HERE BEGINNETH THE KALENDER OF Shepardes Newly Augmented and Corrected.
¶Here begynneth the Prologue.
THys boke (gentle reader) was fyrst corruptly printed in Fraunce and after that at the cost and charges of Rycharde Pynson, newly translated and reprinted, although not so faythfully as the origynal copy requyred. Wherfore it is once ageyne ouerseene and perused, that the same may be at length correspondent to the actours mind and very profitable for the reader, bycause this boke doth teche mani thinges that we be bounde to learne and knowe one peyne of euerlastinge death. As the lawes of God sheweth how we maye knowe to kepe his commaundementes and to knowe the remedyes to withstande deadely sinne, there be many men and women thynketh them selfe wyse, and knoweth and learneth many thinges, but that they be bounde to lerne and knowe, that they knowe not. ¶As fyrst the x. commaundementes of God, and the v. commaundementes of the Churche, that euery creature that purpose to be saued shuld lerne and knowe and haue them as perfytely as their Pater noster, you people, howe wyl you confesse you, and if ye breke any of the x. commaundementes, and you know not them. ¶ Truely there is but fewe that knoweth them, ther fore ye that do not know them to your deligence to learne them, for ye be bounde to lerne them, aswell as to lerne your Pater noster. ¶For howe can you keepe our Lordes commaundementes and ye knowe them not. And ye be bounde to breke not one of them on peyne of dampnation, for and if thou breake one thou brekest all. Offende the lawe in one point, and offende in all. For and thou breke one thou doest not Gods byddyng, for he byddeth thee breke none. And all that ye do in this world here, but if it be of God, or in God, or for God all is in vayne, you shoulde not occupy your selfe in vayne matters, but in redinge of good bokes, for vanitie engendreth vayne thoughtes, and destroyeth deuo [...]ion to man. What nede it you to studie on a thinge that is nought: studye on your sinne, and what grace by God in you is wrought. ¶Also in this boke is many mo matters, loke in the Table here folowinge.
¶The table of the kalender of Shepardes.
- FIrst the Prologue of the auctour, that sayth how euery man may lyue lxxiiii. eres at the least, and they that dye before that terme, it is by euyll gouernaunce, and by vyolence, or outrage of them selfe in theyr youth.
- Cap. primo.
- The seconde Prologue of the great maister Sheparde, that proueth in true by good argument al that the fyrst Sheparde sayth.
- Cap. ii.
- ¶Also a kalender with the fygures, of euery Sainte that is halowed in thee yere, in the whiche is the fygures, the houres, the momentes and the newe mones.
- Cap. iii.
- ¶The table of the mouable feastes, with the compounde manuel.
- Cap. iiii.
- ¶The table for to knowe and vnderstand euery day in what sygne the mone is in.
- Cap. v.
- ¶Also in the fygure of the eclyps of the Sonne and of the moone, the dayes houres and momentes.
- Cap. vi.
- ¶The trees and braunches of vertues, and of vyces.
- Cap. vii.
- ¶The peyues of hell, and howe that they be ordeyned for euery deadly sinne whiche is shewed by fygures.
- Cap. viii.
- ¶The garden and fyelde of all vertues, that sheweth a man howe he shulde knowe whether he be in the state of the grace of God or not.
- Cap. ix.
- ¶A noble declaration of th [...] vii. princypall peticions of the Pater noster, and also the Aue maria: of tht three Salutacions, which the fyrst made the Aungell Gabriell. The seconde made saynct Elisabeth. And the thyrde maketh our mother holy churche.
- Cap. x.
- ¶Also the Credo in Englyshe of the xii. articles of our fayth.
- Cap. xi.
- ¶Also the x, commaundementes in Englyshe, and the v. commaundementes of the Churche Catholyke.
- Cap xii.
- ¶Also a fygure of a man in a shyppe, that sheweth the vnstablenesse of this transytory worlde.
- Cap xiii.
- ¶Also to teache a man to knowe the fyelde of vertues.
- Cap xiiii.
- ¶Also a Shepardes balade, that sheweth his frailtie.
- Cap xv.
- ¶Also a balade of a woman Sheparde, that profyteth greatly.
- Cap. xvi.
- ¶Also a balade of death that byddeth a man beware betyme,
- Cap xvii.
- ¶Also thee x. commaundementes of the deuyll, and rewarde that they shall haue that kepeth them.
- Cap xviii.
- ¶Another balade that sainct Iohn sheweth in the apocalips of the blacke hors that death rydeth vpon.
- Cap. xix.
- [Page]¶A ballat howe princes and states shulde gouerne them.
- Cap. xx.
- ¶The trees and braunches of vertues, and vices, with the vii. vertues agayne the vii. deadly sinnes.
- Cap. xxi.
- ¶Also a fygure that sheweth how the xii sygnes raygneth in mans body, and which be good, and which be bad.
- Cap. x [...]ii.
- ¶A pycture of the Phesnomy of mās body, and sheweth in what partes the vii. planettes hath domination in man.
- Cap. xxiii.
- ¶And after the numbre of the bones in mans body foloweth a picture, that sheweth of all the veynes in the body, & how to be let blud in them.
- Ca. xxiiii
- ¶To know whether that a man be lykely to be sicke or no, and to heale them that be sycke.
- Cap. xxv.
- ¶And also here sheweth of the replexion of euyll humoures, and also for to clense them.
- Cap. xxvi.
- ¶Also howe men shulde gouerne thē the iiii. quarters in the yere.
- Ca xxvii.
- ¶Also how men shuld do when Physycke doth fayle them, for health of body and soule made in balade ryall.
- Cap. xxviii.
- ¶Also to shew men what is good for the brayne, the eyē, the throte, the brest the harte and stomake properly declared.
- Cap. xxix.
- ¶Also the contrary to shewe what is euyll for the brayne, the eyen the throte the brest, the harte, and the stomacke folowinge by and by.
- Cap. xxx.
- ¶Also of the foure elementes, & the similitude of the earth, & how euery planet is one aboue another, & which be masculine & feminine.
- Cap. xxxi.
- ¶A crafty fygure of the worlde, with the xii. signes goynge about, and also of the mouynges of the heauens with the planetes.
- Cap. xxxii.
- ¶Also of the Equinoctial & the zodiake, which is in the ix. heauen. which cō teyneth the firmament & al vnder it with a picture of a spyre.
- Cap. xxxiii.
- ¶Of Solticion of Sommer, and solsticion of wynter, wyth a fygure of thee zodyake.
- Cap. xxxiiii.
- ¶Of the rysynge & discendynge of the sygnes in the horyzon.
- Cap xxxv.
- ¶And also of the deuysion of the earthe, and the Regions, with a picture of the mobile.
- Cap. xx [...]i.
- ¶Of the variacion that is in many habytacions and Regions of the earth [...] Capitulo.
- Cap. xxxvii.
- ¶Also of thee xii. sterres fyxed, that sheweth what shall happen vnto thē that be borne vnder them.
- Cap. xxxviii.
- ¶Also a fygure of the xii. houres, as much in earthe is in heauen.
- Cap. xxxix.
- ¶Also pictures of the vii. planets, to knowe what houre that they do raygne the day and night, that telleth which be bad and which be good, & shewe the how the cildren shalbe disposed that shalbe borne vnder them.
- Cap. xl.
- ¶Also pictures, of the iiii. complexions to shewe and knowe the condicion of eche complexion, and to knowe by a mans coloure what he is of any of all iiii. and how he is dyspoed of nature.
- Cap. xli.
- [Page]¶Also here foloweth the iudgementes of the mans face & body, as Aristotel wrote to kyng Alysaundre the condicions of man, and the properties in the vysages of man, but by the grace of God, good condycions, grace prayers, fastynges and blessynges these v. withstande vnkyndely condicion.
- Cap xliii.
- ¶Also a pycture of the Pomyawe, that sheweth a man to knowe euery houre of the nyght what is a clocke, before mydnyght and after.
- Cap. xliii.
- ¶Also then foloweth pyctures of the impressions of the aere, of the fleynge dragon, and the leapynge kyddes, the waye to sayncte Iames, and the seuen sterres of the burninge pyller, and of the fyrye spere, and of the flaming busshes or trees that other whyle fayleth, and the fleynge sterre, & the blasynge sterres, and of fyue tayled sterres, and of the bearded sterre with the epatyfe of athodner stone.
- Cap. xliiii.
- ¶Also how the moone chaungeth xii. tymes in the yeare, so lykewyse mans condicions chaungeth .xii. tymes iu the yere.
- Cap. xlv.
- ¶Of the commodities of the xii. monthes in the yeare, with the xii. ages of man.
- Cap. xlvi.
- ¶Of an assaute agaynst a snayle.
- Cap. xlvii.
- ¶Also foloweth the medytacion of the passyon of our Lorde Iesu Christe, that Shepardes and symple people ought to haue in hearing of theyr deuine seruyce.
- Cap. xlviii.
- ¶The sayinge of the deade man.
- Cap. xlix.
- ¶Also certeyne orysons and prayes, and fyrst a deuysion theologycall on a question to knowe yf prayes, orysons, and suffrages done for thee soules in purgatory, byn meritorious and auaylable for theyr health & delyueraunce.
- Capitulo .l.
- ¶How euery man and woman ought to cease of theyr sinnes at the sownynge of a dredable horne.
- Cap. li.
- ¶To know the fortunes and destenies of a man borne vnder the .xii. sygnes, after Ptolomens prince of Astronomy.
- Cap. lii.
- ¶Also foloweth the xii. monethes with the pictures of the xii. sygnes, that sheweth the fortune of men & women that be borne vndet them, so that they knowe in what moneth and day they were borne.
- Cap. liii.
- ¶Also here telleth of the [...]. christen nations, that is to saye, to shewe the certeyne pointes that much hethen people do beleue of our faythe, but not in all and therfore we beginne fyrst with our fayth.
- Cap. liiii.
- ¶Also foloweth a fewe prouerbes.
- Cap. lv.
- ¶The auctours balade.
- Cap. lvi.
- ¶Also a good drynke for the pestilence, which is not chapterede.
- Cap. lvii.
¶Addycions.
[Page]¶The arte, scyencye, and practycke of the great kalender of Shepardes, by example ryght fertyle, and profytable vnto all maner of people, and easy to be vnderstande by mans wytte, with diuers addicions newly adiusted there to, as hereafter foloweth.
¶A great question asked betwene the Shepardes touchynge the sterres, and an aunswere made to the same.
THe Shepardes in a mornynge afore thee daye beynge in the fyeldes, behelde the fyrmament that was fyxed full of sterres, one among the other sayde to his felowe. I demaunde of thee howe many sterres be on the twelue [Page] parties of the zodyake, that is vnder one sygne onely. The other Shepharde answered and sayde. Let be founde a piece of lande in a playne countrey, as vpon the playne of Salysbury, & that the sayde piece of lande be xl. myle longe and xxiiii. myle brode. After that let take great long nayles with great brode heades, as the nayles byn that be made for carte wheles, as many as shal suf [...]fyse for the sayde piece of lande. And let the sayde nayles be strycken vnto the heades in the sayde piece at lande, foure fyngers brode one from the other, tyll that the piece of lande be couered ouer from one syde to the other. I saye that there be as many sterres conteyned onder one sygne onely, as there shulde b [...] nayles stycke in the forsayde piece of lande, and there is as many vnder ech [...] of the other, & to the equypolent by the other places of the firmament. ¶Th [...] fyrst Sheparde demaunded how wilt thou profe it. ¶The seconde aunswe [...]red and sayd that no man is bounden ne holden to proue thinges vnpossible [...] & that it ought to suffice for Shepardes and touchinge this matter to beleu [...] simply without to enquire ouer much, of that their predicessours Shepardes haue sayde afore.
¶Thus endeth the Astrol [...]gy of Shepardes, with th [...] knowlege that they haue o [...] the sterres, planettes, and mouynges of the skies.
¶And here after foloweth the sayinge of the Shepa [...]de to the plowman.
¶Here after foloweth an other Prologue of the maister Shepharde, that sheweth & proueth the auctours prologue true that is before rehearsed, & so the Shepardes dispute one with another, but this that foloweth the master Sheparde sayth to the other of the deuysion of this kalender. Capitulo ii.
IT is to be vnderstande, that there be in the yere four quarters that is called Uere, Hyems, Estas, and autumnus. Thefe be the iiii. seasons in the yere. as Prymetyme is the springe of the yeare, as Feu [...] ryere, Marche, and april. These thre monethes.
[Page]¶Then commeth Sommer, as May, Iune, and Iuly: and those thre monethes, euery herbe, grayne and tree is in his kinde, and in his most strength & fayrnesse euen at the hyghest.
¶Theu commeth Automne, as August, Septembre, and October, that all these fruytes waxeth rype, and be gathered and howsed.
¶Then commeth Nouembre, December, and Ianyuere, and these thre monethes be in this wynter, The tyme of lytle profyte. We Shephardes saye that the age of a man is .lxxii. yere [...] and that we lyken but to one hole yere, for euer more we take vi. yeare for euery moneth, as Ianyuere, or Feuerycre, and so forth, for as the yere chaūgeth by the xii. monethes, into xii. sundry maners so doth a man channge hym selfe twelue tymes in hys lyfe, by twelue ages, & euery age lasteth vi. yeare, yf so be that he lyue to lxxii. for three tymes syxe maketh eightene, and syxe tymes syxe maketh xxxvi. And then is man at the best and also at the hyghest, and twelue tymes syxe maketh .lxxii. and that is the age of a man.
¶Thus must ye reken for euery monethe syxe yeare, or els it maye be vnderstande, by the foure quarters and seasons of the yere. So is deuyded man in to foure parties, as to youth, strength, wysedome, and age: He to be xviii. yere yonge xviii. yeare stronge xviii. yeare in wysedome, and the fourth xviii. yeare to go to the full of the age of lxxii.
¶And nowe to shewe howe man chaungeth .xii. tymes euen as the xii. monethes do.
TAke the fyrst vi. yere for Ianyuere, the whiche is of no vertue nor strength in that s [...]ason nothinge on the earth groweth. So man after he is borne tyl he be syxe yere of age is without witte strength or cunnyng, & may do nothyng that profyteth.
¶Then commeth Feueryere, & then the dayes begenneth to waxe in length, and the sonne more hotter, then the fyeldes beginneth to waxe greene: So the other syxe yeres tyl he come to twelue, the childe beginneth to growe bigger and serue and lerne such as is taught him.
¶Then cōmeth Marche, in the which the labourer soweth the earth & planteth trees, & edifyeth houses, the child in these vi. yeres, waxeth bigge to lern doctriue and scyence, & to be fayre and honest, for then he is .xviii. yeres of age.
¶After that commeth April that the earth and the threes is couered in grene and flowers, and in euery partye goodes encreaseth habundauntly, then commeth the chylde to gather the swete flowers of hardynes, but then beware yt the colde wyndes and stormes of vyces beate not downe the flowers of good maners, that he should bringe man to honour, for then he is xxiiii. yeres olde
¶Then commeth Maye, that is bothe fayre and pleasaunte, for then byrdes syngeth in woodes end forestes nyghte and daye, the sonne shyneth hotte, and as then is man moste ioyfull and pleasant, and of delyuer strengthe, and seketh playes, sportes, and lusty pastyme, for then is he full xxx. yere.
[Page]¶Then commeth Iune, and then is the Sonne hyest in his meridiornall, he may ascende no hyer in his stacion, his glemeringe golden beames ripeth the corne, and when man is xxxvi. yere, he may ascend no more, for then hath nature gyuen hym beauty and strengthe at the full, and rypeth the sedes of parfyte vnderstandynge.
¶Then commeth Iuly, that our fruytes byn set a sonninge, and our corne a hardenynge, but then the sonne begynnethe a lyttle for to dyscende downewarde [...] so man then goth fro youth towarde age, & beginneth for to aquaynt him with sadnes, for then he is xlii. yere.
¶After that then commeth August: then we gather in our corne, and also the fruytes of the earth. And then doth man his diligence to gather for to fynde hym selfe withall, in the tyme that he may nother gette nor wyn, and thē after that vi. yeares is he .xlviii. yere olde.
¶Then commeth Septembre: that wynes be made, and the fruites of trees be gathered. And then therewithall he doth freshly begynne to garnyshe his house, and make prouysion of nedefull thinges, for to lyue in wynter whiche draweth very nere, and then is man in his most ioyfull and couragious estate prosperous in wysedome, purposynge to gather and kepe as muche as shulde be sufficient for him in his olde age, when he maye gather no more, and these vi. yeares maketh him liiii. yeares.
¶And then commeth Octobre: that all is into the forsayde house gathered but corne, and also other maner fruytes. And also the labourers soweth newe sedes in the earth, for the yere to come. And then he that soweth nought, shal nought gather. And then in there other vi. yeres a man shal take him selfe vnto God for to do penaunce and good workes, and then the benefytes the yere after his death, he may gather and haue spiritual profyte, and then is man ful in the terme of lx. yeres.
¶Then commeth Nouembre: that the dayes be very shorte, and the sonne in maner geueth lyttle heate, and the trees leseth theyr leues. The fieldes that were grene loke hore and gray. Then al maner of herbes be hid in the ground and then appereth no floures. And then winter is come that the man hath vn [...]derstandinge of age, and hath lost his kyndely heate and strength: His teeche begynne to rotte and also to chattre: and then hath ho no more hope of longe lyfe, but desyreth to come to the lyfe euerlasting, and these .vi. for this mouth maketh him .lxvi. yeres.
¶Then commeth Decembre: ful of colde with frost and snowe, with greate wyndes and stormy wethere, that a man may not laboure nor nought do: the sonne is thē at the lowest that it may descēde, thē the trees & the earth is hi [...] in snowe, thē it is good to holde them ny the fyre [...] & to spende the goodes that they gathered in sommer. For then beginneth mās heare to waxe whyte and gray, and his body croked & feble, & then he leseth his perfyte vnderstanding and that vi. yeares maketh hym full lxxii. yeres, and if he lyue any more it is [Page] by his good gydynge and dyetynge in his youth. Howe be if, it is possyble that a man may lyue tyl he be an hundred yere of age. But there is but fewe that commeth thereto.
¶Wherfore I Sheparde sayde moreouer, that of lyuynge or dyinge the heauenly bodyes may s [...]ere a man bothe to good and euyll without doute of assuce [...]ie. But yet may man withstande it by his one freewyll, to do what he will him selfe good or bad euermore. Aboue the which inclinacyon is the myghte and wyll of God, that longeth the lyfe of man by his goodnesse, or to take it shorte by his iustice.
¶Wherfore we wyll shewe you of the bodyes celestyall, and of theyr nature and mouynges, and this present booke is named the composte, for it comprehendeth fully all the compost and more for the dayes, houres, and momentes and the newe moones, and the clippes of the sunne and the moone, and of the sygnes that the moone is in euery day, and this booke was made for them that be no clerkes, to bring them to great vnderstandinge.
¶And this kale [...]der is deuyded in v. partes.
¶The fyrst of our sygnes of the compost and the kalender.
¶The seconde is the tree of vyces with the peynes of hell.
¶The thyrde is the waye of health of man: the tree of vertues.
¶The fourth is physycke and gouernaunce of health.
¶The fyfte is Astrologye and physnomy, for to vnderstande many disceauynges, and which they be. By lykelyhod, the whyche by nature are inclyned and can do them as ye shall rede or ye come to the ende.
¶For to haue the Shepardes vnderstandinge of theyr kalender, ye shoulde vnderstande that the yere is the measure of the time that the Sonne passeth the xii. sygnes, retournynge to hys fyrste poynte, and is deuyded in the xii. Monethes.
¶As Ianyuere, Feueryere, Marche, and so forth to December.
¶So the sonne in these xii. monethes passeth by xii. sygnes one tyme.
¶The dayes of hys entrynge into the sygnes in the kalender, and the dayes, also when he parteth the yere, as the xii. monethes into lii. wekes .CCC.lxv. dayes, and when by sext is, it is three score and vi. one day and xxiiii. houres, euery houre lx. mynnets. After these deuysyons, ye muste vnderstand for euery yere thre thinges.
¶The fyrst speaketh of golden nombre.
¶The seconde of the letter domynicall.
And the chyrde is the letter tabuler, in the whiche lyeth all the chiefe knoweledge of this kalender, For the which letter and nomber to vnderstand al that they wolde, whether it be past or to come, ye shall put three fygures after the kalender, of the whiche: the fyrste shall shewe the valure and declaracyon of the two other, and it is to be vnderstand that in foure yeares, there is one by [...]exte, the whych hath one daye more then other, and also hathe two letters [Page] Dominicals sygned in one of the forsayde fygures, and chaungeth the late day of saynt Mathewe, the which is vygyl, and is put with the day vpō on letter by hym selfe.
¶Also the letters Feryals of thys Kalender, is to be vnderstande as they [...] the other kalenders, before the which are the nombres, and the other three o [...]ter the letters ferials. Fyrst for bycause the letters dyscendeth lowe, is th [...] golden nombre aboue the daye of the newe moone. And the which to be th [...] houre & momentes of the sayde moneth, whiche when they are in seruice b [...]fore noone of the day aboue there. And when they are blacke seruyce for afte [...]noone of the same daye in the places of the nombre, betokenethe that nomb [...] where it is. The naturall day is to be vnderstande fro midnyghte to my nyght xiiii. houres, and shall serue the sayde nombres for the letters Fer [...]als .xix. yere complete from the yere that this kalēder was made .M.CCC [...] xcvii. vnto the yeare .M.cccc. and xvi. In the whiche yeare shall begynne [...] to serue this golden nombre, and the other nombres after the letters Feryal [...] all in the maner as they be before for the other xix. yeres.
¶And all the remenaunt of the compost, and of the kalender is perpetua [...] For the golden nombre, so shall they be .xxxviii. yere, of the whyche yeres. M CCCC.xcvii. is the fyrste. ¶The feastes of the kalender are in theyr dayes of the which the solenuel are in rede and storyed in the vnyte, nye the which vnytye in the ende of the bodyes aboue euery day is one letter of the A.b. for vnderstande in what sygnes is the moone that daye. ¶And yet t [...] sayde letters and the rybryshe, for the whyche shalbe one fygure before t [...] kalender, whiche shalbe shewe how they shulde vnderstande it. This ye [...] of this present kalender, whiche began to haue course the fyrste daye of Ian [...]uere .M.CCC.xcvii. In the whych raygneth for the golden nombre xv [...] The letter domycall A. The letter tabuler f. and b. In the fyrst lyues a [...] theyr fygures nerest the golden nombre xvi. the yere of this kalender.
¶To knowe the letter domynicall by the verse vnderneth.
Or by these other verses here folowynge.
For to set the moneth.
[Page]For the golden number, and the newe Moone.
Ter, nus, vn, din, nod, octo, sex, quinque, tred, ambo, ve, cem, doc, Septem, quin, quar, tus, doc, io, ta, no, vem, vi, quat.
An ingenious practise or Compost of Shepardes.
Newly and subtelly Shepardes haue founde a shorte practike, for to know the golden number, the letter dominicall, and the Tabuler letters as ensueth, the which for subtilitie is difficile to be vnderstanded, if first it be not shewed by such as vnderstande it well, but as to this it behoueth not to tary and trauayle for cause of the figures that ensigneth and sheweth how to find & know the sayde practike.
The maner to knowe the feastfull dayes on the hande and on what dayes they ben.
WHo so will know on his hande when the holy dayes falleth, take hede of the same letters. A.b.c.d.e.f.g. The dayes of the weeke byn .vii. One for sonday, and for the other dayes .vi. Put them in the ioyntes of the lefte hande on .iiii. fyngers, and with the right hande they ought to be marked for the more certainty. A.b.c. on the backe of the hande, and g. aboue d.e.f. within the hande. Then ye ought to knowe in what place euery moneth should be. A lyttle after dam of g.b. E g.c. bin on the moneth on the little fynger. F.a. on the leche fynger. February and March on the leche fynger together. Aprill on g. May on b. Iune on the myddle fynger aboue e. Iuly vpon g, and Auguste vpon c. September vpon f. October on a. of the fourth fynger. Then Nouember aboue d, and December aboue f. of the lyttle fynger. And thus the twelue monethes be set on the fyngers.
After bran, pen, cru, lucy, the Imbre dayes ben set truly.
[Page]In eche of these two lines here vnder, be as many sillables as there be feast full dayes in the yere, and euery day ought to be set on the ioyntes of the lefte hande, as is shewed here in this present boke.
How euery moneth prayseth it selfe of some good propertie.
[...] and the declaration is of the letters of the sygne of the ka [...]
| Aries | y | n | c | v | l | ꝰ | s | h | z | p | e | u | m | a | s | i | & | q | f |
| Aries | z | o | d | u | m | a | s | i | & | q | f | x | n | b | t | k | ꝰ | r | g |
| Aries | & | p | e | x | n | b | t | k | ꝰ | r | g | y | o | c | v | l | a | s | h |
| Taurus | ꝰ | q | f | y | o | c | v | l | a | s | h | z | p | d | u | m | b | s | i |
| Taurus | a | r | g | z | p | d | u | m | b | s | i | & | q | e | x | n | c | t | k |
| Gemini | b | s | h | & | q | e | x | n | c | t | k | ꝰ | r | f | y | o | d | v | l |
| Gemini | c | s | i | ꝰ | r | f | y | o | d | v | l | a | s | g | z | p | e | u | m |
| Cancer | d | t | k | a | s | g | z | p | e | n | m | b | s | h | & | q | f | x | n |
| Cancer | e | v | l | b | s | h | & | q | f | x | n | c | t | i | ꝰ | r | g | y | o |
| Leo | f | [...] | m | c | t | i | [...] | r | g | y | o | d | v | k | a | s | h | z | p |
| Leo | g | x | n | d | v | k | a | s | h | z | p | e | u | l | b | s | i | & | q |
| Leo | h | y | o | e | u | l | b | s | i | & | q | f | x | m | c | t | k | ꝰ | r |
| Uirgo | i | z | p | f | x | m | c | t | k | ꝰ | r | g | y | n | d | v | l | a | s |
| Uirgo | k | & | q | g | y | n | d | v | l | a | s | h | z | o | e | u | m | b | s |
| Libra | l | ꝰ | r | h | z | o | e | u | m | b | s | i | & | p | f | x | n | c | t |
| Libra | m | a | s | i | & | p | f | x | n | c | t | k | ꝰ | q | g | y | o | d | v |
| Scorpio | n | b | s | k | ꝰ | q | g | y | o | d | v | l | a | r | h | z | p | e | u |
| Scorpio | o | c | t | l | a | r | h | z | p | e | u | m | b | s | i | & | q | f | x |
| Sagittarius | p | d | v | m | b | d | i | & | q | f | x | n | c | s | k | ꝰ | r | g | y |
| Sagittarius | q | e | u | n | c | e | k | ꝰ | r | g | y | o | d | t | l | a | s | h | z |
| Sagittarius | r | f | x | o | d | f | l | a | s | h | z | p | e | v | m | b | s | i | & |
| Capricornus | s | g | y | p | e | g | m | b | s | i | & | q | f | u | n | c | t | k | ꝰ |
| Capricornus | s | h | z | q | f | h | n | c | t | k | ꝰ | r | g | x | o | d | v | l | a |
| Aquarius | t | i | & | r | g | i | o | d | v | l | a | s | h | y | p | e | u | m | b |
| Aquarius | v | k | ꝰ | s | h | k | p | e | u | m | b | s | i | z | q | f | x | n | c |
| Pisces | u | l | a | s | i | l | q | f | x | n | c | t | k | & | r | g | y | o | d |
| Pisces | x | m | b | t | k | m | r | g | y | o | d | v | l | ꝰ | s | h | z | p | e |
| Pisces | y | n | c | v | l | n | s | h | z | p | e | u | m | a | s | i | & | q | f |
By this fygure here aboue, a man may knowe in what s [...]gne the Moone is euery day, and the declaration is of the [...] letters that ben in the kalender at the endes of the lynes, and be named the letters of the sygnes, wherefore marke well first the letter of the kalender on the day that we wold haue, then loke out the sayde letter in the figure here aboue in the lyne discendinge vnder the golden number that runneth.
[Page]Then loke at the headde of the lynes, where as is wrytten the names of the sygnes, and it that beholdeth directly ouertwharte the figure to the sayd letters is it that the Moone is in that day. And lyke as one golden numbre for a yere, so the sayd lyne vnder the golden numbre serueth alone for the same yere as in the yere of his kalender we haue .xvi. for the golden numbre, the line vnder .xvi. serueth all the sayd yere, and when we haue .xvii. the lyne vnder .xvii. shall serue to the yeare that .xvii. is for the golden numbre, and so forth of the other.
Saturnus niger. Iupiter [...]iridis. Mars rebeus est. Sol croteus. Uenus albus. Marcurius et Luna varti sunt dum quisquis regnat nascitur, puer sic coloratus.
The declaration of the latine here aboue.
THat is to saye, that the .xii. signes hath domination ouer the body of man deuided by the partes, as the signes deuideth the firmament, and euery signe beholdeth and gouerneth the partes of the body, so as it is sayde aboue, and afterwarde shal be shewed by fygures, and is declared more plainly and faithfully. Such like of planets is sayd of their coloures, but of their natures and properties of the partes of the bodyes the which gouerneth and beholdeth, more at full shall ye heare at length.
Also of the .xii. monthes natures, March, Aprill, and May, are very hote and moyst, that signifyeth blud and ayre. Iune, Iuly, and August, is sommer and signifyeth hot and dry choler, manhode, and feare. September, October, and Nouember, is haruest, and betokeneth colde and dry, and age, melancoly and earth. December, Ianuary, and February, is winter, and betokeneth colde and moyst, childehode, fleume, and water.
¶Hereafter foloweth a kalender with the fygures of euery saynt that is halowed in the yere, in the which is the figures, the houres, the momentes, and the newe Moones. Capitulo .iii.
| a | ||||||
| iiii | ix | b | iii | xvii | Octaua sancti Stephani | b |
| v | vii | c | Octaua saniti Bohannis | c | ||
| d | Octaua sanctorum Inno. | d | ||||
| [...] | ii | e | vii | lvii | Octa. sancti Thome mar. | e |
| f | f | |||||
| iiii | xii | g | Felicis et Ianua | g | ||
| ix | xvii | Sancti Luc [...]ani | h | |||
| xxxvii | b | Sancti Iudiii | i | |||
| iiii | c | viii | xlii | Pauli primi heremite | k | |
| vi | xiii | d | iiii | xvi | Lini epis. | l |
| e | Archadii martiris | m | ||||
| viii | vi | f | o | xxxv | Sancti Hilarii | n |
| g | Felicis presbyteris | o | ||||
| v | xxxiiii | i | viii | Sancti Mauri abbatis | p | |
| b | viii | ii | Sancti Marcelli epis. | q | ||
| c | Sulpitii episcopi | r | ||||
| xi | xli | d | o | xvi | Sancte Pisce virginis | s |
| ix | xlii | e | Hulstani episcopi | s | ||
| v | xi | f | Fabiani et Sebastiani | t | ||
| g | v | li | Sancte Agnetis | v | ||
| o | xxxiii | Uincentii martiris | v | |||
| b | iiii | xiii | Sanci Emerenciani | x | ||
| c | Sancti Timothei | y | ||||
| d | z | |||||
| ii | xvii | e | Policarpii episcopi | & | ||
| f | vi | xlv | Iuliani episcopi | [...] | ||
| xxi | g | Agnetis secundo | a | |||
| xx | Ualerii epis. et mar. | b | ||||
| vi | xxxv | b | vi | xxviii | Batilde virginis | c |
| c | Saturnini & Uictoris | d |
| d | Brigidi et Ignacii | e | ||||
| o | vi | e | viii | xxxi | [...]urificatio beate Marie | f |
| f | Sancti Blasii episcopi | g | ||||
| g | xxv | Sancti Gilberti epis. | h | |||
| xxvi | Sancti Agathe vir. | i | ||||
| iii | lviii | b | Uedasti et Amandi | k | ||
| o | iiii | c | x | lv | Sancti Anguli vir. | l |
| vi | lix | d | vii | liiii | Pauli episcopi | m |
| e | Sancte Appollonie vir. | n | ||||
| f | o | |||||
| g | i | liiii | Eufrasie virginis | p | ||
| Sancti Eulalie | q | |||||
| b | vii | xxxv | Sancti Wulfranni | r | ||
| c | Sancti Ualentini epis. | s | ||||
| xiii | lv | d | ii | xxvi | Faustiniet Ioniti | s |
| o | xxxiii | e | Iuliane virginis | t | ||
| vii | xli | f | o | xxxiii | Policronii epis. et mar. | v |
| g | viii | xxxix | Simeonis epis. et mar. | u | ||
| xv | xxxi | Sabim et Iuliani mar. | x | |||
| b | iiii | lix | Mildrede virginis | y | ||
| c | Sanctorum. lxix. | z | ||||
| d | Cathedra sanctl Petri | & | ||||
| e | Policarpi. | ꝰ | ||||
| f | vii | i | a | |||
| g | Inuentio sancti Pauli | b | ||||
| i | xlii | Sancti Nestori mar. | c | |||
| o | ix | b | viii | liii | Sancti Augustini | d |
| c | Oswaldi episcopi & con. | e |
It is to be noted that the golden numbres sheweth the dayes, houres, and minutes of the newe Moones. The red nombres for the fore noone, and the blacke for the after noone on the same dayes that the nombres demonsireth.
| viii | xxxvii | d | Sancti Dauid epis. | f | ||
| e | o | l | Sancti Cedde episcopi | g | ||
| f | i | xl [...]i | Martini et Asteri | h | ||
| g | Sancti Adriani mar. | i | ||||
| x | lviii | Foce, Eusebii, Perpetue | k | |||
| b | Uictoris et Uictorini | l | ||||
| ix | c | o | xii | Perpetu [...] et Felici | m | |
| ix | xix | d | ix | lvi | Depositio sancti Felicis | n |
| e | Quadraginta mar. | o | ||||
| f | Sancte Agapite vir. | p | ||||
| o | xli | g | ii | xlvi | Equinoc. | q |
| Sancti Gregorii epis. | r | |||||
| vi | xlv | b | Theodore marti. | [...] | ||
| c | s | |||||
| li | xii | d | i | xxxiiii | Sancti Longini mar. | s |
| i | xlii | e | xviii | xxx [...]ii | Bonifacii epis. | t |
| ix | xxxv | f | x | xxxiii | Patricii episcopi | v |
| g | Edwardi regis | u | ||||
| Ioseph sponci Marie | x | |||||
| v | vii | b | o | liiii | Sancti Cuthberti | y |
| c | Benedicti abbatis | z | ||||
| d | Affrodosii episcopi | & | ||||
| e | Theodori presbiteri | ꝰ | ||||
| vi | iiii | f | Agapiri martiris | a | ||
| g | b | |||||
| iii | vi | Castoris martiris | c | |||
| xlviii | b | ix | xlix | d | ||
| c | Dorothee virginis | e | ||||
| vii | xlix | d | Quintini martiris | f | ||
| e | xlv | Sancti Qui [...]ini mar. | g | |||
| o | xv | f | o | xl | Adelini episcopi | h |
| g | Sancti Gisdardi | i | ||||
| x | ii | xlvii | Marie Egiptiace | k | ||
| b | Richardi episcopi | l | ||||
| o | xx | c | i | xiiii | Ambrosii episcopi | m |
| x | li | d | x | lv | Sancti Martini | n |
| e | Sixte episcopi | o | ||||
| x | lviii | f | Eufemie virginis | p | ||
| ii | lix | g | i | xlii | Egesippe et fociorū eius | q |
| Perpetue episcopi | r | |||||
| iiii | xliii | b | Passio septem virginum | s | ||
| c | vii | xix | Sancti Guthlac [...] | s | ||
| d | Iulii episcopi | t | ||||
| li | ii | e | Sancti zenonii episcopi | v | ||
| xi | xxxiiii | f | u | |||
| g | vii | xlvi | Oswaldi archiepiscopi | x | ||
| vi | xxii | vi | xlv | Sancti Isidori | y | |
| iiii | xxxvi | b | i | xlvi | Aniceti episcopi | z |
| c | i | xxx | Elutheri et Anthie | & | ||
| vi | xx | d | Alphegi episcopi | ꝰ | ||
| e | vi | xxix | Uictoris episcopi et mar. | a | ||
| iii | liii | f | Simeonis epis. et mar. | b | ||
| g | vi | vii | Sancti Sotheris vir. | c | ||
| Sa [...]cti Georgii mar. | d | |||||
| b | ix | xxxvi | Wilfridi epis. et confes. | e | ||
| xviii | xxxii | c | x | xi | f | |
| d | [...]leti epis. et confes. | g | ||||
| ii | o | e | ii | xxx | Sancti Anastasii epis. | h |
| ix | ii | f | xi | li | Sancti Uitalis | i |
| g | Petri Mediolanensis | k | ||||
| iii | lvi | ii | xxii | Depositio Erkenwaldi | l |
| b | m | |||||
| c | Sancti Anastasii epis. | n | ||||
| ix | li | d | iii | xxvii | Inuentio sancti crucis | o |
| e | Festum corone spinee | p | ||||
| f | Sancti Godardi | q | ||||
| xvi | g | li | xxiiii | Iohannis ante por. lat. | r | |
| ix | xxx | Iohannis de Beue [...]laco | s | |||
| b | Apparitio Michaelis | s | ||||
| c | iiii | xli | Translatio Nicholai | t | ||
| d | Gordiani et Epimachi | v | ||||
| xxxiiii | e | Sancti Anthonii marti. | u | |||
| vi | xix | f | Nerei, Archilei, & Pan [...]ra. | x | ||
| g | xvi | xii | y | |||
| xviii | ix | Bonifacii martiris | z | |||
| iii | xxiii | b | i | lvii | Isidori martiris | & |
| c | ix | lix | Brandini epis. & confes. | ꝰ | ||
| d | Translatio Bernardi | a | ||||
| viii | xxiii | e | Diascoris martiris | b | ||
| f | Sancti Dunstoni | c | ||||
| g | ii | xli | Sancti Bernardi | d | ||
| Helene regine | e | |||||
| viii | xx | b | Iuliane virginis | f | ||
| c | Desiderii martiris | g | ||||
| d | Trans. Francisci | h | ||||
| l | xlix | e | ii | xl | Sancti Adelmi | i |
| x | xliiii | f | x | xliiii | Angustini anglorū apost. | k |
| xii | xxi | g | Bede presbiteri | l | ||
| Sancti Germani | m | |||||
| vii | iii | b | Coronis martiris | n | ||
| c | Sancti Felicis epis. | o | ||||
| ix | xlv | d | [...] | xli | Sancte Petronille vir. | p |
Iune hath .xxx. dayes, and the mone .xxix.
| e | Sancti Nichomedis | q | ||||||
| v | vii | v | f | v | iii | xiii | Sancti Marcellini | x |
| xiii | i | liii | g | xiii | ii | xviii | S. Erasmi martiris | r |
| ii | xii | ii | A | ii | x | xv | Sancti Petrocii | s |
| b | S. Bonifacii episcopi | s | ||||||
| x | i | xliiii | c | x | v | lv | Melonis archiepiscopi | t |
| d | Translatio Wulstani | v | ||||||
| xviii | xi | v | e | xviii | lxv | Sancti Wilhelmi | u | |
| f | Translatio Edmundi | x | ||||||
| vii | iii | xliii | g | vii | i | xxvi | Translatio sancti yuonis | y |
| xv | vi | ix | A | xv | xvii | ix | Barnabe apostoli | z |
| iiii | i | xlix | b | iiii | xxvi | xlii | Sancti Basilidis | & |
| c | xii | ix | xiiii | Solin can. Solsticium | ꝰ | |||
| xii | i | l | d | Iuly. | Sancti Basilii episcopi | a | ||
| i | iiii | lvii | e | i | vii | iii | Uiti et Modesti | b |
| f | ix | viii | xxiiii | Translatio Tichardi | c | |||
| ix | x | li | g | Sancti Botulphi | d | |||
| A | Marci et Marcelliani | e | ||||||
| xvii | vi | xii | b | xvii | v | xxxi | Geruasii et Prothasi | f |
| c | vi | x | xxiiii | Translatio Edwardi | g | |||
| vi | v | liii | d | Walburgi virginis | h | |||
| xi [...]ii | i | xviii | e | xiiii | ix | xxv | Sancti Albani martiris | i |
| iii | ix | xxxvi | f | iii | ix | xviii | Etheldrede. Uigilia. | k |
| xi | viii | xxxv | g | Natiuitas Iohannis [...]ap. | l | |||
| A | xi | viii | xiii | Translatio Eligii epis. | m | |||
| xix | lii | vii | b | xi | x | xxviii | Iohannis et Pauli | n |
| c | S. ressentis mar. | o | ||||||
| viii | ix | [...]xi | d | viii | x | xv | Sancti Leonis episcopi | p |
| e | Petri et Poui [...] apost. | q | ||||||
| xvi | vi | xv | f | xvi | i | ii | Commemoratio Pauli | r |
Iuly hath, xxxi. dayes, and the Moone .xxx,
| o | ii | ix | g | b | i | v | Octa. Iohannis bap. | s |
| xiii | x | xxix | A | xiii | viii | lvii | Uisitatio beate Marie | s |
| b | Translatio Thome apost. | t | ||||||
| ii | x | lix | c | ii | iiii | liiii | Translatio sancti Marti | v |
| d | x | iiii | xxxix | Sancte Zoe virginis. | u | |||
| x | iii | vi | e | Octaua Petri et Pauli | x | |||
| f | Translatio Thome mar. | y | ||||||
| xviii | [...] | xlviii | g | xviii | ix | xxxi | Depositio Grimbaldi | z |
| vii | xv | vii | I | vii | iii | lii | Sancti Cerilli episcopi | & |
| iv | l | xlv | b | Septem fratrum mar. | ꝰ | |||
| [...]iii | viii | xlvi | c | xv | i | xlvi | Translatio benedicti | a |
| d | iiii | ix | xxxix | Naboris et Felicis | b | |||
| xii | i | li | e | xii | v | xxxix | Sancti Priuati martiris | c |
| f | i | b | l | Sol in Leo, Dies [...]an [...]e. | d | |||
| i | vii | v | g | Translatio Swithuni | e | |||
| A | ix | ix | xlii | Augusti. Tran. Osmundi | f | |||
| ix | i | xlix | b | Sancti kenelmi regis | g | |||
| c | xvii | vli | xxix | Sancti Arnulphi epis. | h | |||
| xvii | iiii | xliii | d | Rufini et Iustini | i | |||
| vi | li | x | e | vi | x | xi | Margarete virginis | k |
| xiiii | viii | lvii | f | xiiii | ix | xx [...]i | Praxedis virginis | l |
| g | Maria Magdalena | m | ||||||
| iiii | vii | o | A | iii | iiii | xix | Sancti Apollinaris | n |
| xi | viii | xl | b | xi | [...] | lvii | Christine vir. Uigilia. | o |
| c | Sancti Iacobi apostoli | p | ||||||
| xix | vi | iii | d | xix | i | xlv | Anne matris Marie | q |
| [...]iii | x | xliiii | e | Septem dormientium | r | |||
| f | viii | Sampsonis episcopi | s | |||||
| xvi | ii | xii | g | xvi | xliii | [...]xliii | Felicis et sociorum eius | s |
| v | ix | vi | A | v | xi | lix | Abdon et Sennes | t |
| b | ix | lii | Sancti Germani | v |
August hath .xxxi. dayes and the mone .xxx.
