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EXPLANATION.

The first line points out the great ſickneſs in London, in 1665, and the ſecond the dreadful fire in the year following.

XI. PROPHECY, 30

The north ſhall rue it wondrous fore,

But the ſouth ſhall rue it evermore.

EXPLANATION

You ſhall have a year of pining hunger, and ſhall not know of the way over night, yet ſhall you have it in the morning; and when it happens, it ſhall laſt three years; and then will come woman with one eye, and ſhe ſhall tread in many a men's blood up to the knees; then ſhall come in clubs and clouted ſhoes.

XII. PROPHECY.

Then may a man take heaſe or bower, land or tower, for one and twenty years; but afterwards ſhall be a white harveſt of corn gotten in by women; then ſhall it be, that one woman ſhall ſay to another, mother, I have ſeen a man to day, for to one man there ſhall be a thouſand women: