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COnfidcr fcrioufly your Significators and your Fi* I gure of Numbers : fixed idea's prolong the bufi^ nefs, bi-corporeal Figures (hew an indifferency, or the time to be neither months nor years : moveable Figures haften the matter. You may meafure out your time by the Idea's and Figures into years^monthSjWeeks ordays, as we directed you before. Here fillorpj an E xamfle,
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BEing at dinner the eleventh of Fehruary^ at John T>ighy Efq. his houfe, with the Duke of Bucking" hamy my Lord of Oxford^ and other Lords and Gentle- men 5 amongft other difcourfes the Duke propounded Ibme queftions to me ; and (being willing to do him fervice) 1 projected this Figure ye fee, and gave him my judgement the next time I did meet him 3 which was a little after, one night at Mr. J^erg'shoufc atthc Sun-Tavern in Alderfgate-^reeth faying, Sir, I have examined the Powers above and below, and dofindc (the laft day oi March^ or firft o{ April) One of jour fervants mil endeavour to kill you ^ and you (hall be in great danger : which thing truly happened to him in- deed, as we all know.
Now you may fee what an admirable Art this is, and allthatpraftifeit (hall finde it infallible , and (hall gain honour and fame by it. And now we proceed to ano* ther Queftion.