Poor Robin's Collection of Ancient PROPHECIES.  
Being twelve in Number, some whereof were delivered long since by our Famous English Prophet AMBROSE MERLIN And found in old Manuscripts, now Printed for the Readers satisfaction, others were found engraven on a marble stone, in the Year 1520. being ingraved in Latin Characters, some whereof were Englished by Mr. WILLIAM LILLY, With Allowance.  
London Printed for Philip Brooksby, and are to be sold at the next door to the Golden Ball near the Hospital gate in West-Smithfield. 1672.   

Poor Robin's Collection of Ancient PROPHECIES.  
FOr the better Illustrating this small Tract the Reader may take an account of the several attribute given to Prophet, whereof some in our languages are called Prophets, others Predict●…s, and some of them are called Seers, the name of prophet was and ought to be p●e●●●r●●●h●●to those tha● propresie Divine Mysteries which should fu●urety h●p●en, the other ●i●…, are more promiscu●…sl● used by several authors, but of that enough and before 〈◊〉 some to inquire i● to which of these Lists this our Countryman M●…l●n ought to be fi●…d, it is necessary I speak something of his Parents, his Mother being certain, but his Father uncertain, for so say, whether he were according to Nature begot by a Man and a Woman, or according to his Mother's confession begot or conceived by an incuby, but whatever his Father was, true it is his Mother was the Royal Daughter of King Demetius that sometimes flourished in this Isle of Britain, and thus much for his birth and Parents, we will now speak as well of his as other famous Prophecies beginning at Henry the fifth the Black Prince so called for his Victories in France, and continue them down to these times.  

Merlin's first Prophecy of King Henry the Fifth.  

Note a strange mixture in the Planet's seed,  
For now a Mercury a Mars shall breed,  
Who in his Arms accommodate and fit,  
Shall compass more by War than be by Wit,  
The Q●duceus to a Sword shall change,  
And grim Orion shall though it seem strange,  
Sat in Astrea's Orb and from her tear  
The three leaved flower she in her hand did bear,  
And after many afurious Victory  
At length invested shall this Lion be.   
The exposition of this Prophecy is plain and meant of Henry the Fifth, who conquered all France, and was crowned King of France in Paris the French have the Flower De Luce in their Arms.   

Merlin's second Prophecy on Henry the Sixth.  

How comes the Sun to rise where he should Set  
Or how Lambs, Lions, Lions, Lambs beget,  
Yet so●t must be, the Lamb though doubly crowned,  
And thinking his large Empire hath no bound,  
Yet shall a Dolphin at a low Ebb Land  
And snatch one powerful Sceptre from his hand,  
Thus it falls out twixt Father and the Son,  
Windsor shall lose what ever Monmouth won.   
This Prophecy was made good in Henry the sixth Reign, who for his meekness was surnamed a Lamb he was doubly crowned in London and in Paris.  
The Dolphin of Vien being at the lowest Ebb of State yet in time recovered the whole Realm of France, with the Dukedom of Normandy, so that he snatched one Sceptre from his hand, thus Henry the Sixth born at Windsor lost all that Henry the Fifth born at Monmouth had before achieved by his unmatchable Prowess.   

Merlin's Prophecy of King Henry the Eighth.  

Rouse him shall this fierce lain in his Den,  
Be favoured of the Gods and feared of Men.  
Gallia shall quake, Albania stand in are,  
And Caesar's sleep when he but shows his ●ar,  
To league with him Hesperia shall take pride,  
Those whom he afric m●rse half black hath died,  
He further from the Scoptarchy of Hills  
That Europe awes, and triple Crown that fille.  
The Christian world with terror takes the power  
And bring it ●em● unto his british bower.   
By Alla it is meant the Kingdom of Se●iand and by Hesperia, Spain, and by Gallia, France, by the Septarchy of Hills, meaning the seven hills on which Rome standeth and further taking on himself to be the supreme head of the Church in his dominions takes away that power from the Pope's triple Crown.   

A Prophecy of Edward the Sixth and may be continued to these times in some part.  

