every Hour is equal to 30 Stadia and for the same Reason each Hour containing 60 Minutes every Stadium is equal to two Minutes 18. The rising and Setting of the Signs according to Manilius Rising Signs Stadia Hours Minutes Degrees Aries 40 1 20 ' ' ' ' ' 20 Taurus 48 1 36 ' 24 Gem. 56 1 52 ' 28 Cancer 64 2 8 ' 32 Leo. 72 2 24 ' 26 Virgo 80 2 40 ' 40 Libra 80 2 40 ' 40 Scorp 72 2 24 36 Cent. 64 2 8 ' 32 Capr. 56 1 52 ' 28 Aquar 48 1 36 ' 24 Pisces 40 1 20 ' 20 Signs Stadia Hours Min. Deg. Setting Signs Stadia Hours Min. Deg. Aries 80 2 40 ' ' ' ' ' 40 Taur 72 2 24 ' 36 Gem. 64 2 8 ' 32 Canc. 56 1 52 ' 28 Leo. 48 1 36 ' 24 Virg. 40 1 20 20 Lib. 40 1 20 ' 20 Scorp 48 1 36 ' 24 Cent. 56 1 52 ' 28 Capr. 64 2 8 ' 32 Aquar 72 2 24 ' 36 Pisces 80 2 40 ' 40 Signs Stadia Hours Min. Deg. 19. Let the Child be born in the Fourth Hour of the Day add five to four the Sum is 9 Multiply 9 by 10 the Product is 90. Let the Sun be in the 10th Degree of Gemini add 10 to 90 the Sum is 100 of this 100 give 30 to Gemini the Sign in which the Sun is 30 more to the following Sign Taurus 30 to the next Aries 10 remain therefore the 10th Degree of Pisces is the Horoscope 20. Let the Birth be in the Seventh Hour of Night add to that the Twelve Hours of the Day and that Seventh Hour will be the Nineteenth from the Suns Rising Then add multiply and work as in the former Method 21. Let the longest Day in Cancer be of 16 Hours the shortest Night of 8 Divide those 16 Hours into 6 parts each part contains 2 Hours 40 Minutes Therefore allow Leo 2 Hours 40 Min. for his Rising time Divide likewise the 8 Hours of Night into 6 parts each part will contain 1 Hour 20. m. and that is the rising time of Taurus The Difference between the Rising Times of these two Signs is 1 Hour 20 Min. Divide this Difference into three equal parts each part will contain 26 Min. 40 Sec. Add these 26 Min. and 40 Sec. to the Rising time of Taurus and the whole Sum makes up the Rising time of Gemini viz. 1 Hour 46 Min. 40 Sec. To this add another third part to make up the Rising time of Cancer viz. 2 Hours 13 Min. 20 Sec. And so of the rest as in the following Scheme Signs Hours Min. Sec. Signs Aries 0 53 20 Pisces Taur 1 20 0 Aqua Gem. 1 46 40 Capr. Cancer 2 13 20 Cent. Leo. 2 40 0 Scorp Virg. 3 6 40 Libra But it must always be observed that the Southern or Winter Signs are oppos'd to the Northern or Summer Signs The Rising-time of the Summer is the Setting-time of the Winter and the Setting-time of the Summer the Rising-time of the Winter Signs 22. The Example which Manilius himself gives sets this Doctrine in its true Light Let the longest Night in Capricorn be of 15 Hours the Day consequently must be of 9. Thus the Night exceeds the Day by 3 Hours Divide these 3 Hours into 3 Parts give one Part that is 1 Hour to the Middle Sign viz. Aquarius and thence conclude that in Capricorn the Day encreases half an Hour and in Pisces an Hour and half Aquarius being the Middle Sign in which the Days encrease one Hour 23. According to the Doctrine of Manilius let the Example be the same with that in the preceding Note in Aries the Day encreases one Hour and half in Taurus one Hour in Gemini half an Hour 24. There being 24 Hours belonging to each Day and but 12 Signs more than 24 Days in each Month and 12 Months in every Year 25. A Table of the Years and Months that belong to each Sign Signs Years Months Signs Aries 10 8 Pisces Taurus 12 8 Aquar Gemini 14 8 Capr. Cancer 16 8 Sagit Leo. 18 8 Scorp Virgo 20 8 Libra 26. This was never finished by the Poet or is now lost MANILIUS The Fourth Book After a short Reflection on the vain Cares of Mankind he brings several Arguments to prove Fate 1. Several unaccountable passages in the Roman and Grecian Histories 2. Sudden Death and unexpected Recoveries contrary to all the powers of Art and Physick 3. The difference between the Children of the same Parents 4. The fewness of Worthy Men and the certainty of Death 5. The ill successes of Wise and Good Men and the prosperity of Knaves and Fools 6. Monstrous Births 7. Prophesy And then endeavours 8. to take off some Objections that might be rationally propos'd against this Doctrin Then 9. He shews what Tempers and Inclinations the twelve Signs singly consider'd do bestow and to what Arts they incline 10. Vnder the Ram are born all sorts of workers in Wool Broakers Men of unsetled Fortunes fearful inconstant and covetous of Praise 11. Vnder the Bull Plowmen Aspiring Reserv'd Strong and Amorous 12. Vnder the Twins Musicians Songsters Men of merry Tempers and Astronomers 13. Vnder the Crab Covetous Fellows and Vsurers 14. Vnder