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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

starres worke vpon mens bodies yet so y t the nature of the Country and soyle the meates and drinkes haue most commonly greater force Why are the bodies of Gentlemen of England and poore labouring mē of diuers dispositions are they not both in one countrey do not the starres shew their force in them alike yes truely but the kinde of life and diet preuaileth In the same region why are they which dwel vpon hills of other temperatures then they which dwell vpon playne champion grounde Why doe not the same influences of Starres make them of like natures is it not because the nature of the soyle preuayleth So then when as there be many causes effectuall and differing in altering mens bodies to builde an argument vpon one cause is most vnreasonable 2. The starres worke vpon the Elementes earth water ayre by makyng heate cold moisture drines The elementes how worke they on mens bodies They will also say by making heate cold moysture dryenesse which is most vntrue for the whotter and dryer the Elementes be the colder and moyster by nature are mens bodies Accordyng to that saying of Empedocles Nature placed a whote body in a cold countrey and a cold body in a whote countrey 3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens Now the heauens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens they must not bee causes of the inclination of the will either per se or per accidens but per accidentis accidens whiche is most ridiculous 4. This long chayne by whiche they lincke the will of man to the starres if it shalbe applyed vnto particulars it must needes breake for the actions of the will is buying selling trauailyng lying heaping vp wealth murdering spreading of false rumours offering of discourtesies hatyng of kinsfolkes and such like whiche our heauengazers foretell haue no coherēte with the first qualities heate cold moisture drynesse neither can they any waye proceede from them and therfore the starres cannot be causes of them for they worke onely by these qualittes 5. This reason is nothyng to their purpose for because they graunt that a man may freely resiste the inclination of the starres he may hinder that vnto which the stars bend his wil how dare they presume to say this or that will come to passe The heathen men gaue vp thēselues to their own lustes vanities and followed euery litle and vayne inclination of them in this order did auncient Astrologers among them diuine that this or that time such actions such vices such enterprises such affaires should be amōg them In like maner our English wisemē speake of vs as though we were beastes not reasonable men as thogh we neuer had heard the blessed Gospell of God neuer tasted of the grace of God neuer learned what is good and what is bad neuer laboured to subdue our lustes affections alwayes turned to and fro with the blast of any influence working very slenderly in vs. Thus muche of Ciuill affaires They make mentiō also yearely of the diseases whiche shall reigne but the way which they follow is taken forth of the barren and vncertaine rules of of the old Astrologers who do so ascribe vnto euery Planet certaine diseases that if neede shall require they may referre the same disease vnto many significatours as in the plague the putrefaction of humors is attributed vnto Iupiter the sharpe feuer vnto Mars the madnesse whiche followeth vnto Mercurie the whole plague vnto Mars In the plurecie the inflammation of the bloud betwene the skinne called Pluritis and the ribbs is attributed vnto Iupiter the suppuration of the bloud vnto Saturne and the whole pluresie vnto Iupiter In the Iaundes the inflamation and corruption of humors vnto Iupiter the yelow humor in the gaule vnto Mars the obstruction of the partes vnto Saturne the whole Iaunds beyng white vnto Mars blacke vnto Saturne And so in euery disease they vse this inconstancie and ambiguitie in Prognosticating It is a rule among the Astrologers that if the Planets signifiers of diseases be well affected then there shalbe no diseases but health if they be euilly affected then diseases follow Our Prognosticatours neuer marke this rule but howsoeuer the Planets bee affected they straightwayes pronounce that such diseases shall reigne For exāple the last winter quarter it was said by one of them that y e diseases which should afflict mens bodies were rewmes coughes cold laskes swelling of the face throte fallyng of the Colmel sore eyes deafenesse the stone goute dropsie greenesicknes madnes quarterne feuers c. And all the Planets signifiers of diseases in that quarter were indifferēt well affected wherfore thou hast not one cause to feare their threatninges but rather to be sorie for their continuall deceites wishing them myndes that they may one day see their owne follie Concernyng the tyme when the constellations take their effectes our Prognosticators say that some take their effectes the same yeare some not the same yeare but long after as great coniunctions and Eclipses