Third House a Competent place in Reception and Aspect of Sâ—turn himself Notwithstanding the Tubâ—rculum of Mâ—rcury scarce shews so much as one Incisure 5. A Cross in the Moons Place fore-tells of Fertility and Happiness in Bearing of Children And to this Venus is fitted in the Geniture notwithstanding she hath Mars in Conjunction with her Yet seeing he disposeth of the 6 th House it is to be feared lest at some time he occasion Danger in the Birth of a Boy 6. The Place of Jupiter is also otherwise understood than in the preceding Example The Region of the Sun likewise favoureth in some measure An Honourable Life is seldom obtained by the more Generous sort of Women unless by Marriage 7. The Line arising in the very Middle of the Hand and thence Ascending to the Root of the Thoral beneath the Region of Mercury by Dissecting the Epatica points out an Unfaithful Friend which in her Declining Age should occasion Loss and Detriment in her House-hold Goods and Things 8. The Epatica Cut in the End thereof bodes a deficiency of Wit in her Old Age The Cross there is the Fore runner of some Good The Reception of Mercury and Saturn from Houses in the Geniture and they Disposiâ—ions of the 3 4 and 8. Houses a sign of Inheritancâ— 9. The breadth of the Mensa is very Feat and the Site of the Thoral comely and decent which argue her Goodness of Nature Readiness of Wit 10. The Line of Saturn running in an Oblique Tract from the Restricta to the Tuberculum of Saturn doth usually mark out such as be Laborious something Covetous and Hard. But that the Lines of the Hands are not compleatly perfect at the Hour of the Nativity this Examâ—â—â— abundantly manifests Moreover seeing by this 〈◊〉 is certain That the Positure of the Planets in the Figure are of great Authority It necessarily follows that the Lines especially the Less Principal do truly receive their clearer Conformity from the first Moment of the Birth in which the Infant begins to move its hands and make as it were to lay hold of or catch at things As touching the Principal Lines there is no doubt but that they are clearly enough Engraven at the very Instant of the Nativity But that in process of time there is an Access of some Incisures and Characters Reason it self will teach him that shall make more diligent Inspection into the Hands of little Infants For at first we find an obscure and subtile Draught of the Lines Afterwards the thin and tender skin being worn away by the continual Motion and Bathing thereof all the Lines grow fairer and brighter every day more than other For then the Vertue of the Stars and the Sydereal Spirit wherewith every one is Inspired begin to perfect the Lines more compleatly the Element of Water intervening Whatsoever is Generated in this World is Generated of Water and the Spirit And whosoever is not Regenerate of the Water and Spirit shall not enter into the Kingdom of GOD as our Saviour speaks Water hath a respect unto the Heart of Man but the Spirit hath regard of the Divine Efficacy Mâ—reover the Stars do first of all convey their Influence through the Air which is nearest the Nature of Fire like as is the Nature of the Stars themselves whereby the Water it self that is next to the Air in Situation receives the Coelestial Vertue and Communicates it to the Earth from which Communication the Fecundity thereof proceedeth And this is evident in the Spring-time whilst things are Sprouting from the Bosom of the Earth For if showers be then wanting they grow but slowly And the Increment they have is either by the Vaporous Cold of Night the Image of Humidity or else the Nightly Dew or both together the heat of the Sun assisting in the day-time Which being continued for some days afterwards when a shower comes you shall quickly perceive them increased in a Moment Because that now the Sydereal Spirit enlivening them renders it self more Excellent than they by its plentiful besprinkling of Moisture The like is to be understood oâ—â—he slender Skin upon the Hands You see also in the Plants themselves how Rude their Leaves be when first they peep out of the Earth in respect of the Lineaments and Pictures of their Branches they are otherwise called Signatures which by little and little shew themselves more plain and openly to our view The like we must judge of the Lines or Incisures of the Hands which hold the like Analogy and Proportion in the Manifestation of their Signatures Whereby it appears How Great the Works of GOD are He hath put these Signs in the Hâ—nd of all Men that every one also might hereby acknowledge his Works past finding out as Job saith Chap. 37. v. 7. Nâ—vertheless there are some both Divines and Philosophers who account it a Hainous thing of us that we wrâ—st this saying of Job's to Chiromancy But that we may briâ—fly satiâ—fie such we will examine the meaning thereof more fully The Tâ—xt there runs thus V. 5. God will Thunder Marvellously with his Voyce who doth Great and Inscrutable things V. 6. Who commandet◠〈◊〉 â—now to fall upon the Earth so likewise the Winâ—â—r sâ—owers and the Rain of his Strâ—â—gth V. 7. Who hath placed Signs in the Hand of every Man that all Men may know his Work V. 8. The Beast entereth into his Covert and remaineth in his Den. IN the beginning of the Chapter you have as it were certain Praeludiums to a following Proposition laid down in the 5 th Verse For thus he saith Jehovah Thundreth or speaketh loud in his Works That they may be Great and Inscrutable The Examples of the Proposition follow in the 6 7 8 9 10 c. He maketh saith he the Snow to descend like Wool as the â—salmist addeth The Reasons of the Generation of Snow are indeed speciously delivered amongst the Peripateticks yet if you reduce them to a Level they will by no means stand but terminate in Dotage Another Example of the Proposition you have in the 7 th Verse GOD Signeth all Men in their hands That every one might know his Work That is Those Lines were not made there by Chance The Hebrew Vâ—â—sion vâ—rbatim He shall Sign all Men in the Hâ—nd that every man may know his Work The 70 Interprâ—ters He marketh all mâ—n in the Hand that â—very Man may know his Infirmity St. Hieromâ— He hath placed Signs in the Hand of all Men that every one may know his Works The Chaldee Translation He maketh Signs in the Hand of all the Sons of Mâ—n that all the Sons of Men might know tâ—eir Work These we wholly apply to the Lines of the Hands because that every Man beholds them daily but seldome knows what they signifie unto him You have in each an Universal Particle and therefore no Man is Excluded Which very thing Refutes the Translation of some who Read That every one might know his Work-men But
