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16 The crow shall ſit upon a ſtone,

And drink the gentle blood ſo free :

Take of the ribs, and bear to her birds:

As God hath ſaid ſo muſt it be.

Then shall ladies lads wed,

And brook caſtles and towers high.

Beid hath berieved in his book and Banaſter alſo,

Marvell ousMarvellous [sic] Merling, and accords in one:

Thomas the true, that never ſpake falſe,

Conſents to their ſaying, and the ſame terms has taken,

Yet shall there come a keen knight over the ſalt ſea,

A keen man of courage, and bold man of arms,

A duke's ſon doubted, a born man in France,

That shall our mirths amend, and mend all our harms.

After the date of our Lord 1513,and thrice 3 thereafter,

Which shall brook all the broad isle to himſelf.

Betwixt 13 and thrice 3, the threep shall be ended;

The Saxons shall never recover after.

He shall be crowned in the Kith, in the caſtle of Dover,

Which wears the golden garland of Julius Cæſar,

More worſhip shall be won of greater worth,

Than ever Arthur himſelf had in his days.

Many doughty deeds shall he do thereafter,

Which shall, be ſpoken of many days better.

The Prophecies of.

TILL on my ways as I went,

Out through a land beſide a lee,

I met a bairn upon the way,

Me thought him ſeemly for to ſee.

I asked him wholly his intent?

Good ſir if you will be,

Since that ye bide upon the bent,

Some uncouth tidings tell you me!

When ſhall theſe wars be gone,

That leel men may live in lee?

Or when ſhall falſehood go from home?

And laughty blow his horn on hie?

I looked from me not a mile,

And ſaw two knights upon a lee,

They were armed ſeemingly now,

The croſſes on their breaſt the bare,