Image 012, folio 4b, A Prognostication; weather and the causes of weather phenomena.
| A prognostication. | ||||
| Wednesday | On Wednesday, loe a warme winter: In the end snow and froste: a cloudy summer, | |||
| plentye of fruite, of corne, haye, wine, and honye: greate payne to women with | ||||
| childe, and death to infants: good for sheepe: newes of kings: great warres, bat= | ||||
| tell and slaughter towardes the middes*. | ||||
| Thursday. | On Thursday, winter and summer windie:A rayny harvest: Therefore wee | |||
| shall have overfloweings. Much fruite: plenty of honye: yet fleshe shall be | ||||
| deare: cattell in generall shall dye: greate trouble, warres, &c. with a licen= | ||||
| tious life of the feminine sexe. | ||||
| Friday. | On Friday, winter stormye: summer scante pleasante: harveste indifferente: | |||
| little store of fruite, of wine, and honye: corne deare: Many bleare eyed: youth | ||||
| shall dye: earthquakes are perceived in many places: plenty of thunders, | ||||
| lightnings, and tempests: with a sudden death of cattell. | ||||
| Saterday. | On Saterday, a meane winter: Summer very hot: a late harvest: good cheape | |||
| garden hearbes: much burninge: plenty of hempe, flaxe, and honye. Old folke | ||||
| Shall dye in moste places: fevers and terrians*, shall grieve manye people: great | ||||
| mutteringe of warres: murthers shall be suddenlye committed in many places, | ||||
| for lighte matters. | ||||
| Nowe that I have opened divers wayes, both for the learned and unlearned, | ||||
| howe weather |
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| it meete, for further knowledge therein, not to omit heere the naturall causes of | ||||
| such and so many alterations of ayre. Lo, therefore orderly they followe. | ||||
| Naturall causes, conduceing to all the aforesayde, | ||||
| and first of the raynebowe. | ||||
| The raynebowe is the shineinge and reboundinge of beames of lighte, that turne | ||||
| to the contrary vapoure agayne in the cloude. It declareth sometime rayne, and | ||||
| many times fayre weather: when the one, & how ye other, is before opened. | ||||
| Of Rayne. | ||||
| Rayne is a colde vapoure, an Earthlye humor, or fumosities, out of waters or | ||||
| earth drawne up by the vertue of the sunne, to the neather part of the middle | ||||
| space of the ayre, there through cold thickes, then dissolved: Thus engendred | ||||
| falleth on the earth. Heere I leave to speake of miraculous raynes, as | ||||
| milke, blud, fleshe, iron, wool, &c. for more satisfyinge in there, reade | ||||
| Plinius* in the second booke. 58 chapter. | ||||
| Of Froste, and Dewe. | ||||
| A colde moyste vapor, a little waye drawen up in the day throughe faynte | ||||
| heate of the sunne, descendeth in the nighte, dissolved on the earthe, there | ||||
| congelated or resolved into water, the one called froste, the othere dewe. | ||||
| The last is a signe of fayre weather in the spring or harveste. | ||||
| Of Snowe. | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW