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A32749	The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.; Works. 1687	Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Siege of Thebes.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3736; ESTC R3920	1,295,535	731

hours and lay thy labell on the degree of the Sun and recken how many degrees of the Sun been between the line meridionall and the point of thy labell and note well the nombres Tourn then again thine Astrolabie and set the point of thy great rule there thou takest thine altitudes vpon as many degrees in his bordure from his meridional as was the point of thy labell from the line meridionall on the womb side Take then thine Astrolabie with both hands sadly and slyly and let the Sun shine through both holes of thy rule and slyly in thilke shining lay thine Astrolabie couch adown euen vpon a plain ground and then will the meridionall line of thine Astrolabie be euen South and the East line will lie euen East and the West line West and the North line North so that thou werke softly and auisely in the couching and thou hast thus the four quarters of the firmament c. To know the altitude of Planets from the way of the Sun whether they been North or South from the way aforesaid LOok when a Planet is on the line meridional if that her altitude be of the same height that is the degree of the Sun for that day and then is the Planet in the very way of the Sun and hath no latitude And if the altitude of the Planet be higher than the degree of the Sun then is the Planet North from the way of the sign South a quantite of latitude as sheweth by thine almicanteras and if the altitude be lesse than the degree of the Sun then is the Planet South from the way of the Sun soch a quantite of latitude as sheweth by thine almicanteras This is to saine from the way of the Sun in euery place of the Zodiake for on the morow the Sun will be in another degree For to know the Signet for the arising of the Sun this is to fain the party of the Orizont in which the Sun ariseth THou must first consider that the Sun ariseth not in the very East signet sometime by North East and sometime by South East sothly the Sun ariseth euermore in the very East in our orizont but if he be in the head of Aries or Libra Now is thine orizont departed into 24 parties of thy minutes in significacion of 24 parts of the world though it be so that shipmen recken all that parties in 32. Then is there no more but wait in the which minute that the Sun entreth at his arising and take there the signet of the rising of the Sun The manner of division of thine Astrolabie is thus enjoyned as in this case FIrst it is deuided in four places principally with the line that commeth fro the East to the West and then with another line that goeth fro the South to the North then is it deuided in small parties of minutes as East and East by South where that is the first minute aboue the East line and so forth fro party to party till that thou come again to the East line Thus thou might vnderstand the signet of euery sterre in which party he ariseth To know in which party of the Firmament is the Conjunction COnsider the time of the conjunction by the Kalender as thus how many hours that the conjunction is fro midday of the day before as sheweth the Canon of the Kalender Recken then that nomber in the bordure of thine Astrolabie as thou were wont to do in knowing of the hours of the day or of the night and lay thy labell ouer the degree of the Sun then will the point of the labell sit vpon the hour of the conjunction Look then in which minute the degree of the Sun sitteth and in that party of the firmament is the conjunction To know the Signet of the altitude of the Sun THis is no more to say but any time of the day take the altitude of the Sun and by the minutes in which hee ascendeth thou might see in which party of the Firmament hee is and in the same wise might thou see by night of any sterre wheder hee sit East West or South or any part betwixe after the name of the minutes in which the sterres standeth To know sothly the longitude of the Moon or any Planet that hath no Latitude from the time of the Ecliptike Line TAke the altitude of the Moone and reken thyne altitude vp among thyne almicanteras on which side that the moone standeth set there a pricke Take then anone right upon the Moones side the altitude of euery sterre fixe that thou knowest and set his cercle upon his altitude among thyne almicanteras there the Sterre is founden waite then of which degree the zodiake is to which the prick of the altitude of the Moon and there take the degree in which the Moone standeth This conclusion is very soth of the Starres in thine Astrolaby and standeth after the trouth Some treatise of the Astrolaby maketh none excepcion whether the Moone have altitude or none nor whether side of the Moone the altitude of the Sterre be found And note if the Moone shewe her selfe by day then thou mayest woorche the same conclusion by the Sunne as well as by the starre fixe This is the werching of the Conclusions to know whether any Planet be direct or retrograde TAke the altitude of any Sterre that is cleped a Planete and note it well anone right take the altitude of some sterre fixe that thou knowest and note it well also and come again the third or the fourth night next folowyng for then thou shalt perceyue well the meuyng of the Planete whether he meue forward or backward and waite well then when the sterre fixe is in this same altitude that she was when thou tooke her first altitude of the foresaid Planet and note it well for trust well if so be that the Planet be in the right side of the meridional line so that his second altitude be lesse than the first altitude was then is the Planet direct and if he be in the West side in that condicion then is he retrograde and if so be that this Planet be in the East side when his altitude is take so that the second altitude be more than his first altitude then is he retrograde and if he be in the West side of the lyne meridional then is he direct but the contrary moving of these parties is the cours of the Moone for sothly the moone moveth the contrary fro either Planets in her ecliptike line but in none other maner The conclusion of equacions of Houses after the Astrolaby SEt the beginnyng of the degree that ascendeth upon the end of the viii houre inequall then will the lyne of the second house sit upon the line of midnight remeue then the degree that ascendeth and set him upon the end of the x. houre inequale then will the beginning of the iii. house sitte upon the Midnight lyne bryng up againe the same degree that ascendeth first

