The Minor Poems of John Lydgate edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken |
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The dysposicion of the xij. sygnes. |
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The dysposicion of the xij. sygnes.
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A]ries ys hoot, & also colerykAnd in þe hede kepeþ hys dominacion;
Taurus in þe þrote, be man hoole or seke,
That part haþ he in supportacion;
Geminus eke by reuelucion
Haþe in armes hys influence & werkyng,
How shuld a man þan be stedfast of lyuyng?
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Cancer haþe the brest in hys demayne,Of the hert lordshyp haþe þe Lyon,
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Of nouell & wombe, & Libra lower downe.
The membres of man gouerneþ þe Scorpioun,
By thys reson the philosofyrs seyng
Ys that man cannat be stedfast in lyuyng.
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Of all the sygnes rekenyd here-to-forn,The thyes of man gouerneþ þe Sagyttary
And knees & legges haþe þe Capricorn,
Eke þe calfe downeward perteyneþ to Aquary
And fro þe feete, I wyll nat long[er] tary,
Piscis haþ theym in hys kepyng;
Howe shuld a man þan be stedefast of lyuyng?
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[Iohn Lidgat: Stow.]
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