of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon and stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion;

knaves, thieves, and treacherous, by spherical predominance; drunkards, lyars, and adulterers, by an inforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. ^{1 note}An admirable evasion of whore-master Man, to lay his goatish disposition on the change of a star! my father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa major; so that it follows, I am

rough and lecherous. I should have been what I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.&wrquo;