Of
the
Eclipses
that
shall
happen
this
present
yeere
,
to
the
great
and
fearfull
terrifying
of
the
beholders
.
IF
we
may
credit
the
authenticall
censures
of
Albumazar
and
Ptolomey
,
about
the
motions
of
celestial
bodies
,
whose
influence
dooth
exitat
and
procure
continuall
mutability
in
the
lower
region
:
we
shall
finde
that
the
Moone
this
yeere
shall
be
eclipsed
,
which
shall
happen
in
one
of
the
twelue
moneths
,
and
some
of
the
foure
quarters
of
the
yeere
,
whose
pointes
as
they
shall
be
totally
durkened
,
so
the
effectes
shall
be
wondrous
and
strange
.
For
Cancer
being
the
sole
house
of
the
Moone
,
dooth
presage
that
this
yeere
fruites
shall
be
greatly
eaten
with
Catterpillers
,
as
Brokers
,
Farmers
,
and
Flatterers
,
which
feeding
on
the
sweat
of
other
mens
browes
,
shall
greatly
hinder
the
beauty
of
the
spring
,
and
disparage
the
growth
of
all
hot
hearbs
,
vnlesse
some
northerlye
winde
of
Gods
vengeance
cleere
the
trees
of
such
Catterpillers
,
with
a
hot
plague
and
the
pestilence
.
But
Cancer
being
a
watry
signe
and
cheefe
gouernour
of
flouds
and
streames
,
it
foresheweth
that
fish-mongers
if
they
be
not
well
lookt
to
,
shall
goe
downe
as
farre
as
Graues
end
in
Wherries
,
and
forestall
the
market
,
to
the
great
preiudice
of
the
poore
,
that
all
Lent
ground
their
fare
on
the
benefit
of
Salt
fishe
and
red
Herring
.
Besides
it
signifieth
,
that
Brewers
shall
make
hauocke
of
Theames
water
,
and
put
more
liquour
then
they
were
accustomed
amongst
their
Maulte
:
to
the
ouerthrowe
of
certaine
crased
Ale
knights
,
whose
morning
draughtes
of
strong
Beere
is
a
great
staye
to
their
stomacks
:
a
lamentable
case
if
it
be
not
lookt
into
and
preuented
by
some
speedy
supplication
to
the
woorshipfull
order
of
ale
cunners
.
But
in
this
we
haue
great
hope
that
because
the
effects
cannot
surprise
the
cause
,
diuers
Tapsters
shall
trust
out
more
then
they
can
get
in
:
and
although
they
fill
their
Pots
but
halfe
full
:
yet
for
want
of
true
dealing
dye
in
the
Brewers
debt
.
Thus
much
for
the
watry
signe
of
Cancer
,
and
because
this
Eclipse
is
little
visible
in
our
horison
,
I
passe
it
ouer
with
this
prouiso
to
all
seafaring
men
,
to
cary
more
shirts
then
one
with
them
a
ship
boord
,
lest
to
their
great
labour
they
spend
many
houres
in
murthering
their
vermin
on
the
hatches
.
¶
The
Eclipse
of
the
Sunne
.
THe
Eclipse
of
the
Sun
according
to
Proclus
opinion
,
is
like
to
produce
many
hot
and
pestilent
infirmities
,
especially
amongst
Sunmers
and
Pettyfoggers
,
whose
faces
being
combust
with
manye
fierye
inflamations
,
shall
shewe
the
dearth
that
by
their
deuout
drinking
is
like
to
ensue
of
Barly
,
if
violent
death
take
not
awaye
such
consuming
maultwoormes
.
Diuers
are
like
to
be
troubled
with
such
hot
rewmes
in
their
heads
,
that
their
haire
shall
fall
off
:
and
such
hot
agues
shall
raigne
this
yeere
,
with
strange
feuers
and
calamities
,
that
if
the
Sunne
were
not
placed
in
a
colde
signe
,
Renishe
Wine
would
rise
to
ten
pence
a
quart
before
the
latter
end
of
August
.
But
diuers
good
planets
being
retrograde
,
foretelleth
that
Lemmans
this
yeere
shal
be
plenty
,
insomuch
that
many
shall
vse
them
to
bedward
,
for
the
quallifying
of
their
hot
and
inflamed
stomackes
.
