Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	mars_n	saturn_n	venus_n	3,045	5	12.8794	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35358	Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7485; ESTC R2956	55,961	84

own birth-rights and the heavy yoak William the Bastard laid upon us taken off and should be glad if we could obtain that only this I desire of Doctor Gell whom I honor both for his learning and piety when God did divide Nations according to the number of the Angels whether he gave All to some and None at all to the rest whether he left any poor in the land unprovided for whether he made them not All Free-holders and leave him to be answered by his own conscience Thus much for Iupiter I come now to Mars and I shall be the more large in him because he is the chief significator of the effects of this Eclipse This world as it stands in statu quo makes a difference between rich and poor men and when a man hath pickt up a great deal of well-concocted earth I am a better man then thou quoth he though perhaps the birth and breeding of the other be ten times better then this but as the Grave equals all men so do Celestial influences nay I will tell you more then this Magistrates are grown to such a terrible hight of Pride that this Eclipse will teach them that the Lord knows the proud afar off Miserable and sad are the effects of the Eclipse like to be when the two infortunes are Lords of it and so they are in this but what their operation will be I am now to speak of only in the general and I will prefix this Scripture in the front of it Psal. 28. 5. If they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operations of his hand he will pull them down and not build them up Mars is the chief Lord of the Eclipse and you shall see what a kinde of creature he is he is a hot and dry firy burning Planet an angry conquering creature destructive to nature he is so angry that he will hear no reason the Priest with his Rhetorick in the Pulpit cannot move him neither doth he regard the Lawyer that pleads at the bar all the Sophistry in Oxford and Cambridge will not be able to qualifie his anger in the effects of this Eclipse but are all like to feel his fury he layes out all his strength in what he doth or in what he delighteth to do his natural disposition is to set people together by the ears I may say of him as Virgil said of Alecto Tu potes unanime is armare in praelia fratres Atque odiis versare domos tu verberatect is Funereasque inferre faces tibi nomina mille Mille nocendi artes faecundum concute pect us Disjice compositam pacem sere crimina belli Arma velit poscatque simul rapiatque juventus The dearest knots of friendship he unties And utterly subverts whole families With dismal funerals and bitter wrath A thousand names a thousand arts he hath To break sweet peace by his impetuous charmes The Youth desire and crave and handle armes Look you here now what a master the eternal God of heaven and earth hath appointed you over this Eclipse one that delights in nothing in the world but killing and murdering setting people together by the ears quarrelling folly and impatience vehement anger one that neither fear nor entreaty is able to hold or retard from sowing the seed of sedition and war when he sets upon it Saturne I told you before was another Lord of the Eclipse and Mars is exalted in the house of Saturne as though both the malevolents were conjoyned to execute the will of God in the destroying effects of this Eclipse Mars is of that nature that he will run on right or wrong and never regard what the end will be He causes infirmities and sicknesses diminution of substance madness and revenge thunder and lightening and what else can terrific the mindes of the giddy-headed multitude But in this Eclipse because Venus is neer him she will somewhat qualifie his malice I shall shew you hereafter how and in what manner onely in this place what the general disposition of Venus is that so I may hold to what I promised onely generals Venus is a Planet cold and moist fortunate merry and jocund I would we of the Commonalty of England had cause so to be we shall have we must have they had as good let us have it at first as at last the heavens promise it us and it is in vaine for man to domineer Heu nihil invitis fas quemquam credere divis Th' effects of this Eclipse shall clearly prove 'T is vaine to strive against the powers above Besides this by her coldness and moisture she somewhat tempers the hot and dry disposition of Mars and if we bring it home to this Eclipse she orders him having gotten him in her house she loves singing and banquetting and drinking and venerial vices diseases that come therefrom and therefore in this Eclipse she hath got a sit companion in her house cut out for the purpose Mars and she usually cause whoredom and sometimes a knock with a French colt-staffe she gives very good words and is very meek of nature she will give good words to the poor because they are cheap and cost nothing she is an enemy to Saturne though she give him an exaltation in her house I will leave Venus and come to Mercury Mercury loves all Arts and hath gotten a special command over all Clerks Accomptants and he is of a convertible nature just like a Priest I should have said a Weather-cock he is masculine with the masculine and feminine with the feminine he is a fortune with the fortunes an infortune with the infortunes he is a bold spoken fellow full of tongue his father was either a Priest or a Lawyer I know not which he is a chearful creature quick in his actions he is a divellish lyar a betrayer as full of deceit as an egg is full of meat he will promise more by a farthing candle then he will perform in seven yeers he signifies windes and in this Eclipse such windes as will rend the stoutest Rocks in Europe in peices These be the Planets which as I shall tell you hereafter have one way or another signification in this Eclipse and there can be no more nor more variety of these significations which I have here delivered I have shewed you here their natures in general I come now to shew you their natures in particular only before this let me premise this one thing the Moon hath a very great signification in the effects of this Eclipse the general signification of which I gave you in the first Chapter the particular signification both of her and other Planets you shall have hereafter when I come to the particular dimension of time in which the effects of this Eclipse are to Operate CHAP. III. Of the Prodromi or forerunners of the Eclipse THE Prodromi or Forerunners of this Eclipse because they are very many and something contrary the one to the other I will not