卷二·第七十二章　坎特伯雷将以何种方式死去

What manner of Death CANTERBURY should dye?

坎特伯雷会以何种方式死去？

It may appear to all indifferent minded men, the verity & worth of Astrologie by this Question, for there is not any amongst the wisest of men in this world could better have represented the person and condition of this old man his present state and condition, and the manner of his death, then this present Figure of heaven doth.

凭这个问题，一切心无偏见的人都可以看出占星学的真实与价值，因为世上最聪明的人当中，没有一个能比眼前这张天宫图，把这位老人的为人与境况、他目前的处境与状况、以及他的死法，表现得更好。

Being a man of the Church, his ascendant is ♑, the cusp of the ninth house; ♄ is Lord of the Signe, now in ♈ his fall; a long time Retrograde, and now posited in the twelft of the Figure, or fourth from his ascendant; so that the heavens represent him in condition of mind, of a violent spirit, turbulent and envious, a man involved in troubles, imprisoned, &c. ♃ a generall Significator of Church-men, doth somewhat also represent his condition, being of that eminency he was of in our Common-wealth: ♃, as you see, is Retrograde, and with many fixed Starres of the nature of ♂ and ☽; an argument he was deep laden with misfortunes and vulgar Clamours at this present.

他是教会中人，所以他的上升是摩羯，即第九宫的宫头；土星是这个星座之主，此时在白羊，即他的落宫；逆行已久，此刻位于盘上的第十二宫，即从他的上升数起的第四宫；所以天象表现出他的心性：脾气暴烈，好惹是非，好嫉妒，是一个卷入种种麻烦、身陷囹圄的人等等。木星是教会中人的总征象星，也多少代表他的境况，因为他在我们的国家里曾那样显赫：你看，木星逆行，又与许多火星、月亮性质的恒星同在；表示他此时满身厄运，众口喧哗。

The ☽ is Lady of the fourth in the Figure, but of the eight as to his ascendant; she separates from ♄, and applies to the ☍ of the ☉ neer the cusp of the eighth house; ☉ in a fiery Signe, applying to an ☍ of ♂, the Dispositor of the aged Bishop; ♂ being in an Ayery Signe and humane, from hence I judged that he should not be hanged, but suffer a more noble kind of death, and that within the space of six or seven weeks, or thereabouts; because the ☽ wanted seven degrees of the body of ♂. He was beheaded about the tenth of January following.

月亮是盘上第四宫之主，但就他的上升而言是第八宫之主；她离开土星，入相太阳的对冲，太阳靠近第八宫的宫头；太阳在火象星座，入相火星的对冲，火星是这位年老主教的定位星；火星在风象星座，又是人形星座，由此我断他不会被绞死，而会受一种较为体面的死法，并且在大约六七周之内；因为月亮离火星的星体还差七度。他在随后的一月十日前后被斩首。

I write not these things as that I rejoyced at his death; no, I doe not; for I ever honoured the man, and naturally loved him, though I never had speech or acquaintance with him: nor doe I write these lines without teares, considering the great incertainty of humane affaires: He was a liberall Mæcenas to Oxford, and produced as good Manuscripts as any were in Europe to that University, whereby the Learned must acknowledge his bounty: let his imperfections be buried in silence, Mortuus est, & de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Yet I account him not a Martyr, as one Asse did; For by the Sentence of the greatest Court of England, viz. the Parliament, he was brought to his end.

我写这些，并不是因为我为他的死而高兴；不，我没有；因为我一向敬重这个人，天性上也喜爱他，虽然我从未与他交谈过，也不相识：写这几行时我也不是没有流泪，想到人间之事是何等无常：他是牛津一位慷慨的梅塞纳斯，给那所大学送去了全欧洲最好的一批手稿，凡有学问的人都必须承认他的慷慨：让他的缺点埋没在沉默里吧，他已经死了，对死者只说好话。但我并不把他算作殉道者，像某头蠢驴那样；因为把他送到这一步的，是英格兰最高的法庭，即议会的判决。