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Does the US have 'Old Moore's Almanack'? (If it doesn't, it's a book, which claims to have been going for 308 years, full of bogus predictions for the year to come: described thus in one new age website 'With just some of its predictions, including the 2002 terrorist attacks, everyone is agreed that Old Moore is the number one seer, with the most accurate prediction record. Accurate, fascinating and appropriate, Old Moore's Almanack plots the future of the world's ups and downs for the year ahead. It puts the spotlight on UK and world affairs and also highlights gardening by the moon, fishing by the moon, winning periods for jockeys and trainers, lighting-up times and high and low water times. A year full of interests.') What with the Shepheardes Calender updating the Kalender of Shepheardes I reckon New Mooreology might be part of what Spenser was up to. Colin Burrow, Director of Studies in English and Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge CB2 1TA _____ From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kathryn Evans Sent: 25 April 2005 14:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Old Morology A note on numerology: years ago I was telling a class about Kent Hieatt's book on Epithalamion and used the word "numerology" without writing it on the board. On her exam she said, "Spenser believed in a New Morology and he thought this Morology would make his marriage last a long time." I told Kent, who wrote back that "According to Desiderius E. without the Old Morology nobody would get married to begin with." A tenuously-related analogue: my favorite student-homophone story comes from a colleague who was teaching at Yale in the early 90s, and received a Paradise Lost paper that claimed, "After they eat the apple, Adam Eve experience lust for the first time, and have a night of post lapse Aryan bliss." Kasey Evans