¶Of Aprill. Cap. 12.
THe fourth moneth is Aprill, and is called Hiar among the Hebrewes, Xandicos among the Gréekes: And hath thirtie dayes. His night hath ten
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
THe fourth moneth is Aprill, and is called Hiar among the Hebrewes, Xandicos among the Gréekes: And hath thirtie dayes. His night hath ten
houres, and his daye xiiii. and is called Aprilis in Latine, as it were Aperilis: for that time all things open, and then burgen flowers, and leaues spring and come out of the earth and of trées, and therfore Aprill is painted bering a flow∣er.* 1.1 For in that moneth the earth begin∣neth to be closed and arraied with flow∣ers. And this month is called Aprilis, as it were Asfrondilis of Affron, that is, séede: for that time the pores of the earth being opened, the fieldes be apt to be cared and tilled, & apt to receiue séede, when the Sunne about the middle of March, commeth into the signe, that is called Taurus, the Bull.
Some thing is spoken of before in ye Planets.