(6) The Boar is awaiting the promised parts meanwhile the Fox - TopicsExpress

(6) The Boar is awaiting the promised parts meanwhile the Fox comes from the hiding caves, changes into yet another Wolf with this pretense holds conference to the Bear it slaves. It will approach craftily, and eat it up so the Fox changes again into a Boar, waiting for the brothers to return pretending to be lame and walking no more. As they come, it kills them with its tusk doing so without a moments delay, and then crowns itself with a Lions head, and a Lions heart and culture on display. In the days of the Fox a snake shall be born, it brings death to human beings rising with the dawn. It will encircle London with its tail devouring all whoever pass it by, but a Mountain Ox will put on a Wolf’s head and grind its teeth white by and by. The Ox will gather around itself in flocks of Albany and of Wales, their company will drain the Thames giving death to parks and vales. An Ass shall call to itself a Long-bearded Goat, who then both will change shape in the powers it is wrote. As the result the Mountain Bull will unleash its tempestuous rage, and it will summon the Wolf, to transfix the Ass and the Goat with its horn engage. Once its indulged its savage rage it eats the flesh and bones, but the Ox will be burnt on the summit of Urianus and so vacant are the royal thrones. The ashes of the Ox’s funeral pyre will be transmuted into Swans; they will swim away upon dry land as through water like the ancient and revered ones. These Swans eat up fish within fish and they swallow men inside men, they all grow old becoming sea-wolves and having done it once do it all again. They will sink ships gathering a treasure of silver and gold, and the Thames begins to flow once again as it did in times and ages old. The Thames will gather its tributaries the overflow the confines to its bed, submerging nearby towns bringing down mountains in its stead. It will join to itself the Springs of Calabes filled with lying and deceit, it follows then that some mutinies occur encouraging the Venedoti in war to compete. The oaks come into conflict with the rocks of the Gewissei the oaks of the forest shall together band, a Raven will fly down with the Kites eat up the bodies strewn on the ancient land. An Owl will nest in Gloucester’s walls and from the nest an Ass will hatch, the Snake of Malvern will nurture this Ass deceitful tricks to meet its match. The Ass will put on a crown then clamber above all that is lofty and high, terrifying the people with its hideous braying leaving them all to wonder why. In the days of the Ass the Pacaian Mountains will totter and fall, the country districts deprived of their forests for there comes a Worm who with fire will call. This Worm will burn the very trees with the breath it exhales; out of the Worm come seven Lions malformed with goat’s heads and goated tails. Such a fetid breath comes from their nostrils they corrupt women causing the faithful to become whores, the father shall not know his own sons as many humans screw as wanton animals outdoors. Then indeed shall there be a Giant of wickedness terrifying everyone with his piercing eyes, against him awakens the Dragon of Worcester to destroy him oh how he tries. But when the two come to grips the Dragon is worsted and corrupted by conqueror’s way, the Giant climbs on the dragon riding upon it naked as he was on his natal day. The Dragon rears into the air lashing the naked body with its erected tail, but the Giant recovers his strength cutting the Dragon’s throat without fail. The Dragon becomes entangled in its own tail and dies from the poison there; the Boar of Totnes succeeds the Giant and cruelly oppresses the people without care. Against the grievous tyranny Gloucester sends a Lion to harass the raging Boar, in a series of battles the Lion tramples the Boar, terrifying it with its open maw. The Lion will be at odds with the kingdom see it riding upon the noble’s backs; a Bull pursues the Lion through all the narrow lanes the highways, roads and all the subtle tracks. The Bull will in the end break its horns on Oxfords walls, as the Fox of Caerdubalum will wreak vengeance upon the Lion tearing it apart, it destroys and mauls. Then the Adder of Lincoln coils around the Fox announcing its presence to the assembled Dragon with a hiss, and so the dragons will attack each other tearing each other to pieces in realities just like this. A Dragon with wings will overwhelm the Dragon that is without, as two more Dragons join the battle and one kills the other in this dragon bout. A fifth Dragon takes the place of the two Dragons departed, and how through various stratagems its victory is to be charted. It will climb on the back of one holding a sword in its mighty claws, and hacks the head from the body according to ancient and unknown laws. Then it will cast its slough and a second one it will ride, in both its claws its opponent’s tail until nothing in nothing it will hide. Naked, it will overwhelm the other and yet when covered nothing is achieved, it torments the other Dragons as its journey over the kingdom is weaved. Then a roaring Lion will intervene terrifying