0 4 11 1 8 5 12 2 9 6 0 ☉ ☽ 4 11 1 8 5 12 2 9 6 0 3 10 7 0 ♀ ♄ 5 12 2 9 6 0 3 10 7 0 4 11 1 8 ☿ ♃ 6 0 3 10 7 0 4 11 1 8 5 12 2 9 ☽ ♂ 7 0 4 11 1 8 5 12 2 9 6 0 3 10 ♄ The vse of the Table Seeke the day proposed in the top of the Table and in one of the two rowes vnder the same day finde the planetary houre against which in the first row vpon the left hand is the character of the planet that gouerneth that houre of the day vnder the title of Day Re. signifying Regniments of the day planets and vpon the right hand is the planet that ruleth that houre of the night vnder Night Regniment as vpon Sunday Mercury ruleth the third houre of the day and Sol the same houre of the night CHAP. XXVI Of the natures and properties of the seuen Planets SOmething I would say that when you haue found what planet reigneth you might likewise know the nature and condition thereof but I must bee briefe for indéed heere is no place in this small volume to handle the same in such ample manner as it ought to be Saturne being well affected is graue with authority thinking of déepe matters disputing of grauity alouer of secret matters silent solitary laborious doing labour and toyle a gatherer of wealth couetous desirous of money and studious for his owne proper benefite a Zelotype bearing care of his body vncertaine in kéeping promise a louer of husbandry and being made infortunate and weake he is an abiect squalid excogitating of base things a pick thanke and complainer fearefull auoiding light louing solitarinesse sad enuious stubborne suspitious superstitious vntrimmed malignant deceiptfull yet fearing deceipt couetous austere slothfull dull and a lyar His nature is cold and dry and is charactred thus ♄ Iupiter being the onely signifier and well affected maketh men honest religious iust doers of good turnes magnanimous faithfull verecundious beneuolent manly famous gouernours of great diligence graue and modest giuen to follow their businesse wise carefull to liue louers of their owne and of their friends liverall and without fraud But being euilly affected is more prodigall and proud His nature is hot moist thus figured ♃ Mars well affected is generous fit for gouernment and rule valiant strong angry giuen to battell and warre with vehemence apt without fraud fearing no danger desiring reuenge impatiént of seruitude and iniuries vaunting not respectiue of riches and being euilly affected is cruell vniust a brawler a tyrant a murtherer dreadfull rash vnfearefull proud drunke turbulent a blond-shedder fierce in prouoking quarrels and fearefull to performe the author of discords arrogancy and seditious He is hot and dry thus charactred ♂ Sol is the most noble Planet hee is magnanimous industrious prouident ambitious signifying Kings Princes Potentates labourers of gold he is valiant secret honest quiet giueth long life and a healthfull body a sincere and very good minde princely dignities and riches and aboue the rest he maketh men curteous famous wise rulers louers desirous of honours His Nature is hot and dry cholericke and is thus charactred ☉ Venus fortunatly affected maketh one faire-spoken good a louer of swéet things pleasant merry faire delicate in gesture elegant a doer of good-turnes pittifull giuen to please and apt to pleasures giuen to singing and dauncing impatient of labour gallant and yéelding loue to such sociable yet seruing God religiously But being euilly affected she is effeminate fearefull a louer of maids spending much vpon them without respect of fame or infamy idle sluggish apt to lust a Zelotype or giuen to iealousie Her nature is cold and moist flegmaticke thus charactred ♀ Mercury well scituate and fortunate affected causeth a sharpe wit maketh one studious capable of learning easie to be taught wise subtill wary and héedfull accomplishing all things with great dexterity obtaining a great part of Poëtry Geometry and the Mathematickes without tutor desiring many differences and disputing elegantly of many matters of good manners wittily applying himselfe to time and place an imitator of the good But being infortunate and badly scituate hee is maleuolent malicious subtile crafty forsworne lying especially his essentiall dignities being of the bad and he néere the Dragons taile for then he is most ill The Moone maketh one thoughtfull vnstable vagabonds fearefull faint-hearted prodigall she signifieth messengers shipmen Quéenes Ladies also common people fishers and such that deale about waters also such that are in continuall motion as Lackies c. Also Widowes mothers c. she maketh one delighting to study histories to walke from place to place to Nauigate plant c. CHAP. XXVII A briefe discourse of the naturall causes of watery Meteors as snow haile raine c. YOu must first vnderstand that all watery meteors as raine snow or such like is but a moist vapour drawne vp by the vertue of the Sun and the rest of the Planets into the middle region of the aire where being congealed or dissolued falleth vpon the earth as haile or raine Of the Raine-bow Pliny saith the Rain-bow is made by the Sun-beames striking vpon a hollow cloud when their edge is repelled and beaten backe against the Sun and thus ariseth variety of colours by the mixture of cloudes aire and fiery light together But as he saith it pretendeth neither faire nor fowle wether Of Raine Of these kinde of meteors you may read Arist libro primo Meteorologicorum cap. 1. 