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9 OLD SCOTTISH PROPHECIES, BY THOMAS RHYMER.

When Hempe is come, and also gone, Scotland and England shall be one. Praised be God alone, For Hempe is come and gone, And left us old Albion, By peace join'd in one.

The explication of the foregoing prophecy, is fulfilled in the late King William, who came from Holland, which, in old times, was vulgarly called the land of Hempe, and the joining of the two nations signifies the Union.

Those things were foretold by the two Scots prophets, in the reign of King Arthur, by the famous Merling.