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A01297	Antiprognosticon that is to saye, an inuectiue agaynst the vayne and vnprofitable predictions of the astrologians as Nostrodame, [et]c. Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Whervnto is added by the author a shorte treatise in Englyshe, as well for the vtter subuersion of that fained arte, as also for the better vnderstandynge of the common people, vnto whom the fyrst labour seemeth not sufficient; Antiprognosticon contra inutiles astrologorum prædictiones Nostradami, Cuninghami, Lovi, Hilli, Vaghami, & reliquorum omnium. English	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1560 (1560)	STC 11420; ESTC S116544	28,693	82

doubte but that they are moste true and certain For eyther they are shewed by a manifest figure that they muste nedes be true and that it were impossible to thinke otherwise of them then so or els by recitall of all the particulers one vniuersall is euermore concluded Therfore of suche foundations euery art is grounded which beyng surely layd meruallous workes are builded vpon them But if the soūdatiōs which ought to be most stronge and sure in any poynt doo fayle streighte way y t whole buildyng with great weight falleth downe and is destroied For dately experience teacheth vs that no structure can be firme and of continuance excepte the foundatiōs therof be first surely laide And reason teacheth the same lesson whiche with open mouthe crieth and biddeth alway to beware of the beginnings Whiche thynge although we see dayly in buyldyng of houses yet may we see it also yf we wyll vse a little diligence in euery arte and science As in Geometry it to a principle that from one poynt to an other you may alwaies drawe a streighte lyne this nowe by exaumple maye be demonstrated very easily Likewise it is an other groūde that all the three angles or corners of a triangle howe soeuer they be taken are equal vnto ii rectangles If this be shewed in euery particular kinde of triangle as Orthogonius Oxygoniꝰ Aequilaterus Scàlenus and suche lyke we shall plainly vnderstand that whiche is required And that we haue here sayde briefely in a fewe the same to be true in al other propositions he that hath but meanly trauayled in the sciences can beare witnesse But perchance some prognosticatour will start vp say that although this is easy to be shewed in suche thynges as almost we may perceiue by our sences yet the same in thynges farther of can scarsly be declared As y t greatnes of the starres or their distance from theearth or from themselues one from an other Doo not learned men teache that the Sunne is an hundreth sixty and six tymes greatter then the earth and that the Moone is thirty and nine tymes lesser thā the earthe We graunt that these matters be difficult and suche as hardly can be per swaded to the cōmon sort yet as difficulte as they be and harde to knowe there is a meane wherby men maye come to the science and vnderstādyng of them We haue the shadowe of the earthe as it were a ladder whereby we ascende into heauen and beholde many thynges wherevnto grosse wittes can not frame But by no waie is it possible that the principles of this arte of Astrologie may be either demonstra●…d or proued Ther is no mean wherby mās witte may atteyne to so greate knowlege ther is no methode no inductiō y t cā main tayn truth of th●…se propositions whyche they take for their principles Nowe therefore as I haue saide the foundation of this tower beeyng shaken the whole weyghte of Astrologye muste needes haue a greate and saubdeyne falle And as Capitaynes experte 〈◊〉 feactes of warre whenne they determyne vtterlye to subuerte and ouerthrowe a tower castell or other fortresse of their ennemies with vnderminyng they loose the foundations of it orels setting vnder it a quantitie of gunpowder blowe away the whole substance So we autendyng not onely to proue that youre arte is vnproufytable but also to condempne it to perpetuall prison of Oblinion and forgetfulnesse goe aboute to shewe that there neyther is nor can bee any suche arte of diuynation or forshewynge For by what reason are ye able to demonstrate or shewe that Saturne is so hurtefull malicious and pestilent By Induction What if he haue do mynyon as you tearme it in the Natiuitie of a Prynce a warryoure or a Sanguyne Naye there is nothyng dothe oftener fayle then Predictions of natiuities Howe thenne are you able to proue that this Planette dooeth so muche and so greate euylle amongest menne I for my parte coulde rather proue by probable reason thei contrarye For it is nothynge lyke that Saturne whiche is farthest frome the earthe shoulde haue the mooste earthely nature Besyde this he that is farre hygher thenne Uenus and nearer to the immense and