Shinkin ap Shone HER PROGNOSTICATION FOR The ensuing Year, 1654.  
FORETELLING What Admirable Events are like to fall out in the Horizon of Little Britain beyond Mawburn Hills, and in all other places in Europe, Asia, Africa, and AMERICA  
As also a true Story of the beginning of the Welsh-men, their Rise and Progress, and how they came first to inhabit the Welsh Mountains, never heretofore discovered either in Print or Writing, and now published for the comfort and consolation of aul her countrymen now living, and for the benefit of Posterity.  
Likewise an Astrological Prediction, concerning the Gazing Star, seen by thousands of people in and about London, the 22. and 23 of February 1653.  
Calculated for the Meridian of Mawburn-hils, where the Pole Arctic is elevated eight foot and twelve inches above the Welsh Alps, and may serve indifferently for all Kingdoms, Countries and Continents.  
Printed for the Author, and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of the Cows Bobby behind the Wesh Mountain.   

Shinkin ap Shone her Prognostication.  
IT was spoken long since by her cousin, a wise and learned Welsh Gentleman, that art had no enemy but ignorance; and therefore her shall not speak much by way of Preface, Praeludium or Exordium, for her do not doubt in the least but to give her understanding Countrymen good content, and for carping zoiluses and mumbling Mommuses, her takes no care to please, but for her ingenuous sons of art, her hopes her will take her pains and industry in good part, and so her gins her Prognostication; and because divers of her learned Astrologers, especially her own cousins and her Country men, differ about which month should be the first in the year, some taking it to begin in january, others in March, therefore her will deliver her sense concerning that point, and says that in her judgement the year gins in March, and that for these her welsh reasons: First, because according to her rules of her welsh art, the first day of March is St. Taffies day, at which time the Leeks be ripe and fit for her pot, and if her mistake not, there will be a new Moon about the eighth day of March, five quarters of an hour past 5 at night; and therefore her does conclude, by these her welsh reasons, that the year gins in March. Another of her reasons is, because her own cousin and countryman Lewis ap Shone, being a ferry learned gentleman in the Mathematical Science, does confirm her in her judgement; and now to her prognostication. In this Month her shall have fair weather if it be not foul, in this month also is a very good time for her to eat Leeks and Onions, especially in her welsh porridge, it will moke her good blood, and will cleanse her veins from excrementuous humours: in this Month her is fearful divers of her cousins and countrymen will be in great danger, by reason of some malevolent Planet's influence upon her dear countrymen; for if her be not mistaken in her Annals, her Cousin Lewis Keeg Guidon was hanged at Presteign much about this time of the year, and if her countrymen be not serry careful of their own safeties, there will be many of her Countrymen go the same way: for her know, that when the sign is in the neck, as it is on the 11 day of this month, her Countrymen are in much danger, of which her is ready to give them warning, which her prays all her Countrymen to take in time; for if her do not take her counsel in time, it will be worse for her, and therefore if her love her neck peware about this time, create plots and conspiracies are like to he found out, but hope, though her be not ferry sure, that her honest countrymen will have nothing to do with such deeds of darkness, for her own part, her do declare her shudgement freely, her thinks it best and safest to sleep in a whole skin, and her say again, and again, tat for her own part, let whose neck will come into a halter, her is resolved to keep her neck out, if her can; for her do well remember, that if her head be once cotton in, it's hardly cotton out again quickly; for her own father was a Gentleman of could quality, for a Welshman, and was shoakt with a halter, and yet her was no plotter nor conspirator, but a ferry honest gentleman of could repute among her neighbours, only her borrowed five yoke of Oxen of her near kinsman Rice ap Hugh, without her consent; which misfortune, her cannot attribute to any thing but her destiny and malevolent stars; and terefore her shall conclude tiss months Observations with te words of a wise man, xiz. He that pewares not pefore, shall pee sorry afterwards.  

April's Observations.  
