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.

JULY.

The thirsty Traveller this Month will fry, And Northern Maids without their Smocks will lye. The Country Lass on Hay-Mow hugs her Clown, VVhilst Lords kiss Ladies on their Beds of Down.

A Little after the beginning of this Month, many a Clients Troubles will have an end, and many a Law∣yers Vexation beginning; for that terrible Persecutor of Vintners, Victuallers, Whores, and Pettifoggers, the Long-Vacation, will follow the heels of Trinity-Term, and begin to show its Teeth, threatning many of the Sons of Parchment with empty Pockets and small Credit between that and Mi∣chaelmas. There will be great Complaints by that this Month be over for want of Trade, and greater for want of Money: Physicians will follow the Gentry, to the Bath and Tunbridge, as Vultures do Armies for a Prey; the former feeding upon sick Bodies, as the latter do upon dead ones.

All sorts of Tradesmen will now begin to be more than or∣dinary civil to their Customers, and to use that breeding to∣wards their Neighbours, which is only practicable with 'em in a long Vacation. A Vintner shall give you more Welcomes for a Pint of Wine, than a Gallon in Hilary-Term. And a Seamstriss shall bring an Inns of Court Gentleman a Neckcloth and Ruffles home to his Chamber, without making a word of Scruple, or so much as tying him up in a Protestation to be Civil.

Great Complaints will be made by People that lett Lodgings in Drury-Lane, for their Tail-trading Tenants will have so little to do, that they wont be able to earn a Week's Rent in ready Money in a Month, for the emptiness of the Town, and the distressed number of their Quality, will make their Sex so cheap a Commodity, that, like May Crill six a Groat, no Men of any Fashion will think 'em worth their purchasing; for visci∣ous Delights, like Food or Rayment, when fallen to a low Price, become contemptible.

Moorfields, for this and the next Month, shall have a many Cover-sluts spread over its Verdency, and appear all in white to do Penance for the Sins of its Inhabitants; for the Shirts of Masters and the Smocks of Maids, the Smocks of Mistresses and the Shirts of Apprentices, will be so promiscuously mixed together, as if they were laid abroad on purpose, to let the Publick see, that the Owners lay higgle de piggle de at home, after the same manner.

Gard'ners will be now as merry as so many Cuckows in March, and bring you the excrement of the Town to Market, in such a disguise, that People will buy it up for Food, and swallow it as greedily as a Sow does a S—r-nce. Taylors will be thought so knavish in this sharp Cucumber Season, that scarce any body will trust 'em with a bit of Work, but what they must trust for the doing on't; and a general Chain of Credit must run thro' all Trades, to support 'em one by another: he that has Money, if he has not the Wit to keep it, will have enow ready to borrow it out of his hands, upon large Interest, who will never have the Honesty to re∣turn the Principle.

Most of Fortunes Minions, the lucky Ratlers of the Devil's Bones, will be gone to Tunbridge and the Bath; so that the Town will be very thin of Sharpers, and those Sharpers very thin that are in the Town. Also Bailiffs and Pettifoggers must take in the Wast-bands of their Breeches at least a handful, to

keep 'em on their A—s; for they will most of 'em become as Carrionly lean, by the latter end of this Month, as a Buck in Rutting time.

On the 19th. begins the Dog-days, in which sultry Season, the Fire foaming Dog-Star, with his fl••migerous Tongue, shall lick the verdency off the tops of Hills, parch the Corn-fields with his hot-liver'd Influence, sear the low Valleys, and dye the Face of Ceres as Tawny as a Gypsie.

Maidenheads will grow so rampant in this and the next Month, that those that are their Keepers, will be mightily puzled to continue 'em in a vertuous Subjection, at Nights and Mornings, they'll be given to such panting Fits, and unac∣countable Uproars, that some of 'em will need as many Men to allay their Fury, as are necessary to hold down a lusty Fel∣low in a Fit of the Falling-sickness. The married Woman too, notwithstanding the great heat of the Weather, will be apt at Night to creep so close to her Husband, that he won't be able to rest for her, till he has put himself into as great a Sweat, as if he had drank up a Treacle-Posset for his Supper.