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day_n	fair_a	rain_n	windy_a	6,820	5	13.5870	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68961	The divels legend. or: a learned cachephochysme containing the confession of the leaguers fayth : wherein doctour Pantaloun, and Zanie his pupill, doo teach that all hope ought to be grounded on the puissant King Phillip of Spaine, and vpon all the happie apostles of the holy league, and that they ought not to doo as the Brytans, English-men, and Protestants doo; which beleeue in God onely, harkening rather to the voyce of Iesus Christ, than vnto their holy Father the Pope. Composed in Rome by the reuerend Father Iuuenall Borget, and sent vnto the gentlemen of England by Charles Cyprian. Translated according to the French coppie.	Borget, Juvenall.	1595 (1595)	STC 3388; ESTC S109380	5,598	21

Leaguers Merydian The first error is in the twelue signes THE Leaguers haue brought into Fraunce so manye rauenous Woolues that the poore signe of Mutton is for euer banisht their Zodiack they haue instald so many Cod-peeces in their Cathedrals that the pure signe of the Virgine is as rare to be seene as thunder in winter or a million of black Swans in a fishpond and they haue made such a tole-free open passage vnto whole armies of disordered persons that are boundlesse in their villanie that the signe of Lybra or the equall poysing ballance is cassierd as vnprofitable amongst them but it is most true and too true that they haue eleuated in their Horrizon and instald in triumphant credit the great Taurus or bulbegger of Lorraine with a multitude of Caprycornians and Sagitarians which bend all their hornes and hooues against Burbon but I may prophesie vnto them that they haue not found Saint Sebastian which patiently indured the Darts which were shot into him The second error is in the Planets AGaine these Leagwers showe themselues more Dogs than Doctors that in stead of following the other Planets which acknowledge the Sunne as their common Prince or principall substance of their borrowed splendor yet will they that Mercury of Britaine and Venus his wife and all such wandring starres like themselues shall bend their borrowed bonfiers against the true sonne of Fraunce which notwithstanding of his owne beneuolence hath giuen them the little glimmering brightnesse which they haue and which is worse than the worste of all after that they hauing lost the true naturall heate of that glorious sunne they searche the coldenesse of the Satournian Spaniard both frostie in goodnesse dried by with couetousnesse and as melanchollyas ambition can make him The third error is in the Climates NOw these Rabins or seemeing though altogether vnsound Doctors pretending deepe insight into Milstone Astrologie seeking to set fire vpon the house of Burbon and stuffe her walles with strange vermin or monstrous creatures haue whispered in the Spaniards eares like the downe-falling of a water to a thundring Myll and with that secret prattle haue made him beleeue that Fraunce is colder than Spaine and more temperate for the diuels dwelling in such sort that the Spanish Marrans couetous of the purest ayre bring their intemperance into our clymate but they are mightily deceiued in the foolishnesse of their opinions for that often times and most commonly those which soiourne and dwell in their countrie of Spaine notwithstanding it is much whotter yet doe they liue longer than they which come into Fraunce Flaunders or England The fourth error is in the distinction of times THese monstrous lyers the Serpents Schollers make also the poore deceiued people of the League beleeue that the times or seasons are much differing one from the other and that in some they must vse purgations in others costicke medicines and in some neither of both as in the canicular or dogge dayes but if you will beleeue me gentle readers the fooles of Parris stand in no neede of purgations neither yet of the new dyet either by emptinesse to ease their bellyes or by sparenesse of repast to keepe their sheetes cleanly the Spaniards also for the most part and principally those which come into Fraunce feare hell ten times more than the Dogge dayes When they say that such a season shall be windie such a time raine and such a day faire pleasant weather all that serueth to nothing or to no purpose for the foole antidated before in mine Astrologie which behoulding the conuersion feare neither winde raine nor faire weather God be thanked for if they chaunce to be dabled a little with walking vp and downe the towne the day shall come I hope when they shall be duckt ouerhead and eares or els vtterly drowned The fifth error is in the Ecclypses THese logger-head learned Leaguers make certaine distinctions of the Moone ecclipsed and not ecclipsed but I that am not ignorant but know very well that the Moone hath no power to gaze vpon the Sunnes forehead nor to giue aime to his brightnesse holde this for a certaine actiome that she shall alwaies