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vate families, but even monarchs, in all 
their transactions of import, were guided 
by these dogmas: and every day had its 
particular and appropriate walk of busi- 
ness. The following table, according to 
the age of the moon, is taken from p. p. 
76. 77. (omitting only the signs of the 
planets, ) and it serves, both for the wea- 
ther and business. The numbersistand 
for the age of the moon, the second co- 
Jumn consists of the planetary signs, 
(omitted) the third of the weather, the 
fourth of the elections, as he calls it. 
Days of the Moon. 
Temperate.— Journey, take physick, espe- 
cially latatives. 
Temperate or dry.— Journey. 
Very moist.—-Make merchandise, buy cat- 
tle, do not navigate. ; 
4. Dry.—Voyage, treat of marriage, set 
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children toschool, take medicines. 
. Cold and Moist, most cold.—Plant, sow 
seeds, &c. bad for marriages, and voy- 
ages by water. 
6. Temperate.—Apt to war, bad to sow 
seeds, plant, &c. 
7. Moist.—Apt to till the earth, and to 
journey, &c. 
8. Cloudy and temperate.—Journey, efpeci- 
ally by water, take physic, best in 
pilles. 
9. Dry.—Good to navigate, otherwise bad 
in all things. 
49, Moist.—-Good for marriage, bad to jour- 
ney, good to plant or build. 
11. Temperate, something cold.—Sow, plant, 
deliver prisoners, leave laxative me- 
dicines. 
12. Moist.—Plant, some marry, bad to 
navigate only. . 
13. Témperate.—Journey, navigate, sow, 
plough, contract matrimony. 
14, Temperate.—Sow, piant, take physick, 
bad to journey, and marry a widow. 
15. Mo'st.-Dig pits, delve, ill to voyage 
and marry. 
16. Moistand cold.--Infortunate and bad. 
17. Moist.—Bay beasts, seek to widows, bad 
to navigate. 
18. Dry.—Build, sow, plant, sail, all ia 
: marriage. 
19. Warfare.—Besiege a town, plant, sow, 
journey, navigate. 
20. Temperate.—-Buy cattle, hunt wild 
beasts, bad for marriage. 
21, Temperate.—Lay foundations, build, 
sow, seek to Prince or Magistrate, 
marry not. 
22. Temperate.—Take physick, navigate, 
marry not, eae 
25. Moist.—Take physick, journey, ill to 
marry, or lend. 
24. Temperate. —Lead thy army to battle, 
_ marry, sow, medicine. 
25. Temperate. —Lead thy army +o battle, 
Inarry, SOW, Medicine, voyage not. 
26. Dry.—Journey towards mid-day, or sun- 
set, best for strife, lay foundations. 
27, Dry.—A most fit day for physick, in all 
other affairs bad, 
Lievtracts from the Port-folio of a Alan of Letters. 
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THE DUKE OF BOURBON. 
FANHIS illustrious personage, «who was 
taken prisoner at the glorious battle 
of Agincourt, suffered eighteen years con- 
fnement, and died in London, on the 
very day of his enlargement, after eigh- 
teen thousand pounds had been paid for 
his ransom. 
CORNARO. 
This celebrated Venetian, who wrote 
on the utility of an abstemious regimen, 
was, till his fortieth year, tormented with 
maladies that embittered his existence. 
He at length resolved to change his mode 
of living, and in one year after the ob- 
servance of the temperate plan, his com- 
plaint entirely disappeared, nor had he 
ever afterwards occasion to have recourse 
fo medicine. He continued. healthful 
and chearful, to his eightieth year, re- 
taining so perfectly his mentaland cor- 
poral faculties, that he afirmed he could, 
at that ave, perform most of those things 
that he had been accustomed to do inhis 
youth. He died quietly in his chair, but 
little harassed either with sickness or 
pain, in 1631. 
‘ESTHER INGLIS. 
The exquisite writing of this extraordi- 
nary woman has seldom been equalled, 
and never surpassed. Two specimens of 
her caliigraphic skill are carefully pre- 
served in the Bodleian library, at Oxford: 
one of these is entitled, “ Les Proverbes 
de Salomon, escrites en diverses sortes des 
Lettres pur Esther Anglois, Francoise. 
dl Lislebourge en Escosse 1599.” This 
performance is truly admirable: the de- 
dication (to the Earl of Essex,) as well as 
each chapter, and soime other less impor- 
tant divisions, being each written ina 
diferent hand, amounung in the whole 
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