| xiii | ix | o | c | xiii | iiii | xxx | Petri ad vincula | u |
| d | ii | ii | xvii | Stephani bys. | x | |||
| ii | x | v | e | x | iii | xxx | Inuentio sancti Stephani. | y |
| x | vi | ii | f | Iustini presbiteri. | z | |||
| g | Oswaldi. Festum niuis. | & | ||||||
| xviii | xiii | xxx | A | xiii | o | xlv | Transfiguratio domini. | ꝰ |
| vii | xxiiii | xvi | b | Festum nominis Iesu. | a | |||
| xv | viii | lviii | c | vii | v | xliii | Sancti Ciriaci. | b |
| d | xv | ix | liii | Uigilia. | c | |||
| iiii | v | v | e | iiii | xv | xliii | Sancti Laurentii. | d |
| f | xii | iiii | xi | Tiburtii martiris. | e | |||
| xii | iiii | ii | g | Clare virginis. | f | |||
| i | x | xxxvi | A | vi | lix | Hipolite et sociorum eius. | g | |
| b | xii | xlviii | Sept Uigilia. | h | ||||
| ix | iii | lvi | c | Assumptio beate Marie. | i | |||
| d | Sol in virgine. | Sancti Rochi. | k | |||||
| xvii | ii | xi | e | xvii | viii | lii | Octaua sancti Laurentii. | l |
| vi | x | viii | f | vi | viii | lii | Sancti Agapiti. | m |
| g | Sancti Magni martiris. | n | ||||||
| xiiii | vi | xvii | A | xiiii | iiii | xix | Lodouici episcopi. | o |
| iii | vi | li | b | iii | o | xlix | Sancti Barnardi. | p |
| c | Octaua assump. Marie. | q | ||||||
| xi | viii | xvii | d | xi | v | ii | Uigilia. | r |
| xix | viii | l | [...] | Bartholomei apostoli. | s | |||
| f | xix | v | xii | Lodouici regis. | s | |||
| viii | xi | xvi | g | viii | x | lix | Sancti Seuirini | t |
| xvi | [...]x | lviii | A | xvi | lx | lix | Sancti Rufi. | v |
| b | Sancti Augustini. | u | ||||||
| v | v | iii | c | v | b | lviii | Decolatio Iohannis bap. | x |
| xiii | x | xi | d | xiii | i | lix | Felicis et Audacti. | y |
| e | Cuthburge virginis. | z | ||||||
September hath .xxx. [...]
| [...] | iii | xxxii | f | ii | [...]i | xiiii | Sancti Egidii | z |
| g | x | vi | x | Sancti Anthonii | & | |||
| x | x | xi | [...] | Ordinatii sancti Greg. | ꝰ | |||
| b | Translatio sancti Cuth. | a | ||||||
| xviii | i | xviii | c | xviii | iiii | vii | Sancti Bertini. | b |
| vii | x | xlvi | d | vii | vi | l | Sancti Eugenii | c |
| xv | v | x | e | d | ||||
| iiii | lii | xlix | f | xv | vi | xxvi | Natiuitas Marie. | e |
| g | iiii | i | v | Sancti Gorgonii | f | |||
| xii | viii | xii | A | xii | v | xxxvi | Siluii episcopi | g |
| b | [...] | x | xliii | Prothi et Iacinti | h | |||
| i | iii | v | c | Martiniani episcopi | i | |||
| d | ix | v | xxxii | Maurelii episcopi | k | |||
| ix | vii | li | e | October, | Exaltatio s. cru. | l | ||
| xvii | xi | xvii | f | xvii | ix | vii | Octa. beate Marie. | m |
| g | Edithe virginis | n | ||||||
| vi | vi | xv | A | vi | vi | liii | Lamberti epis. xt mar. | o |
| x [...]iii | vi | xviii | b | xiiii | i | xliii | Uictoris et Corone | p |
| c | Ianuarii martiris | q | ||||||
| iii | ix | xx [...]ii [...] | d | iii | xi | xxxix | Sancti Eustachii virg. | r |
| xi | vii | xxxix | e | Sancti [...] | s | |||
| f | xi | iii | xli | Maurici et sociorum eius | s | |||
| xix | xi | viii | g | xix | x | xix | Tecle virginis | t |
| viii | x | lvi | A | Andochii martiris | v | |||
| b | viii | iii | xix | Firmini epis. et mar. | u | |||
| xvi | vi | [...] | c | [...] | vii | xxxviii | Iipriani et Iustini | x |
| v | ii | iiii | d | [...] | ii | xxxiiii | Cosme et Damiani | y |
| e | Exuperii episcopi | z | ||||||
| xii [...] | ii | x | f | xiii | [...] | ix | [...] | & |
| g | [...] | v | [...] | Hieronimi presbiteri | ꝰ |
October hath .xxx. dayes, and the mone .xxx.
| ii | viii | lii | x | viii | Sancti Remigii | a | ||
| b | San [...]ti Leodigarii | b | ||||||
| x | xlii | xv | c | Candidi marti [...]is | c | |||
| xviii | o | xix | d | xviii | Francisci confessoris | d | ||
| vii | xx | iii | e | Appollinarii martiris | e | |||
| xv | iiii | xxxvi | f | vii | vi | vi | Sancti Fidis | f |
| g | xv | iii | [...] | Marci et Marciliani | g | |||
| iii | v | xxii | [...] | iiii | Sancti Pelagii | h | ||
| b | xii | ix | xlvii | Dionisii et Rustici | i | |||
| xii | ii | vii | c | Gereonis et Uictoris | k | |||
| d | i | iiii | xxvii | Sancti Nigasii | l | |||
| i | vii | xli | e | Sancti Wilfridi | m | |||
| [...]x | x | i | f | ix | v | lvi | Translatio sancti Edw. | n |
| g | Sol in scorp. | Sancti Calixte episc. | o | |||||
| xvli | viii | xxxii | [...] | xvii | viii | xli | Wulfrani episcop [...] | p |
| vi | iii | xliii | b | [...]i | iiii | xxxv | None. Michael in monte | q |
| c | xiiii | o | liii | Translatio Etheldrede | r | |||
| xiiii | ix | xxii | d | Luce Euange [...]a | s | |||
| e | ii | i | xxv | Fredeswide virginis | s | |||
| iii | ii | lv | f | Austreberte virginis | t | |||
| xi | ix | li | g | [...] | x | xxxvi | xi. M. virginum | v |
| xix | o | xxxi | A | Ma [...]ic Salome | u | |||
| b | xix | iii | xxxvii | Sancti Romani | x | |||
| viii | ix | lii | c | viii | xviii | x [...]iii | Sancti Maglorii | y |
| xvi | iiii | lii | d | xvi | v | x | Crispini et Crispiniani | z |
| e | v | o | xvii | E [...]aristi episcopi | & | |||
| v | iii | xvii | f | Florentii mar. Uigilia | ꝰ | |||
| g | viii | v | xx | Simeo [...] et I [...]de. | a | |||
| xiii | viii | xxi | A | Narcissi episcopi | b | |||
| b | Germane Capuani | c | ||||||
| ii | iii | vii | c | ii | Sancti Quintini Uigil. | d | ||
Nouember hath .xxx. dayes, & the m [...]ne .xxix.
| x | vii | xlvii | d | xi | [...] | xii | [...] | e |
| e | Cōmemoratio animarum | f | ||||||
| xviii | x | xlvii | f | xviii | viii | lii | [...]enefride virginis | g |
| vii | v | xliiii | g | vii | vi | xxviii | Sancti Amantii | h |
| xv | vi | xxi | A | Leti presbyteri | i | |||
| iiii | ix | lv | b | xv | i | xxxi [...]i | Leonardi abbatis | k |
| c | iiii | xi | xxxvi | Wilbrodi episcopi | l | |||
| d | xii | iiii | xv | Quatnor coronatorum | m | |||
| xii | viii | vi | e | Theodori martiris | n | |||
| i | x | xxv | f | i | ix | v | Sancti Martini episcopi | o |
| g | Sancti Martini | p | ||||||
| xi | x | lix | A | ix | iii | lviii | Paterni martiris | q |
| xvii | vi | xxx | b | xvii | vii | xxviii | Sancti Brici episcopi | r |
| c | December | Trans. Erken. [...] | r | |||||
| vi | iii | ii | d | vi | i | xxix | Sancti Macuti epis. | s |
| e | xiiii | ii | xxxix | S. Edmundi archiepis. | s | |||
| xiiii | iii | iii | f | Sancti Hugonis epis. | t | |||
| iii | ix | lvi | g | iii | vi | ii | Octana s. Martini | v |
| A | Sancti Elizabeth | u | ||||||
| xi | ii | xxvii | b | xi | iiii | xiiii | S. Edmundi regis | x |
| xix | c | Presentatio Marie | y | |||||
| [...]iii | viii | xvii | d | xix | vii | xlvii | Cicilie virginis | z |
| e | viii | vii | xxxv | Sancti Clementis epis. | & | |||
| xvi | v | xiii | f | xvi | iii | xvi | Sancti Grisogoni | ꝰ |
| [...] | vi | xliiii | g | v | xi | xx [...]vii | Katherine virginis | a |
| A | Lini episcopi | b | ||||||
| b | xiii | xi | vi | Agricole et vitalis | c | |||
| xiii | vii | xxx | c | Rufi martiris | d | |||
| iii | vii | lii | d | ii | v | liiii | Saturnini et Sisinnii | e |
| x | x | liiii | e | x | o | xxi | Sancti [...] | f |
December hath .xxxi dayes, & the Mone .xxx.
| [...] | x | lv | f | x | xxi | o | Sancti eligi episcopi | g |
| xv [...] | viii | lvi | g | xviii | ix | xvi | Sancti Libiani | h |
| [...] | xvi | v | A | Depositio Osmundi | i | |||
| xv | [...] | x | b | vii | v | iii | Sancte Barba [...]e | k |
| c | xv | i | xliii | Sabte abbatis | l | |||
| [...] | iiii | xxxiiii | d | Nicholat epis. et con. | m | |||
| e | iiii | ii | xxxvi | Octava Andree apost. | n | |||
| f | xii | xi | xxxiiii | Conceptio beate Marie | o | |||
| [...] | o | lvi | g | Cipriani abbatis | p | |||
| [...] | i | xxxviii | A | i | v | vi | Sancte Eulalie | q |
| ix | x | xxvi | b | ix | vii | vii | Sancte Damasce pape | r |
| c | Sol in Cap. | Pauli epis. Sols [...]icium. | s | |||||
| xvii | v | xli | d | xvii | v | xlvii | Lucie virginis | s |
| vi | iiii | xx | e | vi | i | ii | Ianuarii. | t |
| xiiii | f | Ualer [...]i episcopi | v | |||||
| g | xiiii | vi | lviii | O sapientia | u | |||
| A | Sancti Lazari episcopi | x | ||||||
| [...]ii | iiii | liiii | b | iii | oxl | Sancti Gratiani | y | |
| xi | ix | xx [...] | c | Sancte Uenesie vir. | z | |||
| xix | xi | xxxiii | d | xi | vi | xxxix | Iulii martiris Uigilia | & |
| e | xix | x | v | Thome apostoli | ꝰ | |||
| viii | vi | xxxi | f | viii | xix | xxii | Trigin [...]a martirum | a |
| xvi | vii | liii | g | xvi | ii | xxiiii | Uictorie virginis | b |
| A | Sanctatum virginum | c | ||||||
| v | xi | xlix | b | v | o | lvii | Na [...]iui [...]us domini | d |
| c | Sancti Stephani | e | ||||||
| xiii | x | o | d | xiii | vi | xxii | Sancti Iohannis | f |
| e | Sancorum Innocentium | g | ||||||
| [...] | o | liiii | f | ii | i | viii | Sancti Thome martiris | h |
| g | x | v | xi | Trans. sancti Iacobi | i | |||
| o | vi | A | Sancti Siluestri | k | ||||
| Letter dominical. | Letter tabulare. | The exposition, valoure, and signification of the letters of the tabula [...]e figure, that ben in the seconde lyne after the dominicall letter. | |||||||||
| Mouable feastes. | Inte [...]a [...]es. | ||||||||||
| Septua Easter gesime. in | Roga Whytsoncio [...]s. day in | Fro Christmas to Lent. | Fro Whitsonday to saynt Iohn | Fro Whitson day to aduēt Christmas. | |||||||
| Iauiuere. | March. | Apryll. | May. | [...] day. | [...]. | ||||||
| d | b | xviii | xxvii | xxvi | x | v | v | vi | iii | xxix | Friday |
| e | c | xix | xxiii | xvii | xi | v | vi | vi | ii | x [...]ix | Thursday |
| f | d | xx | xxiiii | xviii | xii | v | v | vi | i | xxix | Wednesday |
| g | e | xxi | xxv | xxix | xiii | vi | i | vi | xxix | Tuesday | |
| A | f | xxii | xxvi | xxx | xiiii | vi | ii | v | vi | xxix | Monday |
| b | g | xxiii | xxvii | May. | xv | vi | iii | v | vi | xxix | Sonday |
| c | h | xxiiii | xxviii | ii | xvi | vi | iiii | v | iiii | xxviii | Saterday |
| d | i | xxv | xxix | iii | xvii | vi | v | v | iii | xxviii | Fryday |
| e | k | xxvi | xxx | iiii | xviii | vi | vi | ii | xxviii | Thursday | |
| f | l | xxvii | xxxi | v | xix | vii | v | v | i | xxviii | Wednesday |
| g | m | xxviii | Aprill. | vi | xx | vii | i | v | xxviii | Tuesday | |
| A | n | xxix | ii | vii | xxi | vii | ii | iiii | vi | xxvii | Monday |
| b | o | xxx | iii | viii | xxii | vii | iii | iiii | v | xxvii | Sonday |
| c | p | xxxi | iiii | ix | xxiii | vii | iiii | iiii | iiii | xxvii | Saterday |
| d | q | February | v | x | xxiiii | vii | v | iiii | iii | xxvii | Fryday |
| e | r | ii | vi | xi | xxv | vii | vi | iiii | ii | xxvii | Thursday |
| f | s | iii | vii | xii | xxqi | viii | iiii | i | xxvii | Wednesday | |
| g | t | iiii | viii | xiii | xxvii | viii | i | iiii | xxvii | Tuesday | |
| A | u | v | ix | xiiii | xxviii | viii | ii | iii | vi | xxvii | Monday |
| b | a | vi | x | xv | xxix | viii | iii | v | xxvi | Sonday | |
| c | b | vii | xi | xvi | xxx | viii | iiii | iii | iiii | xxvi | Saterday |
| d | c | viii | xii | xvii | xxxi | viii | v | iii | iii | xxvi | Fryday |
| e | d | ix | xiii | xviii | Iune. | viii | vi | iii | ii | xxvi | Thursday |
| f | e | x | xiiii | xix | ii | ix | iii | i | xxvi | Wednesday | |
| g | f | xi | xv | xx | iii | ix | i | iii | xxvi | Tuesday | |
| A | g | xii | xvi | xxi | iiii | ix | ii | ii | vi | xxvi | Monday |
| b | h | xiii | xvii | xxii | v | ix | iii | ii | v | xxv | Sonday |
| c | i | xiiii | xviii | xxiii | vi | ix | iiii | ii | iiii | xxv | Saterday |
| d | k | xv | xix | xxiiii | vii | ix | v | ii | iii | xxv | Fryday |
| e | l | xvi | xx | xxv | viii | ix | vi | ii | ii | xxv | Thursday |
| f | m | xvii | xxi | xxvi | ix | x | ii | i | xxv | Wednesday | |
| g | n | xviii | xxii | xxvii | x | x | i | ii | xxv | Tuesday | |
| A | o | xix | xxiii | xxviii | xi | x | ii | i | vi | xxv | Monday |
| b | p | xx | xxiiii | xxix | xii | x | iii | i | v | xxiiii | Sonday |
| c | q | xxi | xxv | xxx | xiii | x | iiii | i | iiii | xxiiii | Saterday |
| d | r | xxii | C.iii | ||||||||
Fygure of the letter tabulare, of the whych is declared by the two present figures, the first for the blacke letters, and the seconde for the [...]edde letters.
| b | b | c | b | [...]d | ||||||||||||||
| i | ii | iii | iiii | v | vi | vii | viii | ix | x | xi | xii | xiii | xiiii | xv | xvi | xvii | xviii | xix |
| [...] | k | f | o | f | f | r | k | b | o | n | s | k | k | o | f | t | l | |
| b | g | s | c | c | p | [...] | t | l | l | b | g | g | t | c | c | p | p | |
| t | l | [...] | q | g | g | m | m | c | h | h | v | l | d | q | g | g | m | m |
| r | h | h | v | e | d | q | q | a | m | m | r | i | h | n | e | [...] | q | t |
| [...] | f | e | r | i | b | n | n | [...] | k | [...] | a | f | l | t | b | b | o | [...] |
| s | k | k | o | f | f | l | k | b | o | g | s | k | k | p | f | f | l | [...] |
| [...] | g | g | t | [...] | c | p | p | t | l | l | q | g | g | t | d | [...] | p | p |
| b | l | [...] | q | h | g | m | m | o | h | h | v | e | d | q | h | a | m | m |
| r | i | i | v | e | [...] | q | q | a | n | m | r | i | i | n | e | e | k | t |
| a | f | f | r | i | b | o | n | e | k | k | a | f | l | s | b | b | o | o |
| s | k | k | p | f | f | l | l | b | o | g | t | k | k | p | g | e | l | l |
| [...] | g | g | t | d | e | p | p | b | l | q | h | g | t | d | d | p | p | |
| o | m | l | q | h | h | m | m | v | n | v | e | e | q | h | a | n | m | |
| r | i | i | v | e | e | q | a | n | [...] | n | t | i | [...] | o | e | e | k | k |
| a | f | f | s | i | b | o | o | e | k | k | b | f | f | s | c | b | o | s |
| t | k | k | k | g | f | l | l | c | o | g | t | l | k | p | g | g | l | l |
| [...] | g | g | t | d | d | p | p | b | m | l | q | h | h | t | d | d | q | p |
| v | m | e | b | h | h | n | m | d | [...] | i | v | e | c | r | h | a | n | n |
| r | i | i | o | e | [...] | [...] | k | a | m | u | s | i | i | o | f | e | k | k |
| [...] | f | f | s | c | b | o | o | t | k | k | b | g | f | s | c | e | o | o |
| t | l | k | p | g | g | l | l | e | h | g | t | l | d | p | g | g | m | l |
| c | h | h | t | d | d | q | p | v | m | m | q | h | h | n | d | d | q | [...] |
| v | m | e | r | h | [...] | n | [...] | o | i | i | a | e | e | t | b | a | n | n |
| s | i | [...] | o | f | [...] | [...] | k | b | n | n | s | k | [...] | o | f | f | k | k |
| [...] | g | [...] | s | c | [...] | o | f | o | l | k | g | g | s | c | e | p | o | |
| t | l | p | g | g | m | l | c | h | h | t | l | d | q | g | h | m | m | |
| c | h | l | v | d | d | q | q | v | m | m | t | h | h | n | [...] | d | q | [...] |
| [...] | m | [...] | [...] | i | [...] | n | n | e | i | i | a | f | e | r | b | b | n | n |
Thys present fygure is for to fynde the letter tabulare, and proceadeth as the fygure foloweth of the dominicall letters, whereby it behoueth to knowe the golden [...] wherfor the yere that ye will know, and in the lyne that discendeth downeward vnder the sayde number is the letter tabulare, and in lykewyse of the dominicall lettre in the fygure hereafter. And ye ought to knowe that a golden number, dominical letter, and a letter tabulare serueth alwayes for a yere fair when it is by sexte that byn two dominicall letters, and also two tabulare letters, as the fygure hereafore sheweth. It ought to be knowen that the domynycall letters, and the letters tabulare, be in the fyrst lyne vnder the golden number .xvi. for the yeare of this presente kalender that is. [...] and so of the other.
The figure for to fynde the golden number and the letter dominicall together for euermore.
| b | b | c | b | d | b | |||||||||||||
| i | ii | iii | iiii | v | vi | vii | viii | ix | x | xi | xii | xiii | xiiii | xv | xvi | xvii | xviii | [...] |
| f | e | de | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | fe | d | c | d | a | g | f | de |
| c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b |
| ag | f | e | d | [...]b | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f |
| e | [...]c | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | e |
| b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag |
| f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | cd | c | b | a | gf | e | d [...] | c | ba | g | f | e |
| d [...] | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | d |
| a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | a | f |
| e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc |
| b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a |
| gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e |
| d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b |
| a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | g |
| e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | de | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d |
| cb | a | g | f | cd | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a |
| g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e |
| d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | ba | g | f | e | d | cb |
| a | g | f | cd | c | b | a | gf | e | d | [...] | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g |
| fe | d | e | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d |
| c | ba | g | f | [...] | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | c | d | cb | a |
| g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe |
| d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c |
| ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g |
| f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d |
| c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | e | ba |
| g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | [...]e | d | c | b | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | e |
| d | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g | f | e | dc | b | a | g | fe | d | c |
| e | ag | f | e | d | cb | a | g | f | ed | c | b | a | gf | e | d | c | ba | g |
In this present figure it behoueth to behold the golden number for the yere that ye will knowe, and in the lyne righte vnder the golden number alwayes is the letter dominicall. c. vpon the golden number .viii. hye Easter, & when it falleth that they come both together, Corpus Christi & saint Iohns day be all in one day. d. vpon .xvi. signifieth the lowest Easter. And when it falleth that Candelmas and Shroue mondaye commeth together .v. signifyeth all about where it is when it falleth with the golden number, vppon the whych is our Lady day in March on good Friday.
Fygure perpetuall for Easter and other mouable feastes.
| A | x | A | xxvi | A | xvi | A | ix | A | xxvi |
| b | x | b | xxvii | b | xvii | b | iii | b | xxvii |
| c | xi | c | xxviii | c | xviii | c | iiii | c | xxviii |
| d | xii | d | xxix | d | xix | d | v | d | xxix |
| e | vi | e | xxx | e | xx | e | vi | e | xxiii |
| f | vii | f | xxxi | f | xxiii [...] | f | vii | f | xxiiii |
| g | viii | g | i | g | xxv | g | viii | g | xxv |
| A | xvi | A | ii | A | xxiiii | A | ix | A | ii |
| b | xvii | b | iii | b | xxiiii | b | x | b | iii |
| c | xviii | c | iiii | c | xxv | c | xi | c | xxviii |
| d | xii | d | v | d | xix | d | xii | d | xxix |
| e | xiii | e | vi | e | xx | e | xiii | e | xxx |
| f | xiiii | f | xxxi | f | xx | f | xiiii | f | xxxi |
| g | xv | g | [...] | g | xxii | g | viii | g | i |
| A | xvi | A | ix | A | xxvi | A | xvi | A | ii |
| b | xvii | b | x | b | xxvii | b | xvii | b | iii |
| c | xviii | c | xi | c | xxviii | c | xviii | c | iiii |
| d | xix | d | v | d | xxix | d | xix | d | v |
| e | xx | e | vi | e | xxx | e | xiii | e | vi |
| f | xxi | f | vii | f | xxi | f | xiiii | f | vii |
| g | xxii | g | viii | g | xxv | g | xv | g | viii |
| A | xxvi | A | xvi | A | ii | A | xiii | ||
| b | xxvii | b | x | b | iii | b | xiiii | ||
| c | xxviii | c | xi | c | iiii | c | xviii | ||
| d | xxii | d | xii | d | v | d | xix | ||
| e | xxiii | e | xiii | e | xxx | e | xx | ||
| f | xxiiii | f | xiiii | f | xxxi | f | xxi | ||
| g | xxv | g | xv | g | i | g | xxii |
Upon the letter dominicall next vnder the golden number that renneth is Easter daye, for the yeare of the golden number, a. signifyeth Aprill, m. sygnyeth March, and the numbre of the sayde letters is the number of the dayes of the moneth that Easter shall fall vpon.
The figure of the Eclips of the sunne and the moone, the dayes houres and momentes Capitulo .vi.
| M.d. [...]. the eclipse of the moone the .xi day of March .xv. houres .xl. min. | M.d.ix. the eclipse of the Sunne, the xxi. day of August i, houre .vi. minu. | M. [...] of the moone, the .xv. daye of Iuly, .xv. houres .l. mynute. | M.d. [...]clypse of the sunne the .xx. day of Iune iiii. houres .xxxvii. minutes. |
| M. [...].lxiii. the Eclipse of the moone the .v. day of Iuly viii. houres iiii. minutes. | M.v.lxv. the Eclipse of the moone the .vii. day of Nouember, xii. houres xviii. minutes. | M.d.lxvi. the Eclipse of the moone the .xxviii. daye of October v. houres xxxvii. minu, | M.d.lxvii. the E [...]clipse of the moone the .viii. daye of Aprill .xxii. houres .xxix. min. |
| M.d.lxvii. the Eclypse of the moone the xvii. day of October, xiii. houres, xiii minutes. | M.d.lxix. the Eclypse of the moone ye ii. daye of March xv. houres .iiii, minutes. | M.d.lxx. the Eclipse of the moone the .xx. daye of February, .v. houres xxxix. minu. | M.d.lxx. [...] Eclypse of the moone the .xv. daye of August ix. houres .xvii minutes. |
| [Page]M.d.lxxii the Eclipse of the moone the .xvii. day of October .xiii. houres, lxii. minutes. | M.d.lxix. the Eclipse of the moone the seconde daye of March xx. houres iiii. minutes. | M.d.lxx. the eclipse of the mone the .xx. day of February .v. houres, xxxix. mynutes. | M.d.lxx. the Eclipse of the moone the .xv. day of August ix. houres, xvii minutes. |
| M.d.lxxii. the Eclipse of the moone the .xxv. daye of Iune, ix. hours .lxii minutes. | M.d.lxxiii. the Eclipse of the moone the .viii. day of December, vii. houres xxxviii. min. | M.d.lxxiiii. the Eclipse of the sunne the .xiii. day of Nouember .iiii. houres .lii. minutes. | M.d.lxxvi. the Eclypse of the sunne the .vii. day of October, x. houres, lii. minutes. |
| M.d.lxxvii. the Eclipse of the moone the .ii. daye of Apryll viii. houres, xviii. minutes. | M.d.lxxvii. the Eclipse of the moone the .xxvi. daye of Septēber .xii. houres .xxxvi. minutes | M.d.lxxviii. the eclipse of the moone the xv. day of September xiii. houres viii. minu. | M.d.lxxx. the Eclipse of the moone the .xxxi. daye of Ianuary .x. houres vi. minutes. |
| [Page]M.d.lxxxi. the Eclipse of the moone the .xix. day of Ianuary .xi. houres, vi. minutes. | M.d.lxxxi. the Eclipse of the moone the .xv. daye of Iuly .xvi. hours .xlviii minutes. | M.d.lxxxii. the Eclipse of the sunne the xix day of Iune xvi. houres .liii. minutes. | M.d.lxxiiii [...] Eclypse of the sunne the .xix. daye of Apryll .xvii. houres, xxvii. minutes. |
| M.d.lxxxiiii the eclipse of the moone the .viii. day of Nouember .xiii houres xii. minutes. | M.d.lxxxvii. the Eclipse of the moone the .vi. day of September .viii houres lviii. minutes. | M.d.lxxxviii the eclipse of the moone the seconde daye of March xv. houres xiiii. minutes | M.d.lxxxvii [...] eclypse of the mone the .xxv. daye of August .xvii, houres .xxiiii. minu. |
| M.d.lxxxix. the Eclipse of the moone the .xv. day of August vii. houres, liii minutes. | M.d.xc. the eclipse of the Sunne, the xx. day of Iuly .xix houres, xxxviii. minutes. | M.d.x [...]. the eclipse of the mone the .xxx daye of December, viii. houres .i. mynntes. | Md.xci. [...] of the Sunne, the x. daye of Iuly .iii. houres .xxxvi. mynutes. |
| [Page]M. [...].c. [...]i. the Eclipse of the moone the .xix. day of December .xvii. houres .xxiiii. min. | M.v.c.xcii. the Eclipse of the moone the .xiii. day of Iune .x. houres .xxiiii. minutes. | M.v.c.xcii. the Eclipse of the moone the .viii. day of December viii. houres xxiii. minutes. | M.v.c.xciii. the Eclypse of the sunne the .xx. day of May .ii. houres .xxxvi. minutes. |
| M.v.c.xciiii. the eclipse of the moone the .xviii. daye of October .xix. houres .xxviii. minu. | M.v.c.xcv. the Eclypse of the moone the .xiii. daye of April .xvi. houres .liii minutes. | M.v.c.xc.v the Eclypse of the sunne the .xxiii. daye of September the .i. houre .xiii. mi. | M.v.c.xcvi. the Eclipse of the moone the .ii. daye of Aprill .ix. houres .xlix minutes. |
| M.v.c.xcviii. the eclipse of the moone the x. day of February .xviii. houres, lvii. minutes, | M.d.xcviii. the Eclypse of the sunne the . [...]xiiii. daye of Februarye [...] xxiii. houres .xi. min. | M.d.xcviii. the Eclipse of the moone the .vi. daye of August vii. hours lviii minutes. | M.d.xcix. the Eclypse of the moone the .xxx. day of Ianuary .xix. houres, vi. minutes. |
| [Page]M. [...]i.c. the Eclipse of the Sunne the xxx. day of Iune .i. houre .xxxiii. mynutes. | M.vi.c.i. the eclipse of the moone the xxix. day of Nouē ber .vii. houres .xxx viii. minutes | M.vi.c.i, the [...] clipse of the sunne the .xiiii. day of December .ii. houres. liiii. minutes. | [...] the Eclipse of the moone the .xxv. daye of May, vii. houres, xxxvi. minutes. |
| M.vi.c.iii. the Eclipse of the moone the .xiiii. daye of May .xii. houres .l. minutes. | M.vi.c.iii. the Eclipse of the moone the .viii. daye of Nouember vii, houres .xxxvii. minu. | M.vi.c.v. the Eclipse of the moone the .xxiiii. daye of March ix. houres .xlii. minutes. | M.vi.c. [...]. the Eclipse of the moone the xvi. day of September .xvii. hours v. minutes. |
AL the Eclypses of the Sunne be on the day, and of the Moone by night. And ye shal wyte the Eclipse of the Sunne and the Moone appereth sometime otherwyse then we see it, for the Eclipse of the Sunne may well be by night, and the Eclypse of the Moone may be by day. But such Eclypse appeareth not to vs Shepardes.
[...] [...] amat.
Tangere crura cane quum luna videbit aquosum. In sire tunc plantas: excelsas erigit turres. Efst carpis iter tunc tard [...]us ad loca transis.
Fe [...]rius nigro clamat.
Pisces habens lunam noli curare podagrum. Carpe viam cutus sit petie modo salubris.
Martius arua colit.
Nil capiti noceas Aries cum luna refulget. De vena minuas & balnea tucius intres. Non tangas aures nec barbam radere debes.
Aprilis florida prodit.
Arbor plantetur cum luna Taurus habetur. Non minuas tamen edifices nee semina sperges. Et medicus caue at cum serro tangere collum.
Ros et [...]os nemor [...], Maio sunt romes amorum.
Bra [...]hia non minuas cum lusteat Luna. Gemellos vnguibus et manibus cum serro cutta negitur. Nunquam portabis a promissore petitum.
Dat Iunius [...]ena.
Pectus pulmo iecur in Cancro non minuantur. Somnia falsa vides vtilis sit emptio rerum. Potio sumatur securus perge via tur.
Iulio rececatur auena.
Cor [...] mit luna Leonem. Non facies vestes nec ad [...] hades. Et n [...] ore [...]mas nec sumas tunc medicinam.
Augustus spicas.
Lunam Uirgo tenens vxorem ducere noli. Uiscera cum costis caues tractare c [...]orem. Semen da [...]ur agro: dubites intrare carinam.
September colligit vuas.
Libra lunam [...] nemo genitalia tangat. Aut tenes nates, nec inter carpere dedes. Extre [...]m partem libre cum luna tenebit.
Seminat October.
Scorpius augmentat morbos in parte pudenda. Uulnerea non cures caueas ascendere naues. Et si carpis iter timeas de morte ruinam.
Sponat virgu [...]a Nouember.
Luna nocet semori per partes m [...]tu Sagitte. Ungues vel crines poteri [...] prescindere tute. De [...] minuas et balnea tutius intres.
Querit habere [...] mactando December.
Capra nocet geni [...]s ipsam cum luna tenebit. Intrat aqua nouam citius curabitur eger. Fundamenta [...] modicum tunc durat idipsum.
Egilogius sequitur omnium supra dictorum.
De duodecim signis.
Here after foloweth the seconde part of the compost and kalender, which sheweth of the trees of vyces, & of the paynes of hell. Cap. vii.
IN the name of the father, the sonne, and the holy Ghost. Amen. We purpose to shew the trees of vyces, for synners to take example by, for to vnderstande their sinnes. The which is deuided in .yii. pryncipall partes after the .vii. deadly synnes, and eche deadly synne is lykened to a tree, and euery tree hauing .vii. small braunches, and all these .vii trees commeth out of one tree by it selfe that is euyll, and commeth of one beginning, and that is the deuill, and it bydeth an end, that is euerlasting damnation, which is ordeyned for all them that seeke not remedy betymes by penaunce and repentaunce of theyr lyfe in tyme.
And after these trees of vyces foloweth the paynes of hell, to shew the lay people what punyshmente is ordeyned for euery deadely synne, and that the people may the better shew theyr synnes in confession, and make cleane theyr conscyence, & that they may be the house of God, so that vertues may growe and fructifie to the profyte of theyr soules. The fyrst great braunch of the tree of vyces is Pryde, and he hath .xvii braunches growing out of hym. As of vayne glory of him selfe. Uayne glory of the worlde. Praysing hym selfe in euyll. Bostinge of synne. Inobedyence. Disdayne. To tempte God. Excesse. Dispraysinge. False goodnesse. Hardynesse. Presumption. Rebellion. Obstinacion. Sinne wittingly. Communynge of the Sacrament. Shame to doe good. Out of euery of the whych braunches spryngeth three braunches, and out of euery of the sayde three braunches groweth three small braunches, to the number of seuen score and thyrtene, and in so many maners and wayes ye may synne in the synne of Pryde, the whych is the roote and beginning of all the seuen deadly synnes. And therefore it shall be shewed fyrste of Pryde, and after the other syxe synnes as they folowe in order.
- The first braunch of pride. Uaine glory of himselfe.
- Seeking ioy and not the glory of God.
- When any weneth yt his goods cometh of hīselfe
- Or that such goods be due for their merites
- If they beleue to haue, or know more thē thei do
- Hipocrisy.
- Dissembling by words to be better then they be
- Seming by workes to be good and be not,
- Desir [...]g praise for his good deedes by other
- Dispraysinge them selfe for to haue praysing.
- To dispraise his dedes yt other shold praise them
- To repent his doings bicause they be dispraised
- Dispraising him selfe that other may praise him
- The seconde braunch of pride. Uaine glory of the world
- For riches.
- When they wene to be better for their goods,
- Or weneth to be worse without them
- To be ashamed yt they lacke riches in their nede
- For pompes.
- Delighting him to haue a great houshold
- Reioysing them in the fair shape of their bodies
- Or in new fashion, or multitude of his clothes
- For honours.
- Whē thei desire to be honored with others good
- Willing to be honored and dread
- Or to the end it may be said that they be mighty
- The third braunch of pride. Glad of euill doing.
- Declaring their sinnes.
- For to be praysed of cursed and vnhappy people
- Or for to shew that thei be prompt to euil doing
- Delighting in recordation of his euill dedes
- Being glad that they be euill.
- For that they loue the frendship of the world
- Or for they dout not the righteousnes of God
- Or els they loue not God with their hart
- To haue no shame of euyll doing.
- For they know not which is vertue ne vice
- Nor to amend themselues be not willing
- For to be sene gladly when he doth euill.
- The fourth braunch of pride. Bosting of sinne.
- Praysing thy selfe.
- Openly before all folkes or few
- Or secretly before one, or by himselfe.
- Seking occasion for to be praysed onely
- In shewing thē selfe better then they be.
- Couering their euils, that they be not seene
- Telling their good dedes yt they may be knowen
- Hiding their sinnes that they apere not great
- W [...]ening that they be wise and be not.
- To be great in iudgement with him selfe onely
- Dispraising the vnderstandinge of other
- Presuming their owne vertue the grace of God.
- [Page] The .v. braunch of pride. Inobedience.
- Openly again-saying.
- Dispraysinge his maister or thē that be aboue him
- Dispraysing the merites that come of obedience
- Desyring to be such that he may gaynesay other
- Doing vnduly all that they ought to do.
- Whē negligētly thy do that, that thy ought to do
- Or when they do it otherwyse then apperteyneth
- Or for to let domage, and to haue profite
- For to require grace importunate.
- When they haue custome in sinne & fall oft therin
- Enuiously and frowardly asking grace for it
- Insaciatly perseuering without amending.
- The .vi. braunch of pride. Disdayne.
- Dispraysing other.
- For their ignorance and fault of vnderstanding
- For their pouertie and scarsenes of riches
- For their sicknes and de [...]ute of members
- Preferringe themselues before other.
- Shewing him selfe conning in some workes
- In praysing their dedes disprayse them of other
- In considering of lesse then he exalt himselfe
- Dispraysing other lesse then himselfe.
- That will compare themselfe for riches or science
- Or they which be almost as great as he
- Or which in things abouesaid are aboue him.
- The .vii. branch of pride. To tempt God.
- Desiring to sinnefull liuing.
- For they consider but sensible thinges
- For they will not beleue things that they see not
- To iudge thinges to come or they happen.
- To expose them selfe in perill.
- To beleue them selfe that god should deliuer them
- Or to disprayse and die in such daungerous perill
- or beleue in destenies that otherwise it may not be
- Not helping them selues fro perill.
- For they will vse no reason for to helpe themselfe
- For they wil vse their owne folly without counsell
- For they be to slouthfull, not willing to labour.
- The viii. braunch of pride. Excesse.
- To go before thy betters vnworthely.
- Usurping the might that they ought not to haue
- Exceding the power to them committed or giuen
- Treating them euill that be vnder their puissance
- To absteine thē ouer much.
- For they ben lesse worthy in such authoritie
- For they are to cruel to them that be subiect
- to make himself hated & may profite by faire spech
- To oppresse the poore men or seruaunts.
- By might or riches of his frendes
- For violence that the soueraignes may do
- For the riches or great goods that they ha [...]e
- [Page] The .ix. branch of pride. Dispraysing.
- Putting his soule in perill.
- Being in deadly sinne without repenting him
- Being in sinne and care not for to know it
- Or to vnderstande it and reioyce of it
- Caring not for things to come
- Not beleuing the life to come for the good people
- Beleuing the life to come, but not stedfastly
- Or to beleue it well, and not amende their liues
- Prefer the body to the soule.
- Being dilige [...]t to the body, negligent to the soule
- Desiring temporall goodes and not spirituall
- Nourishing continually the flesh in delytes.
- The .x. branch of pride. False goodnes.
- Unrightful to be dispraysed.
- For his presumptions, arrogance, and pride,
- For his vaineglory, vaunting, and praysing
- Or for to shew to liue of auantage
- Uniustly willing to be praysed.
- When they delite in worldly louings
- When they haue dread for to be dispraysed
- For to desire to be honored without cause
- To do good in an euil intent.
- For ignorance when they beleue not to do good
- wickedly do good in hope that it shal turne to euil
- Fraudulently doing it for to deceaue other.
- The .xi. branch of pride. Hardnes.