the Lion Hunters Beast-keepers Plain Open-hearted easily provok'd and easily appeas'd Vnder the Maid Philosophers Orators Notaries shamefac'd and indifferently good 16. Vnder the Scales Measurers Gagers Accountants Lawgivers Lawyers and Judges 17. Vnder the Scorpion Hunters Gladiators Men of Warlike and Military Dispositions 18. Vnder Sagittarius Chariot-Racers Horse-breakers Tamers of Wild Beasts Men of acute Vnderstandings and strong and nimble Bodies 19. Vnder the Goat Miners Coyners Goldsmiths Bakers Broakers Inconstant and Lascivious in their Youth 20. Vnder Aquarius Men skill'd in making Aqueducts and Water-works and Spheres and Globes tractable and prodigal 21. Vnder Pisces Mariners Pilots Shipwrights Rowers Fishers Fruitful but Inconstant 22. He Discourses of the Tenths of each Sign and what Sign is Lord of each third part of every Sign 23. He encourages his Scholar to go on tho the Task seems to grow upon him and to be very difficult because 't is a Noble Study and the Object truly great 24. He shews what degrees of each Sign are hurtful what not 25. He Teaches that the Tempers of those that are Born when the Sign riseth are different from those that are Born at other times 26. He draws a Map of the Earth and Seas and Teaches what Signs govern particular Countries 27. He shews what Signs are call'd Eccliptick and why 28. He proposeth such Objections as are made to deter Men from this curious search and answereth them WHy should our Time run out in useless years Short Reflections on the Cares of Men. Of anxious Troubles and tormenting Fears Why should deluding Hopes disturb our ease Vain to pursue yet eager to possess With no Success and no Advantage crown'd Why should we still tread on th'
His upward Course and that in which he ends There plac'd as Umpire in the midst o th' way Contracted Night he well adjusts to Day And as thro' him the Sun goes on to climb The Heavenly steep He makes a change in time For Day that shorten'd in the Winter Bend The Ram first lengthens and the next extend 'Till rais'd in Cancer to the utmost height Of Summer's pitch He wheels the longest Light Then Seas lie husht Then Earth grows bold to bear And trusts young Flowers to the serener Air Then Beasts in Fields and Birds in every Grove Press on with Fury to consummate Love With joyful Songs the vocal Forests Ring And various Leaves adorn the gawdy Spring With such brisk Powers are Nature's parts possest When wak'd she rouses from her Winter's Rest Oppos'd to Aries Libra's Stars appear With the like power to sway the rouling Year Libra She equals Day and Night But soon the Scale O'repois'd by Darkness le ts the Night prevail And Day that lengthned in the Summer's height Shortens 'till Winter and is lost in Night Then from the burthen'd Elms the generous Vine Descends and Presses over-flow with Wine Then Wheat is sown whilst Autumn's heats remain To loose the Clods and mollifie the Grain These have their Powers and as these Signs create A turn in Seasons so they doe in Fate From Tropick Signs for by their name we guess Their turning Natures who can hope for less But wide in their mistake who think to see These Powers spread equally in each Degree Not every Portion of the Tropick Signs Turns Seasons What Degrees in the Tropick Signs are to be considered and the Planets force confines But one Day only in the blooming Prime Of Spring in Autumn One adjusts the Time One Day in Aries doth to Time restore Equality and Libra boasts no more One Longest Day in Cancer's Sign is born One Night of equal length in Capricorn The other Days roul on with different Light Now gaining from now losing time to Night Thus One Degree in Tropick Signs creates A change in Heaven and turns the Rules of Fates No fixt Decree's secure their boundless sway Extends to all and makes the Stars obey But which that is that governs Fate 's Decree There Authors differ nor can Art agree For some the Eighth and some the Tenth assign The First Degree is only Thine Thine but the Muse with scorn forbears the Name Unworthy mention and too mean for Fame The End of the Third Book NOTES 1. This and the seven following Verses relate to the several particulars of Medea's story 2. I use this Interpretation rather than that of Scaliger and others because I think Manilius speaks only of that famous Siege of Thebes when the seven Generals attackt it and as the Story says Capaneus had almost ruin'd the Town before he was struck with Thunder 3. Oedipus Married his own Mother Jocasta and had Children by her so that each Son was Brother to the Father and Grand-Child to the Mother 4. This respects the Story of Atreus and Thyestes 5. Xerxes is said to have dug a Channel round Mount Athos and to have made a Bridge over the Hellespont 6. Thus for instance in whatever Sign the Lot of Fortune is plac'd the next that belongs to the next Sign is the Lot of Warfare Civil Employments must be given to the third c. 7. For the Lot of Fortune being in all Nativities that belong to Day to be accounted for from the Sun and in all Nativities that belong to Night from the Moon and those two Planets not always possessing the same place in every Nativity and the other Lots following the disposition of that of Fortune it is very evident that the same Lot is not to be always applyed to the same Sign 8. The Poet never finisht this part or it is now lost 9. For instance let the Sun be in the 20th Degree of Aries the Moon in the 10th Degree of Libra from the 20th Degree of Aries counting thro' the following Signs Taurus Gemini c to the 10th Degree of Libra are 170 Degrees Let the Horoscope be the 10th Degree of Cancer from that 10th Degree of Cancer count thro' the following Signs viz. Leo Virgo c. and you will find the Number 170 to end in the 10th Degree of Capricorn Therefore in the 10th Degree of Capricorn place the Lot of Fortune This I take to be the meaning of Manilius 10. Suppose the Sun to be in the 21 49 ' ' ' ' ' of Leo the Moon in the 26 31 ' ' ' ' ' of Virgo the Horoscope in the 1 0 ' ' ' ' ' of Leo The Moon is distant from the Sun 325 18 ' ' ' ' ' which number being distributed amongst the Antecedent Signs viz. Cancer Gemini Taurus c. ends in the 5 42 ' ' ' ' ' of Virgo that there is the place of the Lot of Fortune 11. To explain this Method which the Chaldeans us'd to find the Horoscope Scaliger gives this instance Let the Sun's place be the 13 25 ' of Libra let the Birth be at the end of the Seventh Hour of the Day Now because every Sign hath thirty Degrees and fifteen Degrees make one Hour these Seven Hours are three Signs and an half or one Hundred and five Degrees Now reckon those Degrees thro' the following Signs viz. Scorpius Centaurus c. The Number ends in the 28125 ' ' ' ' ' of Capricorn and therefore that is the Horoscope 12. Sic media extremis c. The middle Signs here are Aries and Libra and these are said to be opposite to the Extremes Cancer and Capricorn because in them the Days are equal but in the others unequal to the Nights This I take to be the meaning of the Poet rather than what Scaliger and other Interpreters pretend 13. Thus in Cancer the Days are longest in Capricorn which is a Sign adverse to Cancer the Nights are of the same length that the Days were of in Cancer The like holds in Leo and Aquarius and so in the rest 14. The Italians divided all the time betwixt the Rising and Setting of the Sun into Twelve Hours and all the time between the Setting and Rising of the Sun into Twelve Hours And therefore those times being various and unequal the Hours must likewise be unequal 15. According to the Opinion of some Ancient Astronomers who plac'd the Winter Solstice in the Eighth Degree of Capricorn the Summer Solstice in the Eighth Degree of Cancer and the Equinox in the Eighth Degrees of Aries and Libra Thus in the End of this Book Has quidam vires octava in parte reponunt 16. Eudoxus wrote of the Sphere at the 36th Degree Elevation of the Pole and Manilius follows him 17. A Stadium in Manilius is half of a Degree and therefore in the whole Zodiack there are 720 Stadia In the Zodiack are 360 Degrees to every Hour we reckon 15 Degrees therefore
Birth began When the Birth belongs to Day The Planets join'd to Signs to form the Plan And Scheme erected for the future Man If then the Sun with an exalted Ray Above the East and West commands his way Then safely fix and give the Birth to Day But if through lower Skies he wheels the Light The Day resigns and yields the Birth to Night This settled if the Birth belongs to Day The Rule is short and not obscure the Way From that Degree where then the 9 Sun presides To that Degree where gloomy Luna rides Count thro' the following signs and as you pass Exactly mark what Numbers fill the space Thence from the Eastern point which artful Greece Hath stil'd the Horoscope an equal number of Degrees Following the circling Zodiack as it bends Count thro' the Signs and where the Number ends There fix the Seat of Fortune thence confine In order every Labor to its Sign But if when Night her sable Wings hath spread The Birth starts forward from his Genial Bed When to Night In different manner then thy Numbers range With Nature's Order let thy 10 Method change The Moon who imitates her Brother's Light And governs