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  Speaker 1: Book seven of History of the Kings of Britain. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. History of the Kings of Britain by
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  Speaker 1: Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Geoffrey of Monmouth's preface to Merlin's Prophecy. I
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  Speaker 1: had not got thus far in my history, when the
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  Speaker 1: subject of public discourse happening to be concerning Merlin, I
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  Speaker 1: was obliged to publish his prophecies at the request of
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  Speaker 1: my acquaintance, but especially of Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, a
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  Speaker 1: prelate of the greatest piety in wisdom. There was not
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  Speaker 1: any person, either among the clergy or lity, that was
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  Speaker 1: attended with such a train of knights and noblemen, whom
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  Speaker 1: he settled piety and great munificence engaged in his service.
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  Speaker 1: Out of a desire therefore, to gratify him, I translated
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  Speaker 1: these prophecies and sent them to him with the following letter.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two Geoffrey's letter to Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. The
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  Speaker 1: regard which I owe to your great worth, most noble
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  Speaker 1: prelate has obliged me to undertake the translation of Merlin's
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  Speaker 1: prophecies out of British into Latin, before I had made
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  Speaker 1: an end of the history which I had begun concerning
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  Speaker 1: the acts of the British Kings. For my design was
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  Speaker 1: to have finished that first, and afterwards to have taken
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  Speaker 1: this work in hand, lest by being engaged on both
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  Speaker 1: at once, I should be less capable of attending with
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  Speaker 1: any exactness to either. Notwithstanding, since the deference which is
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  Speaker 1: paid to your penetrating judgment will screen me from censure,
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  Speaker 1: I have employed my rude pen and in a coarse
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  Speaker 1: style present you with a translation out of a language
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  Speaker 1: with which you are unacquainted. At the same time, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot but wonder at your recommending this matter to one
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  Speaker 1: of my low genius, when you might have caused so
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  Speaker 1: many men of greater learning and a richer vein of
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  Speaker 1: intellect to undertake it, who, with their sublime strains, would
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  Speaker 1: much more agreeably have entertained you. Besides, without any disparagement
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  Speaker 1: to all the philosophers in Britain, I must take the
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  Speaker 1: liberty to say that you yourself if the business of your
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  Speaker 1: high station would give you leisure, are capable of furnishing
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  Speaker 1: us with loftier productions of this kind than any man living. However,
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  Speaker 1: since it was your pleasure that Geoffrey of Monmouth should
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  Speaker 1: be employed in this prophecy, he hopes you will favorably
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  Speaker 1: accept of his performance, and vouchsafe to give a finer
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  Speaker 1: turn to whatever you will find unpolished or otherwise faulty.
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  Speaker 1: In it, chapter three, the prophecy of Merlin as Voultigen,
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  Speaker 1: King of the Britons, was sitting upon the bank of
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  Speaker 1: the drained pond. The two dragons, one of which was white,
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  Speaker 1: the other red, came fourth and approaching one another, began
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  Speaker 1: a terrible fight and cast forth fire with their breath.
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  Speaker 1: But the white dragon had the advantage and made the
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  Speaker 1: other fly to the end of the lake, and he,
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  Speaker 1: for grief at his flight, renewed the assault upon his
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  Speaker 1: pursuer and forced him to retire. After this battle of
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  Speaker 1: the dragons, the king commanded Ambrose Merlin to tell him
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  Speaker 1: what it port ended, upon which he, bursting into tears,
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  Speaker 1: delivered what his prophetical spirit suggested to him as follows,
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  Speaker 1: woe to the red dragon for his banishment hasteneth on
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  Speaker 1: his lurking holes shall be seized by the white dragon,
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  Speaker 1: which signifies the Saxons whom you invited over, But the
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  Speaker 1: red denotes the British nation, which shall be oppressed by
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  Speaker 1: the white. Therefore, shall its mountains be leveled as the valleys,
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  Speaker 1: and the rivers of the valleys will run of blood.
