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A09431 Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P. Perkins, William, 1558-1602. 1585 (1585) STC 19721.7; ESTC S113859 31,826 108

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FOVRE GREAT LYERS Striuing who shall win the siluer WHETSTONE ¶ ALSO A RESOLVTION to the countri-man prouing it vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly Prognostications Written by W. P. ESAY 47. vers 12 13 14. ¶ Stand now among thine inchaunters and in the multitude of sothsayers with whom thou hast wearied thy selfe from thy youth if so be thou mayst haue profit or if so be thou mayst haue strength Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers and Prognosticators stand vp and saue thee frō these things that shal come vpon thee Behold they shalbe as stubble the fire shall burne them they shall not deliuer their owne liues from the power of the flame there shalbe no coales to warme at nor light to sit by AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue ¶ Foure great lyers striuing who shall winne the Siluer whet-stone Ianuary First day B Cold and moyst weather F Hard vnderfoote T Temperate weather 2 B Rayne windie weather F Drye vnderfoote T Cloudy raine and slatter 7 B Lowring weather F Hoarie frostes T Rayne or hayle 11 B Windie and foule weather F Fayre winter weather T Warme ayre 14 B Cloudie and shewerie F Fayre and frostie T Moyst 16 B Raw cold F Seasonable for the time T Temperate 17 B Enclined to frost F Raynish weather T Temperate ayre 21. B Foule and windie F Inclined to moysture T Rayne or snow D Great windes and blustring ayre 30 B Temperate for the time F Cold rainish weather T Inclined to snow or sleete February 1 B Rayne cold and darke ayre F Windie frost T Fayre 2 B Uariable close weather F Calme and cleane T Indifferent warme 4 B Sharpe weather thicke and darke ayre F Cloudie and moyst weather T Frost with snow or hayle 7 B Uariable F Thicke ayre disposed to snow D Blustring windes 8 B Uariable F Rayne and snow T Temperate D Blustring windes 13 B Small raine and close ayre F A goodly winters day T Blacke frost 17 B Cloudy and lowring F Frostie and cleare T Rayne 19 B Rayne cold inclined to snow or sleete F Seasonable weather T Rayne 23 B Winde and stormes F A dull daye but drye ouer head T Cold winde freeze with haile or snow D Blustring windes March 5 B Temperate F Hard and frostie T Windie 15 B Cold with winde and some rayne F Faire warme weather T Windie 19 B Calme but inconstant F Close weather T Rayne 21 B Lowring mingled with some showers F Fayre cleare and calme but windie T Fayre Sunne shine 23 B Like to thunder F Cold and raynie T Cold blastes D UUindes and blustring ayre 29 B Rayne or other moysture F UUindy frost with clouds T Cleare sunne shine 30 B Disposed to rayne or moysture F Fayre and windie T Small showers Aprill 1 B Close wether disposed to raine F Uery fayre weather T Dispersed cloudes 4 B Some showers the winde variable F UUindie and perchance mizling withal T A darke cloudie skye 5 B Close and mingled with smal raine F Seasonable wether T Dark cloudy skie 7 B Hot and moyst F More warme then before T Thunder and lightning 8 B Uariable wether F Hot and drie D Red Elementes and flashing metors to be seene 12 B Cloudie inclining to raine F Uerie hote T Cleare skie and faire wether 14 B Fresh ayre and variable F Uery hot for the time T Sweete smelling shewers 15 B Cloudy with winde and some showers or els thunder raine F A close ayre wich Aprill showers T Sweet showers 16 B Warme weather like to thūder F Close ayre with showers T Fayre weather 17 B Freshe ayre variable windes some rayne F Fayre and kinde weather T Fayre sunne shine 21 B Close with cloudes threatning rayne F Troublesome and distemperate weather T Warme sunne shine 30 B Warme inclined to moisture F Pleasant and dry T Some showers May. 1 B Fresh ayre somwhat lowring F Fayre and windie T Some showers 5 B Colde cloudes inclining to moysture F Azzured skye T Fayre D Red elementes flashing metors to be seene 9 B Raine and windie F Somewhat sharp weather T Fayre 15 B Temperate weather F Dull and darke with rainie cloudes T Faire and cleere aire 22 B Faire and warme weather F Uariable weather T Lightning and thunder Iune 3 B Winde with raine like to thunder F Dull and cloudie T A gille heate some thunder and lightning D Red elementes