Quadrates
Squares: four signs joined across the wheel.
[p. 61] But more, in Quadrates; not in Trines aloneSigns Right and Left are by Position shown;In ¹⁹Quadrates: which to know, the Round divideBy Squares exactly equal on each side;Where Angles close the PerpendicularsThere lie the Signs agreeing in the Squares.To give an Instance then, observe the Site,The narrow Goat sees Libra on the Right,O'th' Left the Ram, at equal distance liesThe Crab, and on the Left sees Libra rise,To make a Square agreeing in the Skies.This single Instance all the rest declares,And shews that twice six Signs compose three Squares.
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¹⁹ To know the Quadrate, begin from any sign, and in the Circle inscribe a Square, all whose sides are equal; the Angles shew the Signs, and what are Right or Left, you may find that in Quadrates, as you did in Trines. (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).