Heaven and those immediately concerned in his Honour and Preferment are under the Earth and some of them Cadent But take Cardan's Opinion in this Case Cum Sol Jupiter Luna bene disponuntur cum fixis fuerint fortunatis Directiones ad tempus juventutis bonae terminantur plâ—res Revolutiones fortunatae tunc heros maximus vir evadit Lib de Judi Geniturarum Cap. 26 Cardini Si Sol Jupiter Mars vel Saturnus in trigono igneo fuerit vel in locis sublimibus vel cum fixis nobilibus vel se aspâ—ientes erit natus magni nominis ratione patentiae Et si Sol cum Joâ—â— Mercurio in aereis eodem modo fuerit ratione industriae Seg. 3. Aphâ—ris 135. Cardani VI. Of his Friends and Friendship Enemies and Imprisonment It is most certain that every popular man must naturally contract Friendship and Envy Friends and Enemies and I dare engage that this Native will have a large share in both as all men meet with that have such Positions from Cardinal Signs and Violent Rays and were not Jupiter strong in his Ascendent and the Moon in Trine to the Sun both in Mundo Zodiaco he would feel the Fury of his Enemies more than the Favour of his Friends He will have Enemies and those malicious ones but his Friends and the Friendship he will receive will screen and defend him from the greatest of their Fury and yet his Enemies no small people neither Notwithstanding I think the Square of the Sun and Mars and the Opposition of Sâ—turn to the Sun and Venus will give him Troubles yet they will be in the latter part of his Life and not attended with Imprisonment or Confinement for Jupiter in his Ascendent will defend both his Person and Reputation And it is my Opinion That in all Nativities that have such popular Positions as this Native hath he must have many Friends and also many Enemies and both sorts men of great and eminent Quality but Jupiter in his own House in the Ascendent will give him that obliging Temper that will make his Friends the greater number by far by his fair and genteel Carriage VII Of his Sickness and Diseases Losses Troubles c. In this case the Great Ptolâ—my adviseth us to consider the Two Angles of East and West and whether the Luminaries are there and joyned to either of the Maleficks which in this Scheme you see is not so but on the contrary Jupiter defends the prime Angle and doth irradiate the other with his opposite Rays Nor is there any Malefick in the Sixth House afflicting or afflicted which by our Author is much to be minded in judging Diseases which he distinguisheth from Laesiones or Hurts of the Body I therefore conclude he will not be subject to any fixt perpetual Disease or Infirmity of Body but to such as will return at some Intervals on proper Directions c. and these are Disorders from the Spleen mixt with Nephritick Pains and when grown into years vertiginous disorders of the Head and perhaps the Gout but generally of a healthy Constitution otherways His Troubles are to be considered first in their nature and so we must judge them to proceed from Saturn and Mars who afflicts his Sun the persons by them signified are false and fly Friends and malicious Enemies to hinder his progress in publick Affairs And 2dly as to the time they will happen which may be known by the Directions preceding and those will not appear till the after part of his Life some few fall in the former part of it but they are not considerable if compared with the good Directions that will attend him Lossâ—s and Damage to his Estate may happen divers ways for we find Satura Lord of his Second in Square to Mars and Opposition to Vâ—nus and the Part of Fortune in a perfect â—undane Square to the Mâ—on from the Fifth and Seventh This threatens him with Loss by Play or Gâ—ming and indeed I would advise this Native to shun Gaming of all sorts for it will be destructive to him and his Estate and I dare venture to tell him positively That whatever he plays for he will lose and always be unsuccessful in Pleasures of that kind There seems to be other Losses likely to attend him also signified by Venus afflicted by Mars and Saturn Women will projudice him if he is too intimate and familiar with them but especially Lewd Women because Venus is nearest in Opposition to Saturn Lord of his Second Therefore it will be his great Wisdom to avoid these ruinous Courses and all ill Company or Acquaintance VIII Of his Profâ—ssion and Employment and â—hat he may be inclin'd to I would not have my Reader think by the Title of this Paragraph that I intend to pitch upon a Trade or think he will ever settle to one no he that hath Jupiter in his Ascâ—ndent and Five Planets in Cardinal Signs will employ his Thoughts in things of another nature and quality than a Trade and also endeavour to find business suitable to his humor In this Nativity Mercury is the prime Significator of his Business and Inclination and next Venus and Mars the one Lady of the Tenth and the other her Dispositor And all these we find in Equinoctial and Tropical Sigâ—s and both Venus and Mercury in Conjunction with the Sun in his Exaltation this shews his Employment will be business of Credit and Honour And if we consider the Moon applies to the Trine of Mercury and she in his Terms the Ascendent Saturn Mars and Venus all in the Terms of Mercury from whence I conclude his Employment will be Mercurial belonging to the Pen Accounts or such like bookish Business that he will incline to Secondly As the Sun Mercury and Venus are in Mars's House and the Sun's Exaltation so I judge his Employment will be among those concerned in the Government of a Nation or an Army or the like business of Credit Honour and Publick Affairs perhaps something of a Secretary Publick Minister or Envoy and this the rather because of the Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour I do not desire to predict the particular thing because Cardan says Cumquâ— hoc scire exquisitè emnino sit impâ—ssibile per genera res erit diduâ—â—rds Seg. 6. Apho. 43. Cardani â—ut I have been the larger on this part as well as some other parts of my Judgment because I am of opinion that this young Gentleman will come to understand this Art himself when he arrives at years of Maturity there being an Aphorism in Cardan that takes place in this case exactly thus Quando Luna in Occidente Jupiter in Oriente in Marâ—is ospectu natus fato Astrologiae credet Aphor. 181. Seg. 5. Card. If he believes it very probable it is he may also study it IX Lastly Of his Death the Cause Kind and Time of it Death you know is the natural Consâ—quence of Life and it
is hard to say whether it is a Blessing or a Punishment to us But be it as it will no man lives that shall not taste of it and therefore as I have begun with his Life in a natural way so I will go on to his Death and the time of it as near as I can According to this Correction we have before us the first Direction that is or can be allowed dangerous to Life is the Moon Giver of Life to the Cusp of the Seventh at 39 years and 7 months old but I am partly certain that cannot kill because the Moon at the same time comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter just after it motu conversâ— and within 9 degrees of his Square so that I cannot allow that to hit him yet he will have some Illness at that time but without eminent Danger But when the Moon comes to the Opposition of the Sun at â—1 years of age almost I do not think he will escape it because it is followed by such a train of Directions after it no less than 10 but the next and immediate Direction that succeeds iâ— is the Square of Mars and from him we must seek the Species of the Disease Mars you see is in Capricorn in Square to the Sun Saturn and Mercury hence I judge his Distemper to be a Fever complicated with disorders of the Reins and Head perhaps Delirious and Nephritick if not a Suppression of Urine totally The Direction toucheth in the end of the year 1737. but the precedingRevolution being no ways violent Saturn being then with Mars in 9 degrees of Gemini and Jupiter in 7 degrees of Pisces I judge it will not affect him till the beginning of the year 1738. about the time of the Ingress or a little after Saturn then being in 19 degrees of Gemini and Mars in the middle of Aquary and when Mars comes to the beginning of Aries or the lâ—tter end of Pisces he will influence the place of Direction at which time it is probable he may feâ—l the Influence of his rugged Stars I have already told you That the Estimate Time was a little after I mane and my Rule generally is That Children are born sooner than the time commonly given and so may this for ought I know for the Direction that I principally rely on in the Correction is but a single one to suit to a single Accident which tho' they seem rational and probable yet I dare not be positive to the truth of the Correction though I believe it to be true But if he should happen to be born at 1 of the Clock or a few minutes before then the Moon will not be Giver of Life but the Ascendent if so the Cause and Time of Death must be sought from the Horoscope and not from the Moon and therefore I will give you the Directions to the Ascendent in a Figure set to that time Ascendens ad ☌ ♃ 7 45 8 6 1695 Ascen in Ascendens ad â–´ ♄ 22 23 24 4 1711 15 â™ Ascendens ad ☌ ♂ 22 33 24 6 1711  Ascendens ad âš¹ ♀ 24 3 26 4 1713  Ascendens ad semiquad ☉ 29 45 32 5 1719  Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 35 57 39 1 1726  Ascendens ad sesquiquod ♄ 37 3 40 2 1727  Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 40 23 43 8 1730  Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 51 12 54 10 1741  If the Ascendent is Hileg when it comes to the Body of Mars it will be a severe time for danger to his Life but I do not think he will dye of it because he hath a favourable Revolution no evil secondary Directions and Jupiter on the Place of Direction to a degree and in his radical Horoscope all that