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Title: The essays, humor, and poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, of Dedham, Massachusetts, from their almanacks, 1726-1775
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Briggs, Samuel, 1841- Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764 Ames, Nathaniel, 1741-1822
Subjects: Essays, American Wit and humor, American Almanacs
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to forebode news ? To write of victories next year. And castles taken yet i th air?Of battles fought at sea, and ships Sunk two years hence ? the last eclipse ? A total oer throw given the King In Cornwall, horse and foot, next spring ? And has he not point-blank foretold Whatseer the close committee would ? Made Mars and Saturn for the cause. The Moon for fundamental laws ? The Ram, the Bull, the Goat declare Against the Book of Common Prayer ?The Scorpion take the protestation. And Bear engage for reformation ? Made all the royal stars recant, Compound and take the covenant ? Lilly was the author of almanacks entitled Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, and Merlinus Anglicus Junior, and continued their publication from 1644 until his decease, when he was succeeded by his student, Henry Coley, to whom the poem quoted by Dr. Ames was dedicated. ALMANACK FOR 173O. 71 Merlini Jnglici Ephemeris: OR, Aftrologicall Predictions for the Year, 1651. By WILLIA M LILLY, Studenc in j^firole^^Deui dibit his (jueque drum.
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Ixndeny Printed for the Own pftny of Scationcrj, andHMamkn at dx CaHlc in ComhiU, 165 z. ■«4* ^^^^^%^%^W^^^^^^W^^^^^>^^^ Portrait of William Willy. Title page of his Almanack. 1652. 72 ALMANACK FOR 1731. THE ALMANACK FOR 1731 By Nathanael, Ames, Jun. Student in Physick atid Astronomy. BOSTON: Printed by B. Green and Sold at the Booksellers Shops, 1731. From hence you carping Moinus hence be gone,To your deserved center Acheron Keep court with Pluto, in the Stygian Lake, Whose sordid Tongues do black Aspersions make Your lot & portion black Tartaruni yields; You have no right unto th Elysian fields. Whose viperous Tongues abuse the Sons of Art, When knowledge they to th blear-eyed World impart. JANUARY. When the Almighty to Create Essayd Thousands of Worlds were out of Nothing made; When ancient Night its spacious Realms resignd, Then Globes of Light in Fields of Azure shind. Confusion now no more provokes the Fray, And comely Forms in decent Order play. FEBRUARY. Stupendous Atheistica

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