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That wicked fame which their first love proclaim'd, Foretells the end: the queen with rage inflamed, 20 Thus greets him: 'Thou dissembler! would'st thou fly Out of my arms by stealth perfidiously?

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Ay, for 'tis plain, this prelude of their song Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

Dear brother, hear my words: advance Resolved and armed for every chance, For every sign I mark to-day Foretells a peril in the way.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Yea, this man’s brow, like to a title-page Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander