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A07418	Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster Rather the arraignment of artlesse astrologers, and fortune-tellers, that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come, of telling things that are past, finding out things that are lost, expounding dreames, calculating deaths and natiuities, once againe brought to the barre. By Iohn Melton.	Melton, John, Sir, d. 1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 17804; ESTC S112560	60,603	93

ASTROLOGASTER OR THE FIGVRE-CASTER Rather the Arraignment of Artlesse Astrologers and Fortune-tellers that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come of telling things that are past finding out things that are lost expounding Dreames calculating Deaths and Natiuities once againe brought to the Barre By Iohn Melton Cicero Stultorum plena sunt omnia Imprinted at London by Barnard Alsop for Edward Blackmore and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the Signe of the Blazing-Starre 1620. TO THE DEARE GIVER and preseruer of my Life and Being my very louing Father Master Euan Melton your most Dutifull Sonne Iohn Melton faithfully and freely offers on the altar of my purest affection this Sacrifice of my Duty and Obedience SIR THe Misterious Egyptians when they could not elegantly with their Pensels describe the true condition or Nature either of Timerous Terrible mild or fearefull man would excellently with their Pensils in liuely cullors limbe forth on a Table the ful shape portraiture of a Hart a Lyon Lamb or Hare So I though not so Hyerogliphicall as they seeing I cannot expresse my duty to you with my Tongue striue to paint it forth in this Booke which is one Embleme both of my Loue and Labor of my loue in presenting it to you of my labor in pēning it for you For God sels nothing to Man without the price of lobour And howsoeuer the purblinde Ignorant that only see with their Corporal not Intellectualleies may surmise yet Art is the fellow of sweat and labour and the Muses haue no other Temples to dwell in but studious and laborious bosomes Sloth and Riches neuer begat Art but pouerty and Industry Mony buyes Houses and Lands but Study the Sciences And deare Sir to you that alwaies loued Art I hope nothing can come more pleasing then a Booke which is the child of Art for Bookes that Menerua-like are alwayes borne without a Mother are the forward Infants that speake for their fathers as soone as they are born They are dumb Orators who though they want both Tongue and Sence yet are the faithfullest speakers They are the witnesses of Time the lights of Truth the life of Memory that make present times speake with the past and both past and present of our owne The World it selfe is a Book consisting of foure leaues Fire Aire Earth and Water whose letters are Stars Birds Beasts and Fishes And Man that is the Epitome and Abstract of the World is a Book consisting of two leaues Soule and Body whose Letters are his good and bad Affections But I will say no more in the commendation of Books because they can strongly defend and truly commend themselues as for my Booke rather your Booke although it haue not that Life Soule Spirit Quintessence Elixar of wit that quickens others yet the old saying helps me Nullum esse librum tam malum vnde aliquid Boni discerpere non possis Receiue it then deare sir not as mine but your owne and howsoeuer you may esteeme of it yet I will remaine Your dutifull and euer louing Sonne Iohn Melton From my Chamber Iune the 10. 1620. A Symbole made on the Name of his very louing Father Master Euan Melton E1V V2A A3N 4 E1Ver V2Allew A3Rt N4Obly M5E E6L L7T T8O O9N 10 M5Vch E6Xperience L7Earning T 8 Eacheth O9Bdurate N10Atures To his witty and ingenious friend Master Iohn Melton I cannot chuse but laugh to thinke how all The broode of Figure-casting-knaues will braule When they by chance or rather mischance looke Vpon the title of thy well writ booke Which in a True-borne-straine of wit displayes Their grose abuses and how many wayes They cheat old women men and maids and such That build vpon their Art and do not gruch To giue them mony to be cheated when They lose things that no Art can finde agen But now I hope they will be wiser since Thy Pen hath truly blazd their Impudence And when they lose gold rather then bestow More on a Knaue to let the first gold goe For it is meere improuidence to care For things drownd in the Ocean of despaire Therefore if all beleeuing fooles could finde Like thee their pollitike tricks wherewith they blinde Their easie Natures they would then proclame All Figure-sellers Knaues and sharpely blame Themselues for being guld and neuer more Whatere they lose frequent them as before Then would all Artlesse Empericks forsake Cheating and study lying Almanacks Iohn Maslin Master of Art and sometime Student of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge To his most deare and truest of friends Master Iohn Melton and in the commendation of his witty Poem Astrologaster PHoebus prouide a Garland for thine Heire That hath deseru'd so well and make him weare It on his temples let th' immortall wreaths Of Lawrell crowne him while his rich Muse breaths Which will be euer A good Poets name Liues after he is dead Non spotted fame Cannot be mortall why because what 's good Can neuer perish it may be with stood A while by Enuy but she will aduance At last her selfe aboue dull Ignorance And that foule snake-eyed-Hagge that still doth striue To wound her that by wounding doth suruiue Then my Ingenious noble friend reioyce And though thou hearest some Figure-Casters voyce Like a Portentous Rauens croake and cry Thy Books not only ill writ but doth lye Be not disturbd for know their 's none finds fault With those that scourge vice but those men are naught None hates the righteous Iudge but those that stand At 'h Barre before him holding vp their hand The vertuous loue him knowing that the Law He executes keeps hell-borne-vice in awe Then let all Knaues let all Impostors swell All honest men will say thou hast done well Iohn Hancocke Batchelor of Art and Student of Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford The intent of the Author in this worke is first to confute all Figure-Casters by the Diuine Law Imperiall Law Cannon Law by Phylosophy Common sence Reason Secondly to ouerthrow the absurd opinions of many Phylosophers Astronomers Geographers Cosmographers Thirdly to vnfold the darke and abstruse Answers of the Delphian rather Deuillish Oracles Fourthly and lastly to shew the Sympathy and Correspondency that is betweene the Roguish Coniurers and Romish Impostors in their Ceremonies Superstitious Deceits and Cousenages Horat. Epist Lib. 1. Si quid nouisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non vis vtere mecum ASTROLOGASTER OR THE FIGVRE-CASTER IT was about the Heart of Summer when the Celestiall Dogge belch't from his burning Galls infectious Diseases to poyson frayle Mortalitie that I walk't into a friends Garden of mine not farre distant from this sumptuous but sinfull Citie to sent the fresh and coole Aire that did breathe on those sweet-smelling flowers But I no sooner entred into this Microcosme of Sweetnesse but the Amenitie Neatnesse Elegance and Splendor of the Place did so tickle and delight my sences that I thought it rather a Celestiall Paradice

siluer Wand a Surplus a Watering Pot with all the superstitious or rather fayned Instruments of his cousening Art And to put a fairer colour on his black and foule Science on his head hee had a foure-cornered Cap on his backe a faire Gowne but made of a strange f●shion in his right hand he held an Astrolabe in his left a Mathematicall Glasse At the first view there was no man that came to him if hee were of any fashion could offer him for his aduice lesse then a Iacobus and the meanest halfe a Peece although hee peraduenture rather then haue nothing would be contented with a brace of Two-pences I no sooner came into his Study but I did him the reuerence belonging to his Doctorship and stood as long bare to him as a poore Countrey Client that sues in Forma Pauperi● will to his hungry Lawyer At the last with the expence of many a Legge and may it please your Worship I told him that the cause of my comming was that hauing lately lost at the Kings Bench Barre in Westminster Hall a Chayne of Gold of three hundred Links therefore I came to his Doctorship hauing beene informed that his Art could bring it to light againe so putting my hand into my Leather Pouch I greased his euer-dry Palmes with an Angell who no sooner had a feeling of my bountie but hee began to be more liberall to mee of his Tongue then I was to him of my Purse And while I stood leaning on my Staffe hee deliuered this Emperike-like Oration in this or not much vnlike this manner The Figure-Casters Oration HOnest Friend the losse you haue sustayned is so great that I make no doubt what you now haue giuen or hereafter shall giue will not come forced or wrackt from you but voluntarie and free Nota. For it is wisdome in a Man to aduenture small things to regayne greater where there is a possibilitie of obtayning He is not worthy of Money that will not seeke after it and he cannot truly iudge how to value so precious a Metall as Gold that is not stung with the losse of it Therefore Sir your care