‘Et applicans statim tunc altam domum Aquilæ sitiens, et cito aliam sitiet.
‘Deinde Pullus Aquilæ nidificabit in summa rupe totius Britanniæ: nec juvenis occidet, nec ad senem vivet.’
This, in an old copy, is Englished thus:
‘After then shall come through the south with the sun, on horse of tree, and upon all waves of the sea, the Chicken of the Eagle, sailing into Britain, and arriving anon to the house of the Eagle, he shall show fellowship to these beasts.
‘After, the Chicken of the Eagle shall nestle in the highest rock of all Britain: nay, he shall nought be slain young; nay, he nought come old.’
Master William Lilly then supplies an explanation, or, as he calls it, a verification, of these venerable predictions. We shall give it in his own words:
‘His Majesty being in the Low Countries when the Lord-General had restored the secluded members, the Parliament sent part of the royal navy to bring him for England, which they did in May, 1660. Holland is east from England, so he came with the sun; but he landed at Dover, a port in the south part of England. Wooden horses are the English ships.
‘Tunc nidificabit in summo rupium.
‘The Lord-General, and most of the gentry in England, met him in Kent, and brought him unto London, then to White-hall.
‘Here, by the highest Rooch (some write Rock) is intended London, being the metropolis of all England.