A wonderful Prophecy or pronostication beginning from the year of our Lord M.D.XXXI. to the laud and praise of the most victorious emperor Charles the fifth of that name/ born within the triumphant town of Gandt/ in the golden year. M.D. upon the xxiiij day of February/ which day is neither named nor numbered/ because it was in the leap year Pronostycate by Master Solomon the jew/ & Physician greatly sounding to the honour of God and laud of the famous town of Gandt.   

The prologue.  

Pro. i.  FOr asmuch as the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom/ 
jaco. i.  And that every good and parfett gift/ is given from above/ to as many as ask it in faith/ according to the saying of the Apostle. I therefore (having this fear of the Lord before mine eyes) desire of him/ thorough his almighty power and endless mercy/ to derecte my pen a right/ that this my little labour and work/ may so proceed (according to his most godly will and pleasure) that I in no wise err from the right way of truth. For I have here taken in hand (through God's permission) to prognosticate/ of the very zeal and love/ which I bear unto the truth. Taking my ground and foundation/ out of the prophecies of Esay/ jermy/ Ezechiel/ Esdras/ with divers other/ not omitting that princely prophet David/ like as I have done three years paste/ but I intend not to pass over so lightly.   

first we say/ through the mouth of the prophet Esdras. 
Babylon signifieth a place of sin Asia is taken for the three part of the world stretching from the North-east/ unto egypt. Egipte signifieth the whole world so that in this prophecy I do as well comprehend the turks as xpians.  Woe be unto the o Babylon and Asia/ woe be unto the o Egypte & Syria: gird your selves with clothes of sack & hear/ & mourn for your children/ be sorry (I say) for your destruction is at hand. A sword is sent upon you/ & who will torn it back? A fire is kindled against you/ of the fierce vengeance of God/ and who will quentche it? Behold sayeth the prophet. They take the word of God but for a scorn/ and have no lust there unto. Therefore I am (saith he) so full of thine indignation. Oh Lord/ that I may suffer it no longer. For from the least unto the most they hang & depend all upon covetousness/ & from the prophet unto the pressed/ they go all about with falsehood & lies. Again/ saith Esdras/ when men shall think to have peace unity and concord/ & that all manner of vittaylles shall be habondaunt/ & so good cheap upon earth/ that men shall think themselves to be in good case/ even than shall the great mischief & vengeance of the Lord fall upon them/ with wars/ death/ dearth pestilences and great disquyetnes/ which are but the beginning of moornyngiss and sorrows/ In so much that the people shall tremble for fear/ 
joel. ij.  saying now the Lord cometh & is hard at hand/ A dark day a glooming day/ a cloudy day/ a stormy day shall appear. 
Amos. viii.  The songs of the people shall be turned to sorrow/ Soche a hunger will I send upon the earth (saith the Lord) that no man shall be able to stop it/ in such a manner that all men may well say/ 
Psal. c.xxxviij.  where shall I hide me from the wrath of God? yea they shall say (sitting by the waters of Babylon and weape) we will hang our haps upon the trees that are therein/ as oft as we remember Zion. For who escape the war/ shall feel the plague of pestilence/ and he that is quite of the one/ shall not escape the danger of the other. And soche small love shall theyre be/ that one man shall find no manner of comfort at the hand of an other. Let no man marvel at these plagues that be to come/ saying they shallbe sent of God as scourges for the punishment of sin. 
S. Bernardes' saying.  S. bernard (as it were in the person of Chryst) sayeth. O thou man tell me the cause of thy misfortune and chance which thou haste in thy goods/ body/ & soul/ Thou servest the devil/ and not me He hath not created & made the of nought/ neither hath he saved thee/ when thou wast lost/ Chryst himself did not redeem the with the son/ moon/ stars and planets/ but with his precious blood through death. Therefore saith the prophet jeremy/ I am constrained to make my complaint upon you/ and upon your children. 
jere. ij.  Oh ye cursed sinners/ how woeful a thing will it be unto you/ which have forsaken the true God/ falling to sin/ the devil and all vanities. What unfaithfulness have you found in me/ saith the Lord/ your own conscience shall accuse you/ and your own wickedness shall condemn you. Again we speak unto you/ through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah. 
