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<P>
<PB REF="2"> <HI>Mercurius Verax:</HI></P>
<P>OR THE PRISONERS PROGNOSTICATIONS For the Year 1675.</P>
<P><HI>Wherein are Prophe&s;ied</HI> Several TRUTHS of very great Moment, yet to come to pa&s;s: Which, he that contradicts, let him have a care he does not find them true by EXPERIENCE.</P>
<P><HI>By the Author of the fir&s;t</HI> Montelion, <HI>and Satyr again&s;t Hypocrites.&mdash;</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Cutler.</HI> 1675.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="guide for reading the almanac">
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<HEAD>The Explanation of the Almanack.</HEAD>
<P>HAving on the upper part the Months, and under them the figures for the days of the Month, from 1 till 31. under them your Domi|nical Letters, and in the lower part the Letters for the days of the week, from Sunday to Satur|day; on each &s;ide you have the year of our Lord from 1660 till 1687. on each &s;ide them is your Dominical Letters. Now to know your day, fir&s;t, find out your year, next your Dominical Letter again&s;t that year, which letter find in the lower part of the Almanack, and the letter un|der this is the day of the week for your ob&s;er|vation for the whole year. Only every Leap|year you have two Dominical Letters, which you mu&s;t ob&s;erve, the fir&s;t for <HI>January</HI> and <HI>Fe|bruary,</HI> and the next for all the year after.</P>
<P>IN the year 1660, you find the letters <HI>AG. A</HI> di|rects you to Saturday for <HI>January</HI> and <HI>Februa|ry,</HI> and <HI>G.</HI> to Sunday for all the year after: &s;o that you find the fir&s;t Saturday in <HI>January</HI> is the 7 day, and under that Saturdays for that Month, and un|der <HI>February</HI> 4, which are Saturdaies for that Month: But in <HI>March</HI> you mu&s;t ob&s;erve <HI>G.</HI> which directs you to Sunday, &s;o that the fir&s;t Sunday in <HI>March</HI> is the fourth day, and &s;o you reckon forward. <HI>April</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> the fir&s;t Sunday is the fir&s;t day of the Month, and &s;o of the re&s;t. In the year 1661. you find your Dominical letter <HI>F.</HI> which directs you to Monday, which is your Ob&s;ervation for that year, and &s;o you find the re&s;t: and when you are at 1687. you may begin again.</P>
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<HEAD>A perpetual Almanack.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="3">Do|min let|ters</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="3">Year of our Lord</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Apr</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Sep.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Jun</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Mar</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Au|gu&s;t</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="3">May.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ja|nu|ary.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>July</CELL>
<CELL>Dec</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Nov</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Feb.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Oct.</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>A G</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1660</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">1</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">2</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">3</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">4</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">5</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">6</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">7</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL><HI>D</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>F</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL><HI>C</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>E</HI></CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">8</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">9</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">10</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">11</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">12</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">13</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">14</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL><HI>B A</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>D</HI></CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL><HI>G</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>C B</HI></CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">15</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">16</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">17</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">18</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">19</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">20</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">21</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL><HI>F</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>A</HI></CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL><HI>E</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>G</HI></CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">22</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">23</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">24</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">25</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">26</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">27</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">28</CELL>
<CELL>1680</CELL>
<CELL><HI>D C</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>F</HI></CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL><HI>B</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>E D</HI></CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">29</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">30</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">31</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>*</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL><HI>A</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>C</HI></CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL><HI>G</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>B</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1670</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">G</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">F</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">E</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">D</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">C</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">B</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">A</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL><HI>F E</HI></CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI>A</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL><HI>D</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>G F</HI></CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>S</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>M</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>T</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>W</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>T</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>F</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><HI>S</HI></CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>C</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>E</HI></CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>1687</CELL>
<CELL><HI>B</HI></CELL>
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<DIV1 TYPE="general predictions">
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<HEAD>General Judgments on the Year 1675.</HEAD>
<P>_SOme Men took a great deal of Notice of the Year 1666, perhaps more than they needed; and therefore we have thought fit to take as much Notice of the year 1675. We do find <HI>Mercury</HI> in a <HI>plaguy</HI> dull humour, looking like a Fellow without <HI>Monye:</HI> Many A&s;trologers are of opinion that he had over-wrought him&s;elf or over|drank him&s;elf the night before; whatever be the Cau&s;e, it portends mo&s;t mi&s;cheivous Events, e&s;pecially the Breaking and Un|doing of many &s;orts of People, more e&s;pe|cially among tho&s;e two Degrees called the <HI>Gentry</HI> and <HI>Commonalty</HI> of the Nation. For when men begin to find them&s;elves in debt, then they Ecclip&s;e them&s;elves, of which there will be many to be &s;een in our <HI>Horri|zon,</HI> but of that more hereafter. Never does a man come to have his worth known till then, for a Serjeant or a Bayliff &s;hall dig him out of the Earth, with as much Diligence
