"The western monarch's wooden horses,
Shall be destroy'd by Drake's forces."
The king of Spain's mighty armada, in 1588, was destroyed by the English fleet.
"Triumphant death rides London thro',
And men on tops of houses go."
The first line points to the great sickness in London, in 1665; the second to the dreadful fire in the following year.
This famous prophetess died in the fifty-ninth year of her age, fulfilling her own prediction, even to the day and hour. On her tomb was placed this epitaph:—
Here lies she who seldom ly'd,
Whose skill so often has been try'd.
Her Prophecies shall still survive,