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A88290	The starry messenger; or an interpretation of that strange apparition of three suns seene in London, 19. Novemb. 1644. being the birth day of King Charles. The effects of the eclips of the sun, which will be visible in England, 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force, from January, 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares; and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most common-wealths of Europe, but principally in England. With an answer to An astrologicall judgement. Printed at Oxford, upon his Majesties present martch. / By William Lilly student in astrologie.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Wharton, George, 1617-1681. Astrologicall judgement upon His Majesties present martch.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2245; Thomason E288_17; ESTC R200103	40,051	61

c. of which anon I particular out no one Quis enim prudens id periculi subiret What man would run such a hazard of danger Licet Astronomiae Magiae pertissimus ut Principi alicui aut Regi Caesarivè in os diceret tibi hoc accidet tu occideris glande trajicieris subditi tui te Regno exuunt ejicient in exilium agent subditi tui dat● fide violata rebellione facta te repudiabunt Domino alio jurabunt What an Asse were the Astrologian or skilfull Magician saith Paracelsus if upon the appearance of a Prodigious Sight in the Elements he should say to the face of a Prince King or Emperour Such a thing shall happen unto thee Thou shalt be slain knockt in the head with a Bullet Thy Subjects shall spoil thee and cast thee out of thy Kingdom Thou shalt live a banished man in another Countrey Thy own Subjects or People notwithstanding their Fealty or Homage done shall violate their Faith given raise Rebellion repudiate and scorn thy Acts and Person and perform Service to some other Lord This is a pretty piece of Stuff If we believe the sayings of the wise that were curious in search after such like Prodigies you that are Emperours Kings Princes Dukes or the principall Rulers of all Common-wealths in Europe have reason to be carefull of your selves and to thank me for putting you in minde of such things as these Be angry and you please I care not I must discharge my Conscience It s not unknown to the Learned that Europe is now at this time under the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the Watry Trygon and signe of Pisces It s not unknown as I may say how preposterously and irregularly that Conjunction slips in betwixt two Conjunctions of the Fiery Triplicity the first entrance whereof was in 1603 and their Conjunction in the eighth degree of Sagittarius the very self-same signe degree and quarter of heaven the Sun and Moon are in upon this present Apparition King James came to be our English King that yeer In the full-Moon postventionall to the Comet 1618 the Sun was in the tenth degree of Sagittarius In the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1623 the almost degree of this present Lunation did mediate heaven King Charles went into Spain that yeer In the yeer 1642 3 when Saturn and Jupiter made their last Conjunction the place of the Luminaries at this time was then the Cusp of the tenth house and the Sun now in Partill square to his then-place the Moon at this present her Latitude considered is in almost Partill Opposition to the place of Mars then The Scheam of heaven then and now differ very little or nothing at all This is written to satisfie Artists He that would know more let him repair to the Tract I wrote called Englands propheticall Merlin These are all Arguments and not mean ones of premonition to a Family and that no mean one That a storm and that also a furious one is ready to rush down upon their heads Doubtlesse this Prodigie is a more neer and significant Interpreter then any hath been this half Century of yeers of that fatall Doom hanging at this time as it were in the Air by a twine threed over some obstinate and sinking Progenies in Europe These three Suns shew acceleration of what hath mercifully a long time been forborn and that now after so many Warnings divine Providence will not be deluded by the strugling or frail and brittle policie of man Cardan hath such words as these Seg. 5. Apho. 67. Cumque tres Soles eodem modo in ambitu medii Circulus completus ac permanens ad modum Iridis eo anno in Civitate libera nascetur ex Civibus Rex quod si cum hoc Stella apparuerit in die lucida erit in eadem hora When three Suns appear and in the compassing round of the middle one a complete Circle is permanent in manner of a Rainbowe in that yeer in a free Citie or Common-wealth there's born of some Citizen one that shall be a King But if upon the time of such an appearance some glorious Star shew it self in the day-time the Infant is born the same hour mutatis mutandis The words of this learned Philosopher stretch to this sense