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 172 Gerard Cremonenfis.

for the (IrongHoufes fignifie dearth and fcarcity, theSucce- dents a moderate feafon, neither too dear, nor too cheap, the Cadents fignifie plenty and profitableness of things. Con- lideralfo the Planet , and their places, which if they be in ftrong Houfes , the things which are Signified by thofc Pla- nets will be rare : and note, That Saturn doth fignifie fields, vines, and mffruments to work in fields, and leather, and of fruits, corn, acorns, oak-applcs> and pomegranates. Jupiter hath oil,honey,filk-wormes, cloth, wine , and grafs , and things that arc odoriferous. (JVCart fignifies wine, andflefh, and efpecially hogs > wars, and armour, and fuch things as belong thereunto, and red garments. The 5*»hathfig- nification of wheat, and wine, purple colours, anddoth, and all things that are alhmulated unto gold, horfesand birds, fuch as hawks and falcons. Venm doth fignifie fatnefs and grapes, figs and dates, fifli and paflimes. Otfercurjrbzth barley, millet, grain, money, and quickfilver. ThcUWoon fignifies oats, milk,checfc, fire and falr,cows, rams, hens,and filver, and accordingly plenty and fcarcity of them.

Qucftions of the fifth Honfe.

TF you would know whether a woman be with Child, or whether fhe will have any children, or not, look if the Lord of the Afcendent be in the feventh,ortheLordofthe fifth in the firff, or the Lord of the firft in the fifth, or if the Lord of the fifth be in the feventh, or if the Lord of the fe- venth be in the fifth, or the Atom with them ; or if good Pla- nets be in the firft, or the fifth, or with the Lord of the fifth, or* R * in Angles, fhe is with child, or may have children ; but if you finde none of them, but evil Planets in the fame places, fhe neither is with childe, neither will fhe have any children : and if there be both good and evil Planets in thefaid places, then happily fhe may have children, but they will not live ; but M Cancer ^ ScerpioCt Pifces fliall be in the firft or fifth Houfe, fhe may have chil- dren ; but if Leo nwiFirgo be there, fhe is not with child, nei- ther

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