year and what is more it is a strong vital Nativity At the Age of 32 years and 5 months the Ascendent comes to the Semiquadrate of the Sun which will give him another dangerous fit of Sickness but not so bad as the other yet both of them attended with danger but I think he may outlive them But at the age of 40 years if the Horoscope is Apheta he will certainly dye without a Miracle from Heaven for according to my Skill in Astrology I can by no means see any ground to judge his Life will be continued beyond that time And to say the truth his Nativity cannot be exactly and truly corrected till the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars it being the first Direction of consequence to an Angle and no other Directions can correct true either in this or any other Nativity Directions to the Sun and Moon will come near but the Angles exact And so I come to say something to the effects of his Directions in the former Table At the age of 4 years and 3 months he was taken into the particular care of a Gentleman and ever since hath been plentifully and genteely provided for by a Relation and a Person of Quality He had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Jupiter At the age of almost 8 years he had the Small Pox and at 8 and 10 months he fell down a pair of Stairs for this I allow the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn cum sine Lat. with some other things already mentioned Aged 16 years he hath the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn and to the Trine of the Sun just after on these Directions he will be placed out in the world perhaps sent to the University or otherwise disposed Aged 17 or 18 years the Sun to the Square of Jupiter mundo the Moon to the Sesquiquad of Jupiter mundo and the Part of Fortune to the Parallel of Saturn in mundo his affairs of Life will be uneasy and he hindred in his Preferment according to his Capacity Aged 19 years and 6 months the Moon to the Trine of Venus and Sol ad Tr. Jovis this gives a healthy Constitution all things go easy and pleasant and some Preferment seems to offer it self Aged 20 years and 6 months the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars this will give a Fit of Sickness and a ruggedness in his Affairs his Friends seem to be but indifferent in his Interest and all things for a short time go but untoward Aged 22 years the Moon comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of Mars he grows vigorous in his Health new Friends appear with Interest and Preferment and perhaps some attempt at Marriage Aged 24 years the Moon to the Parallel of Mars about this time he wâ—ll be subject to a feverish Hâ—bit and a Sâ—rfeit but a fit of illness will happen with a little Trouble or Disappointment in his affairs and I do think he will keep some wild Company under the Influence of this Direction Aged 25 years the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter this Direction will certainly introduce the Native into the Acquâ—intance of new and honourable Friends by
a Nativity given me for Mahomet the Impostor April the 5th at Noon Anno Christi 569. the Planets places to that time are as followeth ♄ 7 59 ♎ ♀ 20 8 ♈ ♃ 26 10 ♌ ☿ 12 29 ♊ ♂ 21 1 ♊ ☽ 1 54 â™’ ☉ 6 2 ♉     ♄ 2 44 No. ♀ 1 3 So. ♃ 1 20 No. ☿ 0 26 No. ♂ 1 21 No. ☽ 4 19 So. If any man thinks he can make any thing of it or look on it as a Curiosity let him try his Skill for my part it cannot sink into my head that it is possible to be true or that he himself knew when he was born his Parents being obscure People and he sent abroad young as we may judge by the Craft he had learned However this is certain that he was but an obscure fellow before he fell upon this Crafty Design of Religion-making and though the proof of its falsity is not plain yet you may enter this also into the Catalogue of doubtful Nativities which is all one Gâ—â—orge Trapezontius is said by Garcaeus and Origanus to be born April the 4th 1396. but by Gadbury April the 24th and by Gauricus April the 4th 1395. so that here is a whole Year's difference and dispute in the matter and this from two great Men Gauricus and Origanus how they came by this Nativity I know not but I do observe that Junctine agrees with Origanus and Garcaeus Origanus and after him J. Gadbury tells us that Regiomontanus was born June the 6th ho. 4. min. 40. P. M. 1536. But Gassendus in his Life Junctine Gauricus Garcaeus and Cardan all say he was born in 1436. in June as aforesaid You see the difference is no great matter but a hundred years I am afraid my old Friend J. G. and Origanus are both out of the way and ought to be corrected and not the others because I find in Alstedius's Thes. Chro. pag. 484. that Regiomontanus was famous about the Year 1470. and as I remember he lived but forty odd years Rantzovius says he died when he was almost 42 years of Age as quoted by J. G. Gauricus says he died when he was 51 years 5 months and about 12 days old of