f m xxxi f a xxiv f a vij f m xxiv g a vii g m i g â xxv g a viij g m xxv  vi  vij  viij  ix  x A a xvi A a ij A a xxiv A a ix A a ij b a xvii b a iij b a xxiv b a x b a iij c a xviii c a iv c a xxv c a xi c m xxviii d a vii d a v d a xix d a xii d m xxix e a xiii e a vi e a xx e a xiij e m xxx f a xiiii f m xxxi f a x x f xiv f m xxxi g a xv g a i g a xxij g a viii g ai  xi  xij  xiij  xiv  x v A a xvi A a ix A a xxvi A a xvi A a ij b a xvii b a x b m 27 b a xvii b a iij c a xviii c a xi c m 28 c a xviii c a iv d a xix d a v d m 29 d a xix d a v e a xx e a vi e m 30 e a xiij e a vi f a xxi f a vij f m xxi f a xiv f a vij g a xxii g a viij g m xxv g a xv g a viij  xvi  xvij  xviiii  xix   A m xxv A a xvi A a ij A a xiij   b m xxviii b a x b a iij b a xiv   c m xxviii c a xi c a vi c a xviij   d m xxii d a xii d a v d a xix   e m xxiii e a xiij e m 30 e a xx   f m xxiv f a xiv f m 31 f a xxi   g â— xxâ—v g a xv g a i g a xxij   Vpon the letter Dominicall next under the golden number that runneth is Easter day for the year of the golden number a signifieth April insignifieth March and the number of the said Letters is the number of the days of the month that Easter shall fall upon CHAP. VI. The figure of the Eclipse of the Sunne and the Moon the days hours and moments M.d.lxxii the Eclipse of the moon the 17. day of october xiii hours lxii minutes M.d.lxix the Eclipse of the Moon the second day of March xx hours 4. min. M.d.lxx. the Eclipse of the moon the 20. day of february v. hours 39. minutes M.d.lxx. the Eclipse of the moon the xv day of August ix hours xvii minutes M.d.lxxii the Eclipse of the moon the xv day of Iune ix hours lxii minutes M.d.lxxiii the Eclipse of the moon the viii day of Decem. 7. hours 38. minutes M d.lxxiiii the Eclipse of the sunne the xiii day of november iii. hours 52. minutes M.d.lxxvi the Eclipse of the sun the 7. day of October x. hours lii minutes M.d.lxxvii the Eclipse of the moon the 2. day of Aprill 8. hours xviii minutes M.d. 78. the Eclipse of the moon the 26. day of september xii hours 36 minutes M.d.lxxviii the Eclipse of the moon the 15. day of septemb 13 hours viii minutes M.d.lxxx the Eclipse of the moon the 31. day of Ianuary x. hours vi minutes M.d.lxxxi the Eclipse of the moon the 19. day of Ianuary 11. hours 6. minutes M.d.lxxxii the Eclipse of the Moon the 15. day of Iuly xvi hours 48 minutes M.d.lxxxiii the Eclipse of the sunne the 19. day of Iune 16. hours 53. minutes M.d.lxxxiiii the Eclipse of the sun the xix day of Aprill xvii hours xxvii minutes M.d.lxxxv the Eclipse of the moon the viii day of November xiii hours xii min. M.d.lxxxvi the Eclipse of the moon the xvi day of september 8. hours lviii minutes M d.lxxxvii the Eclipse of the moon the second day of March 15. hours xiv mi. M.d.lxxxviii the Eclipse of the moon the 25. day of August xvii hours xxiii minutes M.d.lxxxix the Eclipse of the moon the 15. day of August 7. hours 53. minutes M.d.xc. the Eclipse of the Sunne the 20. day of Iuly 19 hours 38. minutes M.d.xc. the Eclipse of the moon the xxx day of decemb 8. hours i. minute M.d.xci the Eclipse of the Sun the 10. day of Iuly 36. hours 36 minutes M v c.xc the Eclipse of the moon the xix day of december xvii hours xxiv minutes M v c.xci. the Eclipse of the moon the xiii day of Iune x hours xxiiii minutes M.v c.xcii the Eclipse of the moon the 8. day of december viii hours xxiii minutes M v. c.xciii the Eclipse of the sun the .xx. day of May two hours xxxvi m. M. v.cxciiii the Eclipse of the moon the viii day of octob xix hours 28. minutes M v c xcv the Eclipse of the moon the xiii day of Aprill xvi hours liii minutes M v c.xcv the Eclispe of the Sun the xxiii of September the i hour xiii minutes M v. c.xcvi the Eclipse of the moon the ii day of April ix hours xlix minutes M. v.c.xcvii the Eclipse of the moon the x. day of february 18. hours 57. min. M. v.c.xcviii the Eclipse of the sun the 24 day of February 12. hours 11. minutes M. v.c.xcviii the Eclipse of the moon the vi of August vii hours lviii minutes M. v.c.cxix the Eclipse of the moon the 30. day of Ianuary 19. hours 6 minutes M vi c the Eclipse of the sun the 30. day of Iune one hour xxxiii minutes M. vi.c.i the Eclipse of the moon the 29. day of novem vii hours 