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A30887
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The Shepheards kalender newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers.
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Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547.
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Wing B713; ESTC R16875
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men and night walkers quarell pickers mockers and scoffers and these men of Mars cause war murther and battle they will gladly be Smiths or workers of Iron light fingers and lyars and great swearers of oathes in vengeable wise and a great surmiser and crafty he is red and angry with black hair and little eies he shall be a great walker and a maker of swords knives and shedder of mans bloud a letcher a speaker of ribaldry red bearded round visage and good to be a barber and letter of bloud and to draw teeth and is perillous of his hands and he wil be rich of other mens goods And of the body of man Mars keepeth the gall and the reines Of the noble planet Sol. THe sun is a planet of great renown and king of all the planets the sun nourisheth every age yet he is hot and dry of nature and the planet Saturn is to him full contrary for he is ever cold and the noble planet of the sun is hot and giveth all light for when it is above the earth it is day Sol significat hominem habentem colorem inter croceum nigrum id est fuscum tectum cum rubore brevis statuere crispum crinem pulchri corporis capillos parum rubeos occulos aliquantulum croceos mixtam habet naturam cum planeta qui cum eo fuerit dum modo digniorem habeat locum ejus insequitur naturam and when the earth doth shadow the Sun it is night much be we people bound to laud God for that noble planet for he comforteth both man and beast fish and all foules that flieth in the ayr all things is glad of the Sun the red Rose and faire flowers after that the Sun goeth far into the West they close themselves Of his properties AL men and women that be born under the Sun shall be very fair amiable of face and their skin shal be right white tender and well coloured in the visage with a little rednesse and they shall have a pleasure in their own beauty they shall shew their lives as they were good and holy but they shall be secret hypocrites if they give them to religion they shal be fortunate to great promotions they shal be clean and good of faith and shal be governors of other people and if they be never so poor yet shall they love hawking and hunting with hounds and hawkes and reioyce to see it the children that is born under the Sun shall desire honor and science and shal sing very pleasantly and they shal be of good courage and diligent and shall desire Lordship above other people they shall give wise iudgements and their words shall sound all sweetly and he beare any office he shall be liberall and he shal be subtile in feats of war and many shall seek to him for counsell he shal have profit by women and he shal be in service with Lords and by them shall have advantage for his wisedome his signe shall be in the face he shal be of small stature with crispe haire and bald on the head he will seldome be angry and of all the members in a mans body the Sun keepeth the heart as the most mighty planet above all other Venus significat hominem album trahentem ad nigredinem pulchri corporis capillorum habentem parvam maxillam pulchros oculos pulchrum faciem multos capillos habentem ad album confectum rubore crassum benevolentem NExt after the Sun reigneth the gentle planet Venus it is a planet feminine and shee is lady over all lovers this planet is moist and cold of nature and her two signes is Taurus and Libra and in them she hath all her ioy and pleasance she causeth ioy and specially among yong folk for greatly she reigneth on them and on all men that be iealous and on women also for iealousie is but love inordinate as when a man or woman loveth more fervently than they should for such would never be from the sight of their lovers for if they be they soon suspect them and fear to be beguiled There is no man that loveth a woman by carnall affection but it is by the influence of Venus and few men escape out of her danger This planet Venus runneth in twelve months over the twelve signes Of her properties WHat man or woman that is born under Venus shall be a gay lover pleasant delitious most commonly they have black eies little browes red lips and cheeks with a smiling cheer they shall love the voyce of trumpets clarions with other minstralsie they shal be pleasant singers with sweet voice full of wanton toyes plaies and scoffings they shal greatly delight in dancing in gambols in leaping and springing and will use playing at the chesse and at the cards and tables and desire oft to commune of lust and love and covet of sweet meats and drinks as wine and be oft drunken and oft desire lechery and the beholding of fair women and the women of men in like wise and use dead fleshly lusts oftentimes they will desire fair cloaths of gay colour and fine with rings of vanity and all vain pleasure of the world with fair and rich clothes and pearles pretious stones they shall love flowers with sweet smels yet shal they be of good faith and they shall love other aswel as themselves they shall be liberall to their friends they shall have few enemies if they be brown they shal be well proportioned of body if they swear it is true ye may beleeve them and Venus governeth the thighs of man Of the fair Planet Mercury Mercurius significat hominem non multum album neque nigrum habentem colorem frontem elevatum longam faciem nasum longum barbam in maxillis oculos pulchros non ex toto nigros longosque digitos atque perfectum magistrum NExt under Venus is the fair planet Mercury and it is masculine next above the moon and there is no planet lower than Mercury saving only the moon This Mercury is very full dry of nature and his principall signs be these Gemini is the first that reigns in the armes and hands of man or woman and the other signe is Virgo that governeth the navell and stomack of man This planet is Lord of speech in like wise as the Sun is Lord of light This planet Mercury passeth and circueth the xii signes in CCCxxxviii dayes Hereafter is shewed the disposition of the children that be born under the planet Mercury of what condition they shal be as Doctors of Astronomy doe discusse Of his properties WHo is born under Mercury shal be subtile of wit and shal be a devout person to God and have good conscience shal be very crafty in many sciences he with his wisedom labor shal get him many friends and lovers she hal ever follow resort to them that be of good maners and shal be fortunate on sea in marchandise he