Earth and Water Signs
Signs of the land and signs of the sea.
[p. 58] But others, this is plain from common sense, demandSome Signs for ¹²Sea, and other Signs for Land:Thus watery Pisces, and the Crab retainTheir proper Nature, and respect the Main:The Bull and Ram possess their old Command,They led the Herds, and still they love the Land,Tho' there the Lion's Force their Rest invades,And poysnous Scorpio lurks in gloomy Shades;The Danger is despis'd, the Ram, the BullKeep Land, so powerful is the Lust of Rule:The Twins, the Centaur, and the Scales disposeIn the same Rank; and join the Maid with those.Of middle Nature some with Both agree,One part respects the Land, and one the Sea:The double Goat is such, whose wild CommandNow Sea affects, and now enjoys the Land:And young Aquarius pouring out his StreamHere spreads a watry, there an Earthy Beam.
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¹² The Water Signs are Pisces and Cancer. The Earth Aries, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Gemini, Sagittarius, Libra, Virgo: Capricornus and Aquarius belong to both Earth and Water. (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).