Laws and to unfold Mens Secrets Generally such Men as are addicted to all manner of Sciences Venus the chief that participates in the Rule of the Geniture occasions such Commotions of the Native as be Delightful Merry Pleasant yet so as that he studyeth Good Works and Friendships whereof he is most observant and hereby becomes grateful to all Men He abhors all filthy but is taken with cleanly things comely Gestures decent Attires Ornaments and Elegance 4. Venus therefore and Jupiter do Promise great Felicity in Affairs both Civil and Ecclesiastical 5. There are most evident Testimonies of an Excellent Ingenuity 1. Mercury in Aquarius doth of himself suscitate the strength thereof 2. Besides there is a Reception from Houses and a Partile Trine betwixt Him and Saturn 3. Venus Angular doth the like 4. Especially for that the Moon and the Dragons Head are together in the same Angle 5. Mercury and the Moon are Asyntheti Pure and not vitiated yet both behold the Horoscope she by a Platique Trine he by a Partile Quadrature 6. Jupiter Lord of the Second Direct in Motion and Received of Mars plainly assures an abundance of Wealth The Part of Fortune most excellently augments this signification the same being posited in the Second where he is disposed of and Aspected by Jupiter These Riches take their Increase from Services faithfully performed from most Eminent Honours and Dignities and they more abundantly in the third or last Age. 7. Mercury Lord of the 10 th and having convenient society with Saturn presages Dignities not obscure We have spoken before concerning the Dominion of Jupiter and Venus wherefore seeing they equally share the Rule of the Geniture How can it be that they should not reward the Native with some or other most eminent Dignities 8. Your Neighbours or Kindred shall sometimes occasion your Damage in Houshold Goods or Affairs and you shall expend very much in Building 9. Mars Lord of the 6 th ingendreth Hot Infirmities yet they not so vehement because of Jupiter's Interposition Moreover Mars in Sagittary causeth most commonly a gravel in the Joynts of the Feet If he be found in that Sign and in the Sixth he inevitably brings the Gout the pains whereof are not to be taken away but by the Influence of Sagittary Pisces c. deduced from Heaven it self c. Some other Remedies also may do much yet not any that are got by Common Artifice 10. Your Death will be Natural by the means of some Chronical Infirmity proceeding chiefly from Saturn such as are Distillations upon the Jaws the Breast the Lungs Spleen c. Howbeit Old Age is a Disease and an easie Passage unto Death it self 11. The Sun and Moon disposing of the 9 th House do discern Honourable Journeys Mercury well posited in the Third occasioneth Journeys undertaken for the Cause of Honours and Dignities and to Persons most Honourable for Learning and Dignities Civil and Ecclesiastical 12. Venus Lady of the 11 th concerneth a Multitude of the best Friends Yet Mars beholding Venus by a Quartile shall stir up the Envy of some Persons sowing oftentimes Dissention and inverting all goodness 13. Venus shall give you Victory over your Enemies whereof indeed there are but a few denounced because she is Lady of the 7 th Angular and in her Exaltation 14. Your Marriage shall be Fortunate as to an Affluence of Riches yet herein beware of the Faithless Brawling and Luxurious Quadrature of Mars But this very much depends upon Mans Free-will and Young Men oft-times find themselves at a loss through their Ignorance and Rashness We will now consider the Signs of the Four Angles 15. Scorpio Ascending gives the Native an Elegant Acuteness of Wit Plenty of Discourse It also often Instilleth Great vices Infidelity Envy Covetousness Ingratitude which Learning and Right Reason Exterminate 16. Virgo Culminating is wont to Raise the Native to Magistracy It confers a toleration of Great Authority It transfers many Benefits to others from whom it returns not the like Favour 17. Taurus in the West-Angle presents you with such Adversaries as at length he will see oppressed by sundry kinds of Misfortunes He there incites you to Love Luxury Delights and Jeasting 18. Pisces posited in the Fourth indue the Mind of the Native with much Faith Integrity and Dexterity of Wit whereby they gain great Authority in their Administrations they delight to Walk and Dwell near Rivers But almost abhor uxorious Matters The Planets in the Houses of Heaven 19. The Sun in the Third presages Journeys in the Causes of Honours and Dignities He brings a Mutation of Places and Honour in Forraign parts 20. Mercury there well posited renders a Man most Learned in every Science whereof I could produce innumerable Examples Those shall invent many things by their own Ingenuity They are Fortunate in Church-Matters Writing and Merchandize 21. Venus most excellently well collocated in the Fourth will give you Large Possessions and Habitations chiefly in your Last Age she declares the Period of your Life Honourable and Praise-worthy 22. Mars in the First and there not Infortunate makes a Man Couragious Rash and somewhat Angry sometimes he presageth Wounds in the Head and Face 23. Jupiter in the 5 th doth sometimes confer the Great Rewards of Great Men He makes a Man Fortunate in Embassies 24. Saturn thus excellently seated in the 8 th gives many Inheritances He threatens death by Catharrs A Cough c. and often-times by the Plague The Planets in the Signs 25. The Sun in the House of Saturn makes the vital vertue more Robust and as it were more Compact whence he gives a Longer Life than ordinary 26. The Moon in the House of Jupiter promotes all things that are good yet being here Afflicted by the Quartile of Mars exciteth some strifes in Possessions often reiterateth small Fevers 27. Satuâ—n in the House of Mercury gives a Profound Wit Occult Sciences 28. Jupiter in the House of Mars indifferently well Affected makes one Victorious 29. The same is signified by Mars in the Mansion of Jupiter Thus they both of them render the Native very gracious with Princes and Noblemen and under them to have Authority 30. Venus in the House of Jupiter bestows many Benefits either by the means of Women or of some Ecclesiastical Preferments She makes you Discrâ—et Honest Healthful Sometimes she occasioneth strife and falling out with your Neighbours and some of your Friends for that Venus is expos'd to the Quadrature of Mars 31. Mercury in the House of Saturn gives always a profound Wit and a Man that is greedy of all Sciences The Lords of the Houses 32. The Lord of the Horoscope received of Jupiter from Houses plainly declares a Generous Mind 33. The Lord of the Second in the Fifth increaseth your Wealth through Rewards bestowed by Great Men. 34. The Lord of the Third in the Eighth occusioneth Journeys either on the behalf of some that are Dead or by reason of the Plague He
