Old Poor Robin. An almanack, composed for all capacities, being as far as the Author's Capacity would reach (and remember where his Witsails his Will is good). Being A new Edition of a very old Ephemeris for the year of our Lord 1781. Wherein If the Reader finds any Alteration in the Stile or Manner of conducting; let him remember Tempera mutantur, et nos cum iis mutamur. The Mode of Writing (like the Seasons our Subject) is continually varying. My ever-memorable and ingenious Ancestor, the lame Knight, having laid his Legs at Ease; Arithmetick having numbered his Days; Geometry measured out his Grave; his Body being at Rest; and his Soul having soared beyond those Stars whose Courses he formerly contemplated. If his legitimate Descendant and Successor to his Title and Honours attains not to his Excellencies, He will however endeavour by all Means possible to give Mirth to the Jocund, Comfort to the Afflicted; Tales of Pity to the Tender-Hearted. Astronomy to the Wise, and Astrology to those who are otherwise. Written by Poor Robin, Knight of the ... and a Well-Wisher to the Mathematicks. Being the One Hundred and Nineteenth Edition, the first Year after Bissextile or Leap Year, and the Twenty-Ninth Year of the New Stile in England.

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[1781]