For they say if the Moone be eclipsed one houre she worketh her effect a moneth after if two houres two monethes after and the Sunne for euery houre it is Eclipsed taketh his effect an whole yeare after Truely this rule whiche they follow must needes be agaynst all reason For why should not all coniunctions and oppositiōs of the Sunne and Moone differre their effectes as well as those coniunctions and oppositions in which the Sunne and Moone is Eclipsed if they showe forth their power immediately after why should not these also do the same Moreouer the Epignosticall Astrologers who haue conferred the course of the heauens with histories shew very manifestly that Eclipses do not deferre the tyme of working their spite vpon the earth In the yeare of our Lord. 1419. the Sunne was Eclipsed in Aries and presently after shewed all his force There was a great sedition in Prage that yeare In Paris an vprore betwene them of the Citie and the Uniuersitie and two thousand Scholers were slayne Then also Wenzeslaus king of Bohemia being in a great palsie dyed In the yeare .1524 There was a coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Scorpius also a great Eclipse of the Sunne in Iune whiche tooke their effectes the same yeare Charles king of Fraunce driuen forth of his countrey warre betweene Danes and the men of Sleswicke There was a great plague in Germanye Ciuill dissention amongest the Princes of the Empire and them which tooke the part of Iohn Husse .1452 An Eclipse of the Sunne in Sagittarius his effectes began presently and lasted a great while Euen then Constantinople was taken by the Turke The Hungarians and Bohemians besieged Fredericke the Emperour 1473. the 27. of Aprill the Sunne was Eclipsed in Taurus Mars beyng in Aries and Iupiter in Sagittarius The same yeare in sommer was such heate and drynesse of weather that woodes euen withered and one might

formes by whiche not by the heauens they are made that whatsoeuer they are These proper causes because their natures be vnknowen vnto vs I cannot see how the Prognosticatour is able to foretell any thyng to come in good and conuenient maner laying aside all deceiuyng and forgeing of vntruthes To make this more playne I wil vse this similitude Suppose an henne to sit vppon many egges some of her owne some of diuers other foules she imparteth her heate equally vnto them at the length she hatcheth and some of her chickens are cockes some hennes some crowes some patriches some doues some black some white some like and liue some dye some are killed of the kite some are rosted No man I thincke will professe so much skill as to say that he by the considering of the henne and her heate which is a common cause of the chickens and all that befalleth them is able to tell why of this egge came a partriche of that a crowe why this egge had no chicken why that had a dead chicken c. except hee doe therewith all adioyne the consideration of the particular effectts The heauen is as it were an henne fostring vnder her winges all earthly thinges imparting his vertue and heate vnto all Can our Prognosticatour by the erectyng of figures by consideryng the disposition of euery Planet in their houses and the significations of euery thyng iudge why this man is wealthy that man a begger why this noble man dyeth this yeare none the next yeare why it is nought to trauell this way good to trauaile that waye why these diseases abounde and not other why corne shalbe deare this quarter not the next why this weeke is fayre and temperate that weeke that moneth vnseasonable and tempestuous Truely it is a thing flatte impossible They must hereunto adioyne the particular nature of the countrey the particular causes both in mens myndes and bodies as education place honestie byrth bloud sicknesse health strength weaknesse meate drincke libertie of mynde learnyng c. and all other speciall circumstaunces whiche they neuer doe as we may see in their Prognostications and if they woulde doe it yet they could not Wherefore I muste needes saye this that their follie is greate in publishyng their Prognostications and thou also greatly to bee blamed whiche by thy greedie desire giuest them great occasion to be so vnprofitably occupied To shew more briefly plainly of their vnabilitie in Prognosticating although I graūt the stars haue great force yet I say they cannot iudge of thinges to come And there be 6. impedimentes The first impedimēt is imbecillicie of wit for as mans eye from the earth beholding the heauens the starres perceiueth them not in their iust quātitie but as very small lightes for in deede the Sunne is an hundred threescore sixe times bigger thē the earth Saturne 90. times Iupiter 95. Mars one and an halfe the Moone is the 39. part of the earth the biggest sixed stars containe y e earth 107. times the stars of the secōd magnitude 90 the third 70. times the fourth magnitude 54. times y e fift magnitude 35. times the sixt magnitude 18. times So the weaknes of mans vnderstanding is not able to conceiue and learne the thinges whiche the heauens do bring to