卷三（二）　后七份、福运之份的求法与驳迦勒底人

Sixth Lot

［第六份］

But in the sixth, rich Plenty takes her Throne, / With Preservation: And from this 'tis known / What stores of Wealth shall come, how long their stay, / As Planets tamper with their ruling Ray: / The Seventh in horrid Dangers shall engage

而在第六份里，丰饶的富足登上宝座，与保全相伴：从这里可以知道，会有多少财富到来，能留住多久，看行星以它们主宰的光线怎样干预：第七份将使所生之人陷入可怕的危难，

Seventh Lot

［第七份］

The Birth, if Planets not correct its Rage.

如果行星不矫正它的凶暴的话。

Eighth Lot

［第八份］

The Eighth Nobility pretends to claim, / Where Honour sits with her attendant Fame; / Where Family erect maintains her Place, / And smiling Favour with her winning Face. / The Ninth the doubtful Lot of Children bears

第八份自称主张门第，荣誉与随侍的名声坐在那里；家族在那里挺立，维持它的地位；含笑的恩宠带着她迷人的面容也在那里。第九份承载子女这难以确定的一份，

Ninth Lot

［第九份］

With all the Pious Parents hopes and Fears, / The Tutor's Industry, and Guardian's Cares.

以及虔敬的父母所有的希望与忧惧、教师的勤勉与监护人的操心。

Tenth Lot

［第十份］

The next to this the Act of Life contains, / And shews how far a good Example reigns: / How by their Masters form'd Slaves take their way / To Tasks assign'd, and chearfully Obey.

紧接着的这一份包含人生的行事，显示好的榜样能统辖到什么程度：奴仆怎样受主人塑造，走向分派给他们的差事，欣然服从。

Eleventh Lot

［第十一份］

The following is a Lot of high concern, / For hence the state of strength and Health we learn, / When griev'd, we live obnoxious to Disease, / Or free from Sickness, and consign'd to Ease: / Let none who value Health, this Lot refuse, / When they would time for wholsome Physick choose;

下一份关系重大，因为从这里我们得知体力与健康的状况：受了损害，我们活着就易染疾病；否则无病无痛，得享安适：凡是看重健康的人，想择时服用有益的药物时，都不要拒绝这一份；

For hence we are with most exactness taught / To gather Drugs, or mix the saving Draught.

因为从这里我们得到最精确的教导，去采集药草，或调配救命的药剂。

Twelfth Lot

［第十二份］

The Last, and which the Round concludes, contains / The End of all our Wishes and our Pains, / Shews if to what our several Aims address / Obtain'd, shall crown our Studies with Success; / Whether with fauning Arts we court the Great, / Or shunning Crouds, to Privacy retreat;

最后一份，完成这一圈，包含我们一切愿望与辛劳的结局，显示我们各自所求的目标能否达到，以成功为我们的努力加冕：不论我们是用谄媚的技艺逢迎权贵，还是避开人群、退隐独处；

Whether we Plead at the Contentious Barr, / Or Plough the Sea, and gather Wealth from far; / Or tear the Earth, to crowd our stores with Grain, / Or bring unruly Bacchus to the Press again.

不论我们是在争讼的法庭上辩护，还是犁过大海、从远方收集财富；还是翻掘土地，用谷物堆满我们的仓廪，或再一次把不驯的巴克斯带回榨酒的压榨机。

For these, if Planets prosper the Effect, / You may fit moments, and fit Days expect / From this one Lot, and all the rest neglect.

为这些事，如果行星使结果顺遂，你可以单从这一份里期待合适的时刻与合适的日子，而不管其余各份。

These Planets Powers, and how their Rays infuse, / Or Good, or Bad, shall then engage my Muse, / When their Effects she Sings— / But now lest hudled things confusedly wrought, / Distract thy Mind, and discompose thy Thought; / Let Verse in Method orderly impart / The single naked Elements of Art;

这些行星的力量，以及它们的光线怎样注入或好或坏的影响，等我的缪斯歌唱它们的效应时再来讲——但现在，免得杂乱堆砌的东西扰乱你的心、搅乱你的思绪，让诗依条理传授这门技艺单纯而赤裸的基本原理；

And since my ventrous Muse hath bound in Rhime, / The various Labours of the Round of Time, / (What Greece calls Athla, happy Greece in Song, / Are now call'd Labours in a meaner Tongue) / Which to Twelve Lots conveniently assign'd / Determine all the Fortune of Mankind: / Her Theme pursuing, she will next comprise

既然我大胆的缪斯已经把时间之圈里的种种劳作缚进了韵文——希腊称之为「阿特拉」，幸福的希腊长于歌咏；在较贫乏的语言里，如今叫作「劳作」——它们被恰当地分配给十二份，决定人类全部的命运：她继续她的题目，接下来要说明

How the Lots are to be suited to the Signs

［怎样把各份配给星座］

The several Signs with which the Labours rise; / For to one Seat they are not always ty'd, / Nor from one Sign at every Birth preside; / They change their station, as the Round they move, / Yet still their Order is the same above.