38. minutes M.vi c.i. the Eclipse of the Sunne the 14. day of Decem. ii hours liiii minutes M.vi c.ii. the Eclipse of the moon the xxv of May vii hours xxxvi minutes M vi c.iii the Eclipse of the moon the xiiii day of May xii hours l. minutes M vi c. iii. the Eclipse of the moon the viii day of november vii hours 37. minutes M.vi c.iv. the Eclipse of the moon the 24. day of March the ix hours 42. minutes M.vi c.v. the Eclipse of the moon the 24. day of March at viii a clock at night M. vi.c.v the Eclipse of the moon the 17. day of septem a quarter past 4. in the morn M. vi.c.v the Eclipse of the sun the 2. day of Octob. half an hour past one a clock M. vi.c.vi ther is no Eclipse to be seen M. vi.c.vii the Eclipse of the moon the 27. day of August half an hour past 2 in them M. vi.c viii the Eclipse of the sun the 3â— day of Iuly a quarter past 3. a clock M. vi.c.xi the Eclipse of the Moon the 10. day of Ianuary a quar fore 2 in the morn M. vi.c.ix the Eclipse of the moon the 6. day of Iuly a quarter past xi at night M. vi.c.x the Eclipse of the moon the xxvi of Iuly at 4. a clock in the morning M. vi.c 10. the Eclipse of the moon the 20. day of Decem. at 3. a clock in the morn M vi c 11. the Eclipse of the moon the 3. of May at
is all thing Fields and Meads spred most beautiously And birds sing with right sweet harmony Reioycing lovers with hot love all indued With fragrant flowers all about renued June Who of my season taketh right good heed Ought not at all my name to adâ—ul For in my time for all the commons weed From sheep is shorn all the flesh and wool And had in merchandise by great ships full Over the sea wherefore we ought to pray Vnto our Lord and thank him night and day July If that my time were praised all aright Among all months I am one of the chief For I enripe through my great force and might Fruits of the earth to man and beasts relief Feeding horses kine muttons and strong beef With other properties that I could tell But I must passe I may no longer dwell August I am named the hot month of August For redolent heat of Phoebus brightnesse In my time each man ought for to have lust To labour in harvest with great businesse To reap and sheef eschuing idlenesse And rise early with great diligence Thanking our Lord of his great providence September Who can my name perfectly remember With the commodities of my season Ought of right to call me September Plenteous of goods by all manner of reason As wheat rie oats beans fitches and peason Of which fruit every man ought to have in store To live directly and thank the Lord therefore October Among the other October I hight Friend unto Vintners naturally And in my time Bacchus is ready dight All manner of wine to presse and clarify Of which is sacred as we see daily The blessed body of Christ in sign of flesh blood Which is our hope refection and food November I November will not abide behind To shew my kindly worthinesse and ure For in my time the blastes of the wind Abateth leaves and sheddeth their verdure Wherefore every prudent creature Ought for to live right as they should dy For all things in me taketh end naturally December December every man doth me call In whose time the mother inviolate Delivered was in an old Oxe stall Of Iesu Christ Gods own Son incarnate Wherefore I think me the most fortunate Of all the other to whom pray we then That we may come unto his blisse Amen The beginnings and ends of the four seasons of the year THe first Prime time that thus doth begin From mid February unto mid May And from mid May Summer is entred in To mid August and then is Harvest day And from that time Winter entreth alway On Saint Clements day who so taketh heed And mid February it faileth indeed Thus endeth the praise of the xii months with the beginnings and endings of the four quarters And after followeth the figure for to know in what sign the Moon is every day This figure is for to know in what signe the moon is every day and the declaration is of the letters of the sign of the Kalender hereafter following  i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii xviii xix Aries y n c v l ê° s h z p e u m a s i q f Aries z o d u m a s i q f x n b t k ê° r g Aries p e x â— b t k ê° r g y o c v l a s h Taurus ê° q f