That when such a Prodigie as he speaks of appears it shews or is the antecedent of some new Principality or some notable Priviledges to be obtained or the birth or rise of some man or Common-wealth to Sovereignty and to that supreme Command which was not before Believe me O all you great ones there 's some such Monster in hatching as the depriving of many of you of that Freedom your Ancestours left you c. If we take signification from the predominant Planet we shall acquaint you in plain English That Religion shall be a strong Pretender and a painfull Stickler in most Common-wealths for some yeers Venus as now posited tells you how much some sober and modest Judgements endeavour to settle things purely soberly and legally But if you look into the third house you shall finde Saturn Retrograde and in opposition to her Master Booker saith Saturn signifies Tom Jew and Jack Jesuite Bona fide I say That we are hereby premonished of men in our Common-wealth that are as superstitious as the Jew and malicious as the Jesuite and that these hodge-podge mixture of shallow-brains shall disturb all our proceedings Good God! that so much deceit and hypocrisie should be veiled and we continue ignorant of the Plot thereby intended What incongruous and inconsistent Opinions even to reason it self do I foresee by this froward and malicious Aspect of Saturn shall appear in the world vex all or most Nations undo almost every State and Common-wealth Methinks here's to be plenty of Ambassadours severally employed What Conclusion they shall make the Retrogradation of Jupiter in the fifth tells you Worse and worse Tinker-like mend one hole and make two or if you will Salve up a little Breach and not long after make one five times greater Mutuall Assistance shall be pretended and one Nation or Common-wealth leagues with another but to what purpose That Policie which in the conception of the wisest Statist is held most convenient for his Prince and Countrey even in that very point shall his King or State suffer most detriment Can we delude God or have the Stars no Influence or can we by Art or Nature make the two unnecessary invironing Suns which are no better then Scar-crows or outward appearances to be reall proper and materiall ones I must deal plainly that we in England for Saturn is in Aries the Ascendant of England under pretence of a glorious shew for Reformation in divine matters intend deceitfully and that mischievous Intentions under religious Pretensions are most viperously cloked But upon maturer Consideration while I see the hand of the Almighty deading and dulling our understandings

The effects of the Eclips of the Sun which will be visible in ENGLAND 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force from January 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most Common-wealths of Europe but principally in ENGLAND With an Answer to an Astrologicall Judgement Printed at Oxford upon his Majesties present Martch By WILLIAM LILLY Student in Astrologie LONDON Printed for John Partridge and Humphry Blunden and are to be sold at the Signe of the Cocke in Ludgate Streete and the Castle in Cornehill 1645. To his truly Honoured Friend Master JOHN THOMPSON of the City of LONDON Merchant SIR AS in those more painfull imployments you formerly underwent in Transmarine parts you did with great fidelitie courage and industry for sundry yeers mannage the affaires of our English Merchants intrusted to your care and discretion So now in this your present retirement your continuall Study makes it manifest you act not the part of a young man though your yeeres speake you not aged but like a wise man that ever husbands Time with advantage You enrich your minde with Knowledge Converse amongst Studies and with Authors of wisedome that hereafter you may be more serviceable to your Country as opportunitie shall present you with a fit occasion I shall not neede acquaint the World that you have as we say changed heaven and lived not further then five degrees from the Aequinoctiall yet have you still remained your selfe and twice returned Statu quo bettered by your travells This little Treatise of lesse worth then I wish it I present unto you and desire your perusall by way of Recreation I am not singular in Dedicating a small thing to a worthy Friend Iohn Dee a most Learned man Dedicated his Aphorismes to Gerard Mercator a man famous and they consisted of lesse then sixe sheets Wearied I say with more weighty Studies run over this and the rather because its the first in this kinde ever wrote by any and you can judge whether 't is well or ill done and few else Your selfe have seene it in loose papers from the beginning middle and to the end of it are able to testifie its my owne I borrowed it from no man that impertinent Traveller spoake by Authority who hoodwinked in judgement bleated openly that others performed my Worke yet he never saw me Sir Favour me with as much love in Receiving it humanely as I in Affection tender it unto You and You engage me to rest Your Reall Friend WILLIAM LILLY To the Reader BEfore I speake any thing of that prodigious Apparition of the three Suns in the Elements I will acquaint thee with as rare a Progedy which happened in Cheshire When first our unnaturall Wars began and that it was apparent Warre would be betwixt King and Parliament Sir George Booth Knight and Barronet of a Noble Family in Cheshire and one excellently deserving of the whole Kingdome for his fidelity to the Parliament and without whose countenance our affaires in those parts could not so happily have succeeded this gallant old Knight perceiving that many of his Tennants were necessarily to engage their persons for better incouragement of them he seriously professed unto them that if any Tennant or Tennants sonne of his servant or any other that was any of the lives in any the Leases made by him or any of his Family should casually be slaine in this unnaturall warre in defence of the Parliament Religion and Subjects Liberties that then he would make a new Lease Gratis and insert any younger life in Liew thereof which thing he hath constantly and freely performed ever since to his eternall fame and honour and if this be not worthy of especiall taking notice of I know nothing Nor let us forget the singular valour of his Noble Grandchilde Collonell Booth during the siege of Nantwich against the English Irish But to our owne Discourse If there be any of so preuaricate a judgement as to thinke that the apparition of these three Suns doth intimate no Novell thing to happen in our owne Climate where they were manifestly visible I shall lament their indisposition and conceiue their braines to be shallow and voyde of understanding humanity or notice of common History For full satisfaction of such unbeleeuing Saints I haue produced presidents not one or two but many and those recorded by men of unquestionable Credit When was it knowne that such like unusuall sights appeared and were not the fore-runners of things to come yet seldome regarded before the things they signifyed came to passe I am of this opinion the Heauens neuer send forth any great signes which haue not a particular relation to some great personages for doubtlesse they are the Vniuersall cause God permitting of all things and whilest they produce effects which seeme to haue relation to one onely if he be a Prince it hath an Vniuersall operation for people are partakers with their Princes in their gaines losses vertues and vices and this is the reason why many times our predictions doe not jumpe in that measure of time by us limited for actions are not done by their Agents in an instant dispositions precede them c. Besides great alterations require great influences which when they cause great diuersity in their working happen nor because the influences are diuers but because they are diuerse that receiue them Read me with indifferency and poyse me with an equall judgement I write with no prepared gall no not against Master Noworth of Oxford who borrowes the grosse of his judgement in his last Almanack from my Prophetick Merlin nor am I angrie but pitty that woodden Doctour whether Atheist or Papist I know not that swells with his owne ignorant fancy and sayth he can make it appeare what I speake in behalfe of the Parliament in point of Art ought to happen to their enemies this is one of those purblind Prophets that in corners villifie the Parliaments Freinds and yet they uncontrolled harbour amidst us c. but this thing called a Galenist I let passe untill his capacity can erect a figure c. Many and great are the judgements ready to fall downe upon some great Families of England and Europe but unlesse an Angell nay if an Angell from Heaven should report it nothing will be beleeved an Achan and an Achitophell or faction equivalent both covetous and irreligious and countenancing for byerespects unworthy men have wearied my Pen disheartned the Gentry to our inevitable losse and impoverishment of the poore Commonallty and destruction of those townes so unluckely committed to their charge Let the towne of Leicester be hereof an unlucky president which hath beene these three yeares fortifying and now on the suddain transmitted to his Majesties forces What became of the vast summes of money there raysed why the valiant Gentlemen displaced and men of inferiour ranke exalted who gives any reason unlesse it was purposely done to betray the Towne

