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NOTES.
/'// put two straws
To-night across the threshold p. 119.
"Straws dissolve enchantments." The Havamaal, or the
Sublime Discourse of Odin.
2 A ( ) queen shall be . . .
thy daughter, England's gueen.
More seek not thou to know. Mysterious words !
p. 119.
Wonderful instances are recorded of the truth of the predictions
of the Haruspices among the Romans, who consulted the
entrails of the victims offered in sacrifice. Vide Livy, Sallust,
Jus., Tacit., Luct., Galb., Suet., Caes., Dio., and others.
Apollonius Thyaneus, a Pythagorean philosopher, well skilled
in the secret arts of magic, as he was one day haranguing
the populace of "
Ephesus, suddenly exclaimed, Strike the
!
tyrant strike him ! The blow is given, he is wounded, he is
fallen !" At that very moment, the Emperor Domitian was
stabbed at Rome.
Seneca prophesied of the discovery of America. There will
come a time, says he, in future ages, when the immense ocean
will relax his boundaries, and the mighty earth will lie open $
when Typhis (Columbus?) shall discover a NEW WORLD, and
Thule shall no longer be accounted the end of the earth.
" An astrologer at Paris, long before the Restoration, foretold
King Charles that he should enter London on the 29th of May,
1660." Burnefs Hist, of his own Times.
Solomon Eagle predicted the plague in 1665, as a judgment,
running about the streets of London stark naked day and night,
and crying, "O the great and the dreadful God !"
"An unknown "
person," says Bishop Burnet, put a paper
in the old Princess's hands, (the mother of King William III.)
which she took from him, thinking it was a petition when
she looked into it, she found it was her son's nativity, together
with the fortunes of his life, and a full deduction of many acci-
dents, which followed very punctually, as they were predicted."
"Prince Poniatowski, a few years previous to his death,
when on a visit to a relation in Moravia, and while sauntering
in the park of the Chateau with some ladies, was suddenly