y o c v l a s h z p d u m b s i Taurus a r g z p d u m b s i q e x n c t k Gemini b s h q e x n c t k ê° r f y o d v l Gemini c s i ê° r f y o d v l a s g z p e u m Cancer d t k a s g z p e u m b s h q f x n Cancer e v l b s h q f x n c t i ê° r g y o Leo f u m c t i ê° r g y o d v k a s h z p Leo g x n d v k a s h z p e u l b s i q Leo h y o e u l b s i q f x m c t k ê° r Virgo i z p f x m c t k ê° r g y n d v l a s Virgo k q g y n d v l a s h z o e u m b s Libra l ê° r h z o e u m b s i p f x n c t Libra m a s i p f x n c t k ê° q g y o d v Scorpio n b s k ê° q g y â— d v l â— r h z p e u Scorpio o c â— l a r h z p â— u m â— s i q f x Sagittarius p d â— m b f i q f x n c s k ê° r g y Sagittarius q â— u n â— â— k ê° â— g y â— d t l a s h z Sagittarius r f x o d t l a s h z p c v m b s i Capricornus s g y p e v m b s i q f u n c t k ê° Capricornus s h z q f u n c t k ê° r g x o d v l a Aquarius t i r g x o d v l a s h y p e u m b Aquarius v k ê° s h y p e u m b s i z q f x n c Pisces u l a s i z q f x n c t k r g y o d Pisces x m b t k r g y o d v l ê° s h z p e Pisces y n c v l ê° s h z p e u m a s i q f By this figure here above a man may know in what sign the moon is every day and the declaration is of the A.b.c. letters that are in the kalender at the ends of the lines and be named the letters of the signs wherefore mark well first the letter of the Kalender on the day that yee would have then look out the said Letter in the figure here above in the line descending under the Golden number that runneth Then look at the head of the lines whereas as is written the names of the signs and it that beholdeth directly overthwart the figure to the said letters is it that the Moon is in that day And like as one golden number for a year so the said line under the golden number serveth alone for the same yeer as in the year of his Kalender we have xvi for the golden number the line under xvi serveth all the said year and when we have xvii the line under xvii shall serve to the yeer that xvii is for the golden number and so forth of the other VT coelum signis praesurgens est duodenis Sic hominis corpus assimulatur eis Nam caput facies Aries sibi gaudet habere Gutturis colli jus tibi Taure detur Brachia cum manibus Geminis sunt apta decenter
before four above and four underneath sharp and trenching for to cut the morsels and there are four sharp two above and two underneath and be called conines for they resemble conies teeth After these be 16. that be as they were hammers or grinding teeth for they chaw and grind the meat the which is eaten and there is on every side four above and four underneath and then the four teeth of sapience on each side of the chafts one above and one underneath In the chine from the head downwards be xxx bones called knots or ioynts In the breast afore seven bones and on every side xii ribs By the neck between the head and the shoulders be two bones nameâ— the sheares After be the two shoulder blades From the shoulders to each elbow in each arme is a bone called the adiutor From the the elbow to the hand on each arm be two bones that be called cannes In each hand be vii bones above the palm be four bones which be called the comb of the hand The bones in the fingers in each hand be xv in every finger three At the end of the ridge be the huckle bones whereto be fastned the two bones of the thighs In each knee is a bone called the knee plate From the knee to the foot in each legge be two bones ealled cannes or marrow-bones In each foot is a bone called the ancle or pinne of the foot behind that ancle is the heel bone in each foot the which is the lowest part of a man and above each foot is a bone called the hollow bone In the plant of each foot be iiii bones then be the combes of the feet in each of which be v bones The bones in the toes in each foot be the number of xiiii Two bones be tofore the belly for to hold it stedfast with the two branches Two bones be in the head behind the eares called oculars We reckon not the tender bones of the end of the shoulders nor of the sides nor divers little gristles and spelders of bones for they be comprehended in the number abovesaid Thus endeth the Anatomy and followeth the Phlebotomy Hereafter followeth the names of the