first degree of Aries a litle within the degree and thus knew I this conclusion Another day I would knowe the degree of my Sunne and this was at Midday in the xiii day of December I founde the day of the moneth in manner as I said tho laid I my Rule vpon the foresaid xiii day and founde the poynt of my Rule vpon the first degree of Capricorne a little within the degree and then had I of this conclusion the very experience To know the altitude of the Sun either of celestiall bodies PVT the ring of thyne Astrolabye vpon thy right thombe and tourne thy left side againe the light of the Sunne and remeve thy Rule vp and downe till the streame of the Sunne shine through both holes of the Rule looke then howe many degrees this Rule is areised fro the litle crosse vpon the East line and take there the altitude of thy sunne and in this same wise mayst thou knowe by night the altitude of the Moone or of the bright sterres This Chapiter is so generall ever in one that there needeth no more declaration but forget it not To know the degree of the Sun and of thy Zodiake by the days in the backside of thine Astrolabie THen if thou wilt wete the reckening to know which is the day in thy Kalender of the month that thou art in lay thine Astrolabie that is to say the allidatha vpon the day in the Kalender of thine Astrolabie and he shall shew thee thy degree of the Sunne To know every time of the day by light of the Sun and every time of the night by the Stars fixe and eke to know by night or by day the degree of the Sign that ascendeth on the East Orizont which is cleped commonly ascendent TAke the altitude of the Sunne when thee list as I have sayd and set the degree of the Sunne in●case that it be before the middle of the day amonge thyne almicanteras on the Easte-side of thine Astrolabie and if it be after the middle of the day set the degree of the Sun vpon the West-side Take this manner of setting for a generall rule ones for ever And when thou hast yset the degree of the Sun vpon as many almicanteras of height as was the Sunne taken by thy rule lay over thy Labell vpon the degree of the Sunne then woll the point of the Labell sitten in the bordure vpon the very tide of the day Ensample of this The yeare of our Lorde a thousand three hundred ninety and one the twelfth daye of March I would know the tide of the day I tooke y● altitude of my Sunne and found that it was 25 degrees and 30 Minutes of height of the bordure in the backside tho tourned I mine Astrolabye and because it was before midday I tourned my reete set the degree of the Sunne that is to say the first degree of Aries in the right side of mine Astrolabie vpon the 25 degree and 30 minutes of heyght among my almicanteras Tho laid I my Labell vpon the degree of my Sunne and found the point of my Labell in the bordure on the capitall letter that is cleped an X. Tho reckened I all the capitall letters fro the line of Midnight vnto the foresaid letter X. and found it was nine of the Clocke of the day Tho looked I over my East Orizont and found there the twelue degree of Geminius ascending which that I tooke for mine ascendent and in this wise had I the experience for evermore in whych manner I should knowe the tide of the day and eke myne ascendent Tho would I wete that same night following the houre of the night and wrought in this wise among an heape of Sterres it lyked me to take the altitude of the fayre white Sterre that is cleped the Alhabor found her sitting on the West-side of the line of Mid-day eighteene degrees of height taken by my Rule on the backside Tho set I y● Centure of this Alhabor vpon eighteene degrees among my almicanteras vpon the West-side because that hee was found vpon the West-side tho laid I my Labell over the degree of the Sun that was discended vnder the West Orizont and reckened all the letters capitals fro the line of Midday vnto the point of my Labell in the bordure and found that it was after noon passed seven of the clocke the space of eleven degrees Tho looked I downe vpon my East Orizont and found there twenty degrees of Libra ascending whom I tooke for myne ascendent and thus learned ones for ever to know in which manner I should come to the houre of the night and to mine ascendent as verely as may be taken by so smale an instrument But nathelesse this rule in generall wil I warne thee for ever ne make thou never none ascendent at noone of the day Take a just ascendent of thine Astrolabie and have set justly a cloke when any celestiall body by the which thou wenest governe thilke thynges been nigh the South line for trust well when the Sunne is neare the Meridionall line the degree of the Sunne remayneth so long concentrike vpon thine almicanteras that soothly thou shalt erre fro the just ascendent The same conclusion say I by my centure of my Sterre fix by the night and moreover by experience I wote well that fro our Orizont fro enleven of the clocke vnto one in taking of the just ascendent in a portatife Astrolabie it is too hard to know I mean from eleuen of the clocke before noon till one of the clocke next following and for the more declaration loe here thy figure next after this rule that followeth To know the degree of the Sun in thy Zodiake by the days in the backside of thine Astrolabie THen thou wolt weten to recken know which is the day of the month that thou art in and lay the rule of thy Astrolabie that is to say the allidatha vpon the day in the Kalender of thine Astrolabie and hee shall shewe thee thy degree of the Sunne Speciall declaration of the Ascendent THe ascendent soothly is as well in all nativities as in questions and as in elections of times is a thing whyche that these Astrologians greatly observen wherfore me seemeth convenient sens I speake of the ascendent to make of it a speciall declaration The ascendent soothly to take it at the largest is thilke degree that ascendeth at any of these foresaid times on the East Orizon and therfore if that any Planet ascend at thilke same time in the foresaid same gree of his longitude men say that thilke Planet is in Horoscopo but soothly the house of that ascendent that is to say the first house or y● East angle is a thing more broad and large for after the statutes of Astrologiens what celestial body that is five degrees aboue thilke degree that ascendeth on the Orizont or within that number that is to saine nere the degree that ascendeth yet reckon they