flashing metors to be seene 8 B Somwhat milde wether F Calme but cloudie and dark T Lightning and thunder D Store of raine 13 B Raine and winde F Faire wether T Temperate wether D Thunder and lightnings 20 B Temperate wether F Unsteedie wether T Ayre ouercast 28 B Close and lowring F Indifferent cleare and calme T Fayre Iuly 1 B Fresh wether F Fayre T Cloudie 4 B UUarme F windie wether T A pempline winde D Red elements and Flashing metors to be seene 5 B Some raine like to thunder F Fayre weather T A fertile of Saturne and Mercurie 6 B Thunder F Pleasant showers D Raine 10 B Hot wether F Troublesome or tempestuous weather T Cloudie skie 11 B Fresh windes and cloudines F Tempestuous weather T Warme weather 13 B Unkindly wether for the time F Fayre but somwhat cloudie with lightning T Moist weather 14 B Likely to thunder with some raine F Some kinde of tempestuous weather T Uery hot D Fearefull lighteninges and thunder 20 B Lowring and variable wether F Tempestuous thunder and lightning T Some warme showers D Blustring windes 21 B Lightning thunder and rain F Temperate and seasonable T A coniunction of Iupiter and Mars D Blustering windes 23 B Temperate and warme F Seasonable weather T Moyst weather D Great store of rayne 25 B Some rayn and close aire F Diuers coloured cloudes D Thunder and lightninges 27 B Ouercast and some rayne F Inclined to thundering T A sextile of Iupiter and Venus 28 B Raine and variable weather F Seasonable and d●y wether T Cold and dry ayre 29 B Faire and hot F Seasonable weather T Colde and drie weather 31 B Pleasant weather F Somewhat windie T Cleare skie August 1 B Foule weather F Faire weather T Moist weather 2 B Foule for the time F Uerie hot T Moyst D Fearefull thundring and lightninges 4 B Warme weather F Drie but windie T A faire skie 6 B Uariable F Misling raine T Somewhat cold 8 B Lowring and hot weather F Fowle weather T The Moone with the tayle of the Dragon D Feareful thunder and lightninges 10 B Close cloudy ayre full of scattering raine F Good weather for the season T A true aspect of Saturne and Mercury 11 B Uariable and somewhat fresh weather F Good weather for the season T Rainie weather 14 B Some dashing showers F Pleasant and hot T Cold weather 15 B Lowring and warme weather F Disposed to thunder lightning T Colde D Fearful thunder lightning 16 B Lowring and warme weather F
Waueringe and vncertayne weather T Inclining to heate 21 B Showrie and hote F Close glomie weather T Moyste weather 22 B Showrie and hote F Glommie weather somewhat wyndie T Fayre weather 24 B Wynde and some raine F A pleasaunt seasonable daie T Cloudie weather 25 B Some misling raine F A pleasaunt daie T Cloudie weather September 2. B Wynde and somme small rayne F Fayre weather T Cloudie 4 B Uariable and mislinge vnto moysture F Change of wether T Colde and sharpe ayre D Red elementes and flashing metors 6 B Sodaine shewes F Fayre and drye T Moyst dewes 8 B Cold and windie F Cloudie and variable T Cold and moyst weather 12 B Cold close aire yet drie F Raw cold and raine T Faire weather 15 B Inconstant weather F Faire somwhat windie with whitish cloudes T Some rayne D Great store of rayne 17 B Somewhat cold F UUarme and moyst T Clearing vp 19 B Temperate for the season F Close weather T Faire weather 20 B Temperate F Disposed to mislinges T A quarti●e of Mars and Venus D Great windes and blustring windes 26 B Raw cold variable wether F Seasonable weather D UUinde with great store of rayne 24 B Cold. F Seasonable weather T Warme 25 B Faire for the time F Windie T A raw fog or myste D Great store of raine 27 B Windie and variable F Faire T UUarme D Great store of raine October 1 B Faire F UUindie with raine T UUarme 5 B Sodaine showers F Somewhat windie T Faire 8 B UUindie F Misling T Cold frost 12 B Close aire F Mutable T Hoare frost 17 B Enclined to frost F Snowe or sleete T Colde 27 B Winde raine or sleet F Faire cleare day T Cold dry frost 30 B Cold and variable cloudes F Lowd and boysterous strong windes T A fayre skie 31 B Moyst weather F Temperate weather T Cold foggy mystes Nouember 6 B Raw cold and lowring F Windie and drie T Warme 8 B Winde and rayne F Faire T Cold and moyst 12 B Driuing rayne F Cold from the North. T Faire 16 B Cloudie F Frost T Reasonable faire 18 B Bent to snow F Faire T Raine or sleete 20 B Showrie and cold F Faire ouer head T Raine or sleete 23 B Rainie weather F