A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555.

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A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555.
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Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?
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Imprynted at London :: Within the blacke Fryars, by Thomas Gemini,
1555.
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Metereology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Almanacs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17556.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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To know what the Moone differeth from the Sunne.

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MVltiplie the age of the Moone, by 4, and deuide by. 10: the quo∣tient sheweth the signes, that the Moone differeth frome the Sunne: the remayne augmented by. 3, bryngeth degrees to be added.

Nowe shall folowe, what dayes in euery moneth are vnmete to let bludde, daungerous to suffre woūding, perillous to fall sicke, deathly to iourney, euell to marrye, and naught to take any mater in hande. The whole yeare after this compte folowinge, hath. 33. euell dayes.

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