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A17556	A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555.; Prognostication of right good effect	Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?	1555 (1555)	STC 435.35; ESTC S122158	33,166	68

your numbre 7. So on youre right hande in the rowe or order you shall see Virgo the celestial signe that the Moon is in and after that these thre letters b b b whiche declare badde or euell to let bludde to pourge or bathe agreable to the titles in the head G there had signified good To know what the Moone differeth from the Sunne MVltiplie the age of the Moone by 4 and deuide by 10 the quotient sheweth the signes that the Moone differeth frome the Sunne the remayne augmented by 3 bryngeth degrees to be added Nowe shall folowe what dayes in euery moneth are vnmete to let bludde daungerous to suffre woūding perillous to fall sicke deathly to iourney euell to marrye and naught to take any mater in hande The whole yeare after this compte folowinge hath 33. euell dayes The yeare hath xxxiii euyl dayes generall for euer IANVARIE hathe eyghte suche dayes the. i the. ij the iiij the. v the. x the. xv the. xvij the. xxix Drynke whyte wyne this moneth Februarie hath thre dayes the. viij the. x the. xvij these not so euell the. xxvi the. xxvij the. xxviij Eate no potage of okes or malowes they are venemous Marche thre dayes the. xv the. xvi the. xix this not so euell the xxviij daye This moneth all swete meates are good April two dayes the. xvi the. xxi these not so euell the. vij the viij the. x the. xx Vse hote meates of light digestion Maie thre dayes the vij the. xv the. xx these not so euell the iij the. vi Ryse early and vse breakefast Iune two the. iiij the. vij these not so euel the. x the. xv the. xxij Sage and lettuse are good to eate Colde water fastinge hurteth not Iulie two dayes the xv the. xx Abstayne from carnalitie August two dayes the. xix the. xx these not so euel the first the xxix the. xxx It hurteth not to abstayne frō potage and all hote meates and drinkes of spicerie September two dayes the. vi the. vij these not so euell the. iij the iiij the. xxi the. xxij Eate good fruyte October one daye the vi these not so euel the. iij the. xvi the xxiiij Good wyne is wholsome this moneth Nouember two dayes the. xv the. xix these not so euell the. v the vi the. xxviij the. xxix Blede not Decembre thre dayes the. vi the. vij the. ix these dayes not so euell the. xv the. xvij the ▪ xxij Blede not ouer muche Warme not thy legges at the fyre A conducible note for lettiug bludde LEt bludde at no tyme without great cause for it bringeth wekenes and many infirmities If ye do see it be after good dige 〈◊〉 n and fastinge in a fayre temperate daye Beware before of all maner exercise bathinges watchinges and carnal copulacion c. After vse fine meates of light digestion abstayninge from all the aforesayd vntill the fourth daye These signes are most daungerous for bludde letting the Moone beyng in them Taurus Gemini Leo Virgo and Capricorne with the laste half of Libra and Scorpius Therest are all good so the Moone beare no dominion in that member which ye cut as foloweth Beholde the figure The dominion of the Moone in mans bodye Aries The. Head and face Taurus The. Necke Gemini The. Armes handes shoulders Cancer The. Brest stomache rybbes Leo. The. Hart backe Virgo The. Bowels belly Libra The. Reynes nauill buttockes Scorpius The. Secret membres Sagittarius The. Thyes Capricornus The. Knees Aquarius The. Shynnes legges Pisces The. Fete FRom the chaunge to the firste quarter a mete tyme to let yonge men bludde From the firste quarter to the ful good for middle age From the ful to the laste quarter apt for aged folke From the laste quarter to the change best for olde men Signes mete for the complexions for the fleumatike the head and thyes excepted ARIES Sagittarius for melancholike buttockes and legges excepted Libra Aquarius for cholerike brest membres and fete excepted Cancer Scorpius Pisces For the sanguine all be apt that tofore are named good In the springe tyme let bludde at the right side In Haruest time at the left syde The learned Phisician will consider beside all that is sayde the Coniunctions Oppositions and quadrate aspectes of the