by 15 degrees already in the bordure of thy Astrolabie as well by night as by day generally for euermore What nedeth any more declaration wherefore when thee lyst to know how many houres of the clock been passed or any part of any of these houres ben to commen fro such a time to such a time by day or by night knowe the degree of thy Sunne and lay thy label on it then turne thy reete about joyntly with thy label and with the point of it recken in the border fro the Sunne arysing into the same place there thou desirest by day as by night This conclusion woll I declare in the fourth party of the last chapiter of this treatise so openly that there shall lack no worde that needeth declaration Special declaration of the Hours of the Planets UNderstand well that euermore fro the arising of the Sunne till it go to rest the nadire of the Sunne shall shew the hour of the plannet and fro that time forward all the nyght till the Sunne arise then shal the very degree of the Sunne shew the hour of the planet Ensample as thus The 13. day of March fell upon a saturday parauenture and at the arising of the Sunne I found the second degree of Aries sitting upon mine East orizont all be it was but little Then found I the second degree of Libra nadire of my Sunne discending on my West orizont upon which West orizont euery day generally at the Sunne arising entereth the houre of any plannet under the foresaid West orizont after the which planet the day beareth his name and endeth in the next strike of the planet under the foresaid West orizont and euer as the Sunne clymbeth upper and upper so goeth his nadire downer and downer and eching fro suche strikes the houres of plannets by order as they sitten in heauen The first houre inequale of euery saturday is Saturne and the second to Iupiter the third to Mars the fourth to the Sunne the fift to Venus the sixt to Mercurius the seuenth to the Moone and then ayen the eyght to Saturn the ninth to Iupiter the tenth to Mars the eleueuth to the Sunne the twelfth to Venus And now is my Sunne gone to rest as for that saturday then sheweth the very degree of the Sunne the houre of Mercury entring under my west orizont at euen And next him succeedeth the Moone and so forth by order planet after planet in houre after houre all the night long till the Sun arise Now riseth the Sunne the sunday by the morow and the nadyre of the Sunne upon the West orizont sheweth me the entering of the hour of the foresaid Sun And in this manner succeedeth planet vnder planet fro Saturn vnto the Moon and fro the Moon vp again to Saturn hour after hour generally and thus know I this conclusion To know with which degree of the Zodiack any Star fix in thine Astrolabie ariseth upon the East Orizont although the Orizont be in another Sign SEt the centure of the sterre vpon the East orizont and look what degree of any sign that sitteth vpon the same orizont at the same time and vnderstand well that with the same degree ariseth the same sterre And this maruailous arising with a strong degree in another signe is because that the latitude of the sterre fixe is either North or South fro the Equinoctiall But soothly the latitudes of planets been commonly yreckened fro the ecliptike because that none of hem declineth but few degrees out fro the brede of the Zodiake And take good keepe of this chapter of arising of celestiall bodies for there trusteth well that neither moone neither sterre in our ambolife orizont that ariseth with the same degree of his longitude saue in one case and that is when they haue no longitude fro the eclipticke line But neuerthelesse sometime is euerich of these planets vnder the same line To know the declination of any Degree in the Zodiack fro the equinoctiall Circle SEt the degree of any signe vpon the line Meridionall and recken his altitude in the almicanteras fro the East orizont vp to the same degree set in the foresaid line and set there a pricke Turne vp then thy reere and set the head of Aries or Libra in the same Meridionall line and set there another prick And when that this is done consider the altitudes of hem both for soothly the difference of thilke altitude is the declination of thilke degree fro the Equinoctiall And if it so be that thilke degree be Northward fro the Equinoctiall then is his declination North and if it be Southward then it is South To know for what latitude in any Region the Almicanteras in my Tables been compouned REcken how many degrees of almicanteras in the Meridionall line be from the cercle equinoctiall vnto the signet or els from the Pole artike vnto the North orizont and for so great a latitude or so small a latitude is the table compouned To know the latitude of the Sun in the midst of the day that is cleped the altitude Meridian SEt the degree of thy Sun upon the line Meridionall and recken how many degrees of almicanteras been betwixe thine East orizont and the degree of thy Sun and take there thine altitude meridian that is to sayne the highest degree of the Sun as for that day So maist thou know in the same line the highest line that any star fire climbeth by night this is to sayne that when any star fire is passed the line meridionall then beginneth it to discend and so doth the Sun To know the degree of the Sun by the Reet for a manner coryosyte SEek busily with thy rule the highest of the Sun in the midst of the day tourne then thine Astrolabie and with a pricke of ynke mark the number of the same altitude in the line meridionall Tourne then thy reet about till thou finde a degree of thy Zodiake according with the pricke this is to sayne sitting on the pricke and in sooth thou shalt find but two degrees in all the Zodiake of that condition And yet thilke two degrees been in diuers signs Then maist thou lightly by the season of the year know the sign in which is the Sun To know which day is like to other in length throughout the year LOok which degrees been ylike from the heeds of Cancer and Capricorn and look when the Sun is in any of thilke degrees then been the days like of length that is to saine that as long is that day in that month as was soch a day in soch a month there varieth but littell Also if thou take two days naturelles in the year ylike far from either points of the Equinoctial in the opposite parties then as long is the day artificial on that one day as on that other and eke the contrary This Chapter is a manner declaration to Conclusions that followeth UNderstand well that thy Zodiake is departed into half cercles from the head

