Note 514:B — Chapter XII
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In what estimation Kelly was held in 1662, is evident from the opinion of Fuller, who closes his account of this daring impostor with the following sentence:—"If his pride and prodigality were severed from him, he would remain a person, on other accounts, for his industry and experience in practical Philosophy, worthy recommendation to posterity." Worthies, p. 174.
That Shakspeare was exempt from the astrological mania of his age, we learn from his fourteenth sonnet, where he tells us,—
"Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good, or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality: Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind; Or say with princes if it shall go well, By oft predict that I in heaven find."