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Howe th Astronomers do Suppose that the disposition of the heauens doe guie [sic] victorie

Ca. 10.

Albeit hetherto we haue saide, (and yt reasonablie) that he ought to have victorie in battell man to man, that wth moste iustice doe fighte, because we firmlie accompte and beleue God to be protector and defendor of Iustice and truth yet manie times accordinge to the opinion of Astronomers the heavenlye plannetts doe worke their influence in our earthlie bodies, where they frame a disposition to good or evell to winne or lose thorough the aspecte and coniunction of their properties And thorough their opposition doe channge or their bodies, and as Aristotle thinketh be of such force as they alter the complexion of men, gevinge good or evell influence, more in one place then in an other, accordinge to their aspecte and the multitude of starrs. ffor this reason, yf one gentleman sholde provoke an other, when his ascendent were in the seaventh howse, wch is the howse of th ennemie, and speciallie yf the mone shineth vppon him that is provoked, wth a favourable grace, and good aspecte vndoubtedlie, the provoker shalbe victored, thoughe in proper force & compannions he hathe the aduanntage. But when the provoker hath his Significator favourable, and duringe that time moveth battell, she shalbe victorious. And likewise we saye of the other starrs, and plannetts celestiall as they be well or evell dispozed, so there they helpe or hinder victorie. If two gentlemen determine to fighte, and have the heavens equallie dyspozed to them both, yt shall come to passe that in their fight shalbe equall success, or els he shall remaine victorious, that in his nativitie hath moste forcible constellacion. The Astronomers suppose that