The Second Scottish Prophecy, the A Text — in couplets
Note: All MSS show considerable variations, but derive from an original short prophecy,
Scottish in sympathy, developing some of the symbols used by Geoffrey of
Monmouth.
Title(s): The Second Scottish Prophecy
Subjects: prophecies, political
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Bibliographic Ghosts: London, Westminster Abbey 27 : not in this manuscript or too faded to
detect.
Bad Key: PROHenVIII.
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.5, Part IV, ff. 33-34
First Lines:QWhen Rome Is removyde in to Inglande
And the prest haffys the
poppys powre in hande…
Last Lines:…And oþer burghys abowte wytht þar brade wall
Sall
wytht þe lyoune be leff ande longe for euer
Note: 71 lines in rough couplets, some incomplete.
Editions:
Robbins, Rossell Hope,
ed.
Historical Poems of the XIV and XV Centuries.
New York: Columbia UP, 1959: 118.
Stevenson, Joseph.
The Scottish Metrical Romance of Lancelot du Lak.
Maitland Club
48. Edinburgh, 1839: 157.
Lumby, Joseph Rawson,
ed.
Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, with some early Scottish
Prophecies.
EETS
o.s. 42 (1870); repr. 1965.
3.Source: London, British Library Harley 559, f. 10
First Lines:When Rome is Remevyd into Ingland
And euerye prist hathe popes power
In hand…
Last Lines:…Covetous & Lecherye is the vice
Then shall it bene
Lyfe
Note: Fragment: 7 lines only. Seven lines rhyming aaaabbb; followed on f.
10v by prose prophecy of similar content set out in lines but
unrhyming except for one embedded couplet(?).