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23Fair Scotia's enemies may invade,
But not escape a plague:
With sword, and thirst, and tears, and pest,
With fears, and such like ague.
24And after enemies thrown down,
And mastered in war,
Then Scotland in peace and quietness,
Pass joyful days for ever,
But that the curious may be more fully informed concerning the aforesaid predictions, with respect to their being exactly fulfilled, they are referred to the Scottish Histories.
AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
Battle of Bannockburn.
EDWARD II. of England, kept up the same claim upon Scotland, which his father had began; and after several unsuccessful attempts to establish it, he resolved to make a great effort and with one blow reduce that turbulent nation, which had put so many signal affronts upon his father and himself.
In the spring, 1314, he assembled the most
