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 30. The Prophecies if Waldhave.

Then frained I fiercely of this frivole world : What to be of war, if he wish ought ? Or who should weild us in this world, that sorrow drees To give us of good will, and get us to peace ? If their is fruits in this world, that so much worth is ? . Should have fusion or force, and any fair after ?

And then he looked to the ground,and wept all a while And he groaned for grief, weeping he said, Much anger and evil hath this isle chosen. All through oggered and cist, and elvines knight, Brutus thy bairntime has much bail chosen, Since first in Britain to leind thou was brought ; Sickness and sorrow, and foreness set with syth. When thou sembled to the sea, under fail found : Noraway hath neddered them, and to need brought : That hath newed their names, and named themselves, English, that are eastfood, and Edryons bairns, But all the anger that they make, their own shall be. That Westmoorland, woe mat thee betide, For then with war thy wrong bairns; When thou mels with the mers and mixed with the same. Much malice and mischief thou made for thyself. Beirns and banners thou brought upon loft. With burning and bail hath wrought sorrow ; Carlile the captains hath much woe wrought: Thou shalt compelled be with care,thou thinks it but little Thou shalt thy gates yarn, thou yarns not thereafter. Thou shalt yalmure and yel that all York shall it hear, Then the town shall be tint trow thou not else : Thy tops and thy turnats tumbled to the ground. No false fortune so fell has thee at feed, That force shall fail thee when thou best tbinkest. And lipens from London to lead thee for ever. On Einton and Lindsay: and Lancaster faires, Then shall a lion be lowfed what a lord is, Both of London and of Lorn, as the law will. He shall alleag to be leige, and the law make :