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  Speaker 1: The exercise of religion shall be destroyed, and churches be
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  Speaker 1: laid open to ruin. At last, the oppressed shall prevail
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  Speaker 1: and oppose the cruelty of foreigners, For a bore of
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  Speaker 1: Cornwall shall give his assistance and trample their necks under
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  Speaker 1: his feet. The islands of the ocean shall be subject
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  Speaker 1: to his power, and he shall possess the forests of Gaul.
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  Speaker 1: The House of Romulus shall dread his courage, and his
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  Speaker 1: end shall be doubtful. He shall be celebrated in the
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  Speaker 1: mouths of the people, and his exploits shall be food
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  Speaker 1: to those that relate them. Six of his posterity shall
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  Speaker 1: sway the scepter, but after them shall arise a German worm.
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  Speaker 1: He shall be advanced by a sea wolf, whom the
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  Speaker 1: woods of Africa shall accompany. Religion shall again be abolished,
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  Speaker 1: and there shall be a translation of the metropolitan seas.
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  Speaker 1: The dignity of London shall adorn do Ubernia, and the
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  Speaker 1: seventh Pastor of York shall be resorted to in the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Armorica. Menevia shall put on the pall of
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  Speaker 1: the city of Legions, and a preacher of Ireland shall
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  Speaker 1: be dumb on account of an infant growing in the womb.
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  Speaker 1: It shall rain a shower of blood, and a raging
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  Speaker 1: famine shall affect mankind. When these things happen, the Red
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  Speaker 1: One shall be grieved, But when his fatigue is over
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  Speaker 1: shall grow strong. Then shall misfortunes hasten upon the White One,
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  Speaker 1: and the buildings of his gardens shall be pulled down.
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  Speaker 1: Seven that sway the scepter shall be killed, one of
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  Speaker 1: whom shall become a saint. The wounds of mothers shall
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  Speaker 1: be ripped up, and infants be abortive. There shall be
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  Speaker 1: a most grievous punishment of men, that the natives may
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  Speaker 1: be restored. He that shall do these things shall put
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  Speaker 1: on the brazen man, and upon a brazen horse, shall
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  Speaker 1: for a long time guard the gates of London. After
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  Speaker 1: this shall the Red Dragon return to his proper manners
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  Speaker 1: and turn his rage upon himself. Therefore shall the revenge
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  Speaker 1: of the thunderer show itself, For every field shall disappoint
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  Speaker 1: the husbandmen. Mortality shall snatch away the people and make
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  Speaker 1: a desolation over all countries. The remainder shall quit their
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  Speaker 1: native soil and make foreign plantations. A blessed king shall
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  Speaker 1: prepare a fleet and shall be reckoned the twelfth and
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  Speaker 1: the court among the saints. There shall be a miserable
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  Speaker 1: desolation of the kingdom, and the floors of the harvest
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  Speaker 1: shall return to the fruitful forests. The white dragon shall
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  Speaker 1: rise again. I'll invite over a daughter of Germany. Our
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  Speaker 1: garden shall again be replenished with foreign seed, and the
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  Speaker 1: red one shall pine away at the end of the pond.
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  Speaker 1: After that shall the German worm be crowned and the
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  Speaker 1: brazen prince buried. He has his bounds assigned him, which
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  Speaker 1: he shall not be able to pass for one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty years. He shall continue in trouble and subjection,
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  Speaker 1: but shall bear away three hundred. Then shall the north
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  Speaker 1: wind rise against him and shall snatch away the flowers
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  Speaker 1: which the west wind produced. There shall be gilding in
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  Speaker 1: the temples nor shall the edge of the sword sease.
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  Speaker 1: The German dragon shall hardly get to his holes, because
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  Speaker 1: the revenge of his treason shall overtake him. At last,
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  Speaker 1: he shall flourish for a little time, but the decimation
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  Speaker 1: of newsture shall hurt him, for a people in wood
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  Speaker 1: and in iron coats shall come and revenge upon him
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  Speaker 1: his wickedness. They shall restore the the ancient inhabitants their dwellings,
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  Speaker 1: and there will be an open destruction of foreigners. The
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  Speaker 1: seed of the white dragon shall be swept out of
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  Speaker 1: our gardens, and the remainder of his generation shall be decimated.
