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THE END OF LONDON.
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warfare againe, nor any more Kings or Queenes, but the Kingdome shall be governed by three Lords, and then York shall be London; And after this shall be a white Harvest of corne gotten in by women. Then shall be in the North, that one woman shall say unto another, Mother I have seen a man to day, and for one man there shall be a thousand women, there shall be a man sitting upon St. James's Church hill weeping his fill; And after that a Ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London, and the Master of the Ship shall weepe, and the Marriners shall aske him why hee weepeth, being he hath made so good a voyage, and he shall say; Ah what a goodly Citie this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drinke for our money.

"Vnhappy he that lives to see these days,
But happy are the dead Shiptons wife sayes.

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"FINIS.

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