卷三（四）　昼长的增减、星座的年月日时、寿数与回归星座

By Stadia

［以斯塔迪昂计］

But if you count by Stadia, change the Name, / But keep the Method, for the Rule's the same: / Seven Hundred Twenty Stadia fill the Round, / No more in Day, no more in Night are found: / Hence take as many as compleat the Night, / When glowing Cancer in the Summer's hight / Bears Phoebus, and short darkness bounds the light.

但如果你以斯塔迪昂计算，就换个名称，方法却保持不变，因为规则是一样的：七百二十斯塔迪昂填满一圈，白昼与黑夜合起来不多于此数：从中取出夏至时构成黑夜的那么多——即火热的巨蟹在夏天的高处承载福玻斯、短暂的黑暗限制光明的时候。

The rest by Six divide, one Sixth devise / To fiery Leo as his time to rise; / Night's Stadia so divide, one Sixth bestow / On Taurus: Take the Difference twixt the Two, / That Sum divide by Three, and thence apply, / Beside the Stadia Taurus takes to mount the Sky, / One single Third to naked Gemini.

其余的除以六，把六分之一分给火热的狮子作为他升起的时间；黑夜的斯塔迪昂也这样分，把六分之一给金牛：取两者之差，把这个数除以三，然后在金牛升上天空所需的斯塔迪昂之外，把单独一个三分之一给赤裸的双子。

Thus to the rest proceed, but still confine / To following Signs the Stadia of the former Sign, / With one Third Part's Encrease; till Libra's Ray / This Reckoning stops, and shews another way: / For Signs from Libra different Rules comprise, / A different Order they observe in Skies, / The Stadia others claim to Set they take to Rise.

其余的照此进行，但始终把前一个星座的斯塔迪昂限定给后随的星座，再加三分之一的增量；直到天秤的光线止住这种计算，显出另一条路：因为从天秤起的星座遵循不同的规则，它们在天上遵循不同的次序，别的星座沉没所需的斯塔迪昂，它们用来升起。

Those Stadia too in which the rest ascend / These Winter Signs in slowly setting spend.

其余星座升起所用的那些斯塔迪昂，这些冬天的星座在缓缓沉没时用去。

Thus having fixt the Stadia, now pursue / The Horoscope, 'tis open to thy view; / From that Degree in which the Sun doth mount / Observe my Method, and begin to count; / Give proper Hours to every Sign to rise, / And proper Stadia to ascend the Skies, / Work by those Rules which I have shewn before, / Securely work, for you can err no more.

定好了斯塔迪昂之后，现在去求上升点，它就展现在你眼前了；从太阳升起时所在的那一度起，照我的方法开始数；给每个星座应得的时辰去升起、应得的斯塔迪昂去登天，按我前面讲过的那些规则去做；放心去做吧，你不会再出错。

By what advance the Winter Months encrease, / (For they advance not by the same Degrees

冬天的月份以怎样的进度增长（因为它们并不是以相同的度数增长

How Days encrease from Capricorn to Cancer

［白昼怎样从摩羯到巨蟹增长］

Thro' every Sign, till on the Ram they light, / Which equals Time, and Day adjusts to Night) / Must next be shewn to all that press to learn, / Short are the Rules, but yet of great Concern.

经过每一个星座，直到抵达白羊，白羊使时间相等，使白昼与黑夜相称），接下来必须向一切急于学习的人说明，法则简短，却关系重大。

First take the measure of the shortest Day / And longest Night, when with unequal Ray / Thro' Caper Phoebus drives the narrow way.

先取最短的白昼和最长的黑夜的长度，即福玻斯以不均的光线驱车穿过摩羯、走那狭窄之路的时候。

Then count the Hours which Day must yield to Shade, / And in three Portions let the Sum be laid; / One of these Parts to th' Middle Sign apply'd / Shews the Increase of Day on either side: / For as the First is by the Midst surpass'd / One Half, so that's exceeded by the last.

然后数出白昼必须让给阴影的时辰，把这个总数分成三份；把其中一份配给中间的那个星座，就显出两边白昼的增量：因为正如第一个被中间的超过一半，中间的也照样被最后的超过。

Thus thro' Three Signs the Day's Increase is shown, / The following takes what to the Last was grown, / And adds an equal Portion of its own.

