The widow’d lamb of bounteous Prince bereft,
Shall twice three years and nine long months be left.
Sad Scotland mourns her old loſt valiant Kings,
But Merlin ſays, after them up there ſprings,
One that ſhall not in kingly manner ſway,
The royal ſceptre. yet make them obey:
To Albany preſaging miſchief flows,
By their oen frauds undone more than their foes
Yet old Sybilla has in rhimes foretold,
She ſhall revive when one that deals on gold
Is lay'd to reſt: the white Albanian then,
By treachery undoes his country-men:
A northern Prince with numerous ſhips ſhall vex,
The Scots, whom fury, ſword and death perplex:
Soon after ſorrows reuſe, and joys appear.
The welcome peace ſainten our hemiſpere.
This Gildas in ſtory well read, foreſhows,
Whoſe verſe through brief, much matter may diſcloſe.
THE Lilly (by which France is ſignified) ſhall remain the better part, and he ſhall be moved againſt the food of the Lyon, and he ſhall ſtand on one part amongſt the thorns of his kingdom, whoſe kingdom is the land of the Moon; and there ſhall come the Son of Man hearing the wild beaſts in his arms; with a multitude of people he ſhall pass many waters, and ſhall come to the land of the Lyon, looking for help from the beaſts of his own country; then ſhall there come an Eagle out of the Eaſt with his wings ſpread with the beams of the ſun, and in that year shall be deſtroyed caſtles, or rather ſhips upon the Thames; and there ſhall be great fear over all the world, and eſpecially in one part of the land there ſhall be a great battle amongſt many kings: and in that day ſhall be the bloody field, where the Lilly shall loſe his crown, wherewith the Son of Man ſhall be crowned; and in the 14 year many battles ſhall be fought for the faith. The head of the world ſhall be brought down to the duſt, (viz, the Pope) and the Son of Man with the Eagle, ſhall be exalted, and the Son of Man receive a wonderful man, and there ſhall be great plenty of all fruits of the earth;