and Movable Vertue also and Action is partly Individual and Immovable so far forth as it agrees with Divine things stedfastly worketh And partly Divisible in some Respects both because it is manifold and also for that it declineth to a manifold and Divisible Body And Movable because it worketh Temporally Where we term it Intellectual we mean the Angelical Intellects which are properly Perfect and Indivisible according to Place in their Government of the Spheres And Immutable in respect of time the Natural Life and Form Corporeal being Opposite thereunto Divisible and Mutable That even these Angelical Intellects be in the Body of the World Necessity requires it because the Body of the World is through Life made fit for the Intellect Therefore look how it is in regard of Life and the like it is in respect of the Intellect And as it hath not only a Natural lying hid in the Matter of the World but an Animal also that is A Soul existing in it self So hath it not only an Intellectual Quality infused in the Soul but also an Intellectual substance therein remaining For certain Qualities are very where reduced to certain Substances As a Vital Quality to a Vital Substance so also an Intellectual Quality to an Intellectual Substance But as touching these things we shall explain our self more at large The whole Body of the World is a certain Body composed of all the Four Elements the Members or Parts whereof are the Bodies of all Living Creatures For the small Body of every Animal is a Part of the Worlds Body Neither is it composed of the whole Element of Fire Air Water or Earth but of some parts of these Elements By how much therefore the Whole is more Perfect than a Part thereof by so much is the Body of the World more Perfect than the Body of any one Living Creature Hence were it absurd to think that an Imperfect Body should have a Soul But that it neither hath a Soul nor can live Perfect None will be so mad as to say the Part Liveth and not the Whole Therefore the whole Body of the World Liveth whilst the Bodies of the Animals therein Live which are the Parts thereof And now seeing there must needs be One Soul of the whole World we will in the next place enquire in what part thereof this Soul may Reside whence she distributes her Spirit through all things and preserves the same so distributed She fixeth not her Seat and Pavilions in Bodies subject to variety of Change and manifold Corruption as are the Elements and Elementary Bodies Wherefore seeing that in Heaven there is no Corruption of Bodies there certainly is her Place of Residence And although those Elements also may be in Heaven but most Purely or Spiritually Yet is it manifest that the Element of Fire hath therein Dominion Even as here in this Inferiour Part of the World where the Soveraignty of the Elements remains in the Power of Fire And this we are sensible of in our own Bodies But much more if we do but consider how the Fire by no means Puâ—rifieth nor is any way Corrupted notwithstanding it often Corrupteth other Bodies where it gets Preheminency Moreover Nature affords it Earth Water and Air as a certain Subject Matter whereon to Exercise its Power The Air it self as also the Earth with the Water surrounding it whence we are Nourish'd and draw our Breath is indeed so Affected of the Fire about it that sometimes Heat doth therein predominate otherwhiles it is so Extenuated that for want of Heat it leaves its own Quality and is forsaken of Cold. In like manner we see such Impressions conveyed from the Fire above us upon the Earth and Water that sometimes the Nature and Quality thereof is capable of some Excess otherwhiles of Defect the Celestial Fire it self remaining Entire Wherefore seeing the Soul of the World hath its Residence in Heaven of Necessity it must live in a Fiery Substance For Heaven is a Fiery Essence but withall most Temperate Pure Lucid and Incorruptible Nor shall they trouble us who deny the Fiery Heaven in regard the Motion of the Heavens is Circular the Fires Motion Perpendicular For because our Fire is Peregrine and Impure therefore it tends directly upwards and by a kind of Veneration Covets the Place of the Proper and Natural Fire yet is it not to be supposed such a Fiery Hot Heaven as that 't is Burning or Heating By how much less Fire is mingled with strange Matter by so much the less it Burneth The which is seen in the Flaming of the Purer sort of Oyl but especially of Oyl Artificiously Extracted from Gold The which true Alchymists do Witness and as these Mortal Eyes of mine have sometimes tryed Therefore seeing there is not any Matter in Heaven estranged from the Celestial no Adustion no Heat is made there We see no Adustion in Comets running through the Celestial Spheres but only some Illustration for that doubtless the Matter thereof much participateth of the Nature of the Celestial Bodies But TYCHO-BRAHE A Dane A Noble-Man An Astronomer and a most incomparable Philosopher of this Age shall anon more plainly unfold to us this matter far different from the Madded Nursery of Peripateticks and that not without the Infallible Curiosity both of Observations and Demonstrations Now because some Matter Opposed is Heated and Burnt by the Rays of the Sun contracted by a Glass that is a sudden generation of Heat and Fire increasing by the Flagration of the Collected Rays in the Glass and applyed to fit Matter which are of another Disputation Some will have the Matter of Heaven to be Aërial But for that Light is a Property of Fire enlightning even the Air it self in my Judgment we do better in supposing it to consist of a Fiery Matter Besides Heaven is next to the Divine Seat and God himself Yet not so as that God is not every where God is called The Father of Light with whom there is no Change by whom the Light may be Extinguished or Diminished Neither an over-shadowing of Change whereby sometimes he either is turn'd into Night or suffereth an Eclipse GOD is Light in which there is no Darkness that is Form wherein there is nothing Inform Beauty in which there is nothing of Deformity As therefore GOD is Light Invisible Infinite the Truth it self the cause of every truth and of all things So the Light of Heaven is the splendour or rather the shadow of Heaven Visible Finite the cause of visible things For the whole Universe receiveth Light and Life from Heaven Moses Aaron Nadab Abihu and 70 of the Elders of Israel saw the God of Israel and under his Feet as it were a work of Saphire stone and as the very Heaven when it is clear c. Exod. 24.10 Whence we shall not speak absurdly if we say that GOD shineth upon us by his Light from Heaven and the Sun as a Candle shineth through Glass and Windows made
things she hopeth and sustaineth all things Charity Buildeth up knowledge puffeth up Charity is greater then Prophesies Sciences Tongues Prophesies shall be abolished Tongues shall be Silent Sciences Perish Charity remaineth for ever He that remaineth in Charity remaineth in GOD and GOD in him Now we must know there is a Two-fold Man One Astral External or Carnal which is called Animal nor perceiveth he the things which are of the Vivifying Spirit The other Spiritual or Internal busied in Renewing the Corrupted Image of God Rom. 7. In like manner there shall be a Two-fold Wisdom One Worldly or Astral the Wisdom of Arts Sciences Dignities Possessions and of Curruptible things wherein the Gentiles are alone Busied Mat. 6. The other Celestial consisting in the knowledge of GOD in the consideration of his Ineffable Mercy in the desire of Eternal Happiness This Wisdom acknowledges no other Governour than the Holy Spirit Operating by the Word of GOD That the Heavens and Celestial Influences Both which may be joyned in a Man that pleaseth GOD. But in whom the Celestial Wisdom Reigneth that other is only a Hand-maid she seeks for nothing at all but the Glory of GOD and the welfare of her Neighbour which indeed is as much as is granted in this Life to the Elect or those whom the Father hath given unto Christ. Now where the Astral Reigneth suppose that alone There are Dogs and Swine unto whom we are forbidden to cast Pearls or that which is Holy Lastly where the Celestial and Astral do Conjunctly Rule that is when we endeavour to serve Two Masters There is true Hyprocrisie very displeasing unto GOD. No Man can serve Two Masters Such were the Pharisees in the time of Christ whose Righteousness if ours exceed not we shall not enter into the Kingdom of God Christ himself hath spoken it It was but requisite that we a little touched