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delivered of this ſtrange birth, which afterwards was ſo famous by the name of Mother Shipton; nor could the tempeſt affright the woman more than the prodigious phyſiognomy of the child; the body was long and very ſharp and fiery, a noſe of unproportionable length having in it in many crooks and turnings, adorned with great pimples, and which like vapours of brimſtone, gave ſuch a luſtre in the night, that her nurſe needed no other candle to dreſs her by; and beſides this uncouth ſhape, it was obſeved, that as ſoon as ſhe was born, ſhe fell a laughing and grining after a jeering manner, and immediately after the tempeſt ceaſed.
CHAP. III.
By what name Mother Shipton was chriſtened and how her Mother went into a Monaftery.
THE child being thus brought into the world, under such ſtrange circumſtances; was though not without ſome oppoſition, ordered at laſt, by the Abbot of Beverly, to be chriſtened,
