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THE PROPHECIE OF A White KING of BRITTAINE. TAKEN Out of the Library of Sir Robert Cotton, that moſt famous Antiquary of England, in the Saxon Character.
LONDON, Printed for G. Linſey, and are to be ſold at his Shop againſt London-Stone. 1643.
Brittaine, firſt Flying, and after RiBrittaine (King is King) King is no King. After this he ſhall raiſe up his head, (and he ſhall be taken him to be a king, be many things to done, But wiſe men Reading, And then ſhall a range of Gleeds, and that ever each hath beraveing) he ſhall have it for his owne, And this ſhall laſt ſeven yeeres, Loe raveing and ſhedding of blood: And Ovens ſhall be made like kyrkes, And that as one ſowes another ſhall reape, and death ſhall be better then wretched life, and Charity ſhall be of few men; After then ſhall come through the South with the Sunne, on Horſe of tree, and upon all waves on the Sea, the Chicken of the Eagle ſailBrittaine, and arriving anon, to the houſe of the Eagle, he ſhall ſhew
Brittaine, then ſhall a ſooth be naught worth, and every man ſhall keepe his thing, and gotten other mens good; after the white king feeble ſhall goe towards the Weſt, betlipped about with his folke, to the old place been running water, then his enemies ſhall meet him, and march in her place ſhall be ordained about him in Hoaſt, on the manner of a ſhield ſhall be formed, then ſhall they fighten on Oven front, After the white king ſhall fall into a kirkeBrittaine, nay he ſhall naught be ſlaine young: nay he naught come old, for then the Gentile worthiEngland, Scotland, and Wales, unto the day of doome and the holy Croſſe be brought into Chriſtian mens hands, and there ſhall be made a Temple that never was made, ſuch none.
The Originall hereof was found by the Lady Poſton of the County of Norfolke, amongſt the evidences of Edw. the fourth his time.
IN Tempore EDW. 4th. The Latine of this enſuing Engliſh is to be ſeene in Sir Robert Cottons Library, that famous Antiquary of England, in the Saxon Chara