Planetes with many other thinges Astronomical most necessarie bothe in bludletletting purging bathinge c. For to take purgations and to bathe THe metest time to take purgations c. is neither in hote nor colde dayes that is from the tenthe of Marche to the twelfthe of Iune Further by rules Astronomical it muste be perfourmed when the Moone is in cold moyst and watry signes as Cācer Scorpius and Pisces conforted by aspectes and radiations of planetes fortifienge the vertue of the bodye expulsiue The Moone in Aries Taurus and Capricornus naughte One cause of vomiting the purgation is the Moone hauing aspect to any planet retrograde The Moone in these signes folowinge very good to bathe Aries Leo Sagittari Cancer Scorpius Pisces These ensuyng are euel to bathe Taurus Virgo and Capricorne Of inundations or fluddes of tymbre fallinge sowyng planting graffing hear clipping shauing and geldinge THe fludde is biggest at the full bycause then dispersinge her vertue she filleth all places with moysture By commō experience ioyned with lerning I knowe at the full the Moone Iodeth all bodyes with humou●s and so are emptied growinge to the change Of this some gather the fall of tymbre at the change more to the purpose then other tymes wantyng then superfiuous moysture the cause of putrefaction Omnis putredo ab aqueo humido ortum habet Schoner willeth from the. xv daye vnto the. xxij daye of the Moone trees to be felled and that after Midsomer to Ianuarie So tymbre is strong sounde and voyde of wormes To sowe Taurus Cancer Virgo Libra and Capricorne are best in the increace of the Moone To Plant or Graff best is when the M●one hath her beynge in any fixed signe either in Tauro or Aquario in thencrease Heare cutte groweth well the Moone encreacing beynge in Tauro Virgine or Libra Cuttinge shauing clipping in the wane causeth baldnes what is then cut groweth litel Caluitiū prohibet oleum Tartari The best tyme of Gel●ing is in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces in the wane Thys rounde Table aboue and that also whiche ensueth conduce to the reste folowinge Here after ensuyth a table for the moueable feastes whose vse is thus briefly declared THis Table folowing conteyneth in the fyrst title the Prime in the second the Dominical letter in the thirde Lent in the fourthe Easter daie in the fyfthe Rogation daie in the sixte whitsondaie in theseuenthe howe manye wekes and dayes are betwene whitsondaie and Midsomer Whiche all appeare by their titles The vse is this Ye shall consider by the Table before put forthe what numbre the prime is that yeare where of ye requyre to know

❧ A PROGNOSTICATION OF RIGHT GOOD effect fructfully augmented contayninge playne briefe pleasant chosen rules to iudge the wether for euer by the Sunne Moone Sterres Cometes Raynbowe Thunder Cloudes with other Extraordinarie tokens not omitting the Aspectes of Planetes with a brefe Iudgemente for euer of Plentie Lacke Sickenes Death Warres c. Openinge also many naturall causes woorthy to be knowē To these and others now at the last are adioyned diuers generall pleasaunte Tables for euer manyfolde wayes profitable to al maner men of vnderstanding therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman in the yeare of oure Lorde 1555. ❧ * ❧ ❧ Imprynted at London within the blacke Fryars by Thomas Gemini 1555. THE CONTENTES FIrste ye haue many pleasant chosen rules for euer to iudge alteratiō of wether by the Sunne Moone Sterres Cometes Raynbow Thunder Cloudes with many tokens extraordinarie not omittinge the Cōiunctions Quadratures and Oppositiōs of Planetes among them selfes and with the Moone also and their conbustion in the .12 signes celestiall 2 Then ensue naturall causes of suche alteration accordinge to Aristotele fyrst of the Raynbowe then of Rayne Dewe Snowe Hayle VVinde Earthquakes Thunders and Lightninges 3 The causes and operations of Cometes Flames and other horrible fyrye sightes apperinge in the ayre 4 The naturall causes and significatiōs of Eclipses both of Sunne and Moone with the trew proportion of all the Planetes and fixed Sterres vnto the earth 5 Causes naturall of many Sunnes and Moones appearinge at one tyme on the earthe 6 Then ensue the Aspectes of the Moone and her signification in the 