The Prophecies of Waldhave. 35
No, thou guest of God, the gains none other, To whom he gives the grace they are of good life But this tale that I tell you ye shall trust it well, It is trailing, but truth, thee sooth thee to say, I moved into my mind how the sooth stands, Mule on as thou may, the matter the fraines, Thou sins if thou freienes farther I tell, I have enough Waldhave my way for to make. Here in wilderness I dwell, my weird for to dree: _______________________________________________________________
Waldhave conjured the Spirit, to shew
much more of sundry things to come,
as followeth:
B U T some what shall I say as sooth I heard, Amongst siedges unfound that over sooth is, Three mares of the Mers, fhall marry themselves. With the mertrix of Mar that they much love. Those brime beasts wild, shall byte full bold, To bail and to barter bairns anew. Then shall he first with the bucks 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 raik and reve in the wild north, There shall none other ride those ryotous beasts, A cock with a keen comb shall compass them with, All whole the ways where the land lyes, With such a seriek and cry slurll there kind rise: That the kirk be Christ shall be cumbered thereof; But the happier half shall the cock have ; For he is higher of heads and hurts the less, These false lurdians life lasts hut a while,
