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 nomers call them the Twelve Signs, because, as I said before, they sign or mark out the Place of the Sun in the Heavens; and also why the Astrologers called them Houses, because they assigned them as Dwellings or Places of Abode for the Planets:

O! said she, now you talk of Astrology, I must ask you a few Questions about that either now or some other Time; for I long to know whether there be any thing in that Art or no; for I think I have heard you throw out some suspicious Words about it.

, said I, if you please to go on with your Astronomy, you will soon know enough to despise that vain and foolish Cheat, as a thing perfectly beneath your Enquiry into.

well, said she, and so if I will be an Astronomer, it seems, I must at once bid adieu to that darling Pleasure of our Sex, Curiosity, and the Desire of knowing our Fortunes; this is very hard, and you are really, Sir, a very bad Woman's-Man; you have Philosophised me out of many a fair Pleasure already; Censure, Satyr and Gossipping are almost gone; and must dear Inquisitiveness follow them