Strange and Wonderful Prophecies
by the Lady Eleanor Audeley,
who is yet alive, and lodgeth
in White-hall.
O [1] Sion most belov'd I sing
[2] of Babylon a Song,
Concerns you more full well I wot
than ye do think upon.
[3] Belshazzar, lo, behold the King
feasting his thousand Lords;
Phebus and Mars prais'd on each String,
every day records.
The Temple Vessels of Gods house
boldly in drunk about:
His [4] own (tis like) were made away,
bids holy things bring out;
[5] Praising of Gold and Brass the gods,
of Iron, Wood and Stone,
[6] See, hear, nor know, but now alas
praised in Court alone.
- ↑ Those that believe this porphecy.
- ↑ So she frequently called the Bishops and Courtiers of England.
- ↑ The late King Charles whom in all her books she called Belshazzar; because the wall of the Banqueting house at White-Hall, where he feasted, should be terrible to him, as a writing on the wall was to Belshazzar, which proved true, for there he was beheaded.
- ↑ Here she prophecied of his pawning and selling of his plate.
- ↑ The pulling down of the pictures and Organs in Churches.
- ↑ All did rise against him but the Court faction.