白昼的增长就这样经过三个星座显出来，后随的星座取得前一个所增长的，再加上同样的一份自己的。

For Instance: To the Conquest Night assign / Full Fifteen Hours, and give the Day but Nine: / Three Hours the difference. Now the Goat hath Power / To lengthen Day the space of half an Hour, / One Hour Aquarius adds, the Fishes joyn / As much as Both, and with the rest combine;

举个例子：判给黑夜的胜利是足足十五小时，白昼只给九小时：相差三小时。这时摩羯有力量把白昼加长半小时，水瓶加一小时，双鱼加的与前两者合起来一样多，与其余的合在一起；

Thus three Hours fill'd, adjusted Time they bring / To Aries; and he equals Day and Night in Spring.

这样填满了三小时，它们把调整好的时间带到白羊；他在春天使昼夜相等。

The Sixth part of the Time, or more or less, / Whate're it proves, is the first Sign's Increase; / The Second doubles what the First surpass'd, / And gives it to be trebled by the last.

时间的六分之一，或多或少，不论结果是多少，就是第一个星座的增量；第二个把第一个所增的加倍，再交给最后一个变成三倍。

But from the Equinoctial point the Day / Receives increase, but in another way; / For Aries takes as many Hours from Night, / As Pisces seiz'd before in their own Right; / And to compleat the Rapine Taurus. joins / One Hour, one Half is added by the Twins;

但从分点起，白昼的增长换了另一种方式；因为白羊从黑夜取走的时辰，与双鱼先前凭自己的权利所夺取的一样多；金牛加上一小时来完成这场掠夺，双子加上半小时；

Thus whilst these Signs the Time to Day restore, / Night justly loses, as it gain'd before.

这些星座这样把时间还给白昼，黑夜也就公平地失去它先前得到的。

From Caper thus Decreasing Nights appear, / And Heaven turns up the right side of the Year; / The Day proceeds to lengthen all the way, / Till high in Cancer rais'd it finds a Stay; / The Solstice then: when Day and Night are found / Equal to Night and Day that drove the Winter round.

从摩羯起，黑夜就这样一天天缩短，天转出一年的右边；白昼一路不断加长，直到在巨蟹里升到高处，找到停驻之处：那时是至点：那时的白昼与黑夜，正等于驱动冬天时的黑夜与白昼。

Then by the same degrees again the Light / Decreasing, what it took returns to Night. / Thus far advanc't in Art my Verse defines

然后光又以同样的度数递减，把它取走的还给黑夜。我的诗在技艺上进展至此，现在要说明

The Years, Months, Days, and Hours of Signs

［星座的年、月、日、时］

The proper Years, Months, Hours, and Days of Signs: / These must be shewn; for Signs have Days & Hours, / And Months, and Years when they exert their Powers.

星座所属的年、月、时与日：这些必须说明，因为星座有它们的日与时，也有它们施展力量的月与年。

First then, that Sign in which the Sun appears, / Because the Sun measures out the time in Years, / Claims the first Year: On following Signs bestow / The following Years as they in Order go.

首先，太阳所在的那个星座认领第一年，因为太阳以年来度量时间：把后随的年按次序依次给后随的星座。

And so the Moon, for as she rounds the Skies, / She measures Months, to Signs the Months applies.

月亮也是如此，因为她绕天一周，量出的是月，就把月份分配给星座。

Of Days and Hours the Horoscope possest / Of the first parts, to following Signs commits the rest.

上升点占有日与时的第一份，把其余的交给后随的星座。

This Nature orders, all her Months and Years, / And Days, and Hours, she parcels out to Stars; / That as they run their Course they all may find / The different Signs, and vary in their kind.

自然这样安排，把她所有的月与年、日与时一份份分给星座；好让它们运行时都会遇到不同的星座，在性质上各有变化。

This Nature orders too; and hence there springs / That various Discord that is seen in Things; / In one continued Stream no Fortune flows, / Joy mixes Grief, and Pleasures urg'd by Woes: / Inconstancy in every part appears, / Which Wisdom never trusts, but Folly fears.

自然这样安排，也是为此：由此产生万物中可见的种种不和；没有一种命运连续不断地流淌，欢乐夹杂悲伤，快乐被祸患催逼：每一部分都显出无常，智者从不信赖它，愚人却害怕它。

Thus Years from Years, and as they roul the round / The Months from Months, and Days from Days are found / To differ: no returning Hours restore / That sort of Fortune which they brought before: / Because the Times, as round their Course they run, / Meet different Signs, and are not bound to One;

所以年与年，以及它们循环时月与月、日与日，都彼此不同：回来的时辰不会再带回它们从前带来的那种运气：因为时间绕着它们的路程运行时，遇到的是不同的星座，并不系于一个。

The Days and Hours their ruling Signs obey, / The Month's the influence which they give convey / And temper all things by their fatal Ray.

