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A03648	A concordancy of yeares Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes ... Newly composed and digested, by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles.	Hopton, Arthur, 1587 or 8-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13778; ESTC S104205	137,447	273

hid North-east windes Of the Raine-bow If two Raine-bowes appeare raine a Raine-bow presently after raine faire wether Presages from Thunder and Lightning If in sommer there be more thunder then lightning windes from the coast it thundred but if the lightning excéed raine lightning without thunder betokens raine and thunder if it lighten only from the North-west raine the ensuing day if from the North windes thence if from the South-North-west or full west if lighten especially in the night winde raine from those coasts morning thunder windes but mid-day thunder raine Presages by the Cloudes If the racke ride apace in the aire windes from that coast they come the worse if it come from the North or South if at Sunne-set the racks ride on both sides fromwards him tempest blacke cloudes flying out of the East rains at night but from the west raine the next day if the cloudes bee disparkled many together of the East flying like fléeces of wooll raine for 3 daies after when cloudes flye low séeming to settle vpon the tops of hils cold wether insueth but the mountaine tops being faire and cleare the wether will take vp if the cloudes séeme full charged and yet looke white withall which constitution of the aire is called by some Towers by others white wether haile is at hand If mistes come downe from the hils or descend from the Heauens and settle in the Valleyes it promiseth faire hot wether mists in the euening shew a hot day on the morrow The like when white mistes rise from waters in the Euening Prognostications by fires From the heauens we will procéed to our common fires The fire burning pale or kéeping a huzzing noyse stormy wether if the flame of fire or candle mount winding and wauing as it were winds the like if the fire or candle goe out of it selfe or kindle and take fire with much adoe Further when you discerne many sparkles gather together in the fire knitting one to another the coales hanging to the bottome or side of the pot newly taken off the fire the fire raked in the imbers kéepeth a spitting and sparkling from it if the ashes vpon the earth grow together or when the liue coale shineth brighter or burneth more then ordinary all these be tokens of raine Prognostications by water If the sea within the hauen after the departing of the flood in a low ebbe water be calme yet kéep a noyse rumbling within winde if it do thus by fits cold wether and raine if in a calme season the sea strond or water-bankes resound or make a noise great tempest the like of the sea it selfe the puffins swimming aboue water tell of cold wether for many daies the sea being calme heauing and puffing vp sheweth there is great store of winds within her which will shortly breaks out to a tempest Prognostications from Fishes and Fowles The Dolphin disporting vpon the waues foreshewes winds if they fling and dash the water this and that way and the sea be rough faire wether the Cuttle or little Calamaria Loligo launcing and flying about the water the Cockles or Winckles sticking hard to the grauell the Seavrchings thrusting themselues into the mudde or couered with sand the croking extraordinary of Frogges the low flying of Swallowes the chirping of Sparrowes the crying of Peacockes and Hearnes the bathing of Crowes the stinging of of Flyes and Gnats the early straggling of Sea-mewes the proking of their fethers by the Guls Malards Duckes all foreshew winde or raine Contrary the Water-fowle gather together and combate or Cranes make haste to flye into the middest of the land or Cormorants and Guls forsaking the waters or Cranes soring quietly aloft or Crowes or Rauens gaying against the Sunne are all tokens of faire wether But if the Howlat cry Chi-uit raine Rauens crying one to another as if they sobbed and vexed clapping themselues with their wings windes but doing it by interualles of time wet and winde the late returning home of Iacke-dawes hard wether also that working of the spinner the busie heauing of Moles the appearing of wormes Hennes resorting to the roost couered with dust the Ante busied with her Egges the Bées in faire wether not wandring farre abroad Bels heard further then ordinary the wallowing of dogges the alteration of the crowing of the Cocke befoken all fowle wether Prognostications of foure-footed Beasts The leaping and playing of shéepe such small cattell shew alteration of wether the crying of Swine Oxen beasts licking themselues against the haire or holding vp their nose and smelling into to the aire swine shaking hay or such like stuffe beasts eating gréedily or licking their hooues or sodainly moue here and there all signifie raine or fowle wether Prognostications from woods stones c. The hearbe Trefoile looketh rough against a tempest and the leaues thereof will stand staring vp as if it were afraid