in her own Dominion Night Observe Thence thro' the Signs in order run To find how far she 's distant from the Sun The Native's Horoscope be next thy Care And from that Point begin to count as far As those Degrees permit thy Thoughts to pass And where they stop there settle Fortune's place And then to following Signs the rest confine In order every Labor to its Sign Perhaps these Precepts may appear too nice V. How to find the Horoscope For who can find the Horoscope in Skies Immense still circling with impetuous force In Motion restless and so swift in Course Yet this not rightly fixt our Art can boast No certainty and all our Labour 's lost As wretched Travellers are doom'd to stray When those mistake who should direct the Way Because the Points which all the rest controul Misplac'd at first must influence the whole And since the rouling Skies move swiftly on A different Face is every moment shown The Scheme must be uncertain and the Birth unknown Yet tho' of greatest Vse 't is hard to gain This Knowledge and our Search is oft in vain For who can in his narrow Breast comprise The World immense and who observe the Skies Which with eternal Revolutions move And Circling measure the vast Orb above What Diligence can e're describe its Face What Art can fix in so immense a space Those Points where East and West exactly fall Which Crowns the Top and which supports the Ball VI. The Chaldaeans refuted I know the Method the 11 Chaldaean Schools Prescribe but who can safely trust their Rules To each ascending Sign to find their Powers They equal time allow that time two Hours And then from that Degree from which the Sun Begins to start his daily Course to run Two Hours to each succeeding Sign they give Still thus allowing 'till their search arrive At the Degree and Sign they seek for where The Number ends the Horoscope is there But false the Rule Oblique the Zodiack lies And Signs as near The first Argument against the Chaldaeans or far remov'd in Skies Obliquely mount or else directly rise In Cancer so immense his Round the Ray Continues long and slowly ends the Day Whilst Winter's Caper in a shorter Track Soon wheels it round and hardly brings it back Aries and Libra equal Day with Night Thus middle 12 Signs to the Extreams are opposite And Signs Extream too vary in their Light Nor are the Nights less various than the Days Equal their measure only Darkness sways In Signs 13 adverse to those that bore the Rays Then who can think when Days and Nights are found In length so differing thro' the Yearly Round There should be given to every Sign in Skies An equal Space an equal Time to rise But more than this The 14 Hours no certain space Of time contain The Second Argument but vary with the Days Yet every Day in what e're Sign begun Beholds six Signs above the Horizon Leaves six below and therefore Rules despise Because the Hours no equal time comprise Which give two Hours to every Sign to rise The Hours in number Twelve divide the Day And yet the Sun with an unequal Ray Now makes a shorter now a longer stay Nay farther tho' you many ways pursue To find their length you 'l never meet the true VII How to find the different lengths of Days and Nights and to find the Horoscope But thus Take all that space of time the Sun Meets out when every daily Round is Run Let equal Portions next that time divide And then those Portions orderly apply'd To Days will shew their length from thence appears Their varying Measures through the rouling Years The Standard this by which our Art Essays Winter's slow Nights and tries the Summer's Days This must be fixt when from th' Autumnal Scales The Day declines and Winter's Night prevails Or in the Ram whence Winter's Nights retire The Hours restoring to the Summer's Fire In those two Points the Day and Night contain Twelve equal Hours For with an even rein The Sun then guides and whilst his Care doth roul Thro' Heaven's midd Line he leans to neither Pole But when remov'd he to the South declines And in the 15 Eighth Degree of Caper shines The Winter 's hasty Day moves nimbly on Nine 16 Hours and half so soon the Light is gone But Night drives slowly in her gloomy Carr Takes fourteen Hours and half for her unequal share Thus twice twelve Hours in Day and Night are found To fill the natural Measure of the daily Round Thence Light encreases still as Nights decay 'Till Cancer meets her in the Fiery way And sets sure bounds to her encroaching sway Then turns the Scene and Summers day descends Thro' Winter's Hours still losing as it bends And then the Days of equal length appear With Nights ' th' adverse Season of the Year And Nights