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the ſhip ſhall weep; and the mariners of the ſhips ſhall aſk him why he weeps, ſince he made ſo good at voyage? And he ſhall ſay, Ah! what a goodly city this was once, none in the world was comparable to it, and now there is ſcarce an houſe that can let us drink for our money.
EXPLANATION.
Theſe laſt words were ſadly verified after the dreariful fire in London, in, 1666, when there was not a houſe left all along the Thames' ſides, from the tower of the temple: As for the words before they being dark'y delivered, are not like to be underſtood, till time, that both diſcovers and abſconds all things, ſhall bring the matters ſignified to light,
CHAP. VIII.
Her Prophecies in Verſe to the Abbot of Beverly.
THE abbot of Beverly giving her a viſit one day, told her, that as he found ſeveral things which ſhe had formerly faid to be extely true, so he was perſuaded ſhe was not ignorant of thoſe which for the future were to enſue, and