<PB N="2" REF="6"> as if he were the Oar of <HI>Mexico;</HI> and ne|ver cea&s;es till he has hid him again in &s;ome ob&s;cure place or other, never to be found, but, by chance, like a Pot of old <HI>Roman</HI> coin: But the duce is in that fullen piece of Forma|lity, Madam <HI>A&s;trea,</HI> who having the &s;cales of the World in her own hands, will notwith|&s;tanding neither keep publick nor private Fortune equal; which makes many a man cry the <HI>Devil rot him,</HI> if he ever he had &s;uch cru|el Fortune in his life, to &s;ee Dice run again&s;t him as if they were in open Ho&s;tility with his Patrimony. And yet the bewitched Cox|comb will never give off till his E&s;tate and his Cloak lies both in the <HI>Lumber</HI> together; poor Squire in <HI>Cuerpo,</HI> &s;tript out of his means, as the <HI>Countrie-man</HI> calls it, as a man would unca&s;e a Rabbet. This &s;cabby hu|mour, like the <HI>Itch,</HI> runs up and down the City, abounding with the Off-&s;pring of the Gentry, with more furie then the <HI>Sicilian</HI> fire overran the Country about <HI>Me&s;&s;ina;</HI> &s;o that in every &s;treet there are &s;carce any other <HI>Lamentations</HI> to be heard, but of the ill Hu&s;|bandrie of the Ma&s;ters, the Prodigality of Servants, till at length they fall into the Common &s;hures of Povertie, <HI>Fleet, Kings-Bench, Counters</HI> or <HI>Ludgate;</HI> where they will never leave their old wont neither, but <HI>play</HI> at One and thirtie for Farthings rather
<PB N="3" REF="6" MS="y"> than &s;tick out. 'Twas well <HI>Juno,</HI> the Devil of a Godde&s;s for Envy and Emulation, was made none of the Planets, and yet, by the Sequel of Influences, either &s;he, or &s;ome o|ther as bad as her &s;elf, has, a vengeance, great power in the Skie; mo&s;t probable to be that <HI>Jezabel</HI> Venus; for women are &s;o out|ragiou&s;ly madd to &s;ee one Neighbour finer then another, that many men are forced to pawn their Con&s;ciences, as well as their Credits for one &s;tory of Lace more upon their Wives Petticoats: As if women thought mens fancies did not climb fa&s;t e|nough without &s;uch a Love-ladder. But how can the&s;e Women think to thrive? for no &s;ooner are their husbands in the Climm, but reflecting upon the cau&s;e of their Sor|row, they cur&s;e 'um to the pit of Hell, for two cau&s;es; fir&s;t, becau&s;e they will never come neer them, after they have &s;uckt their Counter tills as dry as their Bones: &s;econd|ly, when they doe come, 'tis always with Taunts in their mouths, and &s;o gay withall, that they do but the more enrage the Credi|tors that &s;ees them go &s;o fine with their money.</P>
<P>There is another mo&s;t malevolent A&s;|pect, very active in the notching the Credit of &s;ome that would be thought Alder|mens fellowes, men that make a great
<PB N="4" REF="7"> noi&s;e upon the Exchange: Which is the rea&s;on that this year many &s;hall be &s;een to fall from the Pinacle of their Countrie-hou|&s;es to a Lodging in the Rules at three &s;hil|lings a week: but there is a great diffe|rence between tho&s;e that are gathered to their fathers and the&s;e dead men in law, for the one carries nothing along with them, the&s;e will let nothing that they have got &s;lip out of their clutches; the&s;e Pri&s;on-Pi&s;mires are &s;uch as have laid a&s;ide all their Credit for the Reputation of being diligent provi|ders again&s;t the winter of their misfortune. Some think the Conjunction of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> to be a great Enemie to the Pro&s;peri|tie of the&s;e men; for that they plodding only how to get E&s;tates and cheat their Cre|ditors, grow quite regardle&s;s of Love and Honour. Yet &s;ome A&s;trologers there are that &s;hrewdly &s;u&s;pect <HI>Cepheus</HI> to have a fin|ger in the Pie, becau&s;e he &s;its in &s;uch a mu|&s;ing Po&s;ture in his groaning Chair: though &s;ome &s;ay, Men are now grown &s;o knowing in practical <HI>Knavery,</HI> that they need nothing of his cele&s;tial <HI>Theory</HI> to make them more expert. Others believe that Fortune being a Whore her &s;elf could never endure any that were grown old and had left the Trade. Others believe the Influ|ence not &s;o fatal, while the propitious Con|junction
<PB N="5" REF="7"> of other men's E&s;tates in their own hands, in Mortgage, contributes &s;o much to their own Happine&s;s Yet &s;hall their Credi|tors think the Stars too favourable, and cur&s;e them as bitterly as ever Par&s;on cur&s;ed <HI>Me|roz.</HI> What &s;hall the poor Stares do? the Creditors cur&s;e them for being too kind, the rich Debtors cur&s;e them for not being kind enough: Thus ye &s;ee the Stars of Heaven, as well as the Stars upon Earth, are &s;ubject to Scandal and hard Words, and hard U&s;age: Nay, and if Mortals could but reach them, you would find their glittering Spheres as much battered as the Windows of <HI>Van Put|ten's</HI> Hou&s;e in <HI>Holland.</HI> But what malitious Planet that is which pe&s;ecutes the Poor jour|ney-men Taylors, Weavers, Coblers, Tin|kers, Butchers, and the lower Tribe of Ma|&s;ters, mo&s;t A&s;trologers are at a &s;tand to di&s;|cover; &s;ome &s;ay, 'Tis <HI>Aquarius,</HI> a certain &s;on of a Tankard-bearer, tran&s;lated into the <HI>Zodiac</HI> for giving meate, drink and lodging to &s;ome poor Poet. If it be he, he is as te&s;tie as Ju&s;tice <HI>Overdoe,</HI> and as great a Pretender to Reformation; for much about this time you will find abundance of that &s;ort of Cattel, before mentioned, &s;uffer un|der his <HI>Mittimus,</HI> meerly for their extrava|gant Propen&s;ity to <HI>Putt</HI> and <HI>Nine-Pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI> The&s;e men at length become the <HI>Gibbeonites</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="8"> of the Pri&s;on at the devotion either of the <HI>Con&s;tables</HI> of the <HI>Counters,</HI> or the Stewards of <HI>Ludgate,</HI> or el&s;e make Skewers in the Common &s;ide of the <HI>Kings-Bench,</HI> born on|ly to &s;hew the little d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rence between Men and Bea&s;ts; only, the one can &s;peak, the o|ther not, unle&s;s there be &s;omething more of Addition then what Nature infu&s;es. You may be &s;ure &s;uch &s;ulphurus Matters, as <HI>Deb|tor</HI> and <HI>Credi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">or,</HI> can never meet but &s;trange alterations of Air mu&s;t en&s;ue, which is the rea&s;on of tho&s;e d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;perate thunder-claps to be heard every day in Guild-Hall.<HI>&mdash;Hang him Dog, I lent him my money out of my Pocket.&mdash;Cur&s;ed Curr, I only was bound for another, and here the Son of a Whore &s;ues me to Execution.&mdash;No, I'le have no more mercy on him then I'de have on the De|vil.&mdash;Let him rot in Goal and be poxt.&mdash;I'le &s;ee him damn'd ere I'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e pay him a groat.&mdash;I'le make him &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t as &s;mall as a Mou&s;e&mdash;By this light, I owe the Rogue not a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">arthing.&mdash;He's a cheating Dog, and I'le prove it.&mdash;Hey, Clerk, Where is my Execution?&mdash;Where's my Judgment? Never &s;uch a for&s;worn wretch up|on God's earth&mdash;Be &s;ure to lay the Rogue fa&s;t&mdash;</HI>A rough and &s;tormy &s;ea&s;on truly; but &s;uch is the Nature of the Clymate nei|ther
<PB N="7" REF="8"> do we &s;ee any Po&s;ition of the Starrs likely to remedie it.</P>
<P>Should we foretell the death of &s;ome Ci|ty-Serjeants and Guild-hall Attorneys, 'tis a thing we might do very &s;afely, and 'tis very probable to come to pa&s;s: But what a|vails the cea&s;ing of one Plague when ano|ther follows in the neck on't. Could we Pro|phe&s;ie that no more of tho&s;e places &s;hould be &s;old, we might then foretel a great Re|formation, and the return of a fair glimp&s;e of the GOLDEN AGE. But this o|ther Prediction of ours &s;hall mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly come to pa&s;s by rea&s;on of the terrible influ|ences of the Dog-Star upon that &s;ort of Cat|tel, that the&s;e Fellows &s;hall &s;wallow many a fair piece of the King's coyn, which they have as little right to as the man in the Moon. But what remedy? complain&mdash;and they'l tell their Superiors as <HI>Gu&s;man</HI> hath it in his fir&s;t Chapter, <HI>That they had not their Offices for nothing, but paid &s;oundly for them, and therefore mu&s;t lick them&s;elves whole out of other mens nece&s;&s;ities.</HI> Prudently there|fore the &s;ame <HI>Gu&s;man</HI> avers out of <HI>Ari&s;totle, That the greatest wrong that can be offered to a Common wealth is the &s;ale of Offices.</HI> Many Cau&s;es this year &s;hall be tried, and the wit|ne&s;&s;es &s;hall &s;wear point blank to the truth, but the Jury men &s;hall find quite Contrary.
