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prince_n	john_n	king_n	wales_n	3,820	5	10.0804	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67813	Sidrophel vapulans, or, The quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket by the author of Medicaster medicatus ; in an epistle to W---m S---n [i.e. William Salmon] ; with a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of the blue book, by the same hand.	Yonge, James, 1647-1721.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y42A; ESTC R32944	55,470	76

knew many days before King Charles was sick when he should die By the same way Dr. Bates Cromwell's Physician became a truer Prophet than Thomas Goodwin his Chaplain the Dose the one gave being too hard for the Prayers the other made for that Vsurper Though they were alike confident the one of his Death the other of his Recovery yet the former went on the surest grounds as appeared in the Event Thuanus Scaliger and Gassendus say that Cardan lost his Life to save his Credit for having Predicted the time of his own Death he starved himself to verifie it Magastrom p. 173. Dr. More Myst p. 358. or else being sure of his Art He took that to be his fatal day and by those apprehensions made it so And I do not want a learned Author to back my belief that great men have untimely died by some Artifice of the Astrologers for the same reason Domitian having Decreed to banish all the Astrologers they conspired his Death and one of them Ascletarion Sueton. lib. 12. Sect. 15. told him when it should be The time appointed happening while Apollonius Tyanaeus was Disputing in the Schools at Ephesus he suddenly stopt and cryed out well done Stephanus Kill the Tyrant And then told the Audience that the Emperor was wounded This contributed highly to the Fame of that Impostor although it prov'd him such no more than the Duke of Braganza or one of the Priests who contrived and managed the Revolt of Portugal if they had foretold it A Son of Nostradamus told the Men of Friuli that he was sent by his Father to premonish them of the ruin of their City by Fire such a Night They believing the Oracle and watching narrowly to prevent the Conflagration found him and his Accomplices scattering Fire-Balls in divers parts of the Town Pope Hildebrand was one who Studied and Practised this Art and yet had so little Skill or Confidence in it that he hired several Ruffians to Murther the Emperor Hen. 4. at the time he Predicted his Death Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 199. Vol. 2. p. 170. This we are told by Cardinal Beno of his own Religion Beside Fox and others of ours Ollerius Barcinonensis foretold the Assassination of Hen. 4. of France by Ravaillac from a secret Intimation of the Design known to some Grandees of Spain and others of the Court of Rome who were no Astrologers The Author of the Turkish Spy tells us that Fr. Corvinus the famous Italian Astrologer the Night before that Murther said on the top of his House in Florence That to morrow the greatest King in Europe would be kill'd But says the Intelligence he had was from Earth not Heaven or the Stars And Merlinus Liberatus will not allow his Friend John to have any other foresight of the Prince of Wales his Birth than by the Transactors of that Mysterious Affair that is by the same way and means himself knew what he Published in his Mene-Tekel For without the help of Satan or the Stars any one may Predict Events if they are in the Contrivance or have Intelligence with those that are so 8. Their Ignorance of their own Affairs Misfortunes and Fates before they happen proves them unable to foretell that of other Men. Astrologers saith Agrippa while they gaze on the Stars for direction c. fall into Ditches Wells and Gaols and like Thales become the Sport and Derision of silly Women and Slaves Astra tibi Aethereo pandunt sese omnia Vati Omnibus quae sunt fata futura monent Omnibus ast Vxor quòd se tua publicat id te Astra licet videant omnia nulla monent was an Epigram made by Sir Tho. More R. Castro Med. Polit. l. 2. c. 2. and I fancy our witty Hudibras was as sharp upon Sidrophel and Wachum in English as the other was in Latin Quoth Hudibras the Stars determin You are my Prisoners base Vermin Could they not tell you that as well As what I came to know foretel By this what Cheats you are we find Who in your own Concerns are blind The Learned Mr. Purchas tells us that the Death of Hagag a Sarazen King Pilgrim p. 226. was foretold by an Astrologer who did not foresee his own for as soon as he made his Prognostick of the King his own Head was struck off Sir John Chardin in the History of his Persian Voyage Page 40. 131. 132. Appen 25. tells us That Astrologers are in very great esteem among that People And that they alway crown their Kings in the minute they direct And if after that the King be unhappy he is crowned again on a new chosen time Causin Holy Court as Solyman the Third was so crowned while he was in that Country But the Astrologers often mistake and are as often put to Death King Hen. 7. understanding that an Astrologer had foretold the punctual time of his Death sent for him and enquired where he the Conjurer should keep his next Christmas He answered that he knew not Then quoth the King I do without Astrology tell you it shall be in Gaol And thither he sent and kept him long enough to see by Experience that the King was a truer Prognosticator than himself J. Galeazus Duke of Milan treated another Impudent Astrologer with more severity for having Predicted that he should long survive that Prince he Ordered the Wretch to be immediately hanged Such another Story is in the Anthologia of Diophantes the great Astrologer Gassend done in Verse Gaurichius did not foresee by the Stars that he was to suffer on the Rack nor Cardan that his Son was to be hanged for Poysoning his Wife I was personally acquainted with Dr. W. Ramsey who publickly boasted of Skill enough in Astrology to foreknow a Mans Fate particularly whether he were born to die rich Chr. Astrology cap. 6. Sect. 6 be fortunate in Marriage c. and depended so much on it as to assure himself of great Wealth and happy Nuptials who yet died poor in a Gaol after he had Marry'd such a Wife as provoked him to write that Satyr against Matrimony called Conjugium Conjurgium That Beelzebub of Astrologers W. Lilly was wholly Ignorant of the Restauration when he wrote those Trayterous Libels which forfeited his Neck to the Gallows Friend John was so certain that Popery would prevail Opus Reform p. 85. and eradicate the Northern Heresy and so Ignorant of the late Revolution that he not only persuaded a Gentleman to turn Papist for these Reasons but embarkt himself in that Interest and thereby drew such a Storm on his Head as he would have avoided if his Art had given him the least Prospect of the right way or had not led him into the wrong Would Sidrophel think you have undergone the hazard and trouble of a Voyage to America to repair a broken Fortune if the Stars had let him see that he should have returned no wiser nor