ought for my part it sticks with me and I le assure M. Lilly that I verily expect the accomplishment thereof The Sun in this scheme is the Kings significator saith M. Lilly who is locally in the ninth which is the twelfth from the tenth Ergo saith he the King is Captived True He is so but woe be to them that did it pray Sir what thinke you of those that side with them who have laid violent hands upon the Lords Anointed I le answer for you for this once he is a Rebell and the worst of Traytors The motions of Saturne and Mars are swift indeed as M. Lilly observeth rightly for they greatly exceed their meane motions yet am I not of his opinion that the actions signified by the Conjunction of these two Planets shall be carried on and prosecuted with so great speed as he affirmeth with great fury and violence they will for Saturne is the flowest of all the Planets he is 30 years going about the Zodiack therefore his effects wil not quicklycease and yet much the sooner for his quick motion Doubtlesse the Conjunction of these two malevolent Planets with oculus tauri in the eighth house and in Gemini where Mars made his square at the Parliaments first sitting will signifie singular actions and of very high concernement especially to London and the Parliament at Westminster In Anno 1635. and 1636. Saturne transiting Sagitarius London smarted with the Plague how much more will he and Mars afflict her now they being conjoyn'd in Gemini in the eight house neere the Buls eye O London let me tell thee plainly and seriously and truly that if thou makest not an early peace I meane a suddaine attonement with thy angry God and thy abused Soveraigne his Anointed and Vicegerent here against whom thou wert with the first nay the very first that Rebell'd and led'st divers Countries by thy example to drinke deepe of the poysonous cup of Rebellion Schisme Heresie c. thou shalt soon match Jerusalem in accursednesse thou shalt see nothing but frowning wrath in the clouds but Lightning and Thunder in the mouth of the foure winds the heavens shall be an artillery house of haile-stones No Planet shall revolve any thing but vastation Earthquakes shall dissolve thy joynts and all thy glorious buildings shall but crush their owners with their fals affording them unasked tombes and sepulchres The damps of the earth shall breed nothing but plagues the clouds shall drop downe leannesse on thy fields the Sword Famine and Pestilence those dreadfull messengers of Gods vengeance shall fall upon thee till thou art quite consumed Oh London London remember remember the man who for a time went night and day crying about thy streets Woe Woe Woe I speake a thing well knowne to thousands yet inhabiting within thy Wals who then saw him and heard him too yet neither they nor any man else that ever I could hear of yet could though some of them much desired it ever learne what who or whence he was Beleeve it the day of thy visitation is almost come and will shortly present it selfe to thy amazed eyes in a dreadfull crimson hiew unlesse with Nineveh thy sister City thou doest suddainly wash away those crimson spots of innocent blood which thou hast spilt with thy penitent teares Here two schemes or figures of heaven should have been placed the first of the Suns entrance into Libra the other of the Eclipse of the Moone the first hapneth the 12. of September the Eclipse the 29. of November Hercle restat regnum aliud piis Coelo sub amplo bestia cum cadot Dandum potostatisque sumoe Jus pede sub dominante Christi Stratis Tyrannum verticibus These Verses M. Lilly placed under the scheme of the Suns ingresse into Aries but I have transfferred them hither and much more properly they are left by him un-Englished I shall therefore paraphrase them thus When Charls shall Reigne againe as sure he shall And th' Westminsterian Hydra reele and fall That beast compos'd of all religions Sects Schismes Heresies which long this land have vext Lost happinesse will doubtlesse then appear To righteous men the beast then falling where Such tyranny and oppression shall give way To Christ's Vicegerent Charls his nobler sway And milder regiment Oh may oh may That joyfull day with speed it selfe present To crowne our hopes even drown'd in discontent The daies at hand harke harke methinkes I hear The bugle horne of watchfull Chanticleere To usher't in and summon all those brave Heroick Loyall soules who shall and have Been true t' their King and Soveraigne with joy To welcome re-establisht Charls those quoy Disloyall Traytors who thus long have kept Thrir Soveraigne their slave and so have heap't Vengeance on their owne heads to houle lament And curse the day they were a Parliament Harke how the very ghosts of those who dy'd Rebels to Charls and him so oft bely'd Harke how they skrike they howle they weepe they groane Harke how they now lament bewaile and moane Harke how they Lilly junior Merlin curse For 's lying Oracles the very nurse Of their Rebellion harke how they lowre And even expresse their horrour to this houre But harke how th' nobler ghosts of those who dy'd By deeds of armes on King and Countries side Rejoyce with lyricke songs harke how they sing And singing weepe because their Royall King Being re-inthron'd his happy Government Enjoy they cunnot now must rest content Joyfull at 's re-establishment indeed But very pensive that through want of heed And their ill fates the date of their short lives So soon expir'd and this singing drives Them eke to weeepe who would not wish to be Againe but for his future service see Their piety and seeing wonder Rash fate so soone should cut their threads asunder Harke how a quire of Angels in a ring Doe round about them blessed musick sing Harvest begins the 12 of September 28 min past two a clock in the afternoone at which time Capricorne ascends Capricorne is the house of Saturne whom I find in the fixth house oppos'd by the Moone in the twelfth both being the Parliaments significators looke to it Parliament this is a nipping scheame will assuredly squeeze those spunges which have suckt up His Majesties and the Kingdomes rights and revenues especially fith the Moone is with the Dragons taile in Sagitarius the opposite signe to Gemini Looke to thy selfe London Saturne is in Gemini in the sixth house in perfect opposition to the Moone the Kings significators are now indifferent well posited infinitely stronger then his adversaries and in better houses me thinkes this should make M. Lilly to shrug his shoulders and the Parliament to gaspe both for breath and life I confesse this is but a sicknesse yet though very grieveous and not curable by any other Physick then by the Personall Treaty which they will scarce take long enough to doe them good if they will not I must tell
that he useth to dissemble at least not now but why then doth he affirme that if the King signes the Propositions which went to Him about February last as I remember he is mortalium prudentissimus I doubt not indeed but he wil appeare so and that really to all the world but how in not granting them for if He give away His Kingdome over whom shall He Reigne over Canibals or Crowes If he loves His Majesty as he pretendeth why doth he so earnestly desire the whole Kingdome as one man to engage against all that rise against the Parliament during the Treaties continuance yea and after oh brave Subject who would thinke indeed but that he loves His Majesty sith he is so zealous for His yet captivity no man can serve two masters Mr. Lilly commanding two contrary things if the King therefore command the Kingdome His Kingdome 't is not the Parliaments to rise for His enlargement and the restoring unto Him His Crowne and Dignity which they violently and unjustly detaine if you not onely forbid them so to doe but encourage them to rise in their behalfes who have done all this and much more against Him who do you then account your Soveraigne Surely the Parliament or Army one of those hopefull soules whom you dubbe with the glorious names of Senators States Cedars c. it cannot be King Charles you meane and this will further yet appear for speaking of the Treaty he saith that he hopes that His Majesty now wearied with the sad conditions of life attending Him and His whole family and well perceiving the fruitlesse successe of Armes entended for His enlargement by His friends will wave such strict Propositions as in former Treaties He might have insisted upon That is in plaine English that he will give away unto the Parliament His Crowne and Dignity all but the Title for His enlargement Oh Traytor how many ropes doest thou deserve he hopes that His Soveraigne to whom but now he professed so great