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250 Which others say must needs be false, Because your true bears have no tails. Some say, the zodiac constellations Have long since chang'd their antique stations Above a sign, and prove the same In Taurus now, once in the Ram; Affirm'd the Trigons chopp'd and chang'd, The wat'ry with the fiery rang'd; Then how can their effects still hold To be the same they were of old? This, though the art were true, would make Our modern soothsayers mistake, And is one cause they tell more lies, In figures and nativities, Than th' old Chaldean conjurers, In so many hundred thousand years; Beside their nonsense in translating, For want of accidence and Latin;