In the year 5426 [1665 CE.], on the twenty-second of Kislev, rumors came from the corners of the East, from Egypt and her neighbors, that in Gaza, which is near Jerusalem, a prophet arose, announcing good tidings and salvation. They said about a scholar whose name is Shabbatai Zevi; of the inhabitants of Izmir [Smyrna], who sojourned there in Jerusalem, that he was the Messiah of the God of Jacob, and that within a year and a few months he would take the kingship from the hand of the Togar [the Sultan], not with an army and not by force, but the king, the Togar, himself would place the royal crown on his head. And thereafter he [Shabbatai Zevi] would go to the River Sam bat yon to take for himself from there a wife, a thirteen-year-old daughter of our Master Moses, peace be upon him. And he will come with the Ten Tribes, riding a lion, and the halter which will be pulled across its mouth will be a tortuous serpent with seven heads. And thereafter he will make great wars with the nations for five years. And at that time it will be a time of trouble for Jacob, and those are the pangs of the Messiah.
And these words entered the heart of the masses, and made an impression also upon some of the sages, and all Israel was aroused to great repentance, both the nearby and the faraway in the whole world, and they accepted the words of the prophet Nathan [of Gaza] as words of truth…

(Sasportas, Tzitzat Novel Tz'vi, p. 1)

Source: Raphael Patai, The Messiah Texts, Wayne State University Press