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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

think it impossible for any man to surpass him Well but saith Lilly This Impudent Ranting Fool or Boy dare not own his Name to be G.I. or I.G. Here Mr Merlin you do homage only to the Father of lies whom it may be you are better acquainted with than with the Angels you tattle and boast of For he hath owned G. I. as the initiall Letters of his Name in the spurious Prognosticator to your sorrow but Lilly hath little list to cope with either the Author or the Book the one being so repugnant to his Principles the other to his skill But besides it is not for fear of Lillies Pen that the Author forbears to set his name at length but for the forementioned Reasons Mr. Lilly having fluttered and beat his Eagleship out of breath in the Aestival Quarter is now come to the Autumnal and saith ☉ enters ♎ Septemb. 12. at noon Yet if you consult his own Ephemeris you will find Sol's place that day at noon in 29 d. 58 m. ♍ Could any Boy of a moneths reading in Astrologie be guilty of greater Impudence and Ignorance then this Or did ever any man rant so vainly under the Canopy of Astrologie and know so little thereof as doth this Owl Lilly No more Eagle Sir until your skill be mended Howbeit saith Lilly This Figure and Vernal Scheme agreeing with the King of Swedes Nativity Let his Majesties Enemies brag of this ill position of Heaven which by Gods blessing may render him victorious in the Acquisition either of a Battel if he be in Campania or a City or Town if in the Siege of one or if at Sea a Maritime Victory If false Figures promise Victory Lilly may prove a true Prophet in some of these things but certainly from false Figures fallacious Victories must be presaged And such will those be that the K. of Swede obtains about this time notwithstanding Lillies Parasitical Pen. For Saturn is now in Quartile to the place of the dire Direction but lately mentioned and to the Cusp of the King of Swedens hopes in his Radix and Revolution also But Lilly is to be read backward as men read Hebrew when he promiseth Victory let the King of Sweeden be sure to expect loss For conclusion Lilly saith It was his intention had he not been prevented to have delivered somewhat of the Tutelary and Presidentiary Angels c. and boasts of the Expositors that follow the Septuagint and of the Fathers viz. Dionysius Origen Basil Nazianzen Clemens Alexandrinus Damascen Hillary c. But he understands the Doctrine of Angels and those learned Fathers both alike i. e. as much as he doth Astrologie viz. onely to brag and boast with that he may the better pass for a Scholar among the ignorant And to this end steals three or four sayings which he understands not out of Dingley of Angels who cites those Authorities he impertinently mentions and would needs enforce them upon the world as the fruits of his own Phlegmatick and Drowsie Contemplation and Studies and for a farewel triflingly concludes This learning will finde cold entertainment with Atheists Ranters and Paddies Certainly if Mr. Lilly be the Author of it 't will be fit onely for the reading of such kind of Fellows and those perhaps are his principal Acquaintance and Disciples But what Mr. Lilly should mean by Paddies I cannot devise for Rider and Thomas own no such word unless he mean one that bestrides the King of Swedes Sumpture Horse which if he do now he hath crackt his Credit in Astrologie I would have him become Probationer for the place So I descend from his general Prognostications to his monethly Fictions which I shall but lightly examine and so pass them until the whole year shall more particularly inform me of his failings For I question not but his Predictions and those of Montelion Knight of the Oracle as they are calculated for one and the same Meridian of Truth and have one and the same foundation in Art so one and the same success will crown them SECT 3. His Monethly Fictions examined IN January Mr. Lilly predicts Notstanding the ranting and ryming Pamphlets of illiterate Fellows we hope some considerable victory will be gained by the Swedes c. Indeed Sir the M. C. ad ♂ ♄ comes on too fast for this to be true But if the King of Swede had no such Direction operating what Reason or Authority hath Lilly to prefer his own ignorant hopes in the room of Art or doth all his skill in Astrologie depend upon hopes and expectations without any solid demonstration Doth this ignorant fellow think that Mars his now squaring ♃ in the King of Swedes Nativity and at the same time transiting the tenth house thereof together with a Quartile of Sol and Saturn from the third and fifth Houses both of his Radical and Revolutional Figures do any way augment or encourage his hopes Lilly these Arguments will prove you an absolute Lyer I confess had the Swede only ranting and riming Pamphlets to oppose him he might escape the better although he never consulted Lillies lying-Almanack In March he scramblingly writes If the season permit the scrambling Pens of Ideots will prove false Prophets Did ever any man that pretended to understand sence render himself a more scrambling Ideot than Lilly doth here Prethee Mr Lilly tell me what season that is which the scrambling Pens of Ideots or others prove Prophets in let them be either true or false Is it Spring Winter Summer Autumne I protest for this conceit I could afford to Chronicle thee WISE WILLIAM LILLY in the next Impression of Erra Pater but that were to abuse thee more than this book is designed to do for 't is the office and duty of this to speak truth But saith he some happy success near this time is designed for his Majesty of Swede If any such thing be designed it must be either by the energy of the Heavens or some other power by the Heavens there is no such thing designed but the contrary as M. C. ad ♂ ♄ nearly touching now denotes it being attended on by an ♂ of ♃ and ☿ celebrated in the Twelfth and Sixth Houses of his Radix and Revolution also presaging much Treachery and Infortunacie in the room of the happy success Lilly boasts of If it be promised by any other power Lilly should have told us so but a Golden Bribe can bend a Buzzards Pen any way In April he rantingly writes Let men and devils or all earthly devils do their worst the Noble Swede will now again be successful according to his present condition even by Sea or Land or near it This good Christian Astrologer complained of Atheists and Ranters c. that were his Antagonists but could any Atheistical or Ranting Fellow in the world write more Rantingly and Atheistically then himself hath here Let Men and Devils and all earthly Devils c. Sure this ranting-raving Fellow supposes that the Swede hath not 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

