Signs of Natural or Unnatural Postures
Signs that rise backwards. The Bull is one of them, of course.
[p. 57] But there is War, Sign disagrees with Sign,And Three rise adverse to the other Nine:Bull's Back, ¹⁰Twins Feet, Crab's Shell do first appear,And stop the progress of the rising year;Whilst others in their usual Postures rise,Nor shew unnatural Figures in the Skies:Since then thro' adverse Signs the Summer's SunMakes way, no wonder that he drives so slowly on.
The notes
¹⁰ Their Position is unnatural; but this, as well as the fore-going Differences, will be easily understood upon view of the Signs upon a Globe. (Creech’s note, 1697)
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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).