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<P>THE PROPHECY OF HVMPHREY TINDAL Vicar of VVellenger, SHEWING THE DOWNFALL of the Clergy, and the woefull and mi&s;erable condition of this Kingdome.</P>
<P>With &s;ome other remarkeable pa&s;&s;ages.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>I.M.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PROPHECY OF HUMPHREY TINDAL Vicar of <HI>Wellenger.</HI></HEAD>
<L>_THE time will come as true as the Creede,</L>
<L>Of Prie&s;ts and Clerkes we &s;hall have no need,</L>
<L>Churches &s;hall fall, it &s;hall be no wonder,</L>
<L>For the Clergy and Laity &s;hall be a&s;under,</L>
<L>And praying for Founders &s;hall pa&s;&s;e away,</L>
<L>And holy Writs &s;hall &s;hew us what to &s;ay,</L>
<L>The Churches where Images were wonten to be &s;et,</L>
<L>With lively Letters they &s;hall be writ,</L>
<L>To many mens hearts as heavy as lead,</L>
<L>Both young and old may them read,</L>
<L>But God of his Preheminence, and of his high Throne,</L>
<L>All honor &s;hall be to him alone;</L>
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<L> Foxes &s;hall fall, and rights &s;hall appeare,</L>
<L>And thus it &s;hall continue from yeare, to yeare,</L>
<L>But at the la&s;t, a wonder to tell,</L>
<L>There &s;hall be &s;tirr'd &s;trife, with many a battle,</L>
<L>For a double danger &s;hall be the cau&s;e,</L>
<L>For often changing, and breaking of Lawes,</L>
<L>The other if you reade arights,</L>
<L>The lo&s;&s;e of Lords, Kings, and Knights;</L>
<L>For woe worth the time, and woe worth the &s;orrow,</L>
<L>Mi&s;chiefe dates end, it &s;hall be no borrow;</L>
<L>A Maiden in tower &s;hall have in hand,</L>
<L>To rule, and governe this her I&s;land;</L>
<L>Her Lords by righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e rule &s;hall &s;he,</L>
<L>At length of her great Realme di&s;charged &s;hee &s;hall be,</L>
<L>For Barons, and Lords a promi&s;e &s;hall make,</L>
<L>Of Gods Holy Word a part to take,</L>
<L>But Prelates in pride their lu&s;t to fulfill,</L>
<L>Shall cau&s;e thereby, much mi&s;cheife, and ill,</L>
<L>Which may &s;ley both Prie&s;t, and Clarke,</L>
<L>They never heard &s;uch a peece of warke,</L>
<L>For happy &s;hall be be then, which is too trew,</L>
<L>That bids <HI>England</HI> farewell, and adue,</L>
<L>For &s;orrowes &s;hal come, both to high, and low,</L>
<L>How one &s;hall tru&s;t another none &s;hall know,</L>
<L>For then Ladies with &s;orrowes &s;hall &s;ing,</L>
<L>Widdowes and Maids their hands &s;hall wring,</L>
<L>Children at their paps, &s;hall die in the &s;treete,</L>
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<L> All kind of creatures &s;hall mourne or weepe,</L>
<L>Woe and alas then may be &s;aid,</L>
<L>All kinde of pa&s;times downe &s;hall be laid,</L>
<L>Then Ca&s;tles, and Townes, and plea&s;ant buildings,</L>
<L>Shall be de&s;troyed, and come to their endings,</L>
<L>For who &s;o be in bed over night,</L>
<L>Next morning &s;hall be pre&s;t to fight,</L>
<L>Then great &s;orrow, hunger, and paine,</L>
<L>To eate dead folkes, they &s;hall be faine,</L>
<L>Woe worth the &s;inne that this cau&s;e &s;hall be</L>
<L>To cau&s;e God thus to &s;hew his cruelty,</L>
<L>But a voyce &s;hall come both night and day,</L>
<L>Crying to Heaven to call you away;</L>
<L>But &s;orrow, and paine for our offences,</L>
<L>With battle, famine, and pe&s;tilences,</L>
<L>As a di&s;&s;olv'd Land brought &s;hall it be,</L>
<L>Who knowes more none but hee,</L>
<L>Then a peace there &s;hall be pretended,</L>
