Character: Ursula Sontheil aka Mother Shipton
26 writer: Sarah Farley
(Intro)
The legends about soothsayer and healer, Ursula Sontheil, are as intriguing as her prophecies. But are the tales about the famous Yorkshire foundling folklore or fact?
(Sestude)
When the midnight Tempest weaves despair
An Orphan will breathe life into a Little Bear
Crook’d of back and bulg’d of eye
She’ll be banish’d to the Cave that doth petrify
With Nature’s healing gift, she will be bless’d
Yet she’ll be remember’d as Mother Shipton, Prophetess
A tragic lyfe: outcast ‘til she dy’d
Years hence they’ll honour she who never ly’d