_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._ _When_ Mahomet's _Ships on the_ Baltick _shall ride,_ _And Turks shall labour to have Ports on that side._ _When_ Africa _shall no more sell out their Blacks_ _To make Slaves and Drudges to the American Tracts_. _When_ Batavia _the Old shall be contemn'd by the New_. _When a new Drove of Tartars shall_ China _subdue._ _When_ America _shall cease to send out its Treasure,_ _But employ it at home in American Pleasure._ _When the new World shall the old invade,_ _Nor count them their Lords but their fellows in Trade._ _When Men shall almost pass to_ Venice _by Land,_ _Not in deep Water but from Sand to Sand._ _When_ Nova Zembla _shall be no stay_ _Unto those who pass to or from_ Cathay._ _Then think strange things are come to light,_ _Whereof but few have had a foresight._ THE EXPOSITION OF THE PROPHECY _When_ New England _shall trouble_ New Spain. That is, When that thriving Colony, which hath so much encreased in our days, and in the space of about fifty years, that they can, as they report, raise between twenty and thirty thousand men upon an exigency, shall in process of time be so advanced, as to be able to send forth Ships and Fleets, as to infest the American Spanish Ports and Maritime Dominions by depredations or assaults; for which attempts they are not like to be unprovided, as abounding in the Materials for Shipping, Oak and Firre. And when length of time shall so far encrease that industrious people, that the neighbouring Country will not contain them, they will range still farther and be able, in time, to set forth great Armies, seek for new possessions, or make considerable and conjoined migrations, according to the custom of swarming Northern Nations; wherein it is not likely that they will move Northward, but toward the Southern and richer Countries, which are either in the Dominions or Frontiers of the Spaniards: and may not improbably erect new Dominions in places not yet thought of, and yet, for some Centuries, beyond their power or Ambition. _When_ Jamaica _shall be Lady of the Isles and the Main._