2. But briefly Raine is a cold vapour and earthly humour raised from the earth and waters into the middle region of the aire where by the extremity of cold it is thickned into the body of a cloud and after being dissolued falleth vpon the earth Of Haile Haile is ingendred of Raine congealed into Ice fréezing the drops presently after the dissoluing of the cloud whereby wee haue great irregular stones fall on the earth I haue séene them in that fashion 1610 containe 4 inches about for the higher it commeth and the longer it tarieth in the aire the rounder it is and the lesser Of Snow Snow is of the same humour that Haile is but not growne together so hard Pliny saith Haile sooner melts then Snow and that Haile commeth oftner in the day then in the night Of Frost and Dew When in the day time through the faint heate of the Sun there is a cold and moist vapour drawne vp a little from the earth presently at night it descendeth againe vpon the the earth and is called Dew and in the Spring or Haruest it is a signe of faire weather but if by meanes of cold it be congealed it is called Frost therefore Dewes come not so often in hote seasons neither when winds be vp but after a calme and cleare night frosts dry vp wet and moisture For when as Pliny saith the Ice is melted the like quantity of water in
if it thunder there will bee great windes and death that yeare The Abstract Cut timber ridde fruit trees of superfluous branches vncouer their rootes drench weake and sicke cattell Kyne with veriuce horses with water and ground malt fodden witha little bran dig gardines lib and geld for rearing February THe third day Regulus riseth Chronicall the fourth he setteth Cosmicall of whom Ptol. saith the cleare starre in the heart of the Lyon beginning to set the North winde bloweth with often raine Carda saith it raiseth the South-west windes The 9 the taile of the Dolphin doth set vespertine which Ptol. saith bringeth windes and snow and the more raine the winds being south Some say thunder vpon Shroue-tuesday foretelleth winde and store of fruit and plenty the Sun-beames being early abroad others affirme that so much he shineth that day and the like hoe shineth euery day in Lent The Abstract Set cut and lay quicke-sets and roses sow beanes pease and oates especially the land being cold and stiffe furnish your gardens with sallads for Sommer March THe 6 day Vindemiator riseth vespertine bringing North winds with frost the 8 riseth the Rammes-horne snow or raine the 10 Arcturus riseth Chronicall causing tempests Carda saith at the vespertine rising of this starre Swallows be séene and the Spring commeth Stadius cap. 7. at the vespertine setting of Arcturus swallows depart by multitudes and at his vespertine rising come againe and this rising bringeth South-west winds and by-west blowing commonly 12 daies with raine or haile ending in the west Herewith agréeth Ptol. Plin. Stadius Collumell and others especially being furthered with the radiation of the Moone or Mars The 11 or 12 day Sol entreth Aries the West windes blow Storkes come with Ptol. in Aegypt they came the 17 of May. The 21 Spica Virginis setteth Cosmicall cloudy Some say so many mistes in March so many hoare frosts after Easter The Abstract Now regarding winde and weather graft also couer the rootes of your trees opened in December or Ianuary with ranke earth sow pease beans oates parsneps onions artichockes cowcumbers sage mellons manure barly land but in cold clay ground sow at the end of the moneth Aprill THe 17 of Aprill Augustus terminus Pleiadum one of the seauen starres riseth Cosmicall the other following a little after causing Westwindes the 22 the South part of Lucida Lancis setteth Cosmicall often proue king showers of raine Some say if it raine vpon Ascension day which sometimes falleth in Aprill it doth betoken scarrity of all kinde of foode for cattell but being faire it signifieth plenty The Abstract Yet it is good to sow Barley chiefly in strong land some kinde of garden-seeds sow now also as Mellons Citrions Cowcumbers Artichockes sow likewise Hempe Flax setting some garden-herbes towards the end of the Moneth Now the time beginneth to barke trees and to yeeld to good Day-men natures aboundance May. THe fourth of May Sirius or Canis maior setteth vespertine tempest from the South and North-east and by-north and as Stadius saith if the full Moone happen within two daies before or after it prognosticates blasting to corne and other flowers The 6 and 7 Hyades begin to set the South blowing with raine So Ptol. speaketh of the setting of the 7 starres The 9 Pleiades set Chronicall causing◠South winds which with Ptol. at last turne into the West The 11 the Buls Eye setteth the 18 Procyon setteth Heliacall making wine rage in Cellers with Stadius The 23 the Eagle riseth Chronicall which happening at the new or full Moone all fruits bee hurt with wormes and Caterpillers with Carda The 24 the 