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LincyW/Dolfy colours, or confiiring of many co^ lours, mixed in c tie of favours, a hudg podg 6f all things together , fo that none can give it any true name; yet ufually fuch as doe quicken the fpirits are fubtile and penetrate, and in a manner infen' fible.
Hearbs and Plants attributed to him, are known by the various Colour of the flower and love fandy barren places; they bear their feeds in cods, they fmell rarely or fubtilly, and have principal relati- on to the Tongue,Brain, Lungs or Memory ; they difpell winds, and comfort the Animal Spirits, and opens Obftruft ions, bears thrceleaved grafle; the Walnut and Walnut tree, the Filbert tree and Nut, the El4cr-tree^ Adders-tongue, Draggon-wort, two penny grafle, Lung-wort, Annifeeds, Cubebs, Ma- riorum ; what herbs are ufed for theMufes and Di- vination, as Verveine, the Reed; ofDruggs, trea- cle, Hicra Diambra.
Of Beafts the Hi£naj Ap^ FoXy ^uivrely U^eafety the Spider^tht Greyhound^ the Hermophrodite^ being partakers of both Sexes, all cunning creatures.
Of Birds ; TheLinnet, thcParrot, The Pompi- nian. Jay, the Swallow, the Pipe, the Beetle, Pif- mires, LocuHs, Bee, Serpent, Crane.
Of Fifths 5 The Mullet, the Forkfidi.
Of places; Tradfmeng-fiiops , Markets, Faires^ Schools, Common-halls, -fowling- Alleges, Ordi- naries, Tennis-Courts.
Of Minerals and ^\ones; Quick-filvcr, the Mil- ftouc, Marthafitc or Fireftone, the Achates, Topaz, Vitriol; all ftones of Divers Colours.
He fignifies. Windy, Stormy and violent boiftr- ous weather, and ftirs up that weather, the Ruler and his Idea's figures (ignif^es in whofe Company he
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is fomcimes Haylc5Li:htning,Tlmnder and Tern* pefts i in hot Countries Earth-quakes , but this ac- cording to thefeafon of the year.
The Countries he governs, zreGrecia^ Flanders j JEgyft^ Farts.
He vjoverncth Wednefday^ the firft and eighth hour- thereof, his friends Hizmael Kedeml^ and Z^^a^^^his enemies ail the other Rulers.
Chap. XII. O/Hafmodai and her feature ^ndjlgnfflcation.
5T 'tAfmodai hath one liftf which you may Jtlcall her houfe^and that rules one pare of the Earth, and is incorporated into two figures, VIZ. Fopulus by day, and Via by night, and there (he isftrone;: but if thefe be in the tenth houfewith Career Qr7rijHtia, by tliat Ruler and his Idea's and figures, (he then there receives detriment 5 in the fecond houfe (he is exalted, and in the eighth (he falls, (he governeth the earthly Triplicity by night, viz Arrtijfio^ Cmjundio^Carcer.
She Rules the World three hundred fifty fourc years and in one hundred and eight (he is ^crong. Feminine, Noaurnail, Cold, Moiil and Fiegmatick by Nature.
Thi manners or Afkions flie fignifieth, when in good houfeswith good figures, is one ofcompofed manners, a foft, tender creature,a lover of all honeft f nd Engcnious Sciences, a fcarcher of, and dcligh-
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tcr in Novelties, naturally prop^nf^p to flite and fhift his habitation, unftedtaft, wholy carrying for the prefent times, Timourous, Prodigal, and eafify frighted; however, loving Peace, and to live free from the cares of this life, if a Mechanick, the man Learns many occupations , and frequently will be tampering with many wayes to trade in.
V^hrn with in ill houfes with iU figures (he figni* fies fixty fix, and twenty five, and is a mecrvaga- bond idk pcrfon, hating Labour,a Drunkard,a Sot, one of no Spirit or Forecaft, delighting to live beg- gerly and carelefly, on^ cpntent in no condition o( life, either good or ill.
Shefignifietha man offaire ftature, whitelycd- loured, the face round gray eyes, and a little low- ring, much h^ire, both on head, face and other parts, ufually one eye a little larger then the other, (hort hands and flefhy, the whole body inclining to be fleflily, fomtimes plumpe corpulent and flegma. tick, if (he be in Afpe^ with Soratb in a Nativity or Queftion,(he ufually fighifies fomc blemifh in or nccj: the eye, a hurt in or neer the eye, if her figures be infuccedant houfcs,if (he be unfortunate by com- pany with ill figures and ill Afpcfts in Angles, he fpoileth the fight.
The qualities of men and women ; (he fignificth are, Queens, CountciTes, Ladies, all manner of womeuj as alfo the common people. Travellers, Pil- grims, Marriners, Fifhermen, b ifhmongers. Brew- ers, Tapflers, Vintners, Letter-Carriers, Porters in Cities, Crach-men, Huntfmen, MefTengers, (fome fay the Popes Legats) Millers, Alewives, Malfters, Drunkerds, Oifter-wives, F ilher-women , Chare- women, Tripe- women, and generally fuch womea ^j carry comodities in the ftrcetsi as alfo Mid wives,
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NurfeSjC^c. Hackney-men^ fuch as carry Sedans, Water-men, Water-Bearcrs.
Sicknefles , arc Apoplexes, Palfie, the ChoUick, theBelly-akc, difeafesinthe lefcfide^ Stones, the Bladder and Members of Generation, the MenftrucS and Liver in Women, Dropfie, Fluxes of the Belly, all cold Rhumatick Difeafes, cold Scomack, the Gpi|C in the Rifts and Feet, Sciatica, Cholick, Worms in Children and Men, Rhumcs or hurts in the eyes, viz, in the left of Men, an d right of Wo- ;men, Surfeits, rotten Coughs,Couvultion fits, the Falling fickneffe. Kings Evill, Apofthume, .Small Poxand Meafles.
Of Colours^ the White, or pale Yellow, White, pale Green , or a little of the Silver colour 5 of fa- vours, the frefh or without any Savour, fuch as in herbs before they be ripe, or fuch as demoiften the iBrain,e^c.
The Herbs Plants and Trees, which are fubjeft to H^fmodai-fitr Idea and figures have foft and thick ivory leaves, of a Waterifh or a little fweetifh tafle, they love to grow in watry places, and grow quick- ly into an Ivory magnitude, and are theCoiwort, Cabbage, Mellqn, Gourd, Pompilion, Onion, Mandrake^ Poppy? LetticejRapCj the Linden tree, Mufhroms, Endirc, all otherTrees or Herbs, who Iiave round, fliady, great fpreadmg leaves, and are little fruitful!.
All fuch Beafts or the like which live intheWater, fhe figuifieth Frogs, the Otter,Snails, ^(T. theWee- fle, theCunny; all5caFowle, theCookoe^Geefe, Ducks, the Night Owles.
Of Fifhes: TheOifterand Cockle, all flicll Fifli, i|hcCraUand]^obftcr,Tortoife, Ecle.
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