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  Speaker 1: They shall bear the yoke of slavery and wound their
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  Speaker 1: mother with spades and plows. After this shall succeed two dragons,
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  Speaker 1: whereof one shall be killed with the sting of envy,
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  Speaker 1: but the other shall return under the shadow of a name.
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  Speaker 1: Then shall succeed a lion of justice, at whose roar
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  Speaker 1: the gallican towers and the island dragons shall tremble. In
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  Speaker 1: those days, gold shall be squeezed from the lily and
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  Speaker 1: the nettle, and silver shall flow from the hoofs of
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  Speaker 1: bellowing cattle. The frizzled shall put on various fleeces, and
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  Speaker 1: the outward habit to note the inward parts. The feet
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  Speaker 1: of barkers shall be cut off. Wild beasts shall enjoy peace.
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  Speaker 1: Mankind shall be grieved at their punishment. The form of
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  Speaker 1: commerce shall be divided, the hearth shall be found, the
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  Speaker 1: ravenousness of kites shall be destroyed, and the teeth of
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  Speaker 1: wolves blunted. The lion's whelps shall be transformed into sea fishes,
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  Speaker 1: and an eagle shall build her nest upon Mount Aravius.
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  Speaker 1: Venedotia shall grow red with the blood of mothers, and
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  Speaker 1: the house of Coryneus kills six brethren. The island shall
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  Speaker 1: be wet with night tears, so that all shall be
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  Speaker 1: provoked to all things. Woe to thee in Eustria, because
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  Speaker 1: the lion's brain shall be poured upon thee and he
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  Speaker 1: should be banished with shattered limits from his native soil.
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  Speaker 1: Posterity shall endeavor to fly above the highest places, but
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  Speaker 1: the favor of newcomers shall be exalted. Piety shall hurt
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  Speaker 1: the possessor of things got by impiety till he shall
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  Speaker 1: have put on his father. Therefore, being armed with the
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  Speaker 1: teeth of a boar, he shall ascend above the tops
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  Speaker 1: of mountains, and the shadow of him that wears a helmet.
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  Speaker 1: Albania shall be enraged, and assembling her neighbors shall be
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  Speaker 1: employed in shedding blood. There shall be put into her
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  Speaker 1: drawers a bridle that should be made on the coast
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  Speaker 1: of Armorrica. The eagle of the broken Covenant shall gild
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  Speaker 1: it over and rejoice in her third nest. The roaring
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  Speaker 1: whelps shall watch, and, leaving the woods, shall hunt within
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  Speaker 1: the walls of the cities. They shall make no small
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  Speaker 1: slaughter of those that oppose them, and shall cut off
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  Speaker 1: the tongues of bulls. They shall load the necks of
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  Speaker 1: roaring lions with chains, and restore the times of their ancestors. Then,
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  Speaker 1: from the first to the fourth, from the fourth to
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  Speaker 1: the third, from the third to the second, the thumb
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  Speaker 1: shall roll in oil. The sixth shall overturn the walls
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  Speaker 1: of Ireland and change the woods into a plain. He
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  Speaker 1: shall reduce several parts to one, and be crowned with
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  Speaker 1: the head of a lion. His beginning shall lay open
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  Speaker 1: to wandering affection, but his end shall carry him up
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  Speaker 1: to the blessed who are above. For he shall restore
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  Speaker 1: the seats of the saints in their countries, and settle
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  Speaker 1: past as in convenient places. Two cities. He shall invest
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  Speaker 1: with two paws, and shall bestow virgin presents upon virgins.
