A copy of a prophecy, sent to the late honourable Algernoon Sydney Esq; in the year 1666. from Montpelliers to B. Furly of Rotterdam, and by him accidentally found among old papers, Febr. 18/28. 1689. Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93258 of text R232296 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3760A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A93258 Wing S3760A ESTC R232296 99897686 99897686 137669 2240926388

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93258) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 137669) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2520:7) A copy of a prophecy, sent to the late honourable Algernoon Sydney Esq; in the year 1666. from Montpelliers to B. Furly of Rotterdam, and by him accidentally found among old papers, Febr. 18/28. 1689. Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed and are to be sold by Richard Janeway in Queens-head-alley in Pater-noster-row, London : 1689. Identified as Wing S3760A, reel 2520, of the UMI microfilm set "Early English books 1641-1700. Cf. Wing S3760A which gives a different title. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Broadsides eebo A copy of a prophecy, sent to the late honourable Algernoon Sydney Esq; in the year 1666. from Montpelliers, to B. Furly of Rotterdam, and by him acci Sidney, Algernon, 1689 1 403 6 0 0 0 0 0 148.88 F The rate of 148.88 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A COPY OF A PROPHECY , Sent by the late Honourable Algernoon Sydney Esq in the Year 1666. from Montpelliers , to B. Furly of Rotterdam , and by him accidentally found among old Papers , Febr. 18/2● . 1689.

THE Lilly 1 1 King of France . shall remain in the best part , and enter into the Land of the Lion 2 2 Holland . wanting all Help , because now the Beasts of his own Kingdom shall with their Teeth tear his Skin , and shall stand among the Thrones of his Kingdom .

From Above the 3 3 King of England . Son of Man , shall Come with a great Army passing the waters , Carrying in his Arms Beasts , whose Kingdom is in the Land of Wooll , to be feared through the World.

The Eagle 4 4 Emperour . shall Come from the East parts , with his Wings spread abo●● the Sun , with a great multitude of people to help the Son of Man .

That year Castles shall be left desolate , and great Fear shall be in the World : and in Certain parts of the Lyon there shall be Warr between many Kings , and there will be a Deluge of Blood.

The Lilly shall lose his Crown , with which the Son of Man shall b● Crowned .

And for four Years following there will be in the World many Battail● amongst the Followers of Faith.

The greatest part of the World shall be destroyed : The Head of the World shall fall to the ground .

The Son of Man and the Eagle shall prevail , and then there shall be Pea●● over all the World : and the Son of Man shall take the Wonderful Sign , an● pass to the Land of Promise .

To Mr. N. C.

SIR , This Prophecy I drew my self out of the Original hand of the Honourable A. Sydney , which B. Furly sound Yesterday among his Letters which he had from him : It is notable , considering the Antiquity : The Interpretation on the side were written by Coll. Sydney's own hand .

Rotterdam , March 1. N. S. 1689. Yours , D. V.

LONDON , Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noster-Row , 1689.

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