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…

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 ⟨image 32⟩govern the parts of mans body? More reasonable was that man, who being asked what was the cause of the sands in Sandwich haven, he answered the building up of Tenterton Steeple Secondly the government of the signs in the body is not taken from experience in nature,¹ but feigned long ago by some drowsy pate, and now because it hath a cloak of antiquity, it is allowed. More natural was this kind of way, that hot signs should govern hot parts, cold signs cold parts, earthy signs earthy parts. So Aries should govern the hart and the vital blood, not the head, & the rest of the signs those parts which are of their nature and disposition. Thirdly great experience of many men daily confuteth this rule.

1. Whereas they call it an Anatomy, me thincketh, it is a butcherly Anatomy: nay that of the butchers is far better, for they ioyne head & appurtenaūce together: these men being sparing giue Aries the head, Leo and Cancer the hart & longes. As for the liuer. I know not which signe hath it, peraduēture in old time men had no liuers. At the Anatomye of a carrian crowes deale frendly, for euery one hath somewhat: but in the diuision of mans body, signes play foule playe, for Capricorne hath got nothyng