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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<P>THE PROPHECIE OF A White KING of BRITTAINE. TAKEN Out of the Library of Sir <HI>Robert Cot|ton,</HI> that mo&s;t famous Antiquary of <HI>England,</HI> in the Saxon Character.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>G. Lin&s;ey,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop again&s;t <HI>London-Stone.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>THE VVhite KINGS PROPHECIE.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen &s;o Lyon of Rightful|ne&s;&s;e is dead, there &s;hall ri&s;e a white King in <HI>Brittaine,</HI> fir&s;t Flying, and after Ri|ding, after Ligging down; and in this ligge down he &s;hal be lymed, after that he &s;hall be led. And there &s;hall be &s;hewed whether there be an o|ther King: Then &s;hall be gadred togi|der much folke, and he &s;hall take helpe for him: And then there &s;hall be Mer|chandice of men, (as of an Hor&s;e, or an
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Oxe: And there &s;hall be &s;ought helpe, and there &s;hall none ari&s;e, but bed for head: And then &s;hall one gone, there the Sunne ari&s;eth, another there the Sunne gone downe: After this, it &s;hal be &s;aid by <HI>Brittaine</HI> (King is King) King is no King. After this he &s;hall rai&s;e up his head, (and he &s;hall be taken him to be a king, be many things to done, But wi&s;e men Reading, And then &s;hall a range of Gleeds, and that ever each hath beraveing) he &s;hall have it for his owne, And this &s;hall la&s;t &s;even yeeres, Loe raveing and &s;hedding of blood: And Ovens &s;hall be made like kyrkes, And that as one &s;owes another &s;hall reape, and death &s;hall be better then wretched life, and Charity &s;hall be of few men; After then &s;hall come through the South with the Sunne, on Hor&s;e of tree, and upon all waves on the Sea, the Chicken of the Eagle &s;ail|ing into <HI>Brittaine,</HI> and arriving anon, to the hou&s;e of the Eagle, he &s;hall &s;hew
<PB N="3" REF="3"> fellow&s;hip to them bea&s;ts. After a yeere and a halfe &s;hall be warre in <HI>Brit|taine,</HI> then &s;hall a &s;ooth be naught worth, and every man &s;hall keepe his thing, and gotten other mens good; after the white king feeble &s;hall goe towards the We&s;t, betlipped about with his folke, to the old place been running water, then his enemies &s;hall meet him, and march in her place &s;hall be ordained about him in Hoa&s;t, on the manner of a &s;hield &s;hall be formed, then &s;hall they fighten on Oven front, After the white king &s;hall fall into a kirke|yard over a Hall. After the Chicken of the Eagle &s;hall ne&s;tle in the highe&s;t Rooch of all <HI>Brittaine,</HI> nay he &s;hall naught be &s;laine young: nay he naught come old, for then the Gentile worthi|nes &s;hall naught &s;uffer wrong be done to him, But when the Reame is in peace then &s;hall he die, and two yeeres after &s;hall come a new Rule from Hea|ven and &s;etle holy kirke as hit &s;hall
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<PB N="4" REF="5"> ever more &s;tand, and bring three Coun|tries into one, <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> unto the day of doome and the holy Cro&s;&s;e be brought into Chri&s;tian mens hands, and there &s;hall be made a Temple that never was made, &s;uch none.</P>
<P><HI>The Originall hereof was found by the Lady <HI>Po&s;ton</HI> of the County of Norfolke, among&s;t the evidences of <HI>Edw.</HI> the fourth his time.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>IN Tempore</HI> EDW. 4^t^h. The Latine of this en&s;uing Engli&s;h is to be &s;eene in Sir <HI>Robert Cottons</HI> Library, that famous Antiquary of <HI>England,</HI> in the Saxon Chara|cter, the &s;tyle of the Latine and this Engli&s;h fitly &s;uiting that ancient tone.</P>
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