The diall of destiny. A booke very delectable and pleasaunt: wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course, disposition, qualities, effectes, and influence of the seuen planets ouer all kyndes of creatures here belowe: also the seuerall and sundry situation of countryes and kingdomes. Compiled and discussed briefly, aswell astrologically, as poetically, and philosophically by Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte.

Title

The diall of destiny. A booke very delectable and pleasaunt: wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course, disposition, qualities, effectes, and influence of the seuen planets ouer all kyndes of creatures here belowe: also the seuerall and sundry situation of countryes and kingdomes. Compiled and discussed briefly, aswell astrologically, as poetically, and philosophically by Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte.

Author

Maplet, John, d. 1592.

Publication

Imprinted at London :: In Fleestreat [sic] neere vnto Sainte Dunstones Church by Thomas Marshe,

1581.

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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.

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"The diall of destiny. A booke very delectable and pleasaunt: wherein may be seene the continuall and customable course, disposition, qualities, effectes, and influence of the seuen planets ouer all kyndes of creatures here belowe: also the seuerall and sundry situation of countryes and kingdomes. Compiled and discussed briefly, aswell astrologically, as poetically, and philosophically by Iohn Maplet Maister of Arte." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06859.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• Psalme 136.
• TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR CHRI∣STOPHER HATTON, Knight, one of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuy Coun∣sell, and Captayne of her Graces Garde.
• THE PREFACE to the Reader.
• To the scornefull sort of Scycophantes.
• OF THE CON∣cord or common felow∣ship of the seuen Planets, as al∣so of their breadefull debate and discorde.
  • Of LVNA, or the Moone,
  • OF MERCVRY. the second Planet
  • Of VENVS the thirde Planet.
  • Of SOL, or the Sunne, the fourth Planet.
  • Of MARS the fifth Planet.
  • Of IVPITER the sixt Planet.
  • Of SATVRNE the seuenth Planet.
• A TABLE OF ALL SVCH Principall matters as is contayned in this Booke.