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A02157	Planetomachia: or the first parte of the generall opposition of the seuen planets wherein is astronomically described their essence, nature, and influence: diuersly discouering in their pleasaunt and tragicall histories, the inward affections of the mindes ... Conteyning also a briefe apologie of the sacred and misticall science of astronomie: by Robert Greene, Master of Arts and student in phisicke. 1585.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 12299; ESTC S105841	74,857	119

chylde prohybite thee from suche hellishe practises But why do●st thou prattle Pasilla thou seest they could not Graunt not to the trecherous wre●th then so much ●auour as to let him inioye one moment of life but reuenge his wickednesse and 〈◊〉 thine owne woe And with that Valdracko was about to speake but Pasilla incensed with a furious 〈…〉 vp the sword and wounded him sore and after many bloody ●low●s he yeelded vp the ghost When she had thus cr●c●y murthered her father yet iustlye requited the iniu●y she to●k pen and incke and wrote the effect of this tragicall discourse that al might know the cause of this bloody fact whiche fini●hed ●●e fell groueling on the sword and so ended both her life and her miseries Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurie Luna VEnus had no sooner ended her tale but Saturne rising out of his seate as one in a chafe fell into these Collericke tearmes Saturne Venus you play like them which seeking to shoote against the starres are wounded with their owne Arrowes in the fall or like the enuious Porcuntine who coueting to strike others with her pennes leaueth her selfe void of any defence you haue here tolde a tale of Valdracko which sheweth not my crabbed influence but your owne crooked constellation for it was the wilfull forwardnesse of Pasylla in her do●ing fancies and her lasciuious loue in liking her fathers enimy that procured those haplesse euents yea it was the vnbridled affection of staylesse youth not the careful wisedome of setled age that wrought this Tragicall discourse Venus Saturne if old men could blush no doubt all the gods should perceiue thou wert more ashamed in defending so false a cause then in hearing me rehearse the case but I will not say you doate because you are old but dissemble because you are wise so shall I both excuse your fondnesse and commend your wit but this I hope I may say without preiudice that your arguments sauour as much ●f reason as Luna doth of constancie Luna You might haue said Venus as you do of honestie and so all the gods would haue thought his arguments of small force but were his reasons as full of substance as you of light qualities it were against Aristotle to deny either premises or conclusion Venus You learned this Logicke Luna of End●mion but let that passe and seeing Sol is appointed Moderator in this our controuersie I thinke he cannot but say that the haplesse and tragicall euents of this history came by the predominant influence of Saturne for was it not the Melancholy disposition of Valdracko that nourished so long the glowing sparkes of reuenge toward the Conte Coelio and his Saturnine constitution that with a coulored shewe of amitie repayed most faithfull friendshippe with cruell enmitie did hee not carry in the one hande breade and in the other a stone and preferre his priuate iniuries before publike credite or honesty yea did not such melancholicke impressions pester his minde as hee was the cause of the most tragicall and bloodie Massacres Mercurie Truth Venus such is the crabbed disposition of Saturne as they which are borne vnder his influence delight in tragicall treacheries performed with most subtill and secreat attempts so that Caesar feared more the two Saturnists Brutus Cassius then all his forraine foes of any other constitution Iupiter Mercurie you speake without commission I am glad you are so greatly beholding vnto Venus indeede she cannot want counsellours nor champions she allowes them such large fees But I pray you wherein is my Father Saturne so greatly to be blamed was not Valdracko forced by the disordinate affection of his daughter Pandina to his enemies sonne Rodento rather to preuent mishappe by some synister meanes then to bring his hole house and famelie to most miserable decay and ruine Mars Iupiter if large fees may make bolde champions or brawling counsellers you haue greatest cause both to fight chide in Venus behalfe she hath giuen you many a fat present as Europa da●as Alcmena I haue named ynough I think to stoppe your mouth Luna Mars what Iupiter hath gotten I knowe not but what Vulcan got with his net we al know not a fish but a God But it is wel you defend not her honestie but her arguments