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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

the victorie the thirteenth of September the fourteenth of September Sultan Syliman dyed before Segett and the seuenteenth the towne was taken the day following Sigismund the father of Augustus king of Polonia put to flight the armie of the Muscouits the day after Iames the king of Scots was slaine with many of his Nobilitie by the English in battayle He reciteth many moe examples besides which we may reade in the fourth booke of his De Republica where hee likewise affirmeth that there haue been many great Princes who haue dyed in that moneth and there he reciteth at least twentie But me thinkes as one well noteth that this should giue too much credit to the moneth of September to the preiudice of the other in that it hath force to change estates and that these curiosities are not to bee admitted of vs but to bee referred rather to the historicall Calender then to bee reputed a matter of sounde doctrine for what moneth is there which may not be authorised with like examples At least it is changed from his former naturall force in respect of that time present for the greatest alterations and change of states at this day and especially in the kingdome of France haue happened betwixt December and August The same may I alleadge likewise of the death of the greatest Lordes of France who dyed in other moneths and that the moneth of September hath almost lost his prerogatiue since For concerning the Princes which haue dyed of late in France and which haue brought notable change with them as we may see at this day we shal finde none which dyed in the moneth of September Mouns●ier Duke of Alenson and brother of the late King dyed in Iune 1584. and the tenth of that moneth The Prince of Orange whose death can neuer be sufficiently lamented nor the manner hated and abhorred likewise dyed the same day of Iuly following whose death was violent and practised by the Spanish treason in that manner that neuer historie in respect of the proscription hath made mention of the like vnlesse it be of Pyrats Robbers by sea and such who according to the lawes of nations haue euer been excluded from the benefit of faith trueth and loyaltie and consequently from all saftie for as Tullie writeth Pyrata non est ex perduellium numero definitus sed communis hostis omnium alioqui ius etiam bellicum fidesque iurisiurandi saepe cum hoste seruanda For instance we haue the memorable proscription of Crocotas the arch pyrat of whom Augustus the Emperor caused proclamation to be made by the sounde of his trumpet that whosoeuer would take him should haue a hundred twentie thousand crownes I onely alleadge this in respect of the most detestable murder of the worthie and vertuous Prince of Orange not long after the death of these two great personages followed the fatall ruines of the Lowe Countrey In one worde Catherine of Medices the Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall the King of France last slayne by that false Iacobin a murther written in Tymes forhead by the pen of aeternitie to astonish all posteritie these all happened from December to August and therefore mee thinkes September hath small vertue to induce vs to respect it But of all rules which I knowe worth the marking to iudge by of the falles of kingdomes Common wealths I finde none more renounced by Master Bodin then the numbers of seuen and nine and those which arise from the multiplication of these two and the perfect number of 496. which first is obserued by him and he saith the reason is because of the infinite wisdome of God who hath so disposed all things by number that kingdomes themselues after certaine yeres haue ordinarilie come to ende and that humane things fall not out by chance I confesse indeede concerning the criticall dayes whereof the seauenth day is called the King by Galen that from thēce are drawne strange meruailes of numbers applyed to weekes moneths yeares ages worlds and so to townes Common wealths and Kingdomes whereunto all that may bee referred which we haue spoken before of the periods of 500. of 250. of 700. yeares although I finde such contrarietie in the examples alleadged by Master Bodin for the confirming of these numbers that they are not firmly to be relied on as vndoubtedly true For to the intēt to haue them established more stronglie he alleadgeth the Romane fasts who as he sayth can neither faile nor lye But on the contrarie Onuphrius who hath corrected them iustly maketh a doubt And as Master Augier sayth he likewise would relye vpon the annales of Fabius pictor And in the first place the better to confirme his Square being the roote of the fatall number composed of twelue Twelues multiplied by 12. he saith that the Monarchie of Rome continued a hundred and fortie yeares which by the consent of all authors continued 244. yeares or thereabout and I finde another which saith it endured longer namely 245. yeares which cannot serue to fulfil the Cube of the fatall number but it is an exceeding fault to slippe a hundred yeares Furthermore to confirme one of the perfect numbers namely that of 196. and to shew the effect of it he sayth that since Augustus vnto Augustulus the last Emperour of the Romanes the one whereof he calleth by the name of Conquering the other of Diminishing there was 496. yeares where the Histories and Chronicles mention fiue hundred On the other side to the intent the better to ground his opinion of nūbers as likewise to shewe their force he alleadgeth that in holie scripture the law of GOD hath nothing so often as the 7. number be it either in the solemne feasts of the Sabboth or the seauenth moneth be it for the freeing of seruants and leauing the ground without tilth the seauenth yeare which was the yeare of Iubile But some doe reproue this for as much as that the places out of scripture implie naturally a rest or Sabboth whereas on the contrarie the seauenth alleadged for the fall and change of kingdomes is full of troubles depending on humane actions which number can neither be drawne out of the law of God either in plaine tearmes or by way of necessarie consequent yet for all this he confesseth that of those aboue named rules indifferently obserued of diuers authors there is none of necessitie whereupon wee may so iustly relye our selues as to set down a certaine iudgement of things to come seeing that the greatest part of those who haue been willing to iudge of the meanes rules surely touching the foresayd changes they haue oftē stayed themselues vpon Astronomie supposing that change of Kingdomes chieflie to depende vpon starres and celestiall causes whereunto God hath sometimes as it were tyed himselfe for the shewing of things to come wherein Satan as the Prince of the ayre maketh

