes in the Night as men haue supposed it to haue bene day There haue bene also Bucklers of fyre sene glisteryng from the West to the Easte Bucklers of fier and of all these the most greuous of others to behold which bred greatest wonder hapned in the tyme of the Consulship of Lucius Valerius and Cneius Marius Fiery flames There hath also ben seene and be often as yet in the night fiery flames or burninges in the element or ayre which haue shewed forth diuers and sundry likenesses so that some of thē haue bē thought to haue resembled and to bee like vnto a Candle or Torch burning Torches Fiery beames Fiery speares Svvordes Fery darts some like vnto fiery beames some like vnto pillers set on fire some are after the fashiō of speares som shewing forth the likenes of swords some not much vnlike horses manes some shewing forth the likenes of hornes some as it were fiery darts And al these such other like apparitiōs in the ayre which in Greeke by a general and more common name are called Eupicaumata do appear for the most parte in the calme cleare night although somewhile some of these are seene in the day time And all these aryse euer vnder the globe or circle of the Moone The proofe whereof herein is manifeste for that they continue not in one and the self same place long but moue with a swift passage are caryed away with the violēce of the moones motion Wee shall not therefore greatlye go astray if we gieue forth the cause of these apparitions and sights and do declare the maner and matter of theyr engendring Causes hereof The efficient cause of these fiery impressions bred and ingendred through heat is the sunne and the rest of the bodies celestiall which in theyr motions as they labour in their course caste from them excessyue heate vpon these bodies and places below here subiected Which heat catcheth and carieth vp into the ayre all such exhalatiōs which of thēselues also be hoat and dry as are ready for such receipt Then the materiall cause is nothing els but such kynd of Exhalation euen as wodde is the matter of fyre oyle of the flame Now theyr generation is after this sorte The Earth being throughly warmed through the sunne and the other starres doth thereupon cast from her and send forth a double kind of spiration of breathyng one kynd very dry accordynge as the places from whych it is sente forthe bee drye and this kynd of exhalation being naturally hoate and drye is much like vnto that fume or smoke which proceedeth from stickes or wood set on fyre and kyndled Secondly by such heat raysed from the Sunne and Starres aforesayde there is fetched from such places as be moyst an other more grosse kind of fume hot and moyst which is called a vapour like vnto that maner of euaporation which commeth frō the seething water These two caught vp into the ayre and beyng there diuersly placed and set on worke by the element of the sire vnto which the first sort called exhalations do eftsones approach and come neere do cause straunge sightes in the Regions of the Ayre for the exhalations beinge both ayry fyery are sone kyndled and set on fyre become flames and fierye impressions euen as the drie snast of a candel or as the fare and ●lunge sticke is soone set on flame For the flame of any thing is nothinge els but the fume of the same already kindled and it is so soone kindled because it is of a drye and fyery nature Now the fashion and forme of the fiery flames seene often tymes burning in the element do vary and differ one from another as they haue more aboundance of such matter of exhalation or lesse as they are placed also in other contrary order Burning lampes For when such exhalation is dispersed in breadth and discontinued there appeare as it were burning lampes whē the same is fy●red round and casteth from it sparcles then such impression is after a goate and is so called when that doth not sparcle but burneth greate aboue smal below it is called a fyrebrande Firebrand And that kynd of exhalation which burneth both in breadth and length and moueth apace in the ayre leauing after it som steps of his burning and as it were marking the way as it goeth is called a flying starre Flying starres which is wont to appeare on a sodaine forthwith to vanish out of sighte These exhalations as they come nigh to the Elemente of the fyre or as they bee in the highest region of the ayre which is next to the fire bee as it were gunpowder nighe the match or as brymstone or towgh put hard to the fyre which what expedition is in them to consume all along it is euident by experience and common sense But these and al other impressions haue theire names of those thinges which they most figurate and represent And as in the cleere night by such matter of exhalation hot and drye caryed vp to the highest region of the ayre the● kindled such burning flames do eftsoones appeare so somewhile through the lyghte onely of the sunne and starres the element onely appeareth coloured And these colours there seene are called Phantasmata For when the light stayed in any myst cānot go forth abroade Coloures seene in the ayre or proceede directly but is fayne to harbour there onely and to disperse it selfe into the sides and nexte partes thereof then doth there shew forth colours of all sortes somewhiles white somewhiles blacke but most often a saffrō colour and next to that a sanguine or bloudy colour For these colours for this cause causeth such diuersity as
