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Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. English. Selections.
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Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Tetrabiblos.
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wyll nat hyde that he hath / he shall haue some sygnes in his handes or fete / he shall be ferefull / and at .xxii. yere of his age he shall haue some great peryll / he shall passe the see to his lucre / and he shall lyue .lxx vii yere / and .viii. monethes after nature THe woman that is borne in this tyme shall loue to laboure she shall haue dyuers thoughtê for strauÌ„ge stryues / and may nat se one wepe / she shall haue victory ouer her enemyes / she shall spende moche syluer by euyll company / she shall suffer many euylles / she shall take great payne to the ende that she maye haue the goodes of her kynnesmen She ought to be maryed at .xiii. yere / she shall haue payne in her iyen at .xiiii. yere / shal haue by enuye at .xviii. yere ioye / she shal suffer dolour by enuye shal be separat from ioye / and shall lyue .lxxii. yere after nature The dayes of Venus Luna ben right good the dayes of Mars and Saturne ben euyll And as well the man as the woman shal be inconstaunt vnstable in dedes / they shal be of good coÌ„scyence mercyfull / better to strauÌ„gers than to them selfe / they wyll loue god ¶ Of the sygne of Capricornus Euyll to let blode HE the whiche is borne vnder Capricornus from myd Decembre to myd Ianyuere shal be yracundyus / a for nycatour / a lyer shal be alwayes labourynge / and shal be norysshed with strauÌ„ge thynges / he shall haue many crymes noyses / he shal be a gouernoure of beestes with .iiii. fete / he shall nat be longe with his wyfe / he shall suffre moche sorowe heuynes in his youth / he shall leue many goodes and rychesses / he shall haue great peryll at .xvi. yere / he shal be of great courage / he shall haunte honest people / and shal be ryche by women / and shal be a conductoure of maydens / his dredren wyll make dyuers espyenges vpon hym / he shal lyue .lxx. yere / .iiii. monethes after nature AS for the woman that is borne in this tyme shal be honest ferefull / she shall surmounte her enemyes / and haue children of .iii. men she wyll go many pylgrymages in her youth / and after haue great wytte she shall haue great goodes / and she shal haue great payne in her iyen / and she shal be in her beste estate at .xxx. yere / and shall lyue .lxx. yere and .iiii. monethes after nature The dayes of Saturne and of Mars to them be good the dayes of Sol ben contrary And bothe the man and the woman shall be resonable / and yet shal be enuyous ¶ Of the sygne of Aquarius Indifferent to let blode HE that is borne vnder the sygne of Aquarius from myd Ianuary vnto myd February shal be louely and yrefull he wyll nat byleue in vayne thynges / he shall haue syluer at .xxiiii. yere he shal be in estate / he shal wyn where he gothe / or he shal be sore sycke / shal be hurte with yron / he shall haue fere on the water / and afterwarde shall haue good fortune / shall go in to dyuers countrees THe woman that is borne in this tyme shal be delycious haue noyses for her children / she shall be in great peryll / at the age of .xxiiii. yere she shal be in felycite she shall haue domage by beestes with .iiii. fete / she shall lyue .lxxvii. yere after nature The dayes of Venus of Luna ben right good for them / the dayes of Mars Saturne ben contrary / bothe the man the woman shal be reasonable / they shal nat be ouer ryche ¶ Of the sygne of Pisces Indifferent to let blode THe man that is borne vnder the sygne of Pisces / from mydde February to mydde Marche shal be a great goet / a fornycatoure / a mocker / shal be couetous / he wyll say one and do another he shall fynde money / he wyll truste in his sapyence and shal haue good fortune / he shal be a defender of Orphelyns and wydowes / he shal be ferefull on the water / he shall soone passe all his aduersytes / shall lyue .lxxiii. yere / and .v. monethes after nature THe woman that is borne in this tyme shal be delycyous / famylyer in gestes / pleasaunt of courage / feruent / shall haue syckenes in her iyen / and shal