<PB N="8" REF="9"> Neither do we find that the Corruption of &s;ome <HI>Talis</HI> men will cea&s;e &s;o long as this world endures. We are afraid &s;ome <HI>Talis</HI> man or other is crept into the Skie, by the help of &s;ome A&s;trological Under-&s;heriff or other, to make all this Mi&s;chief: Whom to &s;u&s;pect we cannot devi&s;e, unle&s;s it be that &s;neaking fellow call'd <HI>Auriga</HI> or the Carter, probably &s;ome <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> Farmer: of which there are &s;ome of them, formerly well &s;ed and well drenched, that for a Wager &s;hall whi&s;tle Law at the Plough tail with ere a <HI>Northfolk</HI> Dumplin of them all: I have &s;een of the&s;e <HI>Catt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">l</HI> appear among the Ju|rie men that are truly returned, ju&s;t as in <HI>Job</HI> we find the Devil appearing among the An|gels before God: and there are tho&s;e that have them alwaies ready, according as they &s;hall be be&s;poke, as good Farriers have al|ways &s;tore of Hor&s;e-&s;hoos by them, to fit all &s;izes of Hoofes. So that Plaintiff or Defendant need not be beholding to the Stars to know his good fortune, if he have well con&s;ulted the&s;e Sooth&s;ayers.</P>
<P>But who the Devil dubb'd the&s;e, forlorn dregs of Mortality, the clip'd Knights of the Po&s;t? A&s;trologers are at a Stand: &s;ome will have <HI>Proteus</HI> to be their Father, becau&s;e of the &s;everal <HI>Long-lane</HI> &s;hapes and dre&s;&s;es that they appear in; for they are &s;ometimes
<PB N="9" REF="9"> Divines, &s;ometimes Country Gentlemen &s;ometimes Phy&s;icians, &s;ometimes Mer|chants, &s;ometimes Serving-men, as the thing to be &s;worn to requires them to be in Of|fice. A&s;tronomers will allow them no room in Heaven, for that Perjury is the only Crime that is puni&s;hable among the Gods: There|fore, &s;aith <HI>To&s;tatus,</HI> they are an Apparent Ar|gument for the Excellency of Man above Angells; <HI>Coruptio optima e&s;t pe&s;&s;ima.</HI> There|fore are men &s;o much the more Excellent than Angels, by how much they, the mere corruption of Mankind, are wor&s;e then De|vils.</P>
<P>The&s;e men, with the <HI>Epicureans,</HI> place their chief Happine&s;s in this World, coun|ting the meane&s;t Conveniences thereof great Ble&s;&s;ings; &s;uch as Pots of Ale, and &s;ixpeny Cuts of <HI>Ram-</HI>alley Roa&s;t beef: With the <HI>Sadduces</HI> they hold the Mortality of the Soul, otherwi&s;e they would never &s;ell their Salvation &s;o cheap; half a crown a time, come as often as you plea&s;e. Yet are they of great u&s;e among a certain Generation of Vipers called <HI>annointed Knaves.</HI> When an annointed Knave comes with the&s;e fini&s;hing Tools of his to compleat a Tittle, there is no re&s;i&s;tance, the ca&s;e is made &s;o plain: then &s;hall you &s;ee without Fryar <HI>Bakon's</HI> Art, the &s;trange Motions of <HI>Terra firma</HI> out of
<PB N="10" REF="10"> one Family into another: Mountains, with|out the help of Faith removed out of one man's Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion into the Po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion of ano|ther. If you aim at the life of a man, they put down all the time, ob&s;erving poy&s;ons of <HI>Ethiopia,</HI> they'l doe your work &s;o gentelely and &s;o legally, that you get Repute by the Pro&s;ecution. They'l &s;wear, that &s;uch a one lying a&s;leep, they &s;aw his &s;oul go out of his mouth booted and &s;purr'd, take hor&s;e, ride to &s;uch a place, do &s;uch a Murther, commit &s;uch a Felony, or act &s;uch and &s;uch Trea&s;ons. Now becau&s;e (as <HI>Boccalini</HI> &s;aieth) that it is &s;o hard a matter to puni&s;h a fal&s;e oath with|out di&s;couraging a true one; &s;uch as rob upon the High-way, and take but 10 &s;hil|lings from a man, &s;hall be hanged; and the&s;e &s;ons of Perdition that &s;trike at the root of Life, E&s;tate and Fortune, &s;hall only loo&s;e their Ears, which they value no more than <HI>E&s;op's</HI> Cock did Diamonds: Pieces of fle&s;h, which they hold, made in oppo&s;ition to the great Maxim in Philo&s;ophy, That Nature does nothing in vain, as being of no u&s;e in the body of Man.</P>
<P>'Tis good to fight with Silver weapons, for then thou &s;halt overcome all things, &s;aith the Greek Poet: Which is the rea&s;on a true Suborner is never without a Guard of the&s;e <HI>Janizaries</HI> at his heels, e&s;pecially in Term&punc;
<PB N="11" REF="10"> time. The&s;e are they that &s;o cordially pimp for the Devil, as if they thought him to be Di&s;po&s;er of all Inheritances; as Lord of the World. They have made a Feoffment of their Souls with Livery and Sei&s;in to Satan, only taking a &s;hort Lea&s;e back again. And therefore are re&s;olved to make all people they have to deal withall turn Tenants to their Landlord. If a Councellor or Attorney chance to take their Fee, what villanies mu&s;t he not conceal? what Treacheries, what Forgeries is he not bound to be privy to? what defences mu&s;t he not make o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> inju&s;tice and wrong? what, the wor&s;t of actions mu&s;t he not &s;trive to palliate, daub over with the <HI>fucus</HI> of forced <HI>Eloquence,</HI> quite contrary to the dictates of either Rea&s;on or Con&s;ci|ence? Tho&s;e that have calculated their Na|tivities, bani&s;h them from the Societie of men, as the mo&s;t dangerous and treacherous per&s;ons in the world; and wonder, finding it &s;o much threatned by the &s;tarrs, that no more of them are hang'd; there being no Crime in the world that more de&s;erves death. About this time many &s;ignifications derive them&s;elves from <HI>Mars,</HI> who is <HI>Au|thor Bellorum.</HI> Now he being in one of his greate&s;t Dignities with <HI>Mercury,</HI> &s;uch a Conjunction portends many &s;trifes and ani|mo&s;ities among men, <HI>for a fiery Planet in a</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="11"> <HI>&s;ign of the &s;ame Triplicitie, receives an additi|on of violence to its own intemperate nature.</HI> This is the rea&s;on of tho&s;e &s;warms of igno|rant Solicitors, and wor&s;e then ignorant At|torneys, who&s;e multiplication would prove a greater plague to this Nation then <HI>Vermin</HI> to the <HI>Egyptians:</HI> therefore among the well regu|lated Common wealth of the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> Law &s;uits were not heard of. And well did <HI>Charles</HI> the 9th of <HI>France,</HI> who, to prevent needle&s;s and numberle&s;s Suites of Law, or|dained that whoever commenced a Suit of Law, &s;hould depo&s;ite &s;uch a Sum with the Judge, to receive it back, if his cau&s;e were good, or forfeit it, if the &s;ame prov'd frivo|lous. Not wor&s;e did <HI>James</HI> of <HI>Arragon</HI> who bani&s;hed <HI>Semeng Rada</HI> a great Pettifogger for his being famons only for quirks and wiles in Law: But better did <HI>Galeatius</HI> of <HI>Millain,</HI> who hanged another for his excel|lent Art of multiplying &s;uites. Surely &s;uch bands of Locu&s;ts, might be better emploied then in the Ruin of the Poor and Needie, who&s;e <HI>Cries</HI> why they do not call down Showers of Brim&s;tone and Fire upon the&s;e impious Mi&s;creants, when &s;ome Ca&s;ui&s;ts have not been able to an&s;wer, it has made them totter in their Divinity?</P>
<P>But what is the matter that our A|&s;trologers keep <HI>Hercules</HI> &s;o clo&s;e mu'd up
<PB N="13" REF="11"> up in the Skie, when we have &s;o much need of him here upon Earth? Here is one more to make up his Labours a <HI>Bakens-</HI>dozen, that will more renown him than all his o|ther twelve: Nay, let him bring <HI>The&s;eus</HI> too; here's work enough for them both; for there be a &s;ort of <HI>Augean</HI> Stables about this City, who&s;e Keepers never cate Le&s;s then two poor folks at a meal, more cruel than <HI>Diomed</HI> that fed his hor&s;es with human fle&s;h; more inhumane, more mercile&s;s than the great robbers <HI>Sciron</HI> or <HI>Pityolanthes,</HI> more terrible than the <HI>Lerenean</HI> Mon&s;ter, &s;hould they be broyl'd roa&s;ted, gridled, &s;ing'd, ba|ked ten thou&s;and years in <HI>Purgatory,</HI> they would be as &s;ooty as when fir&s;t put in. But Cruelty &s;eldome goes unrewarded, and &s;uch is the Happine&s;s of the&s;e fellows, that they &s;eldom la&s;t above a Pope's Reign, be|ing generally poy&s;oned either with lim'd, &s;ack or &s;tumm'd Claret, in le&s;s then five years. <HI>Saturn</HI>'s a melancholy &s;ign, and who can hinder him from being as froppi&s;h and as humer &s;ome as he plea&s;es upon his own day; which is the rea&s;on that there be &s;ome Citizens that can as well be hang'd as keep out of the Nine-pin Hou&s;es in <HI>Moor Fields</HI> on a Saturday, to be out of the &s;ight of tho&s;e gha&s;tly apparitions that haunt their Gho&s;ts at the heel of the week. <HI>Poverty</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="12"> and <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity</HI> the Gods of the <HI>Andreans,</HI> that could &s;top the mouth of <HI>Themistocles,</HI> can|not appea&s;e the wrath of a City Creditor; the Proverb rever&s;ed, <HI>Dunn upon the Devil.</HI> who&s;e emptie mony bagg, twi&s;ted about his hand, is as killing as a <HI>Gorgon</HI>'s head; and therefore 'tis well the poor man is out of the way he's only practi&s;ing the &s;ports which are to be his only Recreations in a &s;hort time: and what a kindne&s;s it is for a man to be removed from the cares and labours of this world to the &s;weet plea&s;ures of drin|king and kettles? 'Tis well the&s;e <HI>De&s;pera|do</HI>'s in E&s;tate are not &s;o &s;trong as <HI>Samp&s;on;</HI> for they would not then put their Landlords key under the Door, but take away key hou&s;e and all. What abundance of Tra|vellers &s;hould we meet upon the road with Hou&s;es and Shops furni&s;h'd? And what Landlord, &s;eeing a man &s;tanding upon the &s;ea|&s;hore with his hou&s;e upon his back, &s;wea|ring he would &s;end it to the bottom of the Ocean, but would come to any compo&s;ition? Be&s;ides they were out of the reach of the Law, for there is no Statute in <HI>Polton</HI> a|gain&s;t removing of hou&s;es, &s;o a man Carry them whole without breaking: But the li|mits of fate are certain; <HI>the Cobler cannot go beyond his La&s;t,</HI> nor a man beyond his &s;trength; there was but one <HI>Ni&s;us,</HI> one <HI>Her|cules,</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="12"> one <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI> the fir&s;t two never arre|&s;ted that we read of, and for the latter how he paid off his Creditors we very well know. Therefore now a days 'tis better for debtors to fall to their Prayers, be&s;eech, entreate, lie, flatter di&s;&s;emble, &s;wear, for&s;wear, &s;et an In|&s;trument to work with the wi&s;e, &s;uch tricks as the&s;e,</P>
<Q>Sint &s;emper &s;tudiis arma parata tuis.</Q>
<P>If the&s;e will not prevail, expect no other deliverance but as <HI>Daniel</HI> got out of the Lyons Den, or <HI>Jonas</HI> out of the Whales belly.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prognostications by month">
<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<PB N="16" REF="13">
<HEAD>January<HI>'s Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Weather is very cold, and Chari|ty far more cold. The womens Bene|volence flows all into the convention Channel. Their husbands bo&s;omes hard fro|zen like the weather, not to be thaw'd by all the &s;teams of Plum-broth and Plum-Pye that make &s;uch mi&s;ts in their Kitchins; On|ly the Cellar man, in hope to be pai'd at one time or other, and partly out of the Le|cherie they have in cozening and cheating with fal&s;e mea&s;ures and na&s;ty Tobacco, is at length contented to let his dear <HI>Euridices,</HI> his <HI>Beer</HI> and his <HI>Brandy</HI> take a little air out of his Infernal regions. But the hot &s;trum|pets leave &s;uch violent claps behind them in the Pockets of the poor Pri&s;oners, that no <HI>Aqua fortis</HI> cats &s;o violently into a <HI>fob</HI> as they do. Only the Cellar man has one <HI>Re|cipe</HI> to &s;top the violence of the <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> by crying in a Lion-like tone, <HI>I'le tru&s;t no more.</HI> Yet men that are pickt up in the Holydayes have not &s;o much rea&s;on to complain; for though they fare not &s;o well as they might abroad, yet they are &s;ure to be kept from &s;urfeiting where they are, &s;urely 'tis a hard ca&s;e that &s;uch <HI>Enormities</HI> are winkt at, that
<PB N="17" REF="13"> where poor men ought to have mo&s;t, be&s;t and cheape&s;t, there they have the wor&s;t, lea&s;t and deare&s;t of all things. Now the rea&s;on is &s;uch that all the &s;even wi&s;e men of <HI>Grece</HI> could not have given the like; becau&s;e the Ma&s;ter Keeper lets his Cellar at a Rack rent, becau&s;e he him&s;elf has paid &s;o dear for the Cu&s;tody of his Den: A &s;trange kind of Chymi&s;trie, however it came to be allowed of, that a man &s;hould be permitted to pur|cha&s;e an Iron-barr'd <HI>Limbeck,</HI> to act con|trary to <HI>nature,</HI> while he makes it his bu&s;i|ne&s;s all his life to extract &s;omething out of nothing, and having reduced men to no|thing out of the <HI>Caput mortuum</HI> of their pe|ri&s;ht E&s;tates, to make him&s;elf &s;omthing: who could have thought A Jailor had been &s;uch a <HI>Caldean Magician</HI> before?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<HEAD>February<HI>'s Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Month many men &s;hall be car|ried over to the <HI>Kings-Bench,</HI> with <HI>Habeas Corpu&s;es;</HI> a piece of &s;heeps skin, that would make you believe that bea&s;t to be the mo&s;t <HI>&s;uttle</HI> and <HI>cruel</HI> in the world: Truly 'tis a bea&s;t of a &s;trange Kid|ney after death, and as we are apt to believe, the only bea&s;t that cries <HI>quit</HI> for <HI>quo</HI> with his Devourer, man: by and by devouring him alive for feeding on his dead carca&s;e before: wicked Con&s;piracy between the &s;illie&s;t of Creatures, the <HI>&s;heep</HI> and the <HI>Goo&s;e,</HI> to be &s;o &s;harp in their <HI>revenge:</HI> which makes men &s;eem the greate&s;t Sots in nature to be made &s;uch <HI>Fools</HI> of, by <HI>Gee&s;e</HI> and <HI>Sheep.</HI> Thus are the cunning <HI>foxes</HI> carri'd away by the violence of a <HI>Sheep-skin</HI> into the <HI>He&s;periant</HI> Gardens of <HI>Southwark,</HI> where, though there are no <HI>Gol|den Apple Trees</HI> growing, yet they &s;hall find many Lions waking for their Security. Some &s;ay that the Pri&s;oners them&s;elves are changed into Golden Appletrees, which &s;o long as they bear fruit, the Lyon is as gentle as a <HI>Red Herring,</HI> but if they wither and grow dry, they are pre&s;ently cut down and made fuel for the <HI>Common Goal.</HI> Nay your two
<PB N="19" REF="14"> <HI>Janizaries,</HI> your Brace of guardian <HI>angels</HI> will for&s;ake you for want of a little Chamber rent: Otherwi&s;e <HI>Polyphemus</HI> him&s;elf is civil enough, and will be content to have his own eye put out for a while, while <HI>&V;ly&s;&s;es</HI> e&s;|capes under the belly of his <HI>Golden fleece.</HI> Now under what Planets the <HI>Tip&s;taves</HI> and <HI>Waiters</HI> were born, we cannot well conje|cture; we believe <HI>Mercury,</HI> though not as he was a <HI>god,</HI> but a <HI>Gu&s;man.</HI> They are a &s;ort of Vermin that believe not only the <HI>Moon,</HI> but all mankind to be made of <HI>green chee&s;e,</HI> &s;o like <HI>Rats</HI> and <HI>Mice</HI> do they alto|gether live and feed upon it. They are clearly of <HI>Horaces</HI> Opinion, or at lea&s;t &s;eem to have been his Scholars in this one particu|lar, for they mea&s;ure the credit of a man, and repute of his Virtues, according to the length of his pur&s;e, and depth of his che&s;t. This month the wandring Planets of this Re|gion have Liberty, by their Rules, to bolt out of their burrows up and down into the City, and laugh at their irreligious Cre|ditors.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<PB N="20" REF="15">
<HEAD>March<HI>'s Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BUt now 'tis Vacation, Every man to his <HI>Cage,</HI> No budging without the Territo|ries of S. <HI>George.</HI> Room enough a-con&s;cience for the holy <HI>Exerci&s;es</HI> there performed, <HI>Dice|ing, drabbing, drinking. Venus</HI> is very Powerful here, but <HI>Bacchus</HI> much more, being indeed the very <HI>Baal Peor</HI> of this place. As for the &s;tars of the fir&s;t Magnitude, you &s;hall find them at the <HI>Leg</HI> or the <HI>Golden Lyon;</HI> but all mu&s;t not be &s;uch, for then what would the le&s;&s;er orbs of <HI>Alehou&s;es</HI> do for the Com|fort of their enclining <HI>Influences.</HI> But, quoth the Creditors, What tydings does your hea|venly Po&s;t bring yee concerning the pay|ment of our Debts? not a tittle by <HI>Jove.</HI> No my dear friends, this is the Land of <HI>Oblivion.</HI> Not a quartern of <HI>Brandy</HI> but is an Antidote again&s;t <HI>Sorrow,</HI> not a pipe of <HI>Wine,</HI> or a bar|rel of <HI>Beer,</HI> but was perfect <HI>Letye.</HI> In a &s;hort while they forget you, in a long time you forget them. Alas, &s;hould all men pay their debts, Some would have nothing left, and others would have all; there would be no <HI>flux</HI> and <HI>reflux</HI> of Fortune, &s;hould the Tide run all one way, no lo&s;s a&s;wel as again, and cheating would have too great an inco|ragement
<PB N="21" REF="15"> &s;hould it alwaies pro&s;per. Prove that ever, in any age of the world, all men paid their Debts, and we will entreat the &s;tarrs to let ye have it &s;o again. But do you think to alter the cour&s;e of Nature for your humours? Having received this &s;ad news from the heavenly Intelligencer, the Poor Creditors are as various in their Humour as the weather. The <HI>Mercer</HI> &s;hakes his head and cries, <HI>I'le spend five hundred pounds before I'le be thus trapann'd.</HI> The Milliner cries<HI>&mdash;Hang't give us t'other Cup of Sack 'tis well 'tis no wor&s;e&mdash;by my &s;oul the Gentleman &s;eemed to me to be &s;uch an hone&s;t man, that I would have tru&s;ted him with all the goods in my Shop.</HI> The Poor Taylor holding his hands under his Arm Pitts, well quoth he, <HI>I know as cunning a fellow as any is in</HI> England, <HI>and if there be ever a trick i'the Law, Begarr, I'le make him &s;moke for't. Ad's foot he ows me be&s;ide for above a twelve months Lodging.&mdash;But a Pox a my Wife &s;he is &s;o willing to entertain hand&s;om Gentlemen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<PB N="22" REF="16">