to me my saile and eke my stere Her little child lay weeping in her arme And kneeling pitously to him she said Peace little sonne I woll do thee none harm With that her kercher off her head she braid And ouer his little eyen she it laid And in her arme she lulleth it full fast And into heauen her eyen vp the cast Mother qd she and maiden bright Marie Sooth it is that through womans eggement Mankind was lore and damned aye to die For which thy child was on crosse yrent Thy blisfull eyen saw all his turment Then is there no comparison betwene Thy wo and any wo that man may sustene Thou see thy child yslaine before thine eien And yet liueth my little child parfay Now lady bright to whom all wofull crien Thou glory of womanhead thou faire may Thou hauen of refute bright sterre of day Rew on my child of thy gentilnesse That rewest on euery rufull in distresse O little child alas what is thy guilt That neuer wroughtest sinne as yet parde Why woll thine hard father haue thee spilt O mercy dear constable qd shee As let my little child dwell here with thee And if thou darst not sauen him fro blame So kisse him once in his fathers name Therwith she looketh backward to the lond And said farewell husband routhlesse And vp she rist and walketh doune the strond Toward the ship her followeth all the prees And aye she praieth her child to hold his pees And taketh her leaue and with an holy entent She blesseth her and into the ship she went Vitailed was the ship it is no drede Habundantly for her a full long space And other necessaries that should nede She had ynow hereid by Gods grace For wind weather almighty God purchace And bring her home I can no better say But in the see she driueth forth her way Alla the king cometh home soone after this Vnto his castle of which I told And asketh where his wife and his child is The constable gan about his heart wax cold And plainely all the manner him told As ye han heard I can tell it no better And shewed the king his seale and his letter And said lord as ye commaunded me On paine of death so haue I done certain This messenger turmented was till he Must be knowne and tell plat and plain Fro night to night in what place he had lain And thus by wittie subtill enquiring Imagind was by whom this harm gan spring The hand was knowen that the letter wrot And all the venim of this cursed dede But in what wise certainely I not The effect is this that Alla out of drede His mother slow that may men plainly rede For that she traitour was to her allegeaunce Thus endeth old Donegild with mischaunce The sorrow that this Alla night and day Maketh for his child and his wife also There is no tongue that it tellen may But now woll I to Custance go That fleeteth in the sea in paine and wo Fiue yeare and more as liked Christs sonde Or that her ship approched vnto londe Vnder an heathen castle at the last Of which the name in my text I not find Custance and eke her child the sea vp cast Almighty God that saueth all mankind Haue on Custance on her child some mind That fallen is in heathen hond eftsoone In point to spill as I shall tell you soone Doun fro the castle cometh there many a wight To gauren on this ship and on Custance But shortly fro the castle on a night The lords steward God yeue him mischance A theefe that had renied our creaunce Came into the ship alone and said he should Her lemman be whether she would or nold Wo was the wretched woman tho begon Her child and she cried full pittously But blisfull Mary halpe her anon For with her strogling well and mightily The theefe fell ouer the boord all sodainly And in the see he drenched for vengeance And thus hath Christ unwemmed kept Custance * O foule lust of luxure lo thine end Nat onely that thou faintest mans mind But verily thou wolt his body shend The end of thy werke or of thy lusts blind Is complaining how many one may men find That not for werke somtime but for th entent To done this sinne been either slaine or shent How may this weak woman haue the strength Her to defend against this renegate O Golias vnmeasurable of length How might Dauid make thee so mate So young and of armure so desolate How durst he looke on thy dreadfull face Well may men seene it is but Gods grace Who yaue Iudith courage or hardinesse To slean prince Holofernes in his tent And to deliuer out of wretchednesse The people of God I say for this intent That right as God spirit and vigor sent To hem and saued hem out of mischance So sent he might and vigor to Custance Forth goth her ship through the narow mouth Of Subalter and Sept yfleeting aie Somtime West somtime North South And sometime East full many a wearie daie Till Christs mother yblessed be she aie Hath shapen through her endlesse goodnesse To make an end of all her heauinesse Explicit secunda pars sequitur pars tertia NOW let vs stint of Custance but a throw And speake we of the Romane Emperour That out of Surrey hath by letters know The slaughter of Christians and dishonour Doen to his doughter by a false traitour I meane the cursed wicked Soudonnesse That at the feast let stean both more and lesse For which this Emperour hath sent anon His senatour with roiall ordinance And other lords God wote many one On Surreians to done high vengeance They brennen slean bring hem to mischance Full many a day but shortly in the end Homeward to Rome they shapen hem to wend. This senatour repaireth with victory To Rome ward sayling full roially And met the ship driuing as saith the story In which Custance sat full pitously Nothing knew he what she was ne why She was in such array ne she nold sey Of her estate though she shoulden dey He bringeth her to Rome and to his wife He yaue her and her young sonne also And with the senatour she lad her life Thus can our lady bring out of wo Wofull Custance and many another mo And long time dwelled she in that place In holy werkes euer as was her grace The senatours wife her aunt was But for all that she knew her nere the more I woll no longer tarry in this caas But to king Alla which I spake of yore That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore I woll retourne and let I woll Custance Vnder the senatours gouernance King Alla which that had his mother slain Vpon a day fell in such repentaunce That if I shortly tell all shall and plain To Rome he cometh to receiue his penaunce And putten him in the Popes ordinaunce In high and low and Iesu Christ besought

many reignes great In the Orient with many a faire cite Appertainaunt vnto the maiestie O Rome with strength held the mfull fast Ne neuer might her foemen doe her fle All the while that Odinates dayes last Her battailes who so list hem for to rede Againe Sapor the king and other mo And how all this proces fill in dede Why she conquered and her title therto And after of her mischiefe and her wo How that she was besieged and itake Let him to my maister Petrarke go That writeth ynough of this I vndertake When Odenat was dead she mightily The realmes held and with her owne honde Ayenst her foes she fought so truely That ther nas no prince ne king in all the lond But were full glad if they that grace fond That she ne should vpon his londe warrey With her they made aliaunce by bond To be in peace and let hem ride and pley The Emperour of Rome Claudius Ne him beforne the Romain Galien Ne durst neuer be so coragious Ne non Armen ne non Egipcien Ne Surrien ne none Arabien Within the field that durst with her fight Lest that she would hem with her hondes sleen Or with her maine put hem to flight In kings habite wenten her sonnes two As the lawfull heires of her realmes all And Hermanno and Titamallo Her names were as Perciens hem call * But aie fortune hath in her honie gall This mightie Queene may no while endure Fortune out of her reigne made her to fall To wretchednesse and to misauenture Aurelian when that the gouernance Of Rome came into his honds twey He shope vpon this Queene to do vengeance And with his legions he tooke his way Toward Zenobia and shortly for to say He made her flie and at last her hent And fettered her and eke her children tway And wan the land home to Rome he went Emongest other things that he wan Her chair that of gold was wrought pierre This great Romaine this Aurelian Hath with him lad that for men should it see All beforne his triumph walked she With golden chaines on her necke honging Crowned she was as after he degre And full of pierre charged her clothing Alas fortune she that whilom was Dredefull to kings and to Emperours Now gaureth all the people on her alas And she that helmed was in stark stoures And wan by force townes strong and toures Shall on her head now weare autremite And she that bare the septer full of floures Shall beare a distafe her cost for to quite Nero. ALthough that Nero were as vicious As any fende that lieth full low adown Yet he as telleth vs Suetonius All this world had in subiectioun Both East and West and Septentrioun Of Rubies Saphires and of Perles white Were all his clothes broudred vp and down For he in gemmes greatly gan delite More delicate more pompous of aray More proude was neuer Emperour than he That like cloth that he had weared o day After that time he nold it neuer see Nettes of golde threde had he great plente To fish in Tiber when him list to play His lusts were as law in his degre For fortune as his friend would him obay He Rome brent for his dilicacie The Senatours he slue vpon a day To heare how her wiues would weepe crie And slow his brother and by his sister lay His mother made he in a pitous aray For he her wombe let slit to behold Where he conceiued was so welaway That he so little of his mother told No teares out of his eyen for that sight He came but saied a faire woman was she Great wonder is that he coud or might Be Domisman of her dead beaute The wine to bring him commaunded he And dranke anon none other wo he made * When might is joined vnto cruelte Alas too deepe will the venume wade In youth a maister had this Emperour To teach him lettrure and courtesie For of moralite he was the flour And in his time but if his bookes lie And whiles his maister had of him maistrie He made him so cunning and so souple That long time it was or tyrannie Or any vice durst in him encouple Senek his maister was of which I deuise Because Nero had of him such drede For he for his vices would him chastise Discreetly as by word and not by dede Sir he would say an Emperour mote nede Be vertuous and hate tyrannie For which he made him in a bathe to blede On both his armes till he must die This Nero had eke a customaunce In youth ayenst his maister to rise And afterward him thought great grevaunce Because he often would him chastise Therefore he made him to die in this wise He chose in a bathe to die in this manere Rather than to have another turmentise And thus hath Nero slaine his maister dere Now fell it so that fortune list no longer The high pride of Nero to cherishe For tho he were strong yet was she stronger She thought thus by God I am too nice To set a man that is fulfilled of vice In high degree and an Emperour him call By God out of his seat I woll him trice When he least weneth soonest shall he fall The people rose upon him on a night For his defaut and when he it aspied Out of his dores anon he hath him dight Alone and there he wend have been allied He knocked fast and aye the more he cried The faster shet they the dores all Tho wist he well he had himselfe beguiled And went his way no lenger durst he call The people cried rombled up and down That with his ears he heard how they saied Where is this false tyrant this Neroun For feare full neere out of his wit he braied And to his gods right pitously he praied For succour but it might not betide For drede of this him thought that he deid And ran into a garden him to hide And in this garden found he chorles twey Sitting by a fire great and red And to the chorles two he gan to prey To slea him and to gird off his hed That to his body when he were ded Were no despite done for his defame Himselfe he slough he could no better red Of which fortune lough had then game Holofernes WAs neuer capitaine vnder a king That reignes mo put in subjectioun Ne stronger was in field of all thing As in his time ne greater of renoun Ne more pompous in high presumptioun Than Holoferne which fortune aye kist And so licourous●y lad him up and doun Till that he dead was ere that he wist * Not onely that this world had of him awe For lesing of richesse and liberte But he made euery man renie his lawe Nabuchodonosor was lord saied he None other God should honoured be Ayenst his hest there dare no wight trespace Saue in Bethulia a strong cite Where Eliachem was priest of that place But take keepe of the