thereof Also if dishes stones or such like sweate or be wet if wainescot doores that ioyne well be stubborne to open if salt dissolue in the salt-saller or any solid body sweate looke for great raine the like is séene by the pissing of Dogges If there bee a rumbling noise or sounding in the mountaines and forrests or if the leaues of trées flicker and play themselues no winde stirring which foretell some change of wether the like prediction is gathered by the light downe of Poplares or Thistles flying to and fro in the aire looke what is said of the noise in forrests vnderstand the same here in vallyes and in the aire I cannot stand to runne into an ample discourse of this subiect lest I driue the quantity of my volume beyond my intent but they shall be amply handled in a Booke I haue to come forth called Cosmologia Meteorologia CHAP. XXIX Of the foure quarters of the yeare and first of Winter VVINTER the first quarter Astronomical taketh his beginning when the Sunne entreth into Capricorne during vntill he haue gone to the latter part of Pisces it is the coldest time of the yeare and the colder and dryer the wholsomer yet ouer much cold killeth trees in a warme region especially such that bee tender A warme and moist Winter is vnwholsome and an enemy to husbandmen but reasonable store of snow doth ranken the fields and preserue corne The diseases of this quarter bee pushes in the face leprosie tooth-ach red-spots feuers the scab fluxes of bloud by the inferiour parts paines of the eyes palsies gouts and such like Of the Spring THe Spring is the most comfortablest quarter in all the yeare and is of nature warme and moist for then the Sunne draweth neere to the Zenith comming towards the starres of a warme nature and then that East-winds blow dispearcing the superfluous humors making the earth apt to bring forth all things for the good and comfort of man This quarter beginneth when the Sunne entreth into Aries at what time the dayes and nights be equal and continueth vntill the 12 of Iune

bodies as the earth and mettals or into diaphane and transparent bodies as aire and water Or these kind of bodies some haue being onely as Stones some life and being as Trées some sense life and being as Beasts and others vnderstanding sense life and being as Man which is most noble of all other and therefore the Philosophers haue called him Microcosmus a little World which doth respond vnto the greater for as the motion of the whole glove is caused by the voluntary motion of an intellectuall substance which some call Daemones or Intelligentiae so man is moued by his intellectiue soule because as Aristotle hath proued Euery thing that is moued is moued by the vertue of another And as this most wonderfull frame or Machina doth containe all things in it selfe because Extra coelum nihil est so man by knowledge is all and at all nothing natural is hid from him being not without motions affectations equall to that glorious heauenly Hierarchie And to end this respondency betwixt Microcosmus and Cosmus betwixt Man and the World in man are two motions intellectuall sensuall the one to good the other to bad so in the world are two locall motions rationall and irrationall the one into the West the other into the East for as the irrationall motion is contrary to the rationall so is the intellectuall to the sensuall Man thus resembling the heauens became a Christian taking the denomination thereof from Christ Iesus being the proper name and Christ the surname Iesus being the name of his God-head and diuinity and Christ the name of his office and dignity Iesus in Gréeke being called Sother in Latine Saluator in English both signifying a Sauiour and in conclusion note from S. Bernard 4 creations of man The first without man woman as Adam out of the earth The second of man without woman as Euah of Adams rib the third of man woman as we are the 4 of a virgin without man as Christ of Mary CHAP. II. The definition of the World THe world is Heauen and Earth all things therein contained as well simple as mixt and as Moses testifies was made by God The Latines call it Mundus à mouendo because it is in continuall motion it is called of the Gréekes Cosmus à pulchritudo because it is most faire and beautifull as well by reason of the Elements and such transparent bodies as by reason of the resplendency of the Sunne Moone and Starres for indeede what is more admirable to behold which caused Plato to say eyes were giuen to man to view the glory of heauen as may also appeare by Ouid. Os hominum sublime dedit coelumque videre For what is a more sure testimony of the wonderfull workes of God or what greater delight is there to them that truly vnderstand it then the beholding of the glory of the Sunne Moone and Starres in obseruing their motions vpon their Excentrickes and Concentricks in noting the diuersity of aspect and radiations with their retrogradations and directions their magnitudes and distances and such like As for the name of heauen it is called with the Latines Coelum quià coelatum est pictatum ornatum CHAP. III. Of the diuision of the World THe world is diuided into two parts or