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
THE Shepheards Kalender Newly Augmented and Corrected LONDON Printed by Robert Ibbitson And are to bee sold by Francis Grove neer the Sarazens-head on Snow-Hill without Newgate MDCLVI Here beginneth the Prologue THis Book gentle Reader was first corruptly printed in France and after that at the cost and charges of Richard Pinson newly translated and reprinted although not so faithfully as the Original Copy required Therefore it is once again over-seen and perused that the same may be at length correspondent to the Authors minde and very profitable for the Reader because this Book doth teach many things that we be bound to learn and know on pain of everlasting death as the Laws of God sheweth us how we may know to keep his Commandements and to know the remedies to with-stand deadly sin there be many men and women think themselves wise and know and learn many things but that they bee bound to learn and know that they know not As first the Ten Commandements of God and the Five Commandements of the Church That every Creature that purposes to be saved should learn and know and have them as perfect as their Pater-noster You people how will you confess you and if you break any of the Ten Commandements and you know not them Truly there is but a few that know them therefore yee that do not know them do your diligence to learn them for yee be bound to learn them as well as to learn your Pater-noster For how can you keep our Lords Commandements and yee know them not And yee be bound to break not one of them on pain of Damnation for and if thou breakest one thou breakest all Offend the Law in one point and offend it in all for if thou break one thou dost not Gods bidding for he biddeth thee break none And all that yee do in this World here if it be not of God or in God or for God all is in vain you should not occupy your self in vain matters but in reading of good Books for vanity engendereth vain thoughts and destroyeth devotion in man What need have we to study on a thing that is naught study on your Sin and what Grace by God in you is wrought Also in this Book is many more matters look in the Table following The Table of the Kalender of Shepheards This is the Table of this present Book of the Shepheards Kalender drawn out of French into English with many more godly editions than be Chaptered newly put thereto FIrst the Prologue of the Author that saith that every man may live lxxiv. years at the least and they that die before that term it is by evill government and by violence or outrage of themselves in their youth Cap. primo The second Prologue of the great Master Shepheard that proveth true by good argument all that the first Shepheard saith cap. 2. Also a Kalender with the figures of every Saint that is hallowed in the year in the which is the figures the hours and the moments and the new Moones cap. 3. The Table of the moveable feasts with the compound manuall cap. 4. The Table to know and understand every day what sign the Moon is in cap. 5. Also in the figure of the eclipse of the Sun and the Moon the days hours and moments cap. 6. The Trees and branches of vertues and vices cap. 7. The pains of hell and how they be ordained for every deadly sin which is shewed by figures cap. 8. The garden and field of all vertues sheweâ—h a man how he should know whether he be in the state of the grace of God or not cap. 9. A noble declaration of the seven principall petitions of the Pater noster and also the Ave Maria of the three salutations of which the Angell Gabriell made the first the second was made by Saint Elizabeth and the third maketh our Mother holy Church cap. 10. Also the Credo in English of the 12. articles of our faith cap. 11. Also the ten Commandements in English and the five commandements of the Church Catholike cap. 12. Also a figure of a man in a shippe that sheweth the unstablenesse of this transitory world cap. 13. Also to teach a man to know the field of vertues cap. 14. Also a shepheards ballad that sheweth his frailty cap. 15. Also a ballad of a woman shepheard that profiteth greatly cap. 16. Also a ballad of death that biddeth a man beware in time cap. 17. Also the ten commandements of the devill and the reward that they shall have that keep them cap. 18. Another ballad that Saint John sheweth in the apocalypse of the black Horse that death rideth upon cap. 19. A Ballad how Princes and States should govern them Chapter 20. The trees and branches of vertues and vices with the seven vertues against the seven deadly sins c. 21. Also a figure that sheweth how the twelve signes reign in mans body and which be good and which be bad c. 22. A picture of the phisnomy of mans body and sheweth in what parts the seven Planets hath domination in man c. 23. And after the number of the Bones in Mans body followeth a Picture that sheweth of all the Veins in the body and how to be let blood in them c. 24. To know whether a man be like to be sick or no and to heal them that be sick c. 25 And also here sheweth of the replexion of evil humors and also for to cleanse them c. 26 Also how men should govern them in the four quarters of the year c. 27 Also how men should do when Physick doth fail them for health of body and soul made in a Ballad Royal. c. 28 Also to shew men what is good for the brain the eyes the throat the breast the heart and stomack properly declared c. 29 Also the contrary to shew what is evil for the brain the eyes the throat the breast the heart and stomack following by and by And a good drink for the pestilence c. 30 Also of the four Elements and the similitude of the Earth and how every Planet is one above another and which be masculine and feminine c. 31 A crafty figure of the world with the twelve signs going about an also of the movings of the Heavens with the Planets .32 Also of the equinoctial and the Zodiack which is in their heaven which containeth the firmament and all under it with a picture of a Spire c. 33 Of Solstitium of Summer Solstitium of Winter with a figure of the Zodiack c. 34 Of the rising and descending of the signs in the Horizon c. 35 And also of the division of the earth and the regions with a picture of the mobile c. 36 Of the variation that is in many habitations and regions of the earth c. 37 Also of the twelve stars fixed that sheweth what shall happen unto them that are born under them c. 38 Also a figure of the twelve hours asmuch in earth as in heaven c. 39 Also pictures
