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 OLD SCOTTISH PROPHECIES.

COTLAND be ſad now and lament,

thy child whom thou haſt loſt,

Bereft of kings, falſely undone,

by thine unkindly hoſt.

3 Alas! the free is bound become,

and deceit is thy fall;

4 The falſehood of the Britiſh race,

has brought thee into thrall,

4 The grave of the moſt noble prince

to all is great regret,

Not ſubject to law, who doth leave

the kingdom and eſtate

4 O anguiſh great! where every kind

and age doth lament,

Wilom bitter death has ta’en away,

ſhall Scotland ſore repent.

5 Lately a land of rich increaſe,

a nation ſtout and true,

Has loſt their former dear eſtate,

which they did hold in due.

6 By hard conflict, and by the chance,

of mobile Fortune’s force,

Thy hap, and thy proſperity,

is turned into worſe.

7 Thou wont to win, now is ſubdu’d

and come in under yoke;

A ſtranger reigns and doth deſtroy

what likes him, with swords stroke.

8 The Engliſh race, whom neither

nor manner do approve,

Wo is to thee: by guile and flight

is only win above.

9 This mighty nation was tofore

invincible and ſtout.

Has yielded low to deſtiny,

great pity is, no doubt.

10 In former age the Scots renown

did flourish goodly gay:

But now, alas! is over-clad

with a great dark decay.

11 Then mark and ſee what is the cauſe

of this ſo wonderous fall, A 3