The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
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The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift has a contents list of Predictions For The Year 1708, An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack-Maker, An Epitaph on Partridge, and Partridge's reply. The Predictions For The Year 1708 are written by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack-makers.
The text says that the almanack-maker has the liberty of chusing the sickliest season of the year where he may fix his prediction. One speaker says that, what with undertakers, imbalmers, joiners, sextons and elegy hawkers, he got not one wink of sleep that night. A speaker says he is sorry that a certain prelate, who notwithstanding his confinement still preserves his healthy, chearful countenance, cannot come in time to be a nurse at court.
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- Jonathan Swift
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