THE DIALL OF Destiny A BOOKE VERY DELECTABLE AND PLEAsaunt wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course disposition qualities effectes and influence of the Seuen Planets ouer all kyndes of Creatures here belowe also the seuerall and sundry situation of Countryes and Kingdomes Compiled and discussed Briefly aswell Astrologically as Poetically and Philosophically By Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte. ❧ IMPRINTED AT London in Fleestreat neere vnto Sainte Dunstones Church By Thomas Marshe 1581. Psalme 136. ❧ O Praise the Lord of Heauen which by his excellente wisedome made the heauens which made great Lights the Sun to rule the day the Moone and the Stars to Gouerne the night TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON Knight one of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuy Counsell and Captayne of her Graces Garde OENOPIDES Chius most honourable Syr dedicated at the Tryumphes holde in Greece to the honor of Iupiter Olympus or as others write to Hercules a Booke of his owne framing and makeing all of Brasse the Methode and matter whereof was nothing else but a summary Discourse collected oute of Plato as concerning the continuance circuite and course of the seuen Planets VVhich busines so carefully and costly perfourmed by the aforesayd Chius is here peraduēture in another sort with other necessary sequell thereof with lesse a doe also and lesse cost scanned debated VVhich small treatise of myne neyther crauing Iupiter nor Hercules but requireth rather youre honors present Patrocynie and fauorable protection Your Honour being now in these dayes to our most renowmed Prince the VVeale Publike euē the same that PHOCION a moste renowmed Captayne was to the Athenians And as EPAMINONDAS was to the Thebanes Three rare royall vertues there are which AGESILAVS speaking it vpon good tryall and proofe thereof requireth to bee in a Captayne set ouer the Prynces Garde the first hee sayth is fidelity to his Soueraygne whose person hee is moste carefully to safegarde and defend the second he sayth is an hawty heart and valiancy of Mynde friend●y affected towards his friendes and litle esteming the force of his foes and the last he reposeth in ripenesse of Iudgement dexterity of VVisdome in geuing of common wealth councell All which three Ormamēts Iewels and the same three I dare vtter it thrise doubled and trebled shyne and shewe forth in your Honor very resplē dishingly Insomuch that if I were as I am nothing fit thereto to determyn as the Orator DEMADES did of Noble Personages and moste worthy VVyghtes euen eyes of the Realme as hee calleth them the consideration of your honors so Infinite and inestimable vertues euen of very right deseruing the same required I shoulde say very worthely your Honors accoumpt as it also hath already among the chiefest Senators and Sages of this Land And whereas many other Nations being gouerned onely as it were Cyclopycally that is to say wyth myght bodely force therewith onely defeng thēselues being wythout theyr wyse Councell as it were without their Eyes as the Poets say the great Gyaunte CYCLOPS is doe yet neuerthelesse for want of the same runne oftentimes to much ruyne subiection and subuersion This our Countrey and Nation the Lord bee hyghly thanked therefore hauing such theyr Eyes and eysight as it hath in deede very cleare perfite and pretious whereby aswell all the whole body of the Realme as also euery parte thereof is most happely dyrected in all kinde of safety howe greatly wee and the same is to glorifie GOD therefore though I should say nothing thereof but be silent therein the very force of such a ryche blessinge and Benefite it selfe would burst forth and speake it Now the cause that only mooued me at this time to craue your Honores Countenauncinge of this Litle Treatise was chiefly the hearesay of your Honoures accustomed Clemency and Curtesy in like behalfe towardes others VVhich being any thinge accepted at your Honors hands shall encourage me hereafter to other Trauayles and endeuours In the meane tyme