upon those things lest Ignorant Detractors who are either far out of the way or abhor this True manner of Philosophizing should take occasion to mingle Holy things with Profane or Profane with Holy whilst perhaps they might take upon them to Disprove these Realities Furthermore as hitherto we have Treated of the Soul and Spirit of the Universe and of the Sydereal Governour in Man So now we may possibly be informed concerning Four Senses in the Universe accommodating themselves to the Four-fold Vertue or Power of the Soul of the World There are Four Elements which contribute Matter to the Body of the World And there are also Four Powers in the Soul of the World The first is the Intellect of it self Immovable the Mover or Governour of the Sphere Instituted by the Author of all things Governing the Spheres The second is the Soul of the Sphere A Mover indeed that is Movable yet so of it self The third a certain Intelligence excellently placed in this Soul by GOD and the superiour Intellect The fourth is Nature that is to say A Seminary and Vital vertue every way infus'd into the Matter by the Soul The Intellect and Soul are indeed Substances But the Intelligence and Nature are Qualities Those of the Soul these of the Matter The Four Images of these are the Four Elements For Fire resembles the Intellect Earth the Water Air the Intelligence And lastly Water the Soul And as there are three things proper to Fire three things also opposite to Earth and that the Mediums agree with Mediums by a certain Proportion so there are three things proper to the Intellect and their Opposites are proper to Nature The Mediums also to the Mediums For the Intellect is Individual Uniform Eternal Nature Dividual Multiform Temporal The Soul amongst these Mediums looks indeed through the Intelligence more participating of the Intellect it self than of Nature But through the Animal Power the rather agrees with Nature than the Intellect Wherefore it is called partly Individual partly Dividual Partly also Uniform and partly Multiform Again partly Eternal and partly Temporal From Substance Vertue Action Fire Subtile Acute Movable Air Subtile Obtuse Movable Water Gross Obtuse Movable Earth Gross Obtuse Immovable The Intellect Individual Uniform Eternal The Soul by the Intelligence Individual Uniform Eternal The Soul by the Animal Power Dividual Multiform Temporal By Nature Dividual Multiform Temporal Hence also are the Four Lives Delivered and Believed of Plato The Life of Saturn admiring in the Intellect Heaven the Father thereof that is God the Father of Heaven The Jovial in the â—ntelligence declining to Action yet Movable The Venereal in the Animal Vertue yet Affecting Matter And the Dionysiacal as if Drunk in Nature that is of a Drench'd or Drown'd Matter And by a like Reason there are Four Senses in the Universe The First in the Soul of the World Commune I say and one Sense That is a certain Imaginary Vertue so accompanying its Intelligence and touching the Particular Forms of things as the Intelligence doth the Universal Touching I say Intrinsecally and therefore it wants no Instruments neither proceeds or suffers it any where without The second is in the Souls of the Spheres and Stars Commune indeed and Impatible also but proceeding without The third in Particular Souls distributed through all the Instruments beyond Common strength and spreading it self without but ending in the Judgment The Fourth and last Sense is according to the Pythagoreans allowed to Plants yea a certain Image of Sense and that indeed Stupid having no Judgment of Quality but Posited only in the Passion of some Pleasure or Grief The First Sense represents the Intellect The Second the Intelligence The Third the Animal Vertue and the Fourth the Natural Wherein we must remember that the Matter of the World doth not otherwise enter the Soul than by Nature nor otherwise the Intelligence than by the Soul nor otherwise the Intellect than by the Intelligence Even as it receiveth Water by the Earth by the Water Air and by the Air Fire But at length to come to our Matter we must know that the Lines of the Hands are not otherwise produced giving GOD in the first place His Due than from the Imagination of the Greater World thus or so Affected in the Generation of Man yet performing its Authority and Office by the Stars It is hardly perceptible to our Humane Wit how such an Operation should be made in our Hands by Lines shadowing out the Fate of every Man This Imagination of the Soul of the World is otherwise called Predestination Science Fate And she it is that performs her Power in the Conception and Birth by the Influence of that Star which then predominateth in the Heavens and thence poureth out that Peculiar Genius upon every Man If many Stars be to do the Work the proper and accustomed Signatures are by them distributed and Engraven Fortunate or Infortunate according to the Affection of the Planets and other Stars in their respective Signs and Quarters of Heaven Those Conjunctions and other Aspects of the Planets which but
and almost at the Brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the First Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly augmented proportionably to the Motion thereof being at this Day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a Flourishing Estate But shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike swiftly God so pleasing hasten to Destruction Indeed according to Tycho and others of the besâ— Astronomers the Eccentricity is already notably increased viz. unto Part 2. 9′ or thereabouts Lausbergius makes it Part 2. 6′ 21″ Insomuch that if the Christians of Europe could but henceforth lay aside their Ambition and Avarice and Live at Peace among themselves the God of Nature presents them with an Age wherein they may totally subvert and lay waste the Empire of â—he Turks and put a speedy Period to the Law of their Prophet Mahomet A Third Cause is the change of the Obliquity of the Zodiack which when at the greatest according to Bullialdus is 23° 52′ 53″ And this was Anno Nabonassari 381. 367 years before the Nativity of Christ. When at the least 23° 31′ 7″ and that fell out Anno Christi 1434. so that the mean betwixt these is 23° 42′ 00″ In the year 1653. the greatest Obliquity of the Zodiack was 23° 31′ 55″ For the Motion of the Anomaly of the Zodiack's Obliquity was 6s. 21° 49′ The Prosthaphaeresis 0′ 48″ which added to the least Obliquity 23° 31′ 7″ gives us 23° 31′ 55″ as before So that the Obliquity of the Zodiack is now likewise increasing for it still increaseth and diminisheth with the Suns Eccentricity Whereby it appears that the Axis of the Earth's Poles by little and little changes its Inclination to the Plane of the Zodiack through some Motion of the Libration But to find out the Physical Cause thereof my Reason concludes it almost impossible For as Bullialdus truly saith Scimus rem esse sed causam motus illius ignoramus nâ—c potest humani Ingenii acumen pervidere causas illas We know saith he there is such a Motion but are ignorant of the Cause thereof nor can the subtilty of Humane Wit throughly perceive those Causes A Fourth Cause is â—he Conjunction of the â—wo Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter which according to Cardanus is three-fold Great Mean and Lesser The Lesser are they which happen in Signs of the same Nature or Trigon with others preceding them and so cannot occasion any great Change yet are not without their peculiar Effects as you may see in Cardâ—n Seg. 5. Aphor. 