7 starres rise Cosmicall the 27 the Buls Eye riseth Cosmicall both which fore-shew raine and hurt to vines Some say the Sunne shining vpon the 25 day wines shall prosper well also in the end of May Okes begin to beare blossomes which happening fore-shewes much tallow and fruit The Abstract In the beginning you may sow Barley set and sow tender hearbes seeds as sweet-Marierome Sommer-sauory Basill c. Set Stilles to worke vsing May deaw therein stirring land for Wheate and Rye Iune THe 6 day the lesser Dogge setteth vespertine which happening at the full Moone hurts all fruits Stadius saith if it happen at full Moone it bringeth mischiefe to swéet flowers and vines by reason of his burning heate The 12 Sol enters Cancer Vine and Oliues flourish the 16 Arcturus setteth Cosmicall making the aire intemperate the 21 the left side of Orion riseth Cosmicall raising the West windes If it raine the 24 day Hazell-nuts do not prosper The Abstract Set Gilloflowers and Rosemary sow Lettuce 3 or 4 dayes after the full which is also good from February to the end of September sheare sheep fetch home fewell and towards the end of the moneth begin to mow July THe 2 day riseth Orions Girdle and is a Criticall day for if it raine this day it doth continue so often for 4. wéeks Stadius saith if Iupiter be aspected with Mars Mercury or the Sunne at this rising great tempest is portended at the rising of the great Dogge and foresheweth Northeast windes and by-North corruption of the aire with the rising of the Etesian windes The 13 Lucida Coronae setteth Chronicall the 23 the North part of Asellus setteth vespertine at which time with Ptol. the North-east and by-East winds blow as fore-runners of the Etesian winds Carda these winds as fore-runners of the rising of the Dogge blow 8 dayes before with which Stadius agréeth Some say if it be faire 3 Sondayes before S. Iames day corne wil be good but wet corne withereth The Abstract At the full Moone gather flowers and seedes and let your flowers rather dry in the shade then the Sunne for the Sunne draweth away their vertue but to auoid corruption before you take them away let the Sunnes heate be vpon them a while Take heed of suddaine colds for nothing sooner breedeth the plague and therefore to drinke being hot is naught It were vaine to tell good husbands that it is now fit for them to be in medowes and else where to prouide for Winter Therefore I will commend this rime to sluggards and idle persons Labour in Sommer take paines with the Ant Else in the Winter liue cold and in want August THe first of August the great Dogge riseth Cosmicall Carda saith at the rising of this starre all liuing creatures bee troubled and that it is scarce possible that drynesse and sicknesse should not be Stadius recounts many more enormities as troubling of wine in Cellars Dogges going mad fluxes of the Seas waters death of fishes with the extremity of heate especially if Mars or Iupiter be in fiery signes Diaphanes saith if at the rising of the great Dogge with the Sunne the Moone be in Aries it doth presignificate raine and tempest in Taurus stormes in Gemini pestilence in Cancer drynesse in Leo burning heat in Virgo showers often with vntimely birth of children in
Libra great drynesse in Scorpio plagues in Sagittarius or Capricorne raine and tempest in Aquarius drought and sicknesse in Pisces raine the insuing yeare But these Stadius saith be not knowne to him for truths for he holds them more substantiall that bee taken Exvarijs commixtionum causis The 3 day the Eagle setteth Cosmicall the South-west and by-west windes blowing with great heate Carda saith it raiseth the Etesian windes which with Ptol. do continue 21 daies the 8 Regulus riseth Cosmicall raising North-east by-north winds the 13 day the great Dogge riseth Heliacall which limits the beginning of the Grecian yeare and of this rising be diuers obseruations if then the heauen bee cloudy and darke it signifieth a heauy time with plagues c. but being faire and cleare it is good Also the 13 of August the Dolphine setteth Cosmicall bringing raine and beginning Autumne according to Ptol. The 24 is S. Bartholomewes day if the winde change not the following night the vulgar hold it good Stadius recounts tempests with haile c. to come from the West and North-west part in the end of August which often doe hurt The Abstract Reape Wheate and Rye sow Winter hearbes in the new Moone stirre land for Wheate and Rye and about the end of the Moneth downe with Oates or before according to the goodnesse of your soile Looke more in Iuly September THe first day of this moneth is Criticall if it do not raine then the rest of Autumne is like to bee dry the 12 day Arcturus riseth Cosmicall raine and with Ptol. after two dayes Swallowes leaue to be séene The 13 day is Equinoctiall windes from West North-west the 17 Lucida Coronae riseth Cosmicall Ptol. windes turne troubling the seas with winterly weather So many dayes old the Moone is on Michaelmas day so many flouds will happen that Winter The Abstract Cut downe your Lent-tilling gather the fruits of your trees conuerting them to vse as Crabbes for Veriuice c. About the middest of