I'll not thy periwig be called.
I'll never be 'stead of a lover,
An aged chronicle's new cover.
A Young Man, &c. (1647.)
8 1677, &c. have 'incest', which is rather tempting, but considering the 'odd money' which follows, not, I think, absolutely certain.
13 Edward Pond died in 1629; but the almanac, published by him first in 1601, lasted till 1709. Rivers was probably Peregrine Rivers, 'Student in Mathematics', writer of one of the numerous almanacs of the period. There are in the Bodleian copies of his almanacs for 1629, 1630, 1638, all printed at Cambridge. (Information supplied to me from Oxford.)
15 Some copies 'this'.
22 Rather a good line.
27 1651, 1653, &c. 'mayst': 1647, 1677, &c. 'must'.
35 1647 'Monster Shrieves', 1653 'Monster-Sheriffs', which can hardly be right.