mine ease eke woxen hell is My joy in wo I can sey now nought ellis But tourned is for which my life I warie Every joy or ease in his contrarie which with your coming home ayen to Troy Ye may redresse and more a thousand sithe Than ever I had encreasen in me joy For was there never hart yet so blithe To save his life as I shall ben as swithe As I you see and though no manner routh Can meuen you yet thinketh on your trouth And if so be my gilt hath death deserved Or if you list no more vpon me see In guerdon yet of that I have you served Beseeeh I you mine owne lady free That herevpon ye woulden write me For love of God my right lodesterre That death may make an end of al my werre If other cause aught doth you for to dwell That with your letter ye may me recomfort For though to me your absence is an hell With patience I woll my wo comfort And with your letter of hope I woll disport Now writeth swete let me thus nat plaine With hope or death delivereth me fro paine Iwis mine owne dere hert trew I wote that when ye next vpon me see So lost have I mine heale eke mine hew Creseide shall not conne knowen me Iwis mine herts day my lady free So thursteth aye mine hert to behold Your beautie that vnneth my life I hold I say no more all have I for to sey To you well more than I tell may But whether that ye do me live or dey Yet pray I God so yeve you right good day And fareth well goodly faire fresh May As ye that life or death me may commaund And to your trouth aye I me recomaund With heale such that but ye yeven me The same heale I shall none heale have In you lieth when you list that it so be The day in which me clothen shall my grave And in you my life in you might for to save Me fro disease of all my paines smart And fare now well mine owne sweet hart La vostre T. This letter forth was sent vnto Creseide Of which her answere in effect was this Full pitously she wrote ayen and seide That all so soone as she might iwis She would come amend all that was amis And finally she wrote and saied then She would come ye but she nist when But in her letter made she such feasts That wonder was and swore she loved him best Of which he found but bottomlesse bihests But Troilus thou mayst now East West * Pipe in an Iuie leafe if that thee lest Thus goth the world god shild vs fro mischaunce And every wight that meaneth trouth avaunce Encreasen gan the wo fro day to night Of Troilus for tarying of Creseide And lessen gan his hope and eke his might For which all doun he in his bedde him leide He ne eat dronke ne slept ne word seide Imagining aye that she was vnkind For which wel nigh he wext out of his mind This dreme of which I told have eke beforne May never come out of his remembraunce He thought aye well he had his lady lorne And that Ioves of his purveyaunce Him shewed had in sleepe the signifiaunce Of her vntrouth and his disaventure And that the bore was shewed him in figure For which he for Sibille his suffer sent That called was Cassandre eke all about And all his dreame he told her ere he stent And her be sought assoilen him the dout Of the strong Bore with tuskes stout And finally within a little stound Cassandre him gan thus his dreme expound She gan first smile said O brother dere If thou a sooth of this desirest to know Thou must a few of old stories here To purpose how that fortune overthrow Hath lords old through which within a throw Thou shalt this Bore know of what kind He comen is as men in bookes find Diane which that wroth was and in ire For Greekes nolde done her Sacrifice Ne incens vpon her Alter set on fire She for that Greekes gon her so dispise Wrake her in a wonder cruell wise For with a Bore as great as oxe in stall She made vp frete her corne and vines all To slea that Bore was all the country raised Emong which there came this Bore to A maid one of this world the best ipraised And Meleager lord of that countre He loved so this fresh maiden free That with his manhood ere he would stent This Bore he slough her the hed he sent Of which as old bookes tellen vs There rose a conteke and great envie And of this lord discended Tideus By line or els old bookes lie But how this Meleager gan to die Through his mother woll I you not tell For all too long it were for to dwell She told eke how Tideus ere she stent Vnto the strong citie of Thebes To claimen kingdome of the citie went For his fellawe dan Polimites Of which the brother dan Ethiocles Full wrongfully or Thebes held that strength This told she by proesse all by length She told eke how Hemonides affart When Tideus stough fiftie knightes stout She told eke all the Prophesies by hart And how that seven kings with her rout Besiegeden the citie all about And of the holy Serpent and the well And of the furies all she gan him tell Associat profugus Tideus primo Polynicem Tidea ligatum docet insidiasque secundo Tertius Harmoniam canit vatem latitantem Quartus habet reges ineuntes praelia septem Lemniadum furiae quinto narrantur anguis Archemori bustum sexto ludique seguuntur Dat Thebis vatem Graiorum septimus umbris Octavo cecidit Tideus spes vita Pelasgum Hippomedon nono moritur cum Parthenopeo Fulmine percussus decimo Capaneus superatur Undecimo perimunt sese per vulnera fratres Argivum flentem narrat duodenus ignem Of Archinories burying and the plaies And how Amphiorax fill through the ground How Tideus was slaine lord of Argeis And how Hippomedon in a little stound Was dreint dead Parthenope of wound And also how Campaneus the proud With thunder dint was slaine y● cried loud She gan eke tell him how y● either brother Ethiocles and Polimites also At a scarmishe eche of hem slough other And of Argiues weeping and her mo And how the toun was brent she told eke tho And tho discended doun from lestes old To Diomede and thus she spake and told This like Bore betokeneth Diomede Tideus son that doun descended is Fro Meleager that made the Bore to blede And thy Lady where so she be iwis This Diomede her hert hath and she is his Weep if thou wolt or leave for out of dout This Diomede is in and thou art out Thou sayst not sooth qd he thou sorceresse With all thy false ghost of Prophecie Thou wenest been a great devineresse Now seest thou nat this foole of fantasie Painen her on

