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A17812	Prædictio astrologica. The great and vvonderfull prognostication, for the yeare of our Lord 1598. Written by Rodulphus Grapheus Doctor of Phisick in the Towne of Deuenter. Translated out of Dutch into English by W. P.	Grapheuis, Rodulphus.; Philip, W., attributed name.	1598 (1598)	STC 450.7; ESTC S114988	8,514	18

good Which is the second of this years hard chance Three darke Eclipses causes are of woe And torments great that manifold shall be For sure I thinke that all euill aspects And Planets badde that in the skyes are plac'd With signes of wo haue banded all in one To worke dispight to humane creatures A league shall be agreede by wicked men Euen to the spoyle of their next neighbours house By fighting strife contention and debate To ouerthrow the poore and innocent If you behold the Equinoctiall line And marke how the eclipsed figures stand You may deuine an enterpryse in hand To ouerthrow the land that lyeth southwest Betweene some men accord there shall be made Whereby in fine a peace it will ensue September hath 30. dayes Agree in one most Christian Princes braue By God ordaind your Countries to defend That Turke preuayle not gainst vs with his power And Christian blood be shed by tyrants vile Stand vp and fight for our most holy faith Which we do hope will be vnto our ioy For in the East the infidels will stirre That onely seeke to rob spoyle and destroy England and Fraunce shall likewise haue a change And so dainely by meanes of some great charge The one shall first vpon the other fall Which will fall out but hardly for them both Full many townes that on the Roane do lie Shall by deceit be brought vnto decay Contention shall abound but in Sauoy It shall proceed vnto most bloody end Saint Mathew shal full many seperate Which shal be led like sheep for to be slain October hath 31. dayes The rage of Mars shall now still more abounde Mammon shall stirre most vile rebellion Whereby full soone many shal weepe and wayle And countries strange shall torments great indure The subiect poore shal onely beare the smart For that deceite shal ketch them in her snare By meanes of Mars his subtill practises He shal speake fayre but onely with the mouth But secretly his hart is set on blood Which many seeke like vnto thirstie houndes Beware poore people what ye vndertake It were much better though vnto our shame Our mindes were set on quietnesse and peace But now the worlde and her inhabitants Is fild with pride deceite and wickednesse For which the Lord as angry doth vs scourge With bloody wars within our natiue land Nouember hath 30. dayes I haue in other places signified That children vnder Iupiter his power Shal in the eyght house of the heauenly spheare By euill aspect much paine and wo indure Which at this time accomplished shall be Beware you Lords and gouernors ech one Looke to your selues and seeme not to neglect Least that the burthen heauily do fall And so dispearse you by disvnion For that great blame vpon you will arise It is most true and therefore looke vnto it And for your wicked life shal so fall out The great oppression of the Gospel pure The strange iniustice vnto euery man Are sinnes of yours for which God doth vs plague And layes his crosse vpon vs euery day For that our workes are wholly wickednesse If we conuert God will withdraw his wrath December hath 31. dayes By placing of the figures we may see And course of planets giue vs t' vnderstand Howe that this strife falling most heauily Shall still endure although it seem all done And from this place in other countries slide Which likewise may procure them double woe And though within this month it fall not out Yet time will make it euidently seene Therefore I neede not much thereof to say On Planets can I not so surely binde Although full many thinges they do foreshew For God that guideth all things by his power As often I haue said and find it true What euer Planets threaten to befall Can at his will conuert and make them voide FINIS

of this yeare HAuing considered the constitution of the 6 house and the Lords of the same from whence and from the coniunction of the Moone we make our iudgement of sicknesses I finde Saturne to bee Lorde of the 6. house in the Ram which signifieth new diseases in the head omnia genera apoplexiae cathares paynes in the hart breast laskes red melisoen burning feauers pestilences agues yellow and blacke Iandis The yeare shal be indifferent fruitful of all kind of corne as Rye Barley Wheat Oats Pease and Beans but fruit vpon trées because Venus is found to bee retrograde shall indure some hurt for by reason of the quadrangle of Mars they shal be hindred in their growth Oyle Hony Hops and Flaxe shal be scant but Wine will be good and great plentie The Sommer season shal be cold and moyst with strong winds whereby Bees Shéepe and fruites of the earth shall indure much hurt all fourefooted beastes shal be profitable and giue good increase Butter Chéese and Bacon in great plentie and an indifferent yeare of Acornes There wil be no want of fruites but rather want of amendment in men for that wickednes dayly increaseth more and more and we giue our minds rather to beastly cruelties then loue and Christian humanity An Astronomicall Discourse of