A Prophecie Lately Transcribed From an Old Manuscript of Doctor Barnaby Googe That Lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, Predicting The Rising, Meridian, and Falling condition of The States of the United Prouinces, Which started up Immediately after the appearance of the new star in Cassiopoeia. In which Prophecie it is predicted, that that State will suddenly be brought to that mean and low condition they were in about an hundred years since. Now Published and Explained |
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 | A Prophecie Lately Transcribed From an Old Manuscript of Doctor Barnaby Googe |  |
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The Prophecie.
When a new Lyght shall shyne whose name none ken,Ne hath beheld the lyke all Christen men;
A Lyon from a Castil shall break loose,
Who shall a Mayden for his Guarden choose:
Shee by her Skyll and Myght shall guard him too
From Foes that eagerly do him pursue.
But this vile Uiper, after myckle tyme,
Shall Foster harm genst them that succour'd hym.
This happens, when within a Solar year
Three Starry Lanthorns in the Sky appear:
And to his help he subtilie shall draw
The Lilly, Fir-tree, and the Eagles Claw.
But the iust Heav'n agenst them. all shall fight,
And thrice shall cause this villanous Lyons flight.
Then will agen this Lyon Couchant lie,
But yet shall ponder Mischief privilie,
Till the Hygh Lyghts of Heaven Aspected are
By Opposition from the Maiden Star:
Then shall the Uirgins Kyn this Lyon make,
For his false plays and Fiend-like Uillanies quake:
Then will he seek for Aid, but all in vain;
He is begirt with Foes by Land and Main:
His privie Wiles Heavens Iustice will disclose,
Which makes his former Friends to be his Foes:
He wooes the Eagle; but the Crescent Moon
With her sharp Aspects quickly calls him home:
He will the Heliotrop eke to his Ayd pray,
But he will onely Feed him with delay:
For, former faults, that Flower of the Sun
Will cause to be espyer of his Doom.
From henceforth Heaven foretels this Lyon shall
Like to his Astral Guarden, backward crawl,
Till Iove five times Chronos oppose, and then
Three Lyons shall confyne him to his Den.
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| A Prophecie Lately Transcribed From an Old Manuscript of Doctor Barnaby Googe | |