LIL 



LIL 



smooth on both sides ; panicle the bent of his inclinations, which led 

 about two inches in length, somewhat py- him to follow the puritanical preachers, 

 ramidal ; corolla white, but soon changes 

 to a reddish-brown. Privet is found wild 

 in most parts of Europe, and in Japan, in 

 woods and hedges ; it flourishes best in 



a moist soil. 



LIKE quantities, or SIMILAR quantities, 



Afterwards turning 1 his mind to judicial 

 astronomy, in 1632 he became pupil, in 

 that art, to one Evans, a profligate Welsh 

 parson ; and the next year gave the pub- 

 lic a specimen of his skill, by an intima- 

 tion that the King had chosen an unlucky 



in algebra, are such as are expressed by horoscope for the coronation in Scotland, 

 the same letters, to the same power, or In 1634, getting a manuscript copy of the 

 equally repeated in each quantity; though " Ars Noticia" of Cornelius Agrippa, 

 the numeral co-efficient may be differ- with alterations, he drank in the doctrine 

 ent : thus, 4 a and 5 a are like quantities; of the magic circle, and the invocation of 

 so also are oz 1 and 9s 1 ; and likewise spirits, with great eagerness, and prac- 

 Sbdy* 10 b dy-. But 4 a and 8 6 are not tised it for some time; after which he 

 like quantities ; nor are 4 a and 4 iC-. treated the mystery of recovering stolen 



LIKE figures, the same as SIMILAR goods, &c. with great contempt, claiming 

 figures. All like figures have their homo- a supernatural sight, and the gift of pro- 

 logous lines in the same ratio. Like phetical predictions ; all which he well 

 plane figures are in the duplicate ratio, knew how to turn to good advantage, 

 or as the squares of their homologous Meanwhile he had buried his first wife, 

 lines or sides; and like solid figures are purchased a moiety of thirteen houses in 

 in the triplicate ratio, or as the cubes of the Strand, and married a second wife, 

 their homologous sides. who, joining to an extravagant temper a 



LILIUM, in botany, lily, a genus of the termagant spirit, which he could not lay, 

 Hexandria Monogynia class and order, made him unhappy, and greatly reduced 



Natural order of Coronarkc. Lilia, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character : corolla six-pe- 

 talled, bell-shaped, with a longitudinal 

 nectareous line ; capsule, the valves con- 

 nected by cancellated hairs. There are 

 eleven species, with many varieties, L. 

 candidum, common white lily, has a large 

 bulb, from which proceed several succu- 

 lent fibres ; it has a stout, round, upright 



his circumstances. 



With this uncomfortable yoke-mate he 

 removed, in 1636, to Hersham, in Surrey, 

 where he staid till 1641 ; when, seeing a 

 prospect of fishing in troubled waters, he 

 returned to London. Here, having pur- 

 chased several curious books in this art, 

 which were found on pulling down the 

 house of another astrologer, he studied 



stem, usually three feet in height ; leaves them incessantly, finding out secrets con- 



long and numerous, smooth and sessile ; tained in them, which were written in an 



flowers white, terminating the stern in a imperfect Greek character ; and, in 1644, 



cluster, on short peduncles ; petals with- he published his " Merlinus Anglicus," 



/ i , / i i * . jl_ 1 1_ 1*11 , 1 1 



in of a beautiful shining 1 white, on the 

 outside ridged, and less luminous. Na- 

 tive of the Levant. 



LILLY (WILLIAM), in biography, a 

 noted English astrologer, born in Leices- 

 tershire in 1602. His father was not able 

 to give him further education than com- 

 mon reading and writing ; but young 

 Lilly being of a forward temper, and en- 

 dued with shrewd wit, he resolved to 

 push his fortune in London, where he ar- 



an almanack, which he continued annual- 

 ly till his death, and several other astro- 

 logical works, devoting his pen, and 

 otherlabours, sometimes to King Charles's 

 party, and at others to that of the parlia- 

 ment, but mostly to the latter, raising his 

 fortune by favourable predictions to both, 

 parties, at one time by presents, and at 

 others by pensions. Thus, in 1648, the 

 council of state gave him in money fifty 

 pounds, and a pension of one hundred 



rived in 1620, and, for a present support, pounds per annum, which he received for 



articled himself as a servant to a mantua- 

 maker in St Clement Danes. But in 

 1624, he moved a step higher, by enter- 

 ing into the service of Mr. Wright, in 

 the Strand, master of the Salters* Com- 

 pany, who not being able to write, Lilly, 

 among other offices, kept his books. On 

 the death of his master, in 1627, Lilly 

 paid his addresses to the widow, whom 

 lie married, with a fortune of one thou- 

 sand pounds. 



two years, and then resigned it on some 

 disgust. 



By his advice and contrivance, the 

 King attempted several times to make his 

 escape from confinement; he procured 

 and sent the aqua fortis, and files to cut 

 the iron bars of his prison windows at Ca- 

 risbrook Castle ; but still advising and 

 writing for the other party at the same 

 time. Meanwhile he read public lectures 

 on astrology in 1648 and 1649, for the im- 

 provement of voung students in that art ; 