Third House a Competent place in Reception and Aspect of Sâ—turn himself Notwithstanding the Tubâ—rculum of Mâ—rcury scarce shews so much as one Incisure 5. A Cross in the Moons Place fore-tells of Fertility and Happiness in Bearing of Children And to this Venus is fitted in the Geniture notwithstanding she hath Mars in Conjunction with her Yet seeing he disposeth of the 6 th House it is to be feared lest at some time he occasion Danger in the Birth of a Boy 6. The Place of Jupiter is also otherwise understood than in the preceding Example The Region of the Sun likewise favoureth in some measure An Honourable Life is seldom obtained by the more Generous sort of Women unless by Marriage 7. The Line arising in the very Middle of the Hand and thence Ascending to the Root of the Thoral beneath the Region of Mercury by Dissecting the Epatica points out an Unfaithful Friend which in her Declining Age should occasion Loss and Detriment in her House-hold Goods and Things 8. The Epatica Cut in the End thereof bodes a deficiency of Wit in her Old Age The Cross there is the Fore runner of some Good The Reception of Mercury and Saturn from Houses in the Geniture and they Disposiâ—ions of the 3 4 and 8. Houses a sign of Inheritancâ— 9. The breadth of the Mensa is very Feat and the Site of the Thoral comely and decent which argue her Goodness of Nature Readiness of Wit 10. The Line of Saturn running in an Oblique Tract from the Restricta to the Tuberculum of Saturn doth usually mark out such as be Laborious something Covetous and Hard. But that the Lines of the Hands are not compleatly perfect at the Hour of the Nativity this Examâ—â—â— abundantly manifests Moreover seeing by this 〈◊〉 is certain That the Positure of the Planets in the Figure are of great Authority It necessarily follows that the Lines especially the Less Principal do truly receive their clearer Conformity from the first Moment of the Birth in which the Infant begins to move its hands and make as it were to lay hold of or catch at things As touching the Principal Lines there is no doubt but that they are clearly enough Engraven at the very Instant of the Nativity But that in process of time there is an Access of some Incisures and Characters Reason it self will teach him that shall make more diligent Inspection into the Hands of little Infants For at first we find an obscure and subtile Draught of the Lines Afterwards the thin and tender skin being worn away by the continual Motion and Bathing thereof all the Lines grow fairer and brighter every day more than other For then the Vertue of the Stars and the Sydereal Spirit wherewith every one is Inspired begin to perfect the Lines more compleatly the Element of Water intervening Whatsoever is Generated in this World is Generated of Water and the Spirit And whosoever is not Regenerate of the Water and Spirit shall not enter into the Kingdom of GOD as our Saviour speaks Water hath a respect unto the Heart of Man but the Spirit hath regard of the Divine Efficacy Mâ—reover the Stars do first of all convey their Influence through the Air which is nearest the Nature of Fire like as is the Nature of the Stars themselves whereby the Water it self that is next to the Air in Situation receives the Coelestial Vertue and Communicates it to the Earth from which Communication the Fecundity thereof proceedeth And this is evident in the Spring-time whilst things are Sprouting from the Bosom of the Earth For if showers be then wanting they grow but slowly And the Increment they have is either by the Vaporous Cold of Night the Image of Humidity or else the Nightly Dew or both together the heat of the Sun assisting in the day-time Which being continued for some days afterwards when a shower comes you shall quickly perceive them increased in a Moment Because that now the Sydereal Spirit enlivening them renders it self more Excellent than they by its plentiful besprinkling of Moisture The like is to be understood oâ—â—he slender Skin upon the Hands You see also in the Plants themselves how Rude their Leaves be when first they peep out of the Earth in respect of the Lineaments and Pictures of their Branches they are otherwise called Signatures which by little and little shew themselves more plain and openly to our view The like we must judge of the Lines or Incisures of the Hands which hold the like Analogy and Proportion in the Manifestation of their Signatures Whereby it appears How Great the Works of GOD are He hath put these Signs in the Hâ—nd of all Men that every one also might hereby acknowledge his Works past finding out as Job saith Chap. 37. v. 7. Nâ—vertheless there are some both Divines and Philosophers who account it a Hainous thing of us that we wrâ—st this saying of Job's to Chiromancy But that we may briâ—fly satiâ—fie such we will examine the meaning thereof more fully The Tâ—xt there runs thus V. 5. God will Thunder Marvellously with his Voyce who doth Great and Inscrutable things V. 6. Who commandet◠〈◊〉 â—now to fall upon the Earth so likewise the Winâ—â—r sâ—owers and the Rain of his Strâ—â—gth V. 7. Who hath placed Signs in the Hand of every Man that all Men may know his Work V. 8. The Beast entereth into his Covert and remaineth in his Den. IN the beginning of the Chapter you have as it were certain Praeludiums to a following Proposition laid down in the 5 th Verse For thus he saith Jehovah Thundreth or speaketh loud in his Works That they may be Great and Inscrutable The Examples of the Proposition follow in the 6 7 8 9 10 c. He maketh saith he the Snow to descend like Wool as the â—salmist addeth The Reasons of the Generation of Snow are indeed speciously delivered amongst the Peripateticks yet if you reduce them to a Level they will by no means stand but terminate in Dotage Another Example of the Proposition you have in the 7 th Verse GOD Signeth all Men in their hands That every one might know his Work That is Those Lines were not made there by Chance The Hebrew Vâ—â—sion vâ—rbatim He shall Sign all Men in the Hâ—nd that every man may know his Work The 70 Interprâ—ters He marketh all mâ—n in the Hand that â—very Man may know his Infirmity St. Hieromâ— He hath placed Signs in the Hand of all Men that every one may know his Works The Chaldee Translation He maketh Signs in the Hand of all the Sons of Mâ—n that all the Sons of Men might know tâ—eir Work These we wholly apply to the Lines of the Hands because that every Man beholds them daily but seldome knows what they signifie unto him You have in each an Universal Particle and therefore no Man is Excluded Which very thing Refutes the Translation of some who Read That every one might know his Work-men But