- Being vnkind in their dedes.
- To be impitious ond not proue the truth
- By entreating ouer straightly the rightful things
- Traueling more then of right them that be iust
- To be fierce & ouer cruell.
- When there is none affection ne loue vnto other
- To finde new maners to do euill
- To haue no shame to do crueltie
- Importunitie.
- When one desireth a thing euer continually
- Or when one is ouer hasty to haue his duty
- Or to be ouer enuious in asking it.
- The .xii. braunch of pride. Presumption.
- Beleue no man but them selfe.
- In gainsaying alway in the dedes of other
- Not beleuing that other then do good for God
- For his owne dedes to be content of him selfe
- Speaking of high thinges.
- Exalting him selfe and shewing that he is great
- To contrary his neighbours or other such
- In blaspheming God and holy saintes
- Beleue more in himselfe then he should do.
- When any will not know their owne defautes
- When any disprayseth the fautes of other
- Undertaking to come to that they may not.
- [Page] The . [...]iii. branch of pride. Rebellion.
- Hard them self in fighting.
- That may not suffer paciently to be smitten
- To grudge against the will of God
- For to be smitten blaspheme God and his saintes
- Resist to God.
- To let any good to be done
- Not to helpe to do good when they may
- Or to be sory that any body should do good
- To vpholde euill.
- For to do [...]inne more liberally
- For familiarity that they haue to him y• sinneth
- Or that this sinne that they defende.
- The .xiiii. branch of pride. Obstinacion.
- By fasting.
- Will not heare their betters to teach them good
- Ne to do therafter ne mendeth them not
- Wilfully to do euill for to be mended
- Not willing to forsake euill doing.
- For they will not leaue their euill custome
- Or els they geue not them to do good
- Or that they reioyce them in euill doing
- To be hardened in euill.
- To do against things that are doutfull
- To beleue that thing good that is not
- To geue themselues to euill without remedy.
- The .xv. branch of pride. Sinne wittingly.
- Sinning deadly.
- By presumption or vnderstanding to do euill
- Or by ignorance that they will not vnderstande
- Desiring and prouoking them selfe to do euill
- Sinning venially.
- For to follow euill company
- For custome to do any veniall sinne
- To ende one sinne that they may ende another
- In thought deadly or venially.
- By cogitations in their hartes onely
- By wordes sayde lightly
- Or by worke done vndiscretely.
- The .xvi. branch of pride. Cōmuning of ye sacra.
- Singing of seruice.
- And to be in any heresy
- Or to be in sutes of cursing
- Or wittingly in deadly sinne
- Ministring the sacramēts.
- Lesse then his dutie and vnworthely
- Without reuerence and vndeuoutly
- Without doing their duty to the people discretly
- Receaue the body of Iesu Christ.
- Without honour, deuotion and reuerence
- Theftously and of that they should not receaue it
- To say against them that is more wiser then he
- [Page] The .xvii. branch of pride. Shame to do good.
- Willing to be good and haue shame.
- By weakenesse and faute of corage
- For to loue negligently any good that may be
- By weening that it is shame which is honor
- Hauing shame to be good and is not.
- When they will accomplish the will of any person
- Or when any loueth that which is not good
- Or when they be slouthfull for to do good
- For to be lyke them that be euill.
- When they reioyce them in euill company
- To shew the domage of him selfe and other
- For to obtaine that he desireth.
- The first branch of Enuy. Noysomnesse.
- Sorow of the welth of his neighbour.
- For to desire thy neighbours harme
- For thou may not sustayne to see his welth
- To thend that thou mayst oppresse thē in misery
- Not glad of the welth of his neighbour
- When he hath done iniury in times past.
- Or hath not geuen to thee that thou required
- Or thou mayst not see the encreasing of his good
- To be glad of his neighbours hurt.
- That thou dost to him or art causer
- Or of that other doth and not thy selfe
- Or that he suffereth by the iustice diuine.
- The .ii. branch of Enuy. Detraction.
- For cause of lightnesse.
- By euill accustomance so for to do
- Or to accomplish the will of some folke
- Not taking hede if their wordes may anoy other
- For cruell hate
- Finding any yll that is not good ne faithfull
- In reporting that they heard say or yt it is truth
- To say they haue heard yll by other & haue not
- In lying wittingly.
- To thend to cause some to haue trouble & domage
- To thend that no welth come to him yt they hate
- Or to the ende that he be therby diffamed,
- [Page] The .iii. branch of Enuy. Adulation.
- To anoy vnder coloure of good fauour
- To say that they know the which they know not
- That they vnderstande to be greater then it is
- Nourish, susteine, or defende other in folly
- Norish ill in fair semblance.
- Saying that profiteth or noyeth by flattery
- Somtime flatter veniall, sometime mortall
- Saying euill behinde and faire before
- Holding his pe [...]ce suffering to do yll.
- For to haue any winning or profite
- For to compare or please some person
- Or not to lese the loue of him that doth euill.
- The .iiii. branch of Enuy. Susurration.
- Causing discorde & stri [...]e.
- By perswasions mouing the parties
- Or by false tales and making of lesings
- And in reporting of cursed language
- Making strife to last long
- For thou wilt haue a mans loue onely
- Or thou wouldest haue helpe to anoy another
- Or not caring for the welth of thē y• be at discorde
- Not laboring for peace.
- By malice yt thou woldst not haue the peace made
- For thou wilt not trauell for to make peace
- And being diligent to trauell for it.
- The .v. branch of Enuy. Sin ageinst ye holy ghost.
- Sclaundering the good people.
- Turning their good name into euill
- Seking meanes for to trouble their mindes
- Withdrawing them from the loue of people
- Weening that it is a paine to serue God.
- In abusing them of the graces of God
- Being slouthfull in doing good workes
- Not louing God
- Not helping the good people.
- The which suffereth for the loue of God
- Or for penance of their sinnes
- Or for to get the glory of our Lorde
- The .vi. branch of Enuy. Suspection.
- To beleue to soone.
- By whatsoeuer occasion indifferently
- To beleue any thing that is saide shortly
- Be it true or false without any aduisement
- Beleuing ouer faithfully.
- That the which thou should not beleue
- Or that thou art ouer light in beleuing
- Or thou iudgest the good without discretion
- Oft times to beleue.
- Things vnbeleuable and which may not be
- When diuers times thou hast bene disceaued
- For thou mayst not but beleue.
- [Page] The .vii. branch of Enuy. Accusation.
- Of trouth.
- When it is for vengance of him that is accused
- Whē it is for lightnes yt they haue to accuse other
- Or to please him to whom they do accuse vnto
- Falsely.
- When they finde the euil with which they accuse
- When they knowe him that they accuse not gilty
- When they accuse the gilty because of hate
- Of doutfull thinges.
- Seking occasion to noy him that is accused
- Affirming to be true the vncertain of their accuse
- Imposing the harm yt thei wene be & know it not
- The .viii. branch of Enuy. Excusation.
- By wordes.
- Which be doubtful hauing double vnderstanding
- Manifestly and which they know to be false
- Seking occasion to hide the euill dede
- By force of swearing.
- Putting the fault on him that did it not
- For to shew him selfe innocent of the fault
- For to auoyde the punishment of his fault
- By the holy gospell.
- Though he be constr [...]yned to forswere him
- And worse if they do it wilfully
- Or to swere ere they know wherfore they swere.
- The .ix. branch of Enuy. Unthankfulnesse.
- Not knowing the benefites of God.
- How much or how well they haue done
- By what bounte, for without desert he geueth vs them
- Or what thing is worthy to retribute to himselfe
- Doing yll for good.
- To him which did helpe thee in thy nede
- Unto him which counseyled thee in thy necessitie
- Unto him which defended and kept thee frō peril
- Not yelding goodnes for goodnes.
- But done euill to him that hath done thee good
- Nether do euil ne good to thē that did thee good
- For receauing a great benefite yelde a small.
- The .x branch of Enuy. To iudge.
- The dedes of other not apperteyning.
- By ignorance ere they know how
- In doubt of that which they know not
- Or to iudge without being required.
- Doing false iudgements.
- For any giftes receaued or to receaue
- For loue or for hate
- Lightly for certaine malice
- Euill to be good, or contrarily.
- By lightnesse for they ben accustomed
- Or so to do wening to do it by sporte
- Or wittingly willing for to anoy other
- [Page] The .xi. branch of Enuy. Subtraction.
- In temporall thinges.
- Not geuing to the pore goods that be superfluous
- Reteyning lawfull goodes without departing
- Goodes that are exposed in euill vsages
- In spirituall thinges.
- Not being busy about the saluation of sinners
- Not admonishing sinners to leaue their sinne
- Not shewing to other the good that they can
- Or of counsell.
- Not geuing counsell to them that aske it
- Or geuing euill counsell willingly
- Not counseyling when they may thē that do yll
- The .xii. branch of Enuy. Drawing other to sin.
- By example.
- When they do euill afore their subiectes
- When any leadeth another in company to do euill lesse
- Or vnder the colour of good do great hurt
- By counsell.
- Drawing the great to euill to cause his to be sene
- Or by their sinne more delectably
- And be glad that they consent to sinne with them
- By force.
- Of requiring and admonesting
- Not ceassing till they consent to euill
- By oppression and in doustrayning them.
- The .xiii. branch of Enuy. False loue.
- For the loue and fauour of man.
- Them that fauoureth thee and doth thy will
- Thē that may noy thee to thend that they do not
- To thende thou mayst be seene gentle and meke
- For earthly profite.
- Fayning thee to be a friend to him and art not
- Fayning that thou louest him more thē thou dost
- Shewing to be his friende and art his enemy
- For f [...]eshly humanitie.
- Desending or susteyning any in their euill
- Promoting them which are not worthy to be
- For to labour to liue more deliciously.
- The first branch of Wrath. Iniquitie.
- Mocking himselfe.
- Letting other to loue that mocketh thee
- For declarations that thou hast in mocking
- Or that thou art accustomed so to do
- Cursinge.
- Other in his thought without speaking
- Or of his mouth by wordes
- Sowing discorde and noyse betwene people
- Deceauing.
- Geuing wilfull counsell for to do euill
- Awayting the sinner for to do euill
- Seing sinne and not reproue it when they may
- The .ii. branch of Wrath. Hatred.
- Discorde.
- By manifestes and rancoures
- Seming a frende and haue rancour at the hart
- For to make peace and kepe malice in thy minde
- Iniury.
- In diffaming other
- In taking his goodes from him
- In hurting his body or his good name
- Conspiration.
- To scismatice or procure diuision in the church
- Coniuring in persons in good or in euill
- Conspiring in any workes.
- The .iii. branch of Wrath. Continuing in vilitie.
- Repreuings.
- Repreue the pouertie in which they are
- The f [...]agellations that they haue or had
- Or that they be come of a pore kinred
- Sharpe wordes.
- Prouoking other to anger
- Full of repreuing and iniuries
- Such as may beare hurte and domage
- Greuing his neighbours.
- By outragious wordes and sayings
- By hurting of his person or homicide
- For to take from him his goodes or renowne
- The .iiii. branch of Wrath. Consenting.
- Not amending.
- When they haue domination vpon the sinner
- Or when he is familiar wyth him
- That helpeth to do euill and might let it
- Reioysing of euill.
- Praysing and reioysing the sinners
- And not to mourne for the sinne that they haue done
- Not correcting them that be euill
- Helping to do do euill.
- By counsell that thou geuest
- By helpe that thou geuest to them
- For thou defendest them that doth euill.
- [Page] The .v. branch of Wrath. Frowardly.
- Impugning goodnes.
- Beleuing in any heresy
- For to haue meate and drinke
- For the loue of one and hate of another
- Haunting strifes.
- By customance for they reioyce in them
- By manifest hate that they will make appere
- By secrete rancours in their hartes
- Strife by wordes.
- As in questions inutile and frowarde
- For to shew his science
- For to gainesay him to whom they speake
- The .vi. branch of Wrath. Homicide.
- In defending.
- Hauing will to slea and kyll
- Himselfe or other without will to slea
- To slea vnaduisedly or ignorantly
- Sleaing wilfully.
- By treason
- By hate
- For he which they slea is good
- Which they wene not for to kill.
- Wening to do well and do slea some man
- In coniecting any thing ioyously
- Or by him geue any medicine
- The .vii. branch of Wrath. Uengance.
- For wronge doing.
- Saying semblable iniuries
- In saying more greater iniuries
- Or iniuries though that they ben lesse
- Wening that it be his domage and is not.
- Noying him that correcteth thee for thy welth
- Or do euill to him that doth thee good
- If it displease thee yt they haue done for thy wele
- By faulte of some thing.
- If any geueth or lendeth thee not their goodes
- That he hath not done that, that he is not bound to do
- Or hath not holpen thee to do thy yl wil
- The .viii. branch of wrath. Impacience.
- In iudgemēts of God.
- When that which pleaseth God displeaseth thee
- Or for the will of God pleaseth thee not
- Or thou hatest that which God would haue done
- In his wretchednes.
- If thou be in any malady or sicknes
- Or if thou be in great pouertie and nede
- Or if thou haue any troubles or aduersities
- Of wrongs of his neighbors.
- For they haue missayde thee in wordes
- Or they haue misdone to thy person
- Or they haue misdone in thy goodes.
- [Page] The .ix branch of Wrath. Clamour.
- Debate for inutile things.
- As of beauty and fairenes of women
- Or of his lynage, frendes, and parents
- Or of thinges of the which doth anoy
- To make lesings & false tales.
- By very malice and hate
- By vaunting, craking and bosting
- By fraude and vnfaithfulnes
- Clattering.
- To vanquish by force of speaking
- Or for to anoy by clattering
- Or for pleasure that they take in it.
- The .x. branch of Wrath. Blaspheming.
- Knowing of god the which apperteyneth not to him.
- As of his soueraigne might and puissance
- Or of great goodnes in vs
- Or of his rightwise iustice
- Affirming of good things vnworthely.
- By any errour in the which they be
- For dread and feare of leasing
- For couetise of winning
- To say that is good yt is not.
- In beleuing as doth Idolatours
- In opinion by euill vnderstanding
- Doing against the ordinances of the Church.
- The. first branch of Slouth. Euill thought.
- Superfluous thoughtes.
- To delite in thinking euill
- Thinking that sinne is a sweete thing
- Long abiding in thinking euill
- Dolerous cogitations.
- How they may hurt any secretly
- That imputeth his dede vnto other
- How doing euill they may be said good
- Detestable thought.
- How they may do euill
- How doing euill they may perseuer
- How they may resist to the good.
- [Page] The .ii. branch of Slouth. Anoy of welth.
- To sinne by custome.
- For that other sinneth in likewise
- For the custome is so for to do
- For there is none that reproueth the euill doing
- Sinning by malice.
- When any loueth euill and doth accomplish it
- When any loueth the good and doth it not
- When any hateth the good and loueth the euill
- Or by desire not to loue it.
- When any doth good against his will
- When any reioyceth not in doing good.
- When it displeaseth them not if they do euill.
- The .iii. branch of Slouth. Redines to yll.
- By constance.
- In leauing the good which they know
- Changing oft times their purpose and counsell
- Weke in aduersitie & reyse himselfe in prosperitie
- By pusillanimitie.
- Withdrawing him from the good
- Mistrusting in the grace of God
- Fearing to begin any good thing
- By curiositie.
- Seking new thinges and vnprofitable
- Pleasantly to heare tales and fables
- Seeking new tidings by his owne will.
- The .iiii. branch of Slouth. Pusillanimitie.
- Drede where they ought not.
- Dreadiug that which is to come is no domage
- Leasing the spirituall goods for the temporall
- If temporall aduersitie seeme ouer greuous
- Drede more then they should.
- Making great sorow for that thou hast lost
- Sorowing that they haue which they desire
- Making sorow if any thing hap against thy will
- Drede them that they should not.
- As detractours when thou liuest iustly
- As defending the euill for to please them
- Or it noyeth them not if any do well.
- The .v. branch of Slouth. Euill will.
- Wyll to do euill.
- That it be to the dishonor of God
- To the domage and preiudice of his neighbours
- To the damnation of the soule
- Customably for to do euill
- For the declaration of thy euill
- For the displeasure of the good
- For they do that which they please and will
- Delighting in euill as much as they may.
- Not resisting euill cogitations
- Louing euill delectations
- Appetiting that they may delite in euill.
- [Page] The .vi. branch of Slouth. Breaking vowes.
- By neglygence.
- When any maketh a vow and mispraiseth to do it
- That doth lesse to vowe then he hath promised
- That fulfilleth not his vowe as he should
- By forgetting.
- of solemne secret vowes or things to thē belōging
- Of vowe promised to himselfe or other
- Of vowe made to enter into religion
- By dispraysinge.
- Not accomplishing his vowe when he may
- Or that may not & doth none other good sē [...]lable
- Or that they haue no letting for to accomplish it
- The .vii. branch of Slouth. Impenitence.
- Liuing and do no penance.
- By finall penance and neuer to repent
- By delacion from day to day of repenting
- By misprising that they will not repent them
- Not hauinge shame to sinne.
- When after sinne they be ready to sinne againe
- When they haue no shame of sin y• they haue done
- Or without sorow reioyce them to haue done yll
- Purpose for to sinne.
- Being in will to accomplish mortall sinne
- After that they haue sinned purpose to bide in it
- Seking occasion to fall into euery sinne.
- The .viii. branch of Slouth. In [...]idelitie.
- Not beleuing that they shuld beleue.
- As the Iewes beleue and other vnfaithful men
- That wil not heare the articles of the faith
- Or that heareth them and wil not beleue in them
- Beleuing that they should not.
- In false gods as doth the Sarazins
- In Idolles or in some Simulacres
- Or beleue in deuilish things as [...]itches do
- Beleuing vnstedfastly.
- Dout in that, that they ought to beleue stedfastly
- Beleue and not stedfastly as they ought to do
- Easely to let himselfe be disceiued of his fayth.
- The .ix. branch of Slouth. Ignorance.
- In discretion.
- Do without counsell yt which should be counseled
- Doing without maner that, y• they ought to hold
- Doing without wisedom things that is ne deiull
- That they oughte to vnderstand.
- Dispraysing knowledge and wil not be tought
- Not traueiling to learn that they ought to know
- Not purposing and not caring for to learne
- Not willing to know.
- For they run and will take no paine to learne
- For to haue excusation of not knowing
- For slouth and negligence of lerning.
- [Page] The .x. branch of Slouth. Uaine sorowe
- In noysomenes of liuing
- When good thinges ben displeasaunt
- When all things ben anoying
- When all that they do is done heauely
- False hope.
- Presuming to much of the mercy of God
- Not going from sinne, trust in the mercy of God
- Liuing in sinne without the dreade of God
- Dispayring.
- For the streightnes of iustice of God
- For the greatnes of the sin yt they haue commised
- To mistrust in the mercy of God.
- The .xi. branch of Slouth. Slowlinesse.
- Toward forbodden things
- When any exposeth him to much in peril of sinne
- When any are to much assured for to do sinne
- When any exposeth him to much in temptations
- Toward holsome counsell.
- Not willing to be good and leaue the doing yll
- Not honoring the good & loue it better then the il
- Dispraysing the counsell of good folke
- Towarde the commaundement.
- Not doing the commaundement that they ought
- Dispraysing cōmaundement or him that made it
- Not louing any thing that is commaunded.
- The .xii. branch of Slouth. Euill hope.
- Dispise men of good fame.
- Continuing in doing euill operations
- In hauing hope to do euill al onely
- Or doing them both together
- Not fearing shame.
- Not caring what thing is sayde of thee
- Not caring if any be sclaundered by thee
- Not seeking that any be edefyed by thee
- Doing good in euil intentiō
- Fraudulently and thou knowest it well
- Without discretion, not caring to whom, ne how
- Cauteously for thou wilt not know it.
- The .xiii. branch of Slouth. Curiositie.
- Seking vnprofitable things.
- Willing to vnderstand the thing yt is cause of sin
- Labouring to cōfound other by force of language
- For to be called wise of Ideotes and fooles
- Delyting to vaine things.
- To draw and go to such as be dissolutio [...]s
- Or that they do and make dissolute
- Or make thee take heede vnto all vanities
- Doinge that none other can do.
- Making new thinges that were neuer seene
- Or that they learne things which ben euill
- Or things that ben only for to make folke laugh
- [Page] The .xiiii. braunch of Slouth. Idlenesse.
- Ceasing to doe good.
- That is to say good cogitations
- To good wordes
- And to good workes
- Seking to do euill.
- That is to know the concupiscence of the flesh
- The concupiscence of the eyen is auarice
- And to liue proudly
- Not resisting to do euill.
- For loue that they haue to euill
- For anoy that they haue to goodnes
- For negligence of them selfe.
- The .xv. braunch of Slouth. Euagacion.
- In Idle things.
- Exposing him in vanities
- Not withdrawing him from vanities
- Willing to abide in vanities
- Or delectable thinges.
- For they ben euill and pleasant
- Abiding by longe time and space
- When thy will is therto prouoked
- And wicked thinges.
- How cautelously they may domage and hurte
- Or the more greuously hinder
- Or the more longer anoy.
- The .xvi. braunch of Slouth. Letting to do good.
- Consenting to them that doth euill.
- By malice for to accomplish their will
- For hate that they haue to the good folke
- Or for hate of good that they might do
- Not helping the good.
- whē they may haue no profite without they helpe
- There as they be in perill
- Where as they defayle without hauing succour
- Hindring the good.
- As by himselfe
- Or by other persons
- Or holde from them that they owe them.
- The .xvii. braunch of Slouth. Dissolution.
- As in vayne things.
- In the beholding folke sporting them by vanitie
- Setting their eyen to beholde any vanitie
- Being in places populaire and publike
- In wanton things.
- In ius [...]es of the body
- In lightnes of corage
- By force of singing and cryeng
- Or in foolish reioysing.
- By laughing to much and ouerlong
- To be without grauitie when they should be so
- To prouoke other for to laugh
Here beginneth the .xx. branches and bowes of Couetise, as Compunction Rapine, Usury, witholding dotte, Not yelding commised Simony, Sacrilege, Thefte being proprietarie, Taking giftes vniustly. To haue to much, Expending habundantly, Fraude, False compunction, Leasinge, Swearing, Forswearing, False witnesse, Playes, Being vagabunde. Out of the which twenty braunches cometh other small twigges or braunches to the number of an hundred and thirtie. And so the whole number of them is an hundred and fiftie.
- The first braunches of Couetise. Compunction.
- Solicitude of thought.
- Forget the spiritual goods, for the tēporal goods
- Be negligent to the spūal, & diligent to the teporal
- Dispraise the goods of the soul, for thē of the body
- Hope to winne without cōuenaunce.
- Holding that without noysance they ne may
- Procuring goodes of other for to haue profite.
- Willing to haue profite for their solicitude
- and may not with draw thē from it.
- Getting temporall goodes by great delectation
- Being holden in loue, to get temporall goods
- Or to vaunt him to get more then he can.
- The seconde branch of Couetise. Rapine.
- Takinge by force the goods of other
- To his subiects or lesse then he
- To his enemies by what maner that it be
- To his neighbours by subtill meane
- Doing vio [...]lence.
- To his subiects, for him of temporall goods
- Or likewise, by spūal things with threatnings
- Or in spirituall things making promises
- By curueis & subsedies
- Doing vnduely, without right and reason
- Or that before they were accustomed so to do
- Or that they be done by force of thretnings.
- The thirde branch of Couetise. Usury.
- By couenaunt made
- When any sels the dearer bicause of abiding,
- Lende money, to haue more largely
- Or for bicause they lende and do abide,
- Without couenant, but in hope
- Not lende without they haue a pledge.
- Or by signes to be sure to win by lending
- When any receiueth or lendeth to haue benefite
- To sell for more forgeuing dayes.
- As ben open vsurers
- Or that they thinke to get money by that they sell
- Or by accustomance so for to sel.
- [Page] The .iiii. branch of Couetise. Witholding.
- Renying [...]t.
- Dette that thou knowest wel that thou dost owe
- Or that dette that thou hast forgotten
- The which is openly knowen that thou owest
- Or stealing it.
- Hoping to geue it him another time
- Without will to geue it him though thou may
- Not hauing power to pay and aske no mercy
- To forget it.
- The which ben payde and aske it againe
- Not geuing children yt they haue of their frendes
- Reteyning willingly that to other belongeth
- The .v. branch of Couetise. Not yeldīg thīgs cōmised.
- Witholding them by dede.
- By strēgth or violence distribute thē to him selfe
- By fraude make them to lese them that oweth thē
- Saying that they hold them vnder colour of loue
- Differre for to yelde them.
- To thend yt the meane while they may profit thē
- Or that by some meane they may kepe them
- Or to haue mede for yelding them
- Lending them to other.
- To haue recompence for such lending
- By curiositie to lende that which is not his
- By ambicion to say that is his which is not.
- The .vi. branch of Couetise. Simony.
- Sellinge spirituall thinges by wordes.
- To people aduouterers by their flattering
- By leding of processe and to vnworthy people
- By the euill wordes of other
- Selling spirituall things by price.
- And taken afore of such thing be commen
- Or taken after they be commen
- Putting cause wherfore the same was not
- Selling spiritual things by prayers.
- Sometime doing with threatnings
- Or sometime without threatnings
- And sometime with violence and force.
- The .vii. branch of Couetyse. Sacrilege.
- Taking sacred things in holy places.
- as the goods of the church to be takē in ye church
- Witholding dysmes and things of the church
- Taking the goods of the church vndeserued
- Or halowed thīgs in places not halowed.
- Taking the goods of the church where they be
- Unworthely distributing the goods of the church
- A lay man hauing dysmes saying to be his
- Or things not halowed in holy place.
- By questes or any thing longing to the church
- All goodes for surety put in the church
- Things or casualties to them alowed.
- [Page] The .viii. branch of Couetise. Thefte.
- stealing with out that it be knowen.
- For him yt thou robbest did the domage aforetime
- Or thou dost it of thy proper malice
- Or for thy simplenes and ignorance
- Hauing the goods of other hyding them.
- For to witholde them more peaceably
- For feare to be punished
- Or for thou wilt alway perseuer in yll
- Consenting to him that doth euill.
- For it pleaseth thee that such robbery be done
- Or thou hast profite by such robbery
- Or for thou searest him that doth such thefte.
- The .ix. branch of Couetyse. Being proprietary.
- A religious of the goodes of his religion.
- To haue without knowledge of his prelate
- Or by consent of ye prelate which appeteineth not
- Or yt they haue of licēce to apropre to much to him
- Men or womē maried.
- Whē one hath any good without knowledge of ye other
- Or that ye one geueth to much to his kin
- When one spendeth priuely the common goodes
- Of the patrimony of the crucifyxe.
- In taking more then of necessitie
- Unworthely and where it apperteyneth not to be
- Spending it in euill vsage.
- The .x. branch of Couetyse. Taking giftes vniustly.
- To do hurte.
- And for to beare domage vnto other
- In accusing other wrongfully
- Or sometime accusing for a iust cause
- To cause dishonesty.
- As for to make treason or conspiration
- To make immundicitie and dishonest things
- Or in taking both the aduers parties
- To sell Iustice
- To the ende to do his particuler profite
- Hasting iustices & to wrong them that hath right
- Differring to do right to him that it longeth to.
- The xi. branch of Couetyse. Hauing to much.
- Getting ouer much.
- By violence done for frendes or for siluer
- Or by vsery vniustly common to
- Or by fraudes and deceptions acquired
- Witholding ouer much.
- To thend that they may be more honored & dred
- To thend to haue the more their delytes
- Or to haue more possessions then other
- Sorowing that they can not get.
- For enuy of them that be richer then he
- By delyting him in richesse
- For feare to haue scarcety of good.
- [Page] The .xii. branch of Conetise. Spending abundantly.
- Thinges iustly gotten.
- Geuing vniustly not caring to whom
- Lesing disordinately the goods that they haue
- Abusing and folishly vsing that they know well
- Thinges vniustly gotten.
- In reteyning them against conscience
- Doing almes with rapine and vsery
- Spending them in carnalities
- Thinges not being his.
- In oppropryeng them to his singuler vsage
- Or appropryeng them to the vsage of other
- Spending them superfluously on other persons.
- The, xiii. branch of Couetyse. Fraude.
- In forecastings.
- By promises that they may receaue
- By threatnings in likewise
- Or by sweete wordes
- Being double.
- Shewing faire semblant for the good of other
- Or by such semblant diffame other
- Or by faire semblant hurte other
- Procuring euill.
- To him that weneth thou art his frende
- To him that thou knowest to be thine enemy
- Or indifferently to his frende or enemy.
- The .xliii. branch of Couetyse. False compunetion.
- Euill reconing
- Of that that they owe to other iustly
- Of that which is ought by any wayes
- Or that which is ought to other then him
- When they do knowe it and yelde it not.
- For drede to yelde it or to be noted
- For shame that they haue to do it
- For auarice and loue of reteyning
- Consenting to yll and do it not.
- Holding his peace of that he knoweth
- Doing helpe to him that misreconeth
- Willing to hinder him that is misreconed.
- The .xv. branch of Couetyse. Le [...]nge.
- For merinesse.
- For couetyse to please
- For pleasance that they haue of lesing
- Lightly to swere for that they know not
- To make other to win.
- Hyding that that hurteth none ne helpeth other
- Sometime that it be for temporall goodes
- Sometime to proue any person
- Fraudulently.
- That profiteth sometime, and sometime noyeth
- That profiteth to none and noyeth to some
- In the doctrine and promise of religion.
- [Page] The .xvi. branch of Couetyse. Swearing.
- The members of God.
- In contemning God and his sayntes
- For to shew that he is fierce
- Or that they take pleasure to do iniury to God
- Often times.
- By euill custome to sweare often
- For pleasure that they haue to sweare
- For contemnement of him that they sweare
- Incautely.
- Not taking heede what they sweare
- Doing yll to verefy that they do sweare for
- Not considering that othes should be kept.
- The .xvii. branch of Couetyse. Forswearing.
- By wordes.
- Dolorously to deceaue and begyle
- Unwisely of that they know not
- Willingly of that they know not
- By faith interposed.
- In receiuing any of the sacraments of the church
- In the selfe thinges that be lawfull
- Or in things that be not lawfull
- By touching of thinges made.
- Swearing vntruly in will to deceaue other
- Or swearing truth wening to sweare false
- Or that sweareth false wening that it be truth.
- The .xviii. branch of Couetyse. False witnes.
- That thing which they know not.
- Bearing witnes of the thing that they know not
- Witnessing the thing wherin they be ignorant
- Dissembling to be ignorant of that they know
- The thinge that they do knowe.
- For prayse that they haue or ought to haue
- For loue of him for whom they be witnes
- For malice that they will not say the truth
- The thinge that thei wene to know.
- For false opinion that they haue of the thing
- Say that the thing is true and knowe it not
- Nor requiring for the truth and may well.
- The .xix. branch of Couetyse. Playes.
- Which be defended.
- As playes made by enchauntment
- Dishonesties in prouoking to dishonesty
- Or the which may greatly noy
- That be perillous.
- For pleasaunce of him selfe or to please other
- By accustomance to make such playes
- Or in hope to haue winning to do such playes
- Wyth persons not apperteyning.
- A lay man to play with a religious
- Or a lay man with a priest of clerke
- Or with any man of penaunce.
- [Page] The .xx. branch of Couetyse. Being vagabunde.
- For to seeke wayes for to be ydle.
- Fayning them selues and be not
- Doing such fantasy without necessitie
- Or in so doing for to deceaue other
- To be ydle.
- Amonge such as trauayle and laboure
- Or among them fayning to be sicke & are hole
- Or shewing themselues more sicke then they be
- To optemper their yl will.
- In susteyning things sharpe to susteyne
- Deceauing by fayned wordes or by enuy
- Wening to liue without ani thing that is nedeful
- The first branch of Gluttony. Seking delicate meats.
- For the good fauoure.
- Against the profite of the soule
- Against the health of the body
- Against the health of both together
- For the great noueltie.
- For noueltie that it is delicious
- Eating fruites bicause they were good and ripe
- By composicions of the condicions required
- In diuers appareling.
- By customance so well to dresse it
- By lightnes to be ouer abundant without nede
- By affection and pleasure that they take.
- The .ii. branch of Gluttony. Gredinesse.
- In appetiting
- Meates more precious then longeth for them
- Meane meates and be not content with them
- Lesse meats then the state wher they be required
- To much delyting.
- In being curious to fyll his belly
- Not seruing God for filling of his wombe
- Eating to often without keping any houre
- To much fylling them.
- As much as they may de [...]oure meates
- When he may fyll him and not being content
- Not parting to the pore such meate as they haue
- [Page] The .iii. branch of Gluttony. Delicious dressing.
- By diuers maners.
- For to satisfy all his desyres
- Not refusing to his belly any thing it desireth
- Not refusing any euyll appetite
- Or exquisiuely
- By arte otherwise then other maketh
- By study how well that it be difficile to do
- By labor & paine that they take to dresse them
- Condignely.
- Nedefull by diuers maners of matters
- Delicious for the swete and fragrant sauours
- Sumptuous not caring for any cost.
- The .iiii. branch of Gluttony. Eating without houre.
- Out of time.
- Before a lawfull houre and without necessitie
- Or after when the lawfull houre is past
- Or what houre that it be against commandemēt
- Many times.
- What thing that thou appetitest to eate
- Manifestly that other may know it
- Or secretly when thou onely wilt
- Unlawfully.
- As on fasting dayes to eate flesh
- In place, as eating in the Church
- As meate, as eating forbodden thinges.
- The .v. branch of Gluttony. To make excesse.
- In quantity of meates.
- Eating more then is nedefull
- Eating so much that it greueth to soule and body
- Doing domage vnder colour of sicknes
- In ouer dere meates.
- Not caring what they cost if they be delectable
- Ouer delicious aud therfore more dearer
- Dispraysing meates of light price
- Using other mens tables
- For lechery and lycorousnes
- For company that they may eate the more
- For to fulfyll the better their appetite.
- The first branch of Lechery. Lechery.
- Fornication.
- With all women maryed or widowes
- With a mayden yet being a virgin
- With common women or them that are corrupt
- Aduoutry.
- When a man cōpanieth with other then his wife
- Or women with other then their husbands
- Or that they be both in mariage
- Excesse.
- With man or woman of their lygnage
- With any man or woman of their affinitie
- Or that the one partie be of religion.
- The .ii. branch of Lechery. Immundicitie.
- Of thought.
- Long delectation of thinking of Lechery
- Geuing consent to such delectation
- Enforcing him to accomplish his will by worke
- Of body.
- Pollusion by night by to much eating & drinking
- By habitacion or company of women
- Euill cogitacion to accomplish such worke
- Of both together.
- Mouing or touching the flesh by delectation
- Accomplishing worke & of will naturally.
- Or any wise not naturally.
- The .iii. branch of Lechery. Not geuing the det.
- For hate.
- When they loue other then their party
- When they knowe that they be not loued of their party
- Or they are dispitefull and rigorous
- For to shew traueyling.
- For they feare the infernall paynes
- For dreade to haue pouerty
- For feare of labour that they haue of noryshing
- For abhomination.
- Some hath abhomination in that they be accustomed
- Or for immundicitie of the worke
- Whē any disprayse or hate ye cōpany of his party.
- The .iiii. branch of Lechery. Abusing thy .v. wittes.
- Exposing thē selues in perill.
- Sometime by the reason of some persons
- And other times danger of the place
- And other season by reason of the time
- Not drawing from it.
- Of the worke when they know it is naught
- From the perill and know that it is dangerous
- Or for they provoke to such worke in perill
- Delyting them in it.
- In the worke and sinne of the flesh
- Or desire and will to accomplish it
- Or in thought and memory to haue done it.
- [Page] The .v. branch of Lechery. Superfluitie
- In clothing.
- In Iewels, rynges, sygnets, and ouches
- In preciousnes of gownes, gyrdels, & clothings
- In the composition or fashion newly gotten
- By delytes.
- By wantonnes of children playing or being ydle
- By delectacion of their body taking al their eases
- In doing all that the hart desireth
- By expence.
- Spending largely for the prayse of the world
- Geuing where it apperteyneth not to geue
- For his delites hath spent to much of his goodes.
Explicit.
¶Here endeth the braunches of all the .vii. deadly synnes, as they be afore rehersed, wyth all the small braunches. Also shewing howe that three commeth of the great braunches eche by hym selfe. And out of them three groweth .ix. and so euery braunch hath small sprayes springyng out of them. So there is no man ne woman lyuinge, but he synneth venially as it is written. Sepcie [...] in die cadet iustus. Lo if the righteous man do sinne .vii. tymes a day by veniall sinnes, then we wretched sinners howe ofte do we sinne in a day. God wot full ofte. But yet for veniall sinne is many remedies. Also for deadly sinne is fewe remedies, and but four specially, as Confession, Contricion, Satisfaction, and penance. But the first is, thou must be sory for thy sinnes. Secondly to make a meke confession. Thirdly, do satisfaction. And fourthly performe thy penance adioyned by the confessour, for penaunce is dette that we must pay to God for our sinne committed, and therfore neuer loke to haue forgeuenes of thy sinnes without repentance. Also sinne is perillous afore our Lord Iesu Christ for .iii. maner of reasons. The first he giueth no warning when he smiteth thee. The seconde, for as he findeth thee, so will he iudge thee. The thyrde when thou art deade remedy is past and gone.
Here foloweth the paynes of hell comminatories of synnes, to punish the sinners, as Lazarus recompted after that he was rysen, as he had seene in the parties infernals, as it appeareth by these fygures ensuing one after an other. Capitulo .viii.
OUr Sauioure and redemer Iesu Christ, a little before his blessed Passion, beinge in Bethanye, entred into the house of a man named Symon, for to take his corporall refection. And as he was sytting at the table with his Apostles and Disciples, there being Lazarus brother to Mary Magdalene and Martha, the whych our Lorde had raysed from death to lyfe. The whych thinge Symon douted, and prayed our Lorde for to commaunde Lazarus to shewe afore the assistentes what he had sene in the other world. And our lorde gaue him leue to [Page] speake. And then the sayd Lazarus recounted how that he had sene in the parties infernalles of hell many great and intollerable paines, where as sinnefull men and women were payned. Firste of Pryde, and consequently of all the .vii. deadly sinnes, eche payne by him selfe.
First sayde Lazarus I haue seene in hell wheles right hie, set on an hyll, the which was to looke on in maner of mylles, incessantly turning about by great impituosity, roring and whirling as it were thunder. And the wheles were fyxed full of hookes and crampions of Iron and steele, and on them were hanged and turned the proud men and women for their Pryde, with their prynce, capitayne and master Lucifer.
[Page] PRyde amonge all other synnes is a kynge, a captayne, and master. And as a king hath a great company of people, in the same maner hath pryde a great company of vyces And as a king kepeth that which is his, in likewise doth pryde kepe the proude folke that be in his iurisdiction. Great signe of reprobacion it is for to perseuer longe in pryde Pryde then is a synne that displeaseth God aboue all other sinnes, as much as humilitie pleaseth him amonge vertues. And there is no sinne that maketh a man more semblable to the deuill then pride doth. For the proude man wil not be as the other men, but he must be as the Pharisien with the deuill. And for that the proude man will enhaunce him selfe aboue other men, the deuill doth with him as the crowe hauyng a harde nutte in his byl, the which he may not cracke, she beareth it vp a hye in the ayre, and then letteth it fal vpon a stone wheron it breaketh, and then she discendeth and eateth it. In likewyse the deuyll reyseth the proude man and woman for to let them fall in the harde paynes of hell. As much difference is betwene pryde and humilitie, as the chaffe and the corne, for the chaffe is light and mounteth hye, & the wynde caryeth it about and so it is lost, and the corne which is heauy abydeth lowe on the grounde, and is gathered vp and put in garners of the fermour, and is kepte for the common profite, and the chaffe is brent, lost, and de [...]oured of beastes. And in this wyse are the proude people reysed and enhaunsed through the entisement of the fiende of hell, & then fal downe by the moyst rayne of death, which maketh them heauy, and causeth them to tomble by the strength of their superbious blastes into the forneyse euerlasting, and there to be brent and deuoured with the horrible beastes of hell.
¶Secondly sayde Lazarus I
haue seene in hell a fiudde frosen as yse, wherin the enuious men and women were plunged vnto the nauill, & then sodainly came ouer them a right cold and a great winde, that greued and payned them ryght sore, & when they would euite and eschew the wonderfull blastes of the wynde, they plunged into the water wyth great shoutes & cryes lamentable to heare.
ENuye is doloure and sorowe of the harte, of the felicitie and prosperytie of other, the whych synne is soueraignely cursed, for that it is contrarye to Charity, that is soueraygne heade of all vertues, wherby it is great sygne of reprobacyon, for by it the fiendes knowe them that shall be dampned, as Charitie is sygne of saluation, and whereby God knoweth who shall be saued. Enuyous people ben fellowes vnto the deuyll. For if so be that an Enuyous man do winne, then is he very glad, and if he leese he is full angry with them. Enuyous folke ben so [Page] infette and corrupte that good odoures to them stynketh, and sweete thinges vnto them semeth sower, in likewise is the good name and prosperity of other But stinking things and sower to them be swete, the whych ben vices, reproches, aduersities, and euill fortunes that they knowe or heare sayde of other. The Enuious folke seke their welth in the aduersitie of other, as when of the harme of other they seke the good in reioysing them, but with this they be not yet satisfyed, but of a new they be tormented, for they haue not such ioy without displeasance and affliction at their hart, wherby they be tormented. For he that seketh his welth in the aduersitie of an other, is lyke to hym that seketh the fier in the bottome of a water, or that loketh for woll on an vrchins backe, the which thinges be but all follyes and abusions. Enuy is but the goodes and felicities of this worlde, for the cursed synne of enuy may not ascende into heauen. It is a synne difficile to heale, for it taketh toote and is fyxed in the hart secretly, wherfore it is harde and vnpossible for to be done away by medicine, wherefore with great paynes is any made hole that is infected with it. The enuious mens toungs be likened vnto a three edged sword that hurteth and cutteth three maner of wayes. The firste he hurteth and woundeth his owne soule. The seconde him that he telleth his tale vnto. And thirdly he sleyeth him by whom he felleth his cursed tale.
