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

  • Shipton, Mother (Ursula), approximately 1488-1561.
Date:
[1700?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    b1 b came entailed on her bv inheritance* but the common ftory, which therefore/1 fhall fellow, yet without forcing the reader to believe whether he will or no) is, that the never had any father of hu¬ man race, orjn ral weight, but was begot as the great Welfh prophet, Merita, was of old'by the phantafm of Apollo, or . feme wanton aerial Damon, in manner : following: Her mother, whom feme re¬ cords call Agatha, and other Emnatha, being left an orphan about the age of f 6, verv poor, and much troubled with that • grievous, but common difeafe, called by., feme idlcneis, and by others floth. Asp fee was once upon a time fitting be moan- .] ing herlelf, on a fhady bank, bv the high ; way fi e, a fpirit appeared to her in the fbape of a handfome young fean; and fmhing on her, 'Pretty maul, quoth he, j why doji thou fit jo fan ? fhou at t not old enough to have thy head fettered ■[ with the cans of the'world* :FHthee \ tell me thy bufzrefs+ and dmbt: not b&i 1 will help thee oat oj all thy trunk lrs.