see you just now place all your Planets upon the Glove according as they ought to be done, that i may learn how to range them another Time: For I fancy their very Characters or Figures so much, that I could almost wish our Patches were cut into such pretty Forms; but that I fear 'twill revive the foolish Notions of Astrology again, which you have taught me to despise. But, pray, continued she, how do you know the Planets from the fixed Stars when you see them in the Sky?
Pretty easily, said I, Madam, as to Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. And Mercury is so near the Sun as to be very rarely seen at all.
That puts me in Mind, said she, of what Sir Richard Blackmore saith of him in his Poem called Creation, in these Lines.
Doth in his oval Orbit circling run;
But rarely is the Object of our Sight
In Solar Glory sunk, and more prevailing Light.
Well remember'd, Madam, said I, But to our present Point, the Knowledge of these Planets from the fixed Stars: The former, you must know, don't twinkle asthe