the Moneth sow wheat and Rye in cold and strong land sow winter parsneps and Carrots get hyues c. October THe 15 day the Dragons Taile setteth vespertine after this day wee must expect no more warmenesse and therefore the Germanes call it den Galen Sommer The 21 the East windes blow the 26 the left foot of Orion setteth with the 12 degree of Scorpio causing often great raine if leaues now hang vpon the trées some say it portends a cold winter or many Caterpillers The Abstract Sow Wheat and Rye the sooner the better for feare of raine The new Moone maketh a fit time to set and remoue yong trees as the Plum Peare Apple and Bay-tree to set Nuts Akornes c. after the full moone gather your winter fruits Nouember THe 4 or 5 day the Scorpions heart setteth vespertine which with Astrologers is a Critical day The 5 day the Dogge setteth bringing southernly wether the like iudge of Orion which setteth about this time The 8 day Succulae or Hyades sets Cosmicall frost or raine the 10 the Pleiades set Cosmicall if then the heauens bee cloudy it denunciates a wet winter if day a sharpe winter Pliny saith Succularum Pleiadarum occasum terrâ marique turbidum esse The 24 Arcturus setteth Heliacall causing often raine with Cardanus The Abstract The time is apt to make Malt to kill Bacons to cut Ashes to sow if you were too late the last moneth to set Crabbe-tree stockes to remoue Trees as in the last moneth in the increasing of the Moone but in the wane set beanes pease c. Also now vncouer the rootes of your Apple trees and so let them rest till March. December THe 6 of December is Dies Nicholai of which Cardanus thus saith Proximi septem Dies à . Bruma totidemque ante raro ventis infestantur they be called Halcyon dayes Stadius saith about the Brumall Solstitiall there doth happen Halcyon or most Tranquill weather the 26 day the faire starre Arcturus setteth vespertine and then with Carda the South winds blow Some say if Christmas day come in the new Moone it is a token of a good yeare and so much the better by how much it is neerer the new Moone the contrary happeneth in the decrease The Abstract The time is good to fall timber to vncouer the roots of Apple-trees to fallow land for Barley to set beanes pease c. the wether being not too hard and now Fowlers be busie with Lime-twigges and other engines to take Fowles Let a warme fire be thy bathe the Kitchin thy Apothecaries shop and good hoat meate thy dyet to which according to thy ability inuite thy neighbour Therefore to conclude If thou be poore and canst not feast at all Go feast with such as shall to feasting call CHAP. XXXI Predictions of euery day more particularly TO giue you iudgement of the temperature of euery particular day there must be great care had and many things obserued as the quality of the signe the Lord of the lunation the quality of the Absids and of the Planets for there is no great change of wether vnlesse Saturne Iupiter or Mars be aspected also the méeting of the planets mingling of their vertue with the Fixed Starres whose nature and magnitude are duely to bée obserued the want or not obseruing of these and many other which appertaine to preiudications cause our ordinary and common Prognosticators so grosly to erre as I noted in my Almanacke 1608 for as I said there so must I héere also Qui non potest in singulos dies de pruina niue grandine c. Distincte praedicere huic praedicenti abundantiam aut penuriam frugum nequaquam fides adhibenda est Ouer and beside what is said the aspects of the Planets amongst themselues are most heedfully to be regarded euen as in the ensuing Table set in Latine for the more breuity Enter this Table with the ♂ ☠or 〈◊〉 of the Planets noting the weather in the common Angle  ☽ ☿ ♀ ☉ ♂ ♃  ♄ Turb Hum. Hum. rem cal Neb. pruma Nub. Nix Venti pluu vēti et imber venti Nub. vent Niuosa Pluu frig Pluu subita Pluu frig Plu. aut Nix Pluu frig Grand toni Plu. frig nix vel Neb. Plu. vel tō Ton. gran Plu vel tur Remis fri. Tur. vel hu grand ton vēt vel plu Turbi V Ae A Hy ♃ AEris Temperam Ventos Magnos Temperam Ventos toni fulm ventos Rmiss frig Turb vent Toni tem Turb uent Remis fri Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ♂ Minuit frigiditatem humid in sig cali ful in aestate Ventos ali quando nubi feros in aesta Toni Pluuiam Imbrem pluuiam Remiss frig Venti Sicc Tonit fulm Venti Sicc Remiss frig Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ☉ Alterat aerem pro natura temporis Ventos aliquando cum humid plu presertim vento fig. Pluuiam Toni imbrem pluuiam humiditatem Veris AEstatis Autumm Hyemia ♀
