ALl these men & women / that ben borne vnder Venus / they shall be very gaye louers / pleasaunt and delycyous / and moste comonly they shall haue blacke iyen / & lytell browes / red lyppes and chekes / with a smylynge chere / they shall loue the noyse of trumpettes / claryons / and of other mynstral∣sy / and they shall be pleasaunt syngers with swete voyces / & full of wanton toyes / play∣es / and skoffynges / and shall greatly delyte in daunsynge / & in castynge of gamboudes / with lepynge and spryngynge / & wyll vse playinge at the chesse / cardes / & tables / & desy¦re oft to comen of luste & loue / & coueyte often swete metes & drynkes / as wyne / & be often dronken / & desyre lechery / and the beholdynge of fayre women / and the women of men in lyke wyse. And vse the dede of flesshely luste often tymes: they wyll desyre fayre clothes of gay coloure and fyne / with rynges of vany∣te / & all vayne pleasure of the worlde / with perles & precyous stones / they shall loue flou∣res with swete smelles / yet shall they be of good fayth: and they shall loue other as well as them selfe / & they shall be lyberall to theyr
Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost.
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- Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost.
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- [[London] :: Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge at the sygne of seynt Iohn Euangelyste, in seynt Martyns Parysshe in the Felde, in the bysshop of Norwytche rentes, besyde Charyng crosse,
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"Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10201.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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¶ The proprytes of Venus.
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frendes / they shal haue fewe enemyes / if they be browne / they shall be well proporcyoned of body / and if they swere it is true / ye maye byleue them / and Venus gouerneth the kyd∣neys of man.