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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

reason it may●… be called a sciēce but if this your methode rule of prophesieng be not to bee noumbred among those sciences which consist of thin ges certayne and immutable what other thyng is this your knowledge but folishnes so greate that foly her selfe coulde not light lye inuent a thyng more fond and foolyshe But peraduenture your predictiōs be they neuer so vncertayne yet they maye bee profitable to the publike welth so y t which your arte lacketh of certayntie it recompenceth wyth vtilitie Nay rather with how greate euyls do you burden the cytie I speake not of the horrible wonders that you threaten to fall on them but what a dearth of vitayles youcause in the commē welth while the farmers of the countrye as I haue good vnderstandynge beleuyng your oracles of the imtēperaunce of wethers do so craftily dyspose their wares y t in abundaunce of al thynges the common people suffer a greate and greuous scarcity What is it to be kept in sylence howe slowlye and coldly the people in the last yeare seduced by the foolyshe prophesye of Nostrodamus addressed them selfe to sette vppe the true worshippynge of GOD and hys religion good Lord what tremblynge was there What feare What expectation What horror Leste all thynges sodenlye shoulde bee turned vp sydowne so that none almost of them that gaue any credite to prognostications durst be bolde to open their faythe and religion whyche they bore in theyr hartes Yea thys Nostrodamus reigned here so lyke a tyrant wyth hys south saiynges that wythout the good lucke of hys prophesies it was thought that nothyng could be broughte to effecte What shal I speake of the common peoples voyce Thys daye the Bishoppe of Rome must be driuen out of the parliamēt To morow the Queene shal take vpon her the name of supreame head After xx dayes all thing shall ware worse Such a day shall be the day of the last iudgement that except the true prechers of Goddes holye woords hadde sharpelye rebuked the people for creditynge suche vayne prophesies there shoulde haue bene none ende of feare and expectation But oure craftye Nostrodamus that coulde wrappe hys prophesyes in suche darke wryncles of obscur●…ye that no man could pyke out of them either sence or vnderstandyng certayn Without double he hath herde of the oracles of Appollo whiche the denyll at Delphos gaue out of an ydoll to them that asked counsel whiche were obscure double and suche as myght chance bothe waies As that whiche was aunswered to kyng Pyrtus demaundyng of hym I say that Aeacides the Romaynes maye ouercome Neyther is that vnlyke whiche the ryche Cresus entendyng to make warre agaynst Cyrus had gyuen hym that is Croesus percyng through the citie Halis shall ouerthrovve great ryches So that you may wrest them to what sence you lyst For Pyrrus while he did promise hymselfe victory ouer the Romains might haue also vnderstode as it came to passe in deede that he hymselfe shulde be ouercome of the Romans Lykewyse Cresus while he turstyng thoracle perswaded hymselfe that he shuld ouercome Cyrus ryches that were so great and abundant brought his owne kyngdome ryches and what soeuer he possessed into vtter ruin and destructon The same trade of fortelling Sibylla Cumana dyd also depe of whom Uergile reporteth that the recorded fearefull circum stances and doubtes resowndynge in her caue Finally all they whiche inflamed with the diuelles sprighte tolde of thynges to come gaue either darke or doubteful answers to them that required their oracles The same maner of foreshewyng in darke and double riddles our prognost●… catours as it were receiued of the heathenyshe prophets do obserue and keepe vnto this day fornot only Nost rodamus telleth thyngs darkly and doubtfully but diuers others yea many of our countreymen an Cunyngham a man otherwise bothe lerned and honest Hyll Lou Uaghan and not longe ago Askham with sixe hundred more of that sort among whiche the afore named maye chalenge the chiefe place not that they prophecie truer then other but that they haue more exactely as they say them selues formed their calculatiōs to the course of the starres And leste any man shuld thynke that I sclander them I entende to reherse certayne things out of their bookes in whyche we wyll playnly note a double doubtfull forshewynge By reson of Saturn in Cauro say they and the eclipse in Aprill there shall folow mur muryng amonge the common people but Mercurius with his eloquence dooth