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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	7,308	5	10.1853	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09431	Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1585 (1585)	STC 19721.7; ESTC S113859	31,826	108

starres worke vpon mens bodies yet so y t the nature of the Country and soyle the meates and drinkes haue most commonly greater force Why are the bodies of Gentlemen of England and poore labouring mē of diuers dispositions are they not both in one countrey do not the starres shew their force in them alike yes truely but the kinde of life and diet preuaileth In the same region why are they which dwel vpon hills of other temperatures then they which dwell vpon playne champion grounde Why doe not the same influences of Starres make them of like natures is it not because the nature of the soyle preuayleth So then when as there be many causes effectuall and differing in altering mens bodies to builde an argument vpon one cause is most vnreasonable 2. The starres worke vpon the Elementes earth water ayre by makyng heate cold moisture drines The elementes how worke they on mens bodies They will also say by making heate cold moysture dryenesse which is most vntrue for the whotter and dryer the Elementes be the colder and moyster by nature are mens bodies Accordyng to that saying of Empedocles Nature placed a whote body in a cold countrey and a cold body in a whote countrey 3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens Now the heauens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens they must not bee causes of the inclination of the will either per se or per accidens but per accidentis accidens whiche is most ridiculous 4. This long chayne by whiche they lincke the will of man to the starres if it shalbe applyed vnto particulars it must needes breake for the actions of the will is buying selling trauailyng lying heaping vp wealth murdering spreading of false rumours offering of discourtesies hatyng of kinsfolkes and such like whiche our heauengazers foretell haue no coherēte with the first qualities heate cold moisture drynesse neither can they any waye proceede from them and therfore the starres cannot be causes of them for they worke onely by these qualittes 5. This reason is nothyng to their purpose for because they graunt that a man may freely resiste the inclination of the starres he may hinder that vnto which the stars bend his wil how dare they presume to say this or that will come to passe The heathen men gaue vp thēselues to their own lustes vanities and followed euery litle and vayne inclination of them in this order did auncient Astrologers among them diuine that this or that time such actions such vices such enterprises such affaires should be amōg them In like maner our English wisemē speake of vs as though we were beastes not reasonable men as thogh we neuer had heard the blessed Gospell of God neuer tasted of the grace of God neuer learned what is good and what is bad neuer laboured to subdue our lustes affections alwayes turned to and fro with the blast of any influence working very slenderly in vs. Thus muche of Ciuill affaires They make mentiō also yearely of the diseases whiche shall reigne but the way which they follow is taken forth of the barren and vncertaine rules of of the old Astrologers who do so ascribe vnto euery Planet certaine diseases that if neede shall require they may referre the same disease vnto many significatours as in the plague the putrefaction of humors is attributed vnto Iupiter the sharpe feuer vnto Mars the madnesse whiche followeth vnto Mercurie the whole plague vnto Mars In the plurecie the inflammation of the bloud betwene the skinne called Pluritis and the ribbs is attributed vnto Iupiter the suppuration of the bloud vnto Saturne and the whole pluresie vnto Iupiter In the Iaundes the inflamation and corruption of humors vnto Iupiter the yelow humor in the gaule vnto Mars the obstruction of the partes vnto Saturne the whole Iaunds beyng white vnto Mars blacke vnto Saturne And so in euery disease they vse this inconstancie and ambiguitie in Prognosticating It is a rule among the Astrologers that if the Planets signifiers of diseases be well affected then there shalbe no diseases but health if they be euilly affected then diseases follow Our Prognosticatours neuer marke this rule but howsoeuer the Planets bee affected they straightwayes pronounce that such diseases shall reigne For exāple the last winter quarter it was said by one of them that y e diseases which should afflict mens bodies were rewmes coughes cold laskes swelling of the face throte fallyng of the Colmel