Part 7

A Prognostication

Concerning the BIRTH of CHILDREN on every Day of the Week.

1. They that are born on a Sunday, will, in all probability, be great and thriving.

2. They that are born on Monday, will likely prosper in beginning work that day.

3. They that are born on Tuesday, will be covetous and be in danger of perishing by iron, and hardly come to old age; but to begin any thing on that day is lucky.

4. They that are born on a Wednesday, will be very slow in learning any thing.

5. They that are born on a Thursday, will be steady and respectable; and to begin any work or business on that day is fortunate.

6. They that are born on a Friday, will live long, and be extremely lecherous.

7. They that are born on a Saturday, shall seldom be successful, except the course of the moon do bring him to it.

A Division of Man’s Age into Twelve times Six periods, and the Duty of each.

6. The first six years bring him up a child,

12. The next keep him under from waxing too wild,

18. The next let him learn no longer to toy,

24. The next a man, and no longer a boy,

30. The next let him lay out for a wife,

36. The next make his study to thrive,

42. The next make sure for a term of life,

48. The next save something for children and wife,

54. The next to be said, give over thy lust,

60. The next O think where go thou must,

66. The next get a staff thy body to stay,

72. The next prepare for Heaven, Lord shew thee the way!

Remember that all these divisions post on, And that this life will quickly be gone.

FINIS.

Marshall, Printer, Newcastle.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.

Page 4: “suddenly evertaken” changed to “suddenly overtaken”