a Pestilential Fever in the Hâ—â—spital of the Holy Ghost at Rome And yet Helvicus in his Chronology tells us he died Anno 1483. which if his Nativity is true makes him 47 at his death being 5 years more than the Age Rantzovius allows and four less than Gauricus affirms he was Thus you see how they differ about this Great Man's Death as well as his Birth and indeed you may guess at one by the other and though you call him Regiomontanus that was not his true name but from the Country where he was born which was Franconia a little Eastward from the Rhine and Northward from Constance a Hilly Mountainous Country sometimes called Mons Regius from thence Johannes de Monte Regio or de Regio-Monte which you will and his true Name says Gassendus in his Life was Johannes Mullerus Gauricus tells us Martin Luther was born Anno 1484. the 22d of October at 1 ho. 10 min. P. M. but Cardan says it was the same day at 10 ho. P. M. and after all this Garcaeus says he was born Novemb. 10. at Eleven of the Clock at Night 1483. so we have our Choice which Year and which time of the Day or Night we think most probable And yet every one that hath printed this Great Man's Nativity have believed themselves in the right and could without doubt have proved each of them true by the concurrence of Accidents and Directions But be it how it will we may justly rank this among the rest of the very doubtful Nativities One makes him born by Day and gives him Capricorn ascending as Gauricus another by Night as Cardan and gives Leo ascending Cardan Gauricus Garcaeus and Origanus all of them tell us that Erasmus Roterdamus was born the 28th of October Anno 1467. with Libra ascending But if you look into his Life printed before his Colloquies the Author of that tells you he was born the 5th of the Calends of November which is the 28th of October Anno 1465. differing two years in his Birth from Cardan Gauricus c. but if you look into his Life printed at the end of his Colloquies Anno 1643. he tells us de anno quo Natus est apud Batavos non Constat Thus the four Authors are positive to 1467. The second Account is that he was born two years sooner and the third says that the Dutchmen themselves do not know the year when he was born and therefore may well pass for a doubtful Nativity And as they differ in his Birth so they differ in his Death also Gauricus says he lived 63 years and 11 months wanting 6 days Cardan says he lived to 70 years of Age and the Author of his Life says he lived 70 years 8 months and 15 days and died the fifth of the Ides of July 1536. which if true then he must be born in 1475. and the four first Authors mentioned are all in the wrong and his Nativity unknown to this day They are also divided in their Opinions about the Birth of Pope Leo the Tenth though they all agree in this That he ought to have a Nativity and they agree to make him one but they cannot agree upon the day For Garcaeus Gauricus and Junctine make him to be born at Sun-rising on the 11th of December 1475. but Cardan says he was born December the 9th at Sun-rising which will cause great alteration in the Moon 's place and something in all the Planets besides and therefore uncertain They are as much in confusion about the Birth and Nativity of Nicholas Copernicus as any of the rest for Junctine says he was born January 19. hor. 4. min 48. P. M. 1472. But Moestlinus as quoted by Gassendus says he was born February 19. hor. 4. min. 48. P. M. 1473. and after all Garcaeus tells you he was born on the 10th of February 1473. such is the variation and uncertainty of Nativities brought to prove the truth of the Art and its Rules It will not be improper in my Opinion to give you a short Account how they have managed Picus Mirandula's Nativity among the rest Junctine tells us he was born Febr. 24. 1463. at 2 h. 42 min. P. M. and so says Cardan Garcaeus and Lindbout say he was born 2 h. 42 min. ante occasum solis My Friend J. Gad. says it was 2 h. 42 min. post occasum solis and indeed in this I believe he is true But he is horribly out in the Year for he says he was born in 1464. which is false for Mars was the 24th of February that Year in 17 degrees of Aries but in the Year before on that day he was as they print him in about 13 degrees of Scorpio Had it been proper in this place I would have shewed you the