12. celestiall signes conducing to all maner affayres 7 A table declaring what signe the Moone is in for euer conteyninge the aptest tyme to let bloud to take purgatiōs and to bathe 8 How to know at all tymes what the Moone differeth frō the Sunne I meane what signes and degrees of the Zodiac ar betwene them 9 Ye haue a cōducible note of all the euel daies in euery moneth with other necessaries for letting bloudde also with the dominiō of the Moone in mans bodye for pourging and bathing more largely then by the Table tofore sayde 10 Of inundations or fluddes with the metest tyme of Timbre falling Sowing Planting Grafting Hearclipping Shauing and Geidlng 11 For farther knowlege in thynges folowyng the Sondaies letter and Leap year is brefly declared by a Table at no time to be altered 12 A table as generall for the Prime and Epact 13 A table to finde the moueable feastes for euer 14 Then is opened plainly the age of the Moone at all tymes the full and quarter for euer 15 A table shewing cōtinually the true tyme of ebbing and flowinge in moste coastes of Englande 16 Here is also declared for euer how lōg tyme the Moone shy neth when she riseth and setteth with her continuāce on the Horizon or earth 17 A Table for the breake of the day and twilight and for thys country the trew houre and very mynute of the Sunne risinge and goynge doune with the iuste quantitie or lengthe of euery daye in the yeare and the length of the night also 18 The houre of the nyght is knowen by the Moone and that dyuersly 19 The houre of the daye doeth playnly appeare by right shadow that is by any thing directly standing vp and also by shadow Geometrical whiche is squyre shadow 20 The exact houre of the nighte is pleasauntly searched by Sterres and Tables calculated with an instrument appoynted for that practise This instrument is a perfect Dial for the day of al other the grounde whose makinge reringe placinge and vse is playnlye opened 21 Before the peculiar Kalendar ye haue a brefe Kalēdar general contayning thinges comonly desired Here endeth the contentes To the right honorable Sir Edward Fines of the noble order of the Garter Knight Lord Clinton and Saye c. Leonard Digges wissheth continuance of health and daily encreace of honor SIthe my late trobles right honorable and singular good lord my dutye hath made me careful to procure that some frute of my studies might declare me thankefully mynded towarde youre lordshippe emōge other honorable to whome I owe my self with all my endeuore and fruytes of studye For the performance wherof not onely your lordshippes late talke of a Prognostication semed to make that argument fittest but also the manifest imperfectiōs and manifold errors yearly cōmitted did craue the ayde of some that were both willinge and able to performe the truth in lyke maters I thought it therfore worthy the labor truly and brefely to collect many thinges bothe necessarie and pleasant as well for Nobilitie as others and to adioyne them to my general Prognostication imprinted the yeare 1553. augmentinge diuerse wayes the same and more orderly placing such as were before set forth Your honor shal here receaue in this litle boke by infallible rules taught for euer a truthe of all such thynges as heretofore haue ben put forth of other for one yeares profit onely compelled thereby of necessitie to make a yearly renewinge of them wherupon errors many encreased You shal haue diuerse other conclusions generall of none before attempted These right honorable lord according vnto my dutie I do present and besech you in good worth to receaue and haue willed them to passe vnder protection of your Lordshippes name that yf to any any commoditie ensue thereby suche as receaue it may haue cause to further me in yeldinge thankes to youre honor To the Reader TO auoyde Gentle reader the yearly care trauailes and peines of other with the confusions repugnāces and manifold errors partly by negligence ofte through ignorāce cōmitted I haue agayn breefly set forth a Prognostication general for euer to take effect adioining thereto diuers profitable collectiōs many pleasāt cōclusiōs easy of all willing ingenious to be perceyued Here note Reder wher as the eleuate Pole Meridian should be considered in this work it is performed for