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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	light_n	rule_v	3,304	5	10.4231	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01297	Antiprognosticon that is to saye, an inuectiue agaynst the vayne and vnprofitable predictions of the astrologians as Nostrodame, [et]c. Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Whervnto is added by the author a shorte treatise in Englyshe, as well for the vtter subuersion of that fained arte, as also for the better vnderstandynge of the common people, vnto whom the fyrst labour seemeth not sufficient; Antiprognosticon contra inutiles astrologorum prædictiones Nostradami, Cuninghami, Lovi, Hilli, Vaghami, & reliquorum omnium. English	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1560 (1560)	STC 11420; ESTC S116544	28,693	82

watry to some ayry and to somme fyery Lykewyse when you giue to euerye housholder as you call the planettes theyr seruynge signes you grant sem to Saturn som to Iupiter and so forth to euery one their propre signes But this I can not passe ouer with silence that almost euery housholder wyll mayntayne and kepe in his seruyce any seruan ●…es that are so reyugnant from his owne nature and disposition That ys they vse them as ministers in bringyng their workes to effect I meruayle how they do not rather execute their owne wille than the wyl of their maisters As for example Saturne whiche is sayd to be earthy hath Aquarius to wayte vpon hym which all togither consisteth of asry qualities Iupiter reported to be ayry hath two seruantes Sagittarius and Pisces of whome sagitarius is fyry and pisces warry Likewise Ma●… that is whose and drye is contente with the seruice of Scorpio that is colde and moyste Uenus boyng full of cold and moysture hath Taurus an earthy sygne and Libra an ayry sygne dooyng her service I leaue here to speake offeigned the distinctions and difference of howses angles dignities and other like of this kind of all whiche yf they canne proue but one principle by good and sownds reason the way shoulde be more easy for theim to depende the rest But nowe seyng they haue nothynge that can testifie of the truthe of their principles it remaynethe that the arte it selfe beeyng grounded of falle propositions and of them heaped to a huge and greate buildynge this so selender and weake a foundation beeyng taken away muste needes falle downe and lye prostrate These thynges I doo the oftener repete that all men may knowe what vayn bragges they make whyles they take that whi che is no cause in steade of a sure and certayne cause For by what reason Saturnus shoulde sygnifie this or that neyther they them selues nor any man elles canne shewe and that wee haue spoken of Saturne the same also maye bee sayde of all the reste of portendynge sygnes Excepte peraduenture they wyll boaste of somme reuelations to bee geuen vnto the snuen●…rs of theyr arte whyche yf they bee not ashamed to confesse as is their mad boldnesse they shall turne the foly which now a litle repentance wold correct into mer●… madnes Let vs grant them their priuate reuelations visions and fantasies for so we shall encreace their follisshenes with pride and vaineglorie yet we are sure they are not to bee trusted And to declare that more p●…ninely bicause all reuelations are not of one sorte let vs deuyde theim into two kyndes for some are geuen of good angels and some of euyll They that are geuen of good angels are suche as the nature of good spirites is wont to be that is to say true profitable and to be thorte generally good The oracles of ●…uyl spirites agree in qualitie with the geuers of them that is they be false hurtful euyll Now of whether sort this reuelation is by whiche the principles of Astrologie at the first were reueled let vs in few wordes consider Now vncertayn these principles are and to speake playnly howe false we may bothe see by daily experience and also we haue sufficiently aboue declared Seynge then it appeareth that your science is not deriued from a good angel or spirite whe ther you wyll haue it to come of an euyll spirite or of neyther the choyce at this ●…yme O Astrologians shalbe yours In the meane season either ceasse to boaste of your rotten and cancred art orels by som●… waie perswade your principles to be true to suche as without proofe can beleue nothyng whether you entend to doo we that shortly perceiue for if you bold your peace wee haue ouercome and wyll celebrate a triumph for ouerthrowyng your myghty gyant Atlas But if any of you be so ●…ham les that he dare enter into battail again●… truth and vs that maynteyn her quarell yf he be found it ●…onger in armes then we are we wyl geue place and yelde but if he be not able to abyde our strokes we wyll take the castell of Astrologie and destroy all thynges that maketh resistence with weapon fire and famine Nowe we haue cast our dartes bothe in numbre and fo●… sufficient among the thickest of our ●…mies it remaineth that we beate backe the weapons throwen of them or at the least take them clean away that they beyng destitute of them may run about as it were fightyng and beatyng the aire with vayne strokes And to begin of that part in w●…che they put no smalle confidence I haue herd many which boasted that they were able to proue their diuination out of holye scripture which mē whē by reson of cōten tion they wer cōpelled to bring forth what they could for their defēce wold sain haue cōcluded their vaticination out of the first chap. of Genesis For whē God the most excellēt wise workman of nature had crea ted heauē orth with his almighty word had put also a difference betwene the light which he had made darknes more ouer had placed the firmamēt in the midst of the waters Furthermore gathered y e waters y t before couered y e whole face of y e erth for preseruatiō of liuing cretures that he entē ded to create into one place fynally had garnished the earth with a moste pleasant ve●…ure of trees grene herbes the fourth day determinyng to create lights to make distinction betwene day night apointed then their propre vse saying The●… shal be vnto signes vnto appointed seasons for so the Hebru word soūdeth vnto dais vnto yeres the lightes shalbe in heuen to geue light vpō y e erth whose eternal wil theffect streight way folowed For god made two great lights a greater light to rule y e day a lesser light to rule y t night also y e stars Here the prognosticators take no smal cou rage y e god ordened the lights y e thei shuld be vnto signes But how litle these signes make for y t purpose of their predictiōs he y e ●…rarketh y c order discours of y t words shal easily ●…cesue For y t which foloweth of appointed sesons likewise y t which foloweth of dais yeres these seme to me to expon̄d what maner of signes thei shalbe y e is thei shalbe tokēs of sprig sōmer au●…ūne win ter of dais natural artificial lōg or short of yeres according to y e sons course or to y e moones course so of y t rest And wheras here is chiefly mētion made of y e sonne y e moon if we wil nedes by signs vnderstad for shewing thei shalbe vnto signes of he●… whē y t son oraweth nere to vs of cold wh●…̄●…h departeth of abūdāce of humors whē y t moon encreaseth y e cōtrary whē she is in the wane or decreasing But vf of necessitie you wold haue vs to vnderstand fatall ●…dictions