longeth to Venus; and they made the ſame againſt Serpents and Scorpions, poyſons, and evil ſpirits; his ſecond face aſcending, which is the face of the Sun, and Decanate of Jupiter; and they report that it maketh him who carrieth it, wife, of a good colour; and they report that the image of Cancer is moſt efficacious againſt Serpents, and poyſons, when Sol and Luna are in conjunction in it, and aſcend in the firſt and third face; for this is the face of Venus, and the Decanate of Luna; but the ſecond face of Luna, the Decanate of Jupiter: They report alſo that Serpents are tormented when the Sun is in Cancer: Alſo that Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, becauſe they conſtitute the earthly and Southern triplicity, do cure hot infirmities, and prevail againſt the Synocall Feaver; it maketh thoſe that carry it grateful, aceptable, eloquent, devout and religious, becauſe they are the Houſes of Venus, Mars, and Saturn: Capricorn alſo is reported to keep men in ſafety, and alſo places in ſecurity, becauſe it is the exaltation of Mars.
CHAP. XXXVII.
THere are beſides in the Zodiack thirty ſix images, according to the number of the faces, of the which, (as Porphyry ſaith) Teucer the Babylonian long ſince wrote, who was a moſt ancient Mathematician, after whom the Arabians alſo wrote of theſe things. Therefore it is ſaid, that in the firſt face of Aries, aſcendeth the image of a black man, ſtanding and cloathed in a white garment, girdled about, of a great body, with reddiſh eyes, and great ſtrength, and like one that is angry; and this image ſignifieth and cauſeth boldneſs, fortitude, loftineſs, and ſhameleſneſs; in the ſecond face aſcendeth a form of a woman, outwardly cloathed with a red garment, and under it a white, ſpreading abroad over her feet, and this image cauſeth nobleneſs, height of a Kingdom, and greatneſs of dominion: in the third face ariſeth the figure of a
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