The Times' Whistle Or A Newe Daunce of Seuen Satires, and other Poems: Compiled by R. C., Gent. [i.e. Richard Corbett]. Now First Edited from Ms. Y. 8. 3. in the Library of Canterbury Cathedral: With introduction, notes, and glossary, By J. M. Cowper |
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Planetarum energia. |
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Planetarum energia.
Astronomers, with their heaven searching eyes,
Seven planets in their severall orbs have found,
Whose influence, they say, descends the skies,
And in our mortall bodies doe abound:
Whose force is great, or else they greatlie lye
That calculate mans fatall destinie.
Seven planets in their severall orbs have found,
Whose influence, they say, descends the skies,
And in our mortall bodies doe abound:
Whose force is great, or else they greatlie lye
That calculate mans fatall destinie.
Saturn is mounted in the highest sphear,
Vnder which planet if man life receive,
He shalbe subject to dispairefull feare,
Dull melancholy to his minde shall cleave:
His stupid braine, his frowning looke, shall bear
A crabbèd nature & a life austere.
Vnder which planet if man life receive,
He shalbe subject to dispairefull feare,
Dull melancholy to his minde shall cleave:
His stupid braine, his frowning looke, shall bear
A crabbèd nature & a life austere.
Next vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie Iove
Moves in his orbe. Who vnder his aspect
Shall breathe this aire (which doth him mortall prove)
He alwaies shalbe held in good respect:
Pleasing his looke shalbe, comely his feature,
Bounteous his minde, and ever kinde his nature.
Moves in his orbe. Who vnder his aspect
Shall breathe this aire (which doth him mortall prove)
He alwaies shalbe held in good respect:
Pleasing his looke shalbe, comely his feature,
Bounteous his minde, and ever kinde his nature.
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After Iove, Mars assumes his proper seat,
Whom poets faine to be the god of warre;
That man in battell shall his foes defeate
Which vnder Mars is borne, that warlike starre:
He will (for of his nature hath been tride)
Be quicklie angrie & soone pacifide.
Whom poets faine to be the god of warre;
That man in battell shall his foes defeate
Which vnder Mars is borne, that warlike starre:
He will (for of his nature hath been tride)
Be quicklie angrie & soone pacifide.
In midle of the planettes regiment,
Bright Sol, that heauenlie ever burning lamp,
Himselfe doth in his glorious orbe present.
Who vnder him receives his native stampe,
Shalbe well skild in artes, in conference wise,
Religious in heart, in life precise.
Bright Sol, that heauenlie ever burning lamp,
Himselfe doth in his glorious orbe present.
Who vnder him receives his native stampe,
Shalbe well skild in artes, in conference wise,
Religious in heart, in life precise.
After bright Sol, the beauteous queen of love
Faire Citherean Venus takes her place:
Who vnder her aspect is borne, shall prove
Skilfull in love; & with a blushlesse face
He shall vnto his lawlesse lust allure
Many that are of thoughts & life impure.
Faire Citherean Venus takes her place:
Who vnder her aspect is borne, shall prove
Skilfull in love; & with a blushlesse face
He shall vnto his lawlesse lust allure
Many that are of thoughts & life impure.
Next Venus, in his sphear is Maiaes sonne,
Ioves messenger, wing-footed Mercurie:
Who vnder his aspect his life begunne
Shalbe endude with craft & subtilty;
He wilbe (soe his state thereby may mend)
Apt to deceive even his most trusty friend.
Ioves messenger, wing-footed Mercurie:
Who vnder his aspect his life begunne
Shalbe endude with craft & subtilty;
He wilbe (soe his state thereby may mend)
Apt to deceive even his most trusty friend.
Lowest of all the planets placèd is
Selfe-chaunging Luna: vnder whose aspect
If man be borne, he never shall have misse
Of an inconstant heart, which doth detect
A perverse nature, & a peevish minde:
Vnder this starre are borne most women kinde.
Selfe-chaunging Luna: vnder whose aspect
If man be borne, he never shall have misse
Of an inconstant heart, which doth detect
A perverse nature, & a peevish minde:
Vnder this starre are borne most women kinde.
Every man hath his constellation
Vnder one of these planets influence
Predominating, & the calculation
O[f] his ensuing fortunes comes from hence,
Be he to labour borne, to art, or warres:
Thus starres rule man, & God doth rule the starres.
Vnder one of these planets influence
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O[f] his ensuing fortunes comes from hence,
Be he to labour borne, to art, or warres:
Thus starres rule man, & God doth rule the starres.
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