And
Mars
being
placed
neere
the
Sunne
,
sheweth
that
there
shall
be
a
great
death
among
people
,
olde
women
that
can
liue
no
longer
shall
dye
for
age
:
and
yong
men
that
haue
Usurers
to
their
father
,
shall
this
yeere
haue
great
cause
to
laugh
,
for
the
Deuil
hath
made
a
decree
,
that
after
they
are
once
in
hell
,
they
shall
neuer
rise
againe
to
trouble
their
executors
.
Beside
that
by
all
coniecturall
argumentes
the
influence
of
Mars
shall
be
so
violent
,
that
diuers
souldiers
in
partes
beyond
the
seas
,
shall
fall
out
for
want
of
their
pay
,
and
heere
in
our
meridionall
clime
,
great
quarrels
shal
be
raised
between
man
and
man
,
especiallye
in
cases
of
Law
:
gentry
shal
goe
check
mate
with
Iustice
,
and
coyne
out-countenance
oft
times
equitie
:
the
poore
sitting
on
pennylesse
benche
,
shall
sell
their
Coates
to
striue
for
a
straw
,
&
Lawyers
laugh
such
fooles
to
scorn
as
cannot
keep
their
crowns
in
their
purses
.
Further
there
is
like
to
be
great
falling
out
amongst
Church
men
,
and
certaine
fond
sects
of
religion
like
to
trouble
the
commons
:
selfe
conceipters
and
ouer
holy
counterfeites
that
delight
in
singularitie
,
shall
rise
vp
and
despise
authoritie
,
presuming
euen
to
abuse
the
higher
powers
,
if
Saturne
with
a
frowning
influence
,
did
not
threaten
them
with
Tibornes
consequence
.
But
wheras
the
Sun
is
darkned
but
by
digits
,
and
that
vpon
the
south
points
,
it
presageth
great
miseries
to
Spaine
and
those
Southerlye
Countries
,
Friers
and
Monks
shall
heat
them
so
this
yeer
with
confessing
of
harlots
,
that
their
crownes
shall
wax
balde
of
their
own
accord
,
to
the
great
impouerishing
of
the
Spanish
Barbers
:
Surgeons
in
Spain
shall
wax
rich
,
and
their
Hospitals
poore
:
such
a
pestilent
mortallitye
is
like
to
fall
amongst
those
hipocriticall
Masse-mongers
.
The
dukes
,
Marquesses
and
Counties
,
shall
haue
their
dublets
closed
with
such
Spanish
buttons
,
that
they
shall
neuer
proue
good
quiresters
,
for
the
hot
and
inflamed
rewms
fallen
downe
into
their
throats
.
It
is
further
to
be
feared
that
because
the
Eclipse
hapneth
in
Iulye
,
there
will
through
the
extreame
heat
growe
such
abundance
of
Fleas
,
that
women
shall
not
go
to
bed
before
twelue
a
clocke
at
night
,
for
the
great
murthers
and
stratagems
they
are
like
to
commit
vpon
those
little
animalls
.
And
whereas
this
Eclipse
falleth
out
at
three
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
,
it
foresheweth
that
manye
shall
goe
soberer
into
Tauernes
then
they
shall
come
out
:
and
that
he
which
drinkes
hard
and
lyes
cold
,
shal
neuer
dye
of
the
sweate
.
Item
,
Gemini
combust
and
retrograde
,
sheweth
that
some
shall
haue
so
sore
a
sweating
,
that
they
may
sell
their
haire
by
the
pound
to
stuffe
Tennice
balles
:
but
if
the
Beadles
of
Bride
well
be
carefull
this
Summer
,
it
may
be
hoped
that
Peticote
lane
may
be
lesse
pestered
with
ill
aires
then
it
was
woont
:
and
the
houses
there
so
cleer
clensed
,
that
honest
women
may
dwel
there
without
any
dread
of
the
whip
and
the
carte
.
