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The PROPHECIES of B E I D.

BEtwixt the chief of summer ai1d the said winter. Before the heat of harvest, happen shall a war, That Europe’s lands earnestly shall be wrought, And earnest envy shall last but a while : But the lion, with his lusty flowers, From harm of heat shall hap him with leaves, Then speed and spread him to Spain into winter, All flowers in the Forth shall follow him on.

Callender shall cry Cornwall, she noble, And inherit all Albany at his will, Envy to all Alliers anon to be worken, Old Almoscycains, and Albany the same, Shall recover castles and towers out ot Saxons hands, When Britoners shall hear them with brands of steel, There shall no bastard blood bide in these lands, Albanus that time king of the earth, Albanactus king and lord of the land, To the lilly shall lean, and love none other : The lyon, leader of all beasts, Shall lean to the lilly and live him with; And shall stir him to strive by the stream of humber, The stepson of the lyon sturdily of themselves. They shall start up with strife and stir all at once,A And strike down the stepfons, and destroy them for ever, Neither love they the lilly nor the lyon : But the lilly shall loose when they least wean, Then all shall happen to the Hart cappen as is many, And the tail of summer toward the hearvest, And then the lilly shall be loosed when they least think, Then clear kings blood shall quake for fear of death, For Churls shall chop off heads of their chiefs beims,