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 We must give o'er the operation. Come, We know enough.

Your Highness must permit me Just to contemplate Venus. She's now rising: Like as a sun, so shines she in the east.

She is at present in her perigee, And (hoots down now her strongest influences. Auspicious aspect! fateful in conjunction, At length the mighty three corradiate; And the two stars of blessing, Jupiter And Venus, take between them the malignant Slily-malicious Mars, and thus compel Into my service that old mischief-founder: For long he view'd me hostilely, and ever With beam oblique, or perpendicular, Now in the Quartile, now in the Secundan, Shot his red lightnings at my stars, disturbing Their blessed influences and sweet aspects. Now they have conquer'd the old enemy, And bring him in the heavens a prisoner to me.

And in a corner house, your Highness—think of that! That makes each influence of double strength.

And sun and moon, too, in the Sextile aspect, The soft light with the veh'ment—so I love it.