And
I
finde
that
the
altitude
of
that
place
and
of
Shordich
are
al
one
eleuated
,
and
two
degrees
,
and
vnder
the
zenith
or
verticall
point
of
venus
,
which
presageth
that
sundry
sortes
of
men
&
women
shal
be
there
resident
:
some
shall
be
so
short
heelde
and
so
quesie
stomackt
,
that
they
shal
lye
in
their
beds
while
noon
,
by
which
means
they
shal
grow
so
full
of
grosse
humors
,
that
they
shal
be
troubled
with
strange
timpanies
and
swellings
in
their
bellies
,
vncurable
for
forty
weeks
vntill
they
be
helped
by
the
aduice
of
some
skilfull
Midwife
.
Besides
,
other
of
the
same
sex
and
faction
,
shall
learn
to
cosin
young
nouices
,
and
fetch
in
young
Gentlemen
,
to
the
great
ouerthrow
of
youth
,
if
some
sharpe
and
speedye
redresse
be
not
fetcht
from
the
woorshipfull
Colledge
of
Phisitions
in
the
parrish
of
S.
Brides
.
But
heere
by
the
waye
gentle
Reader
,
note
that
this
Eclipse
sheweth
,
that
this
yeer
shall
be
some
strange
birthes
of
Children
produced
in
some
monstrous
forme
,
to
the
greefe
of
the
Parentes
,
and
fearefull
spectackle
of
the
beholders
:
but
because
the
Eclipse
chaunseth
Southerlye
,
it
is
little
to
be
feared
that
the
effectes
shall
fall
in
England
:
yet
some
what
it
is
to
bee
doubted
,
that
diuers
Children
shall
be
borne
,
that
when
they
come
to
age
shall
not
knowe
their
owne
Fathers
:
others
shall
haue
their
fingers
of
the
nature
of
Lyme
twigges
,
to
get
most
parte
of
their
liuing
with
fiue
and
a
reache
:
some
shall
be
born
with
feet
like
vnto
Hares
,
that
they
shal
run
so
swift
,
that
they
shall
neuer
tarry
with
maister
,
but
trudge
from
poste
to
piller
,
till
they
take
vp
beggars
bush
for
their
lodging
:
Others
shall
haue
Noses
like
Swine
,
that
there
shall
not
be
a
feast
within
a
myle
,
but
they
shall
smell
it
out
:
But
especiallye
it
is
to
be
doubted
,
that
diuers
women
this
yeere
shall
bee
borne
with
two
tungs
,
to
the
terrible
greefe
of
such
as
shall
marry
them
,
vttering
in
their
furye
such
rough
cast
eloquence
,
that
knaue
and
slaue
shal
be
but
holy-day
woords
to
their
husbands
.
And
whereas
this
fearefull
Eclipse
dooth
continue
but
an
houre
and
a
half
,
it
signifieth
that
this
yeere
womens
loues
to
their
husbands
shal
be
very
shorte
,
some
so
momentary
,
that
it
shal
scarse
continue
from
the
church
doore
to
the
wedding
house
:
and
that
hennes
,
capons
,
Geese
,
&
other
pullin
shall
little
haunt
poore
mens
tables
,
but
flye
awaye
with
spits
in
their
bellies
to
fat
Churls
houses
,
that
pamper
themselues
vp
with
delicates
&
dainties
.
And
although
verye
fewe
other
effectes
are
to
be
prognosticated
,
yet
let
me
giue
this
caueat
to
my
Countrymen
,
as
a
clause
to
this
wonderfull
Eclipse
.
Let
such
as
haue
clothes
enow
,
keep
themselues
warme
from
taking
of
coldes
and
I
would
wishe
rich
men
all
this
winter
to
sit
by
a
good
fire
,
and
hardlye
to
goe
to
bed
without
a
Cuppe
of
Sack
,
and
that
so
quallified
with
Suger
,
that
they
proue
not
rewmatick
:
let
them
feede
daintilye
and
take
ease
enough
,
and
no
doubt
according
to
the
iudgement
of
Albumazar
,
they
are
like
to
liue
as
long
as
they
can
,
and
not
to
dye
one
hower
before
their
time
.
Thus
much
for
this
strange
Eclipse
of
the
Sunne
.
¶
Of
the
second
Eclipse
of
the
Moone
,
which
is
like
to
fall
out
when
it
chaunseth
either
before
the
31.
of
December
or
els
not
at
all
,
this
present
yeere
,
1591.
