The prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer, and the comical story of Thrummy Cap, the Ghaist.

  • Thomas, of Ercildoune, 1219-1299.
Date:
[1840?]
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    Last of all, a bloody desperate battle in Nor- thumberland, on the river Tyne. AI30 great ha-, vock and slaughter about the broad walls of Ber- wick. All these things are yet to come to pass and when the first appears, the rest will soon fol- low after. When Hemp is come and also gone, Scotland and England shall be one. Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, Elizabeth.. VIII. VI. ' of Spain. Q. M.’s Husb. HEMP. Praised be God alone, For Hemp is come and gone, And left us old Albion, By peace join’d in one. The explication of the foregoing prophecy con- cerning llemp being come and also gone, leaving Scotland and England joined in one, is fulfilled ir the late king William, who came out of Holland,! which, in old times, was* vulgarly called the land ol Hemp, and the joining of the two nations together,! signifies the union. These things were foretold by the two Scots Prophets in the reign of King Arthur. After- wards, to the same purpose, these, and many other strange things were foretold by Thomas Learmant, vulgarly called Thomas the Rhymer.1