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Rh Where the leader of the land ſhall his life loſe;

But that bargain ſhall brew in a bare brough,

That ſhall baniſh from bliſs many bright helm,

When it is bireved of his back, and his brief known,

Of dum organs dight, then may thou well deem.

Of all the weil and the wealth then was wrought

With hunger and hireſhip on every hill:

Yet this wicked world shall laſt but a while;

While a chieftain unchoſen choose forth himſelf,

And ride over the region, and for the roy holden:

Then his ſrutiſiers shall ſkail all the fair ſouth,

Fromm Dumbarton to Dover and deal all the lands:

He shall be kid conqueror, for he is kind Lord,

Of all Britain that bounds to the broad ſea.

The conqueſſing ſhall be keeped, and never conqueſt after.

By the coſt ye shall know when the knight comes,

He has a mark in the middle, where no man may know;

When he is in the eaſt when the ſun riſeth,

He has a ſign shall shew on the ſouth ſide.

Signum venenaſi sanguinus de ventre matris ſue,

All walce I wish shall wend with that roy,

For to work his will, where he think would,

Guaine Gaſkonigne, and BritianBritain [sic] the blyth,

Shall buſk to his bidding on their beſt wiſe:

The whole men will help in his moſt height,

Then ſhall he turn into tuſkane but treaty or true,

And buſk him over the mountains on midwinter even,

And then go to Rome, and rug down the walls,

And over all the region roy shall be holden.

Oft this book have I ſeen, and better thereafter,

Of marvellous Merling, but is waſted away,

With a wicked woman woe might ſhe be.

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HEN the ruby is raiſed, reſt is there none;

But much rancour shall riſe in river and plain,

Much ſorrow is ſeen through a ſluth hound,

That bears horns in his head like a wild hart:

Then a bruck shall make a brand on a broad field,

And an hound shall bear a hack with a brum face;

The ſluthful ſlouth hound shall slay him for ever;

Though a treaty of a truce; a train shall be made, B