日与时服从它们的主宰星座，月份传达那些星座所给的影响，以命运的光线调和万物。

Some Astrologers Opinion. concerning the Years, Months and Days of Signs

［某些星占家关于星座的年、月、日的意见］

Some Author's Write, (for who can hope to see / Opinions join, or find the World agree?)

有些作者写道（因为谁能指望看到意见一致，或找到世人都同意的事？）

That from the Horoscope our Art defines / The Days, the Hours, the Years, and Months of Signs; / From that alone let the Account begin, / And all the rest will orderly fall in: / And whilst the others, as before 'twas shown, / Three Heads of reckoning ask, the Moon, the Sun, / And Horoscope, these still demand but One:

我们的技艺只从上升点定出星座的日、时、年与月；只从那一点开始计算，其余一切就都依次就位：别人如前面所说，要三个计算的起头，即月亮、太阳与上升点，这些人却只要一个：

Yet still as great, their difference must appear, / Month disagrees with Month, and Year with Year, / And Hours and Days: For with uneven pace, / Tho' starting all together, they run the Race, / And never make Returns in equal space: / Twice to the Signs each Hour the Days restore / Twice every Month, brings round the Days, and more:

然而它们的差异必定同样大：月与月不合，年与年不合，时与日也不合：因为它们步伐不均，虽然同时起跑，却在不等的间隔里回来：每天两次把时辰带回各个星座，每个月两次多把日子转回来：

Once every Year the Months to Signs are born, / And when Twelve Years are run, the Years return.

每年一次把月份交给各个星座，十二年过去，年才回来。

Refuted

［驳之］

'Tis hard to think, and Nature's Laws reject / One single Time, so differing in effect: / That when one Sign for Years and Months appears, / Bad Fate should clog the Months, Good Crown the Years: / Or that the Sign which thro' the Months conveys / Bright Fortune, should with Black infest the Days:

很难想象，自然的法则也排斥这种想法：单单一个时间点，效果却如此不同：同一个星座既主年又主月时，坏的命运会拖累那些月，好的命运却为那些年加冕；或者，那个在各月里传送光明运气的星座，竟会以黑暗的运气侵扰那些日子：

Or that the Star, which with afflicting Power, / The Day oppresseth, should exalt the Hour.

或者那颗以折磨人的力量压迫那一天的星，却会提升那一时辰。

Vain therefore their attempt, who fondly hope, / The Times to reckon from the Horoscope, / And think because with an unequal Date, / They come to Signs, that these Returns create / Their different, odd varieties of Fate.

所以那些人的尝试是徒劳的，他们痴心妄想从上升点计算时间，以为时间以不等的周期来到星座，这些回归就造成命运种种奇特的变化。

Absurd Opinion! which with fruitless pain, / They strive to prop with mighty Names in vain, / It sinks, and falls with its own stupid weight again. / This sung, and Times to Signs apply'd, the Muse

荒谬的意见！他们白费力气，想用伟大的名字支撑它，也是徒然；它在自身愚蠢的重量下又沉落倒塌了。这些唱完，时间也配给了星座，缪斯

How many Years belong to each Sign and Station

［每个星座与每个位置所属的年数］

Would beg release, and further Task refuse; / But lo the Subject grows: The next must show / What length of Times the several Signs bestow: / This must be known when in your search for Fate / You measure Life, and fix the gloomy Date.

想求解脱，推辞更多的任务；可是看哪，题目还在增长：接下来必须说明，各个星座给予多长的时间：当你探求命运、度量寿命、定下那阴郁的期限时，必须知道这一点。

Ten Years and One, but one third part withdrawn, / The Ram extends the wretched Life of Man; / Poorly he gives, as frugal of his Store, / Whilst Taurus adds two Years to these; the Twins two more.

十年又一年，但去掉三分之一，白羊这样延长人可怜的生命；他给得很吝啬，仿佛在节省他的储藏，金牛在这些上加两年；双子再加两年。

Full sixteen Years Eight Months, from Cancer flow, / But two Years more the Lion's rays bestow.

足足十六年零八个月从巨蟹流出，狮子的光线再多给两年。

From Virgo twenty Years, eight Months convey'd, / Enlarge the Birth: The Scales give equal to the Maid: / Scorpio's as much as Leo's Rays dispense, / The Centaur equals Cancer's influence: / Of Years, twice seven, eight Months the Goat conveys; / Though young Aquarius shines with feebler rays, / Four Years he trebles, and doubles six score Days.