THe
second
Eclipse
of
the
Moon
shal
be
but
little
seene
in
England
,
wherevpon
the
effectes
shall
be
nothing
preiudiciall
to
our
clyme
:
yet
as
the
bodye
of
the
Moone
is
neuer
obscure
in
part
or
in
whole
,
but
some
dangerous
euents
doo
followe
:
so
I
meane
to
set
downe
breefely
what
is
to
be
lookte
for
in
these
westerne
partes
of
the
worlde
.
First
therefore
it
is
to
bee
feared
,
that
the
Danes
shall
this
yeere
bee
greatlye
giuen
to
drincke
,
insomuch
that
Englishe
Beere
shall
there
be
woorth
fiue
pence
a
stoape
,
that
their
Hoffes
and
tappehouses
shall
be
more
frequented
,
then
Parishe
Churches
,
and
manye
shall
haue
more
Spruce
Beere
in
their
bellies
,
then
wit
in
their
heads
:
wherevpon
shall
growe
Apoplexies
and
colde
palsies
in
their
legges
,
that
they
shall
diuers
times
not
bee
able
to
stand
on
their
feete
.
Upon
this
shall
grow
great
commodity
to
the
Potters
and
Glasse
makers
,
for
it
is
like
there
shall
be
a
great
ouerthrowe
of
them
,
if
there
bee
not
some
act
made
for
drinking
in
blacke
Iackes
.
But
if
the
weather
prooue
seasonable
,
and
the
Haruest
great
,
and
the
Barnes
full
of
Corne
:
Rye
is
like
to
be
cheap
in
Denmark
,
and
bread
to
be
of
a
reasonable
size
,
for
the
releeuing
of
the
poore
.
Marty
,
Fraunce
is
like
to
haue
a
great
dearth
of
honest
men
,
if
the
King
preuaile
not
against
these
mutenous
rebels
of
the
League
,
and
Papists
in
diuers
places
to
be
plenty
,
if
God
or
the
King
route
them
not
out
with
a
sharpe
ouerthrowe
:
But
this
hope
we
haue
against
that
rascall
rabble
of
those
shauelinges
,
that
there
was
found
in
an
olde
book
this
Prophecy
spoken
about
Ierusalem
long
since
by
a
Iew
:
The
tree
that
God
hath
not
planted
shall
be
pulled
vp
by
the
roots
.
Some
curious
Astronomers
of
late
dayes
that
are
more
Propheticall
then
Iudiciall
,
affirme
that
Martin
the
kill-hog
for
his
deuout
drincking
(
by
the
Pope
canonized
a
Saint
)
shall
rise
againe
in
the
apparell
of
a
Minister
,
and
tickle
some
of
the
baser
sorte
with
such
fond
humors
in
their
brains
,
that
diuers
selfe
conceited
fooles
shall
become
his
disciples
,
&
grounding
their
witlesse
opinion
on
an
heriticall
foundation
,
shall
seeke
to
ruinate
authoritie
,
and
peruert
all
good
orders
established
in
the
Church
,
to
the
great
preiudice
of
vnity
and
religion
,
tituling
themselues
by
the
names
of
Martinistes
as
the
Donatistes
grewe
from
Donatus
.
Were
it
not
that
the
Moone
being
in
Taurus
,
which
gouernes
the
necke
and
throate
,
shewes
that
the
Squinancye
shall
raigne
amongst
them
,
and
diuers
for
want
of
breath
dye
of
the
strangling
.
Now
for
that
Capricornus
is
a
signe
wherin
Luna
is
often
resident
,
it
prognosticateth
a
great
death
amongst
hornde
beastes
.
The
Butchers
shall
commit
wilfull
murther
vpon
Sheepe
and
Oxen
,
and
diuers
Keepers
kill
store
of
Buckes
,
and
reserue
no
other
fees
to
their selues
but
the
hornes
,
insomuche
that
if
the
Parson
of
Horne-Church
in
Essex
take
not
heede
,
there
maye
hap
to
prooue
this
yeere
some
Cuckoldes
in
his
Parrish
.
