Four great liars, striving who shall win the silver whetstone Also, a resolution to…Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to…

In the first or second leaf of their books thou shalt find a picture of mans body with the 12. signs round about it, they call it the Anatomy of mans body, showing how the 12. signs have government of the same, for the Moon or any other significator of any thing being in the sign, they say, that it is daū gerous to box, to sear that part or to let blood in it, which is subject to the dominion of that sign. All these are nothing but vain Fables, as I will manifestly prove.

In the first or second leafe of their books thou shalt finde a picture of mās body with the 12. signes rounde about it, they call it the Anatomie of mans body, shewing how the 12. signes haue gouernemēt of the same, for the Moone or any other significatour of any thing being in the signe, they say, that it is daū gerous to boxe, to seare that part or to let bloud in it, whiche is subiect to the dominion of that signe. All these are nothyng but vayne Fables, as I will manifestly proue.

1. Whereas they call it an Anatomy, me thinketh, it is a butcherly Anatomy: nay that of the butchers is far better, for they join head & appurtenance together: these men being sparing give Aries the head, Leo and Cancer the hart & longs. As for the liver. I know not which sign hath it, peradventure in old time men had no livers. At the Anatomy of a carrion crows deal friendly, for every one hath somewhat: but in the division of mans body, signs play foul play, for Capricorn hath got nothing ⟨image 32⟩but a pair of knees. It is like that the signs scrambling for their portions Capricorn being slow got nothing, hereupon compassion being had, there was a gathering made, and Sagittarius gave the lower part of the thigh, Aquarius the higher part of the leg which both together make the knee. But to deliver thee out of all doubt, mark these reasons which follow. 1. The signs cannot have any such dominion over mans body: I make it manifest thus. There is no corporal heaven in deed above the firmament, yet because the firmament or 8 Sphere hath many motions, to give reasons of those motions, the Astronomers have feigned two heavens above the firmament, the Crystalline heaven, and the first moveable or 10. Sphere, which they divide into twelve parts. which parts they call signs. Now, I pray you tell me, is it possible to conceive that an imagined part of any imagined heaven void of all stars, shall either have in it self, or give unto other Stars power to