SVche men and women as ben borne vnder the Mone shall be lowly and seruyable / and very gentyll. And if it be a mayden childe / she shal be very shame faste and womanly / and they shall be well fauoured both man and woman / theyr faces shall be full & rounde / they shall be very pa∣cyent folkes: and wyll suffre moche wronge or they be reuenged / and wyll be softe of spe∣che and very curteyse / and shall lyue honstly with suche as god shal sende them / and wyl haunte vertuous company / they shal be wel fourmed of body: and haue mery lokes & loue honestly to be glad / & wyll lyue very chaste∣ly / & loue greatly the vertue of clennes / bothe in worde & dede / they hate lecherous talkers / of rybawdry / theyr colour shal be myxed but with lytell rednes / they shal ryght gladly go arayed in many coloured clothes / & they shall soone swete in the forhed. Also they wyll ha¦ue great desyre to be maysters & maystresses ouer great stremes / ryuers / and floodes / and shall deuyse many propre engynes for to take fysshe & to deceyue them / loke what they saye and it shall be true & stedfaste / and they shall
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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be very honest & good goers on fote: and wyl comforte sycke persons / he shall loue wel to talke somtyme of meruayles / he shall nat ke∣pe hatred longe in his mynde / and he shall ap¦pese the people vnder colour with cōmunyca¦cyons: as well as other shuld do with syluer. Honest women he shall loue / & he wyll hate harlottes & brothelles / and shall norysshe chil¦dren vp in vertu and good maners. And the lyghtes and the braynes of man is vnder the gouernaunce of Luna that is the moone.