pacifie theim Likewise Mars this yeare shall saue Englād harmlesse from many euils except the Eclipse of the Moone do somewhat abate his courage After the some maner doo they pronounce of wheate bar ley and otes that they shall prosper well except the heate moysture or other vnsea sonable weather doo endamage them Finally this almoste is generall yf they foreshewe a thyng to come without exception it is false if they pronounce it with exception howe soeuer the game go their error is without daunger of reprouyng Moreouer they them selues confesse that there bediuers impedimēts which cause y t many things to come not to passe not only about in the heuens but also here beneth O good ly science O diuine knowledge whiche so many causes doo frustrate and brynge to none effecte To what purpose then serue so many prohibitions against the surgeōs that they take nothyng in hande but in a a prescripte tyme Shall they tary seuen dayes before they lette a man bloudde that is sycke of the Pleuresie Why doo you not by the same reason forbydde them that be poysoned to take any medicine before the signe apt to comfort the vertue expulsiue But these matters by doctor Da●…quet are so playnly sette before mens eies that onelesse these Prognosticatours euen yet dydde geue suche cautions it were but 〈◊〉 vayne for me asmuchas ones to make men cion of that super●…tious abuse Hytherto as as I suppose we haue sufficiently spoken of the inconstancy and vn certaintie of these pred●…ons yea and ynough also of the vn●…rositable obseruation and credityng of the same Nowe therfore let vs prepare our selues to that argumēt which is al the prognostitators what soeuer thei be where soeuer thei be ar able without al couin or deceipt to remoue they shal not only defend their are which otherwise must nedes fal down and vtterly decay but also they shall hau●… the writer hereof with shame ynoughe to retract and recant al that he hath hytherto against Astrologie sayd or written And that we may by lytle and litle procede to the effect of our matter we dare bebolde to affirme That this is cōmon to all sciences that they may bee demonstrated For although the principles and grounds in euery arte be of suche nature that they canne not bee shewed and confyrmed by things more general and therfore it is said that they can not be proued yet by demonstration or induction they maye be so playnly sette before our eies that no man neede to

notw e standing the argument is in force seing you know not what y e stars do signify you can not by their aspects tell of thyngs to come But there be som whi che as they thinke wil defend their science w e much more strength requiring that we shuld grant them y t al things in erth ar ruled gouerned by the power of y e heuēly signes Truly I am not so hard to be entre●… ted y e. I wold deny the Astrologiās being oppressed w e such calamite so litle a matter but rather I wil geue thē more thē they de mād such thigs as I wold beni thē if thei were obstinate and stubburn now flying to their shoote an●…re and last helpe I wyll gentilly graunt them All higher thynges saith Aristotle woorketh in the lower bebies Let al the power in these lower thinges be confessed to come from aboue Nei ther wyll we greatly at this tyme striue against that deriuation of causes deuysed by M●…rcutius Trismegistus from God to the angels from them to the heuens that it perteyneth to Fortune or fate which he calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither doo I see how it shoulde hurt oure cause that we haue in hande if we graunted theim that whiche they moste desire and moste earnestly require that is that the starres haue dominion exercise their power on mens matters contingently that is as it were a certaine inclination or some secrete motion for yf destenye consisted of the starres it coulde not be chaunged but as for the signification of the starres bothe we learne by experience neither doo the Prognosticators denye but that they may by diuers meanes be auerted or tourned to some other effect Therfore seyng we haue granted this that coulde not bee compelled I long to see what helpe you can from thens transferre to youre selues And nowe me thynketh I heare an Astrologian triumphyng on this maner If the course of the starres their reuolutions and aspectes do so strongly woorke in these lower bodies that they shuld be causes of many effectes in the earth what felowe is this that will denye a proposition bearynge witnes to so many learned mens writynges beyng allowed by so many