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A phantasm that appeared to M. Brutus in his tent said to him: ^Philippis iterum me videbis.''^ Tiberius said to Galba, ^'Tu quoque, Galba, d^ustabis imperium.*' ^ In Vespasian's time there went a prophecy in the Elast that those that should come forth of Judea should reign over the world, which though it may be was meant of our Saviour, yet Tacitus expounds it of Vespasian. Domitian dreamed, the night before he was slain, that a golden head was growing out of the nape of his neck; and, indeed,... the succession that followed him for many years made golden times. Henry VI of Eng- land said of Henry VII, when he was a lad 1 Thou Shalt see me again at Philippi. > Thou also, Galba, shalt taste of empire. 173 Digitized by Googk THE ESSAYS OP FRANCIS BACON and gave him water, ^'This is the lad that shall enjoy the crown for which we strive.'* When I was in France I heard from one Dr. Pena that the queen mother, who was given to curious arts, caused the king her husband's nativity to be calculated under a false name; and the astrologer gave a judg- ment that he should be killed in a duel, at which the queen laughed, thinking her hus- band to be above challenges and duels; but he was slain upon a course at tilt, the splin- ters of the staif of Montgomery going in at his beaver.
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