The Planets
The seven wanderers that go against the sky's turn. A short one.
[p. 32] Seven Fires refuse the Worlds Diurnal force,From West to East they roll their proper Course,Cold Saturn, Jove, fierce Mars, the fiery Sun,With Mercury 'twixt Venus and the Moon.Some swift, some slow, they measure different Years,And make the wondrous Musick of the Spheres.
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- diurnal
- of the day. A diurnal planet or sign belongs to daytime.
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).