passe on earth The 2. impediment y e infinite nūber of stars which no doubt all haue great power although we do not finde it For the Prognosticator onely marketh 1028 starres of these he taketh onely heede vnto a very fewe Which is as though a man should iudge the power of an army by the powers of one or two souldiours and Captaines not by the power of the whole company The 3. impedim●●t is the infinite varieties of the vertues of stars the parts of heauē which Astrologers graūt to be yet they do not know thē As touching y e nature of the fixed stars they know nothing but by the colour which is red leady white pale c. resembling some Planet And because they know not y e vertue of all stars euery part of heauē they are not able to iudge any thing but to their owne shame no more then the Phisitian is able to know the nature of the cōpounde medicine without the knowing of euery simple The 4 impedimēt the manifold and dayly chaunge of the motions positiōs and configurations of the stars for if a man could tel both the number and nature of starres yet the varietie of positions breedeth trouble hindreth right iudgement because by this meanes the powers of stars are increased diminished chaūged And these rules which serued for auncient tymes to foretell things wil not serue vs because all the fixed stars haue chaunged their places and the rest are dayly chaunged The 5. impedimēt the infinite varietie of inferior things which do hinder peruert chaūge receiue or not receiue y e vertue predictions of stars as y e nature of the soile the dispositiō naturall of ayre orders cōstitutions of the cōmon wealth occasions education institution kindes of meate and drinke c. The 6. impediment the will of man which freely in cōmon matters chuseth this refuseth that There are many thinges which are caused without any worke of starres onely by the will of man study as we may see in Socrates Demosthenes and other c. Thus much shall suffice to shew that they cannot Prognosticate of things ensuyng now follow their manifold vntruthes and most false rules In disclosing them I will keepe the same order they vse in their Almanackes In the first or second leafe of their books thou shalt finde a picture of mās body with the 12. signes rounde about it they call it the Anatomie of mans body shewing how the 12. signes haue gouernemēt of the same for the Moone or any other significatour of any thing being in the signe they say that it is daūgerous to boxe to seare that part or to let bloud in it whiche is subiect to the dominion of that signe All these are nothyng but vayne Fables as I will manifestly proue 1. Whereas they call it an Anatomy me thincketh it is a butcherly Anatomy nay that of the butchers is far better for they ioyne head appurtenaūce together these men being sparing giue Aries the head Leo and Cancer the hart longes As for the liuer I know not which signe hath it peraduēture in old time men had no liuers At the Anatomye of a carrian crowes deale frendly for euery one hath somewhat but in the diuision of mans body signes play foule playe for Capricorne hath got nothyng but a paire of knees It is like that the signes scramblyng for their portions Capricorne beyng slowe got nothyng hereupon compassion being had there was a gathering made and Sagittarius gaue the lower part of the thighe Aquarius the higher part of the legge whiche both together make the knee But to deliuer thee out of all doubt marke

immediatelye or wyth meanes If with meanes they cannot determine whether the Heauens or Aungelles or menne or anye other thinges bee the meanes of hys prouidence Thirdly if they were able to knowe what the Heauen woorketh naturallye yet they were neuer the better for GOD beside the power of the heauens hath in all thinges his particular workyng prouidence alteryng and framyng and bendyng a● waxe his instruments to his good will Truely by this consideration a Christian man will be brought to leaue of to seeke what euent the workes of God shall haue before they come to passe If a man shall come into a Ioyners shoppe can hee by knowing the vse of all his tooles tell what thinges he hath made in his shoppe No. What is the cause of that he vseth not onely his tooles in his worke but thereunto adioyneth his owne hand by which he handleth and tourneth the toole to his own pleasure and so maketh diuers kinde of workes with the same instrumentes The same may bee sayd of our Prognosticatours whiche I would to God they would somewhat consider The third Reason the want of experience IF our Prognosticators haue any means to foretell thinges to come they haue those meanes either without experiēce or with experience If they haue them without experience then must thou accompt all which they do to be foolish dreames deceite For all kinde of humaine learning whiche is profitable hath vse in the life of man is taken frō often obseruations and experience If it be sayd that they haue their directions in Prognosticating from experience and that of all tymes I will conuince them thus True experience of the causes of thinges is