which will bring a stain upon his Honour by the means of something relating to his Wife 12. The Tuberculum of Saturn hath upon it the same Mark that we found before in the fourth Example Which threatens the Gout and some other grievous Diseases of the Nature of Saturn And the same is discern'd by the Residence of Saturn in the House of Death afflicting the Moon and Mars by a Platique Quartile 13. The Vital somewhere touched and cut by other Lines presageth Diseases about the 14 20 24 30 48 c. Year of his Age The Horoscope proceeds from Libra into Scorpio about the 20 Year of his Age and there remains in the Terms of Mars for the space of Nine Years Saturn Infortunate in Nativities is wont to Vomit his Poyson most vehemently after the first Revolution that is after the 29 and 30 Years in which time he moveth round the Zodiack What the Cross above the Restricta meaneth we have often told you The other Incisures especially those that seem to shadow the Saturnia are but slender and obscure as yet Example XVIII One Born at Erphordia in the Year 1589. the 8 th of May at 1 h. 45 min. Afternoon 1. Venus Mercury and Jupiter Rule the Geniture and therefore you see their Regions in the Hand decently enough adorned 2. Hence therefore we Prognosticate a happy Wit and other things that flow from Jupiter Venus and Mercury 3. The Triangle drawn with the best Conformity helps the Ingenuity and all the Endowments both of Body and Mind 4. The Region also of the Moon shews her Dominion the same being marked with no despicable Incisures it occasioneth Prosperous Journeys addeth splendour both to the Body and Manners of the Native and gains the Favour of Women which very thing the Moon in Cancer and in the 10 th House of the Heavens most plainly demonstrates 5. The Lines of Jupiter are somewhat troubled and therefore his Condition is but indifferent Yet gives he Honours not contemptible although with some Difficulties some Impediments 6. The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury in the House of Venus and in a Partile Trine of Jupiter is accounted very Fortunate For thereby his Mind is excellently inclined unto all such Arts as are dedicated to Venus and Mercury I see he will prove a most Eloquent Man The two Parallel Lines which are drawn in the Form of a Scale or Ladder from the Region of Mercury to that of Venus do clearly manifest this Conjunction and the very same judgment We have almost the same Scale or Ladder in the 15 th Example which gave that Native the Benefit of a Voluble Tongue and a quick Pronunciation 7. Saturn hath Ominous Signatures upon his Tuberculum intimating Wounds and other grievous Accidents And the Line which runneth underneath the same from the Thoral to the Concave of the Hand threatens a fall from an High Place or Drowning The same is Denounced by the Sun in the Geniture who is Afflicted of Saturn by his Conjunction with him near to the Hyades Mars Lord of the Eight House being in his Detriment 8. The Vital is thrice touched First by a Line running from the Cephalica But because it breaks not the Vital we suppose the Disease thereby signified will not be so grievous as otherwise The Moon comes by Direction to the Quartile of Mars about the 18 th Year of his Age. Besides the Progress of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars about the 47 th Year will agree to the other Incisures And lastly the Progression of the Moon to the Square of Saturn about the 54 th Year in all which Years the Native must take heed of a violent Death 9. The Mensa excellently Rased confirms the goodness of Wit and Temperament and the continuance of a plentiful Fortune c. But here it is to be Noted by every one desirous of this Knowledge that in the precedent Examples the Incisures and small Lines are not all of them Delineated partly for that they were exceedingly slender and partly because they could not be described so accurately as requisite Besides we must observe that even of those Lines which we have posited some ought to be more obscure and slender Others more clear and conspicuous and therefore good Caution must be had when we would apply them to other Examples The Skill of the Engraver can never follow the form of the Lines so precisely as they present themselves in the Hand Moreover we have often omitted some Accommodations in the Geniture lest their significations as considered in themselves might Nauseat the Readers Example XIX Now that I may perform the present Task by a more Commendable Example I shall annex the whole Judgment of the Geniture to the Practick of Chiromancy as I delivered the same almost two Years ago to a certain Saxon a Friend of mine He was Born in the Year of Christ 1561. Jan. 17. Hor. 13. Min. 35. Sec. 40. Afternoon in the Latitude 54 degr 45 Min. HERE are Five Planets excellently well Plac'd in their own Prerogatives Saturn and Mercury Received from Houses and Locally in their own Triplicity So Jupiter and Mars assume a just Power by their Reception of Houses Venus also is in her Exaltation and in the Angle of the Earth Lastly the Moon is in her Triplicity But she having not as yet obtained her due Light from the Sun is here very Silent Mercury and Saturn are notably united by a Trine The Part of Fortune Rises with the Scorpions Heart Venus and Jupiter are the Prime Rulers of the Geniture Saturn and Mercury participating c. 1. A Long-Life is conjectured from the Horoscope and the Luminaries being not impedite although the Moon be opposite by the Quartile of Mars Yet the Progress of the Horoscope is first to the Opposition of Saturn whereof anon 2. His Temperature excells by an Equal Mixture of Humours because he receiveth his Ferment chiefly from the Perfusion of Jupiter and Venus Saturn and Mercury besprinkling a Melancholy juice 3. Hence the Force of Discerning and Representing vulgarly cally the Phantasy breatheth nothing but what is Moderate and Agreeable to Reason For Jupiter maketh such as are Born under him Honest Just Wise and addicted to Quiet and Peaceable Counsels doing always that which is Right and Honest both in Judging and Advising Such also as are very desirous of Praise and Renown Yet in gaining the same recede not from their Natural Modesty and Temper neither from good Arts whereby Honour and true Glory are wont to be obtained But because Saturn and Mercury are both excellently well placed in respect of their Reception and Partile Trine they also do largely bestow their vertues They make the Native exceeding diligent in his Arts and Affairs So that in administring them he useth singular Sedulity and Care they cause him to search after secret things and make it his study for to Penetrate hidden Mysteries to find out the Causes of Natural things to understand the Civil
mutatis autem temperamentis mutantur mores mutatis moribus Principum Subditorum Sequitur mutatio Reip. Heaven saith he most effectually Operates upon a Human Body best agreeable to it self and so also on the Body both of the Prince himself and his Subjects to wit so as that it changeth the Temperaments of Mens Bodies and with those Temperaments their manners or conditions and the manners or conditions of Princes and Subjects being changed a mutation of the Commonwealth followeth And with him agrees that excellent Mathematician and Astrologer Origanus part 3. Membr 2. Cap. 1. Non modo in Regnis varias mutationes translationes animadvertimus dum modo hos modo illos Regnare atque aliis Dominari comperimus verum etiam in ipsa superficie terrae nihil esse perpetuum ex collatione temporum locorum Siccum humido humidum sicco permutari terrasque alias aquis aboleri alias assurgere deprehendimus We Observe not only sundry Changes and Translations of Kingdoms whilst these and these Planets reign and bear Rule with others but also that upon the whole surface of the Earth there is nothings perpetual and by comparing of Times and Places perceive Siccity chang'd into Moisture Moisture to Siccity some Countries destroy'd others increas'd by Waters Thus He and that very truly For although God the Author of Nature and the First Cause of every Good thing changes Countries and Transfers Kingdoms at his pleasure yet seeing he hath engraven in the Book of Nature and chiefly in Heaven which measureth Times the Motions and Mutations of all things things that be Invisible even his own eternal Power for the greatest part yea and exposed Heaven unto our