be sorowfull by shame Her husbande wyll leue her / she shall haue moche payne with straungers she shall nat haue her owne / she shall haue payne in her stomacke / she shall lyue .lxxvii. after nature The dayes of Mercury / Iupiter and Venus ben right good for them / and the dayes of Mars and Saturne to them ben contrary / and bothe the man the woman shall lyue faythfully ¶ Thus endeth the .xii. Sygnes of destenyes of man and woman born vnder them And here after foloweth the Scyence of Phyzonomye / for to knowe the naturall inclynacyon of man and woman SO as Pholomeus saythe Phyzonomye of the whiche hath ben spoken of before is a science that Astronomyers haue for to knowe the naturall inclynacyon of man and woman good or euyll by dyuers sygnes on them in be holdynge them oonly The whiche inclynacyon / we ought to folowe if it be good But if it be euyl by vertue and strength of vnderstandynge / we ought to eschewe and euyte it as to the effecte / to withstaÌ„de the sayd euyll inclynacyons Astronomyers vse this scyence none other wyse The prudent / vertuous wyse men may be as touchyng theyr maners All other than theyr sygnes demonstreth and sheweth in their reygne For these tokens that do sygnyfye vyce is nat seen in a wyse man thoughe the sygne be so / as an ale stake / or a sygne hanged before an house / in the whiche often tymes is noo drynke ¶ For howe be it that a man by his wysdom and vnderstandynge folowe nat the euyll influences of the celestyall bodyes that ben vpon hym / and yet corrupteth nat the sygnes and demonstracions of the sayd influences / but those sygnes naturally haue sygnory and domynacion on them / in the whiche they be for to haue naturally that whiche they sygnyfy / thoughe that a man folowe them / or folowe them nat ¶ wherfore Astronomyers say that the most parte of men and women folowe theyr naturall inclynacions to vyce or vertue / for that the most parte of them be nat wyse prudent as they oughte to be / and they vse no vertue of theyr owne myndes / but ensueth theyr sensualyte And by these celestyall influences of the whiche is shewed by sygnes outwarde of suche sygnes is the sayd scyence of Phyzonomye knowen For the whiche it behoueth firste to knowe that the yere is deuyded in .iiii. partyes as it hathe ben
colour with coÌ„munycacyons as well as other shuld do with syluer Honest women he shall loue / he wyll hate harlottes brothelles / and shall norysshe children vp in vertu and good maners And the lyghtes and the braynes of man is vnder the gouernaunce of Luna that is the moone ¶ Thus endeth the .vii. Planettes with theyr proprytes And here foloweth / to knowe the Fortunes and destenyes of man and woman borne vnder the .xii. Sygnes after the sayinge of Ptholomeus prynce of Astronomye Capitulo .xli. SO to know vnder what planet a man or woman is borne / It is nedefull to wete that there is .vii. planettes on the skye / that is to say / Sol / Venê° / Mars Mercurius / Iupiter / Luna / and Saturnus Of the .vii. Planettes is named the .vii. dayes of the weke / for euery daye hath his name of the Planet reygnynge in the begynnynge of it The auncyent Phylosophers saye that Sol domyneth the Sonday the cause is they say for the Sonne amoÌ„ge other planettes is moste worthy wherfore it taketh the worthyest daye / that is the sonday Luna domyneth the firste houre of monday Mars the firste houre of tewysday Mercurius for wednysday Iupiter for thursday Venus for fryday / And Saturnus for saterday The day naturall hathe .xxiiii. houres / euery houre reygneth a planet ¶ It is for to be noted that whan a man wyll begyn to reken at sonday / he muste reken thus / Sol / Venus / Mercurius / Luna / Saturnus / Iupiter / Mars And whan the nombre is fayled / he must begyn at the houre that he wold know what planet reygneth The moÌ„day he ought to begyn at Luna The tewysday at Mars The wednysday at Mercury The thursday at Iupiter The fryday at Venus The saterday at Saturnus And euer whan the nombres of the planettes is fayled / he must begyn by ordre as is aforesayd ¶ Also it is to be noted that the Grekes do begyn theyr day in the mornynge The Iewes at noone And the Crysten men at mydnyght there we ought lo begyn to reken For at one of the clocke on Sonday