Book 7 . T^he Jeniple oflVifdomP, 2 O i

-^ And Georaancer s accribuce this figure to
-^ % this houfe, KedemcU^^ Zariel are the Ruler
if and Idea of this (eventh Angle of the Earth.
^ The third Angular houfc i$ the leventh, cal- led by the Alirologers the Weft Angle ; tis the dcnotatorof all contentions and controveriics,and conlequently to won:ien in relarion to their husbands , for the man as an assent, the woai^n as patient , as in all other controverfics, istaken forafcendent,and in the indication of celeftial mactars falls into the fevench Houfe,
It is then to be noted , that when any creature of what kind foever, makes any afTauIt, or does any vio,- lence, the contention is denoted both according to the condition and quality of theaffiuit, and according to the defence which both make .
^0 Arnaldfis de VilU ^^ez^.t, leaves it of himfelf,that in a drcara he faw fou ■ Wolves afTtulting him with open mouth, but that he thruft through the biggeftof them; four dayes after he overcame in fuit four ad- vcrfarjcs. Hither may be referred what is before largely handled in Ihe Harmony of the Ff'^orld,
Bur as to women , it is to be noted in general ; That to lie with awoman prolHtutc, fignifics in feme way profpcrity ; but a Virgin , much labour with lit- tle advantage; the latter being properly barren, and the other to far fruitful, as that flic is alwaies ready for the ad. This alio hath obtained the credit of a perfage ; That in going out of any place ©f traffique , aker having made their markc-ts,the meeting of ihum- pets fignifie gain ; the meeting of itcrile perfons, lofs. But fuch things as thefe', are currant racher by the ftamp of experience , then by any natural realon ta- ken from caufes concurring to the efTential conftitution of the thing';. O o 3 B^rz^^bU
2 0^ The T^cmple ofWifdeme. Book 2.
^ :^ '^arz.abel and BarthkJ, own this Quarter
^ of the Earth. The third fucceding Houfe is 5^ * the eighth, called by the AflroIogersJDc»^«/ :>K ^ mortis^ whence the fignification of death and the end of a mans life isfignified : Hither ap- pertain thole dreams that are the prefaces and fcrc-run- nets of death*
Suetonius tchics o( C^t/phurifta^ Jul. Cafars wife ^ that the night before the aflaffination, fhe dreamt that the roof of the Houfe feii, that her husband was thruft into the belly, and that prefently the Chamber door of it felf flew open. And while the next day flie related the dream to Jtilipuy behold there came in a bird with a branch of Laurel from Tompejs Court , which en- tring in was purfucd by many other Birds of divers kinds, from a Grove hard by, and having killed it, tare it in pieces. And Jfilins himfelf thought in his flcep, that he flew above the clouds : another time, that he fhaked hand with Jupiter x another time, that he was caft down headlong, j^ilws therefore forewarned not fo much by his own dream , as by the augury of the Sooth-fayer Spfiriyia ^ to look to himlelf from the Calends till the Ides of March were pafl-, kept himfelf in a while , but afterwards going abroad and meeting with this Sooth iayer , the Calends are come fayes he to him ; Spurina anfwered, but they are not paft Sir ; fo going forward to the Capitol , he was killed by the Confpirators.
*So the Crows eating out of the basket on Pharaoh Bakers head, pieUgcd his hanging. So to a certain Lady a black Cloak , wherewith (he dreamt her felf cloathed for to go to a Funeral , foretold her own death.
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