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death_n	better_a	life_n	live_v	5,110	5	5.5526	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75318	An ancient and true prophesie of all those transactions that have already happened: also what is to come: of the event of the great actions in being: what government we are to expect. In which is contained, excellent cautions to the sonnes of men. Written in verse, in the latter end of the raign of Queen Elizabeth, and found in Sir Robert Cotton's library.		1659 (1659)	Wing A3067; Thomason E993_23; ESTC R207786	4,312	8

An ancient and true PROPHESIE Of all those TRANSACTIONS that have already happened Also what is to come Of the Event of the great Actions in being What Government we are to expect In which is contained excellent Cautions to the Sonnes of Men. Written in Verse in the latter end of the Raign of Queen ELIZABETH and found in Sir ROBERT COTTON'S LIBRARY LONDON Printed for R. Page living in Barbican in Three Pigeon-Court MDCLIX An Ancient Prophesie NOw I will shew you by what Pedigree That Government to you deriv'd shall be Which will at last these British Islands blesse With inward Peace and outward happinesse It was of late a brief Presage of his Who oft hath truth foretold And it is this When here a Scot shall think his Throne to set Above the Circle of a Brittish King He shall a datelesse Parliament beget From whence a dreadful Armed brood shall spring That off spring shall beget a wild confusion Confusion shall an Anarchy beget That Anarchy shall bring forth in conclusion A Creature which you have no name for yet That Creature shall conceive a sickly State Which will an Aristocracie produce The many headed Beast not liking that To raise Democracy shall rather chuse And then Democracie's production shall A Moon calfe be which some a Mole do call A false Conception of imperfect nature And of a shapelesse and a brutish feature All these Descents shall Live and Raign together So acting for a while that few shall know Which of them gets the Sov'raignty or whether There be among them a Supreme or no. When they with jarrs and janglings have defac'd Your triple-building and themselves nigh worne Into contempt they of one cup shall tast And into their first elements return Fire of them shall subdue the other five And then those five shall by a doubtful strife Each others death so happily contrive That they shall die to live a better life And out of their corruption rise there shall A true Supreme acknowledged by all In which the pow'r of all the five shall be With Unity made visible in three Prince People Parliament with Priests and Peers Shall be a while your emulous Grandees Make a confused Pentarchy some years And leave off their distinct claimes by degrees And then shall Righteousnesse ascend the Throne Then love and truth and peace re enter shall Then faith and reason shall agree in one And all the Vertues to their counsel call Then timely out of all these shall arise That Kingdom and that happy Government Which is the scope of all those Prophecies That future Truths obscurely represent But how this will be done few men shall see For wrought in Clouds and Darknesse it will be And ere it comes to passe in publike view Most of these following signes will first ensue A King shall willingly himself unking And thereby grow far greater then before The Priests their Priesthood to contempt shall bring And Piety shall thereby thrive the more A Parliament it self shall overthrow And thereby shall a better being gain The Peers by setting of themselves below A more innobling honour shall obtain The People for a time shall be inslav'd And that shall make them for the future free By private losse the publike shall be sav'd An Army shall by yeelding Victor be The Citie 's wealth Her poverty shall Cause The Law 's corruption shall reforme the Laws And Bullocks of the largest Northren breed Shall fatted be where now scarce sheep can feed You may perhaps deride what 's here recited As heretofore you other Truths have sleighted But part of this Presage you have beheld Already in obscurity fulfill'd The rest shall in the time appointed come And sooner than will pleasing be to some The last nine signes or symptoms of the ten Which must precede it shall appear to men Of all conditions But our Authour saith The first is but in Hope not yet in Faith And may be or not be for so or so That King shall have his lot as he shall do If all his sins he heartily repent God will remit ev'n all his punishment And him unto his Kingdomes back restore With greater honour than he had before If he remain impenitent like Saul God from the Throne shall cast both him and all His whole Descent and leave him not a man To fill it though he had a Jonathan If Ahab like his mourning hath respects To temporary losses and effects Like Ahab's then it therewithall shall carry Some benefit which is but temporary A real penitence though somewhat late The rigour of his doom may much abate By leaving him a part of what he had When he a forfeiture of all hath made Or else by rooting out those who in sin With him have actually partakers been And planting in their steads a Branch of his Whose Innocency no way question'd is For this hath oft with good successe been done In Ages past not in this Isle alone But in most other Kingdoms And if you Will in GOD's Chronicles but take a view Of his proceedings you in them will see For what it is that Princes changed be Why some lose but a part why some lose all Why for a time why some for ever fall Why some shall but for three descents remain And how they might have had a longer raign When War when Pestilence when Death will come Upon a Land when GOD will take it from That land again and how they may foreknow When he will bring a total overthrow They who have learn'd to contemplate aright Those old records may gain a true foresight Of many things whereby to regulate Enormities both in the Church and State Things to themselves pertaining to their Friends Their Foes their Policies their Fates their Ends And if it were not so what are to you The stories of the Kingdomes of the Jew Or of their Friends and Foes more usual than Those which concern the Realms of Powhatan Or so available as those relations Which memorize the deeds of your own Nations But all this is but words there must be deeds Ere to perfection any thing proceeds You must not everlastingly be stating The Question or be seven years more debating For ere that time things will too late be done Which many fear will come to passe too soon Expect you some third persons should between The King and you at this time intervene To make attonement Pray who should they be Who wisheth you so well who doth not see That all 'twixt whom and you there be relations Them qualifying for such mediations May get more by your wo then by your weale Who knows not how with Friends most Friends now deal And who perceives not that those Mediators Have interests and many weighty matters Pertaining to themselves which they 'l begin On such a fair occasion to hedge in And whereby peradventure they may bring Great disadvantages upon the King Or on the Kingdomes and perhaps on both Which to indanger wise-men would be