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Anno. 1708.

ELL, 'tis as Bickerstaff has gueft,
Tho we all took it for a Jeft:

Patrige is Dead, nay more, he dy'd.
E'er he could prove the good Squire ly'd.
Strange, an Aftrologer fhould Die,

Without one Wonder in the Sky;

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Not one of all his Crony Stars, st
To pay their Duty at his Hearfe!
No Meteor, no Eclipfe appear'd!,
No Comet with a flaming Beard!
The Sun has rofe, and gone to Bed,
Just as if Patrige were not Dead;
Nor hid himself behind the Moon,
To make a dreadful Night at Noon:
He at fit Periods walks through Aries,
Howe'er our Earthly Motion varies,
And twice a Year he'll cut the Equator,
As if there had been no fach Matter.

SOME Wits have wondred what Analogy There is 'twixt Cobling and Aftrology;

How Patrige made his Opticks rife,
From a Shoe Sole to reach the Skies;

A Lift the Coblers Temples ties, To keep the Hair out of their Eyes;

* Patrige was a Cobler.

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BESIDES, that flow-pad'd Sign Bozotes "I As 'tis mifcall'd, we know not who 'tis; an But Patrige ended all Difputes, en Lawoll He knew his Trade, and call'd it † Boots. 1-A

THE Horned Moon which heretofore Upon their Shoes the Roman's wore,M02 Whole Wideness kept their Toes from Corns, And whence we claim our fhoeing horns, wall Shews how the Art of Cobling bears? :: A near Resemblance to the Spheres.

† See his Almanack.

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THUS Patrige, by his Wit and Parts, brA At once did Practice both thefe Arts : dor 20 And as the Boading Owl, (or rather

The Bat, because her Wings are Leather,
Steals from her Private Cell by Night,
And flies about the Candle-Light

So Learned Patrige could as well

Creep in the Dark from Leathern Cell,

And in his Fancy fly as far,

To peep upon a twinkling Star,

BESIDES, he could confound the Spheres,

And set the Planets by the Ears:

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To shew his Skill, he Mars would join
To Venus in Affect Mali'n,

Then call in Mercury for Aid, els ♬ y
And Cure the Wounds that Venus made.

GREAT Scholars have in Lucian Ready? When Philip King of Greece was Dead,

His Soul and Spirit did divide,

And each Part took a diff'rent Side;

One rose a Star, the other fell

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Beneath, and mended Shoes in Hell. Das DELA

THUS Patrige till shines in each Art,

The Cobling and Star-gazing Part,

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and pity how

TRIUMPHANT Star! Some Pity fhow

On Coblers Militant below,

Whom Roguish Boys in Stormy Nights
Torment, by piffing out their Lights;

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