404predominance, Drunkards, Ly453ars, and Adulterers by an enforst

405obedience of planitary 454influence, and all that wee are euill in,

406by a diuine thru455sting on, an admirable euasion of whoremaster

407man, 456to lay his gotish disposition to the charge of Starres: 457my

408Father compounded with my Mother vnder the Dra458gons taile,

409and my natiuitie was vnder Vrsa maior, so 459that it followes, I am

410rough and lecherous, Fut, I should 460haue beene that I am, had the

411maidenlest starre of the Fir461mament twinckled on my bastardy

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463Edgar; and out hee comes like the Catastrophe of the old Co-

414medy, 464mine is villanous melancholy, with a sith like them of

465415Bedlam; O these eclipses doe portend these diui466sions.

416Edgar. How now 467brother Edmund, what serious con468templa-

417tion are you in?

469418Bast. I am thinking brother of a prediction I read this 470other

419day, what should follow these Eclipses.

471420Edg. Doe you busie your selfe about that?

472421Bast. I promise you the effects he writ of, succeed 473vnhappily,

422as of vnnaturalnesse betweene the child and the parent, death,

473.1423dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities, diuisions in state, mena-

473.2424ces and maledictions against King and nobles, needles diffiden-

473.3425ces, banishment of friẽds, dissipation of Cohorts, nuptial breach-

473.4426es, and I know not what.

473.5427Edg. How long haue you beene a sectary Astronomicall?

428Bast. Come, come, 474when saw you my father last?

429Edg. Why, 475the night gon by.

476430Bast. Spake you with him?

477431Edg. Two houres together.

478432Bast. Parted you in good tearmes? found you no dis479pleasure

433in him by word or countenance?

480434Edg. None at all.

481435Bast. Bethinke your selfe wherein you may haue offen482ded

436him, and at my intreatie, forbeare his presence, till 483some little

437time hath qualified the heat of his displeasure, 484which at this in-

438stant so rageth in him, that with the mis485chiefe, of your parson it

439would scarce allay.

486440Edg. Some villaine hath done me wrong.

487441Bast. Thats my feare 493brother, I aduise you to the best, goe

442arm'd, I am no honest 494man if there bee any good meaning to-