Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

••Of the starre Cometa, chap. 32.

COmeta is a Starre beclipped with burning gleames, as Beda doth say, and is sodeinly bred, & betokeneth chan∣ging of kings, and is a token of Pesti∣lence, or of war, or of winds, or of great heate. Sometime it séemeth, y^t such stars so beset with blasing beames, moue with the mouing of Planets: And somtime it séemeth that they be pight & not mouea∣ble. And alwaye (as Beda saith) they be séene in a certaine place of heauen: And they passe not by diuerse parts of y^t Zo∣diac, as Planets do, but if séemeth y^t they be in y^t circle that is called Laclens, or Galaxia, & they spread their beames to∣ward the North, and neuer towarde the West. And therefore they be not seene in the West side. And they be séene but in short space of time, that is seauen daies: but sometime it is séene the space of. 8. daies, as Beda telleth. Whereof it is y^t this star that is called Cometa commeth and is gendered, whether it bée of Pla∣nettes, or of starres that bée pight:

alway he is séene in the firmament in the North side as he saith. Héereof it fo∣loweth, that the starre that was séene in the birth of Christ was not Cometa, for he passed and moued out of the East by South toward the West: and so moue not the starres that be called Stella Co∣mete, as Chrisostomus saith.