An Agreeable Companion Being a Choice Collection of Curious Remarks [T76188]

DMI number:

828

Publication Date:

1742

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T76188

EEBO/ECCO link:

Not on ECCO

Shelfmark:

BL - 12355.aa.22

Full Title:

An AGREEABLE | COMPANION; | BEING | A Choice COLLECTION of | CURIOUS REMARKS: | CONSISTING OF | I. Proverbs, Old Sayings, Customs and Observations in every | Month of the Year, with their Originals and Explications. The | Names of Months whence derived, and how they were called by | our Ancestors, with Monthly Directions, or Rules in Physick, | Husbandry and Gardening. An Historical Account of all the | Saints Days, Holidays, &c. mentioned in the Calendar and | Tables of the Common Prayer-Book, and chiefly noted in all | the common Almanacks: with some other Pieces of History, | good Admonitions, and pleasant Relations. | II. Several Particulars relating to the Year, Week and Days, | giving an Account of their various Beginnings. The Dominical | Letter, Expact and Golden Number. The Names of the Days | of the Week, and why so called. Of Quarter-Days, Holidays | in General, and Days reckoned good by the Ancients. | III. The Ominous [i] Easter, [/i] or an Enquiry into the Importance | of that Cautionary Proverb | [i] When our Lord falls in our Lady's Lap, | England beware of a great Mishap. [/i] | With an Account of Disasters which have happen'd to [i] England [/i] | in such Years past, wherein [i] Easter [/i] have fallen on [i] Lady-Day [/i] | IV. Some Natural Predictions of fair and foul Weather. | [rule] | Necessary to be had by all, especially those who have Alma- | nacks, or make use of the Common Prayer Book | [rule] | [Epigraph] | [i] London [/i] Printed for, and sold by [i] Robert Goodman, [/i] on the up- | per Walk, in the Market Place, [i] Norwich, [/i] 1742. (Price 4 [illegible]) or | [illegible] and 4d. a dozen.

Epigraph:

Twas said of Ola he best does write, | And is most sure to hit the White, | Who mingles Profit with Delight.

Place of Publication:

London and Norwich

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

4 [illegible]

Pagination:

[1]-72 pp.

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Publisher:

Robert Goodman

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Absolute (100%)

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And sold by.

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As the day lengthens

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If one knew how good it were

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This month no physick take nor bleed

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If St Paul be fair and clear

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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright

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Now to bleed be not too free

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On St David's day

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Now if thy purse be full of gilt

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When the cuckow comes to the bare thorn

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If you desire a horse you long to serve

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From the twelfth day of may

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'Look at your corn in May

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A swarm of bees in May

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He that would thrive

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If health you prize let exercise

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Penny and penny

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Man's life is but vain

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When the fern is as high as a spoon

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In summer labour like the painful ant

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If the partridge had but the woodcock thigh

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Fields overspread with ripened corn

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Make sure reapers get harvest in hand

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Good husbandmen must labour in the field

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No sooner is one harvest in

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Let no surfeit in your harbour

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When the sand does feed the clay

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Bare winter now approaches

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The long vacation's at an end

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Those that have time to spare

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Don't you remember

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Still term does last and lawers they

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The third of November the Duke of Vendosin past the water

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Bounce buckram velvet's dear

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Thirty days has September

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On Januarys sixth nine and twenty five

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All the months in the year

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