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water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46219	Pseudo-astrologos, or, The spurious prognosticator unmasked. Being a short examen of the the manifold errors and fallacies, falshoods and flatteries, published by Mr. W. Lilly in his Merlin 1659. Wherein his ignorance in astrology is explained and exploded; his scandalous girdings at the king of Denmark, duke of Brandenburgh, and the states of Holland, noted; his nefarious dealing with the late lord protector of England, and the king of Sweden, discovered; his impudent, arrogant and artless assertions, retorted and refuted. / By G.J. ...	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681. Merlini Anglici ephemeris.	1660 (1660)	Wing J10; ESTC R28945	12,387	18

his writings he could not but know that that had been by far the more Art-like Prediction Albeit Mr. L. goes on and saith For whom Heavens have ordained Rampant and Victorious In vain it is for man or men to withstand his rising But saith he since we may seem to speak in clouds we intend in this discourse onely the Victorious Armies of his Majesty of Sweden to be the Person so powerful c. If Mr. L. in all Farnabee's Rhetorique can but find a figure that doth in the least favour so strange a passage as this before us I shall acknowledge him better read therein then I am He intends only the Victorious Armies of his Majesty of Sweden to be the Person c. May not a man that is not encompassed with Mr. L's Clouds as reasonably and with as good sence and propriety of speech in commendation of Mr. L. say By such a Discourse we onely intend the many unparallel'd Proselytes of Mr. L. to be the Person so learned in Astrology among us I appeal to the Judgements of all understanding men whether Mr. L. be guilty of more sence in the passage urged before then this amounts to If Mr. L. ever went to School he cannot but remember that Boys have been whipp'd for far smaller faults But these are onely slight dashes of his He-Sparrow's quill as one of his Antagonists once in vain minded him of But Plus foetent Stercora mota i. Dunghils the more you stir the more they stink Mr. L. after long flattering the K. of Swede and sore threatning the Dane Hollander c. if they engage against that Victorious Prince whom the Heavens in his flattering Dialect have ordain'd Rampant betakes himself to a very convenient starting-hole If in case it should so fall out that the K. of Swede do not prosper so well as he Prophecies c. And like a good Christian Astrologer maintains The best Army or longest sword hath tho best Cause By which it appears that Mr. L's Religion is as rotten and corrupted as his Astrology and Theurgy unsound But to follow Mr. L. a little further yet though not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth he not insinuate the Hollander and Dane to have the best cause in case the God of Battels give them the Victory over the K. of Sweden Nay may we not estimate Mr. L's Conscience to be of so large a size that if the Dane or Hollander would but Grease him as the K. of Swede hath done or but a little more Mr. L. as the Proverb is would Claw them again and in his next Merlin would appear as confident on the side of the Magnanimous K. of Denmark and the High and Mighty States of Holland as now he hath for the Victorious and Rampant K. of Sweden But surely Mr. L. cannot be of so unstable a judgement nor doth he mean or insinuate any such thing as that the Hollander or Dane can be thought to have the best cause although they should fortune to have the longest Sword or best Army And that you may know him to be of a quite contrary Opinion to what his now cited words import he bursts into a flattery of the first Magnitude for the Swede to the absolute ruine of the Hollander c. in these words Beware Hollanders of affronting his Majesty of Swedens Navy or Sea-Forces or his most certain Friend the present English L. P. any of his Navy or particular Ships His Majesty of Swede and our Protector have the most masculine spirited Seamen of the whole World and a gracious Guardian Angel therein is Mr. Lillies greatest skill for to protect both their persons and forces c. This Eclipse threatens breach of Peace between England and Holland how know you that Sir ♂ and are therein in Δ and can Δs in your Astrology produce Breaches and from thence a War and that so great as the former may be thought a trifle Our Noble Sea-men are promised Victory what before they have an Enemy to engage against for in Waters upon the waters upon people who live like Fishes wholly upon the waters and subsist by Seas and waters Tautology is no sin with Mr. L. will the Influence of this Eclipse take place therefore our Swedish Sea-Forces shall transmit thousands of the Dutch Sea-men unto the Fishes for their better Nutriment Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu Would you the truth of such great Victory 'T is Lillie 's Guise to promise his Friends high I might demand of Mr. L. in relation to this his Notorious Non-sequitur wherefore he brings his strange therefore And whether the consequence would not as roundly have followed had the premises been turned the contrary way But let Mr. L. go on and chaunt forth yet further his Syren Songs of flattery to the K. of Sweden and tell him That he shall be as great as Charls the great c. the M. C. to the body of Saturn will prove him to be a person that keeps Mendacium as a Page to his Pen and Tongue But notwithstanding this so insolent threat of his to the poor Hollander If he have but the good hap to get the longest Sword and the best Army they are Mr. L's own words he hath the best Cause And then if Mr. L. say sooth he may by this Eclipse be impowered to transmit thousands of the Swedes Sea-men to feed the Fishes as likely as the Swedes theirs But I hope both those Nations will be more prudent then adhere to any such reasonless Flatteries and Threats as Mr. L's Silly Pamphlets are constantly stuffed with So I proceed from his Annual Judgements to his Mensurnal Fopperies Sest 3. In January he Prophesies That some peremptory Spirits divulge frivolous Tenents and their Crabby opinions to the disturbance of the Magistrate in several places But there hath as little success answered this whimsical Presage as he had ground in Art to Predict it the first part onely excepted which he it may be foresaw his own ridiculous scribling to make good He proceeds and tattles of An eminent person to suffer disgrace Which he may possibly interpret to some one of the Ladies for the Sex he mentions not who were carried to Bridewell upon suspition of dishonesty about the beginning of February for you must know his Predictions emit Rayes In February he talks of a Storm to happen to those persons neer the Sea-shore that are Enemies to the greatness of Sweden But were there any truth in Monethly Predictions a work at which Mr. L. is old excellent how came he to Miss so grosly in this There was a storm 't is true but the heat thereof fell upon the Swedes which Mr. L. no more foresaw then the creeping of the Scotch K. into England But that you may know him to be the all-sufficient Astrologer of England he goes on Some Plot once more in contrivance to make division c. But There was no Plot save that which keeps us poor as Mr.