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<HEAD><HI>BIFRONS JANUS <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> OR, SMAL TOKENS</HI> for the <HI>Old-Year,</HI> and <HI>LITTLE GIFTS</HI> for the <HI>New&punc;</HI>
<L>De&s;igned to Ki&s;s the Hand</L>
<L>Of any at Sea, or Land,</L>
<L>Who <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> under&s;tand,</L></HEAD>
<BYLINE>By the Autor of <HI>A Notion for the Ocean.</HI></BYLINE>
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<Q>&mdash;Ita vertere &s;eriae ludo.</Q>
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<LG>
<L>OLD <HI>Tu&s;&s;er</HI>'s and Young <HI>EHMAMP</HI>'s two Money-Catches,</L>
<L>Or, if you will, two Silver-Watches,</L>
<L>Which, without mending, go about</L>
<L>Every month of th' Year throughout,</L>
<L><HI>T.</HI> Think it is no &s;lavery to get a peny &s;avourly.</L>
<L><HI>E.</HI> A mighti Monie-Rule it is for ever and for aie,</L>
<L>Alwaies receiv before Thu write and write before Thu pai.</L>
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<HEAD>MARCH</HEAD>
<L><HI>March</HI> is a month to purge and to let blood,</L>
<L>And Sweet meats now and drinks are very good,</L>
<L>And learn'd Phy&s;icians wou'd be under&s;tood.</L>
<L>As mad as is any <HI>March</HI>-Hare,</L>
<L>Are words that very common are:</L>
<L>An old &s;aying it is, but 'tis very hand&s;om,</L>
<L>A bu&s;hel of <HI>March</HI>-du&s;t is worth a Kings Ran&s;om.</L>
<L>Of this &s;aying which abroad doth go mo&s;t &s;ure I am,</L>
<L><HI>March</HI> comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb.</L>
<L>Say we not <HI>March</HI>-winds and <HI>May</HI>-Sun,</L>
<L>Make linnen white, and &s;air Maids dun?</L>
<L>Of <HI>March</HI>-winds &s;ome &s;ay this (be&s;ides,) <HI>March</HI>-wind will run through 9 Bull-hides</L>
<L>On <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> 
<HI>Davids</HI> day Put barley in clay: <HI>Whats here? March-beer.</HI></L>
<L>VVhen <HI>March</HI> borrow's of <HI>April,</HI> three days then tho&s;e three are ill.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>APRIL</HEAD>
<L>Cau&s;es of &s;ickne&s;s now remove. <HI>Aprii</HI> to all men crie's in love;</L>
<L>For now the Body-pores being ope, Extreme di&s;ea&s;es &s;ee &s;om hope</L>
<L>This Rule by heart in Gard'ning get, Sow ever dry, &s;et ever wet,</L>
<L>VVhile &s;om foe's think of fair, or Fairies,</L>
<L>Good Hou&s;wives now think of their Daries.</L>
<L><HI>April</HI>-skuds bring <HI>May</HI> buds. <HI>April</HI>-&s;howers bring <HI>May</HI>-flowers.</L>
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<HEAD>MAY</HEAD>
<L>No Garden now, or Hedge but it is good, To give the body Phy&s;ick, or el&s; food.</L>
<L>The Fields and Gardens walk and walk again; And from all &s;alt, or hot meats quite refrain.</L>
<L>Sick-man, Cheer up, <HI>Climb up May</HI>-hill, And longer 't may be live you will:</L>
<L>Heark what Field-Mu&s;ick Birds do bring, Church-Mu&s;ick is no better thing.</L>
<L>VVhat do you think? what do you &s;ay? Nought of the very month of <HI>May?</HI></L>
<L>Dread a windy <HI>May</HI> and hot, Church-yards fat makes it not?</L>
<L>Let <HI>May</HI> come early or late, It makes the Cow to quate.</L>
<L><HI>O what a clutter, About <HI>May-</HI> butter!</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>JUNE.</HEAD>
<L>'Tis death, o'th ground ra&s;hly to lie, or &s;weat,</L>
<L>Or &s;will, or feed on gro&s;s and heavy meat.</L>
<L>Stilling of Ro&s;es now's in &s;ea&s;on, As Ver&s;es without Rhime, or Rea&s;on</L>
<L>Syrups and Con&s;ervs now're in prime, This month they're made, this is the time.</L>
<L>Now they talk to &s;ome tune, As fre&s;h as a Ro&s;e in <HI>June.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>JULY.</HEAD>
<L>Cold Baths and cooling herbs are much commended,</L>
<L>Till Dog-days furious heat is fully ended.</L>
<L>Yet for to vouch, in Rivers now to &s;wim,</L>
<L>More whol&s;om is then Baths, will prove no whim.</L>
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<L>Gall, Rue and Wormwood, gotten with great ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Strew'd on your floors are found to kill the fleas:</L>
<L>A &s;ort of black-coats all for &s;hift and &s;hark:</L>
<L>One call'd them Demi-Devils in the dark.</L>
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<HEAD>AUGUST.</HEAD>
<L>U&s;e this month le&s;s then u&s;ually to eat,</L>
<L>And &s;lip away from &s;leep now after meat</L>
<L>And &s;udden cold take heed of after-heat.</L>
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<HEAD>SEPTEMBER.</HEAD>
<L>The Year declining to provide remember,</L>
<L>Your VVinter-Garments in this month <HI>September;</HI></L>
<L>And put them loo&s;ely on too, to prevent</L>
<L>VVhat el&s;e, beleeve it, after you'll repent.</L>
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<L>Thi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ty days hath <HI>September,</HI></L>
<L><HI>April, June</HI>and <HI>November:</HI></L>
<L><HI>February</HI> twenty eight alone,</L>
<L>But all the other thirty one.</L>
<L>Or thus my&s;ticly but prettily.</L>
<L><HI>March</HI> up your thumb, fore-finger down, Ring-finger down likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>The months all come wh'ave thirty one <HI>Perkt</HI> up before your eyes.</L>
