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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86059	Neophuto-astrologos. = The novice-astrologer instructed in a New-Years-gift to Mr. William Lilly; occasioned by the scurrility, scandal, ignorance, and flattery of his Merlin for the ensuing year. With two dedicatory epistles; the one to the learned divines, the other to the honest astrologers of this nation. / By G.J. or J.G. which Lilly the parasite pleaseth.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G93; Thomason E2112_3; ESTC R212656	26,210	71

men but devils to encounter with or else what doth he mean by such ranting hellist expressions But why earthly Devils Doth he believe there are any Devils in Heaven But saith he Let those Devils do their worst the K. of Swede will be successful If the Swedes Enemies which this malicious Fellow terms Devils do but their worst the Swede may then be successful as he groundlesly writes But Sir they are like to do their best and not their worst and so will leave you a devillish Lyar to Posterity But he will be successful by Sea or Land or near it saith this Barbarian in Art and Learning Certain I am the ☍ of ☉ and ♄ and ♂ 's transiting the radical place of ♃ considered together with his sad Revolutional Figure denies him success at Sea or Land What he may by Mr. Lillies Ptedictions expect near it I know not perhaps he dream't of some airy happiness and success when he writ this ventositous Fancie In May this Impostor predicts The Heavens shew much hope for settlement of France and Spain in league and amity This he perfectly reads in the Heavens too O rare Monthly Observator although the peace betwixt those Princes was concluded six Months before as the News-Books had acquainted him for you must know he studies them more then he doth old Ptolomy Lilly skips from April to September without mentioning the least particle o the Swedish King And then too late tells him The Heavens give caution to him c. For then his game in despite of Lillie's flattery is near at an end This counsel Lilly you should have given him at the beginning of the year if you had dealt as fairly by him as he hath nobly by you In October this pedantick Parasite cants That the K. of Swede in despite of all opposition cannot fail of many successes in or near this month Surely Sir spiteful successes will do the Victor no durable service But what must these successes be I wonder why saith Lilly Such as his present occasion requires Now if the K. of Swede being a Souldier should happen for want of conveniency to be invaded with a Souldiers Fortune viz. to be stronger within then without and in this condition obtain the happiness or success of a clean shirt Lilly shall have the honour of predicting it Astrologically But one pretty piece of Policy I meet with in wise Williams Octobers Observations that makes me smile at the writing thereof 't is this It then being about Almanack time and Lilly believing that he shall be lash'd as the last year for he knows he hath notoriously deserved it and that you may think he reads the same in the Heavens he learnedly by this his sharp Praescience predicts Some botching Atheist now bespatters him And is there any Delian Wizzard can In Planet-Quacking match this cunning Man In November he again temporizes with the Swede thus Either with full peace or much happiness the Swedes are blessed according to their present condition Prethee Lilly tell me how thou camest to be so base a Flatterer Dost thou see ♂ upon the place of ☉ and ☉ ♂ and ☿ in ♂ and all in ☍ to ☽ 's Radical place in the King of Swedes Geniture I am perswaded thou makest thy self a Parasite on purpose or else thou knowest not ♂ from thy Taylors Bodkin But to conclude all his wise work In Decembers right-hand-page he writes The guilty find friends And in the left verifies it in himself thus If Jupiter were not in Libra his Printer hath made it June but I scorn as much to retort that upon him as he thinks it beneath him to answer a Boy Saturn would afflict poor Anglicus Providence still provides for him friends Go on William Confess all your sins and guiltiness of all kinds and consider that your end draweth on and the M. C. ad □ ♄ ☉ is coming apace and flatter not your self as you have done the King of Swede You will begin to claim the Title of an aged Parasite in Astrology Flatter not your self therefore For it is not ♃ in ♎ that can any way stead you Is not ♄ returned to his own place and the opposite place of the Sun Is not your Revolution notoriously cruel and mischievous also And how should ♃ in ♎ help you Doth ♃ behold either the Ascendant or ☉ in your Nativity Is he not in □ of Luna Flatter not your self I say Learn Astrology for once from a Boy And if at last ♃ in ♎ fail you say you had an enemy dealt more faithfully with you without a Gold Chaine than you did with the King of Sweden for one So I leave William Lilly in the midst of his Flatteries and Ignorance as I found him ERRATA Page 34. line Antepenult read 8 digits P. 37. l. 25. r. Saturni P. 48. l. 9. r. the arisings P. 50. l. 25. r. Aquila AN ADVERTISEMENT A Person of Honour by Name Montelion or the Knight of the Oracle having taken great pains in the calculating divers Nativities some of Jury-Packers Chalke-Merchants Wife-Poysonners Widdow-Undoers Trepanners c. and the Genitnres of Mrs. P. W. L. Grace L. and I. F. at large being a true and perfect Emblem of the cross match mentioned in Dr. Dee's Book of Spirits it is therefore desired that the Learned Minister Lilly mentions would insert these in his intended Book of Nativities that his Collection may be the more compleat FINIS