A prognostication for euer, made by Erra Pater, a Iew, borne in Iury, Doctor in Astronomie and Phisicke very profitable for to keepe the body in health: and also Ptholomeus saith the same.

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A prognostication for euer, made by Erra Pater, a Iew, borne in Iury, Doctor in Astronomie and Phisicke very profitable for to keepe the body in health: and also Ptholomeus saith the same.
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Erra Pater.
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[London] :: Printed by Thomas Este,
[ca. 1605]
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Almanacs, English -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"A prognostication for euer, made by Erra Pater, a Iew, borne in Iury, Doctor in Astronomie and Phisicke very profitable for to keepe the body in health: and also Ptholomeus saith the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17624.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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For to vnderstand & know the yeere that shall be plentious, & in great aboundance of goods.

In die Dominica. That is Sunday.

In the yéere that Ianuarie shall enter on the Sunday, that winter shall be cold

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and moist, the Summer shall hée hot, and the time of Haruest shall bée windie, and rainy, with great aboundance of corne, of wines and other graines, & of all garden fruits & hearbs, there shall bee little Oyle, abundance shalbée of all manner of flesh, some great newes shall men heare spoken of Kings and Prelats of the Church, and also of great Princes, great warres and robberies shall bee made, and many yong people shall dye.

In die Luna. That is Munday.

In the yéere that Ianuarie shall enter on the Munday, the Winter shall bée peace∣able enough, and the Summer shall bée very temperate. Then shall bée great flouds of water that shall breake out of their limits and bonds, and many ships vpon the Sea shall perish, and in that yéere shall raigne diuers sicknesses, and changes of great Lords shall bée made, many women shall perish in trauayling with Childe, many great Lords shall die. That yéere shall bée little grasse and Mustard séede, but there shall be plentie of

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Corne and Wines and good cheap flesh, but little Oyle.

In die Martis. That is Tuesday.

IN the yéere that Ianuarie shall en∣ter on the Tuesday, the winter shall be changeable and not stedfast, for in the Prime, of truth it shall fréese, and that shall hurt sore the Rye, the Vines, and the flowers, that Summer shall be drye, hot, & burning, insomuch that the hearbs of the Gardens shall haue no power to come out of the ground.

All thinges shall be déere saue onely Corne, many men shall dye of the bloody flix, there shall be no tidings of Thun∣der, lightning, and tempest, but all flesh shall be déere, many wines shall turne.

In die Mercurij. That is Wednesday.

In the yéere that Ianuary shall enter on the Wednesday, the Winter shall be

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temperate, but in the ende there shall bée Snowes & Frosts, the prime time shall be rainie, great aboundance of all Corne, of Wine, of Fruits, of Hay 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Grasse, and generally of all good things. The Sum∣mer shall bée little cloudie, by the which thereof shall come great sicknesse. Poore labourers, as handy crafts and artificers shall gaine méetly well that yéere, many théeues there shalbe, by whom the mean people shall be sore pilled and discomfited, great warre, battaile and slaughter shall bée towards the middest of the yéere, by the which shall come great good to some men. In the end of the yéere shall bée di∣uers pestilences, botches, and falling euils, especially next the Sea.

In die Iouis. That is Thursday.

In the yéere that Ianuarie shall enter on the Thursday, the winter shall be long and most part drye, and the yéere shall bée very wholesome. The Prime time shalbe very wholesome, the Prime time shall bée very windie, the Summer shall be tempe∣rate

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and haruest shall be most part raine∣nie, so that the waters shall sore breake out of their bounds, the Wheate and Wines shall bée good cheape, there shall be of Oates, Hay, Grasse, and of fruites competently enough. Great warre and diuision shall bée béetwéene the Church and the Kings and Princes, and in the ende, the Princes shall haue victorie of their enterprises.

Women shall set themselues much to le∣cherie, people shall bée well cased of tax∣es and tallages.

In die Ʋeneris. That is Friday.

In the yéere that Ianuarie shall enter on the Friday, the winter shall bée long & dry, and the summer vnwholesome, har∣uest shall be dry, all corne shall bée déere, the vintage shall be good enough, & aboun∣daunce of Oyle, of fruit, of hey, of grasse, and of Garden hearbes, the world shall bée sore persecuted with diuers sicknesses as sore eies and of all Etiks, many yong children shall dye, great Thunder, Ligh∣tening and tempests shall bée, that shall

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grieue sore all the ground, there shall be Earthquakes, and good cheap cloth, poore people shall gaine little or nothing, many beasts shall die for hunger, for the diuersi∣tie and maladie of the time.

In die Sabbati. That is Saterday.

In the yéere that Ianuary shall enter on the Saterday, the winter shall be tem∣perate sufficiently, and in the Prime time shall be Frostes, the which shall destroy the Trées, the Vines, the Oyles, and the fruits, the Summer shall be méetely tem∣perate, the haruest time shall be drye, the Dates & other Corne shall be good cheap, all garden hearbs shall be cheap enough, and flesh shall be good cheap, many olde people shall dye. Feuer tertians shall grieue sore the world, and shall be sicke through euill heate: and many murmu∣rations, warres and murthers shall be done by one against the other, and neigh∣bours against neighbours, and many o∣ther causes shall be oftentimes commit∣ted and done.

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