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Gildas his Prophecy mentioned by Biſhop Usher, relating to the Scots Nation, and reduced into Engliſh thus:
SCOTLAND 'bove all ſhall his brave Chief bemoan,
Who all the ſea-girt places rules alone:
The widow'd land of bounteous Prince bereft,
Shall twice three years and nine long months be left.
Sad Scotland mourns her old juſt valiant Kings,
But Merling 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 own frauds undone more than their foes,
Yet old Sybillia has in rhymes foretold,
She ſhall revive when one that doats on gold
Is lay'd to reſt; the white Albanion 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 ceaſe, and joys appear,
And welcome peace ſalutes our hemiſphere.
This Gildas in ſtory well read, foreſhows,
Whoſe verſe though brief, much matter may diſcloſe.
A very ancient Prophecy called Truswell's Prophecy, becauſe when it was firſt found it was put into the hands of Mr. Truswell, recorder of Lincoln.
THE Lilly (by which France is ſignified) ſhall remain the better part, and he ſhall be moved againſt the ſeed 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 bearing 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, wherein the Lilly shall loſe his Crown, where with the Son of Man shall be crowned; and