to appeare oftentimes the euēts which resemble the true that should happen and hereupon he forgeth these false predictions But seeing that by the effects of celestiall bodies the vnlearned themselues are able to iudge of their force and vertue notwithstanding from all antiquitie there hath been found contrarietie of opinions amongst them who will iudge soundly in Astrologie wherefore it shall not bee impertinent to this purpose to handle a word or two for the examining of the certaintie or vncertaintie of them thereby the better to vnderstand this which I haue in hand the rather because Astrologie it selfe is placed amongst Diuinations Some of great learning would whollie make it frustrate and exclude it from the liberall Arts as teaching vs prestigious false surmises vnder trueths colour Some are so foolish that they giue vnto it the force of gouerning the whole world namely all that which may happen to men not daring to attempt or vndertake any thing in the world without the fauour of the starres and celestiall bodies Others that haue better iudged of it haue not ascribed vnto them an absolute power but an intermediate vertue amongst the rest The reason of such as wholly contemne the Art without ascribing vnto it anie vertue or force at all is grounded vpon the vncertaintie of it as being onely builded vpon vncertaine coniectures without the true demonstration of things whervpon onely trueth depends But those that do auouch the vertue of them suppose in the first place that God sayd in the beginning that he made lights that he placed them in the heauens to separate night from day and to be for signes and seasons for dayes and yeares From this place they reason thus that Nature made nothing in vaine since that all creatures are made for some certaine end but these creatures day lie doe the same workes by their order and course appoynted them of God and the end of that which they doe is their operation now the starres doe by the order of nature that which the Art of Astronomie saith hath bin found out by experience and afterward approued by many reasons Then the end of the starres is that for which they were created Likewise the demonstrations of things are taken from celestiall causes and their effects obserued of a long timed experience by the influence intension remission accesse and recesse of starres for euen as in the seede the vertue of those things is hid which it bringeth foorth euen so in the starres is hid the force of that likewise giuing the effect of a naturall elementarie change which is incontinently perceiued of them who before haue searched by supputation the caelestiall motions and haue attained by long experience to knowe the course of things with the euents and effects The reason is for euen as wee iudge of the force of things which wee feele by their effect euen so wee iudge of the force of Starres by the experience we haue from the long reach of their effects And although their force being hid vnto vs is not so apparantly discouered and clerely seene notwithstanding the ordinarie signes shew them and the common obseruations of long experience make thē to bee easilie knowne so that those who haue this foresaid experience may easily foretell by an euident coniecture the ordinarie effect of the Starres But thereby to foretell of the natiuities of men which the Greekes cal pronosticon Geneseon that which may happen vnto them in such a yeare or such a day it is hard for a man to giue credit to them so that it be not for the searching of naturall causes in that manner as wee haue spoken before For as Master Beza speaketh in a certaine epistle of iudiciall Astrologie If any one would haue foretolde that the Empyre of Augustus should haue endured so long it should likewise haue beene necessarie to haue diuined what should haue happened of Brutus Cassius Lepidus and Anthonie his aduersaries which would haue brought a man into a labyrinth not easely auoyded So likewise speaking of the vsage of the former searching hee referres them onely to complexions and dispositions of bodies by meanes whereof one may iudge if such a man will become melancholicke or whether he will be subiect to such or such sickenesses This opinion is confirmed somewhat by that of Diogenes the Stoike notwithstanding the Phisitians themselues are able to iudge of all things aboue mentioned by signes and Symptoms more certaine and yet there of the profite is not great Others who vnder a shewe of religion haue contemned the Astrologicall science alledge for reason the place of Ieremie saying Let them stand and saue thee the Southsayers of heauē which gaze on the starres and cast the moneths to tell thee of things to come yet notwithstanding the true meaning of that place is no whit to condemne or detest the foresaide science but onely the superstitious abuse of it which hath been brought in by little and little by those who by meanes of their Diabolicall artes and vnder the hope of some base gayne haue corrupted the true knowledge of it Others erroniouslie haue sought out all the secrets of the world by meanes of caelestiall causes in such sort that continuing in the same superstition they are at the length fallen into so great abuse that they will gouerne all their actions according to the course and demonstration of Starres preferring their Pronostications before Gods promises From hence proceedeth the superstitious elections of workes good or bad gouerned according to the twelue signes of heauen in like manner the dayes fortunate and vnfortunate with the angles and circles forged by the Philosopher Pythagoras to knowe by the composition of numbers and letters which it conteined intermediating the obseruation of the day of the moneths and the Planets all that any man desired to know To conclude from hence is it come to passe that some are perswaded that the soules abide in the Moone others were perswaded that as soone as she lost her light she was inchaunted and for that cause in olde time they were wont to sound Trumpets Tabrets Cornets and other instruments to remedie that to the intent to driue away those inchauntments or as Lipsius vpon Tacitus saith Ad leuandos lunae labores To ease the moone of her trauailes Plutarch Liuie others haue made mention also of it And Iuuenall saith Cum frustra resonant aera auxiliaria Lunae Furthermore many haue adored and acknowledged the Planets for their gods chiefely the Sunne whereunto all the gods of the Panims may bee referred and agree as Macrobius noteth and as Histories are full The tractes and steppes as it were of this Idol-madnes may appeare in the lawes of the Romans Titul de Coelicolis Iudaeis Likewise in the Scripture in the 7. and 47. chapter of Ieremie God conuert all those who yet worship