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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01297	Antiprognosticon that is to saye, an inuectiue agaynst the vayne and vnprofitable predictions of the astrologians as Nostrodame, [et]c. Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Whervnto is added by the author a shorte treatise in Englyshe, as well for the vtter subuersion of that fained arte, as also for the better vnderstandynge of the common people, vnto whom the fyrst labour seemeth not sufficient; Antiprognosticon contra inutiles astrologorum prædictiones Nostradami, Cuninghami, Lovi, Hilli, Vaghami, & reliquorum omnium. English	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1560 (1560)	STC 11420; ESTC S116544	28,693	82

blynde and not seyng when theyr eyes bee open Thus much for oure entente our order shall be suche as best maye be perceyued For wee wylle fyrste speak●… agaynste the wholle knowledge generally and thenne particularly agaynste euery membre and parcell thereof And because wee wylle spende no paper in superfluous sentences we must remembre what was sayd in the former booke that it was impossible for any man to haue any knowledge of thynge●… to comme ●…y the course of the starres Wherevnto wee wyll adde for playnner ●…nderstandynge this that foloweth As towchyng t●… mouynge and course of th●… hea●…ens bycause menne may see th●…ym they myghte also as they haue doo●… by longe and dilygent obseruation fynd out a learnyng that shuld ●…each the truth of thē but seing the starres be all of one forme or facion y t is sphericall or rounde like a ball although some be greatter then some also some hygher then some it can not be that a man beholdyng or lookyng vpon them shoulde vnderstande of what qualities or significations they are As for the coloure of them although to speake exquisitely by the rules of natural philosophie they haue no colour is ●…o lyke in moste exceptynge the sonne and the moone that in so smalle varietie of colours a man can not discern so dyuers and manye qualities And not withstandynge that they ymagine the planette Saturne to bee blacke or blewe and Mars to be redde or fyery they can if they were disposed I meane the learned sorte gyue an other reason of theyr colour nothynge seruynge for the auauncement of theyr pretende●… knowledge By this it is manyfest that by seeyng lookynge or beholdyng the starres no man can knowe what they signifye forasmuche as by the syght nothyng can properly be perceyued but colour and fashion Then what waye is it possible that a man shuld vnderstand what those hygh bodies all of one colour●… and fashion shoulde betoken Some wyll say peraduenture that as the course of the starres was founde out by diligent obseruation so lykewyse theyr sygnifications were learned by earneste markyng wha●… chaunced alwayes vnder euery sygne or planet Howe vntrue this is we shal part ly nowe declare and partly leaue tyll we come to the particulars Fyrst therfore that their significations coulde not so be learned it is manyfest by this reason That those thynges whyche chaunce or come to passe bee infinite that is innumerable to men howe then coulde a certayn numbre of men know or learne whether all those thynges came to effecte as they had marked in a few for although they had taken their obseruation in as ma ny as they coulde yet were there manye mo yea tenne thousande tymes as manye whiche they knew not of that myght happen clean●… contrary to theyr deuise Dothe it not then playnly appeare that by obseruation no man coulde discerne what those sygnes and heauenly bodies dyd forshew Then if neither by beholdyng thē nor yet by marking or obseruatiō of thē it might be that mans witte coulde fynde out their signification there remayneth no waye howe to knowe them but that fonde fantasy of reuelation by some spirite or aungelle Whiche I haue not without a cause before touched although some wold think that I ymagin that obiection of my selfe because that of some it is so obiected not onely in woordes but also in writynge Concernynge reuelation we haue some ●…ynge sayde all readye wherevnto we wyll ioyne this that God vse●… not by his mynysters to reueale any knowledge vnto menne but suche as is to his glory and theyr profyte Nowe what auayleth it to Goddes glorye that mortall men shoulde haue vnderstandynge of all thynges that he purposeth to doo as who shoulde saye he woulde haue men as cunnynge as hym selfe or as thowghe he shoulde rule the world by theyr prognostications And no profyte canne it bee to menne to haue suche knowledge whyche yf it were true as it is moste ●…alse they were not able to preuente If God therefore dooeth not reueals any thynge whiche is not to his glorye and the proufyte of his creatures me thynke that vayne obiection is cleane put out of the waye Lette this suffise for our purpose of inueyenge generally Therefore proceede we to the particulars whiche althoughe there bee as many as there bee dyuers actions yet we wyll intreate onely of two●… sortes the one of foreshewynge the states of thynges and tymes that other of chusyng dayes and oportunyties And to begyn with that whyche semeth chieffest amonge theym to prognosticate of warre and peace I meruayle that menne are so madde as to looke for warre oute of theyr predictions knowing that the cause therof proceedeth not of the starres but of the deuyll whyche alwaye labourethe to breake the bondes of vnitie and concorde that shoulde be among christian men And where doothe he plant the cause therof but in the kyng whose heart the scripture witnesseth that as the diuisions of waters so is it in the lordes hande and whether he will he moueth it Seyng therfore that the kyng is not subiect to the influence of the starres neyther is anye thing that procedeth from hym gouerned by theim and thenne consequentlye and necessarilye it folowethe that all matters concernynge the commune wealthe as warre and peace discorde and rebellyon lawes and suche lyke can neyther bee forshewen nor foreseene by Astrologie dearthe and plentye bee caused by reasone of seasonable weather or vnseasonable Then yf the starres haue nothyng to doo with wether they haue lesse to dooe with plentie or scarcity which ar caused therby As for clowdes wherof rayne commeth they are drawen vp in thynne vapours by the heate of the sonne into the myddle region of the ayre and there by colde are made grosse then by some wyndes they ar dissipated and dryuen abroade or elles by some resolued and drop downe And thys is the cause for the moste part of rayne fayre wether so y e except the vncertayntie of the wynd may be knowen by the stars rayne and fayre wether can neuer be foreshewed But wherof commeth the wynd ▪ I am sure they wyll not denye the Philosophers definition gathered oute of the seconde booke of his Meteors which is that the wynde is an exhalation whot and dry drawen vp by the heate of the Sonne and for the weight of it selfe fallyng downe is laterally or sydelonges caried aboute the earthe By this definition all power of signifying starres is cleane excluded And as towchynge the place frome whens the wynd bloweth the same philosopher doth also declare that as it hapneth the matter thereof to be caried so frome that place it moueth And here by the way where as I vse the wordes of Happen and Chaunce you muste not take me that I meane the thynge shoulde come by blynde fortune or case For I am of opinion that nothyng commeth to passe without a cause but my meanyng is that by the causes and occasions therof so it came to effect But