be ecclypsed and that euery one of them cannot be but ecclipsed in true duties or indeuours and walke in the darke like boyes at hood-man blinde which is the cause that diuers of them doe fall and if they scape breaking their necks yet they loose themselues altogether hopelesse for euer recouering one minute of day light or any iotte of succour at their great Messias the Duke of Parma The sixth error is in the marks or notes THey propose and carrie before them the golden number but yet in despight of all the promises of the huge King of Castile I am assured that in the end the poore Parysyans will finde it but a beggars reckoning it is very true that the women shall haue two dominicall letters so much the greater by how much the greater they are inamoured with the greatest Alphabet to wit great O. and great Q. And when you would know the yeare of the holy Barracados of Parris or rather if you will the day when the Guysards fighteth only with their balafte you shall need but to make your honest repaire to me your assured friend Harlequin who knowes not onely the moouing of the elements but the secret working of euery starre in the heauens The seauenth error is in the disposition and course of the yeare THese Leaguers make the yeares to be twelue moneths but the Parrysyans which haue watcht so many nights and stood so many howers Sentinels on the walks shall not be paide for sixe moneths they make sixe daies in the week alwaies banishing Sunday as an idle note in the Callender but for Friday and Saturday they are alwaies more villanouslie sharpeset and know farre worsse tyrants in the Spanish armie than in the Kings regiment they make the day foure and twentie howers in length but the poore hungrie Parrisians that haue neither dinde supt nor can get a breakefast sweare the clockes lye for it cannot be lesse then eight and fortie The eighth error is in the prediction of all that shall happen vnto the Leaguers from their conception vntill their descending into Hell THe godly and blessed Merdologians or rather Fortune-tellers make the Asse head abused Leaguers beleeue that they are borne vnder the signe of the Lion and so consequently through that influence they shall all prooue renowned warriours but I discent from their iudgements for I beleeue that they shall all rather be borne vnder the Crabbe or demi Creuisse learning to goe more backwarde than euer they wente forward and for their education they shall vndoubtedly be brought vpp vnder the signe of Aquarius because at their birthes Wine was banisht for inflaming the liuer and I holde it certaine in rules of their Natiuitie that there shall be many Gramarians and Musitians amongst them who shall decline so much and diminish so mightily that beggerie and scorne shall be all their companions and in the end they shall dye vnder the Spanish Scorpion if sodainly before their times they be not annointed with the iuyce of Hempseede to mend their falling euils The ninth error is in the humor that shall rule amongst them NOw to giue them audatious bouldnesse and to incourage them in their foolish and damned rash aduentures these Astrologians do promise them that the humor of Iupiter shall haue influence and rule in their natiuities but I euen I noble Harlequin by the aforesaid predictions speculations and coniectures do conclude that the melancholie humor shall be predominant and maister ouer them which shall make them so phantasticall and madde in their braines drunkennesse that diuers of them shall dreame in the night that they are already mounted vpon the deuils wings into the third heauen and when they awake they shall finde themselues accompanied with shame and discredite the very monsters of the world hauing no sore but the earths barrennesse others shall dreame of certaine prises of Come and Wine and forfeit the deare prises of their soule selling their bodies to hell eternall damnation others and of them shall be an infinite number shall dreame that they are Kings and princely Gouernours of Realmes and Principallities but when they awake they shall finde themselues the thrid-bare gouernours fathers and nourishers of fleas Lice and all manner of fleshly persecuters The tenth error is in the length of the Leaguers world DIuision is the mother of destruction and vnion the first bringer forth of conseruation or prosperitie whence it springs that the Astrologians belonging to the League conclude in their vnion a perpetuitie but I arguing both in forme and figure prooue the flat contrarie for say I they shall be so vnited in will that looke what the one would haue the other would be glad to cut his throate so he might attaine it and during the time of their disputation who shall first sit downe and take the chiefe place at the table I noble Harlequin a passing good Burbonian will like an Vniuersitie lurcher licke all the fatte from their trenchers FINIS Beleeue as yee list LONDON Printed for Thomas Gosson and are to be sold at his shop by London bridge gate 1595.