refer you it being plâ—in and easy to understand when in this case nothing could save on that Direction but on the contrary great Aggravations and Arguments of death by Ptolemy's Rule and therefore I can by no means allow this Native to pass and outlive the Moon to the body of the Sun and dye six years after it on the Moon to the Square of Mars in Zodiaco which Direction I am certain had not power to kill if the Sun could not Now if you please to take a little pains upon it you will find all things may be composed and made agree without any trouble or difficulty The Moon by Origanus being reduced to the time of the day and the Meridian of Rome is 8 degrees 57 minutes in Aquary and by altering the pole of the Moon about two degrees which is not above 12 or 13 minutes in time you will find that the Moon came at that time to the body of the Sun Sine Lat. The Moon 's pole in this Figure is 10 degrees And if you please to make it 12 degrees and a half you will find the Moon 's Oblique Ascension 315 d. and 22 m. the Oblique Ascension of the Sun 354 17 minutes which gives the Ark of Direction of the Moon to the body of the Sun S. L. 38 degrees 55 minutes and this turn'd into time gives 42 years and six months and this should give him some Hectical Habit of body if not a Consumption or else a Fever that may leave such a habit behind it Cardinal Matteus was born says Argol January the 13th min. hor. 19. 17 P. M. 1591. under the Latitude of 42. That he was made Cardinal by Pope Urban the Eighth July 13th 1643. on the Direction of the Sun to the Antiscion of the Moon having before passed the Square of Mercury and Venus who is Lady of the Ninth House in which was the Virgin 's Spike That Saturn in the Sixth gives defluxion and pains of the Gout with Running pains throughout the whole body from Cold humours that from these Complicated Diseases and the Ascendent to the Sextile of Saturn and Square of the Sun he dyed on the 19th of April 1650. being then Aged 59 years and three months The Figure followeth being set to his Time but my Division of the Heavens As to the Direction urged by Argol for his Preferment and the Arguments used to give it Credit they are so weak that no man will imagine there is any thing in them when he hath well considered the case For what signifies the Moon 's Rays to his Preferment she being by her Latitude near the Square of Saturn and he in this Scheme not likely to give or contribute to the Native's Preferment Then for the Squares of Venus and Mercury which he says the Sun had passed before the thing is true but they were so long before that they could give no assistance at all to this Direction for their Antiscion of the Moon falls in 16 degrees of Aries and those Squares fell in 12 degrees But suppose they had fallen nearer what good could they do It is the first time that I ever heard the Squares especially of Mercury were brought as an Argument and Cause to give Church Preferment But besides there is no such thing as the Antiscion of the Moon in 16 degrees of Aries for that falls in 20 degrees of Aries so that his Direction is no Direction nor his Arguments of any use to the end he hath brought them As to his death he uses such weak Arguments and impâ—â—per Directions as before for his Preferment Nay they are such as would make a man both angry and merry to read them for do you think it is reasonable to suppose the Sun could pâ—ss his own Square and not kill and the Ascendent to his Square should do it And why should the Ascendent to the â—extile of Saturn kill when it passed the Opposition of the Moon and Square of Saturn and it could not do it But besides all this Is it not more strange that the Ascendent should pass the Square of Mercury Lord of the Eighth and the Antiscien of the Moon who is in the Eighth and do no injury to his Life and yet dye so soon after on these two Directions by him mentioned If the Ascendent hath power to kill by Direction as he pretends it is strange he should escape on dangerous Directions to it and dye at last when there were none at all for the Square of the Sun and the Hexagon of Saturn did not come up till 12 or 14 years after he was dead Thus we are fitted with Rules to make us skilful in our Profession By these means have the Astrologers made Enemies to Astrology and indeed it is a wonder it hath any Friends being dressed up so scandalously as it is at present and hath been for Ages past And the way to make it reputable is to stop the mouths of its ignorant Opposers by making it appear First Rational and Secondly Certain But the Methods and Practices of the Professors of the last Age as well as the present I am sure will never do it and so I come to the Correction I shall make but a small alteration from Argol's Figure but what it is will be sooner and that about 12 minutes At which time the Right Ascension of the Midheaven is 221. d. 30 m. the oblique Ascention of the Ascendent 311 d. 30 m. Hence that Direction that gave his Preferment was the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter And for his death the Sun Hileg to the parallel of Saturn Motu Rapto to his own Square to the Mundane Square of Venus and to the Zodiacal parallel of the Moon and all these in Terminis Martis which is and ought to be considered likewise in this and such like cases The Pole of the Sun is almost 41 degrees and his oblique Ascension is 315 degrees 31 minutes The semidiurnal Ark of the Sun is 4 deg 37 min. the semidiurnal Ark of Saturn is 4 deg 33. min. The Sun's distance primary from the 10th House is 74 d. 4 m. the part proportional 