<HEAD>April's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE <HI>Sem&s;tre&s;s</HI> melts into tears like the Month, and cries, <HI>He might have bin more kind to her, &s;he was &s;ure &s;he was none of his back friend&mdash;'Twas a mo&s;t ungentleman like part to undo a poor wo|man in both &s;en&s;es.</HI> But let them all &s;ay or doe what they will, Pri&s;ons are like the Well in <HI>Derby&s;hire,</HI> that turns the tenderer &s;ub|&s;tance of <HI>Iron</HI> into <HI>Stone,</HI> &s;o when a man is once put in pri&s;on, his heart becomes <HI>Petri|fy'd</HI> to that exce&s;s, &s;o that neither the &s;oft words of a flattering <HI>Creditor,</HI> nor the mo&s;t &s;harp and piercing execrations of a pa&s;&s;io|nate one, can make the lea&s;t impre&s;&s;ion there|in. Now <HI>Astrologers,</HI> unle&s;s they can have the Goodluck to lie with their <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es,</HI> being generally very poor, and great <HI>Borrow|ers,</HI> make a Di&s;pute, whether a man ought to be compell'd again&s;t his will to pay his Debts or no? <HI>Saturn</HI> a Sage Planet and a great Law-giver among the <HI>Latins,</HI> was po&s;itively in the negative: for, &s;aith he, If according to the Maxime of the Law, <HI>no injury can be done to him that is willing;</HI> then it follows, that all Injurie mu&s;t be done to him that is unwilling: now what greater Injury can be
<PB N="23" REF="16"> done to a man, than to compel him to pay Money again&s;t his will, whether he has it or no? Again, no man was ever compell'd to lend mony; what rea&s;on then why a man &s;hould be compell'd to repay it? Other|wi&s;e lending of Mony &s;eems a kind of inven|tion of man to <HI>trapan</HI> his fellow creature, to lend him money that he may afterwards make him his mi&s;erable &s;lave and va&s;&s;al and triumph over his Calamity. Then up &s;tept <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and &s;aid, There was no rea&s;on, that that man who impri&s;on'd the body of his <HI>Cre|ditor</HI> &s;hould be paid one farthing of his Debt, though it were to the ruin of the Creditor's wife and family. For, quoth he, There can be no greater Mi&s;chief done to a man than to ca|ptivate his body, and deprive him of his di|vine priviledge of <HI>Freedom;</HI> he then that in|tends the ruin of another, ought to have the &s;ame ruin intended, to him&s;elf: and he is wi&s;e that expends in <HI>Charity</HI> at home what'ere he has, rather than relieve his peri&s;hing Adver|&s;ary.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<PB N="24" REF="17">
<HEAD>May's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey that deny Pri&s;ons to be <HI>Baudy-Hou&s;es</HI> are as much mi&s;taken as 'ere they were in their lives, and may as well de|ny the Seven Planets; or, that <HI>Venus</HI> was tran&s;lated to the Sky for being a <HI>Nunn</HI> and not a <HI>Whore:</HI> Surely the greate&s;t Commenda|tion to a Pri&s;on, is, that it renders Matrimony mo&s;t &s;avoury, where the plea&s;ures thereof are mo&s;t &s;toln: but it mo&s;t extreamly com|mends their Charity one among another, for lending their chambers to their fellow Pri&s;o|ners. For which &s;ome alledge the lawful|ne&s;s of Matrimony; others, that are for the more noble way of <HI>Pimping</HI> defend them|&s;elves by the example of <HI>Heliogabolus</HI> who was wont to lend his Baths and Wen|ches to his friends and acquaintance when e|ver they de&s;ired it. And to tell you the truth you will find &s;o little of Mortification among them, that they are generally of <HI>Solon</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;totles</HI> opinions, that Whores are not onely u&s;eful but nece&s;&s;ary in a well in&s;tituted Common-wealth, &s;uch as generally all Pri|&s;ons are, e&s;pecially <HI>Ludgate,</HI> and the <HI>Fleet.</HI> Corporeal Recreations, they crie, Mitigate corporeal puni&s;hments. Neither was it e|ver
<PB N="25" REF="17"> recorded among them, that any one that was ever put in ever pray'd him&s;elf out. And &s;ome have ob&s;erved that on <HI>Black-Fry|ers</HI> &s;ide, where you may hear them as duly at <HI>Sternhold</HI> and <HI>Hopkins</HI> as at their morning draughts, and when their devotion is lou|de&s;t yet that here their boxes are always emptie&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="June" TYPE="month">
<PB N="26" REF="18">
<HEAD>June's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COmets and Ecclip&s;es are generally the forerunners of &s;trange Alterations in the &s;ublunary world. But they were never yet &s;o luckie as to foretel humanity in an un|der keeper; Not all the Influences of <HI>Sun</HI> or <HI>Moon,</HI> con&s;tellations or &s;ingle &s;tarrs could ever alter their unalterable di&s;po&s;itions. Men before, but coming to that office, meta|morpho&s;ed on a &s;uddain into <HI>Tigers, Wolves</HI> and <HI>Canibals.</HI> They may &s;trut in fine clothes, fat with fea&s;ting on the forbidden fruits of extortion and &s;elling unlawful libertie at &s;uch unlawful rates, that <HI>Nero</HI> could do no more when he gave more then <HI>Parthia</HI> was worth to the <HI>Parthian</HI> King to teach him the Art of <HI>Necromancie,</HI> though what will a Pri&s;oner not do, that has it? what will he not expend, to conjure down, and appea&s;e the evil <HI>Demon</HI> that &s;o torments and haunts him wor&s;e then the Gho&s;t of <HI>Agrippina?</HI> Yet if any of them would be &s;o kind as to melt in|to Mercy and Hone&s;tie we would certainly have a Cabal of A&s;trologers to place him in the Sky. What a miraculous thing would it be to &s;ee a Chri&s;tian Officer &s;hining in the room of a heatheni&s;h con&s;tellation? The Jaylor in the <HI>Acts</HI> fall down at the feet
<PB N="27" REF="18"> of his two Pri&s;oners, when he &s;aw &s;uch a ter|rible <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> come from heav'n tore|move them. But it is to be feared; had tho&s;e Pri&s;ners bin here now, the Earth might have &s;hook as well as the Pri&s;on, 'ere it could have &s;haken the heart of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Petty Tyrant, that &s;ince the cannot alter them one way, they are re&s;olved they &s;hall be as unalterable another way; for by the unanimous con&s;ent of the whole ho&s;t of Hea|ven, never any one of them, from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t ever did or &s;hall die worth a groat.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="July" TYPE="month">
<PB N="28" REF="19">
<HEAD>July's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>'TIs fair weather and therefore get ye gon to the <HI>Fleet,</HI> and there behold the no|ble Art of <HI>Che&s;e-bowling; Angels,</HI> Board|end and Game:&mdash;Two pieces o'the Game; a piece the End,&mdash;Five to one o'the Ca&s;t,&mdash;A plea&s;ing Noi&s;e for Credi|tors to hear! But who can help it&mdash;for the&s;e are your Tru&s;tee-men that have laid up their E&s;tates in <HI>Lavender,</HI> and mu&s;t have their Recreation, not to be confin'd to hu|mours, though humours confin'd them. And thus you &s;ee, if men can keep their E&s;tates what your <HI>Capias,</HI> and your <HI>Latitats</HI> &s;ignifie. If you have a mind to walk into their Cham|bers you &s;hall there find them as merry as Lords; &s;ome at <HI>dice,</HI> &s;ome at <HI>cards,</HI> &s;ome <HI>drinking,</HI> &s;ome <HI>roaring:</HI> and, you mu&s;t know that if the Clerk be one that knows how to &s;pread his <HI>bread</HI> and <HI>butter</HI> with his <HI>thumbs,</HI> 'tis not all your Art can keep 'um within the walls of the <HI>Bowling-</HI>Alley, or <HI>gate</HI> either. But have a Care of out-running the <HI>Con&s;table.</HI> For when all's gon there's no more to be had: They'l &s;ooner tru&s;t their Souls with the Devil, than a Pri&s;oner with &s;ix-pence. If after you have &s;pent all
<PB N="33" REF="19"> you can live upon <HI>mouldy Proverbs</HI> of good <HI>Husbandry,</HI> old Sentences of <HI>Repentance,</HI> or enumerating your kindne&s;&s;es in Pro&s;perity to the Letter men, you may. And therefore endeavour to be one of <HI>Solomon</HI>'s Sons, and keep Company with none of them. Have a care of lying too much out of doors upon <HI>Security,</HI> for 'tis but a &s;curvy thing to be vi|&s;ited in kindne&s;s twice or thrice a Month by <HI>Clericus in libro,</HI> and his two <HI>Gog-Magogs,</HI> with rugged cudgels and grimm faces, when the end is only to <HI>milk</HI> and <HI>&s;punge.</HI> Otherwi&s;e you may blame the &s;tars when your own <HI>folly</HI> becoms your <HI>ruin:</HI> For if Pri&s;ons mu&s;t be, and men mu&s;t be arre&s;ted, it is the greate&s;t Argu|ment in the world, for men to play the <HI>knave,</HI> and when they find them&s;elves to begin to &s;ink, to keep &s;omething for Self-pre&s;ervati|on. Extremities will happen to all &s;orts of men, as well good as bad, and therefore they determine be&s;t, that be&s;t determine for their own &s;afety.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="August" TYPE="month">
<PB N="30" REF="20">
