%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> AN / ELEGY / Upon the Death of the Famous / Dr. JOHN PARTRIDGD, / The Great Astrologer, who departed this Life (according to Esq; Biggerstaff's Pre- / diction) this Morning between the Hours of One and Two a Clock, being the / 29th of March, at his House near Covent-Garden. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1708-1708 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/22/2014 33064

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O Partridge! Art thou gone, and we in Tears? Hide all your Heads, ye little Twinkling Stars: Ye Glorious Planets in your Houses Sleep; And 'stead of Light, in Gentle showers Weep. Partridges Knowledge in those Arts doth Crave The Sun it self a Mourner at his Grave: Phoebus shou'd by the Milky Way descend, And Luna, and the Signs, should on his Hearse attend. Weep all ye Suburb Dames that knew his Worth, And let your Trebles set his Praises forth: By him you were resolv'd of many a Doubt, And how the Circling Year would roul about; When it would Freeze or Thaw, when Snow or Rain, When Storms would Blow, or when be Eair again. From whence you might unerring Methods take, Which Seasons were the best to Brew or Bake; For Physick, when the prop'rest Times were known, When good to Bleed, and when to let's alone; Nay, even he could set apart the Day, On which 'twas best to Work, or best to play. In Business too, you by his Schemes might tell Which were the Luckiest Days to Buy or Sell: When proper Seasons wou'd for pleasure come, Or when to go Abroad, or stay at Home. Maids, Batchelors, from him, Instruction had, Which were good Days to Marry on, which bad; When they should Settle, where the House shou'd stand, And whether best to Trade by Sea or Land: Farmers from him learnt how to Sow and Reap, And when to make their Butter Dear or Cheap; To Prune their Hedges, or to Weed their Corn, Or when to get to get the Crop into the Barn.
He taught old Matrons to be Nutses soon, Observing but the Changes of the Moon; How they might keep their Families from Harms, When Cut their Childrens Hair, or kill the Worms. Nor this alone, he soar'd at higher Things, Foretelling Earthquakes, or the Death of Kings. Of Battles he could tell ye to a Day, When some wou'd Fight, and others run away. From Popish Dangers he forewarn'd the State, And always stabb'd the Jacks killing Hate. But still------ Alas, one Error in his Skill was Shewn, He could tell others Fate, but not his own: While he is Fam'd for Knowledge in the Stars, One Calculates his Death, and takes him unawares. So to Great Caesar, dauntless, undismay'd, Beware the Ides of March the Flamin said: As that in Romes, this shall our Kalends Grace, And be Red-Letter'd in same proper Place. THE EPITAPH. HEre lyes, (or will do , in a little time,) A Fam'd Astrologer of this our Clime, Whose spight of his Acquaintance with the Stars, It seems, knew nothing of his own Affairs, Untill the Pen of some unlucky Brother; Confounded one Perdiction, by another.
LONDON: Printed in the Year, 1708.