处女传下的二十年零八个月延长所生之人的寿命：天秤给的与处女相等：天蝎给的与狮子的光线所给的一样多，人马与巨蟹的影响相等：摩羯给两个七年加八个月；年轻的水瓶虽以较弱的光线照耀，却把四年变成三倍，把一百二十天加倍。

To the same space, with which the Ram began, / The Fish plac't, next extend the Age of Man.

双鱼放在最后，把人的寿命延长到白羊起初的那个长度。

But farther yet, 'tis not enough to know / The length of time which single signs bestow; / For you may Err, when in your search for Fate, / You measure Life, and fix the gloomy Date; / Because the Heavenly Stations claim their share, / As Planets intermix their Force declare, / In this Contrivance, and make Life their Care.

但还不止于此，只知道单个星座给予的时间长度还不够；因为当你探求命运、度量寿命、定下那阴郁的期限时，你可能出错；因为天上的位置也要求它们的份额，正如行星掺入它们的力量所表明的，它们参与这个安排，以生命为关怀。

To single stations now what Years belong, / (With Planets join'd, they claim another Song) / In well wrought Numbers let the Muse impart, / And teach the simplest Elements of Art; / This done, these things prepar'd and sitly join'd, / With greater Ease, she'll raise the Work design'd.

现在让缪斯用精心构成的诗句传授单个位置所属的年数——与行星合在一起，它们需要另一首歌——教授这门技艺最单纯的基本原理；这做完了，这些东西准备好、恰当地结合起来之后，她就能更容易地建起所设计的作品。

If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward from its native rest; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers it Fate: / But if in Heav'ns midst point, this large Decree / She shortens, giving fewer Years by three:

如果月亮在东方的门轴上时，所生之人从他生来的安息中奋身而出；这个位置给足足八十年，若减去两年，把死期推得很远：但如果她在天的正中点，这份丰厚的给予就缩短，少给三年：

With Eighty Courses in the Zodiack Round, / Substracting Four, the Western Hinge is Crown'd.

西方的门轴被八十个黄道之圈加冕，要减去四。

The lowest Hinge on all its Births, derives / Years sixty two, and then concludes their Lives.

最低的门轴给它所生的一切人六十二年，然后结束他们的生命。

Vid. Fig. 9

［见原书图九］

The ninth, which makes upon the Right the Trine, / Gives sixty Years, and bates but One of Nine.

第九位，在右方构成三分的那个，给六十年，再加九年只扣一年。

The Fifth o' th' Left, as frugal of its store, / Gives sixty three, and can enlarge no more; / Th' Eleventh station, that which rises high, / Almost an equal of the Middle Skie, / Yields six score Springs, and lest that Gift should be / Too scanty, lengthens that vast Summ by Three.

左方的第五位，仿佛节省它的储藏，给六十三年，不能再多；第十一位，那个升得很高、几乎与天的正中相等的位置，给一百二十个春天，又唯恐这份礼物太少，把这个巨大的总数再延长三年。

The Third which lies at equal space below / The Eastern point, doth fifty Years bestow, / Mean is the station, and its Gift is so.

第三位，在东方之点下方相等距离处，给五十年：位置平庸，它的礼物也是如此。

The second Forty Courses of the Sun, / And two bestows, and when that term is done, / The Man goes off, e're half his race be run.

第二位给四十个太阳的行程又加两年，那期限一到，人就离去，还没跑完他的半程。

The Twelfth gives twenty three, then hasty Death, / Comes on, and in his Bloom, the Youth resigns his Breath.

第十二位给二十三年，然后匆忙的死亡来临，青年在花季交出他的气息。

The Eighth next o're the Western Hinge can bring / But fourteen Years, nor adds another Spring.

西方门轴之上的第八位只能带来十四年，不再多加一个春天。

The sixth but Twelve bestows, then Death destroys / The Parents Hopes, and crops the growing Boys; / Diseases following, from their Birth create / A feeble Frame, and fit the Prey for Fate.