Sol. Cease from these biting quips they are fit for brabling Sophisters not for the gods and heare my verdict I am of this minde that the hapelesse euentes of this tragical discourse came by Saturnes synister influence that Coelios death proceeded of a malicious and secreat hate that Rodentos balefull mishap spronge from a Saturnine reuenge predominant in the configuration of Valdrachos natiuitie imprinting in his aged minde a melancholie despight which brought to passe this wofull and vnnaturall tragedie This is my censure but nowe sith Venus hath ended her tale Luna I charge you to report her Astronomical description because Saturne will speake more of ran●or then of reason Saturne Sol we haue agreed that your sensure shal stand for a sentence and therfore I wil not inueigh against your verdict but am content to beare the blame of Valdrachos ill nature yet that you the rest of the gods may know that there commeth more harme by disordinate lawlesse Venus then by me I will rehearse an historie wherein you shall easily perceiue that loue sotteth the senses infec●e●h youth destroyeth age and is the very plague both to the minde and body Lunas Astronomicall description of Venus THe starre of Venus right mightie gods is so simplie called as Tullie auoucheth quod ad res omnes veniat and the auncient Arabians call it astrum genitale or prolifioum for the temperate moisture and fauorable influence that it distilleth vppon all humaine bodies for the nature of Venus is to infuse into all inferiour substances while they are ingendered or nourished a certaine Humidatum sucoum or delicate moisture yet notwithstanding so thinne and subtile that it shall 〈…〉 and f●llow more the nature of 〈◊〉 then of showers which natural● and proper qualitie in my iu●gement caused the a●ncient Poets 〈◊〉 attribute this Epitheton vnto Venus A●●a ab alendo Now as concerning her other qualitie of 〈…〉 note that ●●we h●●e in naturall he●●e placed 〈◊〉 that doth cherish and nourish as is Sol and his irra●i at starre Iupiter so we haue set down● another which doth burne and scortch intempera●ely as doeth Mars with his adult and y●llow chollar so likewise in the nature of co●●nesse we doe appoint Venus to be ●om●o●ate and fauorable and Saturne with his melancholy humor to be infortunate and maligna●● of the which opinion are Prolomeus Galen and the Chaldes saying that amongst the Planets there are two fauourable wel affected and friends to nature namely Iupiter and Venus and two Saturne Mars ●●holsome bitter lucklesse and yll affected To confyrme the which I will rehearse Ptolomeus owne sentence●● the end of his first Apotellosma●●● There are foure humours saith he or first

haue Ho● Mars with choller much adust do●he c●use his crue to raue A●● what ●iseases incident 〈…〉 and proper name of euery greefe and paine But this his skill with rare delight is saweed in such sort As grauer heads may counsell finde and yonger yeares disport Both by his learned censure may most pleasaunt profite gaine With friendly speech and praises due then recompence his paine FINIS Henry Gale Master of Artes. In Epicureos FOnd Epycurus with thy crue which scornes the course of heauenly frame● Bend downe thine eye and take a viewe peruse this worke and blush for shame To see thy doating doomes refeld which taste of naught but earthly slime And now by right and force compeld to yeeld to trueth in this our time Wherein Astrologie her famous lore● doth iustly claime her sacred due As Greene hath prou'd she did before and now her praises doth renue With such surpassing wit and skill as shall display thy brutish will FINIS George Mear●● Gentleman In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ride Epicure deum gere nescia pectore fati finge nihil caeli significare faces Crede mihi ad nigrum quando raptaberis orcum Hic tua quod plectat scommata Numen erit Sultum pecus est non homo quicunque Astronomiae studio non tenetur cuius neminem nisi deum authorem repertorem faciundum puto Plato Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurie Luna Saturne I Am sory Venus that thou art descended from mee beeing a God or that the destinies not to bee controlled haue appointed thee for a Goddesse but especially that thou art one of the vii Planets whose celestiall influences are predominant in terrestiall creatures I heare the complaints of thē which are skilfull in the calculation of natiuities exclaiming against thy thrise accursed constellation for by thee Venus the prime of yeeres which ought to bee spent in vertues is consumed in idle vanities Youth whiche in the golden age delighted to trie their vertues in hard armours take their onely content in delicate and effeminate amours through thee young mindes are blinded with lasciuious loue