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but betwixt both, of a sad brown or dark yellowish colour, long visaged, high-forehead, black or gray eyes, a thin long sharp nose, a thin spare beard (many times none at all) of an aburn sad colour next to black, slender of body, smal legs, a pratling busie fellow, and in walking he goes nimbly, and aiwayes would be thought to be ful of action.

MOON — She by reason of her swiftnesse, varieth her shape very oft, but in the general, she personates one having a round visage and ful faced, in whose complexion you may perceive a mixture of white and red, but palenesse overcomes; if she be in fiery signs, the Man or Woman speeks hastily; in watery signs, he or she hath some freckles in his or her face, or is blub cheecked; no very handsome body, but a mudling creature, and unlesse very wel dignified, she ever signifies an ordinary vulgar person.

The colours of the Planets and Signs.

Saturn -- Giveth black colour:Jupiter a colour mixed with red and green: Mars -- red, or iron colour: Sun -- yellow or yellow Purple: Venus -- white or purple colour: Mercury – sky -- colour or blewish: Moon -- a colour spotted with white and other moxt colours.

Aries -- White mixed with red: Taurus -- white with Cirtine:

Gemini -- white mixed with red: Cancer -- green or russet: Leo -- red or green: Virgo -- black speckled with blew: Libra -- black or dark crimson, or tawny colour: Scorpio -- brown:

Sagittarius -- yellow or a green sanguine: Capricorn -- black or russet, or a swart brown:

Aquarius -- a skye -- colour with blew: Pisces -- white glittering colour.

CHAP. XVI.

Of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack, and their

manifold Divisions.

The whole Zodiack is divided into twelve equal parts, which we call Signs, and give them the

names of living Creatures, either

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for their properties they hold with living Creatures, or by reason of the situation of the Starres in those places which somewhat resemble that effigies and similitude of living creatures: Their names and characters follow.