Subiect to diuers changes T Colde like to freeze 24 B Seasonable weather F Diuers changes T Cold frost 28 B Rayne or other moysture F Cleere weather T Mistes or foggy weather 29 B Faire and comfortable F Somewhat windie T Mystie and foggie 30 B Temperate weather F Rainie weather T Faire and drie December 2 B Cold wind and raw weather F UUarme aire T Frost snow and hayle 3 B Showers and windie blastes F A blacke day T A frost with some snow or hayle 4 B UUindie blastes F A blacke day T A quartile aspect of the Sunne and Mars 7 B Temperate weather F Cold and rainie T Mystes D Great windes and blustring ayre 9 B Uerie cold weather F Indifferent good weather T Faire D Great windes and blustering ayre 11 B Disposed to frostes F Faire weather T Store of snow 12 B Disposed to frostes but not like to hold F Faire weather T Great store of snowe 13 B Uariable windes and cold rawe weather F Cloudie T Fayre thaw 14 B Cold raw weather F Strong windes and rayne T An opposition of Iupiter the Sunne 15 B Stormie weather F Calme T A cleare starrie skie 16 B Some showers F Loude windes T Warme thaw D Great windes and blustring ayre 17 B Fayre temperate weather F Lowring T Warme thaw 18 B Seasonable F Fayre weather for y e greatest part T UUarme thaw 19 B Misling rayne F Fayre weather T A sextile of Saturne Venus 20 B Misling rayne and raw cold F Seasonable weather for the greatest part T Cold and dry 21 B Boystrous winde some driuing showers F A blacke frost in the morning afterwardes loude and vnconstant weather T Opposition of Iupiter and the Sunne 22 B Boystrous winde some driuing showers F Calme weather T The Moone with the head of the Dragon 23 B Windie and foule weather F Somewhat moyst T A pimpling winde 24 B UUauering weather F Fayre T Moyst D Great store of rayne 25 B Thicke ayre and windie weather F Fayre inough for the season T Moyst D Great windes and blustring ayre 26 B Thicke ayre and windie weather F Frostie T Moyst D Blustring windes 30 B Lowring close and somewhat windie F Snow T Slatter 31 B UUindie weather F A windy frost in the morning T Snow and slatter Not conuenient to haue Prognostications Reasons 1 Concerning the byer 1 Immoderate care ioyned with distrust in God 2 Contempt of the prouidence of God in not reuerently regarding it 2 Concerninge the maker 1 His vnability in Prognosticating proued 1 By the true end of the heauens 2 By want of good experience 3 By ignorance of perticular causes 2 His manifold vntrueths 3 His impieties and prophane speaches and actions not seeming a Christian. 4 His trickes of deceit A RESOLVTIon to the Countrey-man prouyng it vnlawfull for him to bye or vse our yearly Prognostications GOOD Reader I haue thought it cōuenient for some speciall causes in this short treatise to disclose a part of my mynde vnto thee concernyng the makyng of Prognostications and if it might be to perswade thee not to spend thy money in buying any of them I haue long studied this Art and was neuer quyet vntill I had seene all the secretes of the same but at y e length it pleased God to lay before me y e prophanenes of it nay I dare boldly say Idolatry although it bee couered with fayre and golden shewes Wherfore that which I will speake with griefe the same I would desire thee to marke with some attention My reason shall partely concerne thee partly y e Prognosticatour himselfe First on thy behalfe I reason thus The first Reason immoderate care 1 AS a man doth see the blessinges of God vpon him so he must also labour with a carefull diligence to maintayne the state of this life But because the affection of man is caried headlong vnto a greedy couetousnesse this desire of ouermuch carpyng and caryng must bee bridled with two strong bittes First all our care must extende it selfe no further then the present day Secondly in caryng we must not trust vnto our selues but fixe all our confidence in the mercy and prouidence of God who blesseth all and without whose goodnesse nothyng can come to passe doe what we will As touching the first we haue the direction of our Sauiour Christ who teacheth vs to pray on this wise Giue vs this day our dayly bread whereby we are giuen to vnderstand that we are onely to seeke for the present tyme resting with this persuasiō that he which hath blessed vs this day wil also to morow the next day shew his like goodnes vnto vs. Again in y e same place our Sauiour Christ