Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	henry_n	king_n	20,960	5	3.9932	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95483	Two strange prophesies, predicting wonderfull events, to betide this yeere of danger, in this clymate, whereof some have already come to passe. Well worthy of note: the one being found in the reigne of King Edward the fourth: the other in the reigne of King Henry the eighth: named Mother Shipton.	Shipton, Mother (Ursula)	1642 (1642)	Wing T3537; Thomason E141_2; ESTC R16375	4,735	9

Two strange PROPHESIES Predicting wonderfull events to betide ●…ere of Danger in this Clymate ●…ereof some have already come to passe Well worthy of note The one being found in the Reigne of King Edward the Fourth The other in the Reigne of King Henry the Eighth named Mother Shipton London Printed for G. Smith 1642. The first Prophesie IF Eighty eight be past then thrive Thou mayst till thirty foure or five After the E is dead a Scot Shall governe there and if a plot prevent him not sure then his sway Continue shall till many a day The ninth shall dye young and the first perhaps shall reigne but oh accurst Shall be the time when thou shalt see To sixteene joyned twenty three For then the Eagle should have helpe By Craft to catch the Lyons whelpe and hurt him sore except the same Be cured by the Maidens name In Iuly moneth of the same yeere Saturne conjoynes with Iupiter perhaps false prophets shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prize And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Beleeve this truly if then you see A Spanyard a Protestant to be The lines I confesse impartially are very mysterious and withall they are involved in a stupendious obscurity They seeme as aenigmaticall as Sphynk his hidden Riddle yet I doubt not but that your judicious minds will prove as auspitious unto this as Oedipus did to his You may enucleate the genuine sence and signification of the words if you doe but seriously revolve them When the formidable Armado was dissipated in 88. this Kingdome did flourish a long time in peace and prosperous tranquillity unto one thousand six hundred and thirty foure or five After Queene Elizabeth died King James came out of Scotland and inherited the Imperiall Crowne after her A plot all men know was most nefariously ●atched in his Reigne to wit the Gunpowder treason which not preventing him he swaied the Scepter very peacefully in a great succession of future time Prince Henry the 9. of that name died young and King Charles the first of that name reigned next in Majesty whom God long preserve and protect from the wicked Plots of his enemies The beginning of these perilous times began in 1639. The next foure verses I will leave to the exposition of the Reader hereof The Philosophers have given their unite astipulation and withall the Astrologians have affirmed in their solid assertions that when Saturne hath any conjunction with Jupiter great wars and bloudy times shall ensue and I am sure their opinions have not prooved fallible in this respect Many false Prophets are now risen amongst us and do prophecy false things to the people who dare presume to preach in Tubs to their schismaticall Auditors whom they delude and suggest vaine imaginations unto them that they are sent from heaven and have the spirit of God when they have nothing but the spirit of error and falshood Mahomet hath shewen indeed his prize sufficiently amongst us for too many I suppose in our times rather Mahometans then true Christians The alteration of Religion hath beene very great and tossed too and fro by the various winde of every ones opinion The last two verses I refer to the judgement of the Reader for I will nominate no man particularly This prophecy is stupendious and as it includes a mystery so it includes verity withall as by the former it is involved in obscurity so by the later it is illuminated in apparent Truth The demonstration of prophetick divinations predictates the future estate of a Kingdome and whatsoever hath bin expressed in this lately mentioned is already fulfilled in exemplary relations But the distracted opinions of most men are still so promiscuous that wee want Prophets enough to exclaime against them for some they will not heare others they neglect others they in a despicable detestation doe contemne But God of his infinite mercy grant that we may hereafter all make true use of the sincere prophecy of him and his holy Gospell that these various mists of errors may be expelled these roaring waves of Schisme may be calmed and the distemper● of the whole Realme cured perfectly The second Prophesie of Mother Shipton WHen shee heard King Henry the eighth should bee King and Cardinall Wolsey should be at Yorke she said that Cardinall Wolsey should never come to Yorke with the King and the Cardinall hearing being angry sent the Duke of Suffolke the Lord Piercy and the Lord Darcy to her who came with their men disguised to the Kings house neere Yorke where leaving their men they went to Master Besley to Yorke and desired him to goe with them to mother Shiptons house where when they came they knocked at the doore shee said Come in Master Besley and those honourable Lords with you and Master Besley would have put in the Lords before him but shee said come in Master Besley you know the way but they doe not This they thought strange that she should know them and never saw them then they went into the house where there was a great fire and she bade them welcome calling them all by their names and sent for some Cakes and Ale and they drunke and were very merry Mother Shipton said the Duke if you knew what we come about you would not make us so welcome and shee said the Messenger should nobe●● hang'd Mother Shipton said the Duke you said the Cardinall should never see Yorke Yea said shee I said hee might see Yorke but never come at it But said the Duke when he comes to Yorke thou shalt be burned Wee shall see that said shee and plucking her Handkerchieffe off her head shee threw it into the fire and it would not burne then shee tooke her staffe and turned it into the fire and it would not burn then she took it and put it on againe Now said the Duke what meane you by this if this had burn'd said shee I might have burned Mother Shipton quoth the Duke what think you of me my Love said shee the time will come you will be as low as I am and that 's a low one indeed My Lord Percy said what say you of me My Lord said she shooe your Horse in the quicke you shall doe well but your body will be buried in Yorke pavement and your head shall be stolne from the Barre and carried into France Then said the Lord Darcy and what thinke you of me Shee said you have made a great Gun shoot it off for it will doe you no good you are going to warre you will pain many a man but you will kill none so they went away Not long after the Cardinall came to Cawood and going to the top of the Tower hee asked where Yorke was and how farre it was thither and said that one had said hee should never see Yorke Nay said one she said you might see Yorke but never come at it He vowed to burne her when hee came to Yorke Then they shewed him Yorke and