Esay. i.  Hear oh heaven/ hearken O earth/ for the Lord speaketh/ I have nourished and brought up children/ and they are fallen away from me. An ox knoweth his owner/ and an ass his master's stable/ but my people know me not. Expert they be in blasphemies/ falsehood/ and lies/ most like a froward generation and unnatural children/ as it appeareth evidently enough/ with what oaths they blasphemy God/ in every place/ as at weddings/ marriages/ banckettes/ feasts/ taverns/ markets/ & in many other pastimes/ plays/ games/ and such other things/ that by such devyllysshnes the divine name of God is openly detracted/ slandered & blasphemed. Yea in so much that it is so derided & mocked withal/ none other wise/ than as men should either put out their lips or point it with their formust finger/ with such dyshonestie and abominable vices and sins/ which at this time I shame to rehearse/ so that there be at this present day/ many more people living beastly & fylthelye/ then soberly honestly or virtuously. It needeth no probation of scripture/ saying the acts be to manifest as well to the rulers temporal as spiritual. In so much that the confession of faith/ true repentance/ and godly Sacraments with the pure preaching of the Gospel/ is so much neglected & despised/ that me think it is greatly to be lamented that it is so long unpunished/ for dyshonestie with disobedience is so greatly engendered to such manner of unshamefast boldness/ that in a manner it is to late to be reform. And it is to be feared that there be many sturdy vylleynes/ under the colour and pretence of begging/ will do much more harm/ than either jews/ Turks/ Agarenes or any manner of kind of beggars/ so that they will not only be content/ to beg in the open and comen streets of towns and Cities/ as do the lame/ doom/ and crepell/ nor yet to stand at the church doors & porches/ but without any shame will entre boldly into men's houses and taverns. And some there be of the other party/ that appear to the people lame/ halt and no less then crepell in deed/ that without the towns and Cities/ in the fields will take them to their feet/ laying away their cruches/ some time upon their shoulders/ much more readier to take a purse violently/ then to ask for Christus sake charytablye. Thus see you two manner of beggars/ both worthily to be reprehended and amended. For when the one kind of them hath before none/ brought home their provender/ and filled not only their bellies full/ but even crommed them up to the throats/ yet must they again at after none/ seek again in the streets/ where they may have their bags full against the next day/ so that they go gulping like brute beasts/ never satisfied. The other sort bowl & swyll all that ever they can get. The lord which seeth from above/ and knoweth that all these things are true/ shall ones judge that these be even the sheep without wool. Although there is no man that taketh heed of them/ yet is it not sufficient that both these kinds of people live thus miserably idly and wredchedlye/ from whom cometh scant one good word out of their mouths. And it is not a little to be marveled at/ that these enormities be unpunished/ saying they so great and intolerable. But even like as the link of one chain draweth after him an other/ so doth one mischief and sin draw an other after him. For there is no great sin that cometh alone/ but draweth by certain occasions many other evils after him/ by the which the great indignation from the Lord/ is cast as a plague to come upon the disobedient/ of whom the Prophet David speaketh. They rejoice when they do evil/ having delight and pleasure in their evil deeds. For the wicked when he cometh into the danger and depth of sin/ he passeth nothing at all for it/ so that. 
Rom. i.  S. Paul sayeth/ that God hath given all such people up into their hearts lusts/ and unto all lewd mind to do such things which be not comely/ being full of all unrighteous doings/ following the foot paithes and steps of Cain and judas/ with that stiffnecked & stony hearted Pharo. notwithstanding the goodness & great liberality of God forgiveth the sinner so oft as he falleth/ to the intent he should repent & amend. Therefore now ye Christian men arise from your sins/ and open your ears & understand with your hearts the words of the Prophet/ which sayeth. I am so full of thy indignation. 
jere. vi  O Lord/ that I can suffer it no longer. They take thy word but for a scorn/ tredinge it under their feet/ having no lust thereunto. power out thy wrath upon the children that are without thy word/ that the man may be taken prisoner with the wise/ the aged with the crepell. For what with the intolerable burdens of the scribes & pharizees/ the insatiable & beastly desires of the adulters & fornicators/ with the unmeasurable covetousness/ falsehood/ fraud & deceit of divers & strange sorts of people/ the church is become (I fear me) a very den of thieves robbers & bloody murderers. Therefore saith the Lord by his Prophet/ upon all such shall rain solphur/ fire & brimstone with winds both troublous and tempestuous and all other plagues/ no less than it was seen upon Sodoma and Gomorra. 