London bycause I wiss he this Meridian Situation or Clime the exact truthe of thinges If any yearly practises in lyke maters agree not with my calculatiōs be assured they are false or at the least for other Eleuatiōs or Meridians supputated and therefor litle seruing thy purpose And that the late rude inuētiōs and grosse deuises of some this yeare and two yeares past published might be of them perceued then filed and so serue to some profit I haue purposed euen now to put forth a boke named Panauges well seruing their turne and so generally and most exactly all Europe pleasant profitable to the learned and no small delight to all maner mē An other boke is also redy to come to thy handes titled Tectonicon a treasure vnto the Masons Carpenters and Landmeaters correcting their olde errors wrōgfully rekened of them as infallible groundes teaching faythfully sufficiently and very brefely the true mēsuration of all maner land tymbre stone bourde glasse c and at the ende cōteining an Instrumēt

full in Leone betokeneth rayne The Sunne in Pisces or in Aries the Moone in Virgo Libra or Sagittarie signifieth rayne especially in watry dwellinges The Moone in Aquari or Pisces looke for chaunge of weather thē chiefly she troubleth the ayer The Moon also at the chaunge or rather at the full in Aries Libra Scorpius or Pisces tempestuous weather folowith The Sunne in Aquari in Aries Libra or Scorpio but chiefly in Leone the Moone then at the full and that after raine or missinges looke for lightnyng thundryng c. Also the Sunne or Moone foūde in Pisces without all helpe of Mars it betokeneth aboundance of rayne lightning thunder c. To cōclude the Moone in Cancer Leo Capricornus or Aquarius ayded with any aspect but chiefly with the opposition or quadrate of Venus rayne folowyth The iudgement of weather by sterres BEholde the sterres whose magnitude you knowe best If they appeare of muche light in bignes great more blasing thē they are comonly it be tokeneth great wynde or moysture in that part where they shewe in wynter colde and frost When sterres seme to runne in the elemēt it shewyth wynde Affirme also alteration of weather if they be few in nūbre cloudie and of litel light Further when dimme sterres appeare wyth long firie tayles iudge wyndes and great drougthe the moe in nūbre the greater effect When sterres in the nyght as it is sayd shote or seme to fall it arguith wynde in that part If in diuers places inordinate wyndes yf in all places then pronounce Wyndes Thunder Lightnynges yea weather most tempestuous The signification of Cometes Cometes signifie corruptiō of the ayre They arsignes of earthquakes of warres chaunging of kyngdomes great derth of corne yea a comon death of man and beast How by the cloudes change of weather is perceaued IF thyck clowdes resemblyng flockes or rather great heapes of woll be gatherid in many places they shewe rayne Also whē grosse thicke darke clowdes ryght ouer the northe part or somwhat declining to the west ar close with the earth immediatly folowyth rayne If they appeare lyke hylles somedeale from the earth a good token of weather ouerpassed Blacke clowdes signifie rayne white clowdes apperyng in wynter at the Horizon two or thre dayes together prognosticate colde and snowe Of the raynebowe and his effect touchyng alteration of ayer IF in the mornyng the raynebow appere it signifieth moysture onlesse great drouthe of ayer woorke the contrarie If in the euening it shewe it self fayr weather ensueth so that aboundaunt moyste ayer take not awaye the effect Or thus The rayne bowe appering if it be fayr it betokeneth fowle weather if fowle loke for fair weather The grener the moare raine redder wynde Of Thundres what they signifie THundres in the morning signifie wynd about Noone rayn in the euenyng great tempest Sōme wryte theyr grounde I see not that Sonnedayes thundre shold brynge the deathe of learned men Iudges and others Mundayes thundre the deathe of women Tuesdayes thundre plentie of grayne Wednesdayes thundre the deathe of harlottes and other blodshede Thursdayes thūdre plentie of shepe c●rne Frydayes thundre the slaughter of a great man and other horrible murders Saterdayes thundre a generall pestilent plage and great deathe How weather is knowne after the