Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	east_n	motion_n	west_n	1,864	5	9.5519	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07418	Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster Rather the arraignment of artlesse astrologers, and fortune-tellers, that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come, of telling things that are past, finding out things that are lost, expounding dreames, calculating deaths and natiuities, once againe brought to the barre. By Iohn Melton.	Melton, John, Sir, d. 1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 17804; ESTC S112560	60,603	93

large and exact experience In this I beleeue they say true for some say it is a sinne to belye the Deuill by long obseruation they may learne many experiments concerning Astrologie yet if by meere experience they had attayned to the Principles then not once but often they should haue obserued the same Constellation which is opposite to the Tenent of most of them who hold that the same Constellation cannot appeare wholly againe vnlesse it be after the reuolution of many thousand yeeres and if they could perceiue them sooner yet doth it not suffice to obserue the same particular Constellation because seeing the influence of no Starre tends vpward it is decreed by Astrologers that it is vncertaine whether the experimentall effect is to be ascribed to this or that Planet vnlesse by chance it be to the Sunne or the Moone which are often proposed to vs in operation when oftentimes they are the influence of a lesser Starre although farther from vs. Nota. For another Constellation in superior parts doth vary hinder and diminish the operation of Heauen in inferior parts the disposition of the matter But suppose the influences of Constellations may be vnderstood yet they are not sufficiently made manifest as may appeare to him that reades the many doubts that arise about Astrologie concerning the Motion of the Starres the Firmament and the Planets Stellarum fixarum motus triplex Some graunt that there is a Heauen aboue the Firmament some late Writers make vse of and practise another Heauen the Chaldaeans and Aegyptians one Motion that is to say diurnall to the Starres Ptholomey addes a second which is from the East to the West Thebit a third which is from the North to the South but they all varie about the Time And wonder not if they vary about the fixt Starre seeing they differ about the Motion of the Sunne and the Moone for the precise knowledge of the Solar yeere and it is needlesse to report how much they differ about the declination of the Sunne Therefore why should any man beleeue them when their Writings and Opinions differ so farre from one another for it is certaine that if Astrologers be deceiued but in one Degree in taking an Houre they erre likewise in the diuision of the Houses for the Degree will change the Signe then is it necessarie that their experiments are deceitfull The Astrologers Prize The Chaldaeans the most ancientest Astrologers differ from the Opinion of the Aegyptians for the Aegyptians diuide the Zodiake into twelue Signes but the Chaldaeans into eleuen Images Againe some of them disagree in their Degrees some of them will haue this Planet placed in this House another in the third fourth fift or sixt Thus is there such a deadly enmitie betweene these Heauenly Doctors that like so many Masters of the Noble Science of Defence they striue to breake the head of each others reputation and stand at defiance with each other For when Ptholomie hath his Iacobs Staffe in his hand hee thought himselfe as skilfull at it as Turner was at his Rapier and Dagger and was assured that Hermes Tresmegistus durst not stand vp against him When Alchibicius had got hold of his Astrolabe hee was as safe as Robin the Deuill with his Sword and Targuet and durst prognosticate that neyther Albumazar nor Aboazar durst challenge him When Abraham Haly or Thebit were peeping through their Prospectiue Glasses they did beleeue that neyther Auenozra nor Algazel durst looke them in the face Nay doe but looke into the humours of our Moderne Calculators and you shall finde them rayle one against another as bitterly as Nash against Haruy and why is all this but because they condemne each other for lying when Heauen and Earth God and Man know that he that lyeth the seldomest doth lye very often Some of them will prognosticate that on such a day very vnfallibly there shall be Raine when it is a thousand pound to a Farthing Token but all the people dwelling in that Meridian his Almanacke was calculated for but will finde them Lyars except some Widdowes that haue buryed their Husbands or Sonnes their Fathers who raine whole showers of teares from their clouded eyes it may be more for ioy then sorrow Another will fore-tell of Lightning and Thunder that shall happen such a day when there are no such Inflamations seene except men goe to the Fortune in Golding-Lane to see the Tragedie of Doctor Faustus There indeede a man may behold shagge-hayr'd Deuills runne roaring ouer the Stage with Squibs in their mouthes while Drummers make Thunder in the Tyring-house and the twelue-penny Hirelings make artificiall Lightning in their Heauens A third will fore-tell that great Darkenesse shall happen on such a day when it may be none finde it true but Drunkards that most commonly drinke themselues so blinde that they cannot see day-light Who then will beleeue these Fortune-sellers for whom it is as easie at all times to tell true as to make a thricecarted Maquerella forsake her Venetian Tinctures and paint her old wrinkled face with a modest bl●sh Yet which is most strange and to be wondred at I read one of their Predictions which hitherto hath proued true which was This is exceeding true that from the yeere 1617. to the end of the World should be great Fires in many parts of the Citie of London which hitherto hath proued true to the no small admiration of the Reader and the no lesse prayse to the Calculator For there haue beene such hot fires in Pickt-hatch Turne-bole street the Myneryes and both the Fryers and other such religious places where Verus Nunnes are Cloystered that if Tom Todd and his fellow flesh-dressers had not quencht those inflamations many three-chin'd Bawd dry-fisted Punke and bisket-handed Pandar would haue had all their hayre burnt off long ere this There haue beene great fires many Moneths together in the Old-Bayly so that many haue beene burnt in the Hand and very glad they could scape so to Many Drunkards haue had terrible heart-burnings with drinking stale Beere and vehement hot inflamations at their stomacke with drinking hot Waters so that many of them dare not goe to bed without a Thurrondell Pot of six shillings Beere stand by them all night for feare their throats be set on fire before the next morning Prodigalls haue had many phantasticall fires in their braines that haue almost burnt vp their Wit But that which most grieues me is most of the Varlets belonging to the Citie Colledges I meane both the prodigious Compters haue fierie red faces Excellent places to breed vp youth in that they cannot put a Cup of Nippitato to their Snowts but with the extreme heat that doth glow from them they make it cry hisse againe as if there were a Gadd of burning Steele flung into the Pot. But because I doe cruelly loue them I will be their Aesculapius and prescribe this Medicine following Let them euery morning take a spoonefull of