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Rh With many ratches in row ruled full right,

And ſhall go on his foot over the water of Forth;

And in Fife ſhall he fight and the field win:

And the chieftains ſhall die on either ſide.

When the man in the moon is moſt in his might,

Then ſhall Dumbarton turn up that is down,

And the mouth of Arran both at one time,

And the Lord of the lucken hand his life ſhall he loſe,

For covetouſneſs and treaſon that loſes the land.

When the craigs of Tarbet is tumbled in the ſea,

At the next ſummer after ſorrow ſhall be.

Beid’s book have I ſeen, Baneſter’s alſo,

Marvellous Merling and all accords in one.

Marvellous Merling is waſted away,

With a wicked woman woe might ſhe be:

For ſhe hath cloſed in a craig on Cornwall coaſt.

When the cock in the north hath builded his neſt,

Bulked his birds, and bowned him to flee:

Then ſhall fortune his friend the gates up caſt,

And right ſhall have his free entry.

Then riſe shall the moon in the north weſt,

In a cloud as black as the bill of a crow:

Then is looſed as a lion, the boldeſt and the beſt,

That was born in Britain since Arthur’s days:

Then ſhall a dreadful Dragon dreſs him from his den,

To help the lion with his great might;

A bull and a baſtard ſpurs ſhall ſpend,

To abide with the bear, to reckon his rights.

A libbered engendered of native kind,

With the ſtern of Bethlehem ſhall riſe in the ſouth,

An horſe and Anthelop, boldly ſhall abide,

A bear and a brock, with berns ſo oright.

A proud prince in pries lordly ſhall light.

With bold barrons in buſhment to battle ſhall wend,

Then ſhall the prophecie prove that Thomas of tells,

Many comely knight is caſt under foot,

That ſhall make maiden’s mourn that in bowre dwells,

The dreadful day of deſtiny ſhall drive to the night:

Shall make maidens and wives in mourning be brought.

Then they meet in the morning with the moon light:

Betwixt Seton and the ſea ſorrow ſhall be wrought;

There the lion ſhall be hurt and not perceived:

Then ſhall be braid on the beſt that him the hurt wrought,

And many ſtern in that ſtound ſhall ſold to the free;