A strange and wonderfull prognostication: or rather, prenomination of those accidents which shall, or at least are likely to happen as may be coniectured by the rules and directions of astrology, in this yeare 1624. Written by Anthonio Magini, an Italian professor of the mathematickes, and much experienced in astonomy. And now faithfully translated into English.

March.

THe 5, with the full Moone, was Saturne still in the middest of heauen in the fiery Lyon, and Iupiter walked vp and downe on the same height, intending to asswage the former anger of the Lyon, but he min∣ded something else, seeing that Sol came toward him, so that all the Elements shewed their power to goe towards the Northerne places of the West-Indies, whereupon the Sunne, Moone, Windes, and Waters droue with great force vnder the Aequator or Line towards the Islands of Cuba and Hispaniola, euen in such manner that many did maruell at it. And Iupiter, who would shew his power, lost a piece of his beard, thinking onely to stay the streames: but alas, it was in vaine, seeing that Iupiter (whose Masts reach vnto the skies) was himselfe in the Fleet which caried in her co∣lours Batauia and a Lyon) whom Iupiter thought to tye so fast that he should not be able to moue a vaine, but he lost idlely his labour.

The 12 being the last quarter, Iupiter commanded his Bird the Eagle, to take the pan by the tayle to look how many egges the Boers threw into the pan; and to learne his subiects to liue sparingly, in Lent, wher∣upon many were blacke and starued.

O poore husbandmen that liue betwixt the East and the blacke Sea, and especially you that liue about the riuers of Elbe, Weser, Rhyne, and Donow. In the same time was Mars in the house of Death, namely, in Taurus, or the wild Bull, with his steeled or strong hornes, vsing there such violence, that hee will make mankind almost weary of their liues. And euen in the same time there shall also be a Basilisque or Cokatrice that shall brood egges, of which the young ones shall be seene in many places. Venus was in Aquarius, and Luna in Capricornus, all the Planets being in strange houses, which surely betokens some strange thing, as the Starres also of the East, South, and North passage vpon the height of the Spanish and Netherlandish Seas. Towards Turky and France is also something seene which is not pleasing to the Gods.

The 19 being new Moone, there is also about Mexi∣ca or Noua Hispania a darknesse in the Sunne seene, which wil cause great alteration in those lands, as like∣wise in Congo, the red Sea, Goa, and other places of the East-Indies, for they are almost all vpon one cly∣mate.

The Sun comming into Aries, there shall a strange and wonderfull ioy be heard, and night and day shall then be of one length, and the graines in the Northern parts shall be sold better cheape then they were at the last Haruest when all the barnes were full.

The 26, being the last quarter, there shall at the be∣ginning of the sweet time be spoken of great warlike preparations, but they shall not all come to effect, by reason of some small Gods (vnderstand thereby neu∣trall Princes) neuerthelesse there shall vpon the ap∣pointed time a Fleet of Neptune be set abroad, and he that shall goe with it vnder the earth, shall haue good successe, for the Sunne is in a good Climate, and this is likewise a fertile yeare in generall, few Countries onely excepted, in which shall deadly vapours and mists rise out of the earth, and poyson both fields and trees, and are shortly euen against nature out of the East to come into the West, contrary to the foremen∣tioned course of the Firmament.