A strange and wonderful prophecy: for the year, 1688 This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93991 of text R232819 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S5873). 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. 2 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 A93991 Wing S5873 ESTC R232819 99900238 99900238 137697 2240861896

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93991) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 137697) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2556:19) A strange and wonderful prophecy: for the year, 1688 1 sheet ([1] p.) sold by Hugh Burnet in Shoe lane, [London] : [1688] Verse - "In eighty eight, this present year,". At foot of page: Finis. Place and date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Prophecies -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides eebo A strange and wonderful prophecy: for the year, 1688. [no entry] 1688 1 235 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL PROPHECY : For the Year , 1688. IN Eighty Eight , this present Year , Great Wonders in England will Appear : Four Crowned Kings will ( in one place ) Fight , and put others to the Chase . Yet e're the Year be done ( we trust ) Their Pride will be laid in the Dust . Men turn'd to other Shapes will be , Yet no strange Object will we see . Fair hansome English Maids will fall , And never more rise up at all . The Briskest London-blades will be , Plagu'd with a Word of Letters three . Bones of the Dead , in every Town , Will be ( like Mad ) thrown up and down . And e're these troubles quite be o're , ( Which have made many Nations Poor . ) The Bowels of the Dead will cry , Unto the quick , make Melody . A Herald proud then up will stand , And raise his Voice o're all the Land . He will proclaim a Sudden Peace , Then all the Civil War will cease . His Beard 's of Flesh , his Mouth 's of Horn , Another such was never Born. Yet e're a twelve Month go about , He will be Murder'd by the Rout.

Sold by Hugh Burnet in Shoe lane .

FINIS .