Merlinus Anglicus Of all which Barbarous and Ridiculous Stuff I need in strictness take no further notice then this LILLY WRIT IT A Fellow that cannot tell how to reason but to raile onely That knows nothing of Astrologie but the name which he makes use of as a Cloak to cover his Ignorance That knows neither how to take or to make an Argument That complies with any Government so that he may be thought the State-Astrologer In which respects I account him beneath the revenge of the Pen of any ingenious Person or Scholar and would have him therefore to know that the grand reason why I set not my name at length in my Books against him is the probability of my purchasing the censure of the ingenious and learned Artists for entering the Lists per Nominem with so base and low-orb'd a Fellow unfitting for a Man to Cope with much less an Artist Nevertheless in regard of my promise to the world in my last Lash of this Quack entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Spurious Prognosticator and lest that he should cry Victory before he be harnessed for the Battel and so in his own conceit pass for a Conqueror I will rip him up and shew his Nakedness and Folly to the world somewhat more largely then he hath done although his own Pen hath been a sufficient Index thereof in his idle and addle Fictions for the ensuing year Wherein as briefly as I may I will prove him to be the greatest Enemy to Astrologie that this age hath brought forth a meer Ignorant in it though he quack so much under the Canopy of it an Illiterate Abusive Pragmatical Fellow void of Civility Ingenuity and Learning And that I may not loose him in my Chase I will observe the same Method as in my last viz. First to begin with his Epistle Secondly his general Prog Thirdly his Monethly Fictions And then I shall appeal to the world whether he be not an Owl rather then an Eagle in Astrologie SECT 1. His Epistle Examined WIlliam Lilly in the beginning of his Epistle makes his Introduction to his Excuse with a notorious Contradiction of himself and a most high and injurious Scandal to Astrologie and the ingenious Students thereof in these words The many turnings and windings and changes of Government in England in 1659. what Man or Angel could predict And a little further he saith They meaning the Changes c. were not in any way demonstrable or to be found out by the sharpest Rules of Astrologie Had Mr. L. been Friend either to Himself Astrologie or Astrologers he could never have made so Contradictious Senseless and Ridiculous an Excuse for 1. herein he gives the Lye to all that ever himself hath formerly and now written and 2. he bespatters all those ingenious Artists that did predict and that from the known Rules of Astrologie those many Changes that happened in England 1659. And 3 he casts dirt in the beautiful Face of Astrologie it self insinuating an incertainty or deficiency of its Rules and Aphorisms and a perfect impossibility of any Man or Angel to predict those Changes mentioned thereby 1. He giveth the Lye most broadly and shamefully to himself for in all his partyworks formerly he rantingly and ravingly also argues against the Divines That in the great Book of Heaven are all Changes on Earth written and that himself was born to predict them sometimes more tacitely at other times more largely See his Alm. 1655. and his Epistle to his Alm. 1658. in particular where he says There is no Emergency good or bad that happens on Earth but hath a full manifestation from the Configurations of the Heavens And that Italy France and his Holiness himself have cause to remember how ominous his Predictions have proved to them Nay he cracks more largely in his Worlds Catastrophe That what he cannot do by Common Rules of Astrologie he can by Angels and Spirits yea so well is he acquainted with such Whimsies and Vanities as he proclaims it himself that he shall go near when time serves to give every Nation of Europe a touch of its duration and continuance from considering the Angel or Genius of it But now neither He nor Man or Angel is able to predict any thing of Mundane Affairs from the Rules of Astrologie by which it conspicuously appears that Mr. L. and his skill also is subject to a strange kind of Fluctuation Nunc huc nunc illuc exemplo nubis aquosae Now here soon there much like a Watrish Cloud But tell me Mr. L. canst thou expect to pass thus to the world undiscovered and still be thought an Astrologer Dost thou think and believe all men are as ignorant and contradictious as thy self If not Oh! William William monstrous William Lilly How cam'st thou here to shew thy self so silly 2. He abusively bespatters all ingenious Artists too For doth it handsomly follow because Mr. L. is ignorant in Astrology and by consequence of predicting those eminent Changes which hapned in 1659. that therefore all Ingenious and true-born Artists are so too If Mr L. like an unexpert traveller misseth the way he is to go and tumbleth into a Bog or Quagmire Must he therefore be angry at those persons acquainted with the Road that they do not tumble in with him for company What fault was it of Mr VVharton Trigg Tanner Wing Gadbury c. that Mr L. presented himself an Ideo● instead of an Artist to the World in his botching bungling Predictions That he must thus traduce their skill and impeach their Reputation in Astrology as if they were as very ignorants therein as himself But Mr L. having proved himself a perfect Ignorant in the Art he professeth by his unclerklike and unwarrantable Predictions and seeing R.L. P. gone and his Northern Lion Rampant going is resolved as much as in him lies to down with Astrology also that the honest Astrologers themselves may fall likewise Whose ruine and destruction it is plain he thirsts after for their presuming to detect him and his Ignorance he being it seems captivated by that Ranting and Tyrannical Principle described by the Poet Pereant amici dummodo una inimici pereant He cares not though Friends ruin'd bee So Enemies bear them company 3. He casts dirt in the face of Astrology also for if by the Aphorisms and Rules thereof others were enabled to predict those Changes spoken of then is not Astrology so incapacious or deficient as Mr L. here renders it but by the Rules thereof other persons viz. those severall men before mentioned were enabled to predict those Changes c. Ergo c. But Mr L. seeing plainly enough his own Reputation begin to sink and his Writings every where hissed off the Stage with disparagement is not contented to fall alone but would fain give Astrology its fatall blow that both might perish together Not unlike the Devill or Dragon mentioned in the Revelations who not well pleased to tumble headlong from Heaven

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