But
there
is
like
to
bee
concluded
by
an
act
set
downe
in
Graues
ende
Barge
,
that
hee
that
wypes
his
Nose
and
hath
it
not
,
shall
forfeite
his
whole
face
.
And
that
all
such
as
are
Iealous
ouer
their
wiues
without
cause
,
are
worthie
to
bee
punisht
with
the
horne
plague
for
their
labour
.
And
whereas
this
Eclipse
is
farre
from
the
signe
Pisces
,
it
shewes
that
there
shall
bee
much
stinking
fish
this
yere
at
Billings
gate
,
and
that
Quinborowe
oyster
boates
shall
ofte
times
carrie
knaues
as
well
as
honest
men
.
But
let
the
Fish-wiues
take
heede
,
for
if
most
of
hem
proue
not
scoldes
,
because
Pisces
is
a
signe
that
gouernes
the
feete
,
they
shall
weare
out
more
shooes
in
Lent
then
in
anie
two
months
beside
through
the
whole
yeere
,
and
get
their
liuing
by
walking
and
crying
,
because
they
slaundered
Ram
alley
with
such
a
tragical
infamie
.
The
rest
I
conceale
as
friuolous
,
and
little
necessarie
to
be
touched
in
this
Prognostication
.
A
declaration
of
the
generall
disposition
of
sundrie
conceited
qualities
incident
vnto
mens
mindes
&
natures
throughout
these
foure
quarters
of
the
yere
,
by
the
merrie
influence
of
the
Planets
,
with
some
other
tragicall
euents
and
obseruations
worthie
the
noting
,
contayned
vnder
each
seperated
reuolution
.
And
first
of
the
inclination
of
the
Winter
quarter
.
Winter
the
first
Astronomicall
quarter
of
the
yeare
,
according
to
my
vsuall
account
,
whatsoeuer
Ptolomie
sayes
beginneth
sooner
with
poore
men
than
with
rich
,
graunted
so
by
the
malignant
influence
of
Saturne
,
whose
constellation
is
that
suche
as
haue
no
mony
nor
credit
,
shal
want
coales
&
woode
and
be
faine
to
stande
and
starue
for
colde
,
while
olde
pennifathers
sit
and
toast
them selues
by
the
fire
.
The
winter
beginning
at
that
instant
,
when
the
Sun
makes
his
enterance
into
the
first
degree
of
Capricornus
,
that
Hiemall
solstitial
signe
shewes
that
by
natural
inclination
this
quarter
is
generally
fleugmatike
,
and
that
Ale
shall
bee
of
so
greate
authoritie
,
that
the
Bakers
basket
shall
giue
the
wall
vnto
the
Brewers
barrell
,
and
a
halfe
pennye
drie
doe
homage
vnto
a
halfe
pennye
wet
.
The
weather
and
season
wil
be
so
cold
that
diuerse
for
feare
of
the
frost
shall
sit
all
daye
at
Tables
and
Cardes
,
while
their
poore
wiues
&
familes
fast
at
home
for
their
folies
.
And
in
respecte
that
I
finde
three
of
the
seauen
Planetes
to
be
in
waterie
signes
as
Iuppiter
,
Mars
,
and
the
Moone
,
it
signifieth
that
diuerse
persons
both
men
and
women
for
want
of
wine
or
strong
drinke
shall
goe
to
bedde
sober
against
their
willes
.
That
Sea-faring
men
shall
haue
ill
lucke
if
either
their
shippes
hit
agaynst
rockes
or
sticke
in
the
sandes
.
That
ther
shal
be
such
great
hoarie
frosts
,
that
men
&
women
shall
creep
to
bed
together
,
&
some
of
them
liee
so
long
,
till
they
bee
fetcht
out
with
a
Bason
.
Heere
Saturne
retrograde
in
Gemini
shewes
that
there
shall
this
Winter
fall
such
greate
fogges
and
mistes
,
that
diuerse
riche
men
shall
loose
their
purses
by
the
highe
waie
side
,
and
poore
men
bee
so
weather
beaten
by
the
crafte
of
vsurers
,
that
they
shall
begge
their
bread
by
the
extremitie
of
such
extortion
.
