Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke

OCTOBER

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Scorpio

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

The Scorpion

THE SCORPION

’Tis said the Scorpion, when hemmed in by Fire, Mocking the flames, will do herself to death. So Summer dying smiles upon her pyre Of maples fanned to flame by Autumn’s breath.

Lady (Summer) lying down in an autumnal landscape

CUPID’S FORECAST OCTOBER

Slight return of warmer conditions but varying and unreliable. End of the month chilly. The first frost. The leaves of the Time Table begin to turn rapidly. This may be taken as a sign of a change and is followed by a return to a dense, high pressure atmosphere.

A cupid painting the colours on to the autumn leaves