¶Thirdly sayd Lazarus I
haue seene in hell a great caue tenebrous and obscute, full of tables lyke Bochers stalles, or a great bochery, where as Irefull men and women were thorow pearced with trenchynge knyues and sharpe glayues, & with long speares perced their bodyes, wherewith the moste horryble and fearefull bochers of hell hewed and detrenched them wyth their glayues and knyues impiteously wythoute ceasing.
SO as peace maketh the conscience of a man to be the dwellinge place of God, so cursed wrath maketh it the habitation of the deuil. Wrath efisketh and leseth the eye of reason, for in a wrathful man reason is banished, ther is nothing that kepeth so much the image of God in man, as sweetnes, peace, and loue, for almighty God wil be there as peace and concord is, but wrath chaseth thē fro man, so that our lord may haue no abyding. The wrathful man is lyke to a Demoniacle, the which hath the deuill within him, causing him to torment and striue with himselfe, foming at the mouth, and gnasshing with his teeth, for the intollerable payne the whych the enemy doth to him. In likewise the wrathfull man is tormented by wrath, and doeth oftentymes worse then the Demoniacle, for without pacience they beate the one with the other, sayinge iniuries, reproches, vyllanies, & geue them selues to the deuill body and soule, [Page] and say and do many vnlawfull and domageable things. By wrath sometime the deuill getteth an hole generation or all a coun [...]rey. When wrath is set, then commeth noyse, & then vengaunce that destroyeth and leeseth all, the which hapneth sometime through one wrathfull man, as an yreful dogge the which mo [...]ed and put strife amonge other. The fysher troubleth the water that the fysh may not see his nette, to the ende that they may goe therein and be taken. In likewise the deuill troubleth the man by wra [...]h, to the ende that he knowe not the harme that he commised by his wrathfull hart and courage.
Fourthly sayd Lazarus, I haue scene in hel an horrible hall darke and tenebrous, wherin was a great multitude of serpentes bygge and small, where as slouthfull men and women were tormented with bytings and stingings of venemous wormes, the which perced them through in diuers parts of their bodies, wounding them to the hart with inextinguible payne.
Of slouthfull people.
SLouth is tristesse of spirituall goodes, that should be ordeyned to God, wherfeore they loue to serue God as they ought to doe, with hart and mouth, and by good operacyons, who that wyll loue God ought to knowe him redemptour and Sauiour of all goodnesse that we haue had and receyued euery daye, knowledging our selfs sinners. Great foly it is when by slouth in the time of this breniate life, we gather not goodes for the life eternall. But in these dayes many one be slouthfull to do wel, and diligent to do euill, so that if they were diligent to do well, as they be to do euill, they were right happy. Also slouth is the beginner of sinne, and a great enemy to God, for he letteth men and women to serue God, and to know their maker and redeemer, and sender of all goodnesse that they haue here, they be great fooles that be so slouthfull here in this litle time of this shorte lyfe, that will gather no goodes to bringe the soule to euerlasting lyfe. But nowe a dayes people be slouthfull in doinge of good, and full dilygent to euyll, and if they were as diligent to do good as euill, they were full of grace. Nowe he that will thinke as after his death is not wise, for then he shall haue but the good d [...]edes that he hath done in hys lyfe before, then shall he sorowe and playne of the time that he hath loste by slouth, and shall sorowe that he did no good deedes when he had time & space here in this world.
Fyfthly sayde Lazarus, I
haue seene in the infernall partyes a great number of wyde cauderons and kettels full of boylynge leade and Oile wyth other hote metalles molten, in the whiche were plunged and dypped the Couetyse men and women, for to fulfill and replenish them of their insaciate couetise.
¶The couetous men and women.
COuetyse is a great sinne and a wicked in the syght of God. For the couetous man imagineth more to get a peny, then the loue of God. And had leuer lese God then one halfe peny. For often tymes for a lyttle thinge he lyethe and forswereth hym selfe and sinneth deadly. The faythe, hope & the charitie that wolde be in God the couetous man putteth in hys rychesse. Fyrst fayth, for he beleueth to [...]aue suche thinges, the which be necessary for him, soner for his goodes then [...] the gyfte of God, as if that God mighte not helpe hym, or as yf God hadde [...]o solicitude of his seruauntes.
[Page]Also the couetous man hath hope to haue the more ioye and consolations by his riches, then God may gyue hym. And also the couetous man setteth al his hert on his goodes & not on God, & thus the couetous man & womā hath theyr charitie in theyr ryche chestes, cofers, & bagges. The couetousman hath his harte on his goodes more thē one God. There as is the hart, there is the loue, and loue is charytie, and so couetous men hath theyr hertes on theyr goodes. The couetous man synneth gatherynge his good, and in vsynge it euyll, and in louynge it ouer muche, and sometymes better then he doth God, the couetous man is taken in the nette of the deuyl, by the which he leseth euerlasting lyfe, for small temporal goodes, as the birde doth go into a pytfall for a worme & leseth his lyfe, and as the mouse is taken in a fall or trappe, and leseth his lyfe for a lyttle bacon. The couetous men and women bin lyke curres or dogges, the whiche that kepeth carren, and when theyr bellyes be full they lye downe by it, and kepeth away the byrdes that they may not eate, but dyeth for hunger for faute of that the curres hath to muche. In lykewyse the couetous men withholdeth the goodes that pore men may get none, & letteth them dye for hunger, and holdeth them in theyr subiection, and the deuyll holdeth the ryche men in his subiection that doth the pore men wronge.
And here foloweth the vi. peyne of hell.
The vi. peyne sayde Lazarus
that I haue sene in a vale a flodde soule and flynkynge at thee brymme, in the which was a table with towels right dyshonestly, where as Gluttons byn fedde with Todes and other venemous beastes, and had to drinke of the water of the same sayde fludde.
THe throte is the gate of the body of mā, so when enemies wil take the castel, yf they maye wynne the gate, they wil lightly haue all the Castell. So when the deuyll maye wyn the throte of a man by Glottony, easely he wyl haue the remenant and entre into the [...]ody accompayned of sinnes. For the Glottons consenteth vnto all vyces. [...]nd for this cause it were of necessitie to haue a good garde at the gate, that [...]he deuil entre not. For when one holdeth the horse by a bridle, he maye lede [...]ym where he will, so doth the deuyll the glottonous man where hym liste. The seruaunt that is ouer easely norished rebelleth ofte ageynst his mayster. The bellye ouer fylled with drinke and meate, is rebell to the soule, so that it [...]oyl do no good operatyons. By glottony many bin deade which might haue [...]ued longer, and so they haue bin homicide of thē selfe, for excesse of to muche [...] and drynkinge corrupteth the bodyes and engendrethe sycknesses, [Page] the which often a brydgeth and shorteth the lyues. And they that noryshethe well the fleshe prepareth meate for wormes, & so the glotō is coke of wormes A ma [...] of worship wold be ashamed for to be coke of a great Lorde. More ashamed shulde he be, to be a coke for wormes. They that lyue after the desyre of fleshe, lyueth after the rule of the swyne in eatinge without measure lyke an vnreasonable beast. This is the hogge as it were an abbot ouer glotonous people, of whom they holde theyr order and regule, wherby they bin constrayned to kepe them in theyr cloyster, that is in the tauerne and ale houses. And lykewyse as the hogge theyr Abbot lyethe in a rotten dungehill or in the myry puddle, so do they alwayes lye in the stynkyng infection of Glottony, til they be dronken and without wytte.
¶The vii. payne sayde Lazarus, I haue sene a feelde ful of depe welles replenyshed with fyre and s [...]lphre, wherout issued smoke thycke & cōtagious wherin all lecherous persons were tourmented incessauntly with deuyls.
[Page] OF all the vii. deadly sinnes. Lecherye pleaseth moste vnto the deuyll. For it fyleth and corrupteth bothe the body & the soule together, and by Lechery the deuyll wynneth twoo sowles at once. And many lecherous persons wyll auaunte them selfe, and saye that they maye not haue theyr full desyre and luste of that sinne. Lecherous men and women be more disfourmed and vgly then the deuyll, in the superhabundaunce of that sinne. He is a foolyshe marchaunte that maketh a bargeyne, of the whych he knoweth well that he shall lese thereby, and repent hym of his bargayne makynge. In lyke maner of wyse, eche Lecherous man hath great peyne, and spendeth hys goodes and his vnderstanding to fulfyll and accomplyshe his lustes and delytes, and after repenteth hym of his expence, and yet the worste is, he is in daunger of his foule tyl he be repentaunt, & do sufficient penaunce. The Lecherous men and women lyuinge byn tourmented with three infernall peynes, as heate, slynke, and remors of theyr conscyence. For they be hotte by concupiscence. They be stynkynge for theyr immundicitie. For suche sinne is all stynkynge & maculeth the body and soule, which all other sines fyleth but the soule.
¶Also they bee not without remors of conscyence for the offence that they haue done to God. Lecherye is the pytte of the deuyll, wherein he maketh synners to fall. To the whiche many helpeth the deuyll to caste them selfe in it, when wyllinglye they go to the brymme knowinge that the deuyll wyll caste them in. Good it is not to herken women, better it is not to beholden them, & much better it is not to touch them. To this sin [...]e belongeth foule wordes, bylayne songes, dyshoneste touchynges, the whiche abhorreth not bawdes, hatlottes, hores, and such as frequenteth and perseuereth in the same.
Here after foloweth the thirde parte of the Kalender and composte of Shephardes. Salutarye scyence, and gardyn of vertues. Capitulo ix.
VUho that wyll haue on a peece of earthe greate habundaunce [...] fruite, fyrste they ought to take awaye all thynges that bin no [...] some, and after laboure it well, and then sowe good sedes. I [...] lykewyse a man shoulde laboure and clense hys conscyence of [...] his sinnes, laboure by holy meditacions and sowe vertues an [...] good operations, for to gether fruite of euerlastinge lyfe.
¶Then sythe that here before hathe byn spoken of vyces rudely and lyght [...] now it behoueth hereafter to speake of vertues in the thirde parte of this pr [...]sente boke, the whiche shalbe as a lyttle garden pleasaunte, full of trees an [...] floures. In the which the contēplatyue person may sport and play, & by goo [...] ensignementes gather sundry vertues, and edifye hym selfe in good exercyse wherwith his soule shalbe enorned and ordeyned afore his spouse Iesu Chri [...] when he shall come to vysyte and dwell with him. In the begynnynge of th [...] whiche partie shalbe the Orayson domynicall of our Lorde, with the declar [...]tyon the better to vnderstande it, and the sayde partye shall conteyne vi. pa [...]ties. The first partie shalbe the declaration of the sayde prayer. The second of the salutacion Angelyke that Gabriell made to Mary when she conceaue [...] [Page] her chylde Iesus. The iii. shalbe of the xii. articles of oure faythe. The iiii. shalbe of the x. commaundementes of the lawe. The fyfth shalbe of the Fielde of vertues: For the first ye ought to know that by the oraison of our lord, that is the Pater noster, when we saye it we demaunde of God suffysaunce of all thinges necessaay for to salute & helpe of our soules & of our bodies, not only for vs, but for all other. And for all this cause we ought to haue the sayde orayson in great cōtēplacion, & say it with great devotiō vnto God. And vnto yonge people it shuld betaught & sayde to them, for though they vnderstande it not, yet it profyteth thē to haue the kyngedome of heuen. And they say it in perfyte loue & charitie, In the Pater noster, we aske vii. peticions. By eche peticion we may vnderstande vii. other thinges. As the vii, Sacramentes of holy Church. The vii. gyftes of the holy ghoste. The vii. armures of iustyce spirituall. The vii. vertues princypall that we shoulde exercyse. The seuen workes of mercy bodely. The vii. workes of mercy ghostly. The vii. deadlye sinnes that we shulde drede. The declaration is this, Our father that art in heauen thy name be made holy. In his peticion, we aske of god our father to be his sonnes, for otherwyse we can not be called his sonnes, nor be our father, & that his name may be made by vs more holyer then any other thinge, wherfore we receaue the sacrament of baptisme, without that, mā may not be made the sonne of God, & to receaue the vertue of meknesse against pryde, and thē to clothe the naked, & helpe the nedy both bodely & ghostly. The ii. is, thy kyngdome come to vs is this peticion. In so much thy name of God may not be perfitely halowed of vs in this worlde we aske his realme. In the whiche perfitely we shal halowe it, for to that kyngdom we be very heirs. This peticion is the sacrament of priesthod, by the which we are taught to good workes, & the gift of the holy-ghost is the gift of vnderstanding, for to vnderstand & desyre the kyngdome of heauen, and we arme vs wyth the helme of largenes ageinst coueteous. The iii. peticion is thy wil be done in the earth as it is in heauen. For it is the faythfull will of God that his wyll shulde be fulfylled that is his cōmaundemēt, by this peticion we make obeysaūce to God in our hertes, when we desyre to do his will. By this is vnderstande the sacrament of Mariage, by the which we auoyde fornication, and the gifte af counsell of the holy ghost for to order our obeysance veritably. And so we arme vs with the armoure of saluation ageinst enuye. The fourthe peticion is, our dayely breade gyue vs this day. Here we aske of God to be susteyned with materiall breade for our bodyes, and spiritual bread for our soules, that is the bread of lyfe, the body of Iesu Christ, the whiche we receaue by faith, in mynde of hys passion. The ghyft of the holy ghost is strength to be faithfull in oure beliefe, take we the sworde of pacience ageynst the synne of yre, and vysyte the sycke men bodely, and vse vertue of temperaunce ageynst wrathe. the fyfte pety [...]ion is, forgeue vs oure sinnes as we forgyue all men, for trust well, he that wyll not forgyue for the loue of Godde, God wil neuer forgyue hym hys sinnes. [Page] And these .iii. peticions folowinge we aske of God to be delyuered from al euyll, as of the sinne that we haue done deadely, & by these we aske of God to be assoyled and to gyue vs pardon by his mercye, by the whiche we vnderstande the sacrament of penaunce & forgyuenisse of sinne the holy ghostes gifte is scyence for to vnderstande the workes of mercy and to escapt synne. And so clothe vs with lightnes ageinst couetyse, and comforte pore prysoners and gyue good councell to them that aske and nede it, and take the vertue of fayth ageynst couetyse. The vi. peticion is suffre vs not to be ouercome in temptacion by the seconde euyl that is not done, but it maye happen & we fall by the waye of temptacion. Here we aske of God to be stedfaste in the fayth, & that we may gladly do good workes in the vertue of hope and strength to do good dedes, & withstande temptacion to the which profyteth to vs the sacrament of confirmation whiche giueth to vs the knowledge of God by the vertue of veritie. The gift of the holy ghost, and so take we the spere of sobernesse ageinst glotony, and comforte pilgrimes by vertue of hope. The vii. peticion is to deliuer vs frome all euyll. Amen. The thirde euill, is euyll of peyne that sinners maye haue yf they serue not God, & by this peticion we aske that we may be delyuered from all peynes, and saued in Paradyce, vnto this say we all. Amen. By these we aske, so it be done as we desyre. By the whiche we receaue the sacrament of the later anoyntynge, that gyueth vs the sure way of saluation, the gift of the holy ghoste is drede of iudgementes of God, and gyrde vs with the gyrdle of chastitie ageynst lechery, and burye we them that be deade bodely, and praye for our enemies ghostly, get we in vs the vertue of charitie, and eschewe the sinne of lechery.
¶And hereafter foloweth an other declaration of the Pater noster. Capitulo .x.
[Page] OUr Father ryght merueylous in his creation swete and louinge ryche of al goods that byn in heauen, myrrour of trinitie, crowne of iocunditie, and tresure of felicitie. Holy be thy name & swete as hony in our mouth, thou arte the melodyous harpe that causeth deuocion to sownde in our eares, and to haue it continually by the desyre of our hartes. Thy realme come to vs. In the whiche we shalbe euer in ioy and rest, without trouble, and sure neuer to lese it [...] Thy wil be done in earth as it is in heauen. As to loue al that thou loueste, and to hate al that thou heatest, and that we kepe euermore thy commaundementes. Oure dayly breade gyue vs to day, that is to saye breade of doctrine, breade of penaunce, and breade for our bodely sustentacion. And forgyue vs al our sinnes, that we haue done, agaynst thee, agaynste our neyghbours, a [...]d agaynste oure selfe. Semblably as we forgyue other that haue offended to vs, by wordes, on our bodyes, or our goodes, And suffre not that we be ouercome in temptaciō, that is to say, as by the deuyll, the worlde, and the fleshe. But delyuer vs from all euyll workes redy done, and also them for to come, Amen.
¶Here foloweth the story of the Pater noster.
IN the storye here before, sheweth to simple people how this holye prayer the Pater noster: shoulde be sayd to God the father, & to god the son, & ye god to holi ghost. And to none other. The which praier conteyneth and taketh all that be rightfully asked of God, and our [Page] lorde Iesu Christ made it there to the entent that we shulde [...], and deuocion, and he made it on a tyme when he taught his apostles, specyally to make orayson. And then the disciples sayde Lorde and mayster learne vs to pray, & then our lorde opened his holy mouth and sayde to his apostles when ye will make any prayers, after this maner as here foloweth, shall you begynne sayinge thus.
¶Oure father whiche art in heauen halowed be thy name. Thy kyngedome come. Thy wyll be doone in yearthe as it is in heauen. Gyue vs this day oure dayly breade. And forgyue vs our trespasses as we forgyue them that trespas agaynste vs, and let vs not be let into temptacion. But delyuer vs from euill. Amen.
¶Here after foloweth the salutacyon that the Aungell Gabriell made to the gloryous virgin Mary, with the greeting of the holy woman S. Elisabeth.
Hayle Mary full grace, our lorde is with thee.
Blessed be thou of all women, and blessed be the fruite of thy wombe Iesus.
Secondely in the boke of Iesus, the salutacyon in suche.
Hayle Mary full of grace our lorde is with thee. Blessed be thou amonge all woman, and blessed be the fruite of thy wombe Iesus Christ. Amen.
The salutacion of the Aungel Gabriell.
IN this salutacion is thre mysteries. The first is the salutaciō that the Angell Gabriel made. The seconde is the louinge commendaciō that S. Elisabeth made, mother to S. Iohn Baptyst. The iii. is the supplication yt our mother holy Church maketh And they be ye most fairest wordes that we can saye to oure Ladye: that is the Aue Maria, wherin we salue her, praise her, praye her, & speke to her. And therfore it is onely sayd to her, and not to saynt Kathrine, nor to saint Margarete nor to none other saynte. And if thou demaunde how thou mayst then pray to other sayntes I saye to the thou muste praye as our mother holye Church prayeth in sayinge to S. Peter Holy S. Peter pray for vs. S. Thomas praye for vs. That they may pray to God to giue vs grace, and that he forgeue vs our sinnes. And that he gyue vs grace to do hys wyll & penaunce, & kepe his commaundementes, and so we shal pray to the saintes in heauen after the necessity that we haue.
S. Peter, S. Andrewe, S. Iames the greate, saynt Iohn, S. Thomas, S. Iames the lesse, S. Philyp, S. Bartylmewe, S. Mathewe, S. Symon, S. Iude, and S. Mathias.
Thyrdly in the boke of Iesus is salutary scyence, and is the Credo whych we ought to beleue on peyne of dampnation. Capitulo x.
I beleue in God the father almyghty, maker of heuen & earth, and in Iesu Christ his onely sonne our Lorde whiche was conceaued of the Holy ghoste, and suffered passion vnder Ponce Pilate, crucified, buried, went into hel, the iii. daye rose from death. Ascended into heuen & sitteth on the right hand of the father.
And after shall come to iudge the quick and the deade. I beleue in the holy ghost, the Holye Catholyke churche, the communion of sainctes, and remission of sinnes. The rysynge of the flesh. The euerlasting life, Amen.
[Page] SAynte Peter put the fyrst article and sayd. I beleue in God the Father almighty creatour of heauen and of earth. Saynte Andrewe put to the ii. and sayd. I beliue in Iesu Christ his onelye sonne our lorde. Saint Iames the greate put to the iii sayinge, I beleue that he was conceaued of the holye ghost, borne of the virgin Mary. Saint Iohn put to the iiii. sayinge. I beleue that he suffered passyon vnder Ponce Pylate, was crusifyed, deade, and buryed. Saynte Thomas put to the v. sayinge. I beleue that he discended into hell, and the thyrde daye arose from death to lyfe. Saynte Iames the lesse put to the vi. sayinge. I beleue that he ascended into heauen and sytteth on the right hande of God the father omnipotent. Saynt Phylip put to the vii. sayinge I beleue that after he shall come to iudge the quicke and the deade. Saynte Bartylemewe put to the .viii. sayinge. I beleue in the holye ghoste. Saynte Mathewe put too the ix. sayinge I beleue in the holy Churche Catholyke. Saynt Symon put to the x. sayinge, I beleue the communion of sayntes and remission of sinnes. Saynt Iude put to the .xi. sayinge. I beleue the resurrec [...]ion of the fleshe. Saint Mathias put to the xii. saying. I beleue the lyfe eternall. Amen.
¶Here foloweth the Crede as it ought to be sayde.
I Beleue in God the father almighty creatour of heauen & of earth, And in Iesu Christe hys onely sonne oure Lord. That was conceaued of the holy ghost, borne of the virgin Mary. Suffered passyon vnder Ponce Pylate, crucyfyed, dead and buryed. Descended into hell, and the thyrde day arose from death. Ascended into heauen, and sytteth on the right hande of God the father omnipotent. And after shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead. I beleue in the holy ghost. The holy churche Catholike. The communion of sayntes, remission of sinnes. Resurrection of the fleshe and the lyfe eternall. Amen.
THys Crede was made & composed by the xii. Apostels of our lord, of ye which euery Apostle hath put to his article, as is here aboue shewed in the sayde Crede, as much as one of one parte as of the other, & our faith catholike is conteyned in the sayd xii. articles, yt is the beginninge of our helth, without the which none may be sa [...]ed, ne do nothinge that is agreable vnto God, and faythe ought to be at the [...]arte by knowledge of God. In the mouth by confession & praysinges to hym [...] worke by exerceysinge of his commaundemētes and good workes, and the which sheweth them that so doth to haue true fayth & lyfe, that is to say to [...]aue them. And how wel that fayth in harte be good, that in the mouth also, [...]euerthelesse the best is that which lyeth in good workes that one doth, & is [...]he same fayth that lyeth in the hart and mouth, for there is but one fayth, & [...]ne God. And this same Crede ought to be had and knowen of euery man [...]nd woman hauinge age competent and vnderstanding of reason, & ought for [...]o say it both in the mornyng & in the euenyng euery day deuoutly, for it is of [...]ght great deuotion. Therfore a good Christen mā as sone as he ryseth from [Page] his bed, and is arayde & clothed, kneleth besyde his bedde or other where, and fyrst blesseth hym with the sygne of the crosse, & then sayth. Credo in deum, Or I beleue in God the father almighty, as is aboue sayd. Then after the Pater noster to God. And to our Ladye the Aue Maria: & afterwarde recōmaunde him to his good Angel in makynge prayer to him sayinge My good Angel I require thee to kepe me and gouerne me. In lykewyse whē he goeth to rest at nyght. And so at the least twyse in the day, at the morow and in the euening.
¶Fourthly in the boke of Iesu is the x. commaundements of the law, that God gaue to Moyses on the mount of Sinay, for to preche and teache to the people. Capitulo. xii.
¶One God onelye thou shalte loue & worshyp perfytely.
God in vayne thou shalte not swere nor by yt he made truely
The sondayes thou shalt kepe. in seruinge God deuoutlye.
Father & mother thou shalt honour end shalt lyue longely.
Mans [...]eer thou shalt not be, in dede, ne wyllyngely.
Lecherous thou shalt not be, of thy body ne consentyngely.
No mans goods thou shalt not stele nor witholde falsely.
False wytnesse thou shalte not [...]ere, in any wyse lyingely.
The worke of the fleshe desyre not, but in maryage onely.
The goodes of other couet not, to haue them vniustly.
FOurhly the sayde commaundemēts ought to be obserued & accom [...]plyshed vpon peyne of euerlasting dampnacion of body and sowl of thē yt haue the vsage of reason, for without the knowledge o [...] them conuenablye we may not eschewe & [...]ie the sinnes, nor haue knowledge of thē, nor confesse vs verytably of our sinnes, whe [...]fore the ignoraunce of thē cōmen by desyre affectiō, or other malyce, excuset [...] not thē that know thē not, but accuseth & condempneth them, & therfore ou [...] lord cōmaundeth thē to be had in meditacion in theyr houses & without, in sl [...]pynge & in wakynge, & in al workes And thus we beholden & bounde to kep [...] thē, so that he which neuer harde speke of thē, & thinketh not to do euyl, yf h [...] trespas in one only willingely, & dyeth sone after, he shuld be dampned perdu [...]rably. By this it appereth that ignoraūce of the cōmaundementes byn peri [...]lous, wherfore eche man & woman studye for to knowe thē, & lerne thē such as thou must gyue a rekenynge for, as your children, seruauntes, and other.
The v. Commaundementes of the Churche.
FIfthly in the booke of Iesus bin the v. commaundementes of Holye Churche, whiche ought to be kepte all them that hath vsage of reason, after as they be of power.
And it is sayde after that they be of power, for that yf the man or womā that maye not confesse them, or receaue at easter, or kepe the holy day commaunded.
Or the fast of obligation when they haue wyl to do them, & bin lawfully letted, sinne not. But euery man and woman keepe them that Auarice, slouth, or desyre to se manipleasures, as daunces, playes, or iuggelers, or despraysynge of our mother Holy Church, be not cause that they trespas the commaundement, to the ende that they renne not in dampnacion, from the whiche kepe vs the mercy of God. Amen. ¶Here is to be noted that the transgression of the commaundementes of holy Churche oblygeth deadly sinne, and by contynuance eternall dampnacyon. as doth the oblygacyon of the commaundementes of the law, of whom is spoken before. For they that hereth the priestes redinge the commaundementes [...]n the Churche on the Sondayes in the parochiall seruis tyme, and accomplysheth the sayd commaundementes, hereth God and doth his wyll, but all [...]hat misprayseth the priest and doth not theyr cōmaundementes after the ordinaunce of the Church, misprayseth God and sinneth mortally.
¶Here after foloweth of the man in the Shippe, that sheweth the vnstablenesse of the worlde. Capitulo .xiii.
THe mortall man liuing in this world, is well compared to a ship on the sea, or on a perilous riuer, bearing rich marchandise, which if it come to the porte where the marchant desireth, he shall be happy and rich. The ship as sone as it is entred into the sea, vnto the ende of her viage, nighte and day is in perill to be drowned or taken with enemies, for in the sea be perilles without number. Such is the body of man liuing in the world, the marchandise that he beareth is his soule, his vertues and good workes, the port or hauen is death, and Paradise for the good, to the which who that goeth thither is soueraignely rich, the sea is the world full of linnes. For who that assayeth for to passe it, is in perill to leese body and soule, and all his goodes, and to be drowned in the sea of hell, from the which God kepe vs. Amen.
Here foloweth the fielde of vertues. Cap. xiiii.
IN walkinge farthermore in the fielde of vertues, and in the way of Health, for to come to the towre of Sapience, necessarily behoueth to loue God, for without the loue of God none may be saued, and who that will loue him ought first to know him, for of his knoweledge one cometh to his loue: that is Charitie the Soueraigne of all vertues. They knowledge God & loue him that kepe his cōmaundements, & they misknow him that do not so, to whom in the great necessitie of their disceassing: & at the day of iudgement shal misknow them & say to them. I know ye not nor wote not what ye be, go ye cursed out of my cōpany. Knowledge wethen God and loue him, and if we will do thus, know we first our selfe, and by the knowledge of our selfe, we shall come to the knowledge & loue of God, and the more that we know our selfe, the better we shall knowe God, & if we be ignorant of our self, we shal haue no knowledge of God. To this purpose we must note one thing and know .vii. The thing that we must note is this. Who that knoweth himselfe knoweth God, & shal not be dampned, & who that knoweth hym not, knoweth not God, and shall not be saued: vnderstande of them that hath wit and discretion with lawfull age, of the which knowledge none is excused after he hath sinned deadly, for to say that he was ignoraunt. By this appereth the ignorance of him selfe, and of God right perillous. Deadly synne is beginninge of all euill, and contrarily knowledge of God and of him selfe is soueraigne science and vertue, beginning of all goodnes. The seuen thinges that we ought to haue, ben the .xii. articles of the fayth, that we ought to beleue stedfastly. Also the petitions conteyned in the Pater noster, by the which we demaunde all things necessary for our health, & that we ought to hope in [Page] him, also the commaundementes of the lawe, and of the holy Church, whych ensygneth vs what we should do, and what we should not do, and all things belonginge to the same. Also if we be in the grace of our Lorde or not. And howe be if that we may not knowe it certainely, neuerthelesse we maye haue some coniectures, whiche be good to knowe, and knoweledge of God. Also knoweledge of him selfe, by the whiche thinges we may come to the true loue and charitie of God, to accomplyshe hys commaundementes and meryte in the realme of heauen, wherein we shall lyue perdurably. Of the three fyrste is ynoughe sayde, that is to knowe, the .xii. artycles of the fayth, in the whyche lyeth our fayth and beliefe, and the thinges that we oughte to demaunde of God, be conteyued in the Pater noster, wherein our hope lyeth. Also the tenne commaundementes of the lawe, and of holye Churche, where as Charitie is shewed in suche as kepe them, by probacyon of the loue of Godde, and do his commaundements and good workes. Nowe will we speake of the other .iiii. And firste of the vocation in the whiche we be, whiche is the fourthe thynge that eche man ought to knowe. Eche man ought to knowe hys vocation, and the thynges belongynge to the same be iuste and honest for his health and rest of hys conscyence. A good Shepeherde ought to know the arte of shepe kepynge, and to gouerne shepe, and leade them into pastures, and to heale them when they be sycke, and shere them in season, to the entent that throughe his defaute no dammage come to hys master. In likewise he that laboureth the corne, to knowe what grounde were good for euery manner of grayne, and ought to tyll the earth, and when time is to sowe, weede, repe, and threshe, so that hys mayster may haue no dammage by hym. Semblably a Surgyon ought to knowe howe to comforte and heale such folkes, that he hath charge of, wythoute bydinge of hys arte or Surgery. Consequently a marchaunte ought to knowe the vtteraunce of hys marchaundyse to other, with no more fraude then he would hym selfe shoulde haue. Also an Aduocate or a Proctour ought to knowe the ryghtes and customes of places, that by their faulte Iustyce be not peruerted. A Iudge also oughte to knowe (bothe the partyes heard) who hath right and who hath wrong, and iudge egally after true Iustyce. Also a Prieste or a relygious man oughte to knowe theyr orders and keepe them, and aboue all thynge oughte to knowe that lawe of God, and teach them vnto the ignoraunt. And thus of all other vocations. For all them that knowe not their vocation be not worthy to be, and lyue in perill of their sowles for theyr ignoraunce The fyfth that all men ought to knowe, is it he haue discretion and vnderstandinge, to knowe if he be in the grace of God or not. And howe be it righte difficile, for God onely knoweth it, neuerthelesse we may haue coniectures that sheweth it, and sufficient for Shepherdes and lay people to know, if they be in the loue of the Lord, and if they haue coniecture to be in it, therfore there ought none to repute thēselues iust, but ought t [...] humble them selues, and aske him mercy that maketh sinners become iuste [Page] and none other. Principally we ought to know this scyence when we wyll receaue the body of Iesu Christe. For who that receiueth his grace and goodnes receaueth his saluation, and who that receaueth him otherwyse, receaueth euerlastinge dampnation, of the whyche thinge euerye man is iudge in hym selfe of his owne conscyence, and none other. The coniectures whereby we may knowe if that we be in the grace of God or not. The fyrste coniecture is when we do trauel for to clense our conscience of our soules by penance as much as if we laboured to get some great good, that we be not culpable of any deadly sinne done, or in will to do, nor in any sentence, then it is good coniecturinge to be in the grace of God. The seconde coniecture that sheweth in lykewyse to be in the grace of God, is when we be more prompt and ready to good, obseruinge and keeping the commaundementes of Godde, and doe all good workes that we shoulde haue accustomed. The third coniecture is when we heare gladly the worde of God, as sermons and good counsaylers for our saluation. The fourth, when we be sory and contrite at our hart to haue commysed and done any sinne. The fifth is when with good purpose and wyll of our selues we perseuer to kepe vs from sinne in tyme to come. These coniectures be they wherby Shepherds and lay people know if they be in his grace or not, as muche as in them is possible to knowe. The .vi. thinge that euery man ought to knowe is God, for all men ought to knowe God, for to accomplyshe his wil and commaundement, by the which he would be loued with all thy harte, with all thy soule, and wyth all the force that we haue, whyche we may not do, if we knowe hym not, then who that would loue Godde, ought to knowe him, and the more that they know him, the more they loue him, wherfore hereafter shall be sayde howe Shepherds and simple people doth knowe hym. Shepherdes and simple people for to haue knowledge of God of theyr possibilitie consyderinge three thinges. The firste is, that they consyder the ryght great ryches of God, his puissaunce, his soueraygne dignitie, hys soueraygne noblesse, his soueraygne ioy and blysse. The seconde is for they consyder the right noble, ryght gre [...]t and marueylous operations and workes of our Lord God. And the thirde consideration is, for they consider the innumerable benefites that they haue receued of God, and that continually euery day they receaue of him, and by these considerations they come to his cognysance and knowledge. Fyrst to know God, Shepherdes and lay people consydereth his great riches, plenteous habundaunce of the goodnes that he hath, for all the treasures and rychesse of heauen and of the earth be his, and all goodnesse he hath made, of the which he is fountayne, creatour, and mayster, and distributeth them largely vnto euery creature, and he hath no neede of any other. Wherefore it behoueth to say that he is right rich. Secondly he is right puissaunt, for by his greate puissaunce he hath made heauen, earth, and the sea, with all thinges conteyning vnto them, and might vndo them if that it were his will, vnto the which puissaunce all other be subiect, and trembleth before [Page] him for his great excellency. And who that woulde consider euery worke of God should finde inough to maruell on. By the firste of these considerations God is knowen to be right rich, by giftes that he geueth to his friendes, and by the seconde he is knowen right puissaunt for to venge him on his enemies. Thirdly he is soueraignely worthy, for all the thinges of heauen and of earth oweth him honoure and reuerence, as to their Creatour and hym that made them, as we se children honour father and mother of whom they be discended by a generation, and all thinges be discended of God by a creation, to whome ought to be giuen great reuerence, and he is so worthy. Fourthly he is soueraignely noble, for who that is soueraignely rich, puissaunt, and worthy, him behoueth to be soueraignely noble, but none other but God hath riches, puissaunce, and dignitie, as he hath, wherefore of such nobles ought to be sayde that he is righte noble. Fifthly he hath soueraigne ioye, for he that is riche, puissaunte, worthy and right noble, is not withoute soueraigne ioye, and this ioye is full of all goodnes, and ought to be our felicitie, to the which we hope to come. That is to knowe and see God in his soueraigne ioy and gladnes, for to haue with him eternal ioy that euer shal dure. And this is the first consideration of God that Shepherdes and other simple people ought to haue. Secondly for to know God considering his great noblesse and maruelous workes the bountie and the beauty of the things that he hath made, for it is commonly sayd. One may know the workman by his worke. Knowledge we then the worke of God, and knowledge we that his beautie and bountie shineth in the operations that he hath made, which if they be fayre and good, the workman that hath made them must nedes be faire and good without comparison more then any thinge that he hath made. Be it considered of the heauens and the thinges therein set, what noble and marueylous worke, howe may one consider their excellence and bountie. Be it considered also as we may of the earth the right noble and marueylous workes of God, the golde, the siluer, and all maner of metalles, and precious stones in it, the fruites that it beareth, the trees, the beastes that it susteyneth, and of the bountie that it norisheth. Be it in likewise considered of the Sea, the riuers, and the fishe nourished in them. The wether, the elementes, the ayre, the windes, and the Birdes that flyeth in them, and all the vsage and seruyce of man. And consider the workeman that of his puissaunce hath all made, and by his sapience hath righte well ordered his workes, and gouerneth them by his great bountie, and by this maner we may knowe God, as Shepeherdes and simple folkes in consideringe his workes. Thirdely for to knowe God, consider the great benefites that we receaue daily of him, whiche may not be numbred for their greate multitude, nor spoken of for their noblenesse and dignitie. Al be it in their hartes be vi. principally noted. For the which an other Shepeherde geniuge praysing to God, sayde in this maner. Lorde God I knowe that thou haste endued me with thy infinite benefites by thy great bountie. First the benefite of my creation, [Page] by the whiche thou made me a reasonable man vnto thy Image and similytude, geuynge me body and soule, and rayment for to clothe me. Lorde thou haste geuen me my wittes of nature, vnderstandinge for to gouerne my lyfe, my health [...] my beauty, my strength, and my scyence for to get my lyuynge honestly, I yelde to thee graces and greate thankes. Secondely Lorde I knowe the goodnes of my redemption, how by thy misericordious pitie, thou bought me dearely by the affection of thy moste precious bloude, peynes, and torments, that for me thou hast suffered, and finally endured death, thou hast geuen me thy bodye, thy soule, and thy lyfe, for to kepe me from dampnation, wherefore humbly I yelde to thee graces and great thankes. Thirdely Lorde I know the goodnes of my vocation, how of thy great grace thou hast called me againe, for to enheryte thy eternall benediction, and also thou haste geuen vnto me fayth and knowledge of thine owne selfe, as baptisme, and all the other sacramentes, that none entendement may comprise their noblesse, and dignitie, and that so many times hath pardoned me of my sinnes. Lorde I knowe that this is to me a singuler gifte that thou hast not geuen to them which haue no knowledge of thee, wherof I am more beholding and humbly bound, I yelde thee graces and thankes. Fourthly Lord I knowledge that thou hast geuen me this world and the things that be therin made for my seruice and vse, the office, the benefite, and the dignitie in the which I am, for syr I beare your similitude and Image which is reputed right worthy and noble wherof humbly I yelde to thee graces and thankes. Fyfthly Lorde thou hast geuen me the Skie and his faire ornaments, the Sunne, the Moone, and the Sterres, that the daye and night serueth me, geuinge brightnesse and lyght without to be recompensed of me, wherof I yelde to thee graces and thanks. Syxtly Lorde I knowledge that thou hast made Paradyse ready for to geue me, where I shall lyue with thee in ioyes without ende, if I doe thy will, and kepe thy commaundementes, and also I knowledge thy other infynite goodnes eche daye to me done by thy bountie, the whiche ensigneth me to knowe my God, my Sauiour, and Redemer, wherefore I humbly geue thankes to thee. By these considerations Shepherds and simple people contempleth the bountie of God, and the benefytes that they receaue of hym. And knowe we hym, and be we not in great knowledge of hys benefytes in yeldinge thankes and praysynges to hym, and recompence of your gooddes in geuinge to poore folkes for his sake, for Ingratitude is a villayne sinne that much displeaseth God. The .vii. and the laste thynge that eche man ought to knowe, that is to knowe him selfe, for it is the beste meane for to come vnto the knoweledge of God, and for to make his saluation, so to knowe hym selfe fyrst. Diuers folke knowe many thinges that know not them selfe, to whom should profite more to know them selfe, then all things in the world. They that know the things of the worlde loueth them, seeketh them, and kepeth them, and k [...]owe not, ne loue not, ne prayse not, ne kepeth not God in likewise, for they know hym not. What profiteth man to win al the world, & leeseth himselfe for to be damned? [Page] Better it were for hym to leese all the worlde, if it were his, if he knew him selfe to be saued. Shepeherdes say that the nedefull beginninge of hys saluation is to knowe hymselfe, and contrarywise ignoraunce of hym selfe is the beginning of dampnation, and of all euill that may befall vnto him.