authorities of all ages That the cause beeyng graunted the effect must needes folowe by what reason dare he affirme the cause and denye the effect●… But these so thretnyng wordes what are they at the length but very words in dede For geuynge to euery cause her propre effecte yet wyll I not graunt effecte to that whiche is no cause or if it be a cause I wil not graunt that to be the offect which they wyll haue For they knowe not what the starres doo cause or sygnifie but embracyng an art delyuered of their ancestors without any sure grounde or foundation haue it in estimatiō as a diuine knowlege whiche conteineth in it no more diuinitie and truthe then the rest of the Chaldeans superstitions that yet remayne of whome this science was receyued whiche learned wise philosophers in all ages contemned and vtterly despised And not only heathē men as Porphyrius whiche to Iamblicus saythe That it is impossible that a manu●… shuld knowe the signification of the celestiall reuolutions Iamblicus hymself whi che denyeth that any vertue or power descendeth frome the starres dyuers other contemned the vayne ostentation of this art But the prophete Hieremye himselfe with lowde voyce forbyddeth the Israelites to feare the influence of the starres as the heathen doo But therfore say you do they signifie nothyng Wherfore I pray●… you are they not to be feared eyther bycause they signify nothyng or bycause the signification of them to men is vncertain and vnknowen What doothe not Paule thapostle of the Gentiles exhort his scolar Titus that he regard not foolyshe and su perfluous questions of Genealogies and natiuities F●…r what cause then dothe Ieremie forbydde to feare and Paule to regarde Predi●…ions of Astrologye yf in theym were any thynge eyther to be feared or regarded Go youre wayes nowe and make the people afrayd with horrible threatnynges proclayme great calamitie to follow●… Of pestilence bat tayle and famyne or yf any thynge bee more greuous then these Warne them of a sodayn destruction that shall falle vppon theym As two yeares ago Cunyngham threatned to Egypte Babylon Constantinople and the Cities of Italye a mooste lamentable and vtter subuersion Had not the Italyans Egyptians Grecian●… and Chaldeans greate cause to feare consyderyng that by the iudgemente of astrologians so great ruine hanged ouer their heades Who wolde not in this case haue be●… afrayde except it were such as I can not tell howe preposterously woulde preferre Hieremies pro●…hecie before Cunynghā●… prognostication Lykewyse he that had rather gyue credyte to the Prognosticatours thenne to sainct Paule shoulde he not hauynge his natiuitie caste forsee by it what good thynges and what euyll●… thynges he shoulde in all his lyfe attayne so shall he deuyse to auoyde the euylle and brynge the good thynges to effecte O blockeheade that must haue thy Natiuitie caste howe dooest thou determyne to leade thy lyfe lyke a bruite beaste that thou wylle suffer all thynges to woorke vpon thee Wherefore serueth thy reason which thou dost not vse nay rather which thou dooste abuse in suche vanities ●…wynge thy fortune y e saist by thy natiuity thou wilte endeuour thy selfe to seeke for good thynges and auoyde euyll thynges Why wouldest thou not haue doon so although thou haddest neuer asked counsell of the 〈◊〉 Alas when wyl the world leaue to haue in admiration suche curious vanities But now an other obiection Berosus the Chaldean a most auncient histo riographer reporteth that the holy Patriarke Noah dyd forsee the vniuersall floud by the aspect of the starres and to the intent that he myght auoyd the danger therof he made the arke to preserue the life of hymselfe his sonnes and their wiues and beasts of euery kynde Then is not so auncient a science muche profitable ●…omans ▪ lyfe whiche the holye patriarke dyd practise and by helpe of which mākynd beasts and what soeuer in al the worlde was plesant or profitable in tyme past was preserued from vtter destruction This no lyght or contemptible author hath reported but euen Be●…osus the Chaldeā But Moses the Hebrue beyng also a most iust lawe geuer and historye writer as moste auncient so moste faithe worthy witnesseth That the Lorde God spake vnto Noah and foreshewed the vniuersall ●…loude commandynge hym to make the Arke And lest the Astrologians shulde dreame of a reuelation by the starres prescribed vnto hym a determinate forme and measure of the ship that he willed to be made Then where is your boastyng of the antiquitie and necessarys vse of Astrologie where be your bragges of the patriarke Noah whom you would haue to be a patron of your foly Shal we beleeue Moses whiche write that whiche was reueled by God orels Berosus whic●… studieng to aduance an art inuented of the

