The last age of the church

by John‏ Wycliffe

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.