His Subtilty does Scorpio show, And Sagittarius all his loose desire, By Capricorn his forward Humour know, And Aqua, Lovers Tears that raise his Fire, While Pisces, which intwin'd do move, Shew the soft Play, and wanton Arts of Love.

The Amphibia and Pisces tell the same story.

" "What is it like?" "It is a bright, almost red, star, visible in the sign Pisces of the zodiac only when Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction.

And when thy swelling vents amain, Then Pisces be thy sporting chamberlain.

Ergò in primis dico vidisse me magnum mare arenosum, quod de solùm minuta arena sine vlla aqua cum lapillorum granellis currit, et fluit per altas eleuationes, et depressiones ad similitudinem maris aquæ, nec vnquam quiescit: et quòd ipse non cesso stupere, inueniuntur pisces ad littus proiecti, qui cum sint alterius formæ et speciei, quàm de nostro mari, videntur tamen gustui in edendo delicatiores.

Et breuiter tam ibi quàm alibi, habentur pisces, bestiæ, volucres, aut vermes diuersorum generum, aut specierum, de quibus hoc loco, vel inutilis, vel prolixa posset fieri narratio, quod nec illis qui nunquam propria exierunt, credibilis videretur.

responderunt quod hoc modo pisces per naturam docentur venire, et imperatorem suum reuereri.

His aphorisms be these, "Mercury in any geniture, if he shall be found in Virgo, or Pisces his opposite sign, and that in the horoscope, irradiated by those quartile aspects of Saturn or Mars, the child shall be mad or melancholy."

Garcaeus and Leovitius will have the chief judgment to be taken from the lord of the geniture, or where there is an aspect between the moon and Mercury, and neither behold the horoscope, or Saturn and Mars shall be lord of the present conjunction or opposition in Sagittarius or Pisces, of the sun or moon, such persons are commonly epileptic, dote, demoniacal, melancholy: but see more of these aphorisms in the above-named Pontanus.

"Nam pisces omnes, qui stagna, lacusque frequentant, Semper plus succi deterioris habent.

[Symbol: Mercury] Quoties alicujus genitura in [Symbol: Scorpio] et [Symbol: Pisces] adverso signo positus, horoscopum partiliter tenueret atque etiam a [Symbol: Mars]

Optime nutrit omnium judicio inter primae notae pisces gustu praestanti.

Islandiae descriptione victus corum butyro, lacte, caseo consistit: pisces loco panis habent, potus aqua, aut serum, sic vivunt sine medicina multa ad annos 200.

pisces petrosi, et molles carne. 2919.

Multum refert non ignorare qui cibi priores, &c. liquida precedant carnium jura, pisces, fructus, &c. Coena brevior sit prandio. 2949.

1. habent ollas a natura formatas e terra extractas, similes illis a figulis factis, coronas, pisces, aves, et omnes animantium species. 3032.

Pisces et conchae in montibus reperiuntur. 3038.

Victus eorum caseo et laete consistit, potus aqua et serum; pisces loco panis habent; ita multos annos saepe 250 absque medico et medicina vivunt.

Pisces ob amorem marcescunt, pallescunt, &c. 4669.

Illic omnia animalia, pisces, aves, quos Deus unquam creavit mactabuntur, et vinum generosum, &c. 6550.

Then rise, immortal Bucket, rise And claim thy station in the skies; 'Twixt Amphora and Pisces shine: Still guarding Stockbridge with thy sign.

Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas.

Minathe zodiacal Pisces); (6) 30 poles; (7) 84,000 years; (8) Âmbâ or Mango tree; (9) Yakshe[t.]a and Dha[n.]â (Dig.

... PISCES.

" [Footnote 1: Or the "Vescica Pisces," by Lord Lindsay and others.