love so much Allegeance will un-King Himselfe make His adversaries His Lords and Soveraignes This indeed might perhaps procure His enlargement bring Him His Queene and Progeny to see each other but how He She or They should ever rejoyce after such an Act as would absolutely undoc them all for my part I can by no meanes imagine I am sure and certaine that His Majesty hath ever showne Himselfe most inclinable to Peace yea hath offered to buy it and at a very deare rate but should a man lay out all his estate upon one bargaine it had need have be a good peny-worth or he is quite undone small hopes of recovery being to be expected from a bankerupt fortune If Mr. Lilly had loved His Majesty as he pretends he would never have inserted into his Booke this following wish I pray God saith he that His Majesty stands not too much upon His punctoes of Honour and that safe and sure Propositions may proceed from the Parliament for the good of us all His Majesty must not stand upon such punctoes of Honour as to have His just rights He must be surely bound and is not fit to be trusted for this is clearly the sence of his villanous wish Hath not Mr. Lilly now shewne himselfe the most notorious feighner and failer that ever yet set pen to paper He feigneth that the Army is composed of more civill and Religious men then ever any Army was dareth any man to contradict if they can any thing said in their behalf but he faileth in this also for this is undoubtedly a good axiome no Independent is or can be an upright man for therein they imitate the Devil the first Independent that ever was and consequently the father of that faction for he would not depend upon Almighty God was therefore throwne downe from heaven to hell whither all his progeny must undoubtedly follow him if they turne not and repent not in time I feare Fairfax and the rest of that crew will hardly be one day able to pleade his or their uprightnesse before God where let them be assured they must come to a strict account to answer for their great and grosse abuses of their Soveraigne his Anointed contrary to their Allegeance yea his plighted faith Oh England if thou well bethink'st thy selfe thou hast great cause to love these men be sure if thou takest their part thou must partake in their sufferings Mr. Lilly is so impudent as to thinke that no man dares speake against them though they have committed 't is evident to every eye the greatest villanies the grossest impieties that ever were set downe in story how many widdowes have they made how many Orphans have they slaine how many Virgins have they deflowred Oh Godly generation they cannot erre else I should affirme that if Mr. Lilly should rake hell and skum the Devill seaven years together he could never finde a more cursed crew would they not have levelled the estates of all men have they not been and yet are the locusts and caterpillers that have eat up and devoured the good things of this Land and brought it almost to an utter desolation Mr. Lilly they that really are hereticks and schismatickes must looke to be called so to their brazen faces in spight of you copper nose Doe you thinke that God delivered Colchester to Fairfax or subdued the Scots by Cromwell for their uprightnesse Away you counterfeit the Scots feare nothing will subdue Cromwell Argile and their confederates but if need be the English and Irish too will helpe them Another of his saylings is this which followeth I did ever saith he honour those of the Scots who stood for a pacification without bloud-shed who were willing to compose our differences without an Army the others he cals despicable fellowes A brave time when true subjects are accounted despicable and Traytors reveren'st and honour'd as Gods darlings Mr. Lilly did not account it an Invasion when the Scots came against the King now he saith concerning Scotland had not a Divine providence over-powred the Stars we had not been invaded thus to excuse his owne lying Oracles he makes himselfe of Gods counsell and ransacks the very Cabinet of Divinity Oh how he clawed the Scots when they came for the Prrliament now he wishes that those who pleade the Scottish civility or call them Brethren to affront the Parliament he wisheth Jockey and Moggie and all their beggerly brats quartering upon them but wishes are but wind Mr. Lilly 't is money that buies Land you could call them Brethren and give them greater and nobler appellations when they came of your side in affront to the King they quartered then upon our etates and I wish heartily and 't is but lex talionis that they were now quartered upon your estate and upon the estates of such as you are Their good Angel hath not yet forsaken them I perceive as Mr. Lilly feighneth how came then Argile to be so beaten I perceive Mr. Lilly that you would but cannot rob them of their good Angel he refuseth to heare the voice of the charmer charme he never so wisely I wonder Mr. Lilly in his Ephemeris should highly commend our friends Valliant Inchequin and honourable Iones as he cals them men infinitely deserving but I am confident that had he but misdoubted that ever they would have declared for the King he would have called them Traytors Traytors to whom to those Kingly Rebels at Westminster But will some say is there not truth at all in neither of Mr. Lillies bookes yes one thing I remember he speakes very truely for which I hope his great Masters at Westminster will soundly lash their Prophet and that is this the Country-man hath great cause saith he to repine and grumble having a hard cruell Landlord Whâ—… grindes them to powder but that you may set how loath he is to speake any one truth except it be at unawares against his will he in the same page contradicts it againe I say saith he we must adhere to the Parliament and not affront them us of late what to such hard cruell Landlords as grindes them to powder yes what though they are Gods instruments but let me tell you Mr. Lilly it is an ill cause which hath nothing to maintaine it but lies forgeries and personall aspersions There is another thing in his last booke which may be true but I much fear it I pray God that the Kingdom may see that verified then we are happy yet it is that the Parliament will willingly condiscend to all such things as were formerly controverted and thereby manifest to the people their willingnesse to compose differences by a Treaty Heavens grant him a true Prophet in this but if he be I have lost my marke Thus every judicious man perceives how miserably Mr. Lilly hath deluded the Kingdome with his false Oracles and lying predictions and yet who bragges so much he boasts that the Parliament being in low condition that he peept out the very day of Nazeby fight in his starry messenger and promised the routing of His Majesties Armies and their fight into the West he oraggs that he predicted the integrity of the Scotch Nation in words of length when the whole Kingdome was much amazed doubting their integrity and saith that to their everlasting honour they verified his predictions I beleeve both these are but cracks some of his old feighnings and failings but certaine I am that to his own everlasting infamy some of their immortall honours they have falsified his predictions this year although he would very gladly put it off in his last booke for in that he saith that he was very doubtfull of them but I am certaine that his booke spake this year as confidently for them as any he wrote or can possibly write but however if we grant him to have hit right in these predictions yet qui inter multa falsa pauca miscet vera non est ei in recitando dicta ejus quic quam tribuendum He that amongst so many lies tels but now and then a truth is neither to be regarded nor beleeved Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus FINIS