48. Of these there be ten in Number which do orderly succeed one another in the space of less than 200 Years The Mean are they which fall out in a differenâ— Trigon yet not in such as are altogether contrary is qualities that is when the Conjunctions pass from a Fiery into an Earthy Sign out of an Earthy into an Airy or from an Airy into a Watry Sign as from Ariâ—s into Capricorn out of Capricorn into Libra from Libra to Cancer As touching these it is certain they produce sundry Operations For they alter in one respect or other the Estate of Empires Kingdoms Common-wealths and Countries causing some new Empires and Kingdoms to emerge Like as that of Alâ—xander the Great in an Airy the Persians in an Earthy and that of Mahomet in a Watâ—y as you may read in Cardan Sâ—g 1. Aphor. 73. And of these Conjunctions if so be you account frâ—m the change of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy thâ—re falleth out always three within the space of 596 Yearâ— The First in the Earthy the Second in the Airy and the Third in the Watry Trigon But they are called Great Conjunctions which begin to be Celebratâ—d in the Fiâ—ry Trigon chiefly in Aries the first Sign of thâ— Zodiack For when there shall be a Transit made from a Watry into a Fiery Sign which are as contrary â—ach to other in thâ—ir prime quâ—lities as Fire is to Water then also do great Mutations succeed all the World over And this is clear'd to all Men who have been â—ut never so little conversant in History For if we Calculate backward and allow for each of these Great Conjunctions 794 Years and about a half we shall be reduced from the Year 1603. in which there happened a Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittary to the Year of Christ 809. in which the Roman Empire Destroyed by continual Wars is at length reformed and augmented under Charles the Great Thence to the Year of Christ 15. soon after which succeeded a great Mutation both of the State Ecclesiastical and Political From thence to the Year preceding Christ 779 soon after which followed the Institution of the Olympick Games and Times the Birth of Romulus and Râ—mus the Building of Rome and a grievous Affliction of the Kingdom of Israel by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians and at length a Destruction thereof by Salmanassar his Successor Hence we recede to the 1574. Year before Christ near unto which Moses was Born who afterwards led the People of Israel out of Egypt by a Divine Power Thence to the Year 2368. within one Age after which followed the Universal Deluge afterwards to the Year 3163. and at length to the Year 3957. about which God Created the World of Nothing And 't is good Reason that like as Rome was Built a little after the beginning of the fifth Fiâ—ry Trigon the first being that under which the World was Created and afterwards by little and little increased and amongst other Cities the great Assembly of the Inhabitants People and Kingdoms she has subdued bore up her Head until at length about the sixâ—h Fiery Trigon she had reduced very many Kingdoms of Europe Asia and Africa to the Form of a Monarchy and Sovereign Empire and flourished in great Glory and that from thence the Empire bâ—ing divided into two East and West was observed to be fallen to decay been troubled with Intestine Wars and exhausted by the Alienations of Kingdoms and Provinces until about the seventh Trigon it was restored by Charles the Great and in some sort received its Pristine Beauty So also shall this Empire at this time under the eighth Fiery Trigon sustain great Mutations which I rather leave to Experience than Prostitute my own Judgment at so easie a rate Nor do only the Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions of the two Superiours but also their Opposite and Quartile Configurations design great Mutations in the World as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 49. and Seg. 7. Aphor. 6. Other Causes are Comets or counterfeit Stars c. such as that whereof Josephus Bell. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. makes mention which appeared for a years space in the form of a Fiery Sword over the City Jerusalem fore-warning her Destruction or as that at the Death of Mahomet seen at High-Noon in the shâ—pe also of a Sword which continued the space of a Month
rendring his Death no less Prodigious than was the course of his Life Or that of the Year 1572. in Cassiopâ—ia surpassing of the quantity of the Earth 500 times Or those of the Years 1604. and 1618. which were no less Miraculous than that the Sun should stand still as we read it did in the Days of Joshua or return ten Degrees backward as once upon the Dial of Abaz or be Eclipsed so near a Full Moon as at our Saviour's Passion being all of them alike â—strang'd from the accustomed Order of Nature In like manner the Eclipses of thâ— Luminaries are the Causes of many Changes that ensue in the World because their Effects are general pouring forth theâ—r Influence not only upon Cities but even whole Regions subject to the Quadrangle the Sign more especially wherein the Defect happens and no less on particular Persons who have any affinity in their Genitures with the Schemes of such Eclipses So likewise are the strong Genitures of Kings c. Geniturae validae Regna mutant Mighty Genitures change or translate Kingdoms Causes adjuvant are Revolutions of the World the Progression of the Great Orb of Great Conjunctions before the Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like I could much enlarge my self upon the Progressions of the Great Orb Great Conjunctions c. but shall forbear in regard the most of them concern Foreign Parts excepting that of the Great Conjunction before the Flood which in the Year 1653. was come to the Sign Cancer and did therefore afflict according to Albumazar Tract 4. Differ 4. the Countries of Scotland and Holland with many Changes and Conversions of things from one condition to another a Famine and Poverty proceeding from Siccity and Drought and a general Fear to possess the People of those places because of their Enemies Great Mortality and Slaughters amongst them with abundance of such Creatures as are destructive to the Earth Thus far have you seen the Superiour Natural Causes of the Mutations or Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Common-Wealths how far wherein and when they concern us and other Nations The Inferiour Natural Cause is either within or without Man That within is the Disposition of the Temperament of the Bodies both of Princes and Subjects aâ—d â—o both different Births and Deaths as well of them that Govern as those that be Governed in the Common-Wealth That without is a Mutation either of Fire or Water and of the Earth and place where the Common-wealth is constituted Unto which do belong House-burnings Earthquakes Change of Ports Barrenness Famine Pestilence and all other Natural damages by the which Common-wealths are changed The Moral Cause of Mutation is either Internal or External The Internal is either on the Prince's or Subject's part The Internal on the Prince's part admits this general Canon The beginnings of Princes are for the most part good but their Progress worse From which Change arise great Mutations in Publick Affairs and things The Internal Cause also of Changes in respect of the Prince is either Ethical or Political Touching Ethical Causes there are these Canons 1. Intemperance and Lust of Princes occasion change of the Common-wealth 2. The like when Princes are Effeminate and Cowardly For like as Empires are obtained maintained and kept by Warlike Fortitude so on the contrary are they lost or dangerously changed by softness