with Days For by the same Degrees That once they lengthened now the Times decrease These Times our Art can shew but these belong To future Rhimes and claim another Song Thus measure those who live where fruitful Nile With Summer Torrents swoln o'reflows the Soil Whose seven large Mouths the Skies can boast no more Of Planets The rising and Setting of the Signs first By Stadia and Hours vomit with impetuous Roar And beat the Ocean from the foaming Shore Now learn what 17 Stadia learn what times in Skies Signs ask to Sett and what they claim to Rise Observe short rules my Muse but full she brings And Words roul from Her crowded up with Things For Aries Prince of all the Signs comprise Full forty Stadia for his time to rise But Eighty give him when He leaves the Skies One Hour and one third part his rise compleats This
space of time He doubles when He sets The following Signs to Libra rising claim Eight Stadia more and Setting lose the same And thus in order following Signs require Still sixteen Minutes more to raise their Fire And lose as much when setting they retire Thus signs to Libra 18 as they rise increase And thus they lose when they descend to Seas For all the Signs that do from Libra range Take equal measures but the Order change For Signs adverse to equal times engross But setting Gain and still arise with loss Thus Hours and Stadia which bright Aries gets When rising Libra loseth when she sets And all the time which when He leaves the Skies The Ram possesses Libra takes to rise By this Example all the rest define The following imitate the leading Sign This rightly fixt if you these Rules pursue The Horoscope lies open to thy view Securely work since you can fix in Skies The times and Stadia for the Signs to rise From that Degree and Sign in which the Sun Begins to start his daily Course to run Count fairly on and all the work is done Another method if you this refuse Shall lead thee right Another Method and be as plain to use For if the Horoscope you seek by Day Observe these Rules which shew the surest Way First find what 19 Hour the Birth is born and then Add five to that and multiply by Ten Add five for every Hour the Signs ascend Thrice five Degrees in the Celestial Bend This done take that Degree in which the Sign Then rouls the Sun and to this Number join From this whole Sum one Thirty parts apply'd To the Sun's Sign nor to the rest deny'd As following they in order lie will show The thing you sought for and design to know For where the Number ends that Sign and Part Is Horoscope Thus speak the Rules of Art By Night your search demands a different way To the Nights Hour 20 add all the twelve of Day From this whole Sum the Thirty parts apply To following Signs as they in order lie And where the Number ends that Sign and Part Is Horoscope Thus speak the Rules of Art Thus you may find the Horoscope in Skies And tho' Oblique the Circling Zodiack lies This Point determin'd you may fix them all What Crowns the Top and what supports the Ball The Signs true Setting and true Rising trace Assign to each their proper Powers and Place And thus what stubborn Nature's Laws deny Our Art shall force and fix the rowling Skie Nor is o're all the Earth VIII Third Argument against the Chaldaeans the length of Night And Day the same they vary with the sight Nor would the Ram alone and Scales agree In Day and Night in every Sign would be The Equinox if as these Rules devise Two Hours were given to every Sign to rise In that Position where Direct's the Sphere The length of Days and Nights in a Direct Sphere And in the Horizon both Poles appear The Day maintains an equal length to Night And that Usurps not on the others Right No Inequality in Skies is found But equal Day and equal Night goes round Those Days and Nights which Spring and Autumn bear They see unvary'd thro' the rowling Year Because the circling Sun in every Sign Runs round and measures still an equal Line Whether thro' Cancer's height he bears the Day Or thro' the Goat oppos'd He bends his way The Day 's alike nor do the Nights decay For tho' Oblique the Zodiack Circle lies Yet all the Zones do at right Angles rise Still Parallel and whilst the Sphere is Right Half Heaven is Hid and half expos'd to sight Hence take thy way In an Oblique Sphere and o're Earth's mighty Bend From this midst Region move to either End As weary Steps convey thee up the Ball By Nature rounded and hung midst the All To either Pole whilst you your way pursue Some parts withdraw and others rise to view To you thus mounting as the Earth doth rise So varies the Position of the Skies And all the Signs that rose