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The
Prophecy of Merlin
From
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
History
of the Kings of
Chapter. III.--The Prophecy of Merlin.
As Vortigern, king of the Britons, was sitting upon
the bank of the drained pond, the two dragons, one of which was white, the
other red, came forth, and,
approaching one another, began a terrible fight, and
cast forth fire with their breath. But the white dragon had the advantage, and
made the other fly to the end of the lake. And he, for grief at his flight,
renewed the assault upon his pursuer, and forced him to retire. After this
battle of the dragons, the king commanded Ambrose Merlin to tell him what it
portended. Upon which he, bursting into tears, delivered what his prophetical
spirit suggested to him, as follows:--
"Woe to the red dragon, for his banishment
hasteneth on. His lurking holes shall be seized by the white dragon, which
signifies the Saxons whom you invited over; but the red denotes the British
nation, which shall be oppressed by the white.
Therefore shall its mountains be levelled as the
valleys, and the rivers of the valleys shall run with blood. The exercise of
religion shall be destroyed, and churches be laid open to ruin. At last the
oppressed shall prevail, and oppose the cruelty of foreigners. For a boar of
his assistance, and trample their necks under his
feet. The islands of the ocean shall be subject to his power, and he shall
possess the forests of
The house of
Religion shall be again abolished, and
there shall be a translation of the metropolitan sees.
The dignity of
the
punishment of men, that the natives may be restored.
He that shall do these things shall put on the brazen man, and upon a brazen
horse shall for a long time guard the gates of
Mortality shall snatch away the people, and make a
desolation over all countries. The remainder shall quit their native soil, and
make foreign
plantations. A blessed king shall prepare a fleet, and
shall be reckoned the twelfth in the court among the saints. There shall be a
miserable desolation of the kingdom, and the floors of the harvests shall
return to the fruitful forests. The white dragon shall rise again, and invite
over a daughter of
Then shall the North Wind rise against him, and shall
snatch away the flowers which the west wind
produced. There shall be gilding in the temples, nor
shall the edge of the sword cease. The German dragon shall hardly get to his
holes, because the revenge of his treason shall overtake him. At last he shall
flourish for a little time, but the decimation of
Then shall succeed a lion of justice, at whose roar
the Gallican towers and the island dragons shall tremble.
In those days gold shall be squeezed from the lily and
the nettle, and silver shall flow from the hoofs of bellowing cattle. The
frizzled shall put on various fleeces, and the outward habit denote the inward
parts. The feet of barkers shall be cut off; wild beasts shall enjoy peace;
mankind shall be grieved at their punishment; the form of commerce shall be
divided; the half shall be round. The ravenousness of kites shall be destroyed,
and the teeth of wolves blunted. The lion's whelps shall be transformed into
sea-fishes; and an eagle shall build her nest upon Mount Aravius. Venedotia
shall grow red with the blood of mothers, and the house of Corineus kill six
brethren. The island shall be wet with night tears; so that all shall be
provoked to all things. Woe to thee, Neustria, because the lion's brain shall
be poured upon thee; and he shall be banished with shattered limbs from his
native soil. Posterity shall endeavour to fly above the highest places; but the
favour of new comers shall be exalted.
Piety shall hurt the possessor of things got by
impiety, till he shall have put on his Father: therefore, being armed with the
teeth of a boar, he shall ascend above the tops of mountains, and the shadow of
him that wears a helmet. Albania
shall be enraged, and, assembling her neighbours,
shall be employed in shedding blood. There shall be put into her jaws a bridle
that shall be made on the coast of Armorica. The eagle of the broken covenant
shall gild it over, and rejoice in her third nest. The roaring whelps shall
watch, and, leaving the woods, shall hunt within the walls of cities. They
shall make no small slaughter of those
that oppose them, and shall cut off the tongues of
bulls. They shall load the necks of roaring lions with chains, and restore the
times of their ancestors.
Then from the first to the fourth, from the fourth to
the third, from the third to the second, the thumb shall roll in oil. The sixth
shall overturn the walls of Ireland, and change the woods into a plain.
