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YOUNG men and maids, who fain would know, Your fortunes good or ill, In short you need no further go, Than to this book: which will Inform you right in every thing, Ordained for your lot Whether Fortune will riches brings, Or whether she will not: Whether you shall the party have, The which you fain would wed; Whether in law you shall out brave, The man you seem to dread; Whether you will live to be old, Or die while you are young; Whether you shall get store of gold, When Friends you come among; Whether you’re born to cross the seas, Into some foreign land, Or live at home in queitquiet [sic] ease, With servants at command: Whate’er is lawful to be known, To men or woman kind, Will in this book be plainly , It you these rules will mind.