chaunge of euery Moone by the prime dayes SVnday prime drie weather Mondaye prime moyst weather Tuesday prime colde and wyndie Wedensday prime wōder full Thursday prime fayer and cleare Fryday prime myxte weather Saterday prime moyst weather Now ensuyth extraordinarie tokens for the knowledge of weather SOme haue obserued euil weather to folow whā watry fowles leaue the sea desiring lande the foules of the lande flyeng hyghe the cryeng of fowles about waters makyng a great noyse wyth ther wynges Also the sees swellyng wyth vncustomed waues If bestes eate gredyly if they lycke ther hooues if they sodaynly moue here and there makyng a noyse brethyng vp to the ayer with open nostrels rayne folowyth Also the busy heuing of moules the appering or cōming owte of woormes hennes resorting to the ꝑche or rest couered wyth dust declare rayne The ample woorkyng of the spinnar in the ayer the ant busied wyth her egges the bees in fayr weather not far wādring the cōtinual prating of the crowe chiefly twise or thrise quicke calling shewe tempest Whan the crowe or rauen gapith agaynst the sonne in somer heate foloweth If they busy thēselues in proyning or wasshing ād that in wynter looke for rayne The vncustomed noyse of pultrie the noyse of swyne of pecokes declare the same The swalowe flyēg and beating the water the chirpinge of the sparowe in the morning signifie rayne Rayne sodaynly dryed vp woody coueringes strayter then of custome bells hearde further then comonli the wallowynge of dogges the alteration of the cock crowing all declare rayny weather I leaue these wāting the good grounde of the rest If the lernid be desirefull of the too forsayd let them reade graue Virgil primo Georgicorum At Bor. c. Ther be a multitude of other not extraordinarie but of the best knowen causes many for breuitie here omitted the moare part not mencioned because they passe the capacitie of the comon sort vpon all the whiche the Astronomer dothe well and lernydly conclude I doubte not ther be also some time vnknowen maters mitigatinge the aforesayde or prouokyng tempestes vnloked for whiche neather experience ne learning hath stablisshed How vnkynd these considered yea how far from woorthy thankes giuing are they which in general heddily do blame checkyng bitterly the Astrologer with these iudiciarie maters the least part emong a nūbre of his most certayn doynges whan thinges fortune contrarie to expectation Vnderstande gentle reader the cō sent of a multitude famously learnid is theyr buclar euen in these maters iudiciari who haue wayed a long time prudently the great strengthe the vehement force and maruaylous natures of all erratical and coelestial cōstellatiōs with theyr Angles Radiations Aspectes Affections Stationes Progressions Defections Dispositions Applications Preuentions Ref●enations Contrarieties Abscisions Coniunctions Quadratures and Oppositions c. Therefore extreme foly yea mere madnes dothe he vtter which imbraydeth or bacbiteth these knowleges not remembring the great and manifolde benefites hadd through them and that wyth most certentie in all other doynges What Meteoroscoper yea who lernyd in maters astronomical notith not the great effectes at the rising of the ster called the Litell dogge Trewlie the consent of the best learnid do agree of his force yea Plinie in his historie of nature affirmeth the sees thē most fierce wynes to flowe in cellars standing waters to moue dogges inclined to madnes then most wood Farther these cōstellations Orion Arcturus Corona rising prouoke tempestuous weather the Kydd and Goate wyndes Hyades or Succulae rayne What Meteorologer consentith not to the great alteration and mutation of ayer at the coniunction opposition or quadrate aspect of Saturne