He shall reduce several parts to one, and be crowned
with the head of a lion. His beginning shall lay open to wandering affection,
but his end shall carry him up to the blessed, who are above.
For he shall restore the seats of saints in their
countries, and settle pastors in convenient places. Two cities he shall invest
with two palls, and
shall bestow virgin-presents upon virgins. He shall
merit by this the favour of the Thunderer, and shall be placed among the
saints. From him shall proceed a lynx penetrating all things, who shall be bent
upon the ruin of his own nation; for, through him, Neustria shall lose both
islands, and be deprived of its ancient dignity. Then shall the natives return
back to the island; for there
shall arise a dissension among foreigners. Also a
hoary old man, sitting upon a snow-white horse, shall turn the course of the
river Periron, and shall measure out a mill upon it with a white rod.
Cadwallader shall call upon Conan, and take
Albania into alliance. Then shall there be a slaughter
of foreigners; then shall the rivers run with blood. Then shall break forth the
fountains of Armorica, and they shall be crowned with the diadem of Brutus.
Cambria shall be filled with
joy; and the oaks of Cornwall shall flourish. The
island shall be called by the name of Brutus: and the name given it by
foreigners shall be abolished.
From Conan shall proceed a warlike boar, that shall
exercise the sharpness of his tusks within the Gallic woods. For he shall cut
down all the larger oaks, and shall be a defence to the smaller. The Arabians
and Africans shall dread him; for he shall pursue his furious course to the
farther part of Spain. There shall succeed the goat of the Venereal castle,
having golden horns and a silver beard, who shall breathe such a cloud out of
his nostrils, as shall darken the whole surface of the island. There shall be
peace in his time; and corn shall abound by reason of the fruitfulness of the
soil. Women shall become serpents in their gait, and all their motions shall be
full of pride.
The camp of Venus shall be restored; nor shall the
arrows of Cupid cease to wound. The fountain of a river shall be turned into
blood; and two kings shall fight a duel at Stafford for a lioness. Luxury shall
overspread the whole ground; and fornication not cease to debauch mankind. All
these things shall three ages see; till the buried kings shall be exposed to
public view in the city of London.
Famine shall again return; mortality shall return; and
the inhabitants shall grieve for the destruction of their cities. Then shall
come the board of commerce, who shall recall the scattered flocks to the
pasture they had lost. His breast shall be
food to the hungry, and his tongue drink to the
thirsty. Out of his mouth shall flow rivers, that shall water the parched jaws
of men. After this shall be produced a tree upon the Tower of London, which,
having no more than three
branches, shall overshadow the surface of the whole
island with the breadth of its leaves. Its adversary, the North Wind, shall
come upon it, and with its noxious blast shall snatch away the third branch;
but the two remaining ones shall possess its place, till they shall destroy one
another by the multitude of their leaves; and then shall it obtain the place of
those two, and shall give
sustenance to birds of foreign nations. It shall be
esteemed hurtful to native fowls; for they shall not be able to fly freely for
fear of its shadow. There
shall succeed the ass of wickedness, swift against the
goldsmiths, but slow against the ravenousness of wolves. In those days the oaks
of the forests shall
burn, and acorns grow upon the branches of teil trees.
The Severn sea shall discharge itself through seven
mouths, and the river Uske burn seven months.
Fishes shall die with the heat thereof; and of them
shall be engendered serpents. The Baths of Badon shall grow cold, and their
salubrious waters
engender death. London shall mourn for the death of
twenty thousand; and the river Thames shall be turned into blood. The monks in
their cowls shall be forced to marry, and their cry shall be heard upon the
mountains of the Alps."
Chapter IV The Continuation of the Prophecy.
"Three springs shall break forth in the city of
Winchester, whose rivulets shall divide the island into three parts. Whoever
shall drink of the first, shall enjoy long life, and shall never be afflicted
with sickness. He that shall drink of the second, shall die of hunger, and paleness
and horror shall sit in his countenance. He that shall drink of the third,
shall be surprised with sudden death, neither shall his body be capable of
burial.
