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A06859	The diall of destiny A booke very delectable and pleasaunt: wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course, disposition, qualities, effectes, and influence of the seuen planets ouer all kyndes of creatures here belowe: also the seuerall and sundry situation of countryes and kingdomes. Compiled and discussed briefly, aswell astrologically, as poetically, and philosophically by Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte.	Maplet, John, d. 1592.	1581 (1581)	STC 17295; ESTC S120741	65,061	168

THE DIALL OF Destiny A BOOKE VERY DELECTABLE AND PLEAsaunt wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course disposition qualities effectes and influence of the Seuen Planets ouer all kyndes of Creatures here belowe also the seuerall and sundry situation of Countryes and Kingdomes Compiled and discussed Briefly aswell Astrologically as Poetically and Philosophically By Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte. ❧ IMPRINTED AT London in Fleestreat neere vnto Sainte Dunstones Church By Thomas Marshe 1581. Psalme 136. ❧ O Praise the Lord of Heauen which by his excellente wisedome made the heauens which made great Lights the Sun to rule the day the Moone and the Stars to Gouerne the night TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON Knight one of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuy Counsell and Captayne of her Graces Garde OENOPIDES Chius most honourable Syr dedicated at the Tryumphes holde in Greece to the honor of Iupiter Olympus or as others write to Hercules a Booke of his owne framing and makeing all of Brasse the Methode and matter whereof was nothing else but a summary Discourse collected oute of Plato as concerning the continuance circuite and course of the seuen Planets VVhich busines so carefully and costly perfourmed by the aforesayd Chius is here peraduēture in another sort with other necessary sequell thereof with lesse a doe also and lesse cost scanned debated VVhich small treatise of myne neyther crauing Iupiter nor Hercules but requireth rather youre honors present Patrocynie and fauorable protection Your Honour being now in these dayes to our most renowmed Prince the VVeale Publike euē the same that PHOCION a moste renowmed Captayne was to the Athenians And as EPAMINONDAS was to the Thebanes Three rare royall vertues there are which AGESILAVS speaking it vpon good tryall and proofe thereof requireth to bee in a Captayne set ouer the Prynces Garde the first hee sayth is fidelity to his Soueraygne whose person hee is moste carefully to safegarde and defend the second he sayth is an hawty heart and valiancy of Mynde friend●y affected towards his friendes and litle esteming the force of his foes and the last he reposeth in ripenesse of Iudgement dexterity of VVisdome in geuing of common wealth councell All which three Ormamēts Iewels and the same three I dare vtter it thrise doubled and trebled shyne and shewe forth in your Honor very resplē dishingly Insomuch that if I were as I am nothing fit thereto to determyn as the Orator DEMADES did of Noble Personages and moste worthy VVyghtes euen eyes of the Realme as hee calleth them the consideration of your honors so Infinite and inestimable vertues euen of very right deseruing the same required I shoulde say very worthely your Honors accoumpt as it also hath already among the chiefest Senators and Sages of this Land And whereas many other Nations being gouerned onely as it were Cyclopycally that is to say wyth myght bodely force therewith onely defeng thēselues being wythout theyr wyse Councell as it were without their Eyes as the Poets say the great Gyaunte CYCLOPS is doe yet neuerthelesse for want of the same runne oftentimes to much ruyne subiection and subuersion This our Countrey and Nation the Lord bee hyghly thanked therefore hauing such theyr Eyes and eysight as it hath in deede very cleare perfite and pretious whereby aswell all the whole body of the Realme as also euery parte thereof is most happely dyrected in all kinde of safety howe greatly wee and the same is to glorifie GOD therefore though I should say nothing thereof but be silent therein the very force of such a ryche blessinge and Benefite it selfe would burst forth and speake it Now the cause that only mooued me at this time to craue your Honores Countenauncinge of this Litle Treatise was chiefly the hearesay of your Honoures accustomed Clemency and Curtesy in like behalfe towardes others VVhich being any thinge accepted at your Honors hands shall encourage me hereafter to other Trauayles and endeuours In the meane tyme I shall not cease to pray to the gouernor of all the Lord of Lordes for the prosperous long