the morning apperyng before the Sunne fayre wether Occidental that is to say shewyng hym self after the Sunne goyng doune betokeneth great wyndes Iuppiter in Aries combust a token of rayn beyng Occidental it bringeth cloudes and dewes Oriental fayre pleasant wether Mars in Aries combust and Occidentall good wether contrarie Oriental Venus in Aries combust Occidental moystnes great wyndes Oriental thunders and raynes Mercurie in Aries combust tempest Occidental and Oriental fayre wyndy wether Of the planetes in Tauro SATVRN in Tauro cōbust and stationarie bringeth thicke cloudes thunders and troblesome wether Iuppiter in Tauro combust indifferent wether Occidental pleasant shoures Mars in Tauro combust a quiet ayre but Oriental wyndye Venus in Tauro combust thunders c. Occidental fayre Of the planetes in Gemini SATVRN in Gemini combust and Occidental drouth Iuppiter in Gemini combust a good signification Mars in Gemini combust and Occidental heat Venus in Gemini combust Occidental wynde Mercurie in Gemini combust wynde Of the planetes in Cancer SATVRN in Cancer combust darke wether great wyndes and troblesome wethers Occidental calmer Iuppiter in Cancer combust bryngeth calme pleasaunt wether Mars in Cancer combust great heat Venus in Cancer combust a quyet calme tyme. Mercurie in Cancer combust tempestuous wether chiefly on the sea Occidental calmer Of the planetes in Leone SATVRN in Leone combust maketh wyndes and mysslynges Iuppiter in Leone combust pleasant wyndes Mars in Leone combust Occidental drouth Venus in Leone combust drouth Mercurie in Leone combusi wyndes Of the planetes in Virgine SATVRN in Virgine combust is a significator of infirmities Iupiter in Virgine combust manifesteth abundaunce of thinges Mars in Virgine combust like vnto Saturn Venus in Virgine combust drouth Oriental contrarie Mercurie in Virgine cōbust drougth ragyng sees Occidētal drouth Of the Planetes in Libra SATVRNE in Libra combust sheweth infirmitie of sight Oriental colde wyndes Iupiter in Libra combust indifferent wether Mars in Libra combust bryngeth moysture Venus in Libra combust moyst ayre Mercurie in Libra combust wyndes Of the Planetes in Scorpione SATVRN in Scorpio combust colde ayre Occidental frost Oriental colde Northwyndes Iupiter in Scorpio combust rayne Occidental bitter wether ▪ Mars in Scorpio combust declareth moysture Oriental wyndes Venus in Scorpio combust rayne both Occidental and Oriental Mercurie in Scorpio combust ragyng wether chiefly Oriental Of the Planetes in Sagittario SATVRN in Sagittario combust colde rayny ayre Orientall colde and frost Iupiter in Sagittario combust 〈◊〉 rayne Oriental wors wether Mars in Sagittario combust drouth Venus in Sagittario combust rayne Occidental wynd and colde Mercuri in Sagittario combust rayne Occidental clere ayre Of the Planetes in Capricorne SATVRN in Capricorno cōbust signifieth darke wether with Southwyndes Occidental colde Oriental North wyndes Iupiter in Capricorn cōbust moist ayr Occidental increasing thesame Mars in Capricorn combust cloudye Occidental some heat Venus in Capricorn combust colde ayre Oriental rayne Mercurie in Capricorn combust rayne both Oriental and Occidētall Of the Planetes in Aquario SATVRN in Aquario combust colde ayr Occidental daungerous sees Oriental rayn Iupiter in Aquario combust Occidental rayn Mars in Aquario combust drouth Occidental and Oriental plenty of wyndes Venus in Aquario cumbust cloudye Occidental hote Oriental rayn Mercurie in Aquario combust snow Occidental more colde Oriental rayn Of the planetes in Pisces SATVRN in Pisce combust bringeth cloudes Occidentall rayne Iupiter in Pisce combust Oriental calme waters Mars in Pisce combust Occidental drouth Oriental lightning and thunders Venus in Pisce combust colde Occidental disposed to snowe Mercurie in Pisce combust moyst ayre Thus much of the iudgement of weather SEYNGE that I haue now sufficiently declared howe by what rules and tokens weather is iudged I thinke it conueniēt to adioyne here a brefe collection how Plentie Scarsitie Sicknes Death Alterationes Trobles warres c. are for euer perceaued A rule to prognosticate the aforesayd by the fallyng of Newyears daye IT is affirmed of some when Newyears daye falleth on the Sūdaye then a pleasant Wynter dothe ensue a natural Sommer fructe sufficient Heruest indifferent yet some wynde and rayne many mariages plentie of wyne and honye death of yonge men and cattel robberies in most places newes of prelates of Kynges and cruell warres in the ende On Mondaye a wynter somwhat vncōfortable Sommer temperate no plentye of fructe many fanlies and fables opened A gues shall reygne Kynges and many others shal dye mariages shalbe in most places and a commen fall of gentle men On Tewesdaye a stormy Wynter a wete Sommer a diuers