and aged yeeres pestered with fresh affections thou doest inchaunt the heartes of men with vnfitte fancies and layest beauty as a snare to intrappe vertue Loue as they whom haplesse experiēce hath taught make report is the onely plague which infecteth the myndes of mortall men and what daungerous euentes proceede of this franticke impression springe fond Venus of thy accursed influence so that if the Gods woulde bee ruled by me thou shouldest not onely be depriued of thy place among the Planets but exiled from all dignitie in the heauens and denyed to haue any more power vpon earth Venus Saturn if Gods might waxe old as they are immortal I wold thinke age had made thee doate but I neede not deceyue my selfe for it is thy accustomed melancholy that driueth thee into these bitter inuectyues Thou art sorie that I am come of thy lyne and I therefore discent because the destinies haue appoynted my progenie from such a peeuish Parent whose celestial but infortunate impression ioyned with a perpetuall vnluckly irradiation breedeth both in mens mindes and bodies such haplesse passions sawsed with so bitter and wofull euents as I sorrow to heare their cursing complaintes and shame to descēd from the race of such a despised Planet whereas contrary in the course of al configurations whether I be in some improper and sinister house or my vertue darkened with some vnlucky aspect either in Coniunction or Opposition yet the mildnesse of my influence doth alwaies mittigate though not extinguishe the cruell disposition of all other infortunate starres And further syr to shew that your inuectiue sauoureth more of rancour thē of reason I say that those natiuities whiche are fauoured wyth my happye aspecte dispose the minde to a continuall pronenesse and forwardnesse vnto pitie friendshippe amity and loue Loue yea Loue I say as neither God nor man iustly can gainsay which oft times pacifieth displeasures among heauenly powers and appeaseth debates among earthlye creatures It is y ● enemie to dissention the friend to quiet yea the preseruer conseruer of humane actions so that what is done well either is loue or proceedeth from loue But Saturne let those two crabbed Philosophers who hated loue and fed vpon gall and melācholy I meane Timon and Aparmantus come forth and thou shalt heare them with bitter curses accuse thy Saturnine complexion to be the spur that prickt them forward to their desperate philosophie Mars Truth Venus therefore Saturne for a while by the consēt of his own son Iupiter was most iustly exiled for y ● through his peeuish frowardnes neither could the gods agree in heauen nor men vpon earth Iupiter Mars you mistake the matter my father Saturne is the most noble of all the planets for his influence is principally predominant in age wherein vayn thoughtes and fresh affections are suppressed and wisedome onely beares swaye breeding in mens minds a hatefull contempt of vice and a happie desire of vertue therfore the golden age wherin al liued iustly was called Aetas Saturnea Luna Tush Iupiter blame not Mars his hande is on his halfepenie he plaieth like the Lidian stone which rubbed with the iuice of Mandrake becommeth hot where before it is most colde Venus is the goddesse of beauty and will loue Mars a god must loue let not his broken coyne stand for starling for he speaketh of affection all the Gods either do know it or may know it Mars Luna your reproch maye bee counted a praise for there is no hold to be taken at your words whose verdict is so variable y e ere Iupiter can turne his backe you wil chaunge your tale neuer singing one soug●e nor remaining in one mynd least if your censure should at any time be al one you might be thought not to be Luna But it is for you to talke with the goddesses not with the Gods Saturne Mars Luna hath reported as much as she can proue and yet no more then we know but letting her defend her own quarrel I say that respecting your own lucklesse constellation it were most fit for you to hold with Saturne for wrath enuie warres choler bloud murther hatred proceedeth frō your influence Mercurie Not so Sir in this I will speake for Mars hee breedeth in mens mindes valour prowesse magnanimity courage constancy resolutions without feare setled determination without change Iupiter And you Mercurie pollicies sleights faire promises small performance causing men by your variable impression to flatter friend or foe to sweare in mouth and for sweare in hart to beare two faces vnder a hood to carry a Lamb in his shield and a Tygre in his bosome with the one hand to present spice and wyth the other hemblocke Sol. Is it not a shame right mightye Gods that your grauities shuld be so blinded with raging choler as to your own discredit to rippe vp those thinges which