the Sun which at length vanishing there was seen two Suns The Pope being an English-man is taken Prisoner The Kingdom of Denmark is divided And in the next yeer the Pope and Emperour fall at variance Anno 1157 in September there were seen three Suns together in as clear weather as could be And a few days after in the same moneth three Moons and in the Moon that stood in the middle a white Crosse Sueno King of Denmark at a great Feast killeth Canutus Sueno is himself slain in pursuit of Waldemar The Order of Eremites according to the rule of Saint Augustine begun this yeer and in the next the Pope submits to the Emperour was not this miraculous Lumbardy was also adjudged to the Emperour Anno 1168 the first of September there was seen at once in the West three Suns Two hours after when two were gone he in the middle went down alone By mediation of the French King Becket is restored to his Archbishoprick Almaricus King of Jerusalem calleth in the Turks to his aid which was the ruine of that Kingdom and contrary to his Faith given aids the Greeks against the Egyptians A Conspiracy arose in Bohemia against the King Anno 1169 three Moons appeared The yeer succeeding Becket the stiff Priest was slain in a Church in England Catana a City in Sicily is destroyed with fifteen thousand people as also the Bishop and Clergie by an Earthquake A Smiths son raised great troubles in Norway pretending himself to be Harolds Grandchilde The Romanes raze the City of Alba And in the next yeer a great Inundation was in Freezland Anno 1314 three Moons appeared Lewis was Crowned Emperour by some Electors Frederick by the rest A Councell was at Ravenna for Reformation c. Note the instability of the Clergie The Pope dieth and the See is void two yeers and four moneths The English under a simple and wilfull King Edward the second are overthrown by the Scots and to purpose Lewis Hutine comes to the Crown of France hangs his Treasurer c. The Queen of Castile dieth The Genowayes rob the Venetian Merchants and invade their Territories Anno 1372 the first of July and some days after a strange Circle was seen about the Sun over which appeared two Crosses of a red colour neer Basill The French besiege Rochell and the English defend it The yeer after the Order of Nuns of Saint Katharine was founded Robert Stuart King of Scotland marrieth his Concubine and John Duke of Lancaster the King of Castiles daughter The King of Portingall refuseth a Match in Castile and takes a Noble-mans wife from him having banished her husband at which his people are discontented Shortly after the Venetians restore Paleologus being expelled by his son Andronicus Anno 1460 the second of February three Suns appeared every one shewing a severall light which again closed all together in one The Duke of York is attainted of Treason Henry the sixth is taken Prisoner at Northampton Civill War in France called The Weal-publike caused by the Kings Covetousnesse The King of France dieth having upon a foolish Conceit forborn his meat so long that when after he would eat he could not A Rebellion in Spain against the Queen for death of the Prince James the third came to the Crown of Scotland The Duke of York is slain in York-shire David Emperour of Trapezond and his two sons taken and slain by Mahomet the Turk In the next yeer after Edward the fourth came to the Crown of England and poor innocent Henry the sixth sent to the Tower c. Anno 1466 three Suns were seen at Rome in which yeer Erasmus was born The King of Denmark is excommunicated by the Pope Warwick and Edward the fourth fall out John King of Spain is deposed and Alfonsus crowned The King of Hungaria's brother is taken by the Turks and beheaded at Constantinople Gerard the King of Denmark's brother is imprisoned for aspiring Matthias of Hungaria is set up against the lawfull King thereof Scanderbeg a most valiant Captain against the Turk dieth The French King takes from his brother the Dutchy of Normandy Anno 1492 the fifteenth of December three Suns were seen in Poland at noon The Jews are expelled Spain Alexander the sixth plays the ungratefull fellow with his Gardinalls Towards the later end of the yeer the Emperour of Germany dies and John Albert succeeds Casimire in the Kingdom of Polonia The Ganthois in Flanders rebell Anno 1514 in January three Suns were seen in the Dutchy of Wittenberge the middlemost surpassed the rest in greatnesse In every of these there appeared the form of a bloody and fiery sword The same yeer in March three Moons were seen It was in that yeer some parts of Sussex were burned and spoiled by the Rhodians in behalf of the French An Interview follows betwixt the Emperour King of Polonia and Bohemia The French King and Pope meet The Queen of Scotland fleeth into England The French King dieth and Francis the first succeeds and recovers Millan Anno 1515 Queen Mary the scourge of Protestants is born in England Wolsey a proud Priest begins to rise at Court The Pope falls out with the Venetians Anno 1520 the fifth of January about Sun-rising three Suns appeared with a Rainbowe of divers colours at Vienna The seventh of January there were three Suns also seen After Charles the fifth was Crowned there was seen a circle about the Sun with a Rainbowe The Pope he spues out his Excommunications against Luther who as stoutly burns his foolish Bulls The Pope executes the Tyrant of