Show aa Mother Shipton i ton Poem Peen First Appeared in 1641 The poem Mother Shiptons Shipton's Prophecies or that part which prophesies about carriages without without without with with- out horses and airships as it appeared ap up- appeared pea red from time to time toward the middle of the last century is given here Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe Around th the world thoughts shall fl fly In the twinkling of an eye Under water man shall walk Shall ride shall sleep p shall talk In the air men shall be seen In white while in black in green Iron in the water vater shall float As easily as a wooden boat And the world to an m end shall come comeIn comeIn comeIn In eighteen hundred and eighty on These last lines caused something of of a commotion among the credulous credulous lous but the year came and md went without calamity Mother Shipton is a character of somewhat doubtful authenticity The tradition is that she was born in a cave in Yorkshire in 1488 1408 misshapen of indifferent size and large goggle eyes that at school she startled her teachers by her precocity pr that tha t she married a Thomas Shipton when she was twenty-four twenty and that she correctly foretold the time of her death which is said to have occurred in 1561 1 Despite the suggestion that she was entirely a fictitious personage there is a stone near Shipton England England Eng Eng- land which bears this epitaph Here lies she that never lyd Whose skill so often has been Her prophecies shall still survive And ever keep her name alive Her prophecy was first published published published pub pub- in London anonymously in 1641 which was 80 years after aUer th the reputed date of her death |