A question of a master Shepherde to a symple Shepherde to wete how he knewe hym selfe and he sayd. Shepherde tell me howe thou knowest thy selfe what arte thou, aunswere to me? And he sayde, I knowe my selfe, for I am a Christian man a Shepherde. What is to be a Shepherde. And he aunswered vnto that, thou askest what man is. I say that man is a substaunce composed of body and soule. The body is mortall and made of earth as beastes be, but the soule is made of spirituall matter as Aungels be immortall. My body is come of abhominable sinne, and as a sacke full of durte and fylth, and meate for wormes, my beginninge was vyle, my lyfe is payne, laboure, feare, and in subiection to death, and my end shalbe woful, but my soule is created of god nobly and worthely to hys owne Image and semblaunce after the Aungels, the most fayrest and perfyte of all creatures, by baptisme and by fayth is made his daughter, hys spouse, his heire of his realme, that is Paradyse, & for her noblenesse and dignitie ought to be a Lady, and my body as seruant ought to obey her, for reason hath ordeyned and will that it be so: and who that doeth otherwise, and preferreth his body before his soule, [...]eseth the vsage of reason: and maketh him selfe semblable vnto beastes [...] discendinge from noble dignitie into myserable seruitude of sensualitie, by the which it is gouerned, so that I knowe my selfe man. As to the seconde, he demaundeth what thinge it is to be a Christian man? I aunswere in myne vnderstandinge, that to be a Christian man, is to be baptised or Christened, and folowe Iesus Christ, of whom we be sayde Christians, for to be baptised and not to folowe him, or to folowe him and not to be baptysed, saueth not man, and therefore when we receaue baptisme, we renounce the deuill and all his pompes, and we make promyse for to followe Iesu Christe, when we say (we will be baptised.) And who that kepeth this promyse hath the very name of a Christian man. And who that kepeth it not, is a sinner and a lyer to God, and seruaunte to the deuill, and is no more Christen then a deade man, or a payntynge on a wall, we say that is a man. Here demaundeth the maister Shep [...]herde in howe manye thynges the Christian man ought to folowe Iesus Christe, for to accomplishe the promyse of Baptisme. The simple Shepherd aunswereth: I say in .vi. thinges. The firste is cleanesse of conscience, for there is no thinge more pleasaunte to God then a cleane conscyence, and it will be made cleane in two maners, one is by baptisme when we receaue it, and the other by pacience, that is contricion of harte, confession of mouth, satisfaction of worke, and then when we be clean we be pleasaunt to Iesu Christe, which with the water of his mercy clenseth the synners that doth penaunce, and maketh them fayre. The seconde thinge in which we ought to followe Iesu Christ, is humilitie, at the example of him. [Page] Lorde of all the worlde, whiche humbled him to take our humanitie, and became mortall that was immortall, lyue in pouertie with vs, [...]eate oppropried paynes, and finally suffer to be crucified. Thus the Christian man ensuinge hym ought to meeke hym selfe. The thirde thinge is to holde and loue truth, and specially three truthes. The firste truthe is to knowe our selfe, for we be mortall and sinnefull, and who that dyeth in sinne shalbe damned, & this truth witholdeth sinne, and exhorteth the sinner to do penaunce and amende. The seconde trueth is of temporall goodes, for they be transitory and must be lefte and this truth disprayseth them to desire the heauenly goods that be eternal. The thyrde truthe is of God, which is the ioye that all Christian men ought to desire, and this truth draweth the Christian man to loue and induseth him to do good workes for to meryte the ioyes of Paradyse. The fourth thynge wherein euery man ought to followe Iesu Christe, is pacyence in aduersitie, and in the spirite of lyfe by penaunce, confirminge of oure selfes in the state of Iesu Christe, of whome the lyfe was all in paine and pouertie which he endured for vs. The fyfth is in compassion of the poore, to the example of Iesu Chryste, that by his mercy healed the poore of all corporall infirmities, and the sinners of all ghostly sicknes, and we by compassion oughte to geue of our goodes to poore folke, and comforte them bodely and ghostly. The syxth thing wherein the Christian man ought to followe Iesu Christe, is doloure, deuotion, charitie, in contemplacion of the mysteries of his natiuitie, of his death and passion, of his resurrection, of his ascension, and of his aduaunsing to the iudgemente, that often tymes ought to be at our harte by holy medytacions. And as to the last, what thing a Shepherd is. I say that it is the knowledge of my vocation, as eche hath his, as afore is sayd, and also to knowe the transgressions of all these foresayde thynges, howe manye tymes in eche we haue transgressed, for many tymes we haue offended God, and who that taketh hede shall [...]inde omissions and offences without number, the which knowen, we ought to doubt and eschew, and do penance. And thus it is as I know man is Christen and Shepherde.
The ballade of a wyse man. Capitulo .xv.
Here foloweth the ballade of the woman Shepherde, the which ballade is very necessary and profitable to loke vpon. Capitulo .xvi.
The songe of death to all Christen people. Cap. xvii.
Here after foloweth the .x. commandements of the deuill.
Here foloweth the rewarde of them that kepeth these commaundements aforesayde.
It is written in the Apocalips that Saint Iohn sawe an horse of a pale coloure, on the which horse satte death, and a Hell folowinge the horse. The horse sygnifieth the sinner that hath a pale coloure, for the infirmitie of synne, and beareth deathe, for synne is death to the soule, and hell foloweth for to englut and swalowe him if he die impenitent. Capitulo .xix.
Hereafter foloweth how euery estate should order them in their degree. Capitulo .xx.
Of the tree of vyces, and after foloweth the tree of meekenes mother and roote of all vertues. Capitulo .xii.
Hereafter foloweth the tree of vices, and then after that is the tree of vertue set, that after euery sinne beholding, they may looke on it as a mirror, and take of the fruite of spirituall refection, and flie the deade tree of vices. For after the tree of vertues foloweth the signification of euery vertue named in the sayde tree of vertues, and first is humilitie or mekenes, mother of all vertues, & rote of the tree, the whych when it is stedfaste the tree standeth vprighte, and if it fayle, the tree falleth with all his branches. Humilitie is a voluntary inclination of the thought and courage, comming of the knowledge of god, and it hath vii. principall branches that constitueth the tree of vertues, and they be these. Charitie, Faith, Hope, Prudence, Attemperance, Iustice, and Force, and out of euery of them cometh diuers other vertues, as the tree sheweth, and is declared afterward compendiously.
- [Page]Dryde roote of all synnes.
- Enuy.
- Detraction
- Ioy of aduersitie
- sorow of prosperitie
- Homicide
- Wickednes
- Susurracion
- Ill machination
- Couetise.
- Thefte
- Disceauing
- Forswearing
- Usury
- Rapine
- Treason
- Simony.
- The large way.
- Ire.
- Woodnesse
- Indignation
- Clamoure
- Blaspheming
- Great courage
- Nvyse
- Hate.
- Uaine glory.
- Singularitie
- Discorde
- Inobedience
- Presumption
- Bosting
- Obstination
- Hypocrisy.
- The fruite of the flesh.
- Glotony.
- Foolish reioysing
- Immundicitie.
- To much speaking
- Eating by leasure
- Obtuse witte
- Lickernesse
- Dronkennesse
- Slouth.
- Idlenesse.
- Uagation
- Pusillanimitie
- Erre in the faith
- Tristesse
- Omission
- Dispaire.
- Lechery.
- Unstablenesse
- Loue the world
- Blind thought
- Loue of himself
- Precination
- Hatred of God
- Unconsideratiō
- Wantonnesse
- Incontinence.
- [Page]Mekenesse rote of all vertues.
- Force.
- Felicit [...]e
- Confidence
- Tollerance
- Rest
- Stablenesse
- Perseuerance
- Magnificence
- Iustyce.
- Lawe
- Streightnesse
- Equitie
- Correction
- Obseruance
- Iudgement
- Ueritie.
- The narowe waye.
- Tēperance
- Discretion.
- Moderalitie
- Taciturnitie
- Fasting
- Sobernesse
- Affliction
- Dispraysing.
- Prudēce.
- Drede of God
- Counceyle
- Memory
- Intelligence
- Prouidence
- Deliberation
- Reason.
- The fruite of the soule
- Hope.
- Contemplacion
- Ioye
- Honesty
- Confession
- Pacience
- Compunction
- Longanimitie
- Fayth.
- Religion
- Clennesse
- Obedience
- Chastitie
- Continence
- Affection
- Uirginitie
- Charitie
- Grace
- Pitie
- Peace
- Swetenesse.
- Mercy
- Forgiuenesse.
- Compassion.
- Benignitie.
- Concorde.
Of Charitie.
CHaritie is a right hyghe vertue aboue all other, and is an ardaunt desyre well ordayned to loue God and hys neighbour, and these be the braunches, grace, peace, pytie, sweetenesse, mercy, indul [...]ence, compassyon, benygnitie, and concorde. Grace is by the whych is shewed an effectuall seruyce of beneuolence amongest friendes, from one friende to an other. Peace is tranquillitye and reste well ordeyned of the courages of them that be concording vnto God. Pittie is affection and desyre to succoure and helpe eche one, and commeth of swetenesse and grace, of beninge thought and courage that one hath. Swetenesse is by the whych tranquilitie and reste of courage of hym that is sweete and honest by none improbyte, ne by any poynte of dishonestie. Mercy is a pitifull vertue and equall dignation to all, with inclination of compacient courage in them that susteyne affliction. Indulgence is remission of the euyll doinge of other, by the consideration of him selfe that he hath offended dyuers, to haue remyssion of God for the offences that he hath done. Compassion is a vertue the whych engendreth an affection or condolent courage for the doloure and affliction that he seeth in hys neyghboure. Benignitie is an a [...]daunt regarde of courage, and dyligence from one friende to an other, wyth a resplendyshinge doulsure and swetenesse of good maners that one hath. Concorde is a vertue that commeth of conuenaunce of courages concorded, and alyed in right undefyled, in such wyse that they abyde vnied and conioyned stedfastly without duplicitie or vnstablenesse of thoughte or courage.
Of Fayth.
FAyth is a vertue by the true knowledge of vysible thinges hauing his thought eleuate in holy studyinge for to come to the beliefe of thinges that we see not, and these byn the braunches. Relygion, Clennesse, Obedience, Chastitie, Continence, Uirginitie, and Affection. Relygion is by the whych ben exercised and done the diuine seruyces to God, and vnto hys sayntes with great reuerence, and greate dilygence, the which seruices ben done ceremonely and swetely. Clennesse or virginitie is integrate well and purely kept, as well in body as in soule, for the regarde that a man hath of the loue or feare of God. Obedyence is a voluntary and free adnegation and renounsing of his owne wil by pitiful deuotion. Chastitie is clenlynesse and the honeste habitude of all the body, by ardaunte heate and furiositie of vyces so domaged and holden subiectes. Continence is by the which the impituo [...]itie of carnall desires ben refrayned and wytholden by a moderation of counsell taken of him selfe or of other. Affection is effusion [Page] of pitifull loue to his neighbour, comminge of a reioysinge conceaued of good fayth in them that they loue. Liberalitie is a vertue by the which the lyberall courage is not kept by any maner of couetise, for doinge plenteous largition of his goodes without excesse, but moderately to them that haue nede.
Of Hope.
HOpe is a mouynge of courage abyding stedfastly to take and haue the thynges that a man appetyteth and desyreth, of the whych the braunches byn Contemplacion, Ioye, Honestie, Confession, Pacience, Compunction, and Longanimitie. Contemplacion is the death and destruction of carnall affections, by an interiour reioysinge of thought, eleuate to compryse hye thinges. Ioye is iocunditie Spirituall commyng of the contemptinent of the thynges presente and worldly. Honestie is a shame by the whych a man yeldeth himself humble toward euery man of the which commeth a laudable profit, with faire custome and honesty. Confession is by the which the secrete sicknesse of the soule is reuelate and shewed vnto the confessor to the praysing of God, with hope to haue mercy. Pacience is will, and inseperable sufferance of aduersary and contrary thinges for hope of eternall glory that we desire to haue. Compunction is a dolour of great value, sighing for feare of the compunction diuine, or for loue of the payment that we abide. Longanimitie is infatigable will to accomplish the holy and iust desires that a man hath in his thought.
Of Prudence.
PRudence is diligent keping of himselfe with dyscreate prouidence, to knowe and dyscerne which is good, and whych is bad, and the braunches are these. Feare of God, Counsell, Memory, Intellygence, Prouidence, and Deliberation. Feare of God is a diligent keepinge, that wakeneth on a man by fayth, and good manners of the diuine commaundementes. Counsell is a subtyll regarde of thoughtes, that the causes of such thinges that a man wold do, or that a man hath in gouernaunce, be well examyned and broughte about. Memorye is a representacyon imaginatyse by regarde of the thought of thynges pretermes and passed that a man hath seene and done, or heard recounted and tolde. Intelligence is for to dyspose by viuacitie reasonable or euidently the state of the tyme present, or of the thinges that byn nowe. Prouydence is by the whych [Page] a man gathereth in hym the aduenement of the thinges to come, by prudente subtilitie and regarde of the thinges passed. Delyberation is a consyderation replenyshed of maturitie and esperaunce tofore the beginning of such thinges as one hath delybered and purposed to do or make.
Of Attemperance.
ATtemperaunce is a stedfast and a dyscrete domynation of reason agaynst the impytious mouinges of the courage in things illycitie and vnlawefull, and these be hys braunches. Discretion, Moralitie, Taciturnitie, Fasting, Sobernesse, Affliction, and Dispraysing of the world, Dyscretion is a reason prouyded and assured, and moderate of the humayne mouinges, to iudge and dyscerue the cause of all thynges. Moralytye is to be tempered and ruled iustly and sweetely, by the maners of them wyth whome they be conuersaunt, kepynge alwayes the vertue of nature. Taciturnitie is to attempre hym selfe of inutyle and dyshonest wordes, of the whych vertue commeth a frutefull teste vnto hym that so hym selfe modereth. Fasting is a vertue of dyscrete abstinence, the whych a man kepeth, ordeyned to wake and kepe the sanctifyed thynges interiores. Sobernesse is a vertue pure and immaculate attemperaunce of the one partie and of the other of man, that is of the body and soule. Affliction of body is it by the which the seedes of the wanton and wilfull thoughtes, by discrete chastisings be oppressed. Dispraysinge of the worlde is amorous loue, that a man or a woman hath to the spirituall thinges commyng, and hauyng no regarde to the caduke thinges and transytories of this world.
Of Iustyce.
IUstyce is a vertue wherby grace of communitie is vpholden, and the dignity of euery person is obserued and their owne yelded, and the branches be these. Lawe, Streightnesse, Equitie, Correction, Obseruaunce, Iudgement, and Ueritie. Law is by the which all lawfull thinges be commaunded to be done, & to defende all thing that ought not to be done, Streightnes is by the which iuridike vēgance is prohibyte, and streightly is exercised iustyce to the transgressours that haue offended. Equity is a right worthy retribution of merite to the balance of iustyce right wisely and iustly thought. Correction is for to inhibyte and defende by the brydle of reason all errours, if any be accustomed for to do any euyll. Obseruaunce of swearinge is a Iustyce to constrayne any [Page] noysyble transgression of lawe or customes prouu [...]gued to the people. Iudgement is by the which after the merites or demerytes of any persons hearde, is that he haue tourment or suffer death for his euill doinge, or guerdon and rewarde for his benefytes. Ueritie is that by the which any sayinges or doings be recited or shewed by approuable reason without to adiust, dimynishe, or to make it any otherwise then it is.
Of Force.
FOrce or for to haue a sure and stedfaste courage amonge the aduersities of labours and perils that may happen to come, or in to the which a person may fal. And the branches be these. Mag [...]ificence, Confidence, Tollerance, Rest, Stablenesse, Perseuerance and Reason. Magnificence is a ioyous clerenesse of courage, administringe thinges laudable and magnificenciall, that is to say, hye or great. Confidence is to arest and hold strongly his thought and his courage, by vnmouable constance among such things as be aduers aud contrary. Tollerance is cotidianly or daily suffring and bearing the strange improbites and molestees, that is to say, persecutions, ob [...]robries, and iniuries that other folke doth. Reste is a vertue by the which a likernesse is geuen vnto the thought of contempment of the vnstablenesse of transitory things and worldly vanities. Stablenesse is for to haue the thought or courage stedfast and sure without castinge it on diuers things by any varying or changing of time or places. Perseuerance is a vertue that establisheth and confirmeth the courage by a perfection of vertues that is in a man, and be perfite by force of longanimitie. Reason is a vertue by the which a man commaundeth to do such thinges as be conceyled and delyuered for to come to the ende, whych a man knoweth to be good and vtyle to be done and had.
Howe Shepardes by calculation and speculation knowe the .xii. signes in their course reygning and domining on the .xii. partes of mans body, and which be good for letting of blud, and which be indifferent or euill for the same. Capitulo .xxii.
SOme Shipardes say that a man is a little worlde by hym selfe, for the lykenesses and similytudes that he hath of the great worlde, whych is the aggregation of the nyne skyes, foure elements [...] and all thinges in them conteyned. First a man hath such a likenesse in the first mobile, that is the soueraigne skye, and principall partes of the great world. For like as in his first mobyle the zodiake is deuided in .xii. parts by the .xii. signes, so man is deuided in .xii. parts & holdeth of the signes, euery parte of his signe as this figure sheweth. The signes be these. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Uirgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. Of the which, three be of the nature of the fyre, that is Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. And three of the nature of the ayre. Gemini, Libra, and Aquari [...]s. And three of the nature of water, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. And three of the nature of earth. Taurus, Uirgo [...] and Capricornus. The first that is Aries, gouerneth the head and the face of man. Taurus the necke and the throte boll. Gemini the shoulders, the armes, and handes. Cancer the brest, sydes mylte, and lightes. Leo the stomake, the hart, and the backe. Uirgo the belly, and the entrayles. Libra the nauill, the graynes and the parts vnder the branches. Scorpio the priuie parties, the genytailes, the bladder, and the foundement. Sagittarius the thighes only. Capricoruus the knees only also. Aquarius the legges, and from the knees to the heeles and ancles. And Pisces hath the feete in his dominion.
A man ought not to make incision, ne touch with yron the member gouerned of any signe the day that the Moone is in it, for feare of the greate effusion of blud that mighte happen, ne in likewyse also when the Sunne is in it, for the daunger and perill that might ensue.
Hereafter foloweth the nature of the .xii. sygnes. Aries is good for bludde lettinge when the Moone is in it, saue in the part that it domineth.
[Page]Aryes hot and dry, nature of fyre, and gouerneth the heade and the face of man, good for bleeding when the moone is in it.
Taurus is euill for bleeding.
Taurus is dry and colde, nature of the earth, and gouerneth the necke, and the kno [...] vnder the throte, and is euill for bleeding.
Gemini is euill for bleeding.
Gemini is hot and moyste, nature of ayre, and gouerneth the shoulders, the armes, and the two handes, and is euill for bleeding.
Cancer is indifferent for bleeding.
Cancer is colde and moyst, nature of water, and gouerneth the brest, the stomake, and the mylte, and indifferent, that is to saye, neyther to good ne to bad for letting of blud.
Leo is euill for bleeding.
Leo is hot and drye, nature of fier, and gouerneth the backe and the sydes, and is euill for bleeding.
Uirgo is indifferent for bleeding.
Uirgo is colde and dry, nature of earth, and gouerneth the wombe and inward partes, and is not good ne very euill for bleeding.
Libra is right good for bleeding.
Libra is hot and moyst, nature of ayre, and gouerneth the nauill, the reynes and the low partes of the wombe, and is good for bleeding.
Scorpius is indifferent for bleeding.
Scorpius is colde and moyst, nature of water, and gouerneth the members of man, and is neyther good ne bad for bleeding.
Sagittarius is good for bleeding.
Sagittarius is hot and dry, nature of fier, and gouerneth the thighes, and is good for bleeding.
Capricornus is euill for bleeding.
Capricornus is colde and dry, nature of earth, and gouerneth the knees, and is euill for bleeding.
Aquarius is indifferent for bleeding.
Aquarius is hot and moyst, nature of ayre, and gouerneth the legges, and is neyther good ne euill for bleeding.
Pisces is indifferent for bleeding.
Pisces is colde and moyste, nature of water, and gouerneth the feete, and is neyther good ne bad for bleeding.
Aries, Libra. and Sagittarius be right good.
Cancer, Uirgo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces be indifferent.
Taurus, Gemini, Leo, and Capricornus be euill for bleeding.
A picture of the Phisnomy of mans body, and sheweth in what partes the .vii. planets hath domination in man. Cap. xxxiiii.
[Page]We may know by this figure the bones and ioynts of all the parties of the body as wel within as without, of the head necke, shoulders, armes, handes, sydes, brest, backe, haunches, thighes, knees, legges, and of the feete. The which bones shalbe named and numbred hereafter, and it is called the figure Anothomy.
By this figure one may vnderstand the parties of mans body, ouer the which the planets hath might and domination. to kepe them from touching any Iron, ne to make incision of bludde in the veynes that procede in the time while that the planet of the saide partie is conioyned with any other planet maneuolent without hauing regarde of some good planette, that might encombre and let his euill course.
¶The names of the bones in a mans body, and the number of them, which is mall two hundred eyght and forty. Capitulo. xiiii.
FIrst on the sommet of the head is a bone that couereth the braine, the which Shepards call the capitall bone. In the skull be two bones which be called paryetailes, that holdeth the brayne close and stedfast. Mo [...]e lower in the braine is a done called the crowne of the heade, and on the one syde and on the other be two holes, within the which is the palys or ro [...]e bone. In the part behinde the heade be foure like bones, to the which the chyne of the necke holdeth. The bones of the nose be two. The bones of the chaftes aboue be xi. And of the nether iaw be two. Aboue the opposyte of the brayne there is one behinde named collaterall. The bones of the teeth be .xxx. Eyght before, foure aboue and foure vnderneth sharpe and trenching for to cut the morsels, and there are foure sharpe, two aboue and two vnderneth, and be called co [...]ynes, for they resemble co [...]ies teeth. After that be .xvi. that be as they were hammers or grinding teeth, for they chaw and grinde the meate the which is eaten, and ther is on euery side foure aboue and foure vnderneth, and then the foure teeth of sapyence on eche syde of the chaftes one aboue and one vnderneth. In the chyne from the heade downeward be .xxx. bones called knots or ioynts. In the brest afore be seuen bones, and on euery syde .xii. ribbes. By the necke betwene the heade and the shoulders be two bones named the sheres. After be the two shoulder blades. From the shoulders to the elbow in eche arme is a bone called the adiutor. Frō the elbow to the hande on eche arme be two bones that be called cannes. In eche hand be .viii. bones, aboue the palme be foure bones whych be called the combe of the hande. The bones in the fingers in eche hand be .xv. in euery finger three. At the ende of the ridge be the ho [...]le bones, whereto be fastened the two bones of the thighes. In eche knee is a bone called the knee plate. From the knee to the fote in ech legge be two bones, called cannes or marow bones. In ech fote is a bone called the ankle or pin [...] of the fote, behind that ankle is the heele bone in eche fote, the whych is the lowest parte of a man, and aboue ech fote is a bone called the hollow bone. In the plant of ech fote be .iiii. bones. Then be the combes of the feete, in eche of whych be .v. bones. The bones in the toes in eche fote be the number of .xiiii. Two bones be tofore the belly for to holde it stedfast with the two branches. Two bones be in the head behind the eares called Oculares. We recken not the tender bones of the ende of the shoulders, nor of the sydes, nor diuers little grystles and spelders of bones, for they be comprehended in the number abouesayde.
¶Hereafter foloweth the names of the veynes, and where they rest, and how they ought to be letten bludde.
WE man vnderstande by this figure the number of the veynes and the places of a mans [...]ody where they [...]en, and how they ought to be letten blud, and no where else so that it be a nutural day for blud letting, that the Mone be not new, ne at the full, ne in quarter, and that it be in any signe before named good for bleeding, but if that such signe were it that domineth the member of the which blud should be letten, for then it ought not for to be touched, ne also that it be the signe of the sunne.
The names of the places where the veynes be, are shewed by the letters set in the margent at the beginning of the matter after the fourme of the picture.
- A
- The veyne in the myddes of the forehed would be letten blud for the ache and peyne of the head, and for feuers lytargy, and for the megryme.
- B
- Aboue the two eares behinde is two veynes, the whych be letten bludde for to gyue clere vnderstanding, and the vertue of light hearing, and for thicke breth, and for doubt of meselry.
- C
- In the temples byn two veynes called the Artires, for that they pant, the whych ben letten bludde for to diminyshe and take away the greate replection and habundaunce of bludde that is in the brayne, that myght noye the heade and the eyen, and it is good agaynst the goute, megryme, and dyuers other accidents that may come to the heade.
- D
- Under the tounge byn two veynes that ben letten bludde for a syckenesse named the Sequamy, and against the swellinge and apostumes of the throte, and agaynst the Equinauncy, by the whych a man myght dye sodainly for defaute of such bleeding.
- E
- In the necke byn two veynes called Orygynalles, for that they haue the course and habundaunce of all the blud that gouerneth the body of man, and principally the head, but they ought not to be letten blud without the counsel of the surgyon, and this bleedynge auayleth much to the syckenesse of Lepry, when it commeth principally of bludde.
- F
- The veyne of the hart taken in the arme, profiteth to take away humours or yll blud that might hurt the chamber of the harte or the appurtenance, and it is good for them that spitteth bind, and that be short winded, by the which a man may die sodainly by defaute of such bleeding.
- G
- The veyne of the lyuer taken in the arme, taketh & deminys [...]eth the great heate of the body of man, and holdeth the body in health, and this bleedinge is profitable against the yelowe axes and apostume of the lyuer, and agaynst the plurisy, wherby a man may die by defaute of such bleeding.
- H
- Betwene the master fynger and the leche to let blud, helpeth the dolours that commeth in the stomake and sides, as botches and apostumes and diuers other accidentes that may come in those places by great habundance of blud and humours.
- I
- In the sydes betwene the wombe and the braunch be two veynes [...] of the which that of the right side is letten blud for dropsy, & that of the left syde for euery sicknes that commeth about the milte, and they should blede after that persons be fat or leane, take good heede at foure fyngers nye the incysyon, and also they not to make such bleeding without counsell of the surgion.
- K
- In euery foote ben three veynes, of the whych three veynes, one is vnder the ancle of the fote named Sophane, the which is letten bludde for to deminish and put out diuers humoures, as botches and apostumes that commeth [Page] aboute the graynes, and it profyteth much to women for to cause their menstruositie to dyscende, and to fyxe the emoroydes, that commeth in the secrete places, and such other like.
- L
- Betwene the wrest of the foote and the great too is a vayne, the which is letten bludde for dyuers syckenesses and inconuenyences, as the pestylence, that taketh a person sodainly by the greate superhaboundance of humoures, and this bleeding must be made wythin a natural day, that is to wyt, within xxiiii. houres after that the sickenes is taken of the pacient, and before the Feuer come on him, and this bleding ought to be done after the corpolence of the pacient.
- M
- In the angles of the eyen be two vaynes, the which be let bludde for the rednesse of the eyen, or water that runneth continually, and for dyuers other sicknesses that may happen and come by ouer great habundance of humours and bludde.
- N
- In the veyne of the ende of the nose is made a bleding, the which is good for a red pimpeled face, as be red droppes, pustules, small skabbes, and other infections of the hart that may come therin by the great replection and habundance of bludde and humours, and it auaileth against popeled noses and other semblable sicknes.
- O
- In the mouth in the gummes be foure veynes, that is to wit, two aboue and two beneath, the which be let b [...]udde for the chafinge and canker in the mouth, and for tooth ache.
- P
- Betwene the lyppe and the chynne is a veyne that is letten blud to geue amendement to them that haue an euill brest.
- Q
- In eche arme be foure veynes, of the whych the veyne of the heade is the hyest, the seconde next is from the hart, the thirde is of the lyuer, & the fourth is from the mylte, otherwise called the low liuer veyne.
- R
- The veyne of the head taken in the arme, ought to bleede for to take away the great replection and habundance of blud that may anoy the head, the eien or the brayne, and auayleth greatly for transmutable heates, and swellings of the throte, and to them that hath swollen faces and red, and to dyuers other sicknesses that may fall by to great habundance of blud.
- S
- The veyne of the mylte, otherwyse called the lowe veyne, shoulde bleede against all feuer tercians, and quarteynes, and it ought to be made a large and lesse deepe wounde then in any other veyne, for feare of winde that it may gather, and for more inconuenience, for feare of a synewe that is vnder it, that is called the Lezarde.
- T
- In eche hand be three veynes wherof that aboue the tombe ought to blede to take away the great heat of the visage, and for the thick blud and humours that be in the heade, this veyne euacueth more then that of the arme.
- U
- Betwene the lyttle fynger and the leche fynger is lettinge of bludde that auayleth greatly against all feuer tercians & quartaines, & against flumes, and [Page] dyuers other lettings that commeth to the pappes and to the mylte.
- x
- In eche thighe is a veyne, of the which the bleeding auayleth against the dolours and swellings of the genitours, and for to auoyde and dryue out of a mans body humours that be in the graynes.
- y
- The veyne that is vnder the ancle of the fote without, named Sciat, of the which the bleeding is much worth against the paines of the haunches, and for to make departe and issue diuers humours, which would assemble in the sayd place [...] and auayleth greatly to women for to restraine their menstruosity when they haue to great habundance.
¶Thus endeth the Anotomy and Flubothomy of the humayne bodyes, and howe one should vnderstande them.
HEre before we haue sayde of the regarde of planets vpon the parties of man, and the deuision and number of the bones of mannes body, and now foloweth to know when any man is hole or sycke, or disposed in any wise to sicknesse. Wherefore three thinges ben, by the which Shepardes knowe when a man is hole or sycke, or disposed to sicknesse. If he be hole to maintaine and kepe him, if he be sicke, to serch remedy to heale him. If he be disposed to sicknesse to kepe him that he fall not therin. And for to know eche of the sayde three things, the Shepards put diuers signes. Health properly temperance, accorde, and equalitie of the iiii. equalities of man, which be hot, colde, dry, and moyste. The which when they be well tempered and equall, that one surmoun [...]e not the other, then the body of man is hole. But when they be vnequall and mistempred, that one domineth ouer another, then a man is sicke or disposed to sicknes, and they be the qualities that the bodies boldeth of the elementes, that they be made & composed of, that is to wyte of the fier heate, of the water colde, of the ayre moyst, and of the earth dry. The which qualities, when one is disordered from the other, then the body is sicke. And if that one destroy the other of all, then the body dieth, and the soule departeth.
¶Signes by the which Shepards knowe a man hole and wel disposed in his body. Capitulo .xxv.
THe firste sygne whereby Shepardes knowe a man to be hole and well disposed in his body, is when he eateth and drinketh wel after the conuenaunce of the hunger and thirste that he hath wythout makinge excesse. Also when he digesteth lightly, and when that that he hath eaten and dronken empesheth and greueth not his stomake. Also when he feleth good sauour and appetite in that he eateth and drinketh. Also when he is hungry and thirsty at the houres that he ought to eate and drinke. Also when he reioyseth [Page] hym wyth mery folke. Also when they playe gladly any playe of recreation wyth felowes of mery courage. Also when he playeth gladly in fieldes and woddes to take the sweete ayre, and sporte in medowes by water sydes. Also when he eateth gladly & with good appetite, of butter, cheese, flawnes, shepe mylte, wythout leauyng any thynge in his dyshe to sende to the almes house. And when he sleepeth well wythout rauynge, dreamyng of his marchandyse. Also when he feleth him light, and that he walketh well. Also when he sweateth soone, and that neseth lyttle or nothyng. Also when he is neyther to fatte ne to leane. Also when he hath good coloure in his face, and that hys wittes ben all well disposed for to do their operacion, as his eyen for to see, hys eares to heare, his nose to smell [...] &c. And thus we leaue of the conuenance of age, the disposition of the body, and also of the tyme. [...] other sygnes I saye nothinge, but these be the most common, and that ought to suffise for shepardes to know the signes of health.
Signes opposyte to the precedentes, by the which Shepardes knowe when they or other ben sycke.
FIrst when he may not well eate ne drinke, or that they haue none appetite to eate at dinner & supper, or when he fyndeth no sauour in that he eateth or drinketh, or that he is hungry and maye not eate, when his dygestion is not good, or that it be to longe. Also when h [...] goeth not to chamber moderately as he ought to do. Also when he is heauy and sad in ioyous companyes, then syckenesse constreyneth a man to be thoughtfull. Semblably when he may not sleepe or take hys rest aright and at due houre. Also when his members ben heauy, as his head, his legges, and his armes. And also when he may not walke easely and lyghtly, and that he sheweth not often, and his coloure is pale or yelowe, or when hys wyttes, as his eyen, his eares, & the other do not kindly their operations. In likewise when he may not labour and trauel. Also when he forgetteth lightly that which of necessitie ought to be kept in memory, and when he spitteth often, or when his nosethrilles aboundeth in superfluous humours. And when he is negligent in his workes, and when his flesh is blowen or swollen in the vysage, in hys legges, or his secte, or when his eyen be holowe in his heade. These ben the sygnes that sygnifyeth a man being in sickenesse, and who that hath most of the foresayd signes, most is sicke.
Other maner of signes almost semblable to them aboue sayd, and sheweth the replexion of euill humours for to be purged of them. Cap. xxvi.
REplection of euill [...] humours and dysposition of syckenesse, after the opinion of Shepardes, the whych replection is to knowe howe to pourge the [Page] sayde humoures that they engendre no sickenes, & byn broken by the signes that foloweth. ¶Fyrst when a man hath ouer greate rednesse in the face, in the handes, or in the nayles, hauynge also the veines full of bludde, or blede to much at the nose, or to often, or to haue peyne in the forheade. Also when the eares soundeth, & when the eyen watereth or be ful of gumme, & haue the vnderstandinge troubled, & when the pou [...] beateth to faste & when the belly i [...] longe resolute and laxe, and when one hath the syght troubled, and eatynge also without appetyte. And all the other sygnes before sayd bin, by the whiche one may know the body euyll dysposed and haue in it corrupte humoures, superflous and euyll.
¶Thus fynysheth of the sygnes, by the which Shepardes know when they byn ole and well dysposed, and other sygnes opposyts, by the whiche they knowe when they bin syck or euill disposed.
¶A deuision and regyme of tyme, of the which Shepardes vseth after that the season & tyme requyreth. Cap xxvii.
FOr to remedy the syckenesses and infirmities that a man hath, & to kepe hym from thē that he doubteth to come. Shepardes say that the time naturally channgeth foure times in a yer, & so they deuyde the yere in foure quarters, that is ver, sommer, haruest, & wynter. And in eche of these quarters they gouerne them as the seasons requyreth to theyr myndes, & the better it is for them. And as the [...]eason chaungeth, so chaunge they theyr maner of lyuynge & doyng, and say that chaungynge of tyme without takynge good hede, oftē engendreth infyrmities [...] for that in one tyme behoueth not to vse some meates that byn good [...]n an other tyme, as that vse in wynter is not all good in sommer, and so of the other seasons ¶And for to knowe the changynge of tyme after these sayd parties they consyder the course of the son dy the xii. sygnes, and saye that euery of the sayd .iiii [...] quarters and seasons dureth thre monethes, and that the sonne passeth by three sygnes. that is to wyte, in primetyme by Pisces, Aries, and Taurus, and these be the monethes, February, Marche, and April, that the earth and trees reioyseth and chargeth with grene leues and [...]oures, that is a pleasure to beholde. In sommer by Gemini, Cācer and Leo, and the monethes byn May, Iune and Iuly, that the fruites of the Earth [...]oweth and rypeth. In Haruest by Uirgo, Libra, and Scorpio, and the [...]onethes byn August, September and October, that the Earthe and trees dyschargeth fruites and leaues, and that tyme eche felleth and gathereth the [...]ites. In wynter by Sagittarius, Capricornus, and Aquarius, and the mo [...]ethes byn Nouember, December & Ianuary, that the earth and trees ben as deade and vnclo [...]hed of leues, fruites, and of all grenesse. After the which [...]ure [...] seasons Shepardes deuiseth the tyme that man maye lyue in foure [Page] ages, as youth, strength, age, and decrypte, & ben likened to the foure seasons of the yere. That is to wyt, youth to pryme tyme, that is hot & moist & as th [...] herbs & trees of the earth groweth, so doth man in youth vnto xxv. yere grow [...] of body, in strength, beautie, and vigoure. Force is lykened vnto sommer ho [...] and dry, and the body of man is in his force and vigoure, and entrypeth vnto [...] xlv. yere. Age is compared to the tyme of haruest, colde and drye that man le [...]ueth of growinge & febleth, and thinketh how together and spare for feare o [...] defaute and nede whe [...] he commeth to stopwing age, and dureth to .lvi. yere [...] Decrepyte is likened to the season of winter, colde & humyde by habundanc [...] of colde humours and defaute of naturall heate, in the which time man spen [...]deth that which he had gathered and kept in the tyme passed, and if he hau [...] spared nothing, he abydeth poore and naked as the earth and Trees and du [...]reth vnto .lxii. yeare or more. Primetyme is hot and moyste, nature of ayre [...] and complexion of the sanguyne. Sommer is hot and drye, nature of fyre, and complexion of coieryke. Haruest is colde and drye, nature of earth, and com [...]plexion of the melancoly. Winter is colde and moyste, nature of water, com [...]plexion of the flumatyke: when complexion is well proportioned it feeleth i [...] selfe better disposed in the tyme semblable to it then it doeth in other tymes [...] But for that euery man is not well complexioned, they ought to do as Sh [...]pardes doth, that is to take regyment to kepe them self after the seasons, an [...] gouerneth them by theyr ensygnements and teachings, the which they vse [...] euery quarter of the yeare for to lyue the longer, wyselyer, and merely.
The regyment for primetyme, March, April, and May.
IN primetyme Shepardes kepe them selues metely well clothed, no [...] ouer colde ne ouer hot, as with lynseywolsy, doublettes of fustian, an [...] gownes of a meetely length furred with lambe most commonly. I [...] this tyme is good letting of blud to auoyde the euyll humours that were ga [...]thered in the body the Wynter tyme. If syckeuesse happen in prymetyme it i [...] not of his nature, but procedeth of the humours gathered in the wynter pas [...]sed. Prymetyme is a temperate tyme to take medicines for them that b [...] corporate and full of thycke humours, to purge them. In this tyme the [...] ought for to eate lyght meates that refresheth, as chekyns, kyddes with ve [...]gyous, borage, beetes, yolkes of egges, egges in moneshyne, roches, perches [...] pykerelles, and all scaled fysh. Drinke temperate wyne, bere or ale, so that they be not to stronge, ne ouerswete. For in this time all swete things ought not to be vsed, and a man ought to sleepe long in the morning and not on the daye [...] The Shepardes haue a generall regle or costume for all seasons, that auai [...]leth much againste all infirmities and sickenesses, that is, not to less his ap [...]petite for eating, and neuer for to eate without hunger. Also they saye that al [...] maner of flesh and fyshe is better rosted then sodden, and if they ben soden t [...] [Page] broyle them on a gredyron, or on the coles, and they byn the more holsommer.
¶ The regement for the tyme of sommer. Iune, Iuly, and August.
THe Shepardes in sōmer bin clothed with lyghte gownes, & syngle, their shyrtes & shetes that they lye in bin lynnen, for of al clothes it is the coldest, thy haue dowblettes of sylke, of sey, or of canuas manerly made, and they eate lyght meates, as chekyns with vergyous, yonge harts, rabette, lectuse, purcelayne, melons, gourdes, cocumbres, peres, plommes, & suche fyshe as are named afore. And also they eate of meates that refresheth. Also they eate lyttle and often, they breke theyr faste or dyne in the morninge or euer the sonne aryse, aud go to supper or it discende, & they eate often of the aboue sayde meates and sourer for to gyue them an appetyte. They eate but lyttle salte meates, and refrayne them from scratching, they drynke oft freshe water sodden with sugercandy, and other refreshinge waters, and they do it alwaye when they byn thyrsly, saue onely at dinner and supper tyme, and then they drinke feble grene [...]yne, or single beare, or small ale. Also they keepe them from ouer great trauell, or ouer forsing them solfe, for in this tyme is nothinge more greuous then chafynge. In this season they eschewe the company of women, and they bathe them oft in colde water to asswage the heate of theyr bodyes enforced by laboures. Alway they haue with them sugerca [...]dy or other suger, and dredge, wherof they take lyttle and often, and eche daie in the morninge they force them bi coughinge and spittinge, to voide fleumes, and voide them aboue and belowe the beste that thei maie, and washe their handes with freshe water, their mouth and vysage.
¶The regement for haruest, September, October, and Nouember.
IN haruest Shepardes byn clothed after the maner of Prymetyme saue their clothes byn a little warmer. In this time they do dylygence to purge and clense them, and lettinge them blud to tempre the humours of theyr bodyes. For it is the most contagyous tyme of the yeare, in the which perillous infirmities happeneth and commethe, and therfore thee eate good and holsome meates, as Caponnes, Hennes, yonge Pygeon that beginne to flye, and drinketh good wynes, & other good drynkes without makinge excesse. In this time they kepe them frome eating of fruites for it is a daungerous season for agnes, & they say that he had neuer ague that neuer eate fruite. In this tyme they drinke no water, and they put no parte of them in colde water, but their handes, & their face. They kepe their heades fro colde in the nyght and morning, & slepe not in the none time, & kepe them from ouer great traueyle, & endure not to much hunger ne thyrft, but eat when it is tyme, and not when their mawes be full.
¶The regyment for winter time, December, Ianuary, and February.
[Page] THe Shepardes in wynter byn clothed in thycke gownes of rough clothe hye shorne, well furred with foxe. For it is the warinesse furryng that is and cattes, conyes, lambes, and dyuers other thycke furres that be good and holsome. In the tyme of wynter Shepardes do eate befe, porke and brawne, of hartes, hindes, and all maner of venyson, pertryches, fesauntes, hares, fowles of the ryuer, and other meates that they loue best. For that is the season of the yeare that nature suffreth moste greate plentye of vyttayle for the naturall heate that is drawen within the bodye. An this tyme also they drynke ofte stronge wynes, after theyr cōplexion. bastard wyne, or Osey. Two or three tymes in the weke they vse good spyces in theyr meates. For this is the most holsome tyme of all the yere, in the which cōmeth no syckenesse but by greate excesse & outrages done to nature, or by euyll gouernement. Shepardes saye also that prymetyme is hotte & moyst of the nature of ayre complexion of the sanguine, & that in the same time nature reioyseth, & the pores openeth, & the blud spredeth through the veynes more then another tyme. Sommer is hotte and dry of the nature of fyre, and complexion of coleryke, in the which tyme one ought to kepe him from all thinges that moueth to heate, al excesse and hot meates. Haruest is colde and drye of the nature of earthe, and complexion of melancoly, in the which tyme one ought to kepe him from doynge excesse more then in other times, for daunger of sykenesses, to the which that tyme is dysposen. But winter is colde and moyst of the nature of water, and complexion of flumatyke, then a man ought to kepe him warme and myanely, for to lyue in health.