Genes nineteen. Ezechi. xvi. jere. vi Esa. xxi Ezechi. xxxviij. Psalm. xcviij.  And again speaketh the Lord by the mouth of his prophet Isaiah. I will power out upon you (saith he) my wrath/ and I will cast down upon you the fire of my vengeance and indignation/ with thunder/ lightening/ hail and darkness. So that there shall go a fire before the Lord/ which shall consume and burn up his enymyes on every side. Therefore cloth yowr selfes with sack cloth/ caste ashes upon your heads/ fast and pray/ lament and repent you of your sinful living. 
jonas. iij.  For the days of the Lord are at hand/ so that every thing which hath been prophesied shallbe fulfilled. 
Ezechi. xii.  Remember what great pity and mercy/ the Lord had over the ninivites/ after that they with long lamentation/ repentance and fervent supplication/ submitted themselves wholly to him. Also not withstanding that these three men/ Moses' Aaron and Samuel/ offended against the Lord/ yet when they repented and prayed heartily/ the Lord heard them/ yet punished he their transgressions/ as it appeareth by Moses which sinned at the water of Strife/ by reason whereof he might not enter into the land of promise. 
Nune. ij.  Likewise when Aaron made a golden calf unto the lords people. 
Exodi. xxxij. i. Regum viii. cha.  And Samuel sinned being negligent in teaching of his children. If God have not spared such men/ we then ought to take good heed/ how we walk in the presence of God. Therefore saith the prophet/ beware of the plague/ and pestilence of darkness/ which is a sickness that destroyeth the light of the day. And if ye will not turn and amend/ then the days of sorrow shall suddenly come/ from whose face thou shalt not flee. 
Genes seven. Psal. ij.  Thowe shalt call upon the floods of the waters/ with the highness of the mountains to hide the. There shallbe such a crying and wailing amongst the Christians/ that the one shall say to the other/ it were good that we never had been borne. insomuch that some shall disdain the words of this prophet/ yet is there nothing more truer/ then that which is spoken of before. So that great heaviness and sorrows shall chance/ aswell upon other staungers and alliant nations as upon the dowche land/ wherefore it behooveth me some thing to speak thereof/ that men perceiving the little ship of Peter (through discord and disobedience) to be rend and broken in pieces/ against the hard stony rocks/ shall then the more easier see these things to be true & no fables And though there be many which think the natural inclinations of the elements to be but fantastical and worthy of no credit/ yet can they not but grant the ordinance of God to be unfallable/ in as much as it proceedeth from the bosom of the father. And here do I both earnestly and plainly admonish the Germanies both high & low to join themselves unto the Eagle/ For elles there shall arise amongst them/ such war & discord that it shall not easily be appeased. For the Turk shall with great violence go about to destroy the lands of Meyssen/ Duryngen & Hesse/ as Merlin doth ꝓphecye/ which saith by such means the emperors majesty might come to some misfortune of his body/ by reason of the conjunction of iovis being in Scorpio. Also other princes & lords of the Roman Empire/ shallbe some thing troubled of their subjects/ notwithstanding it shall not long continue. And after that the emperors majesty hath taken great pain & trouble in travailing from one country to an other/ with moche disquietness & small rest/ aswell by land as by sea/ then shall the spiritual sword not be so long/ 
The spiritual sword shall be made shorter.  so broad/ nor yet so sharp/ to cut with such violence as it hath done in times passed. And in this time shall the son lose her light three points and a half great/ which shallbe upon a friday after. S. Bartholemews' day at one of the clock in the after none or there upon/ because Leo having the ascendent/ signifieth to us many fearful wars & great shedding of blood. Which as well they of the land of ostrich shall perceive and feal as many other strange nations. 