that Conjunction cease the Moone comes to be Eclipsed and in Gemini too near the body of Saturne in the seaventh and eighth houses of heaven and if this doe not totally overthrow them provided that the King and they agree not before by a Personall Treaty I shall for ever after question the truth of that Art which I so much love the validity whereof I never yet found cause to doubt of At least I shall exceedingly question my owne judgement therein the greatest fury force both of the Conjunction the Eclipse also will be over by the end of June next and therefore my hopes are strong and my grounds in Art I am sure are good that by that time most of our troubles wil be overblown yet perhaps not fully ended for some few moneths following For this so small a mistake in Mr. Wharton he cals him Malignant Prophet the scorne of Art changelings c. but qui alterum incusat probri ipsum se intueri oportet he that is so busie to pick holes in the coates of others had need have more then an or dinary care of his owne words and actions M. Lillies axiome could not reach Mr. Wharton for he committed not many but one not a grosse but a small mistake I say comparatively small in respect of those grand falsehoods those almost innumerable contradictions those many Treasons and forgeries committed to the Presse this year by Merlinus Anglicus I will here give you but a glimpse of his failings and feignings this year anon I shall set them â—out in more lively colours and marshall them together and as near as I can into ranke and file Did he not in divers places of his Ephimeris predict peace this year and absolutely affirme that this would be a year of joy and merryment not of Martiall exploits in this our Kingdome Nay did he not basely and malitiously scandalize Mr. Wharton for predicting War whither spake true yet Mr. Lilly cals him manapian Astrologer and this Utopian and malignant Astrologie Did not Mr. Lilly affirme yea confidently also that the Scots would not assist the King this year against the Parliament no nor any other Kingdome else he saith behold the Scots are honourable and have no invasive designe against us nay he saieth farther that they who are of this opinion that the Scots wil invade us have no eies I shal willingly leave it to the Readers judgement who deserves most to ride blind bayard He addes afterwards that he can speake no evill of the Scottish Nation sith the heavens give him no information but after he hard that they were come contrary to his prediction he could scarce invent any Oyster-whore language bad enough to revile them with Againe he saith that some thinke that the Parliament Souldiers will some of them dissert the cause and fight Round-head against Round-head Citizen against Citizen which yet he affirmes will not come to passe and yet we all know this and more was true enough Ergo Mr. Lilly said false and therefore is no son of Merlins Is not I pray the Fleet revolted to the Prince have there been no knocks at all this year in London is not this Round-head against Round-head Citizen against Citizen He saith of Ireland that this year there will be in that Kingdome such notorious and so great distractions such fierce and cruel Wars that of their sufferings they and their Children shall know no end Loe they are quiet in that Kingdome no such thing at all hath hapned Very little Blood if any at all hath been shed in that place behold they are willing yea and ready also to assist His Majesty our most gracious Soveraigne It seemes this year that his fancy was overburthened as himself confesseth with very intricate meditations fine white and yellow meditations doubtlesse the Parliament cash which he hath got for a reward of his Treason and Treachery has had strong influence upon his giddy crown to fill it with such strange Chymeraes and certainly it were madnesse in any to belch out such horrid Treasons against his Soveraigne such encomiums to his enemies the Independents and their Army who have not onely rob'd their gracious Soveraigne of His native brithright revil'd His wife and Children with most foule and false aspersions but have Imprisoned and enslav'd His person also slaine and rob'd His Loyall Subjects set all His Kingdomes on a flame if he were not well rewarded by his great Masters for so great Treason It is now well knowne to all men that have eyes to distinguish chalke from cheese white from black light from darkenesse that their intentions not withstanding their faire pretences for the Kings Honour the subjects Liberty and the reformation of Religion have beene solely to enslave their Soveraigne to raign themselves and like Phenixes to revive their bankerupt fortunes out of the Kingdomes ruines and how far they have accomplish'd these their aimes there is no discreet and honest man in this whole Kingdome but evidently now perceives how have they pillaged rob'd and plundered the whole Kingdome to what vast summes have they raised their owne tottering fortunes how have they preferred to places of highest trust and greatest gaine such as have stoutly endeavoured to raise them to this height either by sword or penne this undeniable position being granted as perforce it must it will also follow that Mr. William Lilly deserves the Van in this list of Traytors and consequently hath been therefore well rewarded For doubtlesse Fairfax and Cromwell could hardly have led the Kingdome by the nose thus long had not Merlinus Anglicus that Welchified London Incubus entered the sceane and prevailed as much upoÌ„ the minds of giddy-headed men with his screech-owles quill as they upon their bodies with all their Armies Engines Weapons and subtile machinations For people are and were ever too to apt to be seduced by any who but pretend to Astrologie Aecromancy Chyromancy especially if they tell them that the things they predict are from God or revealed by some Angel they will easily beleeve almost whatsoever such a one shall assert for bring them but once to beleeve that there is validity in the Art and learning in the Artist they come on of their owne accords to beleeve what such an Artist affirmes to be true and infallibly to happen although 't is certaine that the stars doe but encline cannot enforce And most men loving preferment and estate in this world more then their God or their King the Lords Anointed will easily make shipwrack of their duty to the one of their Allegiance to the other if once they beleeve they shall be loosers by either They will argue thus whatsoever God hath decreed shall come to passe cannot be avoided by any industry of man nay it were madnesse in any to attempt it and lost labour if he did but Mr. Lilly hath affirmed and with a sic est in fatis that the Parliament shall overcome the King and His adherents and
therefore it were madnesse in them to cast away their dearest lives and their estates to boote in the Kings quarrell sith all is but lost labour Thus have many a thousand in this Kingdome been hobgoblin'd into Rebellion against their lawfull Soveraigne If this will not prevaile he hath yet another baite for the devouter sort of men he saith that the Parliament and Army are Gods I nstruments Ergo. saith he and they believe it to excellent logick yea and very good divinity too you ought to adhere to the Parliament and not affront them as of late A speciall concluding argument indeed but good M. Lilly is not the Divell too Gods Instrument makes not God sometimes use of him as we do of a Hang-man to execute his pleasure must we therefore adhere to the Devill no certainly I cannot sufficiently wonder at the madnesse of men in suffering themselves to be so long deluded by meere false shoods and forgeries even such as are to be discerned by every eye if they wink not on purpose but this was alwayes the fashion of the world to believe falsehood easily hardly to believe the truth Tunc etiam fatis aperit Cassandra futuris Ora dei jussa non unquam credita Teucris But that the Kingdome may be no longer deluded by such a cheating sycophant I am resolved to enter the Lists against this demigorgon this helsent fury our junior Merlin not doubting but to confute his sophistry by reason his Astrologie by Astrologie his Cacodemology by the word of God and by that time I have throughly uncased him I doubt not but he will appear to all the World more ridiculous then the Apes of India that mockt the Macedonian Army I desire not to derogate any thing from M. Lillies abilitie in the art of Astrology I am verily perswaded that he is a good proficient therein and understands rightly a great part thereof but he that wilfully and purposely shuts his eyes that he may not see deserves to be lasht with many stripes I protest ingenuously I never had any intentions of shewing my self in Print upon this subject till I saw M. Lillies Ephemeris for this year which was not till June and then I was in a manner compelled to this taske for either I must write a confutation or some body else or else the Kingdome must be still deluded gull'd and cheated with forgeries and lies and Astrologie an art which I extreamly love be condemn'd therefore Before I had fully perfected my confutation of his Ephemeris he puts forth his judgement upon the parelii and the conjunction of Saturne and Mars which as soone as I had perused I found it so full of Contradictions Treason Falsehood and such a ridiculous piece of foppery as the eye of man nor that greater of the world scarce ever yet beheld which made me conclude that Master Lilly had now even sold himself to work wickednesse which put me on to write a