But
Mercurie
&
Uenus
congregated
in
Sagitarie
,
prognosticateth
that
for
want
of
faire
weather
,
such
as
haue
but
one
shirt
shall
go
woolward
till
that
be
a
washing
,
and
that
water-men
that
want
fares
shall
sit
and
blowe
their
fingers
till
theyr
fellowes
row
betwixte
the
olde
Swan
and
Westminster
.
And
by
reason
that
Mars
that
malignant
Planet
,
hath
nothing
to
doe
in
that
Hiemall
reuolution
,
souldiers
this
Winter
for
the
most
parte
,
shall
lie
still
in
garrisons
,
and
shall
not
be
troubled
with
more
monie
than
is
necessarie
.
Being
also
greatly
to
be
feared
,
that
through
extreame
colde
poore
men
shall
die
at
riche
mennes
doores
:
pittie
shall
bee
exiled
,
good
woorkes
truste
ouer
the
sea
with
Iacke
a
lent
and
Hospitalitie
banisht
as
a
signe
of
popish
religion
:
and
were
it
not
that
some
moist
shoures
shal
moderate
the
hardnes
of
the
frost
,
Charitie
should
for
want
of
house
rome
lie
&
freeze
to
death
in
the
streets
.
Diuerse
greate
stormes
are
this
yeere
to
be
feared
,
especially
in
houses
where
the
wiues
weare
the
breeches
,
with
such
lowde
windes
,
that
the
women
shall
scolde
their
husbands
quight
out
of
doores
,
wherevpon
is
like
to
fall
great
hailestones
as
bigge
as
ioynd
stooles
,
that
some
shall
haue
their
heads
broken
,
and
all
through
the
froward
disposition
of
Uenus
.
But
Mars
comes
in
and
playes
the
man
,
who
beeing
placed
in
Gemini
,
that
gouernes
the
armes
and
shoulders
,
presageth
that
sundrie
tall
fellowes
shall
take
heart
at
grasse
,
who
beeing
armed
with
good
cudgels
,
shall
so
lambeake
these
stubborne
huswiues
,
that
the
wind
shall
turne
into
another
quarter
,
and
so
the
weather
ware
more
calme
and
quiet
.
Such
great
flods
are
like
to
insue
,
through
this
hiemall
distemperature
,
that
diuerse
men
shall
bee
drowned
on
drie
hils
,
&
fish
if
they
could
not
swim
,
were
vtterly
like
to
perish
.
Eeles
are
like
to
bee
deere
if
there
bee
few
or
none
taken
,
and
plentie
of
poutes
to
bee
had
in
all
places
,
especiallie
in
those
coastes
and
Countries
where
weomen
haue
not
their
owne
willes
.
Now
gentle
reader
in
respect
of
diuers
particular
circumstances
drawn
from
the
daily
motions
,
progressions
,
stations
,
retrogradations
,
aspects
and
other
appointments
of
fixed
and
wandring
stars
,
I
am
induced
to
set
downe
that
such
as
haue
no
fire
,
shall
feele
most
cold
and
that
wierdrawers
,
if
they
plye
not
their
worke
,
shall
feele
no
great
heate
,
that
they
in
Russia
shall
suffer
more
preiudice
by
the
sharpenesse
of
Winter
than
the
Spaniards
,
And
one
thing
is
to
bee
hoped
for
at
the
handes
of
Mercurie
,
that
this
winter
mony
shall
haue
a
fall
,
for
Philip
and
Mary
shillings
that
heretofore
went
for
12.
d.
shall
now
passe
from
man
to
man
for
6.d
.
a
peece
.
The
distemperance
of
this
quarter
,
is
like
to
breede
many
sickenesses
and
sundrie
diseases
as
well
in
young
as
in
old
,
proceeding
either
of
corrupt
and
vicious
bloud
or
of
superabundance
of
crude
and
raw
fleugmatike
humors
.
As
Cephalagies
or
paines
in
the
head
which
shall
make
men
dizzy
that
some
shal
stagger
&
stumble
vp
&
downe
the
streetes
till
they
haue
stolne
a
nappe
to
quiet
their
braines
.
Ache
in
the
shoulders
shall
raine
aamongest
diuerse
women
that
haue
shrewes
to
their
husbands
,
and
diuerse
drunken
men
shall
bee
pestured
with
surfets
.