regions Elementary and Aethereall The Elementary part is subiect vnto daily alteration and doth containe the Fire Aire Water and Earth The Aethereall region doth containe in his concauity the Elementary region and this Aethereall region is called of some Quinta essentia the quint-essence or fist substance which is a body of it selfe differing from all Elements and things Elementall as well in matter as in forme and no lesse in nature and quality containing no contrariety and being without corruption such is heauen and the matter thereof but the Elements are farre of otherwise not simple but compounded of viscotions matter for a pure Element cannot be seene because that which is pure wanteth colour and that which wanteth colour is not visible and therefore the Elements intermingle themselues according to their propinquity so that an Element is that whereof any thing is compounded they are the first of compositions yet of themselues not compounded for they bee imagined simple bodies in respect of other bodies compound and mixt of these Elements euery part taketh name of the whole as euery part of water is water and euery part of fire is fire They be diuisible into parts of diuers formes and of the commixion of them is made and ingendred diuers things of sundry kinds as well things vegitatiue as sensitiue rationall or irrationall and euery of these Elements hath nourisheth therein liuing creatures as the Salamander in our fire which is but an imperfect element because it is mixt with viscotious and earthy matter the Camelion in the aire which there also liueth and Birds which there abide the fish in the water Moles and wormes in the earth and man and beast vpon the earth and you must know that euery body compounded of the foure Elements is elementary not that they be Elements formerly but vertually in mixt bodies CHAP. IIII. Of the Elementall part of the World IN the Elementall part of the world is contained the earth the water aire and fire the superficiall conuexity of euery one of these resting in the superficiall concauity of the next superiour Element and therefore the earth hangeth in the concauity of the water the water in the concauity of the aire and the aire in the concauity of the fire euen as you sée the scales of onions one inclosed in another Now for the earth it is a round body like vnto a ball darke and solid without any concauity hanging by the prouidence of God fixed in the middest of the world insomuch that if you were in any other part of the earth you should be no neerer vnto the heauens then you are in England which moued the Philosophers to say Stellae aequae distare à centro terrae siue in Oriente siue in Occidente c. And the Earth as you shall perceiue hereafter is but a point in respect of the Heauens and is by nature cold dry Next aboue the earth is the water the earth hanging in the concauity thereof they both indéed making but one round globe as may appeare by the eclypse of the Moone the seas being bounded and limited by the earth as may appeare by Psal 107 and Iob. 38. the water is of nature cold and moist in compassing the superficiall conuexity whereof is the aire and is diuided into thrée regions the inferiour superiour and meane the inferiour is warme by reason of the reflection of the Sunne beames reuerberated and beateu backe by the earth the superiour is hote by occasion of the proximity of the fire and there Comets and fiery Meteors are ingendred the meane is coldest as well by the remotenesse of the fiery region as also for that the reflection and reuerberation of

at what time the Sunne hath runne through Aries Taurus and Gemini if the Spring be much moist the fruite will bee rotten and scarce but wéedes will abound if hoate the trées soone bring forth leaues the fruits of that quarter as Cheries c. will soone be ripe which being not gathered before their full maturity will bee subiect to wormes especially in warme regions but it is seldome with vs though frequent in Italy Roses will bee frome but not so swéete all such things shal better please the sight then that sent or tast if it bee cold and dry there will hoare frosts fall in the end of the quarter according to the full Moone the wine and fruits will be scarce being dry and not hot fruits will bee scarce but good with want of graine if it be cold the fruits will be late riping if it be wet with much South wind and the former Winter dry with Northen winds the next Summer will happen agues and bleerenesse dropping of the eyes and paine of the bowels A dry Spring with much Northen winds and a wet Winter full of Southerne winds going before causeth women with child to bee deliuered before their time or to bring forth weake children Gal. l. 3. Aphor. 