and Oppofite, (s) of hurtful and unbenign Influence; and the Angels likewife by GoD's Command, taught the fix'd Stars when to fhower their Malignancy; which of them falling or rifing with the Sun fhould prove tempestuous. They fet the Corners to the Winds, and taught them when with Bluftering to confound the Sea, Land, and Air; and the Thunder where to rowl with Terror through the dark Clouds. Some fay, GOD bid his Angels turn the Poles of the Earth more than twenty Degrees from the Sun's Road; and that they with Labour push'd the Earth, fix'd on her Center, out of her first Place. Some fay, the Sun was bid to turn from the Equinoctial Road, a like diftant Breadth to TAURUS, with the feven Stars that are call'd Sifters, (which are the PLEIADES) and GEMINI, () up to the Tropick of CAN (g) Square; Lat. An Aftrol. T. i. e. Four-corner'd. An Afpect between two Planets, which are diftant 90 Degrees from one another, i. e. one fourth Part of the Zodiac. It is counted an unfortunate Conjunction by the Aftrologers. (r) Trine; Lat. An Aftrol. T. i. e. A Third. An Afpe&t, when two Planets are diftant from one another 120 Degrees, which is a third Part of the Zodiac. (5) Oppofite; Lat. An Aftrolog. Term. i. e. Over-againf; Over-again; facing. An Afpect, when two Planets are diftant 180 Degrees, diametrically oppofite, or directly facing one another, which is one half Part of the Zodiac. This Aftrologers call a bad Afpect; which forebodes Evil to those that are born under it. Two heavenly Bodies are faid to be in Conjunction with one another, when they are in the fame (t) Gemini, Twins; Sax. Two Children born at one Birth. Here, Caftor and Pollux, Sons of Tindaurus and Leda, King of Sparta; born there, and at the fame Time. Caftor and Pollux, i. e. Adorned and fining, were the 11th King of it after their Father, and reign'd cotemporary. They are feign'd to be the Sign Gemini, by fabulous Antiquity, and were much in Veneration among the Heathens. See Ads 28. 11. They are Stars of the fecond Magnitude, which form the two Heads of Gemini, the third of the twelve Signs of the Zdiac. CANCER; (u) thence down amain by LEO, (*) VIRGO, (y) and LIBRA, (2) as low as CAPR ICORN, (a) to bring in Change of Seafons to each Climate; elfe the Spring had fmil'd perpetually upon the Earth, with continual blooming Flowers, equal in Days and Nights, except to thofe beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day had fhone without Night, while the low Sun, to make Amends for his being at fo great a Distance, had always gone round the Horizon in their Sight, and not known Eaft or Weft; which had forbid the Snow from cold ESTOTILAND, (b) and South as far beneath MAGELLAN (c). (u) Cancer; because the Sun moves back the fame Way as the Crab doth; or because it confifts of nine Stars in the Shape of a Crab; the fourth of the twelve Signs; the Sun enters into this Sign on the 10th of June. Here, the Tropic of Cancer, or the Northern Tropic. (x) Leo; Lat. from the Gr. The Lion. Here, An Aftron. T. The 5th of the 12 Signs, into which the Sun enters in the 10th of July. This Conftellation hath 27 Stars about it. (3) Virgo, Virgin; Lat. i. e. Strong; a chafte Maid, a Maiden in her Bloom and Strength. Here an Aftron. T. The 6th of the 12 Signs. It confifts of 26 Stars; the Sun enters into it in the 12th of Auguft yearly. This is Aftrea the Goddefs of Juftice, who left the Earth because of the Wickednefs of Men after the Fall, and flew up to Heaven; where the AT weighs, confiders, and examines (x) Libra; i. e. A Balance, (a) Capricorn; Lat. i. e. An borned Goat; because then the Sun at this Point climbs upward again in its annual Course, like that climbing Creature the Goat. An Aftron. T. The 10th of the 12 Signs. It confifts of 21 Stars; the Sun enters into it in the 11th of December, and makes the Winter Solstice. It is the Southern Tropic. (b) Eftotiland; Swed. i. e, Another Land. It was called fo by fome Fishermen of Friez land, who firft difcover'd it, long before Columbus. It was afterwards discovered by Nicholas and Andrew Zeni, Veneti ans s AT the Tafte of the forbidden Fruit, (as it is faid he did from the bloody Banquet of THYESTES (d)). the Sun chang'd his firft Courfe; elfe how had the World, that would have been inhabited all over as well as EDEN, (though they had been without SIN) have more than now avoided pinching Cold and scorching Heat? Thefe Changes in Heaven produc'd, (though flowly) like Change upon Sea and Land, Star-blaft, Vapour, Mift, and hot corrupt and peftilent Exhalation! Now the Winds from the North, BORE ans; by the Portuguese, and called Terrade Labrador, i. e. The Land of the Labourer; because it required much Pains to cultivate it; by the Spaniards, Terra de Cortereal; because Gafpar Cortereal difcovered it; and now New Britain by the French and Britains. This is the most Northern Country of America, extending towards the Eaft and Hudson's Bay; extremely cold, mountainous, over-run with Forefts and wild Beafts. The Inhabitants