preseruation of your Honour and for the continuance of your honors estate good lyking to the glory of GOD the contentation of the Prynce and commodity of the Countrey From Northall The last of December 1581. Your Honors humble and dayly Orator Iohn Maplet THE PREFACE to the Reader TYRESIAS King the Thebanes being in that foolishe minde so perswaded with him selfe that the Stars had no such Pryuiledge or rule in Mans body or else as the Astrologians did playnely affirme was as the Poets Imagine with the aduise and consent of the all not suffering such speech striken starke blind and quite bereued of his sense of seing And in deede those ignorant men or vnaduised sort which are in a manner come to the same passe that COTTA the Epicure with CICERO DEMOCRITVS were at that all things here belowe come to passe by chaunce meere Casually or at a venture accordingly as they hap well or ill they are eyther blinde in knowledge or else are wedded to much to their owne Wits and Willes dealing with the caelestiall povvers preposterously For PTOLOMY plainely proueth an especiall kinde of Influence from them all vvhich disposeth all bodies here beneath according to euery ones especiall and naturall propriety In so much that BALBVS the Stoycke is rather to be borne withall then these kynde of Men which vppon three Principall causes and considerations was enforced and driuen to graunte some superior kindes of fatall prouidēce And the firste reason and cause therevnto moouinge him vvas the viewe of such sundrye Varietyes and such plentifull stoare of Commodities as which doe daily arise both in the Earth as in the Sea and Ayre through the contemperature and variable disposition of the heauenly powers The second occasiō that brought him hereto was the perceyuinge of the wonderful differences and contrary propertyes both of minde as of body in all thinges almost that hee coulde not chose but thinke and Imagine a sundrye cause for euery one Thirdly the distinct order and placinge of eche thinge to the better cōtinuation of the same in his kinde prouoked and enforced him for to rest and grounde vpon some Superior workemansters or Authors aboue Moreouer a paterne of the Planets property and Influence doth in this respect offer it selfe to be seene apparantly euen in the frame Workemanship of Man kinde vvhereas euery person almost hath his seuerall and sundry Inclination some to vertue some agayn to vice some also hauing good hap and other some hauing sinister fortune And whereas vvicked men for the moste porte ruffle in the vvorld fortune alwais laughing on thē as MARIVS SYLLA DYONISIVS the cruell Tyraunt PYSISTRATVS POLYCRATES PHALARIS And cōtrariwyse it is here vvith goodmē for the most parte as it vvas vvith PAVLVS AEMILIVS a valyaunte Vanquisher and a good man yet through cruell fate murdered slayne

it would be considered Why it is croked or halfe circled When there is a Cloude regular right set and the same in a parte thereof as it were sundred in one horizon so as the other part of the cloude going and declininge beneath the same horizon is taken away frō our sight hereupon that Raynbowe appeareth croked and the nearer the sunne commeth to the horizon so much the greater is the raynbowe So that the rainbowe doth neuer appeare after a whole circle or bigger then halfe a circle but either as a semicircle at one end touching one parte of our horizon and at the other ende the contrary parte of the same or els it is sometimes lesse then a semicircle There are oftentimes seene 2. Tvvo and 3. bovves at once Raynebowes at once and sometimes althoughe very seldome three When there doe appeare but two at once they haue doth the selfe same colours but a contrary placing of the same so that whereas the principall hath yealowishe greene and red the other hath in his situation first red then greene and lastly yealowishe And that Raynbow which sheweth weakest is the Paterne or Image of the pryncipaler and strongest Also whē there doth appeare three at once the third is so weake as it can scantly bee perceiued For the thyrde commeth of the refractions of the Beames of the second which must needes be but very weak And this thirde being of such weakenes wyll haue notwithstanding alwaies the colours of the first and strongest and wil be lightly after a yelow greene and purple colour Further this is euidēt that the higher the Sunne is exalted aboue our horrizon so much the lesse doth the Rainebow appear as when any sheweth aboute the mid day they shew very smal But those which shew either shortly after the Sonne rysinge or not longe before the sunne set they bee the greatest So likewyse in the midst of sommer whe the Sun is in the chiefest Sommer pointes and Signes as when the daies bee longest wée