cause a hoat Summer a dry very good for the Cholericke complexion and men of middle age Likewise Libra Scorpio and Sagittarius cause a colde and moyst Autumne agreable to the Phlegmaticke cōplexion and younge age And Capricornus A quarius and Pisces cause the Winter naturally to be cold and dry aunswerable to the Melancholicke complexion and to olde Age. But of these thinges we are to speake of as Occasion shall serue more particulerly as hereafter followeth Of LVNA or the Moone AS Sol or the Sunne is the Beauty Grace and Countenaunce of the day so in like sorte is Luna or the Moone the comforter light geuer and glory of the night And they both haue for this such their Graciousnes and goodnes the greatest preheminence and accoumpte of all other Planets Whereupon it was not wont good cause and consideration that in olde and auncient time both of these when at any tyme they were Depictures or drawen forth by any Artificer Engrauer or Paynter they were then chiefly set out in the fashion seemlinesse or Habite of a Virgin and in both their handes were placed and put fine and feate Arrowes or dartes to signifie thereby that the light which proceeded frō these two was onely cleare vndefiled and withoute spot and that these were the onely Planets which threwe as it were and cast from them the glistering beames of cleare and comfortable lighte as Arrowes or Dartes whereby all things cheared and continued the better in their Estate wyth well lyking LVNA hovv called This same Luna therefore is with the Poets called Lucina the Gouernour or Goddesse of the nyghte And for that she doth not onely appeare or shyne in the night time but is seene oftentimes ouer our heade in our Horizon in the day time It is growne to a custome and brought nowe amonge vs to this passe effect that shee is also of some called Diana as if you woulde say Duana for her thorow presence both in the day night or as Tully better reasoneth for that shee with her bright looke oftentimes causeth the night to appeare as though it were day This of al the other planets is placed lowest is nighest to the Earth for which cause she sheweth forth seemeth vnto our eyesight to bee so great her figure or fashiō of body is roūd of her own nature she is fiery although casually intermedling with vapors water so forth she appeareth to be in colour watery which much troubleth her whereupō it is reported that were it not for such lettes hinderaunces as by this meanes it is subiect vnto she would shyne forth as fully as doth the Sunne The Hebrewes call it TSAR or LECANNATH the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She geueth her chiefest light on that side or part which is opposite against the Sun is euer darkned on that side which is turned away frō the Sun In the Moone be 3. states or cōditions to be obserued waighed that is to say Three stares in the Moōe to be noted either as she is in coniūction with the Sun or els as she is on some of his sides or els as shee departeth goeth backe furder of from the Sun Whē the is in this last of 3. point she will appeare end wise with her hornes reaching towards the East Secōdly as she is in oppositiō with the sun and draweth nighe to that pointe shee appeareth all ouer a like rounde with the Sūne but her reuolution then is most towarde the West And lastly as on eyther side shee turneth more or lesse towardes the Sunne so is shee the more obscured or lightned Marcianus sayth that there is a certayne Stayne or Spot euer seene in the Moone which blemisheth her brightnesse greatly especially thē when as some matter of Mystes or of any other Metecre is troublesome vnto her Her house is onely in Cancer Her exaltacion is in the fourth of Taurus Her qualies are cold moiste As likewise her effectes or workinge is to make colde and moyste Where she coloureth she geueth a saffron colour in tastes or sauoures she worketh maketh the saltest Her course or race is of all other Planets most swift her course for in 28. dayes she passeth through all and singuler Signes of the Zodiacke And for such her swiftnes or haste it happeneth somewhiles that shee is vnder the Sunne another while aboue one while she is before another while behinde And when as the Sunne is in his course or circuite by the nethermost circles of the south and the Moone contrariwise in the highest circle of the North then the top of the Moone appeareth like a Cockbote or small ship and her hornes are vpwarde But when as she is vnder the Sūne her hornes giue downewarde towardes the earth From the Moone are gathered and coniectured certaine probable signes Certayne prognostications from the Moone whereby we prognosticate and foreshewe of the alteratiō of times mutability of the weather to come As when the Moone by and by after her chaunge doth appeare red shee prognosticateth wyndes and tempestuous weather the most parte of the sayde Moones continuance Agayne if vpon her chaunge shee incontinently at her Top or highest parte looketh blacke or be there darckened shee foresheweth rayne and a wet moyste first quarter But if shee bee onely obscured about the middle of her shee prognosticateth a fayre full Moone and last quarter of the same The Eclypse of the Moone is generally caused through the interposition of the earth betwene the Moone our eyesight The