第六位只给十二年，然后死亡毁灭父母的希望，摘去成长中的男孩；疾病随之而来，从出生起就造成虚弱的体质，使他们成为命运的猎物。

Now nicely view the Tropick Signs that lie / Oppos'd in the four Quarters of the Skie;

现在仔细观察那些回归星座，它们相对地位于天的四个象限；

The Tropick Signs

［回归星座］

Call'd Tropick Signs, because when these appear, / The World then Turns the Seasons of the Year: / Thus Spring in Cancer, in Autumnal Scales / The Summer turns, in Caper Autumn sails; / Thence shivering Winter creeps congeal'd with Frost, / Yet melts again; and in the Ram is lost:

它们被称为回归星座，因为当它们出现时，世界就转换一年的季节：春天在巨蟹里转换，夏天在秋天的天秤里转换，秋天驶入摩羯；从那里，颤抖的冬天裹着霜冻蹑步而来，却又融化，消失在白羊里：

These loose the Seasons, to their full Career, / And make the Course of the Revolving Year; / And these being Hingers of the World, create / New Powers in Stars; and fix new Rules for Fate.

这些星座放开各个季节，任它们全速奔驰，造成循环之年的行程；它们是世界的门轴，在星辰里造出新的力量，为命运定下新的规则。

Cancer

［巨蟹］

In Heavens high Arch, and on the utmost Line / Of Summers progross, Cancer seats his Sign: / There stretches out the greatest length of Day, / And then declines, and makes it soon decay; / But all the time which, as he bears the Light / He takes from Day, He still conveys to Night.

在天的高拱上、在夏天行程的最远之线上，巨蟹安下他的星座：在那里铺展出最长的白昼，然后转而下降，使它很快衰减；但他承载光明时从白昼取走的全部时间，都转给黑夜。

Then Corn grows yellow on the fruitful Soil, / And lusty Reapers bare their Limbs for toil: / Then Seas grow warm, the Floods forbear to roar, / And Billows languish on the quiet Shore.

那时谷物在肥沃的土地上变黄，健壮的收割者袒露肢体去劳作：那时海水变暖，洪流不再咆哮，波浪在平静的岸边慵懒无力。

Then Mars goes forth, nor is the Scythian Coast / From Roman Arms defended by her Frost: / And whilst their Pools and Marshy Grounds are dry, / Fearing our Force, the conquer'd Germans fly: / Then Nile o'reflows, and Egypt's fruitful Plain, / Rich Harvests yields, nor needs the aid of Rain.

那时马尔斯出征，斯基泰的海岸也不能靠它的冰霜抵挡罗马的兵锋：当他们的池沼与沼泽干涸时，被征服的日耳曼人惧怕我们的力量而逃走：那时尼罗河泛滥，埃及肥沃的平原出产丰富的收成，不需雨水相助。

Thus lies the World, when with exalted Ray, / I'th' Summer Solstice Phoebus bears the Day / Thro' Cancer's Sign, and drives the highest Way. / Oppos'd the Goat in narrowest rounds of Light,

当福玻斯在夏至时以高举的光线经过巨蟹的星座承载白昼、驱车走在最高的路上时，世界就是这样。相对的摩羯在光照最窄的圈子里，

Capricorn

［摩羯］

Wheels Winter on, but long extends the Night; / Yet soon Ascending, He contracts the Shade, / To Day returning all the waste he made; / The Fields unwrought, then lie, unplough'd the Seas, / And Mars in Quarters, lies consign'd to Ease: / Rocks cleave with Frost; and by the Cold, opprest, / All Nature's Powers, are stiffned into Rest.

驱动冬天前行，却把黑夜延得很长；但他很快上升，缩短阴影，把他所耗去的一切还给白昼；那时田野未经耕作，大海无人犁过，马尔斯在营房里，被交付给安逸；岩石因霜冻而开裂；被寒冷压迫，自然的一切力量都僵硬成静止。

The next in Power are those two Signs that rise / With equal Revolutions of the Skies;

力量其次的是那两个星座，它们随天的相等转动而升起；

Aries

［白羊］

Which times of Day and Night adjust, and bring / The Autumn on, or else advance the Spring.

它们调整昼与夜的时间，带来秋天，或推进春天。

The Sun returning in his Yearly Race, / To Cancer's Sign meets Aries midst the Space, / Seated between the Point, from whence he bends / His upward Course, and that in which he ends.

太阳在每年的路程中回到巨蟹时，在途中遇到白羊，白羊位于太阳开始向上弯转的那一点与太阳终止的那一点之间。

There plac'd as Umpire in the midst oth' way, / Contracted Night, he well adjusts to Day.

