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             The Prophecies of Waldhave.                     39

The leed with the lucken hand is brought out of dayes, Subtilly his life shall lose and many an other, And many doughty shall die for that deed : And many leed in the north shall their life lose, For covetous and treason them loses the land : Many a wife and maiden shall wring both their hands, Before this wicked be brought to an end The first root o' this war shall rise in the north, That the isles and Ireland shall mourn for them both, And the Saxons sealed into brutes lands

When the moon is dark in the first of the number, With four crescents to eke forth the dayes. And thrice ten, is solconth to see. Syne let three and two thrieps as they will, With an L to Lowse the rest of the number; This the true date that Merling of telis, And gave to king Uter Arthurus father. And for to mean and muse with these merry words. For once Britain shall be in a new knights hands, Whoso haps to bide shall see with his eyes. And Merling and Waldhave have said of before, And true Thomas told in his time after: As Saint Beid in his book berieved the same, Muse on if ye may for mistir ye have 1 fhall give you a token, that Thomas of tells. When a lad with a lady shall go over the fields. And many fair thing weeping for dread, For love of their dear friends lies looking on hills. That shall be woe for to tell the teind of their sorrow, Then shall be wasted their chief lands Where God curses with his mouth, dead must follow, Now wot thou Waldhave, my will is way to passe, Too wood wildernesse, where my way lyes ; Then is Libkerts three lamed for ever: And the lyon (hall be lord and leader for sooth, And all Britain the broad shall him bow to, And his barnage bold shall him blisse keep.