ping all Fables, let me go with my Lesson, I shall know Cassiopæia again, whenever I see her.
But, said I, Madam, I have a Story to tell you of Cassiopæia's Chair, that is no Fable, but a certain Truth, and yet is equally strange with the other fabulous Relation. About the Year 1572, there appeared a New Star in this Constellation, which at first was as big as Jupiter appears now to be, and was fix'd to one Place like the rest of the fixed Stars; but lessen'd by Degrees, and at last, at the End of 18 Months, went quite out, and appear'd no more.
That indeed is a very unaccountable thing, said the Lady, but as I have met with some such Relations of other fix'd Stars, so I shall leave my Surprize, and my Queries about it, till I come to trouble you about the Nature, Uses, and Distances of the fixed Stars in general; for I must have a deal of Talk with you about that and other things in Astronomy, before you get quite rid of me, and you must thank your self, if my Curiosity be teazing and impertinent, for you have wound it up to a very great Height I'll assure you. But, pray, Sir, let us nowgo
