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17 the hip hall weep; and the mariners of the hips hall ak him why he weeps, ince he made o good at voyage? And he hall ay, Ah! what a goodly city this was once, none in the world was comparable to it, and now there is carce an houe that can let us drink for our money.

EXPLANATION.

Thee lat words were adly verified after the dreariful fire in London, in, 1666, when there was not a houe left all along the Thames' ides, from the tower of the temple: As for the words before they being dark'y delivered, are not like to be undertood, till time, that both dicovers and abconds all things, hall bring the matters ignified to light, CHAP. VIII.

Her Prophecies in Vere to the Abbot of Beverly.

THE abbot of Beverly giving her a viit one day, told her, that as he found everal things which he had formerly faid to be extely true, so he was peruaded he was not ignorant of thoe which for the future were to enue, and