There is a poem in eight-line stanzas, in a fourteenth-century manuscript (Cotton, Julius, A, v), edited by Wright (Pierre de Langtoft, II, 452), which stands in somewhat the same relation to this ballad as the poem of Thomas of Erceldoune does to the ballad of 'Thomas Rymer' (No. 37), but with the important difference that there is no reason for deriving the , ballad from the poem in this instance. There seems to have been an intention to make it, like Thomas of Erceldoune, an introduction to a string of prophecies which follows, but no junction has been effected.
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