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A30887
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The Shepheards kalender newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers.
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Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547.
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Wing B713; ESTC R16875
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xxxiii year and if he escape he shall live lxxxiv year after nature The woman that shall be born in this time shall be amiable and fair and shall not be long with her first husband and after she shall inioy another by her good and true service and she shall have honour and victory of her enemies shee shall suffer pain in the stomack she shall be wise and have wounds in her shoulder she ought to fear her later daies which shall be doubtfull by venim and she shall live lxx year after nature The days of Mars and of Saturn to them been right greeable and the days of Iupiter to them been contrary they shall be sweet of word and pricking with their tail and will murmure detracting other and say otherwise then they would be said by Of the sign of Sagittarius YE ought to know that he which is born under Sagittarius from mid November to mid December shall have good effect and shal have mercy of every man the which he seeth he shall obtain and have by revelation he shall go far to desert places unknown and dangerous and shall return with gaines he shall see his fortune increase from day to day he will not hide that that he hath he shall have some signes in his hands or feet he shall be fearfull at xxii year he shall have some perill he shall passe the sea to his lucre and shall live lxxxii year and viii monthes after nature The woman that is born in this time shall love to labour she shall have divers thoughts for strange strifes and may not see one weep she shall have victory over her enemies she shall spend much silver by evill company she shall be called mother of sons and shall suffer many evils she shall take great pain to the end that she may have goods of her kinsemen She ought to be marryed at xiii year and she shall have pain in her eyes at xiv year and shall have great ioy at xviii year she shall suffer dolour by envy and shall be separate from ioy and shall live lxxii year after nature The days of Venus and Luna been right good the days of Mars and Saturn been evill and as well the man as the woman shall be inconstant and unstable in deeds they shall be of good conscience and mercifull better to strangers then to themselves and they will love God Of the sign of Capricornus HE the which is born under Capricornus from mid December to mid Ianuary shall be â—racundious a fornicatour a lyer and shall be always labouring and shal be nourished with strange things he shall have many crimes and noyses hee shall be a governour of beasts with four feet he shall not be long with his wife he shall suffer much sorrow and heavinesse in his youth he shal leave many goods and riches he shall have a great perill at xvi year shall be of a great courage he shall haunt honest people and shall bee rich by women and shall be conductour of maidens his brethren will make divers espyings upon him and he shall live lxx year and four months after nature The woman that is born in this time shall be honest and fearful she shal surmount her enemies and have children of three men she will go many pilgrimages in her youth and after have great wit she shall have great goods she shall have pain in her eyes and shall be in her best estate at xxx year and shall live lxx year and four monthes after nature The days of Saturn and of Mars to them been good the days of Sol been contrary And both man and woman shall be reasonable and envious Of the sign Aquarius THe man that is born under the sign of Aquarius from mid Ianuary unto mid February shall be lovely and irefull he will not beleeve in vain he shall have silver at xxiv year he shall be in estate he shall win where he goeth or he shall be sore sick and shall be hurt with iron he shall have fear on the water and afterward shall have good fortune and shall goe into divers strange countryes The woman that is born in this time shal be delicious and have many noises for her children she shall be in great perill at the age of xxiv year she shall be in felicitie she shall have domage by beasts with four feet she shall live lxxvii year after nature The days of Venus and of Luna be right good for them the days of Mars and Saturn been contrary and both the man and the woman shall be reasonable and they shall not be over rich Of the sign of Pisces HE that is born under the signe of Pisces from mid February to mid March shall be a great goer a fornicatour and mocker and shall be covetous he will say one thing and doe another hee shall find money hee will trust in his sapience and shall have good fortune he shall be a defender of Orphelius and widdowes hee shall be fearfull on water he shall passe soon all his adversities and shall live lxxiii year and v. months after nature The woman that is born in this time shall be delicious familier in iests pleasant of carriage fervent and shall have sicknesse in her eyes and shall be sorrowfull by shame Her husband will leave her and she shall have much pain with strangers she shall not have her own she shall have pain in her stomack and she shall live lxxvii year after nature The days of Mars and of Saturn to them been contrary and both the man and the woman shall live faithfully Thus endeth the Nativities of men and women after the twelve signes CHAP. LIV. Here after followeth the ten Christian Nations I Pretend in this little treatise to speak of divers Christian nations the which be divided in x. of the which I will declare as I have found written in the latine tongue and will redige it to our English maternal as Shepheards speaketh in the fields after the capacity of mine understanding And if in so doing I have erred I require all other Shepheards for to excuse my youth and to amend where as I have made default And where as I have fayled I submit mee unto amendment for against amends no man may be The first Nation is of Latines IN the Nation of Latines for the superiours is the Emperour and many Kings That is to wit the most Christian redoubted King of England and of France with many noble Dukes Earles Viscountes Barons and Knights and is the nation most resplendishing of all other in honour force and chivalry In the nation of Spain been the Kings of Castile of Aragon of Portingale of Navarre and other Lords In the Nation of Italie is the King of Cicile and the King of Naples and many other Lords as of Venice Florence and Gaone In Almayne beside the Emperour is divers Kings as of Scotland Hungary Boheme Poloney Asia Fryse Ruisse Hornegy Almacie and Croacy and many