Those that are willing to escape so great a surfeit,
will endeavour to hide it with several coverings: but whatever bulk shall be
laid upon it, shall receive the form of another body. For earth shall be turned
into stones; stones into water; wood into ashes; ashes into water, if cast over
it. Also a damsel shall be sent from the city of the forest of Canute to
administer a cure, who, after she shall have practised all her arts, shall dry
up the noxious fountains only with her breath. Afterwards,
as soon as she shall have refreshed herself with the
wholesome liquor, she shall bear in her right hand the wood of Caledon, and in
her left the forts of the
walls of London. Wherever she shall go, she shall make
sulphureous steps, which will smoke with a double flame. That smoke shall rouse
up the city of Ruteni, and shall make food for the inhabitants of the deep. She
shall overflow with rueful tears, and shall fill the island with her dreadful
cry.
She shall be killed by a hart with ten branches, four
of which shall bear golden diadems; but
the other six shall be turned into buffalo's horns,
whose hideous sound shall astonish the three islands of Britain. The Daneian
wood shall be stirred up, and breaking forth into a human voice, shall cry:
Come, O Cambria, and join Cornwall
to thy side, and say to Winchester, the earth shall
swallow thee up. Translate the seat of thy pastor to the place where ships come
to harbour, and the rest of the members will follow the head. For the day
hasteneth, in which thy citizens shall perish on account of the guilt of
perjury.
The whiteness of wool has been hurtful to thee, and
the variety of its tinctures. Woe to the perjured nation, for whose sake the
renowned city shall come to ruin. The ships shall rejoice at so great an
augmentation, and one shall be made out of two. It shall be rebuilt by Eric,
loaden with apples, to the smell whereof the birds of several woods shall flock
together. He shall add to it a vast palace, and wall it round with six hundred
towers. Therefore shall London envy it, and triply increase her walls. The
river Thames shall encompass it round, and the fame of the work shall pass
beyond the Alps. Eric shall hide his apples within it, and shall make
subterraneous passages.
At that time shall the stones speak, and the sea
towards the Gallic coast be contracted into a narrow space. On each bank shall
one man
hear another, and the soil of the island shall be
enlarged. The secrets of the deep shall be revealed, and Gaul shall tremble for
fear. After these things
shall come forth a hern from the forest of Calaterium,
which shall fly round the island for two years together. With her nocturnal cry
she shall call together the winged kind, and assemble to her all sorts of
fowls.
They shall invade the tillage of husbandmen, and
devour all the grain of the harvests. Then shall
follow a famine upon the people, and a grievous
mortality upon the famine. But when this calamity shall be over, a detestable
bird shall go to the valley of Galabes, and shall raise it to be a high mountain.
Upon the top thereof it shall also plant an oak, and build its nest in its
branches.
Three eggs shall be produced in the nest, from whence
shall come forth a fox, a wolf, and a bear.
The fox shall devour her mother, and bear the head of
an ass. In this monstrous form shall she frighten her brothers, and make them
fly into Neustria. But they shall stir up the tusky boar, and returning in a
fleet shall encounter with the
fox; who at the beginning of the fight shall feign
herself dead, and move the boar to compassion.
Then shall the boar approach her carcass, and standing
over her, shall breathe upon her face and eyes. But she, not forgetting her
cunning, shall bite his left foot, and pluck it off from his body. Then shall
she leap upon him, and snatch away his right ear and tail, and hide herself in
the caverns of the mountains. Therefore shall the deluded boar require the wolf
and bear to restore him his members; who, as soon as they shall enter into the
cause, shall promise two feet of the fox, together
with the ear and tail, and of these they shall make up the members of a hog.
With this he shall be satisfied, and expect the promised restitution. In the
meantime shall the fox descend from the mountains, and change herself into a
wolf, and under pretence of holding a conference with the boar, she shall go to
him, and craftily devour him.
After that she shall transform herself into a boar,
and feigning a loss of some members, shall wait for her brothers; but as soon
as they are come, she shall suddenly kill them with her tusks, and shall be
crowned with the head of a lion.