and Pusillanimity Political Causes of Changes are either in respect of the Foundation of the Principality or of the Office and Care of the Prince As touching the Causes respecting the Foundation of the Principality there be these Canons 1. It is impossible any Common-wealth should long be safe where the Prince comes to Rule either by a violent Invasion or a crafty Subreption without any access to the Principality 2. The Perjuries of Princes that is when they keep not their Oaths made to their Subjects at the time they were called to Govern bring upon Kingdoms dangerous Changes and Conversions 3. The Authority of a Prince decreasing produceth Change and when the Periods of Empires are divolved the Authority of those that Govern faileth The Causes that respect the Care or Office of the Prince have these Canons 1. When the Prince listens not to Wise and Faithful Councellors Changes are imminent 2. When Publick Judgments are corrupted and hainous Impieties remain unpunished Changes are at hand 3. When the Prince affords not the Subject a Lawful and necessary Defence but suffers him to be vexed and trampled over by Incursions of Enemies Changes ensue 4. When the Revenues of a Kingdom decrease of necessity a Change must follow For Moneys are the Nerves of Empires 5. When the Prince doth too much Poll his Subjects with heavy Tributes and Exactions a Change succeedeth 6. When the Potency and Amplitude of Kingdoms arrive at an exceeding greatness a Change follows for the most part and the Empire falleth by its own weight 7. Foreigners rashly irritated or called into a Kingdom do introduce a Change thereof These are the Causes of the Prince his part there now remain the Causes on the Subjects part which are also either Ethical or Political Touching the Ethical Causes these be the Canons 1. When grievous Wickedness is committed amongst the Subjects and all Reverence of the Laws shaken off and that they Live Licentiously in Lust and Luxury Mutations follow 2. When Subjects degenerate from their Pristine Fortitude and become Unwarlike and Effeminate Kingdoms are Changed Political Causes have these Canons 1 When Subjects begin to have their Princes in hatred and grow weary of them Changes will assuredly follow 2. Pâ—nishments and Changes do ever succeed Infidelity of Subjects 3. Changes of things do always accompany the Disobedience and Contumacy of Subjects 4. Where neiâ—her the Laws nor Magistrates are had in Honour there the Common-wealth cannot be safe or durable An Excellent Discourse of the Names Genus Species Efficient and Final Causes of all Comets c. THE Order which Nature observeth in all things Created doth plainly enough teach us That whatsoever is Born passeth and hasteth towards Death And that all things which have a beginning necessarily and interchangably roul towards their End And as in Humane Bodies some are more strong vigorous and of better Constitution than others and therefore of longer continuance Even so in Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealths some preserve themselves longer for that either they are by Nature more strenuous and stable as having propitious Stars and they well Fortified at the time of their first Foundation Or because the Situation of them is Naturally stronger than others as we see at this day in the Signory of Venice The like holdeth in Cities and Towns in particular Families Laws Conclaves and Councils in Religions Heresies and Schisms The consideration whereof prevents my Wonder at the Vicissitudes and Changes here on Earth I account it no Miracle to see a Monarchy Eclipsed in its greatest Glory and the ruine of one the raising of another I stand not
For it admitteth some Comets to be generated below the Moon by the breathings of the Terrestrial Globe either inflamed or illuminated Yet that some are above the Moon and of a Coelestial Matter For my own part in regard of the incertainty of all other Opinions I willingly incline to that which attributes the Generation and Government of Comets to God or the Intelligences Or to such as reckon them among the Arcana of the World and the most hidden Miracles of Nature In which Number are Messabala Hagecius Rhodius Regiomontanus Tycho and many others For the Dotages of Bodin and some others who suppose Comets were the Souls of Illustrious Men triumphing in Heaven Or of those that thought them to be Fires conveyed to and fro by Spirits I shall not trouble the Reader with such Phantasms Having now declared to you the Name Genus and Species of Comets their Number time of Appearance and Continuance the Apparent and true Magnitude of their Head and Tail their Situation Inclination Motion Way Quantity Swiftness Distance Shape Colour Smell Diaphaniety Matter Place and Efficient Cause It now remains that I give you 17. Their Final Cause IT has been a received Opinion in all Ages that Comets are certain Funebrious Appearances secret Fires and Torches of Death rather than of Life and were ever look'd upon as the threatning Eyes of Divine Vengeance and the Tongue of an Ireful Deity portending the Death of Princes Plague of the People Famine and Earthquakes with horrid and terrible Tempests Aristotle lib. 1. Meteor Cap. 7. acknowledges Cometas significare Tempestatem ventorum intemperantiam atque imbrium That Comets signifie Tempests Intemperance of Winds and Showers Cicero lib. 2. de nat Deor. That Comets or as he calls them Sidera concinnata curl'd or crisped Stars Bella Octaviano Magnarum fuerunt calamitatum praenunciae were the Fore-runners or Messengers of the great Calamities that ensued by means of the Octavian War The great Naturalist Pliny tells us no less in these words Cometes terrificum magna ex parte Sydus ac non leviter piatum ut Civili motu Octavio Consule iterumque Pompeii ac Caesaris bello in nostro vero aevo circa venificium quo Claudius Caesar Imperium reliquit Domitio Neroni ac deinde Principatu ejus assiduum prope ac saevum A Comet is a terrible Star for the most part and not easily purged away by Sacrifice as in the Civil War whilst Octavius was Consul And again in the War betwixt Pompey and Caesar but in our Age saith he it was in a manner assiduous and cruel about the Feat of Poysoning whereby Claudius Caesar left the Empire to Domitius Nero and no less afterwards by his Sovereignty So likewise Suetonius writing on Claudius cap. 26. Praesagia mortis ejus praecipua fuerunt exortus Stellae Crinitae quam Cometem vocant The chief Presages of his Death were the arisings of the Hairy Star they call a Comet Nor are the Poets silent in this particular For thus Virgil Prince of Latine Poets enumerating the Prodigies that preceded the Civil War after Caesar's Death Non alià s Caelo ceciderunt plura sereno Fulgura nec diri toties arsere Cometae Not from clear Skies ever more Lightning came Nor such Dire Comets oft'ner seen to flame And Lucan Ignota obscurae viderunt sidera noctes Ardentemque Polum flammis Coeloque volantes Obliquas per inane faces crinemque timendi Sideris Terris mutantem Regna Cometen Unheard-of Stars by Night possess'd the Skies Heaven seems to flame and through the Welkin fire Obliquely flies States changing Comets dire Display to us their Blood-portending Hair Neither were the Holy Fathers of other Opinion For S. Damascen lib. 2. Orthodox fid tells us Aggignuntur autem frequenter Cometae signa quaedam interitus Regum qui quidem non sunt ex iis Astris quae à rerum initio facta sunt sed jussu divino certis temporibus conflantur ac rursus dissolvuntur There are Comets saith he frequently generated that be signs of the Death of Kings which indeed be not of those Stars that were at first created but which are gathered by the will of God at certain times and afterwards dissolved And Tertullian ad scap cap. 3. after a long Discourse thereof thus concludes Omnia haec signa sunt imminentis irae Dei They are all Signs saith he of the imminent wrath of God But because I would not be over-tedious take the Testimony of S. Augustine for all lib. de urbis excid Tom. 9. where speaking of a great Comet that impended over Constantinople about the Year 396. according to a Revelation first made thereof to a Souldier and by him to a Bishop who thereupon exhorted the People to Repentance and to receive the Sacraments he hath these very words Volens siquidem Deus terrere civitatem terrendo emendare terrendo convertere terrendo mundare terrendo mutare servo suo fideli viro ut dicitur militari c. God being pleased to terrifie the City and by terrifying convert it by terrifying cleanse it by terrifying change it he revealed as 't is reported to a Souldier his faithful Servant c. And a little after Noctis initio tenebrante jam mundo visa est ignea nubes ab Oriente primo parva deinde paulatim ut accedebat super Civitatem a crescebat donec toti urbi ingens terribiliter immineret Videbatur horrenda flamma pendere nec odor Sulphurus deerat Omnes ad Ecclesiam confugiebant non capiebat multitudinem locus Baptismum Extorquebat quisque à quo poterat Non solum in Ecclesia sed etiam per Domos per vicos plateas salus Sacramenti exigebatur ut fugaretur ira non praesâ—ns utique sed futura In the beginning of the Night whilst darkness cover'd the Earth there appeared a fiery Cloud in the East at first but a little one afterward by degrees as it approach'd the City it so increased till being mighty big it hover'd terribly over all the Ciâ—y There was seen a horrible flame which descended from it neither was there a Sulphurous smell wanting All the People fled to the Church the place contained not the Multitude Every one wrested Baptism from whom he could the health of the Sacrament was extorted not only in the Church but also throughout the Houses Lanes and Streets to avoid as well the present as future wrath of God Thus far S. Augustine Of Meteorologers Let us hear Fromundus lib. 1. Meteor cap. 3. who after a long Discourse thereon concludes with Fienus Cometem non esse Physicam causam calamitatum sed signum potius ad placitum Dei utentis Cometa licet effectu naturali ad terrendos emendandos alicubi mortales quo modo usus est ad foedus cum genere nostro significandum licet aliquibus fausti quidam Cometae fuerint aut visi sint non in hunc tamen finem sed ad tristiora
leave out To save my Ankles from the Prison-gout The subtile Lawyer holds it not amiss He Paraphrase on Ambiguities And though he scarce the Latine understand To write CUSTODES â—n a Texted-hand Why might not I though not for dirty gain Write as he writes Will such Ink ever stain Prinn when he found the Presbyters decay Straight-leaves his scribling-humour to obey What if from scribling too I deign to cease Do I ought more than all that live in Peace Nay Lilburn that Prodigious Combatant Held it not safe perpetually to rant For he once quitted from the dreadful Rope Waves Magna Charta falls a boyling Soap I 've scap't the Halter twice as well as he What if I now resolve to live as free Compounders some not only Pay but Swear Might I not Promise that I would forbear The brave Secluded Member that needs must Revile the Army doom the State to dust Observe him but now he is all to bits How Penitent how patiently he sits The par-boyl'd-Citizen who ne'r would do Scarce what an Ord'nance did enjoyn him to See how obsequiously he trots about To find both Old and New Malignants out The Wary-High-Shooe who so Idoliz'd The Covenant that equally he priz'd It with his Bible Lo but how he bows Before th' Engagement to secure his Cows Now Zoilus tell me whether 't is more fit I Sacrifice my Folly or submit These Times afford few Martyrs and those few Scant would be Martyrs if they could eschew The Clergy heretofore ate all the Cake They still Usurp'd the Glory of the Stake And should methinks if all be true they say Lead us as well to suffer as to pray But now alas their Zeal's congeal'd to Ice Obedience they prefer to Sacrifice And want not Scripture-texts more than enough Which warrant them to Thrash as well as Plough Had FOX but writ his Volumes in this Age His Book of Martyrs had not fill'd a Page England I fear would scarce have spar'd him one Old Latimer to make a Martyr on Indeed they tell 's what New Jerusalem's And how 't is pav'd with Pearls and Precious Gems Blaming us much we freely leave not this Course Clay for a Coelestial Paradise Yet when a doughty Priests unhallow'd Gums Sustain one rotten Tooths-ach how he Fum's And Froths and if a Fever do but strike him What Peasant-powts and pants or pineth like him O for a Doctor then Bridle the Horse And haste the Clerk away He 's worse and worse Alas the Doctor comes not O quoth he Would God restore me but then he should see But what Be sure no mind he has to Dâ—ath The Parson's Heart 's fast chained to the Eâ—rth He blesses Heav'n for 's last Nights Requiem But has no thoughts of New Jâ—rusalem Mistake me not For I include not here The Reverend Doctors of the Holy-Chair Nor yet the meanest of that Sacred Quire Whose Service at the Altar is entire To them I bow and willingly make their's The Tythe at least of all my daily Pray'rs No I intend the thred-bare Motley-Coat Which makes the Pulpit but a Juglers-throat And can from thence t' infatuate Mankind Disgorge both Fire and Water at a Wind Yet were it to preserve the World not dye Ought but his Stockings prate he ne'r so high I say 't is him I mean for he I look Will be the loose-Surveyor of my Book Deal gently good Sir John and do not Quack Live else the Subject of mine Almanack In Hemerosc 1652. this Learned and Loyal Person wrote these several witty Verses following 1. Under the Table of Kings WHen Rome's perverse and giddy Multitude Dissolv'd in Tarquin their Great Monarchy To doom the Act UNNATURAL and RUDE 'T is said A Serpent Barked But when We Dâ—ssolved Ours so were they overcome With Pannick fear both Men and Beasts were dumb 2. Under his Moveable-Feasts Those Feasts were once held Sacred amongst Men Old â—â—lks may live to see them so agen 3. Under the Table of Terms The Law is good and needs no Reformation It takes no Bribes nor sleeps a long Vacation Delays no Suits disdains not to embrace A John-an-Oaks or John-a-Styles his Case Yet since the Pilot's dead and Storms do threat Rocks being near the Wreck must needs be great 4. In February Mars throws his Knapsack by and stoutly draws His trusty Bilbo to prescribe us Laws Jove claims his Priviledge and Mars his Pow'r Both wrangle hard and each on other lowre At length Jove yields and Mars assumes the Chair Votes his own Person Noble Doings Fair. 5. In May. A Zealous Month or so it doth appear Composed all of Love and Bottle-beer But whilst the Shepherd's absent or asleep The Ravenous Wolves devour the silly Sheep London beware of Fire and Beasts of Prey And something else but what I will nor say 6. In October Swords now grow dull and Heads are gravely tost To balance what is gain'd with what is lost To find out how and where the danger lies To estimate old stores with new supplies W' are now at leisure to attend the knocks Of Sir John Levite in his Jugling-Box 7. In November What loud Dissâ—ntion's this we softly hear And dread 'twixt Saturn and his Councellor Who 's that gives back What Jovial Fools are they Must needs Command before they can