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The New and well Experienced
FORTUNE BOOK.
YOUNG men and maids, who fain would
know,
Your fortunes good or ill,
In short you need no further go,
Than to this book: which will
Inform you right in every thing,
Ordained for your lot
Whether Fortune will riches brings,
Or whether she will not:
Whether you shall the party have,
The which you fain would wed;
Whether in law you shall out brave,
The man you seem to dread;
Whether you will live to be old,
Or die while you are young;
Whether you shall get store of gold,
When Friends you come among;
Whether you’re born to cross the seas,
Into some foreign land,
Or live at home in queit ease,
With servants at command:
Whate’er is lawful to be known,
To men or woman kind,
Will in this book be plainly ⟨shown⟩,
It you these rules will mind.
