naul Course, gave them particular Names: The first they called Aries, or the Ram; the second Taurus, or the Bull, &c. and because these Names were mostly taken from Animals, or living Creatures, they called it the Zodiack; which is a Greek Word expressing such a Collection.
Well, said she, as for your Greek, I know nothing of the matter, but now I begin to find out the Justness of those Lines, in Hudibras; wherein he describes Sydrophil's Surprise at the Discovery of his new Star, occasion'd by a Lanthorn at the Tail of a School-Boy's Kite:
Of Birds, and Beasts, and Fish, and Fowl,
With which like Indian Plantations
The Learned Stock the Constellations.
And these, I suppose are the Pictures, continu'd she, of those animated Stars, or rather, as Butler hath it in the same Place, the Signs of Those:
The Houses where the Planets inn.
Mighty well remember'd, said I, Madam, you see at once why the Astro-nomers
