I Am not of their Minde, who thinke the _Sun_, The _Moone_, the _Planets_, and those glorious _Lights_ Which trim the _Sphæres_, doe in their _Motions_ run To no more purpose, then to please our _Sights_. Nor for distinguishment of _Nights_, and _Dayes_, Or of the _Seasons_, and the _Times_, alone, Can I suppose the Hand of _God_ displayes Those many _Starres_, we nightly gaze upon: For, both by _Reason_, and by _Common-sense_ We know (and often feele) that from above The _Planets_ have, on us, an _Influence_; And, that our _Bodies_ varie, as they move. Moreover, _Holy Writ_ inferres, that these Have some such pow’r; ev’n in those Places, where It names _Orion_, and the _Pleiades_; Which, _Starres_ of much inferiour Nature are. Yet, hence conclude not, therefore, that the _Minde_ Is by the _Starres_ constrained to obey Their _Influence_; or, so by them inclin’d, That, by no meanes resist the same we may. For, though they forme the _Bodies_ temp’rature, (And though the _Minde_ inclineth after that) By _Grace_ another _Temper_ we procure, Which guides the _Motions_ of _Supposed Fate_. The _Soule_ of _Man_ is nobler then the _Sphæres_; And, if it gaine the Place which may be had, Not here alone on Earth, the Rule it beares, But, is the _Lord_, of all that _God_ hath made. Be _wise in him_; and, if just cause there bee, The _Sunne_ and _Moone_, shall stand and wayt on thee. _A =Princes= most ennobling Parts, Are Skill in =Armes=, and Love to =Arts=._ [Illustration: EX VTROQVE CÆSAR ILLVSTR. XXXII. _Book. 1._]