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Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. English. Selections.
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Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Tetrabiblos.
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be anone they suspecte them and drede for fere to be begyled For there is no man that loueth a woman by carnall affeccion / but it is by the influence of Venus / and but fewe men can escape out of her daūger This planet Venus reygneth in .xii. monthes ouer the .xii. sygnes ¶ The proprytes of Venus ALl these men women / that ben borne vnder Venus / they shall be very gaye louers / pleasaunt and delycyous / and moste comonly they shall haue blacke iyen / lytell browes / red lyppes and chekes / with a smylynge chere / they shall loue the noyse of trumpettes / claryons / and of other mynstralsy / and they shall be pleasaunt syngers with swete voyces / full of wanton toyes / playes / and skoffynges / and shall greatly delyte in daunsynge / in castynge of gamboudes / with lepynge and spryngynge / wyll vse playinge at the chesse / cardes / tables / desyre oft to comen of luste loue / coueyte often swete metes drynkes / as wyne / be often dronken / desyre lechery / and the beholdynge of fayre women / and the women of men in lyke wyse And vse the dede of flesshely luste often tymes they wyll desyre fayre clothes of gay coloure and fyne / with rynges of vanyte / all vayne pleasure of the worlde / with perles precyous stones / they shall loue floures with swete smelles / yet shall they be of good fayth and they shall loue other as well as them selfe / they shall be lyberall to theyr frendes / they shal haue fewe enemyes / if they be browne / they shall be well proporcyoned of body / and if they swere it is true / ye maye byleue them / and Venus gouerneth the kydneys of man ¶ Syxtely of the fayre planet Mercury MEercury the fayre planette / is next vnder Venus / is masculyne next aboue the Mone / This Mercury is very full drye of nature his two pryncypall sygnes ben these / Gemini is the firste that reygneth in the armes / and in the handes of man or woman / the other sygne is Virgo that gouerneth the nauyll and the stomacke of man / this planet is Lorde of speche in lykewyse as the Sonne is lorde of lyghte This planet Mercury passeth cyrcuyte the .xii. sygnes / in CCC xxx viii dayes ¶ The proprytes of Mercury WHo so is borne vnder Mercury shal be very subtyll of wyt / and shal be a deuoute persone to god / and haue good conscyence / and shall be very crafty in many scyences / he with his wysdom and laboure shall gette hym many frendes and louers He shall euer folowe resorte to them that be of good maners / shall be fortunate on the see to vse the course of marchaundyse / he shall be very gracyous / he shall haue harme by women / whan he is maryed men shall nat sette so moche by hym as they dyd before / he wyll haue great loue to ladyes and gentyl women / but yet they shall nat be maysters ouer hym / he wyll be a very good man of the churche / or a relygyous man / and he shall nat loue to go a warre fare / he wyll hate theues swerers / he shall gather great goodes by his wysdom If he be a man of the worlde he shall be perfyte in some hande crafte / he shall loue well to preche and to speke fayre rethoryke language / and to talke of Phylosophy geometry / he shall loue well wrytynge to rede euer in straunge bokes / to caste accomptes of great nombres / and shall be a great maker of balades / songes / metres / and rymes / he shal be perfyte in the arte of musyke and loue it / he shall loue mesurynge metynge / and shal be some great clothe maker / he shal be seruaūt to some great lorde / or ellys a receyuer of his money / he shall haue a hye foreheed / a longe vysage / black iyen / a thyn berde / he shall be a great pleder in the lawe / and he wyll medle with other mennes dedes / and they do nat well saye agaynst it / and Mercury gouerneth the thyghes / the bely / and the flankes ¶ Seuenthly of the Mone AS it is knowen and to be vnderstāde / that the lowest planet of the .vii. is named Luna / the which we call the mone / the whiche planet is called feminyne or female / and is called amonge Astronomyers the Lady of the nyght / for the chefe lyghte and clerenes that is by nyght / is by the presence of the mone / for the mone is moche more nerer approched vnto vs than any fterre is / therfore she gyueth vs moch more lyght than the sterres dothe / and also the mone is lady of moysture and ruleth the see by ebbe and store the mone doth take her lyght of the son̄e .xxii. tymes in the yere And also the mone is colde and moyste of nature / and her coloure is moche fayrer than syluer / and her chefe howse is Cancer / and there is none of the other planettes that be so lowe / and goth so lytel cyrcuyte as doth the Mone / and descendeth in to Scorpio / And she gothe aboute the .xii. sygnes in .xxvi. dayes / and than chaungeth and recalled newe And this is the course of the Mone after the sayinge of Ptholomeus ¶ The propretes of Luna SVche men and women as ben borne vnder the Mone shall be lowly and seruyable / and very gentyll And if it be a mayden childe / she shal be very shame faste and womanly / and they shall be well fauoured both man and woman / theyr faces shall be full rounde / they shall be very pacyent folkes and wyll suffre moche wronge or they be reuenged / and wyll be softe of speche and very curteyse / and shall lyue honstly with suche as god shal sende them / and wyl haunte vertuous company / they shal be wel fourmed of body and haue mery lokes loue honestly to be glad / wyll lyue very chastely / loue greatly the vertue of clennes / bothe in worde dede / they hate lecherous talkers / of rybawdry / theyr colour shal be myxed but with lytell rednes / they shal ryght gladly go arayed in many coloured clothes / they shall soone swete in the forhed Also they wyll haue great desyre to be maysters maystresses ouer great stremes / ryuers / and floodes / and shall deuyse many propre engynes for to take fysshe to deceyue them / loke what they saye and it shall be true stedfaste / and they shall be very honest good goers on fote and wyl comforte sycke persons / he shall loue wel to talke somtyme of meruayles / he shall nat kepe hatred longe in his mynde / and he shall appese the people vnder