in the which the Sunne ariseth The degrees fro the East line to the South FRo the little crosse vp to the end of the Meridionall line vnder the ring shalt thou finde the bordure deuided with xc degrees and by that same proportion is euery quarter of thine Astrolabie deuided ouer the which degrees there beene numbers of Augrime that deuiden thilke same degrees fro fiue to fiue as sheweth by long strikes betweene of the which by long strikes the space betweene conteineth a mile way and euery degree of thilke bordure conteineth foure minutes that is to say foure minutes of an houre Of the twelve Signs Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer and the others UNder the compasse of thilke degrees been written the names of the twelue signes as Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces And the nombers of the degrees of the signes been written in Augrime aboue and with long diuisions from fiue to fiue deuideth from the time that the signe entereth vnto the last end But vnderstand well that these degrees of signes been eueriche of hem considered of fortie minutes and euery minute of fortie seconds and so foorth into small fractions infinite as saith Alcabucius And therefore know well that a degree of the bordure containeth foure minutes and a degree of a signe containeth fortie minutes and haue this in mind The Cercle of the Days NExt this followeth the cercle of the daies that been figured in manner of the degrees that conteinen in number three hundred threescore and fiue deuided also with long strikes from fiue to fiue and the numbers of Augrime written vnder the cercle The Cercle of the twelve Months NExt the cercle of dayes followeth the cercle of the twelue names of the months that is to say Ianuarius Februarius Marcius Aprill Maius Iunius Iulius August September October Nouember December The names of these Months taken her names some for properties and some by statutes of Emperors and some by other Lords of Rome Eke of these Months as liked to Iulius Cesar and Cesar Augustus some were ycompouned of diuers nombers of days as Iulie and August Then hath Ianuarius xxxi days Februarius xxviii Marcius xxxi Aprill xxx Maius xxxi Iunius xxx Iulius xxxi August xxxi September xxx October xxxi Nouember xxx December xxxi Nathelesse although that Iulius Cesar took two dayes out of Feuerere and put hem in his Month of Iuly and Augustus Cesar cleped the Month of August after his name and ordained it of xxxi days yet trust well that the Sunne dwelleth therefore neuer the more ne the lasse in one signe than in another The Names of the holy days THen followeth the names of the holye dayes in the Kalender and next hem the letters A. B. C. on which they fallen The Scale of the Astrolabie NExt the foresaid cercle of the A. B. C. vnder the crosse line is marked the scale in manner of two squires or els in manner of ledders that serueth by his xxii points and his diuisions of full many a subtell conclusion of this foresaid scale For the crosse line vnto the very angle is cleaped Umbra recta or els Umbra extensa and the nether party Umbra versa The Rule THen hast thou a broad rule that hath on euery ende a square plate parted with certaine holes some more and some lesse to receiuen the stremes of the Sunne by day and eke by mediation of thine eye to know the altitude of the sterres by night The Pin which is imagined to be Pole artike and the Horse THen is there a large pin in manner of an exiltre that goeth through the hole that halt the tables of the climathes in the reeth in the wombe of the moder thorow which pin there goeth a little wedge the which is cleped the Horse that straineth all these parts together This foresaid great pin in manner of an exiltre is imagined to be the Pole artike in thine Astrolabie For lines on the Womb side THe wombe side of thine Astrolabie is also diuided with a long crosse in foure quarters from the Cast to West and from the South to North from right side to left side as is the backside The degrees of the Womb side THe border of which wombe side is deuided fro the point of the East line vnto the point of the South line vnder the ring in 90 degrees and by the same proportion is euery quarter diuided as is the backeside that amounteth to 360 degrees And vnderstand well that the degrees of this border been aunswering and consenting to the degrees of Equinoctiall that is deuided in the same number as euery other cercle is in the high heauen This border is deuided also with 23 letters and a small crosse aboue the South line that sheweth the 24 houres equals of the clocke And I haue said fiue of these degrees maken a mile way and three mile way maken an houre and euery degree of this border containeth 4 minutes and euery minute 40 seconds Now haue I told thee twice and for the more declaration Of the principal Cercles THe plate vnder the reete is discriued with three Cercles of which the least is cleaped the Cercle of Cancer because that the head of Cancer tourneth euermore concentrike vpon the same Cercle In this half of Cancer is the greatest declination Northward of the Sunne and therefore is he ycleped Solsticium of Summer which declination after the Ptholome is 23 degrees and 50 minutes as well in Cancer as in Capricorne This signe of Cancer is cleped the Tropick of Summer of Tropos that is to saine ayenward The middle cercle in widenesse of this three is cleaped the cercle Equinoctiall vpon which tourneth euermore the heads of Aries and Libra And vnderstande well that euermore this cercle Equinoctiall tourneth justly fro very East to very West as I haue shewed in the sphere solid This same cercle is cleaped also the wayer of the day For when the Sunne is in the head of Aries and Libra then been days and nights like of length in all the world and therefore been these two signes called Equinoctis And all that mooueth within these heads of Aries and Libra is ycalled Northward and all that mooueth without these heads his meuing is cleped Southward as for the Equinoctiall take kepe of the latitudes North and South and forget it not by this cercle Equinoctiall been considered the 24 hours of the clock For euermore the arising of 15 degrees of the Equinoctiall maketh an hour equall of the clock This Equinoctiall is cleped the mid way of the first meuing or els of the Sunne And note that the first meuing is cleped meuing of the first mouable of the eighth Sphere which meuing is fro East to West and again into East Also it is cleped girdle of the first meuing For it departeth the first meuable that is to sain the sphere in two like parties euen distant fro the Poles of this world