Perugia The Duke of Buckingham is in England beheaded for Treason The French detain our Merchants goods we imprison the French Solyman the Magnificent comes to be Emperour of Turkie The Geldrois rebell The next yeer after the French War began which continued thirty and eight yeers troubles arise in Scotland Many rich Cities taken by the Turk in Hungary Anno 1523 in Switzerland there was seen three Suns at once and also divers Circles in the Element At Norimberge in a Diet there held grievances are exhibited against the Pope The Peasants rebell against the Nobles in Germany Both the French and Swedes are defeated by the Imperialls The Earl of Surrey burns thirty seven Towns in Scotland The Duke of Holsten is chosen King of Denmark and the former King expelled for his Cruelty The Janizaries mutiny at Constantinople Anno 1525 there was seen in Hungaria five Suns two on either side the right Sun The Duke of Luneburg becomes Lutherane The Order of Capuchines is erected The French King is released out of prison Fifty thousand Clowns are slain Henry the eighth falls off from the Emperour The women of Hague rise against their Customers upon their exactions and the Swedes become Lutheranes Anno 1526 in Sweden three Suns were seen with divers circles in the Elements The Emperour abolisheth the Popes Authority in Spain The Tartarian invades the Polonian and is defeated and taken Rome

I apprehend the Stars as directory-Messengers of some such things but in my solid Judgement conclude it the All-seeing providence of God God is angry we will see nothing but more angry because though some do see and perceive and know to what Ruine we are hastening yet like mute Statu's they are silent in this great necessity of the State and close up their mouthes lest they should utter Verity My Genius if it be lawfull to say so dictates unto me nothing but Fraud Cozenage Dissimulation Hypocrisie will be used amongst some pretended-Reformers both of Church and Common-wealth If I understand any thing scandalous aspersions shall without number or just cause be fathered upon our Parliament and their Proceedings hainous and formidable Informations against the Nobility and Gentry Seurrilous Reproaches from all parts shall fall upon our Senior and Orthodox Clergie-men from a Junior sort of Rabbies a Serpentine people not heretofore visible or known in the world lately elapsed by chance not from heaven where Goodnesse it self dwells but from the Moon which Galileus saith is habitable in some terrible Thunder-clap for I believe they were so terrified and stupified in their hearings by their so violent descent in that storm that not any sense could ever since pop into their Noddles Reason in Astrologie must be given and so it shall Mercury generally signifieth in Man Youth his Orientality of the Sun and in the Figure addes more Youth But now in the sense I speak it it tells the whole World the Novelty of what now most afflicts us Jupiter is generally a Significator of Nobility and by position of the Clergie he is under the earth and in the descending part of heaven we hear of things now that did not appear before c. From whence I frame this Judgement That Youth or young novell Opinions or Disputations shall deceitfully prejudice maturer Judgements with Lyes Hypocrisie Calumny Impudence c. And I say again Because Mars that is Lord of the tenth House disposeth of Mercury and he is Retrograde in the seventh House and mansion of the Moon and opposite to the Ascendant I deliver ingeniously this free-hearted Judgement That if his Majestie give protection to such upstart pretended-Saints he shall run Retrograde that is he shall receive infinite Dishonour by it And to our Parliament I say If Connivance be had under their Protection with these superlative assuming Zelotes for my heart will not suffer me to abuse Religion so much as to call them Religious the Parliament shall more suffer in the conclusion even by them then either by the Turk were he armed against us or all the Forces of any potent Enemy I cannot call them by any certain name that so they might be distinguished do but observe their actions and it best informs you they absolutely studie nothing but Division c. and suppression of Monarchy The very true meaning of these three Suns is to inform every Common-wealth of Europe that they are hastening to either their Confusions or unavoidable Dangers The Counsels of the most aged shall be despicable the Projections of the younger men shall cause Insurrections Slaughters Murders the Advice of the most wise shall be innocently slighted A great Work is in hand Both Sun and Moon are ill placed Both Kings and People and all Common-wealths are in their Councels now to seek They have cunningly as long as they could carried their Devices secretly This Prodigie speaks as if we shall discover more then is wished and yet conceal enough to undo us Three Suns have been seen many times and severall Circles