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<HEAD>OCTOBER.</HEAD>
<L><HI>In <HI>October</HI> clad thee well,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If on Earth you long would dwell,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To the <HI>Tailor</HI> this Tale tell,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Now his Phy&s;ick bear's the Bell.</HI></L>
<L>&mdash;And to conclude,&mdash;The Lord Mayor's day's next <HI>Simon</HI> and <HI>Jude.</HI></L>
<L>Look the whole world through-in, throughout and it all round,</L>
<L>No Nation, Civ'tie, King, or Lord, like Our, is &s;ound.</L>
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<HEAD>NOVEMBER.</HEAD>
<L>This month an End of Phy&s;ic make,</L>
<L>And 'xcept great need&punc; till <HI>March,</HI> none take</L>
<L>Yet take care that dry go your feet</L>
<L>El&s; Rheums and Colds will with you meet.</L>
<L><HI>The fifth of <HI>November,</HI> Sure all will remember,</HI></L>
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<HEAD>DECEMBER.</HEAD>
<L>To be born for him&s;elf a man will &s;corn,</L>
<L>Think then; who, this month for us all was <HI>Born?</HI></L>
<L>Think on the <HI>Manger</HI> too: I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">le &s;ay no more,</L>
<L>To make thee, i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> rich, Give dole at thy door.</L>
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<HEAD>At Chri&s;t-Tide, A Cock-Stride.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Ever Memorable NATIVITY-HYMN.</HEAD>
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<L>ALL this Night &s;hril Chaunticler, Day's Proclaiming Trumpeter,</L>
<L>Clap's his wings, and loudly crie's, Mortals, Mortals, 'wake, Ari&s;e,</L>
<L>From the Earth is ri&s;en a Sun, Shines at night tho' day be done.</L>
<L>Awake, O earth, 'wake every thing; 'Wake and hear she News I bring.</L>
<L>'Wake and joy for all this Night; Heaven and every twinkling light.</L>
<L>All amazing, &s;till &s;tand gazing, Angels, Powers, and all that be,</L>
<L>Awake and joy the Sun to &s;ee.</L>
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<L>Hail, O Sun, of ble&s;&s;ed light, Sent into this world by night;</L>
<L>Let thy Rays and heavenly Powers, Shine in the&s;e dark &s;ouls of ours;</L>
<L>For mo&s;t duty, thou art truly, God and Man I do confe&s;s,</L>
<L>Hail, O Sun of righteou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
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<HEAD>JANUARY. EHMAMPI Strena <HI>Or,</HI> His New-Year's Gift.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>The Snake it &s;elf ca&s;ts off it skin, And wil not Thu th' old man within,</L>
<L>That Man without a Navel, He Wil el&s; both liv and Lord in thee,</L>
<L>Which Lording life wil doubl doubl &s;o, As no toung can expre&s;s Thour wo.</L>
<L>Thrice happi yet, if quitting &s;in, Thu New-born the New-year begin;</L>
<L>And, Chri&s;tian Reader, that Thu it Both &s;urer mai and &s;ooner quit.</L>
<L>Cgno, judg, believ't a &s;in not littl, To think a &s;in &s;mal wer't a tittl.</L>
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<HEAD>At Twelfth-Tide, an Hour-Wide.</HEAD>
<L>Lo, here the Wi&s;emen precious Gifts di&s;pen&s;e,</L>
<L>To <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> Gold, Myrrh, Frankincen&s;e;</L>
<L>So much a&s;toni&s;h'd at this glorious thing,</L>
<L>A Maid at once to bear God, Man and King.</L>
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<HEAD>EHmampi Specimen, or, his E&s;&s;aie on the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>Gold, Myrrh, and Franckincen&s;, here th' <HI>Magi</HI> bring</L>
<L>To <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> the Babe and <HI>Marie</HI> it &s;uckling:</L>
<L>The Maiden-Mather's 'maz'd, her eha&s;t Womb can,</L>
<L>Hape at once th' Honors to bear God, King, Man.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>In <HI>Janiveer</HI> Pots freez by th' <HI>Fier.</HI></HEAD>
<L>If the Good wife knew what it were, To eat a Hen in <HI>Janiveer,</HI></L>
<L>She wou'd leave but one in her &s;tock, If that, t' accompany the Cock.</L>
<L>In <HI>January</HI> 'tis not good, Without great need for to let blood,</L>
<L>And wondrous &s;hy be to take cold, For Rheums and Colds are now too bold.</L>
<L>The la&s;t of <HI>January</HI> but one, True <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> bearss did bleed and groan.</L>
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<HEAD>FEBRUARY.</HEAD>
<L>Of <HI>February</HI>-Phy&s;ick be thou wary, And of warm Air 'cau&s;e it doth vary.</L>
<L>If <HI>Phoebus</HI> &s;hine when <HI>Mary</HI> is purified, More Fro&s;t look, after than before, t'abide</L>
<L><HI>February Fill-Dike,</HI> With <HI>black</HI> or <HI>White,</HI> The <HI>Rhime's</HI> wrong, but <HI>Rea&s;on's</HI> right.</L>
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<Q>Omnium  Pulvis, aut Cinis.</Q>
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<TRAILER>FINIS</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year 1673/4.</P>
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