各种劳作随哪些星座升起；因为它们并不总是系于一个座位，也不是在每一次出生时都从同一个星座主管；它们随着绕圈运转而更换位置，但在天上的次序永远不变。

But lest you should imperfect Schemes compleat, / Nor justly suit each Labour to its Seat; / First find the place by Fortune's Lot possest, / (Fortune the first, and Leader of the rest) / That done, to following Signs in order join / The Lots, and give each Labour to its Sign:

但为了不让你把不完整的方案当作完整，也不让你配错每一种劳作的座位，先要找到福运之份所占的位置——福运是第一份，是其余各份的首领——做到之后，就把各份依次配给后随的星座，把每一种劳作给它的星座：

And to secure they search for Fortune's place / Two Rules shall guide thee, and enfold the Maze.

为了稳妥地寻找福运的位置，有两条法则会指引你，解开这座迷宫。

When the Birth belongs to Day

［生时属昼时］

The moment known when first the Birth began, / The Planets join'd to Signs to form the Plan, / And Scheme erected for the future Man; / If then the Sun with an exalted Ray / Above the East and West commands his way, / Then safely fix, and give the Birth to Day:

知道了出生最初开始的时刻，行星配入星座、构成方案，为这个将来的人起好了盘；这时如果太阳以高举的光线在东方与西方之上行走，那就可以放心地确定，把这次出生判给白昼：

But if through lower Skies he wheels the Light, / The Day resigns, and yields the Birth to Night.

但如果他在较低的天空里转动他的光，白昼就退位，把这次出生让给黑夜。

This settled, if the Birth belongs to Day, / The Rule is short, and not obscure the Way; / From that Degree, where then the Sun presides, / To that Degree where gloomy Luna rides: / Count thro' the following signs, and as you pass, / Exactly mark what Numbers fill the space:

定下这一点之后，如果出生属于白昼，法则简短，路也不晦暗：从当时太阳所在的那一度，到幽暗的月亮所在的那一度，顺着后随的星座数过去，一路准确记下这段距离有多少度：

Thence from the Eastern point, which artful Greece / Hath stil'd the Horoscope, an equal number of Degrees, / Following the circling Zodiack as it bends, / Count thro' the Signs; and where the Number ends, / There fix the Seat of Fortune; thence confine / In order, every Labor to its Sign. / But if when Night her sable Wings hath spread,

然后从东方之点——精于技艺的希腊称之为「上升点」——起，顺着弯转的黄道圈，穿过星座数出同样多的度数；数到哪里，就在哪里定下福运的座位；再从那里依次把每一种劳作限定给它的星座。但如果黑夜已展开她黑貂般的翅膀，

When to Night

［生时属夜时］

The Birth starts forward from his Genial Bed; / In different manner, then thy Numbers range, / With Nature's Order, let thy Method change; / The Moon, who imitates her Brother's Light, / And governs in her own Dominion, Night, / Observe: Thence thro' the Signs in order run, / To find how far she's distant from the Sun.

这时孩子从生养他的床上奋身而出；那么你数的方法就不同了，随自然的次序改变你的方法；要观察月亮，她模仿她兄长的光，在她自己的领地黑夜里统治：从那里顺着星座依次数下去，求出她离太阳有多远。

The Native's Horoscope be next thy Care, / And from that Point, begin to count as far / As those Degrees permit thy Thoughts to pass; / And where they stop, there settle Fortune's place.

接下来要留心本命者的上升点，从那一点开始，数出那些度数允许你的思路走到的远处；数到哪里停下，就在那里安置福运的位置。

And then to following Signs the rest confine / In order, every Labor to its Sign. / Perhaps these Precepts may appear too nice,

然后把其余各份依次限定给后随的星座，把每一种劳作给它的星座。也许这些规矩显得太过精细，

How to find the Horoscope

［怎样求上升点］

For who can find the Horoscope in Skies / Immense, still circling with impetuous force, / In Motion restless, and so swift in Course?

