Calebbe Shillocke, his Prophesie:
or, the Jewes Prediction. To the tune of Bragandarie.
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T O Caleb Shillocks Prophesies,
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Who list to lend an eare,
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Of griefe, and great calamitie,
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A sad Discourse shall heare:
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Of Plagues (for sinne) shall soone ensew
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Prognosticated by this Jew:
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercy,
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Hold thy heavy hand.
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And first, within this present yeere,
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Beeing Sixteene hundreth seav'n:
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The Prince of Planets shall appeare,
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Like flaming Fire in heav'n,
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Like flaming Fire his radiant rayes
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To all shall seeme (old Shillock sayes.)
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie,
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Hold thy heavie hand.
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No mortall man shall able bee,
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(As he affirmes) to looke
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Upon this fearefull Progedie,
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This sinners bloody Booke:
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this booke, by which he soone may know
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the cause of all our griefe and woe.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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For he that dares to gaze upon
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The Sunne, so dreadfull-bright,
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Shall never after gaze upon
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An object sad, or light:
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But suddainly be striken blind,
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As leaves are shaken with the wind.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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And next to this, old Shillock sayes,
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The waters shall arise,
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And set a period to the dayes
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Of many fond, and wise:
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And all that know't by eye, or eare,
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shal stand (almost) distraught with feare.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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And after this hath playde his part,
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In Calebs Scrowle I finde,
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Another woe to wound the heart,
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And terrifie the minde:
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The winds (he sayes) shall strangly blow
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And strong-built Houses overthrow.
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O Lard, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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With greater Waters after this,
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The Earth shall plagued bee,
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So sore our God incensed is,
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By our impietie:
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So sore a Flood since godly Noe ,
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As is to come, neare man did know,
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O Lord Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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Three dayes this Flood the Land shal hide
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This learned Caleb writes,
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Within her watry mantle, wide:
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And just as many nights.
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O then imagine you the rest,
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the sodaine death of man and beast,
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie,
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hold thy heavie hand.
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For to imagine the event,
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(With searching care and heed)
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Of such a wofull accident,
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Would make the heart to bleed:
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For under such a wofull worke,
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full many wofull sights do lurke.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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Of Heretickes and Infidels,
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A multitude shall flocke
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Together, (learned Shillocke telles)
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With hope, like strongest Rocke,
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to stand and fight against all those,
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that power, against their power oppose.
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O Lard, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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Next, Deaths-Ambassadour shall come,
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To act his fatall part,
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To summon to receive a doome,
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According to desart:
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But, to desart, O gracious Lord,
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Let not thy Judgement then accord.
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O Lord, Lord in etc.
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Whole Families at once, shall lie
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Sore sicke upon their beddes:
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From house to house shall Sicknesse flie,
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When his infection spreddes:
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when he has paind them, mauger death,
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shall step, to stop their vitall breath.
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O Lord, Lord in. etc.
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Through all the world, Great trouble, next
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(He sayth) there shall be seene,
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As strife about the Holy text,
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The meaning altering cleene.
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About Religion strife shall rise:
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Enlighten Lord, our heartes and eyes.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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The Turke lyes next in dangers way,
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[?]
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(His Divell rather, I should say)
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to loose his Regall rod:
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For in his Land a civill strife
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shall many men bereave of life
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie,
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hold thy heavie hand.
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From Civill warres, shall Famine rise,
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And all that Land oppresse:
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In Mahomet no comfort lies,
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when men are in distresse.
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To Christians, shall his people flie
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for succour in their miserie.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie, etc.
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When time, has borne these plagues away,
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More greevous shall succeede,
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More heavie Judgements of the Lord,
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Against us shall proceede.
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The Earth (with wind inclosd therein)
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Shall quake and tremble, for our sinne.
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O Lord, Lord in thy mercie,
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Hold thy heavie hand.
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Brave high-buylt Houses, on the earth,
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The quaking earth shall lay,
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When many at their Feastes and mirth,
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Their jocund sports and play
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(Mistrusting no such thing) are set,
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Our sinnes desart we still forget.
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O Lord. etc.
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Then (for a time) the Seas grow calme,
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The Skies are cleere, and still:
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Which time of stilnesse (like to Balme)
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Cures many, greefe would kill:
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But when our hopes stand faire for peace
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Our sorrowes shall againe increase.
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O Lord. etc.
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An other Earthquake presently,
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Heart-wounding sorrow brings,
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Remooving Houses, Churches, hie
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Hils, Trees, and other things.
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Our sinnes, like Hidras heads, increase,
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How should our plagues and torments cease[?]
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O Lord. etc.
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It is the part (Boetius sayes)
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Of men discreete and wise,
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Of wonderous thinges to search the cause:
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For tis the Simples guise,
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To gaze upon the thing that's done,
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and nere looke how, or why't begun.
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O Lord. etc.
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Then let us search into the cause
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Of these, with Plagues are past,
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That to repentance they may drawe's
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And to amend at last.
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The cause is Sin, our Sinn's the cause:
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Neclect of Gods decrees, and lawes.
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O Lord, etc.
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O let us turne unto the Lord,
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For he (alone) is hee,
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That can from water, fire, and sword
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At's pleasure set us free.
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If we by grace, cast Sin away,
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By mercy he his hand will stay.
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O Lord, etc.
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O Let us flie those deadly sinnes
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The Conscience overcloyes,
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The Conscience, Souls Salvation wins
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Or else the Soule destroyes,
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Let's labour then to keepe it free,
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That God, in glory, wee may see.
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O Lord, etc .
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O Lord, with thy all saving hand
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Our King and Queene de[fe]nd
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The Heire to this united Land
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And all their isshue tend.
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The Honorable Counsell blesse
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With many dayes, and happiness.
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O Lord, Lord, in etc.
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FINIS.
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