Confutation of both his said Bookes with all the speed I could In the doing of which it cannot be expected but that he vaunting so much as he doth of his own abilities as to call those who contradict him Manapian Astrologers the scorne of Art Changelings c. that when I finde him tripping I should bite him a little with my cynick tooth when I finde him feighning or failing if I lash him soundly with my Satyrs whip My Love to my Country my Allegiance to my Soveraign my Respect to Art and my just detestation of all such vaunting and Machivilian Traitors challenge of me and must receive from me no lesse no lower satisfaction I had no other sinister motives to induce me thereunto as hatred malice envie c. and so he unfeignedly protesteth who is Thine in his best endeavours H. I. ALthough the dire influence of that prodigious Comer in 16.18 so fatall to Germany Spaine Ireland England and most Kingdomes in Europe be now by the divine permission of Almighty God transmitted beyond our English Horizon to go visit some remoter clymates yet we have still saith Mr. Lilly the distempered effects of the parelij or 3 Suns visible in Lancashire Aprill the 3d. 1647 8 forcibly operating and not determined We are subject I am sure at present to the influence of the square of Saturn and Iupiter imminent the 29 or March last upon the 9 of March last the sun entred Aries Upon the 10th of June last the sun entred cancer Upon the 28 of June there hapned a conjunction of Saturne and Mars Upon the 12th of September the sun encred Libra Upon the 20 of November there hapneth an Eclipse of the Moone and upon the 11. of December the Sun enters Capricorne The 3. foremost and only those Mr. Lilly makes use of in his Ephimeris for this yeare but in his book called an astrologiall prediction of the occurrences of England he adds the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars from these as from his basis he extracts his Iudg. ment for this yeare he considers not at all the suns ingresse into Cancer Libra and Capricorne notwithstanding the ascendant of the Suns ingress into Aries be a moveable signe yea and the latter degrees thereof and therefore cannot possibly signifie the actions of above one quarter of a yeare as most and let him produce any good Author to the contrary I will yeeld him the bucklers without further dispute Nor yetdoth he consider the eclipse of the Moon I shall from the ail as for my basis and ground worke extract my Judgment of thiâ— yâ—â—r And so Mr. Lily ought to have done had he desired to have enformed either himselfe or his Reader right Nay Mr. Lilly himselfe imputes this as a fault to M. Wharton upbraiding him that he fetcht his hotch-potch Oracles with which he so deluded the people meerly from the Coniunction of Saturn and Mars whereas every one ought he saith to consider the suns ingresse into the 4. Cardinall points with all the remarkable conjunctions and aspects of the year the most materiall whereof he himselfe omitteth and so becomes guilty of that himselfe which he so much taxeth in others I desire therefore it may be put to the vote whether he deservs not to be lasht with the self same whip which he prepared for them Binorum Paresioâ—um 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Feb. 28. 1647 48 There is hardly any one thing amrmed by any Author de parelijs which is not again contradicted by some other author it will be a matter therefore of great difficulty for me or any man else amongst so many different opinions to distinguish truth from falshood and consequently to give any certaine judgmement of these parelij or false Suns seen in Lancashire as Mr. Lilly reporteth I saw them not my selfe but doubtlesse such mock Suns do sometimes appeare though there are some that will hardly grant it yea do stoutly deny it whither they proceed from a natural cause or whether they be miraculous I will not dispute nor
their utter undoing had not Mercury the dispositor of Iupiter beheld the ascendent by a trine espect this will make them peece againe for a time but Saturne and Mars in their second house will signifie great expence of Treasure and much losse by fire and War at least to some of them Iupiter as he is Lord of the 10th is in the 10th from the 10th and beholds it with a sextile aspect and Saturne Lord of the 11th in the second with a trine This will doubtlesse signifie â—e est 〈◊〉 to his Maiesty and the recovery of his 〈◊〉 yea and his pristine honour Not long after the Suns enterance into Cancer viz. about the 28 of Iune there hapened a conjunction of Saturne and Mars the two malevosent and worst of planets in Gemini neere oculus Tauri in the 8th house of Heaven whose insluence will produce wonderfull alterations but not without other concurrent causes as Mr. Lilly well observeth but there are other concurrent causes enough 〈◊〉 too many if it pleased God to cooperate with this conjunction both before subsequent especially the eclipse of the moon within three degrees of the very Place of the conjunction it selfe and it hapens also in the 7 and 8. houses of heaven very neer unto oculas tauri and the very body of Saturne and this Mr. Lilly himselfe coufesseth saying that this conjunction is neer oculus tauri a most violent fixed star if we beleeve either our own experience or that of the ancients for there did never happen any Eclipse conjunction or opposition of the Superiours neer that Part of Gemini but it produced admirable and wonderfull effects add to this that the first conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in the fiery trigon was in the yeare 603. in opposition almost to the very degree of this coniunction We have sad cause I am sure his Maiesty hath to remember the effects of the Eclipse of the Sun in the tenth of Gemini annoâ— 1639. much more reason will the Parliament have to remember this coniunction and the Eclipse of the Moon in that place Yea Mr. Lilly himselfe confesseth this a very sad pofition of heaven for the Parliament able utterly upon the first fight yea and the second too to puzzle a weak yea Mr. Lillyes strong affection for I doubt he himself hath no more then humane principles We have Mars saith he their Significator because Lord of the Ascendent in the 8th house in conjunction with Saturn neer Oculus Tauri a sad Planet and more dismall fixed star The house he also confesseth to be the worst of houses and that it signifies to the Parliament a sad and distracted condition yea he himselfe confesseth further that it imports a parliment strugling and gasping for breath and life and that London also is the most of any city in Europe concerned in this conjunction as also that the least misehief that thereupon can happen to that City Will be sedition uproares famine if not Gloudshed And a little before hee is yet more ingenious confessing positively thas God out of his infinite mercy not preventing war and bloudshed will succeed in this very City Page 39. and I fear they will find all this and much more true enough which I shall anou discover Mutantur regna et dominia et fides sectaeque et opiniones hominum dum mutantur auges planetaru de figno in signum dico illarum gentium quarum fignificator erit plaeneta augiâ—s permntae mutatioque erit ad bonum vel ad malum secundum naturam significatorum superiorum conjunctionum illorum temporum et secundum naturam signi permutationis That is Kingdomes and Governments Leagues Sects and mens opinions do change and vary when the anges of the planets move out of one figne into another I say of these nations whose significator is the planet of the changed auges And this alteration shall be for good or ill according to the nature of the signisicators of the superior conjunctions of those times and according to the nature of the signe of mutation Mars is the generall significator of England whose abssis or Aphelium is at present in four signs twenty nine degrees fifty two minutes and one and twenty seconds that is 29. deg 52. min. 21. of Leo and sin the year 1656. this absis will remove into Virgo about which year M Lylly saith we must expect a strange Catastrophe in this Common wealth and Monarchy of England for Mars cannot protect Aries and Uirgo whom he beholds not all this is Mr. Lyllyes I will not own it nay I shall willingly and ingeniously confesse that I understand not why this should be so fatall to England or to London as he would make us beleive yet am I clear of his opinion in that which followes that a very sad disastre to the City is much to be feared long before that time Have a care London thou art already strongely and strangely threatned and wilt be suddainly more have a care thou rebellest no longer against thy