veines and where they rest and how they ought to be letten bloud WE may understand by this figure the number of the veines the places of a mans body where they be and how they ought to be let bloud and no where else so that it be a naturall day for bloud letting that the Moon be not new ne at the full ne in the quarter that it be in any sign before named good for bleeding but if that such signe were that it domineth the member of the which bloud should be letten for then it ought not for to be touched ne also that it be the signe of the sun The names of the places where the veines be are shewed by the letters set in the margent at the beginning of the matter after the form of the Picture A The vein in the middest of the forehead would be letten bloud for the ache and pain of the head and for fevers lethargy and for the megrim B Above the two eares behind is two veines the which be let bloud for to give cleer understanding and the vertue of light hearing and for thick breath and for doubt of meseâ—ry C In the temples been two veines called the Arteries for that they pant the which been letten bloud for to diminish and take away the great repletion and abundance of bloud that is in the brain that might noy the head and the eies and it is good against the gout megrim and divers other accidents that may come to the head D under the tongue be two veines that been letten bloud for a sicknesse named the Sequamy and against the swelling and apostumes of the throat and against the Squinancy by the which a man might die sudainly for default of such bleeding E In the neck be two veines called Originales for that they have the course and abundance of all the bloud that governeth the body of man and principally the head but they ought not to be let bloud without the counsel of the surgion and this bleeding availeth much to the sicknesse of Leprosie when it cometh principally of bloud F The vein of the heart taken in the arm profiteth to take away humours or ill bloud that might hurt the chamber of the heart or the appurtenance and it is good for them that spit bloud that be short winded by the which a man may die sudainly by default of such bleeding G The vein of the liver taken in the arm taketh and diminisheth the great heat of the body of man and holdeth the body in health and this bleeding is profitable against the yellow axes and apostumes of the liver and against the plurisie whereby a man may die by fault of such bleeding H Between the master finger and the leach to let bloud helpeth the dolours that commeth in the stomack and sides as botches apostumes and divers other accidents that may come in those places by great abundance of bloud and humours I In the sides between the womb and the branch be two veins of the whiâ—h that of the right side is let bloud for the Dropsie and that of the left side for every sicknesse that commeth about the milt they should bleed after persons be fat or lean take good heed at four fingers nie the incision also they not to make such bleeding without counsell of the surgion K In every foot be three veins of the which three veines one is under the ancle of the foot named Sophan the which is let bloud for to diminish and put out divers humours as botches and apostumes that commeth about the groynes and it profiteth much to women for to cause their menstruosity to descend and to fixe the emeroydes that commeth in the secret places and such other like L Between the wrest of the foot and the great toe is a vein the which is letten bloud for divers sicknesses and inconveniences as the pestilence that taketh a person suddenly by the great superabundance of humours and this bleeding must be made within a naturall day that is to wit within xxiiii howres after that the sicknesse is taken of the patient and before the fever come on him and this bleeding ought to be done after the corpulence of the patient M In the Angels of the eies be two veines the which be let bloud for the rednes of the eies or water that runeth continually and for divers other sicknesses that may happen and come by over great abundance of humors and bloud N In the veine of the end of the nose is made a bleeding the which is good for a red pimpled face as be red drops pustules smal scabs and other infections of the heart that may come therein by the great replexion and abundance of bloud and humors and it availeth against pimpled noses and other