Obey Dividâ— and Rule is Machiavils Take heed For though he dy'd long since here 's yet his seed 8. In December The first Eclipse next Month doth take Effect And Jove and Mars move now in dire Aspect Whence the Malicious Changeling-Brother-hood Of suiveling Mock-Priests that cry'd out for Blood Shall surely feel though yet they will not see The full-grown-fruits of their Apostacy In Hemerosc 1653. this Worthy Artist wrote these several Verses following 1. Of the Vulgar Accounts Notes and Festivals The Christians of the East and Greek Church do number  Years From the Creation unto this present Year 7161 The Jews Hebrews and later Rabbines 5413 Ergo they differ in their Computation 1748 HEavens direct us what a Difference here 's Full seventeen hundred forty twice four years Whose Râ—ck'ning shall we trust or shall we wait Till some New Prophet rise and Calculate The year That year which Saints in Heav'n not scan Yet needs must be confin'd by prying Man But if nor Jews nor Christians can it find If Plato saw not surely they are blind The Christian Abyssines and Egyptians from the Dioclesian Aera or that of Martyrs 1369 Thus rots that Tyrant And may all the same Who act like Cruelty yet hate the Name The Saracens and Turks from Hegira or the flight of their Prophet Mahomet 1063 The Turks are very Holy in their way They Preach give Alms and most devoutly Pray And live in hope Our Zelots do no more Unless to over-do and ne'r give or'e Had we been born in Turky we should set As great a rate on Rascal Mahomet As Turks themselves If they in England then
thereâ—n set the bolder face Because like Fortune have ev'n Acts of Grace And yet some trifling Shops provoke me most For here and there they â—ail me to a Post O Cruel Hands but that my Patience bears It wâ—ll presaging what attends their Ears Thus pleased or displeased I appear Servant or Slave t' all Interests once a Year So let me pass And when this Journey 's over I 'le try if beâ—ter luck I can diâ—cover In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1658. We find these Learned and Weighty Verses following 1. Under the Table of Kings HEre and not here implies a Contradiction Reality you 'll say oppos'd to Fiction I grant it so And he that asks me Why Must know I cannot skill of things too nigh He a large Picture that will judge aright Sets it not near him but aloof his sight 2. Under the Table of Terms Peace makes a pleasant sound well understood But Discord better whilst the Peace not good I am not of his Humour did prefer Th' Unjustest Peace before the Just est War Admit one rifled robb'd of all relief Must he needs patch a Peace up with the Thief 3. In January If wanting Wings one may ascend the Skies And Phoebus view without an Eagles Eyes Then rouze up Muse from thy Lethargick strains And having first invok'd the God of Brains Let the Grand Subject of thy Measures be No soul to England like a Monarchy 4. In February It is the Image of that Domination By which Jehovah rules the whole Creation Angels nor Saints do in his Kingdom share God is sole Monarch they but Subjects are Whose Laws are such as when they did Rebel Sequestred not but sent 'em straight to Hell 5. In March As Old as that Paternal Soveraignty God plac'd in Adam Rul'd his People by Disown'd of none but them whose minds aspire And envy One should have what all desire For be 't a few or many we live under Such shall repine still whilst not of the number 6. In April The Ancients did a Monarchy prefer Made all their Gods submit to Jupiter And when Affairs and Nations first began Princes Decrees were th' only Laws of Man Experience will avow it where there 's any One honest man is sooner found than many 7. In May. The rational soul performs a Princes part She Rules the Body by Monarchick Art Poor Cranes and silly Bees with shivering wings Observe their Leaders and obey their Kings Nature her self disdains a crowded Throne The Body's Monstrous hath more Heads than one 8. In June A Monarchy's that Politick simple State Consist's in Unity inseparate Pure and entire A Government that stands When others fall touch'd but with Levelling hands So Natural and with such Skill endu'd It makes one body of a Multitude 9. In July In Order wherein latter things depend On former that 's most perfect doth attend On Unity but this can never be The Pop'lar State nor Aristocracy For where or all or many bear the sway Such Order to Confusion leads the way 10. In August A Monarchy more quickly doth attain The End propos'd for 't is the single Brain That ripens Counsel and concealeth best Princely Designs till Deeds proclaim 'em blest Whilst numerous Heads are rarely of one Mind Slow in their Motion louder than the Wind. 11. In September Treason nor Force so suddenly divides Th' United strength that in a Crown resides Sedition prospers not it seldom here Results an Object of the Prince's fear Than when an Empire Rome was ne'r more strong Nor Triumph'd under other Rule so long 12. In October A Monarchy abates those Fâ—v'rish fâ—â—s Of Emulation a Free-Stâ—te begets A Prince cannot his Râ—ins so quickly slack Or throw his Burthâ—n on another's Back But where so many Rulers have command The work 's transfer'd and toss'd from hand to hand 13. In November The People or the Nobles to debate The deep Concernments of a Troubled-State Set-times and places have assign'd them they First meet and then adjourn from day to day Whereas a Monarch who by Nature's One Deliberates always never's off his Throne 14. In December But hold Methinks I see the three Estates Conven'd thrown open Prison-doors and Grates Extinct our paltry Jealousies and Fears Grace offered to all but Cavaliers And Papists Yet with Patience they abound In hope for better now the wheel goes round 15. The Conclusion Thus trace we Time and in our several Spheres Slightly pass over ne'r-returning Yâ—arâ— Thus States and Kingdoms to a Periâ—d draw Their Politicks must yield to Natures Law Thus Kings and Beggars are Companions made Shake hands and knock the Scepter 'gainst the Spade Thus Courts and Cottages become 〈◊〉 Roof And Carts and Chariots meet without Râ—proof Thus all the Greatness Mortals do contend And Damn their Souls for slideth to An End In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1659. these following Pithy and Prophetick Verses are to be found 1. On the Moons Eclipse in April NOW have amongst ye you that stand On slippery ground or build on Sand. Seditious Spirits play their pranks Inundations break the Banks Rumours of Wars about us fly Thrice happy Man dares bravely die Intestine Tumults taken Towns Besieged Cities Princes frowns Astonish Us. But I 'le to Plough And never mind what Mad-men do Mavors and Hermes bear the sway May He deserves it have the day 2. On the Moons Eclipse in October Quick work and Crafty He that sways In this Defect brooks no Delays Beware of Pirates High-way Thieves Dull Heresies and Hanging-Sleeves Of Scarcity and dearth of Grain With uncouth Griefs 'mongst Cattle reign Tempestuous Winds Quotidian Fevers Ptisicks and Priests that cock their Bevers Debates that into Question call The Peoples Laws even God's and all For Stilbon only hath command And him alone I understand 3. On the Suns Eclipse in November What noise is this Methinks I hear Some dread Heroe drawing near A busie Clergy belching fire Some Prince depos'd and in the mire I see by th' light of one fair Star Whole Nations going out to War Risings Arraignments sudden Death And Ruine rushing on the Earth The Rivers lessen'd Fountains dry Waters corrupt good Subjects die For Mars is rampant and what hand Can turn the Edge of Burlybrand 4. Under the Regal Table Sacred's the name of King and full of splendour Famâ—us the Title of the Faiths Defender 〈◊〉 when on such the Rabble six'd their Spleen Whâ— aâ—d regard to Faith to King or Queen Bâ—t now such Comments on the Text they make All Mortals must submit for Conscience-sake 5. Under the Table of Terms Thanks busie-Term-time thou bring'st work to do For Judge for Council and Attorney too But should'st thou and and never more Commence Lawyers would lose their most voluptuous sence The knotty Laws which now so dear we buy Be rated like Bishops Divinity 6. Under the Tide-Table The Sea hath fits much like this giddy Age Sometimes â—he pines anon she swells with Rage And makes a rupture
