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When is come and alſo gone,

Scotland and England ſhall be one.

HE explication of the above prophecies concerning Hempe, being come and alſo gone, and leaving Scotland and England join'd in one, is fulfilled in the late King William who came out of Holland, which in old times was vulgarly called the land of Hempe, and the joining the two nations together, ſignifies, the union. Theſe things were foretold by the two Scots Prophets in the reign of King Arthur; firſt by the Marvellous Merling, who ſaid to be got by a devil, who raviſhed a young woman his mother in a wood near Coldſtream, in the ſouth of Scotland, afterwards to the ſame purpoſe, theſe and many more ſtrange things were foretold by Thomas Lermont, vulgarly called Thomas Rymer, becauſe he ſpoke all his prophetical ſayings in rhyme.