proportion is not found Of Winde Winde is nothing but many exhalations drawn from the earth inforced laterally aboue the sun Of Sodaine Blasts A windy exhalation being throwne downe and encompassed as Pliny saith in a thin course of cloudes newly ouer-cast comming at some time with such a violence as it bursts cleaues a drye cloud in sunder makes a storme of the Greekes called Ecnephias but when this cleft is not great but that the windes vs forced to turne round role in this discent without lighting there is made a whirle-puffe or ghust called Typhon which is to say the storme Ecnephias sent forth winding violence this winde doth beare many things away with it changing from place to place but if the hole in the cloud were great it is called Turbo casting downe and ouerthrowing all that is next it Pliny saith no Ecnephias commeth with snow nor no Typhon from the South some say vinegar throwne into this wind breakes the gust Of Earth-quakes Plenty of windes gotten into the bowels holes corners of the earth bursting out of the earth the earth closing againe causeth the shaking or earth-quake and is a token of insuing warre Signes of Earth-quakes When waters in well or pits be troubled and haue a bad sauour the long absence of the windes strange noises the obscurity or darknesse of the Sunne with clouds and strangly coloured c. Of Thunder and Lightnings When an exhalation hote and dry mixt with moisture is carried vp into the middle region and there inclosed in the body of a cloud Now these two contraries being thus shut or pent vp in one roome together they fall at variance whereby the water and fire agree not vntill they haue broken the prison wherein they were pent so that fire and water flye out of the cloud the breaking whereof maketh a noise like the renting of cloath which we call thunder and the fire lightning the thunder being made first but the lightning first séene in respect the sight is before the hearing and of lightnings there be many sorts That which is dry burneth not at all dissipating and dispersing that which is moist burneth not likewise but blasts and altereth the colour but that which is cleare is of a strange operation it draweth vessels dry without hurt to the vessell it melteth mettall in bagges or purses and hurteth not the bagge or purse nor the waxe that sealed the bagge hurt it breaketh the bones and hurteth not the flesh and killeth the childe in the wombe not hurting the mother Pliny saith Scythia by reason of cold and AEgypt by reason of heate haue seldome lightning What things be not hurt with lightning It hurteth not the Lawrel tree it entreth not past 5 foot into the earth such that are shadowed with the skinnes of Seales or Sea-calues are fréed the Eagle is frée c. Many other wondrous strange kind of Meteors bee there in the heauens often times séene as Comets burning Dragons c. but this volume will not containe an ample discourse thereof CHAP. XXVIII Diuerse signes to prognosticate what weather is towards TO begin first with the Sunne the best prognosticator of all other if he rise cleare not fiery red if he chase the clouds before him into the West if at Sunne-rising there be a circle about the Sunne and it vanish equally away if he be red at setting all these argue faire wether to insue But if he be fiery red at his rising if he shew pale and wan if at rising hée séeme hollow if red and blacke cloudes be about him at his rising or if his raies be red both at a rising and setting if his beames at a morning or euening be contracted or short if it raine at Sunne-setting or his raies looke darke or blew or gather if at his rising his beames séeme not bright and cleare if before his rising the cloudes gather like globes mouing not into the west if a circle of cloudes appeare incompassing the Sunne leauing not all his light if his circle about the Sun be broke if at his rising hee cast his beames a farre off amongst the cloudes if he spread his beames before he be vp if at his setting he be ouercast with a thicke misse all these signifie wet and often tempestious wether Also looke if the circle called Halo be blacke for if signifieth raine and if it breake winds from that part as the fraction in the circle respecteth Presages by the Moone According to the Aegyptians if on the Prime day the Moone be faire and bright it will be faire if red windes if dimme and blackish fowle wether according to the verse Pallidaluna pluit rubicunda slat alba serenat Marke the typs of her hornes when she is fiue dayes old with Pl. But best when she is primed if they be blunt raine if pricking vpward and sharpa-pointed windes Pliny saith these things fall truest vpon the fourth day If her vpper horne which bends northwards bee onely sharpe and pricked winds from that coast but if the nether horne be so windes from the South if the fourth day after her change she haue a red circle or Halo about her windes and raine Varro saith when the Moone is 4 dayes old if shée put her hornes direct and straight forth it is tempest at sea vnlesse there bee a cleare circle about her If the one halfe of the full Moone séeme pure faire wether if red windes if blackish raine mistes and cloudes about the Moone haue like effect as Halo the more the worse whilest the new Moone is Croissant and rising with the vpper tip of her horne blackish telleth of wet after the full but then other tip being so raine before the full and if as Varro saith this blackishnesse appeare in the middest of the Moone raine at the full a circle about the full Moone declareth windes from that part that the circle is most splendant if her hornes at her rising shew more grosse thicke then ordinary looke for raine plentiously and that before long if she appeare not before the Prime the West winde blowing