Sentence:  After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, "Aut Cesar, aut nihil". which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same <WSD>predicted</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.