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The hour of Mercury is very good, but chiefly from the beginning to the middle. He that is born in this hour, has stature inclining to tallness, a sharp long face, large eyes, a long nose, his forehead narrow, a long beard, and thin hair. long arms and fingers, of a good disposition, and obliging temper, much given to reading, and very desirous of knowledge, delighting to be among books, very eloquent in his speech, and yet addicted to lying, and if he is poor, he is commonly light fingered.
The hour of the moon is both good and evil, according to the day: for from the fourth to the seventeenth it is good to those that are born under it; but from the seventeenth to the twentieth it is counted unfortunate to be born under it; and from the twentieth to the twenty-seventh very happy. He that is born in the hour of the moon (especially upon her own day) shall be pale faced, of a thin meagre visage, with hollow eyes, and of a middling stature; he appears very courteous and obliging, but is very crafty and deceitful, variable in his humour, malicious, and his constitution phlegmatic.
Thus have I given the reader the judgment of ancients upon the planetary hours, and what they portend to those that are born under them, by which a person, comparing himself to what is here set down, may easily know under what planet he was born.
Of the Birth of Children with respect to the Age of the Moon.
To be born tho first day of the new moon, is very fortunate, for to such all things shall succeed well; their sleep will be sweet, and their dreams pleasant: they shall have long life and increase of riches.
