, or doing of such like
innumerable things by wordes, without applying anie thing, meete to the
part offended, as Mediciners doe; Or else by staying maried folkes, to
haue naturallie adoe with other, (by knitting so manie knottes vpon a
poynt at the time of their mariage). And such-like things, which men vses
to practise in their merrinesse: For fra vnlearned men (being naturallie
curious, and lacking the true knowledge of God) findes these practises to
prooue true, as sundrie of them will doe, by the power of the Devill for
deceauing men, and not by anie inherent vertue in these vaine wordes and
freites; & being desirous to winne a reputation to themselues in such-like
turnes, they either (if they be of the shamefaster sorte) seeke to bee
learned by some that are experimented in that Arte, (not knowing it to be
euill at the first) or else being of the grosser sorte, runnes directlie
to the Deuill for ambition or desire of gaine, and plainelie contractes
with him thereupon.

PHI. But me thinkes these meanes which yee call the Schoole and rudimentes
of the Deuill, are thinges lawfull, and haue bene approoued for such in
all times and ages: As in special, this science of _Astrologie_, which is
one of the speciall members of the _Mathematicques_.

EPI. There are two thinges which the learned haue obserued from the
beginning, in the science of the Heauenlie Creatures, the Planets,
Starres, and such like: The one is their course and ordinary motiones,
which for that cause is called _Astronomia_: Which word is a compound of
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} & {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} that is to say, the law of the Starres: And this arte
indeed is one of the members of the _Mathematicques_, & not onelie lawful,
but most necessarie and commendable. The other is called _Astrologia_,
being compounded of {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} & {~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} which is to say, the wor