16 d. 31 m. which substracted from that leaves the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Rapt parallel of Saturn 57 degrees 33 minutes This turn'd into time gives 58 years and 6 months and this Direction was the cause of the humours first falling into Rebellion and gave him the first stroke for his death The next was the Sun to the Mundane Square of Venus Ark 58 degrees 10 minutes this turn'd into time gives 59 years Then came the Sun to his own Square in Zotiaco Ark 58 degrees 18 minutes gives 59 years and two months And â—astly the Sun to the Zodiacal parallel of the Moon Ark 58 degrees 43 minutes and this was the fatal Direction that cut off his Life and now see them in their order as they stand ☉ ad par ♄ motu rapto 57 33 58 6 1649 ☉ ad â–¡ ♀ in
corpus ☿ 57 45    Luna ad par ♄ Zod. 58 59    ♠ad paral ♄ Zod. 58 59    Mercurius ad â–¡ ☽ cum lat 54 33 59 9 1710 Mercurius ad â–¡ ☽ sine lat 55 40 60 10 1711 Mercurius ad â–¡ ☽ Mundo 56 11    Mercurius ad â–¡ ☽ motu con 57 45    By what is done you see the years 1709. or 1710. are the years that I think will be â—atal and beyond which without a Miracle he will not live and so I leave it But I know the common method of judging in this case by the learned Teachers of Astrology about London is from the Sun Moon and Ascendent and which to pitch upon in this case they cannot tell nor can they shew you a reason why this man outlived the Moon to the Body of Saturn Lord of the Eighth or the Sun to the Square of the Moon his Dispositor The next Scheme I give you is of a young Woman living and well at the time of Writing and Pâ—inting this Treatise she was born October the 9th at 8 of the Clock in the Morning in the year 1679. near London and she was Married in the Summer anno 1696. on the Moon to the Body of Jupiter and Mars Lord of the Ascendent to the Body of Venus See the Figure This Nativity I have pitch'd upon to convince some People of the Force and Power of Semi and Sesquiquadrates for I understand â—here are some Alsatian Squires that are horribly learned who ridicule and laugh at them as believing themselves to know more than they do I also print it to invite some of our great Masters and Teachers of Astrology to do the like which I believe they dare not do notwithstanding the Noise they make This is the Estimate Time and taken by her Father who was my Friend and an ingenious man and I believe it cannot differ from the true Time 7 minutes In this Figure there are Three Directions to the Ascendent the Semiquadrate of the Sun the Sesquiquadrate of the Moon and the Body of Mars and these Directions I really think will kill but the exact time I will not be particular in because it is but the Estimate and not corrected but the time that I judge they will shew their effâ—cts will be the latter part of 1698. or beginning of 1699. and the Sesquiquadrate of the Moon toucheth first the Sun in this case being the Poiothanatos assisted by Mars but if this should happen to be before 8 manè about 7 or 8 minutes then Saturn will be Hileg which I believe he is not And now at last I will give you the Nativity of a Lady that is living also she was born the 20th of April diâ— Martis hor. 4 manè 1669. Lat. Lond. and I have only one thing to beg of the Teachers of Astrology in London but first see the Scheme The only thing among the many I could puzzle them about that I would ask them is About what Age this Lady will â—yâ—â— and what Direction they will allow for it I believe they wâ—â—l â—ardly venture to tell the World She will dye on the Ascendent to the Body of Jupiter Lord of the Eighth and yet perhaps they may for great is their ignorance in that case but I wish I could see it under their Hands I suppose they will not say she can live for ever and therefore since the must dye I desire them to lay their Heads together and tell me in Print what it is will kill her and when or be so ingenuous to confess they cannot then I will not be afraid to shew them my Skill when I say she will dye and what Directions I have already wrought And when they print theirs I will tell them what Directions she will dye on having already given them to a Gentleman who gave me the Nativity As to the Figure this is the Estimate time of it and therefore I may err in time 6 or 12 months as to the time of Death and so much I will allow them if they will be pleased to favour us with a Word or Two in Print about it When I use the Words They and Them I mean those that pretend to be Masters of the Art and considently tell the world in their Almanacks That they teach the Art in all its Parts with Secrets unknown to others Sic Stolidos fictâ virtutis Imagine fallunt FINIS Com. in pâ—el lib. 1. c. 2. â—ex 13. Ibid tex â— 14. Epist. nuncup ad Archiep. Hamilt Spec. Astr. Defence of Astrol. p. 161. Comm. in Ptol. lib 1. cap. 2 t. 14. 2 Tim. 3. 7. Lib. deâ— Revol Lib. de Gen. in Gen. 83. Com. in Ptol. l. 3. t. 38. Diapenâ—e is a sort of Mathematical Punch