“ AN eclipse of the moon is nothing but her being deprived of the sun’s light by the interposition of the earth, betwixt the sun and her; which can never happen but when the moon is at full; nor doth it always happen then, because of her latitude, she will be eclipsed; but if the sum of the semidiameter of the moon and earth's shadow, at the time of the true full, be more than the moon’s latitude, she will be eclipsed ”

“ A mole on the knee, shows a person to be fortunate in marrying, and that his wife, shall be beautiful, virtuous, and very wealthy. A woman having one in the same place, shows she shall be virtuous, happy and fruitful in children.
A mole on the ancle, denotes a man to be affectionate, and act the part of a woman, like Sardanapalns at the spinning wheel; and a woman having the like, she shall effect to be lord over her husband.
A mole on the foot, shows a man prosperous in getting riches, and happy in his children. If a woman has the same, it also betokens her the same happiness. ”

“ THE ancients ascribe rain to be a cold and earthly vapour of humour exhaled from the earth and waters by the beams of the sun, and carried into the middle region of the air, where by the extremity of the cold, it is thickened into the body of a cloud ”

“ A child born on the eighteenth day, if a male, will be valiant, courageous and eloquent, but if a female, chaste, industrious and painful, and shall come to honour in her old age. It is good this day to begin buildings, and to put your children in order to be brought up to learning. ”

“ IF the sun be fiery and red at his rising. It he shows pale and wan. If red and black clouds be about him at his rising. If the moon, three or four days after the change is blunt at both ends, the thicker the more. A circle about the moon. It the great stars be only seen, and they look only dim. I be rainbow appealing in a fair day, the greater it is the more rain. Birds washing themselves. ”

“ A mole on the brow, shews a man to be incontinent and given to the love of women: but if it be a woman, it signifies a good husband.
He or she that has a mole on the nose, signifies they love their pleasure more than any thing else. ”

“ THE ancients affirm, that the cause of the earthquakes is plenty of wind gotten surd confined within the bowels of the earth, which is striving to break forth, causing a shacking, or sometimes a cleaving of the earth, and thereby the destruction of many people and ruin of whole towns and cities, as the sad state of Sicily has so often shown us by sinking of mountains and raising of vallies ”

“ BY eclipses in general is understood a defect of light happening in some of the celestial bodies, and is caused by the interposition of an opaque body between them and our sight. Now the opinion of astronomers is, that all the planets of themselves are dark bodies having no light but what they receive from the sun; but the sun and fixed stars are naturally luminous ”

“ TAKE five or six drops or more of wine or good acquavitae in a spoon, and folding down your head on one side, let one pour the same into your ear, let it continue there for half a quarter of an hour, still holding your head aside, that it run not out, and then you’ll hear a most terrible noise and rumbling in your head, which is the wind, then turn your head aside, and then the water will run out again very hot ”

“ The chattering of a piet; peacocks and ducks often crying. The owl crying chewit often, swallows flying low; the working of an insect called a spinner. Many worms appearing above ground. The beasts eating greedily and licking their hoofs. ”

“ Transplant colliflowers and cabbage that were sowed in August. Plant turnips and bulbous roots you formerly took up; take off your carnation layers, and plant them where they are to stand the winter; remove fruit trees from September till March except it frost; set or cut, bays, laurels, &c. Transplant most sort of herbs and flowers, gather hopes the beginning of this month, and sow your wheat and rye.
October. Set beans and pease; sow all sorts of fruit-trees, as nuts kernals and seeds,, either for trees or stocks, in this or the next month; plant all fruit-trees that have shed their leaves ”

“ Mists coming down from the hills and setting in the valleys, or white mists rising from the waters in the evening. Crows or ravens graping against the sun. Beetles flying in the evening. Bats flying abroad sooner than ordinary. Many flies or gnats playing to the sunshine at evening. ”

“ A certain man having three daughters, to the eldest he gave twenty-two apples, to the second he gave sixteen apples, and to the third he gave ten apples, and sent them to the market to sell them, and gave them command to sell one as many for a penny as the other, (namely 7 a penny) and every one to bring him home as much money as the other, and neither to change their apples or monies one with another ”

“ This is the principal month for grafting all sorts of fruit-trees, transplanting all sorts of hardy herbs and flovers, make up hot-beds for cucumbers, melons, colliflowers, to come late, to Russia cabbage and tender flower seeds, as amaranths of all sorts, and garden-seed, marvil, of Pern, &c. ”