Moones Eclypse but then especially is she Eclipsed when as the bodies both of the Sunne Moone and Earth are right oppositly set one ouer another in one the selfe same contrary line so that by such occasion one darckeneth and obscureth another Her chaunge increase and decrease hath much troubled the wits of the Astronomers As hardly also can they render a reason geue forth the cause why one while shee croketh in to hornes why another while she wexeth all rounde why one while she shyneth in one parte of her why another she geueth light al ouer why now she is seene all night why now but a piece of the night why now leauing the nighte time shee sheweth her selfe onely in the day time why now shee is cleare and radiant why anon blotted and blemished why now caried Northwarde why anon mooninge directly Southward Which al and other such like meruaylons and straunge effects and properties are reported by Plinie in his second booke and eight chapter to haue bene best obserued by Endymion being as is there sayde rauished in great loue for such her astonishmēt fel so to affectionate her that accomptinge more of her then of all the other Supercoelestiall powres shee to requite him like loue agayne is sayd to haue discended on a time and to haue kissed the sayd Endymion as he lay a sleepe vpon Latmus Mountayne in Caria
white nighe and next vnto blacke or intermedled therwith or as the flame seemeth oftentimes moste straunge through the straungenes of the fumes thereof Gaspings gapings in the aire So the cause of gaspynges gapynges and gulphes sene oftentimes in the ayre riseth vpoÌ„ the same occasion partly that the fiery impressions or flames of fyre afore rehearsed do and partly vpon the occasion of the colours seene in the ayre last spoken of There is seene oftentymes also in the starlight nights vnder the moone as somewhiles also vnder the sunne and starres as it were a garland called of the Greekes Halon in Latine Corona Halon or garland of the moone whych is engendred through a refraction of the sight in watery Cloudes as diuerse other apparitions are But then specially doth this garland shew about the Moone When it shevveth chiefely wheÌ„ some vniforme cloude beâ—ow which is on all sides alike thicke or thin is placed directly vnder the moone so that her beames coueting to perse and go through the same are there stil kept and retayned or els are beaten backe by the force of the cloude and so shee being letted therein to go any further directly disperseth her beames alonge by the outmost sides of the clowde by which refractioÌ„ there appeareth either right vnder her or vnder som star a great circle greately illumined or lightned in a maner of a white garlaÌ„d This sighte also is somtimes vnder the sun the other planets but most ofteÌ„ vnder the Moone For the sun through his extream ferueÌ„t heat doth disperse sunder the matter of such a cloud doth not suffer it long to abide vnder him but the moone hath not such force of dispersing therfore this appartioÌ„ stayeth the more easely vnder her So like wise sonâ—whyles wee shal see this halon or garlande about same starres Halo or garland of the stars but that is when betweene those starres vs ther is oppositely set some harren weake clowde which is vnfytt to the generation of wynd or rayne For if the clowdes were thicke and warry it were not possible for vs as daylye experience approueth it almost to haue sighte of or to beholde the starres themselues Now as the poets also make meÌ„tion ther is besydes all these straunge sightes in the element which do appeare most in the night tyme a peece or parte of the Skye keeping away all a longe in colour mylke whyte of the Gretians called Galaxia and latined via lactea Galaxia or milky vvay Which part of the Skye as they say was once burnt by the vndiscrete dealinge of Phaeton Paethon who desiring to take vpon him an enter prise which was very vnfit for him and wherof he had no skill that is to rule hie father Phoebus charyots and horses by not keeping the due order and way in dryuing of them asceÌ„ded and went vp so hie nigh to the pallaice of Iupiter that hee had like to haue set the same on fyre with the Sun but as it happened say they that matter beyng espyed preuented in tyme the most misfortune that then befel was that this Phaeton burnt a peece of the Skye which appeareth vnto vs to he as it were a whole streete But what this ymaginatioÌ„ of the poet herein purporteth that I passe and pretermit onely the truth of this whyte coloured milkye and streetlyke sight of the ayre is through this occasion There is vndonbtedly a certayne part or portioÌ„ of heaueÌ„ in which the light of many starres ioyntly lodged and receiued by a refraction from them all do cause this whyte coloured appearaunce Aristotle sayth that it proceedeth or rather sheweth forth by the meanes of some receypâ— of light happening vpon an exhalation that is hot and drye â—â—d thinne withall The cause why these nightly sights as also why the starres themselues are not seene of vs to skyne in the day tyme is for that the Sun letteth the same by whose great light the lesser light of the starres and other ayriall sightes are obscured and darkened eueÌ„ as the quicke cole be it neuer so litle yet in the night tyme is seene of vs in his full shyne