I mean not to speak of divine prophecy nor of heathen oracle nor of natural  prediction but only of prophecy that have be of certain memory and from hide  cause say the pythonissa to Saul tomorrow thou and thy son shall be with I  Homer have these verse at house vessel made of copper all  to be lord oris et  born to be born et who to be born ab strike against a prophecy as it seem of  the Roman empire Seneca the tragedian have these verse to come year  time  serious who Oceanus vincula a thing to extend et not natural to stand open  tellus Tiphysque to make new to uncover orb nec sit terris ultima Thule a  prophecy of the discovery of America the daughter of Polycrates dream that  Jupiter bath her father and Apollo anoint he and it come to pass that he be  crucify in a open place where the sun make his body run with sweat and the  rain wash it Philip of Macedon dream he seal up his wife belly whereby he do  expound it that his wife shall be barren but Aristander the soothsayer tell he  his wife be with child because man do not use to seal vessel that be empty a  phantasm that appear to m Brutus in his tent say to he the battle of Philippi  iterum I to see Tiberius say to Galba TU likewise Galba to taste command in  Vespasian time there go a prophecy in the east that those that shall come  forth of Judea shall reign over the world which though it may be be mean of  our saviour yet Tacitus expound it of Vespasian Domitian dream the night  before he be slay that a golden head be grow out of the nape of his neck and  indeed the succession that follow he for many year make golden time Henry the  six of England say of Henry the seven when he be a lad and give he water this  be the lad that shall enjoy the crown for which we strive when I be in France  I hear from one dr Pena that the queen mother who be give to curious be cause  the king her husband nativity to be calculate under a false name and the  astrologer give a judgement that he shall be kill in a duel at which the queen  laugh think her husband to be above challenge and duel but he be slay upon a  course at tilt the splinter of the staff of Montgomery go in at his beaver the  trivial prophecy which I hear when I be a child and queen Elizabeth be in the  flower of her year be when hemp be spin England do whereby it be general  conceive that after the prince have reign which have the principal letter of  that word hemp which be Henry Edward marry Philip and Elizabeth England shall  come to utter confusion which thank be to God be verify only in the change of  the name for that the king style be now no more of England but of Britain  there be also another prophecy before the year of  which I do not well  understand there shall be see upon a day between the Baugh and the may the  black fleet of Norway when that that be come and go England build house of  lime and stone for after war shall you have none it be general conceive to be  mean of the Spanish fleet that come in  for that the king of Spain surname as  they say be Norway the prediction of regiomontanus num. ord. adj. the eighth  mirabilis year  be think likewise accomplish in the send of that great fleet  be the great in strength though not in number of all that ever swim upon the  sea as for Cleon dream I think it be a jest it be that he be devour of a long  dragon and it be expound of a maker of sausage that trouble he exceed there be  number of the like kind especial if you include dream and prediction of  astrology but I have set down these few only of certain credit for example my  judgement be that they ought all to be despise and ought to serve but for  winter talk by the fireside though when I say despise I mean it as for belief  for otherwise the spread or publish of they be in no sort to be despise for  they have do much mischief and I see many severe law make to suppress they  that that have give they grace and some credit consist in three thing first  that man mark when they hit and never mark when they miss as they do general  also of dream the second be that probable conjecture or obscure tradition many  time turn themselves into prophecy while the nature of man which covet  divination think it no peril to foretell that which indeed they do but collect  as that of Seneca verse for so much be then subject to demonstration that the  globe of the earth have great part beyond the Atlantic which may be probable  conceive not to be all sea and add thereto the tradition in Plato Timaeus and  his Atlanticus it may encourage one to turn it to a prediction the three and  last which be the great one be that almost all of they be infinite in number  have be imposture and by idle and crafty brain mere contrive and feign after  the event pass