ostrich is under the dominion of Ferdinando king of Hongary  For Merlin sayeth that the Turk with great power purposeth to destroy the forenamed lands of Meyssen/ Duringen and Hesse. Therefore let not this Godly admonission and plague/ which hangeth over your heads (good Christian men) be forgotten/ but rather let it be closed within your hearts/ saying it is none other wise like/ than so to come to pass. For as truly as the Lord liveth/ great sorrows & troubles are at hand in which the holy prophecies shall be fulfilled/ and the true Christian church shall sore decay/ even like as it chanced unto the congregations of the jews/ being in great prosperity/ felicity & pride/ Hearing the wonderful things wrought above in heaven/ perceiving one like a valiant Captain/ being in a fiery charet and sitting in a stool of gold/ having in his hand a sharp spear/ and a voice heard in the entering in of the temple/ which said within a very short time we will departed hence/ which signified the mercy of God to be withdrawn from the generation of the jews/ and it so came to pass/ as it appeared most manifestly by the destruction of Jerusalem/ all this not withstanding nor nothing at all regarding these visions they mocked and derided them/ as things most false and untrue. And I fear me that as many of the dowchelande/ doth esteyme and judge these admonitions of the prophets as fables/ even so doth other lands and nations/ which will never repent/ until the time that those things hap to them/ as did to the jews for their dissobedience. 
Apoca. xviij. Esa. xii  But hear what S. John sayeth in the apocalypse/ of them which join themselves unto the babylon strumpet Babylon that great city is fallen/ which hath poisoned all nations/ causing them to drink of the wine of her stinking fornication. 
jere. li.  That mighty and great city Babylon (sayeth he) is fallen/ and become the habitation of devils. And why? because the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. 
Apoco. xiv.  And her merchants are waxen rich with the abundance of her pleasures/ yet in one hour (o thou Babylon) is thy judgement come. 
isaiah. xiii. jeremy xiv. Ezechi. xxxiiij.  Thy sheaperdes have destroyed and scattered my flock a broad sayeth the Lord/ feeding themselves/ and not my people. Therefore (sayeth he) I will upon them/ and requyer my sheep out of their hands/ & will feed them mine own self. For how many is there at this day which for the inward zeal which they bear unto the head of that city of Babylon/ take an occasion (after the ensample of Herod) to make inquisytion for filthy lucre's sake/ 
Mat. i.  for the poor innocent lambs of Chryst never leaving of until they have shed their blood/ thinking thereby their lordships and Kingdoms longer to endure. And it is seine at this present day in some places/ that although the name of the head of the Babylonical city be abolished/ yet were his laws never more advanced/ nor his ministers and adherentes had in more higher estimation. I would there were some man that could make the spiritualty to understand this lesson of Christ well/ where he saith/ 
mat. xx.  that the Princes and Lords of the heathen/ have power over the heathen people/ but it should not be so amongst his disciples/ Now then/ if they would hearken to this doctrine/ and grant themselves to be Christ's disciples/ then can they not look to have such rule in the world/ over dukedoms/ earldoms/ cities and towns/ in soche ample wise/ that worldly princes/ in a manner be nothing to be compared unto them/ or at the least without them. I speak not this in dispraise of the superior powers/ for even the same Gospel which taketh wordly promotion from the spiritual powers/ doth again restore the same to the civil Magistrates/ the which ought to be obeyed as well of the spirituality/ 
Roma. xiii.  as of the temperaltye/ seeing it is thordinances of God himself/ for the punisshement of them that be evil/ and maintaining of the good. So that who so ever withstandeth them/ withstandeth the ordinance of god/ seeing they be his ministers for our wealth and profit/ under whose subjection/ God hath instituted all creatures. For he sayeth clearly/ Omnis anima/ here is no man excepted/ neither spiritual nor temporal. 