the particular effectes of the 12. Monethes of this yeare 1598. Written in verse Ianuarie hath 31. dayes THis yeare it shal be wonderfull and strange Beginning on the 10. of March to come Wherein both Sun Moon shal be eclipst The Sun but once the Moon in double fold What great effects these 3. Eclipses make In time the yeare wil plainely make vs see Once be you sure no good by them will come At the houre of ten somewhat before noone The fiue and twentie day of Februarie The Sunne shall be eclipst more then eyght points And so remayne the space of two long houres The other two Eclipses in the Moone One about seuen of the clocke and in The morning of the sixt of August next Thirteene points great which causeth griefe abound For diuers Planets then meete in one point As Mars and Saturne both of nature bad Being conioynd presageth vs no good And seldome one misfortune comes alone February hath 28. dayes The first and last dayes of this present Month Mars and Mercurius are the gouernors Whereby strange thinges shall then be heard and seene With vprores and rebellions manifolde The common people thereby shall it rew Mercurius many subtill sleights shall vse But he and his in fine shall dearely buy it This doth the heauens manifestly show In Westerne parts shall be accomplished Till Peters bande before the dore doth come Or not long after to no little woe For Mars by night his corne shal take in And strangely worke in couert of the shade That men may not behold his actions For many thereby might sore moued be What shall hereof ensue I will not say Time will it make t' appeare in open sight March hath 31. dayes In time of lent beginning of the yeare When all thinges bud and shew both faire and greene Pleasant and sweete as time of yeare doth serue Mercurius shall by Mars be troubled In other landes for there shall come a Lord That sodainely shall leape and dance for ioy And now the force of Mars being decaide Sol entereth and with heate and vertue rare And like a bryde beginneth for to raigne Whereby this yeare shall be most flourishing With more increase then had the yeare before Which will bee cause of loue and peace likewise But at the first it shall not take effect Aske Saint Gregory the most holy man When that the Sunne beginnes in force to be The Planets Venus and good Iupiter Wil vs support God send our cuntry peace Aprill hath 30. dayes It is a thing that commonly is seene Both in great Realmes and little prouinces That strange effects are wrought in euery place As France shal make it plaine vnto our view There shal the cocke gainst nature bring forth egs And Hen like cocke shall crow and that full high Which husbandman small profit will procure For he that badly hath a time to sow Shall find but small increase for him to mow Saint Denis he shall turne and so rebell Whereby great mischiefe will thereof ensue Gainst right and ancient statutes of the land And in the end will cause a spring of hate To flow vp and increase in noble harts Which likewise shall our land make desolate By flattery which slily shall creepe in May hath 31. dayes Walke ioyfully in the field in May Passe time away by making garlands sweete Of fragrant flowers and Lillies that are fayre Be bold I say to sport your selues with ioy Mars he is gone to France here it is cold Lillies are here so soone not to be had Keep wel your holds your sconces watch ward Borrow new summes vpon the quittance olde Make alliance but yet with good foresight Leaue of to mourne sigh it is not good That which full stout did stand shal haue a fall He that was proude in all his actions And among beasts accounted fierce and strong Shall become weake in that he takes in hand And too much lust shall make him impotent Iune hath 30. dayes Looke out to Sea watch and you shall behold Great store of shippes sayling in companies The riches of God Neptune to defende But wordes shal cause a noyse and tumults strange The noise of Phifes and Drums shal sound ful high Ships you shal see to winde and twine each way Where shot and powder shal not spared be That shall not fayle men may it not neglect Much blood it shal cause to be spilt in vayne Yet little profite shall it breed thereby To common people which are not esteemde Many a man shall fall into mishappe That liu'd in peace and had the worlde at wil Aske good S. Iohn he shal you wonders tell And Mary Magdaline shal weepe ful sore S. Iacob will at large shew what it meanes Iuly hath 31. dayes As we this month do thoroughly behold And books peruse that speake of wonders strange And likewise men be mindful and take care In euery place to looke vnto our selues Then we may say and proue it to be true That in this month many shal weep and waile Such as do vnder Cancer still remayne Hoping by anker hold still to be safe VVith ditch and sluce from water you defend You that vpon the water dwell and build Looke well vnto your selues and take good heed That it deceyue you not vnto your cost On land great matters shal be practised If they should chance to lose their sleeue it is no harme So that the arme from body be not cut And though they should be hindred by the cold Yet will they passe God speed them on their way If shoe be lost the foote it will not fayle August hath 31. dayes This Month hath an Eclipse but to no