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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67531	The world bewitch'd a dialogue between two astrologers and the author : with infallible predictions of what will happen in this present year, 1699, from the vices and villanies practis'd in court, city and country.	Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.	1699 (1699)	Wing W767; ESTC R33546	17,981	33

will be breathed out this Summer against Fortune at all Ordinaries and Bowling-Greens but will find themselves so little the better for 't they might as well have kept their Breath to Cool their Pottage Ladies of Pleasure this Year who are Liberal to their Gallants will prove very Subl●●ary for which reason many a 〈◊〉 Beau will be forc'd for want of true Labor Vigilence and Submission to make his Summer Sute to last all Winter Love's Wi●●●● will be 〈◊〉 against him the Favours he enjoy'd and the Benefits he receiv'd will be transferr'd from one Cock's-comb to another that every upstart Prodigal who presents himself as a fresh Labourer in the Drudgery of Lust may be made a Fool of in his turn as well as his Predecessors Weavers as well as Iourney-men Taylors will be glad to make many a Meal of Cucumbers this Summer or else go to Lamb's-Conduit and Drink a Health to Duke Humphrey and entreat Providence upon their Knees to take away their Stomachs for though Meat will be Cheap yet Money will be scarce and he that can have an Ox ready Roasted for a Penny if he wants both Coin and Credit if he 's too Proud to Beg and too Honest to Steal is in the midst of Plenty in a very likely Condition to go without a Dinner Notwithstanding Poverty will be a raging Distemper among Journey-men Shoe-makers yet they will be so Proud they 'll scorn to Work on a Monday but for the Honour of St. Crispin's Memory will Dedicate that Day to Shufflle-Board and Nine-Pins in order to consume the remaining Dregs of their Saturday's Wages that they may return to their Work with clear Pockets and safe Consciences tho' no men are greater Pagans in the Worship of a full Flaggon yet the best of Christians can never be more thoughtful on their Last their Lives 't is true are but dangerous Examples for the Righteous to follow yet by the Doctrine of the Hammer they make more good Souls in one Twelve-month than the Clergy do in Seven This Year Distillers will turn Negromancers and deal in abundance of Evil Spirits which will possess the Publick as the Devil did the Herd to the Destruction of all those who are Bewitch'd by 'em which will be a great means of advancing Hog-wam to the Injury of Islington Swine-herds and the Damage of Bartholomew-Fair Pork if they are not carefully bound in Fetters of Forbearance by the Wisdom of our great Assembly to prevent Poysoning the Subjects Church-wardens will be accounted Knaves by the rest of the Parish let 'em behave themselves never so Honestly and that poor Sinner who falls into their Clutches for answering the End of his Creation will Wish he had been Gelt before his Head-strong Progenitors had trapann'd him as a Prey to such Capon-eating Canibals who will Spunge as much upon the Sins of a Fatherly Fornicator as Bayliffs upon the Misfortune of a fearful Debtor in their Custody Coal-merchants and Wood-mongers will look with an evil Eye upon the Sun and complain the Weather is so excessive Hot they are scarce able to endure it Wax and Tallow-chaundlers will be as Angry with the length of Days as if all the Fat was in the Fire and though they are Dealers in Light yet will heartily wish before Summer is ended the whole Kingdom in the Dark Butchers Cooks Fish-mongers and Poulterers if you wait your Opportunity will sell more for a Shilling than they buy for Two and when it 's serv'd up hot to the Table a Nice Feeder may satisfy his Appetite thorough his Nostrils without the trouble of Mastication Vintners will be very busie in their Cellars about mending of prick'd Wines and recovering of Vinegar worth Six-pence a Quart to Port of Eighteen they will commit more Sins in the justification of Bad Wines to be Good within these Three Months than ever they can find Leisure to Repent of in the other Nine Marlborough Chalk will now be more useful in the Bar than Pen and Ink for Little Credit Small Measure and Unconscionable Reckonings must make good the Defects of a Tradeless Vacation Ale-Drapers will shift off their Winter's Pride and put on their Summer's Humility they 'll stir up no Fires to burn you from your Seats but pluck off their Hats and bid you Welcome for the spending of Two-pence they 'll be contented to drink their own Liquor stand at their Doors and bid a Neighbour Good Morrow and not run to the Tavern for a Morning and Ev'ning's Draught in contempt of those Fools who by hugging the Pot put them in a Condition to enjoy the Bottle The Players in Town must now set their Wits to work who before liv'd by Fooling or else they 'll find little to do but to lye a-Bed and study their parts against next Michaelmas An underlin Actor ought to play the part of a Camelion Four Months in the Year and when they shut up House he ought to shut up his Appetite and learn to Live by the Air for if he covets more substantial Nourishment he must put his Brains upon the Rack to Coin Puns and Cunnundrums to please some Fool or other that will give it him Drugsters will now be very busie in Selling the Sweepings of their Shops to the Mountebank's Miller who grinds them all together to a Powder to make up an Universal Medicine either in Pill Potion or Bolus for certain there is somthing in the Compound good for ev'ry thing but to know ev'ry Ingredient in this Collection of Gleaning wou'd puzle both the Druggest and the Dr. who minds not what 's in 't but what 's on 't I therefore fear we shall have a sickly Season and many Patients this Summer will dye of the Physician An Apothecary who has a Handsome Wife to keep Shop is likely to have abundance of Customers for many a Young Gentleman will be Sick to be doing with her the more the Husband keeps out the greater Trade he 'll have for all the Patient's Desires will be that the Wife may serve him All Persons who are desirous to preserve their Health let 'em be Careful how they trust a Physician with their Purses lest they endanger their Bodies for if once he get into your Cash he 'll soon find an occasion to give you Physick and when you are under his Clutches you may solace your self with a Memento Mori In the next place take care you eat no Hemlock in your Sallad or Arsnick in your Pottage neither catch Cold or over-heat your self and use a Dr. as you do a Lawyer never but when needs must and you need not Question a continuance of your Health for it 's an old Maxim drawn from Experience that Physicians Kill more than ever they can Cure There will be more Religions this Summer than ever but less Piety Christians will prefer their Ease before their Devotion and think the Weather too hot to serve God in Crowds for which Reasons the Churches will have but thin Congregations