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al blood, and will breed great stir and confusion in Britain. This man is alive at this very present age, and of the Stewarts' race, now in Italy. There is plainly pointed out, that in his time, a great battle should be seen in Fife.

Where saddled horses should be seen
Tyed unto the trees green.

Not only in Fife, but the four chief rivers of the realm, there should be a battle on each of them, that should make the rivers run with blood, viz. Tweed, Clyde, Forth, and Tay.

Last of all, a bloody desperate battle in Northumberland, on the river Lyne. Also great havock and slaughter about the broad walls of Berwick. All these things are yet to come to pass; and when the first appears, the rest will soon follow after.


P A R T II.

When Hempe is come and also gone,
Scotland and England shall be one.

Henry,
VIII.
Edward,
VI.
Mary,
Philip,
of Spain,
Q M's Husb.
Elizabeth,

HEMPE.

Praised be God alone,
For Hempe is come and gone,