<HEAD>Augu&s;t's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HE that thinks that <HI>Larks</HI> will fly roa&s;t|ed into his Mouth this Month, will be deceived, and therefore let every man look about him diligently to his Bu&s;ine&s;s, and keep out of Pri&s;on while he is out. 'Tis <HI>Harve&s;t</HI> time, and therefore be &s;ure to reap the Be|nefit of good <HI>Advice</HI> out of other mens <HI>harms.</HI> If a man has a Creditor that is over|cholerick, let him not be too ha&s;ty, for 'tis time and &s;traw that mellow <HI>Medlars.</HI> Some are of Opinion that there is neither <HI>Love</HI> nor <HI>Hunger</HI> in Pri&s;ons, becau&s;e the Stone walls are &s;o &s;eldom broken, but there's another rea&s;on that &s;ecures them, for both <HI>Lover</HI> and <HI>Hungry per&s;on</HI> are &s;o continually ti|red with breaking of their Oaths, their Faith, their Vows, Promi&s;es and Words, that they have neither time nor &s;trength left to perform any other exploit. He that in an Hundred pounds worth of <HI>Law,</HI> finds a half peny weight of <HI>Love</HI> &s;hall be a very happy man. But he that finds a true friend in his Adver&s;ity &s;hall be far happier: when thy <HI>Adver&s;ary</HI> makes u&s;e of a <HI>Lawyer,</HI> do you make u&s;e of a <HI>Lawyer</HI> and a half. He that has brought his <HI>Noble</HI> to <HI>Nine-pence,</HI> let him
<PB N="31" REF="20"> never &s;pare at the bottom, and when he has quite thwittend his Milpo&s;t to a pudding prick, let him in the Full of the Moon go and hang him&s;elf; lea&s;t <HI>Poverty</HI> and <HI>cold Wea|ther</HI> take him napping together. He that has bit upon the Bridle, let him &s;trive to make &s;ilver with his Teeth, and endeavour to recover him&s;elf by faring hard.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="September" TYPE="month">
<PB N="36" REF="21">
<HEAD>September's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Month the gods being met in <HI>Council,</HI> where there is al&s;o pre&s;ent, the great Judge <HI>Rhadamanthus,</HI> Advocate general <HI>Minos,</HI> and <HI>Eacus</HI> one of <HI>Jove's</HI> learned Council. <HI>Themis</HI> makes her Com|plaint that finding &s;uch a Reformation in our <HI>Architecture,</HI> &s;he would fain have re|turn'd to the Earth again, but that &s;he was &s;o di&s;turb'd with the Weekly <HI>Clamours</HI> in the Common-Hall, that &s;he was forced to retire: <HI>Rhadamanthus</HI> urged, That though &s;ome Cities might have freedom to have the <HI>Law</HI> among them&s;elves, yet that the <HI>Alga|zils</HI> and <HI>Paltrie Lictors</HI> had no permi&s;&s;ion to buy and &s;ell the Law as they pleas'd, to make Combinations among them&s;elves a|gain&s;t their <HI>Clients;</HI> to let go <HI>Judgments</HI> by Default, to take Exorbitant Fees, with an hundred more of the &s;ame Nature. <HI>Eacus</HI> urged that <HI>Courts</HI> fill'd with the loud <HI>Ec|cho's</HI> of <HI>brangling</HI> and <HI>litigious</HI> Boyes and imperious <HI>Catch-poles,</HI> had too irreverent a Re&s;emblance of a Court of <HI>Py-Pouder: Mines</HI> urg'd that there was an Office to which the Character of <HI>Noctes atque dies</HI> belonged: the Sinks and Common Sewers
<PB N="37" REF="21"> into which all the <HI>Malice Envy, Rancour</HI> and <HI>Hatred</HI> of inveterate People &s;pend it &s;elf. Where the <HI>Tenter-hooks</HI> of Oppre&s;&s;ion al|wayes are in &s;uch publick View, that Man, Woman, or Maid can hardly pa&s;s by <HI>Wood|&s;treet</HI> or the <HI>Poultry,</HI> without being catcht|hold of. Where men &s;it at receit of <HI>Injury,</HI> and mourn at the Tranquility and Peace of Neighbours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="October" TYPE="month">
<PB N="34" REF="22">
<HEAD>October's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Mouth <HI>Themis</HI> appears again be|fore the gods, for A&s;trologers &s;ay, There are Terms in Heaven, as well as upon Earth: <HI>Rhadamanth</HI> urged that men did ill to undertake the <HI>Defences</HI> of trivial and im|mode&s;t Cau&s;es: that it was their Duty to tell their <HI>Clients</HI> the truth of their Cau&s;es, and to dehort them from <HI>Contention,</HI> rather than to encourage and exa&s;perate people already by the Ears. That it was unu&s;ual to &s;ee <HI>Hominem &s;olenni legis linteo velamine decoratum</HI> crouching to Inferiours: That it was not &s;eemly to &s;ee Gentlemen hawking after the trivial defences of <HI>Baudery</HI> or infa|mous <HI>Scolding;</HI> looking about as greedily after their Prey, as the <HI>Turks,</HI> on &s;et days, gape for <HI>Mahomet. Pluto,</HI> alwayes feed in bad Cau&s;es, urg'd that they had paid large Sums for their places. But old <HI>Saturn</HI> ca|&s;ting a <HI>Sardonic &s;mile</HI> upon him, call'd <HI>Pluto, Poltron</HI> and <HI>Bocca di Porco;</HI> for, &s;aid he, There is nothing arm's a Purcha&s;er more with defence of unju&s;t Dealings, than money given for an Employment, which makes Petty Courts, where <HI>Law</HI> is made to be like the <HI>Bu&s;h,</HI> to which while <HI>Sheep</HI> repair for
<PB N="35" REF="22"> &s;helter, they are &s;ure to loo&s;e a <HI>Fleece.</HI> Then <HI>Minos</HI> urged his Complaint, you may gue&s;s again&s;t whom, The very &s;weepings of the Nation, who after three or four times <HI>Break|ing,</HI> thru&s;t them&s;elves into <HI>Varlet's</HI> Offices, to torment others, as they had been tormented before. But would men from daily Expe|rience di&s;cover what Tricks they play, what <HI>Leiger-de-main</HI> they u&s;e, what juggling there is among them; it were an ea&s;ie thing, by the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Stars, to tell their <HI>For|tunes,</HI> and progno&s;ticate their Removal from all the publick places of the City, where their Attendance might be rationally di&s;pen|ced with.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="November" TYPE="month">
<PB N="40" REF="23">
<HEAD>November's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere &s;hall be great Bickering in the Country about Under-&s;heriffs places, and there's Fifty pounds odds, according to the Humour of <HI>Venus;</HI> and then it goes hard with the Country Pri&s;oners: for is it not Rea&s;on the poor <HI>Country-&s;laves</HI> &s;hould pay, when their Keepers petition for <HI>Relief?</HI> But they that buy dear mu&s;t &s;ell dear: and therefore 'tis a &s;trange thing, how blind &s;ome people will be, for though they have a Writ in their <HI>Pockets,</HI> and the per&s;on walks ju&s;t under their No&s;es, yet they cannot &s;ee him for their lives: which proceeds from a wonderful <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Luna</HI> in Palm of the <HI>Right hand.</HI> The Station of <HI>Sa|turn</HI> in <HI>Sagittary</HI> foretells the <HI>Failing</HI> of ma|ny <HI>Country Farmers:</HI> and their Credit is no &s;ooner <HI>fly-blown,</HI> but the <HI>Magot-Bayliffs,</HI> are at their Tailes immediately. Now the poor Country People knowing no difference between <HI>Fiery Trigons,</HI> and <HI>Fieri fae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">as, Ca. Sa.</HI> and <HI>Ca. Dra. Excom. Cap.</HI> and <HI>Mar. in Sag.</HI> Take all to be Conjurers or A&s;trolo|gers; e&s;pecially when they finde them &s;o truly Calculating the <HI>Fatal De&s;tiny&punc;</HI> of their
<PB N="41" REF="23"> E&s;tates; But which are be&s;t Conjurers or <HI>Returna Breviums</HI> they cannot &s;ay, But the Stars are ju&s;t, for the Year's no &s;ooner out, but they meet either with the Pipe Of|fice, or Hell: where the fir&s;t Puni&s;hment is to lie ten thou&s;and years in the Sweat of their own Bayliff's toes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<PB N="38" REF="24">
<HEAD>December's <HI>Ob&s;ervations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme <HI>Charity</HI> is intended this Month by well di&s;po&s;ed Per&s;ons for the Relief of poor Pri&s;'ners in &s;everal Places: and &s;ome few of the Richer &s;ort &s;hall &s;end Baskets of <HI>&s;craps</HI> to the poor people: the <HI>refu&s;e</HI> of their pub|lick Tables pretending it to be <HI>Charity.</HI> But <HI>The&s;eus</HI> and <HI>Piritheus</HI> denies it &s;o to be: &s;wearing by <HI>Pluto</HI> and <HI>Cerberus,</HI> that it is a Frantick <HI>Relick</HI> of the Number 666. to call it either <HI>Benevolence</HI> or <HI>Charity,</HI> for they &s;ay, That it can be no <HI>Charity</HI> to &s;end the <HI>Orts</HI> and <HI>&s;cambled Mammocks</HI> of a &s;uper|fluous Table, that they knew not what in the world to do with el&s;e, e&s;pecially when there is never a <HI>Bone</HI> that has not been &s;u|pervi&s;ed and diligently corrected and amen|ded above three or four times by the mo&s;t elaborate Stomacks of the place. To tell ye the Truth on't, what &s;trange <HI>Con&s;tellations</HI> did rule the <HI>Charity-</HI>basket in 74. we are not well able to &s;ay: however 'twas worth the &s;eeing to take an Ob&s;ervation from thence, of the Dimen&s;ions of &s;ome mens <HI>Benevolence.</HI> Certain it was, that year was very <HI>&s;evere,</HI> which cau&s;ed many poor men to bla&s;pheme one of the mo&s;t noble Vir|tues.