go naked, notwithstanding the extreme Cold, and are Idolaters for the most Part. Seba ftian Cabot, a Venetian, A. D. 1497, by Commiffion from Hen. VII. of England, furnish'd two Ships with 300 Men in England, at his own Expence; and difcovered all the North Coast, from 28 to 56 Degrees of Northern Latitude, 20 Years before any other Europeans. (c) Magellan; Portug. A yaft Country in South America, extending towards the South Pole, not yet well discovered nor inhabited by the Europeans. This, with the Streights, which part it from the Continent of South America, took their Names from Ferdinand Magellan or Maglianes, a Portuguese, who difcovered them A. D. 1519 and 1520, by the Order and Affiftance of the Emperor Charles V. But he was poisoned in the Ifland de los Ladrones, i. e. The Ile of Robbers; or died in the Iland of Maran, A. D. 1520. (d) Thyefies; Gr. i. e. A Murderer. The Son of Pelops, and Brother of Atreus. Thyeftes committed Adultery with his Brother's Wife; to revenge it Atreus flew the Son that was born of her, and ferv'd him up to his own Brother at a Feaft. At this horrid Wickedness, it is faid, the Sun turn'd back his Courfe for a Time, left he fhould be polluted. Such an Abhorrence the blind Heathens had of those heinous Crimes. BOREAS, (e) CECIAS, (f) ARGESTES, (g) and THRASCIAS, (b) bursting their brazen Dungeon from NORUMBEQUE, (i) and the Shore of SA MOED, (k) arm'd with Ice, Snow, Hail, and Storms, rend up the Woods, and turn up the Seas: NOTUS, (1) and AFER, (m) black with Thunder-Clouds from SERRALIONA, (n) turn them up with adverse Blast from the South: Across thefe forth rufh with equal Fierceness, the LEVANT (0) and Ponent (p) Winds, EU (e) Boreas; Lat. from the Gr. i. e. A roaring violent Sound. The North Wind fo called from the Sound and Force of it. (f) Cacias; Lat. Gr. from Caycus, i. e. Drawing Evil. It is a River of Myfia in Leffer Afia near the Hellefpont, from which this Wind blows upon Greece; and gathers Clouds together by a ftrong attractive Power. The North - Weft Wind. (g) Argeftes; Lat. Gr. i. e. White as Silver; because it clears the Sky, making it clear as Silver. The North - Eaft Wind. (b) Thrafcias; Lat. Gr. i. e. Blowing from Thrace, now Romania in Europe, upon Greece, from the North. The North Wind. (i) Norumbeque; from the French, Americ. A large Country of North America, having Nova Scotia on the South-West, New-England on the NorthWeft, and the Ocean on the South; from the Capital City of the fame Name. (k) Samoed, or Samojeda; Ruff. i. e. Cannibals or Men Eaters. A Province in the North East of Moscovy, upon the Icy Sea, on both Sides of the River Ob; and joining to Siberia. The People are very rude and favage, Idolaters to this Day. Stephen Burroughs, an Englishman, firft difcovered this Country, A. D. 1556. (1) Notus; Lat. from the Gr. i. e. moift and wet. Hence Ovid calls it watery. The South Wind. (m) Afer; Gr. i. e. Blowing from Africa. The South-West Wind, which lies South from Greece. (n) Serraliona, in the late Edit. Sierra Liona, Span. i. e. The Lion Mountains; vulgo Cap' di Sierra Lione; fo called from a Chain of Mountains, that reach to the Atlantic Ocean, which beats upon these Rocks, and makes a Noife like the Roaring of a Lion. Anciently Theoon Ochema, Gr. i. e. The Chariot of the Gods. It is the most Western Point of Africa, on the Frontiers of Nigritia and Guinea, and within a few Leagues of Cape Verd. (0) Levant; Fr. from the Lat. i. e. Rifing. The Eaft, or Eaftern EURUS, (q) and ZEPHYR; with their SideWinds SIROCco, (s) and LIBECCHIO. (t) Thus Outrage began from Things without Life: But DisCORD (the Daughter of SIN) firft introduc'd DEATH among the irrational Creatures, through fierce Antipathy: Beast now began to fight with Beaft, Fowl with Fowl, and Fish with Fish, all leaving to graze upon the Grass devoured one another; nor did they ftand much in Awe of MAN, but fled from him, or paffing by him, glar'd on him with a grim Counte nance. С НА Р. IV. Adam bewails his fallen Condition; Eve endeavours to appease him, but does not fucceed. He exhorts her to feek Peace by Repentance. T HESE were the growing Miferies from without, which ADAM in Part already faw, though hid in the gloomieft Shade, and abandon'd to Sorrow: But within himself he felt worfe Mifery, and his Mind was tofs'd and thrown up and down in a troubled Sea of diforder'd Paffions; which Eaftern Countries, efpecially thofe on the Mediterranean Sea, where the Sun rifeth. The Eaft Wind. (p) Ponent; Lat. Fr. Milt. i. e. Laying down; because there the Sun fets down to our Appearance. Fr. Vent du Ponant, i. e. The Weft Wind, i. e. The Winds rifing and fetting; the East and West Winds. (g) Eurus; Lat. Gr. i. e. Belonging to the Eaft. The (r) Sirocco; Ital. Span. Lat. Japyx, i. e. Blowing from Syria. The South-Eaft Wind; becaufe Syria lies South-Eaft from Italy and Spain. (s) Libecchio; Span. Ital. i. e. Blowing from Lybia. The South-Welt Wind; becaufe Lybia lies South-Weft from Italy and Spain. |