sore eyes deafenesse the stone goute dropsie greenesicknes madnes quarterne feuers c. And all the Planets signifiers of diseases in that quarter were indifferēt well affected wherfore thou hast not one cause to feare their threatninges but rather to be sorie for their continuall deceites wishing them myndes that they may one day see their owne follie Concernyng the tyme when the constellations take their effectes our Prognosticators say that some take their effectes the same yeare some not the same yeare but long after as great coniunctions and Eclipses For they say if the Moone be eclipsed one houre she worketh her effect a moneth after if two houres two monethes after and the Sunne for euery houre it is Eclipsed taketh his effect an whole yeare after Truely this rule whiche they follow must needes be agaynst all reason For why should not all coniunctions and oppositiōs of the Sunne and Moone differre their effectes as well as those coniunctions and oppositions in which the Sunne and Moone is Eclipsed if they showe forth their power immediately after why should not these also do the same Moreouer the Epignosticall Astrologers who haue conferred the course of the heauens with histories shew very manifestly that Eclipses do not deferre the tyme of working their spite vpon the earth In the yeare of our Lord. 1419. the Sunne was Eclipsed in Aries and presently after shewed all his force There was a great sedition in Prage that yeare In Paris an vprore betwene them of the Citie and the Uniuersitie and two thousand Scholers were slayne Then also Wenzeslaus king of Bohemia being in a great palsie dyed In the yeare .1524 There was a coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Scorpius also a great Eclipse of the Sunne in Iune whiche tooke their effectes the same yeare Charles king of Fraunce driuen forth of his countrey warre betweene Danes and the men of Sleswicke There was a great plague in Germanye Ciuill dissention amongest the Princes of the Empire and them which tooke the part of Iohn Husse .1452 An Eclipse of the Sunne in Sagittarius his effectes began presently and lasted a great while Euen then Constantinople was taken by the Turke The Hungarians and Bohemians besieged Fredericke the Emperour 1473. the 27. of Aprill the Sunne was Eclipsed in Taurus Mars beyng in Aries and Iupiter in Sagittarius The same yeare in sommer was such heate and drynesse of weather that woodes euen withered and one might

mans hand if it be shaken about very much it heateth verie little if it be shaken more slowly it heateth more but if it lie still it burneth violently Beside this also experience confirmeth my assertion In the yeare of our Lorde 1513. the Sunne enteryng into Pisces was almost in trine aspect with Saturne stationarie a little while after there was a great frost and snowe continuing many dayes and when Saturne began agayne to be direct the weather was indifferent warme In the yeare 1518. In Aprill Iupiter almost in secunda statione beholding Saturne in statione prima caused a great heate considering the time of the yere In the yeare 1520. Saturne as I sayde before beeing stationarie made suche a colde that spoyled the Grapes and made Wine deare Uppon these examples and manie other I may conclude that the worke and influence of of Planettes is moste felte when they are stationarie because their vertue is fixed as it were in one place by reason of the slowe motion Combustion is in like sorte a feyned thing UUhat reason can Astrologers geue why it should geue vnto a starre fiue debilities They talke howe that experience teacheth them that Planettes beeing vnder the beames of the Sunne doe loose a great nay some say all their force It is a manifest vntruthe For Mercurie beeing of the nature of that Planett with which hee is conioyned if he goe from coniunction with Saturne vnto the Sunne hee getteth no debilities thereby but rather losing the feeble and vnfortunate Nature of Saturne receiueth a more strong and fortunate nature of the Sunne If any manne say against me that Mercurie combust hathe no force he deceiueth himselfe For if he be not hindered hee naturallye will cause windes beeing combuste he not onely engendreth windes but causeth tempestuous windes and foule weather In Aries Taurus Cancer hee maketh tempestes in Virgo and Scorpius raging Seas in Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces rayne and snow Againe when many dayes together there hath bene faire weather the Sunne if it come to be in coniunction or any other aspect with Saturne maketh very foule weather and therefore the aspectes of the sunne and Iupiter are called apertiones portarum pro pluuia This could not com to