Direct before Obliquely mount and keep that Site no more Oblique the Zodiack grows for whilst we range Tho fixt its place yet ours we freely change 'T is therefore plain that here the Days must prove Of different Lengths since Signs obliquely move Some nearer roul whilst some remoter rove And measure still unequal Rounds above As nearer to the Arctick Round you go The Hours increase On this side the Arctick Circle and Day appears to grow The Summer Signs in ample Arch invade Our Sight the Winter lie immerst in Shade The more you Northward move the more your Eyes Their Lustre lose they set as soon as rise But pass this Round Beyond the Arctick Circle as you your way pursue Each Sign withdraws with all its parts from view Then Darkness comes and chaces Light away And thirty Nights excludes the Dawn of Day Thus by degrees Day wasts Signs cease to rise For bellying Earth still rising up denies Their Light a Passage and confines our Eyes Continued Nights continued Days appear And Months no more fill up the rouling Year Should Nature place us where the Northern Skies Creak round the Pole In an erect or parallel Sphere and grind the propping Ice Midst Snows eternal where th' impending Bear Congeal'd leans forward on the frozen Air The World would seem if we survey'd the whole Erect and standing on the nether Pole Its sides as when a Top spins round incline Nor here nor there but keep an even Line And there Six Signs of Twelve would fill the sight And never setting at an equal Hight Wheel with the Heavens and spread a constant Light And whilst thro' those the Sun directs his way For long Six Months with a continued Ray He chaces Darkness and extends the Day But when the Sun below the Line descends With full Career and to the lower bends Then one long Night continued Darkness joins And whilst he wanders thro' the Winter's Signs The Arctick Circle lies immerst in Shade And vainly calls to feeble Stars for Aid Because the Eyes that from the Pole survey The bellying Globe scarce measure half the way The Orb still rising stops the Sight from far And whilst we forward look we find a Bar For from the Eyes the Lines directly fall And Lines direct can ne'er surround the Ball Therefore the Sun to those low Signs confin'd Bearing all Day and leaving Night behind To those that from the Pole survey denies His chearful Face and Darkness fills their Eyes Till having spent as many Months as past Thro' Signs he turns and riseth to the North at last And thus in this Position of the Sphere One only Day one only Night appear On either side the Line and make the Year What different sorts of Days and Nights are known In all Positions thus my Muse hath shown Her Work goes on and she must
next comprise What Signs appear what Times they claim to rise In all Positions of the moving Skies That when you follow Art and boldly press To find the Horoscope a just Success May meet thy search and into knowledge raise thy guess But who can all their various times reherse Compute so much and state Accounts in Verse Therefore this part let general Rules define Let those that follow my advanc'd Design Apply them right but let the Rules be mine Where-ever plac'd 9. Another way to find the Trine the Signs Rising and Setting by Hours by these few Rules proceed By Nature settled and by Art decreed First count how many 21 Hours compleat the Night Or Day when Cancer in the Summer's height Bears Phoebus and short darkness bounds the light Day 's Hours by Six divide one sixth devise To following Leo as his time to rise Night so divided too one Sixth bestow On Taurus that his rising time will show But then observe the difference of the time Which Leo takes and which the Bull to climb That into Three divide and thence apply Beside the time which Taurus takes to mount the Sky One single Third to Naked Gemini The like to Cancer and the like Account To fiery Leo as his time to mount Then reckon all you 'll find the Sum the same Which from the first Division to Leo came When one sixth part of Day was given to raise his Flame By the same Method Virgo's time define But this Condition runs thro' every Sign The following keeps those Hours the Sign before Obtain'd to rise and vulgarly adds more As these an orderly Encrease maintain So Signs from Libra still decrease again But different Order they observe in Skies The Hours these claim to Set those take to Rise But if you count by Stadia By Stadia change the Name But keep the Method for the Rule 's the same Seven Hundred Twenty Stadia fill the Round No more in Day no more in Night are found Hence take as many as compleat the Night When glowing Cancer in