purpose of living and dying the said shepheard saith the thing that we desire most in this world is to live long and the thing that wee most fear is to dye soon thus he travailed his understanding and made great diligence to know and to do things possible and requisite for to live long whole and ioyfully which this present compost and Kalender of Shepheards sheweth and teacheth Wherefore we will shew you of the bodies celestiall and of their nature and movings and this present book is named the compost for it comprehendeth fully all the compost and more for the daies hours and moments and the new Moons and the Eclipse of the Sunne and the Moon and the signs that the Moon is in every day and this book was made for them that be no Clarks to bring them to great understanding He said also that the desire to live long was in his soul the which alway lasteth wherefore hee would that his desire was accomplished after death as afore He said sith the soul dieth not and in her is the desire to live long it should be an infallible pain not to live after death as afore for he that liveth not after his corporal death shall not have that that he hath desired that is to wit to live long should abide in eternal pain if his desire were not accomplished So concluded the said Shepheard necessary things for him and other to know and do that which appertaineth to live after death as afore And truth it is that he which liveth but the life of this world only though hee lived an hundred year he lived not properly long but he should live long that at the end of this present life should begin the life eternall that is to say the life everlasting in heaven So a man ought to perform his life in this world corporally that he may live spiritually without end For as hee said one shall live everlasting without dying and when he hath the perdurable life hee shall bee perfect And also by this point and none otherwise shall be accomplished the desire of long living in this world The foresaid Shepheard also knowledged that the life of this world was soon past and gone wherefore this Shepheard thought that lxxii years in this vale of wretched misery is but a little and a small term of life to the everlasting the which never shall have ending And therefore he saith he that offereth himself here to live vertuously in this world after this life he shall receive the sweet life that is sure and lasteth ever without end For though a man lived here an C. yeer and more it is but a little term to the life to come Therefore saith this shepheard I will live soberly with these small temporal goods that Iesus hath lent me and ever to exile the desire of worldly riches and worldly worship For they that labour for it and have love to their goods and vain worships oft it parteth man from the heavenly treasure It shutteth mans heart that God may not enter and buildeth man a place of no rest in the low land of darknesse CHAP. II. Hereafter followeth another Prologue of the Master Shepheard that sheweth and proveth the Authors Prologue true that is before rehearsed and so the shepheards dispute one with another but this that followeth the Master shepheard saith to the other of the division of this Kalender Here beginneth the Master Shepheard IT is to be understood that there be in the year four quarters that are called Ver Aestas Autumnus and Hyems These de the four seasons of the year as Prime-time is the spring of the year as February March and April these three months Then commeth Summer as May Iune and Iuly and these three months every hearb grain and tree is in his kind in his most strength and fairnesse even at the highest Then commeth Autumne as August September and October then all these fruits waxe ripe and be gathered and housed Then commeth November December and Ianuary and these three months be the Winter the time of little profit We Shepheards say that the age of man is lxxii years and that we liken but to one whole year for evermore we take six years to every month as Ianuary or February so forth for as the year changeth by the twelve months into twelve sundry manners so doth a man change himself twelve times in his life by twelve ages and every age lasteth six year if so be that he live to lxxii for three times six maketh eighteen and six times six maketh xxxvi And then is man at the best and also at the highest and twelve times six maketh lxxii and that is the age of a man Thus must ye reckon for every month six year or else it may be understood by the four quarters and seasons of the year So man is divided into four parts as to youth strength wisedome and age He to be xviii yeer yong xviii yeer strong xviii yeer in wisdome and the fourth xviii yeer to go to the full age of lxxii And now to shew you how man changeth xii times as the xii months do TAke the first six yeer of Ianuary the which is for no vertue nor strength in that season nothing on the earth groweth So man after he is born till he be six year of age is without wit strength or cunning and may do nothing that profiteth Then commeth February and then the days begin to wax in length and the Sunne more hotter then the fields begin to waxe green So the other six yeers till he come to twelve the child beginneth to grow bigger serve and learn such as is taught him Then commeth March in the which the laborer soweth the earth planteth trees edifieth houses the child in these six yeers waxeth big to learn doctrin science and to be fair honest for then he is xviii years of age Then commeth Aprill that the earth and the trees are covered in green and flowers and in every part goods increase abundantly then commeth the child to gather the sweet flowers of hardinesse but then beware that the cold winds stormes of vices beat not down the flowers of good manners that he should bring man to honor for then he is xxiiii yeer old Then commeth May that is both fair and pleasant for then birds sing in woods and Forrests night and day the Sunne shineth hot and as then is man most ioyfull and pleasant and of livelier strength and seeketh plaies sports and lusty pastime for then he is full xxx years Then cometh Iune and then is the sunne highest in his meridional he may ascend no higher in his station his glimering golden beams ripēs the corn and when a man is xxxvi year he may ascend no more for then hath nature given him beauty and strength at the full and ripeneth the seeds of perfect understanding Then commeth Iuly that our fruits been set a sunning and our corn a
hardning but then the Sun beginneth a little for to descend downward so man then goeth from youth toward age and beginneth to acquaint him with sadnesse for then he is xlii year After that then commeth August then we gather in our corn and also the fruits of the earth and then doth man his diligence to gather for to find himself withall in the time that he may neither get nor win and then after that vi yeers is he xlviii year old Then commeth September that wines be made and the fruits of trees be gathered And then therewithall he doth freshly beginne to garnish his house and make provision of needfull things for to live in winter which draweth very neer and then is man in his most ioyful couragious estate prosperous in wisdome purposing to gather and keep as much as should be sufficient for him in his old age when he may gather no more and these six years maketh him liv years And then commeth October that all is into the foresaid house gathered but corn and also other maner fruits And also the labourer soweth new seeds in the earth for the yeer to come And then he that soweth nought shall nought gather And then in these other six years a man shall take himself unto God for to do penance good works and then the benefits the yeer after his death he may gather and have spiritual profit