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  Speaker 1: He shall merit by this the favor of the thunderer,
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  Speaker 1: and shall be placed among the saints. From him shall
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  Speaker 1: proceed a lynx penetrating all things, who shall be bent
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  Speaker 1: upon the ruin of his own nation. For through him
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  Speaker 1: Neustria shall lose both islands and be deprived of its
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  Speaker 1: ancient dignity. Then shall the natives return back to the island,
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  Speaker 1: for there shall arise a dissension among foreigners. Also, a
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  Speaker 1: hoary old man, sitting upon a snow white horse, shall
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  Speaker 1: turn the course of the river Parian, and shall measure
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  Speaker 1: out a mill upon it with a white rod. Cadwalader
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  Speaker 1: shall call upon Conan and take Urbania into alliance. Then
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  Speaker 1: shall be there a slaughter of foreigners. Then shall the
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  Speaker 1: rivers run with blood. Then shall break forth the fountains
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  Speaker 1: of our Morica, and they shall be crowned with the
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  Speaker 1: diadem of Brutus. Cambria shall be filled with joy, and
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  Speaker 1: the oaks of Cornwall shall flourish. The island shall be
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  Speaker 1: called by the name of Brutus, and the name given
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  Speaker 1: it by foreigners shall be abolished from Conan shall proceed
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  Speaker 1: a war like war that shall exercise the sharpness of
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  Speaker 1: his tasks within the Gallic woods, for he will cut
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  Speaker 1: down all the larger oaks, and shall be a defense
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  Speaker 1: to the smaller. The Arabians and Africans shall dread him,
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  Speaker 1: for he shall pursue his furious course to the farther
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  Speaker 1: part of space. There shall succeed the goat of the
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  Speaker 1: Venereal castle, having golden horns and a silver beard, who
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  Speaker 1: shall breathe such a cloud out of his nostrils as
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  Speaker 1: shall darken the whole surface of the island. There shall
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  Speaker 1: be peace in his time, and corn shall abound by
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  Speaker 1: reason of the fruitfulness of the soil. Women shall become
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  Speaker 1: serpent in their gait, and all their motions shall be
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  Speaker 1: full of pride. The camp of Venus shall be restored,
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  Speaker 1: nor shall the arrows of Cupid cease to wound. The
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  Speaker 1: fountain of a river shall be turned into blood, and
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  Speaker 1: two kings shall fight a duel at Stafford for a lioness.
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  Speaker 1: Luxury shall overspread the whole ground, and fornication not cease
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  Speaker 1: to depaut from mankind. All these things shall three ages
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  Speaker 1: see till the buried kings shall be exposed to public
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  Speaker 1: view in the city of London. Famine shall again return,
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  Speaker 1: mortality shall return, and the inhabitants shall grief the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of their cities. Then shall come the Board of Commerce,
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  Speaker 1: who shall recall the scattered flocks to the past they
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  Speaker 1: had lost. His breast shall be food to the hungry,
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  Speaker 1: and his tongue drink to the thirsty. Out of his
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  Speaker 1: mouth shall flow rivers, and that shall water the part
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  Speaker 1: drawers of men. After this shall be produced a tree
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  Speaker 1: upon the Tower of London, which having no more than
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  Speaker 1: three branches, shall overshadow the surface of the whole island
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  Speaker 1: with the breadth of its leaves. Its adversary, the north wind,
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  Speaker 1: shall come upon it, and with its noxious blast, shall
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  Speaker 1: snatch away the third branch. But the two remaining ones
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  Speaker 1: shall possess its place till they shall destroy one another
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  Speaker 1: by the multitude of their leaves. And then shall it
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  Speaker 1: obtain the place of those two, and shall give sustenance
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  Speaker 1: to the bird foreign nations. It shall be esteemed hurtful
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  Speaker 1: to native fowls, for they shall not be able to
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  Speaker 1: fly freely for fear of its shadow. There shall succeed
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  Speaker 1: the ass of wickedness, swift against the goldsmiths, but slow
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  Speaker 1: against the ravenousness of wolves. In those days, the oaks
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  Speaker 1: of the forest shall burn, and acorns grow upon the
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  Speaker 1: branches of tall trees. The Severn Sea shall dis yard
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  Speaker 1: south through seven months, and the river usk burned seven months.