view that it might be for signs of Present and Future things I shall not think it contrary to true Religion or Good Manners if with Fear and Reverence I enquire the Superior Natural Causes of those Mutations so long as I ascribe no necessity thereunto Maugre the Croaking and Coaxation of some few Epileptique Prophets and other Religious Lunatiques who prate and perswade the Contrary The First Cause is the Change of the Absides of the Planets whereby the Five Planets together with the Sun transfer the Places in which they are highest and most remote from the Center of the Earth so also the Places wherein they are lowest and nearest thereunto and together with those Places their swiftness and slowness of Motion into several parts of the Zodiaque according to the succession of the Signs whereof Cardan Seg. 1. Aph. 37. in these words Permutationes Absidum Regna Regiones Religiones mutant Changes of the Absides alter Kingdoms Regions and Religions Thus from the Change of Saturn's Absis into Cancer Mahomet had his growth and by the Change thereof into Capricorn the Sign Opposite thereunto receives he Detriment and at length a final Destruction Spinaeus an Excellent Astrologian and Physician to the Duke of Mantua in his Catastrophe Mundi Genuinely English'd by the Polite Quill of my Oaken Friend Elias Ashmole Esq tells us that Mahomets Destruction initiated Anno 1630 c. and this he chiefly deduces from the Change of Saturn's Absiâ— out of Sagittary into Capricorn which indeed I confess fell out according to the Prutenick Tables in the end of the year 1630. But by the more accurate observations of latâ—r Authors the Absis of Saturn continues in Sagittary for many years yet to come For by the Philolaique Tables the best extant it enters not Capricorn until the beginning of the year 1728. and therefore it could not in the least be unless we will have the Effect precede its Cause that Mahomets Destruction commenc'd in this respect in or near the year 1630. Nevertheless I believe with Spinaeus that the many Revolutions of the Heavens in and about that year have already produced a sensible Commencement of Detriment unto him yet conclude not his final Destruction until after the year 1728. Wherein Saturns Absis will be Changed into Capricorn and that several other Causes concur to extirpate him and his Law There is no other change of the Absis of any Planet falling out in our time save only the Absis of Mars and this happen'd according to Bullialdus in the latter end of the year 1647. which was from Leo to Virgo and what a strange mutation ensued the year following viz. A Dissolution of the English Monarchy c. the whole World can witness which very thing signally confirms that of Ludovic de Reg. Aph. 9. Mutantur Regna Dominia Fides Sectaeque ac opiniones hominum dum mutantur Auges Planetarum de signo in signum dico illarum gentium quarum significator erit Planeta Augis permutatae Kingdoms and Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of Men are changed when the Auges or Absides of the Planets are changed from one Sign to another I mean the Kingdoms Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of such Nations as have for their significator the Planet whose Auge is changed Now all men know who know any thing of this Nature that Aries is the Ascendant and Mars Lord thereof the significator of England and so he is of France Germany Denmark and several other places who are herein no less concern'd than the English as a few years will assuredly manifest Mutatioque erit ad bonum vel malum secundum Naturam significatorum superiorum illorum temporum secundum Naturam signi mutationis And this change saith that same Author and Aphorisme shall be to Good or Evil according to the Nature of the chief significators of those times and Sign of Mutation We know Saturn Mars and Mercury have born the greatest sway in almost every Eclipse Revoâ—ution and other notable Configurations of the Planets 〈◊〉 and since that year especially in Two of the Three Eclipses of 1652. and in the great and Total Eclipse Anno 1653. in March And as for the Sign into which this change was made it is Virgo the principal house of Mercury a Cold and Dry Melancholy Barren Sign whereby we may easily judge of what Nature the Change is I spare to Expatiate Another Cause is the Change of the Sun's Eccentricity described of Copernicus cap. 20 lib. 3. Revol by the Motion of a little Circle having the Center of the Eccentrick in its Circumference and finishing its Period in 3434 years The year 1653. Offers it the least that can be according to Rheinoldus and Copernicus being 32190. such parts as the Eccentrick hath 1000000 or Part 1. 55′ 53″ 24‴ where the Semidiameter of the Suns Eccentricity hath 60. The greatest viz. 2° 3â— 7″ happen'd 36 years before Christ about the beginning of the Roman Monarchy Georgius Joachimâ—â— Rheticus callled this Circle the Wheel of Fortune by whose Revolutions saith he the Monarchies of the world assume their Commencements and Changes For like as the Roman Empire obtain'd its Highest Dignity when the Eccentricity was greatest so the same decreasing it is very much Impaired
Different Cusp Lat. 50. est 46 min. 60. 46. 30.   1380. 2.   46.   60.    180.   18. 3.   120.   6.    1380.   0.  Gradus Zod. est Sagit 5. 24. P. P. 23. min. S. Vera Cuspis XII est Sagit 5. 1. Pro cusp 1. Ascen 300. 4. Lat 53. 30. Sagit Lat. 53. Prox. major 300. 46. 26. 300. 4. Prox. minor 299. 37. 25. 299. 37.  Different 1. 9. 1.  27.  69. 60.  27.  1620 2.     60.  69. Gradus Zod. Sagit 25.   1620.  138. P. P.  23 min.    240. 3.       69.       207.       33. Cusp 1. Lat. 53. est Sagit 25. 23.   deg min.  deg min. Lat. 54. Prox. major 301. 7. 25. 300. 4. Prox. minor 299. 57. 24. 299. 57.  Different 1. 10. 1.  7.  70. 60.  7. 420. 6.     60. 70.      420. 0.  Grad Zod. est 24. Sagit P. P. 6 min. Cuspis 1. Lat. 54. est 24. 6. Sagit    deg min. Differentia Cusp Lat. 53. est 1. 17. 54. 60. 77. 30. 2310. 3.   77. 60.     18.    210.     210. 51. 8.    6.    2310. 48.  Grad Zod. Sagit 25. 23.  3.  P. P.  38 min. S.   Vera Cuspis I. est Sagit 24. 45. Pro Cuspis II. Ascen 330. 4. Lat. 49. 30. Aquar Lat. 49. Prox. major 330. 7. 4. 330. 4. Prox. minor 329. 25. 3. 329. 25.  Different  42. 1.  39.  42.  60. 39.  234. 5.     60.  42.       210.     2340.   Grad Zod. 3. Aquar     240. 5. P. P. 56 min.     42.       210.       30. Cuspis 2. Lat. 49. est 3. 56. Aquar   deg min. Aquar deg min. Lat. 50. Prox. major 330. 20. 3. 330. 4. Prox. minor 329. 38. 2. 329. 38.  Different  42. 1.  26.  42.  60. 26.  1560. 3.     60.  42. Gradus Zodaici 2. Aquar   1560.  126. P. P. 37 min.     300. 7.       42.       294.       6. Cusp 2. Lat. 50. est 2. 37. Aquar    deg min. Different Cusp Lat. 49. est 1. 19. 50.   60. 79. 30 2370. 3.   79. 60.   270. 18.   210.     57. 9. Gradus Zod. est 3. 56. Aquar 2370. 6. P. P.  39 min. S. 54.    30. Vera Cuspis II. est Aquar 3. 17. Pro cusp III. Ascen 0. 4. Lat. 34. 3.     Ariet.   Lat. 34. Prox. major 00. 38. 1. 00. 04. Prox. minor 00. 00. 0. 00. 00.  Different  38. 1.  04.  38. 60. 4.   240. 6.    60.   38. Gradus Zod. 0. 0. Ariet. 240.   228. P. P.  6 min.    12. Cusp 3. Lat. 34. est 0. 6. Ariet. Lat. 35. Prox. major 00. 38. 1. 00. 04 Prox. minor 00. 00. 0. 00. 00.  Different 00. 38. 1. 0. 4.  38. 60. 4.   240. 6.    