3. So that if the quarter vary from his proper nature the commodities of the earth be made worse and scarce the ordinary diseases of this quarter bee leaprosies red spots tooth-ach feuers of bloud pushes or wheales in the face small-pox ring-wormes falling-sickenesse paines in the throate and necke the Kings euill wens griefes in the shoulders and armes causes by bloud Of Sommer SOmmer is of nature hot and dry like the fiery tryplicity or like the chollericke if taketh beginning when the Sun entreth Cancer continuing vntil he haue passed ouer Cancer Leo and Virgo and now is rage and choller most abounding being the hottest time 〈◊〉 the yeare but in the begining there rise certain●●●arres in Cancer whose vertue is to make moist especially Aselli so that the Sunne comming to them some raine falleth to fructify the earth but comming to Leo beeing neere Syrius and Procyon starres of a warme nature the heat groweth most vehement to temperate which the Etesian winds blow Lastly comming to Virgo which is a barren signe the constellation of Arcturus rising a mittigation of heat is produced with some raine If Sommer be ouer wet the Sommer fruits shall putrify and there will bee but small store of graine there will be many sickenesses if it be onely dry there will happen want of graine and Sommer fruits will be wholsome the fishes shall die in waters great sicknesses will happen if it exceede in heat many sicknesses also will happen with great store of Sommer friutes if to conclude it bee cold the yeare will bee wholsome but the fruits rotten This quarter as it is hot and dry in nature so doth it accordingly alter the humors in mans body bringing all fruits to their ripenesse cattell to their fatnesse and men to their wealth the sicknesses agreeing to the nature thereof bee griefes and torments about the breast ribbes and spléene pushes leprosy and diseases of the face as in the Spring bleard and sore eyes with other impediments therein the plurisy cough heart and stomacke-aking sorrow vexations feuers of bloud apostumes pestilence feuers the ianndise paines in the belly and secret parts with other infirmities proceeding of melancholy Of Autumne AUtumne is the fourth and last quarter Astronomicall but the third according to our English accompt by nature is cold and dry melancholy like old age resembling the element of the earth beginning at the Sunnes first ingresse into Libra producing thereby a second Equinoctiall cocquating the daies with the nights which may also be called our second Spring making an apt time to take Physicke bléed c. but in that Libra is a signe of the Airy triplicity there is produced heat with temperate moisture but comming to Scorpio the aire is made more cold and moist for Scorpio is of the watry triplicity but comming to Sagitarius a signe of the fiery triplicity accompanied with certaine starres of a warme nature there is made a restraint of the extremity of wet and cold for the good of such as sow plow If Autumne be most moist grapes will be putrified and wine bad if the end be wet there will be want of fruite the insuing yeare if the beginning be dry there will be penuria Milij if hot many sickenesses and euils if cold there is losse of haruest fruits in quantity iuyce and beauty The diseases of this quarter properly be paines in the backe darknesse of sight retention of vrine fluxes of bloud paynes in the backe and priuy parts with infirmities in the face as in the Spring also the canker fistuloes emrods the stone and grauell feuers of bloud and impediments in the eies And here note that Winter in Latine Hyems is so called ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is dimidium for the vulgar people doe diuide the yeare into two parts Sommer and Winter Winter being the greater Ver the Spring is so called à vireo vires because then omnia virent all things flourish Aestas Sommer is so called ab aestu which is à feruore by reason of heat Lastly Autumnus Autumne or Haruest is so called à bonorum anni augmentatione or it taketh name with Hipocrates ab ortu Arcturi during till the Vespertine setting of the Pleiades or of Autumnus which is morbidum or tempestiuosum these foure times be resembled to the foure Regions of the world to the foure Cardinall winds to the foure Elements to the foure quarters to the foure humors to the foure ages as in the ensuing table   Warme and dry Hot moist Cold moist Cold dry Regions of the world Oriens Meri Occid Septe Cardinall winds East South West North 4 Elements Fyre Ayre Water Earth 4 Quarters of the yeare Sommer Spring Wint. Autu 4 Humors Cholor Sangu Fleame Melā ● Ages Youth Ma. sta Age old ag CHAP. XXX Certaine predictions of the weather in euery moneth with necessary abstracts and the Poeticall rising of the Starres Ianuary NEw-yeares day in the morning being red portends great tempest and warre after ryseth Orions girdle Vespertine troubling the ayre causing South-west winds the 10 and 11 day doth Lucida Corona produce by a Vespertine setting about which time also riseth Asellus and praesepe great causers of raine the more Iupiter being in moist signes the 12 day Asellus riseth Cosmicall the 13 Praesepe setteth Cosmicall the 20 the South part of Asellus ryseth Chronicall the 28 Sirius riseth Vespertinus the 30 Eagle riseth Cosmicall All which with Ptolemaeus bring wet and tempest some say if the Sun shine the 12 of Ianuary there shall be much winde others Prognosticate of Saint Pauls day saying if the Sunne shine it is token of a happy yeare if raine or snow indifferent if misty great death but