Piinies Natural! Hiftorie, 



Chap, xxxii, 



p|j The cenfidcration of the LMopne and her cm{e^ nffeclm tm- 

 to Husbandrie, 



HEreunto (ball bee annexed a difcourfc as touching the Moone and the Winds, togethes: 

 with the Prognoftication depending thereupon, as much as may bee thought neceflarie 

 and pertinent to Agriculture, to the end,that our rufticke Aftrologie may in ali points be 

 accomplifhedandperfc(Sl. ^oi Virgil alfowasof this opinionaThatfomcbufineffeandworkes 

 of Husbandrie were to be digefled and divided juft according to the daics of every Moon in m- 

 5 der as they goejfollowing herein the vanitie and oftentation oi Democrit'M,V ox mmzom-iC^zit 

 as I have hitherto in all my worke throughout refted upon the good and profitable rules of our 

 aunccftorsjfoin this point alio I meaneto take their diredion^and goc by no other. According 

 to their ordinances and precepts therefore, this firft is to be obferved, That whatfoever is to bee ce 

 cut,gathered,or laid np,be it wood,ftuicl:,or grainCjit ought to be doneratherin the wane of the cc 

 Moone,than whiles Qie is croifant toward the full,& leile daunger is it fubjed unto,//f^w,Touch c c 

 no mucke,norlayit upon thy lands butafcerthefuilj when iheeis in thewane. Dungthy it 

 ground,whiles the Moone is in conjunction with the Sunne,and in the fiift or laft quarter.Gueld cc 

 Bores and Steeresjib Rams and Kids or young Goats in the old xnooxiQ Jtem^Sti Mens to couve cc 

 egs in the new of the Moone.Make thy trenches by night in the full Moone. Likevvife,cover the c< 

 C roots of trees with mould when the Moone is at the fulh/z^'/Wjln moid grounds fbw and fet either cc 

 in the very chaunge,orfouredaies before and after. As for the winnowingjvanning^andlayiiig cc 

 up either of corne or puire,they would have it done in the oldMoonejaboutthe laft quarter. As cc 

 aUbjThat Pepiniers^Scminanes or Nource- garden Sjbe made when the Moon appeareth above cc 

 thecarih.But grapes ought to be trodcn,and new wine prefled^whiles (hec is under our horizon, 

 Likewife, timber is to bee hewed, and many things elle to bee done accordingly, v\-hereof wee ^ 

 have written alreadie in their feverall places. And albeit theobfervation of the Moone, her age 

 and chaungc is eafie ynough, and nothing mcire familiar ; whereof alfo I have written fuflicient- 

 ly in the fecond volume of this worke : yec further to inftrud the fimplc countrey man who kno- 

 weth never a letter of his bookCjand to fet before his eies the true order and courfc of her moti- 

 D on and mutation,let lum but obferve and marke thus mi!ch,That fo often as il^e is feene Weft- 

 ward after the Sunne is gone downe,and ftiineth the forepart of the night orfeiy, fhe is croifant, 

 and in her firft quarter, and then (hall a man difcerne evidently by the eistheonehalieof her 

 bodie light '.but looke when,as the Sunnefecteih in the Weiyiic riieth at the fame inftantover- 

 againft him in the Eaft, fo as they maybe both feene at once, be fure ilie is in the full. Againe, 

 whenfoeverfheeriieth hie in the Weft, andrnincthnotmthe fore- part of the night, but to- 

 ward the morning, make account iliee i: in the wane, and fneweth but her halfe part againe. 

 But fo long as (Tiee appeaicth not at all, and giveth no light, allure yourielte fbee is in the con- 

 jundion with the Sunne ahthat while, and this in Ladnc iscalled interlunium,[/.fhechange.} 

 Now at the verie inftant of ler conjundion or chaunge, and the firft (l3y,untill flie bee on-c day 

 E old, fhee will remainc abovedie earth fo long as the Sunne is there a jfo with her; the fecoud day 

 fbe will bee in our hemifphsie by night, tenoe * twelve paits of an houre, and a quarter of one * 51 

 twelfth part. Thus in proporcon will fl'ieeriie i:rto the fifteenth day after herthaunge, multi- 

 plying eveneday the faid porton of the houres , When this fifteenth day is comejllee will be 

 all the night whole above the ^ith, and ali day long under. Vpon the fifteenth day of her age 

 . fhee will remaine beneath our Hemifphsere, after the firft day, tenne parts of twelve, and one 

 quarter of a twelfth part withic sight before fnee rife and fliew her feitc, and fo will ihee keeps 

 daily the forcfaid proportion jut, in late rifing '. deminilhing ftill her light by the fame degrees, 

 untillthechaunge. And loo!iehowmuch fliccftaicthinihebeginningof the night under the 

 earth ere fhee appesre in our Hotzon , fo long in the next morning wilf it bee aicer day-light, 

 F ere (liee goe downe. Finally, everj fecond moneth the Moone hath thirtie daies full out : like 

 as each other moneth betweene (hf. wanteth oneof thatnumber,and hath but nineand tw,en- 

 tis. Thusmqch concerning the cowfe of the Moone in regard of Husbandrie, 



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