but beyng greace and shyping out withall thorowly quicke aliue yet in the broade day light beyng put in an open place doth rather seme dead theÌ„ aliue doth neither geue light norshine vnto vs al is because it lyeth as it were yeeldeth it selfe to the Sunsmore noble light and most gloryous shyne eueÌ„ so doth the starres and al other impressions in the ayer abseÌ„t kepe them selues from our sight all the tyme that the sun is here coÌ„uersant among vs in her such superexcelleÌ„t glory But let vs returne to the effect of the Mone in the other creatures here below and first let vs begin to coÌ„sider a little vnto what disposition shee frameth those meÌ„ which be subiected borne vnder her constellatioÌ„ The Lunists hovv disposed Touching the inclination of all such parties which bee borne vnder Luna or the Moone they be naturally mutable mouable without fidelity and constancy geuen to prouoke much anger and discord betwene friends they be also very enuyous agreeued with the prosperity and good fortune of others they bee also ful of hatred and in their conuersation and manner of lyfe they be verye childish The colbure of these commonlye is a pale or whyte colour althoughe now and then they haue therwtal a little red intermedled Their face is rouÌ„d their stature indiffereÌ„t their eies black their browes wrinkled And as in maÌ„ the chiefest creature the Moone hath this scope or sway so likewyse it hath as greate force in the bodyes of bruite Beastes and in them woorketh at her owne wil such straunge effectes as bee no lesse to be meruayled at The profe wherof the Panther geueth forth whose body is altogeather ordered by the Moones dyrection Panther for as Agrippa sayth he caryeth or weareth the very badge or patterne of the moone vppon his shoulder which continueth and vanisheth euerye moone accordingly as the Moone her selfe doth eyther encrease or decrease The lyke argument is of Cynocephalus Cynoce phalus whom some make one of the kyndes of Apes other some English ye the Babyon Of this Horus APOLLO wryteth that hee pisseth twelue tymes in the Day and twelue tymes urthe night And that in the wane of the Moone durynge all the tyme that shee is darkened hee coutinually lamenteth neuer eatynge any thing at all Whereby he playnly pronounceth what parte and rule the Moone hath in him ouer his whole hodye vnder the gouernemeÌ„t of the Moone is also the chaÌ„geable Cameleon which turneth her selfe into what colour shee lysteth CameleoÌ„ Vnder her are also the Badger the Otter and whatsoeuer kindes which liue and doe engender monstruously Cat. The Catte also whose eyes do wexe either greater or lesse at the continuance and chaunge of the Moone
vvith his vvhole army at a skyrmishe fought at Canna It vvas also Aphricanus his hap to be banished his countrey and to dye in exile It vvas CATVLVS his chaunce to bee slayne of his mortall enemy MARIVS The two valiaunte SCYPIOES lost their liues in Spayne Yea and vvee see dayly the suddayne rysing of many men from their lowe Estate to the highest degrees of dignity as IPHICRATES a Coblers sonne aduaunced to bee a Captayne vnder ARTAXERZES king of Persia RVMENES CARDIANVS borne in Peloponesus a Carters son aftervvards made Cōusay lor to ALEXANDER the greate AGATHOCLES a Potters son aftervvards chiefe of Syracusa IVLIVS LICINIVS a Husband mans son aftervvards Gouernor of Dacia Yea and many contraryvvise being Royally and nobly borne by fatall destiny haue fell from aloft as ALCIBIADES POMPEYE yea PTOLOMEVS the Aegyptian king vvhich in hys ruffe and youthfull dayes banquetted feasted dayly a Thowsand Guestes ordinarely seruinge them all in their Golden Plate and yet hee himselfe aftervvardes as he grevve olde vvas dryuen to that extremity that he vvas faine to be sustayned relieued at other mens handes very barely and coursly Yea and besides this many haue such cruell destinye that as soone as they bee borne they are subiect to be swallowed and soopt vp straightwais of some one daūger or other as was SEMIRAMIS borne of a noble bloude and PYRRHVS afterwards King of the Epirotet Which both were throwen out cast frō their frends being Sucklings and Infants and yet by fate of Fortune and by great prouidence preserued euen at the very dent brym of present and Imminent destruction By such meanes also was CYRVS so hurled of from his friends sustayned nourished by the meanes of a Bitche so was TELEPHVS by a Harte PELIAS Son to NEPTVNVS by a Mare PARIS by a she Beare AEGYSTVS by a she Goate ROMVLVS and REMVS by a she Woulfe In the wonderfull deliuery dealing vvhereof vvhat kinde of Fate and Prouidence this and an Infinite number such lyke was I referre the same gentle reader to thine owne determination Whereof this Treatise if thou vouchsafest the thorough Readinge thereof doth shewe forth both in proofe in example more aboundantly The name also vvhich I haue gieuen to this booke callinge it the Dyall of Destiny doth well enough as I thinke agree to the purpose For Dyall vyise it goeth from poynte poynte and frō Degree to Degree shewing the subiection of euery eche kinde to his sundry and seuerall Superior Planet Which labos of mine such as it is receyue thou thankfully And thē haue I that Recompence that I doe require Fare well To the scornefull sort of Scycophantes POLLIO