Maidens
this
winter
shall
haue
strange
stitches
&
gripings
of
the
collick
,
which
diseses
proceed
by
to
much
lying
vpright
.
Men
shall
bee
troubled
with
such
paine
in
the
eies
,
that
they
shal
not
know
their
owne
wiues
from
other
women
,
with
coughes
,
ruines
and
itchings
,
which
I
omit
.
Of
the
Spring
time
.
Winter
being
finished
with
the
last
grade
of
the
watry
signe
Pisces
,
at
the
Suns
ioyful
progresse
into
the
first
degree
of
Aries
.
The
second
quarter
of
our
vsuall
yere
commonly
called
the
spring
commeth
next
,
which
beginneth
when
grasse
begins
to
sproute
,
&
trees
to
bud
.
But
to
treate
of
this
present
season
,
forasmuch
as
I
find
the
planets
to
be
contradictorily
disposed
,
in
signs
&
mansions
of
diuerse
repugnaunt
qualities
,
I
gather
that
this
spring
will
be
very
il
for
schollers
,
for
they
shal
studie
much
and
gain
litle
,
they
shall
haue
more
wit
in
their
heads
then
money
in
their
purses
.
Dunces
shal
proue
more
welthie
then
diuers
doctors
,
insomuch
that
sundry
vnlettered
fooles
should
creep
into
the
ministerie
,
if
the
prouident
care
of
good
Bishops
did
not
preuent
them
.
And
by
the
opinion
of
Proclus
,
women
are
like
to
grow
wilful
,
&
so
variable
,
that
they
shall
laugh
&
weepe
,
and
all
with
a
winde
:
Butchers
shal
sell
their
meate
as
deare
as
they
can
,
and
if
they
bee
not
carefull
,
horne
beastes
shall
be
hurtfull
vnto
them
.
Some
shall
bee
so
wedded
to
swines
flesh
,
that
they
shall
neuer
bee
without
a
sowe
in
their
house
as
long
as
they
liue
.
This
spring
or
vernall
resolution
being
naturally
hot
&
moist
,
is
like
to
bee
verie
forward
for
sprouting
fields
blooming
trees
,
&
because
Saturne
is
in
his
proper
mansion
,
old
men
are
like
to
be
froard
,
&
crafty
knaues
shal
need
no
Brokers
,
vsurie
shall
bee
called
good
husbandrie
,
&
men
shal
bee
counted
honest
by
their
wealth
,
not
by
their
vertues
.
And
because
Aquarius
hath
somthing
to
do
with
this
quarter
,
it
is
to
bee
doubted
that
diuers
springs
of
water
will
rise
vp
in
vintners
sellers
,
to
the
great
weakning
of
their
Bascon
wine
,
&
the
vtter
ruine
of
the
ancient
order
of
the
red
noses
.
March
Beere
shal
be
more
estemed
than
ale
.
Out
of
the
old
stock
of
heresie
,
this
spring
it
is
to
be
feared
,
will
bloome
new
scismaticall
opinions
and
strange
sects
,
as
Brownists
,
Barowists
,
&
such
balductum
deuises
to
the
great
hinderance
of
the
vnitie
of
the
Church
&
confusion
of
the
true
faith
,
if
the
learned
doctor
sir
T.
Tiburne
be
not
taskte
to
confute
such
vpstart
companions
,
with
his
plain
&
dunstable
philosophie
.
Cancer
is
busie
in
this
spring
tide
,
and
therfore
it
is
like
that
florishing
bloomes
of
yong
gentlemens
youth
shal
be
gretly
anoid
with
caterpillers
,
who
shall
intangle
them
in
such
statutes
&
recognances
,
that
they
shall
crie
out
against
brokers
,
as
Ieremy
did
against
false
prophets
.
Besides
,
thogh
this
last
winter
nipt
vp
diuers
masterlesse
men
and
cut
purses
,
yet
this
spring
is
like
to
afford
one
euery
tearme
this
ten
yere
in
Westminster
hall
.
