Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke

JUNE

Reading edition

Cancer

Illustration from Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke Including an Almanack for Any Two Years (True Love Ought to Last That Long)

The Crab

THE CRAB

Since it is written “Crabbed Age and Youth Cannot together live,” now strange to tell, The crusty Crab for love of June’s sweet tooth Lays down his life and doffs his armored shell.

A bride admiring herself in a hand-mirror

CUPID’S FORECAST JUNE

Depression in heart areas, relieved by brief storms which clear the air. A wave of tenderness over all the heart regions, followed by a general warm feeling and the glad ringing of church bells. If you are going to cultivate Matrimony this year, now is the time to begin. Flowery sentiments abound. Increasing warmth produces an atmosphere charged with restlessness in the thickly peopled heart centres. Unsettled weather and clouds, melting away in epistolary showers.