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 158 Gerard Cremonenfa.

mean years forty nine, and his greater years eighty. The lefler years of the CMocn are fifteen, her mean years thirty nine, and her greater years a hundred and feven. And alio look if ^Mars or Saturn fhall he in the firfl Houfe, andthe Lord of the eighth with them ; and if the Sun fhall .be in the eighth,the Querent fhall not live: likewifeif the Lord of the Afcendent fhall happen to be void of courfe, and Mars be in the eighth,the Querent fhall not live ; but if the Sun and the LMoon fhall be in conjunction in the feventh Houfe, and Ve- nn* in the fecond, he fhall live well.

The accidents of the nativity are likwife to beconfidered. If you finde Saturn or Mercury in the firff, • he is foolifh and talkative ; if it be Mars and Mercury^he will not be fervife, but a wrangler and fcoffer ; if the Sun and Mercptry, he will be a fpeaker of truth ; and if the Sun be in Arks, he will ap- ply himfelf to learn whatfoever he fhall hear; itVenutbein the feventh, he will be luxurious ; and if Saturn, Mercury and Ventu be in their fall, he will be a Sodomite ; if the5>« and Vemu be in the tenth, and the /«, Mercury and the Dragons Head be in thefirft, he will be covetous ; if the Moon and Mars be'm the firft, he will be fubjeel to great bondage i and if Mars be Lord of the nativity, he will be rich, and an evil fpeaker, and litigious ; and if the Sun be in the firft, he will be envious, having a fair body,not very lean, nor very fat ; and if Venus be in the hrft, he will be white and fair ; if Mercury be in the firft, he will not be ftable,but alwayes in motion ; but if the Moon be found there, it denotes him to have a graceful face, breft and arms ; if Saturn be there, the man will Be black and filthy j if Jupiter, he will have a round face, a fair forehead, a ruddy complexion mixt with a little white. If you would know his office or art: if the Moonbe in the feventh with Saturn, or in the fourth, or in the tenth, or in the (irft, it is not good for him to build any houfe in a City, nor to build a fhip, neither is it good for him to be a tiller of land, or to drefs vines, or plant trees ; but to be im ployed about fome office belonging to the water, or concerning manages , or

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