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34 Becauſe thou are varriant, and ſteemed thy faith,

Thro’ envy and covetouſneſs that cumbered thee ever.

True Thomas me told in a troubleſome time,

In an harveſt morning at Eldorm hills.

The Prophecy of the Engliſh Cronicles.

HERE ſhall proceed an holy hermit in king Eltridus time, in this manner, in the book of king Henry the ſixth, ſaying, theſe Engliſhmen, forasmuch as they uſe to drunkenneſs, treaſon, and careleſſneſ of God’s houſe; firſt by the Danes, then by the Normans, and the third time by the Scots, that they held the moſt wretched and leaſt worth of all other, they ſhall be overcome and vaincuſt. Then the word shall be anſtable.

The Prophecies of Sybillia and Eltrain.

HEN the goat with the golden horn is choſen the ſin,

The next year thereafter Gladſmoor ſhall be.

Whoſo likes for to read,

Mervellous Merling and Beid,

In this manner they ſhall proceed,

Of things unknown,

The truth now to record:

And from the date of our Lord.

Though that it be ſhowen:

Take a thousand in calculation,

And the longeſt of the Lyon.

Four creſcents under one crown,

With Sainct Andrew’s croſs thrice:

Then threeſcore and thriſe three;

Take heed to Merling truely;

Than ſhall the wars ended be,

And never again riſe.

In that year there ſhall a king,

A duke and no crowned king,

Becauſe the prince ſhall be young,

And tender of years.

Much ſorrow and ſtrife,

Shall be in Lothian and Fife,

Through the fulmarts falſe fears.