The strange and wonderful prophecies of Mother Shipton: plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial / [Anon].

  • Mother Shipton
Date:
[1700?]
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Credit: The strange and wonderful prophecies of Mother Shipton: plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f failing up the Thames, till it come again ft London, and the mailer of the (hip iliaii weep i and the mariners of the (hip in all afk him why he weeps, fmce he made f> good a voyage ? And he fhall fay. Ah l wbat a goodly city this was once, none in the world was comparable to it, and now there is fcarce an boufe that can let us drink for our money. EXPLANATION. Thefe la ft words were fadly verified after the dreadful fire of London, in 1666, when there was not an houfe left all along the Thames’s fide, from the tower to the tem¬ ple : As for the words before, they being darkly deliver’d are not like to be under- flood, till time that both ddccvers and ab- fconds all things, fhall bring the matters figiiified to light. CHAP. VII! Her p.0 in ver^ Beverley. TH E Abbot .of B ew- rley giving her a vifit one day. tohl i Vr, t hat as he f oin^Joveral ih-ng- wfvcb ft$£ had f'rrre ly faid to be exactly true, lo lie wits pciU,aued
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