large Fyrmamente whyche the Hebrewes doo call A stretchynge abroade by no meanes can bee counted woorse Wherefore is the Planette Iupyter more wholsome than Saturne In whose tyme whyle that he reygned or ruled on the earthe the same antiquytie wytnessethe that the golden worlde was the whyche flatterynge their king Iupiter oscribeth to him better effectes then to his father But how vnjust a thynge is it and agaynst all reason that the Sonne it selfe without whom thother planettes haue no more beautie then the earthe can searcely of them bee compted among the good ●…holsome starres where as he whiche with his heate geueth lyfe with his ●…hynynge lyght and with his beholdyng gladnes to all liuyng creatures If an arre of astrologie were to be inuen sed accordyng to reason shoulde haue the thiese rule among all starres as well planettes as fixed Lykewise the Moone whi the gouerneth humours shuld be seconde to the Sonne specially in dominion of lynyng creatures for as muche as by these two that is Heate and Moisture wherof the Sonne ruleth heate the Moon moist nes all lyfe is proserued and nourished By what argument are you persuaded to preferre a trine aspecte before a quartile where as the numbre of foure among the Pytha●…rsens which had the exact know Iudge of numbres and to theym referred all thynges was more reuerentely obserued then the rest in so much that by foure they were wonte to sweare But you wyll say●… that for the holye ●…rinities sake the numbre of iii. is preferred Thā grantyng the numbre of thre is good booth it folow that the numbre of foure in whiche God concluded the elementes their qualities and all perfecte essences to be eu●…l What persuadeth you to thynk that the. xii signs of the Zodsake haue so dyuers qualities and accordyng to resons iudgement contrary to nature For you will haue Aries to be fyery which is the beginnyng of the spryng more ouer you teach that Taurus which is a sygne of the spryng shuld be of earthly nature Which thyng how muche it striueth agaynst reason euery man may perceyue that knoweth aptly howe to referre the spryng tyme to the element ayre Cancer also the beginnynge of Sommer is safed to bee a watrie signe Howe fonde therfore 〈◊〉 vaine are your principles whiche you are not able by any reason to demonstrate or proue euvn fooles may easily vnderstande seyng you so foolyshly referre fyer to water and ayre to earth Besydes this it is no smalle matter in youre cunnyng to attribute to euery plnner his propre sygnes But here also howe much you diffre from your owne doctrine euen Chor●…bus hymselfe if he were present woulde perceyue When you ●…iuide the. xii lignes of the Zodiake into sowed orders or bandes To some you ascribe a nature erthy to some

ANTIPROGNOSTICON that is to saye an Inuectiue agaynst the vayne and vnprofitable predictions of the Astrologians as Nostrodame c. Translated out of Latine into Englishe Whervnto is added by the author a shorte Treatise in Englyshe as well for the vtter subuersion of that fained arte as also for the better vnderstandynge of the common people vnto whom the fyrst labour seemeth not sufficient Habet musca splenem formicae suabilis inest 1560. Henry Bennet Calesian Sonnet THe Poets write that Atlas did sustein On shulders huge y e massy heuēs frame So feigne they not that Saturns heauenly reygne And state he knew or could expresse y e same Thastrologers that neuer crept so hye Do●… vaunt they knowe what God doothe woorke in throne Affyrmyng that to knowe this mystery None can atteyne but onely they alone Whose fansies Fulce with booke of perfecte skyll Confutes with suche as vaynly do professe Thēselues to know of god the secrete will But yf I myght to these rewarde addresse I rede the rout that eies vnlerned bleares Shuld for their cunnynge weare kinge Midas eares Willyam Painter A Foule fall dontles Fulce doth geue thastrologers eche one Bycause no firme foundation they buylde their arte vpon Who doo surmyse and fondly fayne mens fortunes to foreshewe And make the symple forte beleue that they their fates can knowe But al thos●… bragges this boke doth breake and make them seeme full colde With argumentes atchieued by arte with reasons manyfolde Though Cunyngham the same doo carpe or Uaghan vayne it iudge Or other suche with scornefull scoffe thereat doo beare some grudge Sith Grindall graue the grist hath ground and Molens molendine The meale hath made whence bulted was and brought this flower fyne The lesse we nede theyr force to feare we haue suche stuffe in store Comparisons are odyous therefore I adde no more Comparatio omnis odiosa ¶ To his louyng frende W. F. OVR familiaritie is suche that neyther we haue neede of preoccupation nor yet of many wordes in vtteryng our requeste These circumstances