<L>That peace may be di&s;&s;embled,</L>
<L>That peace may be removed,</L>
<L>That peace will folly be proved,</L>
<L>But now greater &s;ights will appeare,</L>
<L>great <HI>Mars</HI> omnipotent</L>
<L>will be very diligent,</L>
<L>His bloody brands of &s;teele to whet upon their &s;ide,</L>
<L>that we &s;hall them deride.</L>
<L>This <HI>Mars</HI> with cruell fauction with Nation utter ruine,</L>
<L>that all <HI>England</HI> &s;cituation, &s;hall be with op|pre&s;&s;ion,</L>
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<L>and &s;till reade on their pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
<L><HI>Flaunders</HI> &s;hall ri&s;e with <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>with Speare, Sheild, Bill and Lance,</L>
<L>to fight a double dance,</L>
<L>con|federed with alliance,</L>
<L>to offer the defiance,</L>
<L><HI>Spaine</HI> &s;hall imploy the <HI>Britaines</HI> to annoy,</L>
<L>the <HI>Scots</HI> us to de&s;troy,</L>
<L>the <HI>Welchmen</HI> to annoy,</L>
<L>the Dane to pluck and pull,</L>
<L>And all this re&s;urrection,</L>
<L>&s;hall put to their full &s;ection,</L>
<L>to bring thee to de&s;truction,</L>
<L><HI>England</HI> take this admonition,</L>
<L>Be wi&s;e and change thy condition,</L>
<L>Doubt not but thinke it &s;ure</L>
<L>This &s;torme thou &s;halt indure,</L>
<L>With heart confe&s;&s;e thee,</L>
<L>And to Heaven adre&s;&s;e thee</L>
<L>For <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> name &s;hall cleere away</L>
<L>Out of this Land for ever and aye,</L>
<L>When <HI>Rome</HI> is removed into <HI>England,</HI></L>
<L>And every Prie&s;t the Popes power &s;hall have in hand,</L>
<L>Betwixt &s;ix, and three (as I under&s;tand)</L>
<L>The Battle &s;hall be in <HI>Britaine</HI> Land.</L>
<L>When pride is mo&s;t pre&s;t, and lechery mo&s;t rife, and Knights and knaves clad both in one clothing the Church awle&s;&s;e, and the Land lawle&s;&s;e, by the yeere of Chri&s;t to come and gon,</L>
<L>In the Land of <HI>Albion</HI> &s;hall be much confu&s;ion.</L>
<L>Courtiers &s;hall be taxed, and great buffets have
<PB N="7" REF="4">with flattering and fearing their Prince they plea&s;e, and again&s;t the Law they &s;hall rove, and cau&s;e the Commons to be at great di&s;cord.</L>
<L>A dreadfull Dragon with a red ro&s;e of great fame,</L>
<L>A ba&s;tard in wedlocke borne &s;hall bee</L>
<L>The Crowne to obtaine, &s;hall challenge by name,</L>
<L><HI>Tunc veniet puer vbi nomen ille.</HI></L>
<L>The &s;horte&s;t and longe&s;t night, that &s;hall be found in all the whole yeare,</L>
<L>There &s;hall be challenging to fight, great defeace to &s;ee and heare;</L>
<L><HI>Pentico&s;t</HI> night &s;hall be clothed in white in token of lightning,</L>
<L>For to be at <HI>Candlemas</HI> when torches be light, a new morning for to be,</L>
<L>Afterward carried out of the <HI>North,</HI> and for to meete at <HI>Raven&s;purgh,</HI></L>
<L><HI>S.</HI> and <HI>P.</HI> &s;hall &s;tand in <HI>Co&s;field</HI> haven till &s;uch time as the keeper of the Crowne</L>
<L>Shall die upon his brothers &s;word point, then &s;hall all be turn'd up&s;ide downe;</L>
<L>Then a Lyon come out of the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> in harne&s;&s;e to &s;tir them for to cea&s;e,</L>
<L>But there &s;hall be no manner of re&s;t, untill twenty hundred &s;teeds run ma&s;terle&s;&s;e away,</L>
<L>A wet Summer before this &s;hall be;</L>
<L>Thus gue&s;&s;ed <HI>Humphry Tindale</HI> Vicar of <HI>Wellenger</HI> of his prophe&s;y.</L>
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