¶Here it ought to be noted that a man is made and fourmed of the foure elementes, of the which one hath domination alwayes aboue the other: & that mā on whom the fyre domineth is sayde coleryke, that is to saye hot and drye He on whom the ayre hath domination is sayde sanguyne, that is to saye hot, and moyst. He on whom the water hath domination is sayde colde & moyst, that is to say flumatike. And he on whom the earth reygneth is sayde melancolyke, that is to saye, colde and drye. Of the whiche complexions shalbe spoken in the begynnynge of the Physonomy more largely.
¶A regement of Shepardes of certeyne thynges good for the body of man, and of other dyuers thinges apposyte to the same Cap. xxviii.
¶God for the brayne.
¶To smell the sauour of muske, and of quybyles, of camamell, to drinke wyne mesurably, to eate sage not to much, to couer thy heade, of the washynge of thy handes and feete, mesurably walkynge, mesurably slepynge, to here sweete noyses of minstralsy or syngynge, to eate mustarde and peper, to smel the red rose, and washe thy temples with water of redde roses.
¶Euyll for the brayne.
¶All maner brayne of beastes, gluttony, dronkennesse, late supper, to sleepe muche after meate, corrupte ayre, anger, heuynesse, to vncouer thy heate, to eate softely, to much heate. to moch wakinge, to much walkyng, milke, chese nuttes, to eate or thou be an hungred, bathynge after meate, onyons, garlike greate noyse, to smell to a whyte rose, and much steringe.
¶Good for the eyen.
¶The red rose, veruayne, rewe, fenell, salendyne, enfrage, pympernell, oculi Christi, to plunge thyne eyen in clere water, oft to loke on greene coloure, mesurable slepe, to loke in a fayre glasse, ofte to washe thy handes and feete, make the stamake well defyed, and to loke ofte one golde also.
¶Euyll for the eyen.
¶Powder garlyke, onyons, hunger lekes wakynge, and wind hot ayre colde ayre dronkennesse, gluttony mylke chese much beholdinge of bryght thynges aswell red as whyte mustarde, anone to slepe after meate, to muche slepynge, to much wakinge to much lettynge of blud colde wortes smoke all thinge that is pepered lechery an hot fyre before the syght euyl bakē brede duste to muche wepynge, all this euyl for the eyen.
¶Good for the throte.
¶Hony suger butter with a lyttle salt lycoras to suppe softe egges. Isope meane maner of eatynge and drinkinge and sugercandy this is good for the throte.
¶Euyll for the throte.
¶Mustarde muche lyinge vppon the brest pepper anger all fyred meates and all thynge rosted lechery muche wakynge to muche rest muche drynke muche thyrst much runnynge smoke of ensence olde chese heate or colde & all thynges that byn soure is nought for the throte.
¶Good for the harte.
¶Saffron borage laughynge ioye muske cloues galynggale nutmygges the red rose the vyolet suger maces before all other thynges.
¶Euyll for the harte.
¶Beanes, peson lekes garlyke onions heuenesse anger drede to much busynes trauayle to drinke colde water after laboure euyll tydynges
¶Good for the stomake.
¶Red myntes red roses commyn suger sage wormewod calamyte to vomet euery quarter once great hunger euery daye to stande after meate and ofte wakynge after meles euery colde thynge galyngale nutmygges vyneger peper & mesurable slepe.
¶Euyll for the stomake.
¶All sweete thynges for they make the hom ake to swell nuttes olde chese mylke hony mary of bones that be not wel so den to eate or thou be an hungred to eat many sortes of meates at one sitting, to drinke or thou be a thirste [Page] to eate breade that is not wel baken, and al rawe fleshe, stynken, heuynes, and drede, thought, ouer great trauayle, stowpynge, fallynge, & al fryde meates, to much bathynge after meate, & to much castynge, eate when thou art ouer hotte eyther of feuer or trauayle, all mylke of beastes is euyl saue of gotes.
¶For ache of the wombe.
¶Take fansy rewe, and sothernewod, and eate it with salte f [...]stynge whē thou arte afret, and it wil do it away.
¶For to restore the lyuer.
¶Take a quantite of wilde tansey and stampe it, and drinke it with wyne or ale .ix. dayes or more, and he shal amende.
¶For fatnesse about a mans harte.
Take the iuyce of fenell and hony, and sethe them bothe together til that it be harde, and eate it at euen and morne, and it shal auoyde soone.
¶For hardenes of the wombe.
¶Take two sponefull of the iuyce of yuy leaues, & drinke therof thre tymes on the day, and thou shalt be hole.
¶For winde in the stomake.
¶Take commin, and bete it to pouder, and mingle it with redde wyne, and drinke it last at nyght three dayes, and he shalbe hole.
¶For the dropsy.
¶Take thycke wede, clyth [...]rs, ale and otemele, and make potage therwyth, & vse it ix. dayes, and euery day freshe, and he shalbe hole.
¶A good drinke for the pestylence.
¶For the pestylence, take and washe cleene a lyllyrote, and boyle it in whyte wyne, tyll the one halfe he wasted, and then gyue it the s [...]e [...]e to drinke, and he shall breke out full of bladders as he, were brent or scalded with hotte water, & then they wyll dry, and the person waxe hole.
¶Here after foloweth the iiii. elementes, and the foure complexions of man, and howe and in what time they raygne in man, Cap. xxix.
AYre, Fyre, Earth and water. The xxiiii. houres of the daye & the nyght ruleth Sanguine, Colerike, Melancolike, & Flumatike. Sixe houres after mydnight bludde hath the maistry, & in the vi. houres aforenoone coller raigneth, and vi. houres afternoone raigneth melancoly, and vi. houres afore midnyght raigneth the flumatike.
¶Here foloweth the gouernance of health. Ca. xxx.
¶Thus endeth the Physycke and regement of health of Shepardes And foloweth theyr Astrology. Capitulo .xxxi.
CElum Celi Domine terram autem dedit filius hominum. Non mortui laudabunt te Domine [...]neque omnes qui descendunt in infernum. Sed nos qui vi [...]imus Benediximus Domino Quoniam videbimus celos tuosopera digitorum tuorum lunam & stellas que tu fundast [...] Quia subiecisti omnia sub pedibus nostris [...] & boues vniuersas in super & pecora campi. Volu [...] cres celi & pisces maris qui perambulane semitas maris Domine Dominus noster? quam admirabi [...] est nomen tuu [...] in vniuersa terra.
[Page] WHo that wyll as Shepardes that kepeth shepe in the fyeldes without knowynge any letter, saue onely by some fygures that they make in lyttle tables of wodde haue knowledge of the mouynges and proprfeties of the heauens. And dyuers other thynges conteyned in this presente composte and kalender of Shepardes, the which is extracte and composed out of theyr kalenders and put in letter, so that eche maye compryse and knowe as they, the thinges aboue sayde. Fyrste one ought to knowe what the figure is, the disposition of the world, the nombre & ordre of the elementes, and the mouinges of the skies aperteyneth to be knowen of euery man of free condicion and noble engin. For it is a fayre thinge, delectable profitable and honest, and therwith it is necessary to haue diuers other knowleges, in especiall for the Astrology of Shepardes, whiche sheweth how the worlde is rounde as a ball. And after wyse men say there is nothing so round as it. For it is rounder then any thinge artyfycyall. And more ouer in this worlde we se nothinge ne neuer shal that is so ius [...]e & egally rounde as it selfe is, and is composed of the heauen and the foure elementes in v. principal parties. After that a person ought to knowe that the earth is in the myddes of the worlde, for it is the heuyest element. Upon the earth is the water or the sea, but it couereth not al the earth, to thende that men and beastes may lyue therin, & the partie that is vncouered is called the face of the earth, for it is as the face of man alwayes vncouered, and the parte that is couered with water is as the body of man that is clothed & hidde, On the water is the ayre that encloseth the earth and the water, and is deuyded in three regions, one is lowe where as en habiteth beastes & byrdes, an other meane where as bin the cloudes, the whiche make the impressions, as lightninghes, thonders, and other, & is alway colde, the thirde is the hyeste, where as is neyther winde ne rayne, nor tempest, nor other impression, & ther be some mountaines that atteyneth vnto it, as is olimpus that recheth the hyest region of the ayre, and the element of fyre mounteth vnto the skie, & the elementes susteyneth the skies as the pyllers or beames susteyneth a house Of such mountaynes is one in Affryke named Athlas. After that is the element of fyre that is neyther [...]ambe ne coles, but is pure & inuisible. for the great bryghtenes, for of so much as the water is more clere & lyght then the earth, & the ayre, more clere & light then the water, of so muche the fyre is more clere, lyght and fayrer then the ayre, and the skies in equypo [...]ent bin clerer, lyghter & fayrer then the fyre, the which tourneth with the mo [...]inges of the heauens and the next region of the ayre also, in the which is engendred c [...]n [...]c [...]s that bin called sterres for that they bin shyninge & moueth as the sterres. After the sayinge of some shephardes the fyre is inuysible for his subtilitie and not for his clerenes, for of as much as a thing is more cler of [...]o much it is the more vysible, for we se the skies wel, but not the fyre, for it is ouer much more subtyl then the ayre that is inuisible, for the same cause, the earth and the water bin thycke, and therfore they bin vysyble. The skies byn [Page] neyther properley heauy ne lyght, harde ne softe, clere ne darke, hotte ne colde swete ne soure, colour ne sowne, ne such other qualities, saue that they bin hot in vertue, for they may cause heate here de [...]ethe by theyr lightes, mouynges and influeuces, & byn improprely harde, for they maye not be denyded ne broken. And also they byn improprely colours of lyghte in some parties, and byn thycke, as bin the parties of the sterres. In the which there maye no starre ne other partie be adusted and put to, nor none maye be demynyshed ne taken away, and they may neyther encrease ne ware lesse, or be of other fygure then rounde, ne they may not chaunge, enpayre ne waxe olde, ne be corrumped, ne altered, but in lyght onely, as in tyme of the eclyps of the son and moone, ne they may not rest and stande styll, ne tourne any otherwyse, later ne sooner, in partye ne in all, ne behaue them otherwise, then after their common course [...] but by miracle diuine, and therfore the sterres and skies byn of another nature then the elementes and the thinges of them composed, the whiche byn transmutable and corruptable. The elementes and all thinges of them composed bin enclosed within the fyrst skie, as the yolke of an egge is enclosed wythin the whyte, and the fyrst skie is enclosed of the seconde, and the seconde in the thyrde, and the thirde in the fourth, & so of the other. The first sky nexte the elementes is the skie of the mone next is the skie of Mercury. And nexte it the skie of Uenus, then is the skie of the sonne, then it of Mars, then that of Iupiter, and after it of Saturne. And thus bin the skyes of the planettes after theyr order. The eyght skie is of sterres fyxed, and bin called so for that they moue more regulerly and after one guyse then the planettes do. Then aboue that is the fyrste mobyle, in the whiche notinge apperethe that Shepardes may se. Some Shepardes say that aboue this ix. skyes is one inmoble, for it tourneth not, and aboue that is one of Chrystall, ouer the whiche is the skie imperyal, in the whych is the throne of Godde, of the which skie Shepardes ought not to speake, but onely of the fyrst mobyle, and that it conteyneth all together called the world. ¶Of one thyng they marueale much, that is howe God hath distributed the sterres, that he hath put none in the nynth skie, and hath put so many in the ryght skie, that they may not be nombred, and in eche of the other vii. but one onely, in callinge the sonne and the moone sterres, as appereth in the fygure hereafter.
¶Here after the great mayster sheparde sheweth more playnely of the iiii. elementes, & of the symylitude of the earth, and how that euery planet is one aboue another, and telleth which of them bin masculine, as these fyue, Saturne, Iupiter, Mars, Sol and Mercury. And of two femynyne, as Uenus and Luna: and whiche of them is northly and southly: and which byn Orientall or occydentall. Capitulo xxxii.
¶Of the mouynges of the skies and planettes.
SOme mouinges bin of the skies and planets that excedeth the vnderstandinge of Shepardes, as the mouynge of the firmamēt in the which bin the sterres ageynste they fyrste mobyle in an hundred yere one degree, and the mouynge of the planets in theyr episcycles, of the which how wel ye Shepardes be not ignorant of al, yet they make no mencyon here, so, it sufficeth them onely of two wherof the one is from. Orient into Occident aboue the earthe, and from occident in the Orient vnder it, that is called the dyurnall mouynge, that is to saye, that it maketh from daye to daye, xxiiii. houres by the whiche mouynge the ix. skye that is the fyrste mobyle, draweth after and maketh the other skies to tourne that byn vnder it. The other mouynge is of the .vii. planettes, and is from Occident to Orient aboue the earth, and from Orient into the Occident vnder it, and is contrary to the fyrste, and byn the two mouynges that [Page] Shepardes knowlegeth, and how wel that they byn opposites, yet moue thei contynually and bin possible as it is shewed by example. If a ship on the sea came from Orient into Occident, and that he of his owne mouyng wēt in the shyppe softly towarde Orient, this man should moue a double mouyng wherof one snuld be of the shyppe, and of hymselfe together, and the other shuld be of his owne mouynge that he maketh softely towarde Orient. Semblably ye planettes byn transported with theyr skie from Oryent into Occidente by the dyurnall mouynge of the fyrst mobyle, but later and otherwyse then the fyxed sterres, by that, that eche planete hath his propre mouinge contrary to the mouynge of the sterrer, for the moone maketh a course lesse in a monthe about the earthe then a sterre fyxed, and the sonne a course lesse in a yere, & the other planettes in certeyne time eche after the quantitie of his mouyng. Thus it appereth that the planettes moue two mouynges: som Shepardes say, pose by imagnation that all the skies seassed to moue of the dayly mouinge, the moone wolde make a course in goynge from the Occidēt into the Orient in as much tyme as lasteth now .xxvii. dayes, and viii. houres, and Mercury [...] Uenus, and Sol wolde make in maner course in the space of a yere, and Mars in two yere or there about, & Saturne in xxx yere or ther about. For now they make their [...]ourse or reuolucions, & accomplishe their propre mouynges in the tyme he [...]e named. The propre mouynges of Planettes is not streyght from Occydence to Oriente, but it is as sydewe,
and Shepardes se them sensyble for when they se the mone before a sterre one night, the seconde or the thyrde nyghte it is behynde not streyght towarde Oriente, but shallbe drawed one tyme towarde Septemtrion, and another time toward Mydday, and this is bycause of the latitude of the zodyake, in the which be the xii. sygnes vnder whom the Planettes raygneth.
¶Of the Equinoctial and zodyake that be in the .ix. skies that conteineth the firmament vnder it Capitulo .xxxiii.
[Page] IN the concaue of the fyrste mobyle Shepardes imaigneth to be the two cyrcles, & they bin theyr royally, the on [...] is as smal as a threde, & it is called Equinoctiall, and the other is large in maner of a gyrdle, or as a garlande of floures, whiche they call the zodyake, and these two cyrcles deuideth the one and the other egally, but not streyght. For the zodyake crosseth crokedly, & the places where it crosseth bin sayd Equinoctialles. For to vnderstand the Equinoctial [...] we se sensybly al the skie tourne from Orient into Occident, & it is called the dayly mouynge or diurnal, thē ought one to imagine a streight lyke that passeth through the myddle of the earth, commyng from the one ende of the sky to the other, about the which lyne is made this mouynge, & the two endes byn two pointes in the skie that moueth not, and byn called the poles of the worlde, of the which one is ouer vs, by the sterre of the north, that alwayes apereth to vs, and is the pole Artike or Septemtrional, and the other is vnder the earth, alwayes hyd called the pole Antartike, or pole Austral, in the middes of the which pole in the fyrste mobile is the circle Equinoctiall egally before in the partie, as in the other of the sayde poles, & after this cyrcle is made and measured the daily mouing of xxiiii. houres that is a natural day and it is called Eqinoctial, for that when the sonne is in it, the daye & the nyght byn equal through all the worlde. The large zodyake as sayd is in the fyrst mobyle, also it is as a girdle manerly fygured and sette with Images of sygnes entrayled subtylly and well composed, and sette with fyxed sterres as shyning carbuncle or precious gemmes full of great vertue, set by maistrysse ryght nobly adourned, in the which zodyake be foure principall poyntes, that deuideth them equally in foure parties. One is hye called the solstyce of sōmer. which when the sonne is entred in Cancer, it is the longest day of Sommer. Another is lowe called the solstice of winter, which is when the son is entred in Capricorne, then it is the shortest daye of winter, and mene call it equinoctial of haruest that the sonne entreth in Libra in the moneth of September. And the other is called Equinoctiall of prymetime that the sonne entreth in Aries in the moneth of March. The which foure parties deuyded eche in thre equall parties maketh twelue parties, that bene called sygnes, named Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Uirgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces. Aryes beginneth in the Equinoctiall, and crosseth the zodyake, and when the sonne is, there it begynneth to declyne, that is to say, aprochyng Septemtrion, and towarde vs it extendeth to the orient Then is Taurus seconde, Gemini the thyrde, and so of other as the fygure, hereafter sheweth. Also euery sygne is deuided in .xxx. degrees, and be in the zodyake .ccc.lx. degrees, and euery degree deuided by .lx. mynutes euery mynute in .lx. secondes, euery seconde in .lx. thyrdes, and this deuision suffiseth for Shepardes.
Here foloweth the story of the twelue sygnes. Ca. xxxiii.
SHepardes knowelegeth a subtyll variation in the skye: and is for three sterres fy [...]d be not vnder the same degrees of the Zodyake that they were created bi [...]ouse of the mouinge of the Firmament, the which ben agaynste the fyrst mobyle in an hundred yere of one degree, for the which mutation the sonne maye haue other regarde to a ste [...]re, and other signification then it hadde in the tyme passed, and also whē the bookes were made, for that the sterre hath hanged his degree or Sygne vnder which it was.
And thys often tymes causeth them that make Prognosticatyons and iudgementes comming to fayle.
¶All thee cyrcles of the skie byn narrowe and small, except the zodyake, which is large, and conteyneth in length three hundred and three score degrees, and of largenes twelue, the which largenesse is deuyded by the myddes, syxe degrees on the one signe and syxe on the other, and thys deuysion is made by a lyne named eclyptyke and is the way of the sonne, for the sonne neuer departeth vnder that lyne, & thus it is alway in the myddle of the zodyake, but the other planets bene alwayes on the one syde, or of the other of the sayde lyne saue when they bene the [...]ade or in the tayle of the Dragon, as the moone that passeth twyse in a moneth, and it happen when it reneweth it is Eclyps of the sonne, and yf it happen the full moone, and that it be ryght vnder the nadyr of the sonne it is generall Eclyps, and if it be but a partie it is not sene: when it is Eclyps [Page] of the sonne it is not generall through all the clymates but onely in some, [...]u when it is eclyps of the Moone it is generall ouer all.
Of two great circles, that is to say one Meridien, and the other Oryson, that intersequeth the one the other, and crosseth dyrectly.
MEridien is a great circle imagined on the skie, which passeth by the poles of the worlde, and by the poynt of the skye right ouer oure heades, the which is called Zenych, and when the sonne is commen ouer fro Orient vnto that circle it is midday, and therefore it is called Meridien, and the halfe of that circle is ouer the earth and the other vnder it that passeth by the poynt of midnight directly opposite to Zenych, and when the sonne toucheth the part of the circle it is midnight, and if a man go toward Orient or Occident he hath new Meridien, and therefore it is soner midday to them that be toward Orient then to other, if a man stande styll his Meridien is one styll, or if he go toward mydday or septemtrion, but yf he styrre he hath other Zenych, and these two cyrcles crosseth directly: oryzon is a great circle that deuideth the partie of the skie that we see from that we se not. And Shepardes say that if that a man were in a playne country he shold se iustly halfe of the skye, the which they cal theyr emyspery, that is to say half spere & orizon is ioyning nyghe to the earth, of the which orizon the entre is the myddle, and is the place in the which we byn, thus eche is alwayes in the myddes of his oryson, and zenich is the pole, & as a man transporteth him fro one place to another, he is in the other places against the skye & hath other zenych & other ozyron, all oryson is right other oblyke. They haue right ozyron that habydeth vnder the Equinoctiall, & haue theyr zenych in the eqinoctial, [...]or theyr ozyron intersequeth and deuydeth the equinoctiall euen by the two poles of the worlde, in such wyse that none of the poles of the world is reysed aboue theyr ozyron, ne depriued ynder it, but they that habiteth other where then vnder equinoctial haue theyr ozyron oblyke, for theyr ozyrn foloweth and deuydeth the equinoctiall sydeway, and not ryght, and there appereth to thē of all tymes one of the poles of the worlde reysed aboue theyr ozyron, and the other ben euer hyd, so that they se them not, more or lesse after diuers habitations, & after that they be of fernesse fro the Equinoctial, & the more that the one pole is reysed the more is the ozyron oblyke, and the other pole depryued and is to wete that there is as much distance fro the ozyron to the pole, as is [...]o the zenych to the Equinoctiall, and that zenych is the fourth parte of meridien or the myddes of the bowe dyurnall, of the which the two endes be on the ozyron. And also that of the pole vnto the equinoctial is the fourth party of all the roundnesse of the skies, and also of the meridien circle syth it passeth by the poles and crosseth the equinoctiall directly. ¶Example of the ozyron of Paris after the opinion of Shepardes, ouer the which Ozyron they saye [Page] that the pole is reysed xli [...]. degrees, wherefore they say also that fro the zenich of Paris vnto the equinoctial be .xlix. degrees, and that fro the Ozyron vnto the Zenych is the fourth partie of the Meridien oyrcle be .lxxxx. degrees, and fro the pole to the zenych be .xli. degrees, and fro the pole vnto the solstyce of Sommer be .lxii. degrees, and fro the solstyce vnto the equinoctial ben .xxxiii. degrees, there be fro the pole vnto the equinoctiall .lxxxx. degrees, and is the fourth part of the roundnes of the skye, from the equinoctial vnto the solstyce of Wynter be .xxxiii. degrees, and fro the solstice vnto the ozyron .xviii. Thus shall the equinoctiall be reysed ouer the ozyron .xli. degrees, and the solstyce of sommer .lxiiii. degrees, in the which solstyce is the son at the houre of noone the longest day of sommer, and then it entreth into Cancer and is most nerest to our habytable parties that may be. And when the sonne is in the solstyce of Wynter, the shortest day of the yere at the houre of noone it entreth into Capricornus: and the sayd solstyce is not reysed ouer the ozyron of Paris but viii. degrees. The which eleuations and rysings a man may fynde playnely so that he know one onely, and in euery region in lykewise after the situation.
Of the two other great cyrcles of the skye, and foure small.
TWo great circles ben on the Skye named colours, that deuideth th [...] skies in foure egall parties, & crosseth theyr selfe directly, the one pas [...]seth by the poles of the world, & by the two solstices, and the other [...] the poles also, and by the two equinoctials. The first small cyrcle is called th [...] cyrcle Artyke bycause of the pole zodyake aboute the pole Artyke, and his lyk [...] is to his opposite, named the cyrcle Antartyke. The other two be named Tro [...]pykes, the one of sommer, and the other of wynter. The Tropyke of somme [...] is cause of the solstyce of sommer, beginning of Cancer, & the tropike of win [...]ter of the solstice of winter beginning of Capricorne, & ben egally distant on [...] circle fro the other. Here ought to be noted that the distaunces of the pole ar [...]tyke to the cyrcle artyke, and the distaunce of the tropike of sommer to the E [...]quinoctiall, and that of the equinoctial to the tropike of wynter, and from th [...] cyrcle antartyke to the pole antartyke are iust egal eche of .xxiii. degrees and a [...] halfe or there about, then the distaunce fro the equinoctiall to the tropike o [...] sommer, and fro the cyrcle artyke to the pole make together .xlvii. degrees. The which take away of the quarter betwene the pole and the equinoctial, wher [...] as ben .lxxxx. degrees, saue that there abydeth .xliii. that ben the distaunce be [...]twene the tropyke of wynter and the cyrcle antartyke, and these cyrcles byn sayd lyttle, for they be not so great as the other, neuerthelesse they be deuyded eche by .ccc.lx. degrees as the greatest.
Of the rysing and resconsyng of the sygnes in the ozyron. Capitulo .xxxv.
[Page] Ozyron and emyspery differred, for ozyron is the cyrcle that deuydeth the partie of the skye that we se from that vnder the earth that we se not. Also Ozyron is a cyrcle that moueth not, but as we moue fro one place to another, but emyspery turneth continually, for one partye ry [...]eth and mounteth ouer Ozyron, and the other part resconseth and entreth vnder it, thus Ozyron ryseth ne resconseth, but ye commeth aboue rysethe, and that which goeth vnder resconseth, Merydien also ryseth not ne resconseth. Equi noctiall is the diurnell circle that ryseth and resconseth regulerly, asmuche in one houre as in another, & all in xxiiii. houres zodyake the large cyrcle, & oblyke whereon the sygnes byn, ryseth and resconseth al on a daye natural, but not regulerly, for it ryseth more in one houre then in an other, for that is euer ouer our ozyron is oblyke, and deuydeth the zodyake in two partes, wherof one is euer ouer our ozyron, and the other vnderneth. Thus halfe of the sygnes ryseth ouer our ozyron euery day artificial be it shorte or longe, and the other halfe by nyght, wherfore it behoueth that in the dayes that be shorter then the nyghtes the sygnes riseth sooner, and in longe dayes more at leyser, and thus the zodyake ryseth not regulerly in these parties as the Equinoctiall, but there is double variaciō, for half of the zodyake that is from the begynnynge of Aries vnto the ende of Uirgo al together taketh as much tyme in rysynge as halfe of the Equinoctiall that is by it, and they begyn to ryse in a moment, and ende in a momente also. But this halfe of the zodyake rysethe sooner in the begynning, and this halfe of the Equinoctial more at leyser, and this is called theyr obliquement. Also the other halfe of the zodyake that is from the beginninge of Libra vnto the ende of Pisces, and halfe of the Equinoctial that is by it, begynneth and leueth to ryse together but the Equinoctial in that party in the beginninge ryseth sooner, and the zodyake more at leyser, and this is called rysyng directely. And whether that ryseth sooner the Equinoctial or the zodyake, yet alwayes they ende together. Example of the two mouynges aforesayde, as yf two men went from London to Uvyndsore and departed bothe together and that at the begynninge the one go fast and the other softely, he that goth [...]as [...] shulde be sooner in the midway thē the other but yf he that went fast to the midway go softely, & the other fast, they shalbe bothe at once in Wyndsore. Also the halfe of the zodyake from the begynninge of Cancer, vnto the ende of Sagittary in rysinge [...]ereth more then [...]alfe the Equinoctial, so that this halfe ryseth all ryght, and the other halfe of the zodyake ryseth oblykely.
Of the deuysyons of the earth, and of the regyons. Capitulo .xxxvi.
FIrst or we speke of the sterres and knowlege that Shepardes haue we wyll saye of the deuysion of th [...] earthe, and of his parties after thy [...] opinion. Wherefore it is to be note [...] that the earth is round, and therefor [...] as a man goeth from one counttrey t [...] another, he hath other ozyron then h [...] had, and there appeareth other part [...] of the skye, and if a man went from Septemtrion streight toward Mid [...]day, the pole Artike to him shalbe less [...] reysed, that is to saye, more nigh ap [...]proching to the earth, and if he wen [...] contrarywise it should be more reised that is to say, apperyng higher, an [...] therefore if he went toward mydday vnder a meridien whele that the pol [...] Artyke were lesse reysed ouer his ozyron by the xxx. part of one of the vi. part of the arke Meridien, he should passe the xxx. parte of the vi. parties of half the circute of the earth, and to him the pole should be lesse reysed by one degre [...] or to the contrary tyl it were more reysed of one degree, then he should pass [...] one degree of the circuite of the Earthe, of the which all the degrees toge [...]ther ben .ccc.lx. And one degree of the earth conteyneth .xiii. leges, and a half or there about, and euery lege is two myle: And as the spere of the skye is de [...]uided by the foure lesse circles fyue parties called Zones, so the earth is deu [...]ded into fiue regions, whereof the first is betwene the pole artyke and the ci [...]cle artyke. The second betwene is the circle artyke and the tropike of somme [...] The third is betwene the tropike of sommer and the tropike of wynter. Th [...] fourth is betwene the tropike of winter and the cyrcle Antartike. The fyft b [...]twene the circle antartyke and the pole Antartyke. Of the which parties [...] the earth some Shepards say that the first and the fyfth bin inhabitable, [...] theyr ouer great coldnesse, for they ben to farre from the sonne. The third th [...] is in the middle is to nere vnder the way of the soune, and is inhabitable [...] the great heate. The other two parties, the second and the fourth be not [...] nere no to farre fro the sonne, but be moderate in heate and colde, and therefor [...] they ben habitable yf there be none other lettyng, and pose that it be true, [...] it is not possible to passe ouer thwart the region vnder the way of the som [...] called zone, turned to go fro the second to the fourth. For some shepards wo [...] haue passed that wold haue shewed of it, wherefore they saye that there is [...] region habyted, but the second wherein we and all other ben.
Of the variation that is for diuers habitations and regions of the earth. Cap. xxxvii.
[Page]SHepeherdes say that if it were possible that the earth were inhabyted all about, and pose the case that it were so, firste they that inhabite vnder the Equinoctiall haue alwayes the dayes and the nyghts equall, and haue the .ii. poles of the world at the two corners of their orizon, and may see al the sterres when they see the two poles, and the sunne passeth twyse in a yere ouer them, that is when it passeth by the Equinoctials. Thus the sunne is to them the one halfe of the yere towarde the pole Artike, and the other halfe towarde the other pole, and therfore they haue two winters in a yere without great colde, one is when we haue winter, and the other when we haue sommer. Semblably they haue two sommers, one is in March when we haue prime time, and the other in September when we haue haruest, and by this they haue foure solstices, two hie when the sunne passeth by their zenich, and two lowe when it declineth one way or other, and thus they haue four vmbres or shadowes in a yere, for when the sunne is in the equinocces twise in a yere, in the morninge their shadowes be in the Occidente, and at night in the Oriente, and then at noone they haue no shadowes, but when the sunne is in the signes septentrionals their shadowes be towarde the parties of the signes meridionals, and so againeward. Secondly they that inhabite betwene the Equinoctiall and the Tropike of sommer, haue in likewise two sommers and two winters, and four shadowes in a yere, and they haue no difference of the first, saue that they haue longer dayes in sommer, and shorter in winter, for as the Equinoctiall lengeth, in likewise doth the dayes in sommer, and in that part of the earth is the first climate and almost halfe of the seconde, and is named Araby wherin is Ethiopia. Thirdly they that inhabite vnder the Tropike of sommer haue the sunne ouer their heades, and at the day of the solstice of sommer at noone, they haue their shadowes smaller then we haue, and there is a parte of Ethiopic. Fourthly they that be betwene the Tropike of sommer and the circle Artike haue longer dayes in sommer then the abouesayde, in as much as they be farther from the Equinoctiall, and shorter in winter, and they haue the sunne ouer their heades, ne toward septentrion, and that part of the earth we inhabite. Fifthly they that inhabite vnder the circle Artike haue the ecliptike of the zodiake to their orizon, and when the sunne is in the solstice of sommer, it resconseth not, & thus they haue no night, but natural dayes of .xxiiii. houres. Semblably when the sunne is in the solstice of winter it is natural day when they haue contynuall nyght, and that the sunne ryseth not to them. Sixthly they that be betwene the circle Artike and the pole Artike, haue in sommer dyuers naturall dayes, that be to them one day artificiall without any night. And also in winter be many natural dayes, which are to them alwaies night, and the more that it approcheth the pole, the more is the artificial day of sommer longe, and dureth in some place a weke, in other a moneth, in other two, in other three, in other more, and proporcionally the night is greater, for some of the signes be euer on their Oryzon, and some alwayes vnder, and as longe [Page] as the Sunne is in the signes aboue it is day, and while it is in the signes vnderneth it is night. Seuenthly they that inhabite right vnder the pole haue the sunne halfe of the yeare on their Orizon, and haue continuall day, and the other halfe of the yere continuall night, and the Equinoctial is in their orizon that deuideth the signes, six aboue and six beneath, wherfore when the sunne is in the signes that be hye, and towarde them they haue continuall day: and when it is in the signes toward midday, they haue continual nyght, and thus in a yere they haue but one day and one night. And as it is sayde of that parte of the earth toward the pole Artyke, a man may vnderstand of the other halfe, and of the habitations towards the pole Antartike.
The deuision of the earth, and onely of the parte inhabited
SHepherdes and other as they deuide the earth inhabitable in .vii. partes that they call climates. The first Diamerous. The second climate Diaciens. The .iii. Dalixandry. The .iiii. Diarhodes. The v. climate Dia [...]omes. The .vi. Daboristines. The .vii. Diatipheos. Of the whych eche hath hys longitude determined, and the latitude also, and the nerer they be to the Equinoctiall the longer they be, and larger, & procede in longitude from Orient to Occident, and in latytude from midday to septentrion. The first climate after some Shepherds conteyneth in length halfe of the circuite of the earth, that is two hundred thousande & .iiii. hundred myle, & it hath an hundred thousande & two hundred myle of length. The seconde, and so of the other, for the lessing of the earth comming toward Septentrion. To vnderstande what a clymate is after the sayinge of Shepardes. A clymate is a space of earth equally large, wherof the length is from Orient to Occident, & the bredth is comming fro midday, and fro the earth in habitable toward the Equinoctiall drawing to septentrion, as much as an [...] rolege or clocke chaungeth not. For in earth habitable the clockes change .vii. times in the bredth of the climates. It is of necessitie to say that they be .vii. & where the variation of horologes is, there is the dyuersitie of clymates, howe be it that such variation properly ought to be taken in the myddes of the clymates, and not in the beginninge or ende, for the proximitie and couenaunce the one of the other. Also one climate hath alwayes a day artificiall of sōmer shorter or longer then another climate, & this day sheweth the differēce in the middes of euery climate better then in the beginning or ende, the which thing we may sensibly know at eye, and therby iudge the difference of the clymates. And it is to be noted that vnder the Equinoctiall the dayes and the nyghtes in all tymes are equall, eche of twelue houres, but comming toward Septentrion the dayes of sommer longeth, & the wynter dayes shorteth, and the more that one aprocheth septentriō the more waxeth the dayes in such wise, that at the fyne of the last clymate the dayes in sommer be longer by thre houres and [Page] an halfe, then they be at the begynnynge of the fyrst, and the pole is more reysed by .xxxviii. degrees. At the begynnyng of the fyrst clymate, the longest day of sommer hath xii. houres and xlv. minutes, & in the pole is reysed on the oziron xii. degrees and xlv. mynutes, and the myddes of the clymate the longest daye hath .xiii. houres, and the pole reysed .xvi. degrees, and the latytude dureth vnto the longest day of sommer, that is .xiii. houres and .xv. minutes, and the pole reysed .xx. degrees and an halfe, the whych largenes is .ccc.xl. myle of earth. The seconde clymate begynneth at the ende of the fyrste, and the myddes is there as the day hath .xiii. houres & an halfe, and the pole is reysed ouer the ozyron .xxiiii. degrees and .xv. mynutes. And the latytude dureth vnto there as the longest daye hath .xiii. houres and .xlv. mynutes, and the pole is reysed .xxvii. degrees and an halfe, and thys largenes conteyneth of earth, cccc. myle iust. The thyrde clymate begynneth at the ende of the seconde, and the myddes is there as the day hath .xiii. houres, & the pole is reysed xxx. degrees and .xlv, minutes, and the latytude extendeth vnto there as the lōgest daye hath .xiiii. houres and .xv. mynutes, and the pole is reysed .xxiii. degrees, and .xl. mynutes. The fourth clymate at the ende of the thyrd, and the middes is there as the longest day hath .xiiii. houres and an halfe, and the pole is reysed .xxvi. degrees and .xx. mynutes, the latytude dureth vnto there as the longest daye hath .xiii. houres and xlv. mynutes, and the pole is reysed .xxx. degrees, and the largenes conteyneth of earth .ccc myle. The fyfth clymate begynneth at the ende of the fourth, a [...]d the myddes is there as the longest day hath, xv. houres, and the pole is reysed .xli. degrees and .xx. mynutes, and the latytude dureth vnto there as the longest daye hath xv. houres and xv. mynutes, and the pole is reysed xliii. degrees and an halfe, and the largenes conteyneth of earth cclii. myle. The vi. clymate begynneth at the ende of the fyfth, and the middes is there as the longest day hath xv. houres and an halfe and the pole is reysed ouer the ozyron xlv. degrees and xxiii. mynutes, of the whych the largenes dureth vnto there as the longest day hath xv. houres & xlv. mynutes, the whych largenes conteyneth of earth cc.xii. myle. The vii. clymate begynneth at the ende of the syxt, and the middes is there as the longest daye hath xvi. houres, and the pole is reysed xlviii. degrees and xl. mynutes, the latytude extendeth vnto there as the longest day hath xvi houres and xv. minutes, and the pole is reysed fifty degres and an halfe, and the largenes of the earth conteyneth clxxxvi. myle.
A marueylous consyderation of the great vnderstanding of Shepeherdes.
IF case were after the length of the climates one might go about the earth fro Orient to Occident to his first place, some Shepards say that this cōpasse may almost be made. Saying that if a man went this cōpasse in .xii. naturall dayes going regulerly toward Occident [Page] and began nowe at midday, he should passe euery day naturall the .xii. parte of the circuite of the earth, and be .xxx. degrees whereof behoueth that the sonne make a course about the earth, and .xxx. degrees ferther or he be retourned on the morowe at the merydien of the sayde man, and so the sayde man shoulde haue his day & night of .xxvi. houres, and should be farther by the .xii. part of a naturall day then if he rested him, wherfore it followeth of necessitie, that in xii. naturall dayes the sayd man should onely haue but xi. dayes and .xi. nights & somewhat lesse, & that the sunne should light him but .xi. times, & resconse .xi times, for .xi. dayes and .xi. nightes, euery day and nyght of .xxvi. houres maketh .xii. naturall dayes, eche day of .xxiiii. houres. By semblable consideration behoueth that an other man that should make this course going toward Orient haue his day and night shorter then a naturall day by .ii. houres, then his day and night should be but of .xii. houres. Then if be made this course in like space, that is to say in .xii. dayes and somewhat more. Thus if Iohn made the course toward Occident, and Peter towarde Orient, and that Robert abode them at the place fro whence they departed the one as sone as the other, and that they meete at Robert both together. Peter would say that he had two dayes and two nightes more then Iohn, & Robert that had rested a day lesse then Peter, and a day more then Iohn, howe well that they haue made this course in .xii. naturall dayes, or an hundred, or in ten yere, all is one. This is a pleasant consideration among shepardes, how Iohn and Peter arriueth one selfe day, put case it were on sonday. Iohn wold say it is saterday, Peter wold say it is monday, and Robert would say it is sonday.
¶Of the Pomell of the skyes a sterre named the sterre of the North, neere to pole Artike called Septentrionall. Cap. xxxviii.
AFter the abouesaid things here wil we speake of some sterres in perticuler. And first of them that Shepards cal the pomel of the skies, or sterre of the north, wherfore we ought to knowe that we see sensibly the sky turne from Orient to Occident by the diurnal mouing that is of the first mobile, which is made on two points opposites that be the poles of the skie, of the which one we see, and it is the pole Artike, and the other we see not, that is the pole Antartike or of midday, which is alwaye hyd vnder the earth. By the pole Artike that we see is the sterre most approched that shepards call the pomell of the skye, the which they say is the highest and most stedfast from vs, & by the which they haue the knowledge that thei haue of the other sterres and parts of the skie. The sterres that be by the said pomel go neuer vnder the earth, of the which be the sterres that make the chariot, & diuers other, but they that be far from it, go sometime vnder the earth, as the sunne, the moone, & other planets. Under this pomel directly is the angle of the earth, in the place where against the sunne is at the houre of midnight.
Of Andromeda a sterre fyxed.
Aries is a signe hot and dry, that gouerneth the head of man and the face, and the regions, Babylon, Percy, and Araby. And sygnifieth small trees, and vnder him at the .xvi. degree ryseth a sterre fyxed named Andromeda, that Shepardes figureth a mayde in her haire vpon the brinke of the sea, set to be deuoured of the monsters of the sea, but Perseus sonne of Iupiter fought with his sworde against the sayde monster and slewe it, and then the sayde Andromeda was deliuered. They that be borne vnder her constellation be in daunger of prison, or to dye in pryson, but if a good planet take regarde, then scape not death and prison. Aries is the exaltacion of the sunne at the .xix. degree, and Aries is the house of Mars with Scorpio where he is most.
Of Perseus a sterre fyxed lorde of the spere.