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  Speaker 1: Fishes shall die with the heat thereof, and of them
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  Speaker 1: shall be engendered serpents. The baths of Baden shall grow cold,
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  Speaker 1: and their salubrious waters engender death. London shall mourn for
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  Speaker 1: the death of twenty thousand, and the River Thames shall
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  Speaker 1: be turned into blood. The monks in their cows shall
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  Speaker 1: be forced to marry, and their cry shall be heard
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  Speaker 1: upon the mountains of the Alps. Chapter four, the continuation
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  Speaker 1: of the prophecy. Three springs shall break forth the city
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  Speaker 1: of Winchester, whose rivulets shall divide the island into the
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  Speaker 1: three parts. Whoever shall drink of the first shall enjoy
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  Speaker 1: long life and shall never be afflicted with sickness. He
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  Speaker 1: that shall drink of the second shall die of hunger
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  Speaker 1: and paleness, and horror will sit in his countenance. He
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  Speaker 1: that shall drink of the third shall be surprised with
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  Speaker 1: sudden death. Neither shall his body be capable of burial.
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  Speaker 1: Those that are willing to escape so great a surfeit
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  Speaker 1: will endeavor to hide it with several coverings. But whatever
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  Speaker 1: bulk shall be laid upon it shall receive the form
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  Speaker 1: of another body. For earth shall be turned to stones,
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  Speaker 1: stones into water, wood into ashes, ashes into water, if
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  Speaker 1: cast over it also, a damsel shall be sent from
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  Speaker 1: the city of the forest of Cornute to administer a cure, who,
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  Speaker 1: after she shall have practiced all her arts, shall dry
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  Speaker 1: up the noxious fountains only with her breath. Afterwards, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she shall have refreshed herself with the wholesome liquor,
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  Speaker 1: she shall bear in her right hand the wood of Caledon,
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  Speaker 1: and in her left the fort of the walls of London.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever she shall go, she shall make sulfurous steps, which
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  Speaker 1: will smoke with a double flame. That smoke shall rouse
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  Speaker 1: up the city the Routini, and shall make food for
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the deep. She shall overflow with rueful tears,
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  Speaker 1: and shall fill the island with her dreadful cry. She
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  Speaker 1: shall be killed by a heart with ten branches, four
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  Speaker 1: of which shall bear golden diadems, but the other six
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  Speaker 1: shall be turned into buffalo's horns, whose hideous sound shall
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  Speaker 1: astonish the three islands of Britain. The Danian wood shall
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  Speaker 1: be stirred up, and breaking forth into a human voice,
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  Speaker 1: shall cry, come o Cambria, and drain cornwill to thy side,
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  Speaker 1: and say to Winchester, the earth shall swallow thee up,
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  Speaker 1: translate the seat of thy pastor to the place where
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  Speaker 1: ships come to harbor, and the rest of the members
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  Speaker 1: will follow their head for the day hasteneth in which
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  Speaker 1: thy citizens shall perish on account of the guilt of purtrey.
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  Speaker 1: The whiteness of wool has been hurtful to thee, and
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  Speaker 1: the variety of its tinctures. Woe to the purged nation,
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  Speaker 1: for whose sake the renowned city shall come to ruin.
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  Speaker 1: The ships shall rejoice at so great an augmentation, and
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  Speaker 1: one shall be made out of two. It shall be
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  Speaker 1: rebuilt by Eric loaden with apples to the smell whereof
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  Speaker 1: the birds of several woods shall flock together. He shall
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  Speaker 1: add to it a vast palace, and walk it round
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  Speaker 1: with six hundred towers. Therefore shall London envy it and
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  Speaker 1: triply increase her walls. The river Thames shall encompass it round,
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  Speaker 1: and the fame of the work shall pass beyond the alps.
