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4.357 R174295 1 An Orange With a Fading An Orange ATtend and give ear, I'll make it appear, / This is a New Almanack for the next Year, Weinstein lists tune as: Writ in a new Method f[o]r Merriment sake, and may be Sung to / the Tune of An Orange; date from title. Pepys 4.357 Wing C6544 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 357 The Country-Mans Kalender, / Or, His Astrological-Predictions for the ensuing year 1692. / Being a brief Almanack without e're a Lye; Writ in a new Method for Merriment sake, and may be Sung The Country-Mans Kalender, Or, His Astrological-Predictions for the ensuing Year 1692. Being a brief Almanack without e're a Lye; Writ in a new Method for Merriment sake, and may be Sung The Country-man's Calendar, or, His Astrological Predictions for th Ensuing Year 1692. Being a Brief Almanac without Ever a Lie; Written in a New Method for Merriment Sake, and May be Sung 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 204 x 334 cropped left edge, creased and damaged surface cast fleurons 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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A Ttend and give ear, I'll make it appear, This is a New Almanack for the next Year; Which I'de have ye buy, good People, for why? There is not so much as the smell of a Lye in the Twelve-Months. January: This Month may be cold, and therefore behold, All those that have plenty of Silver and Gold, If Garments you lack, buy them to your back, And see that you line them with Malago- Sack; It will warm you. February. In this Month, I say, comes Valentine 's-Day, When young Lads and Lasses together will play Tom gives his love Sue , gay Ribbons that's new, A Bodkin, with Kisses, and t'other thing too, Which will please her.
March. Saint Taffie this Year, in March will appear, Drest in hur best Shacket, with Leek in hur Ear: Red-Herring and Sheese, such dainties as these, At every corner her Cousin her sees, Honest Shinkin . April. Now enters the Spring, the Cuckoo's on Wing, Who many an honest Man seeks to hear sing; When Cuckoo he crys, if that thou art wise, Then tell the young impudent Cur that he lies, never fear him. May. In the Month of May , young Lambs they will play, And so will young Lasses, there's few will say nay, They'll ramble all night, with Men for delight, There's nothing like May -Dew for clearing the sight of young Lasses.
June. In the Month of June , there will be a Moon, And in London -City each Day about Noon Some hundreds will Dine, and tipple good Wine, I find by the Planets that this is a sign of good living. July. Likewise in July , by Stars I descry, If there be no Rain it may chance to be dry: The weather, behold, not desperate cold, And many a Man he will bury a Scold, to his comfort. August. In August you'll find, some Husbands unkind, And won't let his Wife have a Garb to her mind: But then with a frown, she'll fling out of Town, And e're she returns back will Cuckold his Crown, for a Coxcomb. September. In this Month repair, to Bartholomew- Fair, And likewise to Southwark , then delicate Ware, As plump as a Doe, above and below, You may have for little or nothing, I know, in September. October. October indeed, will hasten with speed, Together whole troops of the Billingsgate- Breed, Where Morning and Night, like Tygers they'll fight Before they'll be wrong'd in the least of their right, in their Oysters. November. November also, by Planets I know, That Lawyers by shoals do to Westminster go: Yet mark what I say, the Counsellours they Without Gold or Silver will ne'r get the day for their Clyents. December. In this Month likewise, Roast-Beef & minc'd-Pies, They will be sufficient the Rich to suffice: This delicate Cheer, will be far and near, And Christmas will be in December this Year, I must tell ye. This Almanack then, the Wonder of Men, Peruse it, and read it well over agen: Good People, for why? you cannot deny, But this, in plain terms, is without e're a Lye, therefore buy it.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.