and then is man full in the term lx year Then commeth November that the days are very short and the sun in manner giveth little heat the trees lose their leaves The fields that were green look hory and gray When all manner of herbs be hidde in the ground and then appeareth no flowers And then winter is come that a man hath understanding of age and hath lost his kindly heat strength His teeth begin to rot and also to chatter and then hath he no more hope of long life but desireth to come to the life everlasting and these six for this month maketh him lx and six years Then commeth December full of cold with frost and snow with great winds and stormy weather that a man may not labour nor nought do the sun is then at the lowest that it may desceÌ„d then the trees the earth is hid in snow then is it good to hold them nigh the fire to spend the goods that they gathered in summer For then beginneth mans hair to wax white gray his body crooked feeble then he loseth the perfect understaÌ„ding and that six years maketh him full lxxii year and if he live any more it is by his good guiding and dieting in his youth Howbeit it is possible that a man may live till he be an hundred yeers of age but there are but few that come thereto Wherefore I Shepheard said moreover that of living or dying the heavenly bodies may stirre a man both to good and evill without doubt of a surety but yet may a man withstand it by his own free will to do what he will himself good or bad evermore Above the which inclination is the might and will of God that longeth the life of man by his goodnesse or to take it short by his iustice Wherefore we will shew you of the bodies celestiall and of the nature and movings and this present book is named the Compost for it comprehendeth fully all the compost and more for the days hours moments and the new Moons and the eclipse of the Sun and Moon and of the sign that the Moon is in every day and this book was made for them that are no Clerks to bring them to great understanding And this Calender is divided into five parts The first of our signs of the compost and the Kalender The second is the tree of vices with the paines of hell The third is the way of health of man the tree of vertues The fourth is physick and governance of health The fift is Astrology and physnomy for to understand many deceivings and which they be by likelihood the which by nature are inclined and can do them as you shall read ere you come to the end For to have the Shepheards understanding of their Kalender ye should understand that the year is the measure of the time that the sunne passeth the twelve signs returning to his first point is divided into the twelve months As Ianuary February March and so forth to December So the sunne in these twelve months passeth by twelve signs one time The days of his entring into the signs in the Kalender and the days also when he parteth the yeer as the xii months into lii weeks three hundred sixty and five days and when bysext is it is threescore and vi one day is xxiv hours every hour lx minutes After these divisions yee must understand for every year three things The first speaketh of the Golden number The second of the letter dominicall And the third is the letter tabular in the which lyeth all the chief knowledge of this Kalender for the which letter and number to understand all that they would whether it be past or to come ye shall put three figures after the Kalender of the which the first shall shew the value and declaration of the two other and it is to be understâ—â—d that in four years there is one Bysâ—xt the which hath one day more than the other and also hath two letters dominicals signed in one of the foresaid figures and changeth the latter day of S. Matthew the which is vigill and is put with the day upon one letter by himself Also the letters Ferials of this Kalender be to be understood as they of the other kalenders before the which are the numbers and the other three after the letters ferials First for because the letters descendeth low is the golden number above the day of the new Moon And the which to be the hour and moments of the said month which when they are in service before noon of the day above there And when they are black service for afternoon of the same day in the places of the number betokeneth that number where it is The naturall day is to be understood from midnight to midnight xxiv houres and shall serve the said numbers for the letters Ferials xix yeer complete from the year that this Kalender was made one thousand four hundred fourescore and seventeen unto the yeer one thousand five hundred and sixteen In the which yeer shall begin all to serve this golden number and the other numbers after the letters ferials all in the manner as they be before for the other xix yeers And all the remnant of the compost and of the kalender is perpetual for the golden number so shall they be xxxviii yeers of the which yeers one thousand four hundred fourscore seventeen is the first The feasts of the kalender are in their daies of the which the solennall are in red storied in the unity
Naturam Cancri pectoris aula gerit At Leo vult stomachum renes sibi vendicat idem Sed intestinis Virgo praeesse petit Ambas Libra nates ambas sibi vendicat hancas Scorpio vult anum vultque pudenda sibi Inde Sagittarius is coxis vult dominari Amborum genuum vim Capricornus habet Regnat in Aquario cruri um vis apta decenter Piscibus demum congrua planta pedum Saturnus niger Iupiter viridis Mars rubeus est Sol croceus Venus albus Mercurius Luna varii sunt dum quisquis regnat nascitur puer sic coloratus The declaration of the Latine here above THat is to say that the twelve signs have dominion over the body of man divided by the parts as the signs divide the firmament and every sign beholdeth and governeth the parts of the body so as it is said above and afterward shall be shewed by figures and is declared more plainly and faithfully Such like of Planets is said of their colours but of their natures and propâ—â—ties of the parts of the bodys the which governeth and beholdeth more at full shall you hear at length Also of the twelve months natures March April and May are very hot and moist that signifieth blood and ayre Iune Iuly and August is Summer and signifieth hot and dry choler manhood fear September October and November is harvest and betokeneth cold and dry and age melancholy and earth December Ianuary and February is winter and betokeneth cold and moist childhood flegm and water CAlled I am January the cold In Christmas season good fire I love Yong Iesus that sometime Judas sold In me was circumcised for mans behoove Three Kings sought the son of God above They kneeled down and did him homage with love To God their Lord that is mans own brother CHAP. III. Hereafter followeth a Kalender with the figures of every Saint that is hallowed in the yeer in the which is the figures the hours the months and the new Moons Ianuary hath 31 days the Moon 30 In Iâ—no claris calidisque cibis potiaris Atque decens potus post sercula sit tibi notus Laedit enim medo tunc potatus ut bene credo Balnea tutius