Roma. xiii.  For where this order is not in the church of Christ/ there must the Lord needs send down his plagues and punisshementes/ according to the prophecy of Hyldegardus/ which sayeth/ the time shall come/ that the moon shall lose her light/ that is to say four points/ which shallbe upon a monday after vincula Petri/ at twelve of the clock at mydnighte/ the ascendent being in Aquario xviij degrees in Libra/ which undoubtedly doth signify unto us/ that many godly ordinances and statutes/ which have been made for the setting forward of god's honour and the public wealth/ shall be disannulled and broken/ and other wicked and ungodly acts shallbe put in their places. For in this time shall stand up a false prophet/ which shall go about to destroy the chiefest articles of our faith and belief/ and so through an outward and glorious appearance/ he shall seduce moche people/ and work many strange things. And in this time shall the emperors majesty be vexed and troubled with many of his subiectis/ so that the prisons in every place where men do use to execute justice/ shallbe filled / with monks/ fryres/ nuns and such other/ so that they shall live in an uncerteyn and unsure estate. Iten merchants & artificers/ shall not greatly profit in their affairs/ but that shall not long continue. Iten women shall have good fortune in their travail & labour/ for they shall bring forth many children within short time. After this shall there be two eclipsis/ the one of the Son/ the other of the moon. The son shall be darkened vi points great from the beginning to the ending/ which shallbe upon a wednesday eight days after the twelve day at after none. And again the moon shall lose her light upon a friday after the conversion of. S. Paul in the morning at two of the clock in the ix degree of Leo/ which betokeneth great mischance and fortune to them that dwell upon the sea coasts/ or where the ground is low. In this time men shall see a great fall and decay of Turks/ so that the empire shall have great rule & dominion/ conquering divers lands & lordships. Iten the nobles of the empire shall have prosperous succession and fortune with great favour of their subjects. In the mean time shall the spirituality be at variance/ strife/ & discord/ for the promotions and goods of the church. And while they are thus striving one against an other/ merchants and all other artificers/ shall have more prosperous and better luck in their trades & business than they had before. Notwithstanding/ Italy/ Norway/ and Denmark shallbe vexed troubled and be brought to great heaviness. About this time shall there be in France/ in the land of Luke/ and in some places of the land of Cleve/ great pestilence and other strange diseases/ then shall the floods of the water of Ryne burst forth with great violence/ and overflow divers parts of the land/ to the great discomodity of the people. In this time shall the son be darkened ix points from beneath upward/ upon the second friday after Easter after none at four of the clock twelve degrees in the sign of Pisces/ so that then th'ascendent shall show himself signifying unto us/ that there shall be a great number of princes deposed/ so that the crown of the land of Boheme shall stand void/ through the great disobedience of the subjects. And because they do reprove the rod wherewith they should be beaten/ I will therefore (saith the Lord) visit their transgression and disobedience/ 
Amos. viii.  with a sharper rod/ that is/ with the sword of war pestilence dearth and death. Then shall the prelates of the church be at strife/ one against an other for divers causes/ which I intend not much to entreat of at this time/ but will commit the things unto god/ yet will not I over slip the words of that princely prophet David/ which saith. 
Psal. ij.  The kings of the earth shall stand up/ and the rulers shall counsel and come together against the Lord/ and his anointed. For both  and Herode/ Anna's and Cayphas/ scribes & pharisees/ which seek their own profit and advantage/ with no small dissension and discord/ seeking the souls of them/ 
Isaiah. xiii.  which (the prophet Esay sayeth) shall not yet die/ They shall right well perceive the great plagues of god/ with lamenting and mourning as lamps with out oil/ & lanterns with out light/ being both idle/ blind & vain. 
Psalm. lxi.  For if they were laid against vanity in a peire of balance/ they should fly up unto the sky/ and be moche lighter than even vanity itself. hearken therefore (sayeth the Lord) ye princes of Sodoma/ & ye people of Gomorra/ these my words. For the sin of my people/ I will (sayeth he) suffer hypocrites to reign over you. Let us take heed of the wonderful example where the angel of god did destroy upon one night in the pavilions and tents of the Assyrians. C.lxxxv. thousand men. 
iiij. Regum. nineteen. isaiah. xxxvij.  For undoubtedly these plagues that are to come/ shall be for the sins/ which reign at this day in the world/ so that there shall assemble together in one field/ many nobles of great power/ which willingly shall go to battle/ where moche blood shall be shed/ most especially of the wicked/ in soche wise that the third part of the world/ shall there be slain. 
iiij. Esdras. xv  For I will hold my tongue no longer (sayeth the Lord) seeing the people be so wicked and ungodly/ for the innocent blood of the troubled/ crieth unto me/ and the souls of the righteous complain continually/ therefore will I avenge the blood of my people/ so that the world shallbe full of woefulness and misery. The ground shall lie void/ and not be tilled/ the trees shall bear fruit and shall not be gathered. The corn that is sown in the fields/ shall not be brought home into the barns/ the women shall weep and wail/ for the loss of their husbands/ that shall perish with the power of the sword. And more over/ Aloufresant prophecyethe/ that in this time/ the true christians shall have moche persecutions/ troubles & sorrows/ for the word of God. And after that shall there follow great dearth/ and death/ as well in other places/ as in douchelande. Then shall there come in the coasts of Europe/ such rain/ wind & tempest/ that many men shall be slain therewith And this tempest shall come from the north/ so that many shall go at night's merely to their beds/ which shallbe found dead in the morning/ and thus ended his prophecy. In this time also shall the papistry and seat of Rome stand void/ so that the Emperor shall take upon him to ordain and institute an other in the same seat/ to whom the Emperor shall adjoin himself & make atonement in the church. And the man whom he shall thus ordain/ shall be of great worthiness & virtue/ and thereto be set like one of power: so that after that he shall put down/ & take away great possessions/ rents/ promotions & dignyties/ from the prelate's and prebendaries/ forbidding all outward vain glorious pomp and pride/ aswell in external lightness of raiment & apparel both of men & women/ as also the superfluity of Gold/ Silver/ pearls/ precious stone's/ and such like/ so that he shall will every man & woman according to their vocation and calling to go soberly appareled/ as it becometh the true membres of Christ. Iten he shall command the Gospel of jesus Christ to be preached/ through out all the world/ rebuking all sinful & vicious living of the people but he shall not long continue. About this time shall there be heard of a great fall and destruction of the Turks/ amongst whom there shall be a great insurrection/ by the reason whereof they shallbe troubled with moche misery & calamity. For the stirring up of Saturnus shall work woundersly with them/ to their great misfortune & chance/ so that the Turk shall have but little courage and comfort to make war against the christians. The spyritualtie again on the other party/ shallbe at no small variance and discord amongst themselves/ by the reason whereof many Kings and princes shall take good occasion to reform many enormities/ little to their ease and profit. For many of them which think to build upon a foundation as hard as any rock/ shall find that it is but a very slypperishe sand. Now if men of power and renown/ will build upon these foundations so uncertain and unsure/ it is no marueyll/ though God do plague them for their wickedness/ that so wilfully resist and nothing at all regard these his godly admonissions/ which should move and star all christian men to repentance. O Lord how short is the time of mercy/ and how few be there that require it at thy hands in time/ which thing obtained/ we shall ever live/ and never die? 
Math. xv.  The woman of canane/ called to Christ for mercy/ and by and by her daughter was made hole. Also job saith/ that the earth is not only full of mercy/ but heaven and hell/ for who hath ever called upon Christ for mercy/ which hath not received it of him/ so that he have asked it in faith. And understand that the emperors majesty Charles the fift shall work the Turk more sorrow than any prince hath done these. CCCC. years/ so that they which are under the sign of sagittarius/ shall prevail and have great victory/ which shall be the Emperor himself/ or one of his blood. And where I might here speak more of the emperors majesty/ and of divers things/ which shallbe done by him & his nobles/ let no man think the contrary/ but his acts shall excel and pass all other princes/ if he be not hindered by the persuasions of the prelate's of the Roman empire. 