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  Speaker 1: Eric shall hide his apples within it, and shall make
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  Speaker 1: subterraneous passages. At that time shall the stones speak, and
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  Speaker 1: the sea towards the Gallic coast be contracted into a
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  Speaker 1: narrow space. On each bank shall one man hear another,
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  Speaker 1: and the soil of the island shall be enlarged. The
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  Speaker 1: secrets the deep shall be revealed, and gaul shall tremble
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  Speaker 1: for fear. After these things shall come forth a herne
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  Speaker 1: from the forest of Calitarium, which shall fly round the
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  Speaker 1: island for two years. Together with her nocturnal cry, she
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  Speaker 1: shall call together the winged kind and assemble to her
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of fowls. They shall invade the tillage of
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  Speaker 1: husbandmen and devour all the grain of the harvests. Then
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  Speaker 1: shall follow a famine upon the people, and grievous mortality
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  Speaker 1: upon the famine. But when this calamity shall be over,
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  Speaker 1: a detestable bird shall go to the valley of Galibis,
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  Speaker 1: and shall raise it to be a high mountain. Upon
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  Speaker 1: the top thereof it shall also plant an oak and
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  Speaker 1: build its nest in its branches. Three eggs shall be
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  Speaker 1: produced from the nest from when she shall come forth
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  Speaker 1: a fox, a wolf, and a bear. The fox shall
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  Speaker 1: devour her mother and bear the head of an ass.
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  Speaker 1: In this monstrous form. Shall she frighten her brothers and
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  Speaker 1: make them fly into Neustria. But they shall stir up
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  Speaker 1: the tusky boar, and, returning in a fleet, shall encounter
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  Speaker 1: with the fox, who, at the beginning of the fight,
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  Speaker 1: shall feign herself dead and move the boar to compassion.
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  Speaker 1: Then shall the boar approach her carcass, and standing over her,
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  Speaker 1: shall breathe upon her face and eyes. But she, not
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  Speaker 1: forgetting her cunning, shall bite his left foot and pluck
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  Speaker 1: it from his body. Then shall she leap upon him
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  Speaker 1: and snatch away his right ear and tie, and hide
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  Speaker 1: herself in the caverns of the mountains. Therefore shall the
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  Speaker 1: deluded boar require the wolf and bear to restore him
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  Speaker 1: his members, who, as soon as they shall enter into
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  Speaker 1: the cause, shall promise two feet of the fox, together
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  Speaker 1: with the ear and the tail, and of these they
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  Speaker 1: shall make up the members of a hog. With this
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  Speaker 1: he shall be satisfied, and expect the promised restitution. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, shall the fox descend for the mountains and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: change herself into a wolf, And under pretense of holding
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  Speaker 1: a conference with the boar, she shall go to him
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  Speaker 1: and craftily devour him. After that she shall transform herself
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  Speaker 1: into a boar, and, feigning a lot of some members,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: shall wait for her brothers. But as soon as they come,
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  Speaker 1: she shall suddenly kill them with her tusks, and shall
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  Speaker 1: be crowned with the head of a lion. In her
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: days shall a serpent be brought forth, which shall be
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  Speaker 1: a destroyer of mankind. With its length, it shall encompass
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  Speaker 1: London and devour all that pass by it. The mountain
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  Speaker 1: Ox shall take the head of a wolf and whiten
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  Speaker 1: his teeth. In the seven he shall gather to him
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  Speaker 1: the flocks of Albania and Cambria, which shall drink the
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  Speaker 1: River Thames dry. The ass shall call the goat with
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the long beard, and shall borrow his shape. Therefore shall
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  Speaker 1: the mountain Oox be incensed, and, having called the wolf,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: shall become a horned bull against them. In the exercise
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of his cruelty. He shall devour their flesh, and bones
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  Speaker 1: shall be burnt upon the top of urine. The ashes
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  Speaker 1: of his funeral pile shall be turned into swans that
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: shall swim on dry ground as a river. They shall
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  Speaker 1: devour fishes in fishes and swallow up men in men.
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  Speaker 1: But when old age shall come upon them, they shall
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  Speaker 1: become sea wolves and practice their frauds in the deep.