King thou maist put an end to these Wars when thou pleasest and thou hadst a principall stroake in beginning them do what thou meanst to do quickly 't will be else too late Remember the old prophecy part of which thou knowest to be already fulfilled Lincoln was London is and Yorke Chall be the greatest City of the three Scorpio a fixed signe ascends and I shall easily grant Mr. Lilly that all the angles of the figure are also fixed and in trine to Pisces the signe ascending at the Parliaments first fitting but that all or any of these shall or can rebus sic stantiâ—us signifie that the Parliament shall stand firm and not be dissipated I absolutely deny and affirme the contrary to be true and evident in point of Art And let him but produce good Authors to second his assertion and I will willingly yeeld him the Bucklers in this case I thinke any Artist will think him mad or worse to judg this a sufficient reason therefore the Lord of the Ascendent being with Saturn and Oculus Tauri he knowes or at least should know signum ut corpus Planetaut anima there is little promised by any signe of Heaven which hath no planet in it nor yet well aspecting it he is almost ashamed I perceive of this reason by that which followes for he confesseth that their unfaithfull branches and rotten boughs must be lopt off We desire no more there are for all this I hope diverse honest men amongst them who greive at the Kings and Kingdoms sufferings and would help it if they could When Mr. Lilly affirmeth that this conjunction signifieth good to the Parliament quia ex duabus infortunis fit fortuna he himself contradicts what he said before and dotes most wickedly most miserably I deny not the Aphorisme 't is Ptolemies but I deny this sence of it 't is Mr. Lillies I doubt not indeed but it will produce much good to the Kingdome none to
what the matter is of which they are made but it is a very materiall quaere and worthy to be resolved whether they proceed from naturall causes or be miraculously framed by Angells as Mr. Lilly asserteth For if they proceed from naturall causes 't is then probable that they signifie nothing but weather if other wise then doubtles their signisication is great and of a much larger extent I will not contend with Mr. Lilly in this question because t is disputable It shall be my care not to justle with him till I be sure to foile him These parelij appeare most in Northren clymats commonly in the morning the Son being neare the horizon their motion is alwayes with the Sun and they ever keep the same distance from him their continuance is very short seldome a bove an houre and a quarter at most Many Authors do â—â—isly deny these parelij to have any other signification then upon weather some contend stoutly that they have Amongst so many different and indeed contrary opinions it will be dub ous what to affirme but doubt lesse the best way will be to imitate nature in resolving such Riddles I will therefore cull out from Mr. Lillies collections such aphorismes as are likest to be true and then from them all extract a judgement 1. Parelij sunt monitores de insidij et consilije clandestinis quae ineuntur adversus eos qui in magno splendore dignitatis rerum potiuntur Thus in English parelij or mock Suns do admonish of treacheries and Clandestine counsells against men of great dignity had it said thus I should have lik't it better and questionlesse it had bin truer they are Monitors of treacherous plots and Clandestine counsells against some King or Prince by such as would dethrone him or make him away for without doubt a true Sun signifies a lawfull King a mock Sun an usurper and this will clearly appear by the second 2. Diversa parelia Regni eiusdem gubernatores fere diverses aut viros fere Principes representant circulus autem regni partes aut civitates verus ille Sol circuli medio personanâ— regiam apta similitudine monstrat Gem Divers or many parelij represent the Governours of the same Kingdome to be many or they personate men of almost princely rank or like Princes the true sun in the midd le of the circle declares byan apt comparison a regall person of the same Kingdome the Circle about the suns shew the parts or Cities of â—â—at Kingdome 3. Cum fictisoles veluti satellites verum solem cingunt tunc in captivit atem cadunt summi Reges When mock suns like Yeomen of the Gard do encompasse the true Sun then greatest Princes shall fall into captivity 4. Tres soles triumvir at us esse signa et suo tempore significasse imperia Caroli quinti Caesaris Henrici secundi Gallorum Regis et Solimani Turcarum Sultani asserit Cardanus 3. Suns Signifie honour to be conferred on three or many deserving men and in his time did signifie the Emperour Charles the 5th Henry the 2d King of France and of Solimon Sultan or Emperour of Turkie But I like very little of this Aphorisme nor is it likely to be true for the mock suns cannot signifie deserving men nor shall such ever possesse that Kingdome they expect because they quickly vanish and leave the true Sun in possession though they besiege him and imprison him for a time Hi statum mundi sibi subiectum indicaus non in futurum sed de die presente indicant autens schismata et similia resque adâ—â—irandas et rare sierâ— solitas praecipue autens evidentia deliria ac indicantur et conatus stulti superiorum it aque sicut Duos soles existere superfluum est it a superfluum est quod illi indicant These parelij intimate the state of the world subject unto them what shall presently not long after succeed they foreshew Schismes c. wonderfull matters and such as are seldome used to be done especially evident madnesse and the foolish endeavours of great men so that as there is no necessity of 3 Suns so there is no need of such things as they signifie 6. Parelius aquas aut ventos promittit saith Paulus the Minerva a mock Sun signifies raine or a tempest The signisication of the Parelij seemes therefore to be this A sun whither true or false signifies a King a true Sun a lawfull King a mock-sun an usurper or one that would be a King here are two mock suns there are therefore two that would be Kings perhaps Fairfax and Cromwell false suns admonish of Treason and treachery to be performed by the mock-suns against their lawfull Soveraign whom they would either dethrone or make away have already imprisoned as appears by the mock suns encompassing the true Certainly these mock suns which inviron the true sun must signifie the Parliament and army or if you will the Presbyterian and the Independent These mock suns signifie Treasons Treacheries Schismes Heresies and clandestine councells then acting against the true Sun But as it is a superfluous thing to have two or 3 suns so is that wich they go about that is playing King Catchers Though they so much desire it yet shall they never come to be Kings to the Halter they may for the mock Sunnes suddainly vanish leaving the true sun shining in the firmament at last free from confinement whence I gather that his Majesty shall com at length out of prison and that whosoever desires to weare his Diadem shall go without it for the mock suns quickly vanished they shall never therefore obtain their aime The Eclipse of the Moon in November next in Gemini will soon after without all question banish the Parelij or mock suns into the land of darknesse What think you Mr Lilly is not this the naturall explication of our parelij But Mr. Lilly would have the true sun to signifie the Parliament and the mock suns their opposers and his reason 't is judicium sine judiciâ— is because these was at the time of the appearance or the pareâ—j â—oe viâ—â—â—â— face of authority but what was in them what then the authority is the Kings de jure though theirs de facto The Parliament was not imprisoned the true Son was invironed by the mock suns ergo the true sun signifies the King a the Parliament is excellent 〈◊〉 and most significantly represented by the mock suns invironing the true for they keep him prisoner c that they might make use or his power and Authority Let any indifferent man judge between us Here should have bin inferred a Scheame for the time of the appearance of the Pareâ—lij and let the Golden ball be give to him who hits the truth This Scheme which was set at the the time of the appearance of the parelij were it exactly don as I much doubt it was not it were superfluous to judge it but yet let Mr Lilly say what he will
