Also there shall be manye tertian agues, and diuers other diseases rayning among men, so that olde men shall then die, and a likelyhoode of the death of many men, by the plague. Also many fires shall be hearde of, little store of Wines, Oyle, and Hony, yet plentie of hay that yeare.
And if Neweyeares night (being the first night of Ianuarie) shall be calme and cleare, as withoute winde and raine, then doeth the same promise a prosperous yeare following.
And if in the same night the winde happen to blowe oute of the East, then doth the same signifie the death of cattell to ensue that yeare.
And if the same night the winde happen to blowe out of the West, then a likelyhood of the death of Kinges or Princes to ensue that yeare.
And if in the same night the wind happen to blow out of the South, then doth the same signifie the death of manye persons to ensue that yeare.
And if in the same night the wind happen to blow out of the North, then doth the same signifie the small yéelde of all fruites of the earth that yeare.
¶ Howe to foreknowe the state of the yeare, by the only rising of the dogge starre, out of the husbandrie of Diophanes. Cap.iij.
And about the knowledge of this, there is to be considered and noted, in what signe the Moone shall then be, at the first appearance of the dogge starre aboue the Earth in our Realme of England, which generally to be reckened is about the seauenth day of Iuly.
And nowe if the Moone runne then in the signe Aries, at the first appearance of the Dog starre, it doth after declare the death of Cattell and much raine. So that small yéelde of corne yet plentie of Oyle shal be that yeare.
And if the Moone runne then in the signe Taurus, at the first appearance of the dog starre, then doth it signifie much raine, fogges and mistes that shal harme much that yeare.