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In Samuel Rowlands' “Looke to it: For, Ile Stabbe ye,” 1604 (Hunterian Club reprint, p. 26) we have

You that an Almanacke still beare about,
To search and finde the rainy weather out.

And in Massinger's “Guardian” (Act I., Sc. I)—

I do not carry
An Almanack in my bones to pre-declare
What weather we shall have.