I shall not cease to pray to the gouernor of all the Lord of Lordes for the prosperous long preseruation of your Honour and for the continuance of your honors estate good lyking to the glory of GOD the contentation of the Prynce and commodity of the Countrey From Northall The last of December 1581. Your Honors humble and dayly Orator Iohn Maplet THE PREFACE to the Reader TYRESIAS King the Thebanes being in that foolishe minde so perswaded with him selfe that the Stars had no such Pryuiledge or rule in Mans body or else as the Astrologians did playnely affirme was as the Poets Imagine with the aduise and consent of the all not suffering such speech striken starke blind and quite bereued of his sense of seing And in deede those ignorant men or vnaduised sort which are in a manner come to the same passe that COTTA the Epicure with CICERO DEMOCRITVS were at that all things here belowe come to passe by chaunce meere Casually or at a venture accordingly as they hap well or ill they are eyther blinde in knowledge or else are wedded to much to their owne Wits and Willes dealing with the caelestiall povvers preposterously For PTOLOMY plainely proueth an especiall kinde of Influence from them all vvhich disposeth all bodies here beneath according to euery ones especiall and naturall propriety In so much that BALBVS the Stoycke is rather to be borne withall then these kynde of Men which vppon three Principall causes and considerations was enforced and driuen to graunte some superior kindes of fatall prouidēce And the firste reason and cause therevnto moouinge him vvas the viewe of such sundrye Varietyes and such plentifull stoare of Commodities as which doe daily arise both in the Earth as in the Sea and Ayre through the contemperature and variable disposition of the heauenly powers The second occasiō that brought him hereto was the perceyuinge of the wonderful differences and contrary propertyes both of minde as of body in all thinges almost that hee coulde not chose but thinke and Imagine a sundrye cause for euery one Thirdly the distinct order and placinge of eche thinge to the better cōtinuation of the same in his kinde prouoked and enforced him for to rest and grounde vpon some Superior workemansters or Authors aboue Moreouer a paterne of the Planets property and Influence doth in this respect offer it selfe to be seene apparantly euen in the frame Workemanship of Man kinde vvhereas euery person almost hath his seuerall and sundry Inclination some to vertue some agayn to vice some also hauing good hap and other some hauing sinister fortune And whereas vvicked men for the moste porte ruffle in the vvorld fortune alwais laughing on thē as MARIVS SYLLA DYONISIVS the cruell Tyraunt PYSISTRATVS POLYCRATES PHALARIS And cōtrariwyse it is here vvith goodmē for the most parte as it vvas vvith PAVLVS AEMILIVS a valyaunte Vanquisher and a good man yet through cruell fate murdered slayne
bee obserued and kept in the ful Moone so did the Iewes obserue the same most diligentlye so that this Eclipse happeninge then at that instant and tyme could not be as other Eclipses of the Sunne bee natural through the vnfitnes and incommodiousnes of that tyme for there is no tyme so vnpossyble to worke such an effecte as in the tyme of Opposition for then the Sun and Moone which require coniunction in that behalf are neuer more remote or farder distance from coniunncion thē in that present time In fyue propertyes therefore I fynde this miraculous eclipse that so happened at the passiō of our sauiour Christ to differ frō all other eclipses that be only natural The firste which wee laste touched was in the time therof which hapned thē at the full of the Mone a tyme most vnfit to the generation of my natural Eclipse The second appeared in the corse of the Moone which wher as naturally of her owne proper motion she goeth from the East to the West In this straunge eclipse then seene Dyonisius sayth he saw her with a most swift pace returne very stranngely from the East toward the South vntil shee stood directlye vnder the Sun wheras shee stayed by the space of whole three howers and by that meanes caused darkenes ouer al the whole face of the earth And after the third hour about which time our sauiour Christ was deade shee returned agayne to her owne place in the East with a most swift course appearing there agayne as it had bene in a tryce And so in the sixte and nynth hower shee was seene vnder the Sun but in the euening and at the Sunnes going down she appeared new agayn in the East right opposite to the Sunne The thyrd poynte wherin this miracle differeth from other vsuall Eclipses was vpon the strange begynning of the same for this began on the East syde of the Sunn wheras all other wonted