intres venam scindere â—ures viii iv ix A viii iii â—vli Circumcisio Domini xvi v vii b    Octa. S. Stephen    c xvi iv  Octa S. Iohannis v o ii d v vii lv Octava sanctorum Inno.    e    Octa sa Thome martyr xi iv xii f xiii vi  Epiphania Domini    g iii ix xlv Felicis and Ianua o i xxxvii A    sa Luciani x ix iv b x viii xli sa Iudi. xviii vi xiii c xviii iv xvi Pauli prim heâ—emite    d    Lini Bishop Sol in Aqua vii viii vi e vii o xxxv Archadii martyr    f  February sa Hillary xv v xxxlv g xâ— i viii Felici presbyter    A iii viii ii S. Maur. abbot iv x xxxi b    sa Marcelli Bishop xii x xli c xii o xvi Sulp Bishop x xi lii d    sa Pisce virgin ix v xi e  x xvii Wolstan Bishop    f ix v li Fabian and Sebastian xvii o xxxiii g xvii ii xlvii sa Agnetis    A  iv xii Vincent martyr vi vi xxxv b  iv xii sa Emerancian    c    sa Timothy â—iv ii xvii d    Conversion of Paul    e xiv i xxxix Policarp Bishop iii ii xxi f iii vi xlv Iulian Bishop xi xi xx g    Agneus secundo xix vi xxxv A xi vii xxxvi Valeri bishop and mart    b xix vi xxvii Batild virg    c    Saturnini Victoris February hath 28. days the Moon 27. Nascitur occulta febris Februario multa Potibus escis si caute vivere velis Tunc cave frigorem de pollice funde cruorem Fuge mellis favum pectoris qui morbos curabit viii v xii d â—iii i xvi Bridgi Ignasii xvi o vi e xvi viii xxxi Purification of Mary    f    S. Blasi Bishop   xxxvii g v ii xxv S. Gilbert Bishop    A xiii x xxii S. Agathe virg xiii iii lviii b    Vedasti Amandi xi o iv c ii x lv sa Anguli virg x vi lix d x vii xliv Paul Bishop    e    sa Apollony virg xviii ix ii f xvi iii iii Sol in Pâ—ces    g vii i liv Eufrasie virg vi i xvi A    sa Eulaly    b v vii xxxv sa Wolfrani xv xi xv c    sa Valentine Bishop iv xiii lv d iv ii xxvi Faustin Ioniti xii o xxxiii e    Iulian virg i vii xli f xli o xxiii Policron bishop martyr    g i viii xxix Simon bishop martyr ix iv xvi A ix xv xxx Sabin and Iulian mar    b xvii iv lix Mildred virg xvii vi xvi c    Sanctorum lxix    d vi viii lviii Cathedra sancti Petri. vi i x e    Policarp Locus biferti    f xiv vi i Mathew Apostle xiv iv xii g    Invention of S. Paul iii i xiii A iii ix xlviii S Nestor mart  o xi b xi viii liii S Augustin    c    Oswald bishop and con It is to be noted that the golden numbers shew the days hours and minutes of the new Moons the red numbers for the forenoon and the black numbers for the afternoon on the same day that the numbers demonstrateth March hath 31. days the Moon 30. Martius humores gignit variosque dolores Sume cibum pure cocturas si placet ure Balnea sunt sana sed quae superflua vana Vena nec addenda nec potio sit tribuenda vii viii xxxvi d xix iii iiii sa David bishop    e viii o l sa Cedde bishop    f xv i xlvi Martini et Asteri xvi vi x g    sa Adrian Mart. v x xlviii A v vii xxxix Foce Eusebii Perpetue    b    Victoris et Victorini xiii  xx c xiii o xii Perpetue et Felic ii ix xix d ii ix xlvi Depositio sancti Felicis    e    Quadraginta mart x iiii xlviii f x v xx sa Agapite virg xviii o xli g xviii ii xlvi Sol in Aries Equinoct    A    S. George bishop vii vi xlv b viii v i
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
nigh the which unity in the end of the bodies above every day is one letter of the A. b. c. for to understand in what signs the Moon is in that day And yet the said letters and the rubrish for the which shall be one figure before the Kalender which shall shew how they should understand it This yeer of this present Kalender which began to have course the first day of Ianuary M. CCCC.xcvii In the which raigneth for the golden number sixteen The letter dominical A. The letter tabular f. and b. In the first lines and their figures neerest the golden number xvi the yeer of this Kalender To know the letter Dominical by the verse underneath Filius esto dei coelum bonus accipe gratis Or by these other verses here following Fructus alit Canos el gelica bellica danos El genitir bona dat Finis amara cadat Dat floris anni caler ejus gaudia busti Cambit edens griffo boabel dicens fiat agur For to set the month A dam de ge bat er go ci phos a dri phos For the golden number and the new Moon Ter nus un din nod octo sex quinque tred ambo ve cem duc Septem quin quar tus doc io ta no vem vi quar An ingenious practice or Compost of Shepheards Newly and subtilly shepheards have found a short practice for to know the golden number the letter dominicall the tabular letters as ensueth the which for subtilty is difficil to be understood if first it be not shewed by such as understand it well but as to this it behoveth not to tarry travel for cause of the figures that ensigneth and sheweth how to find and know the said practice Finis canos agur ejus bona fructus Dicens anni bellica griffo dant amara El cambet gaudit dat alit fiet color Genitrix danos boabel flores cadat gelica Edens busti Four secrets of the Compost of Shepheards Mobilis alta dies C currens aureus octo Sexdeno cum D non erit inferior B Veneris sancta sed quinque tred ambo Maria Nec erit in toto dicens similis simul octo The manner to know the festival daies on the hand and on what days they bee WHo so will know on his hand when the holy days falleth take heed of the same letters A. b c. d e. f. g. The days of the week bee vii one for Sunday and for the other days vi Put them in the ioynts of the left hand on iiii fingers and with the right hand they ought to be marked for the more certainty A b c. on the back of the hand and g. above d e f. within the hād Then ye ought to know in what place every month should be A little after dam of g. b E. g. c. bee on the month of the little finger F. a. on the leach finger February and March on the learh finger together April on g. May on b. Iune on the middle finger above ◠Iuly upon g. and August upon c. September upon f. October on a. of the fourth finger Then November above d. and December above f. of the little finger And thus the twelve months be set on the fingers After bran pen cru lucy the Embre dayes be set truly In each of these two lines here under be as many sillables as there be festivall days in the yeer and every day ought to be set on the joynts of the left hand as is shewed here in this present book January Cir o ia nus e pi lu fe la nus et keu fe man mar an Pis ca fab ag vin cen ti pau lum iul ag que ba tilde February Bre pur blas et a ue fe bru o sco la sli ca va lent Iul con um ge tur cum pe tro math so ci e tur March Mo sed mar ci us bal to duth kes con gre go ri um bo Pat ed ward cuth be ne ca pe ma ri am ge ni tri cem Aprill Gil gip ric et am bro si i dat a pril le on eu fe ti bur ci Post al phe fe sta ge or mar ci que vi ta lis May. Phi li cruc may i un la tin nic gor de ne re i que Post e a don se qui tur post fal phe sest ta ger ad en pe que June Nic mar in bo ni fa med co lum bar ba ci ba vi ti Bo mar marg ed ward si mil la ba el io le on pe pau July Ser ui iul mar ti ni tho mo que fra be dic ti suth un ken Ar nulf marg prax mag ap cris ia an dor sam sun ob gre August Pe steph aug gust trans do ci ro lau ti bur ri ip on Sump ta sit a mag ni bar tho lo ruff ag io oon fel on cut