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23 Unhappy's he who lives to ee thoe

days,

But happy are the dead, Shipton,s wife

ays.

Let this uffice, the night draws on,

You mut depart, and I begone;

Appollo does forbid my chimes,

For to unveil ucceeding times.

Having aid this, Mother Shipton aroe, and the admiring Abbot, who, you mut uppoe, took all thee propheies in writing, gave her many thanks, and returned home. CHAP. XI.CHAP. IX. [sic]

Mother Shipton's Life, and Death.

THIS famous prophetes continued eteemed as the Sybil or oracle of thee times; At lat, being threecore and thirteen years of age, he found the time in the black book of detiny approaching, wherein he mut give a final adieu to the world, which he foretold to a day, to divers people; and at the hour predicted, having taken leave of all her friends, laid herelf down on ber bed and died.