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.
Author
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 19, 2024.
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The dominion of the Moone in mans bodye.
Aries. The. Head, and face.
Taurus. The. Necke.
Gemini The. Armes, handes, shoulders.
Cancer. The. Brest, stomache, rybbes.
Leo. The. Hart, backe.
Virgo. The. Bowels, belly.
Libra. The. Reynes, nauill, buttockes.
Scorpius. The. Secret membres.
Sagittarius. The. Thyes.
Capricornus. The. Knees.
Aquarius. The. Shynnes, legges.
Pisces. The. Fete.
FRom the chaunge, to the firste quarter, a mete tyme to let yonge men bludde.
From the firste quarter, to the ful, good for middle age.
From the ful, to the laste quarter, apt for aged folke.
From the laste quarter, to the change, best for olde men.
Signes mete for the complexions.
for the fleumatike: the head, and thyes excepted.
ARIES. Sagittarius.
for melancholike: buttockes, and legges excepted
Libra. Aquarius:
for cholerike: brest, membres, and fete excepted.
Cancer. Scorpius Pisces.
For the sanguine,
all be apt that tofore are named good.
In the springe tyme let bludde at the right side.
In Haruest time at the left syde.
The learned Phisician will consider, beside all that is sayde, the Coniunctions, Oppositions, and quadrate aspectes of the Planetes: with many other thinges Astronomical, most necessarie, bothe in bludlet∣letting,
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purging, bathinge, &c.
Notes
Haec diligen∣tissime obser∣uare oportet solertē Medi cū, nisi maiora pericula cogāt