September E gis sep cup bert ha bet nat gort gon pro thi que curt Lam ber ti quo math ma mar te cle fer cip da con mich ier October Rem le o fran ci fi mar tunc dig er a ni a ed. Post lu cas iu in de ro ma cris pi ni si no nis quin. November Om nis tunc sanc ti le o mar ti bri ci a ni a ed. Pre te cle gri ka li ni a que sat an December E le gi bar ba ni co con cep et lu ce i al ma. O sa pi en que tho mas pro pe nat steph io tho me sil How every month praiseth it self of some good property January I Make me to be called Janivere In my time is great storms of coldness For unto me no month of the year May compare if I advance me doubtlesse For in my time was as clarks do expresse Circumcised the Lord omnipotent And adored by Kings of the Orient February I am February the most hardy In my season the pure mother Virginal Offered her sonne in the Temple truly Making to God a present speciall Of Iesus Christ the King of kings all Between the arms of the Bishop Simeon To whom pray we to have his remission March March am I called in noblenesse flourishing Which among months am of great Nobless For in my time all the fruits do bud and spring To the service of man in great largess And Lent is in me the time of holiness That every man ought to have repentance Of his sins done by long continuance April Among all months I am iustly April Fresh and wholesome unto each creature And in my time the dulcet drops distill Called Christall as Poets put in Scripture Causing all stones the longer to endure In my time was the resurrection Of God and man by divine election May. Of all the months in the year I am King Fourishing in beauty excellently For in my time in vertue
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
Theodore mart    c xv    xv ii xii d iiii i xxxiv sa Longin mart iv i xlii e xii xviii 33 Aprilis Boniface bishop xii ix xxxv f  x 33 Patricii bishop    g    Edwardi regis i v lii A ix v xxx Ioseph sponsi Mary ix v vii b  o liii sa Cuthbert    c xvii   Benedict abbot xvii xi xlv d  viii iii Affrodici bishop    e vi i  Theodore presbyter vi vi iiii f   lvii Agapite mart    g xiiii   Annunciatio Dominica iiii iiii vi A iii ix xlvii Castoris Martyris â—ii iii xlviii b   xlix Resurrectio Dominiâ—â— â—iâ— v xxxvii c xi v  Dorothe virg â—ix vii xlix d xix  xxxv Quintin mart    e viii  xlv sa Quirine mart vii o xv f  o xl Adelme bishop Aprill hath 30. days the Moon 29. Hic probat in vere vires Aprilis habere Cuncta nascuntur pori nun caperiuntur In quo scalpescit corpus sanguis quoque crescit Ergo salvatur venterque cruor minuatur   g    sa Gildardi  â—â— A xvi vi xlvii Mary Egyptiace   b    Richard Bish. o xx c v i xliii Ambrose Bish. x li d xiii x lv sa Martin   e    Sixte Bishop x lviii f ii vi xlix Gereonis Victoris ii lix g â— l xlii sa Ruffi   A    sa Augustini iii xliii b â—vii iii xi Decollatio Iohannis bap   c vi vii xix Felicis Audaci xi xxxi d Soâ— in Tau Cuthburg virg ii li e    Michael in monte xi 34 f â—â— v x May   g â—â— vii xlvi Translatio Etheldred vi xxii   vi xlv Octava sancti Laurent iiii xxxvi b i i xlvi sa Magni mart   c â—x i xxx Lodovici Bishop vi xx d    sa Agapite   e xvâ—i vi xxxix sa Bernard iii liiii f    Octava assump Mary   g vi vi vii Vigilia viii xxx A    Lodovici Regis xi xxxix b xliii ix xxxvi sa Severini xviii xxxii c ii x xi Mark Evangelist   d    Cleti Bishop and Confes. ii o e vi ii xxx sa Anastasti Bishop ix o f xix xi li Sep. Vigilia   g    Assumptio beâ—â—e Mary iii lvi A vii ii xxii sa Rochi May hath 31. days the Moon 30. Maio secure laxiti sit tibi curae Scindatur vena sed potio datur amaena Cum calidis rebus sunt fercula seu speciebus Potibus abstructa sit salvia cum benedâ—cta viii iii lvi b  viii  Philip and Iacob vi xi xiii c xvi iii xxxv sa Anastasi Bishop v ix xli d   xvii Inventio sancti crucis    e    Festum corone spinee xiiii vi xxi f xiii vi xx sa Godard ii  xvi g ii  xxxiiii Iohannis ante port lat    A x  xxx Iohn de Beverlaco x i xvii b    Apparitio Michaelis    c xvii iii xli Translatio Nicholai xviii vii xxi d    Gordian Epimachi vii  xxxiiii e  x xxx sa Anthon. mar xv vi xix f  xvi  Nerei Archilei Pancra    g xv xviii xii Sol in Gemini  vii viii A iiii i ix Boniface mar  iii xxiii b xij ix lvii Isidore mar    c i  lix Brandin bish and Confessor i iiii xi d  viii  Translation of Bernard xx viii xxxiii e x  i Diascor mar    f    S. Dunston    g vii ii xli s. Bernard xvii vii ii A  xx  Helen regine xi viii xx b vi  ix Iulian virg    c  vi  Desider mar xiiii vi xlvi d xiiii ii i Trans Francisci iii i xlix e iii x xl sa Adelme xi x xliiii f ix  xliii Augustine Anglorum Apost xx xi xx g    Bede presbyter    A xix  lix S. German vii vii iiii b  ii  Coronis Martyr xvi ix xlv c viii o liiii s. Felicis Bishop    d vi  xli sa Petronille virg Iune hath 30 days the Moon 29. In Iunio Gentes perturbat medo bibentes Atque novellarum fuste potus serviciarum Ne noceat colera valet refectio vita Lactucae frondes ede je junus bibe fontes v vii v e v iii xii Sancti Nichomedis xiii i liii f xvi ii xviii Sancti Marcellini xi xii ii g ii x xv s. Erasmi martyris    A    sancti Petrocii x i xliiii b x v lv s. Boniface Bishop    c    Melonis Archbishop xviii xi v d xviii vi xxv Translatio Wulstan    e    Sancti Wilhelmi vii iii xlix f vii i  Trans of Edmundi xv v ix g xv xvii ix Translatio sanc Iuonis iiii i xlix A iiii xxvi xlii Barnabe Apostle    b xii xi xiiii S. Basil. xii i i c   Iuli Sol in Cancer solsticium i iiii  d i vii iii S. Basil Bishop   lviii e ix viii xxiii Vic modesti ix x  f    Trans of Richard    g    S. Botolph xvii vi  A xvii v xxx Marci and Marcellina   xii b   xxiii Gervasi prothasi vi v  c    Trans of Edward xiiii i liii d xiiii ix xvii Walburge Virgin iii ix xviii e  ix xviii s. Alban Martyr xi viii xxxvi f iii   Etheldred Vigilia   xxxv g  viii xiii Nat. of S. Iohn Baptist. xix lii  A xi  xxviii Trans of Eligi Bishop   vii b xi x  Iohn and Paul viii ix  c viii  xv S. Cressent martyr   xxi d  x  sa Leon Bishop    e    Peter and Paul Apostles xvi vi xv f xvi i ii Commemoration of Paul Iuly hath 31 days the Moon 30 Qui vult solamer Julio hic probat medicamen Venam non scindat ne ventrem potio ledat Somnum cupescat balâ—ea cuncta pavescat Prodest recens unda alvum cum salvia munda v iix ix g v i v Octa. Iohn Baptist. xiii x xxix A xiii viii lvii Visitatio beate Marie    b    Translatio Thome Ap. ii x lix c ii iiii liiii