Taurus hath the trees, plantes, and ympes, and gouerneth of man the necke and the throte bol, the regions, Ethiopy, Egipt, and the country about, and vnder the .xxii. degree riseth a sterre fyxed of the first magnitude, that shepardes call Perseus sonne of Iupiter, that smote of the head of Meduse, who made all them to dye that behelde ber, and by no maner they might eschew it. Shepardes say that when Mars is conioyned with this sterre, they that be borne vnder the constellation shall ha [...]e their heades smitten of, if God shape not remedy, & sometime they cal this sterre lord of the sworde, and figure him a man naked with a sworde in one hand, & in the other the head of Meduse and loketh not on it. And Taurus is the exaltacion of the Mone in the .iii. degree.
Of Ozyron a sterre fyxed and his felowes.
Gemini signifieth large, good courage, wyt, beauty, clergy, and gouerneth of man the shoulders, armes, and handes, and the regions, Iugen, Armony, Cartage, and hath the small trees. And vnder the .xviii. degree ryseth a sterre fixed, named Oziron and with it .xxxvi. other sterres, and is figured, a man armed in mayle, and a sworde g [...]rde about him [...] and signifyeth great captaines. They that be borne vnder the constellation be in daunger to be slayne by treason, if good fortune be not with them. Gemini & Uirgo be the houses of Mercury, but Uirgo is it in which he ioyeth most, and Gemini in the third degree is the exaltacion of the dragons heade.
Of Alhabor a sterre fyxed.
Cancer domineth the long and equal trees, and of the body of man the brest, the harte, the stomake, the syde the lyghtes, and the longes, the regions, Armony the litle, & the region of Orient. And there ryseth vnder it in the eyght degree a sterre fyxed that Shepardes call Alhabor, that is to saye the greate dogge, and they say that they which be borne vnder the constellacion, and that be in the ascending or the middes of the skye it signifieth good fortune, and if the Mone be with it, and the partie of fortune, he that in it shalbe borne, shall not be very rich, and Cancer is the house of the Moone, and is the exaltacion of Iupiter in the .xv. degree.
Of a sterre fyxed named the Lyons harte.
Leo hath the great trees, that is to say he signoureth ouer them, and signifyeth on hasty man full of anger and of anguish, & of the body of man it beholdeth the harte properly, the backe and the sides, & of regions Artitry vnto the ende of the earth habitable, and vnder the xxxiii. degree ryseth a sterre fyxed, named the Lions harte, & they that be borne vnder the constellation as Shepardes say, shall be mounted in his signouryes, or in greate offyces, and afterwarde shalbe depriued or put downe, & be in daunger of their lynes, but if some good planet beholde the sayde sterre they may be saued. Leo is the house of the sunne, and Aries is the exaltacion of the sunne as it is sayde.
Of the sterre fyxed named Nebuluse, and of an other named the golden Cuppe.
Uirgo gouerneth all that is sowen on earth, and sygnifieth a man of good courage, philosophie, largesse, and of all maner of scyences, and kepeth of man the belly and the entrayles, and the regions Asgeramita, Assen, that is a regiō by Ierusalem, Eufrates, and the yle of S [...]ayne. Under the longitude or xv. degree riseth a ster fixed named Ne [...]luse or tayle of the Lion, & is in the septentrional latitude of the sayde signe of virgo, vnder the which signe ryseth an other fyxed sterre which Shepards call the golden Cuppe, and is in the xiii. degree of the sayde signe towarde the partie me [...]idionall. The which sterre is of the nature of Uenus and of Mercury, and sygnifyeth that they whych be borne vnder the sayd constellation to know of things worthy and sacred.
Of the Porke espyke a sterre fyxed.
Under the sygne of Libra that domyneth the great trees, and sygnifyeth Iustice, and of a man it gouerneth the reynes, and the nether parte of the belly, and regions, the countrey of Romany, and of Grece. Under the xviii. degree ryseth a sterre fyxed that Shepherdes call Porke espyke. They that ben borne vnder the constellation ben well shapen, and ben honest, and do thynges that folke marueyle on, and reioyseth, and sygnifyeth rychesse by honestie, and precyous marchaundyse, and byn commonly loued of Lordes and Ladyes, and Libra is one of the houses of Uenus, and Taurus the other, in the whych she reioyseth moste, and is the exaltacion of Saturne, for the wether begynneth to waxe colde in thys moneth of Septembre, and Saturne is the planette and Lorde of colde, that exalteth when he entreth into the sygne of Libra.
Of the Crowne septentrionall a sterre fyxed.
The Scorpion domineth the trees that ben of longitude and largenesse, & signifyeth falsenesse, & of the body of man gouerneth the priuy places, and the regions of Heberget, and the fielde of Araby, in the seconde degree ryseth a sterre that Shepardes call the Crowne septentrionall, the whych when it is in the ascendynge in the myddes of the skye, geueth honoure and exaltacion to them that ben borne vnder the constellation, and specially when it is well [Page] beholden of Sol, the Scorp [...]on is one of the houses of Mars, in the which he reioyseth most, and Aries is the other, and is the sygne wherein Mars beginneth to fall from his exaltation.
Of the Scorpions herte a sterre fyxed.
The Sagittary sygnifyeth a man full of engyne and wyse, and gouerneth the thyghes of man, and regions, Ethiopye, Maharobem, and Aenych. Under his first degree ryseth a sterre fyxed of the firste magnitude, the which shepardes call the Scorpyons hert, whych when it is well beholden of Iupiter or Uenus, it reyseth them that be borne vnder his constellation to greate honour and riches, but when it is euill beholden of Saturne o [...] of Mars, it putteth them that be borne vnder it to pouertie [...] The Scorpion is the house of Iupiter, in the which he reioyceth most, and Pisces is his other house, and so is the sayd Sagittary the exaltation of the Dragons tayle.
Of the flyeng Egle a sterre fyxed.
Capricornus sygnifyeth a man of good lyfe, wyse, yrefull, and of greate thought, and gouerneth the knees of man, and the regyons, Ethyopye, Araby, Gehamen, and to the two seas, and vnder his .xxviii. degree ryseth a sterre that Shepherdes call the flyenge Egle, that signifyeth the soueraigne Emperours or kinges. They that be borne vnder his constellation when they be well beholden of the sunne and of Iupiter, mounteth in great seignoryes, and ben loued of kynges and princes. Capricornus and Aquarius ben the houses of Saturne, but he reioyseth in Aquary moste, and the sayde Capricornus is the exaltation of Mars.
Of the fysh meridionall a sterre fyxed.
Under Aquarius that kepeth the legges of man to the ancles of the feete, and the regions of Hazenoth, Alempha, and part of the land of Alphege, and a part of Egipt. In the xxi. degree riseth a sterre that shepards cal the fish meridionall. They that be borne vnder his constellation be happy in fyshing in the sea of Midday, and vnder the .ix. degree of the sayde signe ryseth the Dolphin that sygnifieth lordship on the sea, pondes, and ryuers, and as it is sayde Aquarius is the house of Saturne in which he reioyceth.
Of Pegasus that signifyeth the horse of honour a sterre fyxed.
Pisces gouerneth of man the feete, and signifyeth a man subtyle, wyse, and of dyuers colours, and hath regyons, Tabrasen, Iurgen, and all the habitable part that is Septentrion, and parte of Romany, and vnder the . [...]v. degree of the sayd signe, riseth a sterre that Shepards call Pegasus, that is the horse of honour, and the figure in forme of a faire horse. They that be borne vnder his constellation shalbe honoured amonge great Capitayns and Lordes. When Uenus is with it, they be loued of great Ladyes, if the sayde sterre be in the middes of the skye in the discending, and Pisces is one of the houses of Iupiter, and Sagittarius the other, in the which he reioyseth most, and the sayde Pisces in the .xxvii. degree is the exaltation of Uenus.
Of the deuision of the .xii. houses, as well in the earth as in the heauens. Cap. xxxix.
THe heauens and the earth may be deuyded in foure partes by two circles, which crosseth directly ouer the two poles, and crosseth foure times the Equinoctiall line. Ech of the foure partes deuided into three equally, is in all .xii. equall parts, as wel in the skye as in the earth, which shepherds call houses, and be twelue. Of the which sixe be alwayes aboue the earth, and sixe vnder it, and these houses moueth not, but be alwayes eche in their place, and the signes and planets passeth by them always once in .xxiiii. houres. Three of these houses be from Orient to midnight going vnder the earth, the first the second and the third, wherof the fi [...]st vnder the earth, beginnineth at Orient named the house of life. The seconde house of substance and riches. The thirde that finisheth at midnight is the house of fraternitie. The fourth that beginneth at midnight comming in Occident is named the house of partrimony. The fifth folowing is the house of sonnes. The sixt finisheth in Occident, vnder the earth is the house of sicknes. The seuenth beginneth in Occident on the earth, and stretcheth toward midday, & is the house of mariage. The eight is the house of death. The ninth finishinge at midday is called the house of fayth, of re [...]gion, and pilgrimage. The tenth beginning at midday comming toward Orient is the house of honour and of regalitie. The eleuenth after, that is the house of true friendes. [Page] And the twelfth that fynisheth in orient on the earthe is named the house of charitie, but this matter is diffycile, for Shepardes knowledging the nature and propertie of euery of the sayde twelue houses, and departeth them lightly and suffyseth of that is sayde with the fygure present.
Thus endeth of the twelue houses.
QUaliter p [...]er crescit in ventre matris sue. Primo mense crescit cerebrum Secundo crescūt vene. Tertio & quarto habe [...]it omnia mēbra sua, sed erit sine anima. Qinto incipit venere & mulum grauabit matrem suam. Sexto circundabitur pelle, & ossa crescent. Septimo vngues crescent. Octauo crescet cor & omnia viscera pretericour. Nono sciet mater si puer poterit bene nascian non. Decimo crescit i [...]cur in puero, de tunc bene comparebit mulieri si bene eueniet & pu [...]ro, an non, que in i [...]core irascat: quod quam cito habuit iecur tam cito nascetur vel morietur.
IN quibus partibus corporis hominis sunt spiritus & intellectus. Intellectus dicitur esse in fronte. Memoria in cerebro. Ira in felle, auaricia in iecore, timor in corde, halitus in pulmone, cogitatio in venis: quia splene ridemus, selle irascimur, corde sapimus, iecore amamus: quibus quatuor elementis constantibus integrum est animal.
Of the twelue signes, which be good or bad to take iourneys by land or by water. Cap. xxxix.
How the planets raigne in euery houre. Ca. xl.
HE that wyll wete howe Shepardes know whiche planete raygneth euery houre of the day and the night And which planet is good, & which is bad, ought to know the planette of the day & seke therfore. The firste temporal houre of the sonne rysynge that day is for the sayde planet. The seconde houre is for the planet ensuynhe, & the thyrde for the other as they byn here fygured by ordre, and it behoueth to go from Sol to Uenus, Mercury & Luna them come ageyne to Saturne vnto xii. that is the houre before the son goynge downe, and incontinent after the son is downe begynneth the fyrste houre of the nyght that is for the .xiii. planet, & the seconde houre of the nyght for the xiiii. & so vnto xii. houres for the nyghte, that is the nexte houre before the sonne rysynge and come directly fallyng vpon the xxiiii. planet, that is next before that of the day folowynge. And thus the day hath xii. houres, and the nyght xii. also the whych be temporal houres, different to the houres of the clockes, the which be artificials. Shepardes sayd that Saturne and Mars be euyll planettes. Iupiter and Uenus good, Sol and Luna halfe good and halfe euyll. The parey toward a good planet is good and the party towarde the euyl planet is nought. Mercury conioyned with a good planette is good, and with an euyll planet he is nought and they vnderstande this as to [...]he inflicences good or euyll that bin of the sayde planetes there folowynge.
[Page]The houres of the planets ben different to them of clockes, for the houres of clockes ben egall at all tymes eche of .lx. minutes, but they of the planets whē the dayes and the nightes be egall that the sonne is in one of the equinocces they be egal, but as sone as the dayes lengtheneth or shortneth, so dothe the natural houres, by this it is conuenient alway for the day to haue . [...]ii tēporal houres, & the nyght also, and when the dayes be long, & the houres longe, and when the dayes ben short and the houres short, in lykewise is the night, and neuerthelesse an houre of the day, and an houre of the night together haue vi. score minutes, as many as two houres artyficialles, for that the one leueth the other taketh. And take we our planets, fro the sonne rysing, not before vnto the sonne goyng downe, and all the remenaunt is nyght.
Example of that which is abouesayd.
IN Decēber the dayes haue but .viii. houres artyficiall [...]es of clockes, and they bene xii. tēporals, let the viii. houres artificialles be deuided in xii. egall partes, and it shal be xii. tymes, xl. minuts, and euery partie shalbe a temporall houre yt shalbe of .xl. minutes and no mo. Thus in Decembre the tēporall houres of the day haue but .xl minutes, but the houres of the night haue foure score. For in that tyme the nightes haue xvi. houres artificialles, the which deuyded in twelue parts ben foure score minutes for euery temporall houre. Thus the houres of the nyghtes in Decembre haue foure score minutes & xl. for an houre of ye day. there ben syxe score minutes in two temporall houres, as many as in two houres artyficialles that be echē of xl. minuts. In Iune is the contrary, in Mars, and in September, all houres ben egall as the dayes ben in other monthes by egall portion. With euery planet here afore fygured ben the signes, which be the houses of the sayd planets, as it is aforesayd. Capricornus and Aquarius ben the howses of Saturne.
[Page]Sagitarius, and Pisces, of Iupiter, Scorpius, and Aries, of Mars, Leo of Sol, Taurus, and Libra, of Uenus, Gemini, of Mercury, Cancer, of Luna with other significations that wolde be long to recounte.
Here after foloweth the nature of the .vii. planets with the dispositions of the sayd planets after the sayings of expert Shepardes.
Of Saturne.
Here beginneth of Saturne the highest of the .vii. Planets.
SAturne is the highest planette of all the seuen, he is mighty of hym selfe, he gyueth all the greate coldes and waters, yet he is drye and colde of nature, and he commeth into Cancer, and hys chiefe sygnes ben Aquarye and Capricorne, and he compasseth all the other Planettes. For Saturne is next vnder the fyrste mobile, that is, vnder the Chrystall skye, the which mobile moueth marueylously, for some Shepardes say that he causeth by his mouinge all other planettes to moue, and moueth the mobile aboue.
[Page]Saturne is so hye that Shepardes can not wel measure it. For so hye reason hath [...]ow [...]r and no farther, and therefore it is more then .xxx. yeare or he may renne his course. When he doth raygne thete is much these vsed, and litle charitie, much lyinge, and much lawynge one agaynste another, and greate prysonment, and much debate and greate swearinge. And much plenty of corne, and also much plenty of hogges, and greate trauayle on the earthe, and olde folke shall be very sickely, and many diseases shall raigne amonge the people, and specially in the chiefe houres of Saturne, and therfore this planet is likened to age, as harde, hungry, suspicious, and couetous, that seldome is content with any thinge. For Saturne is enemy to all things that groweth and beareth life of nature, for the colde and stormy bitternes of his time.
Of his proprieties.
HE that is borne vnder Saturne shall be false, enuyous, and full of debate, and full of lawe, and he shall be cunnynge in coryinge of lether, and a great eater of breade and fleshe, and he shal haue a stinkynge breth, and he shalbe heauy, thoughtfull, and malycious, a robber, a fyghter, and full of couetyse, and yet he shall kepe councell well, and be wyse in councelyng, and he shall loue to synne wilfully, he shall be a greate speaker of tales, Iustes, and Chronycles, he shall haue lytle eyen, blacke haire, great lippes, brode shouldred, and shal loke downeward. He shal not loue sermons, ne to goe to the Church, and beware of hys handes, and beholde the ratell, and aboue his eares the planet doth raigne. And the chyldren of the sayde Saturne shalbe great iangelers and chyders, blacke & lene in the face, thinne bearded, euill langnaged, they shalbe full of lawe and vengeaunce, and wyll neuer forgyue tyll they be reuenged of theyr quarell, and lyke as the planet Saturne is colde, and causer of great frostes and snowes, ensemblably, and he that is borne vnder him shalbe cold in charitie, and not misericordious and mercifull, but vengeable, and wil neuer be intreated. And also they shalbe great cursers, and beare malyce longe in their myndes, and not forget it, and they loke to be obeyed and to haue great reuerence, and commonly will prayse them selfes, and talke to them selfe, and laugh at their owne conceyte, and all euils shal grow in them, and aboue all coloures he shall loue blacke colour best. The planet of Saturne gouerneth of man the ratell and aboue the eares as is aforesayde, and this planet is cause of hasty death, for bycause that he is colde and drye of nature, and therfore he is lykened to melancoly. And the sayd Saturne raigneth in Aquary, Capricorne, and Cancer, but specially in Aquary and Capricorne.
Of Iupiter.
NExt after the planet of colde Saturne is the noble planet of Iupiter, the which Iupiter is very pure and clere of nature, and not very hot, but he is all vertuous. And ther is fyxed in Iupiter two noble signes of loue, the one is Pisces, and the other is Sagittary, signes of none euill, nor vnhappines, this planet may do none euill, he is best of al the other seuen, he kepeth the lyuer of man and maintayneth it ioyously, and euermore this planet doth good, and within .xii. yere or there about he passeth all the twelue signes.
Of his proprieties.
THe man that is borne vnder hym shall loue clenlynesse of body, and wyll not vse to speake of rybawdry, and harlottry, he shall euer lo [...]e relygion, and vertuous ly [...]inge, he shalbe personable of body, he shalbe perfyte in all maner of mesures doth large and long, he shalbe white in the visage, medled with a little rednesse, large browes, he shalbe a fair speaker, and say well behinde a person, he shall loue greene colour and gray, he shalbe happy in marchandise, and shal haue plenty of golde and siluer, and he shal loue to singe and to be honestly mery, and of man he gouerneth the stomake and the armes.
Of Mars.
THe planette of Mars is called the God battel and of all warre, and he is the thirde planette, for he reygnes nexte vnder the gentyll planette of Iupiter. Thys planette Mars is the worst of all other, for he is hotte and drye, and stirreth a man to be very wylfull and hastye at once, and to vnhappinesse, one of his sygnes is Aries, and the other is Scorpio, and most he is in those two signes. He causeth all warres and battels, this planet stirreth men to beare wepons as murders, daggers, swerdes, bylles, or bowes, or some other wepon of death, and would euer here of fighting. Therefore let euery man beware of the dayes of Mars, and in his chiefe houres that no man fight, for without doubte if God helpe him not he shalbe marmed or slayne. Also the houres of Mars is perillous meeting with theeues for dreade of sleying of true men. And Mars mounteth into the crabbe, and goeth about the .xii. signes in two yeare, and thus he runneth his course.
Of his proprieties.
HE that is borne vnder Mars, in all vnhappynes is experte, he shall be a norysher of greate beastes, he is full of malyce, and euer doinge wrong, vnder Mars is borne all theues and robbers that kepeth highe wayes, and hurteth true men, and nyghte walkers quarell pickers, bosters, mockers, and scoffers, and these men of Mars causeth warre, murthe [...], and battayle, they will gladly be smythes or workers on Iron, light fingred, and lyers, and great swerers of othes in vengeable wyse, and a great surmiser and cra [...]ty, he is red and angry, wyth blacke heare, and lyttle eyen, he shalbe a great walker, and a maker of swerdes and [Page] knyues, and sheders of mans blud, a lecher, and a speaker of rybawdry, red bearded, rounde bysage, and good to be a barber and letter of bludde, and to draw teeth, and is perillous of his handes, and he will be rych of other mens goodes. And of the body of man Mars kepeth the gall and the raynes.
Of the noble planet Sol.
THe Sunne is a planet of great renowne, and king of al the planets, the sunne norisheth euery age, and yet is he hote and dry of nature, and the planet Saturne is to him full contrary, for he is euer colde, and the noble planet of the sunne is hotte and geueth all light, for when it is aboue the earth it is day, and when the earth da [...]th shadowe the sunne it is night, much be we people bound to laude God for that noble planet, for he comforteth both man and beast, fishe, and all foules that flyeth in the ayre, all thinge is glad of the sunne, the red rose and faire flowers, after that the sunne goeth farre into the west they close themselues.
Of his proprieties.
AL men and women that be bor [...]e vnder the sunne shalbe very faire, amiable of face, and their skinne shalbe right white and tender, and well coloured in the vysage with a little rednes, and they shall haue a pleasure in theyr owne beautye, they shall shewe theyr lyues as they were good and holy, but they shalbe secrete hypocrites if they giue them to religion, they shalbe fortunate to great promocions, they shalbe cleane and good of faith, and shalbe gouernour of other people, & if they be neuer so poore yet shal they loue hawking and hunting with hounds and hawkes, & reioyce to see it, the children that is borne vnder the sunne shall desyre honour and scyence, [Page] and shall singe very pleasantly, and they shalbe of courage good and dilygente, and shall desire lordship aboue other people, they shall geue wise iudgements, and their wordes shal sounde all swetely, and he bere any office he shal be liberal, and he shalbe subtil in feates of warre, and many shall seeke to hym for councell, he shall haue profyte by women, and he shall be in seruyce wyth lordes, and by them shall haue aduauntage for his wysedome, hys signe shalbe in the face, he shalbe small of statu [...]e, with crispe haire and balde on the heade, he wil seldome be angry, and of all the members in a mans body the sunne kepeth the hart, as the most mighty planet aboue all other.
Of the gentle planet Uenus.
NExt after the Sunne, reigneth the gentle planet Uenus, and it is a planet feminine, and she is Ladye ouer all louers, this planet is moyste and colde of nature, and her two signes is Taurus and Libra, and in them she hath all her ioy and pleasance, she causeth ioy, and specially among yonge folke, for greatly she raigneth on them, and on all men that be ielous, and on women also, for ielousy is but a loue inordinate, as when a man or woman loueth more feruently then they shoulde, for such would neuer be from the sight of their louers, for if they be, anone they suspect them, and feare to be begyled. There is no man that loueth a woman by carnall affection, but it is by the influence of Uenus, and but fewe men can escape out of her daunger. This planet Uenus runneth in .xii. monethes ouer the .xii. signes.
Of her proprieties.
[Page] WHat man or woman that is borne vnder Uenus shalbe a very gaye louer, pleasaunt and delicious, and moste commonly they shall haue blacke eyen and little browes, red lyps and chekes, with a smylinge chere, they shal loue the voyce of trompettes, clarions, and of other minstralsy, and they shalbe pleasaunt singers, with sweete voyce, & full of wanton toyes, playes, and skoffings, and shal greatly delite in dauncing, and gambauldes, with leaping and springing, and wil vse playing at the chesse, and at the cardes and tables, and desire ofte to commune of lust and loue, and couet of sweete meates and drinkes, as wine, and be oft dronken, and oft desire lechery and the beholding of faire women, and the women of men in likewise. And vse dead fleshly lust oftentimes, they will desire faire clothes, of gay colour, & fyne, with ringes of vanitie, and all vayne pleasure of the world, with fair and rich clothes, and pearles, and precious stones, they shall loue flowers wyth sweete smelles, yet shal they be of good faith, and they shal loue other as wel as them selues, they shalbe liberall to their frendes, they shal haue few enemies if they be browne they shalbe wel proporcioned of body, if they swere it is true ye may beleue them, and Uenus gouerneth the thighes of man.
Of the faire planet Mercury.
NExt vnder Uenus is the faire planet Mercury, and it is masculine nexte aboue the Moone, and there is no planet lower then Mercury, sauinge only the Moone. This Mercury is very full and dry of nature, and hys principall signes be these. Gemini is the first that raigneth in the armes and in the handes of man or of woman, and the other signe is Uirgo that gouerneth the nauyll and the stomake of man. This planet is lorde of spech, in likewise as the Sunne is lorde of light. This planet Mercury passeth and circuiteth [Page] the .xii. signes in .CCCxxxviii. dayes. Hereafter is shewed the disposition of the children that be borile vnder the planet Mercury, of what condition they shalbe, as doctours of Astronomy do discusse.
Of his proprieties.
WHo so is borne vnder Mercury shalbe very subtill of wit, and shalbe a deuoute person to God, and haue good conscience, and shalbe very crafty in many sciences, he with his wisedome and laboure shall get him many frendes and sonets, be shal euer folow and resort to their that be of good maners, & shalbe fortunate on the sea to vse the course of marchandise, he shalbe very gracious, and he shall haue harme by women, & when he is maried men shall not set so much by him as they did before, he will haue great loue to ladies and gentlewomen, but yet they shall not be maisters ouer him, he wil be a very good man of the church, or a religious man, and he shall not loue to go a warfare, he wil hate theues and swerers, and he shall gather great goods by his wisedome. If he be a man of the world, he shalbe perfite in some handy craft, he shal loue well to preach, and to speake faire rethorike language, and to talke of philosophy and Geometry, he shal loue wel writing and to rede euer in strange bo [...]es, and to cast accompts of great numbers, & shalbe a gay maker of ballades, songes, myters, and rimes, he shalbe perfite in the art of musicke and loue it, he shall loue measuring and meting, & shalbe some great clothmaker, he shalbe seruant to some great lorde, or els a receyuer of his money, he shal haue a hye forehed, a long visage, blacke eyen, and a thin bearde, he shalbe a great pleder in the law, and he wil meddle with other mens deedes if they do not well, and say against it, and Mercury gouerneth the thighes, the flanckes and the belly.
Of the Moone.
[Page] IT is to be vnderstande and knowen that the lowest planet of the seuen is named Luna, the which we call the Moone, the which planet is called feminine or female, and is called amonge the shepardes the Lady of the night, for the chiefe light and cleerenesse that is by nighte is by the presence of the Moone, for the Moone is much more nerer approched vnto vs then any sterre is, and therfore she giueth vs much more light then the sterres do, and also the Mone is Lady of moystu [...]ē, and ruleth the sea by ebbe and studde. The Moone doth take her light of the sonne .xxii. times in a yere. And also the Moone is cold and moyst of nature, and her colour is much fayrer then sylue [...], and her chefe house is Cancer, and there is none of the other planets that is so slow and goeth so little circuit as doth the Moone, and she descendeth into Scorpio and she goth about the .xii. signes in .xxvii. dayes, and then changeth, and is called newe.
Of her proprieties.
SUch men and women as be borne vnder the Moone shalbe wholy and seruiceable, and very gentle. And if it be a mayd childe she shalbe very shamefasle and womanly, and they shalbe wel fa [...]oured both man and woman, their faces shalbe full and round [...] and they shalbe very pacient folkes, and will suffer much wronge or they be reuenged, and wil be softe of spech, and very e [...]reyse, and shal liue honestly with such as God shall sende them, and wil haunt vertuous company, they shalbe wel fourmed of body, and haue mery lokes, and lo [...]e honestly to be glad, and will li [...]e very chastly, and loue greatly the vertue of clennesse both in worde and deede, they hate lecherous talkers and speakers of rybawdry, their coloure shalbe mixed but with a little rednesse, they shall gladly go arayed in many coloured clothes, and they shall sone sweate in the fo [...]ehed. Also they wil haue great desyre to be masters & mistresses ouer great stremes, ryuers, and fluddes, and shall deuyse many proper engynes for to take fish, and to deceaue them. Loke what they say it shalbe true and stedfast, and they shal be very honest, and good goers on foote, and comforte sycke persons, they shall loue well to talke sometime of matueyles, they shall not kepe hatred longe in their mynde, they shall appease the people vnder coloure with their communications, as well as other should do with siluer. Honest women they shal loue, they will hate harlots and brothels, and shall nourish their children vp in vertue and good maners. And the lightes and the braynes of man is vnder the gouernance of Luna.
Of the Phyzonomy of Shepardes.
PHyzonomy of the which ben spoken afore, is a science that shepardes haue to know the naturall inclination of man and woman, good or euill, by dyuers signes on them in beholding them only. The which inclinatiō we ought to folow if it be good, but if it be euill by vertue and strength of vnderstandinge we ought to eschewe and auoyde it, as to the effecte, and to with stande the sayd euill inclinations, Shepardes vse this science none otherwise. The prudent vertuous and wise man, may be of all other, as touchinge their maners, otherwise then theyr sygnes demonstreth and sheweth in their reigne. Thus the things demonstred as to vice is not in a wise man though the signe be so, as an alestake or a signe is sometime hanged afore a house, in the which often times is none ale. For howe be it that a man by his wisedom and vnderstanding folow not the euil influences of the celestiall bodyes that be vpon him, & yet he corrupteth not the signes and demonstracions of the sayde influences, but those signes naturally haue signory and domination on them, in the which they be, for to haue naturally that which they signifie, though that a man haue them or not, wherfore Shepardes say that the most part of men and women folow their natural inclinations to vice or vertue, for that the most part of them be not wise and prudent as they ought to be, and they vse no vertue of their owne mindes, but ensueth their sensualitie, and by this the celestiall influence of the which is shewed by signes exteriors, and of such signes is the sayde science of Phyzonomy. For the which it behoueth firste to knowe that the time is deuided in four parts, as it hath ben said afore, that is to wit, Primetime, Sommer, Haruest, and Wynter, that he compared to the four elements. Prime time to the ayre, Sommer to the fyre, Haruest to the earth, and Winter to the water. Of the which foure elements, euery man and woman is formed and made, and without the which none may liue. The fyre is hot and dry. The ayre is hot and moyst. The water is moyste and colde. The earth is cold and dry. Also they say that the person on whom the fire domineth is colerike of complexion, that is to say hot and dry. He on whom the ayre domineth is sanguine of complexion, that is to say hot and moyst. He on whom the water domineth is flumatike of complexion, that is to say moyst and colde. He on whom the earth domineth is melancolike of complexion, that is to say colde and dry. The which complexions they knowledge and discerne the one fro the other by signes that be sayde hereafter.
Of the foure complexions. Cap. xli.
THe Colerike hath nature of fyre hot and dry, naturally is lene and sclender, couetouse, yrefull, hasty, brainlesse, folish, malicious, deceitful, and subtil where he applyeth his wit. He hath wine of the Lion, that is to saye, when he is dronken he chydeth, feighteth, and commonly he loueth to be cladde in blacke, russet and gray.
The Sanguine hath nature of ayre, hote and moyst, he is large, plenteous, attempred, amiable, habundant in nature, mery, singing, laughing, lyking, ruddy, and gracious. He hath his wine of the ape, the more he drinketh the merier he is, and draweth to women, and naturally loueth hye coloured cloth.
The Flumatike hath nature of water colde and moyste, he is heauy, slowe, sleepy, ingenious, commonly he spitteth when he is moued, and hath his wine of the shepe, for when he is dronken he accounteth him selfe wysest, and he loueth most greene coloure.
The Melancoly hath nature of earth, colde and dry, he is heauy, couetous, a backbyter, malicious, and slowe. His wine is of the hog, for when he is dronken he desireth slepe, and to lye downe, and he loueth cloth of blacke colour.
The iudgements of mans body. Cap. xlii.
TO come to oute purpose of speaking of visyble sygnes, we will begyn to speake at the sygnes of the head. First we aduertise that one ought to beware of all persons that hath defaute of members naturally, as of sote, hand [...] eye, or other member, and though he be but a creple, and specially [Page] of a man that hath no berde, for such be enclyned to diuers byces and euyls, & one ought to eschewe his company as his mortall enemy. Also Shepards say that much and playne haire sign [...]teth a person piteous and debonayre. They that haue red haire, byn commonly yreful and lacke wyt, and ben of litle truth. Blacke haire, good visage, and good coloure sygnifyeth very loue of Iustyce, Hard haire signifieth that the person loueth peace and concord, and is of good and subtill wit. A man that hath blacke haire and a red berde signifi [...]th to be lecherous, disloyall [...] a vaunter, and one ought not to trust in him. The yelowe haire and crispe signifieth man laughing, mery, lecherous, & deceitfull. Blacke haire and crispe signifieth melancoly, lechery, euil thought, & very large. Hanging haire signifieth wit with malyce. Great plenty of haire in a woman sygnifieth boistousnes & couetise. A person with great eyes is slouthfull, vnshame ful, inobedient, and weneth to know more then he doth, but when the eyen be meane, not to bygge nor to small, and that they be not to blacke nor to greene, such a man is of great vnderstanding, curteyse, faithfull & trusty. A person that is blere eyed, goggeled, and squint, signifieth malice, vengance, cautel, and treason. They which haue great wyde eyen, and hath long haire on their browes and eye lyddes signifieth folis [...]enes, hatde of vnderstanding, and robust wyt, and be euill by nature. The persons whych haue their eyen mouinge fast from one syde to another, and haue their sight sharpe and quicke, signifieth fraude, and theft, and is of litle trust. The [...]en that ben blacke, clere, and shyning, ben the best and the most certayne, and signifyeth wyt and dyscretion, and such a person is worthy to be loued, for he is full of trueth, and of good condycions. The eyen that ben ardaunt and sparkelynge, sygnifyeth stronge harte, force, and puissaunce. The eyen that [...]en whytysh and fleshely, sygnifyeth a person enclyned to vyce, lechery, and full of fraude. Shepardes saye that when a person beholdeth often as abashe [...]d, shamefaste, and fearefull, and that in beholdinge it seemeth that he sighet [...]h, and he hath small droppes appearing in his eyen, then it is for certayn that such persons loueth and desireth the welth of them that they beholde. But when any looketh in castinge hys eyen asyde as by wantonnesse, such persons [...]en disceytfull and purchaseth to greue him, and suche persons wyll dyshonoure women, and they ought to be taken heede of, for such lookes ben false, lecherous, and deceauable. They that haue small grayeshe eyen and sharpe, signifyeth a person melancholious, hardy, an euyll speaker and cruell. And if a lyttle veyne appeare betweene the eyen and the nose of a wenche [...] they say that it signifyeth virginitie, and in a man subtilitie of vnderstandinge, and if it appeare great and blacke it signifyeth corruption, heate and melancholy in woman, and in man rude [...]sse and defaute of wytte, but that veyne apeareth not alwayes. But the eyen that ben yelowe and haue no hayre on the browes, sygnifyeth myselry and euyll dysposition of body. Great haires and longe signifyeth rudenesse, harde, engyne and lechery. The beeteled browes signifyeth malyce, crueltie, lechery, and enuye. And when [Page] the browes byn thinne, it signifyeth subtill engine, wytte, and fayth [...]ulnesse. Hollowe eyen and hangynge browes, signifyeth a person full of euill sayinge, of euill thought, a great drinker, and commonly applyeth his minde to malice. A lyttle shorte vysage and a small necke, a little sclender nose signifyeth a person of greate hearte hasty, and yrefull. A longe nose and hye, by nature sygnyfyeth prowesse and hardinesse. A short reysed nose signifieth has [...]ynes, lechery hardynesse, and an vndertaker. A hooked nose that boweth to the vpper lippe signifyeth malyce, deceyte, vntruth, and letherye. A great nose a [...] [...]ye in the middes, signifyeth a wise man and well spoken. A great nose wyth wyde nosethrilles, sygnifyeth glotony and yre. A red face and shorte, signifieth a person full of ryot, debate, and disloyall. A vysage neyther to shor [...]e ne to longe [...]d that is not ouer fat, with good coloure, betokeneth a man [...]able, a [...]able, wise, witty, seruyceable, debonayre and wel ordered in all his workes. A [...]t [...]isage and full of redde fleshe signifyeth glotony, negligence, rudenes of wit and vnderstanding. A sclender face and somewhat longe, signifyeth a [...] well aduysed in all his workes by good measure. A lyttle shorte vysage of yelowe coloure, signifyeth a person deceauinge, vntrue, malycious, and full o [...] harme. A vysage longe and fayre, sygnifyeth a man hote, dysloyall, spy [...]ll, and full of yre and crueltie. They that haue theyr mouth greate and wyde, [...]gnifyeth yre and hardynesse. A lyttle mouth sygnifyeth melancholy, heauinesse, harde wytte, and euyll thought. He that hath great lyppes hath a token of rudenesse, and defaute of wytte. Thinne lippes signifyeth lickerousnesse and leasinges. Teeth euen set and thinne, betokeneth a true louer, lecherous, and of good complection. Longe teeth and greate, signifyeth hastynesse and yre. Longe eares signifyeth follye, but it is a sygne of good memory. Little eares signifyeth lechery and theft. A person that hath a good voyce well soundinge, is hardy, wyse, and well spoken. A meane voyce that is not small ne to great signifyeth wytte, purueyance, truthe, and ryghtwysenesse. A man that speaketh hastely is of value. A great voyce in a woman is an euill sygne. A softe voyce signifyeth a person full of enuy, of suspection, and leasi [...]ges. And ouersmall voyce sygnifyeth great harte and follye. Greate voyce signifyeth [...]astynes and yre. A man that styrteth alway when he speaketh and changeth voyce is enuyous, nyce, dronkelewe, and euill condicioned. A person that sp [...]th attemperately withoute mouinge, is of perfyte vnderstandinge, of goo [...] [...] dycion, and of good counsell. A man with a rouse vysage, rennynge eye [...] yelowe teeth, is of little truth, a traytour, and hath astynkynge breath. A person wyth a longe sclender necke is cruell, wythout pittie, hasty, and braynlesse. A person with a shorte necke is full of fraude, barate of deception [...] of malyce, and none ought to trust in him. A person that hath a longe thycke neck [...], signifieth glotony, force, and great lechery. A manly woman that is great and rudely membred, is by nature melancholious, variaunt, and lecherous. A person that hath a great longe belly, signifyeth small wytte, pryde, and lecherye. [Page] A lyttle belly and large feete sygnifyeth good vnderstandinge, good counsell, and true. A person hauinge large feete, hye and courbed shoulders, signifyeth prowesse, hardynesse, has [...]ynesse, truth, and wyt. Shoulders sharpe and long betoke [...]eth trechery, vntrueth, barate, and vnnaturall. When the armes byn so long that they may stretch to the ioynt of the knee, it is a token of prowesse, largesse, trueth, honoure, good wytte and vnderstandynge: when the armes byn [...]st o [...]te, it is a sygne of ignoraunce, of euyll nature, and a person that loueth debate. Longe handes and sclender fingers signifyeth subtilitie, and a person that hath desyre to knowe dyuers thinges. Small handes and shorte thycke fyngers betokeneth folly, and lyghtnes of courage. Thicke and large handes and bygge, signifieth force, hastinesse [...] hardinesse, and wit. Clere and shyning nayles of good coloure sygnifyeth wytte and increase of honoure. Nayles full of whyte spottes and tyueled, signifyeth a person auarycious [...] lecherous, proude, and of great harte, ful of wyt and malyce. The fote thicke & full of flesh signifyeth a person outragyous, vygoryous, and of lyttle wytte. Smal [...]eete and lyght, signifyeth hardenes of vnderstandinge, and lyttle trouthe. Feete flatte and shorte, signifyeth an anguyss hous person, of smal wisedome and vncurteyse. A person that goeth a great pace is greate of [...]arte and dispytefull. A person that maketh small steppes and thycke, is suspicionous, full of enuy, and euill wyl. A person that hath a small flatte foote and casteth as childe, signifyeth hardines and wytte, but the sayde person hath dyuers thoughtes. A person that hath softe [...]eshe, to colde ne to hotte, signifyeth a well disposed person, of good vnderstandinge, and subtill wytte, full of truthe, and encreasinge of honoure. A person that laugheth gladly and hath greene eyen, is debonayre, of good wytte, true, wyse, and lecherous. A person that laugheth fayntly is slouthfull, melancholious, suspectionous, malycious, and subtyle.
¶ Shepardes saye, for that there byn dyuers sygnes in a man and woman, and that they be sometime contrary one to the other, one ought to iudge most commonly after the signes in the visage. And firste of the eyen for they be most true and prouable. And they say that God ne formed creature for to inhabite the world, wyser then man, for there is no condition ne maner in a beaste, but that it is founde comprehended in man. Naturally a man is hardy as the Lyon, true and worthy as the Oxe, large and liberall as the Cock, auaricious as the Dog, hard and aspre as the Hart, debonayre & true as the Turtle, malycious as the Leoparde, preuy and tame as the Doue, dolerous and guilefull as the Foxe, simple and debonayre as the lambe, shrewde as the ape, light as the horse, soft and piteable as the Beare, dere and precious as the Oliphant, good & holesome as the Unicorne, vyle & slouthfull as the Asse, fayre and proude as the Pecocke, glotonous as the Wolfe, enuyous as the Bytch, debel & inobedient as the Nightingale, humble as the Pygeon, fel and folish as the Oystrich profytable as the Pysmare, dyssolute and vagabunde as the Gote, spytefull [Page] as the Fesaunt. Soft and meke as the Chekin. Mouable and varying as the Fish. Lecherous as the Bore. Stronge and puissant as the Camell Traytor as the Mule. Aduised as the Mouse. Reasonable as an aungell. And therfore he is talled the litle world, for he participeth of all, or he is called all creatures, for as it is sayd he participeth and hath condicion of all creatures.
Shepardes practyse their quadrant of the night as ye see by the figure hereafter. Capitulo .xliii.
