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to say; the rich will fare rather better than the poor.”
SOMETIMES, however, a creative almanac editor stumbled onto a correct prediction. In 1650, William Lilly drew pictures of a crowded cemetery and a great city on fire to decorate his almanac. Sixteen years later, loyal readers declared Lilly had foreseen the great plague and fire of London.
John Partridge, an English shoemaker who audaciously styled himself Physician to the King, filled his almanac with portentous prophecies. Annoyed by Partridge’s pretensions, the acidulous Jonathan Swift predicted that on March 29, 1708, the shoemaker — astrologer would die of a ‘‘raging fever.”
The frightened Partridge took to his bed two days before that date. Eventually he got up and announced that he was alive, only to find that he had become a laughing stock.
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