60.   38.       228. Grad Zod. 0. 0. Ariet. 240.   12.  P. P.  6 min.    Cuspis 3. Lat. 35. est 0. 6. Ariet.    deg min. Differrentia Cusp Lat. 34. est 0. 0. 35.   Vera Cusp III. est 00. 06. Ariet. Collectio Cuspidum X. 2. 16. Scorp Taur 2. 16. IV. XI 19. 59. Scorp Taur 19. 59. V. XII 5. 1. Sagit Gem. 5. 1. VI. I. 24. 45. Sagit Gem. 24. 45. VII II. 3. 37. Aquar Leon. 3. 37. VIII III. 0. 6. Ariet. Libr. 0. 6. IX Thaema Coeleste ex tabulis Directionum Regiomontani ad tempus Apparens Conjunctionis Saturni Martis Anno Domini 1646. Junii 12. ♀ Hor. Min. Sec. 7. 54. 41. P. M Latitude 53 1 2. What think you now Mr. Booker have not I just cause to distrust and diligently to examine your work And to call your judgment in question which is grounded upon a wrong Basis Do you not blush to see your Ignorance your Errors your Impudence your Malice thus palpably discovered Have you not most grosly mistaken 2 deg 25 min. in the twelfth and sixth Houses 2 deg 35 min. in the Ascend and seventh House 2 deg 59 min. in the eleventh and fifth Houses 3 deg 46 min. in the tenth and fourth four degrees 47 min. in the eighth and second And no less than 6 deg and 10 min. in the third and ninth Houses Is any man so much beside himself as to give Credit to any of your Prognosticks when not one scruple of certainty can be found in your Calculations And are not you and Mr. Lilly alike ashamed to account your selves Masters in Astrology when I have made it appear that neither of you have yet attained so much skill as to set a Figure of Heaven exactly Will any man of understanding think you fit to Prognosticate the effects of the Planets and Stars who are not of your selves able to Calculate their true Places Motions and Aspects but are forced to take them upon trust from others For so Mr. Lilly himself confesseth in his England's Prophetical Merlin pag. 23. in these words viz. Having intreated my loving Friend Mr. Matthew Fiske to give me the true Scheme of the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. for it was so he gave me the positure aforesaid exactly done by the Rodolphine Tables c. And Page 76. of the same Book I conceive it possible and do believe I have the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1642 3 exquisitely done by the same Learned hand and that either he or any as able as himself may compass the true moment of any Conjunction This is a modest and ingenuous acknowledgment of Mr. Lilly's want of skill in Astronomy for you see he was fain to be beholden to Mr. Fiske for Calculating the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. and 1642 3. or else he knew not where to have had them And he confesses that he doth but believe the last of them to be exquisitely done He cannot tell how to determine whether it be so or not of his own knowledge And by this I
shall find that John Booker hath been grosly mistaken in his Astrology But this his Error is meerly in the Rules of Art which is no way excusable For whatsoever I delivered was rightly grounded upon Art And I duly cited my Authors for it for the Readers better satisfaction which I conceive sufficient for any Artist whether the event be answerable or not For as it is not enough for an Artist to content himself alone with the Rules and Observations of his Predecessors but that he ought to add something of his own whereby to propagate the Learning which he studies No more is it Lawful for any man to delude the World with the foolishness of his own deluded fancy and idle conceptions alone as both Mr. Lilly and Booker have frequently done wiâ—hout any Reason given or Authority quoted for their Opinions As for the mistake I will not say Malice of that Practitioner in the Mathematicks Mr. Henry Harflete in his Vox Coelorum or Predictions defended c. who in the 49 page of that Book doth wrongfully intimate to my disparagement as if I should say that a Fixed Star might properly be said to be Aspected with any Planet I must tell him that Accusation of his is very untrue And whether it proceeded from his misguided and inconsiderate Zeal to Mr. Lilly or out of any dis-affection to me deserves a gentle lash in that I am most certain he cannot produce any such assertion of mine either in word or writing It is true that Mr. Lilly taxed me for saying that Mars was in a Sextile Aspect with Caput Draconis in my Almanack 1645. which was an Error of the Press the Character of Caput Draconis being mistaken for the Character of Leo as I have sufficiently proved in my Answer to Mr. Lilly Printed with my Prognostication for 1647. but that I ever mentioned any Fixed Star to be Aspected by any Planet in that or any other of my Writings unless Mr. Harflete will say that the Dragons Head is a Fixed Star is both frivolous and false And therefore I shall desire that Critical Gentleman to examine the words of my Prognostication for that Year and my aforesaid Answers to Mr. Lilly's Objections and I presume he will shew me so much Civility as to revoke that his unadvised Censure and excuse me of Ignorance in that particular And yet I could have stopped Mr. Lilly's mouth with these words of Leapoldus Tract 5. de annorum revolutionibus viz. Mali aspectus ad Caud Drac significant famem frigus pestilentiam Nor is this Author an Utopian or single in that expression But I am of a different Opinion and therefore shall not insist longer on these trivialties which are fitter for Mr. Booker to instruct his Daughter Victoria in than to be thought on by men of riper Judgments But to return to the matter in hand I shall requite John Booker with a more honest and accurate examination of some special passages in his Bloody Irish Almanack whereupon he raises this fond and false Judgment of his and so proceed The first I meet with is the first of his Observations page 36. where he saith That Saturn and Mars are Culminating with that Fatal Star Caput Algol or the head of Medusa c. This Jack is both an improper and a false expression of yours 1. For any man may see that in the precedent Scheme the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars happens near the end of the 4. House of the Heavens from the Ascendant In imo Coeli the lowest part or bottom of Heaven Now Sir how any Planet or Star in this part of the Heavens can be said propâ—rly to be in Culmine Coeli in the top or highest part of Heaven in respect of Dublin in Ireland is far beyond my reading and requires John Booker's further explication For my part I cannot devise how he can avoid or excuse this improper Phrase of his unless he tell me The World is turned up-side down and in that sense he choaks me and I am bound to credit him and cry him mercy 2. It is most false contradicting a General received Rule of Astrologers because you instance the proximity of Saturn and Mars to Caput Algol in the word With to annex a Debility more to each of them than really they have For and so far are they from that Fixed and violent Star that it is not to be accounted for any Debility by the Opinion of any Astrologer that ever I read they being above 7 degrees distant from it For Saturn and Mars as before we noted are in 14 degrees 27 min. And according to Copernicus Caput Algol is in 21 degr 30 min. of Taurus which is 7 degr and 13 min. difference And according to Origanus pag. 540. Garcaeus pag. 249. Pezelius pag. 