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  Speaker 1: They shall drown ships and collect no small quantity of silver.
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  Speaker 1: The Thames shall again flow, and, assembling together the rivers
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: shall pass beyond the grounds of its channel. It shall
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: cover the adjacent cities and overturn the mountains that oppose
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: its course. Being full of deceit and wickedness, it shall
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: make use of the fountain Galibies, hence shall arise fat actions,
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  Speaker 1: provoking the Venedotians to war. The oaks of the forest
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  Speaker 1: shall meet together and encounter the rocks of the Givisians.
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  Speaker 1: A raven shall attend with the kites and devour the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: carcasses of the slain. An awl shall build her nest
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  Speaker 1: upon the walls of Gloucester, and in her nest shall
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  Speaker 1: be brought forth an ass. The serpent of Mulvernia shall
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: bring him up and put him upon. Many fraudulent practices
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: having taken the crown. He shall ascend on high and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: frighten the people of the country with his hideous braying.
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  Speaker 1: In his days shall the Pachean mountains tremble, and the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: provinces be deprived of their woods. For there shall come
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a worm with a fiery breath, and with the vapor
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it sent forth, shall burn up the trees. Out of
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  Speaker 1: it shall proceed seven lions, deformed with the heads of goats,
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  Speaker 1: with the stench of their nostrils. They shall corrupt women
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  Speaker 1: and make wives turn common prostitutes. The father shall not
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: know his own son, because they shall grow wanton, like
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: brute beasts. Then shall come the giant of wickedness, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: terrify all with the sharpness of his eyes. Against him,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: shall arise the Dragon of Worcester, and shall endeavor to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: banish him. But in the engagement the dragon shall be
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: worsted and oppressed by the wickedness of the conqueror, For
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he shall mount upon the dragon, and, putting off his garment,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: shall sit upon him naked. The dragon shall bear him
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: up on a high and beat his naked rider with
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: his tail. Erected upon this, the giant, rousing up his
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  Speaker 1: whole strength, shall break his jaws with his sword. At last,
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  Speaker 1: the dragon shall fold itself up under its tail and
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  Speaker 1: die of poison. After him shall succeed the boar of
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Totless and oppress the people with a grievous tyranny. Gloucester
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: shall send forth lion, and shall disturb him in his
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: cruelty in several battles. He shall trample him under his
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: feet and terrify him with open jaws. At last, the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: lion shall quarrel with the kingdom and get upon the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: backs of the nobility. Our bull shall come into the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: quarrel and strike the lion with his right foot. He
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: shall drive him through all the inn in the kingdom,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: but shall break his horns against the walls of Oxford.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The fox of car do Will shall take revenge on
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  Speaker 1: the lion and destroy him entirely with her teeth. She
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: shall be encompassed by the adder of Lincoln, who with
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  Speaker 1: a horrible hiss shall give notice of his presence to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a multitude of dragons. Then shall the dragons encounter and
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  Speaker 1: tear one another to pieces. The winged shall oppress that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: which wants wings and fasten its claws into the poisonous cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: Others shall come into the quarrel and kill one another.