the Summer's hight Bears Phoebus and short darkness bounds the light The rest by Six divide one Sixth devise To fiery Leo as his time to rise Night 's Stadia so divide one Sixth bestow On Taurus Take the Difference twixt the Two That Sum divide by Three and thence apply Beside the Stadia Taurus takes to mount the Sky One single Third to naked Gemini Thus to the rest proceed but still confine To following Signs the Stadia of the former Sign With one Third Part 's Encrease till Libra's Ray This Reckoning stops and shews another way For Signs from Libra different Rules comprise A different Order they observe in Skies The Stadia others claim to Set they take to Rise Those Stadia too in which the rest ascend These Winter Signs in slowly setting spend Thus having fixt the Stadia now pursue The Horoscope 't is open to thy view From that Degree in which the Sun doth mount Observe my Method and begin to count Give proper Hours to every Sign to rise And proper Stadia to ascend the Skies Work by those Rules which I have shewn before Securely work for you can err no more By what advance the Winter Months encrease 10. How Days encrease from Capricorn 〈◊〉 Cancer For they advance not by the same Degrees Thro' every Sign till on the Ram they light Which equals Time and Day adjusts to Night Must next be shewn to all that press to learn Short are the Rules but yet of great Concern First take the measure of the shortest Day And longest Night when with unequal Ray Thro' Caper Phoebus drives the narrow way Then count the 22 Hours which Day must yield to Shade And in three Portions let the Sum be laid One of these Parts to th' Middle Sign apply'd Shews the Increase of Day on either side For as the First is by the Midst surpass'd One Half so that 's exceeded by the last Thus thro' Three Signs the Day 's Increase is shown The following takes what to the Last was grown And adds an equal Portion of its own For Instance To the Conquest Night assign Full Fifteen Hours and give the Day but Nine Three Hours the difference Now the Goat hath Power To lengthen Day the space of half an Hour One Hour Aquarius adds the Fishes joyn As much as Both and with the rest combine Thus three Hours fill'd adjusted Time they bring To Aries and he equals Day and Night in Spring The Sixth part of the Time or more or less Whate're it proves is the first Sign 's Increase The Second doubles what the First surpass'd And gives it to be trebled by the last But from the 23 Equinoctial point the Day Receives increase but in another way For Aries takes as many Hours from Night As Pisces seiz'd before in their own Right And to compleat the Rapine Taurus joins One Hour one Half is added by the Twins Thus whilst these Signs the Time to Day restore Night justly loses as it gain'd before From Caper thus Decreasing Nights appear And Heaven turns up the right side of the Year The Day proceeds to lengthen all the way Till high in Cancer rais'd it finds a Stay The Solstice then when Day and Night are found Equal to Night and Day that drove the Winter round Then by the same degrees again the Light Decreasing what it took returns to Night Thus far advanc't in Art my Verse defines The proper Years 11. The Years Months Days and Hours of Signs Months Hours and Days of Signs These must be shewn for Signs have Days Hours And Months and Years when they exert their Powers First then that Sign in which the Sun appears Because the Sun measures out the time in Years Claims the first Year On following Signs bestow The following Years as they in Order go And so the Moon for as she rounds the Skies She measures Months to Signs the Months applies Of Days and Hours the Horoscope possest Of the first parts to following Signs commits the rest This Nature orders all her Months and Years And Days and Hours she parcels out to Stars That as they run their Course they all may find The different Signs and vary in their kind This Nature orders too and hence there springs That various Discord that is seen in Things In one continued Stream no Fortune flows Joy mixes Grief and Pleasures urg'd by Woes Inconstancy in every part appears Which Wisdom never trusts but Folly fears Thus Years from Years and as they roul the round The Months from Months and Days from Days are found To differ no returning Hours restore That sort of Fortune which they brought before Because the Times as round their Course they run Meet different Signs and are not bound to One The Days and Hours their ruling Signs obey The Month 's the influence which they give convey And temper all things by their fatal Ray. 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