48. And all other Astrologers both Ancient and Modern the Planets are never truly said to be Debilitated by Caput Algol unless they be Intra distantiam quinque graduum A. vel P. which you see these Planets are not The next thing I shall desire the indifferent Reader to take notice of is his own Scheme of this Conjunction and in it the Cusp of the 5. House as he hath made it and you may observe that Saturn and Mars are but 2 degrees 33 min. distant from the same Yet nevertheless in the 37 page of his Pamphlet he taketh his Judgment from the 4. House which is contrary to Origanus and divers other Authors and to Mr. Lilly likewise who allow 5 deg preceding and 5 deg subsequent for the Cusp of each House According to which Rule he ought to have given Judgment from the 5. House and not from the 4. You remember Jack how Mr. Lilly spit his Venom at me in the 35 page of his Anglicus for 1645. for giving judgment of Jupiter's being in the 4. and Mars in the 6. according to the Opinion of Rhemetius when they were within less than 5 deg of the Cuspes of the 5. and 7. Houses Now I wonder much how you dare dissent from your Loving Friend Mr. Lilly especially in this particular considering what you said in your last page of your Epistle to the Reader viz. That Mr. Lilly and you have the same Principles in Art and that your Judgments in the general will have answerable success And that Mr. Lilly may see it is no mistake in you but meer Opinion let him peruse your Prog. for this Year 1646. and in the Spring-Quarter he shall find you giving Judgment upon Mercury's being in the 10. House when in Mr. Lilly's own Scheme erected for the same Latitude Meridian and Moment of time he wanteth but 2 deg and 9 min of the 11. House And now Jack do you think Mr. Lilly will not shake his Head at you for this gross contradiction Would he have thought it possible that his fellow-champion in State-Astrology John Booker would have contradicted him and joyned in Opinion with those two Malignants Naworth and Wharton at
proved Mars is the strongest save only the Moon and Jupiter the weakest but Mercury in all the Figure as will appear to any Man that will take the pains to collect the Dignities and Debilities of the Planets respectively in the Figure And therefore he hath good reason to doubt of himself and to suspect the Scottish Nation will become Converts which if they did not we Malignants should have questioned whether they had any Religion or Faith at all But to the matter Mars in the eleventh House presages something else than amicorum inimicitias if you had not abused Guido Bonatus Colum. 571. and in him the whole Kingdom whose words if he had not been interrupted by this unmannerly Clown had been thus Mars in 11 a domo significat paucitatem lucri seu profectus in rebus de quibus speratur utilitas quod cadent in inimicitias amicorum significat diminutionem substantiae desperabunt homines de rebus in quibus habebatur fiducia quibus sperabatur That is Mars in the eleventh House foretells but little profit or gain in those things by which profit was expected and that they shall fall at enmity with their Friends Also the diminution of their Substance and that men shall utterly despair of ever obtaining what they most trusted to and expected This Aphorism carries a great deal of Matter in it in relation it hath to the differences depending and impending betwixt the Scots and the Parliament And therefore it was not held fitting to be published or communicated by our Mysterious Merlin without a Fee The plain English of it is that according to Natural causes it is most evident that the Parliament c. shall be frustrated in their expectation that they shall be much deceived and deprived of the Profit and Commodity which might have accrued unto them by having the King at their own disposal And that for this cause they shall fall at difference with and incur the dislike and enmity of those that were formerly their Friends and Confederates who shall account them no otherwise than such as have forgot and neglected their Covenant with God and Man c. And hereupon they despair of the Scottish Religion because it is come nearer the Kings and of their Faith because they have not so much credulity as to interest them alone in the disposal of His Majesties Person And hence arise new Discords and Contentions and greater Taxes are imposed than ever upon the poor Kingdom whereby Mens Estates are exhausted and consumed and fresh Miseries daily approaching if not timously prevented What he cites out of Haly concerning Jupiter's positure in the eleventh House I have sufficiently Answered and explained before upon the words which he quoted from Bonatus for the same thing And thus far hath Mr. Lilly made his Progress in Preaching Peace and Tranquility to the People to what purpose I have sufficiently declared And now he comes to the Quality of the Year wherein I scorn to detract the least scruple from him of what 's his due but shall agree with him in every thing which he performs but any thing like an Artist though he stumble of it against his will his Quotation of Bonatus Pag. 55. by great Fortune is very true and pertinent whereby is proved a Year of scâ—rcity of Corn and other Provision for the use of Man But the application of his next Aphorism out of Haly is very illicite and ignorant for although he affirm it shall assuredly come to pass in those parts of this Kingdom which lye South-East and full South from London but nothing so violently as in the Kingdom of Ireland I shall prove him here an errand Botcher For if he had understood the Aphorism Saturn ought to be infortunate in alto loco and elevated above all the other Planets or otherwise it hath no signification which he is not in this Figure for although he be weak in his Essential Dignities yet considering his other Accidental Fortitudes he is indifferent strong and powerful so that the Aphorism will not serve for this Position And if you will know the principal ways by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated above another they are three viz. In respect of their Latitude from the Ecliptique Nearness to their Auges Position in the Figure A Planet is said to be Elevated above another according to Ganivetus cap. 1. differ 3. of his Book Entituled Amicus Medicorum who hath greatest Northern Latitude from the Ecliptique Now if we Calculate rightly we shall find Mars Elevated above all the rest of the Planets the Moon excepted for he hath 3 degrees of North Latitude and Saturn's Latitude is Meridional no less than 2 degrees 6 min. So Jupiter hath 0. degree 47 min. of North Latitude Venus 1 degree 10 min. and Mercury 2 degrees 5 min. both South and the Moon indeed hath 4 degrees 47 min. of North Latitude So that in respect of Latitude Saturn is the most depressed of all the Planets in the Figure and the Moon most Elevated next Mars and then Jupiter The next way is in respect of a Planets propinquity to his Auge according to Albohazen Haly in his Comment upon Ptolomy So that the Planet which is nearest the Summity of his Epicycle is Elevated above another which is further removed thence and if we consider here which of the Planets is most Elevated secundum Augem we shall find that Mercury is in Apog Epicicli 12 March Mars is in Apog Eccentr the 14 of March and Saturn is