Unto the WORLD Iat this Time MOST MIGHTY WORLD! T HOU canft not imagine with what inexpreffible fatisfaction I have the honor to ferve THEE and Myself year after year; how pleafing it is to any Author to fee THE B fmile upon his productions! I have had the honor of being converfant with THEE a great many years, and (without Flattery) muft freely own that Thou wanteft mending very much : Thou art the honeft man's enemy; but nevertheless a natural temptation, and a defirable calamity: for there is fcarce a man to be found who has known Thee Forty years together (i. e. one year after another to make up that number) but all with one confent do very juftly complain of thy cruelties. I know that for making myself fo free,, I fhall have many carpers and detractors; but the more the better-they will be on thy fide--Pour Robin will still be on his own—I dare fay fomebody will be on my fide too, fo far as Nine Pence will go, to buy Por Robin's poor Almanack, in order to pick something out of it, either to carp, or laugh at, juft as they pleafe: for I know (by the flars) that it will fell (if any body will buy it) becaufe my friends and acquaintance (and of them I have plenty) will buy it for mine, and their own fakes, which laft has a very powerful influence: the pleafant facetious man, will buy it for mirth's fake; the difconfolate man to drive away melancholy; and my honeft countryman for his ufe; as will the gentleman and fcholar for his diverfion; when it has thus ferved them all, and all thefe good purposes are answered before it leaves THEE, O WORLD! it is like enough to be of the moft neceffary fervice at the laft of all, when it fhall go hence and be no more feen; thus having ferved out its appointed time, mufi difappear to make room for its fuçceffor to come in its turn: and thus it is with refpect to the greatest comforts a contemptible World can poffible afford us. How ridiculous then must that man appear, who makes himfelf and others miferable to make himself great, and feeks the contempt of the wife, that he may get the admiration of fools! However, as it is out of the power of Poor Robin to reform Thee, he can only with that this year may produce fome alteration for the better, and then he will be much better pleafed with Thee, than ever he was before, fince his Name was Honelt Poor Robin. land, fince the CONQUEST in 1066. M. erded. Vames of BornĮ When Reign. Since their Reign Buried a 111682, Septem. 9 Caen Nor. 11667, Auguft 2 Wincheft. 4632, Decemb. 1 Reading 111613, Octob. 251 Feverfham. . Anne 16651702, Mar. 812 George 11660 1714, Aug. 112 George 21683 1727, June 11 33 10220, Jan. united Well 0142, March 271 Weunin 10118, Januar.30 Windfor of 82, Februar. 6 Weftmin. 078, Febr. 13 S.Germain 165, March 8WeAmin. 10 73, Decem.28 Weftmin. 553, Auguft Weftmin. 1of 40, June 11 Hanover. 41 7, Oct. 25|Weftmin. George 3|1738|1760, Oct. 25|Whom GOD grant long to reign Go bless our gracious Sov❜reigns, KING and QUEEN; Great-Britain's Safeguards, and OLD ENGLAND's Pride. The generality of BAKERS being fo extremely prone to Honesty that it is out of the Power of Magistracy to make them more fo POOR ROBIN chooses to omit their old-fashioned Table, as he thinks it of but little Ufe: inftead whereof, for the Reader's new fashioned Amufement, gives him the following TABLE, Thewing by Infpection, not only which Days in the Year are of about the fame Length, but the Length of each Day in the Year; as near as he poffibly can. The Use of this Table being as plain as the Nafe on your Face if you have but Eyes, and can count upwards as well as downwards, you may fee, as well as I, that April the 15th, and Auguft the 28th, are nearly the fame Length, viz. XIII Hours go Minutes long; and fo of all the reft. and B Y virtue of an A&t, made in 1951, for Alteration of the Style, the Beginning of the Year was changed from the 25th of Marob to the 1ft of January, which Change took Place on the ift of Jan. 1752. In Confequence of the fame Act of Parliament, the Ufe of the Julian Account, or Old Style, heretofore followed in this Country, ceafed on the fecond of September of the fame Year 1752; and by dropping or leaving out eleven nominal Days, and calling the next, which would have been the third, the fourteenth, the New Style took Place: and from thence, by the faid Act, is directed to be used for all Time to come, in all his Majefty's Dominions fubject to the Crown of Great Britain. By this Alteration, the feveral Fixed or Immoveable Feafts, as they are ordered to be placed in the New Calendar upon the Yame nominal Days of the refpective Months as they were placed upon in the Old, will come 11 Days earlier than they would otherwife have done, and thereby make all Things depending upon them, fuch as the Opening or Inclofing of Common Fields and Paftures, the Holding of Fairs and Marts, the Payments of Rents and Annuities, and the Commencement or ExtinЯtion of many private Rights and Matters of Property, do the fame: To prevent therefore any Inconvenience arifing therefrom, the A&t provides and directs, That the Opening or Inclofing of Paftures, the Payments of Rems, Annuities, and all other Things depending on the Fixed or Inmoveable Feafts, shall not by this means be accelerated or forwarded, but that the Days Opening or Shutting fuch Paftures, of Paying fuch Rents or Annuities, and of doing all fuch other Matters and Things. formerly to be done and performed on the faid Feafts, fhall be Kept, Obferved, and Performed, on the fame natural Days of the Year on which the faid Feafts would have fallen, if this Act had not been made. For this Reafon the 5th of April is called Old Lady-Day, and the roth of Oober Old Michaelmas-Day, and to of the reft, as being the refpective Days on which a fuch Rents and Payments become due, fuch Rights take Place, and fuch Matters and Things to be done, and not before. A that is here faid relates to the feveral Things above-mentioned, depending on Fixed or Immoveable Feafts; but all fuch as depend on Moveable Feafts or on Days depending on them, are to take Place, and be reckoned according to the New Calendar, in purfuance of an A of Parliament of the Year 1752, for amending the former A&t of the Year 1751. N. B. That all Dates of Births, Deaths, or other remarkable Events, in the Regal or Chronological Tables, prior to, or upon, the second of September 1752, are to be understood according to the Julian Account, or Old Style; but after that Time, the annual Returns of them are placed in the Calendar Part of the Almanaeis, according to the New Style, Elgvan nominal Days later. Full Moon the 4th Day at a Quart, paft 4 Morning. Circumcifion. 15 M.01 Por Robin in fome preced ny bO&. Stephen. 16 43 Almanacks begun the New Year 35 with ths old Complaint; CS. aft, Chrift.7 Oa. Innocents. D rifes ૐ Old Chrift. D.5 A 37 a proof that times grow [ing Letter. 23 Obferve, a friend fent me the flow. 7g Ced. B. Lond. 8 aLucian, P. & M.9 b Day inc. 20 m. 10 S. aft. Epiph. II 1d Plough Mon. Morn. 12e Satyrius. Σ Ο 12 better, 31 Dec. 31, 1765. D.ar (good fir) Poor Robin. 43 I have fent you in here 55 Some very good malt, 13 4 5 13f Hilary B. & C.1 21 13 To make fome good beer:" Nor bad bops-and you'll find, 20 It will make you fome liquor 15 Exact to your mind. 59. Charlotte's Birth-day kept. And as its defign'd D fets. A 28 55 For yourself, and a friend, And 'twill answer your end. 22 a Vin. S. D. & M. 8 f Chrifiopher. Days incr. 1 h 3 20 a ind a quarter 4 39b R. Ch. I. Mar.15 beptuag. Sund. 47 And in working take care, 43 |