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A24602	Poor Robin, 1683 a prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1683 : containing the vulgar notes for this present years times when to marry a good wife if you can light of her, a description of the three eclipses of this year, two of the moon, and one of the sun, when they happen, and what it signified by them, a more accurate account of the four quarters of the year, than hath hitherto been given, a very useful scheme ...	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1683 (1683)	Wing A2202; ESTC R5993	8,555	13

Poor Robin 1683 A PROGNOSTICATION For the Year of our Lord God 1683. Containing the Vulgar Notes for this present year times when to marry a good Wife if you can light of her a description of the three Eclipses of this year two of the Moon and one of the Sun when they happen and what is signified by them a more accurate account of the four quarters of the year than hath hitherto been given a very useful Scheme Ass trologically and poetically describing and prognosticating many weighty matters a description of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack and over what persons they have dominion with several other things which when you have read them over you will know as well as I. The one and twentieth Impression This is the summ of our Prognostications Which we do send abroad unto the Nation And for the truth thereof we do averr As Papists of the Pope we cannot err For those who think themselves herein are bitten May blame their faults for what herein is written LONDON Printed for the Company of Stationers 1683. Vulgar Notes for this present Year 1683. according to the Julian or English account The Golden Number 12 Cycle of the Sun 12 Do●●nical Letter G Roman Indiction 6 Epact 12 Number of Direction 18 Sundays after Epiphany 4 Septuagesima Sunday Feb. 4 Ashwednesday Feb. 21 Easter Day April 8 Rogation Sunday May 13 Ascension Day May 17 Whitsunday May 27 Sundays after Trinity 25 Advent Sunday December 2 Times prohibiting Marriage MArriage comes in on the 13 of January and by Septuagesima Sunday it is out again until the Octaves of Easter or day after Low-Sunday at which time it comes in again and goes no more out till Rogation Sunday for Rogamen vetitat from whence it is forbidden again untill Trinity Sunday from thence it is unforbidden till Advent Sunday when it goes out and comes not in again until S. Hilary or 13 of January next following In thy choice of a Wife have a special care for Women are The best of Goods or else the worst of Evils Glorious Angels or else cursed Devils THE bright Planet Venus is our evening star from the beginning of the year to the 24 of January from thence she becomes our Morning star to the 27 of November and from thence an Evening Star to the end of the year This with the other Stars are twinkling eyes That with disordered order gild the Skies Of the Eclipses this present year 1683. THIS year produceth three Eclipses one of the Sun and two of the Moon that of the Sun if the air be clear will be visible in our English Horizon those of the Moon let the air be how it will yet will they not be seen in England However having three Ecl●pses there will be ground work enough of them for Ass trologers thereby to calculate the fates of Kingdoms and Commonwealths as also of several other things worthy a serious mans consideration as when it is least dangerous for a Master to kiss his Maid for fear of being espied by her Mistress whether it be best to do it behind a Door like J D or invite her to an Ale-house to eat Cakes and drink Ale like R●H By them also may be predicted when honesty will come again in fashion whether a young Wenches Maidenhead be within her or without her and it within her she be not without her Maidenhead whether a blind Man can see best with Spectacles or without if Pancakes may be ●at lawfully on any other day than on Shrove-monday or Shrove tuesday whether my Lady may eat Butter with her Eggs or have her Posset turn'd with Lemon or Ale whether a Lawyer with a safe Conscience may take double sees and many other weighty matters fit for an Almanack makers observation But to come to the purpose and tell you when these Eclipses will happen for if we do not that it is to no more purpose to tell ye the number of them than it is to think to find truth in a Bawd or honesty in a Horse-courser though such things are not impossible but very rare The first then of these is a Solar Eclipse or to speak to the capacity of my Country Reader an Eclipse of the Sun which will happen on the 17 Day of January about 13 minutes past three of the Clock in the afternoon It is in the eighth degree of Aquarius and if the Air be serene and clear it may be seen with us in England there will be about 9 Digits or parts of the Suns body obscured say some of our Ass-trologers Argel says that there will be 10 parts and a half or 10 Digits and 30 minutes of his body Eclipsed now which of them says truest for my own part I cannot tell for as yet I am not thoroughly convinced of the difference betwixt an untruth and a lie Dragmatus the Diagotian Stigmatist in his treatise of the antiquity of Shapparoons and careless Bawds says that when such differences arise betwixt Ass-trologers it signifies that the price of Sprats Jerusalem Artichoaks and Holland Cheese will be very much encreased the like division happened in the beginning of the Rump Rebellion when the scarcity grew so great that the Brethren Botchers and such poor zealous Saints as earn'd but five groats a Week under a stall by singing Psalms and drawing up of holes being they could not live of their vocation were fain to leave it off and turn Teachers and Prophets But to proceed the second Eclipse will be of the Moon and happens on the first day of February about three of the Clock in the afternoon but it being then an hour and 44 Minutes before the setting of the Sun the refulgency of that Superiour Planet will cause that the defect of the Moon cannot be seen in our English Horizon This Eclipse is celebrated in the twenty third degree of Le● or the Lyon a martial warlike sign and may produce some drunken brawls and quarels in those Inns and Alehouses who have the signs of the white or red Lyon This being a feminine Eclipse shall have great influence over womens tongues insomuch that some Women shall have more and stranger tongues than ever Babel had to tell its ruins viz a lying tongue a lisping tongue a long tongue a lawless tongue a loud tongue and a liquorish tongue but never a true one Jupiter domineers in the tenth house this will cause great ambition some men shall be ambitious to get them handsome Wives and those Wives shall be ambitious to make their Husbands Cuckolds olds This ambition shall also be predominant in vulgar and inferiour spirits like Herostratus who to get himself a name burnt with wild-fire the famous Temple of Diana at Ephesus accounted one of the seven wonders of the World Nay I knew one so desirous of this ridiculous fame that he caused his name to be inscribed on a small-Bear Pitcher which caused my Muse to correct this idle folly of his thus to express her self