BY this fyguce hereafter, one maye knowe the houres by nighte as foloweth. Let be knowen the sterre that we [...]al the Pomell of the skye, right vnder is the sommer at the houre of midnight, & the place on the earth agaynst the sterre that we call the angle of the earth. When we wil see it at eye we beholde our Pomell, as I beholde vnder this corde, & the nether end of my corde is the angle of the earth, & the sonne is right vnder it. The long lines that trauerseth the ster of the figure that is the Pomell of the skies, serueth for .ii. houres, & the small lines for one houre. But yet serue lynes as the chaunging of the sterre that signifyeth midnyght, & consequently the other hours, for the long houres serueth to a month, & the small to .xv. dayes. Let the corde be stretched that it be seene ouer the Pomell, note some sterre vnder the cord that may be alway knowen, & that shalbe it that alway shal shew vs the hours of ye night After imagin a circle about the pomell, & distance of the sterre marked, in which circle be imagyned the lynes or semblable distaunces as they be in the fygure. As many distances as the marked ster shalbe before the corde, so many houres shal there be before midnight, & as many as shalbe behind the corde, so many houres be after midnight. It must be knowen that the sterre marked changed the place in .xv. dayes by the distynctyon of an houre, in a moneth of twayne. Wherefore it behoueth to take midnight in .xv. dayes farther by the distaunce of an houre, and in a moneth of two, and in two monethes of four, and in three [Page] monethes of .vi. so that in .vi. monethes the sterre marked that was right vnder the Pomell shall be right ouer, and in other .vi. monethes it wyll come to the poynt where as it was first marked, and this sayd marked ster one ought not to change, but ought to chose it among many for the most knowledgeable and for the most to be founde amonge the other.
The .xxiiii. letters wythout the fygure byn for the .xxiiii. houres of a naturall day, and the .xii. within byn for the .xii. monethes. The sterre in the mids is the Pomell of the skyes, wyth the whych it behoueth to knowe one that is nexte it, whych shalbe a marked sterre, and it by the whyche one may knowe [Page] the houres in the maner as before is sayde in taking mydnight in .xv. dayes furthermore by the distaunce of an houre.
FOr to know by nighte the place againste mydday as that of mydnighte, the hye Oryent, and the hye occident, the lowe Orient and the lowe occident, and the place in the skye, ouer against which euerye signe ryseth. Shepardes vseth thys practyse. They hange a corde that is made stedfast aboue and beneth, then another with a plombe, that discendeth tyll it be tyme for to staye it that they may be a lyttle distaunce one from another, so that one maye see the flerre of the pomell right vnder the two cordes at once, then they staye the corde with the plombe aboue, or benethe. Now who that wyll see myddaye dyrectly be it night or daye, goe on the other syde of the cordes, and thou shalte see the place againste middaye. Then come on the first syde, and thou shalt se the place againste midnight though it be daye. For the hyest point of the Zodyake in the longest daye of Sommer, lette the sonne be seene vnder the two cordes at the houre of myddaye, and that he be so neere that he toche the cordes, and marke in the corde toward the sonne the heyghte that he hathe s [...]ene it, then by nighte, marke some sterres that one maye alwaye knowe one, in the same place is the passage of the solstice of Sommer. And when the dayes ben at the shortest, the sterre that we see at mydnight in the sayde poynt of mydday ben directly they that ben next to the solstyce of sommer, the which hath the signe nexte towarde orient is Cancer, and the signe next towarde occident is Gemini. And it is sayde from the heyght of the solstyce of sommer, one may practyse the lowe solstyce of wynter, the which we see on the myddaye when the daye is at the shortest ouer the place against midnight, and his next signe towarde orient [Page] is Capricorne, and that toward occident is Sagitarius. One may marke the hye orient or the low, but it behoueth that it be whē the days ben at the longest or shortest, and the distaunce betwene the two orients deuided in .vi. egall parties, by eche ryseth two signes, by the nerest partie of the hye orient ryseth Gemini and Cancer, by the second Taurus and Leo, by the third Aries & Uirgo, by the fourth Pisces and Libra, by the .v. Aquarius and Scorpius, by the .vi. more nere the occident Capricornus and Sagittarius, and dyuers other things that may be practised on the skye.
¶Of dyuers impressions that Shepards se in the night in the ayre. Capitulo .xliiii.
SHhepardes that lyeth by night in the fields seeth many and diuers impressions in the ayre and on the earthe, which they that lyeth in theyr beddes se not. Sometyme they haue sene in the ayre a maner of Comet in fourme and fashion of a Dragon castinge fyre by the throte. Another tyme hey haue sene fyre leaping in maner of Gootes, that leapeth without long during. And other tymes a whyte impression, the which appereth alwayes by right and at all houres, the which they call the hye way to saynct Iames in Galice.
¶The fleing Dragon, Gootes of fyre leaping, the hye way to saynt Iames in Galyce.
OTher impressions there be, as flambes of fyre that mounteth. Other as flaming of fyre that goeth sydeway. Other as styll Fyre that bydeth long. Other there is that maketh great flames & bydeth not long. Other also as candels, [...]ometyme great and sometyme lyttle, and this they se in the ayre and on the earth. Another Comet they se fallyng as an ardaunt spere.
Brenning candell. Spere ardaunt, fyre mounting, brenning sparkles, fyrebrandes, wylde fyre.
MOreouer Shepardes see cometes in other maners, that is to wete in maner of a piller flaming, and dureth long. Another in maner of a flying sterre that passeth lightly. But the third is couered sterre that dureth longest of all. They se other fyue sterres erratykes that goeth not as the other, & ben they which they call planets, but they haue fourme of the planetes, and ben Saturne, Iupiter, Mars, Uenus, and Mercurie, and they see sterres of the which one is called the bearded sterre, and the other heared sterre, and the other a tayled sterre.
Sterres erratykes. Comettayled. Flying sterre. Pyller ardaunt. Sterre tayled, Sterre heared, Sterre bearded.
Of a thunderstone that fell in the duchy of Austrych.
[Page]HOw be it that the impressions here aboue seemeth things maruelous to people that hath not seene them, they say that it is in party impossible. Know they & other that in the yere of our Lorde .M. xcii. the .vii. day of Nouember a marueile happened in the Erledome of Ferrate in the duchy of Austryche, nighe a towne named Enszheim, where as that daye was great thunder and orage. In the playne fieldes nygh the sayde towne fell a stone of thunder, which weyed two hundred and fyfty pound and more. Tho which stone to this present tyme is kept in the sayde towne, and euery man & woman may se it that wyll. Of the which stone foloweth the Epitaphe.
Here foloweth the Epitaphe of the thunder stone.
How the yere goth about by xii. monthes, aud how a man waxeth in xii. ages of his lyfe. Capitulo .xlv.
WE shulde beleue that it is faythfully true, that the xii. monthes and seasons changeth xii. tymes the man, euen as the xii. monthes changeth them in the yere xii. tymes, as euery one after the other by [...] course of nature, and so man [...] lyfe changeth euery vi. yere and so [...]ter that forth vnto xii. ages, and euery age lasteth vi. yere, and so xii. tymes v [...] maketh lxxii. And so longe euery man may preserue and kepe his body wi [...]out sickenesse, yf that they kepe them selfe wel in their youth by good dy [...]tan [...] good gouernaunce, for ye know well that many men slayeth them selfe, and dieth lōg or they shulde do, as by surfites, ouer salte meates, ouer colde meates or to hot in operation, contrary to their complexion, or by takinge great heat, and after great colde, or by euyl ayres, or by takynge of thought, or by great weete goynge in the rayne, or goynge weete shodde, or ouer much vsinge the company of women, or by fyghtynge in his youth and lesynge some of his blud or by great anger, or by falles, or burdēs, or by to great study ouer reching his mynde. These with many suche other men may alter theyr complexion and shorte theyr lyues, and all for lacke of good gouerninge in theyr youth. And they that lyue tyll .lxxii. is by theyr good lyuynge and dyet. And then they may lyue in decrypite tyll .lxxx. or an hundred yere. But f [...]we passeth that. All is Gods ordinaunce, to lengthe and shorte their dayes at his pleasure.
Of the commodities of the xii. monthes in the yere, with the xii. ages of man. Capitulo xlvi.
¶Ianuary.
¶The firste moneth is Ianuarye, the childe is without myght tyll he be vi. yere olde, he can not helpe hym selfe.
¶February.
The vi. yere that is the fyrste tyme of the springinge of all floures, & so the childe tyll xii. yere groweth in knowlege & lerninge, & to do as he is taughte.
¶Marche.
¶Marche is the buddinge tyme, and in that vi. yeare of Marche the chylde waxeth bygge and apte to do seruyce, and learne scyence fro xil. to xvi. suche as is shewed hym.
¶Apryll.
¶Aprill is the springinge tyme of flowres, and in that vi. yeare he groweth to mans state in heyght and bredthe, and waxethe wyse and bolde, but then be [...]ware of sensualitie, for he is xxiiii.
¶Maye.
¶Maye is the season that floures byn spredde, and be then in their vertu [...] with swete odoures. In these vi. yeares he is in his moste strengthe, but then let hym gether good maners betyme, for yf he tary past that age it is an ha [...] if euer he take them, for then he is xxx. yere.
¶Iune.
¶In Iune he begynnethe to close his mynde, and then he waxethe rype, [...]o [...] then he is xxxvi. yere.
¶Iuly.
¶In Iuly he is xlii. and he begynneth a lyttle to declyne, and feleth hym no [...] so prosperous as he was.
¶August.
¶In August he is by that vi. yeare .xlviii. yere & thē he goth not so lustely as he dyd, but studiethe howe to gather to fynde him in his olde age to liue more easely [...]
Septembre.
¶In Septembre he is liiii. yere he then purueyethe ageynste the wynter t [...] cherish himselfe withal, & kepe nere together the goods y• he gat in his youth [...]
Octobre.
Then is a man in Octobre lx. yerefull, yf he haue ought he gladdeth, and yf h [...] haue nought he wepeth.
Nouembre.
Then is man lxvi. in Nouembre, he stowpeth and goth softly, and lesethe al his beauty and fayrenesse.
Decembre.
In Decembre is man .lxxii. yeares, then had he leuer haue a warme fyre the [...] a fayre lady, and after this age he goth into decrepite to waxe a childe ageyn [...] and can not welde him selfe, and then yonge folkes be wery of his company but yf they haue much good they bin full euylll taken hede of.
Of an assaute ageinst a Snayle,
Here folowethe the meditacions of the passion of our Lorde Iesu Christe, that Shepardes and simple people ought to haue in hearinge the diuyne seruyce. Capitulo .xlviii.
IT behoueth for to thinke afore the beginninge of Matins on the wordes that Iesus sayde in the gardeyn, the nighte afore that he toke his blessed passion. Father if it be possible transporte fro me this chalyce. How be it my will be not done, but thine, and that in so sayinge, he suffered so great peyne, that he swete droppes of bludde in suche abundaunce that it ran downe to the grounde.
And at Matis tyme it behoueth to thynke how as the traytour Iudas approched him to our Lord, & in kyssing him sayd. Aue rabi. I salute the mayster. And that the meke and benigne Iesus withdrewe not his visage from the traytoure, and howe he suffred him selfe to be taken and bounden as a thiefe and cast to the earth, defyled, spitten on, & lefte of his disciples and seruauntes.
At Laudes it behoueth to thynke and Consyder, Iesus beinge in the house of Anna, and after in the house of Cayphas dispyteously beaten, blasphemed, stretched, and bespitten in his moste precious vysage, hys eyen bounden, and after troden vnder fote inhumaynely.
At pryme it behoueth to thynke howe as Iesus was led from the house of Cayphas to Pylate, and the beatinges that he had. And how Pylate examined hym of that they had wrongefully accused him of, and howe he was cruelly beaten at a piller before a great multitude of people, and crowned with thornes.
At Tyerce it behoueth to thynke howe Iesus was presented before the people with a crown of thornes [...] clothed with a mantel of purple, and the cursed people cryed Crucifige Crucifige eum. And howe Pylate condempned hym to the most bytterful death, and how he bare the heauy crosse vppon his sacred shulders.
At noone it behoueth too thinke howe Iesus was ledde to the mounte of Caluari shedinge his precious bludde, and how he fel diuers times vnder his crosse. And howe he was nalled with great blunt nailes, and the dolour that he suffred when it was let fall into the morteis. And thinke also of the douloures of his sorowefull mother.
At hie Noone it behoueth to thinke in what doloure he was when he sayde My God mi God, wherfore hast thou left me. And when he saide, I thurste, thei gaue to him vineger and gall medled and how he abode the death, after sighes made, he gaue vp the ghost to God his father. And howe his mother had great sorow also,
At Euensonge it behoueth to thinke howe Iesus had his side opened with a spere, and howe he henge deade on the Crosse ful of woundes fro the toppe [Page] of his head to the soles of his feete, and he taken downe, and how his mother layde him on hir lappe weping.
At complyne, thinke how Iesus was wounded and layde in sepulture, and kept of the Iewes to the ende that he should not ryse.
Clarkes and lay people ought to thinke on these or they go to Matyns.
The saying of a ded man. Capitulo .xlix.
How euery man & woman ought to cease of their sinnes at the sowing of a dredable horne. Capitulo .li.
To know the fortunes and destenyes of man borne vnder the .xii. signes after Ptholomeus prince of Astronomy. Cap. lii.
TO kn [...]w vnder what planet a man or a womā is borne, it is nedeful to wyt that there is vii. planets on the skye, that is to say, Sol, Uenus, Mars, Mercurius, Iupiter, Luna, and Saturnus. Of the .vii. planets, is named the vii. dayes of the weke, for euery daye hathe [Page] his name of the planet reigning in the beginning of it. The auncient Phylosophers sayth that Sol domineth the Sonday, the cause is (they say) for the sonne among other planets is most worthy, wherefore it taketh the worthyes [...] day that is Sonday, Luna domineth the first houre of Monday. Mars the first houre of Twesday. Mercurius of Wednesday. Iupiter for Thursday [...] Uenus for Fryday, and Saturnus for Saterday. The day natural hath xxiii [...] houres, and euery houre reigneth a planet.
¶ It is to be noted that when a man will begin to reken at Sonday, he mus [...] reken thus, Sol, Uenus, Mercurius, Luna, Saturnus, Iupiter, Mars.
¶And when the nombre is fayled, he must beginne at the houre that he wol [...] know what planet raigneth. The Monday he ought to beginne at Luna, th [...] Tewesday at Mars, the Wednesday at Mercurie, the Thursday at Iupiter, the Fryday at Uenus, the Saterday at Saturnus. And euer when the nom [...]bres of the planets is fayled, he must begin by order as it is aforesayd.
¶Also it is to be noted that the Grekes beginneth theyr daye in the morning [...] The Iewes at nonne. And the Christen men at midnight, and ther we ough [...] to beginne to reken. For at one of the clocke one Sonday in the morning reig [...]neth Sol, at two reigneth Uenus, at three reygneth Mercurius, at foure rei [...]neth Luna, at fiue Saturnus, at sixe Iupiter, at seuen Mars, and at eight b [...]gyn againe at Sol, at nynthe Uenus, at ten Mercurie, and consequently of th [...] other by order in order in euery houre.
¶When a chylde is borne, it is to be knowne at what houre, and if it be in th [...] beginning of the houre, in the middes, at the ende. If it be in the beginnin [...] he shall holde of the same planet and of the other afore. If it be in the myddes it shall holde of that onely. If it be borne in the ende it shall holde of the sam [...] & of that that commeth next after, but neuerthelesse the planet that it is bor [...] vnder ne shall not dominieth other, & that of the day shalbe aboue it, which i [...] the cause that a childe holdeth of diuers planets, and hath diuers condition [...]
¶He that is borne vnder Sol shalbe prudent and wyse, a great speaker, & tha [...] which he prayseth he holdeth vertuous in him selfe. Who that is borne [...] Uenus is loued of euery man, good to godwarde and reguler. Who that [...] borne vnder Mercurie is well bearded, subtyll, mylde, veritable, & is not most prudent. Who that is borne vnder Luna hath an hye forehead, ruddy, mer [...] vysage, shamefaste, and religious. Who that is borne vnder Saturne is ha [...]dy, curteyse of lyuing, and is not auaricious. Who that is borne vnder Iu [...]piter is hardy, fayre vysage and ruddy, chast, and vagabonde.
¶Who that is borne vnder Mars is a great speaker, a lyer, a thefe, a deceyuer bygge, and of red colour.
¶They that wyll know of this more euidently, let them tourne to the proper [...]ties of the seuen planets afore rehersed.
¶A prologue of the authour vpon the twelue signes. Cap. liii.
I Consyderyng the course of the celestiall bodies, & the puissaunce of the hya God Omnipotente, the which hathe made the sonne to shyne vpon the good and euyll, that governeth all thinges conteyneth in the firmament & on the earthe, haue taken on me for to endite this litle treatise for to instruct & endoctrine the people not lettred. First to know God theyr maker, secondly to gouerne theyr bodies and eschue infirmities. And thirdly to knowe the course of the firmamente and of the celestiall bodyes conteyned in it, with the dysposycyon [Page] of ye vii. planetets. But who yt wil know his properties, ought first to know ye monthe that he was borne in, & ye signe that the sonne was in the same day I will not say that such thinges shalbe, but that the signes haue such properties and is the wyll of God. After poetes & Astronomers Aries is the firste signe that sheweth the fortunes of men and women, as say [...]h Ptholomeus.
¶The fyrst signe of Aries.
¶ I fynde that he whiche is borne in the sygne of Aries, fro mydde Marche to mydde Apryll shalbe of good wytte, and shall neyther be riche ne poore [...] he shall haue domage by his neyghboures, he shall haue power ouer deade folkes goodes, he shall be sone angry and sone appeased, he shall haue dyuers fortunes and discordes, he wyll desyre doctrine, and haunt eloquent people, and shalbe experte in many degrees, he shalbe a lyer and vnstedfast of courage, and will take the vengeaunce on his enemyes, and he shalbe better disposed in youth in all thinges thē in age, vnto .xxxiii. yere he shalbe a fornicatour, and shal be wedded at xxv. yeare, & yf he be not he shall not be chaste, he shalbe a mediatour for some of his frendes, and will gladly be busy in the nedes of other, he shalbe awayted too be domaged, he shall haue a signe in the shulder in his heade, and in his body, yet he shalbe ryche by the deathe of other, his firste sonne shall not lyue long, he shalbe in daunger of foure footed beastes, he shall haue great syckenesse at xxiii. yere, and of the escape he shall lyue. lxxxv. yere after nature.
¶The womā that is borne in this tyme shalbe prefull, & suffre great wrōges from day to day, she wil gladly make leasinges, and shall lese her husbande & recouer a better, she shalbe sicke at .v. yeare of age, and at xxv. she shalbe in great daunger of death, and yf she escape she shalbe in doubt tyll .xliii. yeare, & shal suffer great peyne of the heade. The dayes of Sol and of Mars to them shalbe right good, and the dayes of Iupiter shalbe contrary to them, and as wel the man as the women shalbe semblable to the shepe, that euery yere leseth his fleshe of woll, and within short space recouereth it ageyne.
¶Of the signe of Taurus.
HE that is borne in the sygne of Taurus, fro mydde Apryll to mydde May, shalbe stronge hardye, and full of stryfe, delycyous, and shall possesse goodes gyuen to hym by other menne, that he wold haue done shalbe incontinent, and wyll enforce to himselfe to fynyshe it. In his youth be wyll [Page] dyspyse euerye person, and shalbe yrefull, he shall go pylgrymages and wyll leaue his frendes and lyue amonge straungers, he shall be put in officies, and shall exercyse them well, and shalbe ryche by women, he shall be thankelesse, and come to good estate, he will take vengeaunce on his enemyes, he shalbe bytten of a dogge, and shall experiment many paynes by women, and shall be in peryll at xxxiii. yeare, he shalbe in perill of water, and shalbe greued by syckenesse and venym at xxiii. yere, and at xxx. yere he shalbe habundaunt in rychesse, and shall ryse to great dignitie, and shal lyue .lxxxv. yeare, and three monthes after nature, and shall se his fortune sorowefull.
¶The women that is borne in thys tyme shalbe effectuall, labouringe, and a great lyer, and shall suffre muche shame, she shall reioyce the goodes of her frendes, that which she conceaueth in her minde shall come to effecte, & shall haue the best partye, he shall haue many husbandes and manye children, she shalbe in her beste estate at xvi. yere, and she shal haue a signe in the myddes of her body, she shalbe syckely, and if she escape she shall lyue lxxvi. yeare after nature. She ought be beare ringes and precious stones vpon her. The dayes of Iupiter and of Luna byn right good for them, and the dayes of Mars contrary. As well the man as woman may be lykened to the bul that laboureth the lande, and when the sede is sowen he hath but the strawe for his parte. They shall kepe well theyr owne, and it shal not profyte to them ne to other, and shalbe reputed vnkinde.
¶Of the signe of Gemini.
THe man that is borne in the signe of Gemini from mydde Maye to mydde Iune, shall haue manye woundes and he shall be fayne and mercyfull, he shall leade an open and a reasonable lyfe, he shall receaue muche money, he wil go in vnknowen places, and do many pylgrimages, he will prayse hymselfe, and wyll not byde in the place of his natiuitye, he shall be wyse and negligente in his workes, he shal come to rychesse vnto .xxvi. yere, his firste wyfe shal not lyue longe, but he shall marry straunge womē he shalbe late maryed, he shalbe bytten of a dogge, & shal haue a marke of Iron or of fyre, he shalbe turmented in water and shall passe the sea, & shall lyue and hundred yere, and x. monthes after nature.
¶The woman then borne shall come to honoure, and set forwarde with the goodes of other, and she shalbe agreued of a false cryme, she ought to be wedded at xiiii. yeare yf she shall be chaste and eshewe all perill, and shall lyue lxx. yere after nature, and shall honour God. The dayes of Mercury & Soll to them byn right good, the dayes of Luna and Uenus bin to them contrary and as wel the man as the woman shall augmente and assemble the goodes [Page] of theyr successours, but skantly shal they vse their owne goodes they shalbe so auaricious.
¶Of the signe of Cancer.
NExte after he, that is borne vnder the signe of Cā cer fro myd Iune to myd Iuly, shalbe very auaricious, and of egall stature, he will loue women, he shalbe merye, humble, good, wyse, and wel renomed, he shal haue domage by enuye, he shall haue the moneye of other in hys gydynge, he shallbe a conductoure [...] of other folkes thinkes, he shall haue stryfe and discorde amonge his neighbours, & will auenge hym on his enemy, by his errogās many shal mocke hym, he shal haue often great feare on the water, he wil kepe his corage secretely in him selfe, & shall suffre doloure of the wombe, he shall find hidden money, & laboure sore for his wife, he shall se his perill in a certeyne yere, the which shalbe knowen of God, his hauoyre shall decrease, at .xxxiii. yeare, he shall passe the sea, and shal lyue .lxx. yere after nature, and fortune shalbe agreble to hym.
¶The woman that shalbe borne in this tyme shalbe furious, incontinent angry and sone appeased, she is nymble, seruysabye, wyse, ioyous, and shal suffry many perilles, if any person do her any seruice, she will recompence them well, she shalbe labouringe and take great peyne vnto xxx. yere, and then she shall haue rest, she shall haue many sonnes: she must be wedded at xiiii. yeare: honoures and giftes shall folowe her, she shal haue woundes & behole their of, and shal haue peril of waters, and shalbe hurte in a secrete place, she shall be bytten of a dogge, and shall lyue lxx. yere after nature. The dayes of Iupyter, Uenus, and Luna, to them bin right good, & the dayes of Mars right euyll: and a swell the man as the woman shall haue good fortunes & victory ouer theyr enemies.
¶Of the signe of Leo.
AS we rede, he that is borne vnder the signe of Leo, fro mydde Iulye to mydde Auguste, shalbe fayne and hardy, he shall speake openly and shall be mercyfull, he shall wepe with the wepers, and shall be errogant in wordes, [...]he shall haue a perill in certeyne tyme, and at xxx. yeare he shalbe awayted to be domaged, but he shall eschewe that perill, his benefytes shalbe ingrate, he shal be honoured of good folke, and opteyne his enterpryse, he shall goodes by temporal seruyces [Page] he shalbe in great to theues, and shalbe great & puissaunt, he shal haue charge of the commontie, and as muche as he leseth he shall wyn, he shall come to dignitie and shalbe amyable, he shall take fortune of three wyues, he wyll go often on a pylgrimages and suffre peyne of the sight, he shall fall from hye, and be fearefull of water, he shall finde hydde money, at viii. yeare of age he shall be sycke, also he shalbe in peryll and doubt of some greate lorde, and at xxxvi. yere he shalbe bytten of a dogge, and be hole with greate peyne, and shall lyue lxxxiiii. yere after nature,
¶The woman that shalbe borne in thys tyme shalbe a great lyer, fayre, well spoken marcyfull pleasant, and maye not suffre ne se men wepe, she shalbe meke, her firste husbande shall not lyue longe, she shall haue peyne in her stomake she shalbe awayted of her neyghbours, at xvii. yeare, and lyue to greate rychesse, she shall haue chyldren of three men, she shalbe amyable, and haue the bluddy flyxe, and shalbe bytten of a dogge she shall fall from hye, and lyue lxxvii. yere after nature: The dayes of mercurye, Sol, and Mars, to them be right good, the dayes of Saturne byn contrarye: and as well the man as the woman shalbe hardy, greet quarellers and mercyfull.
¶Of the signe of Uirgo.
OF the sygne of Uirgo, I fynde that he which is borne fro mydde August to myd Septembre, shall gladlye commend his wyfe, he shalbe a greate householder, engenyeus, he shalbe folycytous too hys worke, he shalbe shamefast and of great courage, and al that he seeth he shall couet in his vnderstandynge, he will be sone angrye and surmounte hys enemyes. Scarsely shall he be a whyle with his firste wife, he shalbe fortunate at xxxi. yere, he will not hyde that that he hath, and shalbe in peryll of water, he shall haue a wounde with yron, and shal lyue lxx. yere after nature.
¶The woman then borne shalbe shamefast, engenious, and will take peyne, and ought to be wed at xii. yere, she shall not be longe with her first husbande, Her seconde husbande shalbe of longe lyfe, & shal haue much good by another woman, she shall fall from hye, her lyfe shalbe in peryl and shall dye shortelye, she shall suffre doloure at x. yeare, yf she escape these doloures, she shall lyue lxx. yeare after nature, she shall bringe for the vertuous fruite, & euery thinge shall fauour her, she shall reioyce in dyuers fortunes. The dayes of Mer [...]ury and of Soll shalbe right good for them, and the dayes of Mars shalbe c [...]ntrary. And as well the man as the woman shal suffre many temptations, so that with great peyne they may resist them, they shal delyte to lyue in chastitis, but they shal suffre much, where so euer it be.
¶Of the signe of Lybra.
AMonge planettes Lybra ought to be remembred, for he that is borne from myd September to mydde October, shalbe ryght mightly praysed and honoured in the seruyce of Capytaynes, he shall go in vnknowen places, and shall get in straunge landes, he shal kepe well his owne, if he make not releuacion by drinke he will not kepe his promesse, he shall be enuyed by syluer and other goodes, he shalbe maryed, and go from hys wyfe, he shall speake quyckelye and shall haue no domage amonge his neighbours, he shall haue vnder his myghte the goodes of deade folke, and shall haue som signe in his membres. Oxen, horse and other beastes shalbe gyuen to hym, he shall haue domage and iniurye, he shall be enryched by woman, and experyment euyll fortunes, many shal aske counsayle of him. He shall lyue .lxx. yere after nature.
¶The woman that is borne in thys tyme shalbe amyable and of greate courage, she will announce the death of her [...]demyes, and shall go in places vnknowen, she shallbe debonayre and mercy reioyce by her husbande, if she be not wedded at xiii. yere she shall not be chaste, & shall haue no sonnes by her first husbande, she shal go many pylgrimages, after xxx. yeare she shall prosper better and haue great honoure and prayse, then after she shallbe greuoussy sycke, and shal be brent in the feete aboute .xii. yeare of age, and shal lyue .lx. yere after nature. The dayes of Uenus and of Luna for them bin right good and the dayes of Mercury contrary, And aswell the man as the woman shall be in doubte vnto the death, and there is doute in the ende.
¶Of the signe of Scorpio.
WE rede that he whiche is borne in the sygne of Scorpius. fro mydde October to mydde Nouember shall haue good fortune, he shall be a great fornycatour, the firste wyfe that he shall haue in mariage shall become to relygyous, he will serue gladly to Images, he shall suffre peyne in hys pryuye membres at the age of xv. yeare, he shall be hardy as a Lyon and amyable of fourme, manye faculties shall be gyuen to hym, he shall be a great goer in vysytynge diuer & countreys, for to knowe the customes and statutes of many Cytyes, and shall haue vyctorye ouer all hys enemyes, they maye not hyndre him in no maner wyse, he shall haue moneye by hys wyfe, and shall suffre dyuers doloures of [Page] the stomake, he shalbe mery and loue the company of mery solke. In his right shulder shalbe a signe, by swete wordes and adulations, he shallbe deceaued, he will often saye one & do another, he shall haue a wounde with yron, he shall be bytten of a dogge or of some other beast, he shalbe in doute & haue dyuers enemies at the age of xxxiii. yeare, and yf he escape he shall lyue lxxxiiii. yeare after nature.
¶The woman that shalbe borne in this tyme shalbe amyable and fayre, and shall not be long with her first husbande, and after she shall enioy with another by her good and true seruyce, she shall haue honoure & victory of her enemies, she shal suffre peyne in the stumake, she shalbe wyse, & haue woundes in her shulders, she ought to feare her later dayes, whiche shalbe doubtfull by venym, and she shall lyue lxx. yere after nature. The dayes of Mars and of Saturne to them bin righte agreable, and the dayes of Iupiter to them byn contrary they shalbe swete of worde and prickinge with theyr tayle, and wil murmure detractinge other, and say otherwyse then they wolde be sayde by.
¶Of the signe of Sagittarius.
YE ought to knowe, yt he which is borne vnder Sagittarius, fro myd Nouember to myd Decembre, shall haue good effecte, and shall haue mercy of euery man the which he seeth, he shal obteyne & haue bi releuacion, he shal go ferre to desert places vnknowen and daungerous, & shall returne with greate geynes, he shall se his fortune encrease from daye to daye, he will not hyde that that he hathe, he shall haue some signes in his handes or feete, he shalbe fearefull, at xxii. yere he shall haue some peryll, he shall passe the sea to his lucre, & shall lyue lxxvii. yere & viii. monthes after nature.
¶The woman that is borne in this tyme shall loue to laboure she shall haue diuers thoughtes for straunge stryfes, and may not se one wepe, she shal haue victory ouer her enemies, she shal spende muche syluer by euyll company, she shalbe called mother of sonnes, and shall suffre many euyls, she shall take great peyne, to the ende that she maye haue the goodes of her kinsmen. She ought to be [...]ryed at xiii. yere, and she shall haue peyne in her eyen at xiiii [...]. yere, and shal haue by enuye at xviii. yere ioye, she shall suffre doloure by enuy, & shalbe seperate from ioye, and shall lyue lxxii. yere after nature. The dayes of Uenus and Luna bin right good, the dayes of Mars and Saturne byn euyl, & aswel the man and the woman shalbe inconstant and vnstable in deedes, they shalbe of good conscyence and mercyfull, better to straungers then to them selfe, and they will loue God.
¶Of the signe of Capricornus.
HE the whiche is borne vnder Capricornus, from mydde December to mydde Ianuarye shall be yracundious, a fornicatoure, a lyer, and shalbe alwayes labouringe, & shalbe nourished with strange thynges, he shall haue many crymes and noyses, he shalbe a gouernour of beastes with four fete he shall not be longe with his wyfe, he shall suffre muche sorowe and heuynesse in his youth, he shall leaue many goodes and rychesses, he shall haue a greate peryll at xvi. yeare, he shalbe of a greate courage, he shall haunte honest people & shall be ryche by women, and shalbe conductoure of maydens, his brethren wyll make dyuers espyenges vppon him, and he shal lyue lxx. yere and foure monethes after nature.
¶ The woman that is borne in this tyme shalbe honest and fearefull, she shall surmount her enemies, and haue children of three men, she will do many pilgrymages in her youth, & after haue great wyt, she shall haue great goodes. she shall haue peyne in her eyen, and shalbe in her beste estate at xxx. yeare, and shall lyue lxx. yeare and foure monthes after nature. The dayes of Saturne and of Mars to them bin good, the dayes of Soll bin contrary. And both mā and woman shalbe reasonable and enuyous.
Of the signe of Aquarius.
THe man that is borne vnder the signe of Aquaquarius, fro midde Ianuary vnto mydde February shalbe louely and yrefull, he wyll [...] beleue in vayne he shall haue syluer at xxiiii. yeare he shall be in estate, he shal winne where he goth, or he shalbe sorest [...] & shalbe hurte with yron he shal haue feare on the water and afterwarde shal haue good fortune, and shal go in to diuers straunge countreys.
¶The woman that is borne in this tyme shall be delycious, and haue many noyses for her children, she shalbe in great peril, at the age of xxiiii. yere she shalbe in felycytie, she shal haue domage by [...]eas [...]es with foure feete, she shal lyue lxxvii. yere after nature. The dayes of Uenus and of Luna be right good for them, the dayes of Mars and Saturne byn contrary [...] and bothe the m [...]n and women shalbe resonable, and they shall not [...]e ouer ryche.
¶Of the signe of Pisces,
HE that is borne vnder the sygne of Pisces, from myd February to myd Marche shalbe a greate goer, a fornicatour, a mocker, and shalbe couetous, he will say one & do an other, he shall fynde money, he wil truste in his sapience and shall haue good fortune, he shall be a defender of Orphelyus and wydowes, he shall be fearefull on water, he shall passe soone al his aduersyties, and shall lyue .lxxiii. yeare and v. monthes after nature.
¶The woman that is borne in thys time shalbe delicious, familier in io [...]tes, pleasaunt of courage, feruent, and shall haue syckenesse in her eyen, and shall be sorowefull by shame. Her husbande will leaue her, and she shall haue much peyne with straungers, she shall not haue her owne, she shall haue peyne in her stomake, & she shall lyue lxxvii. yere after nature. The dayes of Mars and of Saturne to them bin, countrary, and both the man and the woman shal lyue faythfullye.
¶Here after foloweth the x. Christen nations. Capitulo liiii.
I Pretend in this lytle treatise to speake of diuers Christi nacions, the which bin deuided in x. of the which I will declare as I haue foūde written in the latin tonge, & will redyge it to our Englishe maternal as Shepardes speakethe in the fyeldes, after the capacitie of myne [Page] vnderstandinge. And if in so doynge I haue erred, I require all other Shepardes for to excuse any youth and to amende where as I haue made defaute. And where as I haue fayled, I submytte me vnto amendement: for ageynste amendes no man may be.
¶ The first nation is of Latynes.
IN the nation of Latynes, for the superioures is the Emperoure, & many kinges. That is to wyte, the most Christen & redoubted king of Englande and of Fraunce, with many noble dukes, erles, vycountes, barons and knyghtes, and is the nacyon moste resplendishinge of all other in honoure, force and chyualry. In the nation of Spayne bin the Kynges of Castyle, of Aragon, of Portyngale, of Nauarre, and other Lordes. In the nation of Italye is the kynge of Eycyle, & the kynge of Naples, and many other lordes, as of Uenyce, Florence, and Geane. In Almayne besyde the Emperour is diuers kinges, as of Scotlande, Hungry, Boheme, Polaheye, Asye, Fryse, Suisse, Hornegy, Almacye and Croacy, and many other Lordeshippes that byn vnder the obedience of the Catolycke Churche.
¶The seconde nation is of Grekes.
HOrace complaynethe speaking oft his nation of Grece, for the vexation that it hath had in tyme [...] past. The Greekes haue the Patriarke of Constantinople, Archebishops & [...]ottes to the spiritualty, and to the temporaltie Emperours, Dukes, and Erles. They be nowe but of small nombre, for Agar [...]e [...]s and Turkes haue taken the greatest [...] parte of Greece, the whyche parte obeyeth not the catolycke Churche for theyre troure. They byn condempned by the Churche for that they say. Spiritus Sanctus non procedit a filio.
¶The thirde nacion is of Armenyens.
VUe rede yt the nacion of Armenyens in nyghe Antyoche, they vse al one language in the deuyne seruyce and in holy scripture, as who shuld synge Englishe in the Church, and both the mē and women vnderstande all. They haue theyr pryma [...]e, whiche they call Catholycke, to who they obey as to the kyng in greate deuocion and reuerence. They faste the Lenten and eate no fyshe, and they drynke no wyne and eate f [...]eshe [...]n the Saturday.
¶The fourth nacion of Georgiens.
[Page] THis nacion is called Georgiēs of S. George of whom they beare the Image in battaile, and he is theyr Patron. They byn in the parties Orential, & byn stronge and delycyous, half Percyens & halfe Assuriens, & they speake foule & folysh language, and make their sacramētes as the Grekes, The preste haue their crownes rounde reased on theyr heades, & the clerkes haue them square. When they go to the holy Sepulcre they paye no trybute to the Sarazyns they entre into Ierusalē theyr standerdes displayed, for the Sarazins feareth them, the women vse armures as the men, When they wryte to the Sowdan incontinent that which they demaunde is graunted them.
¶The fyfth nacyon is of Assuriens.
I Fynde also by wrytinge, that the nacion of Suriens hath takē ye name of a cyty named Sur, ye which is the moste eminēt, & most vpholdē amonge al other cities & townes of the contrey of Surrey. These people for their vulgare & common speche speketh the language Sarazynoys. Theyr holy scriptures, deuinities, & officies of the seruis is in Greke. They haue bishops, & kepe the cōstituciōs of the Grekes & obey them in all thinges. They sacrifyce with reysed bread, & haue opynious of the Grekes as the Latynes. There be some Christen men in the holy lande that ensuethe them, and byn called Samarytans, whiche were conuerted in the tyme of the Apostles, but they be not perfyte Christen men.
The syxte nation is of Mororabyens
SOmetime were wont to be a nacion of people in the contre of Affryke & Spayne called Mororabiens, but now they bin but few. They be called Mororabiens, for that in may thinges thei held the vse in Christen men being in Araby, they vse the language of Latin in the deuine officies & sacred thinges, & obei to the church & to the Prelates of the Latines. They confesse them in the language Azymonien or in latin. They bin differēt to the latines, for that in their dyuyne offices they haue the houres to longe. And for the daye is deuyded in xxiiii. houres of night and day, so many offyres, houres, Psalmes, and all other Orizons haue thei along, the which they say not after the custome of the Latines, for that that the Latynes saye in the begynnynge, they say in the ende, or in the middes, Some deuydeth the holye sacramentes in vii. partes and other in .x. This is a ryght deuoute nation, they conioyne no persons by mariage, but if they be borne in theyr owne countrey and lande, the straungers be not receaued in mariage. And when a manne lesethe his wyfe by death, he will neuer be wedded ageyne, but lyue in chastitye. The cause of [Page] so great diuersitie amonge Christen men, was for that in tyme past the Christen were let and not constrayned to celebrate councel general. For this cause there arose dyuers heretykes in many diuers parties. For there was none that myght remedy it.
¶The seuenth nacion is of Prester Iohns lande in Inde.
THen is the lande of Iude wheerof Prester Iohn is For his might is so greate that it exceadeth all Christendome. This Prester Iohn hath vnder him .lxx. kinges, the whiche do to him obeysaunce and homage, And when he rydeth aboute his countrey he maketh to be borne afore him a Crosse of wodde, And when he wil go to battaile he maketh two to be borne afore him, one of golde, and the other of precyous stones. And in that lande is the body of saynt Thomas the Apostle buryed in a tombe of stone, and one of his handes is out of the tombe, and that hande euerye body maye se that gothe thyther.
¶The eyght nation is of Iacobytes.
FOlowinge after the nacion of Iacobytes, the which byn named so of Iames the disciple of Alexandre the Patryarke, These Iacobites haue taken and occupied a great parte of Asie, in the parties Octidentall, and the lande of Mambre that is in Egypte, and the Lande of Ethyopyens vnto Inde, with mo then xx. Realmes. The children of that contreye byn cirtumcysed and baptysed with an horte yron, for hey haue printed the carrectere of the Crosse on theyr forheades, and on other parties of the body, as on the armes and the brest. They shryue them onely to God and not to the prestes. In this prouynce the Indyans, and Agarenoriens say that Iesu Christ hath onely but the nature diuine Some amonge them speketh the language of Caldes and Araby. And diuers other that speaketh other languages, after the diuersyties of nations. They were condempned at the councell of Calcedony.
¶The nynthe nacion is of Nescoriens.
[Page]OF Nescorianus that was of Constantinople, hath he made this name Nescoreus. These Nescoriens putteth in Iesu Christ two persons, one deuyne, and another humayne, and they renie our Lady to be the mother of God, but they say well Iesu to be man, they speake the language of Caldee, & sacrifyce the body of Iesu Christe with reised bread. They enhabite in Tartary and in great Inde, they be in great nombre, theyr countrey conteyneth almost as much as Almayne and Italy.
¶The tenth nacion is of Moroniens.
RObuste is the nacyon of Moronyens, called of an heretyke of Morone They put in Iesu Christe (one vnderstandinge and one wyll) they enhabyte in Lybye in the prouynce of Fenyce, an be a great nombre, they vse specyally bowes and arrowes, and they haue belles. Theyr Bishoppes haue ringes, myters, and Crosses as the Latynes: they vse the letter of Caldee in theyr deuyne scriptures, & in theyr vulgare speche they vse the letter of Araby. They haue byn vnder the obedience and lordeshyp of the moste holye and sacred Churche Romayne: their Patriarke was at the generall councel of saynt Iohn the Latraū, celebrate at Rome vnder pope Innocent the thirde but sythen then they be retourned. They were fyrst condempned at the councel of Constantinople, & sythen bin retourned to the obedience of the Romain Churche, and yet returned ageyne to theyr false and euyll opynyon, wherin they perseuer.
¶Here beginneth a fewe prouerbes, Capitulo .lv.
¶Imprinted at London by Thomas Este for Iohn Wally.