In her days shall a serpent be brought forth, which
shall be a destroyer of mankind. With its length it shall encompass London, and
devour all that pass by it. The mountain ox shall take the head of a wolf, and
whiten his teeth in the Severn.
He shall gather to him the flocks of Albania and
Cambria, which shall drink the river Thames dry. The ass shall call the goat
with the long beard, and
shall borrow his shape. Therefore shall the mountain
ox be incensed, and having called the wolf, shall become a horned bull against
them. In the exercise of his cruelty he shall devour their flesh and bones, but
shall be burned upon the top
of Urian. The ashes of his funeral-pyre shall be
turned into swans, that shall swim on dry ground as on a river. They shall
devour fishes in fishes, and swallow up men in men.
But when old age shall come upon them, they shall
become sea-wolves, and practise their frauds in the deep. They shall drown
ships, and collect no small quantity of silver. The Thames shall again flow,
and assembling together the rivers, shall pass beyond the bounds of its
channel. It shall cover
the adjacent cities, and overturn the mountains that
oppose its course. Being full of deceit and wickedness, it shall make use of
the fountain Galabes. Hence shall arise factions provoking the Venedotians to
war. The oaks of the forest
shall meet together, and encounter the rocks of the
Gewisseans. A raven shall attend with the kites, and devour the carcasses of
the slain. An owl shall build her nest upon the walls of Gloucester, and in her
nest shall be brought forth an
ass.
The serpent of Malvernia shall bring him up, and put
him upon many fraudulent practices. Having taken the crown, he shall ascend on
high, and
frighten the people of the country with his hideous
braying. In his days shall the Pachaian mountains tremble, and the provinces be
deprived of their woods.
For there shall come a worm with a fiery breath, and
with the vapour it sends forth shall burn up the trees. Out of it shall proceed
seven lions deformed with the heads of goats. With the stench of their nostrils
they shall corrupt women, and make wives turn common prostitutes. The father
shall not know his own son, because they shall grow wanton like brute beasts.
Then shall come the giant of wickedness, and terrify all with the sharpness of
his eyes.
Against him shall arise the dragon of Worcester, and
shall endeavour to banish him. But in the
engagement the dragon shall be worsted, and oppressed
by the wickedness of the conqueror. For he shall mount upon the dragon, and
putting off his garment shall sit upon him naked. The dragon shall bear him up
on high, and beat his naked
rider with his tail erected. Upon this the giant
rousing up his whole strength, shall break his jaws with his sword. At last the
dragon shall fold itself up under its tail, and die of poison. After him shall
succeed the boar of Totness, and oppress the people with grievous tyranny.
Gloucester shall send forth a lion, and shall disturb him in his cruelty, in
several battles.
He shall trample him under his feet, and terrify him
with open jaws. At last the lion shall quarrel with the kingdom, and get upon
the backs of the nobility. A bull shall come into the quarrel, and strike the
lion with his right foot. He shall drive
him through all the inns in the kingdom, but shall
break his horns against the walls of Oxford. The fox of Kaerdubalem shall take
revenge on the lion, and destroy him entirely with her teeth. She shall be
encompassed by the adder of Lincoln, who with a horrible hiss shall give notice
of his presence to a
multitude of dragons.
Then shall the dragons encounter, and tear one another
to pieces. The winged shall oppress that which wants wings, and fasten its
claws into the poisonous cheeks. Others shall come into the quarrel, and kill
one another.
A fifth shall succeed those that are slain, and by
various stratagems shall destroy the rest. He shall get upon the back of one
with his sword, and
sever his head from his body. Then throwing off his
garment, he shall get upon
another, and put his right and left hand upon his
tail. Thus being naked shall he overcome him, whom when clothed he was not able
to deal with. The rest he shall gall in their flight, and drive them round the
kingdom. Upon this shall come a roaring lion dreadful for his monstrous
cruelty. Fifteen parts shall he reduce to one, and shall alone possess the
people. The giant of the snow white colour shall shine, and cause the white
people to flourish.