see no Rainebowes shewe forth at any time aboute noone or the mid day But after the Aequinoctium of Autumne following when the sun entreth in to Libra we see about the same time many Rainbowes almost at al houres of the day Now come wee to Comettes or blasing starres being of the kinds of fiery Impressions also Comets or blasing starres Hovv engendred and occasioned by the suns operation chiefely and the other starres For the Comet is thus engendred Whereas by the force of the sun and the other starres there is eleuated and drawen vp on hye very much viscous matter hoate dry grosse and fat and such as will be commodiously kyndled and set on fyre from these earthly places to the highest region of the Ayre where it being turned aboute round wyth the motion of the ayre and being nighe the fire is kindled and set on fyre equally and on euery side and so other exhalatiōs styll cōtinuing and comming on doth both nourish and encrease the burning thereof such kinde of impression is called a comet Kyndes thereof The matter whereof if it be grosser in the midst and thinner on the furthermore and outeward sides it appeareth after the manner of hayre or as the Horses mane is called Stella Comata But if the sides outward parts therof be bēding downward in lēgth tailewise it is called Cometa caudata but if those sides parts being very subtile be thinly layed downe or scattered belowe beardewise it is called Stella Barbata The matter of a Comet must needes bee much and great and very plentifull or copopious or els otherwise it shoulde soone be consumed away throughe the Adurant heate of the sunne And the shortest time that euer any Comet continueth and is seene is at the least the space of seuen whole dayes Continuance therof for the most parte it is 40. dayes or more yea 80. dayes ere it vanisheth away neuer geuing ouer his fiery shewe and looke vntill all such viscouse matter be quite cōsumed away in burninge out The chiefest time of a Comet is chiefly in and about the time of Autumne Chiefest time there of because that then there is sufficient heate to eleuate such viscouse matter and then there is also temperate heate which easily suffereth such matter without any hinder aunce of the same to be soundly compact together which in Summer cannot bee well done as at what time such grosse matter of exhalation throughe the Sunnes heate dispersing the same also for the extreame coldnesse of the middle Region of the Ayre doth not permit the same to passe vp into the highest Region So in the Springe tyme there is not for the more parte sufficient heate to eleuate so great matter in Winter the extremenesse of Moysture and colde is vtterly repugnant thereto And yet Aristotle in his first booke of his Meteores maketh mention of a Comet very horrible great and greeuous which was seene in the dayes of Asius the Prynce of the Athenians euen in a very frosty and colde winter but as he saith very fayre and cleare which at the first appeared so litle that in the first day of his shewe it was as it had ben vanished away and gone a litle before the Sunne set but afterwardes it shewed agayne so grat that it cast out his lighte to the thirde parte of Heauen and shyned forth in manner of the sinne so that it went as it were a way of light and this ascendinge at the last to the Horizon did there aboutes weare away Whensoeuer there be any Comets there followeth shortly after great tempests and wyndes and continuance of dry weather great drouthes Comets vvhat thei prognosticate These Comets doe prognosticate Warre Commotions sturres stryfes Treasons and such like because that in the tyme of their Generation and continuance exceding heate ruleth and boyleth in men which Incenseth and sturreth forwardes thereto the bodyes and myndes of men And besides this it signifieth more especially the death of Princes and Noble Personages for that the Ayre which then is more grosse and viscouse through the corrupted matter of the Comet is not so wholsome for delicate and deliciouse Persons as for the lusty and course Constitution of the bodyes appetites of Labourers and Husbandmen But now to returne to the proper possession of the sunne in all kindes of Bodies here belowe Such as be borne vnder Sol are for the most parte of a browne colour and of smal stature yet well and comely knit and proporcioned they be also of a very thin haire and curled Head Gray eyed they be also hawty stomacked and they are aduaunced often to great honours and dignities And the Disposition of their minde is such that they be studious of difficult and hard matters very desirous of glory and ronowne They bee also fast and faythfull in friendship and constant in Fact and worde They bee likewise Wise and Polliticke touching common wealth