The ꝓphecye of Cibilla cumana. Understand by those letters/ F E/ A and G/ the dominical and the leap year. Math. xxiv.  And to this doth agree Cibilla Cumana/ speaking out of the spirit of prophecy/ affirming it to chaunche betwixt F and E/ A and G. Which prophecy endeth at xlviij years/ or soon after. Before that time there shall be great change in the world/ and strange wonders shallbe heard of/ that shall be true/ although they shall appear to many/ very uncredible. And then more things shall chaunche in a very short time/ then hath been seen many years before. And the last sign and token after these/ there shallbe so great persecution and tribulation/ as hath not been seen nor heard of/ sins the beginning of the world. And after this persecution/ shall the son be darkened/ and the moan shall not give her light/ in so much that I do find especially two fearful Eclipses of the moon/ in so much that she shall lose her light very greatly with in one year/ and shallbe darkened from above to beneath/ and these eclipses shall give unto all nations/ a great admonition and warning. For the operation of both these Eclipsis/ shall chaunche between the year xxxvij. and xlviij signifying to us/ so great trouble & heaviness to chance unto the spirituality/ that I will let pass to name the hour and day/ referring it unto the judgement of the Lord. And so far as this cirkell doth stretch/ so far shall there great disquietness be. 
Apoca. xiii.  So that I would men should note these two figures following in the Apocalypse. The first is/ I saw a beast rising out of the sea/ having vij heads ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns/ & upon his head the name of blasphemy/ by which beast I understand that usurper of God's laws/ & wicked tyrant Antechriste/ which hath most beastly lived and taught the people most wicked and beastly doctrine/ which hath drawn underneath his subjection seven. the most noblest Realms of the whole world/ he that hath cares/ let him hear. And I beheld an other beast coming out of the earth/ & he had two horns like a lamb/ & he spoke as great things as did the first/ and caused the people which dwelled in the earth to worship the first beast/ whose deadly wounds was healed by him/ let him that readeth understand. These prophecies are both chanced & fulfilled/ & we trust by the help of God/ that these things shall be redressed by the emperors majesty/ Charles the .v. & his assistentes. After this shall come a good time/ for there shall be a new reformation/ which shall continue long/ so that the name of the great Turk shallbe no more heard of. In this time shall other fearful things be seen in the son/ for upon the second wensdaye after easter at .v. of the clock in the morning/ in the xxvij degree/ the sign being in Aries. Theridamas shallbe such darkness as hath not been seen in many years before/ which signifieth that many princes & kings shall rule together in one realm. 
Miche. iiij.  Then (saith the prophet) shall they make of their swords ploweshares/ and scythes of their spears/ & every man shall sit under his vynearde and fig tree/ so that one people shall not life up his weapon against an other/ neither shall they from thence forth learn to fight. 
Esa. ij.  After that shall the blind jews know by the declaration of the prophecies of jacob/ that the true messias hath been borne long & many years agone/ which they unto this day/ have looked for his coming. 
Genes lxxi.  Which prophecy sayeth thus: when messias shallbe borne then shallbe taken from the jews their sceptre and crown/ and they shallbe ruled of the Romysshe Empire: which so chanced after the death of Christ. And through Titus & Vespasianus they were brought under the subjection of the Emperor of Rome. And now I trust (through the goodness of almighty God) that it shallbe aswell declared unto the jews/ as it hath been believed of the Christians/ that Messiah is come already So that then (after the destruction of the Turks) they shallbe all converted unto the christian belief/ & the Gospel shallbe received with all diligence. And this is the good will & mind/ of the most redoubted Emperor and godly prince Charles/ & that not only in word/ but also in heart & deed. For this purpose hath the almighty God ordained so many godly and excellent countries underneath his governance/ to the intent that the pure and undefiled word of god might be preached and sincerely taught/ thorough out all his lands/ to the honour of God & salvation of mankind. Whereby it shall appear (I trust) to all his true subjects/ to cause them to take the more courage/ to the further increase of virtue/ and preservation of his excellent majesty. Blessed be that hour when this shall come to pass/ and blessed be all they which shall advance & set forward these things before rehearsed unto all nations. For the which let us all pray with one heart & mind/ that this God's honour and our salvation may be obtained/ peace increased/ and all consciences quieted. For the Lord knoweth what creatures we be/ saying/ We are but ashes/ & to ashes shall we return again/ and as we brought nothing into this world/ so shall we carry nothing away with us. 