eclipses of the Sun vse to begin to be eclipsed after their naturall order at the west part of the Sun The fourth poynt of difference was herein which was verye straunge For that part of the Sun which was first darkened obscured of his light by the interposition of the moone did lastly shew forth restitucion of his light which is otherwyse in other Eclipses which in the part of the Sunne that seemeth fyrst obscured dother agayne fyrst and formost appeare in the same to be restored And then the Moone passed not asyde from the Sun as she is wont in his naturall eclipse but stode right vnder him for the space of thre whole howers and so shee not after that goyng on beyond the Sun but returning to the East her place from whence she fyrst came gaue great occasiō of admiration wonder The fyrst es●et all difference therin also was vpon the perduratiō taryance and staye of the same strange eclipse For the Sunnes ordinarye Eclipses cannot continue lōg as which are very spedely perfour med by reason that the body of the Sun doth infinitely exceede in bignes quantity the body of the Moone as also for that the course of the Moone is very swift For which two causes fyrst because the Moone is so little in respect of the other therefore not able any tyme to obscure hyde away the Suns light neither totally nor in part from our aspect And agayne for the swiftnes velocity of the Moones course shee cannot hyde away the Sun beyng so huge and big any lōg tyme but he must needes shyne out on one syde or other Besydes this wōderful eclipse procured of God to shew forth euidently the most haynous fact of the Iewes in abusyng his Son so as it greatly grieued the stars Sun aboue not onely amased many men so that many stroke their breastes and returned from Caluary where he was crucifyed Math. 27 cōfessing and saying verely this was the son of God as the Centurion and others but also ther was a general great darknes ouer al the earth frō the 2 hower vntil the 9. for els it could not be true that Dyonisius thē in Heliopolis in Aegipt gaue forth to be true vndoutedly in one of the 〈◊〉 that either the maker of al thinges then fuffered or else that domes day the end of the world was then come if that this eclipse had bene onely in Iudea which is so far of frō Aegipt Besides this a lōg time after by the dūpe that this sight stroke into the hartes of the people of Athens superstitious mē Paul being cōuersant among them awhyle and vewinge their doyngs narrowly chaūceth to espye there an Aulter wherin was writtē vnto the vnknowen God erected as is sayd presētlye after the feare that this eclipse cast vpō the Atheniās which is very far frō Iudea proueth it to be more vniuersal so that they scant it to narrowly that seeme to boūd it onely with in the borders of that place where that villanous fact was committed For shal we thinke that the miraculous going backe of the Sun which happened in the dayss of Ezechias kynge of Iuda witnessing his recouery of helth was alone thē perceyued of the inhabitants ther not aswel also among nations furder of for if we should so think we should be deceiued Na the K. of Babilon which was a far of sent afterwardes letters vnto the sayd Ezechias by Ambassadours and Princes of Babilon to enquire of the wonder And shal not we vndoubtedly bee resolued that this testimony that God gaue in this order of the abuse of his son reached furder then Iudea na euen ouer all the whole world for euen the very horror of that fact caused the Sun as it were to kepe backe the benefite of illumination of mē that had so yll deserued at the hands of his Maker Creator But now I hauing sufficiently spoken of Eclipses aad of theyr kyndes and causes I am to proceede to other visions sights caused oftentymes by meanes of the Suns working which are no lesse meruaylous Of the which sorte is the shew and sighte of many Sunnes at once in the fyrmament called of the Gretians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are ingendred through this occasion When as some cloude of good thicknes and continuant and which is also regular vniforme is placed so Many Sūs seene at once as that it is neither vnder the Sun nor directly agaynst it but as it wer on his syde and so nigh as it may be resolued into rayne and beyng not yet resolued the Sunne by the refractions of hys beams doth imprynte and forme his owne Image there as hee doth oftentymes in brasse that is well and finely pollished And this ymage of the Sun so consisting on his syde is called Parahelius of the Greeke preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifyeth next the Greeke nowne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sygnifyeth the Sun so that Parahelius is another impression in all poyntes mostlike to