withall cold winter-like wether all that Moone Lastly with Pliny there bee 8 points in euery Moone and so many dayes according as shee falleth vpon the angles of the Sunne which many onely obserue and take their presages of future wetherby to wit the 3.7.11.15.19.21.27 and the very day of coniunction Presages by the Starres Next vnto the Moone we may place the Starres if the Starres séeme to shoote windes from that quarter the Starre came from the wetter the Spring and Sommer the dryer the Autumne Autumne faire and dry bringeth a windy Winter a circle about any of the other Planets great showers if the cloud in Cancer called Praesepe or the manger standing betwixt Aselli or the little Asses appeare not though otherwise the aire bée cleare fowle winterlike wether if the Northerne of these starres bee hid great windes from the South but the other being
hid North-east windes Of the Raine-bow If two Raine-bowes appeare raine a Raine-bow presently after raine faire wether Presages from Thunder and Lightning If in sommer there be more thunder then lightning windes from the coast it thundred but if the lightning excéed raine lightning without thunder betokens raine and thunder if it lighten only from the North-west raine the ensuing day if from the North windes thence if from the South-North-west or full west if lighten especially in the night winde raine from those coasts morning thunder windes but mid-day thunder raine Presages by the Cloudes If the racke ride apace in the aire windes from that coast they come the worse if it come from the North or South if at Sunne-set the racks ride on both sides fromwards him tempest blacke cloudes flying out of the East rains at night but from the west raine the next day if the cloudes bee disparkled many together of the East flying like fléeces of wooll raine for 3 daies after when cloudes flye low séeming to settle vpon the tops of hils cold wether insueth but the mountaine tops being faire and cleare the wether will take vp if the cloudes séeme full charged and yet looke white withall which constitution of the aire is called by some Towers by others white wether haile is at hand If mistes come downe from the hils or descend from the Heauens and settle in the Valleyes it promiseth faire hot wether mists in the euening shew a hot day on the morrow The like when white mistes rise from waters in the Euening Prognostications by fires From the heauens we will procéed to our common fires The fire burning pale or kéeping a huzzing noyse stormy wether if the flame of fire or candle mount winding and wauing as it were winds the like if the fire or candle goe out of it selfe or kindle and take fire with much adoe Further when you discerne many sparkles gather together in the fire knitting one to another the coales hanging to the bottome or side of the pot newly taken off the fire the fire raked in the imbers kéepeth a spitting and sparkling from it if the ashes vpon the earth grow together or when the liue coale shineth brighter or burneth more then ordinary all these be tokens of raine Prognostications by water If the sea within the hauen after the departing of the flood in a low ebbe water be calme yet kéep a noyse rumbling within winde if it do thus by fits cold wether and raine if in a calme season the sea strond or water-bankes resound or make a noise great tempest the like of the sea it selfe the puffins swimming aboue water tell of cold wether for many daies the sea being calme heauing and puffing vp sheweth there is great store of winds within her which will shortly breaks out to a tempest Prognostications from Fishes and Fowles The Dolphin disporting vpon the waues foreshewes winds if they fling and dash the water this and that way and the sea be rough faire wether the Cuttle or little Calamaria Loligo launcing and flying about the water the Cockles or Winckles sticking hard to the grauell the Seavrchings thrusting themselues into the mudde or couered with sand the croking extraordinary of Frogges the low flying of Swallowes the chirping of Sparrowes the crying of Peacockes and Hearnes the bathing of Crowes the stinging of of Flyes and Gnats the early straggling of Sea-mewes the proking of their fethers by the Guls Malards Duckes all foreshew winde or raine Contrary the Water-fowle gather together and combate or Cranes make haste to flye into the middest of the land or Cormorants and Guls forsaking the waters or Cranes soring quietly aloft or Crowes or Rauens gaying against the Sunne are all tokens of faire wether But if the Howlat cry Chi-uit raine Rauens crying one to another as if they sobbed and vexed clapping themselues with their wings windes but doing it by interualles of time wet and winde the late returning home of Iacke-dawes hard wether also that working of the spinner the busie heauing of Moles the appearing of wormes Hennes resorting to the roost couered with dust the Ante busied with her Egges the Bées in faire wether not wandring farre abroad Bels heard further then ordinary the wallowing of dogges the alteration of the crowing of the Cocke befoken all fowle wether Prognostications of foure-footed Beasts The leaping and playing of