this very Scheme is ten times more for the King then for the Parliament nay Mr. Lilly himself though at unawares confesseth as much in these words Yet this of necessity will follow either an amendment or a complyance of the Members themselves or a finall revolt of the People from them Testimonium tunm quod in aliena re leve est hoc contrate grave est The Moone who signifies the people opposeth both the Ascendant and the Sun their significator and after her separation from the opposition of Sol snee applyes forcibly to the trine of Saturn Lord of the 11. in the 2. and this must needes signifie victory to the King although the tayle of the Dragon be in the 10th house for that signifies only scandalls falls and some danger by poyson to the King Jupiter Lord of the ascendant retrograde hurts the Parliament more then the King for he oposes the ascendant there are many therefore of the Parliament men who will be for the King against the Parliament The Moone in opposition to the sun both well fortified in angles argues a defection of most of the kingdome from them and their adherance to the King in regard the Moone applyes immediately after her separation to Saturn our freind in the second But Mr. Lilly affirmeth that the King declined in honour even since the appearance of the mock-suns in 1644. and doubtlesse he would have him decline worse still upon the appearance of these new mock-suns but see how ridiculous he makes himselse there is no Artist but knowes that it was the Comet in 1618. and the great conjunction of Saturne and Iupiter and the Eclipse of the Sun in 1639. which brought his Majesty so low And the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Gemini in the 8th house near Oculus Tauri and the Moon Eclipsed in the 7th and the 8th houses in Gemini near the body of Saturne will bring the Parliament lower The figure of the Suns ingresse into Aries for the Meridian of London Here are 3. Shemes wanting the first for the Suns ingresse into Aries 9. Martij the second for the square of Saturne and Jupiter 29 Martij the third for the Conjunction of th Sun and Sarne 16. Maij. hath 26. degrees and 50. minuts of Libra ascending which signe in regard it is moveable causeth that this Scheme shall signifie unto us the actions but of one quarter of this yeare especially there being so few degrees thereof in the Ascendent and this is the unanimous opinion of all the learned in this art although Mr. Lilly thinking it fittest for his purpose would needs perswade us to the contrary and would have it serve for the whole yeare but even reason it selfe would perswade us had the learned bin silent herein that the fag end of a moveable sign ascending there is no great heed or trust to be had to such a figure and yet for this quarter it must direct us viz. Vntill the Sun enrers the signe Cancer For as much as the ascending signe is moveable doubtlesse a great change of humane affaires approacheth concerning the Rites Priviledges Lawes and Customes of this Kingdome si cutera concenserint as here they do Venus is Lady of the asccnding signe but Saturne hath more dignities therein viz. his exaltation and triplicity neither of them have much to do in the Ascendent as the case stands for in regard there are so sew degree of Libra in the ascendent they quickly leave their rule to Mars and then the dominion of the succeeding part of the year is in a manner wholly committed unto Mars not so much because he governs the signe Scorpio intercepted in the ascendent at the time of the vernal-ingres as Mr. Lilly would have it but because he is the principall Planet in most of the lunations and remarkable Aspects happening this year Clandestine practises shall therefore now faile and deeds of Armes be very frequent in many parts of this Kingdome Mr. Lilly cryes peace but to our costs we have and shall find that we shall not enjoy the settled conditon he promiseth this year will not produce it Si Mars fuerit Dominus anni directus et non aspexerit Ascendentem fignificat plurimas combustiones et nocumentum ab ignibus et agritudines quae advenient hominibus causa sangninis et destructionem vegitabilium causa valetudiuis ventorum If Mars be Lord of the year direct and behold not the ascendent it signifies much burnings and hurts by fire many diseases in men caused by peccant blood and destruction of vegitables by the grcatnesse of winds In the Plenilunium preventionall he is in the 11th house in conjunction with Mer. in opposition to the Moone this signifies great enmity amongst freinds Consumption of much treasure his posation in the revelation in the fifth denounceth much Fornication Adultery and Mortality in the Southren parts Saturn in the 8. house signifies much detriment and losse to the place which is subject to that signe he is in tribulation anguish and many contentions Saturn is in porigeo as near the earth as he can be and meets with Mars in Gemini where there are many stars of contrary nature this but not only this was the cause of the wetnesse and coldnesse of the yeare The Parelij also did promise and foreshew the same for Parelius ventos aut pluvias promittit there are also some other reasons in art therefore as you shall heare anon Luna in quartain signo infor tunato erit populuâ— fortiter obsessus et accident ei carceres et anxietates graves The Moon in the 4th house in an unfortunate sign signifies that the people shall be strongly beseiged and divers shall be imprisoned and great and heavy Calamities shal happen Shee is in this Scheme in Aquary the house of Saturn in conjunction with Venus lady of the eighth house both of them aspected by the late full square of Saturn in the eight the greatest infortune and in the worst of houses but if wee beleive Mr. Lilly be tells us that the Moon is fortunate because conjoyned to Venus but Venus her selfe here is Lady of th house of Death and consequently as bad as any Planet in the figure except Saturn who is locally in that house howsowever she could never take off the malicious in fluence of Saturn who squares them both from the 8. for this is a rule which no Artist will deny si times Saturnum oppone Iovem si Martem oppone Uenerem The truth of the former rule though he denyeth not yet he cruelly taxeth Mr. Wharton for his application of it to the Moon in that figure but the event has answered his prediction cont radicted Mr. Lillyes calumnies and this and his other almost infinite and grosse mistakes this yeare in point of Art will chronicle him a dotard to all posterity Especially this which followes which he stands so stiffly to maintain Venus saith he is Lady of the Ascendant Mars Lord also thereof is in
the house of Inpiter and Iupiter himselfe in the 10. the Moone also who hath usually representation of the common condition of mankind being not unfortunate but applying to the conjunction of venus gives us great reason sayth he to hope well and to live in assurance that the common-wealth of England shall not this yeare be molested with warre That every man shall live at his own house and in his owne Vocation and Calling quietly and securely Countreymen What say you to this Certainly 't is a faire pro mise but is it true is he master of his word no thing lesse We all know t is absolutely false yet everie man is not sensible for all this of the greatnesse and grossenesse of this mistake It must not be understood barely as an assertion of Mr. Lillyes but as a confutation of Mr. Wharton who predicted war as he had good reason to doe as God-willing I shall shew anon but that I may goe throughly and soundly to work with him I will first confute his mistaken grounds Verily saith he this is no fiction of ours but the opinion of those reverend professors who studied this science long before us From whom Origanus he sayth drawes this inference fol. 5.22 In anni et quartarum revolutionibus an t thematibus lunationum si luna sive firma ct potens sit in angulo velsuccedente domâ— in dignittiabus suis sive debilis et cadens extra dignitates applicueri beneficeo alicui planetae Jovi aut Veneri significat status populi fortunatins quo lucrd eidem accrescent et abundnbunt necessaria et si applicuerit Veneri erit bilaritas gaudiums et frequentia connubiorum which he thus translates In the revolution of a yeare and the severall schemes of lunations if the Moon whether she be strong and powerfull in an angle or a succedent house in her own dignity or admit she be weak and cadent yet if she apply to any benevolent planet as Iupiter or Venus the state or condition of the people shall be signified successefull and fortunate in which yeare they shall encrease their estates and abound in all manner of necessarie provisions and if that fortune to whom the Moone shall apply be Venus as now the common people shall much rejoyce be frolick and very cheerfull That these words are in Origamus I will not deny nor that they be rightly rendered by him in English but that he mis-understands