appear Attended on by all the Saints i' th' Year Nor am I one of those that can Repine Cause I am Clouded to see others Shine The Freedom you Indulge is Wealth enough And which is more hath made me Cannon-Proof Heav'ns Bless your Majesty increase your Powers No Guerdon's like to that of being Yours The Humblest of Your Majesties most Faithful and Obedient Subjects and Servants G. WHARTON In his Kalendarium Carolinum for the Year 1662. are these Excellent Poems 1. Under the Table of Kings SOme Princes have been Sirnam'd Red some Black Some Tall some Crook'd as well in Mind as Back Some for their Learning some for Valour stand Admired by this Learn'd and Warlike-Land Our Gracious King 's both Black and Tall of Stature Learn'd Valiant Wise and Lib'ral too by Nature But that Adorns Him more than all the rest Is Mercy in his most Religious Breast Which mix'd with Justice makes him thus to Shine Th' Incensed Glory of the Royal Line 2. Under the Terms Now that the Saints have ceased to Purloyn And Plunder let 's indulge 'em an Essoin Charles's Appearance shew'd them their mistake And he Forgave shall we Exception make No no râ—is Blest Return refresh'd Three Nations God keep 's from any more such Long Vacations 3. In January Behold the Two great Martyrs of this Age Embracing Heaven despising Vulgar Rage Blest Laud All-glorious Charles whose Cruel Death At once astonish'd both the Heav'ns and Earth Whose Horrid Murder Clouded Church and State 'Till Second Charles did both Illuminate 4. In February Let Winchester remember Burleigh's Blood Pontsract will witness Beaumont's who withstood The unrelenting Rebels and laid down Their well-spent Lives for Charles's injur'd Crown Some Crimson-streams do stain each Leaf we turn No Month but what affords us Cause to Mourn 5. In March Heroick Capel and Couragious Hyde Both mount the Scaffold both are Crucify'd Brave Bushel Son of Neptune lost his Head His Lamp was in great haste extinguished The Fifth Commandment keeping all their Crime A grievous Sin in that All-grieving Time 6. In April Their deadly Rancour floateth now amain Whilst silly Women harmless Babes are slain By their devouring Swords Boys Act Men's parts And Scarlet Gowns look on with trembling Hearts Three Red-Coats then with Bells about their Necks Were Force sufficient London to perplex 7. In May. But O the Precious Blood this Month was shed Valour its Right-hand lost Wisdom her Head Whence the Mis-judging Rude and Brainless Croud Made Earth and Skies but one Big-belly'd Cloud Till Gracious Charles Return'd whose warmer Rays Dissolv'd it turn'd black Nights to Sun-shine Days 8. In June Thrice Reverend Hewyt Noble Slingsby Dy'd Destruction was design'd them before Try'd The very Noise poor Rats and Mice did keep Amus'd the Tyrant broke his troubled sleep How could he chuse indeed but be afraid So long as Slingsby breath'd or Hewyt pray'd 9. In July And yet the Monster means not to desist His Wo's denounc'd against the Royallist Undaunted Gerard daring Ashton dye And many more whose Hearts could not comply No Constancy like that of Cavaliers Which never shrink with Force nor sordid Fears 10. In August The Valiant Lucas Death-despising Lisle And Gallant Andrews Sacrificed while The Holy Rabble Triumph and declare How Just how Innocent their Murders were Yet still methinks the Guilt sticks in their Face Vengeance pursues 'em to their proper Place 11. In September Think now of Worcester's Great Deliverance Let 's pay our Vows 't was something more than Chance That sav'd Great Charles and Us with Him did jerk The lewd Posteriors of th' Unhallow'd Kirk And taught 'em for the future to Misken Whom once they stiled Their Dear Brethren 12. In October Lo here again how fast the Wolf pursues Let him but Catch he cares not who Accuse Darby's great Earl unto the Block he brings No Blood he spar'd when once h' had spilt his Kings Thus the Revengeful whilst they are most keen In wounding others keep their own Wounds green 13. In November Lamented Kniveton doth the next appear Martyr'd not once but Martyr'd every Year Who to assure the World his Cause was Good Let not to Seal it early with his Blood Thus Martyrs suffer yet are never slain Thus Martyrs sow themselves to grow again 14. In December The Tyger follows yet His Thirst is great And nought but Humane Blood allays his Heat Sweet Norwich Holt and Downham his Rage saw They saw the Judges too but saw no Law Judgment was turn'd to Wormwood in that day Nor Truth nor Justice challeng'd any sway In his Kalendarium Carolinum for Anno 1663. We find these Excellent Verses 1. Upon the Great Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ in â™ FOrbear Enthusiasts and aim no higher Y' are Purg'd or quite Consum'd by this New fire The many Waters whilom drown'd the Land Must all Return and keep within their Strand Kings will be Kings their Awful Scepters sway The People Prompt and Zealous to Obey Now Holy Church will offer Holy things And burn her Incense under Angels Wings No Leper shall approach her Sacred Quire None touch her Altars cannot touch the Lyre Old Laws shall be Reviv'd and New ones made Wise Men arise and Fools run Retrograde Empires and Monarchies confirm'd Erected Churches Repair'd and Holy Ground Protected Tranquillity succeeds our Brutish Wars Balsoms our Wounds pours Oyl upon our Scars Commerce and Traffique then receives Increase Merchants adventure all things but their Peace Fanatick Spirits in short time forget What Principles they own'd in their Mad Fit Repining Tradesmen and Poor Handicrafts Turn Morning-Lectures into Morning-Draughts And wonder by what Wild-fires they were Led To feed on Thistles ' stead of wholsome Bread So Plain so Ugly now the Cheat appears 'T is lay'd aside for half three hundred Years 2. Under the Table of Kings The Presbyterian Oracle's a Witch For true it is as bruted by the Bitch We shall turn all Idolaters Who can Now Britain's Monarch so much more then Man Enjoy's an Angel darts such Rays Divine Do less than Worship Charles and Katherine 3. Under the Table of Terms Our Sacred Laws dispens'd with Spotless Hands Secure our Lives our Liberties our Lands But whilst th' unhallow'd Oliverian Crew Profane the Bar we hazard All anew I wonder with what Foreheads they appear T' Advance what by themselves subverted were 4. In January What still more Mischief yet more Plots on foot Design'd and Manag'd by the Rabble-Rout Plots of mean Extract and low Undertaking Shews Lord nor Lady save of Cromwel's making But such poor Snakes as our own Bosoms bred Which being all Tayl want Brains to make a Head 5. In February But form'd they have another Sion's Plea Full fraught with Treason and the Canting-Yea For Liberty to Plunder Fire and Kill First whom they can and next who e're they will Caesar himself from whence our Peace doth spring Shall have no Quarter 'cause they 'd have no King 6. In March The