shéepe such small cattell shew alteration of wether the crying of Swine Oxen beasts licking themselues against the haire or holding vp their nose and smelling into to the aire swine shaking hay or such like stuffe beasts eating gréedily or licking their hooues or sodainly moue here and there all signifie raine or fowle wether Prognostications from woods stones c. The hearbe Trefoile looketh rough against a tempest and the leaues thereof will stand staring vp as if it were afraid thereof Also if dishes stones or such like sweate or be wet if wainescot doores that ioyne well be stubborne to open if salt dissolue in the salt-saller or any solid body sweate looke for great raine the like is séene by the pissing of Dogges If there bee a rumbling noise or sounding in the mountaines and forrests or if the leaues of trées flicker and play themselues no winde stirring which foretell some change of wether the like prediction is gathered by the light downe of Poplares or Thistles flying to and fro in the aire looke what is said of the noise in forrests vnderstand the same here in vallyes and in the aire I cannot stand to runne into an ample discourse of this subiect lest I driue the quantity of my volume beyond my intent but they shall be amply handled in a Booke I haue to come forth called Cosmologia Meteorologia CHAP. XXIX Of the foure quarters of the yeare and first of Winter VVINTER the first quarter Astronomical taketh his beginning when the Sunne entreth into Capricorne during vntill he haue gone to the latter part of Pisces it is the coldest time of the yeare and the colder and dryer the wholsomer yet ouer much cold killeth trees in a warme region especially such that bee tender A warme and moist Winter is vnwholsome and an enemy to husbandmen but reasonable store of snow doth ranken the fields and preserue corne The diseases of this quarter bee pushes in the face leprosie tooth-ach red-spots feuers the scab fluxes of bloud by the inferiour parts paines of the eyes palsies gouts and such like Of the Spring THe Spring is the most comfortablest quarter in all the yeare and is of nature warme and moist for then the Sunne draweth neere to the Zenith comming towards the starres of a warme nature and then that East-winds blow dispearcing the superfluous humors making the earth apt to bring forth all things for the good and comfort of man This quarter beginneth when the Sunne entreth into Aries at what time the dayes and nights be equal and continueth vntill the 12 of Iune
at Rats dale Rye-hill Lenham Kirbie Stephen Cribbie Salisbury Chichester Exceter Darington Bradforde Ryegate Bromyard Linton Burton in Landsdale Shalforth Whitchurch Cockermouth Applebée Harstgréene Oundle Sleford Saint Iues Agmunsham Enesham Amerson and at Sittingborue On Whitsun-Tuesday at Melton-mowbray Canterbury Rochford Lewis Midhurst Epping Perith Long milford Faringdon Daintrée Laightonbussard High Knots-ford Aihbie Delazouth Longuer Elsmere Munmouth Llanymthiuery On Wednesday at Leek Roystone Newarke vpon Trent Sandbar Llanbedder Pont-stephen and Llandebie Whitsun-thursday at Kingstone and Cake-field on Friday at Darby Cocksall and at Stow in the Parish of Gwullyn On Trinity-eue at Rowell On Trinity Munday at Kendall Tunbridge watford Spilsbie Criswell Raily and Vies On Tuesday after Trinity at Abergauennie and Radnor On Wednesday at Aberfrow On Corpus Christi day at Brimmidgham Kiddermuster Prescot Saint Needes Bishops-stratford Banburie Launimerchimeth Newport in Munmouthshire Neath Eaglesrewe Llangrist Caerwid and Haligh On Friday at Couentrie Chepstow in Munmouthshire Munday after Corpus Christi day at Belton ¶ Faires in Iune THe third day at Ailesbury the ninth at Maidstone the tenth at Maxfield Wellington Newborough Okingham Hoit Llanwist Newcastle in Emlin and Kinwillgaio the 13. at Newtowne in Kâ—dewen the 14. at Bangork the 15. at Pershore seuen miles from worcester the 16. at Newport in Keames and Bealth the 17. at Nigham-ferries Stow-gréene Hadstorke and Llanuillinge the 19. at Bridgenorth the 21. at Ystradmeyricke the 22. at Shrewesbury and Saint Albons the 23. at Barnet castle Ebichen and Dolgellie the 24. at Westchester Colchester Wakefield Horsham Wenlocke Croyden Bedford Bromsgroue Barnewell Glocester Lincolne Peterborow Windsor Halifax Lancaster Ashburne Bishops-castle Tunbridge Leicester boughton-greene Kerkehame in Aundernesse Hartford Kingstone Reading Ludlow Romford Pemsey Shaftsbury Brecknocke and Preston the 26. at Northop the 27. at Burton vpon trent Falkestone Llandogaine the 28. at Royston Hescorne Saint Pombes Machenlleth the 29. at Woluerhampton Stafford Wem Woodhurst Marleborow Mount-Sorrell Lower-Knots-ford Southam Boulton by ballon Peterborow Yorke Onay Buntingford Vpton in Worcester-shire Whitnay Lemster Westminster Buckingham Bromley Senocke Llambeder Pont-stephen Cardiffe Llamergaine and Bala the 30. at Maxfield ¶ Faires in Iuly THe second day at Congerton Wooburne Huntington Ashton vnderline Smeth and Swansey the third at Hauerson the fifth at Burton vpon Trent the sixth at Llanidlae and Llanibither the seuenth at Canterbury Albrighton Vppingham Chippingnorton Vizes Burntwood