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Prophesy
I will prophesy, he comes to tell me of the players.
Shakespeare
.Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (To Guildenstern.)
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Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
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, Chap. xxii. Ver. 18. (Ahab to Jehoshaphat.)
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Prophet of ill! thou never speakst to me
But words of evil omen; for thy soul
Delights to augur ill, but aught of good
Thou never yet hast promised, nor performed.
Homer.The Iliad, Book I. Line 124. (Agamemnon to Chalcas.)
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