Translatio sancti Mar.    d x iiii xxxix sa Zoe virg x iii vi e    Octava Peter Paul    f    Translatio Thom. mar xviii o xlviii g xviii ix xxxi Depositio Grimbald vii v vii A â—ii iii lii sa Cerill Bishop xv l xlv b    Septem fratrum mar iiii viii xlvi c xv  xlvi Translatio Benedici    d iiii ix xxxix Naboris Felicis xii i li e xii vi xxxix sa privati martyr    f i v l Sol in Leo Dles Canic i vii v g    Translatio Swithin    A ix ix xlii August trans Osmund ix i xlix b    sa Kenelmi regis    c xvii vii xxx sa Arnulph Bishop xviii viii xliii d    Rufini Iustini vi â—i x e vi x xi Margaret Virgin xiiii iiii lvii f xiiii ix xxi Praxedis virg    g   xxii Mary Magdalen iiii vii o A iii iv xix sa Apollinatis xi viii xl b xi o lvii Christin virg Vigilia   iii c    S. Iacob Apostle xix vii  d xix ix xlx Anne mother of Mary viii x xliiii e    septem dormientium    f viii xliii  Sampson Byshop xvi ii xii g xvi xi lix Felicis sociorum eius v ix vii A v ix lii Abdon and senins    b    sa Germani August hath 31. days the Moon 30. Quisquis sub Augusto vivat medicamine justo Raro dormiat aestum coiâ—â—m quoque vitet Balnea non curet nec multum comestio duret Nemo laxari debet vel phlebothomari xiii ix o c xiii iiii xxx Petri ad vincula    d ii iii xvii Stephani Bish. ii x v e x iiii xxx Inventio san Stephani x vi ii f    Iustini Presbyteri    g    Oswaldi Festum nivis xviii xiii xxx A xiii o xlv Transfiguratio Domini vii xxiiii xvi b    Festum nominis Iesu. xv viii lviii c vii v xliii sa Ciriac    d xv ix liii Vigilia iiii v v e iiii xv lxiii sa Laurentii xi   f xii iiii xi Tiburtii mar â— iiii ii g    Clare virg  x xxxvi A  vi lix Hypolite sociorum eius ix   b  xii xlviii Sep. Vigilia  iii lvi c    Assumptio beat Mary xvii   d Sol in Virg. sa Rochi vi ii xi e xviii viii iii Octava sanct Laurent  x viii f vi viii lii sa Magni mart    g    Lodovici Bishop xiiii vi xvi A xiiii iiii xlv sa Agapite  vi li b xiii o xlix sa Bernard xi   c    Octava assum Mary xix viii xvii d xi v ii Vigilia  viii l e    Bartholomew Apost viii   f xix v xii Lodovici Regis xvi xi lxvi g viii x lix sa Severini  ix lviii A xvi ix lix sa Ruffi v   b    sa Augustini xiii v iii c v v lviii Decollatio Iohannis bap  x xi d  i lix Felicis Audaci    e    Cuthburg virg September hath 30 days the Moon Fructus maturi Septembris sunt valituri Et pira cum vino panis cum lacte caprino Aqua de urtica tibi poto fertur amica Tunc venam pandas species cum semine mandas ii ii xxxiii f ii ix xiiii S. Egidii    g x vi  sa Anthonii x x xx A   x Ordinatio sa Greg.    b xviii iiii  Translatio sant Cuth xviii i xviii c vii vi vii sa Bertini vii x xlvi d   l sa Eugenâ—i xv v x e xv vi   iiii iii xlix f iii i xxvi Nativitas Mary    g xiii v o sa Gorgonii xii viii xi A i x xxxv Silvii Bishop    b   xliii Prothi Iacinti â— iii v c ii v xxxii Martiniani Bishop    d  October Maurelii Bishop ix vii li e xvii ix vii Exaltatio s. â—ru Sol in Li. xvii xi xvii f    Octa. beate Mary    g vi vi xliii Edithe virgin vâ— vi xv A xiii i xliii Lambert bishop and mart xiiii vi xviii b    Victoris Corone    c iii xi xxxix Ianuarii mart iii ix xxxi d    sa Eustachii virg xi  xxxix e xi iii xli Saint Marthâ—i Apostoli    f xix x xx Mauricii et sociorum eius xi xi viii g    Tecle Virgin vi x lvi A xviii iii xix Andochii Martyr    b xvi vii 38 Firmini Bishop and mart xvi vi xxxvii c v ii xxxii Cyprian Iustini v ii iiii d    Cosme Damiani    e xiii ii ix Exuperii Bishop xiii ii x f ii v x S. Michael Archangel    g    Hieronimi presbyter October hath 31. days the Moon 30. October vina praebet cum carne ferina Nec non aucina caro valet volucrina Quamvis sint sana tunc est repletio vana Quantum vis comede sed non praecordia laede â— vii lii A   viii S. Remigy    b    S. Leodigary â— xiii xv c    Candidi mart xviii o xix d xxii   Francis Confessor vii xx iii e    Apollinarii martyr xv iiii xxxvi f vii vi vi sa Fidis    g xv iii o Marci Marcellian â—i v xxii â— iii   sa Pelagy   vii b xii ix xlvii Dionysi Rustic xii ii  c    Gereonis Victoris   xli d i iiii xxxvi Sancti Nigasii â— vii i e    Sancti Wilfredi â—â— x  f ix v lvi Translatio sancti Ed.   xxxiii g Sol in Scor. Sancti Calixte epis xvii viii xlix A xviii viii xli Wulfrani episcopi vi iii  b vi iii xxxv Nove. Michael in mon.    c xiiii o liii Translatio Etheldred xiiii ix xx d    Luke Evangelist   xlv e ii i xxv Fredeswide virginis iii ii li f    Austreberte virginis xi ix xxxi g  x xxxvi xi M. virginum xix o  A    Mary Salmone   lii b xix iii 38 Sancti Romani viii ix lii c viii xviii xiv Sancti Magloric â—vi iiii  d xvi v x
Cripini Trispiniani    e v â— xvi Euaristi episcopi â— iii xvi f    Florentii mar Vigilia   xx g viii v xx Simon and Iude. â—â—ii vii  A    Germane Capuani   vii b    Marcissi Bishop â— iii  c    Sanct. Quintini vigil November hath 30. days the Moon 29. Hoc tibi scire datur quod reuma Novembre creatur Quaeque nociva vita tua sint preciosa dieâ—a Balnea cum Venere tunc nullum constat habere Potio sit sana valde atque minuta bona x vii xlvii d xi v xii Feast of all Saints    e    Commemora animar xviii x xlviii f xviii viii lii Wenefred virgin vii v xliv g vii vi xxviii s. Amantii xv vi xxi A    Leti presbyteri â—v  lv b xv i xxxvi Leonard abbot    c iv  xv Wilbrod Bishop    d xii ix  Quatuor coronatorum xix viii vi e  xvii v Theodore martyr i x xxv f December s. Martin Bishop    g  i xxix saint Martin xi x lix A ix ii â—xxix Patern martyr xvii vi xxx b xvii   s. Brici Bishop    c  vi ii Trans Erkin Sol in sag vi iii ii d vi   sa Macuti bishop    e â—v iv xiv sa Edmund Arch-bishop xiv iii iii f    sa Hugonis Bishop iii ix lvi g iii vii xlvii Octav. s. mart    A  vii xxxv sa Elizabeth vi v  b xi iii xvi s. Edmund Regis xix  xxviii c  xi xxxviii Presentatio martyr vii viii  d xix   Cicely virg   xvii e viii xi vi sa Clement bishop xvi   f xvi   sa Grigosoni v vi xiii g v xi liv Katherine virg   xlvii A   xxi Lini bishop    b xii v  Agricole vitalis xiii vii  c  o  Rufi mart iii  xxx d ii   Saturn Sisini x x lii e x   S. Andrew Apostle December hath 31. days the Moon 30. Sanae sunt membris calidae res mense Decembris Frigus vitetur capitalis vena scindatur Lotio siâ— vana sed vasis potio cara Sit tepidus potus frigori contrarie totus x x lv f x xxi o sa Eligi Bishop xviâ— viii xlvi g xvi iix xvi sa Lybian vii v xvi A    Depositio Osmu xv  x b vii v viii sa Barbare    c xv i xliv Sabba Abbot â—v iv xxxiv d    Nicholas bishop and Con.    e iv ii xxxvi Octava Andrew Apostle    f xii xi xxxiv Conception of Mary xii o xvi g    Cyprian abbot i ix xxviii A i v vi sa Eulalie ix x xxvi b ix vii vii sa Damasce Pope    c  Sol in Cay Paul bishop Solstitium xvii v xli d xvii v xlvi Lucy Virgin vi iv xx e vi i ii Ianuari xiv  liv f    Valeri bishop    g xiv vi xlviii O sapientia    A    sa Lazari bishop iv iv liv b iii o xl sa Gratian. xi ix xxi c    sa Venesie virg xix xi xxxiii d xi vi xxxix Iuli Martyr vigilia    e xix x v Thom. Apostle viii vi xxxi f viii xlx xxii Triginta martyr xvi vii liii g xvi ii xxiv Victory virg    A    Sanctarum virginum v xi xlix b â—v o lvii Nativity of our Lord    c    sa Stephen xiii x o d xiii vi xxii sa Iohn    e    sa Innocents ii o liv f ii i viii sa Tho. martyr    g x v xl Trans of Iacob  o vi A    saint Silvester Letter Dominicall Letter tabular The exposition valour and signification of the letters of the tabular figure that be in the second line after the Dominical letter  Moveable feasts    Intervals  Septugessime Easter in Rogacion s. Whitsunday in FroÌ„ Christmas to Lent FroÌ„ Whitsunday to saint Iohn FroÌ„ Whitsunday to advent Ianuary March Aprill May Week day Week day  d b xviii xxiii xxvi x v 5 6 3 29 Friday e c xix xxiv xxvii xi v 6 6 2 29 Thursday f d xx xxv xxviii xii v 5 6 1 29 Wednesday g e xxi xxvi xxix xiii vi 1 6  29 Tuesday A f xxii xxvii xxx xiv vi 2 5 6 29 Monday b g xxiii xxviii May xv vi 3 5 5 29 Sunday c h xxiv xxix ii xvi