Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
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came into England: he took little notice of Prince Henry, but
addressing himself to the Duke of York (since King Charles I.) fell a weeping to think what misfortunes he should undergo; and that he should be one of the miserablest unhappy Princes that ever was. A Scotch nobleman sent for one of these second-sighted men out of the Highlands, to give his judgment of the then great favourite, George Villers, Duke of Buckingham; as soon as ever he saw him, " Pish," said he, he will come to nothing. I see a dagger in his breast;" and he was stabbed in the breast by Captain Felton. Sir James Melvil hath several the like stories in his Memoirs. Folio. A certain old man in South-Wales, told a great man there of the fortune of his family; and that there should not be a third male generation. In Spain there are those they call Saludadores, that have this kind of gift. There was a Portugueze Dominican fryar belonging to Queen Katherine Dowager's chapel, who had the second-sight. FARTHER ADDITAMENTS. **Concerning Predictions, Fatality, Apparitions, &c. From the various History of AELIAN. Rendered out of the Greek Original. By Mr. T. STANLEY. THE wisdom of the Persian Magi was (besides other things proper to |
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