A merry prognostication For the year of Christ'S incarnation A thousand five hundredth forty & four This to pronostycate I may be bold That when the new year is come gone is the old. ❧: ✚: ❧ OF this year for to prognosticate It appertaineth not to a ●oole nor dodypate To pronostyque of the influence of this year For though they would they were never the near But I shall tell you of this pronostyca●ion Wherein in it taketh his chief foundation ❧ Of the eclipse. ❧ When I consider Ptholome I find That the eclipse of the son doth pass my mind For Capricornus & Aries declaring the same That Cancer and Libra were out of frame Saturn and Mars showeth it plain The eight day of Apryl it may chance to rain For jupiter and Taurus when all is done Declareth a certain eclipse of the son But Venus and Mercury by their operation denieth that Virgo hath any constllation For the eclipse of the son & also of the Moon Shall be surely, I can not tell how soon Wherefore Ptholome in his Centiloquium Telleth not before what after shall come Therefore I pronostyque as nigh as I can Of things that shall happen now and than And surely or the year go about Some of them may chance without doubt ☞ Of the four quarters of this year. Because in heaven there be many martyrs Truly this year shallbe four quarters. Winter, Prime time, Summer and Harvest But here Ptholome I find thou swervest For Ptholome showeth not whereof I wondre That Virgo is a marvellous sign of thunder Venus and jupiter be moist and cold Naughty signs for them that be old But I say if the ninth day of Novembre Had fallen upon tenth day of Decembre It had been a marvelous hot year for bees For then had the Moon been like a green cheese Summer beginneth the first day of june And they shall go bare for that have no show Sometime inclined to be hot in the air If it be not foul, than it shall be fair For Mars and Mercury be signs of heat Men shall not be cold as ●ouge as they sweat By the reason that Libra in the occidental Shall be windy and dry in the Eclypsal For saturn, and Mars, and also Libra Be precedent with a ●ex●●le, et cetera. ¶ Of the twelve months. Because that Saturn is dominator here I find that there shallbe twelve months th● year And every month containing four weeks Because in ●ent they make portage with seeks Days and hour shall not be strange For every month the Moon shall change By Mars and Mercury sometime I find That this year shallbe great store of wind For men and women when they have well bind shall have no power to hold fast behind The bla●● shallbe bosterous, big & outrageous Wherefore the air must needs be contagious And except that God work by his great grace The wind shall not always stand styli one place Sometime the blasts shallbe pretty and soft And sometime of force they shall come a fit But if the blasts break out, beyond ye●rynke The clouds cannot be cleanly, but the air shall s●ike But Venus and Virgo it appeareth plain That envious persons shallbe full of disdain Sometime frost and sometime snow And sonetyme in the element ꝑchance a rain bow Sometime mists with moistness mutable Because that Venus in this point is variable Than the cock crew and than it was day Than the bullock broke lose & the rope ran away ❧ Of diseases and sicknesses. divers diseases shall rain this year Some shall die, and some shall ●ary here Some shall have such sore pain in their heads They shall sleep on benches for lack of beds A common disease both in town and city Shall reign this year, the more is the pity Aswell in the country as in the city town Many shall not be able to chaun●e a crown And some shall sing so woeful a note That they shall not be able to change a groat This is because of the eclipse of the Moon Some shall lope their pottage for lack of a spon In the the summer time shallbe such an hear For Saturn and Mars have full well discussed That in the eclipse Mercury is combust ¶ Of such as be under the son. Kings, Princes, and Lords of might This year shall ●e the son give light Except the clouds so cover her beams Or el●es she shall shine in all Christian realms ❧ Of the Venustians The children of Venus shall prosper but little Because that lazars shallbe in the spittle Some children of Venus shall burn in such love That their hands shallbe fit for every glove Some will love more than a thousand fold But hot love this year willbe soon cold ¶ Of Marcurialles Advocates, & orators with the good poor proctor's Shallbe i as good case as some honest doctors The eclipse declareth them to be suspect Of taking of bribes being therewithn foot ☞ Of Lunatistes. messengers wits shallbe so far spent Sometimes shall forget wherefore they were sent Marynars shall sail into many lands But some perchance shall stick in the sands If madmen this year be as mad as hearts Then shall madmen play madman's parts To declare any farther of the eclipse of the son I can do no more than I have done The fashion of us pno●●ycators, evermore was To speak of some things that never came to pass Therefore when yeshal our falsholde espy Do no more but give us a little leave to lie ❧ Of Kings. What kings shall do this year I cannot tell For in God's secrets I was never sent so well But I trust that Henry our most noble King continually in honour shall flourish & spring With Kateryne his wife & Prince Edward his son And aswell for do as they have hitherto done ☞ AMEN.