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Rh ſhall take great adventurous travels: and a little before his death he ſhall have war with them that ſhould be his friends, and he shall get victory over them: but by falſet of his own, he ſhall be drawn to a place of battle, where he ſhall get great discomfort, by the which he ſhall die. Therefore alas for ſorrow of his line, which ſhall be in great trouble. And after him there ſhall be a chiftain of the Kyth, unſiable as the wind, wavering as the waves of the ſea. In his time ſhall the church tremble as an aſpen leafe, and great trouble in all manner of eſtates; but it ſhall not long last.

Alſo the wolf ſhall riſe againſt him out of the north-weſt, and make him great trouble: but he ſhall not prevail; for by the help of the wolf’s brother and the fox, the wolf ſhall be ſlain by a water ſide: and ſoon after, there ſhall come out of the north a dragon, and a wolf, the which ſhall be the help of the lion, and bring the realm to great reſt and peace with glory, with the moſt joy and triumph, that the like was never ſeen theſe many years before. For by the ſweet ſmell of the lillie and the flouer-de-luce, there ſhall be a chieftain of the Kyth who ſhall chooſe forth himſelf, ſtable as a ſtone, ſtedfaſt as the chryſtal, firm as the adamant, true as the ſteel, immaculate as the ſun, without all treaſon: He ſhall ſail on the ſea, with walls on every ſide, and that with great glory and joy, to deliver the Kyth out of all thraldom and dolour; for he ſhall be ſtrong as the wolf, wiſe as the ſerpent, humble as the lamb, ſimple as the dove, victorious as the lion, prince of juſtice, the weal of this nation: He ſhall bind his tail with the red dragon, and accompany him with the lion, theſe three ſhall riſe againſt the moldiwart the which is curſed of God: This moldiwart ſhall have an earthly ſkin as a goat, the vengeance of God ſhall fall upon him unpuniſhed. Alſo they ſhall thurſt him out of his realm, and make all the four chief floods of his realm to run blood, and alter that the moldiwart ſhall flee, and take a ſhip to ſave himſelf: for he ſhall have no more power of his realm: and after that he ſhall be glad to give the third part of his realm, to have the fourth part in peace, and he ſhall not get it: for the will of God is, that no man ſhall have mercy, but he that is merciful: and after that he ſhall live in ſorrow all his life time, and die oy adventure ſuddenly in a flood of the ſea; and his progeny shall D