An edition of Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701
(1671)
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
by Poor Robin
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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
1671, printed, and are to be sold by M. Fabian at Mercers-Chappel, in Cheapside
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Winstanley is usually credited with authorship of the "Poor Robin" pamphlets, although imitators wrote some of them. Cf. NUC pre-1956
A satire on astrological predictions
Wing (CD-ROM edition) suggests date of publication as 1700
Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) P2892A
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1996. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2357:13).
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