been in UNderstand well that the latitude of any place in a region is verely the space betwixe the signe of hem that dwellen there and the equinoctiall cercle North or South taking the measure in the meridionall line as sheweth in the almicanteras of thine Astrolabie and thilke space is as moch as the pole artike is hye in the same place from the orizont And then is the depression of the pole artentike beneath the orizont the same quantite of space neither more ne lesse Then if thou desire to know this latitude of the region take the altitude of the Sun in the middle of the day when the Sun is in the head of Aries or of Libra for then moveth the Sun in the line equinoctiall and abate the nombre of that same Suns altitude out of 90 degrees and then is the remnaunt of the nombre that leueth the altitude of the region as thus I suppose that the Sun is thilke day at noone 38 degrees of height abate then 38 degrees out of 90. so leueth there 52. then is 52 degrees the latitude I say not this but for ensample for well I wote the latitude of Oxenford is certaine minutes lesse Now if it so be that thee thinketh too long a tarying to abide till that the Sun be in the head of Aries or of Libra then wait when the Sun is in any other degree of the Zodiake and consider the degree of this declinacion be Northward from the equinoctiall abate then from the Suns altitude at noone the nombre of his declinacion and then hast thou the highest of the heads of Aries and Libra as thus My Sun parauenture is in the 10. degree of Leo almost 56 of height at noone and his declinacion is almost 18 degrees Northward from the equinoctiall abate then thilke 18 degrees of declinacion out of the altitude at noone then leueth 38 degrees lo there the head of Aries or Libra and thine equinoctial in that region Also if it so be that the suns declinacion be Southward from the equinoctiall adde then thilke declinacion to the altitude of the Sun at noone and take there the heads of Aries and Libra and thine equinoctiall abate then the height of the equinoctiall out of 90 degrees and then leueth there 38 degrees that is the distaunce of the region from the equinoctiall of any sterre fixe that thou knowest and take the nether elongacion lengthing from the same equinoctial line and werke after the manner aforesaid Declaration of the ascension of Signs as well in the Circle direct as in oblique THe excellency of the sphere solid amongs other noble conclusions sheweth manifest the diuers ascencions of signs in diuers places as well in right cercles as in embolyfe cercle These auctours writen that thilke signe is cleped of right ascencion with which the more part of the cercle equinoctiall and the lesse part of the Zodiake ascendeth and thilke signe ascendeth embolyfe with which the lesse of the Zodiake equinoctiall and the more part of the Zodiake ascendeth and euer mo the arche of the day and the arche of the night is there ylike long and the Sun twise euery yeere passing through the signet of her head and two sommers and two winters in a yeere haue these foresaid people and the almicanteras in her Astrolabie been streight as a line so hath shewed in this figure The vtilities to know the ascencions of signes in the right cercle is this Trust well that by mediacions of thilke ascencions these Astrologiens by her tables and her instruments knowen verely the ascencion of euery degree and minute in all the Zodiake in the embolyfe cercle as shall be shewed And note that this foresaid right orizont that is cleped orizont rectum deuideth the equinoctiall into right angles and embolyfe orizont whereas the Pole is enhanced vpon the orizont ouercommeth the equinoctiall embolyfe angles This is the Conclusion to know the ascensions of Signs in the right Circle that is Circulus directus SEt the head of what signe thee list to know the ascending on the right cercle vpon the line meridionall and wait where thine almury toucheth the bordure and set there a pricke tourne then thy reet westward till the end of the foresaid signe set vpon the meridionall line and eftsones wait where thine almury toucheth the bordure and set there another pricke Recken then the nombers of degrees in the bordure betwixe both prickes and take then the ascencion of the signe in the right cercle and thus maist thou werke with euery porcion of the Zodiake To know the ascensions of Signs in the embolyfe Circle in every Region I mean in circulo obliquo SEt the head of the signes which as thee list to know his ascencion vpon the East orizont and wait where thine almury toucheth the bordure and set there a pricke tourn then thy reet vpward till the end of the same signe set vpon the East orizont and wait eftsones where as thine almury toucheth the bordure and set there another pricke recken then the number of the degrees in the bordure betwixe both prickes and take there the ascencion of the signe in the embolyfe cercle And vnderstand well that all the signes in the Zodiake from the head of Aries vnto the end of Virgo been cleped signes of the North from the equinoctiall and these signes arisen betwixe the very East and the very North in our orizont generally for euer and all the signs from the head of Libra vnto the end of Pisces been cleped signs of the South fro the equinoctiall and these signs arisen euermore betwixe the very East and the very South in our orizont also euery sign betwixe the head of Capricorn vnto the end of Gemini ariseth in our orizont in lesse than two hours equalls and these same signs from the head of Capricorn vnto the end of Gemini been called tortuous signs or crooked signs for they risen embolyfe in our orizont and these crooked signs been obedient to the signs that been of the right ascencion These signs of right ascencion been fro the head of Cancer vnto the head of Sagitary and these signs arisen more vpright than doth the other and therefore they been called Soueraign signs and euery of hem ariseth in more space than in two hours of which signs Gemini obeyeth to Cancer and Taurus to Leo and Aries to Virgo Pisces to Libra Aquarius to Scorpio and Capricorn to Sagitary and thus euermore two signs that been like far from the head of Capricorn obeyeth euerich of hem to other To know justly rhe four Quarters of the World as East West South and North. TAke the altitude of thy Sun when thou list and note well the quarter of the world in which the Sun is from the time by the asymutes tourne then thine Astrolabie and set the degree of the Sun in the almicanteras of his altitude on thilke side that the Sun standeth as is in manner of taking of