Barbers
if
they
haue
no
worke
are
like
to
grow
poore
,
and
for
that
Mercury
is
combust
and
many
quarelles
like
to
growe
amongst
men
,
lawiers
shall
proue
rich
&
weare
side
gowns
and
large
consciences
,
hauing
theyr
mouths
open
to
call
for
fees
,
and
theyr
purses
shut
when
they
shoulde
bestowe
almes
.
But
take
heed
O
you
generation
of
wicked
Ostlers
,
that
steale
haie
in
the
night
from
gentlemens
horses
,
and
rub
their
teth
with
tallow
,
that
they
may
eate
little
when
they
stand
at
liuery
,
this
I
prognosticate
against
you
,
that
this
spring
,
which
so
euer
of
you
dies
,
shall
leaue
a
knaues
carcasse
in
the
graue
behind
him
,
and
that
they
which
liue
shal
hop
a
harlot
in
his
cloths
al
the
yere
after
But
aboue
all
let
mee
not
hide
this
secret
from
my
countrymen
,
that
Iupiter
being
in
aspect
with
Luna
,
discouereth
that
diuers
men
shal
drinke
more
than
they
bleed
,
&
Tailers
shall
steale
nothing
but
what
is
brought
vnto
them
,
that
poulters
shall
bee
pestered
with
rotten
egs
,
&
Butchers
dogs
make
libels
against
Lent
,
that
affoordes
no
foode
but
herring
cobs
for
their
diet
.
Diseases
incident
to
this
quarter
,
as
by
Astrologicall
&
philosophicall
coniectures
I
can
gather
,
are
these
following
:
Prentises
that
haue
ben
sore
beaten
,
shall
be
troubled
with
ach
in
their
armes
,
and
it
shall
be
ill
for
such
as
haue
sore
eies
,
to
looke
against
the
Sun
.
The
plague
shall
raigne
mortally
amongst
poore
men
,
that
diuerse
of
them
shal
not
be
able
to
change
a
man
a
groate
.
Old
women
that
haue
taken
great
cold
,
may
perhaps
be
trobled
with
the
cough
,
and
such
as
haue
paine
in
their
teeth
,
shall
bee
grieuouslie
troubled
with
the
tooth
ach
.
Sicke
folke
shal
haue
worse
stomacks
then
they
which
be
whole
,
and
men
that
cannot
sleepe
,
shall
take
verie
little
rest
:
with
other
accidentall
infirmities
,
which
I
ouerpasse
.
A
declaration
of
the
disposition
and
inclination
of
the
Summer
quarter
.
When
the
Sunne
hath
made
his
course
through
the
vernal
signs
,
Aries
,
Taurus
&
Gemini
at
his
passage
vnto
the
solsticiall
estiuall
signe
Cancer
.
The
third
parte
of
an
English
yeere
called
Summer
,
taketh
his
beginning
this
yere
,
as
Ptolomie
sayth
,
the
twelfch
of
Iune
but
as
my
skill
doth
coniecture
,
it
beginneth
when
the
wether
waxeth
so
hot
,
that
beggers
scorne
barnes
and
lie
in
the
field
for
heate
,
and
the
wormes
of
Saint
Pancredge
Church
build
their
bowers
vnder
the
shadow
of
Colman
hedge
.
The
predominant
qualities
of
this
quarter
is
heate
and
drynesse
,
whereby
I
doe
gather
,
that
through
the
influence
of
Cancer
,
bottle
Ale
shall
bee
in
greate
authoritie
,
and
wheat
shall
doe
knights
seruice
vnto
malt
.
Tapsters
this
quarter
shall
be
in
greater
credite
than
Coblers
,
and
many
shall
drinke
more
then
they
can
yearne
.
And
yet
because
Mercurie
is
a
signe
that
is
now
predominant
,
women
shall
be
more
troubled
with
fleas
then
men
,
and
such
as
want
meate
shall
go
supperlesse
to
bed
.
Besides
,
this
quarter
great
hurlie burlies
are
like
to
be
feared
,
and
greate
stratagems
like
to
be
performed
,
through
the
opposition
of
Mars
and
Saturne
.
Butchers
are
like
to
make
great
hauock
amongst
flies
:
beggers
on
Sun
shine
daies
to
commit
great
murthers
vpon
their
rebellious
vermine
.