and mis-applyes Origamns is plaine to a novice in this Art for admit the moon to be so and so posited yea and so and so applying also which is more then the rule requires and some other planet or planets in the scheme contradicting ORIGANUS will not then affirme that she so and so posited so and so applying shall take off the significations of the other planets for if this had bin his meaning that the Moon should rule all the Rost in that businesse the rules which Mr. Lilly soone after tites out of Haly. had bin to no purpose and his very quoting of Haly against Mr. Wharton makes for me against himselfe Againe Origanus speaks of Iupiter and Venu's when they are fortunes they are not alwayes so viz. when they are in the sixth eighth tenth or twelfth houses or are Lords of those houses as here Venus is Lady of the 8th and the Moone her selfe hath great dominion therein and both Venus and the Moone are disposed off by Saturne who is locally in the 8th in square to them both an ill aspect the worst of houses and the greatest in fortune He does but trifle therefore and abuse Origanus and che ancients to affirme of them which they never meant nor did any man that ever I saw heard or read of ever understand him so he must therefore baâ—lk the authority of Orig. But Haly fits him to a haire his authority shall carry it if he puts his words into true English He saith Semper in revolutione cave et respice Martem quia si bonus fuerit et in bono statu melius succedit negotium vassalorum regis et exercituum which he thus translates into English In every revolution be well advised in giving judgement and have respect to the place of Mars for if he be well posited and in a good state the businesse of the Kings Subjects and their Armies shall the better succeed No Sir this the businesse of the Kings Subjects and his Armies shall the better succeed He hath produced Haly absolutly against himselfe yet he saith that this is an assured testimony that the Common wealth of England shall nor this year be molested with Warr or much troubled and offended with the Souldier Good Mr. Lilly does exercitus in your Dictionary signifie peace if it signifies an Army as mine saith it does why then it is quite against you not for you he saith the King's Armies shall thrive and you say we shall have peace Peace is the end of War indeed but the Souldier is armed to fight But he will be sure to make it for his parpole one way or other of it does speak of War it shall say or Mr. Lilly will make it that the Parliament shall beat the King but Latine Haly Saith that exercitus regis shall thrive not the people and their Armies If the King's Armies thrive the Parliaments must sing Lacrymae woe is me well a day But to be serious Halyes meaning is that when Mars is strong he does the lesse mischiefe the word is melius not bene yet Mr. Lilly and all men must grant that Mars is semper in fortuna Well Haly hath hitherto deceived him also and yet he is resolved to try him once againe produce him let him speak but know that is you traduce him againe his action of scandall against you will be doubtlesse far more valid and vigorous He quotes him fol. 364. and tells us truly that be saith Nota quod planeta qui est deminâ—â— et significator anni quando invenitur in aliquo signorum significat secundum proprietatem ip fius planetae et secundum ipsius proprietatem loci in quo versatur de domibus figurae et secundum statum et ejus fortunam et infortunia quia per fortunam et bonuns statum fignificat benum et meliorem sucessum et gaudium et si Mars fuerit significat quod homines vincent homines inimicos suos c Which he translates into English thus Observe that planet who is significator of the year in which of the 12. signs he is found be assured he shall signifie according to theproperty of the Planer Sign house of Heaven in which he is posited and according to his state for tune or unfortunatnesse for that planet well fortified shall signifie good successe joy gladnesse c. And if Mars shall at any time be so qualified in a revolution it imports the com monaity shall overcome their Enemies That Haly speaks heere manifestly for Warr he himselfe confesseth for so his
the fourth house in conjunction with Venus Lady of the Ascendent this makes Mr. Lilly cry out oh happy Parliament thon shalt stand for ever and never be enforced so much as to stoope But who disposes of the Moone and Venus Does not Saturne What is he almuten of the ascendent one of the Parliaments significators but the greatest infortune where is he in the 8. house most infortunate for it is the house of Death who disposes of him The Moone and Venus where are they in the 4th house what is the signification of that house The end of all things Why then by Mr. Lilles favour this very Scheme shall signifie that notwithstanding the Parliament shall flourish yet a while yet in the end they shall be conquered and brought low yea many of them shall dye a death shamefull and ignominious nor can the double mutuall reception of Saturne and Venus by house of Saturn and the Moone by triplicity hinder for Satuone almuten of the Parliaments ascendent Their house of life is in the house of death extreamely unfortunate and beholds their other significators viz. both the Moone and Venus with a hatefull square in the fourth house the end of all things What think you Mr. Lilly does not this signifie unto them death or at leaft dishonour If we consider the square of Saturne and Iupiter the 29 of March soon following the suns ingresse into Aries about 26 of Leo is in the cuspe of the Ascendent and Iupiter retrograde very neer the cusp who yet comes to be direct before he comes to the degree of the ascendent Jupiter therefore the Sun are in this scheme the Parliaments significators but principally Iupiter for plus valet plenota corporali praesentia quam dominio absentriae Jupiter is a very good planet Mr. Lilly and to speake truth he is the best and most benevolent of the seaven but is he not retrogade Mr Lilly that signifies that though Iupiter wil support the parliament for a time yet they shall grow weaker and weaker run backwards loose but not suddainly in regard the Sun is so strong in the very degree of his exaltation and from thence beholding the Ascendent and Iupiter with a freindly trine But Good Mr Lilly let me aske you one question more what houses are Iubiter Lord of the 8. and the fourth Death therefore and dishonour shall be their guerdon at last for as Iupiter is Lord of the fourth he sigfies the end and as he is Lord of the 8. he signifies death especially being in the ascendent the house of life as he is retrograde and 2 slow Planet so he signifies that they shall go by Degrees Leo is a regall signe the sun also is in a nother this intimates their ambition That they would be Kings but Iupitor retrograde in leone spoyles their Maiesty dethrones them quite especially if you consider that Saturn in the 10. sends his square to Iupiter in the Ascendent beleieve it Mr. Lilly they must fall and have a rousing knock His maiesties Signisicators in this Scheme are Saturn the Moon and Mercury Saturn is by nature an inforrune yea the greatest of all out what houses is he Lord of the 8.9 and 10. from the 10 pray God there were not nor yet be some treachery to take away his Maiesties life I am much affâ—aid that lurida terribiles miscent aconita noverca But in regard that Venus his dispositrix is so strong I hope providence wil preserve him and will help him to evade their malice Saturn as he is Lord of the 10 from the 10th will restore him though with much dissiculty for Saturn retards all chings and gives what soever he gives with labour difficulty Saturn in the 10. in square to the ascendent and to Iupiter retrograde therein signifyes that the parliamentshall be forced though unwillingly to restore unto the King his Rights and dignityes which Mercury lord of the second in the cuspe of the tenth plainly also denotes Mercury is Lord of the Parliaments house of substance and of the Kings too now not farre from the cuspe of the 10th therefore his Maiesties estate is not farre from regaining The Dragous tayle in the culpe of the 11th signifies many false friends to his Majesty who will not long from this time appeare pretending faire meaning hollowly doubtlesse they will buy him and fell him once againe and slander him what they can it impedites also the actions of his truest friends for his succour but dabit Deus his quoque finem The Prince will bring them on their knees for Saturne is Lord of the 5 t. and the case will be much altered anon I doubt not In May last there hapned a conjunction of the Royall Sun and Sullen Saturne in the 