OLD
SCOTTISH PROPHECIES,
BY
THOMAS RHYMER.
When Hempe is come, and also gone,
Scotland and England shall be one.
VIII.
VI.
of Spain.
HEMPE.
For Hempe is come and gone,
And left us old Albion,
By peace join'd in one.
The explication of the foregoing prophecy, is fulfilled in the late King William, who came from Holland, which, in old times, was vulgarly called the land of Hempe, and the joining of the two nations signifies the Union.
Those things were foretold by the two Scots prophets, in the reign of King Arthur, by the famous Merling.
Afterwards, these things were foretold by Sir Thomas Learmont. He gave all his prophetical sayings in rhyme and so darkly, they could not be understood until they came to pass.
Of all the prophets that ever were in Scotland, none had attained to such credit as Sir Thomas Learmont because most of his predictions referred to our own country, and were accomplished in the last and present century.