Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701 Found several years after his death, hid under an old close-stool-pan. And now publish'd by his executors, to make some people merry, and the rest mad. Containing, comical predictions for every month in the year, carefully calculated, to make both sexes shake their sides till they break their twatling-strings.

MAY.

This Month reigns Beauteous Goddess of the Spring; And to its Beauty does kind Nature bring, Lovers, in Fields, will enter into Leagues, And blooming Hedges hide their sweet Intrigues.

MOst Damsels, who, on the first of this Month, rise by Five a Clock in the Morning, to ramble into Woods a Maying, had best ease themselves of a heavy bur∣then they are glad to be rid of, and leave their Maidenheads behind 'em, that they may go out the lighter Housewives; for those that carry it with 'em, for fear it should be lost, will have as hard a matter to bring it home again, with∣out scattering on't under some Hedge or other, as they would have to carry half a Pound of Butter under each Arm-pit, without melting on't before they came back again.

On the same Day, and the next following, Milk-maids will put on their double-soal'd Dancing-shooes, in contempt of Spanish Leather Pumps; and will be loaded with so much Plate upon their Heads, that if their Heels should chance to run away with it, they would ruin as many Families as the breaking of the Bank of England, or shuting up of the Ex∣chequer. Much sweating of Udders, and rigling of plump Buttocks before every bodies Door that has but a Milk-sop in their Family; and most laborious scraping amongst blind Fidlers, to no Tune, till the second Day be over.

On the 7th. Day begins the Lawyers Easter-Offering, where Clients must be sure to come with their Pockets full of Money, or return with their Hearts full of Grief. Small Troubles in Westminster-Hall, will be rowl'd about from one Court to another, till, Snowball-like, they gather into a Load, enough to break the Back of him who is bound to support it. Much business will be dispatch'd this Term, in order to make further mischief: And poor Clients will have scarce Vacation enough to gather Breath in, before another Term will catch them by the Purse-strings; therefore I'd advise 'em to take care of themselves, lest they buy Patience enough at a dear rate, to hear a Lawyer call'd Knave behind his back, without taking up the Cudgels to revenge the Injury.

On the 10th. the Sun with considerable Power, enters in∣to the Twin-Sign Gemini, by which I have good reason to guess, that poor Men, who are least able to provide for 'em, will get Children by pairs, whilst rich Men would be glad to have 'em single; and that there will be more squauling of Brats in one Cottage, in Kent-street, where the Wife is not past Child-bearing, than in many two Noblemens Families in St. James's-Square, to the great discomfort of their Ladies; yet notwithstanding many a marri'd Couple will want the fruits of their Labour to Inherit their Possessions. Multitudes of Bastards will be begot in Fornication, by those who han't a shilling to maintain 'em, to the pleasure of their Parents, tho' to the plague of the Parish.

Gardeners and Kentish-Pippin Planters pray more in this Month, than in any other Season in the Year, against high Winds, Blasts, and Frosty Mornings, till their Fruits are knit and past danger; and then they can sleep as quietly as a Farmer after a good Harvest, without troubling themselves to say so much as Lord have Mercy upon 'em, between that and Christmas.

The last remarkable Day that happens in this Month,

is the 29th. being the Nativity and Restauration of that worthy Prince, of Pious Memory King Charles II. On this Day there will be much talk amongst the Whigs, of Ma∣dam G—, and the Dutchess of Portsmouth, and the sham War against France, tho' they have had one since in good earnest. Adultery and Fornication will be grievously rail'd against in some Coffee-Houses in the City, by a parcel of Super-annuated Letchers, who us'd it very much in their Youth. Many bitter words, by ill Men, will be ill spoke; and further it will be violently asserted, Its more for a King∣dom's Good, that a Prince should maintain an Army at a National Charge, than a Mistress or two at his own.

Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton wont quite be forgotten; and many a backward Prayer, by many a forward Cuckold, will be given the brave and inobliviated Monk, for bringing in his Royal Master, causing the Rump to be roasted, and making the Oliverian Party piss backwards.