他像仲裁者一样被放在路的中间，把缩短了的黑夜好好地调整到与白昼相等。

And as thro' him the Sun goes on to climb / The Heavenly steep, He makes a change in time; / For Day, that shorten'd in the Winter Bend, / The Ram first lengthens; and the next extend, / 'Till rais'd in Cancer, to the utmost height / Of Summer's pitch, He wheels the longest Light.

当太阳经过他继续攀登天上的陡坡时，他使时间发生变化；因为在冬天的弯道里缩短了的白昼，是白羊首先把它加长；接下来的星座继续延长，直到太阳升到巨蟹、到夏天的顶点，驱动最长的光明。

Then Seas lie husht: Then Earth grows bold to bear, / And trusts young Flowers to the serener Air: / Then Beasts in Fields, and Birds in every Grove, / Press on with Fury to consummate Love.

那时海洋静息：那时大地大胆地生养，把幼嫩的花朵托付给较为晴朗的空气：那时田野里的走兽、每片树林里的飞鸟，都狂热地急于完成爱情。

With joyful Songs the vocal Forests Ring, / And various Leaves adorn the gawdy Spring: / With such brisk Powers are Nature's parts possest, / When wak'd, she rouses from her Winter's Rest.

有声的森林响彻欢乐的歌声，各种叶子装点华丽的春天：当自然从冬天的安息中醒来振作时，她的各部分就被如此轻快的力量占有。

Libra

［天秤］

Oppos'd to Aries, Libra's Stars appear / With the like power to sway the rouling Year, / She equals Day and Night: But soon the Scale / O'repois'd by Darkness, lets the Night prevail; / And Day, that lengthned in the Summer's height, / Shortens 'till Winter, and is lost in Night.

与白羊相对，天秤的群星出现，以同样的力量支配流转的一年；她使昼夜相等：但秤很快被黑暗压得失去平衡，让黑夜占了上风；在夏天高处加长的白昼，一直缩短到冬天，消失在黑夜里。

Then from the burthen'd Elms, the generous Vine / Descends, and Presses over-flow with Wine: / Then Wheat is sown, whilst Autumn's heats remain / To loose the Clods, and millifie the Grain.

那时高贵的葡萄藤从负重的榆树上垂下，压榨机里流溢着酒：那时小麦播下，秋天的热还留着，来松开土块、使种子柔软。

These have their Powers, and as these Signs create / A turn in Seasons, so they doe in Fate: / From Tropick Signs (for by their name, we guess / Their turning Natures) who can hope for less?

这些星座都有它们的力量，正如这些星座在季节里造成转换，它们在命运里也造成转换：既然回归星座的名字让我们猜到它们转换的本性，谁能期望少于此呢？

But wide in their mistake, who think to see / These Powers spread equally in each Degree; / Not every Portion of the Tropick Signs

但那些人大错特错，他们以为这些力量平均地分布在每一度上；并非回归星座的每一部分

What Degrees in the Tropick Signs are to be considered

［回归星座中哪些度数需要考虑］

Turns Seasons, and the Planets force confines, / But one Day only, in the blooming Prime / Of Spring, in Autumn One adjusts the Time, / One Day in Aries doth to Time restore / Equality, and Libra boasts no more; / One Longest Day in Cancer's Sign is born, / One Night of equal length in Capricorn:

都能转换季节、约束行星的力量；在春天的盛期只有一天，在秋天也只有一天调整时间；白羊里只有一天使时间恢复平等，天秤也只能夸口这么多；最长的一个白昼生在巨蟹的星座里，同样长的一个黑夜在摩羯里：

The other Days roul on with different Light, / Now gaining from, now losing time to Night.

其余的日子以不同的光转动，时而从黑夜赢得时间，时而把时间输给黑夜。

Thus One Degree in Tropick Signs creates / A change in Heaven, and turns the Rules of Fates; / No fixt Decree's secure, their boundless sway, / Extends to all, and makes the Stars obey.

所以回归星座里只有一度在天上造成转换，扭转命运的规则；没有固定的天命能保平安，它们无边的统辖扩及一切，使群星服从。

But which that is that governs, Fate's Decree, / There Authors differ, nor can Art agree; / For some the Eighth, and some the Tenth assign, / The First Degree—is only Thine, / Thine, but the Muse with scorn, forbears the Name; / Unworthy mention, and too mean for Fame.

但主宰的那一度是哪一度——这是命运的判定——作者们说法不一，技艺也不能统一；有人定为第八度，有人定为第十度，第一度——只属于你，属于你，但缪斯轻蔑地不提那个名字；它不值一提，太卑微，不配有名声。