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Special days to Prepare humours. Let blood. Purge with Vomit. Electuaries. Potions. Pills. Cut hair. Comfort the virtue Bathe. Attractive. Digestive. Retentive. Expulsive. Put children to school Travel. Marry. Hunt, Hawk, Fish. Plant. Geld Cattle. Lay foundations.

Speciall dayes to Prepare humors. Let bloud. Purge with Vomite. Electuaries. Potions. Pilles. Cut hayre. Comforte the vertue Bathe. Attractiue. Digestiue. Retentiue. Expulsiue. Put children to schoole Trauell. Marrye. Hunte, Hauke, Fishe. Plante. Geld Cattell. Laye foundations.

Here, I pray thee, mark their naughty dealings how they abuse thy ignorance, to make themselves skilful and to do more then they can do. For, if the judgements of the best Astrologers may be taken, certainly most ⟨image 33⟩of these elections cannot be prescribed to thee, unless they know beforehand the figure of thy Nativity. For all Election, which concern thy person, must be moderated (to speak as plainly as their toys will suffer me) by the direction of the root of thy Nativity, and by the monthly and diurnal Progressions of thy present Revolution. If any of these pretend some evil, the particular Election may be a means to increase, and to bring it to pass. For example, suppose, thou being a man toward marriage, in the Almanac thou findest a good day noted by the Prognosticator to marry in: thou takest thy opportunity: after a while, thou art weary of thy life: the first day of thy marriage was the last day of thy joy. What is the cause of this? All the Planets which were signifiers of thy marriage in thy nativity, were then evilly affected, and peradventure also, at the first thou wast borne, they received some disgrace. So then thou mayest lay ⟨image 34⟩all blame, partly upon thy self for believing and partly upon the Prognosticator, who deceived thee. But to come unto particulars, the elections of days to purge the body with any kind of purgation, and to comfort the same, are most ridiculous. Why do they not also prescribe hours of eating meat? Why do they not appoint the kinds of meats and drinks, which we must eat & use daily? If thou see that God doth daily bless the enterprises of those Physicians, which never regard those elections in ministering to their patients: never esteem of them, let them go as lies to the Devil from whence they came. Concerning the elections of days to sow, to set, to plant, to lop, they are also foolish: the general observation of the season of the year, in which these things are to be done is sufficient. And S. Augustine in his book de civitate Dei laugheth at the folly of them, which choose particular days to do their husbandry, as though some certain positions of stars had some special influence to the things which are sown then. His