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Rh Then shall he firſt with the buck's head,

The other a bear that is brime, shall brue much care;

The third a bull with a bear that bears horns,

Hudge and hideous on every ſide high;

Theſe three shall rake and rave in the wild north:

There shall none other ride theſe ryotons beaſts.

A cock with a keen comb shall compaſs them with

All whole the wayes where the land lyes.

With ſuch a creich and cry shall their kind riſe,

That the Kirk of Chriſt shall be cumbered thereof,

But the happier half shall the cock have;

For he is higher of head and hurts the leſs,

Theſe falſe Lurdens lives laſts but a while,

Till 3 Libberts in a ling from London shall come,

And lean toward Lothian in Linlithgow ſhire,

Toward Glaſgow they go, graithly thereafter;

Attour the hills where the way lies,

And on Govan moor graiths them to ſleep:

Then a lion as lord ſhall leap them among,

And learn them a leſſon though they loth think,

Fell falconds in field ſhall their fey worth,

And their formales ſo far fleemed for ever:

Then Purvey the powock with thy proud ſhaws,

Thou ſhalt have part of the pelf, when the pack opens.

Then a chieftain unchoſen, ſhall chooſe forth himſelf,

And ride through the realm, and Roy ſhall be called;

Then ſhall wales worthily dwell upon loft,

And chooſe them a chief lord of loyalty holden,

Scots heirs of Scotland ſhall ſcale them full wide.

In Humber ſhall brulye, their right for to have,

Greffon and Godrant that were great lords,

They were tailied in that time with untrue folk.

Heaven, and even heirs of the land,

Shall rent them, and riſe, and reel in their way,

And noy all the Norways that has them wrong wrought,

When dead ſhall riſe, and marvels ſhew,

Look him flat in face, and none ſhall him know;

Then the lillie ſo liele with notable bairns,

Send Bodwart in Britain to the bairn bold,

Bids him blythly abide in battle join'd.

Then a lion shall leap looſe out of hands;

The ſixth out of Ireland, nobleſt of deeds;

But when he is looſe, then reſt is there none,

When the ſyce is up, and the ſink under,