The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...

15. Under the Table of Terms.

Would you the Reason why Old Causes cease? Both Plaintiffs and Defendants are at Peace: The Plague compos'd much Discord, whilst we saw More Terms, than ever Lawyer, Terms of Law. Yet brisk Executors New Suits Commence, Which may prove Older than their Evidence.

This was the very last Year that this Learned Per∣son wrote Almanacks. His leaving off was a great Loss to Astronomers, Philosophers, Astrologers, Poets, &c. — as they will find by these several most Choice and Curious Collections.

There are divers other Curious Fancies of this Lear∣ned Author; but they being more Astrological than any that are here mentioned, and not very easily understood without a large Comment, (except by Persons skilled in that Science) is the grand reason why the Collector hath omitted their Publication.

Multa renascentur, que jam cecidêre, cadent{que} Quae nunc sunt in honore, vocabula, si volet usus; Quem penes arbitrium est, & vis, & norma loquendi, Horat. de Art. Poet.

Next, I shall present you with his Gesta Britannorum, Or Brief Chronology for Sixty and Six Years, of all the Remarkable Acts Perpetrated in the Islands of Great Britain.

FINIS.