[Illustrious Phœbus now declines amaine]
The foureteenth of October, the Sunne enters into Scorpio.
Scorpio. October.
Illustrious
Phœbus now declines amaine,
His golden head within the Scorpion dwells.
Now boystrous blasts of wind, and showres of rain,
Of raging winters nigh approach foretells,
From trees sharpe Autumne, all the leaues expells,
For Phœbus now hath left his pleasant Innes,
Now Marchants Bacchus blood both buy and sell,
And Michaels Terme, lawes haruest now begins,
Where many losers are, and few that wins:
For law may well be cal'd contentions whip,
When for a scratch, a cuffe, for pointes or pins,
Will witlesse gets his neighbour on the hip.
Then tone the rother vnto law will vrge,
And vp they come to giue their purse a purge.
