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Sufficient materials have been brought together in the preceding pages, to give some scope now for critical examination.

The three earliest records in the British Museum Library, in relation to Mother Shipton, agree closely with each other, and none of them contain the lines printed on page 13, in my first Chapter, ending with the too celebrated couplet:—

The lines in question, and the notorious prophecy about the end of the world, were fabricated about twenty years ago, by Mr.