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                    (  9  ) For the fox and the fulmart they are false both, When the raven and the rook has rounded together, And the kid in his clift shall accord to the same, Then fhall they be bold, and soon to bail after. Then shall the buck in belling time make a great bear, It is but wind that wafts for be is but away. Then shall waken up a war and much woe after, Then the birds of the raven rugs and reaves. And the leil men of Lothian be luppen on their horse, Then shall the poor people be spoiled full near, And the 'mers shall mourn many days after, And all the abbies truly that stands on Tweed, And all Lothian shall live on their lives after, They shall burn and slay, and great reif make, There dare no poor man say whose man he is, Then shall the land be lawless, for love there is none, And falset shall have foot, fully five years, And truth truly shall be tint, and none shall trust other: The cosine once shall not trust the other, Nor the son the father, nor the father the son, For to have his goods he would have him hanged, When shall they a connsel call for peace of the Kyth, To make love among Lords but that shall not last, For those barrons ana batchelors that will not obey, That will not keep to their cry, nor come to their call.

Then shall men be marked for their misdeeds, That shall turn them to rein within a while after. When 14 are past, and twice theree threep is at end, Land over a water he shall, fair and see for himfelf, And in a fair forrest shall an ern big. Many men shall lose their life in the mean time ; For they shall pitch a field and fiercely fight; Upon a broad mure a battle shall be. Beside a stock crosse that stands in the north,

is covered with dead corpse and all of a Kythe,

that the crow may not know where the crosse stood.

The wolf shall be watchman and keep many ways,