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MOTHER SHIPTON’S PROPHECY MOTHER PROPHECY Per A carriage without horse will go This Is a rare Disaster fill the world with woe. In London, Primrose Hill shall be collection of the In centre bold a Bishop's See prophecies of Around the world men’s thoughts will fly . Quick as the twinkling of an eye. Mother Shipton. And water shall great wonders do How strange. And yet i shall come true. Very recently | . [Then upside down the world shall be received from rs | And gold found at the root of tree] reader these Through towering bills proud men shall ride remarkable verses, No horse or ass move by his side. Beneath the water, men shall walk which | have tried Shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk. And in the air men shall be seen to leave intact, both In white and black and even green in the order they For prophecy declares itson were translated, and In water, iron, then shall float in the wording. Gold shall be seen in stream and stone There were several In land that is as yet unknown. MUU you think this strange, but iti true DECOMMNCCMUOMMM Siait ofa Christian then be born. OM MTOR UTMEE A house of glass shall come to pass FTIR A war will follow with the work her works. | have Where dwells the Pagan and the Turk included these extra lines and identified with them by UCU MUL LIME Three times shall lovely sunny France Be led to play a bloody dance with [...] Before the people shall be free Three tyrant rulers shall she see. These states will lock in fiercest strife And seek to take each others life. When North shall thus divide the South And Eagle build in Lion’s mouth Then tax and blood and cruel war Shall come to every humble door. PTON’S Three rulers in succession be Each springs from different dynasty. Then when the fiercest strife is done England and France shall be as one. The British olive shall next ten twine In marriage with a German vine. Men walk beneath and over streams Fullfilled shall be their wondrous dreams. [All England’s sons that plough the land Shall oft be seen with Book in hand The poor shall now great wisdom know Great houses stand in farflung vale All covered o’er with snow and bail] [And now a word, in uncouth rhyme Of what will be in future time] For in those wondrous far off days The women shall adopt a craze To dress like men, and trousers wear And to cut off their locks of hair They’ll ride astride with brazen brow As witches do on broomstick now. And roaring monsters with man atop Does seem to eat the verdant crop And men shall fly as bi rds do now And give away the horse and plough. There’ ll be a sign for all to see Be sure that it will certain be. Then love shall die and marriage cease And nations wane as babes decrease And wives shall fondle cats and dogs And men live much the same as hogs. In nineteen hundred and twenty six Build houses light of straw and sticks For then shall mighty wars be planned And fire and sword shall sweep the land. [When pictures seem alive with movements free When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea, When men like birds shall scour the sky Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die] NEXUS - 13 MAY/JUNE 1991 *- YEAR BOOK