sun-setting totally darkned All the Eclipses of the Sun be in the day and of the Moon by night And yee shall with the Eclipse of the Sun and of the Moon appeareth sometime ohterwise than we see it for the Eclipse of the Sun may well be by night and the Eclipse of the Moon may be by day but such Eclipse appeareth not to us Shepheards NO marvell that mans mind is mutable And will you know wherfore and why For he is made of things variable As of hot cold moist and dry The wit is light and passeth lightly And sith we be made of four changeable How should man be stedfast and stable An Eclipse shall be marvellous to behold Through which many shall be the worse For many shall find neither silver nor gold It shall be so dark within their purse Pocula Ianus amat Tangere crura cave quum luna videbit aquosa Insere tunc plantas excelsas erige turres Et si carpis iter tunc tardius ad loca transi Febrius urgeo clamat Pisces habens lunam noli curare podagram Carpe viam tutus sit potio modo salubris Martius arva colit Nil capiti noceas Aries cum luna refulget De vena minuas balnea tutius intres Non tangas aures nec barbam radere debes Aprilis florida prodit Arbor plantetur cum in luna Taurus habetur Non minuas tamen edifices nec semina sparges Et medicus caveat cum ferro tangere collum Ros flos nemorum Maio sunt comes amorum Brachia non minuas cum lustrat luna Gemellos Unguibus manibus cum ferro curra negitur Nunquam sortabis a promissore petitum Dat Iunius faena Pectus pulmo jecur in Cancro non minuantur Somnia falsa vides utilis sit emptio rerum Potio sumatur securus perge viator Iulio resecatur avena Cor gravat stomachum cum cernit Luna Leonem Non facies vestes nec ad convivia vades Et nil ore vomas nec sumas tunc medicinam Augustus spicas Lunam Virgo tenens uxorem ducere noli Viscera cum costis caveas tractare cruorem Semen datur agro dubites intrare carinam September colligit uvas Libra Lunam tenens nemo genitalia tangat Aut renes nates nec iter capere debes Extremam partem Librae cum luna tenebit Seminat October Scorpius augmentat morbos in parte pudenda Vulnera non cures caveas ascendere naves Et si carpis iter timeas de morte ruinam Spoliat virgulta November Luna nocet femori per partes mota Sagitta Vngues vel crines poteris praâ—â—cindere tutò De vena minuas balnea tutius intres Quaerit habere cibum porcum mactando December Capra nocet genibus ipsam cum Luna tenebit Intrat aqua novam citius curabitur aeger Fundamenta ruunt modicum tunc durat id ipsum Epilogus sequitur omnium supra dictorum QVae viri antiqui potuerunt scribere libris Decurrendo polum constanti mente rotundum AEreasque domos temptando sydera cuncta Quaeque fluunt ex his quomodo nunc sol moveatur Intus habes collecta brevi compendio arte De duodecim signis Signorum princeps Aries Taurus Urna Tindaride juvenes fervida brachia Cancri Herculeusque Leo Nemeae pavor asmaque Virgo Libra jugo aequaliter pendent scorpius acris Centaurusque senex Chiron cornua Capri Dilectusque Iovi puer duo sidera Pisces Idem de signis Corniger in primis Aries corniger alter Taurus item Gemini sequitur quos Cancer adustus Terribilisque ferae species justa puella Libra simul nigrum portans in acumine virus Centaurusque biformis adest pelagique puella Et qui portat aquam puer urniger duo Pisces De quatuor partibus anni De vere Verque novum stabit cinctum florente corona Pingens purpureo venantia prata colore Ver pallidum vario nectitâ— de flore coronas Vere novo lectis decorantur floribus arva Veris honos tepidum floret vere omnia rident De aestate Stabat nuda aestas spicea serta gerebat Horridaque Aethiopis signis imitata figuram Scindit agros aestas Phaebeis ignibus ardens Torrida fert arvis aestas frugifera mella Flava Ceres aestatis habet sua tempore regna De autumno Stabat Autumnus calcatis surdibus uvis Libra per autumnum musto spumantia fervent Pomifer Autumnus tenero dat palmite fructum Vite coronatas Autumnus degravat ulnos Faecundos Autumne locos de vitibus imples De Hyeme Stabat Hyems glacies canos hirsuta capillos Cujus nix humeros circundat flumina montes Praecipitant semperque