“Guatimala produced a fruit unknown To Europe, which with pride she called her own: Her Cacao-Nut, with double use endued, (For Chocolate at once is drink and food,) Does strength and vigor to the limbs impart, Makes fresh the countenance and cheers the heart.”[269] The other is the Cocoa-Nut:-- “While she preserves this Indian palm alone, America can never be undone; Embowelled, and of all her gold bereft, Her liberty and Coccus only left, She’s richer than the Spaniard with his theft.”[270] The poet, addressing the New World, becomes prophetic:-- “To live by wholesome laws you now begin, Buildings to raise, and fence your cities in, To plough the earth, to plough the very main, And traffic with the universe maintain. Defensive arms, and ornaments of dress, All implements of life, you now possess. To you the arts of war and peace are known, And whole Minerva is become your own. Our Muses, to your sires an unknown band, Already have got footing in your land. … “Long rolling years shall late bring on the times, When, with your gold debauched and ripened crimes, Europe, the world’s most noble part, shall fall, Upon her banished gods and virtue call In vain, while foreign and domestic war At once shall her distracted bosom tear,-- Forlorn, and to be pitied even by you. _Meanwhile your rising glory you shall view;_ _Wit, learning, virtue, discipline of war,_ _Shall for protection to your world repair,_ _And fix a long illustrious empire there._ … “Late Destiny shall high exalt your reign, Whose pomp no crowds of slaves, a needless train, Nor gold, the rabble’s idol, shall support, Like Motezume’s or Guanapaci’s court, But such true grandeur as old Rome maintained, Where Fortune was a slave, and Virtue reigned.”[271] This prophecy, though appearing in English tardily, may be dated from 1667, when the Latin poem was already written. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 1682. Dr. Johnson called attention to a tract of Sir Thomas Browne entitled “A Prophecy concerning the Future State of Several Nations,” where the famous author “plainly discovers his expectation to be the same with that entertained lately with more confidence by Dr. Berkeley, _that America will be the seat of the fifth empire_.”[272] The tract is vague, but prophetic. Sir Thomas Browne was born 19th October, 1605, and died 19th October, 1682. His tract was published two years after his death, in a collection of Miscellanies, edited by Dr. Tenison. As a much-admired author, some of whose writings belong to our English classics, his prophetic prolusions are not unworthy of notice. Among them are the following:-- “When New England shall trouble New Spain; When Jamaica shall be lady of the isles and the main; When Spain shall be in America hid, And Mexico shall prove a Madrid; …