Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 43
fiery Mars, the planetof war, careers round his great loop, while oldSaturn, heavy, dull, and slow (as Armado saysthat lead is—the metal dedicated to Saturn),plods slowly and wearily along. Between August6 and October I, Mars traversed his entire back-ward track,—Saturn, you notice, only a small… … FIG. I. THE PATHS OF MARS AND SATURN. the evil qualities which the astrologers of old assignedto him. My loking, says Saturn, in Chaucers Canterbury Tales, is the fader of pestilence : Min ben also the maladies colde,The derke treasons, and the costes olde;Min is the drenching in the see so wan,Min…
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