Heruest Corne and fructe indifferent yet herbes in gardens shall not florishe greate sickenes of men women and yonge chyldren Be a●●es shal hunger sterue and dye of the botch many shyppes Galleys and Hulkes shalbe lost and the bloudy flixes shall kyll many men all thynges dere saue corne On wednesdaye Lee a warme Wynter in the ende snowe and froste a cloudye Sōmer plentye of fructe of corne Haye Wyne and Honye greate payne to women with chylde and death to infantes good for shepe newes of Kynges great warres battell and slaughter towarde the myddes On Thursdaye Wynter and Sommer wyndye a raynye Heruest therefore we shall haue ouerflowynges muche fructe plētye of Honye yet fleshe shalbe dere Cattell in generall shall dye greate troble warres c With a licentiouslyfe of the feminine sexe On Fridaye Wynter stormy Sommer scante pleasante Heruest indifferent litle store of fructe of Wyne and Honye Corne dere many bleare eyes youthe shall dye Earthquakes are perceaued in many places plentye of thunders lyghtnynges and tempestes with a soden death of cattell On Saterday a mean Wynter Sōmer very hote a late Heruest good cheape garden herbes muche burninge plentye of Hempe Flaxe and Honye olde folke shall dye in moste places Feuers and Tertians shall greue many people greate mutteringe of warres murders shalbe sodenly committed in many places for lyght matters NOw that I haue opened dyuers wayes bothe for the learned and vnlearned howe wether to come at all tymes maye be well iudged and knowen c I thoughte it mete for farther knowledge therein not to omitte here the naturall causes of suche and so many alterations of ayre Loe therefore orderly they folowe Naturall causes conducynge to all the aforesayde euer to be had in memorie of the wyse and fyrst of the Raynbowe THe Raynbowe is the shynyng and rebounding of beamys of light that tourne to the contrarie vapour agayne in the cloude It declareth sometyme rayne and many tymes fayre wether when the one and how the other is before opened Of Rayne RAyn is a colde vapour an erthy humour or fumosities out of waters or earth drawen vp

by the vertue of the Sunne to the nether part of the middle space of the ayre there through colde thycked then dissolued thus engendred falleth on the earth Here I leaue to speake of miraculous raynes as Mylke Blud Flesh Yern Woll c. For more satisfieng in these reade Plinius in the second boke 58. Chapter Of Frost and Dew A Colde moyst vapour a litle waye drawen vp in the day thorow faynt heat of the Sunne descendeth in the night dissolued on the earth there congelated or resolued in to water the one called Frost the other Dew The last is a signe of fayr wether in the spryng or Haruest Of Snowe IT is a moyst vapour drawen vp to the middle region of the ayre then thy●ked and frosen into the body of a cloude So congelated descendeth Of Hayle A Cloude resolued into water in the fall congelated maketh Hayle The hyer it commeth from aboue and the longer it tarryeth in the ayre the rounde● hayle Of wyndes VVynde is a multitude of drye exhalations drawen vp frō the earth and aboue the earth enforced here and there Of earthquakes in the most quyet tyme. PLentye of wyndes entred into holes cones or caues of the earth whiche absent from aboue the earth causeth quietnes the violent brustyng oute of them the earth closed agayne is the earthquake Sign●● est futurorum bellorum Tokens of earthquakes to come AFyry cloude appering in the element like a litel pyllar is a token of earthquakes to come The obscuritie or darknes of the Sunne without cloudes and straungely coloured blouddy or otherwyse is a token of earthquakes Also when Well water and others are troubled or salt or infec ted by fauour c. A great quyetnes of ayre by lande and sea and chiefly the long absence of wyndes Also straunge noyses herde as clamours of men russhynge of harnes mourninges lamentations c. All these haue bene obserued to signifie earthquakes at hande Of Thunders and lightninges THunder is the quenching of fyre in a cloude Or thunder is an exhalation hote and drye myxte with moysture carryed vp to the middleregiō there thycked and wrapped into a cloude of this hore matter coupled with moystnes closed in the cloude groweth a stryfe the heat beating and breakyng out