Gen. iij Ezechi. xvij.  Here with I make an end/ and take my leave/ never more intending after this to ꝓnosticate/ but will counsel all men in the stead of prognostications to embrace Gods word/ which is able to save your souls/ according to the saying of the apostle. 
Ia●●. i.  And all though in this pronostication/ I speak most specially of those things/ which are like to chance (by the natural inclinations of the planets) in douchelande/ yet were it good for all other lands & realms/ here with to be admonished and take good head/ for where so ever the Lord is most dishonoured & his word resisted/ there will he first strike & plague/ and if there be any (as perchance there will be some) which will say (tush) this ꝓnosticator is no wiser than mad Marlyn & such other false and profane fabelers/ as he doth here in allege them for his authors/ well/ admit that both they and I were liars (as in dead we are no other) yet is the Lord righteous and true/ which will smite the world with his staff and rod/ and with the breath of his mouth/ he will destroy the wicked. 
Genes xlix  But here will some men peradventure object and say/ that these great threats and plagues of god before rehearsed and spoken of by the prophets/ were prophesied against the wicked and disobedient jews/ against Sodoma and Gomorra/ against their prince's priests cities and countries/ which things were fulfilled many ninety years passed/ as at the destruction of Jerusalem & such other. Well/ against all such that thus arrogantly will reason against the Lord/ will he himself whet his sword/ bend his bow/ and make ready his arrows/ to shoot at those disobedient people/ which continue still in their sins with moche more abomination/ than ever did these heathen or ungodly jews. And let no man think/ that his sword is any shorter at this time against them that will not repent and amend/ then it was in time paste. For truly/ the sins which reign at this day in the world/ do greatly provoke the plagues & vengeance of god to come shortly upon us. And though our gracious god be a long suffering god/ yet at length he punisheth/ and that with great violence/ according to the saying of the prophet Naum/ where he saith. 
Naun. i.  The Lord taketh vengeance upon his enemies/ & reserveth displeasure for his adversaries/ there is no power nor prince/ that can withstand the Lord of hosts/ for look what he saith/ it is done/ and what he commandeth/ it standeth fast. 
Psalm. xxxij.  There is no counsel which shall long prevail/ if it be against the Lord/ according to the saying of the prophet David/ speaking on this wise. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the unfaithful to nought/ and turneth the devices of the people/ but the counsel of the Lord endureth/ and the thoughts of his heart/ from generation to generation. A king is not holpen (sayeth he) by his own great host/ neither is a Giant saved throuh the might of his own streangth. 
Psalm xxxiij. Naun. i.  Let us now therefore fear the Lord/ for at the sight of his displeasure/ all the world shall shake and tremble for fear who may abide his displeasue/ or ones flee from his indignation? his anger taketh on like fire/ so that the hard rocks (sayeth the prophet) at his displeasure burst insunder. 
Esa. xi.  Therefore all true and faithful christians/ lament and morn/ for the day of the lord is at hand/ which cometh as a destroyer from the almighty. 
Isaiah. xiii.  Then shall all hands be let down and all men's hearts shall melt away/ carefulness & sorrow shall come upon them/ & their faces shall burn like the flame/ because (saith the prophet) the day of the Lord shallbe so terrible/ that his indignation and wrath shall be cast upon the face of th'earth/ to make it waste/ & to root out the sin thereof. Hear what the Lord saith/ by the mouth of his prophet/ woe be to all them (saith he) that make unrightuous laws/ 
Esai. x.  devising things to hard to be kept/ whereby the poor are oppressed on every side/ and the innocent people are therewith rob of judgement/ the widows made a pray/ so that the fathirles be spoiled of their goodis. 
job. xii  This may almen see how the godly and innocent be entreated and laughed to scorn/ and the houses of robbers be in wealth and prosperity. The Lord everlasting/ which hath the hearts of all kings and princes in his hand/ to turn them where ever he will/ preserve the emperors most noble majesty/ with all kings and princes and stablish them with great honour & long life/ to ꝓmote the gospel of Chryst. Amen.  
Let every man fear the day of the Lord/ for it is hard at hand.  Isaiah. xiii. 
Anno. M.D.xliij. in may.