Mother Shipton and the evil events which she foretold. Woodcut.

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46998i
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Mother Shipton, right, is shown as a hook-nosed hunchback carrying a stick. On her prophecies see the Dictionary of National Biography

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1 print : woodcut ; image and text 18.4 x 13.9 cm

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Then wars shall begin in the Spring ... which in our times have fell. Lettering: Then wars shall begin in the spring. Much woe to England it shall bring: Then shall the ladies cry wel-away, That ever we liv'd to see this day. Unhappy he that lives to see these dayes, But happy are the dead, Shipton's wife sayes. In th' worlds old age, this woman did foretell, Strange things should hap, which in our times have fell.

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Wellcome Collection 46998i

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