in the mornynge reygneth Sol / at .ii. reygneth Venus / at .iii. reygneth Mercury / at .iiii. reygneth Luna / at .v. Saturne / at .vi. Iupiter / at .vii. Mars / and at .viii. begynne agayne at Sol / at .iv. Venus / at .v. Mercury / at .vi. Luna / at .vii. Saturne and so by ordre in euery houre ¶ whan a childe is borne / it is to be knowen at what houre / and if it be in the begynnynge of the houre / in the myddes / or at the ende If it be in the begynnynge / he shal holde of the same planet / and of the other before If it be in the myddes / it shall holde of that onely If it be borne in the ende / it shall holde of the same / of that that coÌ„meth nexte after Neuerthelesse the planet that it is borne vnder shall nat rule other / that of the daye shall be aboue it / whiche is the cause that a childe holdeth of dyuers planettes / and hathe dyuers condycions ¶ He that is borne vnder Sol shall be prudent and wyse a great speker / that whiche he prayseth he holdeth vertuous in hym self ¶ who that is born vnder Venus is loued of euery man / good to godwarde and reguler ¶ who that is borne vnder Mercury is well berded / subtyll / mylde / verytable / and is nat moste prudent ¶ who that is born vnder Luna hath an hye forehed ruddy / mery vysage / shamefast / relygious ¶ who that is borne vnder Saturne is hardy / curteyse of lyuynge / is nat auarycyous ¶ who that is borne vnder Iupiter is hardy fayre vysage ruddy / chaste vagabounde ¶ who that is borne vnder Mars / is a great speker / a lyer / a thefe / a deceyuer / bygge of reed colour ¶ They that wyl knowe of this more euydently / let them tourne to the proprytes of the .vii. planettes before rehersed ¶ The prologue of Ptholomeus vpon the .xii. sygnes Capitulo .xlii. I Consyderynge the course of the celestiall bodyes and the power of the hye god omnypotent / the whiche hath made the sonne to shyne vpon the good and euyll / that gouerneth all thynges conteyned in the Fyrmament / and on the erthe haue taken vpon me for to endyte this lytell treatyse / for to instruete endoctryne the people nat lettred Firste to knowe god theyr maker Secondely to gouerne theyr bodyes / and eschewe infyrmytes And thyrdely to knowe the course of the fyrmament / and of the celestyall bodyes conteyned in it / with the disposicions of the .vii. planettes But who that wyll knowe his proprytes ought firste to knowe the Moneth that he was borne in and the sygne that the sonne was in the same daye I wyll nat saye that suche thynges shall be / but that the sygnes haue suche proprytes / as it is the wyll of god After Poetes and Astronomyers / Aries is the firste sygne that sheweth the Fortunes of men and women / as sayth Ptholomeus ¶ The firste sygne is Aries Good to let blode HEre is to be knowen that he which is borne in the sygne of Aries from mydde Marche to mydde Apryll shall be of good wytte / shall nouther be ryche nor poore he shall haue domage by his neyghboures / he shall haue power ouer deed folkes goodes / he shall be soone angry / and soone appesed / he shall haue dyuers fortunes and discordes / he wyll desyre doctryne / and haunte eloquent people / and shall be experte in many degrees / he shall be a lyer vnstedfaste of courage / and wyll take vengeaunce on his enemyes / and he shal be better dysposed in youthe in all thyngê than in age / vnto .xxxiii. he shall be a forny catour / shal be wedded at .xxv. yere if he be nat / he shal nat be chaste / he shal be a medyatour for some of his frendes / and wyl gladly be besy in the nedes of other / he shall be wayted to be domaged / he shal haue a sygne in the sholder / in his hed / in his body / yet he shall be ryche by the dethe of other / his firste sone shal nat lyue longe / he shall be in dauÌ„ger of .iiii. foted bestes / he shall haue great syckenes at .xxiii. yere if he escape he shal lyue .lxxxv. yere after nature ¶ The woman THe woman that is borne in this tyme shal be yrefull and suffre great wronges from daye to day / she wyll gladly make lesynges / and shall lose her husbande recouer a better / she shall be sycke at .v. yere of age / and at .xxv. she shall be in great dauÌ„ger of deth / And if she escape she shal be in doubtetyll .xliii. yere and shall suffre great payne in the