GEORGE BEST'S DISCOURSE ad. 



1578. 

 that under the Equinoctiall is the most pleasant and 

 delectable place of the worlde to dwell in ; where although 

 the Sunne for two houres in a yeere be direct over 

 their heades, and therefore the heate at that time some- 

 what of force, yet because it commeth so seldome, and 

 continueth so small a time, when it commeth, it is not 

 to bee wayed, but rather the moderate heate of other Greatest tem- 

 times in all the yeere to be remembred. And if the % a % r ^ r 

 heate at any time should in the short day waxe somewhat ft . tf/ qul ' 

 urgent, the coldnesse of the long night there would easily 

 refresh it, according as Honterus sayeth, speaking of 

 the temperature under the Equinoctiall. 



Quodque die solis violento incanduit aestu, 

 Humida nox reficit, paribusque refrigerat horis. 



If the heate of the Sunne in the day time doe burne 

 or parch any thing, the moysture of the night doeth 

 coole and refresh the same againe, the Sunne being as 

 long absent in the night, as it was present in the day. 



Also our Aucthour of the Sphere, Johannes de Sacro 

 Bosco, in the Chapter of the Zodiacke, deriveth the 

 Etymologie of Zodiacus, of the Greeke word Zoe, which 

 in Latine signifieth Vita, life ; for out of Aristotle hee 

 alleadgeth, that Secundum accessum & recessum solis in 

 Zodiaco, fiunt generationes & corruptiones in rebus 

 inferioribus : according to the Sunnes going to and fro in 

 the Zodiake, the inferiour bodies take their causes of 

 generation and corruption. Then it followeth, that where 

 there is most going too and fro, there is most generation 

 and corruption : which must needes be betweene the two 

 Tropickes ; for there the Sunne goeth too and fro most, 

 and no where else but there. Therefore betweene the Under the 

 two Tropikes, that is, in the middle Zone, is greatest Equinoctiall is 

 increase, multiplication, generation, and corruption of ^^J * 

 things, which also wee finde by experience ; for there is 

 Sommer twice in the yeere, and twice Winter, so that 

 they have two Harvests in the yeere, and continuall 

 Spring. Seeing then the middle Zone falleth out so 



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