Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his ‘father and mother died, within a quarter of an hour one of another. Same memoirs, I have feen an old Romifh MSS. prayer- beok, (and fhewed the fame to that general fcholar, and great aftrologer, Elias Afhmole, Efq;) at the beginning whereof was a Ca- lendar wherein were inferted the unlucky days of each month, fet out in verfe. J will re- cite them juft as they are, fometimes infring- ing the rule of grammar, fometimes of Pro- fodia; a matter of which the old monkifh rhy- mers were no way fcrupulous. It was as an- cient as Henry the fixth, or Edward the fourth’s time. January. Prima dies menfis, F feptima trun- cat ut enfis. February. Quarta fubit mortem, profternit ter- tia fortem. : March. Primus mandentem, di ‘aja quarta bibentem. April. Denus &F undenus eft mortis vulnere plenus. May. Tertius occidit, S feptimus ora rea | lidit.* *Ex re & ledo.
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