riget glacie horrida barba Albentes haec durat aquas flumina nectit Tristis Hyems niveo montes velamine vestit CHAP. VII Hereafter followeth the second part of the Compost and Kalender which sheweth of the tree of Vices and of the pains of Hell IN the name of the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Amen We purpose to shew the tree of vices for sinners to take example by to understand their sinnes which is divided in twelve principall parts after the seven deadly sins and each deadly sin is likened to a tree and every tree having eight small branches and all these seven trees come out of one tree by it self that is evil and comes of one beginning and that is the devil and it bideth an end that is everlasting damnation which is ordained for all them that seek not remedy betimes by penance and repentance of their life in time After this tree of vices followeth the pains of hell to shew the lay people what punishment is ordained for every deadly sin and that the people may better shew their sins in contrition and make clean their conscience and that they may be the houses of God so that vertues may grow fructifie to the profit of their souls The first great branch of the tree of vices is pride and he hath xvii branches grow in out of him as vain glory of himself vain-glory of the world praising himself in evill boasting of sin inobedient disdain to tempt God excesse dispraising false goodness hardiness presumption rebellion obstination sin wittingly communing of the sacrament shame to do good Out of every the which branches springeth three branches and out of every the said three branches groweth three small branches to the number of sevenscore and thirteen and in so many manner of ways ye may sin in the sin of pride which is the root and beginning of all the seven deadly sins and therefore shall be shewed first of pride and after the other six sins as they follow in order The i. branch of Pride Vain-glory of himself Seeking ioy and not the glory of God When any weeneth his goods come of himself Or that such goods be due for their merits If they beleeve to
life The second house of substance and riches The third that finisheth at mid-night is the house of fraternity The fourth that beginneth at mid-night comming in Occident is named the house of patrimony The fift following is the house of sons The sixt finisheth in Occident under the earth is the house of sicknesse The seventh beginneth in Occident on the earth and stretcheth towards mid-day and is the house of marriage The eight is the house of death The ix finishing at mid-day is called the house of faith of religion and pilgrimage The tenth beginning at mid-day comming towards Orient is the house of honor and regality The eleventh after that is the house of true friends And the twelfth that finisheth in orient on the earth is named the house of charity but this matter is difficile for shepheards knowledging the nature and property of every of the said twelve houses and departeth them lightly and sufficeth of that is said with the figure present Qualiter puer crescit in ventre matris suae Primo mense crescit cerebrum Secundo crescunt venae Tertio quarto habebit omnia membra sua sed erit sine anima Quinto incipit venire multum gravabit matrem suam Sexto circundabitur pelle ossa crescent Septimo ungues crescent Octavo crescit cor omnia viscera praeter jecur Nono sciet mater si puer poterit bene nasci an non Decimo crescit jecur in puero de tunc bene comparebit mulieri si bene eveniet puero an non quae in jecore crescat quod quam cito habuit jecur tam cito nascetur vel morietur In quibus partibus corporis hominis sunt spiritus intellectus Intellectus dicitur essein fronte Memoria in cerebro Ira in felle Avaricia in jecore Timor in corde halitus in pulmone cogitatio in venis quia splene ridemus felle irascimur corde sapimus jecore amamus quibus quatuor elementis constantibus integrum est animal Of the twelve signes which be good or bad to take journeys by land or water ARies is good Taurus is not so Gemini and Cancer will make thee glad But beware hardly of Leo and Virgo Libra for friendship full hard is Scorpio Sagittary good Capricorn perillous Aquary by water good Clarks proveth so For best is Pisces and most