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Both the yles and Arran at bis own will, Many men shall laugh when he home comes, But much felcouth shall be seen within short time. At his own kind blood there s.'hall begin, Choose of the chiefest, and chop off their heads] Some harled in fieds and hang’d on high. Some pat in prison and much pain abide.
The crab shall be out of his clift along time. With unkind blood, and yet, shall recover; And other beirns in wlole banish for ever. Covetice shall be his name, the king of that Kyth. For both his heart, and his head shall be of flint forged, No Lord shall live in that land but himself alone : But they are bereaved of bliss to keep him in baile, Yet shall a man of more vail mar him for ever. For suddenly he shall go down and die in a fen. There shall no king come in that Kyth for a long time. But a figure of a flower, the fairest of the sixth. The white flower and the red so shall be called.
In the month of ^rran a felcouth shall fall. Two bloody hearts shall be taken with a falset rain, And derfly dung down without any doom : Ireland, Orknay, and other lands many. For the death of these two, great dool shall make,
Than much sorrow is seen within seven years. Both the crab and the cock they shall elcape. For more harm at that time shall they not have, When the raven ronps many shall rue. From Cornwell to Caithness they shall his cry hear, When the gled in his clift is climbe to the hight, He counts not the lion that he is kind Lord , When the graip would govern all and gapes tbereafter, With great gifts of gold the flower would he get. Come he once his clocks, he covers him never. Then would a poor captive be keeper of the Kyth, Yet shall it fail the freit that the fool thinks, When ihe cock crows keep well his comb :