regard them in sekyng for remedy Who so shuld narowly marke this geare should fynde out among them greuous absurdities but wee entende to make but shorte woorke Nowe therefore must we leape from phisike to husbandry Good days to sowe and plante I thinke be whan the earth is moderatly moystned and gentilly warmed with the heat of the sonne whyche must bryng vp these seedes or plantes nourished with humours and pleasauntly resolued with the southweste wynde or other of lyke nature As for the sygne or constellation yf the aforesayde lacke shall neuer prosper or encrease the seedes sowen or plantes planted nor endamage them yf these causes d●…o not sayle and although bothe mete togyther it is as muche healpe vnto the sedes as it was ease for the Camell whenns the Flye leapt of from his backe To iourney by lande is good when so euer a manne hath honest and necessary affayres the better yf the weather be faire the way cleane specially yf he be a foote manne But he that hauynge vrgent busynes wyll tary vntyll he haue a good day is worthy to come to late or as they say A daye after the fayre For he that wyll not take hold of occasions heare that is before him when she hath ones tourned her back may clawe on her bare skulle and fynde neuer an heare to take holde of Good dayes to iourneye by water are partly as they are to iourney by lande and also it is required that they haue a good 〈◊〉 and prosperous wynde With which i●… they begynne theyr course it is a greate 〈◊〉 that they shall haue good successe If any manne hauyng wynde and weather ty●… and tyde conuenient wyll tarye for ●…erre or planette sygne or constellation 〈◊〉 leese those former oportunities thoughe he hadde all the fauourable starres in heauen an his syde shall haue a troublesome voyage Good dayes to bye and selle bee market dayes and all other whensoeuer a manne canne gette a good bargayne with honestie I thynke but sewe marchantes wyll leese their mart in waightyng for heauenly healpe frome the starres Euyll dayes to bye and sell be holydais and suche tymes as menne shoulde be occupied in prayer and hearyng gods word Ill places to bye and selle bee Churches and other places appoynted for praier and preachynge Other days and places be indifferent if the bargayns he good Good daies to mary are all the dayes in the yeare of theyr nature in as muche as to doo a good thyng it is good at al tymes The mariage it selfe taketh not effecte as these superstitious diuinours saye of the daye or tyme but of the cause and circumstaunce in whiche it is contracted For yf those bee nought not Uenus nor Iupiter nor all the louynge sygnes can make that mariage good And yf thou marry in the feare of God though Mars and Saturne satte ouer thee and thoughe it were on the moste dismall daye that euer Egyptian or Chaldean obserued thou shalte be sure of the Lordes blessynge whyche he promiseth to all them that in his feare and loue entreth into that honourable estate So muche the more is theyr vnholsome harmonie to be hissed oute that appoynts certayne days in whyche yf a man shuld marry the parties shoulde neuer agree or loue one the other But I leaue the rest vntyl such tyme as I shall bee dryuen to answer them where yf they keepe not modestie as I thynke I haue doone I wyl yet vtter more to the confusion of theym and theyr arte But to close thys parte of Elections as we dyd the other with a sure barre wherwith God woulde barre the Israelites in the xviii chapter of Deuteronomie sayeng by Moyses Chere shall not be amonge you any choser of dayes or soothsayer For those nations whithe the Lord casteth out before you among other abhominatiōs haue regarde to choosers of dayes and sorcerers Therfore yf this seeme not inough to keepe oute the Astrologians but they wyll needes enter with theyr predictions and Elections at the leaste lette all theym that nowe euen with theyr handes feele and handle the truthe hereafter suffer them as they are false prophetes so to prophecie to them whiche in the myddest of lyght and truth wil peruersely embrace falsehod errour and darkenesse FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Sutton dwellyng in Pater noster row at the signe of the blacke Boy The. 23. day of December And are there to be solde Perused and allovved according to the Quenes maiesties iniunctions