<PB N="39" REF="24"> <HI>Charity</HI> ought to flow franck and free from the <HI>Kitchins</HI> of Publick Magi|&s;trates; their <HI>Scraps</HI> and <HI>Mammocks</HI> is no more than what the poor &s;en&s;ele&s;s Animal expects for his Service, and claims as his due. He that will be Charitable mu&s;t <HI>Give, Give his own,</HI> and <HI>that which is whole&s;ome</HI> and <HI>con|venient:</HI> So that, he that only &s;ends from his &s;uperfluous Banquets the <HI>Orts</HI> and <HI>Frag|ments</HI> of other mens Contributions, may have the <HI>Honour</HI> to give <HI>Admittance</HI> to the <HI>Poors Basket,</HI> but never get the true Character of a <HI>Charitable per&s;on:</HI> for &s;he is a mo&s;t cha&s;t Vertue, and not to be adulterated by fictitious Imitations and O&s;tentations of <HI>Re|alities.</HI> But what need &s;o much <HI>Charity;</HI> when all the Pri&s;ons have their Foot-Po&s;ts running from place to place with Boxes and Petitions for the &s;ake of <HI>Je&s;us Christ</HI> and the <HI>Good Time:</HI> But truly there are &s;o many <HI>Here&s;ies</HI> and <HI>Sects</HI> that care neither for <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> nor his <HI>Good time</HI> neither, that the Trade of <HI>Begging for Chri&s;t's &s;ake</HI> is hardly worth fol|lowing now a dayes; and all Helps are lit|tle enough, e&s;pecially, when ye con&s;ider, That 'tis not a &s;mall thing that mu&s;t main|tain a proud Ma&s;ter and his Wife to boot.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="miscellany">
<DIV2 TYPE="anatomy table">
<PB N="44" REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>ANATOMY</HI> of the Body.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ale and</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Head &amp; Brains</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Brandy.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Cravatta</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Neck &amp; Throat</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Louzia,</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Short-pot</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Arms &amp; &s;houlders</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Long-pot.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Cur&s;ed</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Brea&s;t &amp; &s;tomach</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Mundungus</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Aurum</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Heart &amp; Back</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Potabile.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Clean &s;heets</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Bowels &amp; Belly</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Fetherbeds.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thread-bare</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Reins &amp; Loins</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Gowns.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Gonorrh.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Secret Members</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Fetida.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Balneum</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Thighs</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Marie.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Rub and</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Legs</HI></CELL>
<CELL>a good ca&s;t.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Briba</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Feet</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Cerberum.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="advice">
<HEAD>Rules for Husbandry.</HEAD>
<P>SOw the &s;eeds of <HI>Di&s;&s;ention</HI> from the fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> to the la&s;t of <HI>December. October, January, April, May</HI> and <HI>June.</HI> If thou ha&s;t a cunning Creditor to deal with, <HI>Set a Knave to catch a Knave,</HI> for tho&s;e Months contain the u&s;ual <HI>Terms</HI> of the year. In <HI>Aprill</HI> and <HI>September</HI> gather thy Rent, and if thou ha&s;t a good Crop, make good u&s;e of it, for 'tis the be&s;t Flower in thy Gar|den. At <HI>Md&s;ummer</HI> &s;hear they Tenants
<PB N="45" REF="25"> with new Lea&s;es, and at <HI>Michaelmas</HI> cut thy <HI>Coat according to thy Cloth.</HI> At <HI>Chri&s;t|mas,</HI> when thou ha&s;t got Money in thy Poc|ket, 'twill be good pruning of Taylor's Bills. In <HI>January, February</HI> and <HI>December,</HI> being idle Months, &s;ow all thy wild <HI>Oats:</HI> In <HI>March,</HI> if thou ha&s;t a good Stock, &s;et up for thy &s;elf: then be a good Husband, and thou &s;halt reap well for thy &s;elf. Have a care of letting <HI>Coneys</HI> burrough in thy Shop-book, 'twill be hard <HI>Ferreting</HI> them out again. Make <HI>Hay</HI> while the Sun &s;hines; but have a care of thru&s;ting thy <HI>Sickle</HI> into another man's <HI>Corn.</HI> Have a care, in a dear time, of parting with thy <HI>Hay,</HI> unle&s;s thou ha&s;t good &s;tore of <HI>Oats</HI> for it. He that has an expen&s;ive Wife, let him lop off her &s;uper|fluous extravagancies at the beginning of the Year, lea&s;t they grow in a &s;hort time pa&s;t his Reach. <HI>Hearts-ea&s;e</HI> is a rare Flower, keep good &s;tore of it in thy Garden. And as for <HI>Flower gentle,</HI> a good Husband would not be without it that hath variety of Deal|ings in the world. <HI>Ragwort,</HI> a Weed, keep it out of thy ground: But for <HI>Herb-grace,</HI> keep it all the year long if thou can&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="eclipses">
<PB N="42" REF="26">
<HEAD>Eclip&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>AN Eclip&s;e is the <HI>Interpo&s;ition</HI> of a <HI>Stone Dublet between a Man and the Street.</HI></P>
<P>When a man is fir&s;t arre&s;ted and carried to the <HI>Hen and Chickens,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;e and Crown,</HI> (to the un&s;peakable Scandal of the Law, at the Expence of 2 <HI>s.</HI> per night, for onely lodging, be&s;ides the continual Vi&s;its of Ser|jeants, who, (like Phy&s;itians) &s;eldome goe away empty) this is called a <HI>Half Eclip&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>When a Man is hurried from thence for want of Money, into the <HI>Compter,</HI> or by Duce, to <HI>Ludgate,</HI> or el&s;ewhere, by <HI>Hab. Corp.</HI> this is a <HI>Total Eclip&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sol,</HI> or <HI>Man,</HI> may be eclip&s;ed an hun|dred &s;everal wayes;</P>
<P><HI>Women,</HI> or <HI>Luna,</HI> are not &s;o generally e|clip&s;ed, and then they mu&s;t be either Maids, Widdows, or &s;ole Traders.</P>
<P>Of both the&s;e <HI>Eclip&s;es</HI> there will be &s;ome thou&s;ands this year, one with another.