Tiss month pegins te firft day, according to te shudgement of the ancient, and for her own part, her is of the same shudgement, and tat for tiss reason, pecause as her humbly conceives, tere is a new Moon te seven day, about three quarters of an hour past three of te clock in te morning; and du● her think a new Moon can pee made in less time than seven days, and some few odd hours and minutes? Truly her thinks not for her own part, neither does her pelieve tat te best or most skilfullest in all her country can make one new moon in twice te time, let her prate what her will, if her knows not te Law her does but lose her labour, and make herself pee laughed at; for her tat wanteth knowledge art and science is but the outside of a man, without an inside: For now her call to her memory, her have read a Story of Alexander and his great horse, for they were both wise: it is reported of his horse, that when he had his trappings and rich furniture on, he would suffer none but his Master Alexander himself to come near him, but when his rich furniture was off, he was so gentle that any one of his Master's servants might get upon his back and ride him at pleasure: for which her wisdom, as her humbly conceives, it was that her Master Alexander loved her so well, for Alexander was a man, that loved learning and learned men entirely, her made so create account of knowledge and learning, tat her would oft times say, tat her thought herself more peholding to Aristotle for her learning, than to Philip her father for her life, pecaus as her conceived, the one viz▪ Learning, is immortal, and te other, viz. Life, but short and momentary. But her must not dwell here, her hope her countrymen will pardon her long and needful digression, peing in commendation of learning and learned men, and now to her business. Tiss month as her have read in ferry could Authors, was te Mountains of Wales first inhabited by her Ancestors and Predecessors, and pecaus many profane and ignorant Englishmen have presumed to traduce her teer friends and countrymen with sundry opprobrious languages, as first, tat her countrymen sprang first of all from a horseturd left upon te top of Maburn-hills by Bucephulus, Alexander's create horse, others of them say, that when Brutus first entered Wales her horse left a Surreverence upon te top of Mawburn-hills, and from thence came her countrymen, and terefore tey call her Countrymen Brutes, as if they were Beasts, others of tem say, tat te first peginning of her countrymen sprang from a Baw Guithie, or a Goose— breathed upon Pygmalion's Image, te Poets feigning that te gods made her alive, and te first time she blew her nose she threw te snot from her, which falling upon a Goose— from that precious compound came te Welshman: But in all tese tings tey are deceived, not having read te writings of te Ancients: For first, her cannot find in all her Welsh Histories, that ever Alexander te create ever was in her Country, and if ever her was at Mawburn-hills, which her cannot peleeve, Mawburne-hills is not in her Country, and terefore tat can pee no disparagement to her, or her Countrymen, and for calling her countrymen brutes, or beasts, her understands not in te least, nor her thinks no body else that ever her knew, or could ever hear of; and therefore her will wave that, and the rest, and give her Countrymen a clear demonstration of her pedigree from the first inhabiting of Wales, her Ancestors ancient Inheritance, and to the everlasting praise of her Countrymen be it spoken: It is thus. It was in ancient time, but her thinks it was since Noah's Flood, England was governed by several Kings, and at that time Carnwall was a Kingdom of itself, distinct from the rest, and the King of Cornwall having occasion to use a great number of Oars at Sea, more than her own Domnions was able to furnish her withal, whereupon the King of Cornwall called a Council together to advise with her about her business, being of great weight to her small Commonwealth; whereupon it was unanimously agreed, that her Majesty of Cornwall should write a Letter in Cornish to her Majesty of France for a supply of French Oars for her Cornish Galleys, but when her Majesty of France had received her Majesty of Cornwall's Letters, and her Majesty of France not well understanding the Cornish tongue, understood these Oars to be Whores, of which kind of good creatures France did abound, insomuch that they might be well spared, her Majesty of France willingly consented, and accordingly sent over to Cornwall eight ships well fraught with French whores, which when her Majesty of Cornwall perceived, her was horn mad, especially for that her French whores were almost naked, whereby her Majesty knew that her had gotten a great number of idle people into her Territories more than her had, though her Countrry was well provided before, as her own Country is to this day: But to proceed in her discourse, her Majesty of Cornwall being willing to  these French whores, and to set them to work, and there being little store of cloth in Cornwall, because few good Huswives dwelled there, her Majesty of Cornwall writ a Letter to the King of Jreland in the Cornish Tongue, to send him over as many Irish Rugs as would  those French whores; but when her Majesty of Jreland had received her Letter, and not well understanding the Cornish Tongue, her understood the Rugs to be Rogues, of which Ireland was well stored; whereupon her Majesty of Jreland mustered up as many Rogues as was expressed in her Letter, and more too, because her would be rid of them, and sent them over by shipping into Cornwall, which when her Majesty of Cornwall perceived, her was worse mad than before; whereupon her called her Council together to consult what was fit to be done in such a case; whereupon, after much time spent in debate, some moving to hang them, others opposing that, alleged, that would make Hemp dear; and therefore in her judgement, it was best and the cheapest way to throw them all into the Sea, and drown them all: But against that was alleged, that that was the worst way that could be to dispose of them; for that was the way to breed a scarcity of fish in all the Nations round about, because the French whores and Irish rogues were such nasty stinking , that if her Majesty should throw them into the Sea, they would poison all the Fishes in the Sea, and so not only bring famine into her own Territories, but also provoke all the Princes round about her to war against her Crown and Kingdom; and if her should hang them, it would not only make Hemp dear, but destroy all her loving Subjects with a pestilential air, or ill smell; and if her drown them, it would poison all the fishes in the Sea, and bring famine upon all her Subjects, to her exceeding great detriment; wherefore there was a necessity to find out some other way, whereupon it was resolved, that forasmuch as Wales was not then inhabited, and that it was but a short cut from Cornwall to Wales, and that as there was many hills, there could not choose but be some Dales, and they being there, they could neither make hemp dear, nor poison the fish, but if they poisoned any body, they must poison one another; For these, and the like reasons it was unanimously agreed Nemine contra dissent, that they should be forthwith sent over, which was done accordingly, and of their Offspring came her welsh cousin and countrymen, 
Who since by Procreation,  
Are now become a nasty Nation.   
Thus her hopes her have done her Country good service in freeing her Countrymen from calumnies and aspersions, also humbly craving pardon for her prolixity, it being ferry needful to clear herself and her countrymen from such aspersions usually cast upon her and her countrymen by profane and ignorant Englishmen; and as her have been long and large in some things, so her shall be brief and short in some other, and so her comes to give her judgement to the gazing Star, or Stella nova, seen in and near London, about the 22 and 23 of February, 1654.  
Her does humbly conceive, that this Star does portend (if any thing at all) either peace or war, or both, but which her do not ferry well know, because her have not consulted with her Authors, because her Library was burnt at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah, which neither herself, nor any body else for her is ever like to recover; but her have borrowed one of the Modern Astrologers books, which tells her, that Stars at that time of the day, signify only fair and dry weather, her does confess if there be no rain, it is like to be a dry summer, but her can give no great credit to Modern Astrology, because things new are not always true, but if her had her Library, before spoken of, her would undertake to resolve her all her doubts, and so her bids her farewell.   
FINIS.