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of the astrological information in this and other calendars 

 of the period : 



" Some hot, some colde, some moyst, some dry, 

 If three be good, foure be worse at the most. 

 Saturne is hyest and coldest, being full, old, 

 And Mars, with his bluddy sweide, ever ready to kyll ; 

 Jupiter very good, and Venus maketh lovers glad, 

 Sol and Luna is half good and half ill, 

 Mercury is good and will verily 

 And hereafter shalt thou know; 

 Whiche of the seven most worthy be, 

 And who reigneth hye, and who a lowe ; 

 Of every planets propertie, > 

 Which is the best among them all, 

 That causeth welth, sorrowe, or sinne, 

 Tarry and heare sone thou shalt, 

 Speake softe, for now I beginne." 



Afterwards follow some prognostications of the weather. 

 The following method to knowe what wether shall be all 

 the yere after the chaunge of every moone by the prime 

 dayes, is taken from a MS. in Lambeth Palace : 



fl Sondaye pryme, drye vvether. 

 Mondaye pryme, moyst wether. 

 Teusdaye pryme, cold and wynde. 

 Wenesdaye pryme, mervelous. 

 Thursdaye pryme, sonne and clere. 

 Fry day e pryme, fay re and fowle. 

 Saturday e pryme, rayne." 



Prognostications of the weather were early matters of 

 reproach 



" Astronomyers also aren at ere whittes ende, 

 Of that was calculed of the clymat the contrye thei fyndeth. 



And in Heber's library was a little tract of three leaves, 

 entitled f A Mery Prognostication ' 



" For the yere of Chryste's incarnacyon, 

 A thousande fyve hundreth fortye and foure. 

 This to prognosticate I may be bolde, 

 That whan the new yere is come, gone is the olde." 



