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 38            The Prophecies of Waldhave.

In the vale of Josaphat seen shall he be. Where many Saeyans, shall quake with their hearts. When the dead man shall rise and shew them a fight, As marvellous Merling hath said of before, Take heed to this tale, that I now thee tell, And trust it is as truly as it were written: When that falsehood hath foot and freedom is loft. And covetous hath the Kyth at his own will; When laughtly is laid low under foot. And dindnesse is courtesie his friends to beguile ; And no truth shall be stewed unto christian lands. But all bent to deceit, and none trust other. Nor the father the son in his bodily oaths Holy kick shall have no girth, but plainly overturned; And lechery on lost, and none spare other ; And each blood with other knits together, The law of our Saviour is quite forgotten.

This is a true talking that Thomas of tells. That the hare shall hirple on the hard stone. In hope of grace, but grace gets she none Then Gladsmore and Govan shall gape thereafter, Think not long on this loss, for it is near hand, When the lamb is loose, that the holy kirk keeps, Then falsehood is set in seeges of Rome, And works for the warrand that the cure wan : Many seeges *****ugh within short time after, When the mouth of Ariane the top hath overturned. Then shall Dumbarton smell of old done deeds : And so shall Arrane sop in a new mans hands ; In hope of Dunbar, when hails shall hault, When the hunter shall come with his kind ratches, Hunt Fotherick and Fyfe aud the field win.

When,summer is winter, and the winter is weet. With warding wind and tempest great. Then falsehood is ready his friend to begnile, With hunger and hirship over all the broad lands : Then shall the poor people be spilled full near,