vi 4 5 4 28 Saturday d i xxv xxx iii xvii vi 5 5 3 28 Friday e k xxvi xxxi iv xviii vi 6 5 2 28 Thursday â— l xxvii Aprill v xix vi 5 5 1 28 Wednesday g m xxviii ii vi xx vii 1 5  28 Tuesday A n xxix iii vii xxi vii 2 4 6 27 Monday b o xxx iv viii xxii vii 3 4 5 27 Sunday c p xxxi v ix xxiii vii 4 4 4 27 Saturday d q February vi x xiv vii 5 4 3 27 Friday e r ii vii xi xxv vii 6 4 2 27 Thursday f s iii viii xii xxvi vii  4 1 27 Wednesday g t iv ix xiii xxvii viii 1 4  27 Tuesday A u v x xiv xxviii viii 2 3 6 27 Monday b a vi xi xv xxix viii  3 5 26 Sunday c b vii xii xvi xxx viii 4 3 4 26 Saturday d c viii xiii xvii xxxi viii 5 3 3 26 Friday e d ix xiv xviii Iune viii 6 3 26 Thursday f e x xv xix ii viii  3 1 26 Wednesday g f xi xvi xx iii ix 1   26 Tuesday A g xi xvii xxi iv ix 2 2 6 25 Monday b h xiii xviii xxii v ix 3 2 5 25 Sunday e i xiv xix xxiii vi ix 4 2 4 25 Saturday d k xv xx xxiv vii ix 5 2 3 25 Friday e l xvi xvi xxv viii ix 6 2 2 25 Thursday f m xvii xxii xxâ—i ix ix  2 1 25 Wednesday g n xviii xxiii xxvii x x 1   25 Tuesday A o xix xxiv xxviii xi x 2 1 6 25 Monday b p xx xxv xxix xii x 3 1 5 25 Sunday c q xxi  xxx xiii x 4 1 4 25 Saturday d r xxii  xxxi        The figure of the letter tabular which is declared by the two present figures the first for the black letters the second for the red letters  b   b    c  Â
great Confidence is to arrest and hold strongly his thought and his courage by unmoveable constance among such things as be adverse and contrarie Tollerance is quotidianly or daily suffering and bearing the strange improbities and molests that is to say persecutions opprobries and iniuries that other folk doe Rest is a virtue by the which a sickerness is given unto the thought of contentment of the unstableness of transitory things and worldly vanities Stableness is to have the thought or courage stedfast and sure without casting on divers things by any varying or changing of time or places Perseverance is a vertue that establisheth and confirmeth the courage by a perfection of vertue that is in a man be perfect by force of longanimitie Reason is a vertue by the which a man commandeth to do such things as be concealed and delivered for to come to the end which a man knoweth to be good and utile to be done and had Here endeth the flower of vertues and how they be named and signified in the tree figured CHAP. XXII How Shepheards by calculation and speculation know the xii signes in their course reigning and domining over the xii parts of mans body and which be good for letting of blood and which be indifferent or evill for the same SOme shepheardes say that maÌ„ is a litle world by himself for likenesses similitudes that hee hath of the great world which is the aggregation of the nine skies four elementes and all things in them contained First a man hath such a likenes in the first mobile that is the soveraign skie and principall parts of the great world For like as in his first mobile the Zodiake is divided in xii parts by the xii signes so man is divided to xii parts and holdeth of the signes every part of his signe as this figure sheweth The signes be these Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces of the which three be of the nature of the fire that is Aries Leo and Sagittarius three of the nature of the aire Gemini Libra and Aquarius And three of the nature of water Cancer Scorpio Pisces And three of the nature of earth Taurus Virgo and Capricornus The first that is Aries governeth the head and face of maâ— Taurus the necke and throat bole Gemini the shoulders the armes and hands Cancer the breast sides milte and lights Leo the stomacke the heart and the backe Virgo the belly and the entrailes Libra the navill the groines and the parts under the branches Scorpio the privy parts the genitales the bladder and the fundament Sagittarius the thighes only Capricornus the knees only also Aquarius the legs and from the knees to the heels and ankles and Pisces hath the feet in his dominion A man ought not to make incision ne touch with iron the member governed of any signe the day that the moone is in it for fear of the great effusion of blood that might happen ne in likewise also when the Sun is in it for the danger and perill that might ensue Hereafter followeth the nature of the xii signes ARies is good for blood-letting when the Moone is in it save in the part that it domineth Aries hot and dry nature of fire and governeth the head and the face of man good for bleeding when the moon is in it Taurus is evill for bleeding Taurus is dry cold nature of the earth and governeth the necke and the knot under the throat is evill for bleeding Gemini is evill for bleeding Gemini is hot and moist nature of aire and governeth the shoulders the armes the two hands â—s evill for bleeding Cancer is indifferent for bleeding Cancer is cold and moist nature of water and governeth the breast the stomacke and the milt and indifferent that is to say neither too good nor too bad for letting of blood Leo is evill for bleeding Leo is hot and dry nature of fire and governeth the backe and the sides and is evill for letting blood Virgo is indifferent for bleeding Virgo is cold and dry nature of earth and governeth the wombe and inward parts and is not good ne very evill for bleeding Libra is right good for bleeding Libra is hot and moist nature of ayre and governeth the navill the reynes and the low parts of the wombe and is good for bleeding Scorpio is indifferent for bleeding Scorpio is cold moist nature of water governeth the members of man is neither good ne bad for bleeding Sagittarius is good for bleeding Sagittarius is hot and dry nature of fire and governeth the thighs and is good for bleeding Capricornus is evill for bleeding Capricornus is cold and dry nature of earth and governeth the knees and is evill for bleeding Aquarius is indifferent for bleeding Aquarius is hot moist of nature and governeth the legs and is neither good ne evill for bleeding Pisces is indifferent for bleeding Pisces is cold and moist nature of water and governeth the feet and is neither good ne bad for bleeding Aries Libra and Sagittarius be right good Cancer Virgo ScorpioÌ„ Aquarius Pisces be indifferent Taurus Gemini Leo and Capricornus be evill for bleeding CHAP. XXIII A Picture of the Phisnomy of mans body and sheweth in what parts the vii Planets have domination in man We may know by this figure the bones and ioynts of all the parts of the body as well within as without of the head necke shoulders armes hands besides breast back haunches thighs knees legges and of the feet Which bones shall be named and numbred hereafter and it is called the figure Anatomy By this figure one may understand the parts of mans body over the which the planets have might and domination to keep them from touching any yron ne to make incision of bloud in the veines that proceed in the time while that the planet of the said party is conioyned with any other planet malevolent without having regard of some good planet that might in cumber and let his evill course CHAP. XXIV The names of the Bones in a mans body and the number of them which is in all two hundred eight and forty FIrst on the summet of the head is a bone that covereth the brain the which shepheards call the Capitall bone In the skull be two bones which be called parietales that holdeth the brain close stedfast More lower in the brain is a bone called the crown of the head and on the one side and on the other be two holes within the which is the pallis or roof bone In the part behind the head be four like bones to the which the chine of the neck holdeth The bones of the nose be two The bones of the chafts be xi And of the nether iaw be two Above the opposite of the brain there is one behind named collaterall The bones of the teeth be xxx eight