How greedy some men are of idle fame That they on Pitchers will inscribe their name As if the Hangman should ambitious be That he is Headsman of his faculty Vintners their names on Wine-pots do appear But his ambition only was small Beer Such as your Plough-boys use when in that case They to their Teams do whistle Chevy-chase Alas poor fool 't will do thee greater fame In Ballad-rhime to eternise thy name The third and last of this years Eclipses will be likewise of the Moon and will happen on the 28 day of July about eight of the clock in the forenoon in the 14 degree of Aquarius Now this Eclipse cannot possibly be seen of us in England because at that time the earth interposeth betwixt the body of the Sun and her and the earth not being so transparent as Crystal you cannot see thorough it although you have on your nose a pair of spectacles Now to give you my Ass-trological judgment on this Eclipse it portends a great deluge and inundation of Knavery new inventions and stratagems for the further exaltation of Legerdemaine in cheating and that to such a high pitch of perfection that were Mall Cutpurse alias Mrs. Frith alive she would be quite put down in her own art as a Bucket is put down a Well or a School-boy puts down his Hose when he is about to be whipt These kind of fellows D● live as merry as the days are long In scorn of Tyburn or the Ropes ding dong But often times it is their hap to wear A riding knot an inch below their ear When as they come to take their last degree Newgate their Hall and made at Tyburn free Venus is in her exaltation this Prognosticate great lasciviousness dancing naked let some people beware I do not put down their names in my next years Almanack some shall be very forward to kiss other mens Wives in private that their own Wives may not see them and their Wives shall ●e as forward to kiss other men so that it be not in sight of their husbands this indeed is a good way to avoid jealousie but in my opinion far better is the custom used in West friezland of which Mr. Moryson in his Itinerary or Book of Travels thus writes I remember saith he that having been at Sea in a great storm of wind thunder and lightning about the month of November being very weary and said I landed a● Do●kam in West friezland where at that time some young Gentlewomen of that Country passing thorough that City towards Groning according to the fashion of those parts we did eat at an ordinary Table and after supper sate down by the five drinking one to the other where after our storm at Sea the cust●me of Friezland d●d s●mewhat recreate us For if a Woman drink to a Man the custom is that she must bring him th● cup and kiss h m he not moving his feet nor scarcely his head to meet her and Men d●inking to them are tyed to the like by custome A st●anger w●uld at first sight marvel at this custome and more especially that their very Husbands should take it for a disgrace and be apt to quarrel with a Man for omitting of this ceremony towards their Wives yet they interpret this omission as if they judged their Wives to be so foul or infamous or at least base as they thought them unworthy of that courtesie This custome ●s like to our drinking of a Health with a Gun amongst us in England In this year also there will happen in the Months of January and May two eminent Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter the two superiour Planets in the fiery sign Leo and these are the Conjunctions of Heaven but we shall have more malevolent Conjunctions on Earth as when an Extortioner and a Broaker are in Conjunction to cheat men of their Estates the one hunts for the prey the other seises it and both devour it In respect of these our Country cheats are nothing comparable He who in the Country commences Doctor in Knavery is in the City but a Freshman or Sophister Craft there may here again be set to School A Country knave oft proves a City fool Two more very eminent Conjunctions will operate this year viz. a Conjunction betwixt Rogues and Whores and a Conjunction betwixt Cut purses and Pick pockets this will produce great profit to Chirurgeons as as also to Jack Ketch the Squire of the Hempen noose Who by his art will give them such a check They shall be hanged all but head and neck Of the four Quarters of the Year and first of the Spring The Spring Quarter beginneth always on the 10 Day of March though many times you may feel Winter still at your fingers ends when the frost and snow putteth you in mind to make use of your Gloves yet however Ass-trologers will have it to begin then ●ecause at that time the Sun entereth into the first point of Aries making the Days and Nights equal twelve hours wherein to work and twelve hours to lye a Bed in In this Quarter if you walk abroad the Fields you may hear both the Nightingal and the Cuckow sing and if you be a married man you may judge which of them is the pleasantest musick In this quarter also will be a great cry about London streets of Macker●l and they are very good victuals if they be well butter'd Veal and Lamb will be now in season and men shall be much addicted to the drinking of Coffee otherwise called by the name of Ninny broth sold at the Turks head in Pisspot-lane where also is sold divers other liquors viz. Tea and Aromatick for the sweet tooth'd Gentlemen Betony and Rosade for the addle headed Customer Back-recruiting Chocalet for the Consumptive Gallant Hereford-shire Redstreak made of rotten Apples at the Three-Cranes true Brumswick Mum brew'd at Saint Katherines and Ale in penny Mugs not so big as a Taylors thimble This is the most pleasant Quarter of all the four both for the temperateness of the Weather the wholesomeness of the Air and the delightfulness of the Fields In it the aged feel a kind of youth and youth the spirit full of life The Beggars do now begin their perambulation invited thereunto by the Musick of the woody Choristers and the Merchant setteth forth on long voyages to bring home Commodities from remote Countrys Crossing the torrid and the frozen Zone To bring commodities to England home Midst Rocks and swallowing Gulphs their way is made For to enrich themselves by gainful Trade Summer Summer the second Quarter of the year beginneth on the 11th Day of June and comes after the Spring as green Pease come after Mackarel or a great Belly after Marriage This Quarter is so hot that it makes the Country man leave of his Jerkin and young men and maids swear at making of H●y the fat Consciences of divers men shall be melted away into nothing nor shall the Watermen need to fear the