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The knavery of astrology discover'd, in oberservations upon every month, ofthe year 1680 together with the nature of the seven planets, etc. / by Tim Tell-Troth ...
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Tell-Troth, Tim.
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can behold How her Profession made her a Goddess I cannot well tell 'T is certain she had most excellent Fortune to be so advanced where Mars is as obliging to her as her heart can wish When she is Dignified and has her best Ornaments on she is contented only to make a man a merry brisk Pot Companion but once out of her Geer and meanly placed she produces very sad scandalous Fellows the very 〈◊〉 of lewdness and debauchery Nevertheless she is a Lesser Fortune and happy is the man to whom she happens to bestow a Beam of her Goodness MERCURY Is neither Fish nor Flesh good nor bad but according to the Company he is in If he sees Saturn he 's sowre and morose if Mars he quarrels and swears Dam me if Venus he 's presently her humble Servant and on how sweet he 's naturally a very aiery Youth and loves Fairs and Ordinaries as much as Venus does a Dancing-School Give him but the upper-hand and shew him Honour and he 'll talk excellently well 't would do one good to hear him but if you offer to Degrade him he 'll set the Company a chatting as wisely as Gossips altogether at a Christning he then inclines people from Astrologers to turn down-right Conjurers from tolerable company to turn insufferable News-mongers and when the Press is open wretched Pamphleteers The MOON Was formerly the great Goddess of Conjuration when there were such things in the world for now Astrologers are no Conjurers I am sure yet they are very observant of every the least motion she makes and give her some signification in every thing that happens To tell you the truth she is a true Lady of the Times she knows not her own mind two Minutes loves Novelties dearly and invents new Fashions Sometimes she shews her broad face and is all in her hair anon she 's all of a Black-patch that you can see nothing of her Face and will sometimes wear the Horns her self in a Frolick For my part I would not trust her of all Women I know she 's as changeable as the Wind a meer Jilt I know not what to make of her nor she her self Yet she signifies all Women from the Queen to the Oyster-Woman If she 's ill Dignified nothing can signifie worse a sottish drunken Woman Observations on January 1680. AT the beginning of this Month and year Venus being in sweet and kind Aspect to Mercury should render Ladies very flexible but grim Saturn about the latter end being in direct Opposition to the charming fair one whole looks are said to be fortunate to all she bestows them upon in any kind way quite contrary to the nature of other Whores this mischievous Saturn I say may blast the hopes again of all Venus's Adorers unless they chance to have Jupiter on their side who about the same time as Saturn so frets and frowns does endeavour to chear up the hot Lady by the most submissive complemental Trine Addresses he is able to make but poor Mercury I pity him this Month he is most sadly afflicted indeed Jupiter Mars and the Sun conspire against him besides he 's Retrograde and would hardly be able to stand were he not in a Sign a little of his own Nature which may signifie that Astrologers Thieves and Taylors will have but very little to do that Querents about Matrimony will now be very few how do we know but it may be so ominous as to tell us that many Gentlemen signified by Mercury may now lose a considerable Match at Bowls or Tennis or there may be breaking of Pates at an Ordinary nay perhaps that the very Art of Astrology shall begin to be suspected by some who have been along time wonderful Admirers of it 2. ⚹ ♀ ☿ 28. ☠♄ ♀ 30. △ ♃ ♀ 2. ☿ R. 9. Ϲ ♃ ☿ 10. ☉ ☌ ☿ 7. ☌ ♂ ☿ Observations on February 1680. SAturn though he 's as weak as an old man with three Legs and commonly as frappish and surly yet being kindly aspected this Month by the Sun 's excellent Majesty by Mercury pricking up his Ears again and by his Fellow-makebate Mars walkes the grand Paw as stately as any Monsieur on Horse-back being in Cancer it sometimes makes him clap his Breast with a strained Hum and cry sound Boys sound 'T is seldom the old man happens to be in a better humour therefore perhaps he may make the Brick-layers and other Workmen whom he naturally signifies to have one Grain of Honesty for a Fortnight about the middle of this Month which is more than 't is possible they ever had since they learnt their Trade Therefore O ye all the Lovers of Building who will needs undo your selves without any manner of peradventure hearken to my Instructions make use of this juncture of time perhaps you may'nt meet with the like again One grain of honesly in Brick-layers and that for a fortnight ♄ ♋ 10. △ ☉ ♄ 12. △ ♄ ♂ 28. △ ♄ ☿ Observations on March 1680. AStrologers a word of comfort t' ye your Father Mercury is pleased and laughs whether at you or for you I matter not much Bear up as craftily as ye are wont seem to know and foretel all things Learned Jupiter looks favourably upon you but what then for one word good I can tell you two or three bad Mars near the middle of this Month is in Conjunction of Mercury which will most certainly make Astrologers at this time right Artists at picking o Pockets nay if a man chance to be born at this time there 's no truth in Astrology if the Native does not prove either a Thief or an Astrologer or both Again he 's Combust