The population shall decrease through some deadly calamity, and the walls of the towns will come tumbling down. The City of Claudius will be proposed as a source of remedy, and this city will put forward the Foster-daughter of the Scourger. She shall come bearing a saucer of medicine, and in next to no time the island will be restored.
Two men shall hold the sceptre, one after the other, and a Horned Dragon will serve them both. The first man will come clad in iron and riding upon a flying Serpent. He will sit astride its back, with his body naked, and he will grasp its tail in his right hand.
The seas will be made turbulent by his cry, and he will strike terror into the second man. As a result, the second man will make an alliance with a Lion, but a quarrel will ensue, and they will fight. Each of the two will suffer greatly from the other's blows, but the animal's ferocity will enable it to win.
A man shall come with a drum and a lute, and he will soothe the Lions savageness. The various peoples in the kingdom will be pacified as a result, and they will encourage the Lion to take the saucer of medicine. As it sits in the dwelling allocated to it, it will examine the dose, but it will stretch out its hand toward Albany.
The regions of the north will be saddened by this, and they will throw open the gates of their temples.
A Wolf will act as standard bearer, and it will coil its tail round Cornwall. A soldier in a chariot will resist the Wolf and transform the Cornish people into a Boar. As a result the Boar will devastate the provinces, but it will hide its head in the depths of the Severn.
A man shall wrestle with a drunken Lion, and the gleam of gold will blind the eyes of the onlookers. Silver will shine white in the open space, causing trouble to a number of wine presses.

Men will become drunk with the wine which is offered to them; they will turn their backs on Heaven and fix their eyes on the Earth.

The stars will avert their gaze from these men and alter their accustomed course.

The harvests will dry up through the stars anger, and all moisture from the sky will cease.

Roots and branches shall change their places, and the oddness of this will pass for a miracle.

Before the amber glow of Mercury the bright light of the Sun shall grow dim, and this will strike horror into those who witness it. The planet Mercury, born in Arcady, shall change its shield, and the Helmet of Mars shall call to Venus.

The Helmet of Mars shall cast a shadow, and in rage Mercury shall overrun its orbit.
      Iron Orion shall bare its sword.
The watery Sun shall torment the clouds. Jupiter shall abandon its preordained paths, and Venus desert its appointed circuits.

The malice of the planet Saturn will pour down like rain, killing mortal men as though with a curved sickle.
               The twelve mansions of the stars will weep to see their inmates transgress so.
The Gemini will cease their wanton embraces and will dispatch Aquarius to the fountains .
                             **-------____ Merlin and His Prophecies ________------**