CHAP. XXVIII.
* 1.1COmets signifie tempest, as Aristotle saith, and the intempe∣rature of windes and raynes. Thinkest thou then that that which presageth a thing to come is not a starre? For this is not in such sort a signe and presage of tempest as that is of rayne, when
Where boyling oile doth crack, and rotten mushromes growes.Or as it is a signe that the sea will rage,
When Morcheus sport vpon the dryer coast, And leaue the marshes where they haunted most: And mounting hence forsakes his watrie shroudes, And soares aloft aboue the highest cloudes.But thus as the Equinoctiall presageth heat or the cold of the yeare, that run∣neth as the Chaldies say, that the starre that gouerneth on the birth-day, set∣leth and presageth the good or euill hap of men. But to the end thou maiest know that this is thus, the Comet threatneth not the earth with winde and raine sodainly, as Aristotle saith, but maketh all the whole yeare suspected: whereby it appeareth that a Comet hath not sodainly drawne presages to re∣flect them vpon that which shee meeteth withall, but shee hath them in reser∣uation, and comprehended by the lawes of the world: The Comet that appea∣red during the Consulship of Paterculus, and V••piscus, accomplished that which was foretold by Aristotle and Theophrastus: For there were great and continuall tempests euery where. But in Achaia and Macedon the Cities were ruined by earthquake. Their slow motion (saith Aristotle) sheweth that they are waigh∣tie, and haue much earthly exhalation in them: Their course likewise for al∣most ordinarily they are pushed towards the Poles.