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226 To make them to themselves give answers, For which they pay the necromancers; To fetch and carry intelligence Of whom, and what, and where, and whence, And all discoveries disperse Among th' whole pack of conjurers; What cut-purses have left with them, For the right owners to redeem; And what they dare not vent, find out, To gain themselves and th' art repute; Draw figures, schemes, and horoscopes, Of Newgate, Bridewell, brokers' shops, Of thieves ascendant in the cart, And find out all by rules of art: Which way a serving-man, that's run With clothes or money 'way, is gone; Who pick'd a fob at holding-forth, And where a watch, for half the worth, May be redeem'd; or stolen plate Restor'd at conscionable rate. Beside all this, he serv'd his master In quality of poetaster, And rhymes appropriate could make To ev'ry month i' th' almanack;