Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

PART 2.

The second in course is the ☌ of ☉ and ♄ in ♌ 2. with a nebulous fixed star, which bids Saturnine people beware

their eyes, and among them my self, it happens Iuly 14. 1652. 19. h. 13 '. p.m. the ☽ being at that time in △ to them both from ♈.

Now begin the effects of the Eclipse to work, and hee is a fool in grain that prefers Tradition before Reason, I shall tell you hereafter when Authors say the effects shall begin. Now the Princes of Europe beat their heads to finde out which is the readiest way to undo themselves, Ambassadors are rife; but whether Princes consult together to outwit one another, or to secure one another, or the like, there is some question of them both, and is never a barrel better Herring, If presently after this conjunction, you finde not a Pestilence and also many uproars in Rome; also Bohemia troubled much with war, the Florentines all in an uproar, and here in Eng∣land many people troubled with sore eyes, and other diseases of heat of blood; especially a Cephallick disease, called an ad∣dle Brain, say I am no Artist; Men shall wonderfully be given to lying and deceiving, they know not what they would have, their thoughts are in a Chaos, and hang together like ropes of sand, their thoughts dance up and down from one thing to another without any order: so that if they would look upon them with the eye of Reason, they begin without order and end without issue: we may say of mens dispositions about this time, as Seneca said of mens lives, They are tossed much, but sail nothing; and truly, this is a very shrewd Disease, the only true cure that I at present know for it, is to observe the vanity of your owne dispositions. What a vaine thing is it, That a man whose Birth and breeding hath made him but a a Bramble, never to rule over the Trees, should offer to turne Statesman, or except against the government he cannot mend; Thomaso Masianello the Fisherman did so at Naples, to his own destruction, and the City also: Truly, I had not given you so many cautions, had I not been confident, That about this time your Wits be too subject to runn a wooll-gathering to their own destruction.

Besides Guido saith, That the conjunction of Sol & Saturn in Leo, maketh children disobedient, and act things cleane

contrary to their Parents will: They say that Gemini is the Ascendant of London; and yet this we finde by experience, That Saturn never came into Leo but he punisheth this City; let her Magistrates and Common-councel-men avoid perniti∣ous Counsels and Debates about this time: I am very jea∣lous, if God do not immediately contradict the influence of the Heavens about this time, such a thing, or such a like thing may be; and perhaps something worse, if some be not wiser then some, there be those now living that will have occasion to temember August or September 1652. so long as they have a day to live.