因为在无边的天空里，谁能找到上升点？天空始终以猛烈的力量旋转，运动不息，路程又如此迅速。

Yet this not rightly fixt, our Art can boast / No certainty, and all our Labour's lost: / As wretched Travellers are doom'd to stray, / When those mistake, who should direct the Way.

然而这一点若定得不对，我们的技艺就无从夸口有什么确定性，我们一切的辛劳都白费了：正如可怜的旅人注定要迷路，当那些该指路的人自己弄错了的时候。

Because the Points which all the rest controul, / Misplac'd at first, must influence the whole, / And since the rouling Skies move swiftly on, / A different Face is every moment shown, / The Scheme must be uncertain, and the Birth unknown.

因为控制其余一切的那些点，起初就放错了，必然影响全局；而既然旋转的天迅速前行，每一刻都显出不同的面貌，方案就必定不确定，出生也就不可知。

Yet tho' of greatest Vse, 'tis hard to gain / This Knowledge; and our Search is oft in vain: / For who can in his narrow Breast comprise / The World immense, and who observe the Skies, / Which with eternal Revolutions move, / And Circling, measure the vast Orb above?

然而这知识虽然用处最大，却很难获得，我们的寻求常常徒劳：因为谁能在他狭小的胸中容纳无边的世界？谁能观察那以永恒的旋转运动、绕着圈子量遍上方广大天球的诸天？

What Diligence can e're describe its Face, / What Art can fix in so immense a space?

什么样的勤勉能描绘出它的面貌？什么技艺能在如此广大的空间里定出位置？

Those Points where East and West exactly fall, / Which Crowns the Top, and which supports the Ball?

东方与西方确切落在哪些点上？哪一点为天顶加冕，哪一点支撑天球？

The Chaldaeana refuted

［驳迦勒底人］

I know the Method, the Chaldaean Schools / Prescribe, but who can safely trust their Rules?

我知道迦勒底学派所规定的方法，但谁能放心信赖他们的规矩？

To each ascending Sign, to find their Powers, / They equal time allow, that time two Hours: / And then from that Degree, from which the Sun / Begins to start, his daily Course to run, / Two Hours to each succeeding Sign they give, / Still thus allowing, 'till their search arrive / At the Degree and Sign they seek, for where / The Number ends, the Horoscope is there. / But false the Rule; Oblique the Zodiack lies,

为了求出各个上升星座的力量，他们给每个星座相等的时间，那时间是两小时：然后从太阳开始启程、跑他每日路程的那一度起，给每个后随的星座两小时，一直这样分下去，直到找到他们所求的那一度与那个星座，因为数目在哪里终了，上升点就在哪里。但这规矩是错的：黄道是倾斜的，

The first Argument against the Chaldaeans

［驳迦勒底人的第一个论证］

And Signs as near, or far remov'd in Skies, / Obliquely mount, or else directly rise: / In Cancer, so immense his Round, the Ray / Continues long, and slowly ends the Day; / Whilst Winter's Caper in a shorter Track / Soon wheels it round, and hardly brings it back:

星座在天上或近或远，斜着升起，或直着升起：在巨蟹里，他的圆圈如此广大，光线持续很久，白昼慢慢才结束；而冬天的摩羯在较短的轨迹里，很快就把它转完，几乎带不回白昼：

Aries and Libra, equal Day with Night, / Thus middle Signs to the Extreams are opposite / And Signs Extream too, vary in their Light.

白羊与天秤使昼与夜相等；所以中间的星座与两端的相反，两端的星座光照也各不相同。

Nor are the Nights less various than the Days / Equal their measure, only Darkness sways, / In Signs adverse to those that bore the Rays: / Then who can think when Days and Nights are found, / In length so differing thro' the Yearly Round, / There should be given to every Sign in Skies, / An equal Space, an equal Time to rise?

夜也不比昼少变化：它们的长度相等，只是由黑暗统辖，在与承载阳光的那些星座相对的星座里：那么，既然一年之中昼与夜的长短如此不同，谁会认为天上的每个星座都被给予相等的空间、相等的升起时间呢？

The Second Argument

［第二个论证］

But more than this: The Hours no certain space / Of time contain, but vary with the Days: / Yet every Day in what e're Sign begun, / Beholds six Signs above the Horizon, / Leaves six below; and therefore Rules despise, / Because the Hours no equal time comprise, / Which give two Hours to every Sign to rise.

还不止于此：时辰并不包含确定的时间长度，而是随白昼而变：可是无论白昼从哪个星座开始，都看见六个星座在地平之上，留下六个在下面；所以那些规矩该被轻视，因为时辰并不包含相等的时间，而它们却给每个星座两小时去升起。

The Hours in number Twelve divide the Day, / And yet the Sun with an unequal Ray / Now makes a shorter, now a longer stay.

时辰以十二之数分割白昼，可太阳的光线并不均等，时而停留得短，时而停留得长。

Nay farther, tho' you many ways pursue / To find their length you'l never meet the true,

不仅如此，你纵然用许多方法去追求，要求出它们的长短，也永远遇不到真确的，

How to find the different lengths of Days and Nights, and to find the Horoscope

［怎样求出昼夜的不同长短，并求上升点］

But thus: Take all that space of time the Sun / Meets out, when every daily Round is Run, / Let equal Portions next that time divide; / And then those Portions orderly apply'd / To Days, will shew their length, from thence appears / Their varying Measures through the rouling Years.

只有这样：取太阳每跑完一天的一圈时所量出的那全部时间，接着把那时间分成相等的份；然后把这些份依次用于各个白昼，就会显出它们的长短，由此显出它们在流转的年岁中变化的长度。

The Standard this, by which our Art Essays / Winter's slow Nights, and tries the Summer's Days.

这就是标准，我们的技艺用它来衡量冬天迟缓的长夜，检验夏天的白昼。

This must be fixt, when from th' Autumnal Scales, / The Day declines, and Winter's Night prevails: / Or in the Ram whence Winter's Nights retire / The Hours restoring to the Summer's Fire: / In those two Points, the Day and Night contain / Twelve equal Hours. For with an even rein / The Sun then guides, and whilst his Care doth roul / Thro' Heaven's midd Line, he leans to neither Pole:

这个标准必须在白昼从秋天的天秤开始减短、冬天的夜占上风时定下：或者在白羊里，冬天的夜从那里退去，把时辰交还给夏天的火：在这两个点上，昼与夜各含十二个相等的时辰。因为太阳那时以平稳的缰绳驾驭，他的车沿着天的中线滚动，不偏向任何一极：

But when remov'd, he to the South declines, / And in the Eighth Degree of Caper shines, / The Winter's hasty Day moves nimbly on, / Nine Hours and half; so soon the Light is gone.

但当他移开、向南偏去，在摩羯的第八度照耀时，冬天匆促的白昼轻快地走完，只有九个半小时；光就这样很快消逝。

But Night drives slowly in her gloomy Carr, / Takes fourteen Hours and half for her unequal share; / Thus twice twelve Hours in Day and Night are found, / To fill the natural Measure of the daily Round.

而黑夜驾着她幽暗的车缓缓前行，占去十四个半小时作为她不均等的一份；这样昼夜合起来是两个十二小时，填满一日自然的长度。

Thence Light encreases still, as Nights decay, / 'Till Cancer meets her in the Fiery way, / And sets sure bounds to her encroaching sway.

从那以后，光不断增加，夜逐渐衰减，直到巨蟹在火热的路上迎住它，给它不断侵占的统辖划定确定的界限。

Then turns the Scene, and Summers day descends / Thro' Winter's Hours, still losing as it bends: / And then the Days of equal length appear, / With Nights, 'th' adverse Season of the Year, / And Nights with Days: For by the same Degrees / That once they lengthened, now the Times decrease, / These Times our Art can shew, but these belong / To future Rhimes, and claim another Song.

然后场景转换，夏天的白昼经过冬天的时辰逐渐下降，一路弯转一路减少：那时一年中相对季节里的白昼与夜长度相同，夜也与昼相同：因为当初怎样一度一度地变长，如今就怎样一度一度地减短。这些时间我们的技艺能够显示，但它们属于将来的诗句，要另作一首歌。

Thus measure those, who live where fruitful Nile, / With Summer Torrents swoln o'reflows the Soil; / Whose seven large Mouths, the Skies can boast no more

生活在肥沃的尼罗河畔——夏季的洪流使河水涨溢、淹没土地——的人们，就这样计量；那条河有七个宽阔的河口，天上可夸的也不比它更多