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 longeth to Venus; and they made the ame againt Serpents and Scorpions, poyons, and evil pirits; his econd face acending, which is the face of the Sun, and Decanate of Jupiter; and they report that it maketh him who carrieth it, wife, of a good colour; and they report that the image of Cancer is mot efficacious againt Serpents, and poyons, when Sol and Luna are in conjunction in it, and acend in the firt and third face; for this is the face of Venus, and the Decanate of Luna; but the econd face of Luna, the Decanate of Jupiter: They report alo that Serpents are tormented when the Sun is in Cancer: Alo that Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, becaue they contitute the earthly and Southern triplicity, do cure hot infirmities, and prevail againt the Synocall Feaver; it maketh thoe that carry it grateful, aceptable, eloquent, devout and religious, becaue they are the Houes of Venus, Mars, and Saturn: Capricorn alo is reported to keep men in afety, and alo places in ecurity, becaue it is the exaltation of Mars.

Here are beides in the Zodiack thirty ix images, according to the number of the faces, of the which, (as Porphyry aith) Teucer the Babylonian long ince wrote, who was a mot ancient Mathematician, after whom the Arabians alo wrote of thee things. Therefore it is aid, that in the firt face of Aries, acendeth the image of a black man, tanding and cloathed in a white garment, girdled about, of a great body, with reddih eyes, and great trength, and like one that is angry; and this image ignifieth and caueth boldnes, fortitude, loftines, and hamelenes; in the econd face acendeth a form of a woman, outwardly cloathed with a red garment, and under it a white, preading abroad over her feet, and this image caueth noblenes, height of a Kingdom, and greatnes of dominion: in the third face arieth the figure of a white