not in Apog Epicicli until the fourth of May following So that this way Mercury and Mars are both Elevated above Saturn And here by the way will I put Mr. Merlin in mind of one mistake in this kind committed in his England's Prophetical Merlin Pag. 78. Where he hath put Saturn transire Apog on 20 Martii Jupiter Epicicli sui superiorem partem 23 Martii whereas Saturn is in Apog Epicicli the 10 of March and Jupiter the 13. So but only ten days Error in each committed The third way by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated is in respect of their places in the Figure as he that is above the Earth is more Elevated than he that is under the Horizon he that is in the twelfth House is Elevated above another Planet in the Ascendant he that is in the eleventh above any in the twelfth and he that is in the tenth above any other in the Figure as indeed Saturn is now And if all the Planets were under the Horizon then that which is nearest to the Ascendant is said to be most Elevated but this is not so much considered by Astrologers as their Elevation in respect of Latitude and of their proximity to their Auges or if it were yet you see there is two to one against Wil. Lilly For Saturn is neither Elevated above all the other Planets in respect of Latitude nor in respect of his Auge and therefore that
yet are they the Wind That drive the Sails Who 's most blame-worthy then The Grinding Lawyers or Litigious Men Sate I as Judge the Lawyers should go free Such Clowns on Calthrops till they could agree 5. In January Where our third Edward that Puissant King Was born to Conquer France I rudely sing Where Kings have Captives been that stately Wall Confines my Muse for sin Original Help you that can or have my Verse excus'd That Shepherd poorly Pipes whose Reed is bruis'd 6. In March Chronus the Virgin Mars the Bull ascends And by their Trine assure us they are Friends When boist'rous Knaves meet and salute each other Their common Phrase is How Devil dost thou Brother The Graver sort abhor that Hellish note Yet in the fear of God they 'll cut your Throat 7. In July 'T is false to say Dog-days but now begin Since thric five Years have nought but Dog-days bin Or that in England Sirius biteth not Whilst we have such deep Wounds and days so hot But Sirius quickly sets elsewhere to burn Then shâ—ll our Dog-days into HALCYON turn 8. In September Two haughty Rebels yet of Heav'nly race Invade the Virgins Confines Face to face Dispute their Title there but finding none As Trespassâ—rs they hasten to be gone Concluding Hermes for the only Man That 's Heir at Law But get it how he can 9. In December Thus Windsor's my Parnassus and the Jayl Supporting Cole-hole cramm'd with Mills's Ale My Well of Helicon How should my Quill Want quickning or my Muse inspired-skill Thanks honest Luke May all thy Ale and Beer Turn Nectar run untilted all the Year 10. His Conclusion The time 's at hand Titan's indulg'd by Jove Crowned with Honours dress'd in Robes of Love Away ye Miscreant Subjects of Despair That dream on Fogs and think 't will ne'r be fair Shake off your pensive Mantles wash down sorrow Phoebus appears and bids the World Good Morrow The Clouds do scatter and anon you 'll see What shall I say An ENGLISH JUBILEE In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1657. we shall find these several curious Pieces of Wit and Loyalty 1. Under his Moveable Feasts THese are the Festivals which every Year Change their Position in the Kalendar The rest are fixed till the higher Pow'rs Vouchsafe t' unfix and vote them out adoors But thaâ—'s to do Let 's therefore yet Obey Our Holy Mother and keep Holy-day 2. Under the Table of Kings So have I seen 'mongst the Coelestial Train Bright Stars arise and quickly set again Others whose Circles greater Arches trace Though short in lustre run a longer race Some wondrous swift some slower than the rest Yet one and all still tending to the West Impartial Death doth no compassion take Cedars and Shrubs promiscuous Ashes make 3. Under the Table of Terms The Terms commence conclude and yet the strife Ends not Contention hath a tedious Life And which is worse who e're the Conquest get Gains but a lump of drowzie after-wit But O Revenge he 'll that although he begs 'T is sweeter far than Muscadine and Eggs. 4. In January By-fronted Janus th' old Italian King Beholds the Year transact and entering Wisdom and Providence are firm props of State They support Princes and make Nations great Their Suffrages shall now restrain my Pen And make me one of the Prudential Men. 5. In February Now did the Ancient Romans Sacrifice To Plato and th' Infernal Deities For their dead Fathers Souls Furies were then The direful Objects of Idol'trous Men. And 't is a weakness yet in every Head To cringe to and indulge the thing we dread 6. In March Rome-building Romulus gave this the name In Honour of God Mars from whom he came By Ilia thus to perpetuate The Martial Prowess of the Roman-State This Vanity if so I may it call Those Heroes had and so indeed have all 7. In April April's so call'd 'cause the Terrestrial Pores Are open'd now to drink the pleasant show'rs Fruits Herbs Plants sprout forth their fragrant Buds And cloath all green the Fertile Fields and Woods Flora presents variety of Graces Makes Ladies hide for shame their painted Faces 8. In May. May à Majoribus And what were they Great Jove was one who else I cannot say The Pleiades and Hyades arise And drench the Earth with chaste Humidities May then à Madeo it soâ—ndeth well So Friday-street from butter'd Mackerel 9. In June June à Junioribus if so you 'll ha 't That is to say Chuck-sarthing and his Mate Or à Junone 'save us all for she Was Wife to Jove and just so let it be Some Etymon are like the Knight or worse Who draws his Honour from his Fathers Purse 10. In July But Julius à Julio Caesare Rome's Proto-Monarch Pompey's Enemy Th' ingrateful Senate robb'd him not of all His Name survives their Cruelty his fall Pharsalia's fresh in mind whilst Caesar here Triumpheth thus not once but every Year 11. In August This Month Augustus Caesar did begin His Consulship and thrice Triumph'd therein Marc-Antony by force of Arms subdu'd Brought Egypt to the Roman Servitude Therefore the Senate thought it was but just T' exchange Sextilis Menfis for August 12. In December The Moon 's obscur'd four parts of twelve and more And seen if th' Air be clear all England o're But Cynthia's Labour is with little pain Her throws are easie she 's soon light again Were Men-eclipsed but restored thus We'd trouble no Jayls nor should Jayls trouble us 13. A Conclusion of this Years Book But hold the Press hath overtook my Pen The Term's at hand and I shall wander then My Steed is ready the grave Pedlar's Back My Harbinger his Dog my Inn the Pack Old Erra Pater that hoof-beaten Jew The Shepherds Kalendar with all the Crew Of merry Rascals my Companions are They deign to stile me Fellow-Traveller Then Fairs and Markets I must duly keep And on the Stall make up the dirty heap Of Penny Ware Where the disdainful Eye Pores on me two long hours before he buy Whilst Nobler Judgments purchase at first sight And swear imâ—licitely I 'm thorough Right Yet some although â—hey on me seem to doat Will not vouchsafe me ev'ry Year a Coat Whose duller Brats I wish no lâ—ss forlorn And naked twelve Months after they are born Another his Mundungus with me lights All save three Pages where he wisely writes When 's Mare took Horse his Cows th'impatient Bull Or when himsâ—lf some foul lascivious Trull Yâ—t this forbids no â—ntries only I Would not be Pandâ—r to such Drudgery Nor do I grudge the hungry flames a whit For they consume not they refine my Wit Others bâ—hind them in Fools Ordure throw My injur'd Leaves they 'll serve the Bible so But O th' Exchange there I endure the Rack Such Din is made with Wharton's Almanack I can't but Blush for shame when I do meet My Name like Small-Coal cry'd in ev'ry Street Howbe't I