the sydes of the cloude with a thundringe noyse the fyre then dispersed is the lightnynge Thus for the lerned Tonit 〈◊〉 sonitus est qui editur quādo ●ube● rumpit halitus Fulmen flamma vel repētinus est ignis qui ex collisione nubium aut ruptura nascitur Aristotele affirmeth the lightnyng after the thunder but the fyre doth fyrst appere in that the sight is before the hering If this satiisfie not reade the second of hys Meteoron Here foloweth a note of lightninges There be thre kyndes of lightninges drye moyst and clere DRye do not burne but cleaue depart or diuide Moyst burne not but alter colour The clere are of maruelous natures Full barels by it are emptied It melteth mony in the purs it breaketh the swerde the purs and scaberd not perisshed yea wex in them vnmolten Of the Cometes or flames in the night A Comet is a flame working in a drye hote flymye exhalation drawē vp to the hyest part of the ayre His mater or substance after it is brent dispersed prouoketh wyndes The natural cause of the Sunne eclypsed NOthing els is the Eclips of the Sunne but the direct putting the body of the Moone betwene the Sunne and the earth or betwene our sight and the Sunne which chaunceth onely at the change A Corollarie BY this gather the darkenes at Christes death not to stande by natur all ecliptical cause but by supernatural or miracle For it was at the ful Moone the scriptures witnes which enforced Dio●ysius Areopagita at the tyme of his passion to speake thus Aut Deus natur● patitur aut mundi machina dissoluitur The cause of the Moone eclipsed THe Sunne beyng in the contrarie poynt to the ful Moone enforceth the shadowe of the earth then directly put betwene the Sunne and the Moone towardes the Moone hyding more or lesse of the Moone as she differeth from the Ecliptical Some obserue pestilent plagues sodayn batayl great dearth to ensue these eclypses which all I desire God to auert from his chosen Many other thinges by this Eclips are gathered as Longitudes of countreys the quantitie of the Sunne contayning the bignes of the earth 162 times the compasse of the earth 21600. myles whose thycknes accordinge to Archimedes rule is 6872 myles and 8 eleuenthes of a myle The quantite of the Moone is the 43 part of the earth The Sunne contayneth the globe of the Moone 7000 tymes Saturnus comprehendeth the bignes of the earth 91 tymes Iupiter 95 tymes Mars 1 and 10. sixtenthes Venus one 37 part Mercurius on 32000 parte of the earth Note here that Alfraganus affirmeth the least fixed sterre perfectly sene as bygge as the whole earth HAec non erunt admirationi si globi capacit atem ex longitudine diametri quaesieris Continet enim sol●● dim●tiens terrae dimetientem quinquies semissem Estque propertio diametri solis ad terrae dimetientē quae est numeri vud●●im ad duo quintupla sesquialtera Cubus soli● mille ter●●ntū vnā triginta partes tales continet cuiusmodi terrae cubus octonas conplectitur Cubus enim numeri vndecim est mille tercentū vnū triginta Cubus vero bi●arii qui est terrae octo Subducto quoties id fieri potest minore cubo qui est terrae à maiore qui est solis cognoscitur cub●●d cubum proportio quanto Sol maior terra sit Inuenimus ergo octo centics sexagi●● sexies in mille tercentum vno triginta ¶ Terrae Diametros Lunae dimetientē cōplectitur ter duas eius diamet●i portiones quintas Estque ea proportio dimetientis terrae ad Lunae diametrum quae est septen decim ad quinque tripla superbipartiens quintas Cubus numeri septendecim quater mille nongenta tredecim Cubus numer● quinque est centum viginti quinque Maiore cubo per minorem distributo reperimu● numerum cētum vigintiquinque tricies nouies in quater mille nongēus tredecim quod paululum à superioribus obseruationibus diflert How many myles the Moone is from the earth and euery planet from other AS some haue published it is from the earth to the Moone 15750. myles From the Moone to Mercurie is 12812. myles From Mercurie to Venus as many myles From Venus to the Sunne is 23437. myles and a half From the Sunne to Mars is 15725. myles From Mars to Iupiter is 78721. myles From Iupiter to Saturne as many myles From Saturne to the firmament 120485 myles The Whole summe from the earth to the firmament is 280734. myles and a half The natural causes of many Sunnes