Erra Paters prophesy or Frost Faire 1684/3 This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03130 of text R26130 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3245). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B03130 9362705 Wing E3245 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[158] ESTC R26130 99889357 ocm99889357 181483 2248545350

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03130) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181483) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[159]) Erra Paters prophesy or Frost Faire 1684/3 Erra Pater. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill., port. Printed for Iames Norris at the Kings armes without Temple Barr, [London] : [l683] Verse: "Old Erra Pater, or his rambling ghost,". Place of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996. Wholly engraved. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Prophecies -- Early works to 1800. Winter -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Erra Paters prophesy or Frost Faire 1684/3 Erra Pater. 1683 1 172 2 0 0 0 0 0 116.28 F The rate of 116.28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Erra Paters Prophesy or Frost Faire 1683
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Old Erra Pater , or his rambling Ghost , Prognosticating of this long strong frost , Some Ages past , Said , y y Ice-bound Thames Shou'd prove a Theatre for Sports and Games Her Watr'y Green be turn'd into a Bare , For Men a Citty seem , for Booths a Faire ; And now this Stragling Sprite is once more come To Visit Mortalls and foretel their doom : When Maids grow modest the Dissenting Crew Become all Loyal , the Falsehearted true , Then you may probably , and not til then Expect in England such a Frost ● agen .

Printed for Iames Norris at the Kings armes wth : out Temple Barr