Keep well theſe teachments as clarks have told,
Thus begins date, the deem as thou likes,
Thou ſhalt not ceaſe in that feat, aſſumed in the text,
Or the height of the heat neareſt the winter,
No tail of the tearm will I thee tell.
But chaſtity the chieſtain of their chief wrongs,
Or in the height of the harveſt, heard of thyſelf,
Shall wicked weird undo, and to right,
And this ere I wiſt, I awakened anon,
Though I write as it was, wiſt I it not.
The Prophecie of Merling.
IT is to fall when they it find,
That fell on face is fain to flee;
That commedore of ſtordlings ſtriendie,
Waving through the work of wind:
The bear his muſſel ſhall upbind,
And never after bound ſhall be,
Away the other ſhall wave with wind,
And as they come ſo ſhall they flee.
Syce ſhall up, and ſink ſhall under;
The dead ſhall riſe and work great wonder;
And joy ſhall riſe to man and wife;
The ſorrowful ſhall ſtill of ſtrife;
All men ſhall joy of his reſurrection,
And in ſpecial men of religion,
The morter is ready, the peſtle alſo,
The ſauce ſhall be bitter, and that to his foe;
And the devils alſo ſhall helpen to.
Then the banks of Beil ſhall bloom all about;
Then hie the Hurcheon to Hales, and cloſe thee therein,
Thou ſhalt be werped with a wind, and plucked ilk pen,
Shall never down on thy ſkin nor birs be thee left.
The thunder ſhall work thy hold to the cold earth,
Shall never ſtone upon ſtone nor ground be thee left,
And ſo that wretched work is deſtroyed for ever.
There ſhall a galyart goat with a golden horn,
A pilledow with a toad, ſuch a prime hold,
With their peers in place by a ſtream ſide;