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  Speaker 1: A fifth shall succeed those that are slain, and by
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: various stratagems shall destroy the rest. He shall get upon
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the back of one with his sword and sever his
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: head from his body. Then, throwing off his garment, he
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: shall get upon another and put his right and left
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: hand upon its tail. Thus, being naked, shall he overcome
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  Speaker 1: him whom, when clothed he was not able to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: The rest. He shall gall in their flight and drive
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  Speaker 1: them round the kingdom. Upon this shall come a roaring lion,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: dreadful for his monstrous cruelty. Fifteen parts he shall reduce
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to one, and shall alone possess the people. The giant
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of the snow white color shall shine and cause the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: white people to flourish. Pleasures shall effeminate the princes, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: they shall suddenly be changed into beasts. Among them shall
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: arise a lion swelled with human gore. Under him shall
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a reaper be placed in the standing corn, who, while
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: he is reaping, shall be oppressed by him. A charioteer
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of York shall appease him, and, having banished his lord,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: shall mount upon the chariot, which ye shall drive with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: his sword and sheathed, shall he threaten the east and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: fill the tracks of his wheels with blood. Afterwards he
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: shall become a sea fish, who, being roused with the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: hissing of a serpent, shall engender with him. From hence
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: shall be produced three thundering bulls, who, having eaten up
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: their pastures, shall be turned into trees. The first shall
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: carry a whip of vipers, and turn his back upon
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the next. He shall endeavor to snatch away the whip,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: but shall be taken by the last. They shall turn
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: away their faces from one another till they have thrown
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: away the poisoned cup. To him shall succeed a husbandman
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: of Albania, at whose back shall be a serpent. He
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: shall be employed in plowing the ground, that the country
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: may become white with corn. The serpent shall endeavor to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: diffuse his poison in order to blast the harvest. A
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: grievous mortality shall sweep away the people, and the walls
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of cities shall be made desolate. There shall be given
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: for a remedy the city of Claudius, which shall interpose
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the nurse of the skirder, for she shall bear a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: dose of medicine, and in a short time the island
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: shall be restored. Then shall too successively sway the scepter,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: whom a horned dragon shall serve. One shall come in
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: armor and shall ride upon a flying serpent. He shall
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: sit upon his back with his naked body, and cast
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: his right hand upon his tail. With his cry, shall
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the seas be moved, and he shall strike terror into
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the second. The second therefore shall enter into confederacy with
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the lion, but a quarrel happening. They shall encounter one another.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: They shall distress one another, but the courage of the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: beast shall gain the advantage. Then shall come one with
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a drum and appease the rage of the lion. Therefore
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: shall the people of the kingdom be at peace, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: provoke the lion to a dose of physic In his
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: established seat, he shall adjust the weights, but shall stretch
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: out his hands into Albania, for which reason the northern
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: provinces shall be grieved and open the gates of the temples.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: The sign bearing wolf shall lead his troops and surround
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: cornwall with his ale. He shall be opposed by a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: soldier in a chariot, who shall transform that people into
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a boar. The boar therefore shall ravage the provinces, but
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: shall hide his head in the depth of severn. A
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: man shall embrace a lion in wine, and the dazzling
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: brightness of gold shall blind the eyes of beholders. Silver
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: shall whiten in the circumference and torment several wine presses.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Men shall be drunk with wine, and regardless of Heaven,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: shall be intent upon the earth. From them shall the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: stars turn away their faces and confound their usual course.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Corn will wither at their malign aspects, and there shall
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: fall no dew from heaven. The roots and branches will
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: change their places, and the novelty of the things shall
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: pass for a miracle. The brightness of the sun shall
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: fade at the amber of Mercury, and horror shall seize
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the beholders. Still born of Arcadia shall change his shield.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: The helmet of Mars shall call Venus. The helmet of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Mars shall make a shadow, and the rage of Mercury
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: passes bounds. Iron Orion shall unsheathe his sword. The marine
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: phoebus shall torment the clouds. Drupter shall go out of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: his lawful paths, and Venus forsake her stated lines. The
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: malignity of the star Saturn shall fall down in rain
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and slay mankind with a crooked sickle. The twelve houses
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: of the stars shall lament the irregular excursions of their guests,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and Gemini omit their usual embraces, and call the urn
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to the fountains. The scales of Libra shall hang obliquely
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: till Ares put his crooked horns under them. The tail
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of Scorpio shall produce lightning and cancer. Quarrel with the Sun.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Virgo shall mount upon the back of Sagittarius and darken
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: her virgin flowers. The chariot of the Moon shall disorder
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the zodiac, and the pliades break forth into weeping. No
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: offices of Janus shall hereafter return, but his gait, being shut,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: shall lie hid in the chinks of Ariadne. The seas
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: shall rise up in the twinkling of an eye, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the dust of the ancients shall be restored. The winds
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: shall fight together with a dreadful blast, and their sound
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: shall reach the stars. End of Book seven.