passe if Saturne had his force diminished by the beams of the sunne A Planet also being in Cazimi that is being within 16. minutes of the suns middle haith therby 5. dignities which cannot well be if that cōbustion giue 5. debilities For the Planet is in the middle of his combustion and the sunne casteth his beames and force verie vehemently vpon it These suns shew how absurde a dreame combustion is yet if it were a good sound principle of Astrologie and gaue vnto euery Planet 5. debilities yet it could not be proued that libertie from combustion shuld giue fiue dignities being onely a meere absence and priuation of the other Magnes at the presence of the Adamant is hindred from drawing Iron yet if the Adamant be away the attractiue vertue of the magnes is not increased Here I might with ease confute y e triplicities of Planets directions aspects applications preuentions refrenations with many such like but my intent at this time is onely to shew thee some vntruthes of oure Prognosticatours Thus muche of the groundes of their predictions now followe the matters of which they Prognosticate and they are very manie nay there is no matter almost of which they will not giue their verdite but how they do this I will briefly make it manifest vnto thee that their lyes their vnchristian dealing may bee more loathed of thee 1 They foretell of Comets Earthquakes Famynes and plagues c. but they do it as the blind man which casteth hys staffe hee knoweth not where No man as yet euer knewe the true causes of these As for Cometes and blazing starres they do not rise of the influence of any starres neither are they anye earthly thinges but are in heauen moste commonly far aboue the Moon as by Geometrical Astronomical demonstrations may be be proued how this cōmeth to passe the Lord only knoweth And surely they do thee great iniurie that when as no doubt God doth lighten them and send the rest extraordinarily as threatnyng tokens of his sore displeasure yet they will rocke thee a sleepe in the cradle of securitie by telling that such tokens came from the ordinary course of the heauens 2. They foretell all thinges whiche happen in ciuill affaires amongst men as are these which follow As Loue and hatred of kinsfolke Mariages Encrease of farmes and liuings Iniuries and quarells Raysing of rentes Exactyng of subsidies by officers False rumors Imprisonmentes Hard intreating of Ecclesiasticall persons Buying selling vnderminyng The studying of sciences Frendes fall out for trifles Solemne progresses Fauour of noble men Men shall fall body and goodes into the Princes handes Marchandise vnprofitable c. These and such like proceede onely from the will of man the constellations of starres are neither signes nor causes of them Some will say Non imponere necessitatem sed inclinare Stellas that is That starres doe not constraine but onely incline the myndes of men a most wicked saying although most commonly spoken of and defended For y e inclinyng of the wil of man is onely the work of God as the holy Scriptures doe teache vs. The hart of man sayth Salomon purposeth his wayes but the Lorde directeth hys steps O Lord sayth Ieremy the Prophet that the waye of man is not in himself neither is it in man to walke and direct his steppes Hee speaketh this because that Nebuchadnezzar purposed to haue made warre agaynst the Moabites and Ammonites but hearyng of Zedekias rebellion hee turned his power to goe agaynste Ierusalem therefore the Prophet sayth that whereas hee had otherwise purposed yet this was the Lordes inclination and direction Agayne in the Prouerbes we read this That the hart of the kyng is in the handes of the Lord as the Riuers of water he directeth it whether he will It will be sayd that although God properly and immediately inclineth the will of man yet also some small inclination must be giuen vnto the Starres and that immediately For Say some Constellations worke vpō the Elementes by the foure first qualities Elementes worke vpon and alter the compound bodies and humors Compounde bodies by their qualities change the senses The senses beyng altered the vnderstandyng is altered The vnderstanding lastly altereth and inclineth the wil of man Therefore Constellations incline the will This reason is not much vnlike that whiche the dronken man maketh seruing as well for the defence of his vice as the former for approuing of truth in diuination He which drinketh well sleepeth well He which sleepeth well thinketh no harme He which thinketh no harme is a good man Therfore he whiche drinketh well is a good man The deceites and vntruthes whiche be in their reasons are very many 1. 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