deserues a redresse and this Booke meaning his Ephimerides with my Art and Industrie shall be the Instrumentall Causes to make you happie in the recouerie of that which is worthie both of my Care and your Cost And to put you in some hope if that Man that had your Chayne liues eyther within the Horizon of England Fraunce Spaine Italy or the Low-Countries I will vndertake to shew you him and in what place and what companie hee is in There is not a Spirit eyther of the Fire Ayre Earth or Water but I haue at my commaund as readily as any Gallant hath his Page or Foot-boy I can coniure them all together and make them trot vp and downe the Citie leauing not a Pick-pockets Gilts Lifts Decoyes or Dyuers Hose vnsurueyed Admi●anda jed ●on credenda Looke here Sir with that hee aduanced his Mathematicall Glasse with this Instrument first deuised by that learned Man in our Art Hermes Tresmegistus otherwise called Mercurie I can see all things done in Christendome If in the day time I looke in it I will as easily see what is done in the Citie as the Sunne There cannot a withered-faced Lady paint her decayed Countenance at her Chamber-Window and set a faire glosse on it with her Fucusses and Italian Tinctures but I see her as perfectly as her shee Secretarie her Chamber-maid There cannot a Compter Booke-Keeper and a Constable share a poore Mans Fees that the Night before was brought into Prison because hee would not giue the blinking Beadle or begging Watch-man a Tester but I see it as easily as their fellow the Bawd-like doore-keeper There cannot a Iustices Clarke that it may be is more Iustice then his Master take a Bribe of a noted Cut-purse whose Name peraduenture stands at least twentie seuerall times vpon record in Newgate Booke but I perceiue it as well as the Doxye that brought it him In the Night time if I stand with this Instrument in my hand I can see what is done in the Citie as well as the Man in the Moone There cannot a Drunkard come reeling out of a Tauerne at twelue a Clocke at Night but hee is as manifest before mee as the Drawer that beat him out of doores after hee had spent all his Money I can see the commaunding Constable and the drowsie Watch sit nodding on a Stall while a companie of Roaring-boyes alias Brothers of the Sword come by first swearing them awake then out of their Authoritie who in spight of their teeth will craue leaue to passe by them There cannot a Trades-mans Puritanicall Wife rise early in a Morning vnder the pretence of hearing a Lecture but I know where shee goes as well as the Foreman of her Shoppe that vshers her Nay Sir I haue seene the Pope goe in his Pontificaelibus with his whole Heard of Cardinalls to Saint Peters Church in Rome as often as any Citizen hath seene the Right Honourable the Lord Maior goe to Pauls-Crosse in London As for Prester Iacke the Great Mogul the Sophy of Persia and the Great Turke I can see them as often as I doe my Boy that is neuer from my elbow And all this is done by Astrologie by sacred Astrologie Diuine Astrologie the Art of Arts the Science of Sciences for it is the Ancient the most Authentike the most excellent Art in the World For old Father Adam was both an Astronomer and Astrologer Abraham and all the Patriarkes Nay I will assure you the Students of our Art haue beene famous in all Countries Countries famous for Mathematicians for Porphyrius and Apulcius deriue the Originall of Magike from the Persians although Suidas will haue it from the Maguseans and from them hee calls them Magi the Latines call vs Wise-men the Grecians Philosophers the Indians Gymnosophists the Aegyptiant Priests the Cabalists Prophets the Babylonians and Assyrians Chaldaeans the Frenchmen Bards And many excellent and eminent Men haue flourished in this Knowledge as Zoroaster the sonne of Aromasius who laugh'd when hee was borne among the Persians Mathematicians Numa Pompilius among the Romans Thesbion among the Gymnosophists Hermes among the Aegyptians Buda among the Babylonians Zamolxis among the Thracians and Abbaris among the Hyperboreans A thousand more beside these were excellent Astrologers as Ptholomeus whom some though very fooles in their Opinion hold to be the first Astronomer that euer was then Messahala Astronomers and Astrologers Aboasar Abenragel Alchibichius Albumazar Abraham Auenezra Algazel Hermes Tresmigistus Aratus Higinus and Thebit after whom did arise Maternus that famous Mathematician then Georgius Purbachius after whom followed Iohannes de Monte Regio Alphonsus King of Castile as his Tables can testifie Was not broad-shouldered Atlas that was bigger then the great Porter an admirable Astronomer and Astrologer Was not * Erra Pater whom I had almost