10 house which did much impedite his Majestyes Actions a long time and put his very life in dangerâ— but caput Draconis being there it could not hurt his life Mercury is both for the King and parliament but he disposeth of the Sun and Saturne and is conjoyned to Mars the King could not there fore as long as the fury of this conjunction lasted thrive in Military affaires nor the City of London rise to help him it will do something one day Oh London take heed many remarkable Aspects have and shall happen this yeare in Gemini Summer begins the 10th of Iune Here should been inserted 2. Schemes one for the Sun's ingresse into cancer the other for the Conjunction of Saturn Iupiter The first haâ—ning IYNE the 10. the other the 10 of IVNE 10. minuts past 11. a Clock at night at which time the glorious Sun enters Cancer The Moone within 3. quarters of an houre being in conjunction with him obscuring his bright body and causing a great and fearfull Eclipse but not visible to us all the planets being at that time subterranean in this Iupiter and the Moon are for the Parliament Iupiter and the Sun for the King for Iupiter is Lord of the first and tenth The Moon is combust in the fourth House which very thing would have absolutely destroyed the Parliament at that time or neere it had not the Dragons head bin so neere the Moone and the Sun been Eclipsed this therefore up holds for a while their drooping spirits long it cannot The Eclipse of the Sun hurts not the King much in regard it is not visiale and consequently the effects of this Eclipse will be obscure to us yet some mischiefe it doubtlesse did The Dragons tayle in the roth gives feare of poyson or of hurt by a Horse or by riding or else some mischeise by fire or Iron God blesse his Majesty from danger of death and from scandalls and slanders raised against him by black mouth d Villaines Iupiter the other significator both of the King and Parliament is in the 7th house opposing the ascendent the Parl. therefore will oppose the Parliament and great dissension will doubt lesse be amongst themselves enough to have caused
them that their criticall day of their great clymactericall year approacheth and is hard at hand I meane the Eclipse of the Moone the 20 of November and that will doubtlesse make impatient death presse out their few remaining spirits The Sun The Ecclipse of the Moon the Moone and Mars are for the Parlirment mercury is the Kings significator the Moon is Eclipsed in Gemini in the seventh and eighth houses of heaven death therefore ignominy and reproach are all falling upon the heads of some great ones at Westmiuster Farewell Command at Sea the Ships must be some sanke some taken some will revolt none will remaine the Sun is in their ascendent with the Dragons taile beware a horses night-cap scape it if you can 't is ill physick what thinke you Mr. Lilly will not this crop away the superfluous branches you talke of It will make the people revolt You remember that the Eclise of the Sun in 1639. was a very great cause of the Kings sorrow how much greater sorrow will this cause to those who have thus long sed him with the bred of bitternesse and water of affliction for if you marke it it happens in the same signe house and almost degree of the signe that the Conjunction of Saturne and Mars did and cooperates therewith This indeed will worke suddainly will divide betweene the very bones and marrow His Majesties significator Mercury is singularly posited in the second house in Conjunction with Venus who is in reception by house with Jupiter What thinke you Sir will this restore His Majesty or not Take heed if it does as assuredly it will you know who has Gemini ascending at his nativity a halter stretch him Let me tell you Sir this wil restore His Majesty unlesse He be made away by poyson and I hope betweene this and Febr next I beseech God protect Him and my hopes are strong he will This Eclipse also signifies death at least great danger of death to a Lady of very great fame and worth Mr. Booker saith well that it is much to be doubted whether the aire will be cleare enough to have the Eclipse visible because of the nearnesse of the Eclipsed luminary to the body of Saturne and the opposition of the Sun causing a very great apertio portarum to raine winds and a great distemper in the aire much about that time but certaine I am it will be felt and so smartly that diverse will curse the very day of their births and the wombe that brought them forth Looke to 't Mr. Lilly you and all your friends Eclipsis Lunae in primis decem gradibus Geminorum sacerdotibus in quovis ordine sacris initiatis dissentionem lites seditiones aggerit odia infanda legum cotemptum pietatis etiam neglectum concitat in cursiones rapinas hostium minatur The Moone Eclipsed in the first ten degrees of Gemini stirs up amongst and against the Clergy dissentions strifes seditions it signifies also hatred contempt of the Laws the neglect of piety and the incursions and rapines of enemies Haly saith that quando Luna Eclipsi obruit saturnum cooperit eum morietur Rex Clarus magni nominis in terra occidentis but I see no reason for it an Eclipse of the Sun would indeed have signified such a thing and it is to be feared even in this scheame I confesse because the Sun is something near the Dragons taile Another saith destructionem vini multas infirmitates in hominibus egritudines bubones significat magnum caedem inter regem vulgus multum malum multas angustias ad venientes regibus propter inobedentiam militum corum eis Thus in English it signifies an ill vintage many diseases and infirmities and buboes that is pestilentiall or veneriall botches it signifies a great slaughter between the King and Commons and many straits to Kings by reason of the disobedience of their Souldiers but M. Lilly himselfe acknowledgeth that the Moone signifies the Parliament those Westminsterian or mock-sun Kings not true Kings those that would be Kings but are not so nor ever shall be This Eclipse happeneth in the seventh and eighth houses of heaven quarum significationes sunt multae interfectiones infirmitates multa bella rumores legum institutionum sectarumque mutationes multa concupiscentia in mulieribus miptis impregnatio multa It signifies many slaughters and infirmities much Wars and rumours the changing of Institutions Lawes Sects much concupiscence in married women and many great bellies this year This Eclipse indeed will spare none from the King to the beggar especially of the Londoners or the inhabitants of that City who have the Sun Moone mid heaven or part of fortune in their nativities or revolution thereof or any direction of their principall significators from 4. degrees to 13. of Gemini Sagitarius Virgo or Pisces for it will afflict them one way or other Let London and Mr. Lilly beware for as I am credibly informed he hath Gemini ascending in his nativity Mr. Lilly would not have this Eclipse to operate till five moneths after it happeneth but Origanus a very good author one whom I had much rather confide in then in M. Lilly is of a quite contrary opinion viz. that Eclipses operate presently and M. Booker in his Almanack for this year cites him to prove it Consentaneum namque est Eclipses statim operari saith he from Origanus If Origanus saith true as I beleeve he doth then am I confident that before five moneths from the time of the Eclipse be run about Mr. Lilly himself and most of that fraternity must prove wandering Planets some to the block some to the gibbet some beyond Sea and then I hope if not before he will be so ingenuous as to confesse the present working of the influence of that dire Eclipse But suppose Mr. Lilly to be right in this that the Eclipse of the Moone workes not till five moneths after the time of the Eclipse as I know some very good authors are of that opinion it gives them but a little more liberty to repent it will surely fall upon them within nine moneths after the time of the Eclipse viz. by the end of August next I have finished my judgement of this year but before I conclude I must needs shew you some more of Mr. Lillies feinings and failings that you may evidently see his Oracles are not of equall authority with Sibils or old Merlins whose son he would counterfeit himselfe which I might if I would carpe at very thing he hath done amisse justly reckon amongst his feighnings and saylings but if he be Merlins son he is doubtlesse of a bastard brood He feigneth that he is a perfct lover of Monarchy and of His Majesty as his Soveraigne yea he saith that it will be a cordiall to his conscience when he dies that he loved Monarchy he now expresseth himselfe to the quick I hope you doe not thinke