Rev'rend Bishops too had need look to 't For Churches Lands they Challenge ev'ry Foot As Purchas'd by their Money or their Blood But howsoever the Saints Title 's good The Spirit tells 'em They 'r the only Heirs This is the Land of Promise and all Their's 7. In April Bless'd Reformation taught such gainful things As Sacriledge and Murdering of Kings Precious the Pastors with such Manna fed us Holy the Cov'nant to such Duties led us Who would Abjure that Caledonian-Gull Cram'd both the Belly and the Conscience full 8. In May. Mistake me not For I reflect on none That be true Converts they who can bemoan Their Treason and not grudge to term it such Shall pass for Currant if they 'l ' bide the touch My Heart no Malice harbours I forgive The Knaves as willingly as they would Live 9. In June But Monsters some there are with Wood-street Faces Have Crept th know how into warm Places Places of Trust and Profit none knows why Whose Hearts defiance bids to Majesty Send out and see how England's over-spread With Froggs and Locusts worse than Egypt bred 10. In July Survey the Customs Garble the Excise Inspect our Courts of Justice Look who Plies As well below-bridge as above Enquire Into our Offices Then one step higher And see how deadly ev'ry where w' are gnawn By the foul Jaws of Presbyterian spawn 11. In August And must such Miscreants be the only Wise And Worthy We their lasting Sacrifice Who is 't will longer dote on Vertuous Deeds When black Rebellion so fairly speeds If Plato's Morals such Requitals give Who would not study Machiavil to Live 12. In September I but those Beasts are Pardon'd That w' allow But shall their Treasons be Rewarded too With Halters be 't For they alone can Season Such Restless Minds and keep from speaking Treason Nor is 't but fit they should be Treated thus Full Twenty Years so kindly Treated us 13. In October For 't is not long since a Poor Cavalier Durst scarce so much as blow his Nose for fear Of doing wrong They kept us in such awe We Cleft their Wood we did their Water draw And shall we still be Subject to their Scorns License such Sawcy Jacks to wind their Horns 14. In November 'T is true the Storm 's Prodigious Seas are rough But yet our Ship 's well Mann'd and stout enough Why should we dread the sight of Rocks or Shelves Our Foes adventur'd all yet sav'd themselves Whose Scarlet sins pass'd but for over-sights Who think th 'ave all deserved to be Knights 15. In December But now I think nay dare Prognosticate For I have study'd and know well their Fate We shall no longer be their Captives led Our Chains are broke their Hydra's vanquished But till once more our Sins do their's surpass Enjoy our own and prove The Devil 's an Ass. 16. Upon London's Choosing Sir John Robinson Lord Mayor for Conclusion Welfare fair London for this Happy Choice The Snake's untwisted at her Thundring Voice The Royal Tower and Town both in such Hands Despise all Factious and Fanatick Bands He dreads no Plots nor dreameth of Surprize Nought startles Him like Presbyterian Lyâ—s In his Kalendarium Carolinum for Annâ— 1664. We meet these Ingenious Pieces of Poetry 1. In January WElcom the Year pick'd out from all the rest To note great Charles his good Subjects blest Blest from the Fiery Zeal and deadly Feud Of a deluded Brain-sick Multitude Blest with the Influence of so good Stars Peace cannot Surfeit nor devour us Wars 2. In February Titan affronts the President of War Jove joyns with Venus now our Morning-Star The Persian Deity casts his Sextile Light On him and Chronus Th' Empress of the Night Vails her lent Beauty for a little space But then rich Beams do re-adorn her Face 3. In March Sol Jove and Saturn all in Quartile move Mars bids Defiance to the Queen of Love Whence showers of Grief and strong Debates arise To shew what Mortal thinks himself most Wise. But if such Wisdom to Sedition tend Fiat Justitia he 's not England's Friend 4. In April See how the Churle and thundring Zeus wrangle With their Inferiours from a pow'rful Angle Whilst yet with Paean they preserve a Truce And bath the Teeming Earth with Fertile Juice Juice that distilled in a Silver shower Whos 's ev'ry Pearl-like-drop awakes a Flower 5. In May. Mars now at Archas and the Royal Sun Darts his Malignant Radiation But Sol and Hermes in Conjunction meet Phenon and Pyrois each other greet It is approved Prudence to comply With such whose Greatness will admit no vye 6. In June Titan the two Superiours doth Oppose So Hermes Jove so Saturn Phosphoros Mars frowns at Venus and the Aged Sire But smiles on Phaëton Thus th' Heav'ns Conspire Our Weal or Woe and as they Love or Hate We Mortals find our Bad or Happy State 7. In July Sol and Cyllenius re-unite their Rays And breath fresh gales to Fan the Soultry Days Jove storms at Mars affronts sweet Aphrodite Lucina loses all her borrow'd Light But in four hours resumes her wonted Grace Could Ladies so where then an ugly Face 8. In August What gracious Aspects doth this Month produce Sextiles and Trines which melting Love diffuse Methinks when th' upper Worlds so well agree This World of Ours should Reconciled be But that there 's still a Holy Madness rages Which nought but all-consuming Time asswages 9. In September Old Falcifer Nature 's not best of Friends With Sol and Venus eagerly contends Titan with Jove Jove with the Cyprian Queen As if resolv'd to shew each other's Spleen But those high Quarrels quickly are decided Since Jealousies nor Fears have them divided 10. In October Jove's winged Herald from the parching Sun Completes his utmost Elongation The Sun and Saturn Jove and Hermes smile As if all one yet once a Crocodile So Cap and Cringe some fly Fanaticks still But trust 'em not for then they mean to Kill 11. In November Saturn and Mavors close in Council sit Contriving Plots and how those Plots should hir Now which of such Malignants is 't will say He hath gone wrong and doth Repent his way For They their Plots shall unsuccessful find To His great good whose Ruine they design'd 12. In December Phoebus and Saturn in the Goat do meet Whence Feather'd Snow or Storms of Rain and Sleet But now now that the Crowded Wassail-Bowl So frolick looks what matters fair or foul Let 's as the fair Rowena did begin A Solemn Health unto our Lord the King 13. Under the Table of Kings Your Mercy SIR hath gain'd you what are Good And few repine save those delight in Blood If now your Justice unto such extends You Qâ—ell â—he Moâ—stâ—rs and secure your Friends The 〈◊〉 â—â—litick's nor safe nor free Whilst but one Member dares Rebellious be 14. Under the Table oâ— Tâ—â—ms No more Custodes Carolus soâ—ndâ— better This sets us Free That Uâ— and Ours