Pleasures shall effeminate the princes, and they shall
suddenly be changed into beasts. Among
them shall arise a lion swelled with human gore. Under
him shall a reaper be placed in the standing corn, who, while he is reaping,
shall be oppressed by him. A charioteer of York shall appease them, and having
banished his lord, shall mount upon the chariot which he shall drive. With his
sword unsheathed shall he threaten the East, and fill the tracks of his wheels
with blood.
Afterwards he shall become a sea-fish, who, being
roused up with the hissing of a serpent, shall engender with him. From hence
shall be produced three thundering bulls, who having eaten up their pastures
shall be turned into trees.
The first shall carry a whip of vipers, and turn his
back upon the next. He shall endeavour to snatch away the whip, but shall be
taken by the last. They
shall turn away their faces from one another, till
they have thrown away the poisoned cup. To him shall succeed a husbandman of
Albania, at whose back shall be a serpent. He shall be employed in ploughing
the ground, that the country may
become white with corn.
The serpent shall endeavour to diffuse his poison, in
order to blast the harvest. A grievous mortality shall sweep away the people,
and the walls of cities shall be made desolate.
There shall be given for a remedy the city of
Claudius, which shall interpose the nurse of the scourger.
For she shall bear a dose of medicine, and in a short
time the island shall be restored. Then shall two successively sway the
sceptre, whom a horned dragon shall serve. One shall come in armour, and shall
ride upon a flying serpent. He shall sit upon his back with his naked body, and
cast his right hand upon his tail. With his cry shall the seas be moved, and he
shall strike terror into the second. The second therefore shall enter into
confederacy with the lion; but a quarrel happening, they shall encounter one
another. They shall distress one
another, but the courage of the beast shall gain the
advantage. Then shall come one with a drum, and appease the rage of the lion.
Therefore shall the people of the kingdom be at peace, and provoke the lion to
a dose of physic.
In his established seat he shall adjust the weights,
but shall stretch out his hands into Albania. For which reason the Northern
provinces shall be grieved, and open the gates of the temples. The sign-bearing
wolf shall lead his troops, and
surround Cornwall with his tail. He shall be opposed
by a soldier in a chariot, who shall transform that people into a boar. The
boar therefore shall ravage the provinces, but shall hide his head in the depth
of Severn. A man shall embrace the lion in wine, and the dazzling brightness of
gold shall blind the eyes of beholders. Silver shall whiten in the
circumference, and torment several wine presses. Men shall be drunk with wine,
and, regardless of heaven, shall be
intent upon the earth. From them shall the stars turn
away their faces, and confound their usual course. Corn will wither at their
malign aspects; and there shall fall no dew from heaven. The roots and branches
will change their places, and the novelty of the thing shall pass for a
miracle. The brightness of the sun shall fade at the amber of Mercury, and
horror shall seize the beholders.
Stilbon of Arcadia shall change his shield; the helmet
of Mars shall call Venus.
The helmet of Mars shall make a shadow; and the rage
of Mercury pass his bounds. Iron Orion shall unsheath his sword: the marine
Phoebus shall torment the clouds; Jupiter shall go out of his lawful paths; and
Venus forsake her stated
lines. The malignity of the star Saturn shall fall
down in rain, and slay mankind with a crooked sickle. The twelve houses of the
star shall lament the irregular excursions of their guests; and Gemini omit
their usual embraces, and call the urn to the fountains. The scales of Libra
shall hang obliquely, till Aries puts his crooked horns under them. The tail of
Scorpio shall produce lightning, and Cancer quarrel with the Sun. Virgo shall
mount upon the back of Sagittarius, and darken her virgin flowers.
The chariot of the Moon shall disorder the zodiac, and
the Pleiades break forth into weeping. No offices of Janus shall hereafter
return, but his gate being shut shall lie hid in the chinks of Ariadne. The
seas shall rise up in the twinkling of an eye, and the dust of ancients shall
be restored. The winds shall fight together with a dreadful blast, and their
sound shall reach the stars.
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