an often obseruing of the effectes of the same causes with this grounde that they can proceede from no other thyng The Phisician sayth Rhoubarbe doth purge choler Well how knoweth he this hee hath often tryed this and that in olde men young men children and hath found that in the bodies of all men the cause of purgyng this humor could be ascribed to nothyng els UUherefore hee may peremptorily conclude Rhoubarbe purgeth choler Our Prognosticatours in the heauens can haue no such experience For they can not obserue often the same position of starres in the heauen The order and cause of the fixed starres and Planets whiche we finde in the heauens this day the next day wil be chaunged and neuer the like agayne They will say in deede although the same position of the whole heauen neuer happen yet the same coniunctions of notable starres the same visinges and settynges and the same constellations of the chiefest stars are marked often I say agayn that when these Eclipses and great coniunctions happen the rest of the starres beyng otherwise affected then they were before hauyng new positions may either encrease and diminish their effectes or els hinder them and quite take them away As we see when the Sunne casting his beames into a chamber the light of candels and torches and fires doe make it shine dimme yet these beyng absent it will shine bright Agayne they are not able to saye that constellations whiche they haue marked are causes of those effectes whiche followe as warres diseases distēpered wether earthquakes famine c. For in those thinges which happē together the one is not the cause of the other When Nero played vpon his harpe Rome was on fire yet Neroes playing on the harpe was no cause of the burning of Rome Also these effects may haue others causes in the heauen then those which they marke and they may come immediately frō God they may come onely from the will of man UUherfore seyng that they cannot assure themselues that those Eclipses coniunctions are the workes of such effectes vpon earth they cannot haue often obseruations of the course of heauen their rules of Predictions are feyned and supposed not built vpon true experience Let a man whiche knoweth not one hearbe take all kindes of hearbes and put them into a great vessell yet so that there be more of some hearbes and lesse of other some let him beate them all together make a compound vertue of all their vertues Can he now tell the nature and operation of euery particular hearbe Can he deuide and seuer by any helpe the vertue of one hearbe frō another No in deede The same thing may be sayd of the starres of heauen all their lightes and all their influences as they terme it are in the lower bodies more plainly euery earthly body hath in it all the secret powers workyng of euery particular starre so that they make as it were a compounde operation rising of all or of the most of their vertues ioyned together for the Astrologers hold that although the light may be hindred by the thickenes of the body yet the heauenly influence pearceth through all Therefore they are not able to seuer and learne the nature of these starres except they cā stoppe the influence of what starres they list and bring them into what cōpasse they will Yet thus much I will graunt them that they may haue a litle knowledge of the vertue of the Sunne and Moone and some other starres as we see those hearbes in the former cōposition whose vertues be the chiefest though not fully yet somewhat doe represent their nature and shew themselues aboue the rest But what is this to the purpose If I confesse the operations of the Sunne Moone If I shall graunt that Saturne is in nature cold dry Iupiter warme moyste Mars hot dry Venus cold and moiste Mercurie in nature mixt the notable fixed starres in the Zodiacke to bee of the nature of Planets and to haue manifest operations as the rising of the ●●gg to make heate tempestuous seas the rising of Arcturus to make rayne and showers Pleiades to be of the nature of Mars the Moone c. what will all this suffice to make a Prognostication for seyng all starres haue their owne powers peraduenture also the least starres whiche we make no accompt of haue great effectes amongest vs as one grayne of muske in the Apothecaries shoppe maketh a greater smel then all other powders bee they neuer so many nothyng will the knowledge of the operation of some Starres preuaile the rest beyng not knowne and neuer regarded They will say they haue some experience but yet vnperfite I haue showed how they haue no true experience at all and their vnperfite experience maketh them perfite lyers The fourth Reason the ignoraunce of causes A Man whiche will iudge rightly of any matter by the causes must not onely consider the common causes but hee must also with them conferre the particular causes of all thinges which happen amonges● vs so he shall iudge a right In heauen the starres be common causes of all thinges amongest vs because they shew their vertue on euery matter one way or other The same things haue their peculiar efficientes and matters and