By birth a Caesar and in hopes as great,  
There shall ascend to the Imperial Seat,  
Upright he shall between two Basis stand,  
The one in the Sea fixed the other on the Land,  
Those like true Heroes shall great honour gain  
Secure the continent and scou●e the Mains  
And e'er this great supporters ta'en away  
His banners must in Northern Europe sway.   
Edward the Sixth being riped out of his Mother's womb was called by the Name of Caesar, after the same manner the great Roman Julius be so produced into the world, had the surname of Cesar, his great supporter was the Duke of Summerset the then Protector and the governor of the young King.   

A Prophecy on Queen Mary  

In time the Masculine Sceptre cease to sway  
And to a Spinster the whole Land obey,  
Who to the Papal Monarchy shall restore,  
All that the Phoenix had fetched thence before,  
Then shall come in the Faggot and the Stake  
And they of convert bodies b●n●fires make,  
Men shall her short unprosperous Reign deplore,  
By loss at Sea and damage on the Shore,  
Whose bear being dissected you in it  
May in large Characters find Callais Writ.   
This Prophecy was made good in Queen Mary and Spinster is an ancient British title given to the Female Sex when they used to be convend into any court before King Edgar's time, the rest of this Prophecy unriddles itself.   

Merlin's Prophecy of Queen Elizabeth, her Birth and Reign.  

From the others Ashes shall a Phoenix rise  
Whose birth is thus predicted by the wise,  
Her chief predominant Star is Mercury,  
Jove shall with Venus in Conjunction be;  
And Sol with them shine in his best Aspect  
With Ariadne's Crown Astrea decked,  
Shall then descend upon this terrene Stage  
Not seen before, since the first golden Age,  
Against whom all the lation bulls shall roar  
But at Jove's awful summons shall give o●e,  
Her brighs and glorious Sun be●m● shall expel  
The vain Clouds of the Candle, book and bell.  
Of whom bred Viper's Menaces will come  
A bad retort of favours she hath done,  
Though all these Dogs chase her with open cry  
Live she shall L●●●, and feared then famished die.   
Concerning the Astrological calculation of her birth in her it proved most infallibly true, all the other being so copious and plain, that any intelligable Mar may understand them.   

A Prophecy of King James by Ambrose Merlin.  

On ●orius back when hither shall be born  
Through weeks over tweed a Princely Unicorn,  
Who brings into the world his own fair Crest  
A Rampant Lion figured on his breast,  
And to his arms six Lions more shall quarter  
With six French flowers environed with a garter,  
Joining by fates unchargeably dispose  
The Northern Thistle, with the Southern Rose,  
He shall the true Apostolic faith maintain,  
With pious zeal during his blessed Reign.   
There needs no explaination to this prophecy of King James being so conspicuous, that each that can read it may understand it; thus far we have traced the Prophecies of our fameed English Merlin renowned throughout the world, for this his admirable gift of Prophecy, in which are hinted many predictions toward the lattererd of our Viper like, and ungrateful neighbours, with a happy auguration of his present Majesty's Grandeur and victory over his enemies, but we leave the wise discerning Reader to judge and find it out.  
A discovery of some ancient Prophecies in the year One thousand five hundred twenty a Marble Stone was found in the bowels of Mount Taurus upon an extreme deluge, the words of the Prophecies were graveed in ancient Latin Characters, and thus Englished by Mr, William Lilly.   

The Prophecies at large,  
There shall arise a Star in Europe towards the house of the north, whose beam, shall unexpectedly, enlighten the whole world.  
This shall be in a most acceptable time when mortal Men being wearied with war shall he desirous of peace.  
Near unto this Stars setting a light as ancient as 〈◊〉 former breaks out, and running with eager flames of wart will shut up, or conclude his dominion, with the coasts of Antitodus.  
One Orb shall contradict, or contend with another.  
The fixed Stars in motion shall run faster than the Planets, all these things shall follow, viz, The Seas shall rise level with the Mountains, in a word, night destruction and darkness shall conclude all these things.  

Thus did the Mead reot out the Assyria Race  
The Persian quickly speiled the Meads in place,  
Of him subdueed, up starts the Maccde,  
Who after yielded to the Roman Foe;  
So do all Nations Justle out each other,  
And so one People do pursue a nether;  
And scarce a second that a first unhoused  
Before a third him thence again hath roused.   
FINIS.