and Saturn squares him that is his little nimble Sons will be trampled upon by Great Men and despised by those who know the world never so little Good people you are advised this Month to brew good store of Drink to make much of your selves and to lie with your Wives lovingly and boldly notwithstanding the Conjunction of Mars and Mercury 'T is a good time let me tell you Who knows what they 'l be doing when your Children come to be Natives or whether they 'l be playing the Rogue playing the Fool or not playing at all 3. ⚹ ♃ ☿ 12. ☌ ♂ ☿ 15. Ϲ ♄ ☿ 19. ☉ ☌ ☿ Observations on April 1680. VEnus being now in her Exaltation in Pisces and the season of the Year beginning to warm her Veins she sends forth many a sigh for the longed Conjunction next Month with her Servant and Stallion Mars But Jupiter does his best to satisfie the Extravagance of her Appetite and closely imbraces her about the Neck kissing her over and over for a few days For though Jupiter well Dignified signifies a Chaste Virtuous Man yet being weak as he is in Taurus his weakness 't is true Astrology I assure you makes him the stronger and more rampant at a Woman When Jupiter has done Saturn takes her to task squares
Saturn Squares the Goddess they pay their Devotion to so that if Jupiter does not help with his most kind Countenance I know not what will become of her He is in a double-bodied Sign indeed and is naturally of a very sound temper of body so that 't is likely enough he may do the Harlot some remarkable piece of service 10. ⚹ ♂ ♀ 12. ☉ in ♎ ☿ R. in ♎ 26. Ϲ ♄ ♀ 21. △ ♃ ♀ ♃ in Ϲ. ♂ in ♌ Observations on October 1680. MErcury is all this Month in leacherous Signs so that Astrologers will be hot though the Weather be cold But have a care I warn ye what ye do while Saturn is in an ill humour The Old Man has been a long time in a Paw-Sign and is well enough inclin'd by this time but he 's apt to be Envious yet being told by one of the wisest of his Admirers that he shall shortly enjoy a very pretty Lady and have more vigour than his Age will allow he grows extraordinary well pleased before the Month is over and makes a Trine to Mercury with a great many thanks Well but Mars and Venus Lovers fall out I wonder at it because Venus is got into Scorpio which signifies the main thing that he loves her for and 't is one of his Houses so that he 's very rude and ill-natur'd to have no more respect for her at such a time and in such a place Mercury is Combust and in Scorpio too so that Astrologers should look to 't that they don't meddle too much with the Girls that come to ask them Questions But 't is no great matter if they be bit by the Scorpion they pretend to have the Faculty of curing themselves For Culpepper has made Physitians of many an Old Woman as well as Astrologers ☿ in ♎ 5. Ϲ ♄ ☉ 31. △ ♄ ☿ 24. Ϲ ♂ ♀ Observations on November 1680. HEat and Cold Saturn and the Sun are very obliging and Complemental the beginning of this Month but I fancy 't is only Courtiers kindness your Humble Servant a thousand times over when they hate and despise you at Heart The Sun Venus and Mercury are all in Opposition of Jupiter so that I can't tell what to think of the Bishops Three to one's odds Man Woman and Child say you I wish their Lordships well in health and well to pass The Moon does even the same things she uses to do Whether she 's most apt to make the Weather Cold now or Rainy in September I leave the Learned to consider If Astrologers would believe more in God than they do in her I should not be so angry with 'em but I warrant they 'l set a Figure to find me out I fear 'em not S himself knew nothing on 't when a man lay with his Wife Let them disprove my Observations if they can I dare vindicate the truth of them by keen dint of Pen against e're a He amongst 'em But then they must write mighty soberly or else they 'l hardly tempt me to lose my time with ' em 4. △ ♄ ☉ 6. ☠♃ ♀ 13. ☠♃ ☿ 22. ☠♃ ☉ Observations on December 1680. GEntlemen ye 're very welcome to the last Month in troth I 'm a'most tired th' have cost me a full mornings work and 't is not good to surfeit If you are not quite tir'd too I would tell you a little more News before we depart Jupiter and Mars are in their hottest loves with Venus this coldest time o' th' year but Saturn is as cold to her as the Weather 'T is very likely Astrologers may get a Shilling for a Figure and a Groat for an Vrinal upon the Trine of Mars and Mercury the direction happens twice this Month so that 't would be very probable they would get enough to pay for Meat Drink and Lodging if Saturn did not oppose it as he does twice too Last Month I told you how kind and Ceremonious the Sun and Saturn were I told you 't was but hollow-heartedness for now they are passing at one another with all the eagerness that can be And now my dear good Reader I hope I have diverted thee a little but shall not much concern my self to know too much of thy mind in that point please thy self and thou pleasest me 1. △ ♂ ♀ 20. △ ♃ ♀ 7. △ ♂ ☿ 18. △ ♂ ☿ 12. ☠♄ ☿ 18. ☠♄ ☿ 29. ☠♄ ☉ THe Stars Ethereal Bard to thee Shine clear And all our future Fates thou mak'st appear But that thy Wife is Common all men know Yet what all see there 's not a Star doth show Saturn is blind or some long Journey gone Not able to discern an Infant from a Stone The Moon is fair and as she 's fair she 's Chast And wo'nt behold thy Wife so lewdly embrac't Europa Jov◠Mars Venus she Mars Courts With Daphne Sol with Hirce Hermes sports Thus while the Stars their wanton Love pursue No wonder Cuckold they 'l not tell thee true More 's Epigram FINIS