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
shal be very gracious he shall have harm by women and when he is married men shall not see so much by him as before he will have great love to ladies and gentlewomen but yet they shall not be masters over him he will be a very good man of the Church or a religious man and he shal not love to go a warfare he will hate theeves and swearers and he shall gather great goods by his wisedome If he bee a man of the world he shal be perfect in some handy craft he shall love well to preach and to speak fair rhetorike language and to talk of philosophie and Geometry he shall love wel writing and to read in strange bookes and to cast accounts of great numbers and shal be a gay maker of balads songes meeters and rimes he shal be perfect in the art of musick and love it he shall love measuring and meting and he shall be some great clothmaker he shal be servant to some great Lord or els a receiver of his mony he shall have a high forehead a long visage black eies and a thin beard he shal be a great pleader in the law and he will meddle with other mens deeds if they doe not well and say against it and Mercury governeth the thighes the flancks and belly Of the Moon Luna significat hominem album confectum rubore junctis superciliis benevolum habentem oculos non ex toto nigros faciem rotundam pulchram staturam in facie ejus signum in initio quod crescet significat omne quod faciendum est in plenitudine quod distruendum quia decrescit IT is to be understood that the lowest planet of the seven is named Luna which we call the Moon and is called feminine or female and is called among the shepheards the Lady of the night for the chief light and clearnesse that is by night is by the presence of the Moon for the Moon is much neerer approached unto us than any star and therefore she gives us much more light than the stars doe and also the moon is Lady of moisture and ruleth the sea by ebb and floud The moon taketh her light of the Sun 22. times in a year and also the moon is cold and moist of nature and her colour is much fairer than silver and her chief house is Cancer and there is none of the other planets that is so slow and goeth so little ciâ—cuit as doth the moon and she descendeth into Scorpio and she goeth about the xii signes in 27. dayes and then changeth and is called new Of her Properties SVch men and women as be born under the Moon shall be lowly and serviceable and very gentle And if it be a maid child shall be very shamefast and womanly and they shal be wel-favored both man and woman their faces shall be full and round and they shall be very patient folkes and will suffer much wrong or they be revenged will be soft of speech and very curteous and shall live honestly with such as God shall send them and wil haunt vertuous company they shall be well formed of body and have merry looks and love honestly to be glad and will live very chastly and love greatly the vertue of cleannesse both in word and deed they hate lecherous talkers and speakers of ribaldry their colour shal be mixed but with a little rednesse they shall gladly go attired in many coloured clothes and they shal sweat in the forehead Also they will have a great desire to be masters and mistresses over great streames rivers and flouds and devise many proper engines to take fish Look what they say it shall be true and stedfast and they shal be very honest and good goers on foot and comfort sick persons they shall love well to talk sometime of marvells they shall not keep hatred long in their mind they shall appease the people under colour with their communications as well as other should doe with silver Honest women will they love they will hate harlots and brothels and shall nourish their children up in vertue and good manners And the lights and the brains of man is under the governace of Luna Thus endeth the seven Planets with their properties Of the Physnomy of Shepheards PHysnomy of the which been spoken a fore is a science that shepheards have to know the naturall inclination of man and woman good or evill by divers signes on them in beholding them onely The which inclination we ought to follow if it be good but if it be evill by vertue strength of understanding wee ought to eschue and avoide it and to withstand the said evill inclinations Shepheards use this science none otherwise The prudent vertuous and wise man may bee of all other as touching their manners otherwise than their signs shew in their reign Thus the things demonstred as to vice is not in a wise man though the sign be so as an ale stake or a sign is sometime hanged before a house in the which oft times is no Ale Howbeit that a man by his wisedome and understanding follow not the evill influences of the celestiall bodies that be upon him and yet he corrupteth not the signs and demonstrations of the said influences but those signes naturally have seignory on them in which they bee for to have naturally that which they signifie whether a man have them or not wherefore shepheards say that the most part of men women follow their naturall inclinations to vice or vertue for that the most part of them be not wise prudent as they ought to be and they use no vertue of their own minds but ensue their sensuality and by this the celestiall influence of the which is shewed by signes exteriors and of such signs is the said science of Phisnomy For the which it behoveth first to know that the time is divided into four parts as it hath been before said that is to wit Prime time Summer Harvest and Winter that be compared to the four Elements Prime time to the ayr Summer to the fire Harvest to the earth Winter to the water Of the which four Elements every man and woman is formed and made and without the which none may live The fire is hot and dry The ayr is hot and moist The water is moist and cold The earth is cold and dry Also some say the person on whom the fire domineth is cholerick of complexion which is to say hot dry He on whom the ayr domineth is sanguine of complexion which is hot and moist He on whom the water domineth is Flegmatick of complexion which is moist and cold Hee on whom the earth domineth is melancholy of complexion which is cold and dry The which complexions they know and discern the one from the other by signs which are said here-after CHAP. XLI Of the four complexions The Cholerick hath Nature of fire hot and dry and naturally is lean and slender covetous irefull