Chappel-Frith Richmond Tenbury Hauerford-west Treshenimycha Emlin Castlemaine Denbigh Munday after Relique-Sunday at Fodringay and Hauerhull the 11. at Partney and Lide the 13. at Llaurhaidarmachnant the 15. at Pinchbacke and Gréene-steed the 17. at Leeke Winchcombe Saint Kenelmes Llauvilling the 20. at Betley Vxbridge Awferton Bowline Cateshy Boulton in the Moores S. Margarets by Dartford Odiham Barkway Ickleton Tenbie Neath and Llanymthiuery at Woodstocke the 22. at Stonystratford Bridgnorth Battlefield Bicklesworth Baynards castle Broughton Clitherall Keswicke Norwich Kingstone Marleborough Tetbury Winchester Colchester Mauolin-hill Newarke vpon Trent Roking Kidwallie Withgrigge and Ponterley the 23 at Chestone and Karnaruon the 25. at Saint Iames by London Saint Iames by Northampton Bristow Darby Dudley Chichester Stone Shifnall Stamford Louthe Liuerpoole Thrapstone Barcomstead Buntingford Doncaster Baldocke walden Tilbury Ipswich Rauenglasse Crith Brumley Ashwell Hatfield Broadocke Reading Douer Chilholme Malmsbury Aldergame Broomesgroue Camden Wigmor Chickham Trobridge Rosse Machembleth Landengeiram chappell-Iago and Stackpoole the 26. at Bewdley Tiptrie and Raiadargwy the 27. at chappel-Frith Richmond in the North Warrington Horsham Canterbury Malpasse and Ashford ¶ Faires in August THe first day at Shrewesbury Longhborough Yorke Newcastle vpon Tine Selbie Newton Dunstable Bedford Saint Edes Yelland Northam-church Sledburne Exceter Thackesteed Rumnay-maling Feuers ham Wisbich Bathe Horseney Karmarthen Kaergwily Hay Llantrissent Chepstow Llaurwest and Flint the fourth at Linton and Radnor the ninth at Aberlew the tenth at Melton-mowbray Chorley Rugbie Chidlee Oundle Seddyll Weydon Frodsham Banbury Alchurch walton Ludlow Waltham Farneham Warmester Toucelier Croyley Kilgarron Haleigh Saint Laurence by Bodwin Diffringoliwich Newborough Kenwalgaio Harley and Marras the 15. at Elesmere Tutbury Hinkley Saint Albons Belton Huntington Gisâ—orough Cambridge Goodhurst Kaerlile Preston Wakefield Marleborough Whitland Cardigan Rosse Swansey Eglwysvait Yminith Newin and Newport in Munmouth shire the 16 at Rayaydargwy the 4. at London Kiddermuster Nauntwich Pagets-bromley Croylie Northalerton Tuddington Faringdon Tewkesbury Sudbury Norwich Douer Oxford Chorley Beggars-bush Bromley Aberconwey Munmouth and Mountgomety the 28. at Sturbridge in worcestershire Ashford Talisarnegréene and welshpoole the 29. at Corby Kaermarthen Brecknocke and Kaerwis Sunday after Saint Bartholomew at Sandbich ¶ Faires in September THe first day at chappel-Siluy Saint Giles in the bush and Neath the fourth at Okkam the seuenth at ware woodbury-Hill at Scurbridge wakefield waltham on the woulds Brewood Drayton Northampton Atherstone Vâ—cecester Gleyborne worseworth Chalton Partney Bury Huntington wolfe pit Chattom Smeathe Reculuer Malden Snide Rockingham Hartford Drifield Llandissell Kardigan whitland Cardiffe Tenby and Bewmarris the 13. at Pwlhely and Newtowne in Kedwin the 14. at Newport Chesterfield Richmond Rippon Stratford vpon Auon Vâ—rscley Hetsbury Smalding waltham-Abby Penhade wootton Denbigh Newborough Rosse Muncton and Abergauennie the 15. at Raiadargwy the 17. at Cliffe and Llamdlasse the 20. at Llanuellie and Ruthin the 21. at Stafford Shrewsbury Nottingham Peterborough Kingstone Maidenâ— brackley Daintree Bedford Baldocke S. Edmundsbury woodstocke Lenham Douer Katherine-hill by Gilford Croydon Vizes Marleborough Braintree Houlden wendouer Canterbury Abergwilly and Knighton the 23. at Pancridge in Staffordshire an horse-Horse-Faire 6. or 7. dayes the 24. at Llanuillingh the 28. at Dolgeth and Kaermarthen the 29. at westchester Leicester Lancaster Ashburne Saint Albones Saint Iues Vxbridge Higham-ferries Selby Killingworth Ludlow Kingsland Blackburne Tuddington Basingstocke woodham-Ferry Corkermouth Maulton way-Hill Buckland Bishops-stratford Sheford Hull Merthyr Llanvihangell Aberconwy Llocher Machenleth Llanidlasse wennir 7. daies and at Hay ¶ Faires in October THe Munday after Saint Michaell at Faseley the third at Boulton in the moores the fourth at Saint Michaell the sixth at Saint Faithes besides Norwich Hauent and Maidstone the 8. at Chichester Hereford and Bishopsstratford Swansey Llambeder Pont-stephen Harborough Gainsborough Blithe Ashburne Sabridgeworth Hodnet and Deuizes the 12. at Boulton in Furnace and Llangoueth the 13. at Tamworth Drayton Grauesend windsor Hitchin Royston Marshfield Colchester Stapforth Staunton Charing Aberfrow Newport in Munmouthshire Leighton-bussard and Edmundstow the 18. at Bridgenorth Burton vpon Trent wellingborough Tisdale wigan Barnet Banbury Middle-wich Ely Bishops-hatfield Brickhill Newcastle Faringdon Henley in Arden Marlow VphaueÌ„ Tunbridge Ashwell Yorke wrickley Holee Charleton Lawhadden Kidwelly Iske and Radnor the 19 at Saint Frideswides by Oxford the 21. at Couentrie Newarke Ciceâ—or Stokesley Lentham Saffronwalden Hereford and Lanibither the 28. at VVhitchurch Lemster VVarwicke lower Knots-ford Abby de la Zouch Prestone in Aundernes Hertford Oxford Biodenden VVarmester Llanedy VVision and Aberconwey the 29. at Talisarnegreene the 31. at Ruthen VVakefield