plenteous CHAP. XL. How the Planets reign in every hour HE that will weet how shepheards know which planet reigneth every hour of the day and night which planet is good which is bad ought to know the planet of the day and seek therefore The first temporall hour of the Sun rising that day is for the said planet The second hour is for the planet ensuing the third for the other as they are here figured by order and it behoveth to go from Sol to Venus Mercury Luna them come again to Saturn unto 12. that is the hour before the Sunnes going down and incontinent after the Sun is down beginneth the first hour of the night that is for the xiii planet and the 2. hour of the night for the 14. and so unto 12. hours for the night that is the nexte hour before the Sun rising and come directly falling upon the 24. planet that is next before that of the day following And thus the day hath 12. hours and the night 12. also the which be temporall hours different to the hours of the clocks the which be artificials Shepheards say that Saturn and Mars be evill planets Iupiter and Venus good Sol and Luna half good and half evill The party toward a good planet is good and the party toward the evill planet is naught Mercury conioyned with a good planet is good and with an evill planet he is naught and they understand this as to the influences good or evill that been of the said planets there following The houres of the planets been different to them of clocks for the hours of clocks been equall at all times each of lx minutes but they of the planets when the dayes and the nights be equall that the Sun is in one of the Equinocts they be equall but as soon as the dayes lengthen or shorten so do the naturall houres By this it is convenient alway for the day to have 12. temporall houres and the night also and when the days be long and the houres long and when the dayes be short and the houres short in like manner is the night and neverthelesse an hour of the day and an hour of the night together have six score minutes as many as two hours for artificials that the one leaveth the other taketh And take we our planets from the Sun rising not before unto the Sun going down and all the remnant is night Example of that which is above In December the days have but vii hours artificials of clocks xii temporals let the viii hours artificials be divided in 12. equall parts and it shal be 12. times xl minutes and every part shal be a temporall hour that shal be of xl minutes and no mo Thus in December the temporal hours of the day have but xl minutes but the hours of the night have fourscore for in that time the nights have xvi hours artificials which divided in 12. parts bin fourscore minutes for every tēporall hour Thus the hour of the nights in Decemb. have 80. minuts and xl for an hour of the day there been six sore minutes in two temporall hours as many in two hours artificialls that be each of xl minutes In Iune is the contrary in March and in September all hours been equall as the dayes been in other months by equall portion With every planet here afore figured been the signs which be the houses of the said planets as it is aforesaid Capricornus and Aquarius been the houses of Saturn Sagittarius and Pisces of Iupiter Scorpio and Aries of Mars Leo of Sol Taurus and Libra of Venus Gemini of Mercury Cancer of Luna with other significations that would be long to recount Hereafter followeth the nature of the seven planets with the dispositions of the said Planets after the sayings of expert shepheards My son thou shalt understand That to avoid all idlenesse This matter oft thou take in hand To read of shepheards businesse And specially of the Planets seven Of Mars and Saturn that is full high Also of Sol the middle heaven And under him Venus Luna and Mercury For to know their natures all In sooth it is a great cunning And shew what may befall When every planet is reigning By their working oft we been moved To love lust and playes of iollity And by some of them as Clarkes have proved They stir us to theft murther and utily Some be not good some be bad veryly Some be not comfortable to man ne beast Some hot some cold some moist some dry If three be good four be worse at least Saturn is highest and coldest being full bad