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though he may live long, yet his life will be a burden to him. It is not good to dream on this day for they are commonly hurtful, and such as come to pass a long time after.
Ou the seventeenth day the child that shall be born will be foolish to that degree, that it shall be almost a natural, and thereby become a great affliction to its parents; yet to contract matrimony, compound physical preparations, and take physic is very good; but by no means let blood.
Ou the eighteenth day the child that shall be born, if male, will be violeut, courageous, and eloquent; and if female, chaste, industrious, and beautiful, and shall come to honour in her old age.
On the nineteenth day the child then born, if a male, shall be renowned for wisdom and virtue, and thereby arrive to great honour: but if a female, she will be of a weak and sickly constitution, yet she will live to be married.
On the twentieth day the child that shall be born shall be stubborn, quarrelsome, and a great fighter, yet he shall arrive to riches and a great store of money.
On the one and twentieth day the child that is born will be unhappy, and though he will be witty and ingenious, yet he shall be addicted to stealing. He that is minded to keep his money, ought on this day to abstain from gaming. else he may chance to lose all. Abstain from bleeding this day.
On the twenty-second day the child born shall be fortunate and purchase a good estate; he shall also be of a cheerful countenance, comely, and religious, and shall be well loved.
On the three and twentieth day the child born shall be of an ungovernable temper, and will give himself up to wandering abroad in the world, and seeking his fortune in foreign parts, and in the end