playe not the POLYPRAGMON or Busie body I wys it becommeth you not The Parrat and Popiniaye playe such partes for Pray sake rather then of property but the Cornish Choughs and Carrenly Crovves haue it of custome If youre wonte bee such it is worse then I wyshe it were And then I perceiue this Prouerbe is playne Si Coruus posset tacitus pasci haberet plus dapis But like Lyps like Lettice Dayneties surely desire or looke you for none till that your maners be mended OF THE CONcord or common felowship of the seuen Planets as also of their breadefull debate and discorde IT is manyfest and approued by argumentes of force and reasons of more secret and hid phylosophy likewise by demonstration and conclusions Mathematicall that all Creatures whatsoeuer whych haue their being essence and preseruation vpon the face of the whole Earth or els be contayned within the Regions or Precinct of the Ayre aboue and subiected vnder the circle or Sphere of the Moone haue receiue their influence of the higher and more Celestiall hodies or Planets and after a certayne sorte sayth Proclus they resi depend of them And heerem his saying seemed not to bee amisse for that experience playnly teacheth vs and we also see that there is nothinge heere belowe so able stronge or riche of it selfe that being voyde or destitute of the fauour or furtheraunce of the celestiall bodies aboue can be well pleased and contented with it selfe Agrippa is in that opinion that at the former constitution or first breedinge of euery ech thinge both that which lyueth as also that which is deuoyde of lyfe as likewise at the committure or composition of the Clements for the morease of any baser kindes the bountifulnes of certayne planets is such oftentimes that besides the beneficialnesse of the owne nature of the thinges themselues which worketh alwayes liberally there is a further free gyft bestowed vpon euery the sayd thinges and kindes by the Planets themselues and the same more rightly or preciously whē as they meete together in more happy signe or be in higher Horoscope or Ascendent Plato wyth his Consectaryes doe affyrme that all these Daughters or progeny of Dame Nature are euery one of them first sealed as it were marked of the starres and Planets aboue whereby in euery thing they haue to chalenge their owne And euen as by God the greatest mightiest of all and the first and principall cause of all things all creatures are disposed generally to a like frame and customable order of the selfe same kinde so in lyke sorte by the seconde causes the Planets although inferiours yet working causes all things here vnderueath are in more speciall sorte sealed and ensampled Easy it is to see that there is no one parte in all the whole proportion workmanship of mans body that is not ruled or disposed by some one Planet or other to affectate that most of all other thinges which the superior force doth frame them and enclyne them vnto so that vnto me all the whole body of man as also the bodies of all other creatures here below seeme to be possessed busied and as it were incensed and set on worke by them As for example To begin with Sol or the Sunne it is apparant how he holdeth gouerneth and hath in possession the Braynes and forepart of the head the heart the marrow the right Eye the vitall Spirite or breath of life likewise the Mouth the tongue and all other the Organes or instruments of sense or feeling besides this he chalengeth the hands the feete the Synewes the Imagination and whole operation of the powre phantasticall The Moone likewise hath in her subiectiō ordreth after a certayne sorte all the whole body in such wise as both the humors and moysture both naturall and accidental doth either abounde in them or dyminishe and lessen according to her prime and wane And whereas shee thus worketh generally in all sortes according to her owne variation so in the speciall members and partes of the body shee especially ruleth in the Lunges and dealeth also with a great portion of the Brayne Hers is also the Marrow of the Backbone as also the stomacke the lest Eye with all the other partes that yeelde forth auoyde the excrementes and
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 theÌ„ three at one time And three appeared at one tyme manifestly as in the secoÌ„d booke of the sayd Plinie and xxxii chapter is recorded that is to say in the tyme of the prehemineÌ„ce 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 vvheÌ„ 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 theÌ„ haue beÌ„ 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 fashioÌ„ 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 apparitioÌ„s 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 violeÌ„ce 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 exhalatioÌ„s which of theÌ„selues 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 froÌ„ 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 â—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 wheÌ„ the same is fyâ—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 theâ— 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 caÌ„not 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 saffroÌ„ colour and next to that a sanguine or bloudy colour For these colours for this cause causeth such diuersity as