all with its monstrous cruelty, this Lion, this horrid beast reduces fifteen portions to a single entity. So by itself hold the people in its power, a giant, snow-white, gleaming bright, begets a radiant race, as soft living enervates the leaders those under their command change and beasts take their place. From their number arises a Lion bloated and fat on human gore, a man with a Sickle is the Lion’s harvest helper but the man perplexed, destroyed, and the man is man no more. The Charioteer of York will soothe the people throws his master and climbs into the chariot he is driving, he will draw his fiery sword and threaten the east, but for now, west, north, and south surviving. In the ruts made by his wheels blood will fill and lie, he turns himself into a Sea-fish, mating with a snake that has caught his eye. From this union three Bulls are bred which glitter like lightning, they eat up the pasture lands become trees so frightening. The first Bull, with a whip of vipers turns its back on the second born, the second Bull struggles to grasp the whip but the third seizes it full of scorn. They all avert their eyes from each to the other until they have thrown away the poison potion, a farmer from Albany shall take their place, and a snake hangs down his back, tasting each angry emotion. He will spend his time ploughing the earth as the harvests of his homeland then grow white, but the Snake will busy itself scattering poison to prevent the green corn from the sacred light. The population decreases through deadly calamity, the walls of ancient towns crumble into dust, so the City of Claudius is a source of remedy it puts the foster-daughter of the Scourger to trust. She comes bearing a saucer of medicine and in an instant the island is restored, two men hold the scepter, one after the other, a horned Dragon advice by both is not ignored. The first man clad in iron upon a flying serpent riding, he sits astride its back, naked, so nothing he is hiding. He will grasp its tail in his right hand with the seas in turmoil through and by his cry, he will strike terror into the second man, so the second in an alliance with a Lion will lie. But a quarrel will then ensue the two will fight, so each of the two will suffer greatly from the others blows that night. The animal’s ferocity will enable it to win, and so the battle is over as soon as it does begin. A man emerges with drum and lute soothing the Lions savage ways, the various peoples of the kingdom pacified through the light betrays. They encourage the Lion to take the saucer of medicine offered here, as it sits in the house allocated, it examines the dose for want of fear. It will stretch out is hand towards Albany and the northern regions saddened by this act, throw open the gates to their temples becoming ignorant peasants of an ignorant fact. A wolf will act as standard bearer coiling its tail around Cornwall’s shore, a soldier in a chariot will resist, transforming the Cornish people into a Boar. As a result the Boar devastates the provinces but hide its head in the Severn deep, a man will wrestle with a drunken Lion the gleam of gold will make onlookers weep. Silver shines in the open spaces and trouble to the wine presses come, men become drunk with the vine offered them they turn their backs on heaven, fixing eyes on an earthly crumb. The stars avert their gaze alter their accustomed course, the harvests dry up the star’s anger and so rain falls by its force. Roots and branches all change their accustomed places, as to the oddness of this will be the miracle it traces. Before the amber glow of Mercury and the light of the Sun shall appear faint, it will strike horror into those who see and know its taint. The planet Mercury, born in Arcady will here change its shield; the Helmet of Mars calls Venus there to yield. Then the helmet of Mars will hear a shadow cast, in rage mercury shall lose the orbit it is in at last. As iron Orion shall bare its naked sword, the watery Sun torments the clouds looking for an eternal reward. Jupiter abandons its orbit and its path and Venus follows in its suit, so the malice of Saturn pours down like rain in the new eternity takes root. The rain it kills like a sickle curved and bent, so the mansions of the stars weep to see the wrongdoings meant. Then Gemini ceases their embraces dispatching Aquarius to the fountains born, the scales of Libra hang awry until Aries props them up with a curving horn. The tail of Scorpio will generate lightning; Cancer as Moon will fight the Sun, Virgo shall climb onto the back of Sagittarius drop her blossoms one by one. The Moon’s chariot shall run amok in the zodiac and the Pleiades shall burst into tears, none return to the duty expected of it Ariadne will shut her doors hidden for many years. In the twinkling of an eye the seas as one shall rise, the arena of the winds opened once more to those with eyes. The winds shall battle together with an ill-omened blast; make their din echo from the first constellation to the last. Forever have I seen into the depths and forever have I seen into the time to unravel, how by looking at the stars, the planets and so it is that to their homes I travel