_Ter tria lustra tenent cum semi tempora ~Sexti~,_ _En vagus in prima perdet, sub fine resumet,_ _Multa rapit medio volitans sub fine secundi,_ _Orbem submittet reliquo, clerumque reducet_ _Ad statum primum, post hoc renouat loca sancta_ _Hinc terram spernens secundo ethere scandit._ In another MS.[90] in the Library of _Trinity College, Dublin_, there is preserved a Prophecy in which _Sextus_ of _Ireland_ is also mentioned, and which, as the Editor is informed by his learned Friend _John Holmes_, Esq., of the _British Museum_, occurs also in the _Arundel_ MS. 57, fol. 4, b., where it is entitled, “_Versus Gylde de Prophetia Aquile_.” It will suffice to quote from this Prophecy the Lines where _Sextus_ is mentioned. _~Sextus Hybernensis~ milleno milite cinctus,_ _Hostibus expulsis castra relicta petet,_ _Menia subversa vix antrix apta ferarum_ _Pinget et eiectus bubo necabit apem._ Ibid. þe witt is our kyng wiþ his children. “_The witt_,” i. e. the Meaning; alluding probably to the Interpretation given of this part of the Prophecy by _Alanus de Insulis_, who supposes the then reigning King Henry II. and his Sons to be intended; his Words are[91]:— _~Henricus~ qui nunc in ~Anglia~ regnat, quinque filios suscepit ex Regina conjuge sua, quorum unus mortuus est, quatuor vero supersunt. Habuit et sextum ex concubina, qui clericus est, magnæ, ut aiunt, juxta ætatem, probitatis. Hic itaque vel sextus dicetur Henrici Regis filius, si mortuus ille quem habuit ex Regina inter alios computetur, vel quintus, si soli superstites a propheta numerantur, et alius adhuc expectandus, quem hic ~Sextum~ appellat. Possumus tamen sextum istum intelligere, qui in ~Anglia~ regnaturus sit post quatuor istos, et alium quintum quicunque ille sit, hoc est sive istorum frater, sive non, de quo dicitur quod ~Hyberniæ~ sit mænia subversurus, excisurus nemora, et in planitiem mutaturus diversas portiones, id est regna diversa, non est enim unum regnum, sed plura, ad unum regnum reducturus, ejusque coronam, assumpta feritate et fortitudine leonina, suo capite impositurus._ Ibid. line 9. Sibille acordiþ herto. The Verses of “Sibille” here quoted are to be found in a large Collection of other Prophecies of the same character, in a Manuscript[92] of the fourteenth Century, preserved in the Library of _Trinity College, Dublin_. The Editor is also enabled, through the Kindness of Mr. _Holmes_, to give here a complete Copy of them from the _Cotton MS. Claud._ B. vii., collated with the _Arundel_ MS. 57, fol. In this latter MS. which is written, as Mr. _Holmes_ conjectures, in a Hand of about the Year 1350, and also in the _Dublin_ MS. the Line _Terræ motus, &c._ comes immediately before the Line _Millenis ducentenis_. The other various Readings are given in the Margin; A. denoting the _Arundel_, and D. the _Dublin_ Manuscript. “_SYBILLA de eventibus regnorum et eorum Regum ante finem mundi._”[93]