Single and Double Signs
Single signs and double signs: one shape, or two in one.
[p. 55] These Signs are Single, now observe the ⁸Pairs,Double Shapes confess a double Force in Stars:And each Companion still in each createsA Change, and vast Variety in Fates:Ambiguous Force from both exprest combines,No Single Influence flows from Double Signs.What Powers, or good or bad, one Part displays,They may be alter'd by the others Rays:
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⁸ Of Double Signs some are Pairs, as Gemini, and Pisces: Others are made up of two different Species, such as Sagittarius and Capricornus. (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).