Questions of the first House. 

If you are desirous to know concerning the life of any man whether it shall be long or short, behold the Lord of the Ascendent, who if he be in strong Angles, it signifies long life; in succedents, a middle age; and in cadent Houses, a short life; and if he be in strong Angles, he signifies greater years; if in Succedents, meaner years; if in Cadents, lesser years. The lesser years of Saturn are thirty, the meaner are forty four years, and the greater fifty eight. The lesser years of Jupiter are twelve, the meaner years forty, and the greater accordingly are forty seven. The lesser years of Mars are fifteen, his meane years forty, and the greater years forty seven. The lesser years of the Sun are nineteen, his mean years forty five, and his greater years eighty two. The lesser years of Venus are eight, her mean years forty five, and her greater years eighty two. Mercury's lesser years are twenty, his mean years forty nine, and his greater years eighty. The lesser years of the Moon are fifteen, her mean years thirty nine, and her greater years a hundred and seven. And also look if Mars or Saturn shall be in the first House, and the Lord of the eighth with them; and if the Sun shall be in the eighth, the Querent shall not live: likewise if the Lord of the Ascendent shall happen to be void of course, and Mars be in the eighth, the Querent shall not live; but if the Sun and the Moon shall be in conjunction in the seventh House, and Venus in the second, he shall live well.

The accidents of the nativity are likewise to be considered. If you finde Saturn or Mer­cury in the first, * he is foolish and talkative; if it be Mars and Mercury, he will not be ser­vile, but a wrangler and scoffer; if the Sun and Mercury, he will be a speaker of truth; and if the Sun be in Aries, he will apply himself to learn whatsoever he shall hear; if Venus be in the seventh, he will be luxurious; and if Saturn, Mercury and Venus be in their fall, he will be a Sodomite; if the Sun and Venus be in the tenth, and the Moon in the first, he will be very liberal; if Venus, Mercury and the Dragons Head be in the first, he wilt be covetous; if the Moon and Mars be in the first, he will be subject to great bondage; and if Mars be Lord of the nativity, he will he rich, and an evil speaker, and litigious; and if the Sun be in the first, he will be envious, having a fair body, not very lean, nor very fat; and if Venus be in the first, he will be white and fair; if Mercury be in the first, he will not be stable, but alwayes in motion; but if the Moon be found there, it denotes him to have a graceful face, brest and arms; if Saturn be there, the man will be black and filthy; if Jupiter, he will have a round face, a fair forehead, a ruddy complexion mixt with a little white.

If you would know his office or art: if the Moon be in the seventh with Saturn, or in the fourth, or in the tenth, or in the first, It is not good for him to build any house in a City, nor to build a ship, neither is it good for him to be a tiller of land, or to dress vines, or plant trees; but to be imployed about some office belonging to the water, or concerning marriages, or to be a Post or a Messenger; neither let him apply himself much to his mas­ter, because he shall gain no repute from him: if the Moon be in the fifth or third, it will be good to him; in the second, eighth, sixth and twelfth, neither good nor evil.

Jupiter signifies Bishops, Prelates, Nobles, Potentates, Judges, Wise men, Merchants and Usurers.

Mars signifies Warriors, Incendiaries, Homicides, Physitians, Barbers, Hangmen, Gold-smiths, Cooks, furnaces, and all fireworks. And if Mars be in strong Signes, he will be poor and die in captivity, unless he put himself in arms with some souldier or vassal.

The Sun signifieth Emperors, Kings, Princes, Nobles, Lords and Judges.

Venus signifies Queens and Ladies, Marriages, Communications, Friendship, Apothe­caries, Taylors, and such as make Ornaments for playes, sellers of Cloth, Jesters, Vintners, Players at dice, Whores and Robbers.

Mercury signifies Clerks, Philosophers, Astrologers, Geometricians Arithmeticians, Latine writers, and Painters, and all subtil Artists, as well men as women, and their Arts.