sometimes over sometimes under the true and proper Sun Seditiones inter mortales manifestas ostendunt ab omni concensu concordiaque alienationem Junct 312. Here 's a strange thing that they do manifest publike and eminent Seditions amongst mortall men and a generall alienation or aversnesse to any Peace Agreement or Unity Infinite Divisions these three Suns are the Forerunners of of sturdie Disturbances to Emperours Kings Princes and all manner of Principalities and they do usually shew a generall Calamity at hand they declare Schisms and Rents in the Church Disorder amongst the Religious the brooding or upstarting of some cragged or rugged Tenents in Divinity some admirable miraculous and unexpected passages amongst men a generall Delirium or madnesse or Confusion in Opinions reigning and raging and to domineer in most parts of those Countreys adjacent to the place of appearance All manner of inferiour people threatning their Superiours and Commanders grumbling repining whispering out revenge against them No union in Counsel or constancy in Opinion Nothing is thought on but how to bring the whole Fabrick of every Common-wealth out of frame Not a man appears but he is more judicious in State-affairs then Ahithophel Each Cobler in Divinity assures himself of more knowledge then Calvin Luther or Melancton were acquainted with poor Ideots The acts of the most Reverend men preceding such times are called in question the validity of their Judgement undervalued and a Rabble of Saturnine people fill the Times with Ignorance the Church with Sects the Common-wealth with Beggery and their own Coffers tantum quantum with as much Money as they can theevishly cozen the King Kingdom and State of Is there need of more Suns then one in the day or of more then one Moon in the night or of one King in a Kingdom one entire Government in a Common-wealth one uniformity in the Affairs of the Church Verily I think that man out of his wits that would affirm a positive necessity of more and yet usually after the appearing of such Prodigies such lawlesse and and unaccustomed Monsters appear and even such most irregular Attempts are to be prosecuted by people of as great antiquity as the two mock-Suns which appeared at an instant but vanished not away in a moment When God Almighty had drowned the world in confirmation he would do so no more he produced the Rainbowe and made it appear at all times and seasons in a constant and naturall form and manner ever opposite to the Sun and this was out of his great love to Mankinde But while in anger he permits his ministring Angels as now he did to manifest to our eyes a Rainbowe and that such a one as no Age hath absolutely recorded the like to appear with the Bend of it downward just over the naturall Sun The Prognostick part hereof may gravell an assured Judgement Reader pity the weaknesse of Humane understanding and let thy love appear in charitably passing by my failings The Portent of this Prodigie is very great The Angels are willing we should discern something else why was it made visible There was no necessity of it O All you Emperors Kings Princes Rulers and Magistrates of Europe this unaccustomed Apparition is like the Hand-writing in Daniel to some of you it premonisheth you above all other People to make your peace with God in time You shall every one of

wants strength to manage his feeble body in a time of so much sorrow as the Eclipse saith is approaching When the daring or cruell Enemy comes neer us what shall the infirm man do neither able to move or be moved Perish he must flee he cannot there 's no way assigned but death yea although he was the son of a father most eminent But again to the purpose Si in Revolvendo anno Regni Stella in signo depressionis inventa fuerit magnus aliquis vir ex stellae ipsius natura morietur Ptol. Apho. 31. In handling the Judgement or Revolution of a yeer if a Planet that is usually taken for Lord of that Kingdom be in his depression viz. either in his detriment or fall some great person of the nature of that Planet will die that yeer This is like to be fatall to the Kingdom of England for in Figura mundi Saturn was in his fall In this present Eclipse Mars that hath sole dominion in the Ascendant and place eclipsed is in his detriment It cannot be the death of any vulgar or ordinary man that is hereby intended to be sent to another world Mars represents great persons principall Commanders in our Armies as well as in his Majesties Truely I fear an eminet Commander Cavete viri qui sunt tanquam Princes You that are in esteem like Princes and domineer like little Kings beware every one of you in every County and City you are said to be gods you shall die like other men c. disgraced odious c. It s not one onely man that is intended by the heavens to be the mock of Fortune and scorn of Mankinde there 's a signification of many that are to undergo a very hard and unpleasant Doom ere the Influence of this Eclipse shall have period or the Porrent of the three Suns be fully determined Obsecro mi Domine mitt● qu●m missurus es I may be derided for predicting so much but I rather laugh at their folly that having been oft premonished amend not their lives and endeavour Composition of these unhappie Dissentions now too prevalent all over Christendom What great one soever thou art of England or of any Nation of Europe that hast the 28 or 27 of Leo ascending at thy birth or the same degree of Taurus Scorpio or Aquarius to thee I say Thou art in great danger of death or mighty disturbance in thy health ere this Revolution of almost two yeers be compleated I am not idle but thou art mad and out of thy wits if thou doest not beware in time Let us admit thou hast the same degree culminating look to thine Honour Crown and Dignity if thou art a King thou shalt assuredly receive blemish in thy fame and estimation nor shalt thou escape without hazarding thy Crown or most fearfull scandals on thy Reputation Hast thou the same degrees ascending on the Cusp of the seventh Art thou a King thou shalt have War unlook'd for enemies without number domestick and forreign shall invade thee look to be plunged to purpose and to suffer discontent without period those as dear unto thee as thy wife in thy bosom shall betray thee by indirect counsels Hast thou the said degree upon the Cusp of the fourth house Art thou Emperour of Constantinople Thy father left thee more Kingdoms then thou shalt leave thy son Lose part of thy Dominions I desire thee the Fates will have it so Art thou of the Noble Austrian Family or art thou King of England France Spain or Denmark Be all or any of you assured to have a share in these Calamities a part or parcell an arm or a branch of your Kingdoms will be lopt off from you Is there any man hath the Sun or the Moon in the 28 degree of Leo or Aquarius at the time of his birth let him ponder these words of Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8. Sed periculosum in primis inevitabile est si ipsae Eclipticorum locorum partes aut oppositae coinciderint cum gradibus alter utrius Luminum quos geniturae tempore possederunt The sense of which words run thus That if an Eclipse happen in that Eclipticall degree in which at the time of birth either of the Lights viz. Sun or Moon were it s an argument saith he of some danger at hand hardly to be avoided We cannot forget that fearfull losse his Majestie of Spain suffered not long after the Eclipfe of the Sun in Geminis 1639. Truely I fear that same potent Prince must have another such like Brush for the three Suns doth in a manner deliver so much and look carefully what Nation or Prince suffered upon the Influence of that Eclipse shall again by these three Suns apparition in a more then miraculous way if it be possible be loaded with misfortune Prodigies in heaven of heaven and from heaven appear not in vain Eclipses do ever foreshew some notorious and eminent matter neer hand yea in a most peaceable season The Courts of all Princes shall be stricken dead with fear horrour and amazement Privie Counsellours shall be trampled down like dirt under our feet In the East from the East or somewhat South-east shall the beginnings of some miraculous Accidents have some first life motion and beginning But this is quite out of the Text If as the wisest men conceive the Sun and Moon do govern our body and spirit and so moderate the Elements that all men even every vulgar person understands it what shall we then think to be more admired or formidable then when we upon a sudden see these most glorious Bodies obscured and their light taken from our present sight We may from thence imagine Somewhat more then ordinary is drawing on It was therefore well and rightly said of Ptolomey Cardinales Eclipses sunt pollentiores ac vehementius afficiunt quipp● quum cardines sint mundi prima loca in quibus cum Planetae collocati cum Majestate praesideant Eclipses that are in Angles are more prevalent and more fiercely afflict for Angles are the chiefest places of the Figure wherein when Planets are posited they rule as it were with Majestie Our Eclipse begins in the tenth its middle and end is there also How wonderfull and eminent Designes Changes of Fortunes in the states of great persons is hereby to be expected and these all over Europe doubtlesse such things shall hereby come to passe as this Generation now living hath scarce been acquainted with the like Here 's mad work in hand Kings and Lords clouded Clowns and silly fellows climbing aloft The world is almost turning Topsie-turvey What is the matter that a sudden Affright shall amaze the Italian Princes They that er●-w●ile thought of no such thing shall now tremble for fear So shall Pamphilio the Pope fume to no purpose and be in as much danger by a Conspiracy at home as if he were a road ●nd amidst a rude sort of enemies But whether this Eclipse shall point out his