Show I Mother Shipton Poem 1641 First Appeared in The poem Mother Shiptons Shipton's that part which Prophecies or prophesies about carriages without without with with- out horses and airships as ns it appeared appeared ap ap- from time to time toward the middle of the last century is is given here Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye Under Underwater water man shall walk Shall ride shall sleep p shall talk In the air nir men shall be seen In white in black in green Iron in the water shall float As easily as a wooden boat I And the world to an end shall come comeIn comeIn comeIn In eighteen hundred and eighty These last lines caused something of a n commotion among the credulous credulous credulous lous but the year came and 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 misshapen of indifferent size and school large goggle eyes that at she startled her teachers by her hert t 1 precocity that she married a Thomas Shipton when she was twenty four and that she correctly foretold the time of her death which is is' said to have occurred in 1561 Despite the suggestion that she was entirely a fictitious personage there is a stone near Shipton England England England Eng Eng- land which bears this epitaph Here lies she that never lyd Whose skill so often has been Her prophecies s all 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 the reputed date of her death |