2 PROPHETIC ALMANACK. 



FEBRUARY. 



Lo ! February comes, and with him fast, 

 Cupid and Hymen, link'd together, haste ; 

 This -with dim torch, and that with bow unstrung, 

 To link with young the old, and old with young. 



FEB. 1. Barori Chasse will be blown up at the Hague instead 

 of at Antwerp. Sharp weather ahout this time. The ex-mem- 

 bers and the frozen out gardeners will coalesce and carry at 

 their head a Right Honourable Long Pole. 



14. Ualenttne'S 33ag. The two-penny postmen will have a 

 public dinner on this day no unions of cupids, courting, and 

 doggrel. The Political Parson, Malthus, having forbade the 

 banns. Mr. M. publishes another edition of " The Preventive 

 Check/' and marries Miss Martineau. 



MARCH. 



March, like a lion, hurries o'er the plain, 

 As four fleet racers harness'd to a wain ; 

 Such quiet, stormy, angry, placid weather, 

 A snail and flash of lightning join'd together. 



MARCH 1. Duke of York's column completed. The creditors will 

 be adjudged to pay the costs, it being proved, on reference to 

 their books, that the Duke had raised three columns to their one. 



5, The puddles all frozen over. Very severe weather now 

 about. Frosty-faced Fogo carried away in a snow storm. 

 Bell's Life in London advertise for" a new Poet. Editor 

 smothered in the rush. 



APRIL. 



Ev'n as a romping miss from boarding school, 

 Comes April, sacred to the witless fool ; 

 The witless fool her magic pow'r concedes ; 

 Thus Folly plays, while Wisdom counts her beads. 



APRIL l.-^Ul .dpool'S ^ag- Mr. Robert Montgomery will publish 

 private conversation with Beelzebub, in twelve books, black 

 letter. The Archbishop of Canterbury will hold a convocation 

 of the clergy. North Pole passage discovered. Meeting of 

 Political Economists. Sundry boys licked for trying to purchase 

 pigeons' milk. 



5. (Soot jFritiag. Hot cross bunn Day. Bakers toast the Mas- 

 ter of the Rolls. About this time, likewise, Sinecurists will 

 smile and finger their salaries some will complain of the 

 fatigues of office ; others will contrive to do nothing with their 

 usual dispatch. 



26. (reat ^laguf of Honfcon, 1665. Tradesmen will be seen 

 pondering over their back accounts. Genteel young men in 

 frock coats may be observed studiously avoiding individuals 

 with crab-sticks and top-boots they will be recognized as vic- 

 tims to a most fearful epidemic the " TICK doloreux." 



MAY. 



May, freed at length, has left her orient track, 

 And leaps into a chimney-sweeper's sack ; 

 With brush and shovel plies the pliant foot, 

 All filth and flowers serenity and soot. 

 MAY 1. fftag Bag. Another Convocation of the Clergy Dutchess 