therfore being cutte of I shall euen at one woorde desyre you that this translation of your Antiprogno●… may be publisshed and made cōmon for all men that either haue nede therof to vnderstande their errour orels shall haue pleasure therin to see the vanitie wherwith they haue ben blynded The rather thus trā slated bicause a great numbre of the busiest and most curious Astrologians in Englād vnderstand no latin at all orels so symply that they can not perceiue the mynde of a Latin writ●…r and also that the cōmon sorte of wel disposed men may hereby take some profite But if you thynk good to adde som what in this edition for the vnderstandyng of the common people you shall doo well in my opinion Thus fare you well From Seuenoke xxii of Octobre Your familiar frende Willyam Paynter SVCHF is the nature of mankynde carnestely desprous to haue knowledge of thynges to come that in seekyng out inuētyng of such artes as n●…ight seme to pertain to the certayn therof she hath taken greate and laborous paines For trauailyng to get out a science of Diuination or foreseeyng out of euery element she hath broughte foorth vnto vs Pyromancy whiche is to for shewe thyngs by the Fyre Hydromanci●… to declare of thynges to come by the water Geomancie by the Earth and diuers other artes of this kynde promisyng the knowledge of hy●…de and secrete matters And lest the practisers of these artes shoulde at any tyme beynge destitute of their bokes and instrumentes not bee able to tel of thynges to happen she hath found out that handlom art of foreshewyng by the hand which is an instrument that euery man car●…eth about with hym so that by this sciēce of Palmestry at no tyme nor place they shall be to seke of diuina●…ion or as they terme it Fortune tellyng ▪ Fynally there is nothyng so vaine or of so lyt●…l importance in w●…ich she hath not boulted o●…som cunnyng of forshewyng seyng she hath alredy set forth Capnomancy a●… Sciomancie whereof the one teacheth to haue vnderstandynge of thynges to come by smoke the other by shadow These thinges peraduenture myght seeme somwhat tollerable so long as mans witte is occupied in matters that are neare to hym I meane the elementes and such like if that those false diuinours would not drawe heuen it selfe and the starres to their superfluous rules of Diuination of whome a greate numbre doo not this modestly and as it were dius●…yng or gessynge but arrogātly do pronoūce their oracles as though they had ben giuen of Apollo Pithyus the god of foreshewing It were a smal matter if they told only of rayne and wethers but also they must ●…yl the whole world at their pleasure with warre sycknesse and rebellion What shall we say that they ar not content to set out their oracles generally and vniuersally but they must also thretten the lyfe of euery particular man as it were the goddesses of destenie manifest●…ly against the order of all learnyng and philosophie Neyther is it ynoughe for theim to haue lordshy●… and dominion ouer menne●… bodies excepte they dyd also charge they●… myndes and soules wyth vertues or ●…es according to their owne preceptes rules grosse errour to desect vanite to open au thoritie to eleuate extenuate I thought it worth the labour bicause they so shameful ly now adais do set forth their wares to sell among al mē partly because they so proudly with al their force inuey ageinst such mē as contemne despise these and suche lyke their predictiōs Yea som are not ashamed to cōmend a necessary vse of their diuinati ons But that onely is necessary if we beleue Cicero without the which we can not lyue Then how many thousandes of men be there which not only lyue but also lyue wel and yet neuer haue regarde or care so muche as ones to see prognostications Other some there be whiche call all men that be desirous of goodly arts and sciences to their Almanach as to a storehouse replenyshed with all precious iewelles Finally what signe of arrogance or boastyng can be named whiche in the booke of these pro phecies may not easyly be perceiued Ther fore who soeuer dare be so bolde as ones to open his mouthe agaynste these oracles streight way shall bee called an ignoraunt person a detractour and a sycophant And this is the cause that so fewe haue taken vpon thē to detect opē their trifling in pro gnostications leste he shoulde incurre the reproches and contumelies of the prowde and arrogant rable of Prognosticatoures For in our tyme as farre as I haue knowledge among al men the most famous and excellent Doctour Peter Dacquet onely hath both learnedly and playnely declared that the vse of this fayned art is altogither vnprofitable for the woorkes and practises of phisike But I beynge as I thinke sufficiently armed agaynste all the assaultes of all prognosticatours