<PB N="43" REF="26"> But they &s;hall be only vi&s;ible in the proper <HI>Horizons,</HI> or <HI>Jayles</HI> where the Eclip&s;ed Bo|dies move.</P>
<P>Yet &s;ome of the&s;e <HI>Eclip&s;es</HI> &s;hall become vi&s;ible in <HI>Ethiopia, Per&s;ia, China, Barbado's, Virginia,</HI> and other remote parts, being &s;uch as have made e&s;capes, or el&s;e withdrawn them&s;elves by Connivance out of the Rules.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poems on the months">
<HEAD>Of the Hou&s;es of the Planets.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>January.</HEAD>
<L>HE that in Pri&s;on wants both <HI>Fire</HI> and <HI>Chink,</HI></L>
<L>Where had he better be, than there d' ye think?</L>
<L>You'l &s;ay in <HI>Hell&mdash;</HI>for there's both heat and gold;</L>
<L>Not &s;o, for that's as hot, and this too cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>February.</HEAD>
<L>But better were he to be Stallion tame,</L>
<L>To &s;ome (like <HI>Me&s;&s;alina)</HI> &s;winging Dame:</L>
<L>For then exhau&s;ted, breaking Arm or Legg,</L>
<L>For <HI>Ale</HI> and <HI>Capon</HI> he at length may beg.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="48" REF="27">
<HEAD>March.</HEAD>
<L>Taylors tru&s;t not in <HI>March,</HI> or if ye doe,</L>
<L>Be merciful like <HI>April,</HI> never &s;ue;</L>
<L>For <HI>March</HI> of <HI>April</HI> borrows, but nee'r pays,</L>
<L>Yet <HI>April</HI> ne'er brought Action for her Days.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>April.</HEAD>
<L>Fathers mu&s;t die; and then in happy hours,</L>
<L>Ju&s;t like the Month, their Heirs rain golden &s;howrs:</L>
<L>'Tis for the Month, quoth they, to wa&s;h the Earth,</L>
<L>Our tears are &s;alt, and therefore little worth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>May.</HEAD>
<L>Like to the Fields, young Gallants now ap|pear</L>
<L>As brisk and gaudy as the springing year.</L>
<L>Their golden bags &s;hine in their Tropick hight,</L>
<L>Who ever then could think it &s;hould be Night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>June.</HEAD>
<L>The Portion's coming, Fill the t'other quart,</L>
<L>So is the Girl, powder on't, there's the &s;mart:</L>
<L>But hang't, as long as there's Ca&s;h i' this life,</L>
<L>A Kennel of Whores is &s;awce for a Wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="49" REF="27">
<HEAD>July.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Squire,</HI> do you want another thou&s;and pound?</L>
<L>You may command it, <HI>Squire,</HI> on your own word:&mdash;</L>
<L>I know your Father well, that's under ground,</L>
<L>And therefore while it la&s;ts, near spare my Hoard.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Augu&s;t.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Squire,</HI> 'Tis twelve Month now, &s;ince fir&s;t, I lent;</L>
<L>And men are mortal, pardon my intent,</L>
<L>I only do't for &s;omething, Sir, to &s;how;</L>
<L>Not to make u&s;e of, Heaven above doth know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>September.</HEAD>
<L>Sir, I've an Execution again&s;t ye&mdash;how&mdash;</L>
<L>And ne'r arre&s;ted&mdash;We can't tell&mdash;'tis &s;o&mdash;</L>
<L>What's to be done?&mdash;Sir, here's a Hou&s;e hard by,</L>
<L>A piece in hand&mdash;wee'l keep you privately.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="50" REF="28">
<HEAD>October.</HEAD>
<L>What have ye &s;een your Friend yet? no&mdash;the Serjeant's mad&mdash;</L>
<L>Y'are here &s;o long&mdash;a Crown&mdash;and I'le per&s;wade,</L>
<L>There's one more Writ&mdash;We knew't not by my Soul;</L>
<L>Another had it, we could not controul.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>November.</HEAD>
<L>Has the Dog &s;erv'd me thus? to &s;tay's no pur|po&s;e:</L>
<L>Get me an Attorney, I'le have an <HI>Harpus Corpus;</HI></L>
<L>I'le &s;ing i'th Bench <HI>a Boat, a boat,</HI></L>
<L>And I'le &s;ee the Rogue hang'd, 'Ere I pay him a groat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>December.</HEAD>
<L>At length the man in Execution dyes,</L>
<L>Like Tavern Gue&s;ts, that reckning has de|fraid;</L>
<L>&V;p comes the Drawer <HI>Death,</HI> and &s;martly cryes,</L>
<L>Y'are kindly welcome, <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> all's paid.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="list of English fairs">
<PB N="51" REF="28">
<HEAD>The u&s;ual Fairs in <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<HEAD><HI>At</HI> Layton-Buzzard, <HI>on St.</HI> Martin's <HI>day.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Fair</HI> is altogether for <HI>Fools,</HI> viz. Tho&s;e that bring their Hogs to a bad <HI>Market;</HI> tho&s;e that buy and &s;ell, and live by the lo&s;s: Tho&s;e that have a mind to purcha&s;e fal&s;e <HI>Heraldry,</HI> and St. <HI>Martin</HI>'s Gentility. For Jaylor's <HI>Hone&s;ty.</HI> Pri&s;on-Cellar-mens <HI>Pride.</HI> Turn|keys <HI>Knavery,</HI> Pri&s;oner's <HI>Idlene&s;s,</HI> Shop|keepers <HI>Prodigality,</HI> Prenti&s;es <HI>Fal&s;hood,</HI> Gentlemens <HI>Beggery,</HI> Game&s;ter's <HI>Treachery,</HI> Chancery <HI>Suits,</HI> Jury-men's<HI>-Con&s;ciences,</HI> Phy|&s;itians <HI>Ignorance,</HI> Pothecaries <HI>Learning,</HI> Cre|ditors <HI>Mercy,</HI> Serjeants <HI>Piety,</HI> and Souldiers <HI>Religion.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<HEAD>At <HI>Zeale</HI> in <HI>Devon&s;hire.</HI> On <HI>Valentine's</HI> day.</HEAD>
<P>FOr <HI>Holy Sisters,</HI> mendicant Preachers, Schi&s;maticks of all &s;orts and &s;izes, mu|&s;ical Pari&s;h-Clarks, Needy Curates, rich
<PB N="52" REF="29"> Queri&s;ters, godly Fidlers, Ceremonious Quakers, humble Dancing Ma&s;ters, Tru&s;ty Chamber maids, and cha&s;t Whores: Seve|ral Wares are likewi&s;e here to be &s;old, as <HI>Foxe's Works, Naylor's La&s;t Will and Te&s;ta|ment, Durants &s;weet Sippets of Con&s;olation: New Lights of Four i'the pound, Geneva Coif's and cro&s;s-cloths, &s;et forms of night Di&s;|cour&s;e among the Brethren.</HI> For Shoos that will tye of them&s;elves: For Looking-gla&s;&s;es with Fancies ready &s;et, as if Butter would not melt in their Mouths. Cordials for weak Speakers. Barrels of Pickled Non-&s;ence for Strong Holders forth. <HI>Opiums</HI> to procure Repentance, Wa&s;h balls for &s;in; and many more Trinkets of the &s;ame nature.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<HEAD>At <HI>Euill</HI> in <HI>Summer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> on St. <HI>Judas's</HI> day.</HEAD>
<P>FOr Knights of the Po&s;t, Kings Bench-li|berty Fleet-Oaths, fobb'd City actions, Sheriffs-court pleadings: King's Bench, Fleet and Compters Offices. Caps for the Memo|ry made of <HI>Pri&s;ners</HI> skuls that dyed in Exe|cution; for Di&s;pen&s;ations, for Perjury, and in brief for all &s;orts of Knaves in grain.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<PB N="53" REF="29">
<HEAD>At <HI>Maiden&punc;Bradly</HI> in <HI>Wilt&s;hire.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr Crack'd Virgins, Expen&s;ive Wives, theevi&s;h Nur&s;es, Portionle&s;s Matches, riotous &s;ons, undutiful daughters, Claps, Go|norrhea's and Suburb-Quacks.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<HEAD>At <HI>Dun&s;table</HI> in <HI>Bedford &s;hire.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr all &s;orts of Cattel, as Bull-pated Country Pettyfoggers, Goati&s;h Clerks, Bear-Bayliffs, Bore-Serjeants, Lyon-like Plantiffs, Sheepi&s;h Defendants, Fox-like Conveyancers, Litigious A&s;&s;es, Dromedary Proctors, and Pack-hor&s;e Promoters, Fox|skins for Scriveners, and Badgers-&s;ur for U&s;urers.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="fair">
<HEAD><HI>Horn-Fair,</HI> at <HI>Charlton</HI> in <HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt,</HI> on St. <HI>Luke's</HI> day.</HEAD>
<P>STallions of all Sorts, Coachmen, and Gentlemen-U&s;hers for great Ladies; Monkeys and I&s;land-Curs for private U&s;es, Licences for <HI>Poligamy;</HI> Cures for crack'd maiden-heads; Remedies for weak Backs, Complaints, Excu&s;es and Pretences for all
<PB N="54" REF="30"> &s;orts of Women; treacherous Midwives, Nur&s;es for Ba&s;tards at &s;mall rates. Forms of Bonds for putting off Children. Speedy helps for Barrenne&s;s, Cloaks for Adultere&s;&s;es; with twenty more Knicknacks of the &s;ame Nature.</P>
</DIV3>
<PB REF="30">
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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