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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, - physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of - France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. - A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented - by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond. - -Author: Michael Nostradamus - -Translator: Theophilus de Garencieres - -Release Date: September 4, 2022 [eBook #68907] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Curtis Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by the Posner Memorial - Collection.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE PROPHECIES OR -PROGNOSTICATIONS OF MICHAEL NOSTRADAMUS, PHYSICIAN TO HENRY II. FRANCIS -II. AND CHARLES IX. KINGS OF FRANCE, AND ONE OF THE BEST ASTRONOMERS -THAT EVER WERE. *** - - - - - -[Illustration: Gallica quem genuit retinetque Britannica tellus - Calluit Hermetis quicquid in arte fuit] - - - - - THE TRUE - PROPHECIES - OR - PROGNOSTICATIONS - OF - Michael Nostradamus, - PHYSICIAN - TO - Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. - KINGS of FRANCE, - And one of the best - _ASTRONOMERS_ that ever were. - - A - WORK full of CURIOSITY and LEARNING. - - Translated and Commented by _THEOPHILUS de - GARENCIERES_, Doctor in Physick _Colleg. Lond._ - - _LONDON_, - - Printed by _Thomas Ratcliffe_, and _Nathaniel Thompson_, - and are to be sold by _John Martin_, at the _Bell_ in St. - _Pauls Church-yard_, _Henry Mortlack_ at the _White Hart_ in - _Westminster-Hall_, _Thomas Collins_, at the _Middle-Temple - Gate_, _Edward Thomas_, at the _Adam_ and _Eve_ in _Little - Britain_, _Samuel Lowndes_ over against _Exeter-house_ - in the _Strand_, _Rob. Bolter_, against the South door - of the _Exchange_, _Jon. Edwin_, at the _Three Roses_ in - _Ludgate-street_, _Moses Pits_ at the _White Hart_ in _Little - Britain_, 1672. - - - - - To his most Honoured Friend - NATHANIEL PARKER - OF - Grayes-Inne, Esq; - _THEOPHILUS de GARENCIERES_, - D. Med. Colleg. _Lond._ - Humbly Dedicateth this Book. - - _Namque erit ille mihi_, &c. Virg. Eccl. I. - - - - -TO THE - -Courteous Reader. - - -_Reader,_ - -Before thou goest on further to the perusing of this Work, thou art -humbly intreated by the Authour, to forgive him his Anglicisme; for being -born a Forreigner, and having had no body to help him to the polishing -of it, for several reasons, it cannot be expected he should please thine -Ears, so much as he may perhaps do thy Fancy. Every Exotick Plant can -hardly become Domestical under one or two Generations: Besides that, -the Crabbedness of the Original in his own Idiome, can scarce admit a -Polite Eloquency in another. The very Antient _English_ Language in this -refined Age, is become both obsolete and unintelligible, as we may see in -_Chaucer_, _Gower_, and others. If you adde to this, that the Authours -Nation hath been alwayes famous for its Civility to those that were -Strangers to their Language, as not onely to abstain from laughing at -them when they spoke amiss, but also in redressing them charitably to the -best of their power. I may probably expect you will measure me with the -same measure, as you would be if you were in my case. - -As for the Errataes of the Press, I could not help them, being out of -Town most part of the time that the Book was a Printing; when you meet -with any, I hope your Charitable Pen will either mend or obliterate -them, and not lay another mans fault upon me, who neither for pride nor -ostentation undertook this laborious Work, but that I might give some -Satisfaction and Recreation to the Learned and Curious, who have had a -longing for it ever since its Birth. - - _Farewell._ - - - - -IN - -Explicatum à doctissimo sagacissimoq; Viro Domino - -De - -GARENCIERES - -FAMOSI - -Nostradami Vaticinium. - - - _Abdita qui medici legit præsagia Vatis,_ - _Non valet hoc quisquam pandere carmen, ait._ - _Falleris, en Medicus merito quoque nomine Vates,_ - _Invia luminibus permeat antra novis._ - _Sed minus ingenio tantum mirere laborem_ - _Id succisivo tempore fecit opus._ - - Petrus Cottereau. - -Aliud. - - _Præteritos in vate tuo cognoscere casus_ - _Vix licet; ast etiam nota futura tibi._ - _Si potes è mediis lucem proferre tenebris;_ - _Ipsa metallorum semina te-ne latent?_ - _Nulla tuum fugiunt naturæ arcana cerebrum,_ - _Per quem ~Nostradami~ Pythica verba patent._ - - Idem. - - - - -Perenni Famæ Doctissimi Viri _Theophili de Garencieres_ Doctoris Medici -Colleg. _Lond._ de Interpretatione _NOSTRADAMI_ Fatidici Tetrastichon hoc -dicavit. - - -Dudleyus, _dimidia pars ipsius animæ_. - - _Qvæ primus fecit, facit illa secundus ~Apollo~,_ - _Conjungens medicis oracula sacra triumphis._ - _Quis major, rogitas? facile est discernere noris_ - _Si Latonigenæ cessare oracula ~Phœbi~._ - - -_By the same, To the Author of this, and a more Excellent Work._ - -Mystically. - - The God of Arts that gives thee Light, as clear - As his, that thou might’st be his Agent here - In all his Secrets; courts thee to go on, - Till thou hast made thy self another Sun. - - - _Æternum vivant si vera Oracula Phœbi_ - _~Nostradami~ vivent; & Patris illa mei;_ - - Petrus. - - - - -THE - -PREFACE - -TO THE - -READER. - - -_READER_, - -Before I speak any thing of the Author, or of his Works, I think it -convenient to speak somthing of my self, and of my intention in setting -out this Translation, with my Annotations. - -The Reputation that this Book hath amongst all the _Europeans_, since its -first coming out, which was in the year 1555. and the curiosity that from -time to time the learned have had to see the Mysteries contained in it, -unfolded: is a sufficient warrant for my undertaking. - -Many better Pens (I confess) could have performed this work with better -success, but not with greater facility than I, having from my youth been -conversant with those that pretended or endeavered to know somthing in -it. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for a man of my profession -to wade through it. This Book was the first after my Primmer, wherein -I did learn to read, it being then the Custom in _France_, about the -year 1618. to initiate Children by that Book; First, because of the -crabbidness of the words; Secondly, that they might be acquainted with -the old and absolete _French_, such as is now used in the _English_ Law; -and Thirdly, for the delightfulness and variety of the matter, so that -this Book in those days was printed every year like an Almanack, or a -Primer for Children. From that time, without any other Study than reading -of History, and observing the events of the world, and conversing with -those that made it their Study, (some of which were like to run mad about -it) I have attained to so much Knowledge, as to bring it into a Volume. - -The Book is written in the Nature of Prophecies, digested into old -_French_ Verses, most of which are very hard to be understood, and others -impossible at all, whether the Author did affect obscurity, or else -wanted the faculty to express himself, which is the cause that it could -not be rendred into _English_ Verses, it being troublesome enough to be -understood in Prose, as the Reader will find. That’s the reason that I -have translated it almost word for word, to make it as plain as I could; -as also because the Reader (if curious of it) may benefit himself in the -knowledge of the _French_ Tongue, by comparing the _English_ and _French_ -together. The rest that can be said upon this subject, you shall find -either in the Authors Life, or in the Appology made for him. - -And because I have told you before, that many have been like to run mad -by over-studying these, and other Prophecies, give me leave to give you -this advice, that in vain, or at least without any great profit, thou -shalt bestow thy time, care, and study upon it: for which I will give -thee the chief reasons, that have disswaded me from it. - -The first is, that the thing it self, which you may think to understand, -is not certain in it self; because the Author disguiseth it in several -manners, sometimes speaking a double sense, as that of the ancient Oracle. - - _Aio te Æacida Romanos vincere posse._ - -Which is to be understood two ways, and cannot be determinated, till the -event of it be past. - -It is true, that the Author doth mark so many particular Circumstances, -that when the thing is come to pass, every one may clearly see that -he pretended to Prophecie that particular thing. And besides he doth -sometimes deliver the thing in so obscure terms, that without a peculiar -_Genius_, it is almost impossible to understand it. - -The second is, that though the Prophecie be true in it self, yet no body -knoweth, neither the time, nor how: For example, he plainly foretelleth, -that the Parliament of _England_ should put their King to death; -nevertheless no body could tell, nor when, nor how, till the thing was -come to pass, nor what King it should be, till we had seen it. - -The third is, that he marketh the times with Astrological terms, _viz._ -when such and such Planets, shall be in such and such Signs; but as -those Planets are often here, and go out of it, and come there again, no -certain judgement can be made of it. - -The fourth is, that many times he giveth some peculiar Circumstances to -those he speaketh of, which may be found in others. Thus _the Royal first -born_ might have been applied to _Lewis_ the XIII. to _Lewis_ the XIV. to -the first born of _Philip_ the II. and _Philip_ the III. King of _Spain_, -and to Kings of _England_, Father and Son. Nevertheless we find that this -word _Royal first born_, was intended for _Henry_ IV. Grandfather on his -Mothers side, as we shall shew hereafter. This being so, it cannot be -expounded, but after the event. - -The fifth is, that the knowledge of future things, belongeth to -God alone, and no body can pretend by any study, to have a certain -acquisition of it in all its Circumstances. - -The sixth is, that the orders of Gods providence, which cause the several -events in all States, will not permit that men should have a publick -notion of his designs, sometimes he revealeth them to his Servants, or to -some particular man as he pleaseth, but he will not have them to be known -among the common sort of men. - -The seventh, is the experience we have had of many, who pretending -to understand the Author, have made a quantity of false Prophecies, -expounding the Stanza’s according to their fancy, as if God had given -them the same understanding that he gave the Author, and what ought -to confirm us more in this point, is, that they have expounded some -Prophecies, as if they were to come to pass, which were past already, by -which we see the darkness of humane wit, who without authority pretendeth -to bite into the forbidden fruit of knowledge. - -The eighth is, that this knowledge is no way profitable for the Vulgar; -because those things being decreed by God, they shall come to pass -without forceing our liberty, nor hindering the contingency of sublunary -things, where we must observe that the Prophecies which were revealed to -men, are many times conditional, as we see in that of _Jonas_ against -_Ninive_, but those that they have left in writing for the times that -should come after them, are absolutely true, and shall infallibly come -to pass, as they have foretold them. This no ways hindereth, but God may -reveal some secrets of his to private men, for their benefit, and that -of their friends, without imparting it to the Vulgar, who may be, should -laugh at them. - -The ninth is, that God hath peculiarly reserved to himself the knowledge -of times. _Daniel_, by a special favour, knew the end of the _Babylonian_ -Captivity, and the time of the _Messiah_’s birth, and yet the -interpreters can scarce yet expound clearly the meaning of the seventy -weeks of _Daniel_, and we see, that since 1600 years ago, holy men, from -age to age, have foretold the proximity of Dooms-day, and the coming of -Antichrist. - -The tenth is, that the foretelling of future things in this Author, is -for the most part included in business of State, and one might be guilty -of a criminal temerity, if he would discover things that concern us not, -and the concealing of which, is commended by all prudent persons, seeing -that we owe respect, love, and submission to those that bear rule over us. - -For these reasons (dear Reader) I would not have thee intangle thy self -in the pretentions of knowing future things. If you have light concerning -them, keep thine own secret, and make use of it for thy self: Preserve -peace, and let the Almighty govern the World: for he can turn all things -to his Glory, and may when he pleaseth, raise up some Wits that will make -known unto us, what we desire, without any further trouble to our selves. -Before I make an end, I cannot but acquaint thee for gratitude sake, of -my Obligation to several persons, which have lent me Books, to help me -towards the finishing of this work, as namely that worthy Gentleman, and -the Honour of his profession Mr. _Francis Bernard_, Apothecary to St. -_Bartholemews_ Hospital, and Mr. _Philip Auberton_ Gentleman, belonging -to the Right Honourable the Earl of _Bridgwater_. Farewell. - - - - -THE - -LIFE - -OF - -Michael Nostradamus, - -Physitian in Ordinary to HENRY the II. and CHARLES the IX. Kings of -_France_. - - -_Michael Nostradamus_, the most renowned and famous Astrologer, that hath -been these many Ages, was born in St. _Remy_, a Town of _Provence_, in -the year 1503. upon a _Thursday_, the 14th of _December_, about noon. -His father was _James Nostradamus_, a Notary of the said Town, his -Mother was _Renata_ of St. _Remy_, whose Grandfathers by the Fathers and -Mothers side, were men very skilfull, in Mathematick and Physick, one -having been Physitian to _Renatus_, King of _Jerusalem_, and _Sicily_, -and Earl of _Provence_, and the other Physition to _John_, Duke of -_Calabria_, Son to the said _Renatus_, whence cometh that our Author -saith in his Commentaries, that he hath received from hand to hand the -Knowledge of Mathematicks, from his ancient Progenitors. After the death -of his great Grandfather by the Mothers side, who first gave him a -slight tincture, and made him in love with the Mathematicks, he was sent -to School to _Avignon_. After that he went to Mount _Pelier_, to study -Philosophy and Physick, till a great Plague coming, he was compelled to -go to _Narbonne_, _Thoulouse_, and _Bourdeaux_, where he first began -to practise, being then about 22 years of age. Having lived four years -in those parts, he went back again to _Monpelier_, to get his degrees, -which he did with a great deal of applause. Going to _Thoulouse_, he -past through _Agen_, where _Julius Cæsar Scaliger_ stayed him, with -whom he was very familiar and intimately acquainted, though they fell -out afterward; there he took to wife a very honourable Gentlewoman, by -whom he had two Children, a Son and a Daughter, all which being dead, -and seeing himself alone, he resolved to retire himself into _Provence_ -his Native Countrey. After he had gone to _Marseille_, he went to _Aix_, -where the Parliament of _Provence_ sitteth, and was there kept three -years at the City Charges; because of the violent Plague that raged then -in the year 1546. as you may read in the Lord of _Launay_’s Book, called -the Theater of the World, who describeth that Plague according to the -informations our Author gave him. Thence he went to _Salon de Craux_, a -City distant from _Aix_ one dayes Journey, and in the middle way between -_Avignon_ and _Marseille_; there he Married his second Wife _Anna Ponce -Genelle_, by whom he had three Sons and one Daughter, the eldest was -_Michael Nostradamus_, who hath written some pieces of Astrology, Printed -at _Paris_ in the year 1563. - -The second was _Cæsar Nostradamus_, who hath deserved to be numbred among -the _French_ Historians, by reason of the great Volume he hath written of -_Provence_. - -The third was a Capuchine Frier. _Cæsar_ did insert in his History the -propagation of that Order in _Provence_. The fourth was a Daughter. - -_Nostradamus_ having found by experience that the perfect knowledge of -Physick dependeth from that of Astrology, he addicted himself to it, and -as this Science wanteth no allurement, and that besides his Genius he had -a peculiar disposition and inclination to it; he made such a progress -in it, that he hath deserved the Title of the most illustrious one in -_France_, insomuch that making some Almanacks for recreation sake, he did -so admirably hit the conjuncture of events, that he was sought for far -and near. - -This success was the cause of an extraordinary diminution of his fame; -for the Printers and Booksellers seeing his fame, did print and vent -abundance of false Almanacks under his name for lucre sake, whence it -came that his reputation suffered by it, and was the cause that the Lord -_Pavillon_ wrote against him, and that the Poet _Jodele_ made this bitter -Distichon. - - _~Nostra damus~ cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,_ - _Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi ~Nostra damus~._ - -To which may be answered. - - _~Nostra damus~ cum verba damus quæ ~Nostradamus~ dat,_ - _Nam quæcunque dedit nil nisi vera dedit._ - -Or thus - - _Vera damus cum verba damus quæ ~Nostradamus~ dat,_ - _Sed cum ~Nostra damus~, nil nisi falsa damus._ - -Nevertheless the Beams of Truth did shine through the Clouds of Calumny; -for he was singularly esteemed of by the Grandees, Queen _Katharine_ of -_Medicis_, who had a natural inclination to know future things. - -And _Henry_ the II. King of _France_, who sent for him to come to the -Court in the year 1556. and having had private conference with him about -things of great concernment, sent him honourably back again with many -gifts. He went from _Salon_ to the Court upon the 14 of _July_ in the -year 1555. and came to _Paris_ upon the 15 of _August_. As soon as he -was come to Town, the Lord Constable of _Montmorency_ went to see him -at his Inn, and presented him to the King, who received him with much -satisfaction, and commanded that his lodging should be at the Palace of -the Cardinal of _Bourbon_ Archbishop of _Sens_. - -There he was taken with the Gout for ten or twelve days, after which -his Majesty sent him one hundred Crowns in Gold in a Velvet Purse, and -the Queen as much. Their Majesties desired him to go to _Blois_ to see -the Princes their Children, and to tell them his opinion of them. It -is certain that he did not tell them what he thought, considering the -Tragical end of those three Princes, _viz._ _Francis_ the II. _Charles_ -the IX. and _Henry_ the III. - -Having been so much honoured at Court, he went back again to _Salon_, -where he made an end of his last Centuries, two years after he dedicated -them to the King _Henry_ the II. in the year 1557. and in his Luminary -Epistle discovereth unto him the future events that shall happen from the -Birth of _Lewis_ the XIV. now Reigning, till the coming of Antichrist. - -While he was at _Salon_ he received there the Duke of _Savoy_, and -the Lady _Margaret_ of _France_, Sister to _Henry_ the II. who was to -Marry the said Duke according to the treaty of the general Peace made -at _Cambresis_, both entertained him very familiarly, and honoured him -often with their presence. The Duke came in _October_ and the Lady in -_December_. - -When _Charles_ the IX. went a progress through his Kingdom, he came into -_Provence_, and did fail not to go to _Salon_ to visit our Author, who in -the name of the Town went to salute him, and make a Speech, this was in -the year 1564. the 17 of _November_. - -The extraordinary satisfaction that the King and the Queen Mother -received from him was such, that being both at _Lion_, they sent for him -again, and the King gave him 200 Crowns in Gold, and the Queen almost as -much, with the quality of Physician in Ordinary to the King, with the -Salaries and profits thereunto appertaining. Being come back to _Salon_ -he lived about 16 Months longer, and died upon the 2 of _July_ 1566. -in his Climacterical year of 63. having all his senses about him: His -Disease was a Gout at first, which turned into a Dropsie; the time of -his death it seemeth was known to him; for a friend of his witnesseth, -that at the end of _June_ in the said year he had writen with his own -hand upon the Ephemerides of _John Stavius_ these Latine words, _Hic -prope mors est_; that is, near here is my death, and the day before his -death that friend of his having waited on him till very late took his -leave, saying, I shall see you again to morrow morning, you shall not -see me alive when the Sun riseth, which proved true. He died a _Roman_ -Catholick, having received all his Sacraments, and was solemnly buried in -the Church of the _Franciscan_ Friers at _Salon_, on the left hand of the -Church door, where his Widow erected him a Marble Table fastened in the -Wall with this Epitaph, with his Figure to the Life, and his Arms above -it. - - The Inscription of his EPITAPH is in imitation of that of - _Titus Livius_, and is thus. - - _D. M._ - - _Ossa clarissimi ~Michaelis Nostradami~, unius omnium pene - mortalium digni, cujus Divino calamo totius Orbis ex astrorum - influxu futuri eventus conscriberentur. Vixit annos ~LXII.~ - menses ~VI.~ dies ~X.~ Obiit. Salonæ ~CIↃ IↃLXVI~. ~Anna Pontia - Gemella~, conjugi optimo. ~V. E.~_ - -Which may be rendred thus: - - Here lies the Bones of the most famous _Nostradamus_, one who - among Men hath deserved by the opinion of all, to set down in - writting with a Quill almost Divine, the future Events of all - the Universe, caused by the Cœlestial influences; he lived 62. - years 6. Months and 10. days, he died at _Salon_, in the year - 1566. - - O Posterity do not grudge at his rest. - - _Anna Pontia Gemella_ wisheth to her most loving Husband the - true Happiness. - -He had a Brother named _John Nostradamus_, famous for several Works that -he hath written, the Catalogue of which is in the Book of Mr. _du Maine -de la Croix_, Intitled, the _Library_. - -As for our Author, he hath left several Works, among which is a Book of -Receits, for the preservation of health, Printed at _Poitiers_, in the -year 1556. - -Another concerning the means of beautifying the Face and the Body, -that was Printed at _Antwerp_ by _Plantin_ in the year 1557. which -he Dedicated to his Brother _John Nostradamus_, an Attorney at the -Parliament of _Aix_. - -Besides this, he Translated from Latine into French the _Paraphases of -Galen_, upon the Exhortation of _Menedotus_, which was Printed at _Lyon_ -by _Antony du Rhosne_, in the year 1557. - -But before we conclude, it will not be amiss to give some recreation to -the Reader, by relating a merry passage that happened to _Nostradamus_ -being in _Lorrain_, for being in the Castle of _Faim_, belonging to the -Lord of _Florinville_, and having in cure the Mother of the said Lord; it -chanced one day that they both walking in the Yard, there was two little -Piggs, one white, and the other black, whereupon the Lord enquired of -_Nostradamus_ in jest, what should become of these two Piggs? he answered -presently, we shall eat the black, and the Wolf shall eat the white. - -The Lord _Florinville_ intending to make him a Lyar, did secretly command -the Cook to dress the white for Supper; the Cook then killed the white, -drest it, and spitted it ready to be rosted when it should be time; In -the mean time having some business out of the Kitchin, a young tame Wolf -came in, and eat up the Buttocks of the white Pig, that was ready to be -rosted; the Cook coming in the mean time, and fearing least his Master -should be angry, took the black one, killed it, and drest it, and offered -it at Supper. Then the Lord thinking he had got the Victory, not knowing -what was befallen, said to _Nostradamus_, well Sir, we are eating now the -white Pigg, and the Wolf shall not touch it. I do not believe it (said -_Nostradamus_) it is the black one that is upon the Table. Presently the -Cook was sent for, who confessed the accident, the relation of which was -as pleasing to them as any meat. - -In the same Castle of _Faim_, he told many that in a little Hill that -was near the Castle, there was a Treasure hidden, which should never be -found, if it were sought with design, but that it should be discovered -when the Hill should be digged for some other intent. There is a great -probability in this prediction, for there was an ancient Temple built -upon it, and when they dig there, many times several Antiquities are -found. All _France_ telleth several Histories foretold by the Author, but -I am unwilling to write any thing without good warrant. His Stanza’s are -sufficient to prove the extraordinary Talent he had in foretelling future -things. - - - - -APOLOGY - -FOR - -Michael Nostradamus. - - - - -CHAP. I. - - -It is not unusual for Calumny to follow the best Wits, and those whom God -hath endowed with so extraordinary Talent, upon weak and slight grounds. -It is not also unusual for Men to side easier with calumny against -innocent persons, then with those truths that justifie them; therefore -no body ought to wonder, if _Michael Nostradamus_ hath been so much -cried down and defamed by several Authors, being in the number of those -extraordinary persons, whom God had priviledged with that grace so much -desired by curious Men, _viz._ the knowledge of future events. - -Besides that, there was four things in him, which might have been the -grounds of this diffamation. - -The first was the vulgar life which he led in the Roman Catholik -Religion, which seemed to bear no proportion with such an extraordinary -favour of God. - -The second was his application to judicial Astrology, which is condemned -by many learned Men, and detested by those that pretend to ignorant -devotion. - -The third was a suspition brought by his enemies, and many devout persons -in his time, that he was a Negromancer, and had familiarity with the -Angel of darkness. - -The fourth was the obscurity of his Stanza’s, which was made worse by the -enormous faults of those that first Copied them, and by the carelesness -of the Printers. - - - - -CHAP. II. - -_How the first Objection hath caused the Author to be reputed a false -Prophet._ - - -In consequence of the first Objection, calumny hath endeavoured to place -him among the false Prophets, because scarce any body can persuade -himself, that there being among the Faithful so many Illustrious persons -in Holiness and Learning, the Holy Ghost would have made choice of a -common person, and to reveal him so many rare secrets, concerning the -future Estate of his Church, and of those Kingdoms that acknowledge -her for their Mother, seeing that the Holy Scriptures shew us, that -the knowledge of future things (chiefly if it be extraordinary in its -extent) is a special Priviledge wherewith God honoureth his most faithful -Servants. - -And to say truth, when the Holy Fathers and the Interpreters of the -Scripture speak of the Prerogatives of the Apostle St. _John_, they make -the chiefest to be that by which being full of Prophetical Spirit, he -foretold the future Estate of the Church; and in the Old Testament, so -many Prophets were so many Miracles and Prodigies of Holiness, and the -only name of Prophet in the Scripture is the most glorious Title that is -given to those that were Gods most faithful Servants. - -If we find in the Scripture that _Balaam_ hath Prophesied notwithstanding -his perfidiousness, and that the High Priest _Caiaphas_, notwithstanding -his wicked design of murdering Christ, hath also Prophesied; it was only -for a few things, and in such cases where God would singularly shew forth -his Glory, by those that would have smothered it. - -How can we then believe the same of _Nostradamus_, who had not so much as -an extraordinary atom of Christian piety, by which he might have been so -much priviledg’d of God, as to know by his Divine Light the future Estate -of the Church, her Persecutions and her Victories from the year 1555. to -the end of the World. - -Can it be possible that a Physician, an Astrologer, and one of the common -sort of people should have been chosen of God among so many thousands his -betters, to impart unto him those Graces, which have been the reward of -the purity and holiness of his Apostles, and of the faithfulness of St. -_John_ the Evangelist. - -This seemeth altogether improbable to Christian piety. - - - - -CHAP. III. - -_The second Objection hath ranked the Author among Dreamers and false -Visionaries._ - - -Some are more moderate in the censuring of this Author, and being -unwilling to call him maliciously a false Prophet, would have him to be a -foolish Dreamer, who believed his own imaginations, and took pleasure in -his own fancies, whence came that Latine Distick of the Poet _Jodelle_, - - _~Nostra damus~ cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,_ - _Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi ~Nostra damus~._ - -This Distick was so pleasing to the Wits of the times, that without -further inquiry, since that time _Nostradamus_ went for a Dreamer and a -doting fool. - -This opinion increased more and more by his making of many Almanacks, -wherein every body may see how much he was taken with judicial Astrology; -and we see often in his Stanza’s the decision of the times, by the -conjunction of the Planets with the Signs, and by the Eclipses, whence -sometimes he doth infer some events that were to happen. - -But what did undo him most, was the covetousness of the Printers and -Booksellers of his time, who seeing his Almanacks so well received, did -set forth a thousand others under his name, that were full of lies and -fopperies. - -From that time the Author went for one of those poor Astrologers, who -get their living by foretelling absurdities; and pretend to read in the -Heavens, that which is only in their foolish imagination. - - - - -CHAP. IV. - -_The third Objection accuseth the Author of medling with the black Art, -of being a Negromancer, and a Disciple of the Devil._ - - -If the precedents have been moderate in their censure; others have been -more severe in delivering their opinion, accusing him to have kept -acquaintance with the Devil, as the Negromancers and other Prestigiators -of the ancient times did. - -The reason that made them think so is, that seeing so many things come -to pass, just as the Author had foretold; they could not attribute it -to the knowledge of judicial Astrology, nor to Divine Revelation, and -consequently concluded, that it must of necessity come from Satan. - -They could not attribute it to judicial Astrology, either because they -had no opinion of it, or that the greatest defensors of that Astrology -do agree among themselves, that it cannot reach so far as to foretell a -thousand peculiar circumstances, which depend purely from the freedom -of Men, such as proper names are, and the like, which nevertheless our -Author did foretell. - -They could neither attribute it to Divine Revelation, for the reasons -alledged in the first objection; moreover, because he was accused of a -thousand falsities and fopperies, Printed in those Almanacks that went -falsly under his name, whence they concluded that it could not come by -Divine Revelation, seeing that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Truth. - -It followeth then (say they) that it must come from the Devil, by -the help of the Black Art; the Lord _Florimond de Raimond_ a very -considerable Author, was of that opinion in his Book of the _Birth of -Heresies_, Chap. 3. - - - - -CHAP. V. - -_The fourth Objection maketh him the Head of those Seductors and -Impostors, which are dangerous in a Common-wealth._ - - -As Fame doth increase by continuation of time, so doth calumny increase -by the multiplicity of opinions, she was not contented to deflour -slightly the Authors reputation, by making him pass for some sottish -Dreamer, and to rank him amongst the false Prophets, by accusing him -to meddle with the black Art, but must needs also sacrifice him to the -infernal Furies, by making him the Prince of Seductors and Impostors, -that ought to be banished out of every Common-wealth. The fondamental -reason of this was the obscurity of his Stanza’s, where there was neither -rime nor reason; the obscurity did proceed of abundance of gross faults, -which the Copisters and Printers have inserted in them, from the omission -of several words, from the changing and altering of others, and from the -addition of some others, which did destroy the sense. - -From this great obscurity, calumny draweth this argument, to ruine -utterly the Author, charging him to be all at once a false Prophet, a -dotish Dreamer, a Magician, and an infamous Seductor of people. - -If God had inspired him what he hath written, he would have done it for -the good of his Church and true Believers, seeing he never granteth this -Prophetical Grace to any, but to that end as it appeareth in the Holy -Scriptures. - -This being so, what profit can any body draw from him, if the sense of -his Stanza’s be so obscure, as not to be understood? and although it -should be granted, that some accidents that have happened in Christendom, -may sometimes be found in his Prophecies, what fruit hath the Church -reaped of it, seeing that those accidents that were foretold, were never -known, till they had come to pass, and that there was no avoiding of them? - -It cannot therefore be believed, that God should have been the Author of -his Predictions, but rather the Subtle Spirit of Satan, with whom he was -acquainted by such like black Arts. - -According to those four Objections, the Lord _Sponde_ in the third Volume -of his _Annals_, made him this Epitaph in the year 1566. _Mortuus est hoc -anno nugax ille toto orbe famosus ~Michael Nostradamus~, qui se præscium -& præsagum eventuum futurorum per astrorum influxum venditavit, sub cujus -deinceps nomine quivis homines ingeniosi suas hujusmodi cogitationes -protendere consueveruent, in quem valde apposite lusit qui dixit. -~Nostra damus~ cum falsa damus_, &c. In _English_. In the year 1566. died -that Trifler so famous through all the World, _Michael Nostradamus_ -who boasted while he lived, to know and foretell future things, by the -knowledge he had of the influences of the Planets, under whose name -afterwards many ingenious Men have vented their Imaginations, insomuch, -that he that made that Distick, Nostra damus _cum falsa damus_, &c. -seemeth to have very well said. - - - - -CHAP. VI. - -_Proofs setting forth evidently that ~Nostradamus~ was enlightned by the -Holy Ghost._ - - -In consequence of these objections forged by calumny, _Nostradamus_ name -hath been so cried down, that I have thought me self oblidged to make -his Apology, to give the greater credit to his Prophecy, the exposition -of which I do here undertake, and to proove, that effectually he was -enlightned by the Holy Ghost: first, by writting the History of his Life, -as I have done in the beginning of this Book; Secondly, by answering to -all the said Objections; Thirdly, by alledging the Elogies given him by -several Grave and Authentical Authors. - -First, I maintain that he was enlightned by the Holy Ghost, by an -unanswerable reason, drawn out the Theology, but before we discourse of -it, let us suppose that _Nostradamus_ hath foretold many things, which -absolutely depends from the free will of men, and cannot be known, -neither by judicial Astrology, nor by Satan himself, such are for exemple -the proper names of Persons, which nevertheless he doth in his Prophecies. - -He nameth the Lord of _Monluc_, the Sprightful _Gascon_, the Captain -_Charry_, his Camerade, the Lord _de la Mole_, Admiral of _Henry_ the -II. Galleys, _Entragues_, who was beheaded by order of _Lewis_ the XIII. -the Headsman of the Duke of _Montmorency_, named _Clerepegne_; the Bassa -_Sinan_, destroyer of _Hungary_; the Murderer of _Henry_ the III. named -_Clement_; the Attorney _David_, the Captain _Ampus_; the Mayor of the -City of _Puy_ in _Gelay_, named _Rousseau_, under Henry the IV. _Lewis_ -Prince of _Condé_, under _Francis_ II. _Sixtus_ V. calling him the Son -of _Hamont_; _Gabrielle d’Estrée_; the Lord _Mutonis_ sent to _Paris_ by -those of _Aix_, under _Charles_ the IX. the Lord Chancellor of _France_, -named _Antony de Sourdis_; the Queen _Leuise_: _Antony_ of _Portugal_: -the Governour of _Cazal_ under _Henry_ II. - -Secondly, The number of things is of the same nature: _Nostradamus_ doth -often calculate it; he reckoneth fourteen Confederates for the service of -_Henry_ IV. in the City of _Puy_: ten great Ships prosecuting extreamly -the Admiral in the Battle of _Lepanto_: five Ships taken from the -_Spaniard_ by those of _Diepe_, under _Henry_ II. nine hundred thousands -_Mores_ that went out of _Spain_ under _Henry_ IV. three hundred and -fifty thousands killed under _Charles_ IX. and _Henry_ III. three saved -at the taking of a Town in _Hungary_ by the _Turks_: nine separated from -the company of Seditious, that were to be put to death, three Princes -of _Turky_ Massacred, and the fourth being the youngest saved; thirty -Conspirators upon _London_ Bridge, against the Majesty of King _Charles_ -I. and such like. - -Thirdly, We find in these Prophecies, the Prodigies that have no other -causes in nature, then the meer will of God; such as Comets are, the -casting of monstrous Fishes by the Sea upon the Land, the Armies in the -Air, the speaking of Dogs, the birth of Monsters, and such like. - -Fourthly, We find in those Prophecies those actions that are purely -indifferent; for example, that the King of _England_ did appear upon a -Scaffold without his Doublet; that in the place where he was beheaded, -another man had been killed three days before; that _Libertat_ went a -Hunting with a Greyhond, and a Blood-hond; that the two little Royals -were conducted to St. _Germain_, rather then to any other place, and such -like. - -Fifthly, We find the Birth of several particular persons that were born -after his death. - -Sixthly, The Governments of Places given by the free will of Kings to -such and such. - -All these things cannot be known by judicial Astrology, seeing that in -Heaven there is neither Names, nor Numbers, nor extraordinary Prodigies: -seeing also that judicial Astrology presupposeth the Birth of persons, -that one may foretel their future actions; the same things are also -unknown to Satan, for the Angelical species know nothing of individual -things, but under the notion of possible, and not of future. - -Whence I conclude with this irrefragable Argument, that the Author hath -known many several things that are not written in the Heavenly Book, nor -represented to him by Angelical Species, therefore he hath known them -from God himself. - -The Author himself in his Epistle to his Son _Cæsar Nostradamus_ -confesseth, that he hath foretold many things by Divine Virtue and -Inspiration. - -And a little after he saith, that the knowledge of those things, which -meerly depends from free will, cannot be had either by humane auguries, -nor by any other humane knowledge, nor by any secret virtue that -belongeth to sublunary things, but only by a Light, belonging to the -Order of Eternity. - -This is not a small Argument, to confirm what we have said, and to -prove that the Author hath evidently been conscious, that his knowledge -came from Heaven, and that Gods goodness did him that grace; for having -rejected and abhorred other means, that Impostors make use of for -foretelling something. - -He writteth all these things of himself: First, in his Liminary Epistle -to his Son _Cæsar_, he conjureth him, that when he should go about to -study the foretelling of future things by Astrology, to avoid all kind of -Magick, prohibited by the Holy Scripture, and the Canons of the Church; -and to encourage him the more to it, he relateth what happened to him, -_viz._ that having been Divinely enlightned, and fully persuaded that God -only can give the knowledge of future things, which absolutely depends -of the free will of men, he did burn abundance of Writings, wherein was -taught the Art of Prophecying, and as they were a burning, there came -out a great flame, which was like (he thought) to burn his House all to -ashes, by which accident he understood the falsity of such Writings, -and that the Devil was vexed to see his plots discovered; besides that, -he confesseth that being the greatest Sinner of the World, nevertheless -he got that favour from Heaven by a Divine Inspiration; and because no -body should doubt of it, he learnedly expoundeth wherein consisteth that -inspired Revelation, he saith that it is, _A participation of the Eternal -Divinity_, by which we come to judge of what the Holy Ghost imparteth to -us; by that participation of Eternity, the Author doth not understand a -communication of the continuance of the Divine being, but a participation -of the Divine knowledge, measured by its Eternity, as the Schools terms -it. - -Effectively, the Author compareth this participation to a glistering -flame, which createth a new day in our understanding, which flame -proceeding from Gods infinite knowledge, who seeth and comprehendeth -what is Eternity, doth impart unto us what is inclosed in the volubility -of the Heavens. - -After this testimony, which wholly destroyeth the Sinister opinions that -men had of his Prophecies, he sheweth how Judicial Astrology may agree -with the knowledge of that which proceedeth from a Prophetical Spirit. - -It is true, saith he, that sometimes God imparteth this Light not only -to the unlearned, and to his Holy Prophets, but also to those that -are versed in Judicial Astrology, making that instrumental for the -confirmation of his inspired truths: As we see that natural Sciences, -help the light of the Faith, and make a certain disposition in the mind -fitter then ordinary, to receive those Divine impressions. - -Thus (saith he) in the beginning of the Epistle, God did supernaturaly -inspire me, not by any Bacchick fury, nor by Lymphatical motions, as he -did the _Sybilles_; but by Astronomical assertions; that is to say, that -God gave him that grace, not by any Extasy, but by studying those rules, -which Astrology teacheth. - -The same things he saith again a little after in this manner: the -Astrologer being in his Study, and consulting the Astronomical Rules upon -the motions of the Heavens, the Conjunction and several Aspects of the -Planets, he guesseth at some future events, of which being not certain, -this Divine Light riseth in his mind, and imparteth clearly to him what -he knew before, only _Ænigmatically_ and obscurely, and in the shade of -that natural light. - -Sometimes also (saith he) this Light cometh the first into the -Astrologers mind, and he afterwards comparing the thing revealed unto him -with the Astronomical rules, he seeth that they do wholly agree together; -and this is the method that he hath made use of, to know whether the -inspired truths were agreeing with the Astronomical Calculations; a -method that he hath made use of some times, but not always, for he hath -foretold many things, which he could not read in the Heavens. - -By these testimonies of the Author himself, every one may see how he -made use of Judicial Astrology, and wherefore he studied it so much; how -far his knowledge did extend; the glory he giveth to God alone, for his -Prophetical knowledge; what horrour he hath always had against unlawful -means to attain unto it; how much he did value that Grace, considering -his unworthiness; and the manner how the Lord was pleased to gratifie him. - - - - -CHAP. VII. - -_Answer to the first Objection against ~Nostradamus~, which pretendeth to -rank him among the false Prophets._ - - -Let us see now what calumny pretendeth for the obscuring this Prophet -of our days; the knowledge of future things (saith she) is a priviledge -belonging to the Saints, and to those whom God hath endowed with an -eminent vertue. I acknowledge, it is so commonly, and in the ordinary -way of Grace, but if God be pleased to impart that priviledge to those -that have not attained to that Degree of Holiness, and that it really -appeareth by the reasons of Theologie, that they have been gratified -with it, we are bound to admire his Royal bounty, which giveth when, and -to whom he pleaseth: for example, no body deserveth to be a Marshal of -_France_, but he that hath been in several Battles, and at the taking -of many Towns; but if the King be pleased to honour with that Dignity a -Gentleman that never Warred but against the Deer, the Kings goodness is -to be praised, which extendeth even to those that have not deserved it; -it is the same reason here, it is visibly apparent that _Nostradamus_ -hath been enlightned by the Holy Ghost, and yet he hath not imitated -the lifes of those great Saints of the Church: what can be inferred from -thence, but that it was Gods pleasure to extend his bounty upon his -poor Creatures, which is easie to be granted in this point, because the -gift of Prophecy is not a sanctifying Grace, but a supernatural gift, -of which a sinner is capable of, as we see in _Balaam_, _Caiaphas_, -and the _Sybilles_, and much more in a Christian, who observeth Gods -Commandments, and endeavoureth to keep himself in his Grace. - -But (saith calumny) Christian piety seemeth to be repugnant to this -Divine disposition, seeing that in _Nostradamus_ time, there were -thousands in the Church of God that were capable of this favour, and to -prefer to them a Physitian, an Astrologer, and an Almanack-maker, is a -thing that the Wits cannot apprehend so well, as to frame a good opinion -for this Author. - -Hold there Reader, do not enter into the Sanctuary of Gods secret -Judgements, you should loose you self, and never find the way out: how -many such questions might I ask you? why did God in former times chuse -the Family and person of David, and preferred it to so many others of the -Children of _Israel_? why did Christ raise _Judas_ to the dignity of an -Apostle, preferring him before _Nathaniel_, and so many others that lived -Holily. - -Bring therefore no more such questions, but say with the Scripture, _As -it pleased the Lord, so it was done_: I will nevertheless give you some -satisfaction in that point. There was two things in the Author which -might have procured that blessing from God. - -The first is, that having in his possession those writtings which -promised the knowledge of future things, to which he was much inclined, -he slighted and burnt them, being persuaded that God alone was the Author -of this Grace; I do esteem that action very Heroical in its circumstance, -because being inticed by a vehement curiosity to know future things, and -having in his hand the means that opened the way to it, he did Sacrifice -them to God, for which perhaps God was willing to gratifie him with this -favour. - -The second thing that was in _Nostradamus_ is, that he had naturally a -_Genius_ for the knowing of future things, as himself confesseth in two -Epistles to King _Henry_ the II. and to _Cæsar_ his own Son, and besides -that _Genius_, the knowledge of Astrology, did smooth him the way to -discover many future events. Having those two things, he had a greater -disposition then others to receive those Supernatural Lights; and as God -is pleased to work sweetly in his Creatures, and to give some forerunning -dispositions to those Graces he intendeth to bestow, it seemeth that to -that purpose he did chuse our Author to reveal him so many wonderful -secrets. - -We see every day that God in the distributing of his Graces carrieth -himself towards us, according to our humours and natural inclinations, -he employeth those that have a generous and Martial heart for the -defence of his Church, and the destruction of Tyrants; he leadeth those -of a melancholick humour into Colledges and Cloisters, and cherisheth -tenderly, those that are of meek and mild disposition; even so, seeing -_Nostradamus_ inclined to this kind of knowledge, he gave him in a great -measure the grace of it. - - - - -CHAP. VIII. - -_Answer to the second Objection, which would have him pass for a Doctor._ - - -We shall not have much to say to these more moderate persons, seeing -that we have already given the reason of it, _viz._ the covetousness of -the Booksellers and Printers, who made use of the Authors name, for the -better sale of their false Almanacks, therefore if _Jodelle_ the Poet -grounded upon this opinion, made that Satyrical Distick. - - _~Nostra damus~ cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,_ - _Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi ~Nostra damus~._ - -We answer him, - - _~Nostra damus~ cum verba damus quæ ~Nostradamus~ dat,_ - _Nam quæcunque dedit nil nisi vera dedit._ - -Or thus - - _~Vera damus~ cum verba damus quæ ~Nostradamus~ dat,_ - _Sed cum ~Nostra damus~, nil nisi falsa damus._ - - - - -CHAP. IX. - -_Answer to the third Objection, which accuseth him of the Black Art, and -of Negromancy._ - - -The more doth Calumny lift up her self against this great man, the weaker -are her arguments, like the smoke which is so much the easier dissipated, -as it ascendeth higher. - -Her reason is impertinent in this distributive argument, he hath known -those things (saith she) which he could not know by the Planets, and he -had them not from God, therefore he had them from Satan. - -And we answer this argument in the same way, he hath known those things -which he could not know by the Planets, nor by Satan, therefore he had -them from God; this Argument is concluding, but that of calumny halteth, -for it ought to have proved that he had not his knowledge from God, and -that all those things he hath known may be known to Satan, which two -things we have manifestly proved to be false, therefore if the Lord -_Florimond de Raimond_ was alive, I believe he would correct what he hath -written against him. - - - - -CHAP. X. - -_Answer to the fourth Objection, of Calumny, which brandeth our Author -with the title of Chief of the Seductors and Impostors._ - - -The Weapons of this _Medusa_ are sharper in this point then in others, -therefore our Buckler accordingly must be of the best mettle and temper. - -We cannot deny but _Nostradamus_ hath affected obscurity, himself -acknowledgeth it in his two Epistles, in that to _Cæsar_ his son, he -saith, he hath done it, not only because of the times wherein he lived, -but also by reason of those that were to follow, in the times wherein he -lived the Case was as it is now, _Veritas odium parit_, and this hatred -in powerful men is prejudicial to those that speak the Truth, he was also -cautious in that, by reason of the times following; for if he had plainly -declared what he meant, the Wits would have laughed at it, and would not -have believed those strange revolutions that came to pass, and which our -Author had foretold. In his Epistle to _Henry_ the II he telleth him, -that he doth purposely make use of obscure terms to express his mind, for -the reasons before alledged. - -Now _Calumny_ saith, that this affectation of obscurity is a sign that -God was not the Author of his Knowledge, seeing that by this obscurity -they have proved unprofitable to the Church. - -I answer first, that the consequence is false; for the Holy Prophets have -spoken so obscurely, that a great part of what they had Prophecied was -not known till after it had come to pass. - -I answer secondly, that although Prophecies were not understood till -after the fulfilling thereof, it doth not follow that they were -unprofitable; because by their fulfilling in due time, we gather, that -he who revealed them was the true God, Lord of times and Eternity, and -therefore being the God of _Israel_, and of the Christians, he ought to -be worshiped. By this principle _Cyrus_ and _Alexander_ knew the true -God, _Cyrus_ by having seen the Prophecies of _Isaiah_, and _Alexander_ -those of _Daniel_. - -Therefore as the Prophecies of the Saints have not been fruitless, though -not understood till they were fulfilled, even so we must not infer that -_Nostradamus_’s Prophecies have been useless, though they have remained -in obscurity so long a while. - -Besides, there is no doubt but _Nostradamus_ having Prophecied so many -several things that are come to pass, but that hereafter when the -Heathen shall see it they shall glorifie God, and shall acknowledge a -true Religion, as did _Cyrus_, who many Authors believe to have obtained -Salvation. - -I answer in the third place, that God permitteth ordinarily that -Prophecies lie long in the dark, and then raiseth the Spirit of some men -to expound them, as he did that of _Daniel_ to interpret the 70 Weeks of -the _Babylonian_ Captivity, Prophecied by _Jeremiah_, to incourage the -faithful three ways. - -First, in shewing them, that if the first Prophecies have been punctually -fulfilled, the rest will likewise come to pass, seeing the same God hath -dictated them. - -Secondly, in unfolding to them the future wonders, of which they shall be -partakers. - -Thirdly, in giving warning how they may attain to them, and shew those -accidents that might be an hindrance. Thus God did permit, that for the -space of 100. years _Nostradamus_ Prophecies should lie in darkness, and -be contemned, but after that time God will raise some body to interpret -them, whence the faithful seeing so many things foretold come to pass so -exactly, will incourage one another by seing so many wonderful prodigies, -of whom they shall be Eye Witnesses. - -As for my part I have undertaken this Work, only to authorise the wonders -that shall be seen in our days, and to invite the Christian Princes to -the same design. - -The conclusion of this discourse is, that our _Medusa Calumny_, must -needs retreat in her dens, and that we ought to forgive those Authors -that have spoken so ill of our Author, seing they wanted the Intelligence -of his Prophecies, and that the Church did suspend the authorising of -them. - - - - -CHAP. XI. - -_Some difficulties against what we have said, drawn out of ~Nostradamus~ -his own Epistles._ - - -We have (thanks be to God) sheltered this famous man from the back-biting -of _Calumny_, but that we may clear wholly the Heaven of this reputation, -we add this Chapter more for the clearing of some words that are in -his Epistles, which seem to contradict some of those things we have -said; the Author in his Epistles to his Son _Cæsar_, after he had said -that God had disposed him to receive thy impression of supernatural -lights, not by a _Bacchant furor_, nor by a _Lymphatical motion_, but by -_Astronomical assertions_, he saith in the same Epistle towards the end; -_That sometimes in the Week being surprised by a Lymphatick humor, and -making his Nocturnal Studies sweet by his calculations, he made Books of -Prophecies, each one containing a hundred Astronomical Stanza’s, which he -endeavoured to set out something obscurely_, from which words it might be -gathered, that he made his Prophecies by a Lymphatical Spirit, and by the -only judicial Astrology. - -And in the Epistle to King _Henry_ the II. he seemeth to confess, -that his Prophecie is nothing but a natural Genius, which he had by -Inheritance from his Ancestors. - -To these difficulties I answer, supposing first that anciently those were -called Lymphaticks, who were mad for Love; because the first that was -observed among the Ancients to be mad with that passion, threw himself -into the water, which in Latine is called _Lympha_, whence all those that -were afterwards transported with the excess of any passion, either of -Love, Melancholy, Choler or Envy, have been called Lymphaticks. - -So that in this place a Lymphatical motion is nothing properly but a deep -Melancholy, which separating us from all Earthly things, doth transport -the mind to extraordinary thoughts either good or bad. - -This being suposed, I say that the Author confesseth, that his retreat, -solitariness, nocturnal Watchings, and Melancholy, have disposed him -much to the receiving of that Heavenly flame, which is the cause of -Vaticination and Prophecie. - -And because he did often spend the whole nights in this study, this -Nocturnal retreat caused in him a retirement from all worldly things, -at which time he felt a Divine elevating Virtue, that raised his -understanding to those Divine Knowledges. - -And because this elevating Vertue was caused in him by Divine operation, -he doth attribute always his Prophecies to God alone; and by reason that -this elevation hath some resemblance with that of the Lymphaticks, he -saith, that sometimes he did Lymphatise not properly speaking, but by -resemblance. - -So that it is true, our Author did not receive his Prophecies by -Lymphatical motion, or _Bacchant furie_, but from God himself, who did -work in him while he observed his Astronomical assertions; and it is -also true, that he felt this Divine operation by a kind of a Lymphatical -motion. - -Concerning what he saith to _Henry_ the II. it is certain he maketh use -of that Language as much by a motive of Truth to conceal that Grace which -he had received from God, as of Humility. - -By a Motive of Truth, because effectually; because all the -_Nostradamus_’s had some tincture of Prophecie, and his Son the Capucin -acknowledgeth it himself. - -By a Motive of Humility; because acknowledging himself to be a miserable -sinner, and seeing that this gift of Prophecie was not ordinarily granted -but unto Saints. He chuseth rather to attribute his Prophecies to his -Genius, than otherways to procure a Fame and Authority to his predictions. - -In confirmation of what we have said, _That he was often in that -transport_, many years before his death he made the Stanza of the -Century, in which is contained all the great Works of the Philosophers, -and foretelleth, that a great Divine shall attain to the perfection of -that great Work, which Divine is called, the _Divine Verbe_, turning -into _French_ the Word θεολογος, which signifieth Divine Word or Verb. -Nevertheless he never wrought himself at that Work, but got his living -Honourably by his practise of Physick, by which we may see, that he did -write some things which himself understood not, unless they were such -general ones, as might be read in the Heavens. - - - - -CHAP. XII. - -_Elogies given to ~Nostradamus~ by several Authentical Authors._ - - -If several Authors either by envy or ignorance have defamed our Author, -others of no shall repute have taken his defence in hand. - -D’_Aurat_ one of the most excellent Poets of _France_, living at the -same time as _Nostradamus_, made a few explications of his Prophecies, -which as the report goes, did please the Readers. I am sorry I could not -get them, it would have been some ease to me; for it is easier to add -than to invent. The first Volume of the Lord _la Croix du Main_, maketh -honourable mention of him, the same saith, that his Motto was _Felix -Oviam prior Ætas_, Happy the first Age that was contented with their -Flock, shewing by that, what esteem he had of frugality and sincerity -of manners, and what aversion he had against the Vices of his Age, -the unruliness of manners, and cousenage of men. _Ronsard_ the Prince -of the _French_ Poets singeth his praises: The Lord _Boucher_ in that -great Volume, intitled the _Mistical Crown_, in favour of the future -_Croisade_, doth vindicate our Author from _Calumny_, and expoundeth some -of his Prophecies pretty happily. - -I will not relate here what his Son _Cæsar Nostradamus_ writeth modestly -of him in his History of _Provence_, under _Lewis_ the XII. _Henry_ the -II. and _Charles_ the IX. his Evidence may be suspected, because of the -Consanguinity. - -One of the greatest Wits of this last Age, who desireth to be nameless, -giveth him this Character. - -First, That God Almighty hath chosen _Michael Nostradamus_ among the -common sort of Christians, to impart unto him the knowledge of many -prodigious and extraordinary future things. - -Secondly, He maintaineth, that after the Apostles and Canonical -Prophets, he is the first of all in three things, in his certainty and -infallibility, in the generality and in the quantity. As to the first, -he doth not doubt but the Abbot _Joachim_ ought to give him place; for -though he hath foretold some things that have come to pass, he hath -written a hundred others which are meer fopperies. - -Thirdly, He maintaineth that the Emperour _Leo_ in his prophetical Tables -is far below him; for he doth only aim at those things which regard the -Eastern Empire, as _Theophrastus Paracelsus_ hath done for the Western. - -Concerning the quantity of things, he maintaineth, that none of the -others can dispute it with him; for _Nostradamus_ hath made above a -thousand stanza’s (if we had them all) each of which containeth two or -three prophetical Truths, some of which regard the East, others the West, -others some private Kingdoms and States others private and particular -things, and all with Truth and certainty. - - - - -CHAP. XIII. - -_What these Stanza’s Prophecie of._ - - -The Author in his Epistle to King _Henry_ the II. saith, that he treateth -of things which were to happen in many Cities and Towns of _Europe_, and -of a part of _Asia_ and _Africa_. - -And to say Truth, I have found nothing in them concerning the East or -West, _Jappan_ or _China_. - -He treateth chiefly of _France_ as of his Native Kingdom, and of his own -Countrey _Provence_, and that which is next to it, viz. _Piemont_. - -He speaketh amply of the Popes, and of _Italy_, _Turky_ and _England_: -As for the Empire _Spain_, and _Suedeland_, he doth moderately speak -of them. Concerning _Æthiopia_ and _Africa_ there is some nine or ten -Stanza’s. - -In all those places he foretelleth many things, not only general for -every State, but also particular and individual for several persons. He -also foretelleth many supernatural prodigies in the Heavens, the Air, the -Sea, and the Land. - -He hath inserted among his Prophecies four Horoscopes, the first of the -Grandfather of the Lord l’_Ainier_ in the Province of _Anjou_; the second -of one called _Urnel Vausile_; the third of one _Cosme du Jardin_; and -the fourth of one, whom he nameth not, but describeth him by his stature. - - - - -CHAP. XIV. - -_Since what time these Prophecies began._ - - -It is certain that they began in _January_ 1555. because he dedicated -the first seven Centuries to his Son _Cæsar_ the first day of _March_ in -the said year, and consequently they were made before that time, and we -cannot allow less than two Months to an Author for the making of 700. -Stanza’s: Nevertheless for a greater manifestation of his prophetical -Spirit, I have not found any of his Prophecies that did come to pass -before the first of _March_ 1555. - -As for the Eight, Ninth and Ten Century, there is reason to believe, that -the effect of them doth not begin before the _27 June 1558_. which is the -date of his Liminary Epistle to _Henry_ the II. Nevertheless he saith -in the same Epistle, that in a writing by it self he will set down the -exposition of his Prophecies, beginning the 14 of _March_ 1557. and in -the Epistle to _Nostradamus_ his Son, he saith in general that he hath -composed Books of Prophecies, each one containing one hundred Stanza’s, -without specifying whether he spoke of the seven that he dedicated to -him, or of all the others. - -As for my part, I believe he had made them all in the year 1555. but -that he had not yet examined the three last Centuries, according to the -Calculation of his Astronomical assertions, as he seemeth to indicate -often in his Epistle to _Henry_ II. and to say the truth, I have found -some Stanza’s, which were fulfilled before the year 1558. though very few. - -As for the extent of his Prophecies, it is certain, that it is to the end -of the World, as I shall make it appear in the explication of the 48, the -49, and 56. Stanza’s of the first Century, and the 72, 73, and 94. of the -tenth, and all according to the Holy Scripture. - -All these things being premised, we shall proceed to the explication of -the Prophecies, setting first the Authors Luminary Epistle to his Son. - - - - -THE - -PREFACE - -TO _Mr._ - -Michael Nostradamus - -HIS - -PROPHECIES, - -_Ad ~Cæsarem Nostradamum~ Filium vita & Felicitas._ - - -Thy late coming, _Cæsar Nostradamus_, my son, hath caused me to bestow -a great deal of time in continual and nocturnal watchings, that I might -leave a Memorial of me after my death, to the common benefit of Mankind, -concerning the things which the Divine Essence hath revealed to me by -Astronomical Revolutions; and since it hath pleased the immortal God, -that thou are come late into this World, and canst not say that thy years -that are but few, but thy Months are incapable to receive into thy weak -understanding, what I am forced to define of futurity, since it is not -possible to leave thee in Writing, what might be obliterated by the -injury of times, for the Hereditary word of _occult prædictions_ shall -be lockt up in my brest, considering also that the events are definitely -uncertain, and that all is governed by the power of God, who inspired -us not by a Bacchant fury or Lymphatick motion, but by Astronomical -affections. _Soli numine Divino afflati præsagiunt & Spiritu Prophetico -particularia_: Although I have often foretold long before what hath -afterwards come to pass, and in particular Regions, acknowledging all to -have been done by Divine Vertue and Inspiration, being willing to hold my -peace by reason of the injury, not onely of the present time, but also -of the future, and to put them in Writing, because the Kingdoms, Sects, -and Regions shall be so Diametrically opposed, that if I should relate -what shall happen hereafter, those of the present Reign, Sect, Religion -and Faith, would find it so disagreeing with their fances, that they -would condemn that which future Ages shall find and know to be true; -considering also the saying of our Saviour, _Nolite Sanctum dare canibus -ne conculcent pedibus & conversi discumpant vos_, which hath been the -cause that I have withdrawn my tongue from the Vulgar, and my Pen from -Paper. But afterwards I was willing for the common good to enlarge my -self in dark and abstruse Sentences, declaring the future Events, chiefly -the most urgent, and those which I foresaw (what ever humane mutation -happened) would not offend the hearers, all under dark figures more then -Prophetical, for although, _Abscondisti hæc a sapientibus & prudensibus_, -i. e. _potentibus & Regibus enucleasti ea exiguis & tennibus_, and -the Prophets by means onely of the immortal God and good Angels, have -received the Spirit of Vaticination, by which they foresee things, and -foretel future events; for nothing is perfect without him, whose power -and goodness is so great to his Creatures, that though they are but men, -nevertheless by the likeness of our good Genius to the Angels, this heat -and Prophetical power draws near us, as it happens by the Beams of the -Sun, which cast their influence both on Elementary and not Elementary -bodies; as for us who are men, we cannot attain any thing by our natural -knowledge, of the secrets of God our Creator. _Quia non est nostrum nosse -tempora nec momenta_, &c. - -Besides, although there is, or may come some persons, to whom God -Almighty will reveal by impressions made on his understanding some -secrets of the future, according to the Judicial Astrology, as it hath -happened in former times, that a certain power and voluntary faculty -possessed them as a flame of fire, so that by his inspiration, they -were able to judge of Divine and Humane things: for the Divine works -that are absolutely necessary, God will end. But my son, I speak to -thee too obscurely; but as for the secrets that are received by the -subtle Spirit of fire, by which the understanding being moved, doth -contemplate the highest Celestial Bodies, as being active and vigilant -to the very pronunciation without fear, or any shameful loquacity: all -which proceeded from the Divine Power of the Eternal God, from whom -all goodness floweth. Now my son, although I have inserted the name of -Prophet here, I will not attribute to my self so sublime a Title, for -_qui Propheta dicitur hodie olim vocabatur videns_, and Prophets are -those properly (my Son) that see things remote from the natural knowledge -of Men; but put the case, the Prophets by the means of the perfect light -of Prophecy, may see as well Divine things as Humane, (which cannot be -seeing the effects of future predictions) do extend a great way, for the -secrets of God are incomprehensible, and the efficient power moveth afar -off the natural knowledge, taking their beginning at the free will, cause -those things to appear, which otherwise could not be known, neither by -humane auguries, or any hidden knowledge or secret virtue under Heaven, -but only by the means of some indivisible Eternal being, or Comitial -and Herculean agitation, the causes come to be known by the Cœlestial -motion. I say not therefore my Son, that you may not understand me well, -because the knowledge of this matter cannot yet be imprinted in thy weak -brain, but that future causes afar off are subject to the knowledge of -humane Creatures, if (notwithstanding the Creature) things present and -future were neither obscure nor hidden from the intellectual seal; but -the perfect knowledge of the cause of things, cannot be acquired without -the Divine Inspiration, seeing that all Prophetical Inspiration received, -hath its original principle from God the Creator, next, from good Luck, -and afterwards from Nature, therefore cases indifferently produced or -not produced, the Prophecy partly happens where it hath been foretold, -for the understanding being intellectually created, cannot see occult -things, unless it be by the voice coming from the _Lymbo_, by the means -of the thin flame, to which the knowledge of future causes is inclined; -and also my Son I intreat thee not to bestow thy understanding on such -fopperies, which drie up the Body and damn the Soul, bringing vexation -to the Senses; chiefly abhor the vanity of the execrable Magick, -forbidden by the Sacred Scriptures, and by the Canons of the Church; in -the first of which is excepted Judicial Astrology, by which, and by the -means of Divine Inspiration, with continual supputations, we have put -in writting our Prophecies. And although this occult Philosophy was not -forbidden, I could never be persuaded to meddle with it, although many -Volums concerning that Art, which hath been concealed a great while, -were presented to me; but fearing what might happen, after I had read -them, I presented them to _Vulcan_, who while he was a devouring them, -the flame mixing with the Air, made an unwonted light more bright then -the usual flame, and as if it had been a Lightning, shining all the -house over, as if it had been all in a flame; therefore that henceforth -you might not be abused in the search of the perfect Transformation, as -much selene as solar, and to seek in the waters uncorruptible mettal; I -have burnt them all to ashes, but as to the judgement which cometh to be -perfected by the help of the Cœlestial Judgement, I will manifest to you, -that you may have knowledge of future things, rejecting the fantastical -imaginations that should happen by the limiting the particularity of -Places; by Divine inspiration, supernatural, according to the Cœlestial -figures, the places, and a part of the time, by an occult, property, and -by a Divine virtue, power and faculty, in the presence of which the three -times are comprehended by Eternity, revolution being tyed to the cause -that is past, present, and future, _Quia omnia sunt Nuda & aperta_, &c. -therefore my Son, thou mayst notwithstanding thy tender brain comprehend -things that shall happen hereafter, and may be foretold by cœlestial -natural lights, and by the Spirit of Prophecy; not that I will attribute -to my self the name of a Prophet, but as a mortal man, being no farther -from Heaven by my sence, then I am from Earth by my Feet, _possum errare, -falli, decipi_; I am the greatest Sinner of the World, subject to all -humane afflictions, but being supprised sometimes in the week by a -Prophetical humour, and by a long Calculation, pleasing my self in my -Study, I have made Books of Prophecies, each one containing a hundred -Astronomical Stanza’s, which I have joyned obscurely, and are perpetual -Vaticinations from this year to the year 3797. at which some perhaps -will frown, seeing so large an extention of time, and that I treat of -every thing under the Moon, if thou livest the natural Age of a Man, thou -shalt see in thy Climat, and under the Heaven of thy Nativity the future -things that have been foretold, although God only is he who knoweth the -Eternity of his Light, proceeding from himself; and I say freely to -those to whom his incomprehensible greatness hath by a long melancholick -inspiration revealed, that by the means of this occult cause Divinely -manifested, chiefly by two principal causes, which are comprehended in -the understanding of him that is Inspired and Prophecyeth, one is that -he cleareth the supernatural Light in the person that foretelleth by -the Doctrine of the Planets, and Prophecyeth by inspired Revelation, -which is a kind of participation of the Divine Eternity, by the means -of which the Prophet judgeth of what the Divine Spirit hath given him -by the means of God the Creatour, and by a natural instigation, _viz._ -that what is predicted is true, and hath taken its original from above, -and such light and small flame is of all efficacy and sublimity, no -less then the natural light makes the Philosophers so secure, that by -the means of the principles of the first cause, they have attained the -greatest depth of the profoundest science; but that I may not wander too -far (my Son) from the capacity of thy sense, as also, because I find -that Learning would be at a great loss, and that before the universal -Conflagration shall happen so many great Inundations, that there shall -scarce be any Land, that shall not be covered with water, and this shall -last so long, that except _Ænographies_ and _Topographies_ all shall -perish, also before and after these Inundations in many Countreys there -shall be such scarcety of rain, and such a deal of fire, and burning -stones shall fall from Heaven, that nothing unconsumed shall be left, -and this shall happen a little while before the great conflagration; for -although the Planet _Mars_ makes an end of his course, and is come to the -end of his last Period, nevertheless he shall begin it again, but some -shall be gathered in _Aquarius_ for many years, others in _Cancer_ also -for many years, and now we are governed by the Moon, under the power of -Almighty God; which Moon before she hath finished her Circuit, the Sun -shall come, and then _Saturn_, for according to the Cœlestial Signs, -the Reign of _Saturn_ shall come again, so that all being Calculated, -the World draws near to an Anaragonick revolution, and at this present -that I write this before 177. years, three Months, eleven Days, through -Pestilence, Famine, War, and for the most part Inundations, the World -between this and that prefixed time, before and after for several times -shall be so diminished, and the people shall be so few, that they shall -not find enough to Till the Ground, so that they shall remain fallow as -long as they have been Tilled; although we be in the seventh Millenary, -which ends all and brings us near the eighth, where the Firmament of the -eighth Sphere is, which in a _Latitudinary dimention_ is the place where -the great God shall make an end of the revolution, where the Cœlestial -Bodies shall begin to move again. By that Superiour motion that maketh -the Earth firm and stable, _non inclinabitur in seculum seculi_, unless -his will be accomplished, and not otherwise; although by ambiguous -opinions exceeding all natural reasons by _Mahometical_ Dreams, also -sometimes God the Creator by the Ministers of his Messengers of fire -and flame shows to our external senses, and chiefly to our eyes, the -causes of future Predictions, signifying the future Event, that he will -manifest to him that Prophecyeth for the Prophecy that is made by the -Internal Light, comes to judge of the thing, partly with and by the means -of External Light, for although the party which seemeth to have by the -eye of understanding, what it hath not by the Lœsion of its imaginative -sense, there is no reason why what he foretelleth should come by Divine -Inspiration, or by the means of an Angelical Spirit, inspired into the -Prophetick person, annointing him with vaticination, moving the fore part -of his fancy, by divers nocturnal apparitions, so that by Astronomical -administration, he Prophecyeth with a Divine certitude, joyned to the -Holy prediction of the future, having no other regard then to the -freedom of his mind. Come now my Son, and understand what I find by my -revolutions, which are agreeing with the Divine Inspiration, _viz._ that -the Swords draws near to us now, and the Plague and the War more horrid -then hath been seen in the Life of three Men before, as also by Famine, -which shall return often, for the Stars agree with the revolution, as -also he said _visitabo in virgâ ferreà iniquitates eorum & in verberibus -percutiam eos_, for the Mercies of God shall not be spread a while, my -Son, before most of my Prophecies shall come to pass; then oftentimes -shall happen sinister storms, (_Conteram ergo ~(said the Lord)~ & -confringam & non miserebor_) and a thousand other accidents that shall -happen by Waters and continual Rains, as I have more fully at large -declared in my other Prophecies, written in _solutâ oratione_, limiting -the places, times and prefixed terms, that men coming after, may see and -know that those accidents are certainly come to pass, as we have marked -in other places, speaking more clearly, although the explication be -involved in obscurity, _sed quando submovenda erit ignorantia_, the case -shall be made more clear; making an end here, my Son, accept of this Gift -of thy Father _Michael Nostradamus_, hoping to expound to thee every -Prophecy of these Stanza’s, praying to the Immortal God, that he would -grant thee a long Life in Felicity. - - _From ~Salon~ this 1. of ~March~ 1555._ - - - - -THE TRUE - -PROPHECIES - -OR - -PROGNOSTICATIONS - -OF - -Michael Nostradamus, - -Physician to _HENRY_ II. _FRANCIS_ II. And _CHARLES_ IX. Kings of FRANCE, -and one of the most excellent _Astronomers_ that ever were. - - - - -_CENTURY_ I. - - -I. - - French. - - Estant assis, de nuit secrette estude, - Seul, reposé sur la selle d’airain, - Flambe exigüe, sortant de solitude, - Fait proferer qui n’est a croire vain. - - English. - - Sitting by Night in my secret Study - Alone, resting upon the Brazen Stool, - A slight flame breaking forth out of that solitude, - Makes me utter what is not in vain to believe. - -ANNOTATION. - -In this _Stanza_, _Nostradamus_ expresseth those Humane dispositions -which he made use of to be favoured of God, for the knowledge of future -things, to the benefit of the Publick. - -The first Disposition, was the tranquility of Mind, when he saith, -_Sitting by night_; Because a troubled Mind cannot see clearly the Things -it is busie about, no more than tossed Waters can distinctly represent -the Objects that are opposed to them. Thus we read in the Scripture, -that the Prophet _Elishah_, being transported with Zeal against _Joram_ -King of _Israel_; and nevertheless willing to consult God concerning the -event of the Warr against the _Moabites_, called for a Minstrel, that the -Harmony of the Instrument might quiet his Mind, as it did happen. _And -it came to pass when the Minstrel played, that the Hand of the Lord came -upon him_, 2 Kings _chap. 3. ver. 15._ - -The Author in his _Dedicatory Epistle_ to his Son _Cæsar_, calleth -this Tranquility of Mind, _A long Melancholick Inspiration_; because -the Melancholick Humour and Mind sequestreth a Man from the concerns -of worldly things, and maketh him present to himself, so that his -Understanding is not darkned by a multitude of _Species_ that troubles -its Operation. - -The Second Disposition, was, the Silence of the Night; For Man who is -compounded of Body and Soul, doth notably intricate himself in External -things by the commerce of the Senses with the Objects; which obligeth -him to withdraw himself from visible things, when he intends to apply -himself to some serious Study. And as the silence of the Night causeth in -the Universe a cessation of noises and clashings in Business, Visits and -Colloquies, the Mind is then more at rest. Besides that, Night covering -with her Darkness our Hemisphere, our Senses are less distracted, and -our Internal Faculties are more united to serve the Operations of the -Understanding. - -Therefore the Author in his two _Liminary Epistles_, makes often mention -of his continual Nocturnal Watchings, of his Sweet-smelling nocturnal -Studies, and of his Nocturnal and Prophetical Calculations. - -The Third Disposition, was Solitariness; that is, having no other -Conversation then that of his Books, being retired in his Study, Alone. -For it seemeth that God commonly maketh use of Solitariness when he doth -impart himself to Men, and revealeth them his Oracles: And the _Sybils_ -were chosen to be Prophets, as much for their Solitariness, as for their -Chastity. - -The Author saith, that with those three Dispositions he raised himself -to the knowledge of future things; which is signified by those words, -_Resting upon the Brazen Stool_. _Servius_ in his _Commentaries_ upon -_Virgil_, speaking of this Brazen Stool, saith two things of it. The -First, that this Stool was a Table set upon a _Trevet_, called by the -_Greeks_ τρίπους, and by the Latines _Tripus_. The Second is, that the -_Sybils_, or the Priests of the _Delphick_ Temple of _Apollo_, got upon -that Table, when they went about to pronounce their Oracles. _Pliny_, in -his 33. Book, Chap. 3. saith, that they called those Tables _Cortinas_, -and that some were made of Brass for the use aforesaid. - -From the use of that Brazen _Trevet_ is come the Proverb, _Ex tripode -loqui_. When one speaketh like an Oracle. Thus the Author willing to -express, that being in his Study in the solitariness of the Night, he -raised himself to the Knowledge of Future things, to write them, and -transmit them to Posterity; he saith, _He was sitting or resting upon the -Brazen Stool_. - -Thus raising himself, and taking his Pen in hand to write what he should -learn, he saith in the Third Verse, that _A slight Flame_, or small -Light did insinuate it self in his understanding, by whose splendor and -brightness he saw future things. - -The Author in his Epistle to _Cæsar_ his Son, expoundeth always this -Prophetical Light, by the comparison of a shining Flame, and calleth -it rather a Flame than a pure Light, because this Light doth not only -discover the Mysteries, but more-over it lightens in us a certain Heat -and Prophetical Power, as himself terms it; as if we should say a Sacred -Enthusiasm, even (saith he) as the Sun coming near us with his Light, -not only darteth upon all Elementary things the brightness of his Beams, -but withal infuseth in them a certain quickning heat, which causeth -the Vegetables to grow, and upholdeth the Being of all other natural -things; Even so (saith he) this good _Genius_, as the Ancients term it; -or as we Christians say, that Divine Spirit of Prophecy coming near -our understandings, not only importeth a Light to them, but more-over -a certain heat and Prophetical Power, which strenghteneth them in the -knowledge of the aforesaid things, and causeth them to breath out, as by -a Sacred Enthusiasm some Prophetical Verses. - -Which happeneth to them (saith the Author) coming out of Solitude, that -is to say, when their Spirit stoopeth down, and by degrees cometh down -from that sublime Region and high elevation, taking the Pen to write down -the future time. Therefore he with his dispositions participating of that -_slight flame, coming out of his solitude_, began to write and to utter, -_What is not in vain to believe_. - -The things that the Author hath written, shall not be unprofitable as we -have proved already, and the time will come, when by the means of Divine -Providence the Church shall receive the fruit thereof, at which we ought -not to wonder, seeing that God saith of himself in _Isaiah_ _Chap. 48. -Ver. 17._ _I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit._ - -The Author foretelleth many wonders, of which we ought to be certain by -the verification of those that are already past, seeing that it is the -same Spirit that shewed them all. - -The same Prophecies are also profitable, in that every where the Author -condemneth Seditious and Rebellious persons, and Prophecieth the Churches -Victory over her Enemies. - -They are also profitable for particular Men that understand the meaning -of them, for by it they may provide for their own business, according to -the storm, undertaking nothing but upon sure grounds, following always -the best party, and disposing themselves to patience, when the calamities -are general, and involve together the guilty and guiltless. Therefore our -Author saith well, _A slight flame breaking forth out of that solitude, -makes me utter what is not in vain to believe_. - - -II. - - French. - - La Verge en main, mise au milieu des Branches, - De l’Onde je moüille & le Limbe & le Pied, - En peur j’escris fremissant par les manches; - Splendeur Divine: le Divine prez s’assied. - - English. - - With Rod in hand, set in the middle of the Branches, - With water I wet the Limb and the Foot, - In fear I writ, quaking in my sleeves, - Divine splendor! the Divine sitteth by. - -ANNOT. - -Amongst the customs, the Ancients observed, before they pronounced their -Oracles; one was to take a Tuffie Branch of Laurel, and with it dipt in -water, to sprinkle the edges and Columns of the Table, that was upon the -Brazen Trevet, by which ceremonies they procured credit to their Oracles. - -The Author willing to let us know, that his Verses were not only a simple -writing, but also Prophetical and full of Oracles, doth represent them -to us by this Metaphore of the Ancients, when they did amuse the people -with their ambiguous, and many times fallacious Oracles. - -Being then sitting and quiet in his solitariness; coming out of that -great devotion of mind, animated by the virtue of his good _Genius_, he -putteth first _the Rod into his hand_, that is the Pen, and putteth it -_in the middle of the Branches_, putting it between his Fingers. Secondly -he dippeth this Rod _into Water_, dipping his Pen in his Ink; with this -Pen dipt in Ink, _he wetteth the Limb and the Foot_, writing upon his -paper from one end to the other, and from the top to the bottom. - -Which we must understand by this word _Lymbe_, which is a Latin word, -signifying the long and narrow pieces of stuffe, which women wore at the -bottom of their Petticoats, therefore the Latins called them _Lymbos_, -from the Latin Verbe _Lambo_, which in matter of cloths signifieth, to -leek or sweep; and because those pieces of cloath were in the bottom of -their Garments, the word hath been afterwards employed to signifie the -brims of some things, so that the Lymbs of a sheet of paper, are the two -margines, and the top and the bottom, as if it were the four ends of a -Quadrangular Figure. - -The third Verse sheweth the internal disposition of the Author, after he -hath described his external one; that disposition was a Sacred quaking, -which putting his heart into a palpitation, caused his hands and arms to -shake, as if he had been taken with some fit of an Ague. This quaking is -the disposition which the good _Genius_ causeth in Prophets, that they -may be humbled, and not be puffed up with pride, when they come near the -Majesty of God, as we read in _Daniel_, St. _John_, and the _4th._ of -_Esdras_. Therefore the Author saith: - -_In fear I write, quaking in my sleeves._ And because the Divine Spirit -after he hath cast down those, to whom he will impart himself, doth -afterwards quiet them; the Author therefore addeth, that a _Divine -splendor did sit by him_. - - -III. - - French. - - Quand la littiere du tourbillon versée, - Et seront faces de leurs Manteaux couvers, - La Republique par gens nouveaux vexée, - Lors blancs & rouges jugeront a l’envers. - - English. - - When the litter shall be overthrown by a gust of wind, - And faces shall be covered with Cloaks, - The Common-wealth shall be troubled with a new kind of men, - Then white and red shall judge amiss. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses signifie that a great tempestuous wind was to -happen, in which a litter should be overturned, and every one should -muffle his face in his Cloak, for the fierceness of the wind. - -And that presently after the Common-wealth should be troubled with -new Sects and Opinions, which may be understood of the beginning of -Reformation by _Luther_ and _Calvin_, which was about that time. - -The last Verse by the white and red signifieth here (as it doth thorough -all the Book) the _French_ and the _Spaniards_, because the _French_ -wear white Scarfes, and the _Spaniards_ red ones: and consequently the -troubles and jars that happened presently between those two Nations. - - -IV. - - French. - - Par l’Univers sera fait un Monarque, - Qu’en paix & vie ne sera longuement, - Lors se perdra la Piscature Barque, - Sera regie en plus grand detriment. - - English. - - In the World shall be one Monarch, - Who shall be not long alive, nor in peace, - Then shall be lost the Fishing Boat, - And be governed with worse detriment. - -ANNOT. - -That Monarch was _Henry_ the II. King of _France_, who did not Reign -long, but was unfortunately slain, running at Tilt against the Earl of -_Montgomery_ (as we shall see hereafter) and almost during all his Reign -had Wars with _Charles_ the V. Emperour, and his Son _Philip_ the II. -King of _Spain_; the said Emperour in that time did sack _Rome_, took the -Pope _Clement_ the VII. prisoner, which is signified here; as also in -several other places by the loss of the _Fishing Boat_; the Roman Church -being often compared to a Ship or Boat. - - -V. - - French. - - Chassez seront sans faire long combat. - Par le Païs seront plus fort grevez, - Bourg & Cité auront plus grand debat, - _Carcas_, _Narbonne_ auront cœurs esprouvez. - - English. - - They shall be driven away without great fighting, - Those of the Countrey shall be more grieved, - Town and City shall have a greater debate, - _Carcas_, _Narbonne_ shall have their hearts tryed. - -ANNOT. - -Herein is nothing mystical, the meaning is that some of the Protestant -party intending to take or vex the Cities of _Carcassone_ and _Narbonne_ -in _Languedoc_, shall be easily repulsed, and shall afterward fall upon -the Countrey round about, which shall suffer for. - - -VI. - - French. - - L’œil de _Ravenne_ sera destitué, - Quand a ses pieds les aisles sailliront; - Les deux de _Bresse_ auront constitué, - _Turin_, _Verceil_, que _Gaulois_ fouleront. - - English. - - The eye of _Ravenna_ shall be forsaken, - When the wings shall rise at his feet, - The two of _Brescia_ shall have constituted, - _Turin_, _Verceil_, which the French shall tread upon. - -ANNOT. - -This is a confirmation of the fourth Stanza, concerning the loss of the -Pope, _Clement_ the VII. who is called here the eye of _Ravenna_, because -he is Lord of that famous City, which was once an Exarchat of the Empire. - -The wings that shall rise at, or against his feet, shall be those of the -Eagle, which are the Arms of the Emperour. - -The two of _Brescia_ were the Governour and Proveditor of _Venice_ in -that place, who would at that time have endeavoured to seize upon _Turin_ -and _Verceil_, the two chiefest Towns of _Piemont_, but were prevented by -the _French_. - - -VII. - - French. - - Tard arrivé, l’execution faite, - Le Vent contrare, Lettres au chemin prinses, - Les Conjurez quatorze d’une Secte, - Par le Rousseau seront les entreprinses. - - English. - - One coming too late, the execution shall be done, - The Wind being contrary, and Letters intercepted by the way, - The Conspirators fourteen of a Sect, - By the Red-hair’d Man the undertaking shall be made. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of the whole is this, there shall be fourteen Conspirators -of one mind, and their Ring-leader, a Red-haired man, who shall be put -to death, because their Reprieve could not come timely enough, being -hindered by cross winds, and Letters intercepted. I could find no -particular things in History concerning this. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Combien de fois prinse Cité Solaire, - Seras, changeant les Loix barbares & vaines, - Ton mal s’approche, plus seras tributaire, - Le grand _Adrie_ recouvrira tes veines. - - English. - - How often taken O solar City, - Shalt thou be? changing the barbarian and vain Laws, - Thy evil growth nigh, thou shalt be more tributary, - The great _Adria_ shall recover thy veins. - -ANNOT. - -It is hard to judge what he meaneth by the Solar City that shall be so -often taken. - -As by _Adria_, it is certain he meaneth _Venice_, that was so called -anciently, because of its scituation in the _Adriatick_ Sea. - - -IX. - - French. - - De l’Orient viendra le cœur punique, - Fascher _Adrie_, & les hoirs _Romulides_, - Accompagné de la classe Libique, - Trembler _Melites_, & proches Isles vuides. - - English. - - From the East shall come the _African_ heart, - To vex _Adria_, and the Heirs of _Romulus_, - Accompanied with the _Libian_ fleet - _Melites_ shall tremble, and the Neighbouring Islands be empty. - -ANNOT. - -This was a clear and true Prognostication of that famous Invasion made -upon _Maltha_, by the grand Signor _Solyman_ the magnificent, in the -year of our Lord 1565. and just ten years after the writing of this -Prophecy, wherein that Island, and some of the Neighbouring ones were -wholly depopulated by the _Turks_, to the terror of _Venice_, called -here _Adria_, and of all the Islands of the _Adriatick_ Sea. For the -better understanding of this, the Reader must observe, that _Punicus_ in -Latin signifieth _Africa_, so that the _African_ heart signifieth the -help the _Turk_ had from _Tunis, Tripoly_, and _Algier_, Cities seated -in _Africa_, and under the Turkish Dominion; by which not only _Maltha_ -(which in Latin is _Melita_) but _Venice_ and _Rome_ were put into a -great fright; the conclusion of this Siege was, that after six weeks -time, and the loss of 26000. Men, the _Turks_ were constrained shamefully -to retire. _Vide_ _the Turkish History_. - - -X. - - French. - - Sergens transmis dans la Cage de Fer, - Ou les Enfans septains du Roy sont pris, - Les vieux & Peres sortiront bas d’Enfer, - Ains mourir voir de son fruit mort & cris. - - English. - - Sergeants sent into an Iron Cage, - Where the seven Children of the King are, - The old Men and Fathers shall come out of Hell, - And before they die shall see the death and cries of their fruit. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy signifieth, that some Sergeants or Executioners shall be -sent into a Prison, to put to death seven Children, servants of a King -that were Imprisoned there, and that some old Men their Fathers, shall -see their death, and hear their cries. - - -XI. - - French. - - Le mouvement de Sens, Cœur, Pieds, & Mains, - Seront d’accord, _Naples_, _Leon_, _Sicile_, - Glaives, Feux, Eaux, puis au Noble Romains, - Plongez, Tuez, Morts, par cerveau debile. - - English. - - The motion of the Sense, Heart, Feet and Hands, - Shall agree, _Naples_, _Leon_, _Sicily_, - Swords, Fires, Waters, then to the noble _Romans_, - Dipt, Killed, Dead, by a _weak-brain_. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses signifie the concord that shall be among the -_Spanish_ dominions, expressed here by _Sense_, _Heart_, _Feet_, and -_Hands_. After which, the _Romans_ or those of _Rome_, shall be evilly -intreated, being _drowned, killed, and put to death by a weak brain_. -I guess this to have come to pass, when the Emperour _Charles_ the V. -his Army sacked _Rome_, under the command of the Duke of _Bourbon_, who -was killed at the Assault; and of the Prince of _Orange_, who permitted -licentiousness to his Souldiers, and suffered them to commit more -violence, than ever the _Goths_ or _Vandales_ did, and therefore is -called here _weak brain_. This Prince of _Orange_ was of the House of -_Chalon_, after which came that of _Nassau_. - - -XII. - - French. - - Dans peu ira fauce brute fragile, - De bas en haut eslevé promptement, - Puis en estant desloyal & labile, - Qui de _Verone_ aura gouvernment. - - English. - - Within a little while a false frail brute shall go, - From low to high, being quickly raised, - By reason that he shall have the Government of _Verona_, - Shall be unfaithful and slippery. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth of a wicked person, who in a short time shall be from -a low degree exalted to a high one, by reason that those that have the -Government of _Verona_, shall be unfaithful and slippery. That person -seemeth to be some Pope, who from a low degree shall be exalted to that -dignity, by the unfaithfulness and slipperiness of the _Venetians_, who -are now Lords of the City _Verona_ in _Italy_. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Les exiles, par ire, haine intestine, - Feront au Roy grand conjuration, - Secret mettront ennemis par la mine, - Et les vieux siens, contre eux sedition. - - English. - - The banished, by choler, and intestine hatred - Shall make against the King a great conspiracy, - They shall put secret enemies in the mine, - And the old his own against them sedition. - -ANNOT. - -Although this Prophecie seemeth to be indefinitely spoken, because in -every Countrey or Kingdom where there is banished people, they most -commonly plot against their King and Countrey; nevertheless I find two -remarkable Histories to make this good, one in _France_, and the other in -_England_. That of _France_ is thus. - -The Cardinal of _Lorrain_, and the Duke of _Guise_ his Brother, being -in great favour with _Henry_ II. the Queen Mother promoted them in the -beginning of the Reign of _Francis_ II. his successor, so that the -Cardinal was made Lord high Treasurer, and the Duke General of the -Armies, to the prejudice of the Constable of _Montmorency_. Those two -favourites, fearing the persecution that is raised by envy, did remove -all the great ones from the Court, whether they were commanded to do so, -or whether they had any other pretences. - -The Princes of _Condé_, and of _la Roche sur yon_, were sent into -_Flanders_ to _Philip_ II. _Condé_, to confirm the alliance between the -two Crowns, and _la Roche sur yon_ to carry the Order of _France_. - -_Diana_ of _Poitiers_ Dutchess of _Valentenois_, was banished from Court, -and compelled to surrender to the Queen all the Jewels she had extorted -from the King, besides the Castle of _Chenonceaux_, which the Queen took -for her self. - -The Marshal St. _Andrew_ was likewise banished from the Court. The King -of _Navarre_ was in _Bearn_. - -The Constable took also his leave, and surrendred to the King the Seal -of his Office. On the other side, the Protestants began to stir notably, -having on their part many Princes, as that of _Condé_, of _Porcien_, -_Gaspard_, of _Coligny_, Admiral of _France_, d’_Andelot_, and the -Cardinal of _Chastillon_ his brothers, _Magdalene_ of _Mailly_, their -Sister, Lady of _Roye_, the King of _Navarre_. All these discontented -persons, and the Protestants made a great conspiracy under pretence of -Religion, and of freeing the King from the tyranny of the _Guisians_. - -They did by _Choler_, the Protestants because they had been so ill -used, in the time of _Francis_ I. and _Henry_ II. and lately by the -_Guisians_. And the discontented, for to pull down their power, it was -also by an _intestine hatred_, because the Constable could not brook to -be dispossessed of his Office of great Master, which was given to the -Duke of _Guise_; and the others to see themselves from the management of -Affairs, and the Protestants by the spirit of a contrary Religion. - -Their _conspiracy_ tended to expel the _Guisians_, and to seise upon the -Queen, the King, and his Brothers. - -To compass their end, they secretly sent some trusty persons of their -own, who nevertheless feigned to be their Enemies; insomuch that the King -of _Navarre_ sent them word, that he would be always of their party, -though apparently he took the Courts part. - -But _the Old his own_, saith the fourth Verse, that is to say, the Kings -old friends shall raise _Sedition_ against them, which happened in the -year 1650. when the _Guisians_ having discovered the conspiracy that was -made at _Nantes_, the 1. of _February_ 1560. whose chief Ring-leader was -the Lord _La Renaudie_; they presently got the King out of _Blois_, and -carryed him to _Amboise_, caused the Town to be fortified, and set strong -Guards upon all the passages. - -The day appointed for the execution of the conspiracy at _Blois_, was the -10th of _March_: But the King being got to _Amboise_, the Conspirators -went thither in such great numbers, and under such specious pretences, -that had they not been betrayed, no body would have suspected them. -All the Suburbs and the Countrey Towns thereabouts were full of them. -The Prince of _Condé_, the Admiral, d’_Andelot_, and his Brother the -Cardinal, were all there. - -Then the _Guisians_ began to fall to work, and to set upon the -Conspirators on all sides. - -Abundance were taken, some in the City, some in the Suburbs, others in -the Countrey round about. - -Most of these were slain before they could come to Town, or be carried -to Prison. And their process was so short that they were hanged in their -Boots and Spurs. - -The Scouts did every where kill those they met withall. To conclude, it -proved a very Bloody Tragedy. - -_La Renaudie_ the Chief of the Conspirators, was met with by the Lord -_Pardaillan_ a _Gascon_. At the first approach _La Renaudie_ killed him; -but himself was killed by _Pardeillan_’s Servant, and his dead body -brought and hanged at _Amboise_. - -The second History is concerning _England_, which palpably makes this -Prophecie good, if we make reflection upon what hath happened in this -last Century of years, concerning banished people that have conspired -against their King and Countrey, as we may see through all the Life of -Queen _Elizabeth_, and by that famous Plot of the Gun-powder-Treason in -King _James_’s time, which must be understood here by the _Mine_. - - -XIV. - - French. - - De gens esclave, chansons, chants, & requestes, - Captifs par Princes, & Seigneurs aux prisons, - A l’advenir par Idiots sans testes, - Seront receus par divins oraisons. - - English. - - From slavish people, Songs, Tunes and requests, - Being kept Prisoners by Princes and Lords, - For the future by headless Idiots, - Shall be admitted by divine prayers. - -ANNOT. - -This is a prognostication of the beginning and increase of the -Protestants in _France_, who began to sing their Psalms in _French_, and -from time to time presented their request for tolleration. The Author -being a zealous Papist calleth them _Idiots_, and that notwithstanding -the persecution that should be against them, being put in Prison by -_Princes_ and _Lords_, they should at last be admitted by reason of their -often praying to God. - - -XV. - - French. - - _Mars_ nous menace par la force bellique, - Septante fois fera le sang respandre, - Auge & ruine de l’Ecclesiastique, - Et par ceux qui d’eux rien ne voudront entendre. - - English. - - _Mars_ threatneth us of a Warlike force, - Seventy times he shall cause blood to be shed, - The flourishing and ruine of the Clergy, - And by those that will hear nothing from them. - -ANNOT. - -The Author having premonished us in his Preface, that God having imparted -to him the knowledge of many future things, he was curious to know if -his Divine Majesty had written the same thing in the Cœlestial Book, -as concerning the States, Empires, Monarchies, Provinces and Cities, -and he found that it was even so as it had been revealed to him, so -that the Book of Heaven, written with Gods own hand, in so many shining -Characters, might serve to studious men for a light and a Torch to -discover very near the common estate of the world. - -He then having learned from God in his solitariness, the prosperities -and afflictions of the Clergy, from the beginning of the year 1555. to -the end of the world; he found that there was an agreement between his -prophetical Knowledge, and the motion of the Heavenly Bodies; because -having made the Systeme of the years after 1550. he found that _Mars_ was -in a dangerous Aspect to the Ecclesiastical estate, and found that this -Planet by its position did presage a long, bloody and horrid Catastrophe -in the world, by which the Ecclesiastical estate should suffer much. - -To make good this prediction, the Author doth assure us in his Preface, -that he had considered the disposition of this Planet, not only in the -year 1555. but also in the years following, and joyning together all -that he had found in his Ephemerides, he found that this Planet did on -all sides presage most bloody actions. Although, saith he, the Planet -of _Mars_ maketh an end of its course, and is come to its last Period: -nevertheless it will begin it again, but some gathered in _Aquarius_ for -many years, and others by long and continual years. - -As if he would say that his prediction ought not to be rejected; because -_Mars_ ended his course, and cometh to its late period; for it would take -again its Exaltation and Dominion with a worse conjunction, having his -Astronomical dignities, with the Conjunction of other Planets in the Sign -of _Aquarius_ during many years, and in the Sign of _Cancer_ for many -years more. - -Which maketh the Author conclude, that within the space of 177. years, -three months and eleven dayes, the world shall be afflicted with Wars, -Plagues, Famines and Innundations, that scarce any body shall be left to -Till the Ground. By which prediction we learn that those evils began in -the year 1555. the first of _March_, which is the date of the Authors -Book, and shall last till the second of _June_ 1732. abating the ten days -of the Gregorian Calender. - -During which time, he saith, that _Mars_ threatneth us with bloody Wars -that shall be reiterated 70 times. - -This word seventy doth not signifie a determinate number, but a great -number indeterminated according to the Phrase of the Scripture, which -by the number of seven signifieth many times, and by that of seventy -incomparably many times more. Thus the Scripture saith, that the just man -falleth seven times in one day, that is many times, and our Saviour saith -to St. _Peter_, that we ought to forgive our Enemies, not only seven -times, but seventy times seven; that is innumerable times. - -We have found the truth of this Prophecie to this very day. 1. In -_France_, by the Wars between _Henry_ II. and _Charles_ V. and _Philip_ -II. 2. By the Wars of _Charles_ IX. against the Protestants, wherein -so much blood was spilt on both sides. 3. By _Henry_ III. against -the same Protestants, and factions of his time, and then against the -_Parisians_ and others of their league. 4. Between _Henry_ IV. and -those of the league in his revolted Kingdom. 5. By the Wars of _Lewis_ -XIII. against the Protestants, against the Duke of _Savoy_, in the -_Valteline_, in _Piemont_, in _Lorrain_, in _Alsatia_, in _Catalonia_, in -_Franche-Conty_, in _Flanders_, and for the defence of _Portugal_, which -have been continued by his successor _Lewis_ XIV. now Reigning. - -_Italy_ did also find the truth of this prophecie, by the Wars between -_Paul_ IV. and the _Spaniard_, between _Pius_ V. and the _Turks_, between -_Clement_ VIII. and the Duke of _Ferrara_, between the Emperour and the -Duke of _Mantua_, between _Urban_ VIII. and the Duke of _Parma_, between -the _Venetians_ and the _Florentines_, by the revolt of the Kingdom of -_Naples_, under the conduct of the Duke of _Guise_. - -_England_ hath had its share of it under Queen _Elizabeth_, by the revolt -of _Yorkshire_, and some other Provinces, by the _Spanish_ fleet of 88. - -By the death of Queen _Mary_, by the revolt of the Kingdom against -_Charles_ I. And by the horrid perfidiousness of _Cromwel_. - -_Germany_ hath made it good by the War against the _Turks_, the -Protestants and the _Swedes_. - -_Poland_ hath done the same against the _Russians_, _Tartars_, _Turks_, -_Cassaks_ and _Swedes_. - -And _Venice_ against the _Turk_, for the Islands of _Cyprus_ and -_Candia_, the Battle of _Lepanto_, and the Wars of _Dalmatia_. - -This _Mars_ besides presageth two contrary things, one is the _Auge_ -or Exaltation, the other the _ruine of the Clergy_: where it is to be -observed, the _Auge_ in tearms of Astrology signifieth mounting or -ascending, and cometh from the Latin _verbe augere_, which signifieth to -augment or increase. This augmentation and ruine of the _Clergy_ is made -good by the several changes that have been in the Ecclesiastical estate, -in _France_, _England_, Low-Countreys, _Denmark_, _Swede_, _Poland_, -_Hungary_, _Valachia_, _Transylvania_, _Moldavia_, _Dalmatia_, _Geneva_, -_Switzerland_, &c. - -The fourth Verse saith. By those that will hear nothing from them: that -is, by the Protestants that will hear nothing from the _Roman_ Catholicks. - - -XVI. - - French. - - Faux a l’Estang, joint vers la _Sagittaire_, - En son haut _Auge_ de l’Exaltation, - Peste, Famine, mort de main Militaire, - Le Siecle approcher de renovation. - - English. - - The Sith to the Fish-pond, joyned to _Sagittarius_, - In the highest _Auge_ of the Exaltation, - Plague, Famine, Death by a Military hand, - The age groweth near to its renovation. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of all this is, that when a Meadow that was a _Fish-pond_ -before, shall be Mowed, the Sign of _Sagittarius_ being in its _Auge_ or -ascendant, then shall _Plague_, _Famine_, and _War_ Reign, and that age -(which a Century of years shall be near its end and renovation _viz._ of -another Century.) - - -XVII. - - French. - - Par quarante ans l’Iris n’apparoistra, - Par quarante ans tous les jours sera veu, - La Terre aride en siccité croistra, - Et grand deluge quand sera apparceu. - - English. - - During fourty years the Rainbow shall not appear, - During fourty years it shall be seen every day. - The parched Earth shall wax dryer and dryer, - And great Flouds shall be when it shall appear. - -ANNOT. - -The Interpretation of this is easie, and signifieth nothing else but that -during 40. years the _Rainbow_ shall not be seen, and during that time -there shall be an exceeding great drought upon the Earth, and that for -40. years after the _Rainbow_ shall be seen every day, which shall cause -great flouds and innundations. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Par la discorde, negligence _Gauloise_, - Sera passage a _Mahomet_ ouvert, - De sang trempé la Terre & Mer _Senoise_, - Le Port _Phocen_ de Voiles & Nefs couvert. - - English. - - Through the discord and negligence of the _French_, - A passage shall be opened to _Mahomet_, - The Land and Sea of _Sienna_ shall be bloody, - The _Phocen_ Haven shall be covered with Sails and Ships. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1559. _Sultan Solyman_ called _Leonclavius_, according to the -alliance made between him and _Francis_ I. King of _France_, was desired -by _Henry_ II. his Son to send him some succours: Whereupon he sent -some of his Gallies to scour the _Tyrrhenean_ Sea (otherwise the Sea of -_Tuscany_) to give a diversion to the _Spanish_ forces in _Italy_, while -the King by the means of the Marshal of _Brissac_, should continue his -Conquests in the _Piemont_ and _Milanese_. - -All what this _Turkish_ Fleet did, was to plunder and over-run the -Island of _Elbe_, and to attempt _Piombino_ without effect; and because -these places were seated upon the Sea of _Sienna_, called in Latin _Mare -Tirrhenum_, the Author saith that both the Land and Sea of _Sienna_ shall -be died with Blood, and at that time the Haven of _Marseilles_, which -was called by the Ancients, Port-_Phocen_ was full of Sales and Ships, -as well to go into the Island of _Corse_, as for other designs. This -History makes good that _Stanza_ which saith, that through the _discord_ -and _negligence_ of the _French_, a passage shall be opened to _Mahomet_, -wherein it is to be observed that the Marshal of _Brissac_ doing wonders -for the King in _Piemont_, his virtue got him abundance of enviers and -enemies in the Kings Councel, which was the cause of a great discord -among them, by the diversity of opinions, and this diversity was the -cause of a prodigious negligence in sending to him relief, as _Turpin_ -witnesseth in his History of _Naples_, and _Paradin_ in the continuation -of his History. - -By this discord and negligence, _a passage was opened to Mahomet_, his -Fleet going freely upon the _Mediterranean_ Sea near the Coasts of -_France_. And the reason of it was, because this discord and negligence -did compel _Henry_ the II. to ask succours of _Solyman_, that the -_Spaniard_ might be compelled to divide his Forces in sending some to the -Sea-Towns, and so should not be so strong in _Piemont_; and thus must be -understood the _French discord and negligence_, in the first and second -Verse. As for the many Sails and Ships that were then in the Haven of -_Marseilles_, to go into the Island of _Corsica_, the following Stanza’s -are full of predictions concerning it. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Lors que Serpens viendront circuir l’Air, - Le sang _Troien_ versé par les _Espagnes_, - Par eux: grand nombre en sera fait tare, - Chef fuit, caché aux Marets dans les saignes. - - English. - - When Serpents shall come to encompass the Are, - The _Trojan_ blood shall be vexed by _Spain_, - By them, a great number shall perish, - Chief runneth away, and is hid in the rushes of the Marishes. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Serpents_, the Author being a Roman Catholick, meaneth the -Protestants, who then began to appear numerous in the Reigns of _Francis_ -the I. and _Henry_ the II. in whose time the Admiral _Coligny_ was the -chief among them, for his great feats in War. - -These Serpents or Protestants begun to encompass the _Are_, that is to -say, the Church and the Altar, which in Latin is called _Ara_. - -And that happened when _the Trojan-blood was vexed by Spain_. By the -_Trojan-blood_, the Author meaneth the _French_ blood, according to the -vulgar opinion, that the _French_ are descended from the _Trojans_. -The _French_ were then vexed by the _Spaniards_, at the Battle of St. -_Laurence_, and at the taking of St. _Quentin_, and other places in the -Year 1557. - -The third Verse saith _by them_, that is, by the Protestants _a great -number shall perish_, that is to say, a great number of _French_. Among -whom the Admiral of _Chatillon_ having done what was possible to be done -at the defence of St. _Quentin_, and seeing the Town taken, run away -with three more, and hid himself among the Rushes that are in the Boggs -about the Town, where he was found, and carried Prisoner to the Duke of -_Savoy_, who received him very honorably, according to his valour and -deserts. - -Observe that the word _Saignes_ here signifieth in old _Provencal_ a -_Marish_. - - -XX. - - French. - - _Tours_, _Orleans_, _Blois_, _Angers_, _Renes_ & _Nantes_, - Cités vexées par soudain changement, - Par Langues estranges seront tendues Tentes, - Fleuves, Darts, Rennes, Terre & Mer tremblement. - - English. - - _Tours_, _Orleans_, _Blois_, _Angers_, _Renes_, and _Nantes_, - Cities vexed by a sudden change, - By strange Languages Tents shall be set up, - Rivers, Darts, _Rennes_, Land, and Sea shall quake. - -ANNOT. - -All the Cities mentioned in the first Verse are seated by the River -of _Loire_, and are threatned here of a sudden change, and that some -strangers shall set up their Tents against them, and chiefly at _Rennes_, -there shall be an Earth-quake felt both by Sea and Land. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Profonde argile blanche nourrit rocher, - Qui d’un abysme istra l’acticineuse, - En vain troublez ne l’oseront toucher, - Ignorant estre au fond terre argileuse. - - English. - - A deep white clay feedeth a Rock, - Which clay shall break out of the deep like milk, - In vain people shall be troubled not daring to touch it, - Being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Rock in the middle of the Sea, whose Roots are fed by a white -clay, which is at the foot of this Rock, in the bottom of the Sea, and -therefore called deep. - -This clay being softned, and dissolved by the Sea-water, shall appear -upon the superficies of it like milk about the Rock. Those that shall see -this wonder, _being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay_, -shall in vain be troubled at it, and shall not dare to touch it. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Ce qui vivra & n’aura aucun sens, - Viendra le Fer a mort son artifice, - _Autun_, _Chalons_, _Langres_ & les deux _Sens_, - La Guerre & la Glasse fera grand malefice. - - English. - - That which shall live, and shall have no sence, - The Lion shall destroy the art of it, - _Autun_, _Chalons_, _Langres_, and both _Sens_, - The War and the Ice shall do great harm. - -ANNOT. - -This is a great Riddle, which was never found out till now; and had I not -been born in the Countrey where the History did happen, it might have -been unknown to this day, and buried in oblivion. - -[Sidenote: _The History of a λιθοπαίδιον or petrified child_.] - -In the year of the Lord 1613. which was that of my Birth. There was in -the Town of _Sens_ a Taylors Wife named _Columba Chatry_, who presently -after her marriage conceived, and for the space of 28. years persuaded -her self to be with Child, had all the signs of it in the beginning of -her impregnation, and having gone her compleat time, she begun to feel -the pains of a woman in Labour, with great gripings in the Guts. The -Urine was suppressed for a while, but at last it broke out with a strong -current. This quantity of water not coming so much out of the Bladder as -was supposed, as from the womb, by the breaking of the Membrane, called -_Amnion_, seeing that with those serous excrements, she avoided some -conjealed blood. After that her breast begun to fall, and the Child had -little or no motion, her pains being less than they were, which caused -no small admiration to the Midwifes, who expected a safe deliverance. -For the space of three years after, this woman kept her Bed, and was -brought to Deaths door, complaining of gripings and a hard swelling, -which she desired all the Physitians and Chyrurgeons to feel, having -lost all appetite, but that little which she recovered by the use of -sharp things, as Verjuice, Lemmons, _&c._ she was wont to say to her -Neighbours, that she bare a Child that should be the cause of her death. -After she was dead, her Husband got two experienced Chyrurgeons to open -her body, who having opened the belly, and taken away the _Peritonæum_, -saw the Womb of several colours, as the flesh that is about the head and -neck of a Turky-cock, but as it were of a Horny substance. They begun to -make an incision in it with a Rasour, but finding it resisted the edge, -they begun to use their Incision knives with all their strength; at last -one of them by chance hit the Scull, and after that some Ribs, and then -the Shoulder bone, by which, knowing that there was bones contained in -that lump, with greater strength they made a deeper incision, and having -parted the edges of the womb, saw in the bottom of the womb a Child, -wrapped in the membrane, called _Allantoides_; at which the Chyrugeons -wondering, sent for the Physitians to have their opinion in a thing that -is almost beyond belief; in the mean time people flocking thither from -all parts, and troubling the Chyrurgeons in their operation; they thought -good to take away with their Instruments all that Lump, as a Tree from -its Roots, and to carry it home, that they might with more time and -leasure examine the whole Anatomy of it. In that hasty pulling out of the -Child, they had no time to observe what Chorion it had, what umbilical -Vessels, and what connexion there was of the Allantoides with the Womb, -and with the Child, chiefly about the right hip, the Buttocks, and the -Back-bone being all grown solid together. - -The scituation of the Child was almost _Spherical_, the face leaning upon -the breast, and the Nostrils upon the Knees; the bones of the Head were -but thin, but very hard, and shining like Horn; the skin of the Head -was hairy in many places; the head did hang so much upon the left arm, -that the Ear, and part of the skull had given way to the Shoulder-bone; -the Elbow was bent towards the Shoulder stretching only his hand, which -was so close shut, and the fingers sticking so fast to the Palm of it, -that although they did appear distinct one from another, nevertheless it -was all but one and the same stone; the right arm did stretch its hand -towards the Navel, which unadvisedly was broken by the wrist, and left -in the Mothers Belly; the left Thigh, Knee and Leg were on the top of -the right ones, with which they were so entangled, that the left heel, -and the sole of the foot were planted upon the right foot, who seemed -to have given place to them, and were almost inseparably joyned; for all -such hardness of the matter, the body was not less than that of other -Children of the same age, but kept a perfect fulness and proportion -all the internal parts, as the Brains, the Heart, the Liver, had their -natural shape, and were not altogether so hard as the external parts, so -that to this very day this little body defieth all kind of corruption. - -This Child was kept in my time by one Mr. _Michel_ a Chirurgion of -_Sens_, who kindly shewed it to all the strangers that came far and near -to see it. The Fame of it was so great, that Doctor _Mayerne_ coming from -_Switzerland_ to _England_, took his way through _Sens_ to see it, and -would have perswaded King _Charles_ I. to buy it, as himself told me; -since that I hear it was fallen into the hands of the _Venetians_. In -this History there is two observable wonders. One, that the Child dying -in the Womb, did not corrupt, and so cause the death of its Mother. The -other, by what vertue or power of the body this child was petrified, -seeing that the Womb is a hot and moist place, and therefore more subject -to putrifaction. Those that will satisfie themselves with the reasons of -it, and the truth of the History, may read _Johannes Alibosius_ Physician -of _Sens_, who was an eye witness of it, and _Sennertus_ in his book of -Sympt. _quam feminis in utero accidant_. - -Now this accident being so rare, and without parallel, our Author -thought fit to foretel it, and to cover it in abscure tearms, that he -might not appear ridiculous in so admirable an event. When therefore he -saith, _That which shall live and shall have no Sense_, he meaneth this -λιθοπαίδιον or child petrified, which had a Life while it was in the -Mothers belly, being tied to it by the several Vessels and connexions, -known to Anatomists, and yet was senseless in that it was petrified. When -in the second verse he saith, _The Iron shall destroy the art of it_, he -meaneth that it should be spoiled by the rasour, in the two last verses -he saith, that the Towns of _Autun_, _Chalons_, _Langres_, and _Sens_ the -Town in which this did happen should that same year suffer much damage by -Hail and Ice, which did come to pass, as many persons may justify in that -Countrey, that are alive to this day. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Au mois troisiesme se levant le Soleil, - Sanglier, Leopard, aux champs _Mars_ pour combatre, - Leopard lassé au Ciel esttend son œil, - Un Aigle autour du Soleil voit sesbatre. - - English. - - In the third month at the rising of the Sun, - The Boar and Leopard in _Marth_ camp to fight; - The Leopard weary, lift his eyes to Haven, - And seeth an Eagle playing about the Sun. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth a particular accident, _viz._ that in the third Month, -which is that of _March_, at the rising of the _Sun_, the _Boar_ and the -_Leopard_, that is, two persons of quality hidden under these names, -shall go into the fields to fight a Duel. The _Leopard_ one of them being -weary, shall lift up his eyes to Heaven, calling upon God, and thereupon -shall see an _Eagle_ playing about the _Sun_, that is, shall get the -Victory, of which the _Eagle_ is the Emblem. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - A Cité nevue pensif pour condamner, - Loisel de proie au ciel se vient offrir, - Apres Victoire a Captifs pardonner - _Cremone_ & _Mantoue_ grands maux auront souffert. - - English. - - In the new City for to condemn a Prisoner, - The Bird of pray shall offer himself to Heaven, - After the Victory, the Prisoners shall be forgiven, - After _Cremona_ and _Mantua_ have suffered many troubles. - -ANNOT. - -This name of new City is appropriated to several ones in every Countrey. -The _French_ have many _Villeneufuas_, the Germans many _Newstads_, the -_Italians_ and _Spaniards_ many _Villanovas_, so that it is hard to guess -which of them the Author meaneth. The missing of this dore makes the rest -of the Prophecie so obscure, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of -the Reader, than to pretend a true explication of it. I shall only say, -that _Cremona_ and _Mantua_ are two famous Towns in _Italy_, which are -here threatned. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Perdu, trouvé, caché de si long siecle - Sera Pasteur demy-Dieu honoré, - Ains que la Lune acheve son grand Siecle, - Par autre vents sera deshonoré. - - English. - - Lost, found again, hidden so great a while, - A Pastor as Deme-God shall be honoured; - But before the Moon endeth her great Age, - By other winds he shall be dishonoured. - -ANNOT. - -The Prophecie is concerning the body of a famous Churchman, which was -lost, and shall be found again, and worshiped as a _Demy-God_, but before -the _Moon_ hath run her great age, which is of 13 Months, it shall be -vilified and dishonoured. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Le grand du Foudre tombe d’heure diurne, - Mal & predit par Porteur populaire, - Suivant presage tombe d’heure nocturne, - Conflit _Rheims_, _Londres_, _Etrusque_ Pestifere. - - English. - - The great Man falleth by the Lightning in the day time, - An evil foretold by a common Porter; - According to this foretelling another falleth in the night, - A fight at _Rhemes_, and the Plague at _London_ and _Tuscany_. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning some great man, who being premonished by a common -Carrier not to travel upon a certain day, did slight the advice, and was -strucken by Lightning in the day time, and another in the night; at the -same time there was a fight at _Rhemes_, and the Plague at _London_ and -in _Tuscany_, which in Latin is called _Etruria_. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Des soubs le Chesne _Guyen_ du Ciel frappé, - Non loin de la est caché le Thresor, - Qui par long Siecles avoit esté grappé, - Trouvé mourra, l’œil crevé de ressor. - - English. - - Under the Oak _Guyen_ strucken from Heaven, - Not far from it is the Treasure hidden, - Which hath been many Ages a gathering; - Being found he shall die, the eye put out by a spring. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of it is, that some body (who is named here _Guyen_) being -under an Oak shall be strucken with the lightning, and that near that -place there is a great Treasure, that hath been many years a gathering, -and that he who shall find it shall die, being shot in the eye with a -Fire-lock. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - La Tour de _Bouk_ craindra fuste Barbare, - Un temps, long temps apres Barque _Hesperique_, - Bestial, gens meubles tous deux feront grand tare, - _Taurus_ & _Libra_, quelle mortelle pique? - - English. - - The Tower of _Bouk_ shall be in fear of a Barbarian Fleet, - For a while, and long after afraid of _Spanish_ shipping, - Flocks, peoples, goods both shall receive great damage, - _Taurus_ and _Libra_, O what a deadly feud. - -ANNOT. - -The Tower of _Bouk_ is a strong place seated by the _Rhosne_, where it -entereth into the Mediterranean Sea; it is said here that it shall be in -fear of a Barbarian Fleet, and after that of a _Spanish_ one, and that -both the _Spaniard_ and the _French_ shall have great losses in Cattle, -People and Goods, and this shall happen when the Sun shall be in the -Signs of _Taurus_ and _Libra_. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Quand le Poisson, Terrestre & _Aquatique_, - Par forte vague an gravier sera mis, - Sa forme estrange suave & horrifique, - Par Mer aux murs bien tost les Enemies. - - English. - - When the Fish that is both Terrestrial and Aquatick, - By a strong Wave shall be cast upon the Sand, - With his strange fearful sweet horrid form, - Soon after the enemies will come near to the Walls by Sea. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth no more but that after, a Fish, Terrestrial and Aquatick, -that is which, liveth in Land and Water, called by the Greeks αμφίβιον, -shall be cast upon the Sand by a storm, then a little while after, that -Town which lieth near to that place where the Fish was cast, shall be -Besieged by her Enemies, who shall come by Sea. - - -XXX. - - French. - - La Nef estrange par le tourment Marin, - Abordera pres le Port incognu, - Nonobstant signs du rameau palmerin, - Apres mort, pille, bon advis tard venu. - - English. - - The Outlandish Ship by a Sea storm, - Shall come near the unknown Haven, - Notwitstanding the signs given to it with Bows, - It shall die, be plundered, a good advice come too late. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Forrein Ship which by a storm shall be driven to an unknown -Harbour, and notwithstanding the signs that shall be made to it with -Branches, by those that are upon the Land to beware of the entrance of -the Harbour, it shall be cast away, and plundered; thus a good advice -shall come too late. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Tant d’ans les guerres, en _Gaule_ dureront, - Outre la course du _Castulon_ Monarque, - Victoire incerte trois grands couroneront, - Aigle, Coq, Lune, Lion Soleil en marque. - - English. - - So many years the Wars shall last in _France_, - Beyond the course of the _Castulon_ Monarque, - An uncertain Victory three great ones shall Crown, - The Eagle, the Cock, the Moon, the Lion having the Sun in its mark. - -ANNOT. - -That is, the Wars shall last so long in _France_ after the death of one -King of _Spain_, till three great ones shall challenge an uncertain -Victory, these three great ones are the Emperour designed by the Aigle, -the King of _France_ by the Cock, and the _Turk_ by the Moon, and this -shall happen when the Sun is in the sign of the Lion. I suppose that came -to pass in the time of _Charles_ the V. _Henry_ the II. and _Soliman_. -For the _Turk_ had no great odds upon the Emperour, nor he upon the King -of _France_. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - La grand Empire sera tost translaté, - En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre, - Lieu bien infime d’exigue Comté, - Ou au milieu viendra poser son Scepter. - - English. - - The great Empire shall soon be translated, - Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards. - An inferiour place of a small County, - In the middle of which he shall come to lay down his Scepter. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the same _Charles_ the V. Emperour, who about three -years before his death, being weary of the World, resigned his Dominions -of _Spain_ and of the _Low-Countries_, to his Son _Philip_ the II. -and his Empire to his Brother _Ferdinand_, and retired himself into a -Monastery of _Castile_, called l’_Escurial_, which after his death, was -much enlarged and beautified by his Son _Philip_: and that is the meaning -of our Author when he saith: - - _Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards,_ - _An inferiour place of a small County,_ - -For this _Escurial_ being seated in a Desert place of a County of -_Spain_, called _Castilia_, which the _Spanish_ vanity calleth a Kingdom, -(whose Use, Fruit, or Revenues, the said _Charles_ only reserved for his -maintenance) is now by the _Spaniards_ accounted to be the eighth wonder -of the World. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Pres d’un grand Pont de plaine spacieuse, - Le grand Lion par force, Cesarées, - Fera abatre hors Cité rigoureuse, - Par effroy portes luy seront reserrées. - - English. - - A great Bridge near a spacious Plain, - The great Lion by _Cæsarean_ Forces, - Shall cause to be pulled down, without the rigorous City, - For fear of which, the Gates shall be shut to him. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that a great Captain, Commander of the Imperial -Forces, shall cause a Bridge that was built near a spacious Plain to be -thrown down. The City near the Bridge being terrified at it, shall shut -up their Gates against him. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - L’Oiseau de proye volant a la Fenestre, - Avant conflict, fait au _Francois_ parure, - L’un bon prendra, l’autre ambigue sinistre, - La partie foible tiendra pour bonne augure. - - English. - - The Bird of Prey flying to the Window, - Before Battle, shall appear to the _French_; - One shall take a good omen of it, the other a bad one, - The weaker part shall hold it for a good sign. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Hawk which in presence of two Armies ready to give Battle, -shall fly to a window and perch upon it, in the presence of them all, -one of the Armies shall take it for a good sign; and the other, for an -ambiguous and sinister one. In Conclusion, the weaker party shall get the -Victory. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Le Lion jeune le vieux surmontera, - En champ bellique par singulier Duelle, - Dans Cage dor Lœil il lui crevera, - Deux playes une puis mourir mort cruelle. - - English. - - The young Lion shall overcome the old one, - In Martial field by a single Duel, - In a Golden Cage he shall put out his Eye, - Two wounds from one, then he shall die a cruel death. - -ANNOT. - -This is one of the Prophecies that hath put our Author in credit, as well -for the clearness as for the true event of it. - -_Cæsar Nostradamus_ our Authors son, in his History of _Provence_, -writeth that by this _Stanza_ his father intended to foretell the manner -of _Henry_ the second’s death. - -The _French_ Histories relate that this great Prince desiring to honour -the Nuptial of his Daughter _Elizabeth_, married to _Philip_ II. King of -_Spain_, did appoint a Tournament to be kept in St. _Anthony_’s street in -_Paris_, where himself would be one of the Defendants against all comers, -and for that purpose chose for his companions and associates _Don Alfonso -d’Este_ Duke of _Ferrara_, and _Francis_ of _Lorrain_, Duke of _Guise_. - -The Tornament being almost ended, in which the King had shewed much -Valour being mounted upon a Horse of the Duke of _Savoy_, _Philibert_’s, -_Emanuel_ his Brother in Law, this Duke intreated the King to leave off, -because he had got the Victory; and the weather was hot, and the night -drawing on: But this Martial King would need break one Launce more, and -commanded the Captain _Gabriel de Lorges_ to be called, a young and -valiant Lord and Captain of the _Scottish_ Guard. Being come, the King -commanded him to run against him, which he refused a great while; but the -King waxing angry, he obeyed, and set Spurs to his Horse, he did hit the -King in the lower part of his Beaver, the Launce was broken into shivers, -and the mean stump lifting up the Beaver, a splinter got in, and wounded -the King a little above the right _Eye_, where finding the Bone too hard, -it went very deep under the said _Eye_, and broke some Veins belonging to -the Membrane, called _Pia Mater_. - -The blow was so violent that the King bended his head towards the lists, -and fell, into a Swound, being presently disarmed, they perceived the -splinter of the Launce in his _Eye_, and his face all bloody. He lived -ten days after, and died with great Convulsions, because the Sinews were -offended, whereupon he suffered grievous Torment. - -His death was also foretold by _Luke Gaurick_ a great Astrologer, who -being constrained by the Queen _Catharine_ of _Medicis_, to tell her by -what kind of death her Husband should end his days, told her it should -be in a _Duel_, which made him to be hissed at, Kings being exempted of -those accidents. - -According to this Narrative the Author calleth the King an old _Lion_, -and the Captain _Lorges_, since Earl of _Montgomery_, the _young Lion_; -because both fought like _Lions_. The _young Lion_ overcame the old one -in _Martial field_, and in a fight of one against one, and consequently a -_Duel_. - -He overcame him by putting his _Eye_ out in a _Golden Cage_, that is, in -his Gilded Helmet. - -Of which _Wound_ there came another, because the blood of some broken -Veins, creeping into the Brains by the vehement agitation of the head, -caused an Impostume there, which could not be remedied: therefore the -Author saith _two Wounds_ from one, that is, one wound made two: and the -King died of a cruel death, as we have said before. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Tard le Monarque se viendra repentir, - De navoir mis a Mort son Adversaire, - Mais viendra bien a plus haut consentir, - Que tout son sang par Mort sera deffaire. - - English. - - The Monarque shall too late repent, - That he hath not put to death his Adversary; - But he shall give his consent to a greater thing than that, - Which is to put to death all his Adversaries Kindred. - -ANNOT. - -The words of this are plain, though it be questionable whether the thing -is come to pass already, or not. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Un peu devant que le Soleil sabsconse, - Conflict donné, grand peuple dubieux, - Profligez, Port-Marin ne fait responce, - Pont & Sepulchre en deux estranges lieux. - - English. - - A little before the Sun setteth, - A Battle shall be given, a great people shall be doubtful, - Of being foiled, the Sea-Port maketh no answer, - A Bridge and Sepulchre shall be in two strange places. - -ANNOT. - -The two first verses I believe are concerning the Battle of Saint -_Denis_, which was fought in the Evening hard by _Paris_, and where the -Constable of _Montmorency_ was kill’d, which made that great people of -_Paris_ to be doubtful. - -The other two Verses I leave to the interpretation of the Reader. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Le Sol & l’Aigle Victeur paroistront, - Response vain au vaincu lon asseure, - Par Cor ne cris, harnois narresteront, - Vindicte paix, par Mort lacheve a l’heure. - - English. - - The Sun and the Eagle shall appear to the Victorious, - A vain Answer shall be made good to the vanquished, - By no means Arms shall not be stopped, - Vengeance maketh Peace, by death he then accomplisheth it. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza being full of Figures and Equivoques, I will not interpose my -Judgement in it, lest I undertake too much, and perform too little. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - De nuit dans le lit le supresme estranglé, - Pour avoir trop suborné blond esleu, - Par trois l’Empire subroge Exancle, - A mort mettra, Carte ne Pacquet leu. - - English. - - By night in the bed the chief one shall be strangled. - For having too much suborned fair Elect, - By three the Empire subrogate Exancle, - He shall put him to death, reading neither Card nor Packet. - -ANNOT. - -The Author hath purposely obscured this Prophecie in the third Verse, -to take away the Knowledge of it from the Reader; because the parties -concerned were then alive, _viz._ _Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, who -caused his only son _Don Carlo_ to be strangled in his bed, for suspicion -of being too familiar with his wife _Elizabeth_ of _France_, and Daughter -to _Henry_ II. The last Verse saith, that he was so implacable, that he -would read neither _Card_ nor _Packet_, that is, no requests. - - -XL. - - French. - - La tourbe fausse dissimilant folie, - Fera _Bizance_ un changement de loix, - Istra d’_Ægypt_ qui veus que l’on deslie, - Edict, changant Monnoys & alloys. - - English. - - The false Troup dissembling their folly, - Shall make in _Bizance_ an alteration of _Laws_. - One shall come out of _Ægypt_ who will have untied - The Edict, changing the Coin and allay. - -ANNOT. - -There is two things in this Prognostication, the first that in _Bizance_, -which is _Constantinople_, a _Troop_ of tumultuous persons gathered -together, and dissembling their folly, shall cause an alteration in the -_Laws_. - -The other, that some _Bassa_ come out of _Ægypt_, shall perswade them at -_Constantinople_ to alter their _Coin_, and the allay of it. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Siege a Cité & de nuit assaille, - Peu eschapez non loing de Mer conflict, - Femme de joye, retour fils, de faillie, - Poison & Lettres caché dedans le plie. - - English. - - A Siege laid to a City, and assaulted by night, - Few escaped, a fight not far from the Sea, - A woman swoundeth for joy to see her son returned; - A poison hidden in the fold of Letters. - -ANNOT. - -After the taking of _Vulpian_, the _French_ came to _Montcalvo_, and in -the night surprized it by _Scalado_, and _Paradin_ saith, that not a drop -of Blood was shed on either side. - -The Town being taken, the Citadel did hold out a good while, and at -last did surrender, _Don Arbre_, who was in the place of the Marques of -_Pescaire_, and of the Duke of d’_Alva_, knowing that the besieged had -not made a sufficient resistance, caused the Captain, and eleven more of -the chief ones to be hanged; because the place was of consequence, and -those within had not made a sufficient resistance. - -The Author saith in the first Verse, Siege was laid to a City, that is, -it was resolved to besiege _Montcalvo_, as the Martial of _Brissac_ had -advised. In the execution it was assaulted by night, in the taking few -escaped; for they were all taken, and yielded to the Victorious. There -were none killed or wounded, all were taken, except few who ran away, and -carried the news to the _Spaniards_. - -At the same time _a fight not far from the Sea_, that is, at the same -time there was another Battle by the Sea, between the _Spaniards_ and the -_Pope_, as we shall shew hereafter. - -The third and fourth Verses are concerning a particular accident, which -happened presently after the taking of _Montcalvo_, which is, that a -woman seeing her Son come back safe, fell in a swound, or died for joy, -because knowing the danger wherein he was, she had lost all hopes of ever -seeing him. This fellow had brought Poison in a Letter to give to one -that had not rewarded him according to his desire. His wickedness being -discovered, his Master put him in Prison, whence he escaped, and came -back again to _Montcalvo_; the Author speaketh of the same in another -place, which we shall set down in its order. - - -XLII. - - French. - - Les dix Calendes d’_Avril_ de fait _Gothique_, - Resuscité encor par gens malins, - Le feu estaint, assemblée Diabolique, - Cherchant les Os de _Damant_ & _Psellin_. - - English. - - The tenth of the Calends of _April_, _Gothik_ account, - Raised up again by malitious persons, - The fire put out, a Diabolical assembly, - Shall seek for the Bones of _Damant_ and _Psellin_. - -ANNOT. - -The tenth of the Calends of _April_ is the 23. of _March_, _Gothik_ -account signifieth the old account of the Calendar, before the -reformation of it by Pope _Gregory_ the XIII. which old account is called -here _Gothik_, because it is kept still by the Northern Nations, which do -not acknowledge the Pope, as _Sweden_, _Denmark_, _Holland_, _England_, -&c. at that time saith our Author, a Magician shall be raised up by -malitious persons; which fire or tumult being put out, that Diabolical -assembly will go about to seek the bones of two famous Magicians, _viz._ -_Damant_ and _Psellin_ that were dead before. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Avant qu’aviene le changement d’Empire, - Il adviendra un cas bien merveilleux, - Le Champ mué, le Pilier de _Porphyre_, - Mis, translaté sur le Rocher Noileux. - - English. - - Before the change of the Empire cometh, - There shall happen a strange accident, - A field shall be changed, and a Pillar of _Prophyry_, - Shall be transported upon the Chalky Rock. - -ANNOT. - -This will not seem incredible to those that have read the _English_ -Chronicles, who relates that in a County of _England_ (I think it is -_Herefordshire_) there was an Earthquake, which transposed a large piece -of ground in another place, with the Trees that were in it, and if I -remember well, half a Chappel, those that have the Books may examine the -truth of the History, and satisfie themselves better. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - En bref seront de retour Sacrifices, - Contrevenans seront mis a Martyre, - Plus ne seront Moins, Abbez ne Novices, - Le Miel sera beaucoup plus cher que Cire. - - English. - - Within a little while Sacrifices shall come again, - Opposers shall be put to Martyrdom; - There shall be no more Monks, Abbots, nor Novices, - Honey shall be much dearer then Wax. - -ANNOT. - -This is a true Prophecy of the miserable condition of the Church and -Clergy in our Fore-fathers times, and chiefly of _Henry_ the II. in -_France_, and _Henry_ the VIII. in _England_, when in the beginning -of the Reformation there was such a confusion of opinions, and such -unsettledness in Ecclesiastical Government, that sometimes the Popish -party prevailed, and put to death the Opposers; at another time the -Protestants, who drove away the Monks, Abbots and Novices, as is -expressed here, and proved true in _Henry_ the VIII. time. As for what he -saith, that _Honey shall be much dearer than Wax_. It is to be understood -of the downfal of the Romish Religion, who maketh use of Wax Candles and -Tapers in their superstitious ceremonies, as if he would say, that the -Romish Religion being down, Wax shall be cheap, and Honey dear. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Secteur de Sectes, grand paine au Delateur, - Beste en Theatre, dresse le jeu Scenique, - Du fait antique ennobly l’Inventeur, - Par Sectes, Monde confus & Schismatique. - - English. - - Follower of Sects, great troubles to the Messenger, - A Beast upon the Theatre prepareth the Scenical play, - The Inventor of that wicked fact shall be famous, - By Sects the World shall be confounded and Schismatik. - -ANNOT. - -The Author being a Papist, is probable that in this Prophecy he aimed -at _Luther_, after whose coming the world hath been full of Sects and -Schisms. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Tout aupres d’_Auch_, de _Lectoure_ & _Mirande_, - Grand feu du Ciel en trois nuits tombera, - Chose adviendra bien stupende & mirande, - Bien peu apres la Terre tremblera. - - English. - - Near _Auch_, _Lectoure_ and _Mirande_, - A great fire from Heaven shall fall three nights together, - A thing shall happen stupendious and wonderful, - A little while after, the Earth shall quake. - -ANNOT. - -_Auch_, _Lectoure_ and _Miranda_ are three Towns in _Guyenna_, a Province -of _France_, the chief City whereof is _Bourdeaux_. The rest is easie. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Du Lac _Leman_ les Sermons fascheront, - Des jours seront reduits par des Sepmaines, - Puis mois, puis an, puis tous defalliront, - Les Magistrats damneront leurs Loix vaines. - - English. - - The Sermons of the _Leman_ Lake shall be troublesome, - Some days shall be reduced into weeks, - Then into months, then into year, then they shall fail, - The Magistrates shall condemn their vain Laws. - -ANNOT. - -The _Leman Lake_, in Latin _Lacus Lemanus_, is the Lake of _Geneva_, -therefore it is palpable, that by this Prophecy, the Author aimeth at -_Calvin_, and his Successors, who began the Reformation in that Town. I -leave the rest to the Readers Judgement, it is enough I have opened the -door. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Vingt ans du Regne de la Lune passez, - Sept mil ans autre tiendra sa Monarchie, - Quand le Soleil prendra ses jours laissez, - Lors accomplit & fine ma Prophecie. - - English. - - Twenty years of the Reign of the Moon being past, - Seven thousands years another shall hold his Monarchy, - When the Sun shall reassume his days past, - Then is fulfilled, and endeth my Prophecy. - -ANNOT. - -All this signifieth no more, but that the Authors Prophecies extend to -the end of the world. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Beaucoup, beaucoup avant relics menées, - Ceux d’Orient par la vertu Lunaire, - L’An mil sept cens feront grands emmenées, - Subjugant presque le coin Aquilonaire. - - English. - - A great while before these doings, - Those of the East by the virtue of the Moon, - In the year _1700._ shall carry away great droves, - And shall subdue almost the whole Northern corner. - -ANNOT. - -I desire Posterity to take special notice of this _Stanza_, that in case -it should come to pass, our Author may be admired for the specification -of the time, which is so punctually set down, here that it admitteth no -ambiguity. The plain meaning is, that the _Turks_, which he calleth those -of the East. By the virtue of the Moon, which is their Ensign and Badge, -shall in the year 1700. carry away abundance of people, and shall subdue -almost the whole Northern Countrey, which to them is _Russia_, _Poland_, -_Hungary_, _Sweden_, _Denemark_, &c. - - -L. - - French. - - De l’Aquatique triplicity naistra, - Un qui fera le _Jeudy_ pour sa feste, - Son Bruit, Loz, Regne & puissance croistra, - Par Terre & Mer, aux Orients tempeste. - - English. - - From the Aquatick triplicity shall be born, - One that shall make _Thursday_ his Holiday, - His Fame, Praise, Reign, and Power shall grow, - By Land and Sea, and a Tempest to the East. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that at that time, as such conjunction of Planets shall -be, which he calleth here _Aquatick triplicity_, there shall be born upon -a _Thursday_ a famous man, such as he describeth here, who shall be a foe -and a terrour to the _Turks_, signified here by the _Orients_. - - -LI. - - French. - - Chef d’_Aries_, _Jupiter_ & _Saturne_, - Dieu Eternel quelles mutations! - Puis apres long siecle son malin temps retourne, - _Gaule_ & _Italy_ quelles emotions? - - English. - - Heads of _Aries_, _Jupiter_ and _Saturn_, - O Eternal God, what changes shall there be! - After a long age his wicked time cometh again, - _France_ and _Italy_, what commotions? - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth, that when _Jupiter_ and _Saturn_ shall be in conjunction -in the head of _Aries_, that then shall be great commotions in _France_ -and _Italy_. - - -LII. - - French. - - Le deux malins de _Scorpion_ conjoint, - Le grand Seigneur meurtry dedans sa salle, - Peste a l’Eglise par le nouveau Roy joint, - L’_Europe_ basse, & Septentrionale. - - English. - - The two malignants of _Scorpion_ being joyned, - The grand Seignor murdered in his Hall, - Plague to the Church by a King newly joyned to it, - _Europe_ low, and Septentrional. - -ANNOT. - -This third position of the Celestial bodies foretelleth the death of the -great _Turk_, who should be murdered in his own Chamber, as happened -to Sultan _Osman_, who was strangled in his Chamber, by the command of -_Daout Bassa_ great Vizeir, about the year 1622. _vide_ the Turkish -History. - -The rest of the Prophecy is concerning a King, who being newly joyned to -the Church, (I suppose of _Rome_) shall bring much mischief to it, and in -his time _Europe_ shall be brought very low, and in a manner confined to -a corner of the North, which hath relation to the foregoing 49. Stanza, -which see in its place. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Las, qu’on verra grand peuple tourmenté, - Et la Loy Sainte en totale ruine, - Par autres Loix toute la Chrestienté, - Quand d’Or, d’Argent trouve nouvelle Mine. - - English. - - Alas, how a great people shall be tormented, - And the Holy Law in an utter ruine; - By other Laws, all Christendom troubled, - When new Mines of Gold and Silver shall be found. - -ANNOT. - -This is a true Prophecy of the mischiefs that have happened in the -World by the finding of the Mines in _America_; first to the _Indians_ -themselves, called here a great People, by the cruelty of the -_Spaniards_, and then to all Christendom besides, by the evils that this -Idol _Mammon_ hath brought into it. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Deux revolts faits du malin facigere, - De Regne & Siecles fait permutation, - Le mobil signe a son endroit s’Ingere, - Aux deux egaux & d’Inclination. - - English. - - Two revolts shall be made by the wicked Link-carrier, - Which shall make a change of the Reign and the Age, - The moveable Sign doth offer it self for it, - To the two equals in inclination. - -ANNOT. - -This obscure Stanza must be interpreted thus. - -_Two revolts shall be made by the wicked Link-carrier_; that is, _Paris_ -which is the _Link-carrier_ of _France_, and whose example the rest -of the Towns follow, shall revolt twice, the first revolt was against -_Henry_ III. in the time of the _Barricadoes_, the second against _Henry_ -IV. his successor. - -_Which shall make a change of the Reign and the Age_: This happened when -the house of _Valois_ was extinguished, and the house of _Bourbon_ came -in, and that is _the change of the Reign_. _The change of the Age_, was, -because this did happen about the end of the year 1599. and the beginning -1600. which was a _change of Age_. - -_The moveable sign offers it self for it_: That is, the position of the -Heavens was such as to forward these accidents. - -_To the two equals in ambition_: That is, to _Henry_ III. and _Henry_ IV. -who both intended, and went about to reduce _Paris_ to obedience. - - -LV. - - French. - - Soubs lopposite climat _Babilonique_, - Grande sera de sang effusion, - Que Terre, & Mer, Air, Ciel sera inique, - Sectes, Faim, Regnes, Pestes, Confusion. - - English. - - In the Climat opposite to the _Babylonian_, - There shall be a great effusion of Blood. - Insomuch that the Land, and Sea, Air and Heaven shall seem unjust - Sects, Famine, Reigns, Plague, Confusion. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult here, but what _Climat_ is that is _opposite -to the Babylonian_, of which every body may satisfie himself by perusing -the Globe. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Vous verrez tost on tard faire grand change, - Horreurs extremes & vindications, - Que si la Lune conduite par son Ange, - Le Ciel sapproche des inclinations. - - English. - - You shall see soon or late great alterations - Extreme horrours and revenges, - The Moon leaden by her Angel, - The Heaven draweth near its inclinations. - -ANNOT. - -I conceive there is some things omitted, and corrupted by the Press in -this Stanza, which rendreth it so difficult, therefore I had rather leave -it to the decision of the impartial Reader, than venture my opinion upon -it. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Par grand discord la trombe tremblera, - Accord rompu, dressant la teste au Ciel, - Bouche sanglante dans le sang nagera, - Au Sol la face ointe le loit & Miel. - - English. - - By great discord, the Trumpet shall sound, - Agreement broken, lifting the head to Heaven, - A bloody mouth shall swim in blood, - The face turned to the Sun anointed with Milk and Honey. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sence are plain, and I cannot believe that there is any -great mystery hidden under these words. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Trenché le ventre, naistra avec deux testes, - & quattre bras, quel qu’ans entiers vivra, - Jour qu’Aquilare celebrera ses festes, - _Fossan_, _Thurin_, chef _Ferrare_ fuiera. - - English. - - Slit in the belly, shall be born with two heads, - And four Arms, it shall live some years, - The day that _Aquilare_ shall celebrate his Festivals, - _Fossan_, _Thurin_, chief _Ferrare_ shall run away. - -ANNOT. - -In the first Verse the Author speaketh of a Monster that had two heads, -and four Arms, and the Belly slit, that is to say, it was a female. - -His Son _Cæsar_ in his History of _Provence_, saith, that in the Town of -_Senan_ in _Provence_, a Child was born with two heads, and that it was -foretold by some that were skilful in Astronomy, by which words I guess -he spake of his Father, sith the Astrologers cannot foretel the birth of -a particular Monster, and therefore _Nostradamus_ only was able to do it -in those days. - -He saith in the same place, that it was born in _February_ 1554. and was -brought to _Salon_ to be shewed to his Father, and thence was carried to -_Claudius_ Earl of _Savoy_ Governour of _Provence_, who commonly had his -residence at _Salon_. - -He maketh no mention if he had four Arms, nor what Sex it was of, it may -be that being in swadling cloths, nobody took notice of the Arms or Sex. - -The Author Prophecieth that it should live some years, it may be two or -three, and that is was preserved to see, whether in time it should have -the use of its Senses, of the Tongue, and understanding of its two Heads, -to see whether there were two Souls, or onely one, and to say the Truth. -I think that in such an accident both Heads ought to be Baptized, that -in case there should be two Souls, both should partake of the blood of -Christ, for their Eternal Salvation. - -I do not find in the same History how long it lived, it being a thing not -much material to History. In the third Verse he marketh, _The day that -_Aquilare_ shall celebrate his Festivals_; and in the fourth he saith -that _Fossan, Thurin, chief Ferrare shall run away_. - -To understand this, one must suppose here that the Town of _Cazal_ is -called here the chief of _Ferrare_; because it is the chief City of -_Montserrat_, and as _Paradin_ saith, is called _Cazal_ St. _Bas_, a -handsom and strong place, honoured with many Nobles and antient Families, -as of the Earls of St. _George_ and of _Biandratte_. - -Secondly, We must suppose that in the year 1554. the Lord _Figuerol_, -Lieutenant to the Governour of _Milan_ did command in that place. Of -this _Figuerol_ I find in the Author of the four Volumes of the States -and Empires, (when he speaketh of _Spain_) that the House of _Figueroas_ -was the root of that of _Aquilar_, which hath several branches, out of -which came the Duke of _Feria_, and the Marquess of _Pliego_, so that -_Figuerol_ and _Aquilar_ is the same thing. - -If it be objected that _Figueroas_ and _Figuerol_ are not the same, -_Paradin_ teacheth us, that this _Figuerol_ was bred up amongst the -_Genoeses_, and the corrupted _Italian_ of _Genoa_ may have named the -Captain _Figuerol_ in stead of _Figueroas_. - -Thirdly, We must suppose here that _Cazal_ was taken in the night -that is between _Shrove-Tuesday_ and _Ash-Wednesday_, and that from -_Shrove-Sunday_ to that day there were great rejoycings, because of a -famous Marriage that was made between two persons of quality, where the -Lord _Figuerol_ was one of the chief persons invited. - -Fourthly, That these rejoycings were the occasion of the taking of -_Cazal_; because the Lord _Salvaison_ Governour of _Verrüe_ hearing of -this Feast, resolved to be among them, though with a different intention. -He had before hand made himself sure of one _Fontarole_, who under -pretence to sell fruit, went up and down the Town to spie what was a -doing. - -Fifthly, The resolution of surprizing _Cazal_ was agreed upon, and -the time appointed to be the night between _Shrove-Tuesday_ and -_Ash-Wednesday_, when the Governour, Inhabitants and Souldiers should be -buried in sleep, weary of debaucheries committed the day before. - -Sixthly, This resolution was so happily put into execution, that -_Figuerol_ hearing the noise of the _French_ being in Town, came out -of his house, having only his night Gown upon him, and a Halbert in his -hand, to quiet those whom he only thought to be some drunken persons; -but hearing the cry of _France, France_, he presently retired into the -Castle, with all those that were come to the Nuptials. - -Seventhly, The Marshal of _Brissac_ coming about seven of the Clock in -the Morning, caused the Tower of _Cazal_ to be assaulted, which was taken -with a considerable loss of the _French_, and after that the Castle which -held out 12 days. - -All this being supposed, mark what the Author saith in the third Verse. - -The day that _Aquilare_ shall celebrate his Festivals, that is, the day -that _Figuerol of the house of Aquilare shall celebrate his Festivals_, -not only one Festival, but his Festivals, that is of three days. - -_Fossen_, _Thurin_, saith the fourth Verse, _Chief Ferrare shall run -away_. - -_Fossen_, _Thurin_, doth not signifie two Towns, but one onely; for -although _Fossen_ and _Thurin_ be two Towns, of which _Fossen_ in the -time of the Wars in _Italy_ under _Henry_ II. belonged to the _Spaniard_, -and _Thurin_ to the _French_. These two Towns signifie but one, which is -that of _Fossen_, to which to distinguish it from _Marseilles_, he giveth -the Epithete of _Thurin_, so much as to say, that he speaketh of _Fossen_ -a Town of _Piemont_, the chief Town of which is _Thurin_, and not of -_Fossen_, which the Author taketh often for _Marseilles_. - -Which the Author maketh plain, when he saith in the singular number, that -_Fossen, Thurin, chief Ferrare shall run away_, to shew that it is onely -one Town of which he speaketh, otherwise if he had intended to speake of -two, he would have put it in the plural number, which is more manifest by -the History, wherein we learn that _Fossen_ belonged to the _Spaniards_, -and _Thurin_ to the _French_, and consequently, being of contrary -parties, they could neither follow, nor fly from a Town which belonged to -one of them. - -If any one should object, that the sense of the fourth Verse is, that the -_Chief Ferrare_ shall fly or follow these two Towns, the preceding reason -is repugnant to that sense; because a Town that is of one party, cannot -be friend to two Towns, one of which is of its party, and the other of -the contrary. - -The reading of this work shall convince every body, that the Author -setteth down sometimes two Towns for one, to distinguish them from -others, as he nameth _Paul Mansol_, to distinguish that Town of St. -_Paul_, which is three Leagues from the _Rhosne_, over against _Pont_ St. -_Esprit_, from that St. _Paul_ which is in _Provence_. - -Now that _Fossen_ in _Piemont_ shall run from _Cazal_ the chief City of -_Montserrat_, because that being taken by the _French_, _Fossen_ could -not expect but perpetual damages from it. - -But why? will you say, doth the Author speak rather of _Fossen_, than of -other places that held for the _Spaniards_? I answer, because _Fossen_ -was the strongest place that the _Spaniards_ had in _Piemont_ and which -could not be taken by the _French_, though her neighbour _Saviliane_ was, -as we shall shew hereafter. - -In the Vulgar impression of this Stanza, there is two faults, one is, -that in the first Verse it puts _Aquileya_, which is a Town that is not -in _Italy_, truth it is, that there is _Aquilee_ a little above _Venice_, -but this hath no correspondency with _Fossen_, _Thurin_, nor the _Chief -of Ferrara_. - -In the fourth Verse the impression setteth down _shall follow_, which -maketh nonsense, and therefore I put _shall run away_, which is a word in -_French_ near the other, and maketh a compleat sense, to which agreeth -the birth of that Monster in _February_, and the taking of _Cazal_ in the -Month of _March_. In that year, _John Statius_ setteth _Shrove-Tuesday_ -upon the 16 of _February_, and consequently we must say, that the Town -was not taken that year 1554. for the Citadel was taken 12 days after, -which should have been the 19 of _February_, and notwithstanding the -History marks that it was taken upon the 14 of _March_. - -Therefore we must conclude, that it was taken the year following 1555. -and to say truth, in that year _Ash-wednesday_ was the 27. of _February_; -in that day the Town was taken, and two days after the Tower of _Cazal_; -after which the Citadel was besieged the second of _March_, and the first -_Saturday_ of Lent, and was taken twelve days after, which was the 14. -of _March_, which convinceth me that _Cazal_ was taken in the year 1555. -upon the 27. of _February_, and therefore that this Stanza is wholly -Prophetical. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Les exilez deportez dans les Isles, - Au changement d’un plus cruel Monarque, - Seront meurtris & mis dans les Scintilles, - Qui de parler ne seront este parques. - - English. - - They banished that were carried into the Islands, - At the change of a more cruel Monarque, - Shall be murdered, and put in the sparks of fire, - Because they had not been sparing of their tongues. - -ANNOT. - -This is very plain, and signifieth no more, but that some persons that -were banished into Islands, and could not hold their tongues; upon the -coming of a Monarque, more cruel than his Predecessor, shall be murdered, -and burnt. - - -LX. - - French. - - Un Empereur naistra pres d’_Italie_, - Qui a l’Empire sera vendu bien cher, - Diront avec quels gens il se ralie, - Qu’on trouvera moins Prince que Boucher. - - English. - - An Emperour shall be born near _Italy_, - Who shall cost dear to the Empire, - They shall say, what people he keepeth company! - He shall be found less a Prince, than a Butcher. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is for the future; for since _Nostradamus_’s time till now, -such an Emperour was not heard of, that was born near _Italy_, that cost -the Empire so dear, and proved more a Butcher, than a Prince. - - -LXI. - - French. - - La Republique miserable infelice, - Sera vastée du nouveau Magistrat, - Leur grand amas de l’exil malefice, - Fera _Suede_ ravir leur grand contract. - - English. - - The miserable and unhappy Common-wealth, - Shall be wafted by the new Magistrate; - Their great gathering from exiled persons, - Shall cause _Swedeland_ to break her Contract. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses foretell what hath happened to _England_ under the -Government of a Common-wealth, and how their new Magistrate _Cromwel_ -made a havock of them. The third and fourth Verses, mention what great -sums they exacted from those of the Kings party, and how for that cause -_Swedeland_ foresook their friendship. - - -LXII. - - French. - - La grande perte las que feront les Lettres, - Avant le Circle de Latona parfait, - Feu, grand Deluge, plus par ignares Sceptres, - Que de long siecle ne se verra refait. - - English. - - Alas what a great loss shall learning suffer, - Before the Circle of the Moon be accomplished, - Fire, great flood, and more by ignorant Scepters, - Then can be made good again in a long age. - -ANNOT. - -Here the Author bemoaneth the loss of one eminent person in Learning, -be like of _Julius Scaliger_, who lived in his time, and was once his -intimate friend, the two last Verses that great miseries, as Fire and -Flood shall happen by the ignorance of Princes. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - Les Fleaux passez, diminué le Monde, - Long temps la Paix, Terres inhabitées, - Seur marchera par le Ciel, Terre, Mer & Onde, - Puis de nouveau les Guerres suscitées. - - English. - - The Scourges being past, the World shall be diminished, - Peace for a great while, Lands inhabited, - Every one safe shall go by Heaven, Land and Sea, - And then the Wars shall begin a fresh. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth a great tranquillity every where, and after that, Wars -again: - - -LXIV. - - French. - - De nuit Soleil penseront avoir veu, - Quand le Pourceau demy homme on verra, - Bruit, Chant, Bataille au Ciel battre apperceu, - Et bestes brutes a parler on orra. - - English. - - They shall think to have seen the Sun in the night, - When the Hog half a man shall be seen, - Noise, Singing, Battles in Heaven shall be seen to fight, - And brute beasts shall be heard to speak. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is full of prodigies that are to happen, and for that in the -last Verse, it is no great wonder, for many brute beasts have spoken, -speak now a days, and shall speak hereafter. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Enfant sans mains, jamais veu si grand Foudre, - L’Enfant Royal au jeu d’esteuf blessé, - Au puy brisez, fulgures allant moudre, - Trois sur les champs par le milieu troussez. - - English. - - A child without hands, so great Lightning never seen, - The Royal Child wounded at Tennis, - Bruised at the Well, Lightnings, going to grind, - Three shall be strucken by the middle. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of all this is, that when a child shall be born without -hands, there shall be fearful Lightning; a Royal child shall be hurt at -_Tennes_, and by that Lightning some shall be bruised by a Well, and in a -Mill, and three in the Field shall be killed. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Celuy qui lors portera les nouvelles, - Apres un peu il viendra respirer, - _Viviers_, _Tournon_, _Montferrand_ & _Pradelles_, - Gresle & tempeste les fera souspirer. - - English. - - He that then shall carry the news, - A little while after shall draw his breath, - _Viviers_, _Tournon_, _Montferrant_, and _Pradelles_, - Hail and storm shall make them sigh. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza hath a connexion with the foregoing, for the two first Verses -signifie, that he who shall carry the news of that fearful Lightning, and -of the mischief done by it, shall have much ado to recover his breath. - -In the last two Verses, the Towns are named which shall suffer most by -that storm, and chiefly by the Hail and the Wind. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - La grand famine que je vois approcher, - Souvent tourner puis estre universelle, - Si grande & longue qu’on viendra arracher, - Du Bois racine, & l’Enfant de mamelle. - - English. - - What a great famine do I see drawing near, - To turn one way, then another, and then become universal, - So great and long, that they shall come to pluck - The root from the Wood, and the child from the breast. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense of this are plain, and foretell a great famine, which -being first in one Countrey and then in another, shall at last become -general, and last so long, that people shall pluck the Roots from the -Trees, and the children from the breast to feed upon. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - O quel horrible & malheureux tourment, - Trois innocens qu’on viendra a livrer, - Poison suspect, mal garde tradiment. - Mis en horreur par Bourreaux enyvrez. - - English. - - O to what a horrid and unhappy torment - Shall be put three Innocents! - Poison shall be suspected, evil Keepers shall betray them, - They shall be put to horrour by drunken Executioners. - -ANNOT. - -This is very plain concerning three innocent persons, who shall be -delivered up by their unfaithful keepers, and shall be put to great -torments by drunken Executioners, which torments shall be suspected to -come by poison. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - La grand Montagne ronde de sept Stades, - Apres Paix, Guerre, Faim, Inondation, - Roulera loing, abisuant grand contrades, - Mesmes antiques, & grand Fondation. - - English. - - The great Mount in compass seven Stades, - After Peace, War, Famine, and Innundation, - Shall tumble a great way, sinking great Countries, - Yea ancient Buildings, and great Foundation. - -ANNOT. - -A Stade cometh from the Greek word σταδιον, ἀπὸ τῆς στασεος, because -_Hercules_ did overrun so much ground at one breath; but what space of -ground the Author meaneth by seven Stades, is unknown to me. The rest of -the Prophecy may very well be appropriated to the last fearful eruption -of Mount _Ætna_, which sunk so many Towns and Buildings, and the relation -of which is so handsomly and truly made by the most honourable the Earl -of _Winchelsey_, who was an eye witness to it, in his return from his -Embassy at _Constantinople_. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Pluye, Faim, Guerre en _Perse_ non cessée, - La foy trop grande trahira le Monarque; - Par la finie en _Gaule_ commencée, - Secret augure pour a un estre parque. - - English. - - The Rain, Famine, War, in _Persia_ being not ceased, - Too great credulity shall betray the Monarque; - Being ended there it shall begin in _France_, - A secret Omen to one that he shall die. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of the two first Verses, is, that while the Rain, Famine, and -War shall be in _Persia_, a Monarque shall be betrayed by his credulity. -The third Verse signifieth that this Rain, Famine and War being ended in -_Persia_, it shall begin in _France_. And the fourth Verse, that this -shall be an Omen to a great Person of his approaching death. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - La Tour Marine troisfois prise & reprise, - Par _Espagnols_, _Barbares_, _Ligurins_, - _Marseille_ & _Aix_, _Arles_ par ceux de _Pise_, - Vast, feu, fer, pille, _Avignon_ des _Thurins_. - - English. - - The Sea-tower three times taken and retaken, - By _Spaniards_, _Barbarians_, and _Ligurians_, - _Marseilles_ and _Aix_, _Arles_ by those of _Pisa_, - Wast, fire, Iron, plunder, _Avignon_ of _Thurins_. - -ANNOT. - -It is hard to guess what this Sea Tower is, which was taken and retaken -three times; first by the _Spaniards_, next by the _Barbarians_, and -then by the _Ligurians_, that is, either the _Genoeses_, or those of -_Ligorne_, unless he meaneth the _Pignon de Velez_ in _Africa_, first -taken by _Charles_ the V. upon the _Barbarians_, then retaken again by -them, taken again by the _Spaniards_, by the help of the _Genoeses_. In -the third Verse _Marseille_, _Aix_, and _Arles_, are threatned by those -of _Pisa_, that is the _Florentines_, of being ruinated by Fire and -Sword, and to be plundered, as also _Avignon_ by those of _Piemont_. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Du tout _Marseille_ des habitans changee, - Course & poursuite jusques pres de _Lion_, - _Narbon_, _Tholoze_ par _Bourdeaux_ outragée, - Tuez, Captifs presque d’un Milion. - - English. - - _Marseille_ shall wholly change her Inhabitants - These shall run and be pursued as far as _Lion_, - _Narbon_, _Tholoze_ shall wrong _Bourdeaux_, - There shall be killed and taken prisoner almost a Milion. - -ANNOT. - -_Marseilles_ is a Sea-Town in _Provence_, _Narbon_, and _Tholoze_ are -Cities of _Languedoc_, and _Bourdeaux_ is the chief Town in _Gascony_, -the rest is easie to be understood. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - _France_ a cinq parts par neglect assaillie, - _Tunis_, _Argier_, esmeus par _Persiens_, - _Leon_, _Seville_, _Barcelonne_ faillie, - N’aura la chasse par les _Venetiens_. - - English. - - _France_ by a neglect shall be assaulted on five sides, - _Tunis_, _Argier_ shall be moved by the _Persians_, - _Leon_, _Sevil_, _Barcelone_ shall be missed, - And not be pursued by the _Venetians_. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is concerning as many Countreys, as there are Verses: -the first is _France_, which by neglect and carelesness of her in -Inhabitants, _shall be assaulted on five several sides_. The second is -concerning _Tunis_ and _Argier_, Cities of _Barbary_, _which shall be -stirred and moved_ (I suppose) to rebel. The third regardeth _Leon_, -_Sevil_, _Barselona_, Cities in _Spain_, and the fourth the _Venetians_. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - Apres sejourné vogueront en Empire, - Le grand secours viendra vers _Antioche_, - Le noir poil crespe tendra fort a l’Empire, - Barbe d’Airain se rostira en broche. - - English. - - After a stay, they shall Sail towards an Empire, - The great succours shall come towards _Antioch_, - The Black Hair Curled, shall aim much to the Empire, - The Brazen Beard shall be roasted on a Spit. - -ANNOT. - -There is no difficulty in this, but in the last Verse, which I had rather -leave to the judgment of the judicious Reader, than to offer any thing -that might make me ridiculous. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Le Tyran _Sienne_ occupera _Savone_, - Le fort gaigné tiendra classe Marine, - Les deux Armées par la marque d’_Ancone_, - Par effrayeur le chef sen examine. - - English. - - The Tyrant _Sienna_ shall occupy _Savona_; - The Fort being won, shall hold a Fleet, - The two Armies shall go in the mark of _Ancona_, - By fear the chief shall be examined. - -ANNOT. - -For the explication of this Stanza, you must understand that _Sienna_ is -a City in _Italy_, now under the Dominion of the Duke of _Tuscany_, who -shall occupy _Savona_, a City now under the Dominion of the Common-wealth -of _Genoa_; the rest is plain enough. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - D’un nom farouche tel proferé sera. - Que les trois Sœurs auront _Fato_ le nom, - Puis grand peuple par langue & fait dira, - Plus que nul autre aura bruit & renom. - - English. - - By a wild name one shall be called - So that the three Sisters shall have the name of _Fato_, - Afterwards a great people by Tongue and Deeds, shall say, - He shall have fame and renown more than any other. - -ANNOT. - -By the three Sisters, he meaneth the three Destinies, _viz._ _Clotho_, -_Lachesis_ and _Atropos_, which the Poets have fained to Spin every mans -destiny, which he calleth here _Fato_, from the Latin word _Fatum_. The -rest may be interpreted as well by the Reader, as by my self. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Entre deux Mers dressera promontoire, - Qui puis mourra par le mors du Cheval, - Le fier _Neptune_ pliera Voile noire, - Par _Calpre_, & Classe aupres de _Rocheval_. - - English. - - Between two Seas shall a Promontory be raised, - By him, who shall die by the biting of a Horse, - The proud _Neptune_ shall fold the black Sail. - Through _Calpre_, and a fleet shall be near _Rocheval_. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find what he meaneth by _Calpre_, nor by _Rocheval_, which -I suppose to be the proper names of places, when he saith, that proud -_Neptune_ shall fold the black Sail; he maketh an allusion to the History -of _Theseus_, Son of _Ægeus_ King of _Athens_, who being sent with other -Children into _Candia_, to become a prey to the _Minotaure_, his Father -sent the Ship with black _Sails_, as in a case of Mourning, charging -_Theseus_, that if he came back again safe he should put on white Sails, -but coming in sight of _Athens_, _Theseus_ for joy forgot to put on the -white Sails, so that his Father _Ægeus_ thinking he had miscarried, cast -himself from a Rock into the Sea, so that he saying that _Neptune_ shall -fold the black Sail, he meaneth, that there shall be joyful news. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - D’un chef vieillard naistre sens habeté, - Degenerant par scavoir & par Armes, - Le chef de _France_ par sa Sœur redouté, - Champs divisez concedez aux Gensdarmes. - - English. - - An old head shall beget an Idiot, - Who shall degenerate in Learning and in Arms, - The head of _France_ shall be feared by his sister, - The fields shall be divided and granted to the Troopers. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is so plain, that any body may make his interpretation -of it. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - _Bazas_, L’_Estoure_, _Condom_, _Auch_, _Agine_, - Esmeus par Loix, querelle & Monopole, - Car _Bourd_, _Tholose_, _Bay_, mettra en ruine, - Renouveler voulant leur _Tauropole_. - - English. - - _Bazas_, L’_Estoure_, _Condom_, _Auch_, _Agen_, - Being moved by Laws, quarrels and Monopoly, - For they shall put to ruine _Bordeaux_, _Tholose_, _Bayonne_, - Going about to renew their _Tauropole_. - -ANNOT. - -This Key of the sense of this Stanza lieth in the last word _Tauropole_, -which is compounded of the Latin word _Taurus_ a Bull, and of the Greek -word πολέω, that is, to sell; so that the meaning of it is, that those -Cities mentioned shall rise in Rebellion against the _Monopolites_, and -those that shall lay a Tax upon Cattle. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - De la sixiesme claire splendeur Celeste, - Viendra Tonnerre si fort en la _Bourgongne_, - Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste, - _Mars_, _Avril_, _May_, _Juin_, grand charpin & rogne. - - English. - - From the sixth bright Cœlestial splendour, - Shall come very great Lightning in _Burgundy_, - After that shall be born a Monster of a most hideous beast, - In _March_, _April_, _May_, _June_ shall be great quarelling and - muttering. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse is of a most dark and abstruse sense, in which I confess -my ignorance, unless he meant from the sixth of the seven Planets, the -rest is plain enough. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - D’humain troupeau neuf seront mis a part, - De Jugement & Conseil separez, - Leur sort sera divisé en depart, - _Kappa_, _Theta_, _Lambda_, mors, bannis egarez. - - English. - - Nine shall be set aside from the human flock, - Being divided in Judgement and Counsel - Their fortune shall be to be divided, - _Kappa_, _Theta_, _Lambda_, dead, banished, scattered. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by _Kappa_, _Theta_, -_Lambda_, which are three Letters of the Greek _Alphabet_. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Quand les Colomnes de Bois grande tremblée, - D’_Auster_ conduite, couverte de rubriche, - Tant videra dehors grande assemblée, - Tremble _Vienne_, & le Païs d’_Austriche_. - - English. - - When the wooden Columns shall be much shaken, - By _Auster_, and covered with rubbish, - Then shall go out a great assembly, - And _Vienne_, and the Land of _Austria_ shall tremble. - -ANNOT. - -_Auster_, in Latin is the Southwind. _Vienna_ is the chief City of -_Austria_, belonging to the Emperour of _Germany_. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - L’Agent estrange divisera butins, - _Saturne_ & _Mars_ son regard furieux, - Horrible, estrange, aux _Thoscans_ & _Latins_, - _Grees_ qui seront a frapper curiux. - - English. - - The stranger Agent shall divide booties, - _Saturn_ in _Mars_ shall have his aspect furious, - Horrid, and strange to the _Tuscans_ and _Latines_, - The _Grecians_ shall be curious to strike. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Tuscans_ are meant the people under the Dominion of the Duke of -_Florence_; and by the _Latines_, those under the _Pope_. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Lune obscurie aux profondes tenebres, - Son frere passe de couleur ferrugine, - Le grand caché long temps soubs les tenebres, - Tiedera Fer dans la Pluie sanguine. - - English. - - The Moon shall be darkned in the deepest darkness, - Her brother shall pass being of a ferrugineous colour, - The great one long hidden under darkness, - Shall make his Iron lukewarm in the bloody Rain. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth, that when the Moon shall be totally Eclipsed in the -night, and that all the next day her Brother the Sun shall be seen of a -ferrugineous, (that is an Iron like colour) then shall a great one that -was hidden arise, and do great feats of Arms with the death of many men. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Par la responce de Dame Roy troublé, - Ambassadeurs mespriseront leur vie, - Le grand ses Freres contrefera doublé, - Par deux mourront, hain, ire, & envie. - - English. - - A King shall be troubled by the answer of a Lady, - Embassadors shall despise their lives, - The great one being double in mind shall counterfeit his Brothers, - They shall die by two, anger, hatred, and envy. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult here, but the last Verse, which yet will be -plain enough, if you make these three words anger, hatred, and envy not -co-herent with the foremost, but subsisting by themselves; as if one -should say, there shall be anger, hatred, and envy. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - La grande Roine quand se verra vaincue, - Fera exces de Masculin courage, - Sur le Cheval, Fleuve passera nue, - Suite par Fer, a Foy fera outrage. - - English. - - When the great Queen shall see her self vanquished, - She shall do a deed of a Masculine courage, - Upon a Horse, she shall pass over the River naked, - Followed by Iron, she shall do wrong to her Faith. - -ANNOT. - -It is some great Queen, who seeing her self vanquished, shall swim naked -on Horseback over a River, being followed by those that would have either -killed or taken her, and after that shall forfeit her faith, but whether -it be to her Husband, Friends, or Relations, is not expressed. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - _Ennosigee_ feu du Centre de Terre - Fera trembler autour de Cité Neuve, - Deux grands Rochers long temps feront la guerre, - Puis _Arethuse_ rougira nouveau fleuve. - - English. - - _Ennosigee_, fire of the Center of the Earth, - Shall make quake about the New City, - Two great Rocks shall a great while War one against the other, - After that, _Arethusa_ shall colour red a new River. - -ANNOT. - -_Ennosigee_ is a Greek word εννοσίγαιος, in Latin _Terræ quassator_, from -ἔνίω _moveo_, and γαῖα _Terra_, and is an Epithete of _Neptune_. The -meaning then of this Stanza is, that the Sea shall make the Earth quake, -and fire come out of the Earth about _Naples_, which in Greek is called -_Neapolis_, that is, a _New City_. - -_Arethusa_ is a Fountain in _Sicily_, which a little way from its Spring, -groweth into a River. The rest is left to the interpretation of the -Reader. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Le Divin mal surprendra un grand Prince, - Un peu devant aura femme espousée, - Son appuy & credit a un coup viendra mince, - Conseil mourra pour la teste rasée. - - English. - - The Divine sickness shall surprise a great Prince, - A little while after he hath married a woman, - His support and credit shall at once become slender, - Council shall die for the shaven head. - -ANNOT. - -By the Divine sickness, he meaneth the _falling sickness_, called by the -Greeks _Epilepsia_, and by the Latines _Morbus Sacer_. By the shaven -head, he meaneth some Ecclesiastical person of the _Romish_ Religion; the -construction of the whole is easie. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Tous ceux d’_Illerde_ seront dans la _Moselle_, - Mettant a mort tous ceux de _Loire_ & _Seine_, - Le course Marin viendra pres d’_Hautevelle_, - Quand _Espagnols_ ouvrira toute veine. - - English. - - All those of _Illerde_ shall be in the _Mosel_, - Putting to death all those of _Loire_ and _Seine_, - The Sea course shall come near _Hautevelle_, - When the _Spaniard_ shall open all veins. - -ANNOT. - -By _Illerde_ he meaneth the City of l’_Isle_ in _Flanders_, the _Mosel_ -is a River that runneth through _Lorrain_, the _Loire_ and _Seine_ are -two other Rivers of _France_, the first of which passeth at _Orleans_, -and the second at _Paris_; the two last Verses are too hard for me to -interpret. - - -XC. - - French. - - _Bourdeaux_, _Poitiers_, au son de la Campane, - A grande classe ira jusqu’a _Langon_, - Contre _Gaulois_ sera leur _Tramontane_, - Quand Monstre hideux naistra pres de _Orgon_. - - English. - - _Bourdeaux_, _Poitiers_, at the sound of the Bell, - With a great Navy shall go as far as _Langon_, - Against the _French_ shall their _Tramontane_ be, - When an hideous Monster shall be born near _Orgon_. - -ANNOT. - -_Tramontana_, in _Italian_, is the North-wind. _Orgon_, is the name of a -Town in _Gascony_, the rest of the construction is not difficult. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Les dieux feront aux humains apparence, - Ce quils seront auteurs de grand conflict, - Avant ciel veu serain, Espée & Lance, - Que vers main gauche sera plus grande affliction. - - English. - - The Gods shall make it appear to Man-kind, - That they are the Authors of a great War; - For the Heaven that was Serene, shall shew Sword and Lance, - Signifying, that on the left hand the affliction shall be greater. - -ANNOT. - -He foretelleth here some Prodigies that shall be in the Air, as _Swords_ -and _Lances_ after fair weather, which shall be forerunners of great -Wars, and chiefly in those Countries that shall be situated on the left -hand of these Prodigies. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Soubs un la paix, par tout sera clemence, - Mais non long temps, pille & rebellion, - Par refus Ville, Terre & Mer entamée, - Morts & Captifs le liers d’un Million. - - English. - - Under one shall be peace, and every where clemency, - But not a long while, then shall be plundering and Rebellion, - By a denyal shall Town, Land and Sea be assaulted, - There shall be Dead and taken Prisoners the third part of a Million. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense are plain. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Terre _Italique_ des Mons tremblera, - _Lion_ & _Coq_ non trop confederez, - en lieu & peur l’un l’autre saidera, - Seul _Catulon_ & _Celtes_ moderez. - - English. - - The _Italian_ Land of the Mountains shall tremble, - The _Lion_ and the _Cock_ shall not agree very well together, - Shall for fear help one another, - The only _Catulon_ and _Celtes_ shall be moderate. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Lion_ he understandeth the _English_, because of their Arms, and -by the _Cock_ the _French_, called in Latin _Gallus_, which signifieth a -Cock; _Catulon_ is the _Spaniards_, as if he should say _Castilian_; the -_Celtes_ are the _Dutch_ of the Low-Countries. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Au _Port Selyn_ le Tyrant mis a Mort, - La liberté non pourtant recouvrée, - Le nouveau _Mars_ par vindict & remort, - Dame par force de frayeur honorée. - - English. - - In the _Port Selyn_ the Tyrant shall be put to death - And yet the liberty shall not be recovered, - The new _Mars_ by vengeance and remorse, - Lady by excess of fear honoured. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Port Selyn_, is meant _Constantinople_, because of several -Emperours of the _Turks_ that have been of that name, therefore the -intention of this Prophecy, is, that one of the Turkish Emperours shall -be put to death at _Constantinople_, which for all that, shall not -recover her liberty. The _new Mars_, be like he is so called, that shall -put him to death _by vengeance without remorse_. _The Lady by excess of -fear honoured_, may be applied to the present great Sultaness, Mother to -this present Emperour of the _Turks_, who hath hitherto made her self -very considerable by a great party, which she hath raised against her -Son, to prevent him from putting his Brothers to death, as is usually -practised in that Court. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Devant Moustier trouvé enfant besson, - D’Heroik sang de Moine & vetustique, - Son bruit per Secte, Langue, & puissance Son, - Qu’on dira fort eslevé le Vopisque. - - English. - - Before the Minster shall one twin be found, - From Heroik blood, of a Monk and Ancient, - His fame by Sect, Tongue, and Power shall be sounded, - So that they shall say the Vopisk is much raised. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of the whole is, that a Twin shall be found before a Church, -begot by a Monk, of Illustrious and Ancient Family, and shall become very -famous, _So that they shall say the Vopisk is much raised_. _Vopiscus_ in -Latin, is, that one of the Twins, which cometh to perfect Birth. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Celuy qu’aura la charge de destruire, - Temples & Sectes changez par fantaisie, - Plus aux Rochers, qu’aux vivans viendra nuire, - Par langue ornée d’oreille rassasie. - - English. - - He that shall have charge to destroy, - Churches and Sects, changed by fancy; - Shall do more harm to the Rocks, than to the living, - By a smooth tongue filling up the Ears. - -ANNOT. - -As the words of this Stanza are plain, so is the sense most obscure, and -so to be left to the Readers private Judgement. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Ce que fer, flamme, na sceu parachever, - La douce langue au conseil viendra faire, - Par respos, songe le Roy fera resuer, - Plus l’Ennemy en feu sang militaire. - - English. - - What neither Iron nor Fire could compass, - Shall be done by a smooth tongue in the Councel, - In sleep a dream shall make the King to think, - The more the Enemy in fire and Military blood. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is plain, though the words be somthing untowardly -expressed. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Le Chef qu’aura conduit peuple infiny, - Loin de son Ciel: de mœurs & langue estrange, - Cinq mille en _Crete_ & _Thessalie_ finy, - Le Chef fuiant sauvé en la Marine Grange. - - English. - - The Captain that shall lead an infinite deal of people - Far from their Countrey, to one of strange manners and Language, - Five thousand in _Candia_ and _Thessalia_ finished, - The Head running away, shall be safe in a Barn by the Sea. - -ANNOT. - -It is some great Commander that shall lead a multitude of people into a -strange Countrey, far from their own; suppose _Candia_ and _Thessalia_, -where the said Commander shall be compelled to run away, and to save -himself in a Barn by the Sea side. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - Le grand Monarque qui fera compagnie, - Avec deux Rois unis par amitié, - O quel souspir fera la grand mesgnie, - Enfans, _Narbonne_ alentour, quel pitié! - - English. - - The great Monarch shall keep company, - With two Kings united in friendship; - O what fights shall be made by their followers! - Children, O what pity shall be about _Narbon_. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza requireth no interpretation more, than what every one will be -pleased to give himself. - - -C. - - French. - - Long temps au Ciel sera veu gris Oiseau, - Aupres de _Dole_ & de _Tuscane_ Terre, - Tenant au Bec un verdoiant rameau, - Mourra tost Grand, & finira la Guerre. - - English. - - A great while shall be seen in the Air a gray Bird, - Near _Dola_ and the _Tuscan_ Land, - Holding in his Bill a green bough; - Then shall a great one die, and the War have and end. - -ANNOT. - -_Dola_ is a Town in _Burgundy_. The _Tuscan_ Land, is that which -belongeth to the Duke of _Florence_. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ II. - - -I. - - French. - - Vers _Aquitaine_ par insults _Britanniques_, - De par eux mesmes grandes incursions, - Pluyes, Gelees, feront terroirs iniques, - _Port Selyn_ fortes fera invasions. - - English. - - Towards _Gascony_ by _English_ assaults, - By the same shall be made great incursions, - Rains, Frosts, shall marre the ground. - _Port Selyn_ shall make strong Invasions. - -ANNOT. - -Three Prophecies are contained in this Stanza, the first that the -_English_ shall make an incursion in _Gascony_; the second, that there -shall be a great dearth by Rains and Frosts; the third, that the _Turks_ -shall make great Incursion. - - -II. - - French. - - La teste glue sera la teste blanche, - Autant de mal que _France_ a fait leur bien, - Mort a l’_Anthene_, grand pendu fus la branche, - Quand prins des siens, le Roy dira combien. - - English. - - The Glue-head shall do the white head - As much harm, as _France_ hath done it good, - Dead at the Sails yard, a great one hang’d on a Tree, - When a King taken by his own, shall say, how much? - -ANNOT. - -I did never find that word of Glue-head before in any Author, and I -believe if _Cotgrave_ were alive again, it would puzzle him to give the -interpretation thereof. - -The third and fourth signifie, that one shall be hanged on the -Sails-yard, and another on a Tree, when a King shall be taken by his own -Men, and shall say how much? that is, how much money shall I give you to -set me free. - - -III. - - French. - - Par la chaleur Solaire sur la Mer, - De _Negrepont_, les Poissons demy cuits, - Les Habitans les viendront entamer, - Quand _Rhode_ & _Genes_ leur faudra le Biscuit. - - English. - - By the heat of the Sun upon the Sea - Of _Negrepont_, the Fishes shall be half broiled, - The Inhabitants shall come to cut them up, - When _Rhodes_ and _Genoa_ shall want Biscake. - -ANNOT. - -_Negrepont_ is an Island of the _Archipelago_ near _Morea_, anciently -called _Eubœa_. _Rhodes_ is another Island, and, _Genoa_ a City in -_Italy_, by the Seaside. The rest is plain. - - -IV. - - French. - - Depuis _Monac_ jusqu’aupres de _Sicile_, - Toute la plage demoura desolée, - Il ny aura Fauxbourgs, Cité, ne Ville, - Que par _Barbares_ pillée soit & volée. - - English. - - From _Monaco_ as far as _Sicily_, - All the Sea coast shall be left desolate, - There shall not be Suburbs, Cities, nor Towns, - Which shall not be pillaged and plundred by _Barbarians_. - -ANNOT. - -_Monaco_ is a Town seated by the Sea-side in _Italy_, between _Provence_ -and _Genoa_. This Prophecy hath been once already fulfilled, when the -famous Pyrate _Barbarossa_, being sent by the grand Seignor, to help the -_French_ King against the Emperour _Charles_ the V. in his return home, -plundered all that Coast, and carried away an innumerable multitude of -people into slavery. - - -V. - - French. - - Quand dans Poisson, Fer & Lettre enfermée, - Hors sortira qui puis fera la Guerre, - Aura par Mer sa classe bien ramée; - Aparoissant pres de _Latine_ Terre. - - English. - - When in a Fish, Iron and a Letter shall be shut up, - He shall go out that afterwards shall make War, - He shall have his Fleet by Sea well provided, - Appearing by the _Roman_ Land. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are plain. - - -VI. - - French. - - Aupres des Portes & dedans deux Citez, - Seront deux Fleaux & onc n’aperceu un tel, - Faim, dedans Peste, de Fer hors gens boutez, - Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel. - - English. - - Near the Gates and within two Cities - Shall be two Scourges, I never saw the like, - Famine, within Plague, people thrust out by the Sword, - Shall cry for help to the great God immortal. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Interpretation. - - -VII. - - French. - - Entre plusieurs aux Isles deportez, - L’un estre nay a deux dens en la gorge, - Mourront de Faim, les Arbres esbroutez, - Pour eux neuf Roy, nouvel Edict leur forge. - - English. - - Among many that shall be transported into the Islands, - One shall be born with two Teeth in his mouth, - They shall die of hunger, the Trees shall be eaten, - They shall have a new King, who shall make new Laws for them. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no explication. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Temples Sacrez, prime facon _Romaine_, - Rejetteront les goffes Fondemens, - Prenant leurs Loix premieres & humaines, - Chassants non tout, de Saints le cultement. - - English. - - Churches Consecrated, and the ancient _Roman_ way, - Shall reject the tottering Foundations, - Sticking to their first humane Laws, - Expelling, but not altogether the worshipping of Saints. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy, is concerning the beginning of the Reformed Religion, when -the _Roman_ Church rejected it, yet nevertheless, for shame they left -off many of their fopperies, for ever since they never appeared so great -Worshippers of Saints as before. - - -IX. - - French. - - Neuf ans le Regne le maigre en paix tiendra, - Puis il cherra en soif si sanguinaire, - Pour luy grand peuple sans Foy & Loy mourra, - Tué par un beaucoup plus debonaire. - - English. - - Nine years shall the lean one keep the Kingdom in Peace, - Then he will fall into such a bloody thirst, - That a great people shall die without Faith or Law, - He shall be killed by one milder than himself. - -ANNOT. - -It is a lean man that shall keep in Peace the Kingdom, for the space of -nine years, and then shall become cruel; so that he shall put to death -many people without Law, or regard of his promise. - - -X. - - French. - - Avant long temps le tout sera rangé, - Nous esperons un siecle bien senestre, - L’Estat des masques & des seuls bien changé, - Peu trouveront qui a son rang vueille estre. - - English. - - Before it be long, all shall be set in order, - We look for a sinister Age, - The state of the Visards and of _the alone_ shall be changed, - They shall find few that will keep their ranks. - -ANNOT. - -All the difficulty of this consisteth in what he meaneth by the _Visard_ -and _alone_, for my part, I believe he aimeth at the _Popish_ Clergy and -Monks; the first by reason of their Hypocrisy, the other by reason of -their solitariness. The rest is plain. - - -XI. - - French. - - Le prochain, fils de l’_Aisnier_ parviendra, - Tant eslevé jusqu’au au Regne des fors, - Son aspre gloire un chascun la craindra, - Mais les enfans du Regne jettez hors. - - English. - - The eldest Son of l’_Aisnier_ shall prosper, - Being raised to the degree of the great ones, - Every one shall fear his high glory, - But his children shall be cast out. - -ANNOT. - -This is an Horoscope, for the Interpretation of which we are beholding -to, Mr. _Mannessier_ of _Amiens_, who saith that the Father of the Lords -l’_Aisniers_ writ to _Nostradamus_ his friend, to know his childrens -fortune, who sent him those four Verses for an answer, by which it is -evident that the eldest should be an eminent Man, as it fell out, being -one of the chiefest men in the Province of _Anjou_, and one of the -chiefest instruments to make Peace between _Louis_ the XIII. and his -Mother _Mary_ of _Medicis_, after the Battle of _Pont de Cé_. - -The fourth Verse saith, that some of his other Children should be -expelled the Kingdom, as it happened by reason of a false report raised -against one of them, which compelled him to retire into _Portugal_ till -the truth was known, as it was afterwards to his great repute and honour. - - -XII. - - French. - - Yeux clos ouverts d’antique fantaisie, - L’habit des seuls sera mis a neant, - Le grand Monarque chastiera leur frenesie, - Ravir des Temples le Thresor par devant. - - English. - - Eyes shut, shall be open by an antick fancy, - The cloths of the alone shall be brought to nothing. - The great Monarck shall punish their frenzy, - For having ravished the Treasure of the Temple before. - -ANNOT. - -I can fasten this upon no body, but upon some Monks, which are called -here _The alone_, because of their solitary life, who shall be punished -by a King, for having robbed the Church. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Le corps sans ame plus n’estre en sacrifice, - Jour de la mort mis en Nativité. - L’Esprit Divin sera l’ame fœlice, - Voiant le Verbe en son Eternité. - - English. - - The body without the soul shall be no more admitted in Sacrifice, - The day of the death shall be put for the Birth-day, - The Divine Spirit shall make the Soul happy, - By seeing the Word in its Eternity. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse seemed to Prophecy the Reformation of Religion, and the -change of opinion concerning the Lords Supper, which should be no more -a Sacrifice (as the _Roman_ Church calleth the Mass) of a body without -a soul, but only a commemoration of the Lords death, as the second -Verse confirmeth, saying, _The day of the death shall be put for the -Birth-day_, seeing, that by the commemoration of that death, we are -renewed into a newness of life, and as it were born again. The last two -Verse are easie. - - -XIV. - - French. - - A _Tours_, _Gien_, _Gergeau_, seront yeux penetrans, - Descouvriront le long de la grande _Sereine_, - Elle & sa Suite au Port seront entrans, - Combat poussez Puissance Souveraine. - - English. - - At _Tours_, _Gien_, _Gergeau_, shall be piercing eyes, - Who shall discover along the great _Syren_, - She and her Attendans shall enter into the Port, - By a fight shall be thrust out the Soveraign Power. - -ANNOT. - -_Tours_, _Gien_, and _Gergeau_ are Cities upon the River of _Loire_, -which is called here _the great Syren_, because of the length of its -course, the meaning then is, that those Cities shall be watchful, and -stand upon their guard, and shall fight against a King, which if it hath -already come to pass in the Civil Wars, or shall happen hereafter, I -cannot affirm. - - -XV. - - French. - - Un peu devant Monarque trucidé, - _Castor_, _Pollux_, en nef astre crinite, - L’Airain public, par Terre & Mer vuidé, - _Pisa_, _Ast_, _Ferrare_, _Turin_ Terre interdite. - - English. - - A little before a Monarch be killed - _Castor_, and _Pollux_ shall appear, and a Comet in the Ship; - The publick brass, by Land and Sea shall be emptyed, - _Pisa_, _Ast_, _Ferrare_, _Turin_, Countreys forbidden. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that a little before a Monarck be killed, -_Castor_ and _Pollux_ two Meteores so called, as also a Comet in that -constellation of the Heavens, called _the ship of Argos_, and _the -Publick Brass_, that is, the Canons by Land and Sea shall be emptied, and -these Towns of _Italy_, viz. _Pisa_, _Ast_, _Ferrare_, _Turin_, shall be -excommunicated by the _Pope_. - - -XVI. - - French. - - _Naples_, _Palerme_, _Sicile_, _Syracuse_, - Nouveaux Tyrants, fulgures, feu Cœlestes, - Force de _Londres_, _Gand_, _Bruxelles_, & _Suse_, - Grand Hecatombe, Triomphe, faire Festes. - - English. - - _Naples_, _Palermo_, _Sicily_, _Syracusa_, - New Tyrants, Lightnings, Celestial fires, - Army from _London_, _Ghent_, _Bruxelles_, and _Suse_, - A great Hecatomb, Triumphs, and Feasts. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult but the word _Hecatomb_, which is a Greek -word, signifying a Sacrifice of an hundred Oxen. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Le Camp du Temple de la Vierge Vestale, - Non esloigné d’_Ethene_ & Monts _Pyrenées_, - Le grand conduit est chassé dans la Male, - North gettez Fleuves, & Vignes mastinées. - - English. - - The Camp of the Temple of the Vestal Virgin, - Not far from _Ethene_ and the _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - The great Conduit is driven in the Clock-bag, - Rivers overflown in the North, and the Vines spoiled. - -ANNOT. - -There is so many faults in the impression of this, and so hard to be -rectified, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the judicious -Reader, then make my self ridiculous in not giving him satisfaction. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Nouvelle Pluie, subite, impetueuse, - Empeschera subit deux excercites, - Pierre, Ciel, Feux, faire la Mer pierreuse, - La mort de sept, Terre & Marin subites. - - English. - - A new Rain, sudden, impetuous, - Shall suddenly hinder two Armies, - Stone, Heaven, Fire, shall make the Sea stony, - The death of seven shall be sudden upon Land and Sea. - -ANNOT. - -The first two Verses signifie, that a sudden and impetuous Rain shall -hinder two Armies from fighting. - -The two last Verses foretell several Prodigies, the which happening, -seven persons shall suddenly die upon the Sea and Land. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Nouveaux venus, lieu basty sans defence, - Occuper place pour lors inhabitable, - Prez, Maisons, Champs, Villes prendre a plaisance, - Faim, Peste, Guerre, arpent long labourable. - - English. - - New comers shall build a place without fence, - And shall occupy a place that was not then habitable, - They shall at their pleasure take Fields, Houses and Towns. - There shall be Famine, Plague, War, and a long arable field. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no Interpretation. - - -XX. - - French. - - Freres & Sœurs en divers lieux captifs, - Se trouveront passer pres du Monarque, - Les contempler ses deux yeux ententifs, - Des plaisant vont, Menton, Front, Nez les marques. - - English. - - Brothers and Sisters shall be made slaves in divers places, - And shall pass before the Monarck, - Who shall look upon them with attentive eyes, - They shall go in heaviness, witness their Chin, Forehead and Nose. - -ANNOT. - -This is obvious to the meanest capacity. - - -XXI. - - French. - - L’Ambassadeur envoié par _Biremes_, - A my chemin incogneus repoulsez, - De Sel renfort viendront quatre triremes, - Cordes & Chaines en _Negrepont_ troussez. - - English. - - The Embassadour that was sent in _Biremes_, - In the midleway shall be repulsed by unknown Men, - From the Salt to his succours shall come four triremes, - Ropes and Chains shall be carried to _Negrepont_. - -ANNOT. - -_Bireme_ is a Galley that hath two ranges of Oares, _Trireme_ is one -that hath three ranges. The meaning then of this is, that an Embassadour -shall be sent in a Galley with two ranges of Oares, and that he shall be -met in his way by unknown men, that is, Pyrates; there shall come to his -succours _from the Salt_, that is, from the _French_ four _Triremes_, -that is four Galleys, every one having three ranges of Oares, but they -shall all be carried to _Negrepont_, an Island belonging to the _Turk_. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Le Camp _Ascop_ d’_Europe_ partira, - Sadioignant proche de l’Isle submergée, - D’_Arton_ classe Phalange partira, - Nombril du Monde plus grand voix subrogée. - - English. - - The Camp _Ascop_ shall go from _Europe_, - And shall come near the drowned Island; - From _Arton_ shall go an Army by Sea and Land, - By the Navel of the World a greater vice shall be substituted. - -ANNOT. - -The Author hath darkned this Stanza with so many barbarous words, as -_Camp Ascop_, _drowned Island_, D’_Arton_, _Navel of the World_, that -it is very like either he did not understand himself, or would not be -understood by others. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - _Palaces_ Oiseaux, par Oiseau dechassé, - Bien tost apres le Prince parvenu, - Combien qu’hors Fleuve ennemy repoulsé, - Dehors saisy, trait d’Oiseau soustenu. - - English. - - _Palais_ Birds, driven away by a Bird, - Soon after that, the Prince is come to his own, - Although the enemy be driven beyond the River, - He shall be seased upon without, by the trick of the Bird. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that many Courtiers (called here _Palace_ Birds) -shall be justled out of favour by another principal Bird, that is a great -Courtier, as soon as the Prince shall come to his own. - -The two last Verses seem to foretell that the said principal Courtier -shall seize upon the Prince, notwithstanding that some succour shall come -to his help, which shall be beaten back beyond the River. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Bestes farouches de faim Fleuves traner, - Plus part du Champ encontre _Ister_ sera, - En Cage de Fer le grand fera traisner. - Quand rien enfant de _Germain_ n’observera. - - English. - - Wild Beasts for hunger shall swim over Rivers, - Most part of the field shall be near _Ister_, - Into an Iron Cage he shall cause the great one to be drawn, - When the Child of _German_ shall observe nothing. - -ANNOT. - -_Ister_ is a River, _German_ is a proper name of some considerable -person, whose Son shall not observe or take notice when that eminent -person mentioned here, shall be drawn into an Iron Cage. - - -XXV. - - French. - - La Garde estrange trahira Forteresse, - Espoir & umbre de plus haut mariage, - Garde deceüe Fort prins dedans la presse, - _Loire_, _Saone_, _Rhosne_, _Gar_, a Mort outrage. - - English. - - The Garrison of strangers shall betray the Fort, - Under the hope and shadow of a higher Match, - The Garrison shall be deceived, and the Fort taken in the crowd, - _Loire_, _Saone_, _Rhosne_, _Gar_, shall do harm to Death. - -ANNOT. - -There is no difficulty but in the last Verse, where you must observe that -_Loire_, _Saone_, _Rhosne_, and _Gardon_, which for the Verses sake is -contracted into _Gar_; are Rivers of _France_, which are threatned here -of overflowing, and causing the death of many people. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Pour la faveur que la Cité fera, - Au grand qui tost perdra Camp de Bataille, - Le sang d’ans _Pau_ le _Thesin_ versera, - De sang feux, mors, noyez de coup de taille. - - English. - - Because of the favour the City shall shew, - To the great one, who soon after shall loose the Battle, - The _Thesin_ shall pour blood into the _Pau_, - Of blood, fire, dead, drowned, by Edgeling. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain, if you observe that the _Thesin_ is a River of _Italy_, -and the _Pau_ another, into the which the _Thesin_ runneth. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Le Divin Verbe sera du ciel frappé, - Qui ne pourra proceder plus avant, - Du resserrant le secret estoupé, - Quon marchera par dessus & devant. - - English. - - The Divine Word shall be struck by Heaven, - So that he shall proceed no further, - The secret of the close Keeper, shall be so closed up, - That people shall tread upon, and before it. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Divine Word_, you must not understand the second person of the -Trinity, or else all this Stanza would be absurd; but you must understand -a Divine or Theologian, called in Greek θεόλογος, which signifieth a -_Divine Word_. The meaning therefore of it, is, that a _Theologian shall -be struck by Heaven_; that is, shall die, so that he shall proceed no -further in his work, which I suppose by the two last Verses, was the -Philosophers stone; for in the two last Verses he saith, that the _secret -of the close Keeper_, that is, of him that wrought secretly, shall (by -his death) be so closed up, _that people shall tread on, and before it_. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Le penultiesme de Surnom de Prophete, - Prendra _Diane_ pour son jour & repos, - Loing vaguera par Frenetique teste, - Et delivrant un grand peuple d’Impos. - - English. - - The last, but one of the Sirname of the Prophet, - Shall take _Diana_ for his day and his rest, - He shall wander far by reason of his Frenetick head, - Delivering a great people from impositions. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a _false Prophet_, which is called here the last but -one of that Surname, who shall make _Diana_ (that is _Monday_ which is -dedicated to _Diana_) his _Sunday_ or _Sabbath day_, and so wandring to -and fro in a _Frenetick_ manner, shall perswade many people to pay no -Taxes. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - L’Oriental sortira de son Siege, - Passer les Monts _Apennins_, voir la _Gaule_, - Transpassera le Ciel, les Eaux & Neige, - Et un chacun frappera de sa Gaule. - - English. - - The Oriental shall come out of his Seat, - Shall pass over the _Apennine_ Mountains, and see _France_, - Shall go over the Air, the Waters and Snow, - And shall strike every one with his Rod. - -ANNOT. - -It is an Eastern Prince, who leaving his Countrey, shall come over the -_Apennine_ Mountains, which divide _Italy_, and come as far as _France_, -destroying all before him. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Un qui les Dieux d’_Annibal_ infernaux, - Fera renaistre, effrayeur des Humains, - Onc plus d’horreur ne plus dire journaux, - Qu’avint viendra par _Babel_ aux _Romains_. - - English. - - One that shall cause the infernal Gods of _Hannibal_ - To live again, the terror of Mankind, - There was never more horror, not to say ill dayes, - Did happen, or shall, to the _Romans_ by _Babel_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was concerning _Charles_ V. Emperour, who sacked _Rome_, -took the Pope Prisoner, and filled it with more horror and slaughter than -_Hannibal_ did, though a Heathen. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - En _Campanie_ le _Cassilin_ fera tant, - Quon ne verra que d’Aux les Champs couvers, - Devant apres la pluye de long temps, - Hormis les arbres rien lon verra de verts. - - English. - - In _Campania_ the _Cassilin_ shall so behave himself, - That nothing shall be seen but Fields covered with Garlick, - Before, and after it, shall not Rain for a good while, - Except the Trees, no Green shall be seen. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a dependance upon the foregoing Stanza; for _Campania_ is the -Province wherein _Rome_ is seated, and _Cassilin_, called _Campania -di Roma_, is the same as _Castillan_, because _Charles_ V. was not -only Emperour, but also King of _Spain_, the chief Province of which -is _Castilia_: therefore the Author describeth here the misery and -devastation of _Campania di Roma_ by the _Castilian_, who left nothing in -the ground, but Garlick, which is their most delicate food, and nothing -Green but the Trees. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Lait Sang, Grenovilles, escouldre en _Dalmatie_, - Conflit donné, peste pres de _Balene_, - Cry sera grand par toute _Esclavonie_, - Lors naistra Monstre pres & dedans _Ravenne_. - - English. - - Milk, Blood, Frogs shall reign in _Dalmatia_, - A Battle fought, the Plague near _Balene_, - A great cry shall be through all _Sclavonia_, - Then shall be born a Monster, near and within _Ravenna_. - -ANNOT. - -_Dalmatia_ and _Sclavonia_, are Countreys joyning to the _Adriatick_ Sea, -belonging to the _Venetians_. _Ravenna_ is a City in _Italy_, the rest -needeth no interpretation. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Dans le torrent qui descend de _Verone_, - Par lors qu’au Pau guidera son entrée, - Un grand Naufrage, & non moins en _Garonne_, - Quand ceux de _Genes_ Marcheront leur contrée. - - English. - - In the torrent which cometh down from _Verona_, - About the place where it falleth into the _Pau_, - A great Shipwrack, and no less in _Garonna_, - When those of _Genoa_ shall go into their Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -_Verona_ is a City in _Italy_, belonging to the _Venetians_, through -the middle of which runneth a River called _Adde_, which falleth into -the River _Pau_, about which place there shall be a great Shipwrak; as -also another in the River of _Garonna_, which passeth at _Bordeaux_, the -time that the Author marketh, is when those of _Genoa_ shall go into -their Countrey, that is to say, when some Ships of _Genoa_ shall come to -_Bordeaux_. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - L’Ire insensée du Combat furieux, - Fera a Table par Freres le Fer luire, - Les departir, blessé, curieux, - Le fier duel viendra en _France_ nuire. - - English. - - The mad anger of the furious fight, - Shall cause by Brothers the Iron to glister at the Table, - To part them one wounded, curious, - The fierce Duel shall do harm after in _France_. - -ANNOT. - -It is the short History of two Brothers, who fought at the Table, whereby -one that was curious to part them was wounded, they afterwards fought a -Duel, in whose imitation many since have been fought, to the great harm -of the _French_ Gentry. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Dans deux Logis de nuit le feu prendra, - Plusieurs dedans estoufez & rostis, - Pres de deux Fleuves pour seur il adviendra, - Sol, l’Arc, & Caper, tous seront amortis. - - English. - - The fire shall take by night in two Houses, - Many shall be stifled and burnt in it; - Near two Rivers it shall for certain happen, - Sun, Arc, Caper, they shall all be mortified. - -ANNOT. - -By _Sun_, _Arc_, _Caper_, he meaneth the Sun being in the Signs of -_Sagitarius_ and _Capricornus_. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled about 90. years ago in the City of _Lion_, -seated upon two Rivers, _viz._ the _Rhosne_ and the _Saone_, for about -that time several Merchants coming to the Fair, some went to lodge at the -Silver Head, in the street _de la Grenete_, where being in an upper room, -as they were talking of their businesses, and passing the time merrily, -the fire took in the Kitchen where was abundance of Oil, which did burn -so suddenly and so violently, that the lower part of the House was -presently consumed. Those Merchants that were in the upper room towards -the street, begun to look for their Clock-bags, that were lockt up in a -Trunk; but while they were busie about opening the Trunk, the Stair-case -fell, and the fire got into their Room, then begun they to cry for help -through the Windows. They would willingly have thrown themselves down -the Windows, but they were barred with Iron, so that they could not save -themselves, the House being a fire on all sides; Moreover, the neighbours -taking more care of their own Houses, then of those Strangers, did run -every one to his own concerns, so that they all miserably perished. -_Parradin_ in his 3. Book of the History of _Lyon_, _Chap. 22._ - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Du grand Prophete les Lettres seront prinses, - Entre les Mains du Tyran deviendront, - Frauder son Roy seront ses entreprinses, - Mais ses rapines bien tost le troubleront. - - English. - - The Letters of the great Prophet shall be intercepted, - They shall fall into the hands of the Tyrant, - His undertakings shall be to deceive his King, - But his extortions shall trouble him soon. - -ANNOT. - -It is some eminent Churchman, whose Letters shall be intercepted, by -which he intended to betray his King, therefore his actions shall be -called in question, and being found guilty of extortion, he shall suffer -for it. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera, - Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez, - Peste & Famine tous les devorera, - Horsmis septante qui seront profligez. - - English. - - Of that great number which shall be sent, - To succour the besieged in the Fort, - Plague and Famine shall devour them all, - Except seventy that shall be beaten. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no explication. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre, - Quand les Monarques seront conciliez, - Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre, - Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez. - - English. - - There shall be a great number of condemned men, - When the Monarchs shall be reconciled, - But one of them shall come to such misfortune, - That their reconciliation shall not last long. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense of this are easie to be understood. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Un an devant le conflict _Italique_, - _Germains_, _Gaulois_, _Espagnols_ pour le Fort, - Cherra l’Escole maison de republique, - Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts. - - English. - - One year before the _Italian_ fight, - _Germans_, _French_, _Spaniards_ for the Fort, - The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall, - Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth there should be a Battle between the _Italians_, _Germans_, -_French_, _Spaniards_ for a Fort, which I suspect to have been that of -_Serizoles_, wherein all those Nations were engaged, and that one year -before that Battle, the publick house of a _Common-wealth_ should fall, -and kill abundance of people; But of this I could find nothing in History. - - -XL. - - French. - - Un peu apres non point long intervalle, - Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte, - Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle, - Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte. - - English. - - A little while after, without any great distance of time, - By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made, - The Sea fight shall be much greater, - Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a Relation to a foregoing Stanza, and likewise is not hard to -be understood. - - -XLI. - - French. - - La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera, - Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir, - Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera, - Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir. - - English. - - The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days, - A Cloud shall make two Suns appear, - The big Mastif shall houl all night, - When the great Pope shall change his Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that those three Prodigies, contained in the -first three Verses, shall appear when a _Pope_ changeth his Countrey. - - -XLII. - - French. - - A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus, - Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort, - Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus, - Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort. - - English. - - A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood, - And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead, - In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken, - Who could not die before by a cruel Death. - -ANNOT. - -These words signifie, that a great man or Tyrant shall be found dead in -another mans Bed, having his _Legs_ and _Arms_ broken, the body of which -shall be devoured by these three kinds of Creatures, a _Cock_, a _Dog_, -and a _Cat_. The last Verse signifieth that this Tyrant had escaped a -_cruel Death_. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Durant l’estoile cheuelue apparente, - Les trois grand Princes seront faits ennemis, - Frappez du Ciel, Paix, Terre tremulente, - _Arne_, _Tibre_, undans Serpent sur le bord mis. - - English. - - During the hairy apparent Star, - The three great Princes shall be made Enemies, - Struck from Heaven, Peace, quaking Earth, - _Arne_, _Tyber_, full of Surges, Serpent cast upon the Shore. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1556. upon the first day of _March_ appeared a blazing Star -which lasted three Months, and in that year the three great Princes were -made Enemies, _viz._ _Paul_ IV. Pope, _Henry_ II. King of _France_, and -_Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, about the breaking of the Truce by _Henry_ -II. - -The Affairs not succeeding according to the Pope’s, and the King of -_France_’s desire, they made Peace with the _Spaniard_ the 14th of -_October_ 1557. and because it was an effect of Gods Providence, which -moved the Pope’s, and the Kings hearts; the Author saith, they were -_struck from Heaven_. - -After this _Peace_ the Author mentions an _Earth-quake_, which is very -likely considering the overflowing of the _Tyber_, which followed -immediately. - -The night after, that _Peace_ was proclaimed at _Rome_, on a _Tuesday_ -the _Tyber_ did so overflow his Banks, that the inundation was thought -the greatest that ever was, yea greater than that which happened in the -year 1530. under _Clement_ VII. - -There were ten or twelve Mills carried away, all the Vine-yards along the -_Tyber_, from _Pontemole_ to St. _Peters_ Church, were buried under the -Sands, that the water carried. - -Abundance of Houses fell to the ground. In _Rome_ many Gardens and houses -of pleasure were destroyed, the loss of the Wines, Hay, Wood, and Corn -could not be valued. - -In _Florence_ the River of _Arno_ did more mischief than the _Tyber_ at -_Rome_, the History of the Genealogy of the house of _Medicis_, made -by _Peter de Boissat_, mentioneth, that in some places of the City of -_Florence_, the water overflowed to the heigth of eight Fathoms, and -covered all the valley of _Arne_. - -The damage was yet greater at _Empoly_, a Town in _Tuscany_, where, of -three thousand people, there escaped but eighteen. - -But to return to _Tyber_, its waters being retired into their Channel, -left so much mud, where it had overflowed, that no body could walk -upon it, and upon that mud near the _Tyber_, was a Serpent seen of a -prodigious bigness, which was killed by the Countrey people. - -This is the Authors meaning in the last Verse, _Arne, Tyber, full of -Surges, Serpent cast upon the Shore_. - -In the third Verse he saith, those three Princes were struck or moved -from Heaven to make _Peace_, that is, from God; every one considering -that this War was only for their mutual distruction. - -The Vulgar impression putteth in the fourth Verse, _Pau_, _Tyber_, in -stead of _Arne_, _Tyber_, which is a visible fault; for the History -mentioneth only the inundation of those two Rivers in _Italy_, it may be -that the likeness of those words, _Pau_ and _Arne_, is the cause of the -mistake; as also because the name of _Pau_, which is the biggest River -in _Italy_, is more famous in History than that of _Arne_, which is the -River that passeth through _Florence_. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons, - Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé, - Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons, - Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée. - - English. - - The Eagle flying among the Tents, - By other Birds shall be driven away, - When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells, - Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it. - -ANNOT. - -It is an Eagle driven from the Tents by other Birds, when a mad Lady -shall recover her senses by the noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Trop le Ciel pleure l’_Androgyn_ procrée, - Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu, - Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée, - Tard & tost vient le secours attendu. - - English. - - The Heaven bemoaneth too much the _Androgyn_ born, - Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt, - By death too late a great people shall be refreshed, - Late and soon cometh the succours expected. - -ANNOT. - -_Androgyn_, is one that is Male and Female, from the Greek word ἀνηρ, -which signifieth a Male, and γυνή, which signifieth a Female; the meaning -then of the first Verse is, that some great persons, suppose a King and -Queen, which he calleth Heaven, by reason of their exaltation above the -common sort of people, shall bemoan too long one of their Children, that -was, or shall be born Male and Female. - -The second Verse is easie to be understood, if you take Heaven in the -same sense that we have said. The last two Verses are plain. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste, - Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle, - Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste, - Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle. - - English. - - After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand, - The great Motor reneweth the Ages, - Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague, - In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks. - -ANNOT. - -_Troche_ in Greek is a Pulley, the meaning therefore of the Author, that -after a great mutation, God shall renew the Ages, and according to his -promise shall create a new Heaven, and a new Earth. - -By those prodigies related in the two last Verses, it seemeth the Author -intendeth to speak of the last day, and of the fore-runners of it. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - L’Ennemy grand viel, deult, meurt de poison, - Les Souverains par infinis subjugues, - Pierres pleuvoir cache soubs la Toison, - Par mort Articles en vain sont alleguez. - - English. - - The great and old Enemy grieveth, dieth by Poison, - An infinite number of Soveraign’s conquered, - It shall rain stones, they shall hide under Rocks, - In vain shall death alledge Articles. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a relation to the foregoing Stanza, and is as it were the -second part of it. For as the foremost speaketh of the last day, so doth -this of Dooms-day. - -First, he saith that _the great and old Enemy grieveth and dieth by -Poison_, that’s the Devil who shall be cast into a Lake of Fire and -Brimstone. The second Verse signifieth, that all the Kings of the Earth -shall be subdued by him that is _Lord of Lords and King of Kings_. The -third Verse expresseth, the anguish of the reprobate, when they shall cry -to the Rocks, hide us, and to the Mountains, fall upon us. And the fourth -Verse saith, that Death shall alledge in vain, the Articles she made with -the Devil, and his Angels. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - La grand Copie qui passera les Monts, - _Saturne_, _Aries_, tournant au Poisson _Mars_, - Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons, - Leur chef pendu a fil de _Polemars_. - - English. - - The great Army that shall pass over the Mountains, - _Saturn_, _Aries_, _Mars_, turning to the Fishes, - Poisons hidden in Sheeps heads, - Their Captain hang’d with a thred of _Polemars_. - -ANNOT. - -_Paradin_ relateth in his History, that after the Duke of _Alba_ had -relieved _Vulpian_ with Victuals, which was done from the 22. of _July_ -to the first of _August_, a Captain of the Emperors Army named _la -Trinité_, went out of _Valfrenieres_ the same first day of _August_, to -plunder the Countrey of _Piemont_. - -He had 400 Horses, and 500 Foot: The news being brought to the Marshal -of _Brissac_, he sent out a great number of Horses, who did utterly -destroy their Foot, so that but thirty escaped, to carry the news to -_Valfrenieres_. - -The _Spanish_ Horse, seeing the _French_ in such a fury, ran away, and -got some to _Ast_, some to _Alexandria_. - -After that, the _Spaniards_ seeking to revenge themselves, took a Castle -three miles from _Cazal_, called _Frezene_, or _Fracinet du Pau_, where -they hanged up the Captain, put to the sword all the _Italians_, and sent -all the _French_ to the _Galleys_. - -This proceeding being not according to the Laws of Arms, we may believe, -that the victorious discovered a malitious craft of the vanquished, -who had left some Sheeps-heads poisoned, to revenge themselves of the -victorious, which obliged the _Spaniards_ to serve so the Captain, the -_Italians_ and the _French_; and because the _French_ were not so ill -used, as the _Italians_, we may judge that the _Italians_ were the chief -contrivers of this business. - -Therefore the Author foreseeing this, saith, that the great Army of the -_French_, which shall go over the Mountains, shall come to this mischief, -because of the poison that was hidden in the Sheeps heads. - -The Vulgar impression erreth much in putting _Salmons_, for _Muttons_; -for every body knoweth that the _Salmons_ do not come into the Mountains -of _Montserrat_, and that in the Month of _August_ it is not a meat fit -for Souldiers, therefore in stead of _Salmons_, we have put _Muttons_, or -Sheep. - -_The Captain was hanged with a thread of Polemars_, that is, with a -Match, of which, I am perswaded, that one certain _Polemars_ was the -Inventor. - -The Author saith in the second Verse, that the time when this accident -happened, was, when _Saturn_ was in _Aries_, the Vulgar impression -putteth _Are_ in stead of _Aries_, but that’s false, therefore set down -_Aries_. _Saturn_ was in that Sign in the year 1555. from the 20th of -_February_, to the 14th of _July_, where from the 12th degree and four -Minutes, he began to retrograde in the same Sign of _Aries_, till the -18th of _November_, so that _Saturn_ was almost all that year in _Aries_. - -He saith also that _Mars_ was going back to _Pisces_; because in that -same year, _Mars_ that was gone out of the Sign of _Pisces_ from the 19 -of _March_ 1554. was retrograding to come back again into it upon the -20th of _January_ 1556. - -Thus the Author meaneth, that this accident should happen in the year -that _Saturn_ should be in _Aries_, and _Mars_ should be near the Sign of -_Pisces_. - -And to say truth, in the Month of _August_, _Mars_ was in the Sign -of _Scorpio_; upon the 23 of _September_, he entred into that of -_Sagitarius_; the third of _November_, into that of _Capricornus_; the -12th of _December_ into that of _Aquarius_; and the year following, -_viz._ 1556. into that of _Pisces_; so that _Mars_ was returning into -_Pisces_, which is the end of its particular motion. - -By this Astrological and Historical discourse we correct the Vulgar -impression, which putteth turning from _Pisces_, _Mars_, in stead of -which, we put, turning to _Pisces_, _Mars_, which we do by changing -only _from_, into _to_, and sheweth us how careful we ought to be in -the explication of these Stanza’s, when the time is prefixed to us by -Astronomical calculations. - -The Authors Phrase doth confirm us in this correction, when he useth this -word _turning_, which signifieth the motion that tendeth towards its end, -and not the motion that cometh from its end. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Les conseillers du premier Monopole, - Les Conquerans seduits par la _Melite_, - _Rhodes_, _Bisance_ pour leur exposant pole, - Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite. - - English. - - The advisers of the first Monopoly, - The Conquerors seduced by the _Melite_, - _Rhodes_, _Bizance_, for exposing their Pole, - The ground shall fail the followers of runaways. - -ANNOT. - -All the difficulty of this lieth in the signification of the word _Pole_, -which in Greek signifieth a City. The word _Monopoly_ is Vulgar, and -signifieth when one or few would engross all the Trade of a Town. The -rest is so obscure, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the -Reader, than break my Brains about it, considering chiefly that I am -going to bed, the precedent Stanza having exhausted all my Spirits, and -so farewell till to morrow. - - -L. - - French. - - Quand ceux d’_Hainault_, de _Gand_, & de _Bruxelles_, - Verront a _Langres_ le Siege devant mis, - Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles, - La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis. - - English. - - When these of _Hainault_, of _Gand_, and of _Bruxelles_, - Shall see the Siege laid before _Langres_, - Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars, - The old wound shall be worse then Enemies. - -ANNOT. - -_Hainault_ is a Province of the Low-Countries, and _Gand_ the chief -Town in _Flanders_, and _Bruxelles_ the chief Town of the Dukedome of -_Brabant_. - -_Langres_ is a City in _France_, in the Province of _Champagne_, which is -called the Maiden Town; because it was never besieged. The rest is easie. - - -LI. - - French. - - Le sang du juste a _Londres_ fera faute, - Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six, - La Dame antique cherra de place haute, - De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis. - - English. - - The blood of the just shall be wanting in _London_, - Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six, - The antient Dame shall fall from her high place, - Of the same Sect many shall be killed. - -ANNOT. - -Leaving unto the impartial Reader his liberty to judge of this Prophecy, -we for our part understand by it the impious and execrable murder, -committed upon the person of our last most gracious Sovereign King -_Charles_ I. of blessed memory, to whose expiation it seemeth our Author -attributeth the conflagration of _London_. By that proportion _of three -and twenty, the Six_, is to be understood the number of Houses and -Buildings that were burnt, which is about the proportion of three in -four, and cometh near to the computation, as also by that _three twenties -and Six_, may be understood the year 66. _By the antient Dame that shall -fall from the high place_, is understood the Cathedral Church of St. -_Paul_, which in the time of Paganism was dedicated to _Diana_, meant -here by the title of an antient Dame, the _fall from her high place_, -hath relation both to the sumptuousness and height of her building, as -also to her situation, which is in the most eminent place of the City. - -By this Verse, _Of the same Sect many shall be killed_, is signified the -great number of other Churches even the number of 87 (which he intimateth -here by the name of the same Sect), that should be involved in the same -woful conflagration. - - -LII. - - French. - - Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera, - Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte, - _Corinthe_, _Ephese_ aux deux Mers nagera, - Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte. - - English. - - During many nights the Earth shall quake, - About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another, - _Corinth_, _Ephesus_ shall swim in the two Seas, - War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers. - -ANNOT. - -_Corinth_ is a City of _Grecia_ and _Ephesus_ one of _Asia_; the rest is -plain. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Le grande Peste de cité maritime, - Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée, - Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime, - De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée. - - English. - - The great Plague of the Maritime City, - Shall not cease till the death be revenged - Of the just blood by price condemned without crime, - Of the great Dame not fainedly abused. - -ANNOT. - -This is a confirmation of the LI. Stanza and foretelleth the great Plague -we have had here in the year 1665. which he saith shall not cease till -the death of the Just blood, meaning King _Charles_ the I. be avenged who -was as is here expressed, condemned without crime, and sold for a Price. - -By the great Dame unfainedly abused, he meaneth the sumptuous Cathedral -of St. _Paul_, which was polluted and made a Stable by those prophane -wretches. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine, - Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée, - Fille sans trop different de domaine, - Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée. - - English. - - By a strange people and remote Nation, - The great City near the water shall be much troubled, - The Girl without great difference for a portion, - Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt. - -ANNOT. - -In the explication of this mystical Stanza, I believe every body may be -as wise as I. - - -LV. - - French. - - Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit, - A son dernier fera cas merveilleux, - Pendant qu’_Adrie_ verra ce qu’il failloit, - Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux. - - English. - - In the fight the great one who was but little worth, - At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing. - While _Adria_ shall see what was wanting, - In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning some eminent person, who having shewed no great valour -in a Battle, shall nevertheless in a Banquet be so bold as to stab a -person of quality, that was proud. - -This accident must happen somewhere about _Venice_, because he saith that -_Adria_, which is taken for _Venice_ shall look on. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer, - Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé, - L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner, - Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper. - - English. - - He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy, - Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder, - The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined, - Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock. - -ANNOT. - -There is two accidents contained in this Stanza, the first is in the -two first Verses, where he saith that some considerable person, who had -escaped the Sword, and the Plague shall be strucken by the Thunder, and -die in a great showr of Rain. - -The second is, in the two last Verses, where he saith, an Abbot shall -perish by Shipwrack, thinking to save himself by holding the Rock. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Avant conflit le grand tombera, - Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte, - Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera, - Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte. - - English. - - Before the Battle the great one shall fall, - The great one to death too sudden and bewailed; - One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim, - Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain enough, but of the sense every one may think what he -pleaseth. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte. - Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay, - Pres du portail, desloial le transporte, - _Seline_ luit, petit grand emmené. - - English. - - Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth, - By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born, - Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor, - _Seline_ shineth, the little great one carried away. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of the whole is this, that an Infant begot by some person of -quality shall be exposed in the night time, the Moon Shining, which he -calleth _Seline_, from the Greek word σεληνη, which signifieth the Moon. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Classe _Gauloise_ par appuy de grand Garde, - Du grand _Neptune_ & ses tridens Soldats, - Ronger _Provence_ pour soustenir grand bande, - Plus _Mars_, _Narbon_, par Javelots & Dards. - - English. - - The _French_ Fleet by the help of the great Guard, - Of great _Neptune_ and his Tridentary Soldiers - Shall gnaw _Provence_ by keeping great company, - Besides, _Mars_ shall plague _Narbon_ by Javelins and Darts. - -ANNOT. - -Here be two things designed in this Stanza one is concerning _Provence_, -which shall be eaten up by Soldiers, and the other concerning the City -of _Narbon_, which shall be Besieged, or the Citizens fall out among -themselves. - - -LX. - - French. - - La foy Punique en Orient rompue, - Grand _Jud._ & _Rhosne_, _Loire_ & _Tag_ changeront, - Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue, - Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront. - - English. - - The punick faith broken in the East, - Great _Jud._ and _Rhosne_, _Loire_ and _Tag._ shall be changed, - When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied, - The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim. - -ANNOT. - -The Punick Faith in Latine _Punica fides_, a false Faith, was so -called from the _Carthaginians_, called in Latine _Pæni_, which was an -unfaithful Nation. - -I do not know what he meaneth by great _Jud._ as for _Rhosne_, _Loire_ -and _Tag_, they are three Rivers, the two first in _France_, the last is -the River of _Lisbone_ called in Latine _Tagus_. The rest is easie. - - -LXI. - - French. - - _Agen_, _Tonneins_, _Gironde_ & la _Rochelle_, - O sang _Troien_ mort au Port de la fleche, - Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle, - Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche. - - English. - - _Agen_, _Tonneins_, _Gironde_ and _Rochelle_, - O _Trojan_ blood death is at the harbour of the Arrow, - Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort, - Points, fire, great murder upon the breach. - -ANNOT. - -_Agen_ and _Tonneins_ are two Towns in _Gascony_, _Gironde_ is a River -that passeth in that Countrey, the sense therefore of the whole is, that -there shall be great Wars, and fightings in those Towns, as also upon -that River, which happened in the time of the civil Wars in _France_, as -every body may read in the _Annals_, and also in the Commentaries of the -Lord of _Monluck_. - - -LXII. - - French. - - _Mabus_ puis tost alors mourra, viendra, - Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite, - Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra, - Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete. - - English. - - _Mabus_ shall come, and soon after shall die, - Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction, - Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen, - Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run. - -ANNOT. - -Here is nothing hard but who should be this _Mabus_, at last I found by -transposition of Letters that he meaneth _Ambus_, which was the name of -the Heades man that beheaded the Duke of _Montmorency_ at _Thoulouse_, -how miraculous therefore appeareth our Author, who did not only foretell -general things, but also particular accidents, even the names of the -persons that were to be born a hundred years after. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - _Gaulois_, _Ausone_ bien peu subiuguera, - _Pau_, _Marne_ & _Seine_ fera _Perme l’Vrie_, - Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera, - Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie. - - English. - - The _French_ shall a little subdue _Ausonne_, - _Pau_, _Marne_, and _Seine_ shall make _Perme l’Urie_, - Which shall raise a great Wall against them, - From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life. - -ANNOT. - -_Ausonne_ is always taken by the Author for the City of _Bordeaux_, -because _Ausonius_ a famous Latine Poet was born there, the rest is so -obscure, and the text so corrupted, that I had rather leave it to the -liberty of the Reader, then to become ridiculous, by not acknowledging my -ignorance. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Seicher de faim, de soif, gent _Genevoise_, - Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir, - Sur point tremblant sera Loy _Gebenoise_, - Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir. - - English. - - Those of _Geneva_ shall be dried up with hunger and thirst, - A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting, - The _Gebenna_ Law shall be upon a quaking point, - The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port. - -ANNOT. - -Here you must observe that _Gebenna_ in Latine signifieth _Geneva_, and -therefore this whole Stanza is concerning the City of _Geneva_. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Le park enclin grande calamité, - Par l’_Hesperie_ & _Insubre_ sera, - Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité, - _Mercure_ en l’_Ar_, _Saturn_ fenera. - - English. - - The Park enclineth to great calamity, - Which shall be through _Hesperia_ and _Insubria_, - The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity, - _Mercury_ in _Aries_, _Saturn_ shall wither. - -ANNOT. - -Though the words be plain, nevertheless the sense is very obscure, and -chiefly as I suppose by the faults of the impression, all what I can tell -you here, is, that _Hesperia_ in Latine, is _Spain_, and _Insubria_, is -_Savoy_. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé, - Peu de temps grand a fortune changée, - Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé, - Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée. - - English. - - The Prisoner escaped through great danger, - A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed, - In the Palace the people shall be caught, - And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged. - -ANNOT. - -All this is plain, both in the words and the Sense. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Le blond au nez forche viendra commettre, - Par le Duel & chassera dehors, - Les exiles dedans fera remettre, - Aux lieux marins commettans les plus forts. - - English. - - The fair one shall fight with the forked Nose, - In Duel, and expel him out, - He shall re-establish the banished, - Putting the stronger of them in Maritine places. - -ANNOT. - -Both the Sense and the words are plain. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - De l’Aquilon les efforts seront grands, - Sur l’Occean sera la Porte ouverte, - Le Regne en l’Isle sera re-integrand, - Tremblera _Londres_ par voiles descouvertes. - - English. - - The endevours of the North shall be great, - Upon the Ocean the gate shall be open, - The Kingdom in the Island shall be re-established, - _London_ shall quake, for fear of Sails discovered. - -ANNOT. - -This is a very remarkable one, which hath been fulfilled since the happy -restauration of his sacred Majesty King _Charles_ II. now Reigning: For -the endevours of the North, (_viz._ the _Dutch_) have been very great. -The _ocean_; like a _gate_, hath been open to all kind of Armies, to play -their pranks upon. His Majesty, and Kingdom, have been happily restored. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Le Roy _Gaulois_ par la Celtique dextre, - Voiant discorde de la grand Monarchie, - Sur les trois parts fera fleurir son Sceptre, - Contre la Cappe de la grand Hierarchie. - - English. - - The _French_ King, by the Low-Countreys right hand, - Seeing the discord of the great Monarchy, - Upon three parts of it, will make his Scepter to flourish, - Against the Cap of the great Hierarchy. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth, that the _French_ King, through the discord that is in -the _Spanish_ Monarchy, shall cause his _Scepter to flourish_ upon three -parts of the _Netherlands_; notwithstanding the assistance of the King of -_Spain_, who is called here _the Cap of the great Hierarchy_; that is, -the great defender of the Popedom and Popery. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Le Dard du Ciel fera son estendue, - Morts en parlant, grande execution, - La pierre en larbre la fiere gent rendue, - Brait Humain, Monstre purge expiation. - - English. - - The Dart of Heaven shall make his circuit, - Some die speaking, a great execution, - The stone in the tree, the fierce people humbled, - Humane noise, a Monster purged by expiation. - -ANNOT. - -All this Stanza signifieth nothing but a fearful Thunder and Lightning, -called here, _the Dart of Heaven_, that shall do a great deal of -mischief; for as he saith, _some shall die speaking_, there shall be -_a great execution_, the _Thunderbolt_ shall stick in the _Tree_, -_the people that was fierce, shall be humbled, and a Monster purged by -expiation_, that some notorious wicked person shall be consumed by that -Cœlestial fire. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Les exiles en _Sicile_ viendront, - Pour delivrer de faim la gent estrange, - Au point du jour les _Celtes_ luy faudront, - La vie demeure a raison Roy se range. - - English. - - The banished persons shall come into _Sicily_, - To free the forrain Nation from hunger, - In the dawning of the day the _Celtes_ shall fail them, - Their Life shall be preserved, the King shall submit to reason. - -ANNOT. - -It is hard to judge what he meaneth by that _Forreign Nation_, which -shall be relieved in _Sicily_, by the banished, nor what _King_ is that -which _shall submit to reason_; let it be left to every body’s private -judgement. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Armée _Celtique_ en _Italie_ vexée, - De toutes partes conflit & grande perte, - _Romains_ fuis O _Gaule_ repoulsée, - Pres du _Thesin_, _Rubicon_ pugne incerte. - - English. - - The _French_ Army shall be vexed in _Italy_, - On all sides fighting, and great loss, - The _Romans_ run away, and thou _France_ repulsed, - Near the _Thesin_, by _Rubicon_ the fight shall be doubtful. - -ANNOT. - -A _French_ Army shall be distressed, if not destroyed in _Italy_. The -_Romans_, that is, those under the Pope, that shall take their part, -shall be put to flight, and this battle shall be fought by the River -_Thesin_. Another shall be fought by the River _Rubicon_, whose event -shall be doubtful, that is to say, it shall hardly be known who got the -victory. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Au Lac _Fucin_ de _Benacle_ Rivage, - Pres du _Leman_ au port de _Lorguion_, - Nay de trois Bras prædit Bellique Image, - Par trois courones au grand _Endymion_. - - English. - - At the _Fucin_ Lake of the _Benacle_ Shore, - Near the _Leman_, at the Port of _Lorguion_, - Born with three Arms, a Warlike Image, - By three Crowns to the great _Endimion_. - -ANNOT. - -There is a Lake in _Italy_ called _Lacus Fucinius_; the Lake of _Geneva_ -is called _Lacus Lemanus_; the meaning then of this obscure Stanza, is, -(if I understand any thing) that a Monster shall be _born with three -Arms_, near one of those Lakes, which shall be a sign of great Wars: what -he meaneth by the _three Crowns to the great Endymion_, is unknown to me. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - De _Sens_, d’_Autun_ viendront jusques au _Rhosne_, - Pour passer outre vers les Monts _Pyrenée_, - La gent sortir de la Marque d’_Ancone_, - Par Terre & Mer Suivra a grand trainées. - - English. - - They shall come from _Sens_ and _Autun_, as far as the _Rhosne_, - To go further to the _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - The Nation come from the Mark of _Ancona_, - By Land and Sea shall follow speedily after. - -ANNOT. - -_Sens_ and _Autun_ are two Cities in _France_, the _Pyrenean_ Mountains, -are those which divide _France_ from _Spain_. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - La voix ouie de l’Insolit oiseau, - Sur le Canon du respiral estage, - Si haut viendra du froment le boisseau, - Que l’homme d’homme sera _Antropophage_. - - English. - - The noise of the unwonted Bird having been heard, - Upon the Canon of the highest story, - The Bushel of Wheat shall rise so high, - That man of man shall be _Antropophage_. - -ANNOT. - -This is a prediction of a mighty Famine, wherein men shall eat up one -another, when an _unwonted Bird_ shall be seen and heard to cry, being -perched upon one of the biggest pieces of _Ordinance_. - -_Antropophage_ is a Greek word, signifying a _Man-eater_, from ἄνθροπος, -_homo_, and φαγος, _comedens_, of which sort of men there be too many -already. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - Foudre en _Bourgongne_ avec cas portenteux, - Que par engin oncques ne pourroit faire, - De leur Senat _Sacriste_ fait boiteux, - Fera Scavoir aux ennemis l’affaire. - - English. - - Lightning in _Burgundy_, with marvellous accidents, - Which could never have been done by art, - Of their Senate _Sacriste_ being lamed, - Shall make known the business to the enemies. - -ANNOT. - -The _Senate_ or Parliament of _Burgundy_, sits at _Dijon_, among them -there is always a Church-man, that is one of the Judges, to see that -nothing be done to the prejudice of the Church. I suspect that it is he, -that is called here _Sacriste_, and who shall reveal the business to the -_Enemies_. The two first Verses need no explication. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Par Arcs, Fœux, Poix, & par feux repoussez, - Cris hurlemens sur la minuit ouys, - Dedans sont mis par les rempars cassez, - Par Canicules les Traditeurs fuis. - - English. - - Being repulsed with Bows, Fires, and Pitch, - Cries and howlings shall be heard about midnight, - They shall get in through the broken Walls, - The betrayers shall run away through the Conduits. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Town Besieged, where after a repulse given to the Besiegers, they -shall get in by the Treason of some within, who shall run away through -the Conduits or Channels of the Town. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Le grand _Neptune_ du profond de la Mer, - De sang punique & sang _Gaulois_ meslé, - Les Isles a sang pour le tardif ramer, - Plus luy nuira que loccult mal celé. - - English. - - The great _Neptune_ in the middle of the Sea, - Having joyned _African_ and _French_ blood, - The Islands shall be put to the Sword, and the slow rowing - Shall do them more prejudice, than the concealed evil. - -ANNOT. - -To understand this, you must know that Henry the II. King of _France_, -having renewed his Alliance with the Grand Seignior _Sultan Solyman_, -he asked him succours for to take _Nice_, which he pretended to belong -to the Earldom of _Provence_. To that purpose the Marshal of _Brissac_ -went from Court with the Kings Army in the year 1557. to set upon _Nice_, -_Savona_, and _Genoa_, and so to hinder the _Spaniard_ from coming by -Sea in _Piemont_, and the _Milanese_. The _Turk_ sent him a good Fleet, -consisting of 105. Galleys, and 14. Galliots. - -The _French_ Fleet consisted of 26 Galleys, of which the great Prior was -Admiral, who went with them from the Castle of _Yf_, the 9. of _June_ -1558. - -Being at Sea, and not knowing where the _Turkish_ Fleet was, he went to -and fro to seek it out, at last he found it pillaging and plundering -the Island of _Minorica_. The _Turks_ had already taken the chief Town, -where 800. _Turks_ were killed, which so incensed the rest, that they set -the Town on fire; then going up and down the Countrey, they took 5000. -Prisoners, and if the Lords of _Carces_ and _Vence_ had not stayed them, -they would have ruinated the whole Island. - -Then forsaking the Island, they joyned with the _French_, but the -perfidious _Bassa_ being bribed by the _Genoeses_, and those of _Nice_, -went slowly to work, and at last retreated without doing any thing for -the _French_. This is the relation of _Cæsar Nostradamus_, in his History -of _Provence_ under _Henry_ the II. and according to this the Author -saith, that _the great Neptune in the middle of the Sea, shall joyn -~French~ and ~African~ blood_. _Neptune_ signifieth the _Mediterranean -Sea_. - -_The Islands shall be put to the Sword_, by the taking of _Minorica_, -after which the _Turks_ being bribed, went slowly to work, and in -conclusion did nothing of consequence. - -The third and fourth Verse adds, that this _Bassa_’s slow rowing, _shall -do them more prejudice then the concealed evil_; that is, shall do more -damage to the _French_ by his hidden design of the Bassa of not serving -the _French_; because this slowness of the Bassa spoiled the _French_ -activity, lessened their provisions, and at last discouraged them; -whereas if the _Turks_ had not come, the _French_ Galleys alone were able -to take _Nice_. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - La Barbe crespe & noire par engin, - Subjuguera la gent cruelle & fiere, - Le grand _Cheyren_ ostera du longin, - Tous les Captifs par _Seline_ Baniere. - - English. - - The frizled and black Beard by fighting, - Shall overcome the fierce and cruel Nation, - The great _Cheyren_ shall free from Bands, - All the Captives made by _Selyne_ Standard. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1571. upon the seventh day of -_October_, when that famous Battle of _Lepanto_ was fought between the -Christians and the Turks, the General of the Christians being _Don Juan -of Austria_, whom he calleth here the _frizled and black Beard_. - -In this Battle the Christians lost 7566. men, and the Turks about 32000. -besides 220. Ships of all sorts, and all the Christian slaves released -that were in them. By the _Selyne_ Banner is understood that of the great -Turk, whose name at that time was _Selyne_. By the great _Cheyren_ is -understood _Henry_ the II. King of _France_, who redeemed many slaves, -for _Cheyren_ by transposition of Letters is _Henry_. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - Apres conflit du læse l’Eloquence, - Par peu de temps se trame Saint repos, - Point l’on admet les grand a delivrance. - Des ennemis sont remis a propos. - - English. - - After the Battle, the eloquency of the wounded man, - Within a little while shall procure a holy rest, - The great ones shall not be delivered, - But shall be left to their Enemies will. - -ANNOT. - -After the Battle of St. _Laurence_, the Prisoners taken by the _Spaniard_ -were the Constable of _France_, the Dukes of _Montpensier_, of -_Longueville_, the Marshal S. _André_, _Ludovic_ Prince of _Mantua_, the -_Rhingrave_ Colonel of the _Germans_, the Earl of _la Rochefoucaud_, and -several other persons of quality. - -They were Prisoners from the _10th_ of _August_ 1557. to the third of -_April_ 1559. that is, one year and eight Months; during which time the -Pope’s _Nuncios_, _Christierne_ Dutchess Dowager of _Lorraine_, the -Constable, and Marshal St. _André_ endeavoured to make the peace. - -Among them the Constable was chief, and _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_ -gave him leave to go to and fro upon his Paroll; and of him it is our -Author speaketh in the first Verse; _After the Battle the eloquency of -the wounded man_, that is after the Battle of _Saint Laurence_, where the -Constable of _Monmorency_ was wounded in the hip. His eloquency procured -the peace, which was concluded in a short time, for had it not been for -the death of Queen _Mary_ of _England_, that happened upon the 15 of -_November_ 1558. it should have been concluded three Months after the -conference that was begun in the Abbey of _Cercamp_ near _Cambray_. - -The third Verse saith, that _the great ones shall not be delivered_, -because during the Treaty of Peace, _Philip_ the II. would not hearken -to take any Ransom, but they were kept Prisoners till the Peace. It is -the meaning of the fourth Verse, when it saith, _but shall be left to the -Enemies will_, _viz._ the _Spaniards_ who gave them liberty after the -Peace. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - Par feu du Ciel la Cité presqu’aduste, - L’Urne menace encor _Deucalion_, - Vexée _Sardaigne_ par la punique fuste, - Apres le _Libra_ lairra son _Phaeton_. - - English. - - By fire from Heaven the City shall be almost burnt, - The Waters threatens another _Deucalion_, - _Sardaigne_ shall be vexed by an _African_ Fleet, - After that _Libra_ shall have left her _Phaeton_. - -ANNOT. - -All is plain but the last Verse, the sense of which is, that the things -before spoken, shall happen when the Sun is newly come out of the sign of -_Libra_. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Par faim la proye fera Loup prisonier, - L’Assaillant lors en extresme detresse, - Lesnay ayant au devant le dernier, - Le grand neschape au milieu de la presse. - - English. - - By hunger, the prey shall make the Wolf prisoner, - Assaulting him then in a great distress, - The eldest having got before the last, - The great one doth not escape in the middle of the crowd. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses signifie, that an hungry Wolf seeking for a Prey, -shall be caught in some trap, where being almost famished, the Prey shall -assault him. The last two Verses being obscure and not material to any -thing I have neglected them. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Le gros Traffic d’un grand Lion changé, - La pluspart tourne en pristine ruine, - Proye aux Soldats par playe vendangé, - Par _Jura Mont_, & _Sueve_ bruine. - - English. - - The great Trade of a great Lion alter’d, - The most part turneth into its former ruine, - Shall become a Prey to Soldiers and reaped by wound, - In _Mont-Jura_, and _Suaube_ great Foggs. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning the City of _Lion_ in _France_, which is -a Town of an exceeding great Trade, and is threatned to suffer an -alteration, and a decay by War. - -The last Verse is concerning a great Mist or Fogg, which shall be upon -_Mont-Jura_ and in _Suabeland_. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Entre _Campagne_, _Sienne_, _Pise_ & _Ostié_, - Six mois neuf jours ne pleuvra une goute, - L’Estrange Langue en Terre _Dalmatie_, - Courira sus vastant la Terre toute. - - English. - - Between _Campania_, _Sienna_, _Pisa_ and _Ostia_, - For six Months and nine days there shall be no rain, - The strange Language in _Dalmatia_’s Land, - Shall overrun, spoiling all the Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -All those places mentioned, in the first Verse are seated in _Italy_; the -Author saith that in that Countrey it shall not rain for the space of six -Months and nine days, which if it be past, or to come, I know not. - -The two last Verses signifie, that a strange Nation shall come into -_Dalmatia_, and overrun and spoil all that Countrey. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Le vieux plein barbe soubs le statut severe, - A Lion fait dessus l’Aigle Celtique, - Le petit grand trop outre persevere, - Bruit d’Arme au Ciel, Mer rouge _Ligustique_. - - English. - - The old plain beard under the severe Statute, - Made at _Lion_ upon the _Celtique_ Aigle, - The little great persevereth too far, - Noise of Arms in the Skie, the _Ligustrian_ Sea made red. - -ANNOT. - -I could scrape no sense out of the first three Verses; the last -signifieth, that a noise of Arms shall be heard in the Skies, and that -the _Ligustrian_ Sea, which is that of _Genoa_, shall be made red with -blood, when the former prodigy hath appeared. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Naufrage a classe pres d’Onde _Adriatique_, - La Terre tremble emeue sur l’Air en Terre mis - _Ægypt_ tremble augment Mahometique, - L’Heraut soy rendre a crier est commis. - - English. - - A Fleet shall suffer Shipwrack near the _Adriatick_ Sea, - The Earth quaketh, a motion of the Air cometh upon the Land, - _Ægypt_ trembleth for fear of the Mahometan increase. - The Herald surrendring shall be appointed to cry. - -ANNOT. - -In the two first Verses is foretold a great storm by the _Adriatick_ Sea, -in which a Fleet shall be dispersed, and many suffer Shipwrack. - -The two last Verses relate the great fear _Ægypt_ was in, when the great -Turk _Sultan Selyn_ went to conquer it. - -The last Verse is concerning a Herald, which was surrendered to the -contrary party, and by them was appointed to perform that office in their -behalf. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Apres viendra des extremes Contrées, - Prince _Germain_ dessus Throsne d’Oré, - La servitude & les Eaux rencontrées, - La Dame serve son temps plus n’adoré. - - English. - - After that shall come out of the remote Countreys, - A _German_ Prince upon a gilded Throne, - The slavery and waters shall meet, - The Lady shall serve, her time no more worshipped. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning _Gustavus Adolphus_ King of _Swedeland_, who -is called _German_ Prince, because his Ancestors came out of _Germany_, -he came out of a remote Countrey, that is _Swedeland_, he came upon a -gilded Throne, that is a Ship gilded, he shall make slavery and waters -meet, because as soon as he was Landed he began to conquer, and to subdue -that Lady (_viz. Germania_) that was no more worshipped since as she was -before. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Le Circuit du grand fait ruineux, - Le nom septiesme du cinquiesme sera, - D’un tiers plus grand l’estrange belliqueux, - De _Ram_, _Lutece_, _Aix_ ne garentira. - - English. - - The circumference of the ruinous building, - The seventh name shall be that of the fifth, - From a third, one greater, a Warlike man, - _Aries_ shall not preserve _Paris_ nor _Aix_. - -ANNOT. - -The Circumference of that ruinous building, was the _French_ league -against _Henry_ III. and _Henry_ IV. which numbers being joyned together, -make seven, mentioned in the second Verse. - -_By the strange Warlike man_, in the third Verse, is understood _Henry_ -IV. because he was not born in _France_, but in _Navarre_, and therefore -called a stranger, who subdued both _Paris_ and _Aix_, seated under the -constellation of _Aries_. If you had not rather, by the name of the -_Ram_, or _Aries_, understand the Duke of _Mayenne_, who was head of the -league. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Un jour seront amis les deux grands Maistres, - Leur grand pouvoir se verra augmenté, - La Terre neufue sera en ses hauts estres, - Au sanguinaire le nombre raconté. - - English. - - One day the two great Masters shall be friends, - Their great power shall be increased, - The new Land shall be in a flourishing condition, - The number shall be told to the bloody person. - -ANNOT. - -We must suppose here three Kings of _Europe_, two of which shall become -friends, and by their agreement, _the new Land_, that is, either the -Plantations, or the Trade either in the _East_ or _West Indies_, shall -flourish, their prosperities shall be related and told to the third King, -who shall be a bloody and cruel man. - - -XC. - - French. - - Par vie & mort changé Regne d’_Hungrie_, - La loy sera plus aspre que service, - Leur grand Cité d’Urlemens plaine & crie, - _Castor_ & _Pollux_ ennemis dans la Lice. - - English. - - By Life and Death the Kingdom of _Hungary_ shall be changed, - The Law shall be more severe than the service, - Their great City shall be full of howling and crying, - _Castor_ and _Pollux_ shall be enemies in the List. - -ANNOT. - -There shall happen a great change in the Kingdom of _Hungary_, caused by -the birth of one, and the death of another. - -The meaning of the second Verse is, that it will be more tolerable to go -to War, than to Law. - -The last verse signifieth, that this dissention shall happen between two -Brothers; because _Castor_ and _Pollux_ were such. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Soleil levant ungrand feu lon verra, - Bruit & clarté vers Aquilon tendans, - Dedans le rond mort & cris lon orra, - Par Glaive, Feu, Faim, mort les attendans. - - English. - - At the rising of the Sun a great fire shall be seen, - Noise and light tending towards the North, - Within the round death and cries shall be heard, - Death by Sword, Fire, Hunger watching for them. - -ANNOT. - -These are Prodigies that shall be seen, a little before that a great -Calamity shall happen. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Feu couleur d’or, du Ciel en terre veu, - Frappé du haut nay, fait cas merveilleux, - Grand meurtre humain, prinse du grand Neveu, - Morts de spectacles, eschapé lorgueilleux. - - English. - - A fire from Heaven of a Golden colour shall be seen, - Stricken by the high born, a wonderful case, - Great murder of Mankind, the taking of the great Neveu, - Some dead looking, the proud one shall escape. - -ANNOT. - -This is a continuation of the former, relating more Prodigies that are to -happen. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Aupres du _Tybre_ bien pres la _Lybitine_, - Un peu devant grand Inondation, - Le chef du nef prins, mis a la sentine, - Chasteau, Palais en conflagration. - - English. - - Near the _Tyber_, going towards _Lybia_, - A little before a great Innundation, - The Master of the Ship being taken shall be put into the Sink, - And a Castle and Palace shall be burnt. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Grand _Pau_, grand mal par _Gaulois_ recevra, - Vaine terreur au Maritin Lion, - Peuple infiny par la Mer passera, - Sans eschaper un quart d’un Million. - - English. - - Great _Pau_ shall receive great harm by the _French_, - A vain terrour shall seize upon the Maritine Lion, - Infinite people shall go beyond Sea, - Of which shall not escape a quarter of a Million. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse signifieth that the Countrey about the _Pau_, (which is -the greatest River in _Italy_) shall receive great damage by the _French_. - -The second, that the Maritine Lion, _viz._ the _Hollanders_ shall fear in -vain. The third and fourth are plain. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Les lieux peuplez seront inhabitables, - Pour Champs avoir grande division, - Regnes livrez a prudents incapables, - Lors les grands Freres mort & dissension. - - English. - - The populous places shall be deserted, - A great division to obtain Fields, - Kingdoms given to prudents incapable, - When the great Brothers shall die by dissention. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Flambeau ardant au Ciel soir sera veu, - Pres de la fin & principe du _Rhosne_, - Famine, Glaive, tard le secours pourveu, - La _Perse_ tourne envahir _Macedoine_. - - English. - - A burning shall be seen by night in Heaven, - Near the end and beginning of the _Rhosne_, - Famine, Sword, too late succours shall be provided, - _Persia_ shall come against _Macedonia_. - -ANNOT. - -This is easie. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - _Romain Pontife_ garde de taprocher, - De la Cité que deux fleuves arrouse, - Ton sang viendras aupres de la cracher, - Toy & les tiens quand fleurira la Rose. - - English. - - _Roman Pontife_ take heed to come near, - To the City watered with two Rivers, - Thou shall spit there thy blood, - Thou and thine, when the Rose shall blossom. - -ANNOT. - -Although there may be many Cities watered with two Rivers, yet I know -none more famous than _Lions_ in _France_, where two famous Rivers, the -_Rhosne_ and the _Saone_ meet together, and I believe this is the place -that our Author forewarneth the _Pope_ to come to, for fear of his death, -and that of his attendants. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Celuy du sang respersé le visage, - De la Victime proche du Sacrifice, - Venant en _Leo_, augure par presage, - Mis estre a mort alors pour la fiance. - - English. - - He that shall have his face bloody, - With the blood of the Victim near to be sacrificed, - The Sun coming into _Leo_ shall be an Augury by presage, - That then he shall be put to death for his confidence. - -ANNOT. - -I suppose this to be spoken of a Jewish Priest, who going about to -practice the Ceremonial Law, in a Countrey where it is forbidden, shall -be put to death for his bold confidence. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - Terroir _Romain_ qu’interpretoit _Augure_, - Par gent _Gauloise_ par trop sera vexée, - Mais Nation _Celtique_ craindra l’heure, - _Boreas_, classe trop loing l’avoit poussée. - - English. - - The _Roman_ Countrey in which the _Augur_ did interpret, - Shall be too much vexed by the _French_ Nation, - But the _Celtique_ Nation shall fear the hour, - The Northwind had driven the Navy in too far. - -ANNOT. - -Since the Reign of _Henry_ the II. King of _France_, the Historians -do not mention that the Countrey about _Rome_ hath been troubled by -the _French_ Armies. It was only in the time of _Paul_ the IV. who was -assisted by the _French_ Troops, under the conduct of the Lord _Strozy_, -and Captain _Monluc_, therefore this Stanza belongeth to the time of that -Kings Reign. - -And indeed what he foretelleth here, came to pass in the year 1556. -for the Countrey about _Rome_ was vexed by the _French_ Nation, who -went about then to take the places, which the Duke of _Alba_ had taken -from the _Pope_, and thereby caused those disorders, which commonly are -incident to War. - -The second Verse saith, _the Countrey shall be too much vexed_, and not a -little, because _Monluc_, whom the Author calleth the _quick Gascon_, did -continually torment the Enemies, which could not be done without a great -prejudice to the Countrey; Moreover, his Troops being for the most part -_Gascons_, and consequently active men; the Soldiers did more harm than -ordinary. - -In the first Verse he saith, that this Countrey about _Rome_ was marked -by an _Augury_, to be the place upon which the sad effect of the _Augury_ -should fall, which proved true; for the first of _March 1556_, appeared a -Blazing Star, which did presage to that Countrey of _Rome_, its disaster. - -_Roman Countrey in which the Augur did interpret_, that is to say, which -the _Augur_ did signifie, and presage should be vexed by the _French_ -Nation. - -Afterwards the Author saith, that the same _French_ Nation, or -_Celtique_, shall fear the hour when _Boreas_ should drive to far the -Fleet, that is to say, shall fear much, when the Baron _de la Garde_ -was so troubled with the storm (as we have said) and in truth it was -_Boreas_, or the _Northwind_, that drove him into St. _Florents_ road. - - -C. - - French. - - Dedans les Isles si horrible tumulte, - Rien on n’orra qu’une bellique brigue, - Tant grand sera des predareurs l’Insult, - Qu’on se viendra ranger a la grand ligue. - - English. - - In the Islands shall be so horrid tumults, - That nothing shall be heard but a Warlike surprise, - So great shall be the insult of the Robbers, - That every one shall shelter himself under the great League. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain, if by the great League, you understand the soundest and -most powerful party. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ III. - - -I. - - French. - - Apres Combat & Bataille Navale, - Le grand _Neptune_ a son plus haut beffroy, - Rouge adversaire de peur de viendra pasle, - Mettant le grand _Occean_ en effroy. - - English. - - After the fight and Sea Battle, - The great _Neptune_ in his highest Steeple, - The red adversary shall wax pale for fear, - Putting the great _Occean_ in a fright. - -ANNOT. - -I find no mystical sence in this, unless by the red adversary he should -understand the _Pope_, because clothed in Scarlet. Therefore I leave the -explication to the judgement of every particular Reader. - - -II. - - French. - - Le Divin Verbe donra a la substance, - Compris Ciel, Terre, or occult au lait mystique, - Corps, Ame, Esprit, ayant toute puissance, - Tant sous ses pieds comme au Siege Celique. - - English. - - The Divine Word shall give to the substance, - Heaven and Earth, and Gold hid in the mystical milk, - Body, Soul, Spirit, having all power, - As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat. - -ANNOT. - -I desire the judicious Reader, and chiefly if he be given to the -Hermetick Philosophy, to take a special notice of this Stanza, for in -it is contained the secret of the _Elixir_ or Philosophers Stone, more -clearly and plainly then in the _Tabula Smaragdina_ of _Hermes_, which to -make appearent, we shall expound it Verse by Verse. - -_The Divine Word shall give to the substance_; by the Divine word you -must not understand the second person of the Trinity, but a Doctor in -Divinity or a Theologian, called in Greek θεόλογος or Divine word, who -shall be an _Adeptus_, a Disciple of _Hermes_, and one that shall attain -to the secret of the Philosophers stone. - -That man shall give to the substance, that is, to Gold; _Heaven and -Earth, and gold hid in the mystical Milk_. Heaven and Earth, that is all -the Celestial and Terrestrial qualities, lurking in the Gold, which is -hid in the mystical milk, that is in the _Azoth_, or _Mercury_ of the -Philosophers. - -_Body, Soul, Spirit, having all Power_, that is, the three principles, of -which the Philosophers say their stone is compounded, _viz. Body, Soul, -and Spirit_. - -Having _all Power_, that is, having the power to transmute all Mettals -into its kind; as also having all the powers from above and below, as -_Hermes_ saith, _Pater ejus est ~Sol~, Mater vero ~Luna~, & Terra nutrix -ejus_. - -Which is confirmed by the last Verse, _As well under his feet, as in the -Heavenly Seat_. - - -III. - - French. - - _Mars_ & _Mercure_, & Largent joint ensemble, - Vers le Midy extreme siccité, - Au fond d’_Asie_ on dira Terre tremble, - _Corinthe_, _Ephese_ lors en perplexite. - - English. - - _Mars_ and _Mercury_, and Silver joyned together, - Towards the South a great drought, - In the bottome of _Asia_ shall be an Earth-quake, - _Corinth_ and _Ephesus_ shall then be in perplexity. - -ANNOT. - -After the Author hath in the foregoing Stanza expressed the mistery -of the Philosophers stone, he seemeth to give here a receit, though -Sophistical, for the relief of the Inquisitors, and as it were a -_Viaticum_, for them to subsist till they can attain to the perfection, -as _Basilius_, _Valentinus_ hath done since to his disciples. - -He saith then, that with _Mars_, that is, Iron, _Mercury_ and Silver -joyned together, some thing may be done, if you beware of a _drought -in the South_; that is, in the middle of the operation; and this is -concerning the two first Verses. Those that shall desire to be better -and further informed, may come to me, and they shall have all the -satisfaction I can afford them. - -The two last Verses have no relation to the first two, and foretel onely -a great _Earthquake_ in _Asia_, by which, those two Towns, _Corinth_ and -_Ephesus_, shall be in great perplexity. - - -IV. - - French. - - Quand seront proches le defaut des Lunaires, - De l’un a lautre ne distant grandement, - Froid, siccité, dangers vers les frontieres, - Mesme ou l’Oracle a pris commencement. - - English. - - When the want of the Luminaries shall be near, - Not being far distant one from another, - Cold, drought, danger towards the Frontiers, - Even where the Oracle had his beginning. - -ANNOT. - -The word _near_, sheweth that the two Eclipses, one of the Sun and the -other of the Moon, shall be near one another. - -The Ephemerides of _John Stadius_, teach us, that in the year 1556 in the -Month of _November_, these two Eclipses did meet. That of the Sun upon -the first of _November_, at 17 hours (as the Astrologers reckon) and 53 -Minutes. That of the Moon at 12 hours and 43 Scruples; and thus the two -last Verses are plain. - -Concerning the other two: _Belleforest_ teacheth us two things; the -first, that the same year was extraordinary dry, in so much that from -_April_ to _October_ it did not rain, but only upon the Eve of St. _John_ -the Baptist, and that the Vintage was made in _August_, the Wine proving -excellent. The second is, that in the Month of _December_ began a horrid -Frost, which lasted a great while. Thus there was _Cold and drought_. - -Concerning the dangers towards the Frontiers, _Belleforest_ saith, that -towards _Pickardy_ the _Spaniard_ began to break the truce, making -inrodes about _Abbeville_, St. _Spirit_ of _Rue_, _la Chapele_, _Rozoy_, -_Thierasse_, and _Aubenton_. - -When complaints were made of it, they alledged their necessity and want -of Victuals; which did oblige the Lord Admiral to permit the Souldiers -retaliation; and in this manner, _there was danger towards the Frontiers_. - -As for the Town where the _Oracle_ (that is, our Author) had his -beginning or birth, whether it be that of St. _Remy_ or _Salon de Craux_. -The dangers that were there, proceeded from the Civil Wars between the -Protestants and the _Roman_ Catholicks. - - -V. - - French. - - Pres le defaut des deux grands luminaires, - Qui surviendra entre l’_Avril_ & _Mars_, - O quel cherté! mais deux grands debonnaires, - Par Terre & Mer secourront toutes parts. - - English. - - Near the Ecclipses of the two great Luminaries, - Which shall happen between _April_ and _March_, - O what a dearth! but two great ones bountiful, - By Land and Sea shall succour them on all sides. - -ANNOT. - -There shall happen two great Ecclipses between _March_ and _April_, one -of the Sun, and the other of the Moon; then shall be a great dearth, but -the afflicted shall be relieved by the two powerful Princes of a good -Nature. - - -VI. - - French. - - Dans Temple clos le foudre y entrera. - Des Citadins dedans leur fort grevez, - Chevaux, Bœufs, Hommes, l’Onde mur touchera, - Par faim, soif, soubs les plus foibles armez. - - English. - - Into a close Church the lightning shall fall, - The Citizens shall be distressed in their Fort, - Horses, Oxen, Men, the Water shall touch the Wall, - By hunger, thirst, down shall come the worst provided. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -VII. - - French. - - Les fugitifs, feu du Ciel sur les Piques, - Conflit prochain des Corbeaux sesbatans, - De Terre on crie, aide, secours Celiques, - Quand pres des murs seront les combatans. - - English. - - The runaways, fire of Heaven upon the Pikes, - A fight near hand, the Ravens sporting, - They cry from the Land, succours O Heavenly powers - When near the walls shall be the fighting men. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse signifieth, that there shall be some _Fugitives_, upon -whose _Pikes_ the Lightning shall fall. - -The second, that when a multitude of _Ravens shall be sporting_, a great -fight shall be near hand. - -The third, that there shall be a great exclamation and prayers, when the -Souldiers shall come near the wall to give an assault. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Les _Cimbres_ joints avecques leurs voisins, - Depopuler viendront presque l’_Espagne_, - Gens ramassez, _Guienne_ & _Limosins_, - Seront en ligue & leur feront Compagne. - - English. - - The _Cimbres_ joyned with their neighbours, - Shall come to depopulate almost all _Spain_, - People gathered from _Guienna_ and _Limosin_, - Shall be in league with them, and keep them Company. - -ANNOT. - -The _Cimbres_ and _Teutons_ were a Northern people, _viz_: the _Swedes_ -and _Danes_, who came once out of their Countrey to sack _Rome_, and were -overcome by _Marius_, near the Town of _Orenge_, in a place where his -Triumphal Arch is seen to this day. The rest is easie. - - -IX. - - French. - - _Bourdeaux_, _Rouan_ & la _Rochelle_ joints, - Tiendront autour la grand Mer Occeane, - _Anglois Bretons_, & les _Flamans_ conjoints, - Les chasseront jusque aupres de _Rouane_. - - English. - - _Bourdeaux_, _Rouan_, and _Rochel_ joyned together, - Will range about upon the great Ocean, - _English Brittans_, and _Flemings_ joyned together, - Shall drive them away as far as _Rouane_. - -ANNOT. - -By mentioning _Bourdeaux_, _Rouan_, and _Rochel_, the Author -understandeth the whole Naval forces of _France_, which (he saith) shall -be defeated, by the _English_, _Brittains_, and _Hollanders_, and pursued -as far as _Rouane_, which is a Town at the head of the River _Loire_, -from whence it runneth down for the space of 500 Miles to _Nantes_, and a -while after dischargeth it self into the Ocean. - - -X. - - French. - - De sang & faim plus grand calamité, - Sept fois sapreste a la Marine plage, - _Monech_ de faim, lieu pris, captivité, - Le grand mené, _Croc_, enserré en cage. - - English. - - Of blood and famine, what a great calamity! - Seven times is ready to come upon the Sea Coast, - _Monech_ by hunger, the place taken, captivity, - The great one carried away, _Croc_, shut up in a Cage. - -ANNOT. - -_Monech_ or _Monaco_ is a Town and Principality belonging to the -Family of the _Grimaldi_ of _Genua_, and is seated by the Sea side, -between _Provence_ and _Genoa_; that place is threatned here with many -afflictions, as is plain in this Stanza. - - -XI. - - French. - - Les Armées battre au Ciel longue saison, - L’Arbre au milieu de la Cité tombé, - Vermine, Rogne, Glaive en face tison, - Lors le Monarque d’_Adrie_ succombé. - - English. - - Armies shall fight in the Air a great while, - The tree shall fall in the middle of the City, - Vermin, Scabs, Sword, fire-brand in the face, - When the Monarck of _Adria_ shall fall. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses contain several prodigies, that shall happen -before the death of the Duke of _Venice_, or rather (because he is no -Monarck) before the fall of that Monarchy or Common-wealth. - - -XII. - - French. - - Par la tumeur du _Heb._ _Po._ _Tag._ _Tibre_ de _Rome_, - Et par lestang _Leman_ & _Aretin_, - Les deux grands chefs, & Citez de _Garonne_, - Prins, Morts, Noiez. Partir humain butin. - - English. - - By the swelling of _Heb._ _Po._ _Tag._ _Tiber_ of _Rome_, - And by the Lake _Leman_ and _Aretin_, - The two great Heads, and Cities of _Garonne_, - Taken, Dead, Drowned. The human booty shall be divided. - -ANNOT. - -_Heb._ is the River _Hebrus_ in _Thracia_, _Po_, is the great River of -_Italy_, _Tag._ is _Tagus_, the River of _Lisbonne_; the rest is plain. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Par Foudre en Arche Or & Argent fondu, - De deux Captifs l’un l’autre mangera, - De la Cité le plus grand estendu, - Quand submergée la Classe nagera. - - English. - - By Lightning shall gold and silver be melted in the Arch, - Of two Prisoners one shall eat up the other, - The greatest of the City shall be laid down, - When the Navy that was drowned shall swim. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are plain. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Par le Rameau du vaillant personage, - De _France_ infirme, par le Pere infelice, - Honeurs, Richesses, travail en son viel Age, - Pour avoir creu le conseil d’homme nice. - - English. - - By the Bow of the valliant men, - Of weak _France_, by the unfortunate Father, - Honours, Riches, labour in his old age, - For having believed the councel of a nice man. - -ANNOT. - -Every body may understand this as well as I do. - - -XV. - - French. - - Cœur, vigueur, gloire, le Regne changera, - De tous points contre, ayant son adversaire, - Lors _France_ enfance par mort subjuguera, - Un grand Regent sera lors plus contraire. - - English. - - Heart, vigour, and glory shall change the Kingdom, - In all points, having an adversary against it, - Then shall _France_ overcome Childhood by death, - A great Regent shall then be more adversary to it. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses seem to have foretold of the late Tyrant _Cromwel_. - -The two last Verses may be applied to _France_, when the Infant of -_Spain_ _Don Balthazar_ died, _&c._ - - -XVI. - - French. - - Un Prince _Anglois_ _Mars_ a son cœur du Ciel, - Voudra poursuivre sa fortune prospere, - Des deux duelles l’un percera le fiel, - Hay de luy, bien aymé de sa Mere. - - English. - - An _English_ Prince _Mars_ hath his heart from Heaven, - Will follow his prosperous fortune, - Of two Duels one shall pierce the gall, - Being hated of him, and beloved of his Mother. - -ANNOT. - -By this Stanza is promised to _England_ a Martial Prince, who shall have -his heart from Heaven, and with all endeavours follow his prosperous -fortune, which is a remarkable and commendable part in a man. - -By the last two Verses, it seemeth that this Prince shall have a Son, who -shall fight two duels, for one of which his Father shall be angry and -hate him, but his Mother shall love him for it. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Mont _Aventine_ brusler nuit sera veu, - Le Ciel obscur tout a un coup en _Flandres_, - Quand le Monarque chassera son Neveu, - Lors gens d’Eglise commettront les esclandres. - - English. - - Mount _Aventine_ shall be seen to burn in the night, - The Heaven shall be darkned upon a sudden in _Flanders_, - When the Monarch shall expel his Neveu, - Then Churchmen shall commit scandals. - -ANNOT. - -Mount-_Aventine_ is one of the seven Mountains in _Rome_. The rest is -plain. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Apres la pluye de lait assez longuette, - En plusieurs lieux de _Rheims_ le Ciel touché, - O quel conflit de sang pres deux lapreste, - Pere & Fils Rois, noseront approché. - - English. - - After a pretty long rain of Milk, - In many places of _Rhemes_ the lightning shall fall, - O what a bloody fight is making ready near them, - Father and Son, both Kings, shall not dare to come near. - -ANNOT. - -_Rhemes_ is a City in _France_. The rest is easie. - - -XIX. - - French. - - En _Lucques_ sang & lait viendra pleuvoir, - Un peu devant changement de Preteur, - Grand Peste & Guerre, Faim & soif sera voir, - Loin ou mourra leur Prince Recteur. - - English. - - In _Luca_ it shall rain Blood and Milk, - A little before the change of the Magistrate, - A great Plague, War, Hunger and Thirst shall be seen, - A great way off, where their Prince Ruler shall die. - -ANNOT. - -_Luca_ at present is a strong Town, and a little Common-wealth by it self -in _Italy_, governed by their own Magistrate: That Town is threatned here -to see those prodigies mentioned, a little before the change of their -Government, besides a great Plague and dearth; as also the death of their -chief Magistrate, who shall die far off that Countrey. - -As for the _raining Milk and Blood_, they are Prodigies that have -appeared often before, and therefore not incredible, as those that are -Versed in History may justifie: and although the reasons may be drawn -from natural causes, yet would they be too tedious if I should insert -them here. - - -XX. - - French. - - Par les Contrées du grand flevue _Betique_, - Loin d’_Ibere_, au Royaume de _Grenade_, - Croix repoussées par gens Mahometiques, - Un de _Cordube_ trahira a la fin Contrade. - - English. - - Through the Countreys of the great River _Betis_, - Far from _Iberia_, in the Kingdom of _Granada_, - Crosses beaten back by Mahometan people, - One of _Corduba_ shall at last betray the Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -The great River, called in Latine _Betis_, and in Spanish _Guadalquivir_, -is the River of _Sevilia_, the most famous Town in _Spain_ for Trade. -This River runneth through most of the _Spanish_ Dominions, and -dischargeth it self into the Ocean about the mouth of the Straights, -over against _Barbary_, upon which Coast of _Spain_ lyeth the Kingdom of -_Granada_, the chief City of which is _Corduba_, in _Spanish Cordua_. -This Kingdom was of time almost immemorial, occupied and inhabited by -the _Moores_, till they were expelled and driven back into _Barbary_, by -_Ferdinand_ and _Isabella_, King and Queen of _Castilia_. The rest is -easie. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Au _Crustamin_ pres Mer _Adriatique_. - Apparoistra un horrible poisson, - De face humaine & de corps aquatique, - Qui se prendra dehors de l’Hamecon. - - English. - - In the _Crustamin_ near the _Adriatick_ Sea, - An horrid Fish shall appear, - Having a mans face, and a fishes body, - Which shall be taken without a hook. - -ANNOT. - -I suppose this _Crustamin_ to be some place so called, near the -_Adriatick_ Sea. - -As for Fishes with an humane face, we have several examples of them. -_Ambrosius Paræus_ relateth divers, and in his works hath inserted the -Pictures of them. - -1. When _Mena_ was Governour of _Ægypt_, and walked by the _Nilus_ side, -he saw a Sea-man rising out of the River, having an humane shape as far -as the Navel, and with a grave look and fair hairs, intermixed with white -ones, bony Breast, and distinct Arms, the rest of the body was like a -Fish. Three days after in the Morning appeared another Sea-monster like a -woman: those two Monsters appeared so long, that every body had time to -consider them. - -2. _Rondeletius_ saith, that in our age was taken a Fish in the Sea -of _Norway_, which every body presently called a Monk, because of the -resemblance. - -3. In the year 1531. was seen a Sea-monster, covered with Scales, which -for the resemblance was called a Bishop, _Rondeletius_ and _Gesuerus_ -have the Picture of it. - -4. In the year 1523. was seen in _Rome_ a Fish about the bigness of a -Child of five years old, that had humane shape to the Navel, except the -ears: So that all those things related of _Tritons_, _Nereides_ and -_Sirens_ seem not altogether fabulous, and we may conclude with _Pliny_: -_Vera est vulgi opinio, quicquià nascatur in parte naturæ ulla, & in -Mariesse, præterque multa quæ nusquam alibi_, lib. 9. cap. 2. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Six jours lassaut devant Cité donné, - Livrée sera forte & aspre Bataille, - Trois la rendront, & a eux pardonné, - Le reste a feu & sang trauche taille. - - English. - - Six days shall the assault be given to the City, - A great and fierce Battle shall be fought, - Three shall surrender it and be pardoned, - The rest shall be put to fire and sword, cut and slasht. - -ANNOT. - -Some famous City must be here understood, which the Author hath not -named. The same shall be assaulted for six days continually, and in -conclusion shall be surrendred or betrayed by three men, who shall -be pardoned, and all the rest put to Fire and Sword. Most men that -have knowledge in History, interpret this of the City of _Magdebourg_ -in _Germany_, that was destroyed with Fire and Sword by the Earl of -_Tilly_, General for the Emperour against _Gustavus Adolphus_, King of -_Swedeland_. For the like devastation and cruelty was never heard of in -_Europe_. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Si _France_ passe outre Mer _Liquistique_, - Tu te verras en Isles & Mers enclos, - Mahomet contraire plus Mer l’_Adriatique_, - Chevaux & Asnes tu rongeras les os. - - English. - - If _France_ goeth beyond the _Ligustick_ Sea, - Thou shall see thy self inclosed with Islands and Seas, - _Mahomet_, against thee besides the _Adriatick_ Sea, - Of Horses and Asses thou shalt gnaw the bones. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the miseries which the _French_ were to suffer in the -Island of _Corsica_, till the peace was concluded in the year 1559. The -Author directeth his speech to the _French_ Fleet that went to _Corsica_ -in the year 1555. - -He saith in the first Verse, _If France goeth beyond the Ligustik Sea_; -that is, if thou goest to _Corsica_, which is beyond the _Ligustik_ Sea -towards _Africa_. _Thou shalt see thy self enclosed with Islands and -Seas_; that is, thou shalt be constrained to keep within those two Towns -which thou hast there, without going out either by Land or Sea; not by -Sea for want of Ships, nor by Land the Garrisons being weak, because the -King had then so much business that he could not suffice all. - -Moreover the Author addeth that _Mahomet shall be contrary_; not that -he was an Enemy to _France_, but because he was then Master of the -_Adriatick_ Sea; so that the _Venetians_, which were then friends to the -_French_, could not succour them. - -And thus the news of the peace being brought, the _French_ did eat their -Horses and Asses, and there was never a peace so well come as to the -_French_ that were in _Corsica_. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - De l’Entreprise grande confusion, - Perte de gens Thresor innumerable, - Tu ny doibs faire encore tension, - _France_ a mon dire fais que sois recordable. - - English. - - From the undertaking great confusion, - Loss of people and innumerable Treasury, - Thou oughtest not yet to tend that way, - _France_ endeavour to remember my saying. - -ANNOT. - -This is annexed and hath relation to the precedent, therefore needeth no -other interpretation. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Qui au Royaume _Navarrois_ parviendra, - Quand la _Sicile_ & _Naples_ seront joints, - _Bigorre_ & _Landes_ par _Foix_ lors on tiendra, - D’Un qui d’_Espagne_ sera par trop conjoint. - - English. - - He that shall obtain the Kingdom of _Navarre_, - When _Sicily_ and _Naples_ shall be joyned, - _Bigorre_ and _Landes_ then by _Foix_ shall beheld - Of one who shall too much be joyned to _Spain_. - -ANNOT. - -_Bigorre_ is a Town in _Gascony_, the _Landes_ is a desert Countrey about -_Bourdeaux_ wherein nothing groweth but _Pine-Trees_, _Foix_ is a Country -of _Gascony_, called the County, of _Foix_. The rest is easie. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Des Rois & Princes dresseront simulachres, - Augures, creux eslevez aruspices: - Corne victime dorée, & d’_Azur_ & de Nacre, - Intrepretez seront les extispisces. - - English. - - Some Kings and Princes shall set up Idols, - Divinations and hollow raised Divinators, - Victim with gilded Horns, and set with _Azur_ and Mother of Pearl - The looking into the Entrals shall be interpreted. - -ANNOT. - -I can find nothing in this but a description of the Heathens sacrifices -in ancient times, where they brought the Victim, that is, the beast -that was to be sacrificed, trimmed in a gallant manner, having the -Horns gilded, and set with Azure and Mother of Pearl, and after the -Entrals were taken out, by the inspection of them they practised their -Soothsaying. This inspection of Entrals was called by the Latines -_Extispicium_, from the word _Exta_ which signifieth Entrals, and -_specto_ which signifieth to look. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Prince _Libique_ puissant en Occident, - _Francois_ d’_Arabe_ viendra tant enflammer, - Scavant aux Lettres sera condescendent - La Langue _Arabe_ en _Francois_ translater. - - English. - - A _Libian_ Prince being powerful in the West, - The _French_ shall love so much the _Arabian_ Language, - That he being a Learned man shall condescend, - To have the _Arabian_ tongue translated into _French_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is _de Futuro_, and is concerning a _Libian_ Prince -(now _Libia_ is a Kingdom of _Africa_) who shall be a powerful man in -the West, and being a lover of learning shall condescend to have the -_Arabian_ Language translated into _French_, because the _French_ at that -time shall be much in love with it. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - De Terre foible & pauvre parentale, - Par boute & paix parviendra a l’Empire, - Long temps regner une jeune femelle, - Qu’oncques en Regne nen survint un si pire. - - English. - - One weak in Lands and of poor Kindred, - By thrusting, and peace shall attain to the Empire, - Long time shall Reign a young woman, - Such as in a Reign was never a worse. - -ANNOT. - -The words are so plain, that every body may interpret them. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Les deux Neveux en divers lieux nourris, - Navale pugne, Terre peres tombez, - Viendront si haut eslevez aguerris, - Venger l’Injure ennemis succombez. - - English. - - The two Nephews brought up in divers places, - A Sea fight, fathers fallen to the Earth, - They shall came highly educated, and expert in Arms, - To avenge the injury, their enemies shall fall down under them. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning two _Nephews_, who shall be educated in divers places, -and grow expert in Arms, their Fathers shall be killed, but those -_Nephews_ shall come, and having fought at Sea, shall revenge the injury -done to them, overcoming their enemies. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Celuy qu’en luitte & fer au fait Bellique, - Aura porte plus grand que luy le prix, - De nuit au lit six luy feront la pique, - Nud sans harnois subit sera surprins. - - English. - - He who in Wrestling and Martial affairs, - Had carried the prize before his better, - By night Six shall abuse him in his bed, - Being naked, and without harness, he shall suddenly be surprised. - -ANNOT. - -Many attribute this to the Earl of _Montgomery_ in _France_, who having -run a tilt against _Henry_ II. unfortunately killed him, for which, and -for being of the Protestant party, he was afterwards beheaded, though -quarter had been given him. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Aux Champs de _Mede_, d’_Arabe_, & d’_Armenie_, - Deux grands Copies trois fois sassembleront, - Pres du Rivage d’_Araxes_ la mesgnie, - Du grand _Soliman_ en Terre tomberont. - - English. - - In the fields of _Media_, _Arabia_, and _Armenia_, - Two great Armies shall meet thrice, - Near the Shore of _Araxes_, the people - Of great _Solyman_ shall fall down. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth no more, but the loss of three famous Battles on the -_Turks_ side, against the _Persians_. - -The first that I find after the coming out of these Prophesies, is the -Battle of _Sancazan_, seven miles from _Tauris_, and hard by the River -_Araxes_, where 20000 _Turks_ were slain, without any considerable loss -of the _Persians_; this was in the time of _Amurath_ the III. Emperour -of the _Turks_, and son to _Selyman_ the second. The other two Battles -I could not make good, because I want the supplement of the _Turkish_ -History, as also because they have not yet happened. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Le grand sepulchre du peuple _Aquitanique_, - S’aprochera aupres de la _Toscane_, - Quand _Mars_ sera pres du coin _Germanique_, - Et au terroir de la gent _Mantuane_. - - English. - - The great grave of the _Aquitanick_ people, - Shall come near _Tuscany_, - When _Mars_ shall be in the _German_ corner, - And in the Territory of the _Mantuan_ people. - -ANNOT. - -The Lord of _Thou_ saith in his History, that the Cardinal _Caraffa_ got -by the King of _France_’s permission, out of _Corsica_, several Troops -of _Gascons_, and brought some with them, to the number of about 2000 -which were quartered about _Rome_. Many of them were among the Troops of -the Duke of _Guise_, being allured thither by the reputation of their -Countreyman Captain _Monluc_. - -The Author foretelleth, that they shall find their Graves near _Tuscany_, -because the Territory of _Rome_ joyneth to that Province. - -Then in the 3 and 4 Verse he specifieth the time by two marks; one is, -_when ~Mars~ shall be near the German corner_; the other, _when he shall -be in the Territory of the Mantuan people_, and the War was then in that -Territory; for the Duke of _Ferrara_ to shew he would not stand still, -sent his son _Alphonso d’Este_ to make incursions there, and to take some -places. - -Moreover the War was then near the _German corner_, which is _Lorrain_, -when _Henry_ II. besieged _Thionville_ in the year 1558. _Paradin_ -sheweth, that _Mars_ was in the _German corner_ two years before, sith -about the end of the year 1555; the Duke of _Nevers_ by an extraordinary -endeavour in the middle of the Winter, did relieve _Mariembourg_: and -the following years the _French_ Garrisons kept the fields to avoid -surprises. And in the year 1557. when the Duke of _Guise_ fought in -_Italy_, the Duke of _Savoy_ brought his Army against _Mariembourg_; so -it proved true that _Mars_, _viz._ the War was in the _German corner_; -for that Town is in the borders of _Germany_, and was in that corner till -the taking of _Thionville_. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - En la Cité ou le loup entrera, - Bien pres de la les ennemis seront, - Copie estrange grand pais gastera, - Aux Monts des _Alpes_ les amis passeront. - - English. - - In the City wherein the Wolf shall go, - Near that place the enemies shall be, - An Army of strangers shall spoil a great Countrey, - The friends shall go over the Mountains of the _Alpes_. - -ANNOT. - -The two last Verses make me think that this Prophesie was fulfilled in -the time of _Henry_ II. King of _France_, because the _French_ being then -friends to the Pope, went over the _Alpes_ to serve him. - -This Stanza might also be applyed to _Lewis_ 13, who caused his Army to -go beyond the _Alpes_, but that word _Friends_ is more convenient to the -time of _Henry_ II. because the _French_ went then over the _Alpes_ in -quality of friends to serve the Pope. - -According to this conjecture, the _wolf_ which signifieth the _Spaniard_, -came _anno_ 1556. into many Towns, which the Duke of _Alba_ took, as we -have said in another place, and because among those Towns _Neptune_ was -one of the most considerable, being seated by the Sea side near _Rome_: I -believe that by this word _City_ he meaneth that Town which belonged to -the _Colonese_. - -And to say truth, the _French_ were then very near it, to endeavour the -relief of it. - -Afterwards came the Duke of _Guise_’s Army, which is named by the Author, -_an Army of strangers_, because the _French_ and _Germans_ are strangers -to _Italy_. _This Army shall spoil a great Countrey_; for in that year it -went through all _Italy_, and where an Army passeth, nothing but ruine -can be expected. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Quand le defaut du Soleil lors sera, - Sur le plein jour le Monstre sera veu, - Tout autrement on l’Interpretera, - Cherté na garde, nul ny aura pourveu. - - English. - - When the Ecclipse of the Sun shall be - At noon day, the Monster shall be seen, - It shall be interperted otherways, - Then for a dearth, because no body hath provided against it. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is, that when the Sun shall be Eclipsed at noon, a -Monster shall be born, which shall presage a dearth, though no body will -believe it, because they were unprovided against it. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Du plus profond de l’Occident d’_Europe_, - De pauvre gens un jeune enfant naistra, - Qui par sa langue seduira grande troupe, - Son bruit au Regne d’Orient plus croistra. - - English. - - Out of the deepest part of the West of _Europe_, - From poor people a young child shall be born, - Who with his tongue shall seduce many people, - His fame shall increase in the Eastern Kingdom. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no explication. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Ensevely non mort Apoplectique, - Sera trouvé avoir les mains mangees, - Quand la Cité damnera l’Heretique, - Qu’avoit leur Loix ce leur sembloit changees. - - English. - - One buried, not dead, but Apoplectical, - Shall be found to have eaten up his hands, - When the City shall blame the heretical man, - Who as they thought had changed their Laws. - -ANNOT. - -Many persons (according to Histories being only in a fit of Apoplexy) -have been buried for dead, and being afterwards taken out of the ground, -have been found to have eaten up their hands, as I my self have seen one -digged out of Saint _Bartholomews_ Church-yard, about the time that the -City of _London_ began to be weary of _Cromwels_ devices and Tyranny, yet -I would not here definitively assert, he was the man here pointed at by -the Title and Epithete of Heretical man, unless it were in the point of -government. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Avant l’assault l’Oraison pronouncée, - _Milan_ prins l’Aigle, par embusche deceus, - Muraille antique par Canons enfonsée, - Par feu & sang a mercy peu receus. - - English. - - Before the assault the Prayer shall be said, - An Eagle shall take a Kite, they shall be deceived by an Embuscado. - The ancient wall shall be beaten down with Canons, - By fire and blood, few shall have quarter. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is easie. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - La gent _Gauloise_ & Nation estrange, - Outre les Monts, morts pris & profligez, - Au mois contraire & proche de vendange, - Par les Seigneurs en accord redigez. - - English. - - The _French_ Nation, and another Nation, - Being over the Mountains, shall die, and be taken, - In a month contrary to them, and near the vintage, - By the Lords agreed together. - -ANNOT. - -Two kind of Nations were led into _Italy_ by the Duke of _Guise_ to -succour the Pope, _viz._ _French_ and _Germans_, meaning by the _Germans_ -all those that use the _German_ Tongue, as _Switzers_, &c. - -The Author saith, these two Nations were led beyond the Mountains, -because they went beyond the _Apennine Alpes_, to come down into the -Champion Countrey of _Italy_, where some of them died by the Sword, -others by famine and sickness; others lost their liberty, being made -prisoners of War, others were exposed to the inconveniences that attend a -ruined Army. He addeth, that these accidents shall befall them in a Month -near the _Vintage_, that Month is _September_: He calleth it _Contrary_, -because the Grapes being ripe, the starved Souldiers did eat abundance of -them, and so fell into a bloody flux. The _Pope_’s Tenants made use of -this Stratagem to ruine that Army. - -The _Spaniard_ had his revenge the year following, for the Duke of -_Guise_ having missed his design, and being stept before _Civitella_, -and incensed that the _Pope_ did not keep his word with him, he resolved -to go back again into _France_, and so the _Pope_ did by the means of -the Common-wealth of _Venice_, and of the Duke of _Florence_, it was -concluded and signed with the 23 of _September_. - -This is the Authors meaning in the 4 Verse, that all the misfortune -which befell the _French_, was by reason of that peace; for the _Pope_ -disbanded his Troops, consisting most of _French_ and _Switzers_, the -greatest part of whom fell into the hands of their enemies, and of the -Countrey people, others died of sickness. It is true, that the Duke of -_Guise_ brought his own Army back without much loss, but the Author -speaketh here of the _Gascons_ and _Switzers_, that were in the _Pope_’s -service, under the command of Marshal _Strozzy_, _Monluc_, Cardinal -_Caraffa_, and others. - -The time of this peace agreeth with the Prophesie, for it was concluded -on the 23 of _September_, which is a Month near the _Vintage_. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Les sept en trois Mois en concorde, - Pour subjuger les _Alpes Apeninnes_, - Mais la tempeste & _Ligure_ coüarde, - Les profligent en subites ruines. - - English. - - The seven shall agree together within three Months, - To conquer the _Apennine Alpes_, - But the tempest, and coward _Genoese_, - Shall sink them into sudden ruines. - -ANNOT. - -There shall be seven persons, who shall be three Months in making an -agreement to go beyond the _Apennines_, but they shall be hindred by a -tempest, and by the cowardliness of the _Genoeses_. - - -XL. - - French. - - Le grand Theatre se viendra redresser, - Les dez jettez & les rets ia tendus, - Trop le premier en glaz viendra lasser, - Par arc prostrais de long temps ia fendus. - - English. - - The great Theatre shall be raised up again, - The Dice being cast, and the nest spread, - The first shall too much in Glass. - Beaten down by Bows, who long before were split. - -ANNOT. - -This must be put among _Insolubilia de Alliaco_. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Bossu sera esleu par le Conseil, - Plus hideux Monstre en Terre napperceu, - Le coup volant luy crevera un œil, - Le traistre au Roy pour fidele receu. - - English. - - Crook-back shall be chosen by the Councel, - A more hideous Monster I never saw upon Earth. - The flying blow shall put out one of his eyes, - The Traitor to the King, shall be admited as faithful. - -ANNOT. - -This needs no explication. - - -XLII. - - French. - - L’Enfant naistra a deux dents en la gorge, - Purres en _Tuscie_ par pluie tomberont, - peu d’ans apres ne sera Bled ny Orge, - pour saouler ceux qui de faim failleront. - - English. - - A Child shall be born with two Teeth in his mouth. - It shall rain stones in _Tuscany_, - A few years after there shall be neither Wheat nor Barley - To feed those that shall faint for hunger. - -ANNOT. - -Those two Prodigies mentioned in the two first Verses, do presage a great -Famine that shall ensue a few years after. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Gens d’alentour du _Tar_, _Lot_, & _Garonne_, - Gardez les Monts _Apennins_ de passer, - Vostre tombeou pres de _Rome_ & d’_Ancone_, - Le noir poil crespe fera Trophée dresser. - - English. - - People that live about the _Tar_, _Lot_, and _Garonne_, - Take heed to go over the _Apennine_ Mountains, - Your Grave is near _Rome_ and _Ancona_, - The black frisled hair shall dress a Trophy of you. - -ANNOT. - -The _Tar_, the _Lot_, and the _Garone_, are three Rivers of _Gascony_, -the Inhabitants of which are forewarned not to go over the _Apennine_ -Mountains, or else they shall meet with their Graves near _Rome_ and -_Ancona_. This hath relation to the 38 Stanza, and to the interpretation -thereof, therefore _vide_. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Quand l’Animal a l’Homme domestique, - Apres grands peines & sauts viendra parler, - Le foudre a vierge sera si malefique, - De Terre prinse & suspendue en l’Air. - - English. - - When the Beast familiar to Mankind, - After great labour, and leaping shall come to speak, - The Lightning shall be so hurtful to a Virgin, - That she shall be taken from the Earth, and suspended in the Air. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Dog that shall come howling and leaping to his Mistresses -friends; because she was killed and suspended in the Air by the Lightning. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Les cinq estranges entrez dedans le Temple, - Leur sang viendra la Terre prophaner, - Aux _Thoulousain_ sera bien dur exemple, - D’un qui viendra ses loix exterminer. - - English. - - The five strangers having come into the Church, - The blood shall prophane the ground, - It shall be a hard example to those of _Thoulouse_, - Concerning one that came to break their Laws. - -ANNOT. - -I suppose these _five strangers_ to be _five Commissioners_, for the -altering something in the Government of _Thoulouse_, who shall be all -killed in a Church, and the ground prophaned by their blood, according to -the _Romish_ opinion. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Le Ciel (de _Plancus_ la Cité) nous presage, - Par clercs insignes & par estoiles fixes, - Que de son change subit saproche lage, - Ne pour son bien, ne pour ses malefices. - - English. - - The Heaven foretelleth concerning the City of _Plancus_, - By famous Clerks, and fixed Stars, - That the time of her sudden change is near hand, - Neither because of her goodness, or wickedness. - -ANNOT. - -The City of _Plancus_ is _Lion_, because he was the Founder of it. That -City is threatned here of a sudden change, caused neither by her goodness -or wickedness, but by a certain position and aspect of the fixed Stars, -which makes it fatal. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Le vieux Monarque dechassé de son Regne, - Aux Orients son secours ira querre, - Pour peur des Croix ploiera son Enseigne, - En _Mitylene_ ira par Mer & par Terre. - - English. - - The old Monarch being expelled out of his Kingdom, - Shall go into the East to get succours, - For fear of the Crosses he shall fold up his Colours, - He shall go into _Mitylene_ by Sea and Land. - -ANNOT. - -_Mitylene_ is an Island of the _Archipelago_, belonging to the Turk. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Sept cens Captifs attachez rudement, - Pour la moitie meurtrir, donné le sort, - Le proche espoir viendra si promptement, - Mais non si tost qu’une quinziesme mort. - - English. - - Seven hundred prisoners shall be tied together, - To murder half of them, the lot being cast, - The next hope shall come quickly, - And not so quickly, but fifteen shall be dead before. - -ANNOT. - -By the next hope, he meaneth the reprieve. The rest is clear. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Regne _Gaulois_ tu seras bien changé, - En lieu estrange est translaté l’Empire, - En autre mœurs & Lois seras rangé, - _Rouan_ & _Chartres_ te feront bien du pire. - - English. - - _French_ Kingdom thou shalt be much changed, - The Empire is translated in another place, - Thou shalt be put into other manners and Laws, - _Rouan_ and _Chartres_ shall do the worse they can to thee. - -ANNOT. - -_Rouan_ is the chief City of the Province of _Normandie_, and _Chartres_ -the chief City of that of _Beausse_. - - -L. - - French. - - La Republique de la grande Cité, - A grand rigueur ne voudra consentir, - Roy sortir hors par Trompette Cité, - L’Eschelle au Mur la Cité repentir. - - English. - - The Common-wealth of the great City, - With great harshness shall not consent, - That the King should go out being summoned by a Trumpet, - The Ladder shall be put to the Wall, and the City repent. - -ANNOT. - -It is hard to know what he meaneth by the great City wherein there is a -Common-wealth, whether it be _Venice_, _Genoa_, _Geneva_, _Luca_, or some -of the Cities of _Switzerland_; but it seemeth that a King shall take -shelter in it, who shall be summoned by a Trumpet to come out, but the -City will not suffer it, for which the said City shall be scaled, and -repent. - - -LI. - - French. - - _Paris_ conjure un grand meurtre commettre, - _Blois_ le fera sortir en plein effet, - Ceux d’_Orleans_ voudront leur Chef remettre, - _Angers_, _Troyes_, _Langres_, leur seront un mes fait. - - English. - - _Paris_ conspireth to commit a great murder, - _Blois_ will cause it to come to pass, - Those of _Orleans_ will set up their head again, - _Angers_, _Troyes_, _Langres_ will do them a mischief. - -ANNOT. - -The Prophecy contained in the two first Verses came to pass in the time -of _Henry_ the III. King of _France_, when the _Parisians_ did rebel -against him, and made Barricadoes in the streets, thinking to have taken -him, who was compelled to run away for his life, and fly to _Chartres_. -This rebellion was raised and fomented by _Henry_ of _Lorraine_ Duke -of _Guise_, whom the King afterwards caused to be murdered, with his -brother the Cardinal of _Lorraine_, at the Convention of the three -Estates kept at _Blois_. - -_Orleans_, _Angers_, _Troyes_, _Langres_, are remarkable Cities in -_France_. - - -LII. - - French. - - En la _Campagne_ sera si longue pluye, - Et en l’_Apoville_ si grande siccité, - Coq verra l’Aigle l’aisle mal accomplie, - Par Lion mise sera en extremité. - - English. - - In _Campania_ shall be so long a rain, - And in _Apulia_ so great a drought, - The Cock shall see the Eagle with his wing disordered, - And by the Lion brought to extremity. - -ANNOT. - -_Campania_, and _Apulia_ are two Provinces of the Kingdom of _Naples_. - -The last two Verses of the Prophecy came to pass about the years 1630 and -1631. when _Gustavus Adolphus_ King of _Swedeland_, called here the Lion, -brought the Empire (signified by the Eagle) to extremity; the King of -_France_ signified by the Cock, looking upon, and underhand assisting him. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Quand le plus grand emportera le prix, - De _Nuremberg_, d’_Ausbourg_, & ceux de _Basle_, - Par _Agripine_ Chef de _Frankfort_ repris, - Traverseront par _Flandres_ jusqu’en _Gale_. - - English. - - When the great one shall carry the prize, - Of _Nuremberg_, _Ausbourg_, and _Basil_, - By _Agrippina_ the Chief of _Frankfort_ shall be taken, - They shall go through _Flanders_ as far as _France_. - -ANNOT. - -_Nuremberg_, _Ausbourg_, and _Basil_ are Cities of _Germany_. - -By _Agrippine_ is understood the City of _Cologne_, called in Latine -_Colonia Agrippina_, from the Founderess of it _Agrippina_, Mother of the -Emperour _Nero_, or from _M. Agrippa_ favourite of _Augustus Cæsar_. - - -LIV. - - French. - - L’un des plus grands fuira aux _Espagnes_, - Qu’en longue playe apres viendra seigner, - Passant Copies par les hautes Montagnes, - Devastant tout, & puis apres regner. - - English. - - One of the greatest shall run away into _Spain_, - That shall cause a wound to bleed long, - Leading Armies over the high Mountains, - Destroying all, and afterwards shall Raign. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation. - - -LV. - - French. - - En l’an qu’un œil en _France_ Regnera, - La Cour sera en un bien fascheux trouble, - Le grand de _Blois_ son amy tuera, - Le Regne mis en mal & doubte double. - - English. - - In the year that one eye shall Reign in _France_, - The Court shall be in a very hard trouble, - The great one of _Blois_ shall kill his friend, - The Kingdom shall be in an ill case, and double doubt. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of the first Verse is, when a King having but one eye shall -Reign in _France_. - -_Blois_ is a City in _France_ upon the River _Loire_. - - -LVI. - - French. - - _Montauban_, _Nismes_, _Avignon_ & _Besier_, - Peste, Tonnerre & Gresle a fin de _Mars_, - De _Paris_ Pont, de _Lion_ Mur, _Monpelier_, - Depuis six cens & sept vingt, trois parts. - - English. - - _Montauban_, _Nismes_, _Avignon_ and _Besier_, - Plague, Lightning and Hail at the end of _March_, - The Bridge of _Paris_, the Wall of _Lion_, and _Monpelier_, shall fall, - From six hundred and seven score, three parts. - -ANNOT. - -_Montauban_ is a Town in _Gascony_, _Nismes_ and _Besiers_ are Towns in -_Languedoc_; _Avignon_ is a Town in _France_ belonging to the Pope, which -shall suffer these damages by Lightning at the end of _March_. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Sept fois changer verrez gens _Britanique_, - Teints en sang en deux cens nonante an, - _France_ non point par appuy _Germanique_, - _Aries_ double son Pope _Bistarnan_. - - English. - - Seven times you shall see the _English_ to change, - Died in blood, in two hundred ninety year, - Not _France_, by the _German_ support, - _Aries_ doubleth his _Bastarnan_ Pole. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses concern _England_; the third _France_; the fourth -marketh the time by the motion of the Sign of _Aries_, which shall be -favourable to _France_. - -We shall leave the two first Verses to be interpreted by the _English_ -Nation, which is most concerned in it, and come to the last two, which -concern _France_. - -The third Verse saith that _France_ shall not change as _England_, by -reason of the help it shall have from _Germany_, which hath been made -good already for these hundred years, notwithstanding the Wars between -_Henry_ II. and the _Spaniard_; the Conspiracy of the Protestant party -against _Francis_ the II. at _Amboise_; the civil Wars under _Charles_ -the IX. the League under _Henry_ III. and _Henry_ IV. the Forrain Wars -under _Lewis_ XIII. and _Lewis_ XIV. now Reigning. - -The Authors meaning by these words, _but France not_, is, you shall not -see _France_ change seven times in two hundred ninety years, as the -_Brittish_ nation, and then he giveth the reason of it, _by German help_, -that is to say, that _France_ shall have help from _Germany_. - -The fourth Verse saith, that during those two hundred ninety years, -_Aries doubleth his Bastarnan Pole_, to understand this, we must suppose -first that the Sign of _Aries_ ruleth over _France_, _Palestine_, -_Bastarnia_, &c. - -Secondly, we must learn from _Ptolomy_ and other Geographers, that -_Bastarnia_ containeth the people that are towards _Sarmatia_ or -_Poland_, which were called by the Ancients, the people of _Admone_, -_Sidane_, _Roxolane_, and by others _Peucins_, from the Island _Peuce_, -which is in _Istria_. - -Thirdly, we must suppose, that the Sign of _Aries_ hath two Poles, the -first is that of the Æquinoctial Line, and the second, that of the -_Eccliptick_, because the Sign of _Aries_ beginneth just in the Line of -the _Equator_, and afterwards stretcheth towards the North. Now it is so -that the place where its extension endeth in the Eccliptical Line of the -Sun, is called by the Author the _Bastarnan Pole_. - -It is a _Pole_ sith in the constellations of Heaven, we call _Poles_, -the two ends or extremities of them, and in the constellations of the -Zodiack, we call the first Pole that which is next to the Equator, and -the second Pole that which stretcheth towards the North, or towards the -South in the Eccliptical Line. - -In this sense, the first Pole of the Sign of _Aries_, is that which hath -its first degree in the Equator; the second is, that which stretcheth -towards the North in the Eccliptick, and this last Pole is called -_Bastarnan_, because it is Vertical to _Bastarnia_, as the Astrologers -set down their Climates, Kingdoms, Provinces and Towns under the twelve -Signs. - -Fourthly, We must suppose that this word _to double_, may signifie three -things. 1. In Sea-mens tearms; it signifieth to go beyond some place, -as to double the Cape of _bona Speranza_, which is called in _Italian_, -_Tramontare_; that is, to go beyond. 2. It signifieth to do twice the -same thing, as _Jacob_ did double his service for _Rachel_, &c. 3. In -matter of traveling; it signifieth to go twice as far as is requisite. - -_To double_, in this place cannot be understood in the first sense; -because the constellations never stretcht out of their compasses, though -the Stars of which they are compounded, have their peculiar motions. - -To understand this, we must know that the Stars of the Firmament -have their peculiar motions from West to East, upon the Pole of the -Eccliptick, and that they go that way a matter of one Degree, in the -space of about 100 years, and consequently the Stars do retrograde -every year in the Eccliptick from West to East 52 Seconds. _Ptolomeus_ -holdeth this opinion, but other renowned Astrologers give them more: -For my part I am of _Tychobrahe_’s opinion, who allowed them one Degree -of retrogradation in 70 years and 7 Months, and consequently 51 Seconds -every year. - -According to this Doctrine the Star that is in the Horn of _Aries_, was -observed by _Tymocharis_ in 2d Degree; 150 years after, _Hipparchus_ -observed it in the first; 265 years after, _Ptolomeus_ saw it in the 6 -Degree; 740 years after, _Albathognius_ observed it in the 18 Degree; 304 -years after, _Alphonsus_ King of _Spain_, found it in the 6 Degree; 265 -years after, _Copernicus_ did observe it to be in the 27 Degree and two -Minutes; 61 years after, _Tychobrahe_ saw it in the 27 Degree, and above -37 Minutes; so that in the space of 61 years it had gone 35 Minutes. - -By this Doctrine we see that the whole constellations do not go beyond -their Poles, though the Stars that Compound them change their Poles every -year of 51 Seconds. - -To double, then here cannot be taken in the first sense, nor in the third -sense, for the first reason, it must then be in the second sense; and -thus _Aries doubleth his Bastarnan Pole_; that is, _Aries_ maketh twice -his Pole, which answereth to _Bastarnia_. - -If you ask how it cometh to pass that _Aries_ doubleth this Pole, and -in what place of Heaven we set this _Bastarnan Pole_. I answer to the -first, that _Aries_ doubleth his Pole, when one of those 13 Stars cometh -to that point, which is a Northern or Western Pole to that sign in the -Eccliptick. As to the second: I answer, that the place ought to be its -last Degree, _viz._ the end of the 30 Degree. - -Why? (will you say) did the Author mark that difference of the Sign of -_Aries_, rather than that of _Taurus_, or of another? - -I answer, that it was in favour of _France_; because _Aries_ doth govern -in _France_, and if it hath been favourable to it, when it came first to -the _Bastarnan Pole_, it will be so too when it doubleth the same Pole, -seeing that it will have the same position and Aspect. Now we see, that -in the space of these 100 years, _France_ was not overcome, much less -shall it be hereafter, seeing that the Stars do promise its exaltation -for a long continuance. - -If I were a great Astrologer, I should observe exactly by this, that -within the space of 290 years, _Aries shall double his Cape Bastarnan_, -and consequently _Aries_ should come to that Pole just in the year 1845. -which is according to that we have said. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Aupres du _Rhin_ des Montagnes _Noriques_, - Naistra un grand de gens trop tard venu, - Qui defendra _Sarmates_ & _Pannoniques_, - Qu’on ne scaura quil sera devenu. - - English. - - Near the _Rhine_, out of the _Norick_ Mountains, - Shall be born a great one, though too late come, - Who shall defend the _Polonians_ and _Hungarians_, - So that it shall not be known what is become of him. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -LIX. - - French. - - _Barbare_ Empire par le tiers usurpé, - La plus grand part de son sang mettre amort, - Par mort senicle par luy quart frappé, - Pour peur que sang par le sang ne soit mort. - - English. - - A _Barbarian_ Empire shall be usurped by a third person, - Who shall put to death the greatest part of his Kindred, - By death of old age, the fourth shall be stricken by him, - For fear that blood should not die by blood. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain, I acknowledge my Ignorance in the last -two. - - -LX. - - French. - - Par toute _Asia_ grande proscription, - Mesme en _Mysie_, _Lydie_, & _Pamphilie_, - Sang versera par dissolution, - D’un jeune noir remply de felonie. - - English. - - Through all _Asia_ shall be a great proscription, - Yea in _Mysia_, _Lydia_, and _Pamphilia_, - Blood shall be spilled by the debauchness - Of a young black man, full of felony. - -ANNOT. - -_Mysia_, _Lydia_, and _Pamphilia_, are Countreys of _Asia_. - - -LXI. - - French. - - La grande bande & secte Crucigere, - Se dressera en _Mesopotamie_, - Du proche Fleuve compagnie legere, - Qui telle Loy tiendra pour ennemie. - - English. - - The great troop and sect wearing a Cross, - Shall rise up in _Mesopotamia_, - Near the next River shall be a light company, - Which shall hold that law for enemy. - -ANNOT. - -It is an Army of Christians (be like _Armenians_) that shall rise in -_Mesopotamia_ against whom shall an Army of Turkish Horseman come, who -did live by the next River. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Proche del _Duero_ par Mer _Cyrene_ close, - Viendra percer les grands Monts _Pyrenees_, - La main plus courte & sa percée gloses - A _Carcasonne_ conduira ses menées. - - English. - - Near the _Duero_ closed by the _Cyrenian_ Sea, - Shall come to pierce the great _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - The shorter hand and his pierced glose, - Shall in _Carcassone_ lead his plot. - -ANNOT. - -The _Cyrenian_ Sea, is that Sea which is by the Province of _Cyrene_. The -_Pyrenean_ Mountains part _Spain_ from _France_. _Carcassonne_ is a Town -in _France_ near unto _Spain_. The rest passeth my understanding. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - _Romain_ pouvoir sera du tout a bas, - Son grand Voisin imiter les vestiges, - Occultes haines civiles, & debats, - Retarderont aux boufons leur folies. - - English. - - The _Roman_ power shall be quite put down, - His great Neighbour shall follow his steps, - Secret and civil hatreds and quarrels, - Shall stop the Buffons folly. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse signifieth, that the _Pope_’s Authority shall be put down. - -The second, that his great neighbour, that is the Empire shall follow his -steps, that is, be put down too. The two last Verses are plain. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Le Chef de _Perse_ remplira grand _Olchade_, - Classe trireme contre gent _Mahometique_, - De _Parthe_ & _Mede_ & piller les _Cyclades_, - Repos long temps au grand Port _Jonique_. - - English. - - The Head of _Persia_ shall fill a great _Olchade_, - A Fleet of Galleys against the _Mahometan_ Nation, - From _Parthia_ and _Media_ they shall come to plunder the _Cyclades_, - A long rest shall be on the _Jonique_ Port. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find what he meaneth by _Olchade_. The second Verse is plain. - -_Parthia_ and _Media_ are two Kingdoms depending from that of _Persia_. -The Islands of _Cyclades_ are in the _Ægean_ Sea, and are so called -because they are like a Garment about the City of _Delos_, for κυκλας in -Greek signifieth a round garment of a woman. - -The _Jonique_ Sea is that Sea in _Grecia_, which is about _Athens_ and -_Corinth_, &c. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Quand le Sepulchre du grand _Romain_ trouvé, - Le jour apres sera esleu Pontife, - Du Senat gueres il ne sera prouvé, - Empoisonné, son sang au Sacre _Scyphe_. - - English. - - When the Sepulcher of the great _Roman_ shall be found, - The next day after a Pope shall be elected, - Who shall not be much approved by the Senate, - Poisoned, his blood in the Sacred _Scyphe_. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to foretel the finding out of the Sepulcher of some famous -_Roman_, and that the next day after a _Pope_ shall be Elected, who being -not well approved of by the Conclave, shall be poisoned in the Chalice, -which is the Communion Cup that the Roman Catholicks use at _Mass_, -signified here by the Latine word _Scyphus_. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Le grand Baillif d’_Orleans_ mis a mort. - Sera par un de sang vindicatif, - De mort merite ne mourra, ne par sort, - Des pieds & mains mal, le faisoit captif. - - English. - - The great Bailif of _Orleans_ shall be put to death, - By one of a revengeful blood, - He shall not die of a deserved death, nor by chance, - But the disease of being tied hand and foot, hath made him prisoner. - -ANNOT. - -The Bailif of _Orleans_ is a great Officer, for he is there Lord Chief -Justice, and of all the precincts. It seemeth that this man shall be put -to death, by one of a revengeful blood, not that he had deserved it, or -come to it by chance, but because he shall be tied hand and foot, and die -in prison. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Une nouvelle Secte de Philosophes, - Mesprisant mort, or, honneurs & richesses, - Des Monts _Germains_ seront fort limitrophes, - A les ensuivre auront appuy & presses. - - English. - - A new Sect of Philosophers shall rise, - Despising Death, Gold, Honours and Riches, - They shall be near the Mountains of _Germany_, - They shall have abundance of others to support and follow them. - -ANNOT. - -This is properly said of the Anabaptists in _Germany_, in the time of -_John de Leyden_, and now of the Quakers in _England_, and elsewhere. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - Peuple sans Chef d’_Espagne_ & d’_Italie_, - Morts, profligez dedans le _Cheronese_, - Leur dict trahy par legere folie, - Le sang nager per tout a la traverse. - - English. - - A people of _Spain_ and _Italy_ without a Head, - Shall die, being overcome in the _Cheronese_, - Their saying shall be betrayed by a light folly, - The blood shall swim all over at random. - -ANNOT. - -_Cheronese_ is a Land or ground unmanured; the rest is plain. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Grand exercite conduit par jouvenceau, - Se viendra rendre aux mains des ennemis, - Mais le vieillard nay au demy pourceau, - Fera _Chalon_ & _Mascon_ estre amis. - - English. - - A great Army led by a young man, - Shall yield it self in the hands of the enemies, - But the old man born at the sign of the halfe-Hog, - Shall cause _Chalon_ and _Mascon_ to be friends. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain; as for the third Verse, I could not find -who that _Old man_ should be, that shall be born at the sign of the -_half-Hog_. - -_Chalon_ and _Mascon_ are two Cities in _France_, the first in -_Champagne_, the last in _Burgundy_. - - -LXX. - - French. - - La grand _Bretagne_ comprise d’_Angleterre_, - Viendra par eaux si haut a inondre, - La Ligue nevue d’_Ausone_ fera gerre, - Que contre eux ils se viendront bander. - - English. - - Great _Britany_ comprehended in _England_, - Shall suffer so great an Inundation by Waters, - The new League of _Ausone_ shall make Wars, - So that they shall stand against them. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is divided in two parts. The first two Verses foretel a -great Innundation, that was to happen in _England_. - -The last two speak of a league and insurrection, that shall be at -_Bordeaux_, which is here called _Ausone_, from a famous Latine Poet, -named _Ausonius_, who was born in that City. - -As to the first part, after much seeking and enquiry: I found the truth -of it in a Latine book, called _Rerum in Gallia, Belgia, Hispania, -Anglia, &c. gestarum anno 1607. Tomi septimi Liber secundus conscriptus a -~Nicolao Gotardo~ Artus Dantiscano_, where the History is related thus. - -About the end of _January_ 1607 the Sea broke out so violently in -_England_, that after the breaking of Fences and Dikes, it caused very -great damages to the Inhabitants. The greatest mischief was done in -_Somersetshire_, where the water did overflow, ten Leagues in length, -and two in breadth, twelve foot high in the most eminent places. This -sudden Innundation brought a fearful alarm to the Countrey people; some -of them going to their Plough, were fained to run back to their houses, -where they found their enemies at their doors, _viz._ Death and Water, -who without distinction swept them away. In a little time, the Towns -appeared like Islands, encompassed on all sides, and presently after -were swallowed up, so that the tops of the Trees were scarce seen. This -new Flood covered so the Towns of _Hansfield_, in the same County, those -of _Grantham_, _Kenhus_, _Kingston_, and _Briandon_, with several Farms -built in the Champion Countrey, that none of the Buildings could be seen. -If you add to this the devastation of the places, the quantity of Corn, -Fruit, and Grass that was lost, the misery shall be so great, as not to -be expressed. During this fearful quarrel between the Water and the Land, -an exceeding great number of people died of all Ages, and Sexes, it would -avail them nothing to get into the upper Stories and Roofs of houses, -nor upon the highest Trees; for the imperious Waters did so swell and -rage, that the Foundations of the houses, and roots of the Trees were -loosened, so that both fell to the Ground, or rather into the Water. The -people seeing no way to escape, resolved to die patiently. No body could -without great grief see the Oxen and Sheep drowning; for there was such a -numerous quantity of them, that afar off one would have thought them to -be Rocks in the Sea, but seeing them swiming, and hearing them bleating -and bellowing, one would have thought them to be a storm and hissing of -winds. A rich Farmer, and father of seven Children, being involved in the -Flood, and much astonished at this accident, nevertheless thinking the -danger less then it was, went about to save some of his best Goods; but -seeing the Waters to increase, he forsook all, and went to save one of -his Children, whom he loved best; but the Waters followed him so close, -that all he could do, was to get upon the Roof of his house. Among the -Children there was a little one sleeping in a Cradle, which being made of -close boards, did swim upon the Waters about three Miles, and was taken -up alive, and sound. The Hay-cocks did swim like Ships upon the Waves, -the Pigeons and Pigs were upon the Sheaves that the Water carried away. -The Coneys being driven out of their holes, had leapt upon the backs of -the swiming Sheep. A certain Shepheard being about to gather his Sheep -into their Fold, was followed by the Flood, ran for his life, and climbed -upon a high Tree, where seeing his Sheep bleating in the water, he began -to tear his hair, to smite his breast, to lift up his hands and his eyes -to Heaven, and when his Sheep had all perished, and himself endured an -extream cold and hunger, he was at last taken up in a Boat that was sent -to save the distressed. - -But here we must talk of _Bristol_, which is one of the chiefest Cities -in _England_, by reason of the Haven, which bringeth thither abundance of -Merchants, from several Nations. The same day of that Inundation, the Sea -breaking into a great Channel, did presently overflow the Countrey with -such quickness and violence, that it covered the Valleys, and the smaller -Hills, in so much that nothing but an utter ruine was expected; many -whole houses were turned upside down, and carried away with the Flood. -The Barns full of Corn, Hay, and Straw, were overthrown, and the Cattle -carried away, besides abundance of people of all sorts. The Merchants -of _London_ and _Bristol_, and the rest of the Inhabitants, besides the -loss of Provisions, suffered an inestimable one in their Commodities, -which they had provided for the Fair, that was then near hand, the most -part of them being carryed away by the Flood, and the rest so spoiled, -that the owners could not tell what to do with them. A Gentleman dwelling -between _Barnstable_ and _Bristol_, and two Leagues off from the Sea, -being gone abroad in the Morning to oversee his grounds, did look towards -the Sea, ran back again to his house, to bring this sad news to his Wife -and Servants, while they were endeavouring to pack up the most precious -of their Goods, the Water came about the house so fast, that they altered -their resolution, and bethought themselves only to save their lives; -the servants busied themselves about tying the Goods together, thinking -the Water could not have carryed them away. As for the Gentleman, he -went with his Wife and Children to the top of the house, and got upon -the rafters of the Roof. Although nothing appeared to them but the -Image of death; nevertheless some hope and desire of escaping, made -the Gentleman come down to save a little Trunk, wherein his papers of -greatest concernment were. Being come down from the Rafter, he laid hold -of the Trunk, and fastened it to a Manger; while he was busie about it, -the Waves of the Sea did so beat against that house, that it fell down -to the Ground. The Wife, Children, and Servants were swallowed up in the -ruine. The Gentleman laid hold on a Rafter, and was carryed away with it -above half a League further, to a Mountain, where he set his foot upon -dry Ground, being half dead with fear and grief, and bewailing the loss -of his Wife, Children, and Servants, he spyed the little Trunk and the -Manger, which he drew to Land, and that was all he saved, besides his -Life. - -Another Gentleman living thereabouts, and newly married, was resolved -that day to go to the next Town, and make merry with some friends, -whereupon he bid his man make his Horse ready, and himself went to put on -his Boots; after he had put on one, and whilst he held the other in his -hand, the Waters came so fiercely into that house, that they compelled -the half Booted Gentleman to run away for his life, in an upper Chamber, -but he was followed so close by that merciless Element, that he was -fained to get upon the top of the Roof, to save his life, and to ride -upon the upper Rafter, but the house and Roof melting by the violence of -the Waves, this new Knight was carryed by the violence of them towards -the Town where he intended to make merry, and there was saved with much -adoe. - -It happened at the same time near _Markand_, in the Dutchy of _Norfolk_, -that two Thieves, going about to steal some Cattle, while they were -driving of them, perceived in the Morning the Justice of God following -them; it was the Water, which having overtopped the Dikes, threatned the -takers of being taken, and compelled them to save themselves with all -speed. From their wickedness did arise a great good; for to the next Town -they went, and bid the Sexton to Ring the Bell, and to cry Water, Water: -The Inhabitants being for the most part asleep, did not know what to do -in such an Alarm: Some climbed into the Church’s Steeple; others thinking -there were Thieves went about to fence and defend their houses; others -hearing of a Flood, laughed at it, and said, that those who brought -this News, deserved to be punished; but presently they altered their -Languages, and their laughing was turned into a fearful mourning, every -one flying to save himself, his Wife, and Children, and whatsoever they -could pack up of their most precious Goods. Some thinking to have more -wit than others, went about to divert the Current of the Water from their -houses; but seeing there was no remedy, they went with their Wives and -Children to the tops of their houses, in a lamentable fright. - -But when the Water came to seize upon the houses, wherein there were some -Playing, some Drinking, others already Drunken, a great part of them were -drowned, others ran to a Hill near the Town, where they spent the rest of -that night, and the day following with great lamentations. - -The next day they saw their houses half under Water, and many people, -who from the windows and Steeples cryed for help; others endeavoured to -save themselves upon Boards and Rafters; the Horses tyed to the Manger -were all suffocated. The Cattle in the fields, were by this time driven -to the Mount called _Truhill_, and for all that, were not out of danger; -for the Mountain was encompassed with Water to such a heighth and depth, -that without Boats there was no access to it; chiefly because of the -Thickets and Bushes. Thus so much Cattle was about to perish, had not -some Shepherds brought Boats loaded with provisions for Men and Beasts, -till the Waters retired again, and the Dikes were made good. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Ceux dans les Isles de long temps assiegez, - Prendront vigueur force contre ennemis, - Ceux par dehors morts de faim profligez, - En plus grand faim que jamais seront mis. - - English. - - Those in the Islands that have been long besieged, - Shall take vigour and force against their enemies, - Those without shall die for hunger; being overcome, - They shall be put in greater famine then they were before. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy came to pass when the _Spaniards_ Besieged _Leyden_ in -_Holland_, for the _Dutch_ broke the Dikes, whereby the water came upon -them so fast, that they were more besieged and starved then those of the -Town, and their Army wholly destroyed. Read Cardinal _Bentivoglios_ his -History of the _Low-Countreys_, as also _Strada_. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Le bon Vieillard tout vis Ensevely, - Prez du grand Fleuve par faux soupcon, - Le nouveaux vieux de richesse ennobly, - Prins en chemin tout l’or de la Rancon. - - English. - - The good old man shall be buried alive, - Near the great River by a false suspicion, - The new old one made noble by his riches, - The gold of his ransom shall be taken in the way. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is divided into two parts: the two first Verses are -concerning an old man that shall be buried alive near a great River, upon -a false suspition. - -The latter two are concerning a young man, who shall assume unto himself -the name of a noble Family, and so make himself noble by his riches, but -being afterward taken prisoner, the money that was sent for his Ransom, -shall be taken in the way. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Quand dans le Regne parviendra le boiteux, - Competiteur aura proche Bastard, - Luy & le Regne viendront si fort rogneux, - Qu’ains quil guerisse son fait sera bien tard. - - English. - - When the lame man shall attain to the Kingdom, - He shall have a Bastard for his near competitor, - He, and his Kingdom shall be so scabby, - That before he be cured it will be late. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are plain. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - _Naples_, _Florence_, _Fayence_ & _Imole_, - Seront en termes de telle fascherie, - Que pour complaire au malheureux de _Nole_, - Plaint d’avoir fait a son Chef moquerie. - - English. - - _Naples_, _Florence_, _Fayenza_, and _Imola_, - Shall be put into so much distress, - For being complaisant to the unhappy one of _Nola_, - Who was complained of for having mocked his Superiour. - -ANNOT. - -_Naples_, _Florence_, _Fayenza_, _Imola_ and _Nola_ are all Cities in -_Italy_; the rest is plain. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - _Pau_, _Verone_, _Vicence_, _Saragousse_, - De Glaive atteints, Terroirs de sang humides, - Peste si grande viendra a la grand gousse, - Proche secours & bien long les remedes. - - English. - - _Pau_, _Verona_, _Vicenza_, _Saragossa_, - Shall be hit by the Sword, the Countrey shall be moist with blood, - So great a plague and so vehement shall come, - That though the succours be near, the remedy shall be far off. - -ANNOT. - -By _Pau_ here are understood the Towns that are seated upon that River. - -_Verona_, _Vicenza_, are two Cities in _Italy_, belonging to the -_Venetians_. _Saragossa_ is a City in _Sicily_. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - En _Germanie_ naistront diverses Sectes, - Saprochant sort de l’heureux _Paganisme_, - Le cœur captif & petites receptes, - Feront retour a payer le vray disme. - - English. - - In _Germany_ shall divers Sects arise, - Coming very near the happy _Paganism_, - The heart captivated and small receivings, - Shall open the gate to pay the true Tithes. - -ANNOT. - -The first and second Verses have been verified sufficiently. - -By the two last Verses, he meaneth that the heart of everyone shall be -in fear, so that they shall come to an agreement, which the true Tithes -shall be paid, and every one come to his own again. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Le tiers climat soubs _Aries_ comprins, - L’An mil sept cens vingt sept en _Octobre_, - Le Roy de _Perse_ par ceux d’_Ægypte_ prins, - Conflict, mort, perte, a la Croix grand opprobre. - - English. - - The third Climat comprehended under _Aries_, - In the year 1700. the twenty seven of _October_, - The King of _Persia_ shall be taken by those of _Ægypt_, - Battle, death, loss, a great shame to the Christians. - -ANNOT. - -Here be three notable things to be observed: one is the plain and -punctual specification of the time, in which the Prophecy shall come to -pass, _viz._ the 7. of _October_ in the year 1700. The second is, that -the King of _Persia_ shall be taken by those of _Ægypt_. The third is, -the shame and confusion that the Christians shall suffer for the same. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Le Chef d’_Escosse_ avec six d’_Allemagne_, - Par gents de mer Orientaux captif, - Traverseront le _Calpre_ & _Espagne_, - Present en _Perse_ au nouveau Roy craintif. - - English. - - The Chief of _Scotland_ with six of _Germany_, - Shall be taken prisoners by Seamen of the East, - They shall go through the _Calpre_ and _Spain_, - And shall be made a present in _Persia_ to the new fearful King. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Calpre_ is understood the _Capzor_ promontory, which is at the -mouth of the _Streights_, by and beyond which these Prisoners will be -carried into _Persia_ for a present to the King, who then shall be some -fearful person. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Le grand criard sans honte audacieux, - Sera esleu Governeur le d’Armée, - La hardiesse de son contentieux, - Le pont rompu, Cité de peur pasmée. - - English. - - The great bawler proud without shame, - Shall be elected Governour of the Army, - The stoutness of his Competitor, - The Bridge being broken, the City shall faint for fear. - -ANNOT. - -_Paradin_ saith, that in the year 1558. the Lord of _Bonnivet_ being -dead, the King of _France_ did chuse _Francis_ of _Vendosme_, _Vidame_ of -_Amiens_, to succeed the said _Bonnivet_, in the Office of Colonel of the -_French_ Foot. This _Vidame_ is noted by all Historians, for a rash proud -man, that had a good opinion of himself, and found fault with all the -commands of the Marshal of _Brissac_, then General of the Army. - -The King in consideration of his Birth, and that he was a good Souldier, -gave him the place of the Lord _Bonnivet_, according to what the Author -saith, _The great Bawler, ~&c.~ shall be elected Governour in the Army_. -If you ask in what Army he was elected Governour, the third Verse -answereth, _in the Army of his Competitor_, that is, the Marshal of -_Brissac_, who did chide him severely for disobeying his commands, and -was like once to have killed him. - -The fourth Verse proved true at the taking of _Queiras_, where the -Bridge, through which the succours came to relieve the Town, being -broken, the Town grew so fearful, that it surrendred it self to the -Marshal of _Brissac_. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - _Erins_, _Antibe_, villes auteur de _Nice_, - Seront vastées fort par Mer & par Terre, - Les Sauterelles Terre & Mer vent propice, - Prins, morts, troussez, pillez, sans loy de guerre. - - English. - - _Erins_, _Antibe_, and the Towns about _Nices_, - Shall be destroyed by Sea and Land, - The Grashopers shall have the Land, the Sea, and Wind favourable, - They shall be taken, killed, thrust up, plundered, without Law of War. - -ANNOT. - -_Erins_ and _Antibe_ are Towns of _Provence_, bordering upon _Nice_, -which is a Town of _Piemont_, all that Coast is threatned here to be -ruined by the Grashopers, that is, the _Turks_, which fell out about the -year 1558. for the King of _France_ having called the _Turks_ to his -succours against _Charles_ V. Emperour, they came and took _Nice_ in the -behalf of the _French_, where they committed unheard cruelties, as also -upon all that Coast. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - L’Ordre fatal sempiternal par chaisne, - Viendra tourner par ordre consequent, - Du Port _Phocen_ sera rompue la chaine, - La Cité prinse, l’ennemy quant & quant. - - English. - - The fatal and eternal order by chain, - Shall come to turn by consequent order, - Of Port _Phocen_ the chain shall be broken, - The City taken, and the enemy presently after - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy regardeth onely the City of _Marseilles_, which is the most -famous Port Town that the _French_ have upon the _Mediterranean_ Sea, -and which was anciently a _Greek_ Colony, peopled by the _Phocen_ Seas. -This City is threatned here to have the chain of her Port broken, and to -be taken by her enemies, and the said enemies to be a little while after -taken in it. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Du Regne _Anglois_ le digne dechassé, - Le Conseiller par ire mis a feu, - Ses adherans iront si bas tracer, - Que le bastard sera demy receu. - - English. - - From the _English_ Kingdom the worthy driven away, - The Councellor through anger shall be burnt, - His partners shall creep so low, - That the bastard shall be half received. - -ANNOT. - -This is one of those Prophecies that concern the _English_ Nation, and -which by its event, hath made this Book and the Author thereof famous, -for nothing can be more plain to the meanest capacity, then the sense and -words of these four Verses. - -By the first, is meant the Kings most excellent Majesty _Charles_ II. -now Reigning, who being the true Heir to the Kingdom, and most worthy to -rule, was driven out of the Kingdom by a rebellious rout of his Subjects. - -The second Verse expresseth, the punishment inflicted upon the -Councellors and Abettors of so hainous a crime, who were most of them -hanged, drawn and quartered, their entrals burnt. - -The third Verse, signifieth the low estate of the Abettors of that -pernicious Councel. - -The fourth Verse, is understood that bastard Faction, which was like to -supplant _Cromwel_, upon the division of the Army. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Les longs cheveux de la _Gaule Celtique_, - Accompagnez d’Estranges Nations, - Mettront captif l’Agent _Aquitanique_, - Pour succomber a leurs intentions. - - English. - - The long hairs of the _Celtian France_, - Joyned with forrain Nations, - Shall put in prison the _Aquitanick_ Agent, - To make him yield to their intentions. - -ANNOT. - -The _Celtan France_ is that part of _France_ included between the River -_Loire_, and that of _Scheld_ in _Flanders_. they are called here the -_long hairs_; because in antient time they used to wear long hairs. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - La grand Cite sera bien desolée, - Des habitans un seul n’y demoura, - Mur, Sexe, Temple, & Vierge violée, - Par Fer, Feu, Peste, Canon, peuple mourra. - - English. - - The great City shall be made very desolate. - Not one of the Inhabitants shall be left in it, - Wall, Sex, Church, and Virgin ravished, - By Sword, Fire, Plague, Canon, people shall die. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the Town of St. _Quentin_, which was taken by the -_Spaniards_ in the year 1557. upon the 27 of _August_, and 17 days after -the Battle of St. _Laurence_, it was taken by assault, and all the -Inhabitants put to the Sword. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - La Cité prinse par tromperie fraude, - Par le moyen d’Un bean jeune attrapé, - Assaut donné, _Raubine_ pres de _Laude_, - Luy & touts morts pour avoir bien trompé. - - English. - - The City shall be taken by cheat and deceit, - By the means of a fair young one caught in it, - Assault shall be given, _Raubine_ near _Laude_, - He, and all shall die, for having deceived. - -ANNOT. - -It is a City that shall be taken by the cheat and deceit of a young fair -man, who himself shall be taken in his craft. - -The difficulty lyeth in the third Verse, _viz._ what he meaneth by -_Raubine_ and _Laude_. I could find nothing by transposition of Letters: -therefore I suppose the Author had a mind to reserve the exposition to -himself, and to one that should be clearer sighted than I. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Un chef d’_Ausonne_ aux _Espagnes_ ira, - Par Mer, sera arrest dedans _Marseilles_, - Avant sa mort un long temps languira, - Apres sa mort on verra grand merveille. - - English. - - A chief man of _Ausone_ shall go into _Spain_ - By Sea, he shall stay at _Marseilles_, - He shall languish a great while before his death, - After his death great wonders shall be seen. - -ANNOT. - -Here is nothing obscure but the word _Ausone_, by which is meant the City -of _Bordeaux_, so named by the Author every where, for having brought -forth that famous Latine Poet, and Counsul of _Rome_, _Ausonius_. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Classe _Gauloise_ naproche de _Corsegne_, - Moins de _Sardaigne_ tu ten repentiras, - Tretous mourrez frustrez de laide _Greigne_, - Sang nagera, captif ne me croiras. - - English. - - _French_ Fleet do not come near unto _Corsica_, - Much less to _Sardinia_, thou shalt repent of it, - All of you shall die frustrate of the help _Greigne_, - Blood shall swim, being Captive thou shalt not believe me. - -ANNOT. - -The Baron of _la Garde_ coming from _Rome_, where he had carryed -the Cardinals of _Tournon_ and _Lorrain_, received order to go into -_Corsica_, to relieve with ammunition the two Towns, that the _French_ -kept still in possession in that Island, _Glasse_ and St. _Boniface_, -which after the general peace made at _Cambray_, _anno_ 1559. were -restored to the Common-wealth of _Genoa_. When he was coming near the -Island, there arose such a storm, that they were constrained to go as -near land as they could, _viz._ in St. _Florents_, till the storm was -over. - -At the same time, by reason of the said storm, eleven Ships loaded with -six thousand _Spaniards_, going for _Italy_, took shelter in the same -place, a good way off from the said Baron. - -At the first, the _Spanish_ Ships did not spie the _French_ Galleys, but -the Baron _de la Garde_ discovered the _Spaniards_, and bid his Galleys -to set upon them. Two of the _Spanish_ Ships were taken, in which were -1200. or 1500. _Spaniards_, part of which were drowned, and the rest made -slaves. - -The Baron chased the rest, but the storm so scattered them, that the nine -escaped. - -Before this encounter the _Genoese_ Captain, _Andrew d’Oria_, took all -the Island from the _French_, _Anno_ 1553. and kept it ever since, by -sending continual supplies. On the other side, the King of _France_ sent -supplies by the Lord of _Termes_, to those that were retired in the -Island of _Glasse_. - -One time among the rest, about the latter end of the year 1555. there was -sent a notable supplie from the _French_, to which the Author speaketh -now in these tearms. - -_French fleet do not come near unto ~Corsica~_, nor _Sardinia_, which is -another Island near _Corsica_. The third Verse giveth the Reason of it; -_ye shall die, being frustrated of the help ~Greigne~_. _Greigne_ is the -Provencal Language, which was the Maternal one of our Author, signifieth -a Galley: The sense therefore is this, you shall be frustrate of the help -of the Galleys, that are under the command of the Baron _de la Garde_, -who carryed unto you men, money, and ammunition; because he shall be then -in pursute of the _Spanish_ fleet, that were scattered by a storm. - -In the mean time _Blood shall swim_ in the fight of the Baron _de la -Garde_, and thou, _poor Prisoner_ in that Island, _Thou shalt not believe -me_; those slaves were they, which went in the year 1555. And the Author -saying, _Thou shalt not believe me_, sheweth, that being very famous in -_Provence_, for his Prophecies, the General of the Army had asked him -concerning the success of his Journey, and that he did warn him not to -undertake it; but having an express command from the King, his Master, he -would need go. Therefore he saith, _Poor prisoner thou shalt not believe -me_. We find in this work many examples of those, who went to consult -with the Author concerning the success of their undertakings, as did -the Earl of _Sommerive_, before the besieging of _Bagnole_, to whom he -answered, that he should leave the Trees loaded with a new kind of fruit, -that is to say, of the Rebels, whom he caused to be hanged on Trees. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - De _Barcelone_ par Mer si grande Armée, - Toute _Marseille_ de frayeur tremblera, - Isles saisies, de Mer aide fermeé, - Ton traditeur en Terre nagera. - - English. - - There shall come from _Barcelona_ by Sea so great a fleet, - That _Marseilles_ shall quake for fear, - The Islands shall be seized, the help by Sea shut up, - Thy Traitor shall swim to Land. - -ANNOT. - -_Barcelona_ is a Town in _Spain_, upon the _Mediterranean_ Sea; -_Marseilles_ is another in _France_, upon the same Sea. The rest is -easie. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - En ce temps la sera frustrée _Cypre_, - De son secours, de ceux de Mer _Ægée_, - Vieux trucidez mais par _Mesles_ & _Lipre_, - Seduit leur Roy, Roine plus outragée. - - English. - - At that time _Cyprus_ shall be frustrated - Of its succours, of those of the _Ægean_ Sea, - Old ones shall be killed, but by _Mesles_ and _Lipre_, - Their King shall be seducted, and the Queen more wronged. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain, the two last have need of an _Oedipus_. - - -XC. - - French. - - Le grand _Satyre_ & _Tygre_ d’_Hircanie_, - Don presenté a ceux de l’Occean, - Un chef de Classe istra de _Carmanie_, - Qui prendra Terre au _Thyrren Phocean_. - - English. - - The great _Satyr_ and _Tyger_ of _Hircania_, - Shall be a gift presented to those of the Ocean, - An Admiral of a fleet shall come out of _Carmania_, - Who shall Land in the _Thyrren Phocean_. - -ANNOT. - -_By the great Satyr and Tyger of Hircania_, is meant, the King of -_Persia_, who is also King of _Hircania_, abounding with _Tygers_. - -That King of _Persia_ shall be made a gift to those of the Ocean; that -is, shall be either drowned in it, or do some wonderful things upon it. - -_Carmania_ is a Province in _Asia_, belonging to the _Turk_. - -The _Thyrren Phocean_ is the City of _Marseilles_ in _France_, so called -by the Author in this Book; because it was a Colony of the _Phocenses_ -in _Greece_; it is also called _Thyrren_, because it is seated upon the -_Tyrrhenean_ Sea, as _Virgil_ saith, - - ————_Thyrrenum navigat Æquor_. - - -XCI. - - French. - - L’Arbre qu’estoit par long temps mort seiché, - Dans une nuit viendra a reverdir, - Son Roy malade, Prince pied attaché, - Craint d’ennemis fera Voiles bondir. - - English. - - The Tree that had been long dead and withered, - In one night shall grow green again, - His King shall be sick, his Prince shall have his foot tied, - Being feared by his enemies, he shall make his Sails to rebound. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are Metaphorical, and are to be understood of a -considerable person, who having been for a long time despised and under a -cloud, shall on a sudden rise again and be in repute. The two last Verses -are intelligible enough. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Le monde proche du dernier periode, - _Saturn_ encor sera tard de retour, - Translat Empire devers Nations brode, - L’œil arraché a _Narbon_ par Autour. - - English. - - The world being near its last period, - _Saturn_ shall come yet late to his return, - The Empire shall be translated into _brode_ Nations, - _Narbon_ shall have her eye pickt out by a Hawk. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of the first and second Verses is, that the world shall be at -an end, before _Saturn_ hath performed his whole course, which (if I do -not mistake) is thought by the Astronomers to be of 36000. years. - -The third Verse signifieth, that before the end of the world, the Empire -shall be translated or possessed by a black Nation, for _brode_ in old -_French_ signifieth black, whence it cometh that to this day they call a -handsom black woman, _une belle Brode_, that is a fair black woman. - -_Narbon_ is a famous City in _Languedoc_, and the seat of an Archbishop. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Dans _Avignon_ tout le Chef de l’Empire, - Fera arrest, pour _Paris_ desole, - _Tricast_ tiendra l’_Annibalique_ ire, - _Lion_ par change sera mal consolé. - - English. - - In _Avignon_ all the Chief of the Empire, - Shall stay, by reason of _Paris_ being desolate, - _Tricast_ shall stop the _Annibalik_ anger, - _Lion_ by change shall be ill comforted. - -ANNOT. - -The first and second Verse signifie, that the Pope once more shall keep -his seat in _Avignon_, which is a Town in _France_ belonging to the -Pope, and where formerly they kept their See, for the space of above an -hundred years. As for the word _Tricast_, there must be a foul errour -in the impression or else; I must confess I understand it not. By the -_Annibilik_ anger, is meant those of _Barbary_, where _Annibal_ was born. -_Lion_ is a famous Town in _France_, where is kept the greatest trading -for Bills of Exchange. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - De cinq cens ans plus compte l’on tiendra, - Celuy qu’estoit l’ornement de son temps, - Puis a un coup grande clarté donra, - Que pour ce Siecle les rendra tres-contens. - - English. - - For five hundred years no account shall be made, - Of him who was the ornament of his time: - Then on a sudden he shall give so great a light, - That for that age he shall make them to be most contented. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are plain. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Lu Loy _Morique_ on verra defaillir, - Apres un autre beaucoup plus seductive, - _Boristhenes_ premier viendra faillir, - Par dons & langue une plus attractive. - - English. - - We shall see the _Morish_ Law to decline, - After which, another more seducing shall arise, - _Boristhenes_ shall be the first that shall fall, - By gifts and tongue that Law shall be most seducing. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth the declining of the _Mahometan_ Religion, after which -another Religion shall be set up worse then the _Mahometan_. The first -decay of it shall begin in _Scythia_, a Kingdom belonging to the King of -_Persia_, through which runneth the River _Boristhenes_. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Chef de _Fossan_ aura gorge coupée, - Par le Ducteur du Limier & L’curier, - Le fait patré par ceux du Mont _Tarpée_, - _Saturne_ en _Leo_ 13. de _February_. - - English. - - The Chief of _Fossan_ shall have his throat cut, - By the Leader of the Hunt and Greyhond, - The fact committed by those of the _Tarpeian_ Mountain, - _Saturn_ being in _Leo_ the 13. of _February_. - -ANNOT. - -_Fossan_ is a City in _Piemont_, belonging to the Duke of _Savoy_, the -Chief man or Governour of which is threatned here to have his throat cut -by some Souldiers, either of _Rome_, or belonging to _Rome_, signified -here by the _Tarpeian_ Mountain, upon which the Capitol was built, and -this fact to be committed by one that shall be a famous Huntsman; upon -the 13 of _February_, _Saturn_ being then in the Sign of _Leo_. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Nouvelle Loy, Terre neuve occuper, - Vers la _Syrie_, _Judée_ & _Palestine_, - Le grand Empire, _Barbare_ corruer, - Avant que _Phebe_ son Siecle determine. - - English. - - A new Law shall occupy a new Countrey, - Towards _Syria_, _Judea_ and _Palestina_, - The great _Barbarian_ Empire shall fall down, - Before _Phœbe_ maketh an end of her course. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense are plain. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Deux Royal Freres si fort guerroieront, - Qu’entreux sera la guerre si mortelle, - Qu’un chacun places fortes occuperont, - De Regne & vie sera leur grand querelle. - - English. - - Two Royal Brothers shall War so much one against the other, - That the War between them shall be mortal, - Each of them shall seize upon strong places, - Their quarrel shall be concerning Kingdom and Life. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - Aux Champs Herbus d’_Alein_ & du _Varneigre_, - Du Mont _Lebron_ proche de la _Durance_, - Camps des deux parts conflict sera si aigre, - _Mesopotamie_ defaillira en _France_. - - English. - - In the Meadow Fields of _Alein_ and _Varneigre_, - Of the Mountain _Lebron_ near the _Durance_, - Armies on both sides, the fight shall be so sharp, - That _Mesopotamia_ shall be wanting in _France_. - -ANNOT. - -_Alain_ and _Varnaigre_ are two small Towns in _France_, seated by the -Mountain _Lebron_, near the River called _Durance_, where the Author -saith there shall be such a sharp fight, that _Mesopotamia_ shall be -wanting in _France_, to understand this you must know, that _Mesopotamia_ -is a Countrey between two Rivers from the Greek words μεσος, which -signifieth middle, and ποταμὸς which signifieth a River, the meaning then -of the Author is, that the Battle so sharp, the ground shall be wanting -to bury the dead. - - -C. - - French. - - Entre _Gaulois_ le dernier honoré, - D’homme ennemy sera victorieux, - Force & terreur en moment exploré, - D’Un coup de trait quand mourra l’envieux. - - English. - - He that is the least honoured among the _French_, - Shall be Conqueror of the man that was his Enemy, - Strength and terrour shall in a moment be tried, - When the envious shall be killed with an Arrow. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ IV. - - -I. - - French. - - Sera du reste de sang non espandu, - _Venice_ quiert secours estre donné, - Apres avoir bien lon temps attendu, - Cité livrée au premier Cor sonné. - - English. - - There shall be a remnant of blood unspilt, - _Venice_ shall seek for succours, - After having long waited for it, - The City shall be surrendred at the first sound of the Trumpet. - -ANNOT. - -This to my judgement is concerning the Siege of _Candia_, in which the -_Venetians_ for the space of about twenty years desired and expected -succours from the Christian Princes, which came so slowly, that the City -was fained to surrender upon honorable terms, which is the meaning of the -first Verse, _There shall be a remnant of blood unspilt_. - - -II. - - French. - - Par mort la _France_ prendra voiage a faire, - Classe par Mer, marcher Monts _Pyrenées_, - _Espagne_ en trouble marcher gent militaire, - Des plus grands Dames en _France_ emmenées. - - English. - - By reason of a death, _France_ shall undertake a Journey, - They shall have a Fleet at Sea, and march towards the _Pyrenes_, - _Spain_ shall be in trouble by an Army, - Some of the greatest Ladies in _France_ carried away - -ANNOT. - -The whole sense of this is, that by reason of some bodies death, _France_ -shall make war against _Spain_ by Sea and Land, and put _Spain_ in great -trouble. - -The fourth Verse saith, that some of the greatest Ladies in _France_ -shall be carried away, but the question is, whether by the _Spaniards_, -or (which is more probable) by their own Husbands going to war against -_Spain_. - - -III. - - French. - - D’_Arras_ & _Bourges_ de Brodes grands enseignes, - Un plus grand nombre de _Gascons_ battre a pied, - Ceux long du _Rhosne_ saigneront les _Espagnes_, - Proche du Mont ou _Sagunte_ sassied. - - English. - - From _Arras_ and _Bourges_ many colours of black men shall come, - A greater number of _Gascons_ shall go on foot, - Those along the _Rhosne_ shall let _Spain_ blood, - Near the Mountain where _Saguntus_ is seated. - -ANNOT. - -_Arras_ and _Bourges_ are Cities of _France_. As for _brodes_, we have -said before that it signifie brown men, such as are the _Gascoins_, -inhabiting the Province of _Aquitania_ near _Spain_. - -_Saguntus_ is a City in _Spain_, that was destroyed by the _Romans_. - - -IV. - - French. - - L’Important Prince fasché, plaint & querelle, - De rapts & pillé par Coqs & par Libiques, - Grand & par Terre, par Mer infinis Voiles, - Seule _Italie_ sera chassant _Celtiques_. - - English. - - The considerable Prince vexed, complaineth and quarelleth, - Concerning rapes and plunderings done by the Cocks and Libiques - Great trouble by Land, by Sea infinite Sails, - _Italy_ alone shall drive away the _French_. - -ANNOT. - -This considerable Prince was _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_, who was -vexed to see the Cocks, that is the _French_, and Libiques that is the -_Turks_ joyned together, under _Barbarossa_ to commit so many Rapes and -violences upon his Subjects. - - -V. - - French. - - Croix Paix, soubs un accomply Divin Verbe, - L’_Espagne_ & _Gaules_ seront unis ensemble, - Grand clade proche & combat tresacerbe, - Cœur si hardy ne sera qui ne tremble. - - English. - - The Cross shall have peace, under an accomplished Divine Word, - _Spain_ and _France_ shall be united together, - A great Battle near hand, and a most sharp fight, - No heart so stout but shall tremble. - -ANNOT. - -We have said before that by _Divine Word_, we must not understand the -second person of the Trinity, but a Divine or Theologian, called in Greek -θεόλογος, which also signifieth _Divine Word_. Therefore the meaning of -the first Verse is, that under the Goverment of some eminent Divine, (be -like a good Pope) the Cross shall have peace, that is, the Christian -Religion shall be in Peace, and persecution shall cease. The last three -Verses are plain. - - -VI. - - French. - - D’Habits nouveaux apres faite la treuve, - Malice, trame, & machination, - Premier mourra qui en fera la preuve, - Couleur _Venise_, insidiation. - - English. - - After the new Cloaths shall be found out, - There shall be malice, plotting and machination, - He shall die the first that shall make trial of it, - Under colour of _Venice_, shall be a conspiracy. - -ANNOT. - -Everybody may be as wise as I in the interpretation of this. - - -VII. - - French. - - Le fils mineur du grand & hay Prince, - De Lepre aura a vingt ans grande tache, - De dueil mourra triste & mince, - Et il mourra la ou tombe chair lache. - - English. - - The younger Son of the great and hated Prince, - Being twenty years, old shall have a great touch of Leprosie, - His mother shall die for grief, very sad and lean, - And he shall die of the disease loose flesh. - -ANNOT. - -This is easie to be understood, if we remember that _Charles_ IX. King -of _France_, younger son to _Henry_ II. died of a foul disease, and his -Mother _Catharine_ of _Medicis_ died of grief. - - -VIII. - - French. - - La grand Cité dassaut prompt repentin - Surpris de nuit, gardes interrompus, - Les Excubies & veilles Saint _Quentin_, - Trucidez gardes, & les Portails rompus. - - English. - - The great City shall be taken by a sudden assault, - Being surprised by night, the Watch being beaten, - The Court of Guard and Watch of Saint _Quentin_ - Shall be killed, and the Gates broken. - -ANNOT. - -This great City was the City of St. _Quentin_ in _Picardy_, taken by -assault by _Philip_ the II. _Anno_ 1557. - - -IX. - - French. - - Le Chef du Camp au milieu de la presse, - D’un coup de flesche sera blessé aux cuisses, - Lors que _Geneve_ en larmes & destresse, - Sera trahie par _Lozanne_ & _Souisses_. - - English. - - The Chief of the Camp in the middle of the crowd, - Shall be wounded with an Arrow through both his thighs, - When _Geneva_ being in tears and distress, - Shall be betrayed by _Lozane_ and the _Switzers_. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense are plain. - - -X. - - French. - - Le jeune Prince accusé faucement, - Mettra le camp en trouble & en querelles, - Meurtry le chef par le souslevement, - Sceptre appaiser, puis guerir escroüelles. - - English. - - The young Prince being falsely accused, - Shall put the Camp in trouble, and in quarrele, - The chief shall be murdered by the tumult, - The Scepter shall be appeased, and after cure the Kings-evil. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie must needs be concerning _England_ or _France_; for there -is but those two Kings that challenge the cure of the Kings-evil. - - -XI. - - French. - - Celuy quaura couvert de la grand Cappe, - Sera induit a quelque cas patrer, - Les douze rouges viendront soüiller la nappe, - Soubs meurtre, meurtre se viendra perpetrer. - - English. - - He that shall be covered with a great Cloak, - Shall be induced to commit some great fact, - The twelve red ones shall Soil the Table-cloth, - Under murder, murder shall be committed. - -ANNOT. - -Every one may interpret this as well as I, provided that by the _twelve -red ones_, he understandeth twelve Cardinals. - - -XII. - - French. - - Le Camp plus grand de route mis ensuite, - Gueres plus outre ne sera pourchassé, - Ost recampé & legion reduite, - Puis hors, des _Gaules_ du tout sera chassé. - - English. - - The greatest Camp being in disorder, shall be routed, - And shall be pursued not much after, - The Army shall incamp again, and the Troops set in order, - Then afterwards, they shall be wholly driven out of _France_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is concerning an out-landish Army that shall invade -_France_, and though numerous, yet shall be put to flight, and shall not -be much pursued: therefore it shall incamp again, and collect and gather -again its Troops, and afterwards shall be wholly driven out of _France_. - -I am much mistaken if this Prophecie came not to pass, when the Duke of -_Parma_ at the head of a _Spanish_ numerous Army came into _France_ in -favour of the League; for _Henry_ IV. met him at the siege of _Roven_, -beat him off, and suffered him to retire quietly, and as the common -saying is, made him a Golden Bridge, to retreat into the Low-Countries -again. - - -XIII. - - French. - - De plus grand perte nouvelles rapportées, - Le rapport fait le camp festonnera, - Bandes unies encontre revoltées, - Double _Phalange_, grand abandonnera. - - English. - - News being brought of a great loss, - The report divulged, the Camp shall be astonished, - Troops being united and revolted, - The double _Phalange_ shall forsake the great one. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a connexion with the precedent; for while the Prince of -_Parma_ was busied in _France_, news was brought to his Camp, that the -_Hollanders_ had taken _Antwerp_, which discouraged his whole Host, and -made him retire with all speed. - -The Word _Phalange_ signifieth a Battailion or part of an Army, which -being expressed here by the word _double Phalange_, signifieth, that both -Horse and Foot deserted the Duke of _Parma_ upon the hearing of this news. - - -XIV. - - French. - - La mort subite du premier personage, - Aura changé & mis un autre au Regne, - Tost, tard venu a si haut & basage, - Que Terre & mer faudra que lon le craigne. - - English. - - The sudden death of the chief man, - Shall cause a change, and put another in the Raign, - Soon, late come to so high a degree, in a low age, - So that by Land and Sea he must be feared. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain. - -The two last signifie, that a youth shall come to the Kingdom, _soon_, -that is, by reason of the sudden death of the _chief man_, and _late_; -because being but young, he shall Reign so long, that he shall be famous, -and feared by Sea and Land. - - -XV. - - French. - - D’ou pensera faire venir famine, - De la viendra le rassasiement, - L’œil de la Mer par avare canine, - Pour de l’un lautre donra Huile, Froment. - - English. - - Whence one thought to make famine to come, - Thence shall come the fulness, - The eye of the Sea through a doggish covetousness, - Shall give to both Oyl and Wheat. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie was fulfilled at the famous Siege of _Ostend_, which -lasted three years and three Months; for the _Hollanders_ that brought -relief to the Town, did for covetousness sell the ammunition to the -_Spaniards_ that besieged it, for which complaint being made by the -States to the Prince of _Orenge_, _Maurice_ of _Nassaw_, as also that they -did the like to _Newport_, which he had besieged; he replyed smartly, do -you not know that your Countrey men would Sail into Hell, were it not for -fear to have their Sails burnt. - - -XVI. - - French. - - La Cité franche de liberté fait serue, - Des profligés & resueurs fait azyle, - Le Roy changé a eux non si proterue, - De cent seront devenus plus de Mille. - - English. - - The free City from a free one shall become slave, - And of the banished and dreamers shall be a retreat, - The King changed in mind, shall not be so froward to them. - Of one hundred they shall become more than a thousand. - -ANNOT. - -Here you must observe that the Author being a Papist, speaketh this -concerning the City of _Geneva_, which he saith from a free City became a -slave, when it shook off the Duke of _Savoy_’s domination, and became a -retreat to the Protestants, whom he called the _banished_ and _dreamers_. - -In the third Verse, by _the King changed in his mind that shall not be -so froward to them_, he meaneth, _Henry_ IV. who having changed the -Protestant Religion, to be a _Roman_ Catholick, did undertake their -protection against the Duke of _Savoy_ their Prince. - -Hence followeth the explication of the fourth Verse, when he saith, that -_of one hundred they shall become more than a thousand_; for in few -years the Protestants became so numerous, that they drove the _Roman_ -Catholicks wholly out of the Town, and so have remained to this day -Masters of it. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Changer a _Beaune_, _Nuis_, _Chalons_, & _Dijon_, - Le Duc voulant amender la barrée, - Marchant pres Fleuve, Poisson, bec de plongeon, - Verra la queüe: Porte sera serrée. - - English. - - There shall be a change at _Beaune_, _Nuis_, _Chalons_, _Dijon_, - The Duke going about to raise Taxes, - The Merchant near the River shall see the tail - Of a Fish, having the Bill of a Cormorant: the door shall be shut. - -ANNOT. - -_Beaune_, _Chalons_, and _Dijon_, are Cities in _France_, _Nuis_ is a -Town in _Germany_ near the _Rhyne_, three or four Leagues below _Colen_. - -For the rest, every one may make his own interpretation, for it is hard -to guess who this Duke should be, or that Fish either, that shall have a -Cormorants Bill after whom the door shall be shut. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Les plus Lettrez dessus les faits Cœlestes, - Seront par Princes ignorans reprouvez, - Punis d’Edict, chassez comme scelestes, - Et mis a mort la ou seront trouvez. - - English. - - The most Learned in the Celestial sciences, - Shall be found fault with, by ignorant Princes. - Punished by proclamation, chased away as wicked, - And put to death where they shall be found. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain, and signifieth no more then a persecution against the -Professors of Heavenly sciences, such as are Astrologers, Astronomers, -_&c._ - - -XIX. - - French. - - Devant _Rouan_ d’_Insubres_ mis le Siege, - Par Terre & Mer enfermez les passages, - D’_Hainaut_, de _Flandres_ de _Gand_ & ceux de _Liege_, - Par leurs levées raviront les Rivages. - - English. - - Before _Rouan_ a Siege shall be laid by the _Insubrians_. - By Sea and Land the passages shall be shut up, - Those of _Hainaut_, _Flanders_, _Ghent_, and _Liege_, - With their Troops shall plunder the Sea-shore. - -ANNOT. - -This is still concerning the Duke of _Parma_’s Army, when he came into -_France_ against _Henry_ the IV. in favour of the League, for his Army -wherewith he Besieged _Rouen_, was compounded of all those Nations; the -greatest part of which were _Italians_, called here _Insubrians_, from -the Latin word _Insubria_, which signifieth the Countreys of _Savoy_ and -_Piemont_. - - -XX. - - French. - - Paix uberté long temps on ne loüera, - Part tout son Regne desert la fleur de Lis, - Corps mort d’Eau, Terre on apportera, - Sperants vain heur d’estre la ensevelis. - - English. - - Peace and plenty shall not be long praised, - All the time of his Reign the Flower de Luce shall be deserted, - Bodies shall die by water, Earth shall be brought, - Hoping vainly to be there Buried. - -ANNOT. - -This only foretelleth a great Famine and Inundation in _France_, -signified here by the _Flower de Luce_. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Le changement sera fort difficile, - Cité Province au change gain fera, - Cœur haut, prudent mis, chassé l’Inhabile, - Mer, Terre, Peuple, son estat changera. - - English. - - The change shall be very hard, - The City and Countrey shall gain by the change, - A high prudent heart shall be put in, the unworthy expelled, - Sea, Land, People shall change its condition. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Interpretation. - - -XXII. - - French. - - La grand Copie qui sera dechassée, - Dans un moment fera besoing au Roy, - La Foy promise de loing sera faucée, - Nud se verra en piteux defarroy. - - English. - - The great Army that shall be rejected, - In a moment shall be wanted by the King. - The faith promised a far off shall be broken, - So that he shall be left naked in a pitiful case. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - La Legion dans la Marine classe, - _Calcine Magnes_, Souphre & Poix bruslera, - Le long repos de l’asseurée place, - _Port Selin_ chercher, feu les consumera. - - English. - - The Legion in the Maritine Fleet, - _Calcineth Magnes_, shall burn Brimstone and Pitch, - The long rest of the secure place, - They shall seek _Port Selyn_, but fire shall consume them. - -ANNOT. - -Here we must observe four things, the first is, that _Calais_ is called -by the Author, _The long rest of the secure place_. Because then _viz._ -in the year 1555. it was yet in the power of the King of _England_, and -had been quietly before, for the space of 287. years, that is, from the -year 1347. till the year 1555. and was so still, till the year 1557. when -the Duke of _Guise_ took it, whence we gather that it was a secure place -that had enjoyed so long a rest. - -The second is, that those of _Diepe_ did watch for the _Spaniards_, in -the passage between _Dover_ and _Calais_, therefore the Author saith, -_They shall seek Port Selyn_, _Selyn_ Port or Harbour is always taken by -the Author for an Harbour in the _Ocean_. - -The third is, that the great fight between the _French_ and the -_Spaniards_ was by fire, so that most part of the Ships on each side were -burnt, and the _Spanish_ and _French_ Souldiers did cast themselves into -the Sea, to save their lives in their enemies Ships, where they were -slain. - -The fourth is, that those of _Diepe_ being extraordinary skilful in -Sea-fights had made great quantity of artificial fires, to cast into the -_Spanish_ Ships, but the Ships grapling one with another, they were burnt -on both sides. - -Upon those four circumstances the two first Verses say, that _the Legion -in the Fleet Calcineth magnes_, that is Loadstone burnt, and shall _burn -Pitch and Brimstone_, to make Artificial fires. - -The third and fourth Verse say, that this _Sea Legion_ shall seek an -Harbour in the Ocean, which shall be _a secure place, by a long rest_, -that is _Calais_. She will seek that _Selyn_ Harbour to shelter her self, -because _Calais_ did then belong to the _English_, but by reason of the -narrowness of the _Sea_, the _French_ watched for the _Spaniards_ there, -and to shew that they sought onely for _Calais_ to meet the _Spaniards_, -they carried the _Spanish_ Ships which they took into _Diepe_, and not -into _Calais_. - -The _French_ Impression hath a fault here, putting _Port Hercle_ instead -of _Port Selyn_, which is a manifest error, for the taking of _Port -Hercle_ by the _Florentines_ the 14. of _June_ 1555. was by a Land Army, -besides, that _Port Selyn_ is always taken by the Author for a Port in -the Ocean. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Ouy soubs Terre Sainte Dame voix feinte, - Humaine flamme pour Divine voir luire, - Fera des sœurs de leur sang Terre tainte, - Et les Saints Temples par les impurs destruire. - - English. - - Under ground shall be heard the fained voice of a Holy Dame, - An humane flame to see a Divine one, - Shall cause the ground to be died with the sisters blood, - And the Holy Temples to be destroyed by the wicked. - -ANNOT. - -Every one may understand this as well as I. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Corps sublimes sans fin a l’œil visibles, - Obnubiler viendront par ces raisons, - Corps, front compris, sens & chef invisibles, - Diminuant les Sacrées Oraisons. - - English. - - The Celestial bodies that are always visible to the eye, - Shall be darkened for these reasons, - The body with the forehead sense and head invincible. - Diminishing the Sacred Prayers. - -ANNOT. - -This is of the same nature as the foregoing. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Lou grand Cyssame se levera d’abelhos, - Que non lauran don te siegen venguddos, - Denuech lenbousq, lun gach dessous las treilhos, - Ciutad trahido per cinq lengos non nudos. - - English. - - The great swarm of Bees shall rise, - And it shall not be known whence they come, - Towards the Ambush so the Jay shall be under a Vine, - A City shall be betray’d by five tongues not naked. - -ANNOT. - -The Author having made this Stanza in the _Provencal_ Language, that was -his Mother Tongue, which hath very little relation to the rest of the -_French_ tongue, hath put me to some trouble to understand it; at last -I found the meaning to be this, that when a great swarm of Bees shall -light on some place, and it shall not be known whence they came, then -shall be seen a Jay under a Vine, and a City shall be betrayed by five -several Nations. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - _Salon_, _Mansol_, _Tarascon_, _de Sex_, Larc, - Ou est debout encor la _Pyramide_, - Viendront livrer le Prince _Denemark_, - Rachat honny au Temple d’_Artemide_. - - English. - - _Salon_, _Mansol_, _Tarascon_, _Desex_, the arche, - Where to this day standeth the _Pyramis_, - Shall come to deliver the Prince of _Denmark_, - A shameful ransom shall be paid in the Temple of _Artemis_. - -ANNOT. - -_Salon_, _Mansol_, _Tarascon_, _Desex_, are Towns in _Provence_ and -_Languedo_. - -By the _Arch_, here is meant the Triumphal Arch of _Caius Marius_, which -he erected after the defeat of the _Cimbres_ and _Teutons_, and remaineth -to this day in that Province, within two or three Leagues off the Town of -_Orenge_. - -_Artemis_ is an Epethete of _Diana_, so called ’πο τοῦ ἀερὰ τεμνειν, _a -secando aerem_. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Lors que _Venus_ du Sol sera couvert, - Soubs la splendeur sera la forme occulte, - _Mercure_ au feu les aura descouvert, - Par bruit Bellique sera mis a l’Insulte. - - English. - - When _Venus_ shall be covered by the Sun, - Under the splendor of it shall be an occult form, - _Mercury_ in the fire shall discover them, - And by a Warlike rumor shall be provoked. - -ANNOT. - -If this Book cometh ever into the hands of _Hermes_’s Disciples, I -shall desire they would consider diligently this Stanza, and the three -following; for they are all concerning the _Elixir_ of the Philosophers, -or the making of the Philosophers stone. To begin with this: - -_When ~Venus~ shall be covered by the Sun._ - -This is the Astral point, so much sought after by the Philosophers, for -the beginning of their work, without the knowledge of which they cannot -begin their work, or come to any good. - -_Under the splendor of it shall be an occult form_, that is, under that -conjunction lyeth a great mystery. - -_~Mercury~ in the fire shall discover them_, _viz._ Mercury of the -Philosophers, made by Cœlestial fire. - -_And by a Warlike rumor shall be provoked_; that is, the Planet of -_Mercury_ shall be provoked to mix his variable and changable disposition -with theirs, by his Aspects, Oppositions, Conjunctions, &c. It is not -possible to speak more plainly. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Le Sol caché, eclipsé par _Mercure_, - Ne sera mis que pour le Ciel second, - De _Vulcan_ _Hermes_ sera faite Pasture, - Sol sera veu pur, rutilant & blond. - - English. - - The Sun shall be hid and eclipsed by _Mercury_, - And shall not be set but for the second Heaven, - _Hermes_ shall be made a prey to _Vulcan_, - And after that the Sun shall be seen pure, shining and yellow. - -ANNOT. - -Here I must lead the Reader with _Ariadnes_ Thread, that he may extrecate -himself out of this Labyrinth. - -_The Sun shall be hid and Eclipsed by ~Mercury~_; that is, Gold shall be -Eclipsed and dissolved by the Philosophers Mercury, which is the Key and -foundation of all the work. - -_And shall not be set but for the second Heaven_; that is, shall not be -used till you come to the second part of the work, which is that of the -Furnace. - -_~Hermes~ shall be made a prey to ~Vulcan~_; that is, the matter and -composition of the _Elixir_, shall be put upon the fire in a Furnace. - -_And after that the Sun shall be seen pure, shining, yellow_; that is, -in conclusion after projection made, thou shalt see pure, shining, and -Yellow Gold. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Plus d’unze fois Luna Sol ne voudra, - Tous augmentes & baissez de degre, - Et si bas mis que peu d’Or on coudra, - Qu’apres faim, peste, descouvert le secret. - - English. - - The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times, - Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree, - And put so low, that a little Gold shall be sowed up, - So that after hunger and plague, the secret shall be discovered. - -ANNOT. - -_The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times_; that is, the Moon of -the Philosophers will not imbibe their Sun above Eleven times. - -_Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree_; that is, both shall -be encreased in quality, and lessened in quantity. - -_And put so low that a little Gold shall be sowed up_; that is, the -powder of projection, or Philosophers stone shall be so small in Bulk, -that one may sow it about him, and hide it in his Cloths. - -_After famine and plague the secret shall be discovered_; that is, -somebody shall die, with famine or plague, about which the secret shall -be found and discovered. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - La Lune au plain de nuit sur le haut Mont, - Le nouveau _Sophe_ d’Un seul cerveau la veu, - Par ses Disciples estre immortel semond, - Yeux au Midy, enfin, mains corps au feu. - - English. - - The Moon at full by night upon the high Mount, - The new _Sophe_ with one onely Brain hath seen it, - Invited by his Disciples to become immortal, - His eyes to the South, conclusion, his hands and body to the fire. - -ANNOT. - -_Sophe_ in Greek signifieth a wise man or Philosopher, who shall find the -Philosophers stone, when the Moon shall come to the full in the night -upon a high Mount. His Disciples shall perswade him to make himself -immortal, they being perswaded that the _Elixir_ cureth all diseases. - -The last Verse saith, _His eyes to the South, his hands and body to -the fire_; that is, this Chymist or _Adeptus_, shall retire into some -Southern Countrey to work. - -I cannot omit here that a conceited Chymist in _Paris_, whose name was -_Haumont_, in _English_, _Highmount_, could not be disswaded but our -Author spake of him in this Stanza, and that he could not die till he had -got the Philosophers stone, but to other matters. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Es lieux & temps chair au poisson donra lieu, - La loy commune sera faite au contraire, - Vieux tiendra fort puis osté du milieu, - Le _Panta_, _Choina_, _Philon_ mis fort arriere. - - English. - - In places and times, flesh shall give place to fish, - The common Law shall be made against it, - The old man shall stand fast, then being taken away - The _Panta_, _Choina_, _Philon_, shall be set aside. - -ANNOT. - -_Panta_, _Choina_, _Philon_, are three Greek words, παντὰ χοινα φιλῶν, -which signifie in Latine, _omnia inter amicos communia_, and in -_English_, all things are common among friends. The rest is easie. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - _Jupiter_ joint plus _Venus_ qu’a la Lune, - Apparoissant de plenitude blanche, - _Venus_ cachée soubs la blancheur _Neptune_, - De _Mars_ frappée par la gravée branche. - - English. - - _Jupiter_ being more joyned to _Venus_ then to the Moon, - Appearing in a full whiteness, - _Venus_ being hid under the whiteness of _Neptune_, - Stricken by _Mars_ through the ingraved branch. - -ANNOT. - -These terms being _Astronomical_ and _Astrological_, it is hard to guess -at the Authors mind. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Le grand mené captif d’estrange Terre; - Dor enchainé au Roy _Cheyren_ offert, - Qui dans _Ausonne_, _Milan_ perdra la Guerre, - Et tout son Ost mis a Feu & a Fer. - - English. - - The great one brought Prisoner from a far Countrey, - And chained with Gold, shall be presented to the King _Chyren_, - Being then at _Ausone_. _Milan_ shall loose the War. - And all its Host shall be put to fire and sword. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that when a great one from a far Countrey, shall -be brought Prisoner chained with gold, and presented to a King called -_Henry_ (for _Cheyren_ by transposition of letters is _Henry_) who then -shall beat _Bordeaux_; _Milan_ shall loose a great Army. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Le feu esteint, les vierges trahiront, - La plus grand part de la bande nouvelle, - Pouldre a feu les seuls Rois garderont, - _Hetrusque_ & _Corse_, de nuit, gorge alumelle. - - English. - - The fire being put out, the Virgins shall betray, - The greatest part of the new troup, - Gunpowder, Lance, shall keep only the Kings, - In _Hetruria_ and _Corsica_ by night throats shall be cut. - -ANNOT. - -_Hetruria_ is the Country _Tuscany_ now under the Duke of _Florence_, -and _Corsica_ is an Island in the _Mediterranean_ Sea belonging to the -_Genoese_. The rest is plain. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Les jeux nouveaux en _Gaule_ redressez, - Apres Victoire de l’_Insubre_ Campagne, - Monts d’_Hesperie_, les grands liez troussez, - De peur trembler la _Romagne_ & l’_Espagne_. - - English. - - The new plays shall be set up again in _France_, - After the Victory obtained in _Piemont_, - Mountains of _Spain_, the great ones tied, carried away, - _Romania_ and _Spain_ shall quake for fear. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prognostication of the rejoycing that should be in _France_, -after the winning of that famous battle _Serizoles_ in _Piemont_, against -the Armies of the Emperour and the King of _Spain_. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - _Gaulois_ par saults Monts viendra penetrer, - Occupera le grand Mont de l’_Insubre_, - Au plus profond son Ost sera entrer, - _Genes_, _Monech_ pousseront classe rubre. - - English. - - The _French_ by leaping shall go over the Mountains, - And shall seize upon the great Mount of the _Savoyard_, - He shall cause his Army to go to the furthermost, - _Genoa_, and _Monaco_ shall set out their red Fleet. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning _Henry_ the IV. King of _France_, who went -over the _Alpes_ and conquered the Duke of _Savoy_’s Countrey, because -he would not restore the Markdom of _Salvees_. _Genoa_ and _Monaco_ are -Cities near _Savoy_. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Pendant que Duc, Roy, Roine occupera, - Chef _Bizantin_ captif en _Samothrace_, - Avant lassault l’un l’autre mangera, - _Rebours_ ferré suivra du sang la trace. - - English. - - While the Duke shall busie the King and the Queen, - A great man of _Constantinople_ shall be prisoner in _Samothracia_, - Before the assault one shall eat up the other, - _Rebours_ shod shall trace one by the blood. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses are plain, as for the fourth, either it is falsly -Printed, or I must confess I understand it not. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Les _Rhodiens_ demanderont secours, - Par le neglect de ses hoirs delaissée, - L’Empire _Arabe_ ravalera son cours, - Par _Hesperie_ la cause redressée. - - English. - - The _Rhodiens_ shall ask for succours, - Being forsaken by the neglect of her Heirs, - The _Arrabian_ Empire shall slack his course, - By the means of _Spain_ the case shall be mended. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Rhodians_ are understood the Knights of _Maltha_, because they -dwelt first at _Rhodes_. - -By the second Verse it is said, it was _the neglect of her Heirs_, that -is of the Heirs of _Rhodes_ the Knights of _Maltha_, who being careless -of themselves, were besieged by _Solyman_, which constrained them to ask -succours of all the Christian Princes, which came very slowly, at last -_Dom Garcia_ Viceroy of _Sicily_ relieved them, and drove away the Turks -that had suffered great loss, therefore the Author saith in the third -Verse, _The ~Arabian~ Empire shall slack his course_. - - -XL. - - French. - - Les Forteresses des Assiegez serrez, - Par poudre a feu profondez en abysme, - Les proditeurs seront tous vifs serrez, - Onc aux _Sacristes_ navint si piteux schisme. - - English. - - The strong places of the Besieged shall be straightned, - By Gunpowder they shall be plonged into a pit, - The Traytors shall be shut up alive, - Never did happen so pitiful schisme to the _Sacristes_. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Sacristes_, he understandeth the Clergy of the Roman Religion. - - -XLI. - - French. - - _Gynique_ Sexe captive par Hostage, - Viendra de nuit custodes decevoir, - Le Chef du Camp deceu par son language, - Lairra la gente, sera piteux a voir. - - English. - - _Gynical_ sexe being captive by Hostage, - Shall come by night to deceive her keepers, - The Chief of the Camp being deceived by her Language, - Shall leave her folks, a thing pitiful to behold. - -ANNOT. - -_Gynical_ Sex is a woman from the Greek word γυνὴ, which signifieth a -woman. - -The meaning then of this Stanza is, that a woman being given in Hostage, -and made prisoner, shall deceive her keepers, and among the rest, the -chief Captain who shall forsake his Troops and run away with her. - - -XLII. - - French. - - _Geneve_ & _Langres_ par ceux de _Chartre_ & _Dole_, - Et par _Grenoble_ captif au _Montlimar_, - _Seysset_, _Lausane_, par fraudulente dole, - Les trahiront pour Or soixante mark. - - English. - - _Geneve_ and _Langres_ by those of _Chartres_ and _Dole_, - And by one of _Grenoble_ captive at _Montlimar_, - _Seisset_, _Lozanne_ by a fraudulent deceit, - Shall betray them for thirty pounds weight of Gold. - -ANNOT. - -All those Towns are in _France_, the sense is plain. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Seont ouis au Ciel les Armes battre, - Celuy an mesme les Divins ennemis, - Voudront Loix Saintes injustement debatre, - Par Foudre & guerre bien croians a mort mis. - - English. - - There shall be heard in the Air noise of Weapons, - And in that same year the Divines shall be enemies, - They shall unjustly put down the Holy Laws, - And by the Thunder and the War true believers shall die. - -ANNOT. - -There is no obscurity in this. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Deux gros de _Mende_, de _Rhodez_, & _Millaud_, - _Cahors_, _Limoges_, _Castre_, malo sepmano, - De nuech l’intrado, de _Bourdeaux_ an cailhau, - Par _Perigort_ au toc de la Campano. - - English. - - Two great ones of _Mende_, of _Rhodez_ and _Milliaud_, - _Cahors_, _Limoges_, _Castres_ an evil week, - By night the entry shall be from _Bourdeaux_ one cailhau, - Through _Perigort_ at the ringing of the Bell. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is half _French_ and half _Provencal_ language. - -All the Cities named here, _Mende_, _Rhodez_, _Milliaud_, _Cahors_, -_Limoges_, _Castres_, _Bourdeaux_, _Perigort_, are Cities of _France_, -bordering upon _Provence_, which is the Countrey wherein our Author was -born. - -The meaning of it is, that all those Cities shall rise against the -Collectors of the Kings Taxes, and shall set upon them by the sound of -the Bell, which is already come to pass, and may come to pass yet. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Par conflict, Roy Regne abandonera, - Le plus grand Chef faillira au besoing, - Morts, profligez peu en rechapera, - Tous destrenchez un en sera tesmoin. - - English. - - By a Battle the King shall forsake his Kingdom, - The greatest Commander, shall fail in time of need, - They shall be killed and routed, few shall escape, - They shall be cut off, one only shall be left for a witness. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prognostication of a great Battle, by the loss of which a King -shall forsake his Kingdom, his chief Commander having deserted him in -time of need. The slaughter shall be so great, that none shall be left -but one for a witness. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Bien defendu le fait par excellence, - Garde toy _Tours_ de ta proche ruine, - _Londres_ & _Nantes_ par _Rheims_ fera defence, - Ne passes outre au temps de la bruine. - - English. - - The fact shall be defended excellently well - _Tours_ beware of thy approaching ruine, - _London_ and _Nantes_ by _Rhemes_ shall stand upon their defence, - Do not go further in foggy weather. - -ANNOT. - -_Tours_ is the chief City of a Province in _France_, called _Touraine_, -which is commended here for having resisted excellently well; but -is forewarned to look to her self after that, and to beware of her -approaching ruine. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Le noir farouche quand aura essayé, - Sa main sanguine par feu, fer, arcs tendus, - Trestout le peuple sera tant effrayé, - Voir les plus grands par col & pieds pendus. - - English. - - The wild black one, after he shall have tryed, - His bloody hand by fire, Sword, bended Bows, - All the people shall be so frighted, - To see the greatest hanged by the neck and feet. - -ANNOT. - -It is a description of a Tyrant, who after he shall have tryed his -bloody hand by Fire, Sword, and bent Bows, shall cause his chief men to -be hanged by the neck and feet. Since the Author did write there had -been such a Tyrant in the world, namely, _John Basilides_, great Duke of -_Russia_, in the year 1572. Read _Paul Osburne_ in his Life. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Planure _Ausone_ fertile spacieuse, - Produira taons, & tant de sauterelles, - Clarte solairé deviendra nubilense, - Ronger le rout, grand peste venir delles. - - English. - - The Plain about _Bourdeaux_ fruitful and spacious, - Shall produce so many Hornets and so many Grashopers, - That the light of the Sun shall be darkened, - They shall crap all, a great plague shall come from them. - -ANNOT. - -I cannot find in History that this hath yet happened, since the writing -of these Prophecies, therefore I reckon it _de futuro_. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Devant le peuple sang sera respandu, - Qui du haut Ciel ne viendra esloigner, - Mais d’un long temps ne sera entendu, - L’Esprit d’un seul le viendra tesmoigner. - - English. - - Before the people blood shall be spilt, - Who Shall not come far from the high Heaven, - But it shall not be heard of for a great while, - The Spirit of one shall come to witness it. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is concerning some just person, that shall be murdered -openly: His blood shall cry to Heaven, but shall not be heard for a good -while, till at last it shall be discovered by some body. - - -L. - - French. - - _Libra_ verra regner les _Hesperies_, - De Ciel & Terre tenir la Monarchie, - D’_Asie_ forces nul ne verra peries, - Que sept ne tiennent par rang la Hierarchie. - - English. - - _Libra_ shall see _Spain_ to Reign, - And have the Monarchy of Heaven and Earth, - No body shall see the forces of _Asia_ to perish, - Till seven have kept the Hierarchy successively. - -ANNOT. - -_Libra_ is one of the twelve signs of the _Zodiack_, which is favourable -to _Spain_, so that the meaning of this is, that _Libra shall see ~Spain~ -to Reign_. - -And besides that, _to have the Monarchy of Heaven and Earth_; that is, to -have the command of the Pope, and of the best part of _Europe_. So that -no _Asian_ or _Turkish_ forces shall receive damage by the Christians, -till seven Popes of the _Spanish_ faction have Reigned successively, and -one after another. - - -LI. - - French. - - Un Duc cupide son ennemy poursuivre, - Dans entrera empeschant la Phalange, - Hastez a pied si pres viendront poursuivre, - Que la journée conflite aupres du _Gange_. - - English. - - A Duke being earnest in the pursute of his enemy - Shall come in, hindering the Phalange, - Hastened on foot shall follow them so close, - That the day of the Battle shall be near _Ganges_. - -ANNOT. - -A _Phalange_, in Latine _Phalanx_, is a Squadron of Souldiers, which word -was anciently proper only to the _Macedonians_. _Ganges_ is a River in -_India_. - - -LII. - - French. - - En Cité obsesse aux murs hommes & femmes, - Ennemis hors, le chef prest a soy rendre, - Vent sera fort encontre les gens darmes, - Chassez seront par chaux, poussiere & cendre. - - English. - - In a besieged City, men and women being upon the walls, - The enemies without, the Governour ready to surrender, - The Wind shall be strong against the Souldiers, - They shall be driven away by lime, dust, and ashes. - -ANNOT. - -This is a peculiar and remarkable accident, wherein the besiegers of -a City shall be driven away from their enterprise, by Lime, Dust, and -Ashes, scattered and dispersed against them by a mighty wind. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Les fugitifs & bannis revoqués, - Peres & Fils garnissant les hauts puits, - Le cruel pere & les tiens suffoquez, - Son Fils plus pire submergé dans le puits. - - English. - - The runnaways and banished men being recalled, - Fathers and Sons garnishing the high wells, - The cruel father and his retinue shall be suffocated, - His Son being worse, shall be drowned in the Well. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain, out of which every one may make his own sense. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Du nom qui on ne fut au Roy _Gaulois_, - Jamais ne fut un Foudre si craintif, - Tremblant l’_Italie_, l’_Espagne_, & les _Anglois_, - De femmes estrangeres grandement attentif. - - English. - - Of the name that a _French_ King never was, - There was never a Lightning so much feared, - _Italy_ shall tremble, _Spain_ and the _English_, - He shall be much taken with women strangers. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth that when a _French_ King shall have a name that never -any of his Predecessors had, he shall be so much feared as that _Italy_, -_Spain_, and _England_ shall tremble, and that besides he shall be much -given to women. - - -LV. - - French. - - Quand la Corneille sur Tour de Brique jointe, - Durant sept heures ne fera que crier, - Mort presagée, de sang Statue teinte, - Tyran meurdry, aux Dieux peuple prier. - - English. - - When the Crow upon a Tower made of Brick, - For seven hours shall do nothing but cry, - Death shall be foretold, and the Statue died with blood, - Tyrant shall be murdered, and the people pray to the Gods. - -ANNOT. - -This extraordinary Prodigy of a Crow crying for seven hours together upon -a Brick Tower, foretelleth that some notorious Tyrant shall be put to -death, and his statue sprinkled with blood, and withall, that the people -either for joy or fear shall be much given to prayer. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Apres Victoire de rabieuse Langue, - L’Esprit tempté, en tranquil & repos, - Victeur sauguin par conflict, fait Harangue, - Roustir la Langue, & la Chair & les Os. - - English. - - After the Victory got over a raging tongue, - The mind that was tempted, shall be in tranquility and rest, - The bloody Conqueror by Battle shall make a Speech, - And roast the tongue, the flesh, and the bones. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Conquerour who having been much railed at by his enemies, shall -in conclusion after he hath overcome them, take a severe vengeance of -them. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Ignare envie au grand Roy supportée, - Tiendra propos deffendre les escrits, - Sa femme non femme par un autre tentée, - Plus double deux ira au fort de cris. - - English. - - Ignorant envy being supported by the great King, - Shall talk of prohibiting the writtings, - His wife no wife, being tempted by another, - Shall more then they two prevail by crying. - -ANNOT. - -Some ignorant envious person being in favour with the King, shall go -about to suppress learning, but the Kings wife no wife, that is his -Concubine, shall persuade him to the contrary, and shall prevail. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Soleil ardent dans la gosier couler, - De sang humain arrouser Terre _Etrusque_, - Chef seille d’eau, mener son fils filer, - Captive Dame conduite Terre _Turque_. - - English. - - Burning Sun shall be poured into the throat, - This human blood shall wet the _Hetrurian_ ground, - The chief pale of water, shall lead his son to Spin, - A captive Lady shall be carried into the _Turkish_ Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -By burning Sun must be understood melted gold, which shall be poured into -ones throat, in the _Hetrurian_ ground, that is in _Tuscany_. - -By the chief Pale of water is to be understood, some Water-bearer, who -shall make his son an Eunuch to make benefit on’t. The fourth Verse is -plain. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Deux assiegez en ardante ferveur, - De soif estaints pour deux plaines Tasses; - Le fort limé & un vieillard resueur, - Au _Genois_, de _Nizza_ monstrera trace. - - English. - - Two besieged, being in a burning heat, - Shall die for thirst, want of two Bowls full, - The Fort being filed, an old doting man, - Shall show to the _Genoese_ the way to _Nizza_. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain. The two last Verses signifie that an old -doting man shall shew to the _Genoeses_ the way how to take _Nizza_, a -Town hard by them, by filing some Iron Grates, by which they shall get -into the Town. - - -LX. - - French. - - Les sept enfans en Hostage laissez, - Le tiers viendra son enfant trucider, - Deux par son fils seront d’estoc percez, - _Genes_, _Florence_ les viendra seconder. - - English. - - The seven Children being left in Hostage, - The third shall come to kill his child, - Two by their sons shall be run through, - _Genoa_ and _Florence_ shall second them. - -ANNOT. - -The words being so plain, every body may give as good an interpretation -as I. - - -LXI. - - French. - - Le vieux mocqué & privé de sa place, - Par l’Estranger qui le subornera, - Mais de son filz mangé devant sa face, - Le Frere a _Chartres_. _Orl._ _Rouen_ trahira. - - English. - - The old man shall be baffled and deprived of his place, - By the stranger that shall suborn him, - But of his son shall be eaten before his face, - The Brother at _Chartres_. _Orl._ shall betray _Rouen_. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is divided into two parts. The first part runneth from the -first Verse to the middle of the fourth. The meaning is, that an old -man shall be baffled and deprived of his place by a stranger that shall -suborn him, but that strangers sons brother shall be eaten up before his -face in the Town of _Chartres_; what he meaneth by eaten up, is hard to -guess, whether it be by poverty, sutes at Law, Envy, Lice, _&c._ - -The Hemisthikion of the last Verse, _~Orl.~ shall betray ~Rouen~_, -signifieth, that _Orleans_ shall betray _Rouen_. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Un Coronel machine ambition, - Se saisira de la plus grande Armée, - Contre son Prince feinte invention, - Et descouvert sera soubs sa ramée. - - English. - - A Colonel deviseth a plot by his ambition, - He shall seize upon the best part of the Army, - Against his Prince he shall have a fained invention, - And shall be discovered under the Harbour of the Vine. - -ANNOT. - -I never saw the last Tyrant _Cromwel_ better painted to the life, then in -the three first Verses. - -As for the fourth, it is certain that his intention among his -Camerades was first discovered by him unto them at the _Star Tavern in -Coleman-street_, which is the place that the Author calleth the _Harbour -of the Vine_. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - L’Armée _Celtique_ contre les _Montagnars_, - Qui seront sus & pris a la pipée, - Paisants irez pulseront tost faugnars, - Precipitez tous au fil de l’Espée. - - English. - - The _Celtique_ Army shall go against the _Highlanders_, - Who shall stand upon their guard, and be taken with Bird-lime twigs, - The Peasant being angry, shall roll down the stones, - They shall be all put to the edge of the sword. - -ANNOT. - -This is a description of the attempt made by the _French_ upon _Savoy_, -which Countrey lieth in the Mountains of the _Alpes_, therefore called -here _Highlanders_; where the Peasants being incensed for the loss of -their goods and the ruine of their Countrey, rolled stones from the top -of the Mountains against the _French_ Army, which could not hinder them -from being destroyed; this came to pass under _Henry_ the IV. King of -_France_, in the year 1662. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Le defaillant en habit de Bourgeois, - Viendra le Roy tenter de son offence, - Quinze Soldats la pluspart Villageois, - Vie derniere & chef de sa chevance. - - English. - - The guilty, in a Citizens habit, - Shall come to tempt the King concerning his offence, - Fifteen Soldiers the most part Countrey men, - The last shall be his life, and the best part of his Estate. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that a great man having committed an offence against the -King, shall come to him in a mean habit, to sue for his Pardon, and shall -be carried away by fifteen Souldiers, the most part Countrey fellows; -and in conclusion he shall have his life saved, and the best part of his -Estate. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Au deserteur de la grand Forteresse, - Apres qu’aura son lieu abandonné, - Son adversaire fera si grand provesse, - L’Empereur tost mort sera condamné. - - English. - - After that the desertor of the great Fort, - Shall have forsaken his place, - His adversary shall do so great feats, - That the Emperor, shall soon be condemned to death. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Soubs couleur feinte de sept testes rasées, - Seront formez divers explorateurs, - Puits & Fontains de poison arrousées, - Au Fort de _Genes_ humains devorateurs. - - English. - - Under the fained colour of seven shaven heads, - Shall divers spies be framed, - Wells and Fountains shall be sprinkled with poison, - In the Fort of _Genoa_ shall be humane devourers. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses belong to the same sense; _viz._ that seven men -shall be spies, under pretence to be Priests or Monks, (which is the -meaning of the shaven heads) and shall poison the Wells and Springs. - -The last Verse signifieth that in the Fort of _Genoa_, their shall be -devourers of men, that is, Usurers and Extortioners, which is no new -thing in that Nation. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - L’An que _Saturne_ & _Mars_ esgaux combust, - L’Air fort seiché, longue trajection, - Par feux secrets d’ardeur grands lieux adust, - Peu pluye, Vent chauds, Guerres, Incursions. - - English. - - In the year that _Saturn_ and _Mars_ shall be fiery, - The Air shall be very dry, in many Countreys, - By secret fires, many places shall be burnt with heat, - There shall be scarcity of Rain, hot Winds, Wars, in-roads. - -ANNOT. - -This is the Prognostication of a mighty dry season, and other accidents -that shall happen when _Saturn_ and _Mars_ shall be in a fiery -disposition, which whether it be by Opposition, Conjunction, Aspect, &c. -Let the Astrologers judge. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - En l’an bien proche non esloigné de _Venus_, - Les deux plus grands de l’_Asie_ & d’_Affrique_, - Du _Rhine_ & _Ister_ qu’on dira sont venus, - Cris, pleurs a _Malthe_, & coste _Ligustique_. - - English. - - In a year that is to come shortly, and not far from _Venus_, - The two greatest ones of _Asia_ and _Affrica_, - Shall be said to come from the _Rhine_ and _Ister_, - Crying, and tears shall be at _Maltha_ and in the _Ligurian_ shore. - -ANNOT. - -The _Rhine_ is a River in _Germany_, _Ister_ is another in the Countrey -of _Istria_, belonging to the _Venetians_. - -By the first Verse, I conclude that this Prophecy came to pass a little -while after the Author wrote this Book, when the grand Segnor _Solyman_ -besieged _Maltha_, and put in fear all the _Ligurian_ Coast, which is -that of _Genoa_. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - La Cité grande les exilez tiendront, - Les Citadins morts, meurtris & chassez, - Ceux d’_Aquilee_ a _Parme_ promettront, - Monstrer l’entrée par les lieux non tracez. - - English. - - The banished shall keep the great City, - The Citizens being dead, murdered and expelled, - Those of _Aquileia_ shall promise to _Parma_, - To shew the entrance by unknown paths. - -ANNOT. - -_Aquileia_ and _Parma_ are two Cities in _Italy_. The rest is easie. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Bien contigu des grands Monts _Pyrenées_, - Un contre l’Aigle grand copie, adresser, - Ouvertes veines, forces exterminées, - Que jusqu’au _Pau_ le chief viendra chasser. - - English. - - Near the great _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - One shall raise a great Army against the Eagle, - Veins shall be opened, forces driven out, - So that the chief shall be driven as far as the _Pau_. - -ANNOT. - -By the Eagle here is understood the Empire; because his Ensign is an -Eagle. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - En lieu d’Espouse les Filles trucidées, - Meurtre a grand faute, ne sera superstite, - Dedans le puis vestues inondées, - L’Espouse esteinte par haut d’Aconite. - - English. - - Instead of the Bride, the Maid shall be killed, - The murder shall be a great fault, none shall be surviving, - In the Well they shall be drowned with their Cloaths, - The Bride shall be extinguished by an high Aconite. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prophecie of a Tragical Nuptial, where all the Maids shall be -drowned with their Cloaths in a Well, insomuch that none shall survive, -and the Bride shall be poisoned, and die by _Aconite_, which is one of -the most poisonous herbs that is, witness _Juvinal_: _Lurida terribiles -miscent asonita novercæ._ - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Les _Artomiques_ par _Agen_ & _Lectoure_, - A saint _Felix_ feront leur Parliament, - Ceux de _Bazas_ viendront a la malhoure, - Saisir _Condon_ & _Marsan_ promptement. - - English. - - The _Artomiques_ through _Agen_ and _Lectoure_, - Shall keep their Parliament at Saint _Fœlix_, - These of _Bazas_ shall come in an unhappy hour, - To seize upon _Condon_ and _Marsan_ speedily. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Artomiques_ he meaneth the Protestants; because they take the -Communion with leavened Bread, which in Greek is called _Artos_. - -_Agen_, _Lectoure_, saint _Fœlix_, _Bazas_, _Condon_ and _Marzan_, are -Cities of _Gascony_. The rest is plain. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Le neveu grand par force prouvera, - Le peche fait de Cœur pusillanime, - _Ferrare_ & _Ast_ le Duc esprouvera, - Par lors qu’au soir sera le _Pantomime_. - - English. - - The great nephew by force shall provoke, - The sin committed by the pusillanimous heart, - _Ferrara_ and _Ast_ shall make tryal of the Duke, - When the _Pantomime_ shall be in the evening. - -ANNOT. - -To understand the whole sense of this, we must first know what is meant -by the particular terms. - -The great Nephew is the Brother or Sisters son of some great person, -who by force shall discover the Treason or Cowardise, committed by some -pusillanimous or fearful man. - -_Ferrara_ and _Ast_ are two towns in _Italy_, shall make tryal of a Duke, -by being either taken or assaulted. - -_When the Pantomime shall be in the evening_; that is, when the Comedy -shall be acted; for _Pantomime_ in Greek signifieth a Comedian. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - Du lac _Leman_ & ceux des _Brannonices_, - Tous assemblez contre ceux d’_Aquitaine_, - Germans beaucoup encores plus _Sovisses_, - Seronts des faits avec ceux du _Maine_. - - English. - - From lake _Leman_, and from the _Brannonues_, - They shall be gathered against those of _Aquitania_, - Great many _Germans_, and many more _Switzers_, - Shall be routed together with those of _Maine_. - -ANNOT. - -Lake _Leman_, is the Lake of _Geneva_. The _Brannonices_ are those of -_Sens_, so called; because they took _Rome_ under the Conduct of their -Captain _Brennus_, and afterwards built _Brenona_, a Town belonging since -to the _Venetians_, who calls it _Verona_. - -_Aquitania_ is that Province of _France_, called now _Gascony_. _Maine_ -is a Province in _France_. The rest needeth no explication. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Prest a combattre fera defection, - Chef adversaire obtiendra la victoire, - Larriere garde fera defension, - Les defaillans morts au blanc terretoire. - - English. - - One being ready to fight, shall faint, - The chief of the adverse party shall obtain the victory, - The rearegard, shall withstand it out, - Those that fall away shall die in the white Terretory. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by the white -Terretory, whether it be positive, or Allegorical, I leave the judgement -of it to the Reader. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - Les _Nictobriges_ par ceux de _Perigort_, - Seront vexez tenants jusques au _Rhosne_, - L’Associé de _Gascons_ & _Bigorre_, - Trahir le Temple le prestre estant au Prosne. - - English. - - The _Nictobriges_ by those of _Perigort_, - Shall be vexed as far as the _Rhosne_, - The associate of the _Gascons_ and _Bigorre_, - Shall betray the Church while the Priest is in his Pulpit. - -ANNOT. - -_Nictobriges_ in Greek signifieth a people living in a dark and moist -Countrey. _Perigort_ and _Bigorre_ are two Towns in _France_. The rest is -plain. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - _Selyn_ Monarque, l’_Italie_ pacifique, - Regnes unis, Roy Chrestien du monde, - Mourant voudra coucher en Terre _Blesique_, - Apres Pyrates avoir chassé de L’onde. - - English. - - _Selyn_ being Monarch, _Italy_ shall be in peace, - Kingdoms shall be united, a Christian King of the world, - Dying, shall desire to be buried in the Countrey of _Blois_, - After he shall have driven the Pyrates from the Sea. - -ANNOT. - -_Selyn_ is the name of a _Turkish_ Emperour, the meaning therefore of -this, is, that under the Reign of one _Selyn_ a _Turkish_ Emperour, -_Italy_ shall be in peace, and all the Christian Princes united. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - La grand Armée de la pugne civile, - Pour de nuit _Parme_ a l’Estranger trouvée, - Septante neuf meurtris dedans la Ville, - Les estrangers passez tous a l’Espée. - - English. - - The great Army belonging to the Civil War, - Having found by night _Parma_ possessed by Strangers, - Shall kill seventy nine in the Town, - And put all the Strangers to the Sword. - -ANNOT. - -_Parma_ is a City in _Italy_. The rest is plain. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Sang Royal fuis, _Monheurt_, _Mars._ _Aiguillon_, - Remplis seront de _Bourdelois_ les _Landes_. - _Navarre_, _Bigorre_, pointes & Aiguillons, - Profonds de faim, vorer de Liege, Glandes. - - English. - - Royal blood run away from _Monheurt_, _Marsan_, _Aiguillon_, - The _Landes_ shall be full of _Bourdeloir_, - _Navarre_, _Bigorre_, shall have points and Pricks. - Being deep in hunger, they shall devour the Cork and Akorns. - -ANNOT. - -_Monheurt_, _Marsan_, _Aiguillon_, are Towns in _Gascony_. - -_Landes_ is a desert Countrey, wherein nothing groweth but Pine-trees, -_Bourdelois_ are those of _Bourdeaux_. - -_Navarre_ is a Kingdom, and _Begorre_ a Province joyning to those -_Landes_, or Pine-trees Countrey. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - Pres du grand Fleuve, grand fosse, terre egeste, - En quinze parts l’eau sera divisée, - La Cité prinse, feu, sang, cris, conflict mettre, - Et la plus part concerne au collisée. - - English. - - Near the great River, a great pit, Earth digged out, - In fifteen parts the Water shall be divided, - The City taken, fire, blood, cries, fighting, - And the greatest part concerneth the Collisés. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled, when _Rome_ was taken and sacked by -_Charles_ Duke of _Bourbon_, and _Philibert_ of _Chalon_ Prince of -_Orenge_, Generals of the Emperour _Charles_ the V. with such cruelties, -as never was committed by the bloody _Goths_ and _Vandales_, and to shew -that the Author intended _Rome_, is apparant by two instances. The first -is by _the great River_, which is the _Tyber_, which though not very -great in its Channel and depth, yet is very great, yea, the greatest in -_Europe_ by its fame. The other is the word _Colisée_, which is that -famous Arch of _Traian_ in _Rome_, remaining yet to this day. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - Pont on fera promptement de nacelles, - Passer l’Armée du grand Prince _Belgique_, - Dans profondres, & non loing de _Bruxelles_, - Outrepassez detrenchez sept a picque. - - English. - - A Bridge of Boats shall suddenly be made, - To pass over the Army of the great _Belgick_ Prince, - In deep places, and not far from _Bruxelles_, - Being gone over, there shall be seven cut with a Pike. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the Siege of _Antwerp_ by the Prince of _Parma_, -Governour of the _Low-Countreys_ for the King of _Spain_, who having -besieged, caused a Bridge of Boats to be made upon the River _Scheld_, -to hinder the succours of the _Hollanders_, who by that means were -constrained to surrender it. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Amas sapproche venant d’_Esclavonie_, - L’Olestant vieux Cité ruinera, - Fort desolée verra sa _Romanie_, - Puis la grand flamme estaindre ne scaura. - - English. - - A great troop gathered, shall come from _Sclavonia_, - The old Olestant shall ruine a City, - He shall see his _Romania_ very desolate, - And after that, shall not be able to quench that great flame. - -ANNOT. - -That great troop from _Sclavonia_ shall be the _Venetians_, because -they possess most part of that Countrey. _The old Olestant_ is their -Duke, because he is not chosen unless he be very old, by _Romania_ is -understood what the _Venetians_ possess in that Countrey. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Combat nocturne le vaillant Capitaine, - Vaincu fuira, peu de gens profligé, - Son peuple esmeu, sedition non vain, - Son propre fils le tiendra assiegé. - - English. - - In a fight by night, the valliant Captain, - Being vanquished shall run away, overcome by few, - His people being moved, shall make no small mutiny, - His own son shall besiege him. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Un grand d’_Auxerre_ mourra bien miserable, - Chassé de ceux qui soubs luy ont esté. - Serré de chaines, apres d’un rude cable, - En l’an que _Mars_, _Venus_ & _Sol_ mis en Esté. - - English. - - A great man of _Auxerre_ shall die very miserably, - Being expelled by those that have been under him, - Bound with Chains, and after that with a strong Cable, - In the year that _Mars_, _Venus_, and _Sol_ shall be in a conjunction - in the Summer. - -ANNOT. - -_Auxerre_ is a City of _France_, distant from _Paris_ 40. leagues to the -_Southward_. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Le Charbon blanc du noir sera chassé, - Prisonier fait, mené au Tombereau, - More Chameau sus pieds entrelassez, - Lors le puisné fillera l’Aubereau. - - English. - - The white Coal shall be expelled by the black one, - He shall be made Prisoner, carried in a Dung-cart, - His feet twisted upon a black Camel, - Then the youngest, shall suffer the Hobby to have more thread. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse is altogether Allegorical and Metaphorical, therefore -I leave it to the judgement of every Reader. I shall only deliver my -opinion upon the whole: I take it to be some white Prince, that shall -be overcome by a black one, put in a Dungcart, after that, tied upon a -black Camel, and then the younger son of that black Prince shall give the -prisonner a little more liberty. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - L’An que _Saturne_ en eau sera conjoint, - Avecques _Sol_ le Roy fort & puissant, - A _Rheims_ & _Aix_ sera receu & oingt, - Apres Conquestes meurtrira innocens. - - English. - - In the year that _Saturn_ in _Aquarius_ shall be in conjunction - With _Sol_, the King being strong and powerful, - Shall be received and Anointed at _Rheines_ and _Aix_, - After Conquest he shall murder innocent persons. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is remarkable for the things that it foretelleth, _viz._ -that in the year that _Saturn_ shall be in conjunction with _Sol_ in -the Sign of _Aquarius_, a King of _France_ shall be annointed both at -_Rhemes_ and _Aix_, for _Rhemes_ is a City in _France_, where the Kings -use to be Annointed and Crowned, and _Aix_ is another in _Germany_, where -the Emperours use to be so. But the last Verse is ominous, where he -saith, that after his Conquests he shall murder innocent persons. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Un fils de Roy tant de Langues apprins, - A son Aisné au Regne different, - Son Pere beau au plus grand fils comprins, - Fera perir principal adherent. - - English. - - A son of a King having learned divers Languages, - Shall fall out with his elder Brother for the Kingdom, - His father in Law being more concerned with his elder son, - Shall cause the principal adherent to perish. - -ANNOT. - -One King shall have two Sons, the eldest shall succeed him in the -Kingdom, the youngest having been well brought up and educated, shall -raise troubles, against the King his Brother; but he shall be destroyed -by the means of his own Father in Law. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - La grand _Antoine_ du nom de fait sordide, - De _Phtyriase_ a son dernier rongé, - Un qui de plomb voudra este cupide, - Passant le port d’_Esleu_ sera plongé. - - English. - - The great _Antony_ by name, but in effect sordid, - Of _Phtyriasis_ shall at last be eaten up, - One that shall be covetous of Lead, - Going upon Port d’_Esleu_ shall fall into the Water. - -ANNOT. - -_Phtyriasis_ in Greek is the disease called by the Latines _Morbus -pedicularis_, when one is devoured by Lice, as were _Herodes_, _Sylla_, -_Pherecydes_, and _Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, &c. - -As for Port d’_Esleu_, the question is, whether it be the proper name of -a place, or the name of a man, that shall throw another in the water. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Trente de _Londres_ secret conjureront, - Contre Leur Roy, sur le pont l’Entreprise, - Les _Satellites_ la mort desgouteront, - Un Roy esleu blond & natif de _Frize_. - - English. - - Thirty of _London_ shall secretly conspire, - Against their King, upon the Bridge the Plot shall be made, - These _Satellites_ shall taste of death, - A King shall be elected, fair, and born in _Friezeland_. - -ANNOT. - -Here may be alleadged that passage of Scripture, _There is nothing so -secret but shall be revealed_; for here is plainly told the number of -those wicked persons, who conspired against their lawful Sovereign King -_Charles_ I. of blessed memory, as also the place where the Plot was -first laid; for it is well known that they used to assemble at the _Bear_ -at the Bridge foot. - - -XC. - - French. - - Les deux copies au murs ne pourront joindre, - Dans cet instant trembler _Milan_, _Thesin_, - Faim soif, doutance si fort les viendront prendre, - Chair, pain, ne vivres nauront un seul boucin. - - English. - - The two Armies shall not be able to joyn by the Walls, - At that instant _Milan_ and _Thesin_ shall tremble, - Hunger, thirst, and fear shall so seize upon them, - They shall not have a bit of meat, bread, nor victuals. - -ANNOT. - -_Milan_ is a City in _Italy_, and _Thesin_ is the River that passeth by -it. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Au Duc _Gaulois_ contraint battre au Duelle, - La nef de Mole, _Monech_ naprochera, - Tort accuse, prison perpetuelle, - Son Fils regner avant mort taschera. - - English. - - A _French_ Duke compelled to fight a Duel, - The Ship of Mole shall not come near _Monaco_, - Wrongfully accused shall have a perpetual Prison, - His son shall endeavour to Reign before his death. - -ANNOT. - -To understand this Stanza, we must suppose four Histories, _Paradin_ -relateth the first, which is, that the _French_ and _Spanish_ Armies -having their Winter quarters in the Dukedome of _Milan_, _Anno_ 1555. - -The Marquess of _Pescaire_, sent word to the Duke of _Nemours_, by a -_French_ Gentleman, that he and three more desired to break a Lance with -him upon the borders of _Ast_. - -The Duke accepted the challenge, without giving notice to the Marquess of -_Brissac_, then General of the _French_ Army, who was very angry at it, -nevertheless he advised the Duke to go, but not with a Guilt and light -Armour, but with a wrong one, such as became a Cavaliero, which he did -not do, nor the other three that went with him: whence it came, that the -Lord _Classe_ a _French_ man, running against _Malespine_, was wounded -to death in the shoulder; nevertheless one of the seconds to the Duke -of _Nemours_, the Lord _Moncha_ killed upon the place _Carassa_, Nephew -to pope _Marcel_ II. and the Lord _Manoa_, one of the Duke of _Nemours_ -party, falling from his Horse a little wounded, broke his neck. - -As for the Duke of _Nemours_, he ran twice against the said Marquess, -without hitting one another, but at the third time they both brake their -Lances, without doing any harm. Thus, _the French Duke was compelled to -fight a Duel_. - -We have the second History from _Turpin_, and many others, which is, -that the Marquess of _Masseran_, having put himself into the King of -_France_’s service, in hopes to have the Government of _Bielais_; and -proving a Traitor, the Marshal of _Brissac_, who had discovered his -perfidiousness, resolved to take him in his house of _Gaillany_, which he -had fortified to secure his retreat after his Treason. - -The Lord _de Termes_ was commanded to do it, which he did so dexterously, -that he took him into his house after dinner, and then compelled him -presently to surrender the Castle of _Jamaglia_, the Marquess obeying, -sent thither presently his son _Claudius_, to put it into the hands of -the Lords _de la Mante_, and of _Villars_. - -These two viewing the Castle, to observe the places that might be -fortified, and going from room to room, heard a lamentable voice, crying. -_Have mercy upon me._ They caused presently the Prison doors to be -opened, and found a poor Gentleman of _Vercelle_, whom the Marquess had -detained there 18 years, for endeavouring to serve an execution against -him, in the Duke of _Savoy_’s behalf. - -And it is remarkable that his Imprisonment was all this while concealed, -so that no body ever heard of it, in so much that his friends suspecting -he had been killed by one of his enemies, they prosecuted him so hard, -that after much tortering, he confessed what he had not done, and was -consequently put to death in the presence of the said Marquess of -_Masseran_, who knew the Countrey. Thus we see _one wrongfully accused_ -that was executed, and this Gentlemans Imprisonment, which was to be -perpetual. - -After this, they carryed the poor Gentleman almost all naked, and being -nothing but skin and bones, to the Lord of _Termes_, who caused him to be -clothed, and gave him Money to go back to his friends. - -The third History is, that the Duke of _Nemours_ Son was one of the chief -ring-leaders of the League against _Henry_ IV. and did what he could -before he dyed to get the Kingdom of _France_, endeavouring first to make -himself Sovereign Prince of _Lion_, _Forrest_, and _Beaucolois_. - -The fourth History is, that at the latter end of the year 1555. the Lord -_la Mole_ carrying to _Rome_ the Cardinals of _Tournon_ and _Lorrain_, -went directly to the Island of _Corsica_, whence he drew some Forces, -which he joyned to his, and to those of _Monluc_, and would not Land at -_Monaco_ for some reasons, but went directly to _Civita Vecchia_. By this -we understand that Verse of the Stanza. _The Ship of the Mole shall not -come near ~Monaco~._ - - -XCII. - - French. - - Teste trenchée du vaillant Capitaine, - Sera jettée devant son adversaire, - Son corps pendu de la Classe a l’Antenne, - Confus fuira par rames avent contraire. - - English. - - The head cut off the valliant Captain - Shall be thrown down before his adversary, - His body hanged at the Sails Yard, - Confused, they shall fly with Oars against the Wind. - -ANNOT. - -These words are plain enough, though no body can tell whether the thing -is past already, or shall come to pass hereafter. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Un Serpent veu proche du lict Royal, - Sera par Dame nuict chien n’abageronts - Lors nastre en _France_ un Prince tant Royal, - Du Ciel venu tous les Princes verront. - - English. - - A Serpent shall be seen near the Royal bed, - By a Lady in the night, the Dogs shall not bark, - Then shall be born in _France_ a Prince so Royal, - Come from Heaven all the Princes shall see it. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to be an allusion to the Birth of _Alexander_ the great; -for it is said, that when his mother _Olympia_ proved with Child of him, -there was seen in her Bed, and about her Bed a great Serpent, which was -the presage of his future greatness: therefore our Author also will have, -that when such a Prodigie shall appear in _France_, that then shall be -born such a Prince as he mentioneth here: the circumstances are, that -this Serpent shall be seen by a Lady in the night time, and that the Dogs -of the house shall not bark at him. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Deux grand, freres seront chassez d’_Espagne_, - Laisné vaincu soubs les Monts _Pyrænæes_, - Rougis Mer, _Rhosne_, sang _Leman_, d’_Alemagne_, - _Narbon_, _Blyterre_, d’_Agath_ contaminées. - - English. - - Two great Brothers shall be driven from _Spain_, - The elder of them shall be overcome under the _Pyrenean_ Mountains - Bloody Sea, _Rhosne_, Blood _Leman_ of _Germany_, - _Narbon_, _Bliterre_ of _Agath_ polluted. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are easily understood by those that know the -_Pyrenean_ Mountains, to be those that part _Spain_ from _France_. The -two last Verses signifie there shall be bloody Wars in those places; the -_Rhosne_ is a swift River of _France_, that passeth through the City -of _Lyons_; _Leman_ is the Lake of _Geneva_, and _Narbon_ is a City of -_Languedock_. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Le Regne a deux laissé bien peu tiendront, - Trois ans sept mois passez feront la guerre, - Les deux vestales contre rebelleront, - Victor puisnay en _Armorique_ Terre. - - English. - - The Kingdom being left to two, they shall keep it but a little while, - Three years and seven months being past, they shall make War, - The two Vestals shall rebel against them, - The youngest shall be Conquerour in the _Armorick_ Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies, that a Kingdom shall be left to two, who shall keep it -but a little while, about the space before mentioned. - -By the two Vestals that shall rebel, are to be understood two Nuns, who -having Interest in the state by their nearness of blood, shall challenge -a title in the Kingdom. The last Verse signifies, that the youngest that -contended for the Kingdom, shall overcome the eldest, in the Province of -_Gascony_. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - La sœur aisnée de l’Isle _Britannique_, - Quinze ans devant le frere aura naissance, - Par son promis moyenant verifique, - Succedera au Regne de Balance. - - English. - - The eldest Sister of the _Brittain_ Island, - Shall be born fifteen years before her Brother, - By what is promised her, and help of the truth, - She shall succeed in the Kingdom of _Libra_. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies, that the Princess born so long after her Brother, shall -be married to a King of _France_, which is understood here by the Kingdom -of _Libra_; therefore the last King _Lewis_ the XIII. was called _the -Just_, because born under the Sign of _Libra_. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - L’An que _Mercure_, _Mars_, _Venus_ retrograde, - Du grand Monarque la ligne ne faillit, - Esleu du peuple _Lusitant_ pres de _Pactole_, - Qu’en Paix & Regne viendra fort enveillir. - - English. - - When _Mercury_, _Mars_ and _Venus_ shall retrograde, - The Line of the great Monarch shall be wanting, - He shall be elected by the _Lusitanians_ near _Pactole_, - And shall Reign in Peace a good while. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies the late change of state in _Portugal_, when they threw -off the _Spanish_ yoke, and chose a King amongst themselves, _John_ the -IV. Duke of _Branganza_, Father to the present Queen of _England_; -for by the _Lusitanians_ are meant the _Portugals_, so called from -their Countreys name _Lusitania_; _Pactoles_ is the River that runs by -_Lisbonne_, otherwise called _Tagus_, in Greek χροσοροος from the Sands. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Les _Albanois_ passeront dedans _Rome_, - Moyennant _Langres_ demipiler affubles, - Marquis & Duc ne pardonnes a l’homme, - Feu, sang, morbilles point d’eau, faillir les blés. - - English. - - The _Albanians_ shall pass through _Rome_, - By the means of _Langres_ covered with half Helmets, - Marquess and Duke shall spare no man, - Fire, blood, small Pox, Water shall fail us, also Corn. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that when the people of _Albania_ lying between the -_Venetian_ Territories, and _Grecia_, shall come to _Rome_, by the means -of a Bishop of _Langres_, who is a Duke and Peer of _France_; being -_covered with half Helmets_, a kind of a Cap that they wear in War; then -shall be _fire, blood, small Pox, and want of Corn_. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - L’Aisné vaillant de la fille du Roy, - Repoussera si profond les _Celtiques_, - Qu’il mettra Foudres, combien en tel arroy, - Peu & loing puis profond es _Hesperiques_. - - English. - - The valliant eldest son of the daughter of the King, - Shall beat back so far those of _Flanders_, - That he will cast Lightnings, O how many in such orders - Little and far, after shall go deep in _Spain_. - -ANNOT. - -This is scarce to be understood of any body, but the present King of -_France_ _Lewis_ the XIV. who was the elder son, and born of Queen _Ann_, -Daughter to the King of _Spain_, who by his valour and fortune made last -year such progress in the Conquest of _Flanders_, that it hath caused -admiration in every body; insomuch that is he do the like this year, -it may be probably suspected, he will afterwards go deep into _Spain_ -according to the contents of this Prophecy. - - -C. - - French. - - Du feu Celeste au Royal edifice, - Quand la lumiere de _Mars_ defaillira, - Sept mois grand Guerre, mort gent de malefice, - _Rouen_, _Eureux_ au Roy ne faillira. - - English. - - Fire shall fall from the skies on the Kings Palace, - When _Mars_’s light shall be Ecclipsed, - A great War shall be for seven months, people shall die by witchcraft. - _Rouen_, and _Eureux_ shall not be wanting to the King. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that when _Mars_ is Ecclipsed, the Lightning shall fall -on some of the King of _Frances_ Palaces, then shall be a great War, for -the space of seven Months, and many shall die by witchcraft; and _Rouen_ -the chief City of _Normandy_, and _Eureux_ another of the same province, -shall stick fast to the Kings Interest. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ V. - - -I. - - French. - - Avant venue de ruine _Celtique_, - Dedans le Temple d’eux parlementeront, - Poignard cœur d’un monté au coursier & picque, - Sans faire bruit le grand enterreront. - - English. - - Before the coming of the ruine of _Flanders_, - Two shall discourse together in the Church, - Dagger in the heart by one, on Horse-back and Spurring, - Without noise they shall bury the great one. - -ANNOT. - -This is a further specification of the whole ruine of _Flanders_, before -which it shall happen, saith our Author, that two shall talk together in -the Church, and one shall stabb the other with a Dagger, and then take -Horse, and fly, the dead one being buried without Pompe or Ceremony. - - -II. - - French. - - Sept conjurez au Banquet feront luire, - Centre les trois le Fer hors de Navire. - L’un les deux classes au grand fera conduire, - Quand par le mail dernier au front luy tire. - - English. - - Seven Conspirators at a Banquet shall make their Iron glister - Against three, out of a Ship: - One shall carry the two Fleets to the great one, - When in the Palle-malle the last shall shoot him in the forehead. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses foretell a Conspiracy of seven against three, one of -which seven shall carry both Fleets to some eminent person, at which time -he shall be shot in the forehead by the last of the seven. - - -III. - - French. - - Le Successeur de la Duché viendra, - Beaucoup plus outre que la Mer de _Toscane_, - _Gauloise_ branche la _Florence_ tiendra, - Dans son Giron d’accord nautique Rane. - - English. - - The Successor to the Dukedom shall come, - Far beyond the _Tuscane_ Sea, - A _French_ branch shall hold _Florence_ - In its Lap, to which the Sea-frog shall agree. - -ANNOT. - -By the two first Verses is meant a lawful Successor to the Duke of -_Tuscany_ who shall come to recover the said Dukedom, which shall then be -in the possession of the _French_. - -It is hard to guess what he means by the Sea-frog, unless it be some -considerable Prince at Sea, which shall then be in League with the -_French_. - - -IV. - - French. - - Le gros Mastin de Cité dechassé, - Sera fasché de l’estrange Alliance, - Apres aux Champs avoir le Cerf chassé, - Le Loup & l’Ours se donront defiance. - - English. - - The great Mastif being driven from the City, - Shall be angry at the strange Alliance, - After he shall have hunted the Hart in the Fields, - The Wolf, and the Bear shall defie one another. - -ANNOT. - -By the strange Alliance is meant that which _Cromwel_ had with _France_, -to the prejudice of his Majesty of _England_, who is here meant by the -Mastif, a Creature, for which _England_ hath been famous. - -By the Wolf and the Bear are meant the _French_ King and the _Switzers_, -or those of _Savoy_. - - -V. - - French. - - Sous ombre faincte d’oster de servitude, - Peuple & Cité l’usurpera luy-mesme, - Pire sera par fraus de jeune pute, - Livré au Champ lisant le faux proësme. - - English. - - Under the fained shadow of freeing people from slavery, - He shall usurpe the people and City for himself; - He shall do worse by the deceit of a young Whore, - For he shall be betrayed in the field reading a false proem. - -ANNOT. - -The two first are plain, and may be referred to the foregoing Stanza -concerning _Oliver_. - -The last Verses are plain, and I leave them to the judicious Reader. - - -VI. - - French. - - Au Roy l’_Augur_ sur le chef le main mettre, - Viendra prier pour la Paix _Italique_, - A la main gauche viendra changer le Sceptre, - De Roy viendra Empereur pacifique. - - English. - - The _Augur_ shall come to put his hand upon the Kings head, - And pray for the Peace of _Italy_, - In the left hand he shall change the Scepter, - Of a King he shall become a peaceful Emperour. - -ANNOT. - -Although the _Augur_ in Latine signifieth one that telleth events of -matters by the flying voices, or sitting of Birds, yet it is taken also -(as here) for a Prelat or Clergyman, who shall put his hand upon a Kings -head, and pray for the peace of _Italy_, and shall put a Scepter in his -hand, and install him Emperour, what King this should be, is easie to be -conjectured by the Author, being a _French-man_, and setting down a King -without any Epithite, and this Prophecy is a confirmation of one before -of the same nature. - - -VII. - - French. - - Du _Triumuir_ seront trouvez les os, - Cherchant profond Thresor ænigmatique, - Ceux d’alentour ne seront en repos, - Ce concaver Marbre & plomb Metallique. - - English. - - The bones of the _Triumuir_ shall be found out, - When they shall seek for a deep and ænigmatical Treasure, - Those there about shall not be in rest, - This concavity shall be Marble and Metallick Lead. - -ANNOT. - -I suppose none so ignorant in the Roman History, but knows, that there -was a combination between _Octavius Cæsar_, _Marcus Antonius_, and -_Lepidus_, to make themselves Masters of the _Roman_ Empire, and to -divide it amongst themselves, this plot being made by three, was made by -the _Triumuiri_, the meaning then is, that when they shall go to seek for -a Treasure, they shall find the bones of one of those three persons, and -in that cavity that they shall have digged, they shall find Marble and -Lead. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Sera laissé le feu vif, mort caché, - Dedans les Globes horrible espouventable, - De nuict a classe Cité en poudre lasché, - La Cité a feu, l’ennemy favourable. - - English. - - The fire shall be left burning, the dead man shall be hid, - Within the Globes terrible and fearful, - By night the Fleet shall shoot against the City, - The City shall be on fire, the enemy shall be favourable unto it. - -ANNOT. - -The two Verses signifie, that fire shall be hid within Globes, I suppose -them to be Granado’s, or a Mine. - -The two last Verses signifie, that the Fleet in the Harbour, or near it, -shall set the City on fire, and that they shall come out of the Fleet to -help to quench the fire, and so shall the enemy be favourable. - - -IX. - - French. - - Jusques au fond la grand Arche _Maluë_, - Par chef Captif l’amy anticipé, - Naistra de Dame front, face cheveluë, - Lors par astuce Duc a mort attrapé - - English. - - To the bottom of the great Arch _Malüe_, - By a Captain that is a Prisoner, the friend shall be anticipated, - One shall be born of a Lady with a hoary face and forehead, - Then by craft shall a Duke be put to death. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of the first is unknown to me: I leave it to the Reader. - -The sense of the last is as obvious to the meanest capacity, as the two -precedent are obscure. - - -X. - - French. - - Un chef _Celtique_ dans le conflict blessé, - Aupres de Cave, voiant, siens mort abattre, - De sang & playes & d’ennemis pressé, - Est se couru par incogneus de quattre. - - English. - - A General of _Flanders_ wounded in Battle, - Near a Cellar, seeing death to overthrow his people, - Being much oppressed with blood, wounds and enemies, - Is succoured by four unknown. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no further interpretation, than that it seemeth to be near -its event. - - -XI. - - French. - - Mer par solaires seure passera - Ceux de _Venus_ tiendront toute l’_Afrique_, - Leur Regne plus _Saturne_ n’occupera, - Et changera la part _Asiatique_. - - English. - - By solaries she shall pass secure, - Those of _Venus_ shall hold all _Africa_, - _Saturn_ shall hold their Kingdom no longer, - And shall change the _Asiatick_ part. - -ANNOT. - -This is so obscure in words and sense, that I can judge no more than that -it signifies a great change in _Africa_ and _Asia_, which I suppose is -already come to pass by _Taffaletta_. - - -XII. - - French. - - Au pres du lac _Leman_ sera conduite, - Par garse estrange Cite voulant trahir, - Avant son meurtre a _Ausbourg_ la grand suite, - Et ceux du _Rhin_ la viendront envahir. - - English. - - Near the _Leman_ Lake shall be a Plot, - By a strange Whore to betray a City, - Before she be kill’d her great retinue will come to _Ausbourg_, - And those of the _Rhine_ shall come to invade her. - -ANNOT. - -We have said often before, that the _Leman_ Lake is that of _Geneva_. The -rest is so manifest, that it needs no interpretation. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Par grand fureur le Roy _Romain Belgique_, - Veexer voudra par phalange _Barbare_, - Furent grinssant chassera gent _Lybique_, - Depuis _Pannons_ jusque _Hercules_ la bare. - - English. - - Through great anger the _Roman Belgick_ King, - Shall come to vex with _Barbarian_ Troops, - Gnashing with fury, he shall draw away the _Lybian_ people, - From the _Pannons_ as far as _Hercules_. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Roman Belgick_ King, is understood _Philip_ the second King of -_Spain_; because he was made King in _Flanders_, by his father _Charles_ -V. - -The second Verse signifieth the diverse Nations that his Army was -composed of. - -In the third, by the _Lybian_ people are understood the _Jews_, which he -drove away from _Spain_ into _Africa_. - -The _Pannons_ are the people of _Hungary_, called _Pannones_, and the -meaning that he drove them out as far as _Hercules_ Pillar, at the mouth -of the Straits, signifies the great expulsion he made of them, which were -about the number of 200000. - - -XIV. - - French. - - _Saturne_ & _Mars_ en _Leo Espagne_ captifue, - Par chef _Lybique_ au conflict attrapé, - Proche de _Malte_, Herede Prinse vive, - Et _Romain_ Sceptre sera par _Coq_ frappé. - - English. - - _Saturn_ and _Mars_ being in _Leo_, _Spain_ shall be captive, - By a _Lybian_ General taken in the Battle, - Near _Malta_, an Heirse shall be taken alive, - And the _Roman_ Scepter shall be strucken by the _Cock_. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Cock_ is meant the King of _France_. The rest is plain. - - -XV. - - French. - - En navigant Captif prins grand pontife, - Grand apres faillir les clercs tumultuez, - Second esleu absent son bien debife, - Son favory Bastard a mort tué. - - English. - - In Sailing a Pope shall be taken Captive; - After which, shall be a great uproar amongst the Clergy, - A second absent elected, consumeth his goods, - His favourite Bastard shall be killed. - -ANNOT. - -These Verses signifie no more, but that a Pope going by water, shall -be taken Prisoner, for which, all the Clergy shall be in disorder, and -elect a new one, who shall consume his Goods, and shall have a favourite -Bastard, that shall be killed. - - -XVI. - - French. - - A son haut prix plus la larme _Sabæe_, - D’humaine chair par mort en cendre mettre, - L’Isle _Pharos_ par _Croisars_ perturbée, - Alors qua _Rhodes_ paroistra dur espectre. - - English. - - The _Sabæan_ Tear shall be no more at its high price, - To turn humane flesh by death into ashes, - The Island _Pharos_ shall be troubled by _Croisars_, - When at _Rhodes_ shall a hard Phantasm appear. - -ANNOT. - -The _Sabæan Tear_, is Frankincense, so called; because it is the Gum of a -Tree that groweth in that Countrey, whence the Poet saith, - - _India mittit ebur, molles sua thura Sabæi._ - -The meaning therefore of the two first Verses, is, that Frankincense -shall be no more so dear as it hath been; because it shall be no more -used, in enbalming and burning of dead bodies. - -The third verse saith, the Island _Pharos_ (which is that little Island -that lyeth before the Harbour of _Alexandria_) shall be troubled by -_Croisars_, that is, Christians, when there shall appear a Phantasme, or -a Vision shall be seen at _Rhodes_. - - -XVII. - - French. - - De nuit passant le Roy pres d’une _Andronne_, - Celuy de _Cipres_ & principal de guerre, - Le Roy failly la main fuit long du _Rhosne_, - Les conjurez liront la a mort mettre. - - English. - - The King going along by night near an _Andronne_, - He of _Cyprus_ and chief of the War, - The King having missed the hand, runneth away along by the _Rhosne_, - The Conspirators shall put him to death there. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find what he meaneth by _Andronne_, therefore I believe it is -a barbarous and forged word, which the Author hath foisted in, to make -the first Verses rhime with the word _Rhosne_ in the third Verse, which -is a famous River in _France_. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - De duel mourra l’infelix profligé, - Celebrera son victrix l’Hecatombe, - Pristine loy franc edict redigé, - Le mur & Prince septiesme ira au tombe. - - English. - - The unhappy being overcome, shall die for grief, - His Victrix shall celebrate the Hecatomb, - The former law and free Edict shall be brought again, - The wall and seventh Prince shall go to the Grave. - -ANNOT. - -_Victrix_ is a Latine word, and the Feminine Gender of _victor_, and -signifieth a woman that is victorious; _Hecatomb_ is a Sacrifice, wherein -an hundred Oxen are killed. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Le grand Royal d’Or, d’Airain augmenté, - Rompu la pache par jeune, ouverte guerre, - Peuple affligé par un chef lamenté, - De sang barbare sera couverte Terre; - - English. - - The great Golden Royal, being increased with Copper, - The agreement being broken by a young man, there shall be open War, - People afflicted by the loss of a General lamented, - The ground shall be covered with barbarous blood. - -ANNOT. - -By the great golden Royal, is understood (if I mistake not) a King rich -in Gold and Silver, who being joyned with one rich in Copper, shall make -open War against one that shall have broken his agreement. - -_Quære_: Whether this came not to pass when _Gustaphus Adolphus_ King -of _Sweden_ and rich in Brass, being helped by the _French_ Gold and -Silver; was not the General so much lamented, after he had almost ruined -the Emperour, whom he did challenge to have broken his word, and had -covered the ground with _German_ and _Swedish_ blood. - - -XX. - - French. - - De la les _Alpes_ grand Armée passera, - Un peu devant naistra monstre vapin, - Prodigieux, & subit tournera, - Le grand _Toscan_ a son lieu plus propin. - - English. - - Beyond the _Alpes_ shall a great Army go, and - A little before shall be born a Vapin Monster, - Prodigious and suddenly the great _Toscan_ - Shall return to his nearest place. - -ANNOT. - -What the Author meaneth by _vapin_, is unknown to me, as for the word -_propin_, it is a diminutive of the Latine word _propinquus_, by the -figure of Rhetorick, called _Tmesis_. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Par le trespas du Monarque Latin, - Ceux quil aura par Regne secourus, - Le feu livra divisé le butin, - La mort publique aux hardis accourus. - - English. - - By the death of the Latine Monarque, - Those that he shall have succoured in his Reign. - The fire shall shine, the booty shall be divided, - The stout comers in shall be put to publick death. - -ANNOT. - -Every body may judge of this as well as I, therefore to trouble my self -it should be to no purpose. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Avant qu’a _Rome_ grand aye rendu l’Ame, - Effrayeur grande a l’Armée estrangere, - Par escadrons l’embusche pres de _Parme_. - Puis les deux rouges ensemble feront chere. - - English. - - Before that a great man yeildeth up his Soul at _Rome_, - The Army of strangers shall be put into a great fright, - By Squadrons the ambush shall be near _Parma_. - After that, the two red ones shall make good cheer together. - -ANNOT. - -Here is nothing difficult, but what he meaneth by the two red ones, for -my part I suppose them to be two Cardinals. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Les deux contens seront unis ensemble, - Quand la pluspart a _Mars_ seront conjoints, - Le grand d’_Affrique_ en effrayeur & tremble, - _Duumuirat_ par la chassé desjoint. - - English. - - The two contented shall be united together, - When the most part shall be joyned to _Mars_, - The great one of _Africa_ shall be in fear and terrour, - _Duumuirat_ shall by the pursuit be disjointed. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth, that two powerful Princes shall joyn together, to -make War in _Africa_, which shall be much terrified at it, but this -_Duumuirat_, that is, this agreement of two Princes shall be broken off, -and disjoyned. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Le Regne & Roy soubs _Venus_ eslevé, - _Saturne_ aura sur _Jupiter_ Empire, - La Loy & Regne par _Jupiter_ levé, - Par _Saturnins_ endurera le pire. - - English. - - The Kingdom and King being raised under _Venus_, - _Saturn_ shall have power over _Jupiter_, - The Law and Reign raised by _Jupiter_, - Shall be put to the worse by the _Saturnins_. - -ANNOT. - -I shall leave this to be expounded by those that have more skill in -Astronomy then I have. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Le Prince _Arabe_, _Mars_, _Sol_, _Venus_, _Lion_, - Regne d’Eglise par Mer succombera, - Devers la _Perse_ bien pres d’un Million, - _Bizance_, _Ægypte_, _Ver._ _Serp._ invadera. - - English. - - The _Arabian_ Prince, _Mars_, _Sol_, _Venus_, _Leo_, - The Kingdom of the Church shall be overcome by Sea - Towards _Persia_ very near a Million, - _Byzance_, _Ægypt_, _Ver._ _Serp._ shall invade. - -ANNOT. - -This is of the same nature as the foregoing, therefore I leave it to the -same expositors. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - La gent esclave par un heur Martial, - Viendra en haut degré tant eslevée, - Changeront Prince, naistra un Provincial, - Passer la Mer, copie aux Monts levée. - - English. - - The Slavish Nation shall by a Martial luck - Be raised to so high a degree, - That they shall change their Prince, and elect one among themselves, - They shall cross the Sea with an Army raised in the Mountains. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Par feu & armes non loin de la Mar negro, - Viendra de _Perse_ occuper _Trebisonde_, - Trembler _Pharos_, _Metelin_, Sol alegro, - De sang _Arabe_ d’_Adrie_ couvert l’Onde. - - English. - - By Fire and Sword not far from the black Sea, - They shall come from _Persia_ to seize upon _Trebisonde_, - _Pharos_ and _Methelin_ shall quake, Sun be merry, - The Sea of _Adria_ shall be covered with _Arabian_ blood. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy foretelleth clearly and plainly, that the _Persians_ shall -come to invade the Turkish dominions, a part of which is the Empire -of _Trebisond_, and that _Pharos_ and _Methelin_ two Islands in the -_Mediterranean_ Sea, shall quake for fear. - -As also that the _Adriatick_ Sea, which is that Sea that belongeth to the -_Venetians_ shall be covered with Turkish blood, at which the Author is -so jocund, as with an exclamation he inviteth the Sun to be merry, and -rejoyce at it. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Le bras pendu & la jambe liée, - Visage pasle, au sein poignard caché, - Trois qui seront jurez de la meslée, - Au grand de _Genes_ sera le Fer lasché. - - English. - - The arm hanging, and the leg bound, - With a pale face, a Dagger in the bosom, - Three that shall be sworn to the fray, - To the great one of _Genoa_ the Iron shall be darted. - -ANNOT. - -This manifestly foretelleth a conspiracy of three men against the Duke -of _Genoa_, one of which three men, under the shew of a sore Arm, and -an impotent Leg, shall carry a Dagger in his bosom, with which he shall -stabb the said Duke. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - La liberté ne sera recouvrée, - L’Occupera noir, fier, vilain inique; - Quand la matiere du Pont sera ouvrée, - D’_Hister_, _Venise_ faschée la Republique. - - English. - - The liberty shall not be recovered, - It shall be occupied, by a black, fierce, and wicked villain; - When the work of the _Hister_-Bridge shall be ended, - The _Venetian_ Common-wealth shall be vexed. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is divided into two parts, the first of which is comprehended -in the two first Verses, _viz._ that the liberty of some politick body -(he nameth not which) shall not be recovered, but shall be seized upon, -by a black, fierce, and wicked villain. - -The second part is contained in the two last Verses, wherein he saith, -that the Common-wealth of _Venice_ shall be in trouble, when the Bridge -made over the River _Hister_ shall be finished. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Tout a l’entour de la grande Cité, - Seront Soldats logez par Champs & Villes, - Donner l’assaut _Paris_, _Rome_ incité, - Sur le Pont sera faite grand pille. - - English. - - Round about the great City, - Soldiers shall lye in the Fields and Towns, - Paris shall give the Assault, _Rome_ shall be attached; - Then upon the Bridge shall be great plundering. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the taking and sacking of _Rome_, by the Duke of -_Bourbon_, General of _Charles_ V. Forces, therefore he saith that -_Paris_ shall give the Assault, because the said Duke of _Bourbon_ was a -_Frenchman_. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Par Terre _Attique_ chef de la sapience, - Qui de present est la Rose du Monde, - Pont ruiné & sa grand preeminence, - Sera subdite & naufrage des Ondes. - - English. - - In the Countrey of _Attica_ which is the head of wisdom, - And now is the Rose of the World, - A Bridge shall be ruinated with its great preeminence, - It shall be subdued, and made a wrack by the Waves. - -ANNOT. - -He foretelleth the destruction of a famous Bridge in the Countrey of -_Attica_, of which _Athens_ is the chief City, and because it was always -famous for learning, he calleth it here the head of Wisdom; and that -Wisdom, the Rose of the World. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Ou tout bon est, tout bien Soleil & Lune, - Est abondant, sa ruine s’approche, - Le Ciel s’advance a changer ta fortune, - En mesme estat que la septiesme Roche. - - English. - - Where all well is, all good O Sun and Moon, - Is existent, his ruine draweth near, - The Heaven is making hast to change thy fortune, - Into the same case as the seventh Rock is. - -ANNOT. - -By this dark Stanza, the Author seemeth to foretell the woful condition -of a Countrey that was happy before, but shall fall to ruine, I suspect -he intended _France_, because being a _Frenchman_ he did not name it, -for I think there was never such a change in the world as was in that -Kingdom, in the time of the Civil Wars between the Roman Catholicks, and -the Protestants. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Des principaux de Cité rebellée, - Qui tiendront fort pour liberté r’avoir, - Detrencher masles, infœlice meslée! - Cris, hurlemens a _Nantes_ pitieux voir. - - English. - - Of the chief men in a rebelled City, - Who shall stand out to recover their liberty, - The Males shall be cut in pieces, O unhappy quarrel! - Cries and houlings, it shall be pity to see at _Nantes_. - -ANNOT. - -The Author applyeth this Prophecie to the City of _Nantes_ in _Britany_, -but want of Books that treat of the History of that Countrey; I could -neither satisfie my self, nor the Reader, if this hath come to pass -already or not. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Du plus profond de l’occident _Anglois_, - Ou est le chef de l’Isle _Britanique_, - Entrera classe en _Garonne_ par _Blois_, - Par Vin & Sel faux cachez aux barriques. - - English. - - From the deepest Westerly part of _England_, - Where the chief of the _Britain_ Island is, - A Fleet shall come into the _Garonne_ by _Blaye_, - By Wine and Salt fire shall be hidden in Barrels. - -ANNOT. - -There is a notable and sensible error in the _French_ Copy, and without -reforming it, the sense is not only obscure, but also impossible; for -instead of _Blois_, which the Author hath put here, I suppose to make the -rime good, it must be written _Blaye_, which is a Sea Town of the mouth -of the River _Garonne_, and _Blois_ is a mid-Land Town, upon the River -_Loire_, about a hundred Leagues distant from the other. - -The rest signifieth no more, but that there shall be some Warlike -Stratagem made use of by the _French_ (understood here by the names of -_Wine and Salt_) in puting fire into Barrels. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Par Cité franche de la grand Mer _Seline_, - Qui porte encor l’estomach la pierre, - _Angloise_ classe viendra soubs la bruine, - Prendre un rameau de grand ouverte guerre. - - English. - - By a free City of the _Selyne_ Sea, - Which carrieth yet the stone in the Stomach, - An _English_ Fleet shall come under a fog, - To take a branch of great open War. - -ANNOT. - -What should the Author mean by the free City of the great _Seline_ Sea -that carryeth yet the stone in the Stomach, is hard to guess; for my -part I believe it to be _Venice_. First, because by the _Seline_ Sea, he -always understands the _Mediterranean_; because the great _Turks_ name in -our Authors time was _Selyn_, who was Master of the greatest part of it. -Secondly, there is no other free City so considerable as this. Thirdly, -by the stone in the Stomach, may be understood, the Pillars that are in -the _Piazza_ of St. _Mark_, and as it were in the Centre of _Venice_, -as the Stomach is in the Body. The sense therefore is this, as I take -it, that a considerable _Fleet_ shall come to _Venice_, or rather to -_Molamocco_, which is the Harbour, and there take a branch of great open -War, that is, to be either against the _Venetians_, or against the _Turk_ -in their behalf. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - De Sœur le frere par simulte feintise, - Viendra mesler rosee en Mineral, - Sur la placente donne a vieille tardive, - Meurt le goustant, sera simple rural. - - English. - - The Brother of the Sister, with a fained dissimulation, - Shall mix Dew with Mineral, - In a Cake given to a slow old woman, - She dieth tasting of, the deed shall be simple, and Countrey like. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth a notable poisoning that shall be done by a Brother -upon his Sister, which, because she died not fast enough, according to -his mind: and therefore called her _slow_, he would set her forward with -a poisoned Cake, the Poison was _Mineral_, and therefore _Arsenick_ or -_Sublimate_, mixed with _Manna_, called here _Dew_; because _Manna_ is -nothing but a _Dew_, condensed upon the Bark of a certain Tree; the -Conclusion is, that the woman shall die eating of it, though the meat -seemed to be simple and rural. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Trois sens seront d’un vouloir & accord, - Qui pour venir au bout de leur attainte, - Vingt mois apres tous eux & leurs records, - Leur Roy trahy simulant haine, feinte. - - English. - - Three hundred shall be of one mind and agreement, - That they may compass their ends, - twenty months after by all them and their partners, - Their King shall be betrayed, by dissembling a fained hatred. - -ANNOT. - -The difficulty of meeting in any Countrey three hundred men of one mind, -hath perswaded me that our Author writ this for _England_; but by reason -there hath been since a general pardon, I will keep my mind to my self. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Ce grand Monarque qu’au mort succedera, - Donnera vie illicite & lubrique, - Par nonchalance a tous concedera, - Qua la parfin faudra la loy _Salique_. - - English. - - The great Monarch that shall succeed to the great one, - Shall lead a Life unlawfull, and lecherous, - By carelesness he shall give to all, - So that in Conclusion the _Salique_ Law shall fail. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a Relation to the precedent Stanza, therefore, _&c._ - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Du vray rameau de fleur de Lis issu, - Mis & loge heritier d’_Hetrurie_, - Son sang antique de longue main tissu, - Fera _Florence_ florir en l’Armoirie. - - English. - - Issued out of the true branch of the City, - He shall be set for Heir of _Hetruria_, - His ancient blood waved by a long while, - Shall cause _Florence_ to flourish in the Scutcheon. - -ANNOT. - -This is only in commendation of the Family of the _Medicis_, and of their -Alliance with the Crown of _France_; for _Catharine_ of _Medicis_, wife -to _Henry_ II. was Queen of _France_ when our Author lived. - - -XL. - - French. - - Le sang Roial sera si tresmeslé, - Contraints seront _Gaulois_ de l’_Hesperie_, - On attendra que terme soit coulé, - Et que memoire de la voix soit perie. - - English. - - The Royal blood shall be so much mixed, - The _French_ shall be constrained by the _Spaniards_, - They shall stay till the term be past, - And the remembrance of the voice be over. - -ANNOT. - -This only signifieth a strict Union between the _French_ and the -_Spaniards_, by several Alliances. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Nay soubs les ombres & journée nocturne, - Séra en Regne & bonté Souveraine, - Fera renaistre son sang de l’antique _Urne_, - Renouvelant siecle d’Or pour l’airain. - - English. - - Being born in the shadows and nocturnal time, - He shall be a Soveraign in Kingdom and bounty, - He shall cause his blood to come again from the ancient _Urn_, - Renewing a golden Age instead of a brazen one. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth the greatness and goodness of a Prince that shall be -born in the beginning of the night. - - -XLII. - - French. - - _Mars_ eslevé en son plus haut befroy, - Fera retraire les _Allobrox_ de _France_, - La gent _Lombarde_ fera si grand effroy, - A ceux de l’Aigle comprins soubs la _Balance_. - - English. - - _Mars_ being elevated in its higher Steeple, - Shall cause the _Allobrox_ to retreat from _France_, - The people of _Lombardy_ shall be in so great fear, - Of those of the Eagle comprehended under _Libra_. - -ANNOT. - -The _Allobrox_ are the people of _Savoy_. Those of the Eagle comprehended -under _Libra_, are the subjects of the Empire that use the _French_ -tongue. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Le grand ruine des Sacrez ne sesloigne, - _Provence_, _Naples_, _Sicile_, _Seez_ & _Ponce_, - En _Germanie_ au _Rhin_ & la _Coloigne_, - Vexez a mort par tous ceux de _Mogunce_. - - English. - - The great ruine of the sacred things is not far off, - _Provence_, _Naples_, _Sicily_, _Sez_ and _Ponce_, - In _Germany_ towards the _Rhyne_ and _Colen_, - They shall be vexed to death by those of _Moguntia_. - -ANNOT. - -He foretelleth the troubles that were to be shortly in those Countreys -for Religion. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Par Mer le rouge sera prins the Pyrates, - La paix sera par son moyen troublée, - L’une & l’auare commettra par faincte acte, - Au grand Pontife fera l’Armée d’oublée. - - English. - - By Sea the red one shall be taken by Pyrates, - The peace by that means shall be troubled, - He shall commit anger and coveteousness by a feigned action, - The High Priest shall have a double Army. - -ANNOT. - -By the red one is understood some Cardinal that shall be taken by -Pyrates, for which the peace shall be in danger to be broken, the same -Cardinal shall by a feigned action be guilty of choler and covetousness, -and for his recovery and the defending the Rites of the Church, the Pope -shall have a double Army granted to him. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Le grand Empire fera tost desolé, - Et translate pres d’_Arduenne_ silve, - Les deux batards par l’aisné decollé, - Et Regnera _Ænodarbnez_ de milve. - - English. - - The great Empire shall soon be made desolate, - And shall be translated near the Forrest of _Arden_, - The two Bastards shall have their heads cut off by the eldest son, - And he that shall reign, shall be _Ænodarbnez_ nosed. - -ANNOT. - -By the great Empire is meant that of _Germany_, which he says shall be -translated near the Forrest of _Ardens_, which is near the borders of -_France_. Two Bastards shall be beheaded by command of the elder Brother -of the House, and he that shall Reign shall have a reddish beard, and a -Hawks nose. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Par Chapeaux rouges querelles & nouveaux schismes, - Quand on aura esleu le _Sabinois_, - On produira contre luy grands sophismes, - Et sera _Rome_ lessée par _Albanois_. - - English. - - By red Hats, quarrels and new schismes, - When the _Sabin_ shall be Elected, - Great sophismes shall be produced against him, - And _Rome_ shall be endamaged by the _Albanois_. - -ANNOT. - -By red Hats are understood Cardinals of _Rome_, who shall raise great -quarrels and schismes, when a Pope of the Countrey of the _Sabins_ (which -is near _Rome_) shall be Elected, against whom many things shall be -objected, and that _Rome_ shall be endamaged by the _Albanians_, which -are a Warlike people, and for the most part subject to the Common-wealth -of _Venice_. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Le grand _Arabe_ marchera bien avant, - Trahy sora par le _Bisantinois_: - L’Antique _Rhodes_ luy viendra au devant, - Et plus grand mal par Austre _Pannonois_. - - English. - - The great _Arabian_ shall proceed a great way, - He shall be betrayed by the _Bisantines_, - The ancient _Rhodes_ shall come to meet him, - And a greater evil by a South wind from _Hungary_. - -ANNOT. - -By _Bisantine_ is understood the great Turk, Master of _Constantinople_, -formerly called _Bysantium_. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Apres la grande affliction du Sceptre, - Deux ennemis par eux seront defaicts: - Classes d’_Affrique_ aux _Pannons_ viendra naistre, - Par Mer & Terre seront horribles Faicts. - - English. - - After the great afflictions of the Scepter, - Two enemies shall be overcome by themselves, - A Fleet of _Affrica_ shall be born to the _Hungarians_. - By Sea and Land shall be horrid facts. - -ANNOT. - -The words of this Stanza are plain, though the sense be something obscure. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Nul de l’_Espagne_, mais de l’antique _France_, - Sera esleu pour le tremblant nacelle, - A l’ennemy sera faicte fiance, - Qui dans son Regne sera peste cruelle. - - English. - - None out of _Spain_, but of the ancient _France_, - Shall be Elected to govern the tottering Ship. - The enemy shall be trusted, - Who to his Kingdom shall be a cruel plague. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses foretell a schisme in the Church of _Rome_, -understood by a tottering Ship, and that a _French-man_ shall be Elected -Pope to remedy it. - -The two last Verses are easie to be understood. - - -L. - - French. - - L’An que les Freres du Lys seront an Aage, - L’Un d’euz tiendra la grand _Romanie_: - Trembler les Monts ouvert _Latin_ passage, - _Bache_ marcher contre Fort d’_Armenie_. - - English. - - In the year that the Brethren of the Lillies shall be at Age, - One of them shall hold the great _Romanie_: - The Mountains shall tremble, the _Latine_ passage shall be opened, - A _Bassha_ shall march against the Fort of _Armenia_. - -ANNOT. - -By the Brethren of the Lillies are meant the Heirs of the Crown of -_France_; the rest is plain. - - -LI. - - French. - - La gent de _Dace_, d’_Angleterre_, & _Polone_, - Et de _Boësme_ feront nouvelle ligue, - Pour passer outre d’_Hercules_ la Colonne, - _Barcins_, _Thyrrans_ dresser cruelle brigue. - - English. - - The people of _Dacia_, _England_, and _Poland_, - And of _Bohemia_ shall make a new League, - To go beyond _Hercules_ Pillars, - _Barcins_ and _Thyrrens_ shall make a cruel plot. - -ANNOT. - -By _Barcins_ he means those of _Carthage_, which is now _Tunis_, and by -the _Thyrrens_, those that live near that Sea. - - -LII. - - French. - - Un Roy sera qui donra l’opposite, - Les exilez eslevez sur le Regne, - De sang nager la gent caste hyppolite, - Et florira long-temps sous telle enseigne. - - English. - - A King shall be, who shall be opponent - To the banished persons raised upon the Kingdom, - The chast _Hippolite_ Nation shall swim in blood, - And shall flourish a great while under such an Ensign. - -ANNOT. - -Here is _Demorritus_’s Well where the truth may be, but I cannot find it. - - -LIII. - - French. - - La Loy du _Sol_, & _Venus_ contendans, - Appropriant l’Esprit de Prephetie: - Ne l’un ne l’autre ne seront entendus, - Par _Sol_ tiendra la Loy du grand _Messie_. - - English. - - The Law of the _Sun_ and _Venus_ contending, - Appropriating the spirit of Prophecy, - Neither one nor the other shall be heard, - By _Sol_ the Law of the great _Messias_ shall subsist. - -ANNOT. - -This is of the same obscurity with the foregoing one. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Du pont _Euxine_, & la grand _Tartarie_, - Un Roy sera qui viendra voir la _Gaule_, - Transpercera _Alane_ & l’_Armenie_, - Et dans Bisance Lairra sanglante _Gaule_. - - English. - - From the _Euxin_ Sea, and great _Tartaria_, - A King shall come to see _France_, - He shall go through _Alanea_ and _Armenia_, - And shall leave a bloody rod in _Constantinople_. - -ANNOT. - -This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation. - - -LV. - - French. - - De la felice _Arabie_ contrade, - Maistra puissant de la loy Mahometique, - Vexer l’_Espagne_, conquestre la _Grenade_, - Et plus par Mera la gent _Ligustique_. - - English. - - Out of the Countrey of _Arabia_ the happy, - Shall be born a powerful man of the Mahometan Law, - Who shall vex _Spain_ and conquer _Grenada_, - And by Sea shall come to the _Ligurian_ Nation. - -ANNOT. - -The _Ligurian_ Nation are those of _Genoa_. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Par le traspas du tres-vieillard Pontife, - Sera esleu _Romain_ de bon aage, - Qui sera dit que le siege debiffe, - Et long tiendra & de picquant courage. - - English. - - By the death of the very old high-Priest, - Shall be a _Roman_ elected of good age, - Of whom it shall be said, that he dishonoureth the Seat, - And shall live long, and be of a fierce courage. - -ANNOT. - -The sense and the words are plain. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Istra du Mont _Gaulsier_ & _Aventine_, - Qui par le trou advertira l’Armée, - Entre deux Rocs sera prins le butin, - De _Sext._ _Mansol_ faillir la renommée. - - English. - - One shall go out of the Mountains _Gaulsier_ and _Aventine_, - Who through a hole shall give notice to the Army, - Between two Rocks the booty shall be taken, - Of _Sext._ _Mansol_ shall loose his renown. - -ANNOT. - -The Mountains of _Gaulsier_ and _Aventine_ are two of the seven Mountains -of _Rome_, out of which, it seems, one shall go out to give notice to -the Army without, and the Booty of the _Pope_, called _Sextus_, shall be -taken. - -But what he meaneth by _Mansol_, I am ignorant. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - De l’Aqueduct d’_Uticense_, _Gardoing_, - Par le Forest & Mont inaccessible, - Emmy du pont sera taché ou poing, - La chef _Nemans_ qui tant sera terrible. - - English. - - From the Conduit of _Uticense_ and _Gardoing_, - Through the Forrest and unaccessible Mountain, - In the middle of the Bridge shall be tyed by the Wrist, - The chief _Nemans_, that shall be so terrible. - -ANNOT. - -By the Conduit of _Gardoing_, he means that of the River _Gardon_, that -passeth by _Nismes_, where there is a famous Conduit. - -But what he meaneth by the chief _Nemans_, I cannot find. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Au chef _Anglois_ a _Nismes_ trop sejour, - Devers l’_Espagne_ au secours Ænobarbe, - Plusieurs mouront par Mars ouvert ce jour, - Quand en _Artois_ faillir estoile en Barbe. - - English. - - The chief _English_ shall stay too long at _Nismes_, - A red haird man shall go to the succours of _Spain_, - Many shall die by open War that day, - When in _Artois_ the Star shall fail in the Beard. - -ANNOT. - -All the difficulty lyeth in the last Verse: for my part I believe he -meaneth by it a bearded Comet, such as the Latines call _Cometa barbatus_. - - -LX. - - French. - - Par teste rase viendra bien mal eslire, - Plus que sa charge ne porte passera, - Si grand fureur & rage fera dire, - Qua feu & sang tout Sexe tranchera. - - English. - - By a shaven head shall be made an ill choice, - That shall go beyond his commission, - He shall proceed with so great fury and rage, - That he shall put both Sexes to fire and Sword. - -ANNOT. - -By a shaven head must be understood a Priest of the _Romish_ Religion; -because they all have their heads shaven. - - -LXI. - - French. - - L’Enfant du grand nestant a sa naissance, - Subjugera les hauts Monts _Apennins_, - Fera trembler tous ceux de la balance, - Depuis Monts _Feurs_ jusques a Mont _Senis_. - - English. - - The Child of the great man that was not at his birth, - Shall subdue the high _Apennine_ Mountains, - Shall make all those under _Libra_ to quake, - From Mount _Feurs_, as far as Mount _Senis_. - -ANNOT. - -The _Apennine_ Mountains, are those that divide _Italy_ in two parts. - -Those under the Sign of _Libra_ are the people of _France_. _Feurs_ is a -City in _France_, in the Province of _Forrest_. Mount _Senis_ is a high -Mountain in Savoy. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Sur les Rochers sang on verra pleuvoir, - Sol Orient, _Saturne_ Occidental, - Pres d’_Orgon_ Guerre, a _Rome_ grand mal voir, - Nefs parfondrées, & prins le Tridental. - - English. - - It shall rain blood upon the Rocks, - The Sun being in the East, and _Saturn_ in the West, - War shall be near _Orgon_, and great evil at _Rome_, - Ships shall be cast away, and the Trident be taken. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find what he meaneth by _Orgon_. As by _the Trident being -taken_, I suppose he meaneth a Ship called _Neptune_, because _Neptune_ -is always painted with a Trident. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - De vaine emprise l’honneur indue plainte, - Galliots errants par _Latins_ froid, faim vagues, - Non loin du _Tybre_ de sang la Terre teinte, - Et sur humains seront diverses plagues. - - English. - - Honour bringeth a complaint against a vain undertaking, - Galleys shall wander through the _Latin_ Seas, cold, hunger, Waves, - Not far from _Tyber_ the Earth shall be died with blood, - And upon Mankind shall be several plagues. - -ANNOT. - -_Tyber_ is the River of _Rome_, the rest are several prodigies that shall -come to pass. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Les assembles par repos du grand nombre, - Par Terre & Mer conseil contremandé, - Pres de l’_Autonne_, _Genes_, _Nue_, de lombre, - Par Champs & Villes le Chef contrebandé. - - English. - - The gathered by the rest of the great numbers, - By Land and Sea shall recall their Councel, - Near _Autonne_, _Genes_, and _Nue_ of the shadow, - In Fields and Towns the Chief shall be one against another. - -ANNOT. - -This passeth my understanding. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Subit venu l’effrayeur sera grande, - Des principaux de l’affaire cachés: - Et Dame _Embraise_ plus ne sera en veuë, - Et peu a peu seront le grands fachés. - - English. - - One coming upon a suddain shall cause a great fear, - To the Chief men that were hidden and concerned in the business, - And the Lady _Ambraise_ shall be seen no more, - And by little and little the great one shall be angry. - -ANNOT. - -What he meaneth by the lady _Ambraise_, I cannot find, the rest is easie. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Sous les antiques edifices _Vestaux_, - Non esloignez d’_Aqueduct_ ruiné, - De Sol & Lune sont les luissans metaux, - Ardente Lampe _Trajan_ d’or buriné. - - English. - - Under the ancient edifices of the _Vestals_, - Not far from an _Aqueduct_ ruinated, - Are the bright mettals of Sun and Moon, - A burning Lamp of _Trajan_ of ingraven gold. - -ANNOT. - -Monsieur _Catel_ in his second Book of _Languedoc_ Chap. V. saith, that -there was a famous _Aqueduct_, which the _Romans_ builded from the River -_Gar_ to the Town of _Nismes_, which at present is ruinated. - -Secondly, Near the Town there was a famous Temple dedicated to _Diana_, -where there is a Spring of water so great, that it seemeth rather a Lake -then a Fountain. - -Thirdly, I find that the Emperour _Adrian_ caused a Temple to be built in -the honour of _Plotina_ _Trajan_’s wife. - -Fourthly, He relateth that _Jean Poldo_ found in the Town of _Aix_ a -Marble with this inscription: _~Plotina~ ~Trajanis~ uxor, summa honestate -& integritate fulgens, sterilitatis defectu sine prole fecit conjugem, -qui ejus opera ~Adrianum~ adoptatum in Imperio Successorem habuit, a -quo in beneficii memoriam Nemausi æde sacra maximo Sumptu, sublimique -structura, ac Hymnorum cantu decorata, post mortem donata est_: That is -to say, _Plotina_, _Trajans_ wife, famous for her honesty and integrity, -was barren and left no Children to her Husband, which she perceiving, -intreated the Emperour to adopt _Adrian_ for his Son, and to make him -his Successor in the Empire, which being come to pass, the new Emperour -in acknowledgement of such a benefit, did build her a Temple of a -magnificent Structure, and caused it to be Consecrated with Musick after -her death. - -Fifthly, The said Author saith, that this Marble was taken out of that -Temple, when the River of _Gardon_ did so overflow, as we have said. - -By all this we see, that there was a Temple of _Vestals_ at _Nismes_, -_Diana_ the Maid being their chief Patroness, which is made now a -Nunnery, called _la Fontaine_. There is also to be seen the Temple of -_Plotina_, _Trajans_ wife, built by _Adrian_ his Successor. And as it was -the manner of the Ancients to put some of those inextinguishable Lamps in -their Graves; it is very likely, there was one of them in this Temple, -and because it should be known whose Grave it was, he caused _Trajans_ -name to be Engraven in the foot of the said Lamp. - -Let us explain now the Stanza: _Under the Ancient Vestal buildings of -the Temple of ~Diana~, not far from the ruined Aqueduct_, which carrieth -the water from the River _Gar_ to _Nismes_, _shall be found shining -mettals of ~Sol~ and ~Luna~_, that is, Meddals of gold and silver, with -_a burning Lamp of gold_, wherein the name of _Trajan_ was Engraven. -Histories make mention of several burning Lamps in this manner, that have -been found still burning in the ground, and not consumed, though they -had been there above 500 years; certainly the Oil of it must have been -incombustible, and could be extracted out of nothing but gold, _quia nil -dat quod non habet_. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Quand Chef _Perouse_ n’osera sa Tunique, - Sens au convert tout nud s’expolier: - Seront prins sept faict Aristocratique, - Le Pere & Fils morts par poine te au collier. - - English. - - When the Chief of _Perouse_ shall not dare without a Tunick, - To expose himself naked in the dark, - Seven shall be taken for setting up Aristocracy, - The Father and the Son shall die by pricks in the Collar. - -ANNOT. - -_Perouse_ is a City in _Italy_; the rest is plain. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - Dans le _Danube_ & le _Rhine_ viendra boire, - Le grand Chameau, ne sen repentira: - Trembler le _Rhosne_ & plus fort ceux de _Loire_, - Et pres des _Alpes_ Coq le ruinera. - - English. - - In _Danubius_ and the _Rhine_ shall come to drink, - The great Camel, and shall not repent; - The _Rhosne_ shall tremble, and more those of _Loire_, - And near the _Alpes_ the Cock shall ruine him. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth a great incursion of the _Turks_ into _Germany_, -insomuch that they shall water their Camels in the Rivers of _Danubius_, -and of the _Rhyne_, to the great terrour of _France_, wherein those -Rivers of _Rhosne_ and _Loire_ are. - -But the last Verse, saith the Cock; that is, the _French_, shall overcome -and ruine the _Turks_, near the Mountains of the _Alpes_. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Plus ne sera le grand en saux sommeil, - L’Inquietude viendra prendre repos, - Dresser Phalange d’Or, Azur, & vermeil, - Subjuguer _Affrique_ & ronger jusqu’aux os. - - English. - - The great one shall be no more in a false sleep, - The restlessness shall take rest, - He shall raise an Army of Gold and Azure, - He shall conquer _Affrica_ and gnaw it to the bones. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning some great Prince, who shall raise a powerful Army, -and conquer _Affrica_ with it. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Les Regions subietes a la _Balance_, - Feront trembler les Monts par grande Guerre, - Captifs tout sexe, avec toute _Bizance_, - Qu’on criera a l’Aube Terre a Terre. - - English. - - The Regions under the sign of _Libra_, - Shall make the Mountains quake with great War, - Slaves of all sexes, with all _Bizance_, - So that in the dawning of the day, they shall cry to Land to Land. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth the destruction of _Constantinople_, anciently called -_Byzantium_, by those that live under the Sign of _Libra_, that is, the -_Europeans_, and chiefly the _French_. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Par la fureur d’un qui attendra l’eau, - Par la grand rage tout l’exercite esmeu, - Charge des Nobles a dixsept Bateaux, - Au long du _Rhosne_ tard Messager venud. - - English. - - By the fury of one staying for the Water, - By his great rage the whole Army shall be troubled, - There shall be seventeen Boats full of Noblemen - Along the _Rhosne_, the Messenger shall come too late. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense are plain. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Pour le plaisir d’Edict voluptueux, - On meslera la poison dans la Loy, - _Venus_ sera en cours si vertueux, - Qu’obfusquera du Soleil tout alloy. - - English. - - By the pleasure of a voluptuous proclamation, - The poison shall be mixed in the Law, - _Venus_ shall be in so great request, - That it shall darken all the allay of the Sun. - -ANNOT. - -By a Proclamation, favouring or promoting Licentiousness, poison shall -be mixed in the Law, and leachery so much countenanced, as it shall -obscurate the allay of the Sun, that is, piety so much commended in the -Gospel, to all those that will fight under Christs Banner. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Persecutée sera de dien l’Eglise, - Et les Saints Temples seront expoliez, - L’Enfant la mere mettra nud en chemise, - Seront _Arabes_ au _Polous_ ralliez. - - English. - - The Church of God shall be persecuted, - And the holy Temples shall be spoiled, - The Child shall turn out his Mother in her Smock, - _Arrabians_ shall agree with the _Polonians_. - -ANNOT. - -The Author could not be mistaken in this Prophecie; for the Church of -God shall always be persecuted, the Apostle confirmeth it, when he -saith, _that all those that will live piously in Christ, must suffer -persecution_: As for the spoiling of Churches, and other barbarous -actions, it hath been seen so often in _France_, in the time of the Civil -Wars for Religion, that it needeth no confirmation. - -The last Verse concerning a peace between the _Turks_ and the -_Polonians_, was fulfilled in the year 1623. when _Sigismundus_ King of -_Poland_, by his Embassador the Duke _Šbarasky_, and by the mediation -of the _English_ Embassador, concluded a Peace with the great Turk -_Mustapha_, the Articles of which you may read at large in the _Turkish_ -History. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - De sang _Trojen_ naistra cœur _Germanique_, - Qui deviendra en si haute puissance, - Hors chassera gent estrange _Arabique_, - Tournant l’Eglise en pristine préeminence. - - English. - - Of _Trojan_ blood shall be born a _German_ heart, - Who shall attain to so high a power, - That he shall drive away the strange _Arrabian_ Nation, - Restoring the Church to her former splendor. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth to signifie, that by Alliance made between a _German_ -Emperour, and a Daughter of _France_, which derive their Pedigree from -the _Trojans_, a Prince shall be born of so stout and valiant a heart, -as shall drive away all the _Turkish_ power out of _Germany_, and shall -restore the Church to her former splendor. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Montera haut sur le bien plus a dextre, - Demourra assis sur la pierre carrée, - Vers le midy posé a la senestre, - Baston tortu en main, bouche ferrée. - - English. - - He shall go up upon the good more on the right hand, - He shall stay sitting upon the square stone, - Towards the South; being set, on the left hand, - A crooked stick in his hand, and his mouth shut. - -ANNOT. - -I do acknowledge my Ignorance in this. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - En lieu libere tendra son Pavillon, - Et ne voudra en Citez prendre place, - _Aix_, _Carpentras_, _Lisle_, _Volce_, _Mont Cavaillon_, - Par tous ces lieux abolira sa trace. - - English. - - He shall pitch his Tent in the open air, - Refusing to lodge in the City, - _Aix_, _Carpentras_, _Lisle_, _Volce_, _Mont Cavaillon_, - In all those places, he shall abolish his trace. - -ANNOT. - -_Aix_, _Carpentras_, _Lisle_ _Volce_, _Mont Cavaillon_, are Cities of -_Provence_. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Tous les degres d’honneur Ecclesiastique, - Seront changez en Dial Quirinal, - En Martial, quirinal, Flaminique, - Puis un Roy de _France_ le rendra Vulcanal. - - English. - - All the degrees of Ecclesiastical honour, - Shall be changed into a Dial Quirinal, - Into Martial, Quirinal, Flaminick; - After that, a King of _France_ shall make it Vulcanal. - -ANNOT. - -All what I can say upon this, is, that _Dialis_ in Latine is a Priest of -_Jupiter_, and _Quirinal_ is a Priest of _Romulus_, _Martial Flamen_ is a -Priest of _Mars_, _Vulcanal_ is a Priest of _Vulcan_, let the ingenious -Reader make of all these the best construction he can. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Les deux unis ne tiendront longuement, - Et dans treize ans au Barbare _Satrape_, - Aux deux costez feront tel perdement, - Qu’un benira la Barque & sa cappe. - - English. - - The two united shall not hold long, - Within thirteen years to the Barbarian _Satrape_, - They shall cause such loss on both sides, - That one shall bless the Boat and its covering. - -ANNOT. - -The word _Satrape_ is a _Persian_ word, signifying one of the Grandees at -Court. By the last Verse is meant, one that shall save his life and make -his escape, by the means of a covered Boat or Barge. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - La sacree Pompe viendra baisser les aisles, - Par la venue de grand Legislateur, - Humble haussera, vexera les rebelles, - Naistra sur Terre aucun Æmulateur. - - English. - - The sacred Pomp shall bow down her wings, - At the coming of the great Lawgiver, - He shall raise the humble and vex the rebellious, - No Emulator of his shall be born. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to have a relation to the birth of Christ, or Christmas-day. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - L’_Ogmion_ grande _Bizance_ approchera, - Chassée sera la Barbarique ligue, - Des deux Loix l’une unique lachera, - _Barbare_ & _France_ en perpetuelle brigue. - - English. - - The _Ogmion_ shall come near great _Bizance_, - And shall expel the Barbarian League, - Of the two Laws, the wicked one shall yeild, - The _Barbarian_, and the _French_ shall be in perpetual jar. - -ANNOT. - -By the word _Ogmion_, every where in his Book, the Author meaneth -the King of _France_, who according to his words shall come near -_Constantinople_, and shall break the Barbarian League, and of the two -Laws, that is, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Mahometan shall yield -to the other. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - L’Oyseau Royal sur la Cité solaire, - Sept mois devant fera nocturne augure: - Mur d’Orient cherra Tonnerre esclaire, - Sept jours aux Portes les ennemies a l’heure. - - English. - - The Royal Bird upon the solar City, - Seven Months together shall make a nocturn augury, - The Eastern Wall shall fall, the Lightning shall shine, - Then the enemies shall be at the Gate for seven days. - -ANNOT. - -By the Royal Bird is meant an Eagle, which for seven days together shall -be observed upon some Eastern City, and shall be taken for a presage, -that the Eastern Wall of that City shall fall by Lightning, at which time -the enemies shall be at the Gate for seven days together. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Au conclud pache hors de la Forteresse, - Ne sortira celuy en desespoir mis: - Quand ceux d’_Arbois_, de _Langres_, contre _Bresse_, - Auront mis _Dolle_ bouscade d’ennemis. - - English. - - Upon the agreement made, out of the Fort, - Shall not come he that was in despair, - When those of _Arbois_, of _Langres_, against _Bresse_, - Shall have put in _Dolle_ an Ambuscado of foes. - -ANNOT. - -The sense is, that according to the Articles or agreement made between -the Besieger of a Fort, and the Governour of it, the said Governour by -despair will not come out, and this shall happen, when those of _Arbois_ -and _Langres_, shall be against those of _Bressia_, and shall have put an -Ambuscado in the City of _Dolle_. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Ceux qui auront entreprins subvertir, - Nompareil Regne, puissant & invincible, - Feront par fraude, nuicts trois advertir, - Quand le plus grand a Table lira Bible. - - English. - - Those that shall have undertaken to subvert - The Kingdom that hath no equal in power and victories, - Shall cause by fraud, notice to be given for three nights together, - When the greatest shall be reading a Bible at the Table. - -ANNOT. - -What place is meant by the unparalell’d Kingdom, the Author hath hid as -well from me as the Reader. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Naistre du Gouphre & Cité immesurée, - Nay de parens obscurs & tenebreux: - Qui la puissance du grand Roy reverée, - Voudra destruire par _Rouen_ & _Eureux_. - - English. - - One shall be born out of the Gulf and the unmeasurable City, - Born of Parents obscure and dark, - Who by the means of _Rouen_ and _Eureux_, - Will go about to destroy the power of the great King. - -ANNOT. - -Without doubt by this Gulf and unmeasured City the Author means _Paris_, -by reason of its greatness, and the multitude of its Inhabitants. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Par les _Sueves_ & lieux circonvoisins, - Seront en guerre pour cause des nuées: - Gammares, locustes & cousins, - Du _Leman_ fautes seront bien desnuées. - - English. - - Through _Swedeland_ and the Neighbouring places, - By reason of the Clouds shall fall to War, - The Lobstars, Grass-hoppers and Gnats, - The faults of _Leman_ shall appear very naked. - -ANNOT. - -By _Leman_ is meant the City of _Geneva_, the rest needeth no further -interpretation. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Par les deux testes, & trois bras separez, - La grand Cité sera par eaux vexée; - Des Grands d’entre eux par esgarez, - Par teste _Perse_ _Byzance_ fort pressée. - - English. - - Divided in two heads and parted into three arms, - The great City shall be troubled with Waters, - Some great ones among them scattered by banishment, - By a _Persian_ head _Byzance_ shall be sore oppressed. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy containeth three things, the first is an Inundation by -which _Paris_ is threatened, for without doubt he meaneth here that City, -at the head of which the River _Seine_ is divided in two heads, and makes -an Island where the Cathedral Church and the Palace are situated, and -then parted into three branches, one of which runneth by the Church of -the _Augustines_, the other by the _Quay_ of _la Megisserie_, and the -third passeth under the great Hospital; this City then is threatned here -of an Inundation, to which it is very subject, by reason of the lowness -of her situation, and the confluence of several Rivers that meet at the -head of it. The second part of the Prophecy hinteth that at that time, -some great ones of that City shall be banished; and the third, that -_Constantinople_, which was anciently called _Byzantium_; or rather the -great Turk by a figure of Rhetorick, called _Synecdoche_, shall be much -oppressed by the _Persians_. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - L’An que _Saturne_ hors de servage, - Au franc terroir sera d’eau inondé, - De sang _Troien_ sera son mariage, - Et sera seur d’_Espagnols_ circondé. - - English. - - In the year that _Saturn_ out of slavery, - In the free Countrey shall be drowned by water, - With _Troian_ blood his marriage shall be, - And for certain he shall be hedged about with _Spaniards_. - -ANNOT. - -By _Troian_ blood is understood the _French_ Nation, the meaning -therefore is, that in the year that a great Inundation shall be in -_France_, then shall a notable marriage be made, by which the _French_ -shall be hedged about, or fenced by _Spaniards_. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Sur le Sablon par un hideux Deluge, - Des autres Mers trouvé Monstre Marin, - Proche de lieu sera fait un refuge, - Tenant _Savone_ esclave de _Turin_. - - English. - - Upon the sand through an hideous Deluge - Of other Seas, shall be found a Sea Monster, - Near to that place shall be made a Sanctuary, - Which shall make _Savone_ a slave to _Turin_. - -ANNOT. - -When by the overflowing of the Neighbouring Seas, a Sea Monster shall be -cast upon the Sand, near to that Place shall be built a Fort, that shall -make _Savona_ a slave to _Turin_. - -_Savona_ is a Town by the Sea side, belonging to the _Genoese_, _Turin_ -is the chief City of _Piemont_, belonging to the Duke of _Savoy_. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Dedans _Hongrie_ par _Boheme_, _Navarre_, - Et par Banieres feintes seditious, - Par fleurs de Lis paix portant la barre, - Contre _Orleans_ fera esmotions. - - English. - - In _Hungaria_, through _Bohemia_ and _Navarre_, - And by banners fained seditions, - Through flower de Luce the Countrey that wears the Bar, - Against _Orleans_ shall make commotions. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is divided into two parts; the two first Verses foretell the -troubles that were to happen in _Hungaria_, _Bohemia_, and _Navarre_ -for Religion sake. The two last ones were fulfilled, when the Prince of -_Condé_, who in his Arms wears the flower de Luce with the Bar, did seize -upon _Orleans_ for the Protestant party. - - -XC. - - French. - - Dans les _Cyclades_, en _Corinthe_, & _Larisse_, - Dedans _Sparte_ tout le _Peloponese_, - Si grand famine peste far faux conisse, - Neuf mois tiendra & tout le _Cherronesse_. - - English. - - In the _Cyclades_, in _Corinthe_, and _Larisse_, - In _Sparta_, and all _Peloponesus_, - There shall be so great a famine and plague by false arts, - That shall last nine months in _Chersonesus_. - -ANNOT. - -_Cyclades_ are the Islands in the _Ægean_ Sea; _Corinth_, _Larissa_, -_Sparta_, _Peloponesus_, and _Chersonesus_, are Countreys of _Grecia_. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Au grand marché qu’on dit des mensongers, - De tout _Torrent_ & Champ _Athenien_, - Seront surpris par les Chevaux legers, - Des _Albanois_, _Mars_, _Leo_, _Sat._ au _Versien_. - - English. - - In the great Market called of the Liars, - Which is all _Torrent_ and _Athenian_ Field, - They shall be surprised by the light Horse, - Of the _Albanese_, _Mars_ in _Leo_, _Saturn_ in _Aquarius_. - -ANNOT. - -When _Mars_ shall be in the sign of _Leo_, and _Saturn_ in that of -_Aquarius_, then the Countrey of _Athens_ shall be over-run by light -Horsemen of _Albania_. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Apres le siege tenu dixsept ans - Cinq changeront en tel revolu terme, - Puis sera l’un esleu de mesme temps, - Qui des _Romains_ ne sera trop conforme. - - English. - - After the seat possessed seventeen years, - Five shall change in such a space of time; - After that, one shall be elected at the same time, - Who shall not be very conformable to the _Romans_. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that when a Pope shall have sat in the Chair, for the -space of 17 years, within the same space of 17 years, five others shall -be elected; and after them another, that shall not be well approved of by -the _Roman_ Clergy, and Nobility. If my memory doth not fail me, this is -come to pass already; but wanting the Popes Chronology, I could not make -it good. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Soubs le terroir du rond Globe Lunaire, - Lors que sera dominateur _Mercure_, - L’Isle d’_Escosse_ fera un Lumenaire, - Que les _Anglois_ mettra a desconfiture. - - English. - - Under the Territory of the round Lunary Globe, - When _Mercury_ shall be Lord of the ascendant; - The Island of _Scotland_ shall make a Luminary, - That shall put the _English_ to an overthrow. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie must of necessity be past; for since the union of both -Kingdom under one King, such a thing hath not happened, nor is it likely -it should be hereafter. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Translatera en la grand _Germanie_, - _Brabant_ & _Flanders_, _Gand_, _Bruges_ & _Bologne_, - La trefue fainte le grand Duc d’_Armenie_, - Assailera _Vienne_ & la _Coloigne_. - - English. - - He shall translate into the great _Germany_, - _Brabant_, _Flanders_, _Gand_, _Bruges_, and _Bullen_, - The truce fained, the great Duke of _Armenia_, - Shall assault _Vienna_ and _Colen_. - -ANNOT. - -It is concerning an Emperour that shall add all those Countreys to the -Empire of _Germany_. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Nautique rame invitera les umbres, - Du grand Empire lors viendra conciter, - La mer _Ægee_ des lignes des Encombres, - Empeschant londe _Tirrhene_ de fletter. - - English. - - The Sea Oare shall invite the shades, - Of the great Empire, then shall it come to stir, - The _Ægean_ Sea, with lines of Encumbers, - Hindering the _Tirrhene_ Sea to roll. - -ANNOT. - -This is either Mistical or Metaphorical, or I understand it not. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Sur le milieu du grand monde la Rose, - Pour nouveaux faits sang public espandu, - A dire uray on aura bouche close, - Lors au besoing viendra tard lattendu. - - English. - - The Rose shall be in the middle of the great world, - Blood shall be publickly spilt for new deeds; - To say the truth, every one shall stop his mouth, - Then at the time of need shall come long looked for. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain, out of which every one may make what construction he -pleaseth. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Le na difforme par horreur suffoqué, - Dans la Cité du grand Roy habitable, - L’edit severy des captifs revoqué, - Gresle & Tonnerre, _Condon_ inestimable. - - English. - - The deformed born shall through horror be suffocated, - In the habitable City of the great King, - The severe Proclamation against banished shall be recalled, - Hail and Thunder shall do inestimable harm at _Condon_. - -ANNOT. - -_Condon_ is a Town in _France_; the rest is plain. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - A quarante huit degré Climacterique, - A fin de _Cancer_ si grande secheresse, - Poisson en Mer, Fleuve, Lac cuit hectique, - _Bearn_, _Bigorre_, par feu Ciel en detresse. - - English. - - At the Climacterical degree of eight and fourty, - At the end of _Cancer_, shall be such a drougth, - That Fish in the Sea, River, and Lake shall be boiled to a consumption, - _Bearn_ and _Bigorre_ by Heavenly fire shall be in distress. - -ANNOT. - -_Bearn_ and _Bigorre_ are two Provinces of _France_; the rest is plain. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - _Milan_, _Ferrare_, _Turin_ & _Aquilee_, - _Capne_, _Brundis_ vexez par gent _Celtique_, - Par le Lion & Phalange _Aquilee_, - Quand _Rome_ aura le chef vieux _Britannique_. - - English. - - _Milan_, _Ferrara_, _Turin_, and _Aquileia_, - _Capne_, _Brundis_, shall be vexed by the _French_, - By the Lion and troop of _Aquileia_, - When _Rome_ shall have an old _Brittanick_ Head. - -ANNOT. - -The Cities here mentioned are all in _Italy_. - - -C. - - French. - - Le boutefeu par son feu attrapé, - Du feu du Ciel a _Tartas_ & _Comminge_, - _Foix_, _Aux_, _Mazere_, haut vieillard escapé, - Par ceux de _Hess_, de _Saxe_ & de _Turinge_. - - English. - - The incendiary shall be overtaken by his own fire, - Heavenly fire shall fall at _Tartas_ and _Cominge_, - _Foix_, _Auch_, _Mazerre_, a tall old man shall escape, - By the means of those of _Hessia_, _Saxony_, and _Turinge_. - -ANNOT. - -_Tartas_, _Cominge_, _Foix_, _Auch_, _Mazere_ are Towns in _France_. -_Hessia_, _Saxony_, and _Turinge_ are Provinces of _Germany_. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ VI. - - -I. - - French. - - Autour des Monts _Pyrenees_ grand amas, - De gent estrange secourir Roy nouveau, - Pres de _Garonne_ du grand Temple du _Mas_, - Un _Romain_ Chef le craindra dedans l’Eau. - - English. - - About the _Pyrenean_ Mountains there shall be a great gathering - Of strange Nations to succour a new King; - Near _Garonne_ and the great Temple of _Mas_, - A _Roman_ Captain shall fear him in the Water. - -ANNOT. - -The _Pyrenean_ Mountains are those that part _Spain_ from _France_; -_Garonne_ is the River that runneth at _Bourdeaux_, it seemeth then, that -upon that River a _Roman_ Captain shall stand in much fear of the new -King before mentioned. - - -II. - - French. - - En la cinq cens octante plus & moins, - On attendra le siecle bien estrange, - En l’an sept cens & trois (cieux en tesmoins), - Regnes plusieurs un a cinq feront change. - - English. - - In the year five hundred fourscore more or less, - There shall be a strange Age, - In the year seven hundred and three (witness Heaven), - Many Kingdoms, one to five shall be changed. - -ANNOT. - -What strange age it was in the year 1580. every one may satisfie himself -by History. As for the year 1703. our Author saith there will be great -wonders, chiefly there shall many changes be in Kingdoms, insomuch, that -one shall be divided into five. - - -III. - - French. - - Fleuve qu’esproune le nouveau nay _Celtique_, - Sera en grande de l’Empire discorde: - Le jeune Prince par gent Ecclesiastique, - Le Sceptre osté Corone de concorde. - - English. - - The River that makes tryal of the new born _Celtick_, - Shall be at great variance with the Empire, - The young Prince shall be an Ecclesiastical person, - And have his Scepter taken off, and the Crown of concord. - -ANNOT. - -This River is the River of _Rhyne_, because the ancient _French_ when -they had a King newly born, they used to put him upon a Target, to make -him swim upon that River, to try whether by his swimming he was lawfully -begotten or no; the meaning therefore is, that this new born _Celtique_ -or _French_ King shall be at variance with the Empire, and that in his -young years the Clergy shall take his Scepter and Crown from him. - - -IV. - - French. - - Fleuve _Celtique_ changera de Rivage, - Plus ne tiendra la Cité d’_Agripine_, - Tout transmué horsmis le viel Language, - _Saturn_, _Leo_, _Mars_, _Cancer_ en rapine. - - English. - - The River of the Low-Countreys shall change her Shoare, - It shall touch no more the City of _Agrippina_, - All shall be transformed, except the old Language, - _Saturn_, _Leo_, _Mars_, _Cancer_ in _Rapine_. - -ANNOT. - -This is a strange prediction, if it should prove true, that the _Rhine_ -should change its course, and should touch no more the City of _Colen_, -which is here called _Agrippina_; because its name in Latine is _Colonia -Agrippina_, being a Colony of the _Romans_, built by _M. Agrippa_, son -in Law to _Augustus_; others say by _Agrippina_, Mother to the Emperour -_Nero_. - -The last Verse signifieth no more than an unfortunate position and Aspect -of the two Planets, _Saturn_ and _Mars_, and of the two Signs, _Leo_ and -_Cancer_. - - -V. - - French. - - Si grand famine par une pestifere, - Par pluye longue le long du Pole _Artique_. - _Samarobryn_ cent lieux de l’Hemisphere, - Vivront sans loy exempt de politique. - - English. - - So great a famine with a plague, - Through a long Rain shall come along the _Artick_ Pole, - _Samarobryn_ a hundred Leagues from the Hemisphere, - Shall live without Law, exempt from pollicy. - -ANNOT. - -The two last Verses foretel a great Plague and Famine that shall come -from the North, by the means of the long Rain. - -_Samarobryn_ he calls a people, that shall be a hundred Leagues from our -Hemisphere, and shall live without Law and Policy. - - -VI. - - French. - - Apparoistra vers le septentrion, - Non loing de _Cancer_ l’estoille cheveluë, - _Suze_, _Sienne_, _Boëce_, _Eretrion_, - Mourra de _Rome_ grand, la nuict disperuë. - - English. - - Towards the North shall appear, - Not far from _Cancer_ a blazing Star, - _Suza_, _Sienna_, _Boëce_, _Eretrion_, - There shall die at _Rome_ a great man, the night being past. - -ANNOT. - -Here he foretelleth the apparition of a Commet that shall be vertical to -the Cities here named, and not far from the Sign of _Cancer_, at which -time a great person shall die at _Rome_, about the dawning of the day. - - -VII. - - French. - - _Norvege_ & _Dace_, & l’Isle _Britannique_, - Par les unes freres seront vexées, - Le chef _Romain_ issu du sang _Gallique_, - Et les copies aux forests repousées. - - English. - - _Norvegia_, and _Dacia_, and the _Brittish_ Island, - Shall be vexed by the Brothers united. - The _Roman_ Captain issued from _French_ blood, - His Forces shall be beaten back to the Forrest. - -ANNOT. - -The difficulty lyes in the word _Brothers_, which I suppose to be the -United Provinces. The rest is plain. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Ceux qui estoient en regne pour scavoir, - Au Royal change deviendront a pauvris, - Uns exilez sans appuy, Or navoir, - Lettréz & lettres ne seront a grand pris. - - English. - - Those that were in esteem for their learning, - Upon the change of a King shall become poor, - Some banished, without help, having no Gold, - Learned and learning shall not be much valued. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is clear enough, and here the Author hath said nothing, -but what doth commonly happen. - - -IX. - - French. - - Aux Temples Saints seront faits grands scandales, - Comptez seront peur honneurs & louanges, - D’un que l’on grave d’Argent, d’Or les Medals, - La fin sera en tourmens bien estranges. - - English. - - To the holy Temples shall be done great scandals, - That shall be accounted for honours and praises, - By one, whose medals are graven in Gold and Silver, - The end of it shall be in very strange torments. - -ANNOT. - -Here the Reader must understand that the Author was a _Roman_ Catholick, -and therefore calleth Holy Temples, the Churches of the _Romish_ -Religion, which in the beginning of the Civil Wars in _France_, were much -abased by those of the Protestant Religion, then called _Huguenots_, -whose chief was _Henry_ King of _Navarre_, who was the only man amongst -the Protestant party, that could have Money and Medals coined to his -stamp, as being King of _Navarre_. But the last Verse of this Prophecie -proved too true, when upon St. _Bartholomews_ day, the 24 of _August_, in -the year 1572. the general Massacre of the Protestants was made through -_France_. - - -X. - - French. - - Un peu du temps les Temples des Couleurs, - De blanc & noir des deux entremislée, - Rouges & jaunes leur embleront les leurs, - Sang, terre, peste, faim, feu, eau affollée. - - English. - - Within a little while the Temples of the Colours, - White and Black shall be intermixt, - Red and Yellow shall take away their Colours, - Blood, earth, plague, famine, fire, water shall destroy them. - -ANNOT. - -By the Temples of the Colours White and Black, I suppose he means that -of Peace, and of War; by the Red and Yellow, may be meant the Empire of -the _Sweads_, who shall be at variance together; and by their long War -shall bring the Plagues here mentioned, as it came to pass in the Wars -of _Germany_, between the Emperour and _Gustavus Adolphus_, King of the -_Sweads_. - - -XI. - - French. - - Les sept rameaux a trois seront reduits, - Les plus aisnez seront surprins par morts, - Fratricider les deux seront seduits, - Les Conjures en dormant seront morts. - - English. - - The seven branches shall be reduced to three, - The eldest shall be surprised by death, - Two shall be said to kill their Brothers, - The Conspirators shall be killed, being asleep. - -ANNOT. - -It is apparent, that he speaks of seven Brethren, that shall be reduced -to three, whereof the eldest son shall be surprised by death, and two of -the rest shall be said to have murdered their Brother, the Conspirators -shall afterwards be killed in their sleep. - - -XII. - - French. - - Dresser Copie pour monter a l’Empire, - Du _Vatican_ le sang Royal tiendra, - _Flamens_, _Anglois_, _Espagne_ aspire, - Contre l’_Italie_ & _France_ contendra. - - English. - - To raise an Army, for to ascend unto the Empire, - Of the _Vatican_, the Royal blood shall endeavour, - _Flemings_, _English_, _Spain_ shall aspire, - And shall contend against _Italy_ and _France_. - -ANNOT. - -This prediction signifies no more, but that there shall be a great -commotion among the Nations, of _Europe_, concerning the election of -a Pope, which is called here the Empire of the _Vatican_; because the -_Vatican_ is the Popes Palace in _Rome_. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Un dubieux ne viendra loing du regne, - La plus grand part le voudra soustenir, - Un Capitole ne voudra point quil regne, - Sa grande Chaire ne pourra maintenir. - - English. - - A doubtful man shall not come far from the Reign, - The greatest part will uphold him, - A Capitol will not consent that he should Reign, - His great Chair he shall not be able to maintain. - -ANNOT. - -What should that doubtful man be, whom our Author doth mention here, is -not easie to be understood; but it seemeth that it shall be some body -pretending to the Popedom, who shall have a great party for himself, and -yet for all that shall be excluded, and not able to keep his Seat; so -that this Prophecie is but the second part of the foregoing; for they -have both a relation together. The Capitol anciently was the Citadel of -_Rome_, and now is the place where the Courts of Judicature meet, called -_Campidoglio_. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Loing de sa Terre Roy perdra la Bataille, - Prompt, eschapé poursuivy, suivant pris, - Ignare pris soubs la dorée maille, - Soubs feint habit, & l’Ennemy surpris. - - English. - - Far from his Countrey the King shall loose a Battle, - Nimble, escaped, followed, following, taken, - Ignorantly taken under the gilded Coat of Mail, - Under a feigned habit the enemy taken. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1578. when _Don Sebastian_ King -of _Portugal_, went into _Affrica_, to help and succour _Muley Hamet_, -against _Muley Maluc_, that had expelled him out of the Kingdom of _Fez_ -and _Morocco_, and there fought that famous Battle of _Alcasserquibir_, -wherein his whole Army was routed, and himself slain by the _Moores_, and -his body afterwards sold to the King of _Spain_ for a 100000. Crowns. - - -XV. - - French. - - Dessous la Tombe sera trouvé le Prince, - Qu’aura le pris par dessus _Nuremberg_: - L’_Espagnol_ Roy en _Capricorne_ mince, - Feinct & trahy par le grand _Vutitemberg_. - - English. - - Under the Tomb shall be found the Prince, - That shall have a price above _Nuremberg_, - That _Spanish_ King in _Capricorn_ shall be thine, - Deceived and betrayed by the great _Vutitemberg_. - -ANNOT. - -We hear of no Prince that had that advantage upon _Nuremberg_, but only -_Gustavus Adolphus_ King of _Sweden_, who took it. The last two Verses -signifie no more, then that the King of _Spain_ shall be wasted at the -time when the Sun is in _Capricorn_. - - -XVI. - - French. - - Ce que ravy sera du jeune Milve, - Par les _Normans_ de _France_ & _Picardy_, - Les noirs du Temple du lieu de _Negrisilve_, - Feront aux Berge & feu de _Lombardie_. - - English. - - That which shall be taken from the young Kite, - By the _Normans_ of _France_ and _Picardie_, - The black ones of the Temple of the place called black Forrest. - Shall make a Rendezvouz, and a fire in _Lombardie_. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that what the _Normans_ and those of _Picardie_ shall -save from the hand of a young conquering Prince, the same shall be -imployed in building a Temple in the black Forrest, which is that part of -the Forrest of _Arden_, that lies near _Bohemia_, and another part of it -to build a House in _Lombardie_. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Apres les livres bruslez les Asiniers, - Contraints seront changer d’habits divers: - Les _Saturnins_ bruslez par les meusniers, - Hors la pluspart qui ne sera convers. - - English. - - After the Books shall be burnt, the Asses, - Shall be compelled several times to change their Cloaths, - The _Saturnins_ shall be burnt by the Millers, - Except the greater part, that shall not be discovered. - -ANNOT. - -This seems to foretell a persecution of ignorant men against the learned, -after which shall happen a confusion amongst the ignorant persons, who -shall be forced to disguise themselves. - -The last two Verses seem to be of the same sense, for by the _Saturnins_ -I understand studious people, and by the _Millers_ rude and unlearned -persons. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Par les Physiques le grand Roy delaissé, - Par sort non art de l’Ebrieu est en vie, - Luy & son Genre au Regne hault pousé, - Grace donnée a gent qui Christ envie. - - English. - - The great King being forsaken by Physicians, - Shall be kept alive by the Magick and not by the art of a Jew, - He, and his kindred shall be set at the top of the Kingdom, - Grace shall be given to a Nation that envieth Christ. - -ANNOT. - -This in plain words signifieth no more, but that a King shall be -desparately sick and forsaken by his _Physicians_, and shall recover -by the help of a Jew, for which fact those of that Nation shall be -reestablished in his Countrey. - - -XIX. - - French. - - La vraye flamme engloutira la Dame, - Que voudra mettre les Innocens a feu, - Pres de l’aussaut l’exercite s’enflamme, - Quand dans _Seville_ monstre en Bœuf sera veu. - - English. - - The true flame shall swallow up the Lady, - That went about to burn the guiltless, - Before the Assault the Army shall be incouraged, - When in _Seville_, a Monster like an Ox shall be seen. - -ANNOT. - -_Seville_ is the chiefest City of _Andalusia_ a Province in _Spain_; the -rest is plain. - - -XXI. - - French. - - L’Union feinte sera peu de durée, - Les uns changes reformez la plus part: - Dans les Vaisseaux sera gent endurée, - Lors aura _Rome_ un nouveau Leopart. - - English. - - The feigned union shall not last long, - Some shall be changed, others for the most part reformed, - In the Ships people shall be pen’d up, - Then shall _Rome_ have a new Leopard. - -ANNOT. - -When the things contained in the three first Verses shall come to pass, -then _Rome_ shall have a new Pope, expressed here by the word Leopard -from the variousness, that is, in his Pontifical Garments. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Quand ceux du Pole _Artique_ unis ensemble, - En Orient grand effrayeur & crainte, - Esleu nouveau soustenu le grand tremble, - _Rodes_, _Bisance_ de sang _Barbare_ taincte. - - English. - - When those of the _Artick_ Pole shall be united together, - There shall be in the East a great fear and trembling, - One shall be newly Elected, that shall bear the brunt, - _Rodes_, _Bisance_, shall be dy’d with _Barbarian_ blood. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth an union between the _Europeans_, or Nations of the -North against the Eastern people, or Turks, and that the Christians shall -make choice of such a General, that shall make the East quake, and get -such Victories, whereby _Rhodes_ and _Constantinople_ shall be dyed with -Turkish blood. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Dedans la Terre du grand Temple Celique, - Neveu a _Londres_ par paix feinte meurtry, - La Barque alors deviendra Schismatique, - Liberté feinte sera au corne & cry. - - English. - - Within the ground of the great Cœlestial Temple, - A Nephew at _London_ by a fained peace shall be murdered, - The Boat at that time shall become Schismatical, - A fained liberty shall be with _Hue and Cry_. - -ANNOT. - -I think that by the _great Cœlestial Temple_, he meaneth that of St. -_Paul_, in which, or in the ground about it, shall be murdered a Nephew -by his Uncle, which shall cause great divisions and dissensions in the -City, compared here to a Boat, and that a dissembled or fained liberty -shall be proclaimed. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Despit de Roy, numismes descriez, - Peuples seront esmeus contre leur Roy, - Paix fait nouveau, Saintes Loix empirées, - _Rapis_ onc fut en si piteux arroy. - - English. - - The despight of a King, and Coin being brought lower - People shall rise against their King, - Peace newly made, Holy Laws being made worse, - _Rapis_ was never in such a great disorder. - -ANNOT. - -The first thing here to be observed, is the word _Rapis_, which is the -_Anagramme_ of _Paris_, which he saith was never in such a trouble -before, as it shall be when the people shall rebel against the King for -hatred, and because he shall have put low the price and intrinsical value -of Coin and Money; he foretelleth also that there shall be a new Peace -made, and that the Holy Laws shall be much impaired. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - _Mars_ & le Sceptre se trouvera conjoint, - Dessoubs _Cancer_ calamiteuse guerre, - Un peu apres sera nouveau Roy oingt. - Qui par long temps pacifiera la Terre. - - English. - - _Mars_ and the Scepter, being conjoyned together, - Under _Cancer_ shall be a calamitous War, - A little while after a new King shall be anointed, - Who for a long time shall pacifie the Earth. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that when the Planet of _Mars_ shall be in -conjunction with the constellation he calleth here the _Scepter_, that -then shall be a very calamitous War. The two last Verses are plain enough -of themselves. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Par _Mars_ contraire sera la Monarchie, - Du grand Pescheur en trouble ruineux, - Jeune, noir, rouge prendra la Hierarchie, - Les proditeurs iront jour bruineux. - - English. - - By _Mars_ contrary shall the Monarchy - Of the great Fisherman, be brought into ruinous trouble, - A young, black, red shall possess himself of the Hierarchy, - The Traitors shall undertake it on a misty day. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is concerning a certain Pope, signified here by the word -of great _Fisherman_; because in his Seal is graven a Fisherman, and -therefore in all his Bulls and Expeditions, it is always written, _Datum -Romæ sub sigillo piscatoris_: this Pope then it seemeth, shall be brought -to ruine, and another it seemeth shall succeed him, having here three -Epithetes, _viz._ _Young_, _Black_, and _Red_, which signifieth, that -against the common election of Popes, he shall be elected young, and -shall be Black in his complexion, and Red in Cloaths, _viz._ a Cardinal. -_Hierarchy_ is a Greek word, signifying Dominion over the Church. The -last Verse needeth no explication, being plain enough of it self. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Quattre ans le siege quelque peu bien tiendra, - Un surviendra libidineux de vie, - _Ravenna_, & _Pise_, _Verone_ soustiendront, - Pour eslever la Croix de Pape envie. - - English. - - Four years he shall keep the Papal seat pretty well, - Then shall succeed one of a libidinous life, - _Ravenna_, _Pisa_, shall take _Verona_’s part, - To raise up the Popes Cross to Life. - -ANNOT. - -This Prediction seemeth to have not only a relation to the foregoing, -but also a connexion; for the Author still handleth the matter of the -Popedome, and saith, that after that Pope shall have Reigned four years, -there shall succeed one that shall be notorious for debauchedness and -lechery, and that those Towns he mentioneth here (which are all in -_Italy_) shall take the Popes part. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Dedans les Isles de cinq fleuves a un, - Par le croissant du grand _Chyren Selin_, - Par les bruynes de l’air fureur de l’un, - Six eschapez, chachez fardeaux de lin. - - English. - - In the Islands from five Rivers to one, - By the increase of great _Chyren Selin_, - By the Frost of the Air one shall under furious, - Six shall escape, hidden within bundles of Flax. - -ANNOT. - -_Chyren_ by transposition is taken for _Henry_, and _Selin_ for a King -called so; because it is the name of a _Turkish_ Emperour: So that by -this Stanza I suppose he means _Henry_ II. his Master, King of _France_. -The rest is plain. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Le grand _Celtique_ entrera dedans _Rome_, - Menant amas d’exilez & bannis, - Le grand Pasteur mettra a mort tout homme, - Qui pour le Coq estoient aux _Alpes_ unis. - - English. - - The great _Celtique_ shall enter into _Rome_, - Leading with him a great number of banished men, - The great Shepheard shall put to death every man, - That was united for the Cock near the _Alpes_. - -ANNOT. - -Because this word _Celtique_ is often repeated in this Book, it would not -be amiss to satisfie the Reader of the meaning of it; it is properly the -Nation of the _Flemings_, and some others of the Low-Countreys as far as -the _Mase_ and the _Rhyne_, which anciently were called _Galli Celtæ_. By -_the great Shepheard_, is meant the Pope, and by the _Cock_ is meant the -_French_ Nation. The rest is easie. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - La Veufve Sainte entendant les nouvelles, - De ses rameaux mis en perplex & trouble, - Qui sera duit appaiser les querelles, - Par son pourchas des Razes sera comble. - - English. - - The holy Widow hearing the News - Of her Branches put in perplexity or trouble, - That shall be skilfull in appeasing of quarrels, - By his purchase shall make a heap of shaven heads. - -ANNOT. - -By the _holy Widow_, is meant the City of _Rome_, which is called in -_Italian_, _Roma la santa_, because of the blood of so many Martyrs that -hath been shed there, for the maintenance of the Christian Religion, -he calleth it a _Widow_; because at that time there will be no Pope -elected, and there shall be a kind of _interregnum_, as it always happens -when a Pope is dead, until the new one be elected. What he calleth here -Branches, are the Clergy men, and the shaven heads the Priests. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Par l’apparence de feinte Saincteté, - Sera trahy aux ennemis le siege, - Nuit qu’on croioid dormir en seureté, - Pres de _Brabant_ marcheront ceux de _Liege_. - - English. - - By the appearance of a feigned holiness, - The siege shall be betrayed to the enemies, - In a night that every one thought to be secure, - Near _Brabant_ shall march those of _Liege_. - -ANNOT. - -_Brabant_ is one of the seventeen Provinces, and _Liege_ is a great City -upon the River of _Maze_. The rest is not difficult. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Roy trouvera ce quil desiroit tant, - Quand le Prelat sera repris a tort, - Response au Duc le rendra mal content, - Qui dans _Milan_ mettra plusieurs a mort. - - English. - - A King shall find what he so much longed for, - When a Prelate shall be censured wrongfully, - An answer to the Duke will make him discontented, - Who in _Milan_ shall put many to death. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is too indefinite, to admit of a particular sense; for -there be so many Prelates, so many Kings, so many Dukes, that it is not -easie to fix upon any particular one, and therefore we must leave this -Stanza in _Democritus_’s Well. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Par trahison de verges a mort battu, - Puis surmonté sera par son desordre, - Conseil frivole au grand captif sentu, - Nez par fureur quand _Berich_ viendra mordre. - - English. - - By Treason one shall be beaten with rods to death, - Then the Traitor shall be overcome by his disorder, - The great Prisoner shall try a frivilous Counsel, - When _Berich_ shall bite anothers nose through anger. - -ANNOT. - -The words are so plain, that every one may make his own interpretation of -them. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Sa main derniere par _Alus_ sanguinaire, - Ne le pourra par la Mer garentir, - Entre deux fleuves craindra main militaire, - Le noir l’Ireux le fera repentir. - - English. - - His last hand bloody through _Alus_, - Shall not save him by Sea, - Between two Rivers he shall fear the military hand, - The black and Cholerick one shall make him repent. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to be concerning a bloody man, that had killed one _Alus_, -and sought to save himself by Sea; but was taken between two Rivers, and -put to death by the command of one that was a black and Cholerick man. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - De feu volant la machination, - Viendra troubler le Chef des Assiegez, - Dedans sera telle sedition, - Qu’en desespoir seront les profligez. - - English. - - The device of flying fire - Shall trouble so much the Captain of the Besieged, - And within shall be such mutiny, - That the Besieged shall be in despair. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Fort or Town besieged by an Enemy, who shall torment the besieged -so much with Bombs and Granadoes, and other flying fire, that they shall -despair to escape. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Pres de _Rion_ & proche _Blanchelaine_, - _Aries_, _Taurus_, _Cancer_, _Leo_, _La Vierge_, - _Mars_, _Jupiter_, le _Sol_ ardra grand plaine, - Bois & Citez, Lettres cachez au Cierge. - - English. - - Near _Rion_ going to _Blanchelaine_, - _Aries_, _Taurus_, _Cancer_, _Leo_, _Virgo_, - _Mars_, _Jupiter_, _Sol_ shall burn a great Plain, - Woods and Cities, Letters hidden in a wax Candle. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of it is, that when by the virtues and meetings of the said -Constellations, a great plain shall be burnt by _Rion_ (which is a City -in _Auvergne_) that then Letters shall be found hidden in a wax Candle. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Ne bien ne mal par bataille terrestre, - Ne parviendra au confins de perouse, - Rebeller pise, _Florence_ voir mal estre, - Roy nuit blessé sur mulet a noire house. - - English. - - Neither good nor evil by a Land-fight, - Shall reach to the Borders of _Perusa_, - _Pisa_ shall rebel, _Florence_ shall be in an ill case, - A King being upon his Mule shall be wounded in the night time. - -ANNOT. - -_Perusa_, _Pisa_, and _Florence_ are Cities in Italy; the rest is plain. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - L’œuvre ancienne se parachevera, - Du toit cherra sur le grand mal ruine, - Innocent fait, mort on accusera, - Nocent caché taillis a bruine. - - English. - - The ancient work shall be finished, - From the tiling shall fall upon the great one an evil ruine, - The innocent declared to be so, shall be accused after his death, - The guilty shall be hidden in a wood in a misty weather. - -ANNOT. - -By the first Verse is understood an ancient building, which shall be -finished and brought to perfection, I suppose it to be the _Louvere_, -which hath been a building in the Reign of seven Kings. But before it be -throughly finished, some ruine shall fall upon a great man and kill him; -one declared innocent of the fact shall be accused of it after his death, -and he that shall be guilty of it shall escape by hiding himself in a -Wood in misty weather. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Aux profligez de Paix les ennemis, - Apres avoir l’_Italie_ superée, - Noir sanguinaire, rouge sera commis, - Feu, sang verser, eau de sang colorée. - - English. - - To the vanquished the enemies of peace, - After they shall have overcome _Italy_, - A bloody black one shall be committed, - Fire and blood shall be powerd, and water coloured with blood. - -ANNOT. - -A bloody black man shall be put into the hands of the vanquished, by -those that were enemies to peace, after they have conquered _Italy_, -whence shall proceed fire and blood, and water coloured with blood. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - L’Enfant du Regne par Paternelle prinse, - Expolier sera pour delivrer, - Aupres du Lac _Trasym_ en la Tour prinse, - La troupe hostage pour trop fort s’enyvrer. - - English. - - The Child of the Kingdom, through his Fathers imprisonement, - Shall be deprived of his Kingdom for the delivering of his father, - Near the Lake _Trasymene_ shall be taken in a Tower, - The troop that was in Hostage, being drunk. - -ANNOT. - -The Lake _Trasymene_ in _Italy_, is that near which _Annibal_ got that -famous Battle upon the _Romans_. The rest is as plain as the words can -bear. - - -XL. - - French. - - Grand de _Mogonce_ pour grande soif esteindre, - Sera privé de sa grand dignité, - Ceux de _Cologne_ si fort le viendront plaindre, - Que le grand _Groppe_ au _Rhin_ sera jetté. - - English. - - The great one of _Ments_ for to quench a great thirst, - Shall be deprived of his high dignity, - Those of _Colen_ shall bemoan him so much. - That the great _Groppe_ shall be thrown into the _Rhine_. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth the fall of an Archbishop of _Ments_, in Latine -_Moguntia_, who is the first Ecclesiastical Elector, and shall be -deprived of his dignity by a covetous and powerful Prince to satisfie -his covetousness, at which those of _Colen_ his neighbours shall be so -incensed, that they shall throw that covetous person into the _Rhine_. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Les second Chef du Regne _Dannemark_, - Par ceux de _Frize_ & l’Isle _Britannique_, - Fera despendre plus de cent mille mark, - Vain exploiter voiage en _Italique_. - - English. - - The second head of the Kingdom of _Dannemark_, - By those of _Friezeland_, and the _Brittish_ Island, - Shall cause to be spent above 100000. Mark, - Vainly endeavouring a journey into _Italy_. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth onely a conjunction of the _Dutch_, _Danish_, and -_English_ Forces, to attempt something in _Italy_, which shall prove -fruitless, and cost a great deal of Money. - - -XLII. - - French. - - A l’_Ogmion_ sera laissé le Regne, - Du grand _Selin_, qui plus fera de fait, - Par l’_Italie_ estendra son enseigne, - Regira par prudent contrefait. - - English. - - Unto l’_Ogmion_ shall be left the Kingdom, - Of great _Selyn_, who shall do more then the rest, - Through _Italy_ he shall spread his Ensigns, - He shall govern by a prudent dissimulation. - -ANNOT. - -We have said before, that when ever the Author speaks of _Ognion_, he -meaneth the King of _France_, the meaning therefore of this whole Stanza -is, that _Henry_ the II. Son to _Francis_ the I. whom he calls here great -_Selin_, shall do more in _Italy_ then his Predecessors had done, which -proved true, and he governed his Kingdom with a prudent dissimulation. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Long temps sera sans estre habitée, - Ou _Siene_ & _Marne_ autour vient arrouser, - De la _Thamise_ & Martiaux tentée, - Deceus les gardes en evidant repousser. - - English. - - A great while shall be unhabited, - Where _Seine_, and _Marne_ comes to water about, - Being attempted by the _Thames_ and Martial people, - The Guards deceived in thinking to resist. - -ANNOT. - -By the two first Verses, he meaneth without doubt the City of _Paris_, -for it is watered by those two Rivers the _Seine_ and _Marne_, that joyn -together at the head of it, but how this City should become unhabited is -the great question, and chiefly by the means here alledged, _viz._ of -the _English_ signified by the _Thames_, and other Martial people, _the -Guards deceived in thinking to repulse_ the enemy. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - De nuict par _Nantes_ l’Iris apparoistra, - Des Arcs Marins susciteront la pluye: - _Arabique_ Goulfre grand classe parfondra, - Un Monstre en _Saxe_ naistre d’Ours & Truye. - - English. - - By night in _Nantes_ the Rain-bow shall appear, - Sea Rain-bows shall cause Rain; - The _Arabian_ Gulf shall drownd a great Fleet, - A Monster shall be in _Saxony_ from a Bear and a Sow. - -ANNOT. - -_Nantes_ is a City in _France_, _Iris_ is the Rainbow, _Saxony_ is a -Province in _Germany_; the rest is plain. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Le Governeur du Regne bien scavent, - Ne consentir voulant au faict Royal: - Medite classe par le contraire vent, - Le remettra a son plus desloyal. - - English. - - The Governour of the Kingdom being learned, - Shall not consent to the Kings will: - He shall intend to set out a Fleet by a contrary Wind, - Which he shall put into the hands of the most disloyal. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies that the Governour or Vice-Roy of a Kingdom shall refuse -to consent to his Kings Deeds; the rest needeth no interpretation. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Unjuste sera en exil Anvoyé, - Par pestilance aux confins de non seggle, - Response au rouge le fera desvoye, - Roy retirant a la Rane & a l’Aigle. - - English. - - A just person shall be banished, - By plague to the Borders of Non seggle, - The answer to the red one shall make him deviate, - Retiring himself to the Frog and the Eagle. - -ANNOT. - -I cannot find what he meaneth by _Non-seggle_; by the Eagle he meaneth -the Emperour, and by the Frog the King of _France_, for before he took -the Flower de Luce, the _French_ bore three Frogs. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Entre deux Monts les deux grands Assemblez, - De laisseront leur simulte secrete, - _Bruxelle_ & _Dolle_ par _Langres_ accablez, - Pour a _Maline_ executer leur peste. - - English. - - Between two Mountains the two great ones shall meet, - They shall forsake their secret enmity, - _Brusselle_ and _Dolle_ shall be crushed by _Langres_, - To put their plague in Execution at _Maline_. - -ANNOT. - -_Brussel_ is a Town of _Brabant_, and so is _Maline_; _Dolle_ is one of -_Burgundy_; and _Langres_ another of _France_. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - La saincteté trop faincte & seductive, - Accompagne d’une langue diserte, - La Cité vieille, & _Parme_ trop nastive, - _Florence_ & _Sienne_ rendront plus desertes. - - English. - - The fained and seducing holiness, - Accompanied with a fluent tongue, - Shall cause the old City, and too hasty _Parma_, - _Florence_ and _Sienna_ to be more desert. - -ANNOT. - -I know not what he means by the old City, unless it be _Rome_, by reason -of its antiquity. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - De la partie de _Mammer_ grand Pontife, - Subjuguera les confins du _Danube_, - Chasser les croix, par fer raffe ne riffe, - Captifs, Or, bagues, plus de cent mille Rubles. - - English. - - From the party of _Mammer_ high Priest, - They shall subdue the borders of _Danubius_, - They shall expel crosses, by Sword topse-turvy, - Slaves, Gold, Jewels, more than 100000. Rubles. - -ANNOT. - -Some parties of the Popes side, shall subdue those bordering upon -_Danubius_, and drive away the Priests, turn all things topse-turvy, make -slaves, and take a booty above the value of 100000. Rubles. A Ruble is a -piece of Gold of the great _Mogul_, worth two or three pound sterling. - - -L. - - French. - - Dedans le puis seront trouvez les os, - Se l’inceste commis par la Marastre, - L’estat changé, en fera bruit des os, - Et aura _Mars_ ascendant pour son astre. - - English. - - In the Well shall be found the bones, - Incest shall be committed by the Stepmother, - The case being altered, there shall be great stir about the bones, - And she shall have _Mars_ for her ascending Planet. - -ANNOT. - -It is the strange wickedness of a woman, that shall incestuously be got -with Child by her Son in Law, and when she is delivered, shall kill her -Child, and throw him into a Well; a while after the water beginning to -corrupt, a search shall be made of the cause, and then the Childs Bones -shall be found, which shall cause a great stir, and for to know this -wicked woman, he saith, that the Planet of _Mars_ shall be the ascendant -in her Horoscope. - - -LI. - - French. - - Peuple assemble voir nouveau spectacle, - Princes & Roys par plusieurs assistans, - Piliers faillir, murs, mais comme miracle, - Le Roy fauve & trente des instans. - - English. - - People assembled to see a new show, - Princes and Kings, with many assistants, - Pillars shall fail, walls also, but as a miracle, - The King saved, and thirty of the standers by. - -ANNOT. - -The words of this prediction are plain and easie, and signifie no more -than what often happeneth, and may happen yet, _viz._ that where a -concourse of people shall be to see a new show, the Pillars and walls of -the Building shall fall, and people perish by the ruine, (as if it were -by a Miracle) the King and thirty of the spectators shall be preserved. - - -LII. - - French. - - En lieu du grand qui sera condamné, - De prison hors, son amy en sa place, - L’espoir _Troyen_ en six mois joinct, mort né, - Le _Sol_ a l’_Vurne_ seront prins fleuves en glace. - - English. - - Instead of the great one that shall be condemned - And put out of Prison, his friend being in his place, - The _Trojan_ hope in six months joyn, still born, - The _Sun_ in _Aquarius_, then Rivers shall be frozen. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Trojan_ hope, is meant a King of _France_, who after he hath been -marryed six Months, shall have a Child still born. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Le grand Prelat _Celtique_ a Roy suspect, - De nuict par cours sortira hors du Regne, - Par Duc fertile a son grand Roy _Bretagne_, - _Bisance_ a _Cypres_, & _Tunis_ insuspect. - - English. - - The great _Celtique_ Prelate suspected by his King, - Shall in hast by night go out of the Kingdom - By the means of a Duke the fruitful _Britanie_, - _Bisance_ by _Cyprus_, and _Tunis_ shall be unsuspected. - -ANNOT. - -The great _Celtique_ Prelate, was the Cardinal of _Lorrain_, Brother to -the Duke of _Guizse_, who being suspected by the King, went away by night -to _Rome_. - -By fruitfull _Brittain_, is understood the province of that name in -_France_, which by the means of the Duke of _Mercure_, her Governour -shall be unsuspected by the King. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Au point du jours au second chant du Coq, - Ceux de _Tunes_, de _Fez_, & de _Bugie_, - Par les _Arabes_ captif le Roy _Maroq_, - L’an mil six cens & sept, de Liturgie. - - English. - - At the break of day, at the second crowing of the Cock, - Those of _Tunis_, and _Fez_, and _Bugia_, - By means of the _Arabians_, shall take Prisoner the King of _Morocco_, - In the year 1607. by Liturgie. - -ANNOT. - -By _Liturgie_, I suppose he meaneth under pretext of Religion. The rest -is easie to be understood. - - -LV. - - French. - - Au _Chelme_ Duc, en arrachant l’esponce, - Voile _Arabesque_ voir, subit descouverte: - _Tripolis_, _Chio_, & ceux de _Trapesonce_, - Duc prins, _Marnegro_, & la Cité deserte. - - English. - - The _Chelme_ Duke, in pulling a spunge, - Shall see _Arabian_ Sails suddenly discovered: - _Tripolis_, _Chios_, and those of _Trapesan_, - The Duke shall be taken, _Marnegro_ and the City shall be desert. - -ANNOT. - -_Chelme_ is a _German_ word, that signifies a Rogue. By _Marnegro_, is -meant the Black Sea, or _Nigropont_. By pulling a Spunge, I suppose the -great quantity of Spunges that stick to the Rocks in that Sea. - -_Tripolis_, _Chios_, and _Trapezon_, are places in the _Turkish_ -Dominions. - - -LVI. - - French. - - La crainte Armée de l’ennemy _Narbon_, - Effroyera si fort les _Hesperiques_, - _Parpignan_ vuide par l’aveugle d’_Arbon_, - Lors _Barcelon_ par Mer donra les piques. - - English. - - The feared Army of the enemy _Narbon_, - Shall so much terrifie the _Spaniards_, - That _Parpignan_ shall be left empty by the blind d’_Arbon_, - Then _Barcelon_ by Sea shall give the Chase. - -ANNOT. - -A great Army gathered about _Narbon_, shall so much terrifie the -_Spaniards_, that _Parpignan_ a Town of theirs shall be desolate, -and left empty by the Governour, here called _the blind d’Arbon_, -then _Barcelon_, which is a Sea-Town in _Catalonio_, belonging to the -_Spaniards_ shall come to its succours, and chase the enemy by Sea. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Celuy qu’estoit bien avant dans le Regne, - Ayant Chef rouge proche a la Hierarchie, - Aspre & cruel, & se fera tant craindre, - Succedera a sacrée Monarchie. - - English. - - He that was a great way in the Kingdom, - Having a red head and near the Hierarchy, - Harsh and cruel, shall make himself so dreadful, - That he shall succeed to the Sacred Monarchy. - -ANNOT. - -This is a person of great quality, and near of blood to a King, who -being a Cardinal, cruel and dreadful, shall be Elected Pope, I suppose -_Clement_ the VII. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Entre les deux Monarques esloignez, - Lors que le Sol par _Selin_ clair perdue: - Simulté grande entre deux indignez, - Qu’aux Isles & _Sienne_ la liberté renduë. - - English. - - Between the two Monarchs that live far one from the other, - When the Sun shall be Ecclipsed by _Selene_, - Great enmity shall be between them two, - So that liberty shall be restored to the Isles and _Sienne_. - -ANNOT. - -Here is nothing difficult but the word _Selene_, which is the Moon from -the Greek σεληνη. - -The meaning is, that at such a time when the Sun is Ecclipsed by the -Moon, _Sienna_ and the Islands about it shall be at liberty. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Dame en fureur par rage d’adultere, - Viendra a son Prince conjurer non dire, - Mais bref cogneu sera le vitupere, - Que seront mis dixsept a Martyre. - - English. - - A Lady in fury by rage of an Adultery, - Shall come to her Prince and conjure him to say nothing, - But shortly shall the shameful thing be known, - So that seventeen shall be put to death. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this Stanza and the words are plain. - - -LX. - - French. - - Le Prince hors de son Terroir _Celtique_, - Sera trahy, deceu par interprete, - _Rouen_, _Rochelle_, par ceux de l’_Armorique_, - Au Port de _Blavet_ deceux par Moin & Prestre. - - English. - - That Prince being out of his _Celtick_ Countrey, - Shall be betrayed and deceived by an Interpreter, - _Rouen_, _Rochel_, by those of _Gascony_, - At the Port of _Blavet_ shall be deceived by Monk and Priest. - -ANNOT. - -We have said many times before, what is meant by the word _Celtique_. The -Port of _Blavet_ is that of the River of _Bordeaux_. - - -LXI. - - French. - - Le grand Tapis plié ne monstrera, - Fors qu’a demy la pluspart de l’Histoire, - Chassé du Regne aspre loin paroistra, - Au fait Bellique chacun le viendra croire. - - English. - - The great Carpet folded shall not shew, - But by half the greatest part of the History, - The driven out of the Kingdom shall appear sharp afar off, - In Warlike matters every one shall believe him. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Trop tard tous deux les fleurs seront perdües, - Contre lay loy Serpent ne voudra faire, - Des ligueurs forces par gallops confondues, - _Savone_, _Albingue_, par _Monech_ grand martyre. - - English. - - Both the flowers shall be lost too late, - Against the Law the Serpent will do nothing, - The forces of the Leaguers by gallops shall be confounded, - _Savone_, _Albingue_, by _Monech_ shall suffer great pain. - -ANNOT. - -The two first verses are too mistical for me; the third signifieth, that -by gallops; that is, by Troops of Horses, the Leaguers, _viz._ those that -held the party of the League, shall be routed by the Kings Cavalry. The -fourth, that _Savone_ and _Albingue_, two Towns of the _Genoeses_, shall -be put to much trouble by those of _Monech_ and _Monaco_, another Town -near them, belonging to the Prince of _Monaco_, a _Genoese_ of the house -of _Grimald_. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - La Dame seule au Regne demurée, - L’unique esteint premier au lict d’honneur, - Sept ans sera de douleur epleurée, - Puis longue vie au regne par bonheur. - - English. - - The Lady shall be left to reign alone, - The only one being extinguished, first in the Bed of Honour, - Seven years she shall weep for grief, - After that she shall live long in the Reign by good luck. - -ANNOT. - -The second and fourth Verses perswade me, that this Stanza came to pass -in the time of _Catharine_ of _Medicis_, wife to _Henry_ II. because she -lived long, and the King died in the bed of Honour, and thus he saith, -_that she was left to Reign alone_; because her four Sons were all little -ones, so that she alone was Regent in _France_. - -The second Verse saith, _The holy one being extinguished, first, in the -Bed of Honour_. - -By this word _the only one_, the Author meaneth not the only Son, but the -only one living, such as _Henry_ II. was to her, _who was extinguished in -the Bed of Honour_, and died of the wound he received at Tilting. - -The third Verse saith, that after his death, her mourning lasted seven -years, that is, from the first of _August_ 1559. to the first of _August_ -1566. because that all those 16 Months that _Francis_ II. she had -nothing but continual sorrow, by the conspiracy of _Amboise_, the secret -practises of the King of _Navarre_, and Prince of _Condé_ his Brother, -by the insurrection of the Protestants, when _Charles_ IX. visited his -Kingdom, _Anno_ 1556. after which she put off her mourning. - -The fourth Verse signifieth, that she should be long lived; for she lived -above 60 years, He saith also, that she was Regent by great luck, that -is, great luck for her self, but not for the Kingdom, for it was most -unhappy in her time. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - On ne tiendra pache aucun arresté, - Tous recevants iront par tromperie, - De trefue & paix, Terre & Mer protesté, - Par _Barcelone_ classe prins d’industrie. - - English. - - No agreement shall be kept, - All those that shall admit of it deal falsly, - There shall be protestations made by Land and Sea, - _Barcelone_ shall take a Fleet by craft. - -ANNOT. - -This is a description of the sad and calamitous estate of _France_, -in the time of the Civil wars, when no agreement could be kept on the -_Roman_ Catholicks side, witness the several Peaces that were made and -broken, the Massacre of _Vassa_, and that infamous perfidy committed by -them on St. _Bartholomews_ day, being the 24 of _August_, _Anno_ 1572. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Gris & bureau demy ouverte guerre, - De nuit seront assaillis & pillez, - Le bureau prins passera par la serre, - Son Temple ouvert, deux au plastre grillez. - - English. - - Between the Gray and sad Gray shall be half open War, - By night they shall be assaulted and plundered, - The sad Gray being taken, shall be put in Custody, - His Temple shall be open, two shall be put in the Grate. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza affordeth us a commical History, which is, that about the -year 1601. when there sprang up in _France_ a Kind of Friers, who bosted -themselves to be the true observers of the Rule of St. _Francis_, and -that the Cordeliers and Capushines did not keep it so exactly, but they -had need of a great reformation; the King _Henry_ IV. granted them a -Convent at _Beaufort_, and upon his example many other places desired -them, they went to possess themselves of the house of _la Blamet_, near -_Angiers_; but the Cordeliers being loath to be dispossessed by these -new comers, called _Recollets_, did besiege them by main force, broke -open the Gates, scaled the Walls, the besieged did not defend themselves -by words or exorcismes, but with good Stones and Flints, so that if the -people had not come, the fray would not have ended without murder, some -of them were put in Prison, others kept in Custody: this is the meaning -of the Author, when he saith, _There will be half an open War between the -Gray and the sad Gray_; for the Cordeliers have a Gray habit, and the -Recollets a sad Gray. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Au fondement de nouvelle secte, - Seront les os du grand _Romain_ trouvez, - Sepulchre en Marbre, apparoistra converte, - Terre trembler en _Auril_ mal enfeüvez. - - English. - - At the foundation of a new sect, - The Bones of the great _Roman_ shall be found, - The Sepulchre shall appear covered with Marble, - The Earth shall quake in _April_, they shall be ill buried. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that when they shall go about to make a foundation of a -house, for a new Sect of Friers; they shall find the bones of a famous -_Roman_ in a Marble Sepulchre, and that in _April_ the Earth shall quake, -whereby many shall be swallowed up. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Au grand Empire par viendra tout un autres, - Bonté distant plees de felicité, - Rege par un issu non loing du peautre, - Corruer Regnes grande infelicité. - - English. - - To the great Empire quite another shall come, - Being farther from goodness and happiness, - Governed by one of base parentage, - The Kingdom shall fall, a great unhappiness. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Interpretation. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - Lors que Soldats fureur seditieuse, - Contre leur Chef seront denuit fer livre, - Ennemy d’_Albe_ doibt par main furieuse, - Lors vexer _Rome_ & principaux seduire. - - English. - - When the seditious fury of the Souldiers, - Against their Chief shall make the Iron shine by night, - The enemy d’_Albe_ shall by a furious hand, - Then vex _Rome_, and seduce the principal one. - -ANNOT. - -The Lord _de Thou_ doth judiciously observe, that the Pope being -unacquainted with things belonging to War, as to Money, Victuals, and -Ammunition, was easily persuaded by Cardinal _Caraffa_ to make war -against _Spain_, for without being provided of all these things, he put -his Armies into the Field, _nec satis perpendens quám a pecuniâ, milite -ac cæteris rebus ad bellum necessariis imparatus intempestive arma -sumeret_. - -In the 15. Book of his History: the Duke of _Vrbin_ had commission to -raise 6000. Foot and 300. Horses in the Dukedom of _Spoleto_, and in -_Mark_ of _Ancona_. _John Caraffe_ the Popes Nephew was made General of -the Army, and being but Earl of _Mortor_, was Created Duke of _Palliano_, -by the confiscation of the goods of _Mark Antony Colonna_. _Camillo -Ursini_ was made General of the Forces in _Rome_, and in the Territory -thereof; _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, the _Mars_ of his time, and by birth a -_Gascon_, was sent by the King to help (with his advice and courage) the -_Romans_, who are always fitter for the Breviary, then for the Sword. - -Besides these Forces raised within the Church Dominions, _Charles -Caraffa_ gathered all the Bandittes of _Naples_ and _Florence_, and -raised some Regiments of _Switzers_ that came to succour the Pope. - -With these Troops the Pope seized upon the most important places and -persons belonging to the _Spanish_ party, as the _Coloneses_ and the -_Vitelly_. - -These asked succours of the Emperour _Charles_ the V. who presently -commanded _Ferdinand_ of _Toledo_ Duke of _Alba_ to succour them. He was -then tasked in the _Piemont_ and _Milanes_, to resist the _French_ that -were then under the conduct of the Marshal of _Brissac_. - -To conclude his design the better, he wrote many Letters to the Pope and -the Colledge of Cardinals, full of respect and submission, desiring them -to moderate their passion against the _Spanish_ party, but the Pope being -angry by several reports, answered him, complaining of many things, which -made the Duke resolve to the war, and to be there in person. - -He took his occasion as a prudent Captain, when the news was brought -to him that the Popes Forces were in mutiny against their General for -want of pay, and made a great tumult in the night, hearing that he was -approaching with a great train of Artillery. _Bzovius_ saith, that the -Earl of _Montor_ regarded more his profit then the Popes Interest, and -kept back a great part of the money that was to pay the Souldiers, whence -proceeded this tumult, which helped much the Duke of _Alva_’s business. - -This is the explanation of the two first Verses of this Stanza, -concerning the mutiny of the Souldiers that were in the Popes service, -during which mutiny the enemy d’_Alba_ did not fail to vex Rome; this -word the enemy d’_Alba_ doth not signifie the enemy of the Duke of -_Alba_, as if one should say in Latine _Hostis Albanus_. He did then vex -_Rome_; for in a short time he took _Ponte Corvino_, _Frusino Anagnia_, -_Marino_, _Lavaci_, _Prœneste_, _Tivoli_, _Ostia_, _Neptuno_, _Alba -Vico-Varro_, _Monte Fortino_, and almost all the places of the _Roman_ -Territory. - -This did streighten _Rome_ so much, that the General _Camillo Ursini_ -made several Trenches within the Walls of _Rome_, instead of preserving -the outworks, as _Montluc_ would have persuaded him to do; the alarums -were so great at _Rome_, that _Montluc_ was fain to encourage the -_Romans_, and to make a Warlike Speech to them, which is inserted in his -Works. - -Moreover, the same Duke began to seduce the Principals of _Rome_ by his -friends that he had in it, but particularly by the cheat that he put -upon the Pope; for his design being to prevent the _French_ Forces, and -to surprize the Pope, he resolved to go streight to _Rome_, and to bring -his design the better to pass, he sent _Pyrrhus Coffrede_ to the Pope, -to see if there was any way of agreement, to the end that upon this -proposition the Pope should mistrust nothing. In the mean time the Duke -of _Alba_ was coming near _Rome_, at which the Pope was so angry, that he -put this Embassadour in Prison, where he was kept till the conclusion of -the Peace; in this sort were the principal men of _Rome_ seduced, having -no thought of the _Spaniards_ approaches, this is the relation of the -Lord _de Thou_, _Lib._ 16. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - La grand pitie sera sans long tarder, - Ceux qui donnoient seront contraints de prendre - Nuds affamez, de froid, soif, soy bander, - Passer les Monts en faisant grand esclandre. - - English. - - What a great pitty will it be e’re-long, - Those that did give shall be constrained to receive, - Naked, famished with cold, thirst, to mutiny, - To go over the Mountains making great disorders. - -ANNOT. - -The words of the first Verse, _before it be long_, is the Key of the -Stanza, because we infer from thence it was shortly to happen, as in -truth it did at the latter end of the year 1556. when the Duke of _Guise_ -came into _Piemont_ to joyn with the Marshal of _Brissac_. Then the -troops of the _Marshal_ seeing those of the Duke better paid then they -were, forsook the Marshal, the History saith there was above 1500. of -them, and that the Marshal paid the Souldiers of his own money to stay -them. - -The great pitty was, when he had no more to give, he was compelled by the -Kings order it self, and against his own inclination to raise some moneys -upon the Countreys. Secondly, to take some Towns and give the plunder to -the Souldiers. Thirdly, to permit the Souldiers to pillage the Countrey. - -The Author was willing to foretell this, because there was never a man -more strict in keeping the Martial discipline, then this General was. - -The Marshal of _Brissac_ being thus abused, some of his troops forsook -him to follow the Duke of _Guise_, being for the most part naked and -starved with cold, hunger and thirst, which makes the Author to specifie -_hunger, cold and thirst_; want having compelled them to disband, they -went over the Mountains, not of _Piemont_, but the _Apennines_ of -_Montserrat_, and whatsoever thing they found was a Fish for their Net. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Un Chef du Monde le grand _Cheiren_ sera, - Plus outre, apres aime, craint, redouté, - Son bruit & los les Cieux surpassera, - Et du seul titre Victeur sort contente. - - English. - - A Chief of the World the great _Cheiren_ shall be, - Moreover, beloved afterwards, feared, dreaded, - His fame and praise shall go beyond the Heavens, - And shall be contented with the only title of Victor. - -ANNOT. - -We have said already before, that the Author by the word _Cheyren_ -meaneth _Henry_ the II. his Master, by transposition of Letters, who as -he saith was contented with the bare title of Victorieux, when he had -undertaken the protection of the _German_ Princes against the Emperour -_Charles_ the V. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Quand on viendra le grand Roy parenter, - Avant quil ait du tout l’Ame rendue, - On le verra bien tost apparenter, - D’Aigles, Lions, Croix, Courone de Rüe. - - English. - - When they shall come to celebrate the obsequies of the great King, - A day before he be quite dead, - He shall be seen presently to be allyed - With Eagles, Lions, Crosses, Crowns of Rüe. - -ANNOT. - -In the general Peace made _Anno_ 1559. two Marriages were concluded, one -of _Elizabeth_ of _France_, daughter to _Henry_ II. King of _France_, -with _Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, which was Celebrated at _Paris_ with -an extraordinary magnificence, in the presence of the Duke of _Alba_, -the Prince of _Orenge_, and the Earl of _Egmont_, who came to fetch the -Princess. - -In the Celebrating of these Nuptials happened the unfortunate death of -_Henry_ II. This brought such a sadness to the Court, that the second -match which was between _Margaret_ of _France_, Daughter to _Francis_ I. -and the Duke of _Savoy_ was Celebrated without solemnity. - -We must add to this, that the Duke weareth in his Coat of Arms some -Eagles, some Lions, some Crosses, and a Crown of Rue; by this, we -understand this Stanza, which saith, that the King being mortally -wounded, every one was preparing himself to render him the last duties, -which the Author calleth to _Parante_, from the Latine word _Parentare_, -which signifieth to Celebrate the Funeral duties of a man. Thus the -second Verse saith, _before the day that he yieldeth up his Soul_, -in hast was the Marriage Celebrated, between the Lady _Margaret_ of -_France_, and the Duke of _Savoy_, who beareth for his Arms some Eagles, -some Lions, some Crosses, and a Crown of Rue. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Par fureur feinte devotion Divine, - Sera la femme du grand fort violée, - Judges voulants damner telle Doctrine, - Victime au peuple ignorant immolée. - - English. - - By a faigned fury of Divine inspiration, - The wife of the great one shall be ravished, - Judges willing to condemn such a Doctrine, - A Victimo shall be sacrificed to the ignorant people. - -ANNOT. - -Of this fact and others as bad, have been seen strange examples, formerly -done by those called _Enthousiastes_, who have committed horrible -villanies, under pretence of divine inspiration, some commiting Incests, -others rapes, others murders, as may be seen at large in the History of -_John de Leiden_, and other desperate Anabaptists, too tedious to be -inserted here; I shall only relate here a little remarkable History, in -confirmation of this, to discover the Wiles of the spirits of error, -transformed into an Angel of Light. - -The 7 day of _February_ 1526. two Brothers, _Thomas_ and _Leonard -Schyker_, living near the Town of St. _Gal_ in _Switzerland_, did -assemble together with some other Anabaptists, in their fathers house, -where they passed the most part of the night in discourses, making -of faces, and relating of Visions, which every one said he had seen. -The next day, upon break of day; _Thomas_ did lay hold on his Brother -_Leonard_, and dragged him in the middle of the company, bid him kneel -in the presence of his Father and Mother, and of all the rest there -present, and as all the rest of the Company bid him take heed to do any -thing amiss; he answered, that there was no need to fear, and that in -this business, nothing could be done against the Will of the Father; -thereupon he drew his Sword, and cut off the head of his Brother, who -was on his knees, all besotted before this murderer. All the rest being -astonished, and besides their wits for this furious blow, and lamenting -the dead, _Thomas_ ran towards the Town with a fearful Countinance, -as a Phanatick besides himself, without Shooes; and having no Cloaths -but his Shirt and Breeches. At that time the Burg-master of St. _Gal_ -was _Joachim Vadian_, a wise and learned person, before whom the said -_Thomas_ stood, crying aloud with a fearful Countenance, that the day of -Judgment was near; saying besides, that strange things had come to pass, -(without telling what) that the will of his Father was done for his part. -The Burg-master after he had reprehended him very much for his madness, -and insolent carriage, commanded a Cloak to be put upon him, and to lead -him home softly back again. But in the mean time, news was brought of his -detestable murder, whereupon he was apprehended, examined, convicted, -and executed. The like hath been done many times for Rapes and Incests: -What is particular here, is, that our Author saith, that the Judges being -willing to punish such Villanies, yet that unhappy accident shall fall, -that an innocent person shall be put to death (belike) instead of the -guilty, to please the people. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - En Cité grande en moyne & artisan, - Pres de la porte logez & aux murailles, - Contre modene secret, Cave disant, - Trahis pour faire sous couleur d’espousailles. - - English. - - In a great City a Monk and an Artificer, - Dwelling near the Gate, and the Walls, - Near an old woman, ’tis a secret saying Cave, - A Treason shall be plotted under pretence of a Marriage. - -ANNOT. - -_Paradin_ maketh mention, that in the year 1552. a Monk deceived the -Marshal of _Brissac_, making him believe that he would put him in -possession of the Town of _Quizres_, if he would give him so much for -reward. The Marshal used all the Caution possible, not to be deceived -by that Imposter, who took Money on both sides, _viz._ the _French_ and -the _Spaniards_; nevertheless the Monk plaid the Knave with him, and the -undertakings proved prejudicial to the _French_, though not considerably -by reason of the precaution of the said Marshal. - -The same Author writes, that in the year 1555. the 17 of _August_, -the _Spaniard_ had designed to retake _Cazal_, the same way that the -_French_ had surprised it. First, they had got a Widow in the Town, who -received the undertakers in her house, which was near the Gate, and the -Wall. Secondly there was a Marriage to be made between two persons of -quality, where great Cheer and rejoycings were to be. Thirdly they got -a woman that carryed Herbs to sell in the Town, and under the Herbs the -Letters were hidden. The Author says likewise, that there was a Monk and -a Tradesman, that lodged at this Widows house, those two actors in this -business, _viz._ the Monk said Tradesman, ane secretly to the woman that -sold Herbs, _Cave_, which signifies take heed, they said these words -_secretly near Matrone_, that is, they whisperd in her ear _Cave_. Their -design was to betray the Town, under pretence of a Marriage, but it did -not succeed; because the Letters in the womans Basket were intercepted, -the Vulgar impression hath a fault in the third Verse, where there is -Modene instead of Matrone, and another in the fourth Verse, when instead -of Treason, they have put for betrayed. The History obligeth us to -correct it, as we have done. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - Le dechassé au regne tournera, - Ses ennemis trouvez des conjurez, - Plus que jamais son temps triomphera, - Trois & septante a mort trop asseurez. - - English. - - The expelled shall come again to the Kingdom, - Her enemies shall be found to be the Conspirators, - More than ever his time shall triumph, - Three and seventy appointed for death. - -ANNOT. - -This is a clear and express prediction of the happy restauration of his -sacred Majesty, and our dread Sovereign _Charles_ II. now Reigning, -who after a long exile is come again to enjoy his own Kingdom, and -to flourish more than ever he did before, by these seventy appointed -to death, are meant the Judges and murderers of his Father, who with -some few others of the same gang made about that number, and some of -which have payed their shot by the hand of publick Justice, others have -prevented their shame by dying before hand, others have been their own -Executioners, and those that remain, lead a life worse then death it -self; so true it is that vengeance dances the round. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Le grand Pilot sera par Roy mandé, - Laisser la classe pour plus haut lieu atteindre, - Sept ans apres sera contrebandé, - _Barbare_ Armée viendra _Venise_ craindre. - - English. - - The great Pilot shall be sent for by the King, - To leave the Fleet, and be preferred to a higher place, - Seven years after he shall be countermanded, - A _Barbarian_ Army shall put _Venice_ to a fright. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no further explanation. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - La Cité antique d’_Antenorée_ forge, - Plus ne pouvant le Tyran supporter, - Le manche feint au Temple couper gorge, - Les siens le peuple a mort viendra bouter. - - English. - - The ancient City founded by _Antenor_, - Being not able to bear the Tyrant any longer, - With a fained haft, in the Church cut a throat, - The people will come to put his servants to death. - -ANNOT. - -The City founded by _Antenor_ (who was Companion and came into _Italy_ -with _Æneas_) is _Padua_, a University of the _Venetians_, of which it is -said here, that being no longer able to bear a Tyrant, the said Tyrant -shall be murdered in the Church with a knife hidden in a haft, and all -his Men and Servants killed by the people of the Town. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Par la victoire du deceu fraudulente, - Deux classes une, la revolte _Germaine_, - La Chef meurtry & son fils dans la Tente, - _Florence_, _Imole_ pourchassez dans _Romaine_. - - English. - - By the deceitful victory of the deceived, - One of the two Fleets shall revolt to the _Germans_, - The Chief and his Son murdered in their Tent, - _Florence_, _Imole_ persecuted in _Romania_. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses are plain. _Florence_ and _Imole_ are two Cities -of _Italy_, seated in the Province of _Romania_. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Crier victoire du grand _Selin_ croissant, - Par les _Romains_ sera l’Aigle clamé, - _Ticin_, _Milan_, & _Gennesny_ consent - Puis par eux mesmes _Basil_ grand reclamé. - - English. - - They shall cry up the victory of the great _Selins_ half Moon, - By the _Romans_ the Eagle shall be claimed, - _Ticin_, _Milan_ and _Genoa_, consent not, - Then by themselves the great _Basil_ shall be claimed. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse foretelleth some conquests of the _Turks_, whose Arms -is the half Moon. The second Verse signifies, the _Romans_ shall move -the Emperour to succour them, which is the Eagle. _Ticin_, _Milan_ and -_Genoa_ shall refuse to give help, and afterwards they shall call the -great _Basil_ (which in Greek signifies the great King, from βασίλευς) to -their help. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Pres de _Tesin_ les habitants de _Logre_, - _Garonne_ & _Saone_, _Seine_, _Tar_, & _Gironde_: - Outre les Monts dresseront promonitoire, - Conflict donné, _Pau_ franchi, submerge onde. - - English. - - Near the _Tesin_ the Inhabitants of _Logre_, - _Garonne_ and _Saone_, _Seine_, _Tar_ and _Gironde_, - Shall erect a promontory beyond the Mountains, - A Battle shall be fought, the _Po_ shall be passed over, some - shall be drowned in it. - -ANNOT. - -_Tesin_ is the River that passeth by _Milan_. _Garonne_, _Saone_, -_Seine_, _Tar_, and _Gironde_ are Rivers of _France_. _Po_ is the -greatest River of _Italy_. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - De _Fez_ le Regne parviendra a ceux d’_Europe_, - Feu leur Cité, & Lame tranchera, - Le grand d’_Asie_ Terre & Mer a grand troupe, - Que bleux, pars, Croix a mort dechassera. - - English. - - The Kingdom of _Fez_ shall come to those of _Europe_, - Fire and Sword shall destroy their City, - The great one of _Asia_ by Land and Sea with a great troop, - So that blews, greens, Crosses to death he shall drive. - -ANNOT. - -This is strange Prophecy if it prove true, _viz._ that the Kingdom of -_Fez_ (which is in _Africa_) shall be taken by those of _Europe_, and the -Town put to Fire and Sword, after which the great one of _Asia_ (meaning -the great Turk) shall come by Land and by Sea with an innumerable Army, -and shall drive and destroy all before him. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - Pleurs, cris & plaincts, heurlemens, effrayeur, - Cœur inhumain, cruel, noir & transy: - _Leman_, les Isles de _Gennes_ les majeurs, - Sang espancher, tochsain, a nul mercy. - - English. - - Tears, cryes and complaints, howlings, fear, - An inhumane heart, cruel, black, astonished, - _Leman_, the Islands the great ones of _Genoa_, - Shall spill blood, the Bell shall ring out, no mercy shall be given. - -ANNOT. - -This foretels bloody Wars only, and needs no interpretation. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Par les Deserts de lieu libre & farouche, - Viendra errer Neveu du grand Pontife, - Assomme a sept avec lourde souche, - Par ceux qu’apres occuperont le _Scyphe_. - - English. - - Through the Deserts of a free and ragged place, - The Nephew of the Pope shall come to wander, - Knockt in the head by seven with a heavy Club, - By those who after shall obtain the _Scyphe_. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies that the Nephew of a Pope shall be driven away, and shall -wander in a desert place, where he shall be knockt in the head by seven -men, one of which shall afterwards enjoy the Papacy; for _Scyphe_ is a -Latine word, signifying a Cup or Chalue, such as the _Romish_ Priests say -Mass with, and take the Sacrament. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Celuy qu’aura tant d’honneurs & caresses, - A son entrée en la Gaule _Belgique_, - Un temps apres sera tant de rudesses, - Et sera contre a la fleur tant bellique. - - English. - - He that shall have had so many honours and welcoms, - At his going into _Flanders_, - A while after shall commit so many rudenesses, - And shall be against the warlike flower. - -ANNOT. - -This is positively concerning the Duke of _Alencon_, Brother to _Henry_ -III. King of _France_, who having been sent for by the States of the -Low-Countreys, and received with much honour to be their General and -Governour against the _Spaniard_, did most unworthily break his trust, -and being come to _Antwerp_, he was so ravished with the beauty and -riches of the Town, that he seized upon it for himself, but was beaten -out by the Citizens, and most of his men killed. - -The fourth Verse saith. _He shall be against the warlike flower_; that -is, his action shall be against Military Honour, and common practice of -Honourable Souldiers. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Celuy qu’en _Sparte_ _Claude_ ne veut regner, - Il fera tant par voye seductive, - Que du court, long, le sera arraigner, - Que contre Roy fera sa perspective. - - English. - - He that _Claudius_ will not have to reign in _Sparta_, - The same shall do so much by a deceitful way, - That he shall cause him to be arraigned short and long, - As if he had made his prospect upon the King. - -ANNOT. - -I believe the words of _Claudius_ and _Sparta_ here are Metaphorical, and -the Author was unwilling they should be known. - -The sense is, one shall be hindred from Reigning by another, whom he -shall accuse of Treason against the King. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - La grand Cité de _Tharse_ par _Gaulois_, - Sera d’estriute captifs tous a _Turban_, - Secours par Mer du grand _Portugalois_, - Premier d’esté le jour du sacre _Vrban_. - - English. - - The great City of _Tharsis_ shall be taken by the _French_, - All those that were at _Turban_ shall be made slaves, - Succours by Sea from the great _Portugals_, - The first day of the Summer, and of the installation of _Urban_. - -ANNOT. - -Here are two difficulties in this Stanza; the first is, what the Author -means by the great City _Tharsis_; the second is in the last Verse, what -he meaneth by the Installation of _Vrban_, I believe he meaneth no more -then the election of a Pope, whose name shall be _Urban_. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Le grand Prelat un jour apres son songe, - Interprete au rebours de son sens, - De la _Gascogne_ luy surviendra un Monge, - Qui fera eslire le grand Prelat de _Sens_. - - English. - - The great Prelate the next day after his dream, - Interpreted contrary to his sense, - From _Gascony_ shall come to him a Monge, - That shall cause the great Prelate of _Sens_ to be elected. - -ANNOT. - -_Monge_ is a Barbarous word, that hath no relation to any Language in the -world, (that I know) unless it signifies a Monk. _Sens_ is a fine City, -about threescore Miles beyond _Paris_, towards the South, and the Seat of -an Arch-Bishop, who it seemeth shall be elected into some eminent place, -the next day after he that was in it shall dream a dream, that shall be -interpreted contrary to the sense and meaning of it. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - L’election faicte dans _Francfort_, - N’aura nul lieu, _Milan_ s’opposera, - Le sien plus proche semblera si grand fort, - Qu’oute le _Rhin_ Marais les chassera. - - English. - - The election made at _Francford_, - Shall be void, _Milan_ shall oppose it, - He of the _Milan_ party shall be so strong, - As to drive the other beyond the Marshes of the _Rhine_. - -ANNOT. - -The Election of _Francford_ is concerning an Emperour; for there they are -elected, Crowned. The rest is plain. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Un Regne grand demourra desolé, - Aupres de l’_Hebro_ se seront assemblées, - Monts _Pyrenees_ le rendront consolé, - Lors que dans _May_ seront Terres tremblées. - - English. - - A great Kingdom shall be left desolate, - Near the River _Hebrus_ an assembly shall be made, - The _Pyrenean_ Mountains shall comfort him, - When in _May_ shall be an Earth-quake. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation, but what any one may give that knoweth -where the River _Hebrus_ is. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Entre deux cymbes pieds & mains attachez, - De miel face oingt & de laict substante, - Guespes & mouches feront amour fachez, - Poccilateurs faucer, Scyphe tente. - - English. - - Between two Boats one shall be tyed hand and foot, - His face annointed with Honey, and he nourished with Milk, - Wasps and Bees shall make much of him in anger, - For being treacherous Cup-bearers, and poisoning the Cup. - -ANNOT. - -This is a description of the punishment which the _Persians_ use to -afflict upon poisoners; for they were put between two Troughs, which are -here called Boats, from their likeness to them, with their face only -uncovered, which was daubed with Honey, that the Wasps and Bees might -be drawn to it and torment them, they were fed with Milk, which if they -refused to do, and had rather dye than be so tormented, then did the -Tormenter prick their Eyes with Needles to force them to their diet, and -so were they left, till the Vermin eat them up. We have an example of -this in the Life of _Artaxerxes_ King of _Persia_. - - -XC. - - French. - - L’honnessement puant abominable, - Apres la faict sera felicité, - Grand excusé, pour n’estre favorable, - Qu’a paix _Neptune_ ne sera incité. - - English. - - The stinking and abominable defiling - After the secret shall succeed well, - The great one shall be excused for not being favourable, - That _Neptune_ might be perswaded to peace. - -ANNOT. - -By the two first Verses it seemeth that some abominable action, after its -effect shall succeed well; the two last signifie, that a great person -shall be excused for not permitting the Fleet to be at peace. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Le conducteur de la guerre Navale, - Rouge effrené, severe horrible grippe, - Captif eschapé de l’aisné dans la baste, - Quand il naistra du grand un Fils _Agrippe_. - - English. - - The leader of the naval forces, - Red, rash, severe, horrible extortioner, - Being slave, shall escape, hidden amongst the Harnesses, - When a Son named _Agrippa_, shall be born to the great one. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Interpretation, the words being so plain. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Princesse de beauté tant venuste, - Au chef menée, le second faict trahy, - La Cité au Glaive poudre face aduste, - Par trop grand meurtre le chef du Roy hay. - - English. - - A Princess of an exquisite beauty, - Shall be brought to the General, the second time the fact shall be - betrayed, - The City shall be given to the Sword and fire, - By two great a murder the chief Person about the King shall be hated. - -ANNOT. - -The only difficulty lyes in what City he doth mean. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Prelat avare, d’ambition trompé, - Rien ne fera que trop cuider viendra, - Ses Messagers, & luy bien attrapé, - Tout au rebours voir qui les bois fendra. - - English. - - A covetous Prelate, deceived by ambition, - Shall do nothing but covet too much, - His messengers and he shall be trapt, - When they shall see one cleave the Wood the contrary way. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Annotation. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Un Roy iré sera aux sedifragues, - Quand interdicts seront harnois de guerre, - La poison taincte au succre par les fragues, - Par eaux meurtris, morts, disant, serre, serre. - - English. - - A King shall be angry against the Covenant-breakers, - When the Warlike Armour shall be forbidden, - The Poison with Sugar shall be put in the Strawberries, - They shall be murdered and die, saying, close, close. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Par detracteur calomnié puis nay, - Quand istront faicts enormes & martiaux, - La moindre part dubieuse a l’aisné, - Et tost au Regne seront faicts partiaux. - - English. - - The youngest Son shall be calumniated by a slanderer, - When enormous and Martial deeds shall be done, - The least part shall be left doubtfull to the - Eldest, and soon after they shall be both equal in the Kingdom. - -ANNOT. - -This lacketh no interpretation. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Grand Cité a Soldats abandonnée, - Onc ny eut mortel tumult si proche, - O quelle hideuse calamités approche, - Fors une offence n’y sera pardonnée. - - English. - - A great City shall be given up to the Souldiers, - There was never a mortal tumult so near, - Oh! what a hideous calamity draws near, - Except one offence nothing shall be spared. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the taking of the Town of St. _Quentin_ in 1557. -because the Author saith, no tumult was like this, so near the year 1555. -when our Author writ. - -He calleth it great City; because it is one of the most considerable in -_France_, therefore it was besieged by the King of _Spain_ with 37000. -men, and 12000. Horses and 8000. _English_. The plunder was given to the -Souldiers; for it was taken by assault. - -_There was never a mortal tumult so near_; for the Souldiers taking -revenge upon the Inhabitants, and Garrison, put all to the Sword; the -Admiral having much ado to save himself. - -In consequence of this our Prophet cryeth, _O what a fearfull calamity_; -because the taking of this Town joyned with the loss of St. _Laurence_ -did almost ruine _France_. He addeth, _except one offence nothing shall -be forgiven_; that is, the Town should be afflicted in all respects, -except that it should not be burnt. The taking of this Town was upon the -27 of _August_, 17 days after the Battle of St. _Laurence_. - -The loss was so great to _France_, that the King was fained to call the -Duke of _Guise_ back from _Italy_, and _Charles_ V. hearing this news, -asked presently if his Son _Philip_ was not in _Paris_, as much as to -say, it was a thing he ought to have done. - -But God permitted that the King of _Spain_ went another way, and in the -mean time, the King of _France_ strengthned himself, and the Duke of -_Guise_ took from the _English_, _Calais_, _Guines_, and the County of -d’_Oye_. The _Spanish_ History saith, that _Philip_ had forbidden to -touch any old people, Children and Ecclesiastical persons; but above all -St. _Quentins_ reliques. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Cinq & quarante degrez ciel bruslera, - Feu approcher de la grand Cité neuve, - Instant grand flamme esparse sautera, - Quand on voudra des _Normans_ faire preuve. - - English. - - The Heaven shall burn at five and forty degrees, - The fire shall come near the great new City, - In an instant a great flame dispersed shall burst out, - When they shall make a trial of the _Normans_. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies some extraordinary lightning under five and forty degrees, -which is about the Southern part of _France_. - -It is not easie to guess what he meaneth by the great new City, unless it -be one in the Authors Countrey, called _Villa Nova_. - -The last Verse seemeth to intimate, that this shall happen when an Army -of _Normandie_ shall be raised. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Ruyne aux _Volsques_ de peur si fort terribles, - Leur grand Cité taincte, faict pestilent: - Piller Sol, Lune, & violer leur Temples, - Et les deux Fleuves rougir de sang coulant. - - English. - - A ruine shall happen to the _Volsques_ that are so terrible, - Their great City shall be dyed, a pestilent deed: - They shall plunder Sun and Moon, and violate their Temples, - And the two Rivers shall be red with running blood. - -ANNOT. - -The _Volsi_ were a warlike people of _Italy_ joyning to _Rome_, which -makes me believe that by the great City he meaneth _Rome_, which was -plundered and sackt by the Duke of _Burgondy_ and the Prince of _Orange_, -Generals of the Emperour _Charles_ V. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - L’Ennemy docte se tournera confus, - Grand Camp malade, & de faict par embusches - Monts _Pyrenees_ luy seront faicts refus. - Roche du Fleuve descouvrant antique ruches. - - English. - - The learned enemy shall go back confounded, - A great Camp shall be sick, and in effect through ambush, - The _Pyrenean_ Mountains shall refuse him. - Near the River discovering the ancient Hives. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain, though the sense be too obscure, and I shall not -endeavour to give an interpretation, when every one may make one himself. - - -C. - - French. - - Fill de _Laure_, asyle du mal sain, - Ou jusqu’au Ciel se void l’_Amphitheatre_: - Prodige veu, ton mal est fort prochain, - Seras captive, & des fois plus de quatre. - - English. - - Daughter of _Laura_, Sanctuary of the sick, - Where to the Heavens is seen the _Amphitheatre_, - A prodigy being seen, the danger is near, - Thou shalt be taken captive above four times. - -ANNOT. - -This is an ingenious Stanza, concerning the City of _Nismes_ in -_Languedoc_, famous for its _Amphitheatre_ built by the _Romans_, and -remaining to this day, which Town he calleth Daughter of _Laura_, because -the Lady _Laura_, Mistress to the famous Poet _Petrarche_ was born -thereabout; he also calleth it Sanctuary of the sick, for the salubrity -of the air. - -The meaning of the two last Verses is, that when a prodigy shall be seen, -_viz._ Civil War in _France_, it shall be taken above four times, as it -hath happened by one party or other. - - -Legis cautio contra ineptos Criticos. - - _Qui legent hos versus, maturè censunto:_ - _Prophanum vulgus & inscium ne attrectato:_ - _Omnesque Astrologi, Blenni, Barbari procul sunto,_ - _Qui aliter faxit, is rite sacer esto._ - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ VII. - - -I. - - French. - - L’Arc du Thresor par _Achilles_ deceu, - Aux procrées sceu le Quadrangulaire, - Au fait Roial le comment sera sceu, - Corps veu pendu au Sceu du populaire. - - English. - - The bow of the Treasure by _Achilles_ deceived, - Shall shew to posterity the Quadrangulary, - In the Royal deed the Comment shall be known, - The body shall be seen hanged in the knowledge of the people. - -ANNOT. - -By the bow of the Treasure, is understood the Marshal d’_Ancre_, Favorite -to the Queen Regent of _France_ _Mary_ of _Medicis_, who was first -complained of, for his maleversations by _Achilles de Harlay_ President -of _Paris_, whence followed his death being Pistolled in the Quadrangle -of the _Louvre_, by the command of _Lewis_ XIII. and his body afterwards -dragged through the streets, and hanged publickly by the people upon the -new Bridge. - - -II. - - French. - - Par _Mars_ ouvert _Arles_ ne donra guerre, - De nuit seront les Soldats estonnez, - Noir, blanc, a l’Inde dissimulez en terre. - Soubs la feinte ombre traistre verrez sonnez. - - English. - - _Arles_ shall not proceed by open War, - By night the Souldiers shall be astonished, - Black, white, and blew, dissembled upon the ground. - Under the fained shadow you shall see them proclaimed Traitors. - -ANNOT. - -_Arles_ is a considerable City in _France_; the rest is plain. - - -III. - - French. - - Apres de _France_ la victoire Navale, - Les _Barchinons_, _Salinons_, les _Phocens_, - Lierre d’or, l’Enclume serré dans balle, - Ceux de _Toulon_ au fraud seront consents. - - English. - - After the Naval victory of the _French_, - Upon those of _Tunis_, _Sally_, and the _Phocens_, - A golden Juy the Anvil shut up in a pack, - Those of _Toulon_ to the fraud shall consent. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth a Naval victory to the _French_ against the _Turks_, by -the means of a Granado, called _Anvil_, that shall be shut up in a Barrel -by a plot, to which those of _Toulon_ shall be privy. - - -IV. - - French. - - Le Duc de _Langres_ assiegé dedans _Dole_, - Accompagné d’_Authun_ & _Lionnois_, - _Geneve_, _Auspourg_, ceux de la _Mirandole_, - Passer les Monts contre les _Anconois_. - - English. - - The Duke of _Langres_ shall be besieged in _Dole_, - Being in company with those of _Autun_ and _Lion_, - _Geneva_, _Auspourg_, those of _Mirandola_, - Shall go over the Mountains against those of _Ancona_. - -ANNOT. - -_Langres_ is a City in _France_, whose Bishop is a Duke and a Peer of -the Kingdom; _Dole_ is a City in _Burgundy_, so is _Autun_ and _Lion_, -_Geneva_ is a City by _Savoy_, _Auspourg_, another in _Germany_, -_Mirandola_ is a Countrey in Italy, so is _Ancona_. - - -V. - - French. - - Vin sur la Table en sera respandu, - Le tiers naura celle quil pretendoit, - Deux fois du noir de _Parme_ descendu, - _Perouse_ & _Pise_ fera ce quil cuidoit. - - English. - - Wine shall be spilt upon the Table, - By reason that a third man shall not have her whom he intended, - Twice the black one descended from _Parma_, - Shall do to _Perusa_ and _Pisa_ what he intended. - -ANNOT. - -_Perusa_, _Pisa_, and _Parma_, are three Cities in _Italy_. - - -VI. - - French. - - _Naples_, _Palerme_, & toute la _Sicile_, - Par main _Barbare_ sera inhabitée, - _Corsique_, _Salerne_ & de _Sardaigne_ l’Isle, - Faim, peste, guerre, fin de maux intemptée. - - English. - - _Naples_, _Palermo_, and all _Sicily_, - By barbarous hands shall be depopulated, - _Corsica_, _Salerno_, and the Island of _Sardinia_, - In them shall be famine, plague, war, and endless evils. - -ANNOT. - -_Naples_ is a City in _Italy_, _Palermo_ is a City in the Island of -_Sicily_. _Corsica_, an Island in the _Mediterranean Sea_, belonging to -the _Genoese_; _Salerno_ is a Town in _Italy_; _Sardinia_ an Island in -the _Mediterranean_. The Reader may easily make an interpretation of the -rest. - - -VII. - - French. - - Sur le combat des grands chevaux legers, - On criera le grand croissant confond, - De nuit tuer Moutons, Brebis, Bergers, - Abysmes rouges dans le fossé profond. - - English. - - At the fight of the great light Horsmen, - They shall cry out, confound the great half Moon, - By night they shall kill Sheep, Ewes, and Shepherds, - Red pits shall be in the deep ditch. - -ANNOT. - -By the great half Moon, is understood the _Turk_. - - -VIII. - - French. - - _Flora_ fuis, fuis le plus proche _Romain_, - Au _Fesulan_ sera conflict donné, - Sang espandu les plus grands pris en main, - Temple ne Sexe ne sera pardonné. - - English. - - _Flora_ fly, fly from the next _Roman_, - In the _Fesulan_ shall be the fight, - Blood shall be spilt, the greatest shall be taken, - Temple nor Sex shall be spared. - -ANNOT. - -_Fesulan_ is a Countrey in _Italy_. _Flora_ is the Goddess of Flowers, -the rest is easie. - - -IX. - - French. - - Dame en l’absence de son grand Capitaine, - Sera priée d’amour du Viceroy, - Feinte promesse & malheureuse estreine, - Entre les mains du grand Prince _Barroy_. - - English. - - A Lady in the absence of her great Captain, - Shall be intreated of love by the Viceroy, - A fained promise, and unhappy new years gift, - In the hand of the great Prince of _Bar_. - -ANNOT. - -_Bar_ is a principality joyning to _Lorrain_, which _Henry_ IV. King of -_France_ gave for a Portion to his Sister _Catharine_, when she married -the Duke of _Lorrains_ Son. The rest is plain. - - -X. - - French. - - Par le grand Prince limitrophe du _Mans_, - Preux & vaillant chef de grand exercite, - Par Mer & Terre de _Galois_ & _Normans_, - Cap passer _Barcelonne_ pillé l’Isle. - - English. - - The great Prince dwelling near the _Mans_, - Stout and valiant, General of a great Army, - Of _Welchmen_ and _Normans_ by Sea and Land, - Shall pass the Cape _Barcelone_, and plunder the Island. - -ANNOT. - -_Mans_ is a City in _France_, chief of the Province called _le Main_. The -rest is plain. - - -XI. - - French. - - L’Enfant Roial contemnera la Mere, - Oeil, pieds blessez, rude inobeissant, - Nouvelle a Dame estrange & bien amere, - Seront tuez des siens plus de cinq cens. - - English. - - The Royal Child shall despise his Mother, - Eye, feet wounded, rude disobedient, - News to a Lady very strange and bitter, - There shall be killed of hers above five hundred. - -ANNOT. - -This was fulfilled about the year 1615. when _Lewis_ XIII. King of -_France_, being then about 15 years of age, by the perswasion of some -Grandees about him, made War against his own Mother _Mary_ of _Medicis_, -then Regent of the Kingdom, whereupon was fought between them the Battle -_du pont de say_, where above five hundred on the Queens side were slain, -whereupon it was a good Jest of the Prince of _Guimena_, who being -required by the Queen _Anna_ of _Austria_, to lay his hand upon her side; -and to feel her Child (now _Lewis_ XIV.) stirring, after he had felt; now -I know, said he, he is a true Son of _Bourbon_; for he beginneth to kick -his Mother. - - -XII. - - French. - - Le grand puisnay fera fin de la guerre, - En deux lieux assemble les excusez, - _Cahors_, _Moissac_, iront loing de la serre, - _Rufec_, _Lectoure_, les _Agenois_ rasez. - - English. - - The great younger Brother shall make an end of the War, - In two places he shall gather the excused, - _Cahors_, _Moissac_, shall go out of his clutches, - _Ruffec_, _Lectoure_, and those of _Agen_ shall be cut off. - -ANNOT. - -_Cahors_, _Moissac_, _Ruffec_, _Lectoure_, _Agen_, are all Cities of the -Province of _Guyenne_ in _France_. - - -XIII. - - French. - - De la Cité Marine & tributaire, - La teste rase prendra la Satrapie, - Chasser sordide qui puis sera contraire, - Par quatorze and tiendra la Tyrannie. - - English. - - Of the City Maritine and tributary, - The shaven head shall take the Government, - He shall turn out a base man who shall be against him, - During fourteen years he will keep the tyranny. - -ANNOT. - -This is positive concerning the Cardinal of _Richelieu_, who made himself -Governor of _Havre de Grace_, called here the Maritine City, and there -kept his Treasure, and tyrannised for the space of about fourteen years. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Faux exposer viendra Topographie, - Seront les Urnes des Monuments ouvertes, - Pulluler Sectes, sainte Philosophie, - Pour blanches noires, & pour antiques vertes. - - English. - - They shall expound Topography falsly, - The Urnes of the Monuments shall be open, - Sects shall multiply, and holy Philosophy - Shall give black for white, and green for old. - -ANNOT. - -This is a perfect description of our late miserable estate in _England_, -when there was such multiplicity of Sects, and such a Prophanation of -sacred things. - - -XV. - - French. - - Devant Cité de l’_Insubre_ Countrée, - Sept ans sera le Siege devant mis, - Le tres-grand Roy fera son entrée, - Cité puis libre hors de ses ennemis. - - English. - - Before a City of _Piemont_, - Seven years the Siege shall be laid, - The most great King shall make his entry into it, - Then the City shall be free being out of the enemies hand. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -XVI. - - French. - - Entrée profonde par la grande Roine faite, - Rendra le lieu puissant inaccessible, - L’Armée de trois Lions sera défaite, - Faisant dedans cas hideux & terrible. - - English. - - The deep entry made by the Queen, - Shall make the place powerful and inaccessible, - The Army of the three Lions shall be routed, - Doing within an hideous and terrible thing. - -ANNOT. - -A Queen shall cause such a deep Trench to be made before a Town, that it -shall be impregnable, and the Army of Lions, that is either Generals, or -of a Prince that shall bear three Lions in his Arms, shall be routed. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Le Prince rare en pitié & clemence, - Apres avoir la paix aux siens baillé, - Viendra changer par mort grand cognoissance, - Apres grand repos le regne travaillé. - - English. - - The Prince rare in pity and Clemency, - After he shall have given peace to his Subjects, - Shall by death change his great knowledge, - After great rest the Kingdom shall be troubled. - -ANNOT. - -This positively concerneth _Henry_ the IV. King of _France_; who after -he had by many Battles and dangers given peace to his Kingdom, was by a -Murderer snatched away, and the Kingdom put into new troubles, by the war -that the Princes had among themselves. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Les Assiegez couloureront leurs paches, - Sept jours apres feront cruelle issüe, - Dans repoulsez, feu, sang, sept mis a l’hache, - Dame captive qu’avoit la paix issüe. - - English. - - The Besieged shall dawb their Articles, - Seven days after they shall make a cruel event, - They shall be beaten back, fire, blood, seven put to death, - The Lady shall be Prisoner who endeavoured to make peace. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no interpretation. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Le Fort _Nicene_ ne sera combatu, - Vaincu sera par rutilant metal, - Son fait sera un long temps debatu, - Aux Citadins estrange espouvental. - - English. - - The Fort _Nicene_ shall not be fought against, - By shining metal it shall be overcome, - The doing of it shall be long and debating, - It shall be a strange fearful thing to the Citizens. - -ANNOT. - -_Nice_ is a Town in _Piemont_, situated by the Sea side, now whether -this Prophecy came to pass in the time of the Wars between _France_ and -_Savoy_, or shall come to pass hereafter, it is more then I can tell. As -for winning of it by glistering Metal, it is no new thing or practice, -witness _Philippus_ of _Macedon_, who said no City was impregnable, -wherein might enter an Ass loaded with gold. - - -XX. - - French. - - Ambassadeurs de la _Toscane_ langue, - _Avril_ & _May_ _Alpes_ & Mer passer, - Celuy de Veau exposera l’harangue, - Vie _Gauloise_ en voulant effacer. - - English. - - The Embassadors of the _Tuscan_ tongue, - In _April_ and _May_, shall go over the _Alpes_ and the Sea, - One like a Calf shall make a speech: - Attempting to defame the _French_ customes. - -ANNOT. - -The sense and the words are plain. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Par pestilente inimitie _Volsicque_, - Dissimulée chassera le Tyran, - Au Pont de _Sorgues_ se fera la trafique, - De mettre a mort luy & son adherent. - - English. - - By a pestilent _Italian_ enmity, - The dissembler shall expel the Tyrant, - The bargain shall be made at _Sorgues_ Bridge, - To put him and his adherent to death. - -ANNOT. - -There is no difficulty in this. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Les Citoiens de _Mesopotamie_, - Irez encontre amis de _Tarragone_, - Jeux, Ris, Banquets toute gent endormie, - Vicaire au Prone, pris Cité, ceux d’_Ausone_. - - English. - - The Citizens of _Mesopotamia_, - Being angry with the friends of _Tarragone_, - Playes, laughter, feasts, every body being asleep, - The Vicar being in the Pulpit, City taken by those of _Ausone_. - -ANNOT. - -By the Citizens of _Mesopotamia_, is understood a people that live -between two Rivers, from the Greek words μέσος and ποταμὸς, the rest is -easie. We have said before, that by _Ausone_ the Author understands the -City of _Bourdeaux_, which he called _Ausone_, from the Poet and Consul -of _Rome_ _Ausonius_ who was born there. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Le Roial Sceptre sera contraint de prendre, - Ce que ses Predecesseurs voient engagé, - Puis a Laigneau on fera mal entendre, - Lors qu’on viendra le Palais saccager. - - English. - - The Royal Scepter shall be constrained to take - What his Predecessors had morgaged; - After that, they shall mis-inform the Lamb, - When they shall come to plunder the Palace. - -ANNOT. - -This is obvious to every body’s capacity. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - L’Ensevely sortira du tombeau, - Fera de chaisnes lier le fort du pont, - Empoisoné avec œufs de Barbeau, - Grand de _Lorrain_ par le Marquis du pont. - - English. - - The buried shall come out of his Grave, - He shall cause the fort of the Bridge to be tied with Chains, - Poisoned with Barbels hard Row, - Shall a great one of _Lorrain_ be by the Marques du pont. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is divided in two parts. The first two Verses talk of a -man that shall be taken out of his Grave alive. The two last speak, that -a great man of _Lorrain_ shall be poisoned by the Marques _de pont_, in -the Row of a Barbel, which according to Physitians, is a dangerous meat -of it self, and chiefly if it be Stewed, the Poisoner himself seemeth to -be no other than a Duke of _Lorrain_, or one of his Sons, for he stileth -himself _N._ Duke of _Lorrain_, Prince of _Bar_, and Marques _du Pont_. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Par guerre longue tout l’exercite espuiser, - Que pour Soldats ne trouveront pecune, - Lieu d’Or, d’Argent cair on viendra cuser, - _Gaulois_ Ærain, signe croissant de Lune. - - English. - - By a long War, all the Army drained dry, - So that to raise Souldiers they shall find no Money, - Instead of Gold and Silver, they shall stamp Leather, - The _French_ Copper, the mark of the stamp the new Moon. - -ANNOT. - -This maketh me remember the miserable condition of many Kingdoms, before -the _west-Indies_ were discovered; for in _Spain_ Lead was stamped for -Money, and so in _France_ in the time of King _Dagobert_, and it seemeth -by this Stanza, that the like is to come again, by reason of a long and -tedious War. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Fustes Galées autour de sept Navires, - Sera livrée une mortelle guerre, - Chef de _Madrid_ recevra coups de vires, - Deux eschapées & cinq menez a Terre. - - English. - - Fly-boats and Galleys round about seven Ships, - A mortal War there shall be, - The chief of _Madrid_ shall receive blows of Oars, - Two shall escape, and five carried to Land. - -ANNOT. - -_Paradin_ saith in his History, that in the year 1555. towards the end -of _August_, those of _Diepe_ had permission from the King to fight a -Fleet of the _Spaniards_, which was coming into _Flanders_, and brought -Men, Money, and several Merchandises. They went to Sea, and after much -searching, they discovered the Fleet, wherein were 22 great Ships. - -The _Diepois_ had but 19 men of War, and five or six Pinnaces, with which -they set upon them between _Calais_ and _Dover_. The fight was very -bloody, almost all the Ships grapled one with another, and being so close -together, represented a Land fight. - -The _French_ at last did their utmost endeavour against the Admiral, -which was succoured by six other Ships, of which two were taken with the -Admiral, and carryed to _Diepe_; this is the Authors meaning, when he -saith, _Fly-boats and Galleys about seven Ships_. He nameth the Admiral -_Chief of Madrid_; that is, chief _Spaniard_, which received blows of -Oars, whose Ship was taken, and four more of his Company, which were -brought to _Diepe_. In this agree the Historians on both sides. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Au coin de _Vast_ la grand Cavalerie, - Proche a _Ferrare_ empeschée au Bagage, - _Pompe_ a _Turin_ front telle volerie, - Que dans le fort raviront leur hostage. - - English. - - In the corner of _Vast_ the great Troop of Horse, - Near _Ferrara_, shall be busied about the baggage, - _Pompe_ at _Turin_, they shall make such a robbery, - That in the Fort they shall ravish their hostage. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find what he meaneth by this place _Vast_, which being the -Key of all the rest, I could proceed no further, but am constrained to go -to bed, and leave this for to night, among _Insolubilia de Alliaco_. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Le Capitaine conduira grande proye, - Sur la Montagne des ennemis plus proche, - Environné par feu fera telle voye, - Tous eschapez, or trente mis en broche. - - English. - - The Captain shall lead a great Prey - Upon the Mountain, that shall be nearest to the Enemies, - Being encompassed with fire, he shall make such a way, - That all shall escape, but thirty that shall be spitted. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain. - -The meaning of the last two is, that the said Captain being encompassed -with Fire, shall make himself such a way, that all his men shall escape, -but thirty that shall be spitted by the enemies. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Le grand Duc d’_Albe_ se viendra rebeller, - A ses grands peres fera le tradiment, - Le grand de _Guise_ le viendra debeller, - Captif mené & dresse monument. - - English. - - The great Duke of _Alba_ shall rebel, - To his Grandfathers he shall make the Plot, - The great _Guise_ shall vanquish him, - Led Prisoner, and a Monument erected. - -ANNOT. - -_Ferdinand_ of _Toledo_, Duke of _Alba_ in _Spain_, a faithfull servant -of _Charles_ V. and _Philip_ II. his Son, after he had made several -proofs of his Valour, and prudence in the affairs of _Piemont_ and -_Milanese_, was commanded to go to _Naples_ and _Rome_, to succour the -_Colonesse_, and others of the _Spanish_ party; to obey this command, -the Author saith, _He went about to rebel_, not against his Prince, but -his _Grandfathers_, _viz._ the Pope and the Cardinals, upon which the -Senate of _Venice_ wrote to him, desiring that he would not trouble the -Pope, seeing that all his Predecessors had fought for him, as the Lord of -_Thou_ saith in his sixteenth Book; but he answered, that it was the Pope -himself that was the cause of it, and that he was bound to oppose him. - -During that rebellion to his great fathers, as the Author calleth it, the -great _de Guise_, came with his Troops, and compelled him to a diversion, -and to let alone Marshal _Strozzy_, the Cardinal _Caraffa_, Captain -_Montluc_, _Camillo Ursini_, Captain _Charry_, and others; so that all -the Countrey about _Rome_ was freed, and thus the Author saith, _the -great de Guise shall come to quell him_. - -The fourth Verse addeth two things, that a Prisoner was carryed away, and -that a Monument was erected. History makes no mention of the Prisoner, -unless it were that Captain _Montluc_, having taken by assault the -Town of _Pianea_ or _Corsmian_, by a sink which he broke; the Captain -_Gougues_ a _Gascon_ being a Prisoner of War in the Town, with many -others, and hearing the cries of _France, France_, perswaded his Comrades -to fall upon their Keepers, and to kill them with their own weapons and -this Prisoner that was taken at _Montisel_, was brought back again into -_France_, as well for his known Valour, as for his Warlike deliverance, -and since that made himself famous in _Florida_. - -_As for the Monument erected_, makes me think he meaneth the Constable of -_France_, who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of St. _Quentin_, and by -the Monument, he meaneth the _Escurial_, which _Philip_ the II. caused -to be built in memory of that Victory, which obliged _Henry_ the II. to -call back again in all hast the Duke of _Guise_ with all his Forces, or -else _France_ had been in danger to be lost. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Le sac sapproche, feu, grand sang espandu, - _Pau_ grand Fleuve, aux Bouviers l’entreprise, - De _Genes_, _Nice_ apres long temps attendu, - _Fossan_, _Thurin_, a _Savillan_ la prise. - - English. - - The plundering draws near, fire, abundance of blood spilt, - _Pau_ a great River, an enterprise by Herdsmen, - Of _Genes_, _Nice_ after they shall have staid long, - _Fossan_, _Thurin_, the prize shall be at _Savillan_. - -ANNOT. - -The plundering draweth near, here the Author speaketh of things that -should happen in his days. He writ this the first of _March_ 1555. -and History mentioneth that from the first of _March_ 1555. till the -beginning of 1559. the plundering of _Piemont_ in _Italy_ was very great, -since the taking of _Cazal_ by the _French_, for there was nothing but -continual fightings, taking and retaking Towns, Skirmishes and Battles, -and most of them by the River _Pau_, the greatest of _Italy_. The rest -of the second Verse, and the beginning of the third saith, that the -undertaking of _Genoa_ shall be by the Herdsmen, by whom he meaneth the -_Turks_, who being called by the _French_ to help them in the taking of -_Nice_, made an action fit for Herdsmen and villanous Traitors, doing -nothing, because they had been bribed by the _Genoeses_. - -This was done after the _French_ had stay’d long for this infidel, who -endeavoured to delude the _French_, and take all for himself; and this -is the meaning of, _After Nice had stayed long_. In the mean time the -_Spaniards_ increased their Victories, as the fourth Verse witnesseth to -the taking of _Fossan_, _Thurin_, and _Savillan_. - -_Fossan_ is a Town of _Piemont_, which that it might be distinguished -from _Marseilles_, which the Author often calleth _Fossen_ or _Phocen_, -he putteth in the Epithete of _Thurin_, to signifie he meaneth _Fossan_ -in _Piemont_. - -He saith that _Fossan_ of _Piemont_ shall have the taking towards -_Savillan_, that is, this _Fossan_ which belongeth to the _Spaniards_, -will take some Towns near _Sivillan_. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - De _Languedoc_, & _Guienna_ plus de dix - Mille, voudront les _Alpes_ repasser. - Grans _Allobroges_ marcher contre _Brundis_, - _Aquin_ & _Bresse_ les viendront recasser. - - English. - - From _Languedoc_, and _Guienna_ more then 10000. - Would be glad to come back over the _Alpes_. - Great _Allobroges_ shall march against _Brundis_, - _Aquin_ and _Bresse_ shall beat them back. - -ANNOT. - -_Languedoc_ and _Guienne_ are two Provinces in _France_, from whence many -Souldiers shall be raised to go into _Italy_, but being distressed, shall -wish to come back again over the _Alpes_. By the great _Allobroges_, -I understand those of _Savoy_ and _Piemont_, who shall go against -_Brundis_, in Latine _Brundusium_, but shall be beaten back by _Aquin_ -and _Bresses_, Cities belonging to the _Venetians_. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Du Mont Royal naistra d’une Casane, - Qui Duc, & Compte viendra tyranniser, - Dresser Copie de la marche _Millane_, - _Favence_, _Florence_ d’or & gens espuiser. - - English. - - Out of the Royal Mount shall be born in a Cottage, - One that shall tyranise over Duke and Earl, - He shall raise an Army in the Land of _Millan_, - He shall exhaust _Favence_ and _Florence_ of their gold. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no Interpretation. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Par fraude Regne, forces expolier, - La classe obsesse, passages a l’espie, - Deux faincts amis se viendront r’allier, - Esueiller haine de long temps assoupie. - - English. - - By fraud a Kingdom and an Army shall be spoilt, - The Fleet shall be put to a strait, passages shall be made to the - spies, - Two feigned friends shall agree together, - They shall raise up a hatred that had been long dormant. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - En grand regret sera la gent _Gauloise_, - Cœur vain, leger croira temerité, - Pain, sel, ne vin eau venin ne cervoise, - Plus grand captif, faim, froid, necessité. - - English. - - In great regret shall the _French_ Nation be. - Their vain and light heart shall believe rashly. - They shall have neither Bread, Salt, Wine, nor Beer, - Moreover they shall be Prisoners, and shall suffer hunger, cold, - and need. - -ANNOT. - -The words are plain, and the onely question is whither this distress -threatned here to _France_ is past or to come. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - La grand poche viendra plaindre pleurer, - D’avoir esleu, trompez seront en l’Aage, - Guiere avec eux ne voudra demeurer, - Deceu sera par ceux de son langage. - - English. - - The great Pocket shall bewaile and bemoan, - For having Elected one, they shall be deceived in his Age, - He shall not stay long with them, - He shall be deceived by those of his own language. - -ANNOT. - -The great Pocket which is the Key of this Stanza being obscure, forceth -me to leave the rest unperfect. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Dieu, le Ciel tout le Divin Verbe a l’Onde, - Porté par rouges sept razes a _Bizance_, - Contre les oingts trois cens de _Trebisonde_, - Deux Loix mettront, & horreur, puis credence. - - English. - - God, Heaven, all the Divine Word in water, - Carryed by red ones, seven shaved heads at _Bisantium_, - Against the anointed three hundred of _Trebisond_, - They shall put two Laws, and horror, and afterwards believe. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to foretel that the Sacrament according to the -_Roman_ Church, shall be carried by Cardinals and seven Priests to -_Constantinople_, against which three hundred of _Trebison_ shall -dispute, who shall compare the two Laws with horror, and afterwards -believe. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Dix envoyez, chef de nef mettre a mort, - D’un adverty, en classe guerre ouverte, - Confusion chef, l’un se picque & mord, - _Leryn_, _Stecades_ nefs, cap dedans la nerte. - - English. - - Ten shall be sent to put the Captain of the Ship to death, - He shall have notice by one, the Fleet shall be in open War, - A confusion shall be amongst the Chief, one pricks and bites, - _Leryn_, _Stecades_ nefs, caps dedans la nerte. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses are plain; as for the fourth I believe it to be -the Language of the _Antipodes_, for I think no man can understand it. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - L’Aisné Roial sur coursier voltigeant, - Picquer viendra si rudement courir, - Gueule lipée, pied dans l’Estrein pleignant, - Traine, tiré, horriblement mourir. - - English. - - The eldest Royal prancing upon a Horse, - Shall spur, and run very fiercely - Open mouth, the foot in the Stirrup, complaining, - Drawn, pulled, die horribly. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth of the eldest Son of a King, who prancing upon his -Horse, shall Spur and run so fiercely, that his foot being intangled in -the Stirrup he shall be dragged and pulled, and die a fearful death. - -In the year 1555. upon the 25 of _May_, this came to pass in the person -of _Henry_ of _Albret_, the second of that name, King of _Navarre_. - -This Prince _Henry_ II. the eldest Royal riding upon a horse did spur him -so hard, that he ran away with him, so that he perceiving the danger he -was in, pulled the Bridle so hard that the horse’s mouth was broken; the -pain did not stop the horse, but contrariwise, he grew the more untoward, -that _Henry_ fell down, and in falling one of his feet hung in the -stirrup, so that he was drawn, and died a horrid death. This I found in -the History of _Naples_. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Le conducteur de l’Armée _Francoise_, - Cuidant perdre le principal Phalange, - Par sus pavé de l’_Avaigne_ & Ardoise, - Soy parfondra par _Gennes_ gent estrange. - - English. - - The leader of the _French_ Army, - Thinking to rout the chiefest Phalange, - Upon the Pavement of _Avaigne_, and Slate, - Shall sink in the ground by _Gennes_, a strange Nation. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth that a _French_ General, thinking to rout and overcome the -chiefest strength of his enemy, and going upon a brittle Pavement, made -of Slate, shall sink in the ground not far from _Genoa_, which he calleth -a strange Nation to the _French_. - - -XL. - - French. - - Dedans tonneaux hors oingts d’huile & graisse, - Seront vingt un devant le port fermez, - Au second guet feront par mort prouesses, - Gaigner les portes & du quet assommez. - - English. - - With Pipes annointed without with Oyl and Grease, - Before the harbour, one and twenty shall be shut, - At the second Watch, by death, they shall do great feats of Arms, - To win the Gates, and be killed by the Watch. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense of this Stanza are plain. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Les os des pieds, & des mains enferrez, - Par bruit maison long temps inhabitée, - Seront par songes concavant deterrez, - Maison salubre & sans bruit habitée. - - English. - - The bones of the feet and of the hands in shackles, - By a noise a house shall be a long time deserted, - By a dream the buried shall be taken out of the ground, - The house shall be healthful, and inhabited without noise. - -ANNOT. - -I have found the truth of this Stanza upon the place, in my going to -_Lion_, it was my fortune to lye at a Town four Leagues on this side of -it, called _Lapacodier_, where this Story was told me to have happened -few days before. - -It chanced that a Company of Foot was to lie in the Town, and distressed -for quarter, they enquired why such a house was empty, and were told -it was not inhabited by reason of a noise heard there every night. The -Captain of the Troop resolved, since he feared not the living, not to -fear the dead, and thereupon lay in the house that night, where Beds -were provided for him, and about half a Dozen of his stoutest Souldiers; -so they laid down their weapons on the Table, and began to be merry at -Cards and Dice, expecting the event. The door being fast locked, about -twelve and one they heard as though some body knockt at the door, one -of the Souldiers by the Captains command, with a Pistol in his hand, -and a Candle, opened the door, then appeared to them a Phantasm, in the -shape of an old man, loaded with Chains, that made a great noise, this -Phantasm beckened to the Captain at the Table to come to him, the Captain -also rising, beckened to the Phantasm to come to him, this lasted for a -while, till the Captain resolved to go to him, and so taking a Candle in -one hand, and a Pistol in the other, bid his Souldiers follow him hand -in hand with their Arms, then taking the Phantasm by the hand, which was -exceeding cold, he led them into the Cellar, and through many turnings, -till at last the Phantasm vanished, and the Candles went out, then were -they constrained to remain there till day light, when perceiving where -they were, and having taken notice of the Place where the Phantasm left -them, they went out, and related the story to the Townsmen; so afterwards -they digged in that place, where they found a kind of a Trunk, and the -bones of a man in it shackled, they buryed the body in a Church-yard, and -no noise was heard afterwards in that house, this came to pass about 1624. - - -XLII. - - French. - - Quand _Innocent_ tiendra le lieu de _Pierre_, - Le _Nizaram Sicilian_ se verra, - En grands honneurs, mais apres il cherra, - Dans le bourbier d’une Civile guerre. - - English. - - When _Innocent_ shall hold the place of _Peter_, - The _Sicilian Nizaram_ shall see himself - In great honours, but after that he shall fall - Into the dirt of a Civil war. - -ANNOT. - -Nothing can be more plain and true than this Prophecie, and those that -deny it, may also deny the light of the Sun, but to make it more evident, -we will examine it Verse by Verse. - -_When ~Innocent~ shall hold the place of ~Peter~_; that is, when one -named _Innocent_ shall be Pope, as he was that preceded the last. - -_The ~Sicilian Nizaram~ shall see himself in great honours_; that is, the -_Sicilian Nizarim_, for _Nizaram_, is the Annagramme of _Mazarin_, letter -for letter, who was born in _Sicily_, shall see himself in great honours, -as he did; for he was then in his greatest splendor. - -_But after that he shall fall into the dirt of a Civil war_; As every one -knows he did, having put in Prison the Prince of _Condé_, the Prince of -_Conty_, and the Duke of _Congueiulle_, can any thing be more plain, and -yet when I read this forty years ago, I took it to be ridiculous. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - _Lutece_ en _Mars_, Senateurs en credit, - Par une nuict _Gaule_ sera troublée, - Du grand _Cræsus_ l’Horoscope predit, - Par _Saturnus_, sa puissance exillée. - - English. - - _Lutetia_ in _Mars_, Senators shall be in credit. - In a night _France_ shall be troubled, - The Horoscope of the great _Cræsus_ foretelleth, - That by _Saturn_ his power shall be put down. - -ANNOT. - -_Lutetia_ in Latine is the City of _Paris_, after the death of _Henry_ -IV. the Parliament of _Paris_ began to prick up their ears, and to go -about to call the great ones to account, amongst whom was the Marquess -d’_Ancre_, favourite of the Queen Regent, that had gathered great -riches, and therefore is called here _Cræsus_, our Author saith, that -his power shall be put down by _Saturnus_, which must here be understood -mistically, which proved true, for by the Kings command, then _Lewis_ -XIII. he was shot with three Pistols in the _Louvre_. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Deux de poison saisis nouveaux Venus - Dans la cuisine du grand Prince verser, - Par le souillard tous deux au fait cogneus, - Prins qui cuidoit de mort l’aisné vexer. - - English. - - Two newly come being provided with poison, - To pour in the Kitchin of the great Prince, - By the Cooks Boy the fact shall be known, - And he taken, that thought by death to vex the elder. - -ANNOT. - -This came to pass in the time of _Henry_ IV. who was poisoned at _Melan_, -by two unknown men, who were discovered by the Cooks Boy in the doing of -it, and were both taken, the History is at large in _Peter Matthew_ his -Historiographer, which I could not insert here for the satisfaction of -the Reader; because I could not get the Book, the Reader may satisfie -himself upon the place. - - -Other Stanzas, taken out of twelve, under the seventh Century, out of -which eight have been rejected, because they were found in the foregoing -Centuries. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Renfort de Sieges manubis & maniples, - Changez le sacre & passe sur le pronsne, - Prins & captifs n’arreste les prez triples, - Plus par fonds mis elevé, mis au Trosne. - - English. - - Recruit of Sieges, spoils and prizes, - _Corpus Christi_ day shall be changed, and the pronsne slighted, - They shall be taken and made Prisoners, do not stay in the threefold - Field, - Moreover, one put in the bottom shall be raised to the Throne. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - L’Occident libre les Isles _Britanniques_, - Le recogneu passer le bas, puis haut, - Ne content triste Rebel corss. _Escotiques_, - Puis rebeller par plui & par nuict chaut. - - English. - - The West shall be free, and the _Brittish_ Islands, - The discovered shall pass low, then high, - _Scottish_ Pirates shall be, who shall rebel, - In a rainy and hot night. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - La stratageme simulte sera rare, - La Mort en voye rebelle par contrée, - Par le retour du voyage _Barbare_, - Exalteront la potestante entrée. - - English. - - The stratagem and grudge shall be scarce, - Death shall be in a rebellious way through the Countrey, - By the return from a _Barbarian_ travel, - They shall exalt the Protestant entrance. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Vent chaut, conseil, pleurs, timidité, - De nuict au lict assailly sans les Armes: - D’oppression grand calamité, - L’_Epithalame_ converty pleurs & larmes. - - English. - - Hot wind, councel, tears, fearfulness, - He shall be assaulted in his bed by night without Arms, - From that oppression shall be raised a great calamity, - The _Epithalamium_ shall be converted into tears. - -ANNOT. - -The reason why I have put no Annotations to these, as I have done to -the rest, is, because according to my judgement, and that of the most -Learned, they are spurious. - - - - -TO THE READER. - - -Friendly Reader, - -_Before you Read the following Epistle, I would have you be warned of -a few things: One is, that according to my opinion, it is very obscure -and intelligible in most places, being without any just connection, and -besides the obscurity of the sense, the crabbedness of the expression is -such, that had not the importunity of the Bookseller prevailed, I would -have left it out, but considering the respect due to Antiquity, the -satisfaction we owe to curious persons, who would perhaps have thought -the Book imperfect without it, we let it go, trusting to your Candor and -Ingenuity._ - - Farewell. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ VIII. IX. & X. - -_That had not been Printed before, and are in the same Edition of 1568._ - - -TO THE - -_Most Invincible, most High, and most Christian King of ~France~ ~HENRY~ -the Second; ~Michael Nostradamus~ his most obedient Servant and Subject, -wisheth Victory and Happiness._ - -By reason of that singular observation, I had O most Christian and -Victorious King, since my Face, who had been cloudy a great while, did -present it self before your immeasurable Majesty. I have been ever since -perpetually dazled, continually honouring and worshipping that day, in -which I presented my self before it, as before a singular humane Majesty; -now seeking after some occasion, whereby I might make appear the goodness -and sincerity of my heart, and extend my acquaintance towards your most -Excellent Majesty; and seeing that it was impossible for me to declare it -by effects, as well because of the darkness and obscurity of my mind, as -for the enlightning it did receive from the face of the greatest Monarch -in the World; I was a great while before I could resolve to whom I should -Dedicate these three last Centuries of my Prophecies, which make the -compleat thousand, and after I had a long time considered, I have with -a great temerity made my address to your Majesty, being no ways dainted -by it, as the grave Author _Plutarch_ related in the Life of _Lycurgus_, -that seeing the offerings and gifts that were Sacrificed in the Temples -of their Heathen Gods, durst not come thither no more, least the people -should wonder at the costs and charges. Notwithstanding, seeing your -Royal Splendour joyned with an incomparable Humanity, I have made my -address to it, not as to the Kings of _Persia_, of whom to come near, it -was forbidden, but to a most Prudent and Wise Prince I have Dedicated -my Nocturnal and Prophetical Supputations, written rather by a natural -instinct, and Poetical furour, then by any rules of Poetry; and most -part of it written and agreeing with the Years, Months and Weeks, of the -Regions, Countreys and most part of the Towns and Cities in _Europe_; -touching also some thing of _Africa_, and of a part of _Asia_, by the -change of Regions that come near to those Climats, and compounded of -natural faction. But some body may answer (who hath need to blow his -Nose) the Rime to be as easie to be understood, as the intelligence of -the sence is hard and difficult, and therefore O most humane King, most -of the Prophetical Stanza’s are so difficult, that there is no way to -be found for the Interpretation of them; nevertheless being in hope of -setting down the Towns, Cities, and Regions, wherein most of those shall -happen, especially in the year 1585. and in the year 1606. beginning from -this present time, which is the 14. of _March_ 1557. and going further to -the fulfilling of those things, which shall be in the beginning of the -seventh Millenary, according as my Astronomical Calculation, and other -Learning could reach, at which time the adversaries of Christ and of his -Church shall begin to multiply; all hath been composed and calculated in -days and hours of Election, and well disposed, and all as accurately as -was possible for me to do. And the whole _Minerva libera & non invita_, -Calculating almost as much of the time that is come, as of that which -is past, comprehending it in the present time, and what by the course -of the said time shall be known to happen in all Regions punctually -as it is here written, adding nothing superfluous to it, although it -be said; _Quod de futuris contingentibus, non est determinata omnino -veritas_. It is very true Sir, that by my natural instinct given me by -my Progenitors, I did think I could foretel any thing; but having made -an agreement between this said instinct of mine, and a long Calculation -of Art, and by a great tranquility and repose of mind, emptied my Soul -of all care and carefulness, I have foretold most part of these _ex -tripode æneo_, though there be many who attribute to me some things that -are no more mine, then what is nothing at all. The only Eternal God, -who is the searcher of men’s hearts, being pious, just, and merciful, -is the true Judge of it, whom I beseech to defend me from the calumny -of the wicked men, who would as willing calumniously inquire for what -reason all your ancient Progenitors Kings of _France_ have healed the -disease called the _Kings-evil_, and some other Nations have cured the -biting of venomous Beasts; others have had a certain instinct to foretell -things that are to come, and of several others, too tedious to be here -inserted; notwithstanding those in whom the malignancy of the wicked -spirit shall not be suppressed by length of time; after my decease my -work shall be in more esteem, then when I was alive; nevertheless if I -should fail in the supputation of times, or could not please some, may it -please your most Imperial Majesty to forgive me, protesting before God -and his Saints, that I do not intend to insert any thing by writing in -this present Epistle, that may be contrary to the true Catholick Faith, -in conferring the Astronomical Calculation, according to my learning; -for the space of times of our Fathers that have been before us, are -such, submitting my self to the correction of the most Learned, that -the first man _Adam_ was before _Noah_, about one thousand two hundred -forty two years, not computing the time according to the supputation -of the _Gentiles_, as _Varro_ did, but onely according to the Sacred -Scriptures, and the weakness of my wit in my Astronomical Calculations. -After _Noah_ and the universal Flood about a thousand and fourscore years -came _Abraham_, who was a supreme Astrologer, according to most mens -opinion, and did first invent the _Chaldæan_ Letters; after that came -_Moses_, _viz._ some five hundred and fifteen or sixteen years after, and -between the time of _David_ and _Moses_ have passed about 570. years. -After which between the time of _David_ and that of our Saviour and -Redeemer Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin _Mary_, have passed (according -to some Chronographers) a thousand three hundred and fifty years. Some -body may object, that this supputation is not true; because it differeth -from that of _Eusebius_. And from the time of humane redemption, to that -of the execrable seduction of the _Saracens_, have passed six hundred -and four and twenty years, or thereabouts. From that time hitherto, -it is easie to collect what times are past, if my supputation be not -good among all Nations; because all hath been calculated by the course -of the Cœlestial bodies, joyned with motion, infused in me at certain -loose hours, by the motion of my ancient Progenitors; but the injury -of the time (most excellent King) requireth, that such secret events -should not be manifested, but by an enigmatical Sentence, having the -only sense, and one only intelligence, without having mixed with it -any ambiguous or amphibological calculation, but rather under a Cloudy -obscurity, through a natural infusion, coming near to the Sentence of -one of the Thousand and two Prophets, that have been since the Creation -of the World, according to the supputation and punical Chronick of -_Joel_. _Effundam spiritum meum super omnem, & carnem & prophetabunt -filli vestri & filiæ vestræ_: But such a Prophecy did proceed from the -mouth of the Holy Ghost, who was the Supreme and eternal Power, which -being come with that of the Cœlestial bodies, hath caused some of them to -foretel great and wonderful things; as for my part I challenge no such -thing in this place, God forbid, I confess truly, that all cometh from -God, for which I give him thanks, honour, and praise, without having -mixed any thing of that divination, which proceedeth _a Fato_, but only -of that which proceedeth _a Deo & Natura_, and most of it joyned with -the motion and course of the Cœlestial Bodies; insomuch that seeing -as in a burning Glass, and through a Cloudy Vision, the great and sad -events, the prodigious and calamitous accidents, that shall befall the -Worshippers, first of God, and secondly, those that are Earthly propped -up, with a thousand other calamitous accidents, which shall be known -in course of time; for God will take notice of the long barrenness of -the great Dame, who afterwards shall conceive two principal Children: -But being in danger, she that shall be added to her by the temerity of -age, running a danger in the 18, and not able to go beyond the 36, shall -leave behind her three females, and he shall have two that never had any -of the same father, the differences between the three Brothers shall be -such, and then shall they be united and agreed, insomuch that the three -and four parts of _Europe_ shall quake: by the lesser in years shall -the Christian Monarchy be upheld and augmented, Sects shall rise, and -presently be put down again, the _Arabians_ shall be put back, Kingdoms -shall be united, and new Laws made. Concerning the other Children; the -first shall possess the furious Crowned Lions, holding their Paws upon -the Escutcheons. The second, well attended, will go so deep among the -Lions, that the second way shall be open, all trembling and furious going -down, to get upon the _Pyrenæan_ Mountains. The ancient Monarchy shall -not be transferred, the third innundation of humane blood shall happen, -and for a good while _Mars_ shall not be in Lent. And the Daughter -shall be given for the preservation of the Church, the Dominator of it -falling into the _Pagan_ Forces of the new unbelievers, she shall have -two Children, one from faithfulness, and the other from unfaithfulness, -for the confirmation of the Catholick Church; and the other, who to his -confusion and late repentance, shall go about to ruine her. There shall -be three Regions by the extreme differences of the leagues, _viz._ the -_Roman_, the _German_, and the _Spanish_, who by a Military hand shall -make divers Sects, forsaking the 50 and 52 degrees of altitude, and all -those of remote Regions shall do homage to the Regions of _Europe_, and -of the North of 40 Degrees Altitude, who by a vain fright shall quake, -after that those of the West, South, and East shall quake because of -their power, insomuch that what shall be done, cannot be undone by -Warlike power. They shall be equal in Nature, but much different in -Faith. After this, the barren Dame of a greater power then the second, -shall be admitted by two people, by the first obstinate that had power -over the others; by the second, and by the third, that shall extend his -Circuit of the East of _Europe_, as far as the _Hungarians_, vanquished -and overcome, and by a Maritine Sail, shall make his excursions into -the _Trinarrian_ and _Adriatick_ Sea, by his _Mirmidons_, and _Germany_ -shall fall, and the _Barbarian_ Sect shall be wholly driven from among -the Latines. Then the great Empire of Antichrist shall begin in the -_Attila_, and _Xerxes_ to come down with an innumerable multitude of -people, insomuch that the coming of the Holy Ghost, proceeding from -the 48 Degree, shall transmigrate, driving away the abomination of the -Antichrist, who made War against the Royal, who shall be the great Vicar -of _I. C._ and against his Church, and his Kingdom, _per tempus, & in -occasione temporis_, and before this shall precede a Solar Eclipse, the -most dark and obscure that was since the Creation of the World, till the -death and passion of _I. C._ and from him till then, and it shall be in -the Month of _October_, when such a great Translation shall be made, that -every body will think that the weight of the Earth, shall have lost its -natural motion, and be swallowed up in perpetual darkness. In the Spring -before and after this, shall happen extraordinary changes, mutations of -Kingdoms, and great Earth-quakes, with pullulation of the new _Babylons_ -miserable daughter, increased by the abomination of the first Holocaust, -and shall last only 73 years and 7 Months, then from that Stock she -that had been long time barren, proceeding from the fifth Degree, who -shall renew all the Christian Church, and then shall be a great Peace, -Union and Concord, between one of the Children of the wandring and -seperated foreheads by divers Kingdoms, and such Peace shall be made, -that the Instigator and Promoter of Military function, by diversity of -Religions, shall be tied to the bottom of the deep, and the Kingdom of -the _Rabious_, who shall counterfeit the wise, shall be united. And the -Countreys, Towns, Cities and Provinces, that had deserted their first -ways to free themselves, captivating themselves more deeply, shall be -secretly angry at their liberty and Religion lost, and shall begin to -strike from the left, to turn to the right, restoring the holiness beaten -down long before with their former writing; so that after the great Dog, -shall come forth the biggest Mastif, who shall destroy all that was done -formerly, then Churches shall be built up again as before, the Clergy -shall be restored to its former state, and shall begin to Whore, and -Luxuriate, and to commit a Thousand Crimes. And being near unto another -desolation, when she shall be in her higher and more sublime dignity, -there shall rise powers and Military hands, who shall take away from -her the two Swords, and leave her only the Ensigns, from which by the -means of the crookedness that draweth them, the people causing it to go -straight, and not willing to submit unto them by the end opposite to -the sharp hand that toucheth the Ground, they shall provoke till that -a branch shall proceed from the barren, which shall deliver the people -of the World from that meek and voluntary slavery, putting themselves -under the protection of _Mars_, depriving _Jupiter_ of all his honours -and dignities, for the free City established and seated in another -little _Mesopotamia_. And the chief Governour shall be thrust out of -the middle, and set in the high place of the Air, being ignorant of the -conspiracy of the Conspirators, with the second _Thrasibulus_, who long -before did manage this thing, then shall the impurities and abominations -be objected with great shame, and made manifest to the darknes of the -darkened light, and shall cease towards the end of the change of his -Kingdom, the chief men of the Church shall be put back from the love of -God, and many of them shall apostatise from the true faith, and from the -true Sects, the middlemost of which by her worshippers, be a little put -into ruine; the first, wholly in all _Europe_, and most part of _Africa_ -undone by the third, by the means of the poor in Spirit, who by madness -elevated, shall through libidinous luxury, commit adultery. The people -will rise and maintain it, and shall drive away those that did adhere to -the Legislators, and shall seem by the Kingdoms spoiled by the Eastern -men, that God the Creator hath loosed Satan from his Infernal Prison, to -cause to be born the great _Dog_ and _Doham_, who shall make so great -and abominable a fraction in the Churches, that the Red nor the White, -without Eyes and without Hands, shall not judge of it, and their power -shall be taken away from them. Then shall be a greater persecution -against the Church than ever was, and in the mean time shall be so great -a Plague, that two parts of three in the world shall fail, insomuch that -no body shall be able to know the true owners of fields and houses, and -there shall happen a total desolation unto the Clergy, and the Martial -men shall usurpe what shall come back from the City of the Sun, and -from _Molita_, and the _Stæchades_ Islands, and the great Chain of that -Port shall be open, which taketh its denomination from a Sea Oxe, and a -new incursion shall be made through the Sea Coasts, willing to deliver -the _Castulan_ Leap from the first Mahometan taking, and the assaulting -shall not altogether be in vain, and that place where the habitation of -_Abraham_ was, shall be assaulted by those, who shall have a respect for -the Jovials. And that City of _Achem_, shall be encompassed and assaulted -on all sides, by a great power of Armed men; their Sea Forces shall be -weakened by the Western men, and to that Kingdom shall happen great -desolation, and the great Cities shall be depopulated, and those that -shall come in, shall be comprehended within the vengeance of the wrath of -God, and the Sepulchre held in so great veneration, shall remain a great -while open to the universal Aspect of the Heavens, Sun and Moon, and the -sacred place shall be converted into a Stable for small and great Cattle, -and put to prophane uses. O what a calamitous affliction shall be then -for women with Child, and chiefly by the principal Easterly head, being -for the most part moved by the Northern and Westerly men, vanquished and -put to death, beaten, and all the rest put to flight, and the Children he -had by many women, put in Prison, then shall be fulfilled the Prophecy -of the Kingly Prophet. _Ut audiret gemitus compeditorum, ut solveret -filios interemptorum_, what great oppression shall be made then upon the -Princes and Governours of Kingdoms, and especially of those that shall -live Eastward and near the Sea, and their Languages inter-mixed very -sociably. The Language of the _Arabians_ and Latines by the _African_ -communication, and all the Eastern Kings shall be driven away, beaten and -brought to nothing, not altogether by the means of the strength of the -Kings of the North, and by the drawing near of our age, by the means of -three secretly united, seeking for death by ambushes one against another. -And the renewing of the Triumvirate shall last seven years, while the -fame of such a sect shall be spread all the world over, and the Sacrifice -of the Holy and immaculate Host shall be upheld: And then shall the -Lords be two in number victorious in the North against the Eastern ones, -and there shall be such a great noise and Warlike tumult, that all the -East shall quake for fear of those two Brothers, not Northern Brothers. -And because, Sir, by this discourse, I put all things confusedly in -these predictions, as well concerning the event of them, as for the -account of the time which followeth, which is not at all, or very little -conformable to that I have done before, as well by Astronomical way, -as other of the sacred Scriptures which cannot erre, I could have set -down to every quatrain the time in which they shall happen, but it would -not please every body, much less the interpretation of them, till, Sir, -your Majesty hath granted me full power so to do, that my Calumniators -may have nothing to say against me. Nevertheless reckoning the years -since the Creation of the World to the Birth of _Noah_ have passed 1506. -years, and from the Birth of _Noah_ to the perfect building of the Ark -near the universal Flood have passed 600. years, whither solary, or -lunary, or mixed, for my part according to the Scriptures, I hold that -they were solary. And at the end of those 600. years _Noah_ entered into -the Ark, to save himself from the Flood, which Flood was universal upon -the Earth, and lasted a year and two months; and from the end of the -Flood, to the birth of _Abraham_ did pass the number of 295. years; and -from the birth of _Abraham_ to that of _Isaac_ did pass 100. years, and -from _Isaac_ to _Jacob_ 60. years; and from the time that he went into -_Ægypt_ till he came out of it, did pass 130. years; and from the time -that _Jacob_ went into _Ægypt_ till his posterity came out of it did -pass 430. years; and from the coming out of _Ægypt_ to the building of -_Salomon_’s Temple in the fourth year of his Reign did pass 480. years; -and from the building of the Temple till Jesus Christ, according to the -supputation of the Chronographers, did pass 490. years; and so by this -supputation, which I have gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, the whole -cometh to about 4173. years, eight Months more or less. But since the -time of I. C. hitherto, I leave it because of the diversity of Opinions. -And having calculated these present Prophecies according to the order -of the Chain, which containeth the revolution, and all by Astronomical -Doctrine, and according to my natural instinct, and after some time, and -in it comprehending since the time that _Saturn_ shall turn to come in on -the 7 of the Month of _April_, till the 25 of _August_; _Jupiter_ from -the 14 of _June_ to the 7 of _October_; _Mars_ from the 27 of _April_ -till 22 of _June_; _Venus_ from the 9 of _April_ to the 22 of _May_; -_Mercury_ from the 3 of _February_ till the 24 of the same; afterwards -from the 1 of _June_ till the 24 of the same; and from the 25 of -_September_ till the 16 of _October_, _Saturn_ in _Capricorn_, _Jupiter_ -in _Aquarius_, _Mars_ in _Scorpio_, _Venus_ in _Pisces_, _Mercury_ within -a Month in _Capricorn_, _Aquarius_ in _Pisces_, _Luna_ in _Aquarius_, the -_Dragons head_ in _Libra_, the Tail opposite to her sign according to a -Conjunction of _Jupiter_ and _Mercury_, with a quadrin Aspect of _Mars_ -to _Mercury_, and the head of the _Dragon_ shall be with a Conjunction -of _Sol_ and _Jupiter_: the year shall be peacefull without Eclipse, and -in the beginning of that year shall be a greater persecution against the -Christian Church than ever was in _Affrica_, and it shall last till the -year 1792. at which time every body will think it a renovation of Age. -After that the _Roman_ people shall begin to stand upright again, and to -put away some obscure darknesses, receiving some of its former light, -but not without great divisions, and continual changes. _Venice_ after -that with great strength and power shall lift up her Wings so high, that -she will not be much inferiour to the strength of the old _Rome_, and -in that time great _Bizantine_ Sails, joyned with the _Ligustiques_, by -the Northern help and power shall give some hinderance, whereby those -of _Crete_ shall not keep their faith, the Arches built by the antient -Martial men, will keep company together with _Neptun_’s Waves. In the -_Adriatick_ shall be a great discord, what was united shall be parted -asunder, and what was before, and is a great City, will go near to becom -a house, including the _Pempotan_, and the _Mesopotamia_ of _Europe_ to -45, and others to 41, 42, and 37. And in that time, and Countrey, the -Infernal power shall rise against the Church of I. C. with the power of -the Enemies to his Law, which shall be the second Antechrist, who shall -persecute the said Church and its Vicar by the means of the power of -Temporal Kings, who through their Ignorance shall be seduced by Tongues -more sharp than any Sword in the hands of a mad man. The said Reign -of Antichrist shall not last but till the ending of him, born by Age, -and of the other in the City of _Plancus_, accompanied by the Elect of -_Modone_, _Fulcy_ by _Ferrara_, maintained by _Adriatick_, _Liguriens_, -and the proximity of the great _Trinacria_, and after that shall pass -over the Mount _Jovis_. The _Gallique Ogmyon_ followed with such a -number, that even from afar off the Empire of the great Law, shall be -presented to him, and then, and after shall be profusedly spilled the -blood of the Innocent by the Nocent, raised on high; then by great -Floods the memory of those things contained by such Instruments, shall -receive an innumerable loss, as also shall learning towards the North by -the Divine Will, Satan bound once more, and an universal Peace shall be -among men, and the Church of I. C. shall be free from all tribulation, -although the _Azosrains_ would fain mix among it the Honey of their -pestilent seduction, and this shall happen about the seventh Millinary; -so that the Sanctuary of I. C. shall be no more trodden down by the -unbelievers that shall come from the North, the world being near to -some conflagration, although by my supputations in my Prophecies, the -course of the time goeth much further. In the Epistle that within the -late years I have dedicated to my Son _Cæsar Nostradamus_, I have openly -enough declared some things, without prognosticating. But here (Sir) are -comprehended many great and wonderful events, which those that come after -us shall see. And during the said Astrological supputation, conferred -with the sacred Scripture, the persecution of the Clergy shall have its -beginning from the power of Northern Kings, joyned with the Eastern -ones; that persecution shall last Eleven years and a little less, at -which time the chief Northern King shall fail, which years being ended, -shall come in his united Southern one, who shall yet more violently -persecute the Clergy by the Apostatical seduction of one that shall -have the absolute power over the Militant Church of God: And the Holy -people of God and keeper of his Law, and all order of Religion shall be -grievously persecuted and afflicted, insomuch that the blood of the true -Ecclesiastical men shall float all over, and unto one of those horrid -Kings this praise shall be given by his followers to have spilt more -humane blood of the Innocent Clergymen, than any body can do Wine, and -the said King shall commit incredible crimes against the Church; humane -blood shall run through publick streets and Churches, as water coming -from an impetuous Rain, and the next Rivers shall be red with blood, and -by another Sea fight the Sea shall be red, insomuch that one King shall -say to another, _Bellis rubuit navalibus æquor_. After that in the same -year, & those that follow, shall happen the most horrid Plague, caused -by the precedent famine, and so great tribulations as ever did happen -since the first foundation of the Christian Church through all the Latine -Regions; some marks of it remaining in some Countreys of _Spain_. At -that time the Northern King hearing the complaint of the people of his -principal title, shall raise up so great an Army, and shall go through -the straights of his last Ancestors and Progenitors, that he will set up -all again in their first state, and the great Vicar of the Cope, shall -be restored in his former estate, but desolate and altogether forsaken, -and then shall the _Sancta sanctorum_ be destroyed by Paganism, and -the old and New Testament be thrust out and burnt, after that shall -Antechrist be the infernal Prince, and once more for the last all the -Kingdoms of Christendom and also of the unbelievers shall quake for the -space of 25 years, and there shall be more grievous Wars and Battles, and -Towns, Cities, Castles and other buildings shall be burnt, desolate, and -destroyed with a great effusion of Vestal blood, Married Women and Widows -ravished, sucking Children dashed against the Walls of the Towns, and so -many evils shall be committed by the means of the Infernal prince Satan, -that almost the universal world shall be undone and desolate, and before -these events many unusual Birds shall cry through the Air, _Huy, Huy_, -and a little while after shall vanish away: And after that time shall -have lasted a good while, there shall be renewed a Kingdom of _Saturn_ -and Golden Age. God the Creator shall say, hearing the affliction of -his people, Satan shall be put, and tied in the bottom of the deep, -and there shall begin an universal peace between God and men, and the -Ecclesiastical power shall be in its greater force, and Satan shall be -left bound for the space of a thousand years, and then shall be loosed -again. All these Figures are justly fitted by the sacred Scripture, to -the visible Cœlestial things, _viz._ _Saturn_, _Jupiter_, and _Mars_, -and others joyned with them, as more at large may be seen in some of my -Stanza’s. I would have calculated it more deeply, and compared one with -the other, but seeing (most excellent King) that some stand ready to -censure me, I shall withdraw my Pen to its Nocturnal repose. _Multa etiam -O Rex potentissime præclara, & sane in brevi ventura, sed omnia in hac -tua Epistola innectere non possumus, nec volumus, sed ad intelligenda -quedam facta, horrida fata pauca libanda sunt, quamvis tanta sit in omnes -tua amplitudo & humanitas homines, deosque pietas, ut solus amplissimo -& Christianissimo regis nomine, & ad quem summa totius Religionis -authoritas deferatur, dignus esse videare._ But only I shall beseech you -O most Merciful King, through your singular and prudent goodness, to -understand rather the desire of my Heart, and the earnest desire I have -to obey your most excellent Majesty, since my Eyes were so near your -Royal Splendor, than the greatness of my work can deserve or require. - - _From ~Selin~ this 27 ~June~, 1558._ - - _Faciebat ~Michael Nostradamus~, - ~Salonæ Petreæ~, Provinciæ._ - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ VIII. - - -I. - - French. - - _Pau_, _Nay_, _Loron_, plus feu qu’a sang sera, - _Laude_ nager, fuir grands aux _Surrez_, - Les _Agassas_ entrée refusera, - _Pampon_, _Durance_, les tiendront enserrez. - - English. - - _Pau_, _Nay_, _Loron_, more in fire then blood shall be, - _Lauda_ to swim, great ones run to the _Surrez_, - The _Agassas_ shall refuse the entry, - _Pampon_, _Durance_ shall keep them enclosed. - -ANNOT. - -The Prophecies of this, and of the remaining Centuries being for the -most part so obscure, as no man is able to make any sense of them, the -judicious Reader must not expect from me, what no man else can do; let -him suffice if I give him as much light as I can, and leave the rest to -his own judgement and industry. - -_Pau_ is the chief Town of the Province of _Bearn_, in the Kingdom of -_Navarre_, where _Henry_ the IV. King of _France_ and _Navarre_ was born. -_Nay_ and _Loron_ are barbarous words, so are _Surrez_, _Agassas_ and -_Pampon_. _Durance_ is a River of _France_. - - -II. - - French. - - _Condon_ & _Aux_, & autour de _Mirande_, - Je voy du Ciel feu qui les environne, - _Sol_, _Mars_, conjoint au _Lion_, puis _Marmande_, - Foudre, grand guerre, mur tomber dans _Garonne_. - - English. - - _Condon_ and _Aux_, and about _Mirande_, - I see a fire from Heaven that encompasseth them, - _Sol_, _Mars_, in conjunction with the Lion, and then _Marmande_, - Lightning, great War, Wall falls into the _Garonne_. - -ANNOT. - -_Condon_, _Aux_, _Mirande_, and _Marmande_ are Towns in the Province of -_Guyenne_ and _Languedoc_, _Garonne_ is the River of _Bourdeaux_. - - -III. - - French. - - Au fort Chasteau de _Vigilanne_ & _Resviers_, - Sera serré les puisnay de _Nancy_, - Dedans _Turin_ seront ards les premiers, - Lors que de dueil _Lyon_ sera transy. - - English. - - In the strong Castle of _Vigilanne_ and _Resviers_, - Shall be kept close the youngest son of _Nancy_, - Within _Turin_ the first shall be burnt up, - When _Lyon_ shall be overwhelmed with sorrow. - -ANNOT. - -_Vigilanne_ and _Resviere_ being falsly writen here, it must be set down -_Veillane_ and _Riuiere_, which are two strong Castles, the first being -seated in _Piemont_, and the last in _Burgundy_. - -_Nancy_ is the chief Town of _Lorrain_, and _Turin_ of _Piemont_, _Lyon_ -is a famous City in _France_, so that the sense of this Prophecy seemeth -to be, that the youngest Son of _Nancy_, (that is of _Lorrain_) shall be -kept close Prisoner in those two Castles of _Veillane_ and _Riuiera_, and -that the chief men of _Turin_ shall be burnt, when the City of _Lyon_ -shall be oppressed with sorrow. - - -IV. - - French. - - Dedans _Monech_ le Coq sera receu, - Le Cardinal de _France_ apparoistra, - Par _Logarion_ _Romain_ sera deceu, - Foiblesse a l’Aigle, & force au Coq croistra. - - English. - - Within _Monech_ the Cock shall be admitted, - The Cardinal of _France_ shall appear, - By _Logarion_, _Roman_ shall be deceived, - Weakness to the Eagle, and strength to the Cock shall grow. - -ANNOT. - -_Monech_ is false written here, it must be _Monaco_, which is a -Principality and Town in _Italy_ by _Genoa_, belonging to the House of -the _Grimaldi_, wherein the _French_ were admitted by the policy of -Cardinal _Richelieu_, during the Wars between _France_ and _Spain_. - -_Logarion_ is a Barbarous name, by which he meaneth some body unknown to -us. - -By the Eagle is meant the Emperour, who was very low at that time, and by -the Cock, the King of _France_, who was very powerful, where it is to be -observed, that by the Eagle the Emperour is always understood, because -it is his Arms, and by the Cock is meant the King of _France_, because a -_Frenchman_ is called in Latine _Galius_, which also signifieth a Cock. - - -V. - - French. - - Apparoistra Temple luisant orné, - La Lampe & Cierge a _Borne_ & _Bretueil_, - Pour la _Lucerne_ le Canton destourné, - Quand on verra le grand Coq au Cercueil. - - English. - - A shining adorned Temple shall appear, - The Lamp and wax Candle at _Borne_ and _Bretueil_, - For _Lucerne_ the Canton turned of, - When the great Cock shall be seen in his Coffin. - -ANNOT. - -_Borne_ and _Bretueil_ are two particular places, the first is one of the -four Baronies of the River _Mase_, _viz._ _Petersem_, _Steen_, _Horne_, -_Borne_, the other is a little Town in _Britany_. - -_Lucerne_ is one of the Cantons of _Switzerland_. We have said before -what is meant by the great Cock, _viz._ the King of _France_. Let the -Reader make up the rest, according to his fancy. - - -VI. - - French. - - Charté fulgure a _Lyon_ apparente, - Luysant, print _Malte_, subit sera estainte, - _Sardon_, _Mauris_ traitera decevante, - _Geneve_ a _Londres_, a Coq trahison feinte. - - English. - - A thundering light at _Lyons_ appearing, - Bright, took _Maltha_, instantly shall be put out, - Sardon shall treat _Mauris_ deceitfully, - To _Geneva_, _London_, and the Cock a fained treason. - -ANNOT. - -_Maltha_ is an Island in the _Mediterranean_ Sea, famous for the Knights -that inhabit it, and take their name from thence. _Sardon_ and _Mauris_ -are barbarous words. - - -VII. - - French. - - _Verceil_, _Milan_ donra intelligence, - Dedans _Tycin_ sera faite la paye, - Courir par _Seine_ eau, sang, feu par _Florence_, - Unique choir d’hault en bas faisant maye. - - English. - - _Verceil_, _Milan_ shall give intelligence, - In the _Tycin_ shall the Peace be made, - Run through _Seine_ water, blood, fire through _Florence_, - The only one shall fall from top to bottom making maye. - -ANNOT. - -_Verceil_ and _Milan_ are two Cities in _Italy_, the _Tycin_, or rather -_Thesin_ is a River of the same Countrey; _Seine_ is the River that -runneth at _Paris_. _Florence_ is a famous City in _Italy_, and _maye_ a -barbarous word, foisted up to patch up his Rime. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Pres de _Linterne_ dans des tonnes fermez, - _Chivas_ fera pour l’Aigle la menée, - L’Esleu cassé, luy ses ges enfermez, - Dedans _Turin_ rapt espouse emmenée. - - English. - - Near _Linterne_, enclosed within Tuns, - _Chivas_ shall drive the plot for the Eagle, - The Elect cashiered, he and his men shut up, - Within _Turin_, a rape, and Bride carried away. - -ANNOT. - -_Linterne_ is a small Town in _Italy_; by _Tuns_ are meant woodden -Vessels, such as they put Rhenish wines and others in. - -_Chivas_ is a Town in _Piemont_, and _Turin_ the chief Town of the said -Countrey. - - -IX. - - French. - - Pendant que l’Aigle & le Coq a _Savone_, - Seront unis, Mer, _Levant_ & _Hongrie_, - L’Armée a _Naples_, _Palerme_, Marque d’_Ancone_, - _Rome_, _Venise_, par barbe horrible crie. - - English. - - Whilst the Eagle and the Cock at _Savona_, - Shall be united, Sea, _Levant_, and _Hungary_, - Army at _Naples_, _Palermo_, Mark of _Ancona_, - _Rome_, _Venice_, cry because of a horrid beard. - -ANNOT. - -By the Eagle is meant the Emperour, and by the Cock the King of _France_; -the rest is easie. - - -X. - - French. - - Puanteur grande sortira de _Lausane_, - Qu’on ne scaura l’origine du fait, - L’on mettra hors toute la gent loingtaine, - Feu veu au Ciel peuple estranger deffait. - - English. - - A great stink shall come forth out of _Lausane_, - So that no body shall know the ofspring of it, - They shall put out all the Forreiners, - Fire seen in Heaven, a strange people defeated. - -ANNOT. - -_Lausane_ is a City situated in _Savoy_, by the Lake of _Geneva_, but now -as I take it in the possession of the _Switzers_. - - -XI. - - French. - - Peuple infiny paroistre a _Vicence_, - Sans force feu brusler la _Basilique_, - Pres de _Lunage_ des fait grand de _Valence_, - Lors que _Venise_ par morte prendre pique. - - English. - - Infinite deal of people shall appear at _Vicence_, - Without force, fire shall burn in the _Basilick_, - Near _Lunage_ the great one of _Valence_ shall be defeated, - When _Venice_ by death shall take the pique. - -ANNOT. - -_Vicenza_ is a Town in _Italy_, under the dominion of the _Venetians_. -_Basilick_ is the name of the biggest sort of Canons or pieces of -Ordinance. As for _Valence_ there is three Cities of that name, one in -_Spain_, the second in _France_, and the third in _Italy_; instead of -_Lunage_, it must be _Lignago_ which is a Town in _Italy_. - - -XII. - - French. - - Apparoistra aupres du _Bufalore_, - L’haut & procere entré dedans _Milan_, - L’Abbé de _Foix_ avec ceux de Saint _Maure_, - Feront la fourbe habillez en vilain. - - English. - - Near the _Bufalore_ shall appear, - The high and tall, come into _Milan_, - The Abbot of _Foix_ with those of Saint _Maure_, - Shall make the trumpery being cloathed like rogues. - -ANNOT. - -_Bufalore_ is a barbarous word; _Foix_ is a Countrey in _France_, and St. -_Maure_ a little Town in the said Countrey. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Le croisé Frere par amour effrenée, - Fera par _Praytus_ _Bellerophon_ mourir, - Classe a mil ans, la femme forcenée, - Beu le breueage, tous deux apres perir. - - English. - - The crossed Brother through unbridled love, - Shall cause _Bellerophon_ to be killed by _Praytus_, - Fleet to thousand years, the woman out of her wit, - The drink being drunk, both after that, perish. - -ANNOT. - -_Bellerophon_ and _Praytus_ are two supposed and fictitious names. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Le grand credit, d’or, d’argent l’abundance, - Aveuglera par _Libide_ l’honneur, - Cogneu sera d’adultere l’offence, - Qui parviendra a son grand deshonneur. - - English. - - The great credit, the abundance of Gold and Silver - Shall blind honour by lust, - The offence of the Adulterer shall be known, - Which shall come to his great dishonour. - -ANNOT. - -This is easie to be understood; for it is frequently seen, that Honour is -made blind by lust, and chiefly if that lust be propped up with credit; -and abundance of Gold and Silver. - - -XV. - - French. - - Vers Aquilon grands efforts par hommasse, - Presque l’_Europe_, l’Univers vexer, - Les deux Eclipses mettra en telle chassé, - Et aux _Pannons_ vie & mort renforcer. - - English. - - Towards the North great endeavours by a manly woman, - To trouble _Europe_, and almost all the world, - She shall put to flight the two Eclipses, - And shall re-inforce life and death to the _Pannons_. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Pannons_ is meant the _Hungarians_. The rest is easie. - - -XVI. - - French. - - Au lieu que _Hieson_ fit sa nef fabriquer, - Si grand Deluge sera & si subite, - Qu’on n’aura lieu ne Terre sattaquer, - L’onde monter _Fesulan Olympique_. - - English. - - In the place where _Jason_ caused his Ship to be built, - So great a Flood shall be, and so sudden, - That there shall be neither place nor Land to save themselves, - The Waves shall climb upon the _Olympick Fesulan_. - -ANNOT. - -_Jason_ was Son to King _Æson_, who built a Ship called _Argos_, in which -he went to _Colchos_, to Conquer the Golden Fleece. - -_Fesulan_ here is to be understood of some high and eminent place, which -therefore he calleth _Olympick_, from _Olympus_ a high Mountain in -_Grecia_. The place where _Jason_ builded his Ship. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Les bien aisez subit seront desmis, - Le monde mis par les trois freres en trouble, - Cité Marine saisiront ennemis, - Faim, feu, sang, peste, & de tous maux le double. - - English. - - Those that were at ease shall be put down, - The world shall be put in trouble by three Brothers, - The Maritine City shall be seized by its enemies, - Hunger, fire, blood, plague, and the double of all evils. - -ANNOT. - -It is not easie to tell what them three Brothers have been, or shall be, -nor that Maritine or Sea City, therefore we leave it to the liberty of -every ones judgement, the words being plain enough. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - De _Flore_ issue de sa mort sera cause, - Un temps devant par jeusne & vieille bueyre, - Car les trois lis luy feront telle pause, - Par son fruit sauve comme chair crüe mueyre. - - English. - - Issued from _Flora_ shall be the cause of her own death, - One time before, through fasting and old drink, - For the three Lillies shall make her such a pause, - Saved by her fruit, as raw flesh dead. - -ANNOT. - -This is one of those, wherein the Author would not be understood, and may -be did not understand himself. - - -XVIX. - - French. - - A soustenir la grand cappe troublée, - Pour l’esclaireir les rouges marcheront, - De mort famille sera presqu’accablée, - Les rouges rouges, le rouge assommeront. - - English. - - To maintain up the great troubled Cloak, - The red ones shall march for to clear it, - A family shall be almost crushed to death, - The red, the red, shall knock down the red one. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to carry no other sense than a conspiracy of the Cardinals, -called here by the name of the _Red_, the _Red_ against the Pope, who is -called the _Red one_. - - -XX. - - French. - - Le faux message par election feinte, - Courir par Urbem rompue pache arreste, - Voix acheptées de sang chappelle teinte, - Et a un autre qui l’Empire conteste. - - English. - - The contract broken, stoppeth the message, - From going about the Town, by a fained election, - Voices shall be bought, and a Chappel died with blood, - By another, who challengeth the Empire. - -ANNOT. - -This was so falsely printed, and so preposterously set in order, that I -had much ado to pick out this little sense of it, which amounteth to no -more, than that by reason of an agreement broken, the Messenger, that -went to publish a faigned election (it seemeth of the Empire) shall be -hindred, and that one of the Competitors to the said Empire, shall be -killed in or near a Chappel, that shall be soiled by his Blood. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Au port de _Agde_ trois fustes entreront, - Portant infection avec soy, pestilence, - Passant le pont mil milles embleront, - Et le pont rompre a tierce resistance. - - English. - - Three Galleys shall come into the harbour of _Agde_, - Carrying with them infection and Pestilence, - Going beyond the Bridge, they shall carry away thousands, - At the third resistance the Bridge shall be broken. - -ANNOT. - -_Agde_ is a Sea Town in _France_ upon the _Mediterranean_ Sea, which is -threatned here of three Galleys, that shall come into the Harbour of -it, and shall bring with them infection and Plague; and besides carry -away thousands of Captives, by which it seemeth, that these should be -_Turkish_ Galleys, till at last upon the third resistance of the Townsmen -the Bridge shall be broken. - - -XXII. - - French. - - _Gorsan_, _Narbonne_, par le Sel advertir, - _Tucham_, la Grace _Perpignan_ trahie, - La ville rouge ny voudra consentir, - Par haute _Voldrap_, Gris vie faillie. - - English. - - _Gorsan_, _Narbonne_, by the Salt shall give notice, - To _Tucham_, the Grace _Perpignan_ betrayed, - The red Town will not give consent to it, - By high _Woldrap_, Gray, life ended. - -ANNOT. - -This is another, wherein my best skill faileth me; for take away -_Narbonne_, which is a City of _France_, in the Province of _Languedoc_, -and _Perpignan_, which is another in the County of _Roussilon_ near -_Spain_. The rest are either barbarous words or nonsensical to me. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Lettres trouvées de la Reyne les Coffres, - Point de subscrit, sans aucun nom d’Autheur, - Par la police seront cachez les offres, - Qu’on ne scaura qui sera lamateur. - - English. - - Letters found in the Queens Coffers, - No superscription, no name of the Author, - By policy shall be concealed the offers, - So that no body shall know who shall be the lover. - -ANNOT. - -This needeth no great explication, being pretty plain, and foretelleth -only that a Queens Trunks shall be opened, wherein many love Letters -shall be found without subscription, with many great offers, which by -policy being suppressed, or no notice taken of. The lover was never known. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Le Lieutenant a l’entrée l’huis, - Assommera le grand de _Perpignan_, - En se cuidant sauver a _Montpertuis_, - Sera deceu Bastard de _Lusignan_. - - English. - - The Lieutenant shall at the doors entry. - Knock down the great one of _Perpignan_: - And the Bastard of _Lusignan_ shall be deceived, - Thinking to save himself at _Montpertuis_. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are clear, though the meaning is hard to be -understood. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Cœur de l’Amant ouvert d’amour furtive, - Dans le ruisseau sera ravir la Dame, - Le demy mal contrefaira lascive, - Le Pere a deux privera corps de l’Ame. - - English. - - The Lovers heart being by a stoln love, - Shall cause the Dame to be ravished in the Brook, - The lascivious shall counterfeit half a discontent, - The Father shall deprive the bodies of both of their souls. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth nothing but a Lover, who meeting in or by a Brook, his -Mistress shall enjoy her, for which she shall fain a little discontent, -as if she had been ravished against her will, but her jealous Father not -contented therewith, shall kill them both, which is an ordinary _Italian_ -trick. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - De _Carones_ trouvez en _Barcelonne_, - Mys descouvers, lieu terrouers & ruine, - Le grand qui tient ne voudra _Pampelone_, - Par l’Abbaye de _Montferrat_ bruine. - - English. - - The _Carones_ fond in _Barcelona_, - Put discovered, place soil and ruine, - The great that hold will not _Pampelona_, - By the Abbaye of _Montferrat_, mist. - -ANNOT. - -_Barcelona_ is a Town of a Province in _Spain_, called _Catalonia_. -_Pampelona_ is the chief Town of the Kingdom of _Navarre_. _Montferrat_ -is an Abbaye in the Mountains of _Catalonia_; the rest is insignificant. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - La voye _Auxelle_ l’un sur l’autre fornix, - Du muy de fer hors mis brave & genest, - L’Escrit d’Empereur la Phœnix, - Veu en celuy ce qu’a nul autre nest. - - English. - - The way _Auxelle_, one Arch upon another, - Being brave and gallant put out of the Iron vessel, - The writing of the Emperour the Phœnix, - In it shall be seen, what no where else is. - -ANNOT. - -I can find nothing in this worth interpretation. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Les Simulachres d’or & d’argent enflez, - Qu’apres le rapt, Lac au feu furent jettez, - Au descouvert estaints tous & troublez, - Au Marbre escripts, prescripts interjettez. - - English. - - The Images sweld with Gold and Silver, - Which after the rape were thrown into the Lake and fire, - Being discovered after the putting out of the fire, - Shall be written in Marble, prescripts being intermixed. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth that this gold and silver Idols having been stoln, were -afterwards thrown into a Lake and a fire, which fire being put out, those -Idols were found, and the memorial engraven in Marble. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Au quart pilier ou l’on sacre a _Saturne_, - Par tremblant Terre & Deluge fendu, - Soubs l’edifice _Saturnin_ trouvée Urne, - D’or _Capion_, ravy puis tost rendu. - - English. - - At the fourth Pillar where they sacrifice to _Saturn_, - Cloven by an Earth-quake and a Flood, - An Urne shall be found under that _Saturnian_ building, - Full of _Capion_ gold stoln, and then restored. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth, that at the fourth Pillar of a Temple that was -dedicated to _Saturn_, which Pillar shall be split by an Earth-quake -and a Flood, there shall be found an Urne, (which is an Earthen Vessel, -wherein the ancient _Romans_ used to keep the ashes of their dead -friends) full of gold, that shall be carried away, and then restored. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Dedans _Tholose_ non loin de _Beluzer_, - Faisant un puis loing Palais d’espectacle, - Thresor trouvé un chacun ira vexer, - Et en deux locs tout aupres des _Vesacle_. - - English. - - Within _Tholose_ not far from _Beluzer_, - Digging a Well, for the Pallace of spectacle, - A treasure found that shall vex every one, - In two parcels, in, and near the _Basacle_. - -ANNOT. - -_Tholose_ is the chief City of _Languedoc_, _Beluzer_ is a private place -within its precinct, Spectacle is insignificant, and is onely foisted in, -to Rime with _Basacle_, which is a place in _Tholose_, where there is -aboundance of Water-mills, that make a hideous and fearful noise. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Premier grand fruit le Prince de _Pesquiere_, - Mais puis viendra bien & cruel malin, - Dedans _Venise_ perdra sa gloire fiere, - Et mis a mal par plus joyve _Celin_. - - English. - - The first great fruit the Prince of _Pesquiere_, - But he shall become very cruel and malicious, - He shall loose his fierce pride in _Venice_, - And shall be put to evil by the younger _Celin_. - -ANNOT. - -_Pescaire_ is a Town in the Kingdom of _Naples_, belonging to the noble -_Spanish_ Family of _Avalos_, of which it seemeth one shall prove cruel -and malicious; but he shall be killed in _Venice_ by one young _Celin_, -by which formerly, and in other places the Author understandeth the -_Turk_. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Garde toy Roy _Gaulois_ de ton Nepveu, - Qui fera tant que ton unique filz, - Sera meurtry a _Venus_ faisant vœu, - Accompagné de nuit que trois & six. - - English. - - Take heed O _French_ King of thy Nephew, - Who shall cause that thine only Son - Shall be murdered making a vow to _Venus_, - Accompanied with three and six. - -ANNOT. - -This is a plain warning to a _French_ King to beware of his Nephew, who -accompanied with nine others, shall cause his Son to be murdered when he -went about some venereal employment. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Le grand naistra de _Verone_ & _Vicence_, - Qui portera un surnom bien indigne, - Qui a _Venise_ voudra faire vengeance, - Luy mesme prins homme du guet & signe. - - English. - - The great one of _Verona_ and _Vicenza_ shall be born, - Who shall bear a very unworthy surname, - Who shall endeavour at _Venice_ to avenge himself, - But he shall be taken by a Watch-man. - -ANNOT. - -_Verona_ and _Vicenza_ are two famous Cities in _Italy_, under the -dominion of the _Venetians_; the rest is easie. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Apres victoire du Lion au Lion, - Sur la Montagne de _Jura Secatombe_, - _Delues_, & _Brodes_ septiesme milion, - _Lyon_ Ulme a _Mausol_ mort & tombe. - - English. - - After the Victory of the Lion against the Lion, - Upon the Mountain _Jura Secatomb_, - _Delues_, and _Brodes_ the seventh Million, - _Lyons_, Ulme fall dead at _Mausol_. - -ANNOT. - -The Mount _Jura_ is in _Switzerland_; _Lyon_ is a great City in _France_; -and _Ulme_ another in _Germany_; the rest is either barbarous or -insignificant. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Dedans l’entree de _Garonne_ & _Blaye_, - Et la Forest non loing de _Damazan_, - De _Marsaves_ gelées, puis gresle & _Bize_, - _Dordonois_ gelé par erreur de _Mezan_. - - English. - - Within the entrance of _Garonne_ and _Blaye_, - And the Forrest not far from _Damazan_, - Of _Marsaves_ frosts, then Hail and North wind, - _Dordonois_ frozen by the error of _Mezan_. - -ANNOT. - -_Garonne_ is the River that runneth at _Bourdeaux_, and _Blaye_ is the -Port Town that lieth at the mouth of it; I should think that instead -of _Dordonois_, it should be Printed _Dordone_, which is another River -thereabouts, and is here threatned to be frozen. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Sera commis contre _Oinde_ a Duché - De _Saulne_, & Saint _Aubin_, & _Belœuvre_, - Paver de Marbre, de tours loing pluche, - Non _Bleteran_ resister & chef d’œuvre. - - English. - - A Dukedom shall be committed against _Oinde_, - Of _Saulne_, and Saint _Aubin_, and _Belœuvre_, - To pave with Marble, and of Towers well pickt, - Not _Bleteran_ to resist, and master-piece. - -ANNOT. - -I confess my Ignorance, and should be glad that a better _Oedipus_ than I -would undertake this. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - La forteresse aupres de la _Thamise_, - Cherra par lors, le Roy dedans serré, - Aupres du pont sera veu en chemise, - Un devant mort, puis dans le fort barré. - - English. - - The strong Fort near the _Thames_ - Shall fall then, the King that was kept within, - Shall be seen near the Bridge in his Shirt, - One dead before, then in the Fort kept close. - -ANNOT. - -_The Dream be to them that hate thee, and the Interpretation thereof to -thine Enemies_, Dan. 4, v. 10. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Le Roy de _Blois_ dans _Avignon_ regner, - Un autrefois le peuple emonopole, - Dedans le _Rhosne_ par murs fera baigner, - Jusques a cinq, le dernier pres de _Nole_. - - English. - - The King of _Blois_ in _Avignon_ shall Reign - Another time the people do murmur, - He shall cause in the _Rhosne_ to be bathed through the Walls, - As many as five, the last shall be near _Nole_. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth that a King of _France_ shall take _Avignon_, which is -a City in _France_ belonging to the Pope. And that some of the people -beginning to murmur and mutiny, he shall cause five of them to be thrown -over the Walls into the _Rhosne_, which is a swift River that passeth by. -_Nole_ must be some place thereabouts. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Qu’aura esté par Prince _Bizantin_, - Sera tollu par Prince de _Tholose_, - La foy de _Foix_, par le chef _Tholentin_, - Luy faillira ne refusant l’espouse. - - English. - - What shall have been by a _Bizantin_ Prince, - Shall be taken away by the Prince of _Tholose_, - The faith of _Foix_ by the chief _Tholentin_, - Shall fail him, not refusing the Spouse. - -ANNOT. - -I can understand nothing else by Prince _Bizantin_, but some Prince of -the house of _Gonzague_, who derive their pedigree from that of the -_Palæologues_, formerly Emperours of _Constantinople_, called in ancient -time _Bizantium_. As for the Prince of _Tholose_, there having been none -this two or three hundred years since that Country was devolved to the -Crown of _France_; but the King himself, I suppose he must be understood -here; so that the sense of this Prophecie, (if any be) is, that the King -of _France_ shall take something from the Duke of _Mantua_, who is the -head of the _Gonzagues_, as he hath done formerly several times. - -By the faith of _Foix_, is understood the late Duke of _Rohan_, who -descended from the house of _Foix_, and who did war against the said -Duke of _Mantua_ at that time, when the King of _France_, _Lewis_ XIII. -would not suffer his Brother the Duke of _Orleans_ to Marry the Princess -_Mary_, Daughter of the Duke of _Nevers_, of the house of _Gonzague_, and -lately Queen of _Poland_. - - -XL. - - French. - - Le sang du juste par _Taur_ & la _Dorade_, - Pour se vanger contre les _Saturnins_, - Au nouveau Lac plongeront la _Mainade_, - Puis marcheront contre les _Albanins_. - - English. - - The blood of the just by _Taur_ and _Dorade_, - To avenge themselves against the _Saturnins_, - In the new Lake shall sink the _Mainade_, - Then shall go forth against the _Albanins_. - -ANNOT. - -Here the Author hath kept his mind to himself, as for my part, being -ignorant of his barbarous words, I had rather leave the sense of this -to the judgment of the Reader, than by an incongruous and far fetched -interpretation make my self ridiculous. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Esleu sera Renard ne sonnant mot, - Faisant le Saint public, vivant pain d’orge, - Tyranniser apres tant a un cop, - Mettant le pied des plus grands sur la gorge. - - English. - - A Fox shall be elected that said nothing, - Making a publick Saint, living with Barley bread, - Shall tyrannise after upon a sudden, - And put his foot upon the Throat of the greatest. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy seemeth to regard particularly the Pope, who having played -the Hypocrite before his Election, eating nothing but Barley bread, that -he might be reputed a Spaint, shall after his Election shall tyrannise -upon a sudden, and trample upon the Throat of the greatest Monarchs, as -they have done formerly, and would do yet if they could. - - -XLII. - - French. - - Par avarice, par force & violence, - Viendra vexer les siens chefs d’_Orleans_, - Prez Saint _Memire_ assaut & resistance, - Mort dans sa Tente, diront quil dort leans. - - English. - - By avarice, by force and violence, - Shall come to vex his own chief of _Orleans_, - Near Saint _Memire_ assault and resistance, - Dead in his Tent, they’l say he sleepeth there. - -ANNOT. - -The construction of this must be thus made. The Chiefs of _Orleans_, -(which is a famous Town in _France_) shall come to vex their own (I -suppose) Citizens. And near that place called Saint _Memire_, shall be a -fight, where one of those chief ones shall be killed, or die in his Tent, -and shall be denyed under pretence of being asleep. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Par le decide de deux choses Bastars, - Nepveu du sang occupera le Regne, - Dedans _Lectoure_ seront les coups de dards, - Nepveu par peur pleira l’Enseigne. - - English. - - By the decision of two things, Bastards, - Nephew of the Blood shall occupy the Kingdom, - Within _Lectoure_ shall be strokes of Darts, - Nephew through fear shall fold up his Ensign. - -ANNOT. - -I think that instead of decision it should be division, and then the -sense is easily made up, thus; that through the division of two Bastards, -the Nephew of the Blood shall occupy the Kingdom, which Nephew afterwards -in a fight at _Lectoure_, (which is a strong Town in _Gascony_) shall be -put to the worst, and compelled to fold up his Ensigns. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Le procrée naturel d’_Ogmion_, - De sept a neuf du chemin destourner, - A Roy de longue & amy au my hom, - Doit a _Navarre_ fort de _Pau_ prosterner. - - English. - - The natural begotten of _Ogmyon_, - From seven to nine shall put out of the way, - To King of long, and friend to the half man, - Ought to _Navarre_ prostrate the fort of _Pau_. - -ANNOT. - -A man needeth a good pair of Spectacles to see through all this, what I -understand in it is that this Bastard of _Ogmyon_, by whom he meaneth the -King of _France_, ought to submit the Fort of _Pau_ to _Navarre_, and -good reason too; for _Navarre_ is the Kingdom, and _Pau_ only the chief -Town of one Province of it, called _Bearn_. - - -XLV. - - French. - - La main escharpe & la jambe bandée, - _Louis_ puisné de _Palais_ partira, - Au mot du guet la mort sera tardée, - Puis dans le Temple a Pasques seignera. - - English. - - The hand on a Scarf, and the leg swadled, - The younger _Lewis_ shall go from _Palais_, - At the Watch word his death shall be protracted, - Then afterwards at _Easter_ he shall bleed in the Temple. - -ANNOT. - -The Prince of _Condé_, whose name was _Lewis_, and the youngest of the -Children of _Charles_ of _Bourbon_, the first Duke of _Vendosme_, father -to _Anthony_ of _Bourbon_, King of _Navarre_, went away from the Court in -the time of _Francis_ the second King of _France_, and came into _Bearn_ -to the King his Brother. He was summoned many times by _Francis_ II. to -come to Court; but finding his name to be amongst those that intended to -surprise _Lion_, he durst not venture. - -Nevertheless he was perswaded by his Uncle the Cardinal of _Bourbon_, and -came to the Court at _Orleans_. It is easie to believe that he fained -himself to be hurt by a fall from his Horse, or that really he was so; -_having his Arm in a Scarf, and his Leg swadled up_, in which posture he -came to testifie his obedience to the Kings commands. - -In this posture of a wounded man, whether really and fictitiously he came -from _Palais_, which by mistake is printed _Calais_; the Printer being -ignorant, that in _Bearn_, where the Prince had sheltered himself, there -is a Castle called _Palais_, which was the place that the Prince used to -live in. - -Being come to Court he was presently arrested, arraigned and condemned to -death. Nevertheless the Kings sickness proving mortal, the execution was -suspended, and his life saved. After that the Prince sought all occasions -to revenge himself, and began about _Easter_ in _April_ following. It -was not by an open Rebellion against the King, but under pretence to -maintain the Protestant Religion: therefore the Author saith, _that this -life saved shall bleed in the Temple_; because the Princes pretext was -the Temple and the Church; that is Religion. Hence the fourth Verse is -clearly understood. Resteth the third Verse, which saith, that his life -was differred till the _Watch word_; because the Queen seeing the King -her Son upon his death bed, caused secretly the execution of the Sentence -to be differred, that she might make use of the King of _Navarre_, and -of the Prince his Brothers favour, against the house of _Guise_, for the -obtaining of the Regency. - -Moreover I observe, that in the year 1562. the Prince of _Condé_ began -openly to rebel, surprising the City of _Orleans_ the 29 of _March_, -which was _Easter day_ that year, which sheweth the truth of the fourth -Verse. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - _Pol Mensolée_ mourra trois lieues du _Rhosne_, - Fuis les deux prochains _Tarare_ destrois, - Car _Mars_ sera le plus horrible Throsne, - De Coq & d’Aigle, de _France_ frere trois. - - English. - - _Paul Mensolée_ Shall die three Leagues from the _Rhosne_, - Avoid the two straights near the _Tarare_; - For _Mars_ shall keep such a horrible throsne, - Of Cock and Eagle, of _France_ three Brothers. - -ANNOT. - -By this _Pol Mensolée_, he meaneth some proper name. _Tarare_ is a great -Mountain near the City of _Lions_, that hath two principal ways to go -through, which here he calleth Straights; for indeed they are very -dangerous for Thieves and Murderers. The rest is but a threating of War -between the Emperour and _France_, when there shall be three Brothers in -_France_. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Lac _Trasmenien_ portera tesmoignage, - Des conjurez ferrez dedans _Perouse_, - Un _Despolle_ contrefera le sage, - Tuant _Tedesque_ de _Sterne_ & _Minuse_. - - English. - - _Trasmenian_ Lake shall bear witness - Of the Conspirators shut up in _Perugia_, - A _Despolle_ shall counterfeit the wise, - Killing _Tedesque_ of _Sterne_ and _Minuse_. - -ANNOT. - -I think that the Impression is false here; for instead of _Despolle_, -which is a barbarous word, and signifieth nothing, I would have it in -_French_ _Despoville_, in _English_ robbed of all; so that _Trasmenian_ -Lake is that Lake in _Italy_ not far from the Town of _Perugia_, where -_Hannibal_ gave that notable overthrow to the _Romans_, and killed above -20000. of them, with their consul _Flaminius_. - -That man whom he calleth here robbed of all, shall kill some _Germans_; -for _Tudesco_ in _Italian_, is a _German_, the two last words are -barbarous. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - _Saturne_ en _Cancer_, _Jupiter_ avec _Mars_, - Dedans _Fevrier_ _Caldondon_, _Salvaterre_, - _Sault_, _Castalan_, assailly des trois parts, - Pres de _Verbiesque_, conflict mortelle guerre. - - English. - - _Saturn_ in _Cancer_, _Jupiter_ with _Mars_, - In _February_ _Caldondon_, _Salvaterre_, - _Sault_, _Castalon_, assaulted on three sides, - Near _Verbiesque_, fight and mortal War. - -ANNOT. - -The multiplicity of barbarous and insignificant words, makes this -incapable of any construction, if any body will exercise his wit -thereupon, I shall willingly lend him my ear. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - _Satur_ au Bœuf, _Jove_ en l’Eau, _Mars_ en fleche, - Six de _Fevrier_ mortalité donra, - Ceux de _Tardaigne_ a _Bruges_ si grand breche - Qu’a _Ponterose_ chef _Barbarin_ mourra. - - English. - - _Satur_ in Ox, _Jupiter_ in water, _Mars_ in arrow, - The sixth of _February_ shall give mortality, - Those of _Tardaigne_ shall make in _Bruges_ so great a breach, - That the chief _Barbarin_ shall die at _Pontrose_. - -ANNOT. - -_Satur in Ox_; that is, _Saturn_ in _Taurus_, _Jupiter in Water_; that -is, _Jupiter_ in _Aquarius_; _Mars in arrow_, is _Mars_ in _Sagitarius_; -when these things shall happen. _The sixth day of ~February~ shall bring -a great mortality._ _Tardaigne_ is a fictitious name, unless he intended -_Sardaigne_. _Bruges_ is a Town in _Flander_, _Ponterose_ is some -place, where he saith, that the chief _Barbarin_ shall die, the chief -Barbare was the Pope _Urban_ the eighth; but because I do not know the -particularities of his death, and the place of it, I cannot make the rest -good. - - -L. - - French. - - La Pestilence lentour de _Capadille_, - Un autre faim pres de _Sagunt_ sapreste, - La Chevalier Bastard de bon senille, - Au grand de _Thunes_ fera trancher la teste. - - English. - - The Plague shall be round about _Capadille_, - Another famine cometh near to that of _Sagunce_, - The Knight Bastard of the good old man, - Shall cause the great one of _Tunis_ to be beheaded. - -ANNOT. - -The difficulty here, is what is meant by that word _Cappadille_, for my -part I think he meaneth _Italy_, for some times the _Italians_ use by way -of admiration to say _Capoli_, or _Capadillo_. _Sagunce_ is a Town in -_Spain_, which for the love of the _Carthaginians_ withstood the _Romans_ -a great while, till they were brought to an extremity of famine, and then -set fire in their Town. - - -LI. - - French. - - Le _Bizantin_ faisant oblation, - Apres avoir _Cordube_ a soy reprinse, - Son chemin long, repos, pamplation, - Mer passant proye par la _Cologne_ a prinse. - - English. - - The _Bizantin_, making an offering, - After he hath taken _Cordua_ to himself again, - His way long, rest, contemplation, - Crossing the Sea hath taken a prey by _Cologne_. - -ANNOT. - -This is an express delineation of _Charles_ the V. Empire, who at the -latter end of his days retired into a Monastery, reserving unto himself -for his subsistance the revenue of the Kingdom of _Castille_, expressed -here by _Cordua_, which is a City of _Spain_. - - -LII. - - French. - - Le Roy de _Blois_ dans _Avignon_ Regner, - D’_Amboise_ & _Seme_ viendra le long de _Lindre_. - Ongle a _Poitiers_ Saintes aisles ruiner, - Devant _Bony_. - - English. - - The King of _Blois_ shall Reign in _Avignon_, - He shall come from _Amboise_ and _Seme_, along the _Linder_, - A Nail at _Poitiers_ shall ruine the Holy Wings, - Before _Bony_. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse and the interpretation is easie. - -_Amboise_ is a Town in _France_ upon the River of _Loire_. - -The two last Verses being inperfect, admits of no interpretation, onely -to let the Reader know that _Poitiers_ is a very great City in _France_, -and Capital of the Province of _Poitou_. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Dedans _Boulogne_ voudra laver ses fautes, - Il ne poura au Temple du Soleil, - Il volera faisant choses si hautes, - En _Hierarchie_ n’en fut onc un pareil. - - English. - - He shall desire to wash his faultes in _Bulloin_, - In the Church of the Sun, but he shall not be able, - He shall fly doing so high things, - That the like was never in _Hierarchy_. - -ANNOT. - -There is two Towns called _Bolloin_, one is in _Italy_, the other in -_France_, the last is that which is meant here; for Cardinal _Richelieu_ -who is the man that did so high things, and the like of which was never -in _Hierarchy_ (that is in the Clergy) a little afore his death had vowed -if he recovered his health to go in Pilgrimage to _Bulloin_, where there -is a famous Temple for Miracles, (as they say) dedicated to our Lady, -which is called here the Sun, by an allusion to that passage of the -Revelation: _And there appeared a Woman cloathed with the Sun_; but the -said Cardinal was prevented by death. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Soubs la couleur du traité mariage, - Fait magnanime par grand _Chiren Selin_, - _Quintin_, _Arras_, recouvrez au voiage, - D’_Espagnols_ fait second banc _Macelin_. - - English. - - Under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage, - A Magnanimous act shall be done by the great _Cheiren Selin_, - _Quintin_, _Arras_ recovered in the journey, - Of _Spaniards_ shall be made a second _Macelin_ Bench. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prognostication concerning a King of _France_, meant here by -the great _Cheiren Selin_, who under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage, -shall recover in his journey these two Towns Saint _Quintin_ and _Arras_, -for the Shambles are called in Latine _Macellum_. _Quod ibi mactentur -pectora quæ mercatoribus venundantur._ - - -LV. - - French. - - Entre deux Fleuves se verra enserré, - Tonneaux & caques unis a passer outre, - Huit Pont rompus chef a tant enferré, - Enfans parfaits sont jugulez en coultre. - - English. - - Between two Rivers he shall find himself shut up, - Tuns and Barrels put together to pass over, - Eight Bridges broken, the chief at last in Prison, - Compleat children shall have their throat cut. - -ANNOT. - -It is an accident that hath often happened to a Commander of an Army, -to find himself either by his own oversight, or by the policy of his -enemies, shut up between two Rivers, having upon neither of them a Bridge -at his command; as it did happen once to the Prince of _Condé_, the -Grandfather of this, in the time of the Civil war for Religion, who was -forced by it to dissolve his Army, and bid every one shift for himself, -so that they almost all escaped by several small parties, some going one -way some another, at such time it is an ordinary shift to make use of -empty Vessels and Caskes to make a Bridge, as our Author doth mention -here. - - -LVI. - - French. - - La bande foible la Terre occupera, - Ceux du haut lieu feront horribles cris, - Le gros troupeau d’estre coin troublera, - Tombe pres _D. nebro_ descouvert les escrits. - - English. - - The weak party shall occupy the ground, - Those of the high places shall make fearful cries, - It shall trouble the great flock in the right corner, - He falleth near _D. nebro_ discovereth the writings. - -ANNOT. - -I dare not comment upon this, for fear it should be said of me, what was -said of the Glose of _Accurtius_; _obscura per obscurius_. - - -LVII. - - French. - - De Soldat simple parviendra en Empire, - De Robe courte parviendra a la longue, - Vaillant aux Armes, en Eglise ou plus pire, - Vexer les Prestres comme l’eau fait l’esponge. - - English. - - From a simple Souldier he shall come to have the supreme command, - From a short Gown he shall come to the long one, - Vaillant in Arms, no worse man in the Church, - He shall vex the Priests, as water doth a Spunge. - -ANNOT. - -I never knew nor heard of any body to whom this Stanza might be better -applied, then to the late Usurper _Cromwel_, for from a simple Souldier, -he became to be Lord Protector, and from a Student in the University he -became a graduate in _Oxford_, he was valliant in Arms, and the worse -Churchman that could be found; as for vexing the Priests, I mean the -Prelatical Clergy, I believe none went beyond him. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Regne en querelle aux freres divisé, - Prendre les Armes & les nom _Britannique_, - Tiltre _Anglican_ sera tard advisé, - Surprins de nuit, mener a l’air _Gallique_. - - English. - - A Kingdom in dispute, and divided between the Brothers, - To take the Arms and the _Britannick_ name, - And the _English_ title, he shall advise himself late, - Surprised in the night and carried into the _French_ air. - -ANNOT. - -This prognosticateth a great division in _England_ between Brothers, -about the Title and Kingdom of _England_, insomuch, that in conclusion -one shall be surprised by night, and carried away into _France_. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Par deux fois haut, par deux fois mis a bas, - L’Orient aussi l’Occident foiblira, - Son adversaire apres plusieurs combats, - Par Mer chassé au besoin faillira. - - English. - - Twice set up high, and twice brought down, - The East also the West shall weaken, - His adversary after many fights, - Expelled by Sea, shall fail in need. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth of some considerable person, who shall be twice set up, -and brought down again. The second Verse is pronounced after the manner -of the old Oracles, as - - _Aio te Æacida Romanos vincere posse_, - -For no body can tell here whither the East shall weaken the West, or -otherways. The last two Verses are easie. - - -LX. - - French. - - Premier en _Gaule_, premier en _Romanie_, - Par Mer & Terre aux _Anglois_ & _Paris_, - Merveilleux faits par cette grand mesgnie, - Violant, _Terax_ perdra le _Norlaris_. - - English. - - The first in _France_, the first in _Romania_, - By Sea and Land to the _English_ and _Paris_, - Wonderful deeds by that great company, - By ravishing, _Terax_ shall spoil the _Norlaris_. - -ANNOT. - -The first in _France_ is the King, the first in _Romania_ is the _Pope_, -who it seemeth shall joyn together by Sea and Land, and come against -_Paris_, who shall call the _English_ to its help, insomuch, that strange -deeds shall be done by that great company. As for _Terax_, it seemeth to -be the proper name of some man, who by ravishing a woman called here the -_Norlaris_, shall spoil her and cause sad consequences. _Norlaris_ by -transposition of Letters is _Lorrain_. - - -LXI. - - French. - - Jamais par le decouvrement du jour, - Ne parviendra au signe Sceptrifere, - Que tous Sieges ne soient en sejour, - Portant au Coq don du _Tag_ a misere. - - English. - - Never by the discovering of the day, - He shall attain to the Sceptriferous sign, - Till all his seats be settled, - Carrying to the Cock a gift from the _Tag_ to misery. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that one pretending to a Kingdom, shall never attain to -it by often removing his place, until all his seats be settled, that is, -untill his wandring be ceased. And a gift brought by him to the King of -_France_ from _Portugal_, signified here by the _Tag_, which is the River -of _Lisbon_ the Capital City of it, from which gift shall proceed misery. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Lors qu’on verra expiler le Saint Temple, - Plus grand du _Rhosne_, & sacres prophaner: - Par eux naistra pestilence si grande, - Roy fait injuste ne sera condamner. - - English. - - When one shall see spoiled the Holy Temple, - The greatest of the _Rhosne_, and sacred things prophaned, - from them shall come so great a pestilence, - That the King being unjust shall not condemn them. - -ANNOT. - -The greatest Temple of the _Rhosne_, is that of the City of _Lion_, -which is seated upon that River of _Rhosne_, which when it shall be -robbed and spoiled, then shall come a horrid Pestilence, which our Author -attributeth to the injustice of the King then Reigning, who shall neglect -to punish those Sacriledges. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - Quand l’adultere blessé sans coup aura, - Meurdry la femme & le fils par depit, - Femme assomée l’Enfant estranglera, - Huit captifs prins sestoufer sans respit. - - English. - - When the Adulterer wounded without a blow, - Shall have murdered the wife and son by spight, - The woman knocked down, shall strangle the child, - Eight taken prisoners, and stifled without tarrying. - -ANNOT. - -This is the description of a sad Tragedy, which to understand, you must -joyn all the Verses together, and make it one sense. The Adulterer -wounded without a blow, is one that shall get a disease, (suppose the -_Pox_) his wife finding fault with it, he shall murder her, and her -Son; she not being quite dead shall strangle another Child (which it -seemeth she had by this Adulterer) and for this fact eight shall be taken -prisoners and immediately hanged, by which you must suppose the fact to -be done in _France_, for there they Judge and Hang immediately, whereby -in _England_ they must stay till Sessions-time. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Dedans les Isles les enfans transportez, - Les deux de sept seront en desespoir, - Ceux de terrouer en seront supportez, - _Nompelle_ prins, des ligues fuy l’espoir. - - English. - - In the Islands the Children shall be transported, - The two of seven shall be in despair, - Those of the Countrey shall be supported by, - _Nompelle_ taken, avoid the hope of the League. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to have a great relation to our late unhappy troubles in -_England_, when the Princess _Elizabeth_ and the Duke of _Glocester_ -were transported into the Isle of _Wight_, which are the two of the -seven, (for the Queen hath had seven children) and the Kings Majesty and -his Highness the Duke of _York_, were driven into the _Low-Countreis_, -being in a manner in dispair of ever coming again, and those Countreys -were much the better for the harbouring of them; in the last Verse by -_Nompelle_ I understand Anagrammatically _Monpelier_, which being taken, -there is no more hope in the League, as it did happen in the time of -_Henry_ the IV. King of _France_, who never saw the League or Covenant -quite routed, till that Town was taken; for it is familiar enough to -those kind of Prophets to make an ὕστερον πρώτερον, and joyn things past, -to those that are to come, to darken the Readers understanding, and as -the Scripture saith, _Ut videntes non videant_. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Le vieux frustré du principal espoir, - Il parviendra au chef de son Empire, - Vingt mois tiendra le Regne a grand pouvoir, - Tyran, cruel en delaissant un pire. - - English. - - The old man frustrated of his chief hope, - He shall attain to the head of his Empire, - Twenty months he shall keep the Kingdom with great power, - Tyrant, cruel, and having a worse one. - -ANNOT. - -The words of this Prophecy are plain enough, and because I cannot learn -in History that such things have come to pass yet, therefore I reckon it -among those _de futuro_. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Quand l’Escriture D. M. trouvée, - Et Cave antique a Lampe descouverte, - Loy, Roy, & Prince _Vlpian_ esprouvée, - Pavillon, Royne & Duc soubs la couverte. - - English. - - When the writing D. M. shall be found, - And an ancient Cave discovered with a Lamp, - Law, King, and Prince _Ulpian_ tried, - Tent, Queen and Duke under the rugge. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1555. _Ferdinand Alvaro_ of _Toledo_ Duke of _Alba_, being -sent by _Charles_ the V. into _Italy_ to resist the _French_, arrived in -_June_ at _Milan_, and having gathered together, all his Forces, Besieged -the Town St. _Jago_, but _Henry_ II. King of _France_ sending some -succours by the Duke of _Aumale_, he raised up his siege, and put his -Army into Garrisons. The Duke of _Alba_ leaving the Field in this manner, -the Duke of _Aumale_ besieged _Vulpian_, wherein were 1000. souldiers -in Garrison, under the command of _Cæsar_ of _Naples_, besides the -Inhabitants. Never was a place so furiously assaulted, and so manfully -defended, so that the _French_ were many times beaten back; but at last -after 24. days siege the Duke of _Aumale_ did gloriously take it. - -The Author foretelling the time of this victory, said it was when the -writing D. M. in big letters was found, that is to say, about the 11. of -_September_ after the Equinox, because in the Ephemerides, the Meridional -descension of the Planets, and chiefly of _Sol_, _Venus_, and _Mercury_ -is marked with these two Letters D. M. which descension cometh to pass -after the Equinox of _Autumn_ towards the end of _September_. At the -same time was discovered an ancient Cave, wherein was found one of those -Lamps, that cannot be put out, and burns continually without any addition -of Oil, by an invention that is lost. Such another was found in the time -of _Alexander_ the VI. and _Adrian_ the VI. - -The Town of _Vulpian_ was at that time tried by a King and a Prince, -_viz._ _Henry_ the II. and the Duke of _Aumale_ Prince of _Lorrain_, and -Brother to the Cardinal of _Lorrain_, and to the Duke of _Guise_. - -The Author addeth, that besides these three things, _viz._ the finding -of the letters D. M. The Cave discovered the siege of _Vulpian_; there -happened a fourth one, _viz._ that a Queen and a Duke should consult -together in a Summer-house, about the important affairs of the Kingdom. -To understand this, we must suppose that Pope _Paul_ the IV. willing to -secure his own person and the Ecclesiastical State against the _Spanish_ -faction, and that of the _Colonese_, did seize upon many places belonging -to the said _Colonese_, and knowing besides that the _Spaniards_ being -of the _Coloneses_ party, would not fail to come upon him, he disposed -the King of _France_ to come to his succours, so that the Queen having a -particular confidence in the Duke of _Guise_, did consult with him about -this business in some Summer-house, which the _French_ call a _Pavillon_. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - _Par._ _Car._ _nersaf_, a ruine grand discorde, - Ne l’un ne l’autre n’aura election, - _Nersaf_ du peuple aura amour & concorde, - _Ferrare_, _Collonne_ grande protection. - - English. - - _Par._ _Car._ _Nersaf_, to ruine great discord, - Neither one nor the other shall be Elected, - _Nersaf_, shall have of the people love and concord, - _Ferrare_, _Colonna_, great protection. - -ANNOT. - -It is very hard to say what the Author meaneth by these disjunctives -_Par._ _Car._ _Nersaf_, all what can be gathered by what follows, is, -that there shall be a great variance and strife about an Election, (I -suppose of a Pope as it useth to be) and that _Nersaf_ shall have the -good will of the people, and yet none of them shall be Elected. - -As for the fourth Verse, it is to be noted first that _Ferrara_ is a -strong Town in _Italy_ belonging to the Pope, and _Colonna_ is the -name of the chief Family in _Rome_, now whether _Ferrara_ shall be a -protection to _Colonna_, or _Colonna_ to _Ferrara_, we leave it to the -Reader to judge, because the Verse hath a double sense. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - Vieux Cardinal par le jeune deceu, - Hors de sa charge se verra desarmé, - _Arles_ ne monstres double fort apperceu, - Et l’_Aqueduct_ & le Prince embaumé. - - English. - - An old Cardinal shall be cheated by a young one, - And shall see himself out of his imployment, - _Arles_ do not show, a double fort perceived, - And the _Aqueduct_, and the embalmed Prince. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are very plain, the two last not so; therefore -observe that _Arles_ is a City in _France_, in the Countrey of _Dauphine_ -or _Provence_, famous for antiquity, which is forwarned here not to shew -its Fords, nor its Aqueducts, (which are buildings to convey water), nor -its embalmed Prince, which it seemeth lyeth thereabout buried. The Author -hath deprived here the Author of the reasons for why. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Aupres du jeune se vieux Ange baiser, - Et le viendra surmonter a la fin, - Dix ans esgaux aux plus vieux rabaisser, - De trois deux l’un huitiesme _Seraphin_. - - English. - - Near the young one the old Angel shall bowe, - And shall at last overcome him, - Ten years equal, to make the old one stoop, - Of three, two, one, the eighth a _Seraphin_. - -ANNOT. - -This is the description of a grand Cheat, when an old man called here -Angel, shall stoop before a young one, whom he shall overcome at last, -after they have been ten years equal. The last Verse is Mistical, for -there is four numbers, three, two, one, which make six; and eight, which -he calleth _Seraphin_, whether by allusion to that Quire of Angels, -which some call the eight, or whether to the Order of St. _Francis_, who -calleth it self _Seraphical_, is not easie to determine. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Il entrera vilain, meschant, infame, - Tyrannisant la _Mesopotamie_, - Tous amis fait d’Adulterine Dame, - Tetre horrible noir de _Physiognomie_. - - English. - - He shall come in villaen, wicked, infamous, - To tyranise _Mesopotamia_, - He maketh all friends by an adulteress Lady, - Foul, horrid, black in his _Physiognomie_. - -ANNOT. - -_Mesopotamia_ is a Greek word, signifying a Countrey between two Rivers; -and though there be many Countreys so seated, yet to this day, it -properly belongeth to that Countrey, that lyeth between the two famous -Rivers _Tigris_ and _Euphrates_ near _Babylon_; the rest is easie. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Croistra le nombre si grand des Astronomes, - Chassez bannis & livres censureq, - L’An mil six cens & sept par sacrez glomes, - Que nul au sacres ne seront asseurez. - - English. - - The number of Astronomers shall grow so great, - Driven away, bannished, Books censured, - The year one thousand six hundred and seven by sacred glomes, - That none shall be secure in the sacred places. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is clear, _viz._ that about the year 1607. the number -of Astronomers shall grow very great, of which some shall be expelled -and banished, and their Books censured and suppressed: the rest is -insignificant to me. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Champ _Perusin_ O l’Enorme deffaite, - Et le conflict tout aupres de _Ravenne_, - Passage sacra lors qu’on fera la feste, - Vaincueur vaincu, Cheval mange L’avenne. - - English. - - _Perugian_ Field, O the excessive rout, - And the fight about _Ravenna_, - Sacred passage when the Feast shall be celebrated, - The victorious vanquished, the Horse to eat up his Oats. - -ANNOT. - -_Perugia_ is a City in _Italy_, and so is _Ravenna_, by which it -seemeth there shall be a notable Battle fought, as was once before in -the time at _Lewis_ the XII. King of _France_ between _Gaston de Foix_ -his Nephew, and _Don Raimond de Cardonne_ Vice-roy of _Naples_, for -there the _French_ got the Battle; in conclusion of which, the said -_Gaston de Foix_ pursuing a Troop of _Spaniards_ that were retiring, was -unfortunately kill’d, and so the victorious were vanquished. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Soldat Barbare le grand Roy frapera, - Injustement non esloigné de mort, - L’Avare Mere du fait cause sera, - Conjurateur & Regne en grand remort. - - English. - - A Barbarous Souldier shall strike the King, - Unjustly, not far from death, - The covetous Mother shall be the cause of it, - The Conspirator and Kingdom in great remorse. - -ANNOT. - -These words are so plain that they need no interpretation. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - En Terre neuve bien avant Roy entré, - Pendant subjects luy viendront faire accueil, - Sa parfidie aura tel rencontré, - Qu’aux Citadins lieu de feste & recueil. - - English. - - A King being entered far into a new Countrey, - Whilst his Subjects shall come to welcom him, - His perfidiousness shall find such an encounter, - That to the Citizens it shall be instead of feast and welcom. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this seemeth to be, that a certain King being far got -into a new conquered Countrey, where he shall deal perfidiously with -his Subjects, that then he shall meet with such an accident, as to his -Citizens shall be instead of feast & welcom. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Le Pere & fils seront meurtris ensemble, - Le Prefecteur dedans son Pavillon, - La Mere a _Tours_ du fils ventre aura enfle, - Cache verdure de fueilles papillon. - - English. - - The Father and Son shall be murdered together, - The Governour shall be so in his Tent, - At _Tours_ the Mother shall be got with child by her son, - Hide the greenness with leaves Butter-flye. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing hard here but the last Verse, whereby it is signified, -that after such an incest of the Mother with the Son in the City of -_Tours_ (which is a Town in _France_) the fruit of it shall be secretly -buryed, and green Turfs laid upon the place, and Leaves upon them, to -take away the knowledge of it. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - Plus _Macelin_ que Roy en _Angleterre_, - Lieu obscur ne par force aura l’Empire, - Lasche, sans foy, sans loy, seignera Terre, - Son temps s’aproche si presque je souspire. - - English. - - More _Macelin_ then King in _England_, - Born in obscure place, by force shall reign, - Of loose disposition, without faith, without Law, the ground shall - bleed, - His time is drawing so near that I sigh for it. - -ANNOT. - -_Macelin_, is a Butcher or cruel man, from the Latine word _Macellum_, -which signifieth the Shambles, it is without contradiction that by this -Prophecy is plain concerning the late tyrant _Cromwel_, and his unlawful -Government. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - L’Antechrist bien tost trois annichilez, - Vingt & sept ans durera sa guerre, - Les Heretiques morts; captifs exilez, - Sang corps humain eau rougie, gresler Terre. - - English. - - By Antichrist three shall shortly be brought to nothing, - His War shall last seven and twenty years, - The Hereticks dead, Prisoners banished, - Blood, humane body, water made red, Earth hailed. - -ANNOT. - -What he meaneth here by Antichrist is not easie to determine, for he -cannot mean the Pope, himself being a Papist, nor the great Antichrist, -whose Reign, according to the Scripture, shall last but three years and -a half, it is more likely then that this Stanza hath coherence with the -precedent, and that by it he meaneth _Henry_ the VIII. who for the space -of about 27 years before he dyed, did handle something roughly the Clergy -and Clergy-men. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Un _Bragamas_ avec la langue torte, - Viendra des dieux rompre le Sanctuaire, - Aux Heretiques il ouvrira la porte, - En suscitant l’Eglise Militaire. - - English. - - A _Bragamas_ with his crooked Tongue, - Shall come and break the Gods Sanctuary, - He shall open the Gates unto Hereticks, - By raising the Militant Church. - -ANNOT. - -_Bragamas_ is the same thing that we call now _Bragadocio_. By the Gods -Sanctuary, he meaneth the Temples of the _Romish_ Religion, who are -reputed Sanctuaries, and are full of Images, which they worship as Gods, -praying and offering Incense to them. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Qui par fer pere perdra, nay de _Nonnaire_, - De _Gorgon_ sur la fin sera sang perferant, - En Terre estrange fera si tout de taire, - Qu’il bruslera luy mesme & son entant. - - English. - - He that by Iron shall destroy his Father, born in _Nonnaire_, - Shall in the end carry the blood of _Gorgon_, - Shall in a strange Countrey make all so silent, - That he shall burn himself and his intent. - -ANNOT. - -_Nonnaire_ and _Gorgon_ are two barbarous words, as for the sense of that -and the rest, he that shall be able to read the words, shall be as wise -as my self. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - Des innocens le sang de Vefue & Vierge, - Tant de maux faits par moiens ce grand Roge, - Saints simulachres trempez en ardant cierge, - De frayeur crainte ne verra nul que boge. - - English. - - The blood of the innocent Widow and Virgin, - So many evils committed by the means of that great Rogue, - Holy Images, dipt in burning wax Candles, - For fear no body shall be seen to stir. - -ANNOT. - -What he meaneth by the great Rogue is not obvious, but the main drift of -this Stanza seemeth to be, to foretel the abuses that should be offered -to the Popish Images by the Protestant party, as it was done in the time -of the Civil Wars of _France_, and a little while after our Author had -written his Prophecies. - -By the great Rogue, he meaneth some chief Commander of the Protestant -party, that were in those days, as the Prince of _Condé_, the Admiral of -_Castilon_, or his Brother _Dandelot_. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - Le neuf Empire en desolation, - Sera changé du Pole Aquilonaire, - De la _Sicile_ viendra l’emotion, - Troubler l’Emprise a _Philip_ tributaire. - - English. - - The new Empire in desolation, - Shall be changed from the Northern Pole, - The commotion shall come from _Sicily_, - To trouble the undertaking, tributary to _Philip_. - -ANNOT. - -This threatneth the Empire that now is in _Germany_, of a great -desolation, and to be removed from its place, and threatneth also the -Island of _Sicily_ of a fearful commotion, which shall trouble the -undertakings of _Philip_, that is, King of _Spain_, because they usually -are called by that name. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Ronge long, sec, faisant du bon valet, - A la par fin n’aura que son congie, - Poignant poison & Lettres au colet, - Sera saisy, eschapé, en dangié. - - English. - - Long gnawer, dry, cringing and fawning, - In conclusion shall have nothing but leave to be gone, - Piercing poison and Letters in his Collar, - Shall be seised, escape, and in danger. - -ANNOT. - -The words of this are easie to be understood, but not who should be that -man to whom he giveth these four famous Epithetes of _Long-gnawer_, -_dry_, _cringing_ and _fawning_. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Le plus grand voile hors du port de _Zara_, - Pres de _Bizance_ fera son entreprise, - D’Ennemy perte & l’amy ne séra, - Le tiers a deux fera grand pille & prise. - - English. - - The greatest Sail out of the Port of _Zara_, - Near _Bizance_ shall make his undertaking, - There shall be no loss of foes or friends, - The third shall make a great pillage upon the two. - -ANNOT. - -By _Zara_ I suppose that the _Venetians_ are meant, who have a very -strong Town of that name, situated in _Dalmatia_. _Bizance_ is -_Constantinople_, as we have said before; now whether this Prophecy was -fulfilled when the _Venetians_ took the Island of _Tenedos_, some 20 -years ago, which is not far from _Constantinople_, or whether it is to -come, I dare not assert. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - _Paterne_ aura de la _Sicile_ crie, - Tous les aprests du Gouphre de _Trieste_, - Qui s’entendra jusques a la _Trinacrie_, - De tant de voiles, fuy, fuy, l’horrible peste. - - English. - - _Paterne_ shall have out of _Sicily_ a cry, - All the preparations of the Gulph of _Trieste_, - That shall be heard as far as _Trinacry_, - Of so many Sails, fly, fly, the horrid plague. - -ANNOT. - -It hath been impossible for me to make any sense of this, and therefore -I believe that it is falsely printed, and that instead of _Paterne_, it -should be _Palerme_, which is the chief Town in _Sicily_. _Trinacry_ is -_Sicily_ it self, so called, _quod tria habeat, άκρα seu promontoria_. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Entre _Bayonne_ & a Sainct _Jean de Lux_, - Sera posé de _Mars_ la promottoire, - Aux _Hanix_ d’Aquilon, _Nanar_ hostera _Lux_, - Puis suffoque au lit sans adjoutoire. - - English. - - Between _Bayonne_ and Saint _John de Lux_, - Shall be put down the promoting of _Mars_, - From the _Hunix_ of the North, _Nanar_ shall take away _Lux_, - Then shall be suffocated in his bed without help. - -ANNOT. - -_Bayonne_ is a Town in _France_, upon the frontiers of _Spain_, and Saint -_John de Lux_ is the utmost frontiere of _France_, that way, (that being -supposed) he saith, that about Saint _John de Lux_, the promoting of the -war shall be set down; that is, that peace shall be made, as it was about -seven or eight years ago between _France_ and _Spain_, and the Marriage -concluded between the King and the _Infanta_. The two last Verses are -nonsensical, and only set down to make up the rhime. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Par _Arnani_, _Tholose_, & _Villefranque_, - Bande infinie par le Mont _Adrian_, - Passe Riviere, hutin par pont la planque, - _Bayonne_ entrer tous _Bichoro_ criant. - - English. - - By _Arnani_, _Tholose_, and _Villefranche_, - An infinite deal of people by the _Aprian_, - Cross Rivers, noise upon the Bridge and plank, - Come all into _Bayonne_ crying _Bichoro_. - -ANNOT. - -_Arnani_, _Tholose_, and _Villefranche_ are Towns of a Province in -_France_ called _Languedoc_. Mont _Adrian_ is a Mountain thereabout, and -_Hutin_ is an old _French_ word, signifying noise and strife, the sense -then of this Prophecy is, that by those Towns and Mountains, shall pass -an infinite multitude of people, with a great noise and strife, and shall -come and enter into _Bayonne_, every one crying in that Countrey Language -_Bichoro_, which is as much as to say, _Victory_. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Mort conspirée viendra en plein effet, - Charge donnée & voyage de mort, - Esleu, crée, receus, par siens desfait, - Sang d’innocence devant soy par remort. - - English. - - A conspired death shall come to an effect, - Charge given, and a journey of death, - Elected, created, received, by his own defeated, - Blood of Innocency before him by remorse. - -ANNOT. - -There is no mistical sense in this, and the words are plain, although of -a crabbid construction. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Dans la _Sardaigne_ un noble Roy viendra, - Qui ne tiendra que trois ans le Royaume, - Plusieurs couleurs avec soy conjoindra, - Luy mesme apres soin sommeil Matrirscome. - - English. - - A noble King shall come into _Sardinia_, - Who shall hold the Kingdom only three years, - He shall joyn many Colours to his own, - Himself afterwards, care, sleep matrirscome. - -ANNOT. - -_Sardinia_ is an Island in the _Mediterranean_ Sea, now in the possession -of the _Spaniard_, since he took the Kingdom of _Naples_, the three first -Verses are something intelligible, the last is altogether impossible and -barbarous. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Pour ne tomber entre mains de son oncle, - Qui ses enfans par regner trucidez, - Orant au peuple mettant pied sur _Peloncle_, - Mort & traisné entre Chevaux bardez. - - English. - - That he might not fall into the hands of his Uncle, - That had murdered his Children for to rule, - Taking away from the people, and putting his foot upon _Peloncle_, - Dead and drawn among armed Horses. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that an Uncle shall murder his Nephews Children, that he -may Reign, and that the said Nephew shall withdraw, and save himself from -the said Uncle. The rest is altogether obscure, if not absurd. - - -XC. - - French. - - Quand des croisez un trouvé de sens trouble, - En lieu du sacre verra un Bœuf cornu, - Par vierge porc son lieu lors sera double, - Par Roy plus ordre ne sera soustenu. - - English. - - When of the crossed, one of a troubled mind, - In a sacred place shall see a horny Oxe, - By Virgin Pork then shall his place be double, - By King no henceforth, order shall be maintained. - -ANNOT. - -By the crossed is understood some order of Knight-hood, who for the most -part wear that Badge, one of which being mad, and seeing in a Church a -Horny Oxe come, by a Virgin Hog shall be kept from harm, or rescued by a -Hog or Sow that was a Virgin, and it seems crossed the said Oxe, that he -should not gore the Knight, that then such order of Knighthood shall be -no more maintained nor upheld by the King of that Countrey, wherein such -thing shall happen. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Parmy les Champs des _Rhodanes_ entrées, - Ou les croisez seront presques unis, - Les deux _Brassiers_ en _Pisces_ rencontrées, - Et un grand nombre par Deluge punis. - - English. - - Through the Fields of the _Rhodanes_ comings in, - Where the crossed shall be almost united, - The two _Brassiers_ met in _Pisces_, - And a great number punished by a Flood. - -ANNOT. - -_Rhodanus_ in Latine is the River of _Rhosne_, which cometh from -_Switzerland_, and passing through the Lake of _Geneva_, runneth to -_Lyon_, it seemeth then that in those Fields that are about that River -there, will be a fearful inundation, when the _Brassiers_ (or rather -_Croziers_, which is a constellation so called) shall meet in _Pisces_, -which is one of the twelve Signs of the _Zodiack_. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Loin hors du Regne mis en hazard voiage, - Grand Ost duyra, pour soy l’occupera, - Le Roy tiendra les siens captif, ostage, - A son retour tout Pais pillera. - - English. - - Far from the Kingdom a hazardous journey undertaken, - He shall lead a great Army, which he shall make his own, - The King shall keep his prisoners, and pledges, - At his return he shall plunder all the Countrey. - -ANNOT. - -These obscure words signifie no more but that a King shall send a great -Army far from his Kingdom, the Commander of which Army shall make the -Army his own, which the King hearing, shall seize upon the Commanders -Relations, and keep them Prisoners and Hostages, for which the said -General being angry, shall at his return spoil the Countrey. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Sept mois sans plus obtiendra prelature, - Par son decez grand schisme fera naistre, - Sept mois tiendra un autre la Preture, - Pres de _Venise_ paix union renaistre. - - English. - - Seven months and no more, he shall obtain the Prelacy, - By his decease he shall cause a great Schisme, - Another shall be seven months chief Justice, - Near _Venice_ peace and union shall grow again. - -ANNOT. - -By this Prophecy three things are foretold, the first is of a Pope that -shall sit but seven months, at whose death there will be a great Schisme; -the second is of a great Governour or Chief Justice, such as were called -by the ancient _Romans Prætores_, shall be in authority also but seven -months; and the third, that hard by _Venice_ all these differences shall -be composed, and peace made again. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Devant la Lac ou plus cher fut getté, - De sept mois & son Ost desconfit, - Seront _Hispans_ par _Albanois_ gastez, - Par delay perte en donnant le conflict. - - English. - - Before the Lake wherein most dear was thrown, - Of seven months, and his Army overthrown, - _Spaniards_ shall be spoiled by _Albaneses_, - By delaying; loss in giving the Battle. - -ANNOT. - -It is very difficult, if not impossible to tell what our Author meaneth -by the Lake, wherein the most dear was thrown, and lost his Army. The -_Albaneses_ are a Nation between the _Venetians_ and _Greece_, now for -the most part subject to the said _Venetians_. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Le Seducteur sera mis dans la Fosse, - Et estaché jusques a quelque temps, - Le Clerc uny, le Chef avec sa Crosse, - Pycante droite attraira les contems. - - English. - - The Deceiver shall be put into the Dungeon, - And bound fast for a while, - The Clerk united, the head with his Crosierstaf, - Pricking upright, shall draw in the contented. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain, the two last Verses not so, which seemeth -to foretell of a great union among the Clergy, which shall draw to them -those that were peaceably affected. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - La Synagogue sterile sans nul fruit, - Sera receue entre les Infideles, - De _Babylon_ la fille du poursuit, - Misere & triste luy trenchera les Aisles. - - English. - - The Synagogue barren, without fruit, - Shall be received among the Infidels, - In _Babylon_, the daughter of the persecuted, - Miserable and sad shall cut her wings. - -ANNOT. - -A Synagogue is a place where the Jews assemble for Divine Worship, as -the Christians do in Churches or Temples, the said Jews Synagogue is -threatned here to be unfruitful and barren, and chiefly in _Babylon_, by -the means of a woman, daughter of one persecuted; belike of some of their -own tribe, whom the rest did persecute. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Au fins du _Var_ changer le _Pompotans_, - Pres du Rivage, les trois beaux enfans naistre, - Ruine au peuple par Aage competans, - Regne au Pais changer plus voir croistre. - - English. - - At the ends of the _Var_ to change the _Pompotans_, - Near the Shore shall three fair Children be born, - Ruine to the people by competent Age, - To change that Countreys Kingdom, and see it grow no more. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse being made of insignificant words, as _Var_ and -_Pompotans_ cannot be understood; the other three doth foretel of three -handsom Children, that shall be born near the Shore, which when they have -attained a competent Age, shall change the Kingdom of that Countrey, and -suppress it. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Des gens d’Eglise sang sera espanché, - Comme de l’eau en si grande abundance, - Et de long temps ne sera retranché, - Veüe au Clerc ruine & doleance. - - English. - - The blood of Churchmen shall be spilt, - As water in such abundance, - And for a good while shall not be stayed, - Ruine and grievance shall be seen to the Clerk. - -ANNOT. - -This is easie to be understood, which foretelleth a very great -persecution to the Clergy-men, _viz._ Papists, of which Religion our -Author was, if this be not already past in the Civil Wars of _France_, -that were made for Religion, in the beginning of Reformation, where -abundance of Clergy-men did perish on both sides. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - Par la puissance des trois Rois temporels, - En autre lieu sera mis la Saint Siege, - Ou la substance de l’Esprit corporel, - Sera remis & receu pour vray Siege. - - English. - - By the power of three Temporal Kings, - The Holy See shall be put in another place, - Where the substance of the Corporeal Spirit, - Shall be restored and admitted for a true seat. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is very remarkable, for the thing it foretelleth, _viz._ a -translation of the See of _Rome_, that is, the Popedom into another place -by three Temporal Kings, and not onely that, but it seemeth by the sense -of the last two Verses, that these will keep the Ecclesiastical authority -to themselves. - - -C. - - French. - - Pour l’abundance de l’Armée respandue, - Du haut en bas, par le bas au plus haut, - Trop grande foy par jeu vie perdue, - De soif mourir par abondant defaut. - - English. - - Through the abundance of the Army scattered, - High and low, low and high, - Too great a belief a life lost in jesting, - To die by thirst, through abundance of want. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is, that by reason of a great Army that shall be much -scattered, and occupy a great deal of room, water will be so scarce, that -some shall die for thirst, it is that he calleth here, _To die by thirst, -through abundance of want_. - - -Other Stanza’s heretofore Printed, under the VIII. CENTURY. - - -I. - - French. - - Seront confus plusieurs de leur attente, - Aux habitans ne sera pardonné, - Qui bien pensoint perseverer l’attente, - Mais grand loisir ne leur sera donné. - - English. - - Many shall be confounded in their expectation, - The Citizens shall not be forgiven, - Who thought to persevere in their resolution, - But there shall not be given them a great leisure for it. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain, and needeth no interpretation. - - -II. - - French. - - Plusieurs viendront & parleront de Paix, - Entre Monarques & Seigneurs bien puissans, - Mais ne sera accordé de si pres, - Que ne se rendent plus qu’autres obeissans. - - English. - - Many shall come and shall talk of Peace, - Between Monarchs and Lords very powerful, - But it shall not be agreed to it so soon, - If they do not shew themselves more obedient then others. - -ANNOT. - -We are just now at the Eve of this Prophecy, when so many Princes and -Potentates do busie themselves about a Mediation between the two Crowns -of _France_ and _Spain_, &c. - - -III. - - French. - - Las quelle fureur, helas quelle pitie, - Il y aura entre beaucoup de gens, - On ne vit onc une tell amitié, - Qu’auront les Loups a courir diligens. - - English. - - Ha! what fury, alas what pitty, - There shall be betwixt many people, - There was never seen such a friendship, - As the Wolfs shall have in being diligent to run. - -ANNOT. - -It is indeed a great fury and pity to see how wicked people, and chiefly -Usurers and false dealers, (understood here by the name of Wolfs) are -diligent in doing mischief, and to make good the old Proverb, _Homo -homini Lupus_, there being no other Creature but the Wolf that devours -those of his own kind. - - -IV. - - French. - - Beaucoup de gens viendront parlementer, - Aux grand Seigneurs qui leur feront la guerre, - On ne voudra en rien les escouter, - Helas! si Dieu n’envoie Paix en Terre. - - English. - - Many folks shall come to speak, - To great Lords that shall make War against them, - They shall not be admitted to a hearing, - Alas! if God doth not send Peace upon Earth. - -ANNOT. - -This carrieth its sense with it, and is plain. - - -V. - - French. - - Plusieurs secours viendront de tous costez, - De gens lointains qui voudront resister, - Ils seront tout a coup bien hastez, - Mais ne pourront pour cette heure assister. - - English. - - Many helps shall come on all sides, - Of people far off, that would fain to resist, - They shall be upon a sudden all very hasty, - But for the present they shall not be able to assist. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to point at this present conjuncture of affairs, where there -is so many buisying themselves about the relief of _Flanders_, of which I -see no great likelihood. - - -VI. - - French. - - Las quel plaisir ont Princes estrangers, - Garde toy bien qu’en ton Pais ne _Vienne_, - Il y auroit de terribles dangers, - Et en maintes Contrées, mesme en la _Vienne_. - - English. - - Ha! what pleasure take Forrain Princes? - Take heed least any should come into thy Countrey, - There should be terrible dangers, - In several Countreys, and chiefly in _Vienna_. - -ANNOT. - -There is two Towns called _Vienna_’s, one is in _Germany_, in the -Province of _Austria_, and is the Emperours Seat, the other in _France_, -a metter of twenty miles beyond _Lion_, the rest is easie. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ IX. - - -I. - - French. - - Dans la maison du Traducteur de _Boure_, - Seront les lettres trouvées sur la Table, - Borgne, roux blanc, chenu, tiendra de cours, - Qui changera au nouveau Connestable. - - English. - - In the house of the Translator of _Boure_, - The Letters shall be found upon the Table, - Blind of one eye, red, white, hoary, shall keep its course, - Which shall change at the coming of the new Constable. - -ANNOT. - -It is not easie to understand what he meaneth by the Translator of -_Boure_, unless it be some mean and pittiful fellow, that lived by -Translating things from one language into another, because the _French_ -use to call a man that is inconsiderable, _un homme du boure_, that is a -man of Flocks; and so much the more I am of this opinion, because of the -scurvy Epithetes, he attributeth to the same person, by which he might -easily be known as _blind of one eye, red, white, hoary_, &c. - - -II. - - French. - - Du haut du Mont _Aventin_ voix ouye, - Vuidez, vuidez de tous les deux costez, - Du sang des rouges sera l’Ire assouvie, - D’_Arimin_, _Prato_, Columna debotez. - - English. - - From the top of Mount _Aventin_, a voice was heard, - Get you gone, get you gone on all sides, - The Choler shall be fed with the blood of the red ones, - From _Arimini_ and _Prato_, the Colonnas shall be driven away. - -ANNOT. - -Mount _Aventine_ is one of the seven Mountains of _Rome_, from the top of -which our Author saith that a voice was heard crying and repeating, _get -you gone_, and the reason is, because choler and anger shall feed upon -the blood of the Cardinals, understood here by the name of _red ones_. - -_Arimini_ and _Prato_ are two cities in _Italy_. - -The _Colonna_ is the chiefest and ancientest family of _Rome_. - - -III. - - French. - - Le _magna vaqua_ a _Ravenne_ grand trouble, - Conduits par quinze enserrez a _Fornase_, - A _Rome_ naistra deux Monstres a teste double, - Sang, feu, deluge, les plus grands a l’espase. - - English. - - The _Magna vaqua_ great trouble at _Ravenna_, - Conducted by fifteen, shut up at _Fornase_, - At _Rome_ shall be born two Monsters with a double head, - Blood, fire, Flood, the greater ones astonished. - -ANNOT. - -This word of _Magna vaqua_ is either falsly printed, or altogether -barbarous and insignificant, and so is that of _Fornase_, which maketh -the two first Verses incapable of translation; the other are easie. - - -IV. - - French. - - L’An ensuivant descouverts par Deluge, - Deux chefs esleus, le premier ne tiendra, - De fuyr ombre a l’un deux le refuge, - Saccagée case qui premier maintiendra. - - English. - - The year following being discovered by a Flood, - Two Chiefs elected, the first shall not hold, - To fly from shade, to one shall be a refuge, - That house shall be plundered which shall maintain the first. - -ANNOT. - -Our Author meaneth, that the year after the former Prophecy is come to -pass, this shall also be fulfilled, whereby two Chief Commanders shall be -chosen, the first of which shall not stand, but shall be compelled to run -away, and to seek his security in the open Fields, and that house that -did uphold the first shall be plundered. - - -V. - - French. - - Tiers doigt du pied au premier semblera, - A un nouveau Monarque de bas haut, - Qui _Pise_ & _Luiques_ tyran occupera, - Du precedent corriger le defaut. - - English. - - The third toe of the foot shall be like the first, - To a new high Monarch come from low estate, - Who being a Tyrant shall cease upon _Pise_ and _Luica_, - To correct the faults of him that preceded him. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that some body pretending to mend the Government -of those two places that are in Italy, shall tyrannically make himself -Master of them. - - -VI. - - French. - - Par la _Guyenne_ infinité d’_Anglois_, - Occuperont par nom d’_Angle Aquitaine_, - Du _Languedoc_. _I._ palme _Bourdelois_, - Quils nommeront apres _Barboxitaine_. - - English. - - There shall be in _Guyenna_ an infinite number of _English_, - Who shall occupy it by the name of _Angle Aquitaine_, - Of _Languedoc_, _I_ by the Land of _Bourdeaux_, - Which afterwards they shall call _Barboxitaine_. - -ANNOT. - -Here is foretold a famous invasion, that shall be made by the _English_ -upon that part of _France_ called _Guyenne_, and in Latine _Aquitania_, -of which _Bourdeaux_ is the chief City, insomuch, that the _English_ -afterwards shall call that Countrey _Angl’ Aquitaine_. - - -VII. - - French. - - Qui ouvrira le Monument trouvé, - Et ne viendra le serrer promptement, - Mal luy viendra & ne poura prouvé, - Si mieux doibt estre Roy _Breton_ ou _Normand_. - - English. - - He that shall open the Sepulchre found, - And shall not close it up again presently, - Evil will befall him, and he shall not be able to prove - Whether is best a _Britain_ or _Norman_ King. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is perspicuous. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Puisnay Roy fait son pere mettre a mort, - Apres conflict de mort tres in honeste, - Escrit trouvé soupcon, donra, remort, - Quand loup chassé pose sur la couchete. - - English. - - A younger King causeth his father to be put - To a dishonest death, after a Battle, - Writing shall be found, that shall give suspicion and remorse, - When a hunted Wolf shall rest upon a truckle bed. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense are plain. - - -IX. - - French. - - Quand Lampe ardente de feu inextinguible, - Sera trouvée au Temple des Vestales, - Enfant trouvée, feu, eau passant par crible, - _Nismes_ eau perir, _Tholouse_ cheoir les Halles. - - English. - - When a Lamp burning with unquenchable fire, - Shall be found in the Temple of the Vestals, - A Child shall be found, Water running through a Sieve, - _Nismes_ to perish by Water, the Market-hall shall fall at _Tholouse_. - -ANNOT. - -The ancient _Vestals_, were a Kind of Religious Virgins in the ancient -_Romans_ time, who if they did forfeit their honour, were buried alive -in a Cave, with a little Bread and Water, and a Lamp burning, our -Author would have, that when a Lamp shall be found lighted with an -unquenchable fire, in that place where then their Temple was, that then -_Nismes_ (which is a City of _Languedoc_), shall perish by Water, and -the Market-hall of _Tholouse_ shall fall, whether such a Lamp may be -contrived as to burn with an unquenchable fire, is too long and tedious a -discourse to be disputed here. - - -X. - - French. - - Moine, Moinesse d’Enfant mort exposé, - Mourir par Ourse & ravy par verrier, - Par _Foix_ & _Panniers_ le Camp sera posé, - Contre _Tholose_, _Carcas_, dresser forrier. - - English. - - Monk and Nun having exposed a dead Child, - To be killed by a she Bear, and snatcht away by a Glazier, - The Camp shall be set by _Foix_ and _Panniers_, - And against _Tholouse_, _Carcas_ shall raise a Harbinger. - -ANNOT. - -_Foix_ and _Panniers_ are two Towns in _Languedoc_, and so are _Tholouse_ -and _Carcassonne_, called here _Carcas_, for the abbreviation of the -Verse, the sense then of this prophecy is, that when the two first Verses -shall come to pass, that then an Army shall lie about those Towns, and -_Carcassonne_ shall be against _Thoulouse_. - - -XI. - - French. - - Le juste a tort a mort l’on viendra mettre, - Publiquement, & du milieu estaint, - Si grande Peste en ce lieu viendra naistre, - Que les Jugeans fouyr seront contraints. - - English. - - The just shall be put to death wrongfully, - Publickly, and being taken out of the midst, - So great a Plague shall break into that place, - That the Judges shall be compelled to run away. - -ANNOT. - -Many understand this of the late King, and last Plague. - - -XII. - - French. - - Le tant d’argent de _Diane_ & _Mercure_, - Les simulachres au Lac seront trouvez, - Le Figulier cherchant argille neuve, - Luy & les siens, d’or seront abreuvez. - - English. - - The so much Silver of _Diana_ and _Mercury_, - The Statues shall be found in the Lake, - The Potter seeking for new clay, - He and his shall be filled with Gold. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning a _Potter_, who seeking and digging for -new Clay, shall find in a drained Lake the Statues of _Diana_ and -_Mercury_ all of silver, besides other great riches; seeing this Prophecy -is not come to pass yet (that I know) it will not be amiss, for the -divertisement of the Reader, to relate here a notable and authentical -History of a Potter that hath much ressemblance with this, and will be -a convincing Argument, that Mines grow in the Earth as Turfs do, and as -_Virgil_ sayeth of the golden branch: - - _Uno avulso non deficit alter._ - -It is written by Doctor _de Rochas_, Physitian to the present Chancellor -or _France_, who was upon the place, and an eye witness of the -circumstances of it, having also an interest in it, in the behalf of his -Father, who was overseer of the Mines in that Province, therefore I shall -relate it in his own words, as they are in his Book of _Mineral Waters_. - -[Sidenote: _A notable History._] - -In _Provence_ near _Thoulon_, is a Mountain called _Carquairené_, at the -foot of which and near the brim of the Sea, there dwelled a Potter with -all his tools about him; It chanced that on a day as he went to fetch -Wood in that Mountain, to bake his wares, he heard a voice of a little -Kid, which some Shepherd had left behind them unawares, and was fallen -in a little hole that answered to natural, great and deep Caves; this -man seeing no Shepherds about him, thought presently it was a strayed -Kid, therefore he followed the cry with his ear so directly, that he came -by the orifice of that hole, where he heard and saw the Kid, which he -resolved to carry away with his Wood, therefore he took the Cords that -were at his Mules Saddle, and that he used to bind his Load with, and -with the help of them, and of some big pieces of Wood he got down, where, -he did observe round about him many other Caves, contiguous and separated -from this, which his curiosity caused him to view, and found in the chief -of these Caves a great quantity of stones heaped upon one another, & of a -substance and colour of Brass, and among the rest there was one that came -forth out of the Rock, about the bigness, shape, and length of a mans -arm, when it is stretched out; he did apparently judge that the weight -and brittleness of that matter had caused those stones to fall down, -and that the same that he saw come out of the Rock in this manner, was -already loose and like to fall; this man finding himself among such an -abundance of rich Lingots, which fortune did offer him, did not know the -value of them, but did like the Cock of _Æsop_ which left the precious -Pearl to take the Corn of Wheat; thus this _Jason_ took very little of -this Golden Fleece, and only a small piece, which he broke from a bigger -with one of his Tools, and imployed all his industry to carry away his -Kid, which at last with much ado he got out, and carried upon his Mule, -believing certainly that this provision would be more profitable to -him and his Family, then the yellow stone which he had in his pocket, -weighing about five pounds, and which he intended to give to a Tinker -of _Thoulon_, his Gossip and good friend, in hope that for the same he -might be presented with a bottle of Wine, to keep company to his Kid; and -accordingly the next morning by break of day he went to _Thoulon_ and -stayed in the Shop of his friend, who did look with admiration upon so -resplendent Brass; a Gold-smith who lodged over the way, and observed -the splendor of that Divine mettal, drew near, and presently would have -bargained for it, with a great deal of transportation and alteration. -The Potter asked him only twenty pence, which the Gold-Smith would have -given him presently, but the Tinker making sign to him to retract his -words, he put his lingot in his pocket again, with protestation that he -would not part with it, unless he had something that were worth the pains -of going where he had it; in conclusion, after many contestations and -disputes, the Potter who did suspect that it might be gold, would not -sell nor deliver it under the sum of thirty Crowns, which the Gold-Smith -paid him presently, and which he carried away with more joy, then if he -had been possessor of greater riches; the Gold-smith on the other side, -who thought that his profit would be above a hundred pounds sterlings, -did refine this stone, that was about five pound weight, out of which he -drew four pound weight, of very good and pure gold, the rest was a kind -of dross, that made it thus brittle; one ought not to think that the Mine -is all of the same perfection, but it purifieth it self, according as -nature thrusteth it out of the Rock, as we see that Rubies and Emeralds -are purer, then the Rock from whence they come. This Gold-Smith having -found such fortune, and being resolved to make the best use of it, went -to the Lord _Scaravaque_, then Governour of the Town, and imparted unto -him this new discovery, that he might have his assistance and favour in -it, and that under his power and authority he might follow and wait upon -this precious business without being disturbed by any body, to which the -Governour did so much the easier consent, that this Tradesman did oblidge -himself to give him the best part of the profit that should arise from -thence, and that should exceed any Travels into the _Indies_ or _Peru_. - -In the mean time the Potter was not asleep, the Gold-smiths money had -stirred his appetite, and the charm of this witchcraft that worketh -generally upon all spirits, did put him upon new hopes. He went into -the Mountain with his wife, and with the help of a rope Ladder, which -he had provided, and some Iron tools, wherewith he had loaded his Mule, -he went down into the Caves, and with much endeavour did at last break -that piece, that came out of the Rock like a mans arm, because all the -other that were tumbled upon the ground, were so big and heavy that he -could not remove them, when he had broken it down, though it were about -fourscore and two pounds weight, nevertheless with the help of his wife -and of his Ropes and Ladder he got out again, and stopt the hole with a -large stone, and some Earth, upon which he planted some small Bushes so -ingeniously, that this hole could never be found out again. - -The Lord _Scaravaque_ who was most impatient, to conquer like another -_Jason_ this Golden Fleece, and who was set on by the persuasions of the -Gold-smith, sent for the Potter, under pretence to employ him in the -making and furnishing of some Tiles and other small commodities that -depended on his art. The Potter obeyed presently, drawn by the hopes to -sell his wares well, and mistrusting nothing at all what they would ask -him. As soon as he came, the Governour asked him and perswaded him with -the best and most flattering words he could, to tell where he had the -yellow stone that he sold to the Gold-smith. The Potter who more and more -began to know the value of this rare Treasure, invented presently a lie, -to free himself of the importunity of them that would have deceived him; -therefore with an ingenuity, as simple as artificial he answered, he had -found it upon the brim of the Sea, where may be some Ship had been cast -away, or the Waves had cast it upon the shore. - -The Governour answered that this could not be, and therefore threatned -him of violence, and to send for all that he had in his House, which -put the fellow into a great perplexity, because of the other stone that -should be found there, therefore he chose rather to give it them out -of his good will, then to put himself in danger of loosing all, and -perchance of being abused to boot, without any more ado, he ingenuously -confessed he had another piece of the same stuff as the former in his -House, which he had likewise found in the same place, which he was -ready to put into their hands, provided he might have his share of it, -and be suffered to get his livelihood peaceably. The Lord _Scaravaque_ -did promise him all what he desired, and gave him some men to keep him -company, with command to bring him back again, and to take special care -he should not make an escape. At last this poor man came back again -with that piece, which did more inflame the passion that the Governour -had to know the place whence came that rich treasure; but neither for -prayers, promises, or threats he would never reveal it, which did oblige -the Governour to shut him up close in a Chamber, where nevertheless they -gave him Victuals and made ready a Bed, but he refused both, and by -an extraordinary sadness, gave shew that some notorious mischance was -waiting on him, which proved true, for he was found dead in the Morning; -which did put the Lord _Scaravaque_ in a grief unexpressible, to see -himself deprived by this accident, of the fruit that his hopes had made -him conceive. He had recourse to the Potters wife for this discovery, but -she could never attain to it, whatsoever exact searches she could make: -yea, and after she was married again with a young man, who had spent in -that search most of his time. The Lord _Scaravaque_ and other persons -of quality have employed all their skills and endeavours, but all their -industry and charges have been without effect, as well as of many others, -who attempted the same; about that time my Father who was overseer of -the Mines in _Provence_, having received the news of a business of -such consequence, that did concern his place, went presently unto that -Mountain, to see if he could discover those wonders, I was then in his -company, as also that woman, _viz._ the Potters wife, who carried us in -several places for many days, without any success at all, although she -gave notice that she could here the Waves of the Sea, when she was in the -Cave with her first Husband, so that all our endeavours proved fruitless -and unprofitable, because my Father fell sick, which made us forsake our -quest, which is of such a consequence as not to be neglected. - -During the time of our painful visiting that Mountain, I did consider the -particularities of that rich Mountain, and observed that the top of it -was almost all Azur, which tokens are the beams of that golden Sun and -are the hairs of that fair goodness, under whose feet all things submit; -in a word, are the true and infallible signs that underneath are Mines -of Gold and Silver. And as I have directed all my thoughts many times to -find out the means to compass so excellent a work, whose profit would -surpass all what the _Indies_ furnish unto strangers, and that with so -much less charges and danger, that there is no heed of Ships or Fleet to -cross over the Sea, from one Pole to the other, nor fight against any -enemies: at last I have attained to a certain knowledge, which putteth me -in hope, and makes me promise and engage my word, that at least I shall -find a thred of that golden Mine, which may chance to lead us to the -Centre of all these Treasures, but the Royal Authority being necessary -to prop up this design, it belongeth to his Majesty to take what course -he thinketh best for this, and to me to obey, execute his will. This -digression which is an assured experiment, (that is a certain truth), -is not come into this discourse, but only to prove that Mines grow by -augmentation, in converting into their own nature the more subtle parts -of the Neighbouring Earth. Thus far Doctor _de Rochas_. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Les Exilez autour de la _Sologne_, - Conduits de nuict pour marcher en l’_Auxois_, - Deux de _Modene_ truculent de _Bologne_, - Mis discouverts par feu de _Burancois_. - - English. - - The banished about _Sologne_, - Being conducted by night to go into _Auxois_, - Two of _Modena_, the cruel of _Bolonia_, - Shall be discovered by the fire of _Burancois_. - -ANNOT. - -_Sologne_ is a Province in _France_, between the _Perche_ and the _Main_. -_Auxois_ is a Countrey in the South of _France_, so called of its chief -Town called _Auch_, the seat of an Archbishop. _Modena_ is a Town in -_Italy_, and _Bolonia_ another not far from it. _Burancois_ is a part of -the Province of _Dauphiné_. The meaning then of this Prophecy is, this -being known, the Reader may easily find out the rest of the sense. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Mis en planure chauderon d’Infecteurs, - Vin miel en huile & bastis sur Fourneaux, - Seront plongez sans mal dit malfacteurs, - Sept. fum. extaint au Canon des _Borneaux_. - - English. - - A Dyers Kettle being put an a Plein, - With Wine, Honey and Oil, and built upon Furnace, - Shall be dipt, without evil, called Malefactors, - Seven. fum. put out at the Canon of _Borneaux_. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a relation to the punishment, which in some parts of _France_ -and _Flanders_ is inflicted upon false Coiners, which are commonly boiled -in Oil, in a great Kettle, such as our Author here saith belong to Dyers. -The Author then will have that the time shall come, when seven of that -gang shall be so punished together in a Plain, where a great Kettle shall -be set for that purpose upon a Furnace. - - -XV. - - French. - - Pres de _Parpan_ les rouges detenus, - Ceux du milieu parfondrez menez loing, - Trois mis en pieces, & cinq mal soustenus, - Pour le Seigneur & Prelat de _Bourgoing_. - - English. - - Near unto _Parpan_ the red ones detained, - Those of the middle sunk and carried far off, - Three cut in pieces, and five ill backed, - For the Lord and Prelate of _Burgoing_. - -ANNOT. - -_Parpan_ is either a barbarous or fained name, by the _red ones_, he -hath hitherto understood some Cardinals, the Reader may expound the rest -according to his fancy. - - -XVI. - - French. - - De _Castel Franco_ sortira l’assemblée, - L’Ambassadeur non plaisant fera Schisme, - Ceux de _Riviere_ seront en la meslée, - Et au grand Goulphre desnieront l’entrée. - - English. - - Out of _Castel Franco_ shall come the Assembly, - The Embassador not pleased, shall make a Schisme, - Those of _Riviere_ shall be in the medley, - And shall deny the entry of the great Gulf. - -ANNOT. - -_Castel Franco_ is a Town in _Piemont_; _Riviere_ is a strong Castle in -_Burgundy_, but what he meaneth by the great Gulfe, is more then I can -tell. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Le tiers premier, pis que ne fit _Neron_, - Vuidez vaillant que sang humain respandre, - Redifier fera le Forneron, - Siecle d’or mort, nouveau Roy grand esclandre. - - English. - - The third first, worse than ever did _Nero_, - Go out valliant, he shall spill much humane blood, - He shall cause the Forneron to be builded again, - Golden Age dead, new King great troubles. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy pointeth directly at our Authors Master _Charles_ the IX. -King of _France_, whom he calleth he _the third first_, because he was -the third son to _Henry_ II. and came to be King, using more cruelties -then ever _Nero_ did, for he was the cause of the Massacre of the -Protestants in _France_ in the year 1572. where above a hundred thousand -people were murdered. _Forneron_ is a barbarous word, put here to make a -Verse, and to rhime with _Neron_. At that time he saith the _Golden Age -was dead_, and upon the coming of a new King, who was _Henry_ III. great -tumults did happen, and great Wars, as is to be seen in the _French_ -History. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Le Lys _Dauffois_ portera dans _Nancy_, - Jusques en _Flanders_ Electeur de l’Empire, - Neusve obturée au grand _Montmorency_, - Hors lieux pronez delivre a clere peyne. - - English. - - _Dauffois_ shall carry the Lillie into _Nancy_, - As far as _Flanders_ the Elector of the Empire, - New hinderance to great _Montmorency_, - Out of proved places, delivered to a clear pain. - -ANNOT. - -Although the words and sense of this Prophecy be most obscure, -nevertheless we shall endeavour as much as we can to render them -something intelligible to the Reader. - -By the first Verse is to be understood that _Dauffois_, or rather -_Dauphinois_, which is the Title of the Kings of _France_ eldest Son -shall carry the Lillie, which is the Arms of _France_ into _Nancy_, the -chief Town in _Lorrain_, which came to pass in the time of the last King -_Lewis_ the XIII. - -By the second Verse is understood the Elector of _Triers_, who was taken -by the _Spaniards_ in his own Town, and carried prisoner to _Bruxelles_. - -By the third and fourth is expressed the ill luck of the Duke of -_Montmorency_, who having taken part with the Duke of _Lorrain_, and -the Duke of _Orleans_ the Kings Brother, was routed in a Battle, taken -prisoner, and afterwards beheaded at _Thoulouse_. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Dans le milieu de la Forest _Mayenne_, - _Sol_ au _Lion_ la Foudre tombera, - Le grand Bastard issu du grand _du Maine_, - Ce jour _Fougeres_ pointe en sang entrera. - - English. - - In the middle of the Forrest of _Mayenne_, - _Sol_ being in _Leo_ the Lightning shall fall, - The great Bastard begot by the great _du Main_, - That day _Fougeres_ shall enter its point into blood. - -ANNOT. - -_Fougeres_ is either the name of a Town in little _Britanny_, or that of -a Noble House, the words are very plain, therefore I leave the sense to -every ones capacity. - - -XX. - - French. - - De nuit viendra par la Forest de _Rennes_, - Deux parts _Voltorte Herne_, la pierre blanche, - Le Moine noir en gris dedans _Varennes_, - Esleu Cap. cause tempeste, feu, sang tranche. - - English. - - By night shall come through the Forrest of _Rennis_, - Two parts _Voltorte Herne_, the white stone, - The black Monk in gray within _Varennes_, - Elected Cap. causeth tempest, fire, blood cutteth. - -ANNOT. - -_Rennes_ is the chief Town of little _Britanny_; the second Verse being -made of barbarous words, is impossible to be understood. The third -and fourth Verse signifieth, that when a black Monk in that Town of -_Varennes_ shall put on a gray sute, he shall be elected Captain, and -cause a great tempest or broils by fire and blood. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Au Temple hault de _Blois_ sacre _Salonne_, - Nuict Pont de _Loire_, Prelat, Roy pernicant, - Cuiseur victoire aux marests de la _Lone_, - D’ou Prelature de blancs abormeant? - - English. - - At the high Temple of _Blois_ sacred _Salonne_, - In the night the Bridge of _Loire_, Prelat, King mischievous, - A smarting Victory in the Marsh of _Lone_, - Whence Prelature of white ones shall be abortive. - -ANNOT. - -There is a mistake in the first Verse, for instead of _Salonne_, it must -be written _Soulaire_, which is a _Priory_ and Church at the top of -_Blois_, all the rest signifieth that in one night these shall happen, -_viz._ that the Bridge, the Prelat, and a pernicious King with a smart -victory shall perish, whence the Prelature, that is the place of Command -upon the white ones, _viz._ Canons and Prebends in their Surplices, shall -be void and empty. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Roy & sa Cour au lieu de la _langue halbe_, - Dedans le Temple vis a vis du Palais, - Dans le Jardin Duc de _Montor_ & d’_Albe_, - _Albe_ & _Mantor_, poignard, langue, en Palais. - - English. - - King and his Court in the place of _langue halbe_, - Within the Church over against the _Pallace_, - In the Garden Duke of _Montor_ and _Albe_, - _Albe_ and _Mantor_, dagger, tongue and Pallate. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is very obscure, for, first no body can tell what he meaneth -by _langue halbe_, which is the foundation of all the rest of the sense; -Secondly, what this Duke of _Montor_ and _Mantor_ should be, which has -been unknown in the Histories hitherto; and thirdly, what construction -and sense can be made of these disjunctives: _Albe_, _Mantor_, _Dagger_, -_Tongue_, _Palate_. Therefore i’le leave it free to every bodies opinion -to make his construction. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Puisnay jouant au fresch dessous la tonne, - Le haut du toit du milieu sur la teste, - Le Pere Roy au Temple Saint _Solonne_, - Sacrifiant sacrera sum de feste. - - English. - - The youngest Son playing under the tun, - The top of the House shall fall upon his head, - The King his Father in the Temple of Saint _Soulaine_, - Sacrificing shall make festival smoak. - -ANNOT. - -By this is meant, that the youngest Son of a King, shall be knocked in -the head, while he is a playing under a tun; his Father being at the same -time in the Temple of Saint _Soulaine_ at Mass. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Sur le Palais au Rocher des Fenestres, - Seront ravis les deux petits Roiaux, - Passer _Aurelle_, _Lutece_, _Denis_ cloistres, - _Nonnain_, _Mollods_ avaler verts noiaux. - - English. - - Upon the Pallace at the Rock of the Windows; - Shall be carried the two little Royal ones, - To pass _Aurele_, _Lutece_, _Denis_ Cloisters, - _Nonnain_, _Mollods_ to swallow green stones of fruit. - -ANNOT. - -These two or three last Stanzas have been concerning the City of _Blois_, -to which it seemeth that this hath also relation, for he saith that -two little Royal Children shall be carried at the top of the Castle, -and shall be conveyed beyond _Aurelle_ (which is _Orleans_ in Latine -_Aurelianum_) _Lutece_, which is _Paris_; S. _Denis_ Cloisters, which is -beyond _Paris_, and a Nunnery besides, where it is like they shall be -left to eat green stones of fruit, which is not easie to be understood, -no more then the word _Mollods_. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Passant les Ponts, venir prez de Roziers, - Tard arrivé plustost quil cuidera, - Viendront les noves _Espagnols_ a _Beziers_, - Qui icelle chasse emprinse cassera. - - English. - - Going over the Bridge to come near the Rose-trees, - Come late, and sooner then he thought, - The new _Spaniards_ shall come to _Beziers_, - Who shall cashiere this new undertaken hunting. - -ANNOT. - -_Beziers_ is a City in _Languedoc_; the rest may be construed by the -meanest capacity. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Nise sortie sur nom des Lettres aspres, - La grande Cappe fera present non sien, - Proche de _Vultry_ aux murs des vertes capres, - Apres _Plombin_ le vent a bon escient. - - English. - - A silly going out, caused by sharp Letters - The great Cap shall give what is not his, - Near _Vultry_ by the Walls of green Capers, - About _Piombino_ the wind shall be in good earnest. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that there shall be a silly surrendring of a Town, caused -by sharp and threatning Letters that shall be sent into it. By the great -_Cap_ he useth to understand the _Pope_, who he saith shall give what -is not it, as he hath done many times; _Vultry_, in Latine _Velitrum_, -and _Piombino_ are two Cities in _Italy_, which are threatned here with -mighty winds. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - De bois la garde vent clos ront Pont sera, - Haut le receu frappera le _Dauphin_, - Le vieux _Teccon_ bois unis passera, - Passant plus outre du Duc le droit confin. - - English. - - The Fence being of Wood, close Wind, Bridge shall be broken, - He that’s received high, shall strike at the _Dolphin_, - The old _Teccon_ shall pass over smooth Wood, - Going over the right confines of the Duke. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse signifieth that a woodden Bridge shall be broken by a -close wind, as did happen to the Millers Bridge, and the Birds Bridge in -_Paris_. - -The second Verse seemeth to foretel the conspiracy of the Mareshal of -_Biron_, against _Henry_ IV. his Dolphin and Estate. - -The third and fourth, the Wars and Conquest which the said King (whom he -called old _Teccon_), made upon the Duke of _Savoy_, who had corrupted -the said Marshal of _Biron_. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Voile _Symacle_, Port _Massiliolique_, - Dans _Venise_ Port marcher aux _Pannons_, - Partir du Goulfre & sinus _Illirique_, - Vast a _Sicile_, _Ligurs_ coups de Canon. - - English. - - _Symaclian_ Sail, _Massilian_ Port, - In _Venice_ to march towards the _Hungarians_, - To go away from the Gulf and _Illirick_ Sea, - Toward _Sicily_, the _Genoeses_ with Cannon shots. - -ANNOT. - -What he meaneth by _Symaclian Sail_, is not easie to determine; -_Massilian Port_ is that of _Marseilles_ in _France_, called in Latine -_Massilia_, the sense of this Prophecy then if any be, is, that a -great Fleet shall go from thence to _Venice_, to carry succours to the -_Hungarians_, who it seemeth shall be much distressed at that time by -the _Turks_, and that _Sicily_ and _Genoa_ shall add to this Fleet a -considerable succour of Men, and Warlike Munition. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Lors que celuy qu’a nul ne donne lieu, - Abandonner voudra lieu prins non pris, - Feu, Nef, par faignes, bitument a _Charlieu_, - Seront _Quintin_, _Bales_ repris. - - English. - - When he that giveth place to no body, - Shall forsake the place taken, and not taken, - Fire, Ship, by bleeding bituminous at _Charlieu_, - Then _Quintin_ and _Bales_ shall be taken again. - -ANNOT. - -_He that giveth place to no body_ is the Pope; as for the last Verse, I -had rather read St. _Quintin_ and _Gales_, which are two considerable -Towns in _France_, then otherwise. - -That place taken, not taken was the City of _Noyon_ in _Picardy_, which -was taken by the _Spanish_ Cavalry, cloathed after the _French_ Mode, -which stratagem deceived the Citizens and Soldiers that defended it: so -he saith taken, because it fell into the hands of the _Spaniards_, and -_not taken_, because it was by a stratagem or deceit. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Au Port de _Puola_ & de St. _Nicolas_, - Perir _Normande_ au Gouffre _Phanatique_, - Cap de _Bizance_ rues crier Helas! - Secours de _Gaddes_ & du grand _Philippique_. - - English. - - At the Harbour of _Puola_ and of St. _Nicolas_, - A _Norman_ Ship shall perish in the Phanatick Gulf, - At the Cape of _Byzantium_ the streets shall cry Alas! - Succours from _Cadis_ and from the great _Philippe_. - -ANNOT. - -_Puola_ is for _Paulo_ here, and by it is understood the port of _Malta_, -which being Besieged by the _Turks_, _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_, -sent an Army to relieve it, which made those of _Byzantium_ (which is -_Constantinople_) cry alas, _&c._ - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Le tremblement de Terre a _Mortara_, - _Cassich_, St. _George_ a demy perfondrez, - Paix assoupie la guerre esuaillera, - Dans Temple a Pasques abysmes enfondrez. - - English. - - There shall be an Earthquake at _Mortara_, - _Cassich_, St. _George_ shall be half swallowed up, - The War shall awake the sleeping pace, - Upon Easterday shall be a great hole sunk in the Church. - -ANNOT. - -_Mortara_ is a Town in _Italy_, by _Cassich_ and St. _George_ he meaneth -two other places. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - De fin _Porphire_ profond Collon trouvée - Dessoubs la laze escrits Capitolin, - Os, poil retors, _Romain_ force prouvée, - Classe agiter au Port de _Methelin_. - - English. - - A deep Column of fine _Porphyry_ shall be found, - Under whose Basis shall be _Roman_ writings, - Bones, haires twisted, _Roman_ force tried, - A Fleet a gathering about the Port of _Methelin_. - -ANNOT. - -_Porphiry_ is a kind of hard red Marble speckled with white spots, which -is very scarce, and chiefly in great pieces; our Author then saieth that -a great Colomn of that stuff shall be found, and about the Basis of it -some words in Roman Characters, and that about that time a great Fleet -shall be a gathering at the Port of _Methelin_, which is an Island in the -_Archipelago_, belonging now to the _Turks_, as for the third Verse, I -cannot tell what to make of it. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - _Hercules_ Roy de _Rome_ & _Dannemark_, - De _Gaule_ trois _Gayon_ surnommé, - Trembler l’_Itale_ & l’un de Saint _Marc_, - Premier sur tous Monarque renommée. - - English. - - _Hercules_ King of _Rome_, and _Denmark_, - Of _France_ three _Guyon_ surnamed, - Shall cause _Italy_ to quake and one of St. _Marck_, - He shall be above all a famous Monarch. - -ANNOT. - -All these intricated words and sense foretell that, when a King of -_Danmarck_ named _Hercules_ shall be made King of the _Romans_, that -then _Italy_ and _Venice_ it self shall stand in great fear of him; and -that he shall be as great a Prince or Monarch as ever was in _Europe_; -and that very likely, for by his dignity of King of the _Romans_ he -consequently shall attain to the Empire. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Le part solus Mary sera Mitré; - Retour conflict passera sur la tuille, - Par cinq cens un trahir sera tultré, - _Narbon_ & _Saulce_ par coutaux avons d’huile. - - English. - - The separated Husband shall wear a Miter, - Returning, Battle he shall go over the Tyle, - By five hundred one dignified shall be betrayed, - _Narbon_ and _Salces_ shall have Oil by the Quintal. - -ANNOT. - -The first Verse signifieth, that some certain man who was married, shall -be parted from his wife, and shall attain to some great Ecclesiastical -Dignity. - -The second Verse is, that in coming back from some place or entreprise, -he shall be met and fought with, and compelled to escape over the Tyles -of a House. - -The third Verse is, that a man of great account shall be betrayed by five -hundred of his men. - -And the last, that when these things shall come te pass, _Narbon_ and -_Salces_, which are two Cities of _Languedoc_, shall reap and make a -great deal of Oil. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Et _Ferdinand_ blonde sera descorte, - Quitter la fleur suivre le _Macedon_, - Au grand besoing defaillira sa routte, - Et marchera contre le _Myrmidon_. - - English. - - And _Ferdinand_, having a Troop of faire men, - Shall leave the flower to follow the _Macedonian_, - At his great need his way shall fail him, - And he shall go against the _Myrmidon_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy ought to be understood of an Emperour of _Germany_, whose -name shall be _Ferdinand_, who being accompanied with many _Germans_, -that for the most part are faire haired people shall come and War -against _Græcia_, which is expressed here by the names of _Macedon_ and -_Myrmidon_, the first of which is a Countrey, and the last a Nation, both -in _Græcia_. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Un grand Roy prins entre les mains d’un jeune, - Non loin de Palques confusion, coup cultre: - Perpet. cattif temps que foudre en la Hune, - Trois Freres lors se blesseront & meurtre. - - English. - - A great King taken in the hands of a young one, - Not far from Easter, confusion, stroke of a knife, - Shall commit, pittiful time, the fire at the top of the Mast, - Three Brothers then shall wound one another, and murder done. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1560. when _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ -King of _Navarre_, and his Brother _Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of -_Condé_, coming to King _Francis_ II. at _Orleans_, upon the 29. of -_October_, the Prince of _Condé_ was put in prison, and the King of -_Navarre_ arrested. The Lord _Andrew Fauyn_ in his History of _Navarre_, -saith, that the opinion of the Councel was, that the Prince of _Condé_ -should be beheaded, for having been the chief of the conspiracy at -_Amboise_, and the King of _Navarre_ should be stabbed in the Kings -Chamber by the King himself, assisted by others for that purpose. The -Lady of _Montpensier_ gave notice of it to the King of _Navarre_, who -being sent for by the King, charged expresly _Cattin_ his waiting man -and an old servant of his Father take a care and preserve his bloody -shirt after his death till his son came to Age, to revenge it upon the -murderers. God be thanked this came not to pass, for the King having -called him, and going about to provoke him with foul words, he answered -so meekly and humbly, that the Kings anger was appeased, where upon the -Duke of _Guise_ going out of the room said, _O what a cowardly Prince -is this_. These things are expressed in the first and second Verse, -when he saith that a great King should be put in Prison by a young one, -because _Antony_ of _Bourbon_, though he was not a great King in Lands, -yet he was a great one in courage and prudence. And it was _not far from -Easter_, sith it was but five months before, _viz._ from the beginning of -_November_, to the sixth of _April_ 1591 which was Easterday; the Author -putteth in this circumstance, because the next Easter after, the King of -_Navarre_ was made General of _France_ under the Queen Regent. - -He addeth _the blow of a Knife_, as we have shewed; he also saith _a -lasting bad time_, which proved very true; moreover, he saith, _what -lightning in the Hunt_ or Topmast, because King _Francis_ died presently -after. In the fourth Verse he saith, _that three Brothers shall be hurt -and killed_, those three Brothers were _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ King of -_Navarre_, killed at the Siege at _Rouen_, the Cardinal of _Bourbon_, and -_Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of _Condé_, killed at the Battle of _Jarnac_. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Pont & Molins en _December_ versez, - En si haut lieu montera la _Garonne_: - Murs, Edifice, _Thoulouse_ renversez, - Qu’on ne scaura son lieu coutant matrone. - - English. - - Bridges and Mills in _December_ overturned, - In so high a place the _Garonne_ shall come, - Walls, Building, _Thoulose_ overturned, - So that none shall know its place, so much Matrone. - -ANNOT. - -Here is foretold a prodigious inundation of the River _Garonne_, in -the month of _December_, by which the Walls, Building, and the City -of _Thoulouse_ is threatned to be overturned. The last word of all is -barbarous, and added to make up the rhime. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - L’Entrée de _Blaye_ par _Rochelle_ & l’_Anglios_, - Passera outre le grand _Æmathien_: - Non loing d’_Agen_ attendra le _Gaulois_, - Secours _Narbonne_ deceu par entretien. - - English. - - The coming in at _Blaye_ by _Rochel_ and the _English_, - Shall go beyond the great _Æmathien_, - Not far from _Agen_ shall expect the _French_, - Help from _Narbonne_ deceived by entertainment. - -ANNOT. - -For the better understanding of this, the hard words must first be made -plain; _Blaye_ is a City upon the River _Garonne_, and the Port-Town -to _Bourdeaux_; _Rochel_ is a City upon the same Coast; _Agen_ is a -City in _Gascony_ not far from _Bourdeaux_, and _Narbonne_ is a City -in _Languedoc_, by the Mediterranean Sea; _Æmathian_ was formerly the -Countrey of _Macedonia_, wherein _Julius Cæsar_ and _C. Pompeius_ fought -their last Battle in the _Pharsalian_ Fields, and therefore saith the -Latine Poet _Lucanus_: - - _Bella per Æmathios plusquam civilia campos._ - -These things being considered the sense is, that there shall be an -Invasion made by the _English_, to whom those of _Rochel_ shall joyn, -upon the Town of _Blaye_, which shall proceed as far as _Agen_, and -that thereabout will be a bloody Encounter between the _English_ and -_French_, beyond that which was fought in the _Æmathian_ Fields, and that -the succours that should come from _Narbonne_ to the _French_, shall be -deluded and hindered by the speech and discourse of some. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - En _Arbissella_, _Vezema_ & _Crevari_, - De nuit conduits pour _Savonne_ atraper, - Le vif _Gascon_, _Giury_, & la _Charry_, - Derrier Mur vieux & neuf Palais grapper. - - English. - - In _Arbissella_, _Vezema_ and _Crevari_, - Being conducted by night to take _Savona_, - The quick _Gascon_, _Giury_ and the _Charry_, - Behind old Walls and new Pallace to graple. - -ANNOT. - -_Arbissella_ is a Town situated by the Sea-side above _Savona_, going -towards _Genoa_. _Vezema_ and _Crevari_ are in the Inland Countrey, and a -little further remoted from the Sea then _Arbissella_. _The quick Gascon_ -was _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, one of the Valliantest men of his time, who -came from a single Souldier to be Marshal of _France_. _Guiry_ and _la -Charry_ were two of his Companions. This Stanza doth Prophetically -foretell two things, one is, the design that the Marshal of _Brissac_, -then Governour of _Piemont_ had upon _Savona_: the other, the taking of -_Pianca_ by _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, as to the first, the Lord of _Villars_ -writeth in his Memorials, that the Lord _Damzay_ sent advice to the King, -that the taking of _Savona_ was more probable then any other design, -which signifieth that the Marshal of _Brissac_ had of a long time eyed -that Town, and therefore he sent by night some Troops into those three -little Towns, to see if they could surprise _Savona_, but the design did -not succeed. The Histories only mention that the Marshal of _Brissac_ went -from Court in the year 1557. with a design to take _Savona_; but this -stanza speaketh of the same design 1556. - -At the same time in the year 1556. the 29. of _June Blasius_ of _Monluc_, -as he relateth in his Commentaries, did surprise the Town and Fort of -_Piance_, called in Latine _Corsinianum_, he had with him the Captain _la -Charry_, the Captain _Bartholomew_ of _Pezero_, and the son of Captain -_Luzzan_. At first the _French_ were beaten back, but the valliant -_Monluc_ did encourage them again by his example, going the first in, and -saying only, _follow your Captain_. - -Which having said, he thrust himself under the Gate, where three or four -men might stand sheltered by the planks of the Fort, and having his Sword -in the left hand, and his dagger in the right, he began to break and cut -the Brick and made a hole, which opening by degrees, he thrust his arm -through, and pulled the gap so strongly, that he caused all the Wall to -fall down upon himself, without being hurt by it. This is the meaning -of the Author in the fourth Verse; when he saith, _the quick Gascon was -behind the Wall_; In prosecution of this, the Switzers did beat down the -rest of the Wall, and all came into the Town crying, _France, France_. -_Monluc_ ran presently to the Fort, and with the help of his men took it, -that is the meaning of the Author, when he saith, _old and new Pallace -to graple_. The old Pallace was adjoining to the Market-place of the -Town, in which the _French_ were prisoners with the Captain _Gourgues_, -to the number of fifty or sixty tied two and two, and so kept by twenty -Souldiers, whom they did kill as we have said. The new Pallace was -the Fort. The Author used that ancient word _grapper_, which in the -_Provencal_ languague signifieth, to pull down with ones hands, and in -the contrary sense, to shut and plaister so well some thing, that there -will be a necessity of the help of the hands to open what was shut up. - - -XL. - - French. - - Pres de _Quentin_ dans la Forest _Bourlis_, - Dans l’Abbaye seront _Flamands_ tranchez, - Les deux puisnez de coups my estourdis, - Suitte appressée & gardes tous hachez. - - English. - - Near _Quentin_ in the Forrest _Bourlis_, - In the Abby the _Flemmings_ shall be slashed, - The two younger sons half a stonished with blows, - The followers oppressed, and the Guards all cut in pieces. - -ANNOT. - -This is a peculiar accident that happened before the taking of the -Town of Saint _Quentin_ by the _Spaniard_ in the year 1557. and fell -out thus. News being come to the King of _France_, that the powerful -Army of the _Spaniard_ was gone to Besiege St. _Quentin_, he made all -imaginable diligence to succour it; the _Spaniards_ to hinder the relief -had seized upon an ancient Abby of the _Vermandois_, which is in the -next Forrest, that was anciently called the Forrest _Bourlis_, and is at -present called the Forrest of the _Abbay Vermandois_, called in Latine -_Augusta Veromanduorum_, builded by an ancient _Hungarian_ Captain called -_Vermandig_. In process of time it was all ruinated, and only one Abby -left, wherein was the Episcopal See, which afterwards was transferred -into the City of _Noyon_. After the ruine of this Town, that of St. -_Quentin_ next to it became the chief City of _Vermandois_; It was named -St. _Quentin_, because the Emperor _Dioclesian_ having sent St. _Quentin_ -a _Roman_ Senator to be Governour of it, he did convert the Inhabitants -to the Christian Faith, and after he himself did suffer there Martyrdom. - -In that Abby a great many _Flemmings_ had intranched themselves, but -the _French_ going to relieve the Town, did force their Trenches and -Fortifications, and in the heat of the fight the two younger Sons of the -Captain being armed _Cap a pée_, though they were not killed, yet were -astonished with blows they did receive upon their heads, their followers -and Guards being all cut in pieces. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Le grand _Chyren_ soy saisir d’_Avignon_, - De _Rome_ Lettres en miel plein d’amertume, - Lettre, Ambassade partir de _Chanignon_, - _Carpentras_ pris par Duke noir, rouge plume. - - English. - - The great _Cheyren_ shall seize upon _Avignon_, - Letters from _Rome_ shall come full of bitterness, - Letters and Embassies shall go from _Chanignon_, - _Carpentras_ taken by a black Duke with a red Feather. - -ANNOT. - -This did happen lately, _viz._ some five or six years ago, when the Duke -of _Crequy_ Embassadour at _Rome_ was affronted by the _Corses_, which -are the Popes Guard: for which the King of _France_ demanded reparation, -and seized upon _Avignon_, till the Pope granted him that all the said -_Corses_ should be banished, and a Pyramis erected in _Rome_ to the -perpetual infamy of that Nation. - - -XLII. - - French. - - De _Barcelonne_, de _Gennes_ & _Venise_, - De la _Sicile_ pres _Monaco_ unis, - Contre Barbare classe prendront la vise, - Barbar poulsé bien loing jusqu’a _Thunis_. - - English. - - From _Barcelona_, from _Genoa_ and _Venice_, - From _Sicily_ near _Manaco_ united, - Against the Barbarian the fleet shall take her aim, - The Barbarian shall be driven back as far as _Thunis_. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of these words is very plain and signifieth onely, that there -will be an union and League between these Towns, _viz._ _Barcelona_, -_Genoa_, _Vinice_, and the Kingdom of _Sicily_ against the Turks, whom -they shall encounter near _Monaco_, and put them to flight, and follow -them as far as _Tunis_. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Proche a descendre l’Armée _Crucigere_, - Sera guettée par les _Ismaelites_, - De tous costez battus par nef _Raviere_, - Prompt assailies de dix Galeres d’eslite. - - English. - - The _Crucigere_ Army being about to Land, - Shall be watched by the _Ismaelites_, - Being beaten on all sides by the Ship _Raviere_, - Presently assaulted by ten chosen Galleys. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Crucigere_ Army is understood the Christian Army, because the -word _Crucigere_ signifieth one that beareth a Cross, from the two -Latine words _Crux_ and _gero_; the _Ismaelites_ are the _Turks_, who -boast themselves to be descended from _Ismael_, the son of _Abraham_ -and _Agar_, the meaning of this is, that the Christians going about to -attempt some landing place, the Turks shall watch them, and set upon -them by Land and Sea, in which Sea fight he mentioneth only ten choice -Galleys, and a notable Ship called _Raviere_, (if it be not false -printed) I am much of an opinion that this came to pass when _Philip_ -the II. King of _Spain_ made an attempt upon _Algiers_, by his Admiral -_André d’Oria_, who had to do with the _Moores_ upon the Land, ready to -receive him, and some part of their fleet that watched him, but cross and -contrary winds caused him to return _re infecta_. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Migrez, migrez de _Geneve_ tretous, - _Saturne_ d’Or en Fer se changera, - Le contre _Raypoz_ exterminera tous, - Avant l’advent le Ciel signes sera. - - English. - - Go forth, go forth out of _Geneva_ all, - _Saturn_ of gold, shall be changed into Iron, - They against _Raypos_ shall extermine them all, - Before it happeneth, the Heavens will shew signs. - -ANNOT. - -[Sidenote: _Called here against Raypos._] - -This is a Prophecy concerning _Geneva_, out of which he warneth every -one to come; his reason is, that the golden Age of that Town shall be -changed into an Iron one; and that there shall be one against _Raypos_, -that shall extermine them all, before which there shall appear some signs -in Heaven. Now the Author being a rank Papist, it is to be supposed that -he warneth out of _Geneva_ all those of his Faith, because of the coming -of _Calvin_, whom he foresaw was to come into that Town, and to change -the Government thereof, and to _extermine them all_, which is to be -understood, in point of Religion, as for what prodigies did precede that -change; I had no time to consult Authors upon it, the judicious Reader -may chance to find them in those that have written of this matter. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Ne sera soul jamais de demander, - Grand _Mendosus_ obtiendra son Empire, - Loing de la Cour fera contremander, - _Piemont_, _Picard_, _Paris_, _Tyrhen_ le pire. - - English. - - He shall never be weary of asking, - Great _Mendosus_ shall obtain his dominion, - Far from the Court he shall cause him to be countermanded, - _Piemont_, _Picardy_, _Paris_, _Tyrhen_ the worse. - -ANNOT. - -By _Mendosus_, is Anagrammatically to be understood _Vendosme_; but who -is that shall never be weary of asking, or whose Dominion _Vendosme_ -shall have, or what is meant by the last two Verses, passeth my -understanding. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Vuidez fuyez de _Thoulouse_ les rouges, - Du Sacrifice faire expiation, - Le Chef du mal dessoubs l’ombre des courges, - Mort estrangler carne omination. - - English. - - Get you gone, run away from _Thoulouse_ ye red ones, - There shall expiation be made of the Sacrifice, - The chief cause of the evil under the shade of gourdes, - Shall be strangled, a presage of the destruction of much flesh. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy doth onely and properly belong to the City of _Thoulouse_; -and by it are warned all the red ones, that is, all those that usually -wear Red or Scarlet Gowns, as those of the Parliament and the Capitols -to come out of it, because saith he, _There shall an expiation be made -of the Sacrifice_, meaning that there shall be a great slaughter among -the Citizens, as it did happen at several times, the first _Anno_ 1563. -another time when the first President _Durauti_, and several other of the -red Gowns were put to death, _&c._ The two last Verses signifie, that -the chief contriver of this uproar shall be strangled, and many others -besides him. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Les soubsignez d’indigne deliverance, - Et de la multe auront contre advis, - Change Monarque mis en perrille pence, - Serrez en cage se verront vis a vis. - - English. - - The underwritten to an unworthy deliverance, - Shall have from the multitude a contrary advice, - They shall change their Monarch and put him in peril, - They shall see themselves shut up in a Cage over against. - -ANNOT. - -This is plainly to be understood of those Traytors, the delivered and -signed the death of King _Charles_ the I. of blessed Memory, against the -sense and advise of at least three parts of four of the Nation, and who -afterward saw themselves for the most part shut in Prison for this fact -and brought to a shameful end. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - La grand Cité d’Occean Maritime, - Environnée de Marests en Crystal, - Dans le _Solstice_ hyemal & la prime, - Sera tentée de vent espouvental. - - English. - - The great Maritime City of the Ocean, - Encompassed with Chrystaline Fens, - In the Winter _Solstice_ and in the spring, - Shall be tempted with fearful wind. - -ANNOT. - -By _the great Maritime City of the Ocean, Encompassed with Crystaline -Fens_, is to be understood the City of _London_, for as for that of -_Venice_, it is situated upon the _Mediterranean_ or rather _Adriatick_ -Sea: _London_ then is threatned here of a fearful wind, which whether -the Author meaneth for the time that is past now, and that shall come -hereafter I know not, sure I am, that I have within this fifteen years -seen two such winds in _London_, as I never saw the like any where else; -the first was that day that _Olivier_ the Usurpator died, the other -was about six or seven years ago, caused by the lightning that fell in -_Hereford-shire_, and did mix with a Western wind and came as far as -_London_, carrying the tops of houses, and doing then for above 10000. -pounds dammage. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - _Gand_ & _Bruxelles_ marcheront contre _Anvers_, - Senat de _Londres_ mettront a mort leur Roy, - Le Sel & Vin luy seront a l’envers, - Pour eux avoir le Regne or desarroy. - - English. - - _Gand_ and _Bruxelles_ shall go against _Antwerp_, - The Senat of _London_ shall put their King to death, - The Salt and Wine shall not be able to do him good, - That they may have the Kingdom into ruine. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy taken with all its circumstances, and the subject it -treateth of, is the most remarkable of all those that ever _Nostradamus_ -was Author of, for here we see a concatenation of circumstances linked -together, to make it true to any bodies eyes, for first the number of -this Stanza being 49, signifieth the year wherein the King died, for -although by the _English_ account, who begin their year at the 25. of -_March_, it may be said it was in 48, because it did happen upon the -30_th._ of _January_, yet according to the general account of the most -part of the World, the year begin upon the first day of _January_, so -that the King dying on the 30_th._ of _January_, it may be said it was in -the year 1649. - -The first Verse signifieth, that at that time there was no good -intelligence between the Cities of _Flanders_ and _Brabant_, as I -remember very well that there was not, but upon what score, I have -forgotten. - -The second Verse is plain to any body that can either read or hear it. - -The third Verse by _the Salt and Wine_, understandeth _France_, who was -then in War with the _Spaniard_, and in some divisions among themselves, -so that they could not take the Kings part as to relieve and free him by -force, but sent Embassadours to mediate a composure of the difference. - -The fourth Verse intimateth that by reason of the said Wars that were -in _France_, the said murdering Parliament had liberty to do what they -listed for the bringing the Kingdom into ruine. - - -L. - - French. - - _Mensodus_ tost viendra a son haut Regne, - Mettant arriere un peu le _Norlaris_, - Le rouge blesme, le masle a l’interregne, - Le jeune crainte & frayeur Barbaris. - - English. - - _Mensodus_ shall soon come to his high Government, - Putting a little aside the _Norlaris_, - The red, pale, the Male at the interreigne, - The young fear, and dread barbarisme. - -ANNOT. - -_Mensodus_ is the Anagramme of _Vendosme_, by which is meant _Antony_ of -_Bourbon_ Duke of _Vendosme_, brother to the then Prince of _Condé_, and -father to _Henry_ IV. _Norlaris_ is the Anagram of _Lorrain_; now any -body that understandeth any thing in History, knoweth what dissention -and feud there was between the House of _Bourbon_, and that of _Lorrain_ -in the time of _Francis_ the II. for the House of _Bourbon_, though next -to the Royal blood, was the least in favour, and those of the House of -_Lorrain_ did Govern all, and had so far prevailed as to have got the -Prince of _Condé_ into their hands, and had him condemned to have his -head cut of, which would have been executed, had not the King that very -day fallen sick of the disease he died of. Now this being understood our -Author will have that _Mensodus_, which is _Vendosme_ shall lay aside the -_Norlaris_, that is _Lorrein_. By _the red pale_ is meant the Cardinal of -_Lorrain_, brother to the Duke of _Guise_, who grew pale at this. By _the -male at the interreigne_ is so obscure, that we leave it to the judgement -of the Reader. - - -LI. - - French. - - Contre les rouges Sectes se banderont, - Feu, eau, fer, corde, par paix se minera, - Au point mourir ceux qui machineront, - Fors un que monde sur tout ruinera. - - English. - - Against the red, Sects shall gather themselves, - Fire, water, iron, rope, by peace it shall de destroyed, - Those that shall conspire shall not be put to death, - Except one, who above all shall undo the World. - -ANNOT. - -The name of _red Sects_, may very well be applied to the Protestants of -_France_, against whom in those days it seemed that fire, Water, Iron and -Rope had conspired, for they were put to death by each one of those fatal -instruments for their Religion sake. This is a lively expression of the -unhappy Massacre of the Protestants in _France_ upon St. _Bartholomews_ -day 1572. - -The two last Verses signifie, that all the Contrivers of that Councel, -were of opinion at first to proceed some other way, but only the Duke of -_Guise_, who was the principal actor in it, and whom our Author saith, -did undo the world; for he was the cause of mischief, not only then but -ofterwards. - - -LII. - - French. - - La paix sapproche d’un cosié & la guerre, - Oncques ne fut la poursuite fi grande, - Plaindre homme & femmene sang Innocent par Terre, - Et ce sera de _France_ a toute bande. - - English. - - Peace is coming on one side and War on the other, - There was never so great a pursuing, - Man, Woman shall bemoan, Innocent blood shall be spilt, - It shall be in _France_ on all sides. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled in the Reign of _Charles_ the IX. in the -year 1558. when the peace was treated of, and concluded the year after -1559. the War on the other side begun to appear by the raising of the -Protestants, who begun publickly their opinion in the time of _Francis_ -the II. and _Charles_ the IX. - -There was never seen such a prosecution of War and of Peace together; for -there was never an estate more embroiled in Wars than that of _Charles_ -the IX. was, nor where Peace was more sought after; for there was nothing -but Wars and treaties of Peace, Men and Women did complain on all -sides, for the wrong and dammages they received from both parties, the -Protestants believing to do God a good service in destroying Images, and -killing Priests and Monks. And the Papists on the other side thinking to -make a sweet Sacrifice unto God, in practising the same cruelties upon -the Protestants, and so in all corners of _France_ every one did set -himself to do evil. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Le _Neron_ jeune dans les trois Cheminées, - Sera de Pages vifs pour ardoir ietter, - Heureux qui loin sera de tels menées, - Trois de son sang le feront mort guetter. - - English. - - The young _Nero_ in the three Chimneys. - Shall cause Pages to be thrown to be burnt alive, - Happy shall he be who shall be far from this doing, - Three of his own blood shall cause him to be put to death. - -ANNOT. - -A young Tyrant called here _Nero_, shall cause some Pages to be burnt -alive in three Chimneys, and afterwards himself shall be put to death by -three of his own blood, this fact savoureth so much of bestial cruelty, -that I cannot belive any Christian Prince can ever be guilty of it. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Arrivera au port de _Corsibonne_, - Pres de _Ravenne_, qui pillera la Dame, - En Mer profonde legat de _Ulisbone_, - Soubs Roc cachez raviront septante ames. - - English. - - There shall come into the Port of _Corsibonne_, - Near _Ravenna_, those that shall plunder the Lady, - In the deep Sea shall be the Embassador of _Lisbonne_, - The hidden under the Rock, shall carry away seventy Souls. - -ANNOT. - -The Port of _Corsibonne_, must of necessity be that of _Ancona_; first -because there is no Port of the former name near the City of _Ravenna_. -Secondly, because _Ancona_ is near _Ravenna_. - -By the Lady is meant the Chappel or Church of our Lady of _Loretto_, -which is threatned here to be plundred by some _Turks_ or Pyrates, -inticed thereunto by the manifold riches that are said to be therein. - -The third Verse speaketh of a _Portugues_ Embassador, who it seemeth -shall be drowned or buried in the main Sea. - -The fourth Verse giveth warning of some Robbers and Pyrates, very like to -be _Turks_, who being in Ambuscado, and shrouded among the Rocks by the -Sea side, shall carry away seventy Souls. - - -LV. - - French. - - L’Horrible guerre qu’en Occident s’appreste, - L’An ensuivant viendra la Pestilence, - Si fort terrible, que jeune, viel, ne beste, - Sang, feu, _Mercu._ _Mars_, _Jupiter_ en _France_. - - English. - - An horrid War is a preparing in the West, - The next year shall come the Plague, - So strangly terrible, that neither young nor old, nor beast shall - escape - Blood, fire, _Mercu._ _Mars_, _Jupiter_ in _France_. - -ANNOT. - -That word _a preparing_ in the first Verse, signifieth that he speaketh -of a time, wherein War was a making ready, when he was a writing. - -The _West_, of which our Author speaketh, is not formerly the West which -is _Spain_, but is the West respectively to his Countrey of _Provence_, -which is _Picardy_, _Lorrain_, and the Countrey of _Mets_, in all these -Places that are Westerly from _Provence_, there was great Wars in the -year 1557 in _Picardy_ in the year 1558. at _Calais_ and _Thionville_, -and at last from the middle of that year to the end of it, were seen two -great Armies of both Kings, which threatned a horrid slaughter, had not -God Almighty provided against it by the treaty of Peace of the _3d._ of -_April_ 1559 the year following, which was 1559. there did happen what he -foretelleth, _viz._, the Plague so strangely terrible to Young, Old, and -Beasts _&c._ - -And in those quarters there was nothing but Fire and Blood; that is, -Massacres and ruines of all sorts, then did Rule in _France_, the three -Planets of _Jupiter_, _Mars_ and _Mercury_, _Jupiter_ and _Mercury_, for -the peace that was then concluded, and _Mars_ for the War that was then -on foot. - -The History of _Provence_ mentioneth, that that Pestilence was called by -the Physitians, _Febris erratica_, by which within the space of five or -six Months, died almost an infinite number of people. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Camp prés de _Noudam_ pasiera _Goussanville_, - Et a _Maiotes_ laissera son enseigne, - Convertira en instant plus de mille, - Cherchant le deux remettre en chaine & legne. - - English. - - A Camp shall by _Noudam_ go beyond _Goussanville_, - And shall leave its Ensign at _Maiotes_, - And shall in an instant convert above a thousand, - Seeking to put the two parties in good understanding together. - -ANNOT. - -These three words of _Noudam_, _Goussanville_, and _Maiotes_ are three -little inconsiderable Countrey Towns, situated near one another; the -meaning then of it is, that an Army near _Noudam_, shall go through -_Goussanville_, and shall in an instant convert, that is, draw to his -party above a thousand of the contrary party, the business being about -the procuring of a good understanding and amity between two great ones. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Au lieu de _Drux_ un Roy reposera, - Et cherchera Loy changeant d’Anatheme, - Pendant le Ciel si tresfort Tonnera, - Portée neufve Roy tuera soy mesme. - - English. - - In the place of _Drux_ a King shall rest himself, - And shall seek Law changing Anatheme, - In the mean while the Heaven shall Thunder so strongly, - That a new gate shall kill the King him self. - -ANNOT. - -_Drux_ is a City in _Normandy_, near which _Henry_ the IV. got a -memorable victory. - -It is said that in that place a King shall rest himself, and shall -endeavour to change Religion, but at that time it shall Thunder and -Lighten so much, that by the fall of a new gate, the King himself shall -be killed. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Au costé gauche a lendroit de _Vitry_, - Seront guettez les trois rouges de _France_, - Tous assommez rouge, noir non meurdry, - Par les _Bretons_ remis en asseurance. - - English. - - On the left hand over against _Vitry_, - The three red ones of _France_ shall be watched for, - All the red shall be knockt dead, the black not murdered, - By the _Britains_ set up again in security. - -ANNOT. - -What is meant here by the three red ones of _France_ is hard to decide, -whether they be Cardinals or Judges; because both wear commonly Scarlet -Gowns, or some Noblemen cloathed in Scarlet, but it seemeth by this -that there shall be a lying in wait for four men, three of which shall -be cloathed in Red, and one in Black, those in Red shall be knockt down -dead, but he in Black shall not, and this is to be done on the left hand, -over against _Vitry_, which is a City in _Champagne_. - - -LIX. - - French. - - A la _Ferté_ prendra la _Vidame_, - _Nicol_ tenu rouge quavoit produit la vie, - La grand _Loyse_ naistra qui fera clame, - Donnant _Bourgongne_ a _Bretons_ par envie. - - English. - - In the _Ferté_ the _Vidame_ shall take - _Nicol_, reputed red, whom life hath produced, - The great _Lewis_ shall be born, who shall lay claim, - Giving _Burgundy_ to the _Britains_, through envy. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza wanting both quantity in the Cadence of the Verse, and -Connexion in the sense, sheweth that it is either falsly printed, or else -the Author had no mind it should be understood; we shall only say, the -_Ferté_ is a Town in _Champagne_. _Vidame_ is a Lords Title in _France_, -of which there are but four of that sort, and are called in Civil Law -_Vicedominus_, who by his first Institution, was temporal Judge of the -Bishop; the first of those _Vidames_ or _Vicedomini_ in _France_, is that -of _Amiens_, the second of _Chartres_, the third of _Rhemes_, and the -fourth of _Gerberon_. - - -LX. - - French. - - Conflict _Barbare_ en la Cornere noire, - Sang espandu trembler la _Dalmatie_, - Grand _Ismael_ mettra son promontoire, - Ranes trembler, secours _Lusitanie_. - - English. - - A _Barbarian_ fight in the black Corner, - Blood shall be spilt, _Dalmatia_ shall tremble for fear, - Great _Ismael_ shall set up his promontory, - Frogs shall tremble, _Portugal_ shall bring succour. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie foretelleth divers accidents in several places, without -determination of any precise time; as for example, I understand by that -_Barbarian conflict, near the black Corner_, to be some famous Battle -among the Infidels themselves, some where about the Black Sea; then he -saith, _that abundance of Blood shall be spilt, and ~Dalmatia~ shall -tremble_, which is a Province belonging to the _Venetians_, and bordering -upon _Græcia_; by great _Ismael_ he understandeth the great Sophy of -_Persia_, whose name hath been often so. By the Frogs it is not easie to -know whether he meaneth _France_ or _Spain_, for both abound in that kind -of Insects. - - -LXI. - - French. - - La pille faite a la Coste Marine, - _Incita nova_ & parens amenez, - Plusieurs de _Malthe_ par le fait de _Messine_, - Estroit serrez seront mal guerdonnez. - - English. - - The plunder made upon the Sea Coast, - _Incita nova_ and friends brought up, - Many of _Maltha_, for the fact of _Messina_, - Being close kept, shall be ill rewarded. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth that this Plunder made upon the Sea Coast, shall be about -_Messina_, by the _Maltheses_, who afterwards shall rue for it, being -taken Prisoners, and severely punished. - -As for the expression _Incita nova_, it is a barbarous derivation of the -Latine, to signifie the stirring of new troubles. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Au grand de _Cheramonagora_, - Seront croisez par rangs tous attachez, - Le _Pertinax Oppi_, & _Mandragora_, - _Raugon_ d’_Octobre_ le tiers seront laschez. - - English. - - To the great one of _Cheramonagora_, - Shall be crossed by Ranges, all tyed up, - the _Pertinax Oppi_, and _Mandragora_, - _Raugon_ the third of _October_ shall be set loose. - -ANNOT. - -The word _Cheramonagora_, is either altogether barbarous and -insignificant, or must be derived from these three Greek words, χεὶρ, -_manus_, μόνος, _folus_, and ἄγω, _duco_, and so it may signifie one than -leadeth along by the hand, in which sense may be understood the King of -_France_, who alone leadeth his people by the hand, without any help of -Councel. - -The second Verse signifieth the Oppositions he shall meet with among his -Neighbours, combined together to hinder him. - -By _Oppi_, he meaneth here _Opium_, the Juice of Poppies, which he -calleth here _Pertinax_; because of its pertinacious quality in procuring -sleep, as also _Mandragora_. - -By _Raugon_, he meaneth some other soporiferous Herb; so that it seemeth -that those three things shall be given upon the third of _October_ to -some body, it seemeth to that _Cheramonagora_, by whom some understand -the King of _France_, others _Oliver_ the last usurpator. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - Plaintes, & pleurs, cris, & grands hurlemens, - Pres de _Narbonne_, a _Bayonne_ & en _Foix_, - O quels horribles, calamitez, changemens, - Avant que _Mars_ revolu quelquefois. - - English. - - Complaints and tears, cries, and great howlings, - Near _Narbonne_, _Bayonne_ and in _Foix_, - O what horrid calamities and changes, - Before _Mars_ hath made sometimes his revolution. - -ANNOT. - -_Narbonne_, _Bayonne_, and _Foix_ are Towns of _Languedoc_, a Province in -_France_; the rest is easie. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - L’_Æmathian_ passer Monts _Pyrenées_, - En _Mars Narbon_ ne fera resistance, - Par Mer & Terre sera si grand menée, - Cap. n’ayant Terre seure pour demeurance. - - English. - - The _Æmathian_ shall pass by the _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - In _March Narbon_ shall make no resistance, - By Sea and Land he shall make so much ado, - Cap. shall not have safe ground to live in. - -ANNOT. - -The _Æmathian_ properly should be the _Macedonian_, but by it is -understood here the _Spaniard_, whose Countrey is on one side fenced by -the _Pyrenean_ Mountains; the rest is plain. - - -LXV. - - French. - - Dedans le coing de _Luna_ viendra rendre, - Ou sera prins & mis en Terre estrange, - Les fruits immeurs seront a grand esclandre, - Grand vitupere, a l’un grande loüange. - - English. - - He shall come into the corner of _Luna_, - Where he shall be taken and put in a strange Land, - The green fruits shall be in great disorder, - A great shame, to one shall be great praise. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza hath relation and connexion to the precedent, and by it ought -to be understood, that the said _Æmathian_ or _Spaniard_ shall come as -far as the corner of _Luna_, wherein he shall be taken and sent into a -strange Countrey, at which time the green Fruits and Grass shall be much -damaged, for which one of the parties shall receive great shame, and the -other great praise. But what he meaneth by the Corner of _Luna_, I must -leave the judgement of it to the Reader, for I do ingeniously confess -that I neither know City nor Countrey of that name. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Paix, union, sera & changement, - Estats, Offices, bas hault, & hault bien bas, - Dresser voiages, le fruit premier, torment, - Guerre cesser, civils proces, debats. - - English. - - Peace, union, shall be, and mutation, - States, and Offices, low high, and high low, - A journey shall be prepared for, the first fruit, pains, - War shall cease, as also, civil suits, and strifes. - -ANNOT. - -This is easie to be understood, many interpret it of the downfall of -_Rome_, at which time all quarrels both of Religion and States would be -laid aside, if the world were all of one mind. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Du haut des Monts a lentour de _Dizere_, - Port a la Roche _Valent_, cent assemblez, - De _Chasteau-Neuf_, _Pierrelate_, en _Douzere_, - Contre le _Crest_, _Romans_ soy assemblez. - - English. - - From the top of the Mountains about _Dizere_ - Gate at the Rock _Valence_, a hundred gathered together, - From _Chasteau-Neuf_, _Pierrelate_, in _Douzere_ - Against the _Crest_, _Romans_, shall be gathered. - -ANNOT. - -This is a peculiar Prophecy for the Provinces of _Dauphiné_ and -_Languedoc_, in which all the Towns and Rivers here mentioned are -situated. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - Du Mont _Aymar_ sera noble obscurcie, - Le mal viendra au joint de _Saone_ & _Rhosne_, - Dans bois cachez Soldats jour de _Lucie_, - Qui ne fut onc un si horrible Throsne. - - English. - - From Mount _Aymar_ shall proceed a Noble obscurity, - The evil shall come to the joyning of the _Saone_ and _Rhosne_, - Soldiers shall be hid in the Wood on St. _Lucy_’s day, - So that there was never such an horrid Throne. - -ANNOT. - -There is a notable fault in the impression of the first Verse of this -Stanza, for instead of Mount _Aymar_, it must be _Montlimar_, which is -a Town in _Provence_ or _Languedoc_, situated by the River _Rhosne_, -the sense therefore of this, is, that from _Montlimar_ shall proceed -some notable and obscure design, and that shall reach as far as _Lyons_, -which is the City where the _Saone_ and _Rhosne_ meet, and that for that -purpose, there shall be hidden a great many Souldiers in a Wood on St. -_Lucy_’s day, which is the _13th._ of _December_. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Sur le Mont de _Bailly_ & la _Bresse_, - Seront cachez de _Grenoble_ les fiers, - Outre _Lyon_, _Vien._ cula si grand gresle, - Langoult en Terre n’en cessara un tiers. - - English. - - Upon the Mount of _Bailly_, and the Countrey of _Bresse_, - Shall be hidden the fierce ones of _Grenoble_, - Beyond _Lyons_, _Vienna_, upon them shall fall such a hail, - That languishing upon the ground, the third part shall not be left. - -ANNOT. - -The Mount _Bailly_, and the Countrey of _Bressia_, are by _Savoy_, in -which place (our Author saith) the fierce ones; that is, the stout men of -_Grenoble_, the chief Town of _Dauphiné_, shall be hidden, and that such -a Hail shall fall upon them, as not one third part shall be left. - - -LXX. - - French. - - Harnois trenchans dans les flambeaux cachez, - Dedans _Lyon_ le jour du Sacrement, - Ceux de _Vienne_ seront tretous hachez, - Par les _Cantons_ Latins, _Mascon_ eront. - - English. - - Sharp Weapons shall be hidden in burning Torches, - In _Lyons_ the day of the Sacrament, - Those of _Vienna_ shall be all cut to pieces, - By the Latin _Cantons_, after the example of _Mascon_. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth a notable Treason that shall be acted at _Lyons_, upon -the Sacraments day, otherwise called _Corpus Christi_ day, upon which the -_Roman_ Catholicks are wont to make a Procession with the Sacrament about -the Town, with abundance of burning Torches, of fearful bigness, insomuch -that some (as at _Angeirs_) require 20 or 24 men to carry them, in those -Torches (our Author saith) shall Weapons be hidden, by means of which the -fact shall be committed. The rest is easie. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Au lieux Sacrés, animaux veus a _Trixe_, - Avec celuy qui nosera le jour, - A _Carcassonne_ pour disgrace propice, - Sera posé pour plus ample sejonr. - - English. - - In the Sacred places, Animals shall be seen at _Trixe_, - With him that shall not dare in the day, - In _Carcassonne_ for a favourable disgrace, - He shall be set to make a longer stay. - -ANNOT. - -Whether the Author did understand himself here I know not, I am sure I do -not; _Carcassonne_ is a City of _Languedoc_, and _Trixe_ is a barbarous -word. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - Encor seront les Saints Temples pollus, - Et expilez par Senat _Tholosain_, - _Saturne_ deux trois Siecles revolus, - Dans _Auril_, _May_, gens de nouveau Levain. - - English. - - Once more shall the Holy Temples be polluted, - And depredated by the Senate of _Thoulouze_, - _Saturn_ two three Ages finished, - In _April_, _May_, people of a new Leaven. - -ANNOT. - -This is, when the Planet _Saturn_ hath finished twice three Ages; -that is, 600 years from the time that this Prophecy was written, then -the Senates of _Thoulouze_, being men of a new Leaven (meaning being -Protestants) shall cause the _Romish_ Churches to be polluted and -depredated in the Months of _April_ and _May_. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Dans _Foix_ entrez Roy Cerulée Turban, - Et regnera moins evolu _Saturne_, - Roy Turban Blanc, _Bizance_ cœur ban, - _Sol_, _Mars_, _Mercure_, pres la Hurne. - - English. - - In _Foix_ shall come a King with a Blew Turbant, - And shall Reign before _Saturn_ is revolved, - Then a King with a White Turbant shall make _Bizance_ to quake, - _Sol_, _Mars_, _Mercury_, being near the top of the Mast. - -ANNOT. - -_Foix_ is a Countrey of _France_, near _Gascony_, where the Author saith, -a King with a Blew Turbant shall come, and shall govern less then an Age, -that is 100 years, after which another King with a White Turbant shall -come, and shall Conquer _Bizance_ (which in Latine is _Constantinople_) -the Blew or Green Turbant is attributed to the great _Turk_, and the -White one to the King of _France_, by whom the _Turks_ have a Prophecie, -their Monarchy shall be subverted. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - Dans la Cité de _Fertsod_ homicide, - Fait & fait multe Bœuf arant ne macter, - Retour encore aux honneurs d’_Artemide_, - Et a _Vulcan_ corps morts sepulturer. - - English. - - In the City of _Fertsod_ one murdered, - Causeth a Fine to be laid for killing a plowing Oxe, - There shall be a return of the honours due to _Artemide_, - And _Vulcan_ shall bury dead bodies. - -ANNOT. - -What is that City of _Fertsod_, is hard to guess, there being none of -this name in _Europe_ that I know. The rest of the words are plain, -though the sense be abstruce enough, therefore we shall leave them to the -liberty of the Reader. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - De l’_Ambraxie_ & du pais de _Thrace_, - Peuple par Mer, Mal, & secours _Gaulois_, - Perpetuelle en _Provence_ la Trace, - Avec vestiges de leur Coustumes & Loix. - - English. - - From _Ambraxia_, and from the Countrey of _Thracia_, - People by Sea, Evil, and _French_ succours, - The Trace of it shall be perpetual in _Provence_, - The footsteps of their Customs and Laws remaining. - -ANNOT. - -What Countrey this _Ambraxia_ should be, is yet unknown, for my part I -take it to be a forged word, as for _Thracia_ it is a Countrey between -_Hungary_ and _Greece_. - -Observe here that Evil is not an Epithete, to either People or Sea, but a -word of admiration by it self, as _malum_ in Latine, which is called _vox -admirantis_. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - Avec le noir _Rapax_ & sanguinaire, - Yssu du peaultre de l’inhumain _Neron_, - Emmy deux Fleuves main gauche Militaire, - Sera meurtry par _Joyn Chaulveron_. - - English. - - With the Black and bloody _Rapax_, - Descended from the paultry of the inhumane _Nero_, - Between two Rivers, on the left Military hand, - He shall be murdered by _Joyne Caulveron_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie portendeth the death of a black, bloody, and ravenous man -(which in Latine is _Rapax_) who shall be murdered between two Rivers, by -one whose proper name shall be _Joyne Chaulveron_. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Le Regne prins le Roy conviera, - La Dame prinse a mort jurez a sort, - La vie a Royne Fils on desniera, - Et la pellix au fort de la consort. - - English. - - The Kingdom being taken, the King shall invite, - The Lady taken to death, - The Life shall be denyed unto the Queens Son, - And the Pellix shall be at the height of the Consort. - -ANNOT. - -You must observe, that there is a word false printed, which is _Pellix_, -instead of which should be _Pellex_, which in Latine signifieth a Whore -or Concubine. - -The sense therefore of this is, that a certain King having taken another -Kingdom, shall put the Queen of it to death, as also her own Son, after -which, he shall make his Concubine Queen. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - La Dame _Grecque_ de Beauté laydique, - Heureuse faite de proces innumerable, - Hors translatée au Regne _Hispanique_, - Captive prinse mourir mort miserable. - - English. - - The _Græcian_ Lady of exquisite Beauty, - Made happy from innumerable quarrels, - Being translated into the _Spanish_ Kingdom, - Shall be made a Prisoner, and die a miserable death. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is concerning the Lady _Elizabeth_ of _France_, Daughter to -_Henry_ the II. and Sister to _Charles_ the IX. who being promised first -to _Don Carlo Infante_ of _Spain_, was afterwards Married to his Father -_Philip_ the II. at which the young man being vexed and discontented, -began to raise combustions in the State, for which, and his too much -familiarity with his Mother in Law, he was strangled by his Fathers -command, and she poisoned. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Le Chef de Classe par fraude, stratageme, - Fera timides sortir de leurs Galeres, - Sortis meurdris chef renieux de Cresme, - Puis par l’Embusche luy rendront les salaires. - - English. - - The Commander of a Fleet by fraud and stratagem, - Shall cause the fearful ones to come forth of their Galleys, - Come out murdered, chief renouncer of Baptism, - After that by an Ambuscado they’l give him again his salary. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are plain, the third signifieth, that these fearful -ones being come out of their Galleys, part of them shall be murdered, and -among them the Captain, a renouncer of his Baptism, or Renegado, and the -rest afterwards by an Ambuscado, shall requite in the same Coin those -that had used them so. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - Le Duc voudra les siens exterminer, - Envoyera les plus forts, lieux estranges, - Par tyrannie _Bize_ & _Luc_ ruiner, - Puis les _Barbares_ sans Vin feront Vendanges. - - English. - - The Duke shall endeavour to exterminate his own, - And shall send away the strongest of them into remote places, - He shall also ruinate _Bize_ and _Luc_, - The _Barbarians_ shall make Vintage without Wine. - -ANNOT. - -There is a great fault in the impression of the _French_ Copy in this -Stanza, which maketh the sense altogether inexplicable, it must then in -stead of _Bize_ and _Luc_, be written _Pise_ and _Lucques_, which are two -Towns in _Italy_, near the Duke of _Florence_’s Dominions; one of these -Towns, _viz._ _Pisa_ he hath taken already, and from a Common-Wealth made -it subject to himself; the other though several times attempted by him, -hath preserved its liberty to this day. The last Verse signifieth, that -after this is come to pass, the _Barbarians_, that is, the _Florentins -shall make Vintage without Wine_; that is, shall plunder and spoil at -their pleasure. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - LeRoy rusé entendra ses Embusches, - De trois quartiers Ennemis assaillir, - Un nombre estrange Larmes de coqueluches, - Viendra _Lamprin_ du traducteur faillir. - - English. - - The crafty King shall hear of his Ambuscadoes, - And shall assail his Enemies on three sides, - A strange number of Friers, mens Tears, - Shall cause _Lamprin_ to desert the Traitor. - -ANNOT. - -The only difficulty here is to know who that _Lamprin_ should be, who -shall be diverted from following a Traitor (which he meaneth here by the -_French_ word _Traducteur_) and shall be diverted from it by the Tears of -Fryers, which are meant here by the ancient _French_ word _Coqueluches_, -which signifieth a Fryers Cool or Capuchon. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Par le Deluge & pestilence forte, - La Cité grande de long temps Assiegée, - La Sentinelle & Garde de main morte, - Subite prinse mais de nul outragée. - - English. - - The great City having been long Besieged, - By an Innundation and violent Plague, - The Sentinal and Watch being surprised, - Shall be taken on a sudden, but hurt by no body. - -ANNOT. - -This is very plain, if by the great City you understand _Paris_, who is -subject to frequent Innundations and Plagues. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - Sol Vingt de _Taurus_, si fort terre tremblera, - Le grand Theatre remply ruinera, - L’Air, Ciel, & Terre, obscurcir & troubler, - Lors l’Infidele Dieu, & Saints voguera. - - English. - - The Sun being in the _20th_ of _Taurus_, the Earth shall so quake, - That it shall fill and ruinate the great Theater - The Air, the Heaven, & the Earth shall be so darkened, and troubled, - That the unbelievers shall call upon God, and his Saints. - -ANNOT. - -This famous Earth-quake having not yet happened in _Europe_, it is like -to happen within few years, for our Authors Prophecies (by his own -confession) do not extend further than the year 1700. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Roy exposé parfaira l’Hecatombe, - Apres avoir trouve son Origine, - Torrent ouvrir de Marbre & Plomb la Tombe, - D’un grand _Romain_ d’Enseigne _Medusin_. - - English. - - The King exposed shall fulfill the Hecatombe, - After he hath found out his Offspring, - A Torrent shall open the Sepulcher, made of Marble and Lead, - Of a great _Roman_, with a _Medusean_ Ensign. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is divided into two parts, The first two Verses are -concerning a King, who shall perform the Funeral Rites and Ceremonies -to his Parents, when he is come to the knowledge of them, having been -exposed for lost before. - -The two last Verses are concerning an ancient Sepulcher of a _Roman_, -that shall be digged up and found out by a Torrent, and the Arms of the -said _Roman_ shall be something like the head of _Medusa_, whose Hairs -were Serpents, and was so fearful to behold, that by seeing of it, the -beholders were turned into stones. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Passer _Guenne_, _Languedoc_, & le _Rhosne_, - D’_Agen_ tenants, de _Marmande_ & la _Reole_, - D’Ouvrir par foy parroy, _Phocen_ tiendra son Throne, - Conflict aupres Saint _Pol_ de _Manseole_. - - English. - - They shall pass over _Gascony_, _Languedoc_, and the _Rhosne_, - From _Agen_ keeping _Marmande_, and the _Reole_, - To open the Wall by Faith, _Phocen_ shall keep his Throne, - A Battle shall be by St. _Paul_ of _Manseole_. - -ANNOT. - -The whole of this Prophecie signifieth no more, but that an Army shall -pass through all these places, and that at last there will be a Battle -fought by that place, called St. _Paul de Manseole_. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Du _Bourg la Reyne_ parviendront droit a _Chartres_, - Et feront pres du _Pont Antony_ pose, - Sept pour la paix cauteleux comme _Martres_, - Feront entrée d’Armée a _Paris_ clause. - - English. - - From _Bourg la Reyne_ they shall come straight to _Chartres_, - And shall make a stand near _Pont Antony_, - Seven for Peace as crafty as _Martres_, - They shall enter in _Paris_ besieged with an Army. - -ANNOT. - -_Bourg la Reyne_ is a little town within six Miles of _Paris_, _Chartres_ -is the chief City of the Province _Beausse_, _Pont Antony_ is a little -Town between them both, so that the sense of the whole is this, that -seven men, crafty like _Martres_ (which are those _Russia_ Foxes that -afford the richest Furres, called _Martres Zibellines_) shall go from -_Bourg la Reyne_ to _Chartres_, making a little stay at _Pont Antony_, -and then shall come with an Army into _Paris_, which shall be besieged at -that time, I believe this Prophecy is come to pass already in the time of -the Civil Wars of _France_; but for want of the History I could not quote -the time. - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Par la Forest du _Touphon_ essartée - Par Hermitage sera posé le Temple, - Le Duc d’_Estampes_ par sa ruse inventée, - Du _Montlehery_ Prelat donra exemple. - - English. - - By the Forrest _Touphon_ cut off, - By the Hermitage shall the Temple be set, - The Duke of _Estampes_ by his invented trick, - Shall give example to the Prelat of _Montlehery_. - -ANNOT. - -Here is a fault in the Impression, for instead of _Touphon_, it must be -written _Torfou_, which is a Forrest some 30 Miles from _Paris_ towards -_Beausse_, near which is seated the Town of _Montlehery_, in the said -Forrest is seated an Hermitage, and not far from thence the City of -_Estampes_, which carryeth the Title of Dutchy; so that the sense of -it is this, that this Forrest being cut off (as it is now for the most -part) in the place where that Hermitage was, shall be built a Church or -Convent, as it is now _Cælestins friars_, called _Marcoussy_, and that -the said Hermitage shall be taken from the jurisdiction of the Town of -_Montlehery_, under which it was before. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - _Calais_, _Arras_, secours a _Theroanne_, - Paix & semblant simulera l’escoute, - Soulde d’_Allobrox_ descendra par _Roane_, - Destornay peuple qui defera la routte. - - English. - - _Calais_, _Arras_, shall give succours to _Theroanne_, - Peace or the like, shall dissemble the hearing, - Souldiers of _Allobrox_ shall descend by _Roane_, - People perswaded, shall spoil the March. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy did happen in the time of _Henry_ the II. King of _France_, -about the year 1559. - -The last Verse saith, that those two Towns _Calais_ and _Arras_ gave -succours to _Theroanne_, that is to the Countrey where _Therouenne_ was -seated, which was destroyed by _Charles_ the V. Emperour. This Countrey -was called _Ponthieu_, of which _Therouenne_ was the chief Town. - -The second Verse doth determine the time whereabout this came to pass, -when he saith, _peace or the like shall dissemble the hearing_; because -in the year 1556. in the beginning of _February_ there was a Truce for -five years between the two Crowns of _France_ and _Spain_, concerning -the Low Countreys, and this Truce signified not much, nor was well -cemented, so that the Author saith, _Peace or the like shall dissemble -the hearing_; that is, shall fain not to hear that the Cardinal _Caraffa_ -did endeavour in _France_ to have the Truce broken. - -The third Verse is obscure, because of a fault in the Impression, -wherein they have put _Ronane_ instead of _Noanne_, that is _Hannone_ by -transposition of letters, but that being corrected, the Verse is clear, -supposing that _Philibertus Emanuel_ Duke of _Savoy_ was General of the -Army, against _France_ in the _Low-Countreis_, and wandering about to do -some notable exploit, he came down through the Province of _Hainault_, -called in Latine _Hannonia_, and came to _Mariembourg_, as if he would -have Besieged it, but after some light skirmishes he laid Siege to -_Rocroy_, and this is the meaning of the third Verse, when he saith, -_Souldiers of ~Allobrox~ shall descend by ~Noanne~_, that is, Souldiers -in the Army of the Duke of _Savoy_, which in Latine is _Allobrox_, came -down to _Mariembourg_, and turned back again to _Rocroy_. - -The fourth Verse mentioneth what did happen at the Siege of _Rocroy_; -that place being not yet very well fortified; the King was unwilling to -put any of his best Souldiers therein, but the Duke of _Nevers_ undertook -the defence of it, which he did really and gloriously perform, in so -much, that the Duke of _Savoy_ was compelled to raise up the Siege, and -going back towards St. _Quentin_, he took _Vervins_ by storm, and gave -the booty of it to his Souldiers, who took heart upon it, having been -much discouraged before by the resistance of the Duke of _Nevers_. This -is the sense of the fourth Verse, _People persuaded shall spoil the -march_; that is, the people of _Rocroy_ persuaded to hold out by the -courage and presence of the Duke of _Nevers_, spoiled the march that the -Duke of _Savoy_ had propounded to himself, insomuch, that raising the -Siege he went to _Vervins_, and from thence to St. _Quentin_. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - Sept ans _Philip_ fortune prospere, - Rabaissera des _Barbares_ l’effort, - Puis son midy perplex rebours affaire, - Jeune _Ogmion_ abysmera son fort. - - English. - - _Philip_ shall have seven years of prosperous fortune, - Shall beat down the attempt of the _Barbarians_, - Then in his Noon he shall be perplexed and have untoward business, - Young _Ogmion_ shall pull down his strength. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza was made concerning _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_, who for -the first seven years that he came to his Crown, had prosperous fortune, -did brave exploits against the _Barbarians_, and chiefly in the person -of his Brother _Don Juan_ of _Austria_, who got the memorable Battle of -_Lapantho_ against the _Turks_, but in the middle of _his Noon_, that -is of his Age, fell into great perplexities and cross businesses, being -constrained to put his onely son _Don Carla_ to death, and to poison his -wife and after that never prospered, when young _Ogmion_ (that is _Henry_ -IV. King of _France_) came to the Crown. - - -XC. - - French. - - Un Capitaine de la grand _Germanie_, - Se viendra rendre par simulé secours, - Au Roy des Roys, aide de _Pannonie_, - Que sa revoke fera de sang grand cours. - - English. - - A Captain of the great _Germany_, - Shall come to yield himself with a fained help, - Unto the King of Kings, help of _Hungary_, - So that his revolt shall cause a great bloodshed. - -ANNOT. - -_Pannonia_ in Latine is _Hungary_, there is nothing hard in this, unless -it be what he meaneth by the King of Kings, whether it be the great Turk -or the Emperour. - - -XCI. - - French. - - L’Horrible peste _Perynthe_ & _Nicopole_, - Le _Chersonese_ tiendra & _Marceloine_, - La _Thessalie_ naistera l’_Amphipole_, - Mal incogneu & le refus d’_Antoine_. - - English. - - The horrid pestilence shall seize upon _Perynthe_ and _Nicopolis_, - The _Chersonese_ and _Marceloine_, - It shall waste _Thessalia_ and _Amphipolis_, - An unknown evil and the refusal of _Antony_. - -ANNOT. - -There is several faults in the impression here, for instead of -_Perynthe_, it must be _Corinth_. For _Marceloine_, it must be -_Macedoine_: the substance of the whole is, that there shall be a great -plague in all these Countries of _Asia_. The refusal of _Antony_ is -foisted here to make up the rime with _Macedony_. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Le Roy voudra dans Cité neufve entrer, - Par ennemis expugner l’on viendra, - Captif libere, faulx dire & perpetrer, - Roy dehors estre, loin d’ennemis tiendra. - - English. - - The King shall desire to enter into the new City, - With foes they shall come to overcome it, - The Prisoner being free, shall speak and act falsly, - The King being gotten out, shall keep far from enemies. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of all these words so ill jointed, is no more but that a -certain King shall desire to enter into a new City, and there they shall -come and Besiege him, where he shall both act and speak deceitfully to -get his liberty, which having obtained, shall keep far from his foes. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - Les ennemis du Fort bien esloignez, - Par Chariots conduits le Bastion, - Par sur les Murs de _Bourges_ esgrongnez, - Quand _Hercules_ battra l’_Hæmathion_. - - English. - - The enemies being a good way from the Fort, - Shall upon Wagons be conducted to the Bulwark, - From the top of _Bourges_ Walls they shall be cut less, - When _Hercules_ shall beat the _Hæmathion_. - -ANNOT. - -_Bourges_ is the chief City of a Province in _France_ called _Berry_. - -There is nothing difficult in this, but onely what he meaneth by -_Hercules beating the Æmathion_, unless by _Hercules_ he meaneth the -_French_, and by _Æmathion_ the _Spaniard_. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - Foibles Galeres seront unis ensemble, - Ennemis faux, le plus fort en rempart, - Foible assailies _Wratislavie_ tremble; - _Lubeck_ & _Mysne_ tiendront _Barbare_ part. - - English. - - Weak Galleys shall be united together, - False enemies, the strongest shall be fortified, - Weak assaults, and yet _Breslaw_ quaketh for fear, - _Lubeck_ and _Misne_ shall take the part of the _Barbarians_. - -ANNOT. - -_Breslaw_, _Lubeck_ and _Misne_, are three Cities of _Germany_; the rest -is plain. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Le nouveau fait conduira l’exercite, - Proche apamé jusque aupres du Rivage, - Tendant secours de _Melanoise_ eslite, - Duc yeux privé, a _Milan_ fer de Cage. - - English. - - The new man shall lead up the Army, - Near _Apamé_, till near the Bank, - Carrying succours of choice Forces from _Milan_, - The Duke deprived of his eyes, and an Iron Cage at _Milan_. - -ANNOT. - -_Apamé_ is a barbarous word, at least I cannot tell what language it is, -the rest is plain enough, and signifieth that a Duke shall be deprived of -his eyes, and shall be put in an Iron Cage at _Milan_. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Dans Cité entrer exercite desniée, - Duc entrera par persuasion, - Aux foibles portes clam Armée amenée, - Mettront feu, mort, de sang effusion. - - English. - - The Army being denied the entrance of the City, - The Duke shall enter by persuasion, - To the weak Gates, _clam_ the Army being brought, - Shall put all to fire and sword. - -ANNOT. - -_Clam_ here is in Latine _præposition_, signifying secretly; the rest is -easie. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - De Mer Copies en trois parts divisées, - A la seconde les Vivres failliront, - Desesperez cherchant Champs _Elisées_, - Premiers en breche entrez victoire auront. - - English. - - A Fleet being divided into three parts, - The victuals will fail the second part, - Being in despaire they’l seek the _Elysian_ Fields, - And entring the breach first, shall obtain victory. - -ANNOT. - -A Fleet being divided into three parts, the second division shall fall -into want of victuals, for which being desperate, they shall attempt the -Town of the enemy, and shall enter it by the breach, and get the victory. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - Les affligez par faute d’un seul taint, - Contremenant a partie opposite, - Aux _Lygonois_ mandera que contraint, - Seront de rendre le grand chef de _Molite_. - - English. - - The afflicted want of one only died, - Carrying against the opposite part, - Shall send word to those of _Lyon_, they shall be compelled, - To surrender the great chief of _Molite_. - -ANNOT. - -This is the most nonsensical thing that is in all the Book, for neither -the words nor the connexion is intelligible, therefore it being so much -out of the common road of our Author, I am apt to believe that it was at -first very falsly printed, and that those that came after, were loth to -alter it for the respect of antiquity. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - Vent _Aquilon_ fera partir le Siege, - Par murs jetter cendres, chaulx, & poussiere, - Par pluye apres qui leur sera bien piege, - Dernier secours encontre leur Frontiere. - - English. - - The North wind shall cause the Siege to be raised, - They shall throw ashes, lime, and dust, - By a rain after that shall be a trap to them, - It shall be the last succours against their Frontiere. - -ANNOT. - -Here is described a notable stratagem of a Besieged Town, who against -rainy weather cast so much ashes, lime and dust, that the rain coming -thereupon, it made such a mire, as the Besiegers were not able to assault -it. - - -C. - - French. - - Navale pugne nuict sera superée, - Le feu, aux Naves a l’Occident ruine, - Rubriche neuve, la grand néf colorée, - Ire a vaincu, & victoire en bruine. - - English. - - In a Sea-fight, night shall be overcome, - By fire, to the Ships of the West ruine shall happen, - A new stratagem, the great Ship coloured, - Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a Mist. - -ANNOT. - -He foretelleth of a Sea-fight in the night, wherein by the light of the -burning Ships night shall be overcome, the Ships that came from the West -shall be worsted, and by a stratagem of a great Ship painted in colours, -anger shall remain to the vanquished, and the victory shall be got in a -Mist. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ X. - - -I. - - French. - - A l’Ennemy, l’ennemy foy promise, - Ne se tiendra, les captifs retenus, - Prins preme mort & le reste en chemise, - Donnant le reste pour estre secourus. - - English. - - To the enemy, the enemy faith promised, - Shall not be kept, the prisoners shall be detained, - The first taken, put to death, and the rest stripped, - Giving the remnant that they may be succoured. - -ANNOT. - -These words are plain, though the sense be a little intricated, and the -contents being of small concernments, deserve no further explanation. - - -II. - - French. - - Voile Gallere Voile nef Cachera, - La grand Classe viendra sortir la moindre, - Dix Naves proches le tourneront poulser, - Grand vaincüe, unies a soy joindre. - - English. - - The Galley and the Ship shall hide their Sails, - The great Fleet shall make the little one to come out, - Ten Ships near hand, shall turn and push at it, - The great being vanquished, they shall unite together. - -ANNOT. - -These are some particularities of a Sea fight between a great Fleet and a -small one, wherein he saith, that some had hid their Sails, belike they -were unwilling to come out of the Harbour and to fight; but he saith, -that the great Fleet will compel the little one to come out; but ten -great Ships will come to help the little Fleet, and after the great one -hath been overcome, will joyn themselves to the little Fleet. - - -III. - - French. - - En apres cinq troupeau ne mettra hors, - Un fuitif pour _Penelon_ laschera, - Faux murmurer secours venir par lors, - Le Chef le Siege lors abandonnera. - - English. - - After that, five shall not put out his flock, - He’l let loose a runnaway for _Penelon_, - There shall be a false rumour, succours shall come then, - The Commander shall forsake the Siege. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is either nonsensical or falsely printed, and what he meaneth -by _Penelon_, is utterly unknown. - - -IV. - - French. - - Sur la minuit conducteur de l’Armée, - Se sauvera subit esvanovy, - Sept ans apres la fame non blasmée, - A son retour ne dira oncq ouy. - - English. - - About midnight the leader of the Army, - Shall save himself, vanishing suddenly, - Seven years after his fame shall not be blamed - And at his return he shall never say yea. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain of a General of an Army, who shall forsake his Army, -and save himself, and yet seven years after when he cometh back, his -reputation shall be as clear, as if he never had committed such an errour. - - -V. - - French. - - _Albi_ & _Castres_ feront nouvelle ligue, - Neuf _Arriens_, _Lisbonne_, & _Portuguez_, - _Carcas._ _Thoulouze_, consumeront leur brigue - Quand chef neuf monstre de _Lauraguez_. - - English. - - _Albi_ and _Castres_ shall make a new league, - Nine _Arriens_, _Lisbonne_, and _Portuguez_, - _Carcas._ _Thoulouse_, shall make an end of their confederacy; - When the new chief shall come from _Lauragais_. - -ANNOT. - -_Albi_, _Castres_, _Carcassonne_, and _Thoulouse_, are Cities of -_Languedock_, which our Author saith, will enter into a confederacy among -themselves, and joyn with _Lisbon_ and the _Portuguez_, and this shall -happen when the general of the Army, shall be one born in _Lauragais_, -which is another of the same Province. - - -VI. - - French. - - _Gardon_ a _Nismes_ eaux si haut desborderont, - Qu’on cuidera _Deucalion_ renaistre, - Dans le _Colosse_ la pluspart fuiront, - Vesta Sepulchre feu esteint apparoistre. - - English. - - _Gardon_ at _Nismes_, waters shall overflow so high, - That they’l think that _Deucalion_ is born again, - Most of them will run into the _Colossus_, - And a Sepulchre, and fire extinguished, shall appear. - -ANNOT. - -Near _Nismes_ there is the River called _Gardon_, which cometh from St. -_Romans_, and dischargeth it self into the _Rhosne_ at _Beaucaire_, there -is to be seen in that City abundance of _Antiquitez_, which the _Goths_ -had built 1150. years before; there is also many _Roman_ Antiquities, -as an _Amphitheater_, so well builded that neither the _Goths_ nor the -_Saracens_, nor _Attila_, nor _Charles Martel_, with all their power, -could not utterly demolish it. The Author nameth it _Colossus_, because -its building appeared like a _Colossus_ for solidity. - -There is also an ancient Temple which is called the _Fountain_, builded -as a Quadrangle, and supported by two rows of great Pillars, which at -present is a Church of Nuns. - -This being supposed, the River of _Gardon_ did overflow so much, that -its Waters joyning with that of a Flood that happened there the ninth -of _September_ 1557. every one thought that _Deucalion_ had been born -again. The Author saith this; because in the fables of the ancients. -_Deucalion_ is thought to be the Author of the Flood which _Ovid_ -mentioneth. During this Flood which was like to overflow the Town, as -well as the Countrey, many did retire themselves into that Amphitheater. - -And in that ancient Temple of the _Fountain_, the Waters overthrowing -a great many old buildings did discover abundance of Antiquities, and -amongst the rest one of those Lamps that burneth always, in the Sepulchre -of a _Vestal_, which went out as soon as it felt the fresh Air. - -In confirmation of this, the History of _Provence_ saith, that the storm -began about five of the Clock in the Morning, and lasted till Eight -of the Clock at night, and that these waters did uncover abundance of -Antiquities that were hidden 1100. years before, as Pillars, Portico’s, -Medals, Jasper-stones, and serpentine-stones, pieces of broken Vessels, -Epitaphs, lodging Rooms, and Caves, and all other things that use to be -found in the ruines of a Palace. - -There was also heard in the Air Dogs barking, Pillars of fire, Armed men -fighting, and were seen two Suns in the Clouds of the Colour of Blood, -all which were the sad presages of the Civil Wars of _France_ presently -after, and chiefly that of _Provence_. - -The ninth Century in the ninth Stanza, speaketh almost the same, and -sheweth that _Nismes_ shall perish by Water. - - -VII. - - French. - - Le grand conflict qu’on appreste a _Nancy_, - L’_Æmathien_ dira tout je soubmets, - L’Isle _Britane_ par Vin Sel en solcy, - _Hem. mi._ deux _Phi._ long temps ne tiendra _Mets_. - - English. - - A great War is preparing at _Nancy_, - The _Æmathien_ shall say I submit to all, - The _British_ Island shall be put in care by Salt and Wine, - _Hem. mi._ two _Phi._ shall not keep _Mets_ long. - -ANNOT. - -_Nancy_ is the chief City of _Lorrain_, and by the _Æmathien_ is -understood the _French_, the _British_ Isle is _England_, which is said -here, shall come into great distress by Salt and Wine, because the -Countrey aboundeth in those two Commodities. The last Verse I do not -understand, save that _Mets_ is a great City in _Lorrain_. - - -VIII. - - French. - - _Index_ & _Poulse_ parfondera le front - De _Senegalia_ le Comte a son Fils propre, - La _Myrnamée_ par plusieurs de plain front, - Trois dans sept jours blessez mort. - - English. - - _Index_ and _Poulse_ shall break the forehead, - Of the Son of the Earl of _Senegalia_, - The _Myrnamée_ by many at a full bout, - Three within seven days shall be wounded to death. - -ANNOT. - -_Senegalia_ is a Town in _Italy_, all what can be gathered out of the -obscurity of this Stanza, is, that the son of the Earl of that Town shall -have his forehead broken, and within seven days after, three more shall -be wounded to death. - - -IX. - - French. - - De _Castilon figuieres_ jour de brune, - De femme infame naistra Souverain Prince, - Surnum de chausses per hume luy posthume, - Onc Roy ne fut si pire en sa Province. - - English. - - Out of _Castilon figuieres_ upon a misty day, - From an infamous woman shall be born a Soveraign Prince, - His surname shall be from _Breeches_, himself a posthume, - Never a King was worse in his Province. - -ANNOT. - -_Castilon figuieres_ is a petty Town in _Provence_, in which he saith -that a Soveraign Prince shall be born of an infamous Woman, and shall be -a posthume, which in Latine signifieth one that is born after his Fathers -death; he saith also that his name shall be derived from _Breeches_ and -that never a King was worse in his Countrey, whether by worse, he meaneth -in manners or fortune, I know not. - - -X. - - French. - - Tasche de murdre, enormes Adulteres, - Grand ennemy de tout le genre humain, - Que sera pire qu’ayeulx, Oncles ne Pere, - En fer, feu, eau, sanguin & inhumain. - - English. - - Endeavour of Murder, enormous Adulteries, - A great enemy of all mankind, - That shall be worse then Grand-father, Uncle, or Father, - In Iron, fire, water, bloody and inhumane. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza as well as the next hath relation to the precedent, making -mention what a wicked person shall that Posthume be of which he spoke -before. - - -XI. - - French. - - Dessoubs _Jonchere_ du dangereux passage, - Fera passer le posthume sa bande, - Les Monts _Pyrens_ passer hors son bagage, - De _Parpignan_ courira Duc a _Tende_. - - English. - - Below _Joncheres_ dangerous passage, - The posthume shall cause his Army to go over, - And his Baggage to go over the _Pyrenean_ Mountains, - A Duke shalt run from _Perpignan_ to _Tende_. - -ANNOT. - -This is still concerning the same posthume or Bastard, who shall cause -his Army to pass at _Jonchere_, and his Bagage to go over the _Pyrenean_ -Mountains, which parts _Spain_ from _France_, and that upon the fear -of him a Duke shall run from _Perpignan_, which is the chief City of -_Roussillon_ to _Tende_, which is a little Town in _Provence_. - - -XII. - - French. - - Esleu en Pape, d’Esleu sera mocqué, - Subit soudain, esmeu prompt & timide, - Par trop bon doux a mourir provoqué, - Crainte estainte la nuit de sa mort guide. - - English. - - Elected for a Pope, from Elected shall be baffled, - Upon a sudden, moved quick and fearful, - By too much sweetness provooked to die, - His fear being out in the night shall be Leader to his death. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was fulfilled in the person of the Cardinal _Santa -Severina_, who in the Conclave of Cardinals after the death of Pope -_Innocent_ IX. was Elected Pope, and presently after was baffled by the -same Cardinals, and _Clement_ the VIII. chosen in his place, for which -the other a little while after died for grief. - - -XIII. - - French. - - Soubs la pasture d’animaux ruminans, - Par eux conduits au ventre _Herbi-polique_, - Soldats cachez, les armes bruit menants, - Non loin tentez de Cité _Antipolique_. - - English. - - Under the pasture of Beasts chewing the cud, - Conducted by them to the _Herbi-polique_ belly, - Souldiers hidden, the Weapons making a noise, - Shall be attempted not far from _Antipolick_ City. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is, that some Souldiers disguised like Herds-men, shall -lead Oxen into a place where were hidden before Weapons in the Grass, but -the Weapons making a noise by their clashing they shall be discovered, -not far from a place that he calleth here _Antipolique_, purposely -to rime with _Herbipolique_ in _French_, which word _Herbipolique_ -signifieth a Town of Pasture. - - -XIV. - - French. - - _Urnel_, _Vaucile_, sans conseil de soy mesmes, - Hardy, timide par crainte prins vaincu, - Accompagné de plusieurs putains, blesme, - A _Barcelonne_ aux Chartreux convaincu. - - English. - - _Urnel_, _Vaucile_, without advice of his own, - Stout and fearful, by fear taken and overcome, - Pale, and in company of many Whores, - Shall be convicted at _Barcelone_ by the Charterhouse. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is an Horoscope, which the Author made upon that Gentleman -named _Urnel Vaucille_, and signifieth that the said man should find -himself in such perplexity that he could not be able to take advice what -to do, and that fear should make him hide himself, to be apprehended, in -a place where he should be taken. - -When he was taken, he was presently convicted of those crimes that he -was accused of: therefore the Officers of Justice did conduct him to the -Charter-house of _Barcelone_, which is four miles from the said Town, in -a place called _Campo alegre_, for the beauty and situation of it, to -that place many Whores did accompany him to receive the punishment they -had deserved, therefore the Author saith that he went thither pale, as -foreseeing the terrour of the punishment he was to undergo. - - -XV. - - French. - - Pere Duc vieux d’ans & de soif chargé, - Au jour extreme fils desniant l’esguiere, - Dedans le puis vif, mort viendra plongé, - Senat au fils la mort longue & legere. - - English. - - A Father Duke, aged and very thirsty, - In his extremity, his son denying him the Ewer, - Alive into a Well, where he shall be drowned, - For which the Senate shall give the son a long and easie death. - -ANNOT. - -It is a Duke very aged who shall die of a Dropsie, or of some other -burning disease, which will make him very thirsty, the Physitians shall -forbid any water to be given him, therefore this Duke shall press his son -very much to give him the Ewer, that he may drink his fill, but his son -refusing, the Father shall fall into such a rage, that being alone he -will go and throw himself into a Well, where he shall be drowned. - -This unhappy death will be the cause of much murmuring, and the Senate -or Parliament of that place will make enquiry after it, by which enquiry -the son will be found guilty, therefore for his punishment, he shall be -condemned to a long and easie death, as to live all his days in some -Monastery. - - -XVI. - - French. - - Heureux au Regne de _France_ heureux de vie, - Ignorant sang, mort, fureur, rapine, - Par non flatteurs seras mis en envie, - Roy desrobé, trop de foy en cuisine. - - English. - - Happy in the Kingdom of _France_, happy in his Life, - Ignorant of blood, death, fury, of taking by force, - By no flatterers shall be envied, - King robbed, too much faith in Kitchin. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prognostication of a King of _France_, who though happy in his -Reign and Life, and being given to no great vices, as blood, fury, or -taking by force, yet shall be much envied and robbed by his Subjects, and -chiefly by those he trusteth about his Kitchin. - - -XVII. - - French. - - La Reyne _Ergaste_ voiant sa fille blesme, - Par un regret dans l’estomach enclos, - Cris lamentables seront lors d’_Angolesme_, - Et au germain mariage forclos. - - English. - - Queen _Ergaste_ seeing her Daughter pale, - By a regret contained in her Breast, - Then shall great cries come out of _Angolesme_, - And the Marriage shall be denyed to the Cousin German. - -ANNOT. - -It is unknown what Queen he meaneth by the name of _Ergaste_; the rest is -easie. _Angolesme_ is a City of _Gascony_ or _Languedoc_. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Le rang _Lorrain_ fera place a _Vendosme_, - Le haut mis bas, & le bas mis en haut, - Le fils d’_Hamon_ sera esleu dans _Rome_, - Et les deux grands seront mis en defaut. - - English. - - The House of _Lorrain_ shall give place to _Vendosme_ - The high pulled down, the low raised up, - The son of _Hamon_ shall be Elected into _Rome_, - And the two great ones shall not appear. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses of this Prophecy were fulfilled in the time of -_Henry_ the third King of _France_, in whose time the Duke of _Guise_, -and House of _Lorrain_ were grown so powerful in _France_, that they -drove the King from _Paris_, and assumed themselves a rank and authority -over the Princes of the Blood, so that the King was forced to cause them -to be slain, after which _Henry_ IV. who was King of _Navarre_ and Duke -of _Vendosme_ took his place again as first Prince of the Blood. - -The two last Verses are too obscure to be interpreted, and I believe -were onely forced by our Author to make up his Rime, as he hath done in -several other places. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Jour que sera pour Roine saluée, - Le jour apres le salut, la Priere, - Le compte fait raison & valbuée, - Par avant humble oncques ne fut si fiere. - - English. - - The day that she shall be saluted Queen, - The next day after the Evening Prayer, - All accompts being summoned and cast up, - She that was humble before, never was one so proud. - -ANNOT. - -It is a woman (be like of a small Fortune) who coming to be a Queen by -her humility, the next day after Evening Prayer she shall appear so -proud, as the like was never seen. - - -XX. - - French. - - Tous les amis qu’auront tenu party, - Pour rude en lettres mis mort & saccage, - Biens publiez par fixe, grand neanty, - Onc _Romain_ peuple ne fut tant outrage. - - English. - - All the friends that shall have taken the part - Of the Unlearned, put to death and robbed, - Goods sold publickly by proclamation, a great man seized of them, - Never _Roman_ people was so much abused. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is, that a great man that took part with all those that -were unlearned shall be put to death, and their goods praised and sold -publickly, upon which goods another great man shall seize, and this is to -be done in _Rome_. - -There is fault in the Impression of the third _French_ Verse, for instead -of _fixe_ it must be _fisc_ and instead of _Neanty_ it must be _Nancy_. - - -XXI. - - French. - - Par le despit du Roy soustenant moindre, - Sera meurdry luy presentant les bagues, - Le Pere & Fils voulant Noblesse poindre, - Fait comme a _Perse_ jadis firent les _Magues_. - - English. - - To spite the King, who took the part of the weaker, - He shall be murdered, presenting to him Jewels, - The Father and the Son going to vex the Nobility, - It shall be done to them as the _Magi_ did in _Persia_. - -ANNOT. - -This is a King who with his son taking the peoples part against the -Nobility shall be killed, in presenting to him Jewels, and he and his son -shall be dealt with all as the _Magi_, that is the Grandees of _Persia_ -used to do with their Kings, whom they were wont to murder, or depose. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Pour ne vouloir consentir au divorce, - Qui puis apres sera cogneu indigne, - Le Roy des Isles sera chassé par force, - Mis a son lien qui de Roy n’aura signe. - - English. - - For not consenting to the divorce, - Which afterwards shall be acknowledged unworthy, - The King of the Island shall be expelled by force, - And another subrogated, who shall have no mark of a King. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain concerning _England_ and the late calamities thereof, -when our gracious King for not consenting to the wicked factions of the -Parliament then, and that have been acknowledged so since, was expelled -by force, and an Usurpator that had not the least sign of a King sat in -his place. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Au peuple ingrat faites les remonstrances, - Par lors l’Armée se saisira d’_Antibe_, - Dans larc _Monech_ feront les doleances, - Et a _Freius_ l’un l’autre prendra ribe. - - English. - - The remonstrances being made to the ungrateful people, - At that time the Army shall seize upon _Antibe_, - In the River of _Monaco_ they shall make their complaints, - And at _Freius_ both of them shall take their share. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that at the same time that the remonstrances shall be -made to an ungrateful people; the Army shall seize upon the Town of -_Antibe_, which is a Sea Town between _France_ and _Italy_, and that -there shall be great complaints at _Monaco_, which is another Sea Town -near it, and at the place called _Freius_, both parties shall either -agree, or divide their shares. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Le captif Prince aux _Itales_ vaincu, - Passera _Gennes_ par Mer jusque a _Marseille_, - Par grand effort des forens survaincu, - Sauf coup de feu, barril liqueur d’Abeille. - - English. - - The captive Prince vanquished in _Italy_, - Shall pass by Sea through _Genoa_ to _Marseilles_, - By great endeavours of forrain forces overcome, - But that a Barrel of Honey shall save him from the fire. - -ANNOT. - -A Prince vanquished in _Italy_, and taken Prisoner shall come through -_Genoa_ to _Marseilles_, where he shall be once more overcome by -strangers, but that a Barrel of Honey shall save him from being burnt. -This is the sense of the words as near as I can judge, the judicious -Reader may make what construction he pleaseth upon them. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Par _Nebro_ ouvrir de _Brisanne_ passage, - Bien esloignez _el tago fara muestra_, - Dans _Pelligouxe_ sera commis l’outrage, - De la grand Dame assise sur l’_Orchestra_. - - English. - - By _Nebro_ to open the passage of _Brisanne_, - A great way off, _el tago fara muestra_, - In _Pelligouxe_ the wrong shall be done - Of the great Lady sitting in the _Orchestra_. - -ANNOT. - -Here once more I lost my Spectacles, and could not see through, therefore -I had rather be silent then coin lies, I shall only tell you, that -_orchestra_ in Latine is the seat wherein noble Personages sit at the -beholding of Stage-plays. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Le successeur vengera son Beau frere, - Occuper Regne soubs ombre de vengeance, - Occis obstacle son sang mort vitupere, - Long temps _Bretagne_ tiendra avec la _France_. - - English. - - The Successour shall avenge his Brother in Law, - Shall hold by force the Kingdom, upon pretence of revenge, - That hinderance shall be killed, his dead blood ashamed, - A long time shall _Brittany_ hold with _France_. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain enough of it self, without any interpretation. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - _Charle_ cinquiesme & un grand _Hercules_, - Viendront le Temple ouvrir de main bellique, - Une Colonne, _Jules_ & _Ascan_ reculez, - L’_E’pagne_, clef, Aigle neurent onc si grand pique. - - English. - - _Charles_ the Fifth, and one great _Hercules_, - Shall open the Temple with a Warlike hand, - One Colonne, _Julius_ and _Ascan_ put back, - _Spain_, the Key, Eagle were never at such variance. - -ANNOT. - -_Charles_ the V. was the Emperour, and that great _Hercules_ was _Henry_ -the II. King of _France_, whom he calleth _Hercules_, because he was -King of _France_, and the Author nameth often in his Stanzas the Kings -of _France Hercules_ or _Ogmions_, because that great Captain of the -Antiquity left his name glorious in the _Gaules_, whence the ancient -Historians have given him the name of _Hercules Gallicus_. _Henry_ the -II. also was not only an _Hercules_ by being King of _France_, but also a -great _Hercules_, because of his Warlike humour, and for his great feats -in Arms. - -_To open the Temple_, signifieth to make War, because the _Romans_ in -ancient time were wont to shut the Temple of _Janus_ in time of Peace, -and kept it open during the War. _Cæsar Augustus_ did shut that Temple -once in his time, which was never done before but twice, the first under -_Numa Pompilius_, the second after the overcoming of _Charthage_. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - Second & tiers qui font prime Musique, - Sera par Roy en honneur sublimée, - Par grasse & maigre presque a deny etique; - Rapport de _Venus_ faux rendra deprimée. - - English. - - Second and third that make prime Musick, - Shall by the King be exalted to honour, - By a fat one, and a lean one, one in consumption, - A false report of _Venus_ shall pull her down. - -ANNOT. - -Notwithstanding the obscurity of this sense, and the bad connexion of the -words, we may perceive that by this Stanza is meant, that a King having -two Mistresses shall exalt them in great honour, till by a report made -by a fat woman and a lean one, that is in a consumption, that the said -Ladies prove unfaithful to the King, he will depress them as low as they -were before. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - De _Pol Mansol_ dans Caverne caprine, - Caché & pris extrait hors par la barbe, - Captif mené comme beste mastine, - Par _Begourdans_ amenée pres de _Tarbe_. - - English. - - From _Pol Mansol_ in a Goats Den, - Hidden and taken, drawn out by the beard - Prisoner, led as a Mastiff, - By _Begourdans_ shall be brought near to _Tarbe_. - -ANNOT. - -Here and in some other places of this work is to be observed, that -the Author doth sometimes put two Towns instead of one, that he may -distinguish it from others of the same name, as here he calleth _Pol -Mansol_ to distinguish the Town of St. _Paul_, which is three Leagues -from the _Rhosne_, over against the Town of _Pont St. Esprit_, from that -which is in the lower parts of _Provence_. - -The sense therefore of this Stanza is, that this _Begourdans_ (a proper -name of a man) shall pull out another by the beard, that was hidden in a -Goats Den, and shall lead him captive as far as _Tarbe_, which is another -Town of _Provence_. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Nepveu & sang du St. nouveau venu, - Par le surnom soustient arcs & couvert, - Seront chassez mis a mort chassez nu, - En rouge & noir convertiront leur vert. - - English. - - Nephew and blood of the Saint newly come, - By the surname upholdeth Vaults and Covering, - They shall be driven, put to death, and driven out naked. - They shall change their red and black into green. - -ANNOT. - -Here I confess to be at a loss, as may be a wiser man then I. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Le Sainct Empire viendra en _Germanie_, - _Ismaelites_ trouveront lieux ouverts, - Asnes viendront aussy de la _Caramanie_, - Les soustenans de Terre tous couverts. - - English. - - The Holy Empire shall come into _Germany_, - The _Ismaelites_ shall find open places, - Asses shall also come out of _Caramania_, - Taking their part, and covering the Earth. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Ismaelites_ he meaneth the _Turks_, who brag to be descended from -_Ismael_. - -_Caramania_ is a Province of _Turky_, so that the sense of this Stanza -is, that there shall be a great Invasion of the _Turks_ into _Germany_, -and that those of _Caramania_ with their Asses shall come to their help, -and shall be in such numbers, as that the Earth shall be covered with -them. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Le grand Empire chascun en devoit estre, - Un sur les autres le viendra obtenir, - Mais peu de temps sera son Regne & estre, - Deux ans aux Naves se pourra soustenir. - - English. - - The great Empire, every one would be of it, - One above the rest shall obtain it, - But his time and his Reign shall last little, - He may maintain himself two years in his Shipping. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain enough without interpretation. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - La faction cruelle a Robe longue, - Viendra cacher soubs les pointus Poignards, - Saisir _Florence_, le Duc & le _Diphlongue_, - Sa discouverte par Immeurs & Flagnards. - - English. - - The cruel faction of long Robe, - Shall come and hide under the sharp Daggers, - Seize upon _Florence_, the Duke and the _Diphlongue_, - The discovery of it shall be by Countrey fellows. - -ANNOT. - -This is the Prognostication of a conspiracy against the Duke and City -of _Florence_, by those of the long Gown, which shall be discovered by -Countrey fellows, that live in places without Walls. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - _Gaulois_ qu’Empire par Guerre occupera, - Par son Beau-frere mineur sera trahi, - Par Cheval rude voltigeant trainera, - Du fait le frere long temps sera hay. - - English. - - A _Frenchman_ who shall occupy an Empire by War, - Shall be betrayed by his Brother in Law a Pupil, - He shall be drawn by a rude prancing Horse, - For which fact his brother shall be long hated. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth of a _Frenchman_, who shall by War obtain an Empire -or Kingdom, and shall be betrayed by his Brother in Law a Pupil, whom -afterwards he shall treacherously cause to mount a fierce prancing Horse, -who shall throw him down and drag him, for which the said King shall be -hated long after. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Puisné Roial flagrant d’ardant libide, - Pour se jouir de cousine _Germaine_, - Habit de femme au Temple d’_Artemide_, - Allant murdry par incogneu _du Marne_. - - English. - - The Kingly youngest son heated with burning lust, - For to enjoy his Cosen German, - Shall in womans apparrel go to the Temple of _Artemis_; - Going, shall be murdered by unknown _du Marne_. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the younger son of a King, who being extreamly in -love with his Cosen German, shall disguise himself in a womans apparel, -and shall go so disguised to the Temple of _Artemide_ (that is of some -Church Dedicated to the Virgin _Mary_) to meet her, but in going, shall -be murdered by an unknown man named _du Marne_. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Apres le Roy du Sud guerres parlant, - L’Isle _Harmotique_ le tiendra a mespris, - Quelques ans bons rongeant un & pillant, - Par tyrannie a l’Isle changeant pris. - - English. - - After that the King of the South shall have talked of Wars, - The _Harmotick_ Island shall despise him, - Some good years gnawing one and plundering, - And by tyranny shall change the price of the Island. - -ANNOT. - -The two first Verses are concerning _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_, -who is called here the King of the _South_, whom after his vain and -frustrated Invasion of 88. the _Harmotique_ Island (that is _England_) -shall deride, and he after that shall have some good years, that is -of Peace, still pillaging and plundering his Subjects, and shall -change the price of _England_, that is, make it of a higher value, and -more flourishing then ever it was before, as it did prove in Queen -_Elizabeth_’s time. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Grande assemblée pres du Lac du _Borget_, - Se rallieront pres de _Montmelian_, - Passants plus outre pensifs feront projet, - _Chambray_, _Morienne_, combat Saint _Julian_. - - English. - - A great assembly of people near the Lake of _Borget_, - Will go and gather themselves about _Montmelian_, - Going beyond, they shall make an enterprize, - Upon _Chambery_, _Moriene_, and shall fight at St. _Julian_. - -ANNOT. - -This Lake of _Borget_ is in _Savoy_, as also _Montmelian_, _Chambery_, -_Moriene_, and St. _Julian_; the meaning of it then is, that a great Army -shall be gathered about that Lake, which shall go through _Chambery_, -_Moriene_, and _Montmelian_, and shall fight at St. _Julian_. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Amour alegre non loin pose le Siege, - Au Saint _Barbar_ seront les Garnisons, - _Ursins_, _Hadrie_ pour _Gaulois_ feront plaige. - Pour peur rendus de l’Armée, aux _Grisons_. - - English. - - Cheerful love doth lay Siege not far, - The Garrisons shall be at Saint _Barbar_, - _Ursini_, _Hadria_ shall be sureties for the _French_, - And many for fear shall go from the Army to the _Grisons_. - -ANNOT. - -The first two Verses are inexplicable; the two last signifie that there -shall be an Army of _Frens_, with whom _Hadria_ (that is _Venice_) and -the _Ursini_ the noblest Family in _Italy_ shall take part, insomuch, -that many of the contrary party shall run for fear to the _Grisons_, -which is a Nation dwelling in the _Valteline_ and other Countreis there -about, between the _Venetians_ and the _Switzers_. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Premier fils veusve malheureux mariage, - Sans nuls enfans deux Isles en discord, - Avant dixhuit incompetant Aage, - De l’autre pres plus bas sera l’accord. - - English. - - Of the first son a widow, an unhappy match, - Without any Children, two Islands at variance, - Before eighteen an incompetant Age, - Of the other lower shall be the agreement. - -ANNOT. - -Although the words be intricate, nevertheless the sense is plain, -concerning _Francis_ the II. King of _France_, who being married -young, and before he was 18. years of Age, to _Mary Stuart_ Queen -of _Scotland_, died presently after, and left her a widow, and also -_England_ and _Scotland_ (which he calleth here two Islands) at variance -among themselves; of the last Verse the sense is very obscure, and hath -relation to what did happen afterwards to the said _Mary_ Queen of -_Scots_ and Dowager of _France_. - - -XL. - - French. - - Le jeune nay au Regne _Britannique_, - Qu’aura le Pere mourant recommandé, - Iceluy mort _Londre_ donra topique, - Et a son fils le Regne demandé. - - English. - - The young man born to the Kingdom of _Britanny_, - Whom his Father dying shall have recommended, - After his death _London_ shall give him a topick, - And shall ask the Kingdom from his son. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is plain, concerning his Majesty King _Charles_ II. -now Reigning, who having been recommended by his dying Father to his -Subjects, presently after his death they turned tail, and took the -Kingdom from him for a good while. - - -XLI. - - French. - - En la frontiere de _Caussade_ & _Charlus_, - Non gueres loing du fond de la valée, - De _Ville Franche_ Musique a son de Luths, - Environnez Combouls & grand myrtée. - - English. - - Upon the Frontiere of _Caussade_ and _Charlus_, - Not far from the bottom of the Valley, - Of _Ville Franche_ there shall be Musick of Lutes, - Great dancing and great company of people met together. - -ANNOT. - -_Caussade_, _Charlus_, and _Villefranche_ are little Towns in _Provence_, -not far one from another; the rest is easie. - - -XLII. - - French. - - Le Regne humain d’Angelique geniture, - Fera son Regne, paix, union tenir, - Captive guerre demy de sa closture, - Long temps la paix leur fera maintenir. - - English. - - The humane Reign of an Angelical brood, - Shall cause his Reign to be in peace and union, - Shall make War, captive shutting it half up, - He shall cause them to keep peace a great while. - -ANNOT. - -This is only a foretelling of some Gallant Prince, who shall maintain his -Subjects in great peace and tranquility. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Le trop bon temps, trop de bonté Roiale, - Faits & desfaits prompt, subit, negligence, - Leger croira faux, despouse loiale, - Luy mis a mort par sa benevolence. - - English. - - The time too good, too much of Royal bounty, - Made and unmade, nimble, quick, negligence, - Fickle shall believe false o’ his loyal Spouse, - He shall be put to death for his good will. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning another King, who through his too much goodness, -simplicity and negligence, shall make and unmake those about him, and -being fickle, shall believe false reports, made concerning his own wife; -and at last by his to much goodness, shall be put to death. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - Par lors qu’un Roy sera contre les siens; - Natif de _Blois_ subjuguera _Ligueres_, - _Mammel_, _Cordube_, & les _Dalmatiens_, - Des sept puis l’ombre a Roy estrennes & _Lemures_. - - English. - - At that time that a King shall be against his own, - One born at Blois shall subdue the _Ligures_, - _Mammel_, _Cordua_ and the _Dalmatians_, - After that the shadow of the seven shall be to the King a new-years - gift and Hoggoblins. - -ANNOT. - -_Blois_ is a City in _France_; _Ligures_ are the _Genoeses_, in Latine -called _Ligures_; as for _Mammel_ I cannot tell what to make of it; -_Cordua_ is a City of _Spain_, and the _Dalmatians_ is a Nation near the -_Adriatick_ Sea, and under the _Venetians_; I leave the interpretation of -the last Verse to the ingenious Reader. - - -XLV. - - French. - - Lombre du Regne de _Navarre_ non vray, - Fera la vie de sort illegitime, - La vers promis incertain de _Cambray_, - Roy d’_Orleans_ donra mur legitime - - English. - - The shadow of the Reign of _Navarre_ not true, - Shall make the life of illegitimate chance, - The uncertain allowance from _Cambray_, - King of _Orleans_ shall give a lawfull Wall. - -ANNOT. - -The _Reign_ or Kingdom of _Navarre_ is called _not true_, because the -King of _Spain_ doth possess it, and not the King of _France_, who is -the lawful King thereof, as also in regard of the Kings of _France_, and -before of _Jane_ of _Albret_, and _Antony_ of _Bourbon_. - -This Kingdom being _not true_ in regard of the said ones, the title and -quality is called here _shadow_. The Author saith that the quality of the -King of _Navarre_ _shall make the life of illigitimate chance_, because -after the death of _Francis_ the II _Catherine_ of _Medicis_ being not -opposed in the Regence by _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ King of _Navarre_, she -was willing to gratifie him in what she could. - -And because his Brother _Lewis_ Prince of _Condé_ had been condemned to -death, and not executed, it was a fair occasion for her to shew the King -of _Navarre_ how much she did defer to him. Therefore twelve days after -the death of King _Francis_, he was freed out of Prison, and was admitted -to justifie himself under the King of _Navarre_’s Bail. - -Thus the _shadow of the Kingdom of ~Navarre~ not true_, did cause the -life of a Prince to be saved, but that life was illegitimate, _and that -Kingdom not true by chance_, that is, by accident, because of the death -of King _Francis_. - -Leaving off the third Verse to be explained after the fourth; _King_ -(saith the Author) _shall give_ Orleans _for legitimate_, because -_Charles_ the IX. who during the life of _Francis_ the II. did bear the -title of Duke of _Orleans_, did succeed his Brother; thus the Verse saith -that _Orleans shall give a King for legitimate_. - -Now for the third Verse, you must suppose that by the Treaty at _Madrid_ -1526. and after this by that of _Cambray_, the King _Francis_ the I. did -part with the Sovereignty of _Flanders_, and of all the _Low Countreis_ -in favour of _Charles_ the V. Emperour, it is of that _uncertain -allowance_ of Cambray, of which the Author talketh here, and saith, that -in that time _viz._ of the death of _Francis_ the II. that _allowance -shall be uncertain_, because _Francis_ the I. having no power of himself -to renounce the rights and dependance of the Crown of _France_, the -Parliament that was assembled then, would have made void that _allowance_ -without breaking the Peace, declaring that the Kings of _France_ ought -to preserve the right they had upon the _Low-Countreis_, and to require -them again upon any occasion, and upon that _France_ did not refuse the -Election which the _Low-Countreis_ made of the Duke of _Alencon_ for -their Sovereign Prince and Duke of _Brabant_. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Vif sort mort de l’or vilain indigne, - Sera de _Saxe_ non nouveau Electeur, - De _Brunswick_ mandra d’amour signe, - Faux le rendant au peuple seducteur. - - English. - - The living receives his death from Gold, infamous slut! - Shall be of _Saxony_ not the new Elector, - From _Brunswick_ shall come a sign of love, - Falsly persuading the people that he is a seductor. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning an old Elector of _Saxony_, who being in -health before, shall die suddenly, being poisoned in a golden Cup by a -woman, whom he calleth here _infamous slut_. - -And that from _Brunswick_ (a Countrey adjacent to _Saxony_) shall come a -Messenger, upon pretence of Love, who shall persuade the people that the -said Elector was a Seducer. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - De _Bourze_ Ville a la Dame _Guyrlande_, - L’on mettra sus par la trahison faite, - Le grand Prelat de _Leon_ par _Formande_, - Faux Pellerins & Rauisseurs deffaite. - - English. - - From _Bourze_ City belonging to the Lady _Garlant_, - They shall impose by a set treason, - The great Prelate of _Leon_ by _Formande_, - False Pilgrims and Ravishers destroyed. - -ANNOT. - -I believe that there is a fault here in the impression, and that instead -of _Bourze_ it must be _Bourges_, which is a famous City in _France_, -and Capitol of the Province of _Berry_, for I do not know any Town in -_Europe_ called _Bourze_. What he meaneth by the Lady _Garlant_ is -unknown. I believe also that instead of _Leon_ it should be _Lyon_, which -is another famous City, and the first Archbishoprick of the said Kingdom. -_Formande_ is a barbarous word, and I believe put in only to make up -the Rime, as he hath done in several other places, as much then as can -be gathered out of the sense is this, that from that City _Bourges_, -which usually is a Dowry for a Queen of _France_, which is called here -_Garlant_, shall a treason be hatched against the Archbishop of _Lion_, -which I suppose came to pass in the time of _Henry_ the III. when _Peter_ -of _Pinac_ Archbishop of the said _Lion_, being accused by the Deputies -of _Bourges_ for siding with the League, escaped narrowly to be killed, -when the Duke of _Guise_ and the Cardinal his brother were. Queen -_Catherine_ of _Medicis_ the Kings Mother having then the said Province -and Town of _Bourges_ for her jointure. - -The last Verse hath no relation to the three foremost, and hath its -interpretation by it self, which is plain enough. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Du plus profond de l’_Espagne_ ancienne, - Sortants du bout & des fins de l’_Europe_, - Trouble passant aupres du Pont de _Laigne_, - Sera deffaits par bande sa grand troppe. - - English. - - From the utmost part of old _Spain_, - Going out of the extremities of _Europe_, - He that troubled the travellers by the Bridge of _Laigne_, - Shall have his great Troop defeated by another. - -ANNOT. - -Every Traveller knoweth that _Castille_ (which is taken here for _Spain_) -is divided into two parts _viz._ _Castilia la Vecchia_, and _Castilia la -Nuova_, our Author then saith that out of _Castilia la Vecchia_, which -is situated at the further end of _Europe_ on that side, shall come a -band of men, who shall destroy the Thieves that robbed and vexed the -Travellers by the Bridge of _Laigne_, which it seemeth was an infamous -place for robbing. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - Jardin du Monde aupres de Cité neufve, - Dans le chemin des Montagnes cavées, - Sera saisi & plongé dans la Cuve, - Beuvant par force eaux Soulphre envenimées. - - English. - - Garden of the World, near the new City, - In the way of the digged Mountains, - Shall be seized on, and thrown into the Tub, - Being forced to drink Sulphurous poisoned waters. - -ANNOT. - -This word _Garden of the World_, doth signifie a particular person, -seeing that this _Garden of the World_ was seized on and poisoned in a -Tub of Sulphurous water, in which he was thrown. - -The History may be this, that _Nostradamus_ passing for a Prophet and a -great Astrologer in his time, abundance of people came to him to know -their Fortunes, and chiefly the Fathers to know that of their Children, -as did Mr. _Lafnier_, and Mr. _Cotton_, Father of that renowned Jesuit of -the same name, very like then that Mr. _du Jardin_ having a son did ask -_Nostradamus_ what should become of him, and because his son was named -_Cosmus_, which in Greek signifieth the World, he answered him with these -four Verses. - -_Garden of the World_, for _Cosmus of the Garden_, In his travels shall -be taken hard by the New City, in a way that hath been digged between the -Mountains, and there shall be thrown in to a Tub of poisoned Sulphurous -water to cause him to die, being forced to drink that water which those -rogues had prepared for him. - -Those that have learned the truth of this History, may observe it here. -This ought to have come to pass in the last Age, seeing that the party -mentioned was then born when this Stanza was written, and this unhappy -man being dead of a violent death, there is great likelyhood, that he was -not above forty years old. - -There is another difficulty, to know which is that new City, there being -many of that name in _Europe_, nevertheless the more probable is, that -there being many Knights of _Maltha_ born in _Provence_ (the native -Countrey of our Author) it may be believed that by the new City he -meaneth the new City of _Maltha_ called _la Valete_, hard by which there -is paths and ways digged in the Mountains, which Mountains are as if it -were a Fence and a Barricado against the Sea, or else this _Cosmus_ might -have been taken by Pyrats of _Algiers_, and there in the new City of the -_Goulette_ be put to death in the manner aforesaid. - - -L. - - French. - - La _Meuse_ au jour Terre de _Luxembourg_, - Descouvrira _Saturne_ & trois en _Lurne_, - Montaigne & plaine, Ville, Cité & Bourg, - _Lorrain_ Deluge, trahison par grand _hurne_. - - English. - - The _Maes_ by day in the Land of _Luxembourg_, - Shall discover _Saturn_, and three in the _Lurne_, - Mountain and plain, Town, City, and Countrey Town, - A _Lorrain_ flood, treason by a great _hurne_. - -ANNOT. - -The _Maes_ is a River that runneth through a part of _Lorrain_ and -_Luxembourg_; as for the words _Lurne_ and _hurne_ I do not understand -them, neither do I think they are to be found in all the _French_ -Language, both obsolete and modern; all what I can gather out of this, -is, that a great overflowing of the River _Maes_, shall be both in -_Luxembourg_ and _Lorrain_, insomuch that three Leaden Mines (which is -meant here by _Saturn_) shall be discovered, and after that, a great -Treason shall happen in the said _Lorrain_. - - -LI. - - French. - - Des lieux plus bas du Pais de _Lorraine_, - Seront des basses _Allemagnes_ unis, - Par ceux du Siege _Picards_, _Normans_, du _Maine_, - Et aux Cantons se seront reunis. - -Transcriber’s Note: An English version was omitted from this printing, -but the annotation below is an accurate enough (if not very poetic) -translation. - -ANNOT. - -The sense of this is, that the lower _Lorrain_ and _Germany_ being united -together, shall have War with the other three Nations, of _Picards_, -_Normans_, and _Manceaux_, which having Besieged a Town, shall constrain -the _Lorrainers_ and _Low-germans_, to unite themselves with the Cantons -of _Switzerland_. - - -LII. - - French. - - Au lieu ou _Laye_ & _Scelde_ se marient, - Seront les Nopces de long temps mamée, - Au lieu d’_Anvers_ ou la grappe charient, - Jeune vieillesse conforte intammée. - - English. - - In the place where _Laye_ and _Scelde_ are united, - Shall the Nuptials be, that were long a doing. - In the place of _Antwerp_ where they draw the grape, - The young unspotted will comfort the old Age. - -ANNOT. - -There is fault in the Impression, for instead of _Laye_ it must be _Lis_, -which is a River that runneth through _Flanders_, and dischargeth it self -into the _Scelde_, which is the River that passeth at _Antwerp_, the -sense therefore of this Prophecy is, that in the place where the River of -_Lis_ joyneth with the _Scelde_, there shall the Nuptials be consummated -that were long a doing, and the place of _Antwerp_, where they unload the -Wines, there shall a young unspotted Lady Marry, and comfort an old man. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Les trois Pellices de loing s’entrebattront, - La plus grand moindre demeurera a l’ecoute, - Le grand _Selin_ n’en sera plus patron, - Le nommera feu, pelte, blanche, route. - - English. - - The three Concubines shall fight one with another a far off, - The greatest less shall remain watching, - The great _Selin_ shall be no more their Patron, - And shall call it fire, pelte, white, route. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning the _Turkish_ Empire, where three of the -great _Turks_ Concubines, which in Latine are called _Pellices_, shall -make War one against another, the great _Turk_ himself favouring neither -party. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Née en ce Monde par Concubine furtive, - A deux hault mise par les tristes nouvelles, - Entre Ennemis sera prinse Captive, - Et amenée a _Malines_ & _Bruxelles_. - - English. - - Born in this world from a stolen Concubine, - Set up at two heights by the sad news, - Shall be taken Prisoner among the Enemies, - And brought to _Malines_ and _Bruxelles_. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning some Lady of quality, born of a Concubine, who -shall be set up by reason of some sad news that shall be brought, -and afterwards shall be taken Prisoner, and carryed to _Malines_ and -_Bruxelles_, two Cities of the Low-Countreys. - - -LV. - - French. - - Les malheureuses Nopces celebreront, - En grande joye mais la fin malheureuse, - Mary & Mere _Nore_ desdaigneront, - Le _Phibe_ mort, & _Nore_ plus piteuse. - - English. - - The unhappy Nuptials shall be celebrated, - With great joy, but the end shall be unhappy, - Husband and Mother shall scorn _Nore_, - The _Phybe_ dead, and _Nore_ more pitifull. - -ANNOT. - -If by _Phybe_ we understand the Admiral of _Chastillon_, and by _Nore_, -Queen _Margaret_ of _Valois_, the rest will be easie. For in the year -1572. a Match was made between _Henry_ the IV. then King of _Navarre_, -chief of the Protestant party, and _Margaret_ of _Valois_, Sister to -_Charles_ the IX. to this Wedding were the chief of the Protestant party -invited, who were there Massacred, and among the rest _Gaspard_ of -_Coligny_, Lord of _Chastillon_, and Admiral of _France_, whom he calleth -here _Phybe_. And when he saith, that _Husband and Mother shall scorn -~Nore~_, he sheweth the slight Opinion and regard that the Queen Mother -had for her Daughter, and _Henry_ the IV. for his Wife, whom he after -repudiated. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Prelat Roial soy baissant trop tiré, - Grand Flux de Sang sortira par sa bouche, - Le Regne _Anglicque_ par Regne respiré, - Long temps mort vif en _Tunis_ comme souche. - - English. - - Royal Prelate bowing himself too much, - A great flood of Blood shall come out of his mouth, - The _English_ Reign by Reign respited, - A great while dead, alive in _Tunis_ like a Log. - -ANNOT. - -A Prelate, is a man of eminent dignity in the Church, the Royal prelate -must be a Churchman of the Royal Blood, who bowing himself too much, -shall fall into an Hæmorhagie or Flux of Blood at his Mouth. The third -Verse signifieth, that the Kingdom of _England_ shall be relieved from -some distress by another Kingdom or Prince that had been a Slave a great -while at _Tunis_, and lyen there, _dead alive like a Log of Wood_. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Le sublevé ne cognoistra son Sceptre, - Les enfans jeunes des plus grands honnira, - Oncques ne fut un plus ord cruel estre, - Pour leur Espouses a mort noir bannera. - - English. - - The exalted shall not know his Scepter - He shall put to shame the young Children of the greatest, - Never was one more dirty and cruel, - He shall banish to Black death their Spouses. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a great Tyrant, who being exalted to the dignity of a -King, shall not know how to govern; but shall slight and put to shame the -Children of the greatest Nobility, and shall banish their Wives out of -the Land; this hath a relation to the late Tyrant _Cromwell_. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Au temps du dueil que le _Selin_ Monarque, - Guerroiera le jeune _Æmathien_, - _Gaule_ bransler, pericliter la barque, - Tenter _Phocens_ au ponant entretien. - - English. - - In the time of mourning, when the Monarch _Selin_, - Shall make War against the young _Æmathien_, - _France_ shall quake, the Ship shall be in danger, - _Phocens_ shall be attempted, the business shall be in the West. - -ANNOT. - -You must observe here, that by _Æmathien_ the Author meaneth the King of -_France_, as he doth in many other places; and by _Selin_, he meaneth the -great _Turk_, because such was the name of him that lived in his time, -this being presupposed the meaning of this is, that the great _Turk_ -shall fight against the King of _France_, and shall attempt _Phocens_, -which is _Marseilles_, as being a Colony of the old _Phocenses_ in -_Græcia_, which shall cause all _France_ to quake, and the Ship to be in -danger, which is _Paris_, who beareth a Ship for its Arms. - - -LIX. - - French. - - Dedans Lion vingt & cinq d’une haleine, - Cinq Citoyens _Germains_, _Bressans_, _Latines_, - Par dessous Noble conduiront longue traine, - Et descouvers par abboy de Mastins. - - English. - - In _Lyons_ five and twenty of a breadth - Five Citizens _Germans_, _Bressans_, _Latines_, - Under Noblemen shall conduct a long Train, - And shall be discovered by the barking of Mastiffs. - -ANNOT. - -The Marshal of St. _André_, Governour of _Lyon_ being absent, the -Protestants undertook the taking of it, at the solicitation of some -principal Lords at Court, among whom were named the Prince of _Condé_, -and the Vidame of _Chartres_, _Francis_ of _Vendosme_, Knight of the -Order. The Abbot of _Savigny_, who did supply the place of the Governour, -and was named _Antony_ of _Albon_, since that Archbishop of _Arles_, -having discovered this Conspiracy, went to surprise the undertakers, but -as he was going upon the night of the 5 of _September_, he met with some -of the confederates upon the Bridge of _Saone_, which made him retreat -with some loss. - -The next day having gathered more Forces, he took three of them that were -strangers and young, the rest escaping, those three were hanged the next -_Saturday_, which was the 7 of that Month. - -The Marshal being come to Town, there was Execution made upon some of the -Inhabitants, to the number of 4 that were hanged. - -After that there were informations made concerning the Authors and -Abettors of the said conspiracy, and many other Citizens and strangers -were put to Prison, and besides them the Vidame of _Chartres_, who was -carryed to _Paris_, and put into the _Bastille_, and after that in -the _Tournelles_, where he died before his process was ended, the _23 -December 1560_. - -It is what our Author saith in this stanza; in the first Verse he saith, -that there were _five and twenty of a breadth_, of whose five and twenty -there was _five Citizens of the Town_, and the rest were _Germans, -Bressans and Italians_, of these Citizens 4 were hanged, and three of the -strangers. - -Those 25 undertakers, of which the Author saith, that _under Noblemen -they shall conduct a long Train_; that is, that under the support and -favour of many Noblemen, they would undertake a thing that should not end -so soon as it proved afterwards; for although this enterprise did fail, -yet was the beginning of horrid combustions that followed afterwards. - -This enterprise it seemeth was discovered by barking of Mastiffs. - -The Apology for the City of _Lyon_ treateth at large of this, and nameth -all those conspirators, who for the most part were of _Germany_ and -_Geneva_. - - -LX. - - French. - - Je pleure _Nice_, _Monaco_, _Pise_, _Genes_, - _Savone_, _Sienne_, _Capoue_, _Modene_, _Malthe_, - Le dessus sang & glaive par estrenes, - Feu, trembler Terre, eau, malheureuse _nolte_. - - English. - - I bewail _Nice_, _Monaco_, _Pisa_, _Genoa_, - _Savona_, _Sienna_, _Capoua_, _Modena_, _Maltha_, - Upon them blood and sword for a new years-gift, - Fire, Earth-quake, water, unhappy _nolte_. - -ANNOT. - -All these Cities are situated by the _Mediterranean_ Sea, and most of -them upon that part of it, which is called the River of _Genoa_, and -are threatned here by all the plagues above mentioned; as for the -word _nolte_ it is a barbarous one, forced here to make up the Rime in -_French_. - - -LXI. - - French. - - _Betta_, _Vienne_, _Comorre_, _Sacarbance_, - Voudront livrer aux Barbares _Pannone_, - Par picque et feu, enorme violence, - Les conjurez d’escouverts par Matrone. - - English. - - _Betta_, _Vienna_, _Comorre_, _Sacarbance_, - Shall endeavour to deliver _Pannone_ to the Barbarians, - By Pike, and fire, extraordinary violence! - The conspirators discovered by a Matron. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth that there will be a conspiracy of some men out of all the -above mentioned Cities, to surrender _Hungary_ (which in Latine is called -_Pannonia_) to the great Turk, but that conspiracy shall be discovered by -a Matron, that is, a grave ancient Woman. - - -LXII. - - French. - - Pres de _Sorbin_ pour assaillir _Hongrie_, - L’Heraut de _Bude_ le viendra advertir, - Chef _Bizantin_, _Sallon_ de _Sclavonie_, - A Loy d’_Arabes_ les viendra convertir. - - English. - - Near _Sorbin_, to invade _Hungary_, - The Herald of _Buda_ shall come to give them notice of it, - Chief _Bizantin_, _Sallon_ of _Sclavonia_, - Shall come to turn them to the _Arabian_ Religion. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to have a relation to the precedent, and that near that -place he calleth _Sorbin_, preparations shall be made to Invade -_Hungary_, but they shall have notice of it by some body of _Buda_. - -He that is called here _Chief Bizantin_, is the great Turk or his -grand Vizir, who hath his abode in _Constantinople_, anciently called -_Bizantium_. - - -LXIII. - - French. - - _Cydron_, _Ragusa_, la Cité au Sainct _Hieron_, - Reverdira le medicant secours, - Mort fils de Roy part mort de deux _Heron_, - L’_Arabe_, _Hongrie_, feront un mesme cours. - - English. - - _Cydron_, _Raguse_, the City of Saint _Hieron_, - Shall make green again the Physical help, - The Kings Son dead, by the death of two _Herons_, - _Arabia_ and _Hungary_ shall go the same way. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning of this is, that when those three Cities named in the first -Verse shall have need of succours, and that a Kings Son shall die in -flying two _Herons_, then shall _Arabia_ and _Hungary_ be under the same -Master. - - -LXIV. - - French. - - Pleure _Milan_, pleure _Lucques_, _Florence_, - Que ton grand Duc sur le Char montera, - Changer le Siege pres de _Venise_ s’advance, - Lors que _Colonne_ a _Rome_ changera. - - English. - - Weep _Milan_, weep _Lucques_, and _Florence_, - When the great Duke shall go upon the Chariot, - To change the Siege near _Venice_ he goeth about, - When _Colonne_ shall change at _Rome_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy seemeth to portend the change of the See of _Rome_ in some -place near to _Venice_, and this is to happen when the great Duke of -_Tuscany_ shall ascend upon a Triumphant Chariot, and that the House of -_Colonne_ (which is the more powerfull in _Rome_) shall take his part. - - -LXV. - - French. - - O vaste _Rome_ ta ruine s’aproche, - Non de tes Murs, de ton sang, & substance, - L’aspre par lettres fera si horrible coche, - Fer pointu mis a tous jusques au manche. - - English. - - O great _Rome_ thy ruine draweth near, - Not of thy Walls, of thy blood and substance, - The sharp by Letters shall make so horrid a notch, - Sharp Iron thrust in all to the haft. - -ANNOT. - -This is a confirmation of the foregoing Prophecy, by which it is said -that the destruction of _Rome_ shall not be in _her Walls, blood or -substance_, but onely by Letters or Doctrine that shall put quite down -the _Roman_ Religion. - - -LXVI. - - French. - - Le Chef de _Londres_ par Regne l’_Americh_, - L’Isle d’_Escosse_ tempiera par gelée, - Roy, Reb. auront un si faux Antechrist, - Que les mettra tretous dans la meslée. - - English. - - The Chief of _London_ by Reign of _America_, - The Island of _Scotland_ shall catch thee by a frost, - King and Reb. shall have so false an Antichrist, - As will put them altogether by the ears. - -ANNOT. - -I conceive this Prophecy can be appropriated to no body better then -_Oli. Cromwel_, who is called here _the Chief of ~London~ by Reign of -~America~_, that is, by Reign of confusion, whose projects and treasons -were all brought to nought, by the victorious _Mars_ of the ever renowned -General _Monck_, who came with his Army from _Scotland_ to _London_ in -the Winter time, he is called also a false Antichrist, because he was an -enemy to King and Reb. that is _Respublica_ or Common-wealth. - - -LXVII. - - French. - - Le tremblement si fort au mois de _May_, - _Saturne_, _Caper_, _Jupiter_, _Mercure_ au Bœuf, - _Venus_ aussy, _Cancer_, _Mars_ en _Nonnay_, - Tombera gresle lors gresse qu’un œuf. - - English. - - The Earth-quake shall be so great in the month of _May_, - _Saturn_, _Caper_, _Jupiter_, _Mercury_ in the Bull, - _Venus_ also, _Cancer_, _Mars_ in _Nonnay_, - Then shall fall Hail bigger then an Egge. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that when all these Cœlestial bodies shall be so -disposed, that there will be a fearful Earth-quake and Hail. - - -LXVIII. - - French. - - L’Armée de Mer devant Cité tiendra, - Puis partira sans faire longue allée, - Citoyens grande proye en Terre prendra, - Retourner classe reprendre grand emblée. - - English. - - The Fleet shall stand before the City, - Then shall go away for a little while, - And then shall take a great troop of Citizens on Land, - Fleet shall come back and recover a great deal. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth here he speaketh of two Fleets, one of which shall stand a -little while before a Town, and carry a great many Citizens away, but -that the other Fleet shall come in the mean time, and redeem them. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - Le fait luysant de neuf vieux eslevé, - Seront si grands par Midy _Aquilon_, - De sa sœur propre grandes alles levé, - Fuyant meurdry au buisson d’_Ambellon_. - - English. - - The bright actions of new old exalted, - Shall be so great through the South and North, - By his own Sister great forces shall be raised, - Running away he shall be murdered near the bush of _Ambellon_. - -ANNOT. - -The question here is, whether this _neuf vieux_ in _French_ or _new old_ -in _English_ be the proper name of a man, or be a Metaphor, to express a -young man of an ancient Family, when the Reader hath satisfied himself -upon that, the rest is easie enough. - - -LXX. - - French. - - L’œil par objet fera telle excroissance, - Tant & ardente que tombera la Neige, - Champ arrousé viendra en decroissance, - Que le _Primat_ succombera a _Rhege_. - - English. - - The eye by the object shall make such an excressency, - Because so much, and so burning shall fall the Snow, - The Field watered shall come to decay - Insomuch that the _Primat_ shall fall down at _Rhege_. - -ANNOT. - -All this is nothing but an extraordinary great Snow that shall fall about -_Rhegio_ a City of _Italy_, whereby the Fields shall be drowned and fall -to decay; insomuch, that the chief men, called here _Primate_ shall fall -to poverty. - - -LXXI. - - French. - - La Terre & l’Air geleront si grand eau, - Lors qu’on viendra pour _Jeudy_ venerer, - Ce qui sera jamais ne fut si beau, - Des quattre parts le viendront honorer. - - English. - - The Earth and the Air shall freeze with so much water, - When they shall come to worship _Thursday_, - That which shall be never, was so fair, - From the four parts they shall come to honour him. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth an exceeding great frost, which shall happen on a Holy -_Thursday_, where the ground and sky shall be so clear, that men may come -from the four parts (_viz._ of the Earth) without trouble for to worship. - - -LXXII. - - French. - - L’an mil neuf cent nonante neuf, sept mois, - Du Ciel viendra un grand Roy d’effrayeur, - Resusciter le grand Roy d’_Angoumois_, - Avant apres, _Mars_ Regner par bonheur. - - English. - - In the year a thousand nine hundred ninety nine, and seven months, - From Heaven a great terrible King, - To raise again the great King of _Angoulesme_, - Before and after, _Mars_ shall Reign luckily. - -ANNOT. - -He that is called here King of _Angoulesme_ was _Francis_ the I. as -gallant a Prince as ever _France_ had, who before he was King went by the -title of Duke of _Angoulesme_; the rest is easie. - - -LXXIII. - - French. - - Le temps present avecque le passé, - Sera jugé par grand _Jovialiste_, - Le Monde tard de luy sera lassé, - Et desloial par le Clergé juriste. - - English. - - The time present, together with the past, - Shall be judged by a great _Jovialiste_, - The World shall at last be weary of him, - And he shall be thought unfaithful by the Canon-Law Clergy. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy concerneth meerly _Francis Rabelais_, who was the greatest -_Jovialist_, that is, Merry-man that ever was, and did so lash and -censure the abuses of every profession, and chiefly of the Clergy, that -to this very day he goeth among them for an Atheist, and a Prophaner of -Sacred and Civil things. - - -LXXIV. - - French. - - An revolu du grand nombre septiesme, - Apparoistra au temps jeux d’_Hecatombe_, - Non esloignez du grand age milliesme, - Que les entrez sortiront de leur Tombe. - - English. - - The year of the great number seven being past, - Shall be seen at that time the sports of _Hecatombe_, - Not far from the great age thousand, - That the Buried shall come out of their Graves. - -ANNOT. - -_Hecatombe_ signifieth a Sacrifice, wherein a hundred beasts were killed. - -The sense therefore is this, that when the year a thousand seven hundred -is past, that such sport of _Hecatombe_ shall be seen again, not far -from the sixth Millenary, when the day shall rise, for it is a common -opinion among the Learned, that as God Created the World in six days, and -rested the seventh, so when the World hath lasted six thousand years, for -a thousand years before God are as one day, there shall be an Eternal -Sabbath and a Resurrection, both of the just and unjust. - - -LXXV. - - French. - - Tant attendu ne reviendra jamais, - Dedans l’_Europe_, en _Asia_ apparoistra, - Un de la ligne yssu du grand _Hermes_, - Et sur tous Rois de Orient croistra. - - English. - - So long expected shall never come - Into _Europe_, in _Asia_ shall appear, - One come forth of the line of the great _Hermes_, - And shall grow above all the Kings in the East. - -ANNOT. - -All is plain, but only this, whether he taketh _Hermes_ as a King of -_Ægypt_, or as the Father of the Hermetick Philosophers. - - -LXXVI. - - French. - - Le grand Senat decernera la Pompe, - A un qu’apres sera vaincu chassé, - Des adhærans seront a son de trompe, - Biens publiez, ennemy dechassé. - - English. - - The great Senate will decree a Pomp, - To one who after shall be vanquished and expelled, - The goods of his partners shall be - Publickly sold, and the enemy shall be driven away. - -ANNOT. - -What Senate and particular man he meaneth, is the only difficulty in this. - - -LXXVII. - - French. - - Trente adhærans de l’Ordre des _Quirettes_, - Bannis, leurs biens donnez ses adversaires, - Tous leurs bienfaits seront pour demerites, - Classe espargie, delivrez aux corsaires. - - English. - - Thirty associated of the Order of _Quirettes_, - Banished, their goods shall be given to their adversaries, - All their good deeds shall be imputed to them as crimes, - The Fleet scattered, they shall fall into the hands of Pyrates. - -ANNOT. - -I could not find any man or Author that knew what is meant here by -_Quirettes_, which is only the difficulty of this Stanza. - - -LXXVIII. - - French. - - Subite joye en subite tristesse, - Sera a _Rome_ aux graces embrassées, - Dueil, cris, pleurs, larm, sang, excellent liesse, - Contraires bandes surprises & troulsées. - - English. - - Sudden joy shall turn into a sudden sadness, - At _Rome_ to the embraced graces, - Mourning, cries, weeping, tears, blood, excellent joy, - Contrary Troops surprized and carryed away. - -ANNOT. - -There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by _Embraced -graces_, for my part I believe them some new married Couples, who in the -middle of their jollity shall fall into these disasters. - - -LXXIX. - - French. - - Les vieux chemins seront tous embellis, - L’on passera a _Memphis_ somentrées, - Le grand _Mercure_ d’_Hercule_ fleur de lys, - Faisant trembler Terre, Mer, & Contrées. - - English. - - The old ways shall be made all fair, - There shall be a passage to _Memphis_ _Somentrées_, - The great _Mercury_ of _Hercules_ Flower de luce, - Making the Earth, the Sea, and the Countreys to quake. - -ANNOT. - -This word _Somentrees_, being altogether barbarous, is the reason that -neither sense nor construction can be made of all these words. - - -LXXX. - - French. - - Au Regne grand, du grand Regne Regnant, - Par force d’armes les grands Portes d’airain, - Fera ouvrir le Roy & Duc joignant, - Port demoly, nef a fonds jour serain. - - English. - - In the great Reign, of the great Reign Reigning, - By force of Arms the great Brass Gates, - He shall cause to be open, the King being joyned with the Duke, - Haven demolish’d, Ship sunk on a fair day. - -ANNOT. - -The words and the sense are plain, though the parties be unknown. - - -LXXXI. - - French. - - Mis Tresor Temple, Citadins _Hesperiques_, - Dans iceluy retire en secret lieu, - Le Temple ouvrir, les liens fameliques, - Repris, ravis proye horrible au milieu. - - English. - - A Treasure put in a Temple by _Hesperian_ Citizens, - In the same hid in a secret place, - The hungry bonds shall cause the Temple to be open, - And take again and ravish, a fearful prey in the middle. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a Treasure hid by _Spaniards_ (called here _Hesperian -Citizens_) in a Church, which the people of a Town being poor, and almost -starved, caused to be open, and did ransack it, but in the middle of it -they found a strange prey, but what it was God knows. - - -LXXXII. - - French. - - Cris, pleurs, larmes viendront avec couteaux, - Semblant faux donront dernier assaut, - L’entour parques planter profons plateaux, - Vifs repoussez & meurdris de plain saut. - - English. - - Cries, weeping, tears, shall come with daggers, - With a false seeming they shall give the last assault, - Set round about they shall plant deep, - Beaten back alive, and murdered upon a sudden. - -ANNOT. - -This seemeth to have a relation to the Scalado of _Geneva_, of which you -shall have a full account in the 69 Stanza, of the twelfth Century. - - -LXXXIII. - - French. - - De batailler ne sera donné signe, - Du Parc seront contraints de sortir hors, - De _Gasp_ l’entour sera cogneu l’enseigne, - Qui fera mettre de tous les siens a mort. - - English. - - There shall no sign of battle be given, - They shall be compelled to come out of the Park, - Round about _Gasp_ shall be known the Ensign, - That shall cause all his own to be put to death. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie was fulfilled in the year 1556. by the Marshal of _Brissac_ -in _Piemont_, when he took the Town of _Vignal_ by assault, where 1200. -_Neapolitans_ were put to the Sword, who were called the braves of -_Naples_; because they were all very gallantly habited, and the Governour -being wounded, cast himself desperately into a Well, whence the Marshal -caused him to be taken up, and to be cured of his wounds. - -In this conflict _there was no sign of Battle given_; because it was -done by the rashness of a Souldier, Bastard of a Bastard of the house -of _Boissy_, who without expecting the command of the General, went -alone upon the breche, and after he had [Transcriber’s Note: the text -is illegible here with 1-2 words missing] against the Enemies, drew his -Sword, and did fight a great while hand to hand without being wounded. - -Some of his Companions seeing his valour, did follow him, and others -came to their help, and these carryed along with them all those that -were appointed to give the assault; insomuch that by a kind of Warlike -emulation, all did carry themselves so valliantly, that after a long and -stout resistance, they routed the Enemies, and put all the Garrisons to -the Sword. - -It is what the Author saith in the first and second Verse, seeing that -those that were appointed to give Battle, every one in his Regiment or -Squadron, were compelled by emulation to come out of their _Park_; that -is, from the Precinct of place wherein they were. The third Verse addeth, -that _round about the Ensign of ~Gasp.~ shall be known_; that is, in the -assault the Captain of that place, named _Gaspar Pagan_, was remarked to -fight valliantly every where the _French_ did assault, which the Marshal -of _Brissac_ seeing, as also the forwardness of his men commanded the -general assault to be given. The Captain seeing the Town taken, though -he had above twenty wounds, for marks of his Valour, yet by that despair -threw himself into a Well, near which the Marshal passing, heard his -voice, and caused him to be drawn out, and cured of his wounds. - -This Captain being resolved to perish in this assault, _did cause all his -own to be put to death_, as the fourth Verse saith. The History of this -Town was famous, for which the Marshal of _Brissac_ did present Gifts to -the most Valiant, and among the rest to this Bastard, after he had put -him in jeopardy of his life, for having violated the Military Orders in -a matter of such concernment. That Town of _Vignal_ is situated upon a -Mountain of the Countrey of _Montserrat_, of a difficult access, where -no pieces of Ordinance can be brought up, but by the help of Mens Arms; -after the taking of it, the Marshal did cause it to be raised even to -the ground, because it could not be useful to the _French_, that had -many other places to keep, and might have been very beneficial to the -_Spaniard_. - - -LXXXIV. - - French. - - Le Naturel a si haut, haut non bas, - Le tard retour sera marris contens. - Le _Recloing_ ne sera sans debats, - En emploiant & perdant tout son temps. - - English. - - The Natural to so high, high not low, - The late return shall make the sad contented, - The _Recloing_ shall not be without strife, - In employing and loosing all his time. - -ANNOT. - -The _Recloing_, being a forged word, without signification, and being the -Key of all this Stanza, no body can tell what to make of it. - - -LXXXV. - - French. - - Le vieil _Tribun_ au point de la _Trehemide_, - Sera presse Captif ne delivrer, - Le vueil non vueil, le mal parlant timide. - Par legitime a ses amis livrer. - - English. - - The old _Tribun_, at the point of the _Trehemide_, - Shall be much intreated not to deliver the Captain, - They will not will, the ill speaking fearful, - By legitimate shall deliver to his friends. - -ANNOT. - -The old _Treban_ is an old Captain or Governour of a Town, who shall be -much entreated not to deliver at the end of the _Trehemede_ (that is, -three Months) one that he kept prisoner, but will they or not, he shall -lawfully deliver him to his friends. - - -LXXXVI. - - French. - - Comme un Gryphon viendra le Roy d’_Europe_, - Accompagne de ceux d’Aquilon, - De rouges & blancs conduira grande Troupe, - Et Iront contre le Roy de _Babylon_. - - English. - - As a Griffin shall come the King of _Europe_, - Accompanied with those of the North, - Of red and white shall conduct a great Troop, - And they shall go against the King of _Babylon_. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the King of _Swedeland_, _Gustavus Adolphus_, who is -called here the King of _Europe_; because he lived in a part of it, and -because he was one, if not the most gallant Prince of his time, who with -a great Army of his Subjects, named here those of _Aquilon_, invaded -_Germany_, and made War against the Emperour, whom he calleth here the -King of _Babylon_, either because he is a great favourer of the _Roman_ -Church, or because the Empire, by reason of so many sovereign Princes in -it is like a _Babel_ and confusion. - -_The great Troop of Red and White_, were his own Souldiers, whom he -distinguished by their several habits. Clothing them with several -Colours, to breed an emulation among them, there being the Red Regiment, -the White, the Blew, the Yellow, the Green, _&c._ - - -LXXXVII. - - French. - - Grand Roy viendra prendre port pres de _Nice_, - Le grand Empire de la mort si en fera - Aux _Antipodes_ posera son genisse, - Par Mer la Pille tout esvanouira. - - English. - - A great King shall land by _Nice_, - The great Empire of death shall interpose with it. - He shall put his Mare in the _Antipodes_, - By Sea all the Pillage shall vanish. - -ANNOT. - -A great King shall land hard by _Nice_, which is a Sea Town in _Savoy_, -but he shall have a great loss of his men by death, and the Sea shall -swallow all his plunder. - - -LXXXVIII. - - French. - - Pieds & Cheval a la seconde veille, - Feront entrée vastiant tout par Mer, - Dedans le Port entrera de _Marseille_, - Pleurs, cris & sang, onc nul temps si amer. - - English. - - Foot and Horse upon the second Watch, - Shall come in destroying all by Sea, - They shall come into the Harbour of _Marseilles_, - Tears, cryes and blood, never was so bitter a time. - -ANNOT. - -This is so clear that it needeth no interpretation. - - -LXXXIX. - - French. - - De Bricque en Marbre seront les Murs reduits, - Sept & cinquante années pacifiques, - Joye aux humains renevé l’aqueduct, - Santé, grands fruits, joye & temps mellifique. - - English. - - The Walls shall be turned from Brick into Marble, - There shall be peace for seven and fifty years, - Joy to mankind, the Aqueduct shall be built again, - Health, abundance of fruit, joy and mellifluous time. - -ANNOT. - -After so many calamities Prognosticated by the Author, he promiseth here -seven and fifty year of a golden Age, but when? he maketh no mention. - - -XC. - - French. - - Cent fois mourra le Tyran inhumain, - Mis a son lieu scavant & debonnaire, - Tout le Senat sera dessoubs sa main; - Fasche sera par malin temeraire. - - English. - - The inhumane tyrant shall die a hundred times, - In his place shall be put a Learned and mild man, - All the Senate shall be at his command, - He shall be made angry by a rash malicious person. - -ANNOT. - -This Prognostication is easie to be understood, only it is indeterminate, -and specifieth neither time nor persons. - - -XCI. - - French. - - Clergé _Romain_ l’an mil six cens & neuf, - Au chef de l’an fera Election, - D’un gris & noir de la Campagne yssu, - Qui oncques ne fut si malin. - - English. - - The _Roman_ Clergy in the year a thousand six hundred and nine, - In the beginning of the year shall make choice - Of a gray and black, come out of the Countrey, - Such a one as never a worse was. - -ANNOT. - -Wanting the Chronology of the Popes, I have not set down who that Pope -was, then whom our Author saith there never was a worse, but the time -being so punctually prefixed, it will be an easie matter for the Reader -to find out satisfaction in this point. - - -XCII. - - French. - - Devant le Pere l’Enfant sera tué, - Le Pere apres entre cordes de jonc, - _Genevois_ peuple sera esvertué, - Gisant le Chef au milieu comme un tronc. - - English. - - The Child shall be killed before the Fathers eyes, - The Father after shall enter into ropes of rushes, - The people of _Geneva_ shall notably stir themselves, - The Chief lying in the middle like a log. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is twofold, the two first Verses foretel of a man that -shall have his Son killed before his eyes, and himself afterward shall be -strangled by a rope made of Rushes. - -The two last Verses are concerning the people of _Geneva_, who (as he -saith) shall lustily bestir themselves, while their Captain, Chief, or -Commander shall carelesly lie like a log. - - -XCIII. - - French. - - La Barque neuve recevra les Voiages, - La & aupres transfereront l’Empire, - _Beaucaire_, _Arles_, retiendront les Hostages, - Pres deux Colomnes trouvées de _Porphyre_. - - English. - - The new Ship shall make journeys - Into the place, and thereby where they shall translate the Empire, - _Beaucaire_, _Arles_, shall keep the Hostages, - Near them shall be found two Columns of _Porphyry_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning three things, the first is of a considerable -new Ship, that shall sail several times into a place where the Empire -shall be translated. - -The second is concerning two Towns of _Languedoc_, _Beaucaire_, and -_Arles_, who shall not surrender the Hostages that they had. - -The third is concerning two Columns of _Porphiry_ that shall be found -there about. - - -XCIV. - - French. - - De _Nismes_, d’_Arles_, & _Vienne_ contemner, - Nobeyront a ledict _Hesperique_, - Au _Labouriez_ pour le grand condamner, - Six eschapez en habit _Seraphique_. - - English. - - From _Nismes_, d’_Arles_ and _Vienna_ contempt, - They shall not obey the _Spanish_ Proclamation, - To the _Labouriez_ for to condemn the great one, - Six escaped in a _Seraphical_ habit. - -ANNOT. - -It seemeth that those three aforenamed Towns will refuse to obey a -_Spanish_ Proclamation, that would compel them to condemn a great man; as -for _Labouriez_ it is a barbarous and non-sensical word. - -The last Verse signifieth, that six shall escape, cloathed in -_Franciscan_ habits, called here _Seraphical_, because the Franciscans -believe that a _Seraphin_ did appear to St. _Francis_ their Patron, from -whence their Order is called by many the _Seraphical_ Order. - - -XCV. - - French. - - Dans les _Espagnes_ viendra Roy trespuissant, - Par Mer & Terre subjugant au Midy, - Ce mal sera rabaissant le croissant, - Baisser les aisles a ceux de _Vendredy_. - - English. - - A most potent King shall come into _Spain_, - Who by Sea and Land shall make great Conquests towards the South, - This evil shall beat down the horns of the new Moon, - And slack the Wings of those of _Friday_. - -ANNOT. - -_A great and potent King shall come out of ~Spain~, who by Sea and Land -shall make great Conquest towards the South_, that is _Barbary_, which -shall be a great prejudice to the _Turkish_ Empire, who hath for his Arms -a new Moon; _And slack the wings of those of ~Friday~_, that is, of the -Turks, because they keep the _Friday_ for their _Sabbath_. This Prophecy -was fulfilled by _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_, who drove away all the -_Moores_ out of the South part of it, and took a great many places in the -Coasts of _Barbary_. - - -XCVI. - - French. - - Religion du nom des Mers viendra, - Contre la Secte fils _Adaluncatif_, - Secte obstinée deplorée craindra, - Des deux blessez par _Aleph_ & _Aleph_. - - English. - - Religion of the name of the Seas shall come, - Against the Sect son _Adaluncatif_, - Obstinate Sect deplorate shall be afraid, - Of the two wounded by _Aleph_ and _Aleph_. - -ANNOT. - -I confess my ignorance in the intelligence of this Stanza. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - _Triremes_ pleines tout aage captifs, - Temps bon a mal, le doux pour amertume, - Proye a _Barbare_ trop tost seront hastifs, - Cupide de voir plaindre au vent la plume. - - English. - - _Triremes_ full of Captives of all Age. - Time good for evil, the sweet for bitter, - Pray to the _Barbarian_, they shall be too hasty, - Desirous to see the feather complain in the wind. - -ANNOT. - -Triremes are Galleys with three benches of Oares, the rest is much of the -nature of the former. - - -XCVIII. - - French. - - La splendeur clairëa Pucelle joieuse, - Ne luira plus, long temps sera sans Sel, - Avec Marchans, Ruffiens, Loups, odieuse, - Tous pesle mesle monstre universel. - - English. - - The clear splendour of the merry Maid, - Shall shine no more, she shall be a great while without Salt, - With Merchants, Ruffans, Wolves, odious, - All promiscuously, she shall be an universal Monster. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a famous beauty, who in her latter age shall -prostitute her self to all comers. - - -XCIX. - - French. - - A la fin le Loup, le Lion, Bœuf & l’Asne, - Timide dama seront avec Mastins, - Plus ne cherra a eux la douce Manne, - Plus vigilance & custode aux Mastins. - - English. - - At last the Wolf, the Lion, Oxe and Asse, - Fearful Doe, shall be with the Mastiffs, - The sweet Manna shall no more fall to them, - There shall be no more watching and keeping of Mastiffs. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prognostication of a general peace all _Europe_ over. - -_The sweet Manna shall no more fall to them_, signifieth that the -_Europeans_ shall be fed no more with Manna, as the Jews were in the -Desert, but shall pass to the Land of Promise, that is of peace and -quietness. - - -C. - - French. - - Le grand Empire sera par l’_Angleterre_, - Le _Pempotan_ des ans plus de trois cens, - Grandes Copies passer par Mer & Terre, - Les _Lusitains_ n’en seront pas contens. - - English. - - The great Empire shall be in _England_, - The _Pempotan_ for more then three hundred years, - Great Armies shall pass through Sea and Land, - The _Portugueses_ shall not be contented therewith. - -ANNOT. - -This is a favourable one for _England_, for by it the Empire, or the -greatest Dominion of _Europe_ is promised to it, for the space of above -three hundred years, at which the _Portugueses_ or _Spaniards_ shall much -repine. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ XI. - - -IX. - - French. - - _Meysinier_, _Manthi_, & le tiers qui viendra, - Peste & nouveau insult, enclos troubler. - _Aix_ & les lieux fureur dedans mordra, - Puis les _Phocens_ viendront leur mal doubler. - - English. - - _Meysinier_, _Manthi_, and the third that shall come, - Plague and new attempt shall trouble them enclosed, - The fury of it shall bite in _Aix_ and the places there about, - Then they of _Phocens_ shall come and double their misery. - -ANNOT. - -These are names of particular persons that are here threatned of the -Plague, as also the City of _Aix_ Capital of _Provence_, and the Countrey -about it, and after that the City of _Marseilles_ named here _Phocens_, -because they are a Colony of the old _Phocenses_ in _Greece_. - - -XCVII. - - French. - - Par _Ville Franche_, _Mascon_ en desarroy, - Dans les Fagots seront Soldats cachez, - Changer de temps en prime pour le Roy, - Par de _Chalon_ & _Moulins_ tous hachez. - - English. - - By _Ville Franche_, _Mascon_ shall be put in disorder, - In the Faggots shall Souldiers be hidden, - The time shall change in prime for the King, - By _Chalon_ and _Moulins_ they shall be all hewed to pieces. - -ANNOT. - -_Ville Franche_ is a Town five Leagues from _Lion_; and _Mascon_ another -about the same distance from _Ville Franche_, and _Chalon_ from _Mascon_, -and _Moulins_ from _Chalon_. - -The meaning of it is this, that there shall be an attempt from _Ville -Franche_ upon _Mascon_, by Souldiers hidden in Faggots, that shall be -cut off by the succours of those _Chalons_ and _Moulins_; which like -did happen in the time of the Civil Wars in _France_, between the King -and the League, when the Towns stood one against another, but because I -can find nothing of it in the History, I suspend my further judgement -therein. - - - - -THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. - -_CENTURY_ XII. - - -V. - - French. - - Feu, flamme, faim, furt, farouche fumée, - Fera faillir, froissant fort, soy faucher, - Fils de Deité! toute _Provence_ humée, - Chasse de Regne, enragé sans crocher. - - English. - - Fire, flame, hunger, theft, wild smoak, - Shall cause to fail, brusing hard, to move Faith, - Son of God! all _Provence_ swallowed up? - Driven from the Kingdom, raging mad without spitting. - -ANNOT. - -The curiosity of the Author in striving to begin all his words, in the -two first Verses hath made the tense of this Stanza so obscure, that I -believe no body ever did or shall truely understand it, all what can be -gathered out of it, is great threatning of several calamities, that were -to happen upon _Provence_ his native Countrey, as it did a little while -after his death, by the Civil Wars for Religion. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Le grand secours venu de la _Guyenne_, - S’arrestera tout aupres de _Poitiers_, - _Lion_ rendu par _Montluel_ en _Vienne_, - Et saccagez par tous gens de Mestiers. - - English. - - The great succours that came from _Gascony_, - Shall stop hard by _Poitiers_, - _Lion_ surrendred by _Montluel_ and _Vienna_, - And ransacked by all kinds of Tradesmen. - -ANNOT. - -The words and sense of this are plain. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - Assault farouche en _Cypre_ se prepare, - La larme a l’œil de ta ruine proche, - _Bizance_ Classe _Morisque_ si grand tare, - Deux differens le grand vast par la Roche. - - English. - - A cruel assault is preparing in _Cyprus_, - Tears in my eye, thou art near thy ruine, - The Fleet of _Constantinople_ and the _Morick_ so great damage. - Two differents the great wast shall be by the Rock. - -ANNOT. - -_A cruel assault is preparing_, signifies the shortness of the time in -which it was to happen, for our Author Prophecied 1555. and _Cyprus_ was -taken by the _Turks_ in the Month of _August_ 1571. _Selymus_ the II. -fifth Emperour of the _Turks_, where the perfidiousness of the Bassa -_Mustapha_ that Besieged it is remarkable, for having the Town delivered -him upon Articles; First, that the Inhabitants of the City yet alive -should enjoy their lives, liberty, and goods, with free exercise of -Christian Religion, that the Governour _Bragadinus_ with the rest of the -Captains and Souldiers might in safty depart with Bag and Baggage, and -at their departure take with them five pieces of Ordinance, and three -Horses, which soever it should please them to make choise of, and that -the _Turks_ should safely conduct them into _Crete_, finding them both -Victual and Shipping; yet all these matters agreed upon, and commenced -into Writting, as also by solemn Oaths on both side confirmed; the -perfidious Bassa nevertheless caused _Bragadinus_ to have his Ears cut -off, then caused him to be set in a Chair, and his skin to be flain off -from him quick, his head to be cut from his dead body, and upon the point -of a Spear to be set upon a high place, his skin also stuffed with Chaff, -he caused to be hanged up at the Yards Arm, and so to be carried about. - - -IV. - - French. - - Deux corps un chef, champs divisez en deux, - Et puis respondre a quattre non ouys, - Petits pour grands a pertius mal pour eux, - Tour d’_Aigues_ foudre, pire pour _Eussovis_. - - English. - - Two bodies, one head, fields divided into two, - And then answer to four unheard ones, - Small for great ones, open evil for them, - The Tower of _Aigues_ beaten by Lightning, worse for _Eussovis_. - -ANNOT. - -Out of this crabbid Stanza we shall pick what we can, and leave the rest -to the judgment of the judicious Reader. First, - -_The two bodies, one head_ may be understood either a Monster that was -so, as it did happen once in _Italy_, as _Pareus_ witnesseth; or of the -union of the two Kingdoms of _France_ and _Navarre_, under _Henry_ the -IV. or of _England_ and _Scotland_ under King _James_. - -The Tower of _Aiguemortes_ was strucken with the Lightning, a while after -our Author had put out his Prophecies. - - -V. - - French. - - Tristes Conseils, desloiaux, cauteleux, - Aduis meschant, la loy sera trahie, - Le peuple esmeu, farouche, querelleux, - Tant Bourg que Ville toute le paix haie. - - English. - - Sad Councels, unfaithful, malicious, - Ill advice the Law shall be betrayed, - The people shall be moved, wild & quarrelsome, - Both in Countrey and City the peace shall be hated. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain. - - -VI. - - French. - - Roy contre Roy, & le Duc contre Prince, - Haine entre iceux dissension, horrible, - Rage & fureur sera toute Province, - _France_ grand guerre & changement terrible. - - English. - - King against King, and Duke against a Prince, - Hatred between them, horrid dissension, - Rage and fury shall be in every Province, - Great War in _France_, and horrid changes. - -ANNOT. - -This is a true picture of the miseries of the Civil Wars in _France_, -when _Charles_ the IX. King of _France_, was against _Henry_ King of -_Navarre_, and the Duke of _Guise_ against the Prince of _Condé_. - - -VII. - - French. - - L’accord & pache sera du tout rompue, - Les amitiez pollues par discorde, - L’haine euvieille, toute foy corrompue, - Et l’esperance, _Marseilles_ sans concorde. - - English. - - The agreement and contract shall be broken in pieces, - The friendships polluted by discord, - The hatred shall be old, all faith corrupted, - And hope also, _Marseilles_ without concord. - -ANNOT. - -This is a second part of the foregoing. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Guerre & debats, a _Blois_ guerre & tumulte, - Divers aguets, adveux inopinables, - Entrer dedans _Chasteau Trompette_, insulte, - _Chasteau du Ha_ qui en seront coulpables. - - English. - - War and strifes, at _Blois_ war and tumult, - Several lying in wait, acknowledgment unexpected, - They shall get into the _Chasteau Trompette_ by assault, - And into the _Chasteau du Ha_, who shall be guilty of it. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning the Civil Wars of _France_ between the King -and the League. - -He saith, _at ~Blois~ war and tumult_; because the Duke of _Guise_, -and the Cardinal his Brother were both killed there, at the convention -of Estates by the Kings command, which he calleth here _acknowledgment -unexpected_, because the Kingdom did own the fact. - -The last two Verses are concerning the two Castles or Fortresses of -_Bourdeaux_, who in those days were sometimes by one party, and sometimes -by another. - - -LXV. - - French. - - A tenir fort par fureur contraindra, - Tout cœur trembler, _Langon_ advent terrible, - Le coup de pied mille pieds te rendra, - _Girond._ _Garon._ ne furent plus horribles. - - English. - - He shall by fury compel them to hold out, - Every heart shall tremble, _Langon_ shall have a terrible event, - The kick shall return to thee a thousand kicks, - _Girond._ _Garon._ are no more horrid. - -ANNOT. - -The two last Verses seem to have a relation to the foregoing Stanza, -and to import, that the Governour of _Bourdeaux_ shall compel them to -hold out, and because _Langon_, a Town 20 or 30 Miles distant from -_Bourdeaux_, was of the contrary party, and did annoy sometimes those of -_Bourdeaux_, it is threatned here to have a thousand kicks for one. - -_Gironde_ and _Garonne_ are the two Rivers of _Bourdeaux_. - - -LXIX. - - French. - - _Eiovas_ proche, esloigner Lac _Leman_, - Fort grand apprests, retour confusion, - Loin des _Nepueux_, du feu grand _Supelman_, - Tous de leur suyte. - - English. - - _Eiovas_ near, yet seemeth to be far from the Lake _Leman_, - Very great preparatives, return confusion, - Far from the _Neveux_ of the late great _Supelman_, - All of their train. - -ANNOT. - -This is a notable one, directly foretelling the Enterprise or Scalado -made by the Duke of _Savoy_, upon _Geneva_: for the better Intelligence -of which, we shall first give the sense word for word, and then set down -the whole History as a piece of Cabinet, that the Reader after so much -tedious and crabbid reading, may have some field to spatiate and recruit -it self. - -_Eiovas near_, _Eiovas_ by Anagram is _Savoy_, or the Duke of it, who at -that time was near _Geneva_; _yet seemeth far from the Lake ~Leman~_, -which is the Lake that passeth through _Geneva_, called in Latine _Lacus -Lemannus_. _Very great preparatives_; because at that time he made -great preparations to Scale the Walls of _Geneva_. _Return_; because -he was forced to retire. _Confusion_; because he was confounded in his -undertaking. _Far from the ~Neveux~ of the great ~Supelman~_; that is, -an action much unworthy the Kindred of _Henry_ the IV. called here great -_Supelman_, to whom he was Allied. _All of their Train_; that is, all -that were with him in that undertaking, did partake of his return and -confusion. Now the History is thus. - -About the latter end of the year 1600. the Duke of _Savoy_ having done -before all his endeavours to take the City of _Geneva_ by force, did -resolve at last to have it by craft, and stratagem. He did frame a design -full of Courage, Understanding, and Conduct, as well as of misfortune; -it was long a hatching without being discovered, and although it was -known that he caused Ladders to be made, and that he bought every where -men of courage and resolution, and had a great number of them already at -_Chambery_, well payed and maintained, waiting for the ripeness of the -design, though Ignorant of it. No body could believe that it was against -those of _Geneva_; because at that time he did treat with them of the -manner of living friendly, and of the liberty of Trade, having sent to -them for this purpose a few days before the President _Rochette_, to -treat and advise of a manner of living friendly together, for the ease -of the people. They did so much hearten and relish his propositions -and promises, that although Cities of such condition, do not lightly -believe them that have been their Enemies, nevertheless they trusted -to that, and grew careless of their own preservation, thinking that -there was nothing more powerfull for their security than the treaties -of peace between _France_, _Spain_, and _Savoy_, in which they thought -themselves included, under the name of the confederate with the Cantons -of _Switzerland_; insomuch that the Dukes subjects went thither so -familiarly, that the day before this Execution some Gentlemen that knew -something of the design, being come into the Town to buy some Horses, -said they would come again the next day to conclude the Bargain, and -others had kept she same Language for other Wares, so fully perswaded -were they of a success, though Heaven, who laugheth at the thoughts of -the proud, had resolved to humble and abase them. - -The Governour of _Lion_ had presently notice that the Duke of _Savoy_ -was coming on the side of the Mountain, and carryed with him scaling -Ladders, of which he sent notice to the King, and provided what was -necessary for the defence of _Lion_, although the same Advice said it -was not for _France_; yet all this could not hinder the Execution which -was in the mean time a doing. D’_Albigny_ Lieutenant General of the Duke -in those Countreys he had on this side of the Mountains, had made the -Troops to pass, and for that purpose had assigned them of their Quarters -in the Towns of _Geneva_, in several places, that they might not be -so soon discovered. The Randezvous was at a place called _Chambery_, -the time of the Execution was reserved to the prudence of the Leader. -The time was not according to the precept of the _Parthians_, who ever -fought by night, nor of the _Lacedemonians_, who undertook nothing but -in the time of the full Moon; for it was one of the darkest and longest -nights of all the year, the Troops began their March about six of the -Clock. _Brignoles_ Governour of _Bonnes_, a small Town in _Fossigny_, -distant three Leagues from _Geneva_, was the man that had contributed -most of his own for the performance of this design, whom he thought so -certain, that he said he would die to the world, if he did not live in -_Geneva_. D’_Albigny_ had set up Watches upon all the passes, to stop all -Travellers, for fear notice should be given of their coming; and of that -of the Duke of _Savoy_, to whom the Execution had been represented so -sure and certain, in that he should be there himself to reap the Honour -and profit of it, and to end the Triumph that his Grandfather had begun. -He came over the Mountains with five Gentlemen only in his Company, and -the same day came to _Tremblures_, a Village distant from _Geneva_ about -three Miles; and for all that they could not hinder, but an unknown -Trooper did ride as far as the New-gate, and asked to speak to him that -commanded there, bidding him look to themselves, because the duke of -_Savoy_, wished them no good, and so retreated galloping. This News was -brought to _Blondel_, the fourth Syndic of the Town, and who had the -charge of the Guard that year; he answerd, he would provide for that. -Another came afterwards, and told him that the Dukes Forces were about -the Town, but knew not upon what design, and that himself was at _Bonne_; -he answered, that they were not Birds, and could not fly. Mistrust is -not always be commended; but too much confidence in such business, is -exceedingly dangerous. - -Those that were to do the Execution, and to get up first upon the -Ladders, went along by the River of _Albe_, that the noise of the -Waters might hinder the Sentinals to hear them. Two things did happen, -that were an ill Omen for them, they saw in the Skies unusual fires, -a Hare did many times cross their way, and gave them a false Alarm, -and as many things being considered in the night time, do trouble the -imagination, and that fear maketh one think that Bushes are Squadrons, -and Thistles Pikes, as it did happen once at the Siege of _Paris_ by the -_Burgundians_. They did discover about Eleven of the Clock some Posts, to -whom the Cloth-workers of _Geneva_ use to nail their Stuffs to dry them. -Those that went formost would have Charged them, thinking they had been -an Ambuscado; from thence they went all along the _Rhosne_ to the Meadow -of _Plain Palais_. _Brignolet_, and those that were ordained for the -Scalado followed d’_Albigny_, who led them down into the Town-Ditch, on -the side of the _Corraterie_, without being discovered by the Sentinals, -although the Ducks that were in the Ditch, did (for to awake those of -_Geneva_) what the Geese did at _Rome_ against the _French_. They went -over the Ditch upon Hurdles for fear to sink in the Mire, and did set -up three Ladders of a wonderful invention; because they could be easily -carryed upon Mules, and they could be folded into so many pieces, that -they could reach the highest wall that is; and besides that, so strong -and firm, that no Ladder of one piece could be more; they had besides -that provided Hatchets, Hammers, Pincers, and other such Tools, to cut -Iron Chains, break Locks, draw Nails and Bars, they had besides several -Petardoes and Petardo-Masters. Fortune, who hath a great power in such -undertakings, did fail them in their need, after she had brought them to -the middle of the City, and made them masters of the streets for above -two hours. - -By one of those Ladders went up about two hundred men, _Brignolet_ was -the first, followed by d’_Attignac_ and _Sonas_, and did carry himself -more valliantly and prudently; having got over the Wall, he surprized -the Sentinal, and drew from him the Watch-word, and his Life, then -threw him over into the Ditch, and stood in his place to stay for the -Round, that he might do as much to him, as he did when it came near him -to give him the Watch-word. D’_Albigny_, and one Father _Alexander_ a -_Scotchman_, and a Jesuite, were at the Ladders foot, incouraging those -that went up. The Boy that carryed the Lanthorn saved himself, and gave -notice to the _Court de Garde_ of what had befallen his Master, at which -the _Court de Garde_ was not much moved. This was a doing between One -and Two of the Clock, expecting that of four, at the which they had -proposed to make their greater attempt, and in the mean while to give -time to the succour to draw near, and to the day to break, because all -Warlike Executions done by night, carry always some confusion with -them. No body had gone to bed in the Town with a thought to be awakened -so soon, they rested upon the assurance of the Peace. The undertakers -had a whole hours time to get up, and as much before they met with any -opposition. If d’_Albigny_ had been Within to husband that time better -than did _Sonas_, _Brignolet_, and d’_Attignac_, they might have cried, -the Town is won. About half an hour past two of the Clock, a Sentinal -that was in the Mints Tower, having heard some noise in the Ditch, shot -off his Gun to give the Alarm, which compelled _Brignolet_ to discover -himself, charging all that was in the _Court de Garde_ of the New-gate, -that he might Plant the Petard, and make way for the main Body that was -in _Plain Palais_. They got very well the _Court de Garde_, but against -the Rule of War, which commandeth to kill all, they let one escape -that had so much wit as to get up, and to let down the Port-Cullis, to -frustrate the effect of the Petard. The Town was at that time full of -Cries and horrid Houlings, of which the _Savoiards_ should have made -their profit, and increased their courage, as it did weaken that of the -Townsmen, that knew not where to run, some crying one way, some another. -The undertakers lost themselves in the appearance of so happy a success, -those that were without should have given the Alarm at some other Gate, -to divide the Forces of the Town, those that were within made no use -of their Hatchets, Hammers and Pincers, they forgot to set some Houses -on fire; the spirit of astonishment seized upon them, having in their -thoughts the Sack and Plunder of the Town, more than the perfection of -their Conquest; they made only use of a certain croaking like Frogs, -as the _Turks_ use the _Bret, Bret_, to animate and rally themselves. -_Brignolet_ being compelled to discover himself, marched towards the New -Gate, distant from that place about 200. Paces, and there was wounded, -and died a little after; the Fight began in the dark, and the _Court de -Garde_ was dispersed, one Souldier hearing them call for the Petard, got -upon the Gate, and cut the Rope that held the Port-Culis, and shut up -the Petard between the Port-Culis, and the Gate which they went about -to break open, with their Hatchets and Hammers, at the first resistance -the Petards Master was killed. The Order is such at _Geneva_, that in -all extraordinary accidents, every Citizen knoweth the place of his -Randezvous, and there goeth with his Arms, and the Town House is never -destitute of Souldiers. - -In the mean time the Magistrate cryeth, He that loveth me let him follow -me. Some Countrey Fellows of the Neighbouring Towns, who kept their -watch by turns, being led by some Captains and Citizens, did present -themselves at the New Gate, where they were stoutly received, and beaten -back, and yet the first shot of theirs killed the Petard-Master, who was -much troubled with his Tools. This first Charge would not have driven -them back, if the body of the Citizens had not come, and Charged them so -furiously, that they lost all their Courage; Necessity which strengthens -even those that want Courage, did so animate the Citizens to their -defence, that the undertakers were fained to give back. The more nimble -went again to their Ladders, which proved useless; because the Canon that -was Planted in the Fort of _Loye_, near the Ditch, had broken them; so -that they left four and fifty dead upon the place, and upon the Curtain -of the _Corraterie_, and thirteen that were taken alive. If the Town had -had Souldiers in readiness to make a Sally in that Andabatism, the night -being sometimes favourable to such expeditions, those that were at _Plain -Palais_, would not have retreated in so good an Order. - -There were thirteen taken alive, among whom were the Baron of _Attignac_, -the Lord _Sonas_, the Lord _Chaffardon_, upon promise of their Lives, and -to be Prisoners of War, or else they had preserved an Honourable death to -all the promises, to be spared in laying down their Arms; among them was -d’_Attignac_, who fought valiantly, and gave his order of St. _Maurice_ -to his man, bidding him save himself, being resolved to die with his -Sword in his hand. - -The Lords of _Geneva_ would not use them as Prisoners of War; but as -Thieves and Robbers come into the City over the Walls. They said that the -Duke was too generous a Prince for so wicked and perfidious an action: -there was several Opinions concerning their Sentence of Death, the more -moderate would have them be put to Ransom, others would have them be -kept Prisoners, that they might serve for exchange, if some of the Town -were taken in the continuation of the War; but the more violent did -stir the people, in representing unto them the loss of their Religion, -the ravishing of their Wives and Maids, the Massacre, the Sack and -Plunder of the Town, and their perpetual slavery, and the complaints -of the Widows and Children of those that had been killed, were so much -considered, that the more moderate Opinions did not appear injust, but in -how much they tended to Death. They were Condemned to be Hanged, which -is thought the most Ignominious Death: they desired to have their Heads -cut off as Gentlemen, which was granted, but it was after they were -Hanged. Fifty nine were found killed and wounded, who had all their Heads -cut off. In the Ditch there were some Arms found, thirty dead, and four -wounded, all their Heads were cut off, and set with the rest upon the -Gallows. Of the Citizens of the Town there were seventeen found dead, -most of them killed by their Companions in the dark. Their Names were -_John Canal_, one of the Lords of the Councel, _Lewis Baudiere_, _John -Vandel_, _Lewis Galatin_, _Peter Cabriol_, _Mark Cambiagua_, _Nicolas -Baugueret_, _James Mercier_, _Abraham de Baptista_, _Daniel Humbert_, -_Martin de Bolo_, _Michael Monard_, _Philip Potter_, _Francis Bouzesel_, -_John Buignet_, _James Petit_, _Gerrard Muzy_, and about twenty wounded. -The Sunday after Dinner, about two of the Clock, 67 Heads, as well of -those that were killed, as of those that were Hanged, were fastened upon -the Gallows, and the Bodies thrown into the _Rhosne_. The next _Tuesday_ -there was a solemn Fasting day kept, and they began to publish every -where the wonders of this Deliverance. - -Here followeth the Copy of their Letter, to the Governour of _Lion_. - -My Lord, - -_You have known before this by many of your Letters, how his Highness -of ~Savoy~, notwithstanding he knew, and had confessed that we were -included in the Peace made in the year 1600. between his Royal Majesty -of ~France~, and him; hath nevertheless divers times oppressed us, -by detaining our Rents, prohibiting of Trade, other violences and -extortions, refusing to hearken to the just and pressing remonstrances, -which his Majesty hath made him several times in our behalf; but hath -also contrived many designs to surprise us in time of Peace. Now it -is so, that for the encompassing his pernicious design, the Lord -~d’Albigny~, ~Saturday~ last, the Eleventh of this Month, did bring -before our Town, on the side of ~Plain Palais~, about two Thousand men, -Horse and Foot, all choice men, and hath caused to pass about 200. of -them over our Ditch, by the ~Corraterie~, and having set up Ladders one -within another, hath caused them to come into our Town, about three -of the Clock in the Morning, upon ~Sunday~ the Twelfth of this Month, -encouraging them himself, being in the Ditch; so that being come down -into the Town, some went towards our New Gate to force it open, and give -entrance to their Companions, who were in the plain of ~Plain Palais~, -others went towards the Mint Gate, that they might by this means come -into the middle of the Town. But it hath pleased God to look upon us with -his favourable Eye, and to give such a Heart to the Citizens, that they -beat them back, and killed the best part of them taken upon the place, -the rest hath been taken, and since that Hanged by our Order, the rest -threw themselves down from the wall; so that we hear, many of them are -either dead or grievously wounded. It is a wonderfull deliverance of our -God, for which we are particularly bound to Praise him. But as it is -probable, that the said Lord ~d’Albigny~ will continue his ill designs, -by so much the more that we hear his Highness is not far from us, we do -intreat and request by all our affection, that you would be pleased to -consider what prejudice the taking of this place would be to his Majesty, -and to continue us your favour, and assist us with your wise and prudent -advise, ~&c.~_ - -_Many did judge of the success of this enterprise by the beginning, -and were more forward to write, than to perform well. The King had -notice that the Duke was Master of the Town, and the manner of doing -was represented with so much felicity and facility, that there was less -reason to doubt of it, than believe it. The Truth was not known, but by -the advise of the Governour of ~Lion~, which came before any discourse -that the Town did publish after its deliverance_: - -_The Duke went Post back again over the Mountains, and left his Troops -within three miles of ~Geneva~ in three places, at ~Tournon~, ~Fossigny~, -and ~Ternier~, he caused his Embassadours to say to the Lord of ~Berne~, -that he had not made that enterprise to trouble the Peace of the Cantons; -but to prevent ~l’Esdiguieres~ to seize upon it for the King of of -~France~, who should have been so powerfull a Neighbour, as would have -given them great occasion of fears and jealousies_. - -_The success of this undertaking made it appear, that God will not have -those Treaties to the assurance of which his name hath been called for -a Witness, to be violated, whatsoever appearance or pretext of Religion -there be._ - -_Thus Gentle Reader thou seest by all these Circumstances the Truth of -our Authors Prognostication._ - - -LXXI. - - French. - - Fleuves, Rivieres, de mal seront obstacles, - La vielle flame d’ire non appaisée, - Courir en _France_, cecy come d’Oracles, - Maisons, Manoirs, Palais, secte rasée. - - English. - - Brooks and Rivers shall be a stopping to evil, - The old flame of anger being not yet ceased, - Shall run through _France_, take this as an Oracle, - Houses, Mannors, Palaces, Sect shall be raced. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a perfect relation to the miseries that followed the general -Massacre of the Protestants in _France_ in the year 1572. when the Rivers -were a stop to the cruelty of the Persecutors, and when so many Houses, -Mannors and Palaces belonging to those of the reformed Religion were -demolished, and to signifie the certainty thereof, he saith in the third -Verse, _take this as an Oracle_. - - - - -To the Curious - -READER - - -Gentle Reader, - -_Thou shalt take notice, that in this place the covetousness of -Booksellers and Printers, hath in the modern Copies vented new -Prophecies, which they call Prognostications, drawn out of those of -~Michael Nostradamus~, which are so absurd and nonsensical, that they -have been rejected, both by his Son, and the best Wits of this age; -therefore I would not soil the Paper with them, for fear to put such a -course List upon so fine a Cloth, but shall proceed on to give you the -rest of those Prophecies, which truly and undoubtedly belong to our -Author._ - - - - -Wonderful Prognostications for the Age 1600. - -Gathered out of the Notes of _Mr._ - -Michael Nostradamus, - -Physitian to King CHARLES the IX. and one of the most excellent -Astronomers that ever were. - -PRESENTED - -To the Most Victorious and Merciful PRINCE HENRY the IV. - -King of FRANCE and NAVARRE, at _Chantilly_ the Constable of -_Montmorency_’s House the _19th_. of _March_ 1605. - -By _Vincent Seve_ of the Town of _Beaucaire_ in _Languedoc_. - - -To the King. - -Sir, - -_Having some years ago recovered certain Prophecies, or Prognostications, -made by the lately Deceased ~Michael Nostradamus~, from the hands of -~Henry Nostradamus~ his Nephew, which he gave me before his death, and -which I have kept secret till now, that I saw they treated of the affairs -of your Estate, and particularly of your Person and Successors, as your -self may see if you please to take the pains to look upon, and wherein -you shall find things worthy of admiration. I have taken the boldness -(though unworthy) to present them to you, transcribed in this little -Book, no less wonderful then the other two which he made, for in it he -hath treated of what shall happen in this Age 1600. not so obscurely as -he hath done formerly but by ~ænigmes~, specifying so clearly the things -he speaketh of, that one may certainly judge of them, as of things that -are already come to pass. Being therefore desirous that your Majesty -should have the first notice thereof, I thought to discharge my duty in -this as one of your most obedient and faithful Subjects, which I intreat -your Majesty would be pleased to agree, obliging so not onely the body of -one of your faithful Subjects already yours, but also the Soul who shall -continue to pray for the health and prosperity of your Majesty, and of -all those that have relation to it, as one that is, and shall ever be_, - - SIR, - - Your most humble, most obedient and faithful Servant and Subject, - - SEVE. - -_From your Town of ~Beaucaire~ in ~Languedoc~._ - - - - -OTHER - -PROPHECIES - -OF - -Michael Nostradamus. - -For the Years of this Age 1600. - - -I. - - French. - - Siecle nouveau, alliance nouvelle, - Un Marquisat mis dedans la Nacelle, - A qui plus fort des deux l’emportera, - D’un Duc, d’un Roy, Gallere de _Florence_, - Port de _Marseille_, Pucelle dans la _France_, - De _Catherine_ Fort Chef on rasera. - - English. - - New Age, new Alliance, - A Markdom put into a Boat, - Who shall be the strongest of the two to carry it, - Of a Duke or of a King, Galley of _Florence_, - In the Port of _Marseilles_, a Maid in _France_, - Of the Fort _Catherine_ the Head shall be demolished. - -ANNOT. - -By _New Age_ is meant the Age 1600. to the end of the Century, each age -containing a hundred years. - -_The new Alliance_ was the match between _Henry_ the IV. and _Catherine_ -of _Medicis_, made and celebrated that year. - -_A Markdom put into a Boat_, was the Markdom of _Saluces_ in _Italy_, -which the Duke of _Savoy_ had surrepticiously taken from the Crown of -_France_, in the time of the Civil Wars, and would not restore it, for -which there was great Wars between the King of _France_ and the Duke of -_Savoy_, till at last they agreed that the Duke of _Savoy_ should give -in exchange of it the Countrey of _Brescia_; and this is the sense of the -second, third, and half the fourth Verse. - -_Galley of ~Florence~ in the Port of ~Marseilles~, a Maid in ~France~_, -signifieth the arrival of _Mary_ of _Medicis_ in the Galleys of _France_, -and her Landing in the Port of _Marseilles_. - -_Of the Fort ~Catherine~ the head shall be demolished_; the Duke of -_Savoy_ to plague and bridle those of _Geneva_, upon whom he hath had -always pretentions, had built a strong Fort two leagues from _Geneva_, -called the Fort St _Catherine_, which did so annoy the Town, that they -made their addresses to _Henry_ the IV. who was then in War with the Duke -of _Savoy_, representing to him that they were not able to relieve his -Army with Victuals, because of the said Fort, whereupon _Henry_ the IV. -took it, and demolished it to the ground. - - -II. - - French. - - Que d’or, d’argent sera de pendre, - Quand Comte voudra Ville prendre, - Tant de mille & mille Soldats, - Tuez, noiez, sans y rien faire, - Dans plus forte mettra pied terre, - Pigmée aidé des _Censuarts_. - - English. - - How much Gold and Silver shall be spent, - When Earl shall go about to take a Town, - So many thousands and thousands of Soldiers, - Killed, drowned, without doing any thing, - In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground, - A Pygmie helped by the _Censuarts_. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza and the next are concerning the Town of _Ostend_, which was -Besieged by the Arch-duke, and defended by the States of _Holland_, under -the conduct of Earl _Maurice_ of _Nassaw_. - -_In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground_, signifieth that Earl -_Maurice_ during the said Siege, took the _Sluys_ another Town of the -_Spaniards_, thought stronger then _Ostend_. _A Pygmie helped by the_ -Censuarts, signifieth that Prince _Maurice_ whom he calleth here a -_Pygmie_ in comparison of the Arch-duke, was helped by the _French_ -and _English_, whom he calleth here _Censuarts_, to rime with the word -Soldats in the foregoing Verse. - - -III. - - French. - - La Ville sans dessus dessoubs, - Renversée de mille coups, - De Canons, & forts dessous Terre, - Cinq ans tiendra, le tout remis, - Et lasché a ses ennemis, - L’eau leur fera apres la guerre. - - English. - - The Town shall be upside down, - Overthrown by a thousands shot, - Of Canons, and Forts under ground, - Shall hold five years, all shall be returned, - And surrendred to the enemies, - Water after that shall make War against them. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is as well as the former concerning the Town of _Ostend_, -which after three years Siege instead of five (which is falsly printed -here) was surrendred to the Arch-Duke, and presently after like to be -drowned by the Sea. - - -IV. - - French. - - Du rond d’un Lis naistra un si grand Prince, - Bien tost & tard venu dans sa Province, - _Saturne_ en _Libra_ en exaltation, - Maison de _Venus_ en descroissante force, - Dame en apres masculin soubs l’Escorce, - Pour maintenir l’heureux sang de _Bourbon_. - - English. - - From the round of a Lilly shall be born a great Prince, - Soon and late come into his Province, - _Saturn_ in _Libra_ being in exaltation, - The House of _Venus_ in a decreasing strength, - A Woman afterwards and a Male under the Bark, - To maintain the happy blood of _Bourbon_. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was concerning _Lewis_ the XIII. King of _France_, son of -_Henry_ the IV. who was born under the Sign of _Libra_, and therefore -called the _Just_; the rest is easie. - - -V. - - French. - - Celuy qui la Principauté, - Tiendra par grande cruauté, - A la fin verra grand _Phalange_, - Par coup de feu tres dangereux, - Par accord pourroit faire mieux, - Autrement boira suc d’Orenge. - - English. - - He that the Principality, - Shall keep by great cruelty, - At last shall see a great Army, - By a fire blow most dangerous, - He should do better by agreement. - Otherways he shall drink juyce of Orenge. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a Governour of the Principality of _Orenge_, under the -authority of a Prince, which Governour having been long in possession -of that Government, and the Prince being busie in the Wars of the -_Netherlands_, the said Governour plaid _Rex_ in his absence, so that the -Prince was forced to have him made away privately. - - -VI. - - French. - - Quand de _Robin_ la traistreuse entreprise, - Mettra Seigneurs & en peine un grand Prince, - Sceu par _la Fin_, chef on luy tranchera, - La Plume au vent, amye dans _Espagne_, - Poste attrapé estant en la Campagne, - Et l’Escrivain dans l’eau se jettera. - - English. - - When the treacherous plot of _Robin_, - Shall put many Lords and a great Prince in trouble, - Being known by _la Fin_, his head shall be cut off, - The Feather in the Wind, friend to _Spain_, - Post overtaken in the Countrey, - And the Scrivener shall cast himself into the Water. - -ANNOT. - -Two notable Histories are contained in this Stanza, the first is of the -Marshal of _Biron_; the second is of _Nicolas_, High Secretary to the -Lord _Villeroy_, who himself was chief Secretary of State to _Henry_ the -IV. and because they are curious ones, and not to be met every where, we -shall set them down: - -The first four Verses are concerning the Duke of _Biron_, who by -transposition of letters is called here _Robin_; this man by his Military -Valour and experience, had from a private Gentleman ascended to the -highest degrees of honour and preferment, that his condition was capable -of, for though he were not forty years old, he had attained unto the -greatest dignities of the Kingdom; being fourteen years old, he was made -Colonel of the _Switzers_ in _Flanders_; a little while after he was made -Marshal of Camp, and after Marshal General: he was admitted Admiral of -_France_ in the Parliament of _Tours_, and then Mareshal of _France_ in -that of _Paris_; at the Siege of _Amiens_ he was sole Lieutenant of his -Majesty, though there were many Princes of the Blood in the Army, and to -compleat his greatness, he was made Peer of _France_, and the Barony of -_Biron_ erected into a Dukedom, not contented with all that, he said, -he would not go to the retaking of the rest of the Towns in _Picardy_, -unless his Statue were erected in Brass before the _Louvre_; and in -conclusion, that he had rather die upon a Scaffold, undertaking some -great matters, then to live idle in his own House, and always among these -Bravadoes, he did mix some bold and dangerous words, which he would have -every body to approve of. - -When he saw that after the Siege of _Amiens_ the War was at an end, that -_Britany_ was reduced, and that all the Swords were sheathed for a good -while, he thought that having no more occasion to exercise his valour, he -should grow out of credit, and that he should have no more that power, -by which he plaised the King and do without fear all what he did without -Justice. The fire of that great courage finding no work without, began to -work within, that burning desire of being always the first, did fill his -head with flames and smoak of a great design, he complained of the King, -and of the unequal reward of his deserts and services, did publish his -discontents, adding threatnings to his complaints, and spoke of the King -with little respect, that his most intimate friends did judge his words -insolent and dangerous. - -It is true it was the vice of his nature, but there were also some of -Fortune, for finding himself filled with all the prosperities, that a -moderate man might wish for in his condition, he found that men loose -themselves by too much happiness. He began then to lend his Ears unto -flatterers, and when they told him that he was the greatest Captain in -_France_, he answered that he would die upon a scaffold, or he would go -beyond the condition of a single Gentleman, that the goodness of his -sword should give him what Fortune had denied; and the Astrologers to -whom he gave great credit, had foretold him in ambiguous terms, that -nothing could hinder him from being a Sovereign, but the blow of a sword -given by a _Burgundian_, and though all his life time he had shewed but -little Devotion and Zeal to Religion, yet from that time that he prepared -his soul to the motion of his ambition, he fained himself very devout and -zealous, and began to wear Beads, that the Baron of _Lux_ had given him -in a Tennis-Court, and to declare himself an irreconcilsable enemy to the -Protestants, seeking every where some discontented Spirits, whom he did -encourage with the hopes of a profitable change. - -_La Nocle_ Lord of _la Fin_ was then for the troubles of _Provence_, and -for the quarrel he had with l’_Esdigvieres_, retired into his House, -threatened of ill usage by the King, enemy to some great ones, loaded -with debts and Sutes in Law. The discontented meet always, either by -design or by chance. The Duke of _Biron_ who knew that he had been -deeply engaged in the business of the late Duke of _Alecon_, that he had -Negotiated with the Ministers of the King of _Spain_, and of the Duke of -_Savoy_, during the Siege of _Amiens_, that he was full of discontents, -thought that such a one was seeking for a Master. They spoke together and -mixed their grievances, propounding to seek out of the Kingdom what they -could not find within, and to contract an intelligence with the Duke of -_Savoy_; thus after so many examples of unavoidable dangers, the Duke of -_Biron_ did venture upon a Journey full of Rocks and Shelves, under the -conduct of one who was yet wet with the Shipwrack he had lately made. - -The Duke went into _Flanders_, for the execution of the Treaty of -_Vervins_, where one _Picoté_ of _Orleans_ spoke to him, and inspired -into him strange desires of raising his Fortune, with those that knew and -admired his defects. The Duke of _Biron_ did hearken to him, and told him -he would be glad to hear him some other time upon that subject. From that -time forwards the _Spaniards_ thought themselves sure of him, and grew -confident, either to have him, or to destroy him: a _French_ Gentleman, -who because of the Civil Wars was retired into _Flanders_, and had some -imployment in the Arch-Dukes Court, gave the first intelligence of it to -the King, who took it kindly, but sent him word, that the Duke of _Biron_ -had too much courage and honesty to harbour such a wickedness; being come -back again from _Flanders_ the King wished him to Marry, but he shewed -that his inclinations tended to some other party, then that which was -offered unto him, and though he made shew to court the Daughter of my -Lady _Lucé_, he nevertheless intended to have the natural Sister of the -Duke of _Savoy_, of which the Knight _Breton_ had spoken to him. _La Fin_ -had in charge from the Duke of _Biron_, to do all what he could for his -satisfaction. _Picoté_ had made a Journey into _Spain_, only to know and -receive the propositions. _Farges_ a Monk of the Order of _Fisteaux_, -went into _Savoy_, and from thence to _Milan_ to receive Orders how to -pluck of this Plant out of _France_. Things went very slowly; for the -_Spaniards_ do not easily believe the words of the _French_, unless they -be with great effects of rebellion and change; but the Duke of _Savoy_ -being at _Paris_, did wholly put out the Flower de Luces he had in his -Heart, and did dispose him to disturb the King so much at home, that he -should have but little time to dispute him the Markdom of _Suluces_, upon -that hope the Duke of _Savoy_ neglected the Execution of the treaty of -Peace made at _Paris_, the War was proclaimed, and the Duke of _Biron_ -took the chief places in _Bresse_. Being at _Pierre Chastet_ in the -beginning of _September_, _La Fin_ came to him, and by his order made two -Journeys to St. _Claude_, where _Roncas_ was. The King had notice of it, -but thought it better to dissemble it than to surprise a man he loved in -his infidelity, he thought enough to bid him come into _Savoy_, and to -rid himself of _La Fin_. He did believe that what the King said to him -out of his affection, proceeded from fear, and kept company still with -_La Fin_, and never went to see the King, but with great many attendants, -refusing to take his lodging near his, that he might have more liberty; -he perswaded the King being at _Annessy_, that he did desire to discover -some passages, and therefore desired to have some guides of the Countrey, -but it was to send safely _Renazé_, _La Fin_’s Secretary to the Duke -of _Savoy_, to give him intelligence in what state the Kings Army was, -and to bid d’_Albigny_ retreat, who otherwise had been defeated. This -was about the time that the Duke of _Biron_ did intreat the King to -bestow the Government of the Citadel of _Bourg_ on him, whom he should -name. It is the Nature of the great ones that serve Princes to believe -they deserve all, and to become more dangerous than Enemies if they are -refused what they ask for. The King did declare, that he would bestow the -place upon _de Boisses_. This denial did so trouble the mind of the Duke -of _Biron_, and put him upon such a strange and diabolical resolutions, -that he resolved one Morning, being yet in his Bed at _Chamont_, to kill -the King, as it is expressed in the depositions of _La Fin_ and _Renazé_, -but this took no effect, himself afterwards did abhor the thought of -it. _La Fin_ also went from the Army to conclude the Bargain with the -Duke of _Savoy_, and the Earl of _Fuentes_, he treated first with the -Duke of the _Spanish_ Embassador at _Yurée_, afterwards at _Thurin_ with -_Roncas_, where also came _Picoté_, bringing the answers of the Councel -of _Spain_, upon the propositions of the Duke of _Biron_, with order to -confer with _La Fin_, and to perswade him to make a Journey into _Spain_. -He said plainly, that the King of _Spain_ was resolved to have the Duke -of _Biron_ at any rate. The Duke of _Savoy_ and the Earl of _Fuentes_ -appointed a day to be at _Some_ with _La Fin_ and _Picoté_; there the -minds of every one were clearly expressed and understood. - -_La Fin_, who was acquainted with all his secret Councels, told the King, -that the Marriage of the third Daughter of the Duke of _Savoy_, was the -fodder and cement of all the treaty, with a promise of five hundred -thousand Crowns, and all the rights of Soveraignty in _Burgundy_. - -While _La Fin_ treated in _Italy_ the capitulation of the Duke of -_Biron_, the treaty of Peace was concluded at _Lyons_. - -The Duke of _Biron_ had been always against this Peace; when he saw that -it was concluded, and that the King had heard something of his dealings -with _La Fin_, he fained to be very penitent of it, and asked the King -forgiveness in the Cloister of the _Franciscan_ Friers at _Lyons_, and -intreated him most humbly to forgive the evil intentions that the denial -of the Citadel of _Bourg_ had put into his mind. The King did forgive -him, and told him, that he was glad he had trusted to his clemency, and -in the affection he bore to him, of which he would always give him such -tokens, that he should never have occasion to doubt of it. Leaving the -King, he met with the Duke of _Espernon_, and told him, that he would -impart unto him as unto his best friend, the best fortune that ever he -had in his life, which was, that he had discharged his Conscience to -the King, and that he had forgiven him all what was past. The Duke of -_Espernon_ told him, that he was glad of it, but that it was necessary -he should have his pardon in writing; for such faults could not be so -easily blotted out. What, said he, upon what can I rely better than upon -the Kings word; if the Duke of _Biron_ wanteth an abolition, what shall -others do? So they parted, one thinking that his Lyons Courage ought -not to be used so meanly; the other wiser, remembring that a Lyon is -never so well tamed, but one time or another he will prove still a Lyon, -and at last biteth the hand of him that hath wronged him so fiercely, -that he is for ever avenged of him. The Duke of _Espernon_ had reason -to advise him to take an abolition in writing, and the Duke of _Biron_ -was not too blame to trust to the Kings Word, who certainly would have -forgiven that fault, if he had done nothing since to renew the Memory of -it. But here is once more to be observed a passage that containeth all -the signs of an implacable Spirit. The Duke of _Biron_ being sent for by -the King to receive his commands, and the effects of his clemency, went -from _Bourg_, and came to lie at _Vimy_. From thence he wrote a Letter -to _La Fin_ that was at _Milan_, and then went to _Lyons_, where he was -received by the King as the prodigal Son, he stayed some time at _Lyons_, -and went to _Vimy_ again, from whence he wrote another Letter to _La Fin_ -by _Farges_. As soon as he came to _Bourg_, he sent to _Bosco_, cousin -of _Roncas_ to advance the business. This negotiation did continue at -_Some_ between the Duke of _Savoy_, the Earl of _Fuentes_, and _La Fin_. -The Earl of _Fuentes_ carryed _La Fin_ to _Milan_, and being desirous -to be better informed, upon some points, and finding _La Fin_ not so -firm in his answers, he thought it not good to trust him wholly with the -secret, and resolved to rid himself of him, therefore he sent him back, -and intreated him to see the Duke of _Savoy_ in his way. He had the -good fortune to go by the way of the _Grisons_, and so through _Basle_, -_Porentru_, and _Besancon_, for _Renazé_ his Secretary, that went through -_Savoy_, was there Arrested and made Prisoner. The work nevertheless -went on; _Alphonsus_, _Casal_, and _Roncas_, did continue it with the -Baron of _Lux_, and in the mean time the Duke of _Biron_ plaid his part, -having sent an express into _Spain_, though he were then with the King, -who loth to loose him, kept him near, carryed him to see the Frontier -Towns, and sent him Embassador into _England_, where he saw the head of -the Earl of _Essex_, a late example of justice upon those who will be -feared by their Masters, and abuse their favour. At his return he made a -Journey into _Gascony_, where he was visited and honoured by the Nobility -of the Countrey, as a Prince; and being come to _Dijon_, he went into -_Switzerland_, to make an end of the renewing of the Alliance between -the King and the _Switzers_, where he continued still his practises with -the Earl of _Fuentes_, to whom he sent his secretary, under pretence -to send his Pages into the Garrisons of _Palma_, for the _Venetians_. -Being come back from _Switzerland_, he came not to the King to give an -account of his negotiation, excusing himself upon the convocation of the -Estates in the Province. The King, that had some notice of these broils -by _Combelles_, was infinitely desirous to speak with _La Fin_ to know -the truth of it. _La Fin_, who was highly incensed, that the Baron of -_Lux_ would have all the fruit of this negotiation, and that _Renazée_ -is kept Prisoner in _Savoy_, sent _Cerezat_ to the Duke of _Biron_ to -let him know that he could be no longer his Servant, if his Secretary -was not set at liberty, and that he could no longer defer to go to the -King, desiring also to know what he should say upon the things that were -past. He slighted the first of these propositions, and spoke of _Renazée_ -as of one that was not to be reckoned among the living; concerning the -other, he told _Cerezat_ that he was of opinion he might go to the Court -with a small train, and that he should prepare himself at the first to -receive ill language and contempt from the King, which he should sweeten -by intreating him to believe, that the Journey he had made into _Italy_ -had no other design than to visit our Lady of _Loretta_: And that passing -through _Milan_ and _Thurin_ he had been chared to propound the Marriage -between him and the third Daughter of _Savoy_, to which he would not -hearken, because the King would take care to provide for him. He did -intreat and adjure _Cerezat_ to tell _La Fin_, that he should rid himself -of all those that travailed with him, and chiefly of a Curate, and that -he should secure his Papers, if he had not rather to burn them. In a -word, to consider, his life, his fortune, his honour, were in his Hands. - -_La Fin_ came to Court at the end of Lent, and saw the King at the -Wine-press of _Fountainbleau_, and after that at the mid way. He spake -first to the King, after to _Villeroy_, and after to the Chancellor -in his house at _Fontainbleau_, and with _Rhosny_ in the Forrest, and -with _Sillery_ in the Wine-press; all with horror saw the writings, and -heard his designs. The King could hardly believe such a wickedness; for -who could have believed that he, who had driven the _Spaniard_ from the -Frontiers of _Picardy_, would let him in again by that of _Burgundy_? -that he who had a hundred times beaten and defeated them, could contract -a friendship with them, and conspire with them against the service of his -Prince, and the love of his Countrey? that he who hated them to death, -would have trusted his life in their Hands? He had shewed himself so -much their Enemy, that seeing his Father would not charge the Prince of -_Parma_ in an advantagious place, said aloud, that if he were King for 24 -hours, he would cause the head of the Marshall of _Biron_ to be cut off. -He pronounced against his Father the Sentence that was to be executed -once upon him. - -_La Fin_ shewed the King so many true and undeniable tokens of this -conspiracy, that he was fained to believe more that he desired. He told -him all what did pass in his Journeys to the Duke of _Savoy_, and the -Earl of _Fuentes_ concerning the Duke of _Biron_, saying, that for his -part he would have been glad that the War had continued, that he might -have benifitted himself therein; but finding that his sacred person was -not excepted, and that there were cruel designs made against it, either -to kill him, or to carry him prisoner into _Spain_, he was resolved to -give him notice of it, choosing rather to disoblige the Servant than -the Master. The King full of clemency and goodness, was extreamly sorry -to see such an unnatural conspiracy: Nevertheless he said, that if the -Conspirators did their duty, and gave him means to prevent the designs of -his Enemies, he would forgive them. If they remember what they owe me, I -will not forget what I owe them; they shall find me as full of clemency, -as they are void of affection: I would not have the Duke of _Biron_ to -be the first example of my Justice, and to be the cause that my Reign, -which hitherto hath been like an Air, calm and pure, should upon a -sudden be disturbed with Clouds and Lightning, and so made a resolution, -that if the Duke of _Biron_ should tell him the truth, he would forgive -him, his Councel was of the same advice, provided he would shew himself -thenceforth as forward for his service against his Enemies, as he had -been earnest to do mischief. - -Out of many Papers that _la Fin_ put into the Kings hands, there were -seven and twenty pickt out, which onely spoke of him; the King being -unwilling to discover the rest of the Conspirators, and intending that -the punishment of one should serve for example to all the rest. - -The Chancellor kept those Papers with such care, that he caused them to -be sowed in his Doublet, that no body might have a sight of them till it -was time. The Baron of _Lux_ was yet at _Fountainbleau_, when _la Fin_ -came thither. - -The King told him that he was very well pleased, that _la Fin_ had spoken -to him so honourably and wisely of the Duke of _Biron_, and that he was -confident now, that the intentions of the Duke of _Biron_ were righteous -and sincere. The Baron of _Lux_ did not perceive the Kings anger, so much -the more dangerous that it was hidden; he went back again to _Dijon_ -very well pleased, that the things were always in the same state. _La -Fin_ did write to the Duke of _Biron_ that he had satisfied the King -concerning his actions, and had told him onely what might serve for his -justification. The King did manage this business so prudently, that -the success of it was fortunate, he was well informed of all the Dukes -designs, and desired to hear them out of his own mouth, that he might -have occasion to forgive him, for that purpose he sent to him the Lord -d’_Escures_, bidding him to come, because he had a mind to trust him with -the Army that he was raising upon the Frontiers, he excused himself, and -said that the enemy being so near, it would be a shame to him to turn his -back, and that the States of the Province were convented at _Dijon_, and -therefore could not forsake neither the Frontiers nor the States. The -_Vidame_ of _Chartres_ made a Journey to him, and assured him that his -Uncle _la Fin_ had said nothing to his prejudice. - -The persuasions of the President _Janin_ were more powerful for -flattering the Duke in his humour, he also made him sensible of the -Kings power and anger in case of refusal; his friends gave him contrary -advices, and desired him not to stir, and to make his peace afar off; -the _Bastille_ is a repairing said they, and the common talk is, that -it is for such one as less thinketh upon it: the King hath been heard -say, that they cut heads in _England_, and that some shall compel him -upon that example to change his wonted Clemency into a just severity: -in conclusion, they advise him to mistrust all things, and to beware of -those that persuaded him to come; others did assure him of the contrary, -and that his coming should dissipate all mistrusts, suspicions and -jealousies. - -The Duke of _Biron_ holdeth here the Wolf by the ears, for let him come -or not, there is danger; by not coming he accuseth himself, and the King -swore he would fetch him himself; and in coming, his conscience was a -witness against him, that the same fault can hardly be forgiven twice. He -seeth _la Fin_ retired into his House and living in peace, and hath so -good an opinion of his own Valour, that he thinketh no body so bold as to -seize upon him. The discourses of reason, the discerning of the truth, -serve no more to a wicked and passionate man, then the Wings serve to a -Bird, when they are clogged with Bird-lime. But now we talk of Birds, -there were several ill _Omens_ of his journey, one Bird of Prey called -a Duck was found in his Closet, no body knowing which way it was come -in; he commanded it to be carefully kept and lookt to, but as soon as -the Duke was upon his journey the Bird died. Presently after the Horse -that the Arch-Duke had given him, called the _Pastrave_, became mad, -and killed himself, so did another that was given him by the Duke of -_Florence_, another that the Duke of _Lorrain_ had given him, fell into -a consumption. He came to _Fountainbleau_ when he was no more expected, -and the King was resolved to get on Horseback and to fetch him. As his -Majesty went about six of the Clock into the great Garden, he was heard -to say unto the Lord of _Souvray_, _he will not come_, he had no sooner -ended the words, but the Duke appeared among seven or eight, he drew -near, and being yet a pretty way off, he made three great Congies, the -King did embrace him, and the first words he spoke to the King, were -about the delaying of his coming. The King heard but few words of it, -and took him by the hand to walk, and to shew him his buildings; as he -passed from one Garden into another, the Duke of _Espernon_ took occasion -to salute him, and to whisper him in the ear, that in his coming he had -believed his courage more, then the Councel of his friends. - -In all the discourse he had with the King, there was observed a great -coldness in the Kings face, and a great deal of fire in the Dukes words. -The King told him of the evil way which he had taken, the end of which -could be nothing but ruine, despair and confusion. The Duke answered that -he was not come to ask forgiveness, not to justifie himself, with many -other frivolous and impudent words, which the Kings presence and his own -duty ought to have restrained. The time of dinner being come, he asked -the Duke of _Espernon_ to dine with him, because his Train was not yet -come; this was the first fault of his carriage, for he ought to dine at -the Table of the great Master, and to harbour in no other House then that -of the King, seeing his own was not open. - -After dinner they came to see the King, who having walked one turn or two -about the dinning-room, entered into his Closet, bidding two or three to -go in with him, and saying nothing to the Duke of _Biron_, who was at the -corner of the Bed near the Chair, taking notice that he was not looked -upon as formerly. - -The Marquess of _Rhosny_ went into the Closet, passing by the Duke of -_Biron_ without taking notice of him, and after he had stayed there -about half an hour, he came and saluted the Duke of _Biron_, and told -him the King asked for him; there he was exhorted not to conceal what -time would ere long discover, and of what he was so well informed, that -the desire he had to know it from himself, was meerly because no body -else should take notice of it. The Duke of _Biron_ who thought that _la -Fin_ had revealed nothing, stood still upon the protestations of his -own innocency, beseeching the King to do him justice, of those who went -about to oppress him with unsufferable calumnies, or to permit him to do -himself reason. The King carried him to the Tennis-court, where the Duke -took upon him to order the match, and said that the Duke of _Espernon_ -and himself would hold it against the King and the Earl of _Soisson_, the -Duke of _Espernon_ answered presently: you play well, but you do not make -your matches well; which was observed by the King and the standers by. -Supper time being come, he did sup at the Table of the great Master, to -repare the fault he had done in the morning. Every one did perceive that -he was not contented, for he eat little or nothing, and no body spoke to -him, every one holding him already for a cast-away. The King in the mean -while was walking in his Chamber, meditating some great resolution, and -he was heard to say these words, _he must either bow or break_. - -That evening past away so quietly, that many thought it would be a -Thunder with much noise and little hurt. The King commanded the Earl of -_Soissons_ to go to the Duke of _Biron_, and to do his best to break the -hardness of his heart, and to draw the truth out of him; he went and -intreated him to satisfie the King in what he desired to know from him, -and to be afraid of the Kings displeasure and indignation. The Duke of -_Biron_ for answer told him, that the King could not complain but of the -good services he had done to him, and that he himself had great occasion -to complain of the King who mistrusted him after so many trials and -experiments of his faithfulness, and that he should never have more of -him then he had at his first coming; the Earl of _Soissons_, seeing his -obstinacy, left him. - -The next day early the King walking in the little Garden, sent for the -Duke of _Biron_, and spoke to him a great while, thinking to overcome -his obstinacy, and to give him means to escape the danger he was running -into; he was seen a great while with his Hat off, his eyes lifted up to -Heaven, smiting his breast, and making great protestations to uphold his -innocency; there appeared then in the Kings face a great deal of anger, -and in that of the Duke of _Biron_ a great deal of fire and violence, -all his words were nothing but threatnings, lightnings, ruines, and Hell -against those that had spoken ill of him; from thence he went to dinner, -and met with a man who brought him a Letter, to advise him to look to -himself, he shewed it to the Captain of his Guards, and made slight of -it, and said, he would be beholding to his valor for his life, and not -to a flight; all the afternoon the King stayed in the Gallery, and -spoke four hours to the Lord of _la Curée_, the Queen being present and -speaking never a word; the King was in a great perplexity of mind, before -he could resolve himself. The Lords of _Vileroy_, _Sillery_ and _Geure_ -were seen often to go to and fro, which made some suspect, that it was -to begin by the execution in so great a crime; but the King was against -that, such proceedings had been blamed in his Predecessor, he would have -every body to know that he had authority and power enough to exterminate -his enemies, according to the Laws. - -The resolution was taken to have him arrested, and also the Earl of -_Auvergne_, the King would not have them to be taken in the Castle, but -in their own Lodgings; the Duke of _Biron_, who was in some suspicion -of it, and had prepared himself to what he could, neither prevent nor -hinder, did imagine that there was no fear of any thing in the Kings -Chamber, and that all the danger should be at the going out, and -therefore by time had provided himself with a short Sword, with which he -promised to make himself room through all dangers. They represented to -the King, that if he were Arrested any where but in the Castle, it could -not be done without bloodshed, and that it was no matter where the Lyon -was taken, so that profit might arise of his prize. - -It was perceived that in the same Gallery the King sent for _Vitry_ and -_Pralin_, two Captains of his Guards, and gave them the order he would -have to be observed for the execution of his commands, and then called -for his Supper. The Duke of _Biron_ was at supper in the Lord _Montignys_ -Lodging, where he spoke more highly and bravely then ever of his Deserts, -and of the friends he had made lately in _Switzerland_; then began to -fall upon the praises of the late King of _Spain_, extolling his Piety, -Justice and liberality; _Montigny_ stopt him, saying, that the greatest -commendation that could be given to his memory, was, that he had put -his own Son to death, for endeavouring to trouble his Estate; this word -stopt those of the Duke of _Biron_, who answered only with his eyes, and -thought upon it with some amazement. After supper the Earl of _Auvergne_ -and the Duke of _Biron_ came to the King, who was walking in the Garden, -the King making an end of his walk did invite the Duke of _Biron_ to -play at Cards, they went into the Queens Cnamber, the Earl of _Auvergne_ -passing by the Duke of _Biron_ told him softly, _we are undone_; the Game -begun at the _primara_, the Queen was one of the Gamsters, the Duke of -_Biron_ another, and two more. The King went into his Closet, divided -between two contrary passions; the love he had formerly for the Duke of -_Biron_, the knowledge he had of his valour, and the remembrance of his -services, excluded all thoughts of his Justice; on the other side, the -fear of troubles in his Estate, the horrid effects of so unnatural a -conspiracy did accuse his Clemency of cruelty, if he went about to prefer -the particular good to the publick, he prayed to God to assist him with -his Holy Spirit, to appease the troubles of his soul, and to strengthen -him with a Holy resolution, that he might do what was for the good of his -people, upon whom he Reigned by his only Grace; his prayer being ended, -all the difficulties that troubled his soul vanished away, there remained -only a firm resolution, to put the Duke into the hands of Justice, if he -could not draw the truth out of him; the Game went on still, the King -took sometimes the Queens Cards, expecting the appointed time. The Earl -of _Auvergne_ was gone to his Lodging, the King sent for him, and walked -in the Chamber, while the Duke thought upon nothing but his play. _De -Varennes_ Lieutenant of his Troop faining to take up his Cloak, whispered -him softly that he was undone; this word did trouble him so much, that -he neglected his play, and oversaw himself, the Queen gave him notice of -it; the King did bid them to give over playing, and commanded every one -to retire, he went into his Closet, and took the Dake of _Biron_ with -him, whose good and bad fortune depended from an answer pleasing his -Majesty, who bid him once for all to tell what he had done with the Duke -of _Savoy_ and the Earl of _Fuentes_, assuring him, that his clemency -should be greater than his fault. The Duke of _Biron_ answered the King -more proudly than ever, that it was to press an honest man too much, that -he never had any other design, but what he had told him already. _Would -to God it were so_, said the King. You will not tell me: Farewell, good -night. - -As he went out of the Closet, and had passed the Chamber door, he met -_Vitry_, who with his right hand seized upon the Hilt of his Sword, and -with his left upon his right Arm, saying, _The King hath commanded me to -give him an account of your Person, give up your Sword._ _You jeer_, said -the Duke. _No my Lord, he hath so commanded me._ The Duke of _Biron_ -answered, _I pray thee let me speak to the King._ No my Lord, the King is -gone to Bed. He saw the Duke of _Monbazon_, and desired him to intreat -the King, that he might surrender it into his own Hands. The King sent -word to _Vitry_ to obey his commands. The Duke was fained to suffer his -Sword to be taken from him; saying, _My Sword that hath done so many good -services!_ Yes my Lord, give me your Sword, said _Vitry_. To me, said the -Duke, that have served the King so well, that my Sword should be taken -from me, my Sword that hath made an end of the War, and given Peace to -_France_, that my Sword, which could not be taken by my Enemies, should -be taken away by my Friends. All these complaints availed nothing; he -ungirted his Sword with his left hand, and gave it to _Vitry_, looking -about if he could seize upon any other, but care was taken for that. - -When he saw all the Guards in order in the Gallery, he thought he should -have been Massacred upon the place, and cryed to them, fellow Souldiers -give me a little time to pray to God, and let me have some Firebrand -or Candlestick in my hand, that I may have the Honour to die defending -my self. He was answered, that no Body would offend him, that his best -defence was to obey the King, who commanded to lead him to Bed, you -see said he, how the good Catholicks are used. He was carryed into the -Arms Closet, where he neither slept nor lay down, but past the night in -blasphemies against God, and reviling words against the King. - -_Pralin_ was staying for the Earl of _Auvergne_ at the Castle Gate, and -when he offered to go out to his lodging; stay my Lord, you are the Kings -Prisoner. The Earl astonished, answered I, I? and _Pralin_ answered, yes -my Lord, you, I Arrest you by the King, and make you his Prisoner, give -up your Sword, take it said the Earl it never killed any thing but Boars, -if you had given me notice of this, I should have been in Bed and asleep -two hours ago. - -The next day about dinner time the Duke of _Biron_ sent word to the King, -that if he did not take care of the Province of _Burgundy_, it would be -lost, because the Baron of _Lux_ would let in the _Spaniards_ as soon as -he should have notice of his detention. The King was very much offended -at this message, and said, see the impudence and boldness of the Duke of -_Biron_, who sendeth me word that _Burgundy_ is lost, if I do not look to -it. His obstinacy hath undone him, if he would have confessed the truth -of a thing that I have under his hand, he should not be where he is. I -wish I had paid 200000. Crowns, and he had given me the means to forgive -him. I never loved any man so much, I would have trusted him with my Son -and my Kingdom. ’Tis true, he hath served me well, but he cannot deny -but that I have saved his life three times; I rescued him once from the -hands of the Enemy at _Fontain Francoise_, so wounded and astonished with -blows, that as I plaid the part of a Souldier to save him, I was also -fained to make that of a Captain to make the retreat; for he told me he -was not in a case to do it. - -The _Saturday_ next the prisoners were carryed to _Paris_ by water, and -put into the _Bastille_ in several Chambers. The Duke of _Biron_ was put -into that, called of the Saints famous, for the Prison of the Constable -of Saint _Paul_, executed in the time of _Lewis_ the XI. and the Earl in -the Chamber above him. - -The care, the order and vigilancy, with which he was guarded, did put -him in some amazement; for his Guards waited on him without Arms, and -served him with a Knife without a point, which made him say, that it was -the way to the Grave (the place of Execution.) But when he knew that the -Hangman of _Paris_ was a _Burgundian_, he remembred that _La Brosse_ an -Astrologer had foretold him sometimes, seeing his Horoscope, which he -fained to be that of one of his friends, that he should be beheaded, and -_Cæsar_ a Magician, that a blow of a _Burgundian_ given behind; should -hinder him to attain the Kingdom. - -The Arch-Bishop of _Bourges_ went to see him, and endeavoured to settle -his Conscience, and to disswade him from some Atheistical opinions that -he had: _Villeroy_ and _Sillery_ went also to see him, and by the Kings -Command, and at his request. - -Few days after, the King being at St. _Mourder_, _Fossez_, the _Lords -la Force_, the Earl of _Roussy_, Brother in Law to the Duke of _Biron_, -Saint _Blancard_ his Brother, _Chasteau-neuf_, _Themines_, _Salignac_, -St. _Angel_, _Longuac_, Friends and Kinsmen of the Duke of _Biron_, went -and cast themselves at the Kings feet, to implore his Mercy, and that -he would be pleased to moderate the severity of his Justice, requesting -that the same clemency which he had shewed to many others that had as -grievously offended him, would at least save his life, and confine him -into such a place, where he might do no harm, that their whole Kindred -might not be branded with Infamy, and have a regard to his Fathers -service and his, which though they were not equal to his offence, yet at -least to consider, that he was only guilty for his intention. - -The King bid them rise, and told them, that their requests were not -displeasing to him. That he would not be like his Predecessors, who -would not suffer any body to intercede for those that were guilty of -high Treason. The King _Francis_ II. would never give a hearing to the -Wife of the Prince of _Condé_ my Uncle. Concerning the clemency you -would have me shew to the Duke of _Biron_; it should not be clemency but -cruelty, if it were only my particular Interest, I would forgive him, as -I do now with all my heart; but my Kingdom and my Children, to whom I -owe much, are concerned in it; or they might reproach me hence forwards, -that I have tollerated an evil which I might have prevented; my Life, -that of my Children, and the preservation of my Kingdom, are concerned -in it. I will leave it to the course of Justice, you shall see what -Judgement shall be given: I will contribute what I can to his Innocency, -I give you leave to do the same till he be found guilty of high Treason; -for then the Father cannot intercede for the Son, nor the Son for the -Father; the Wife for the Husband, nor the Brother for the Brother. Do -not become odious to me for the love you bear him: As for the note of -Infamy, there is none but himself. Have the Constable of St. _Paul_, from -whom I derive my Pedigree, and the Duke of _Nemours_, of who I am Heir -(both beheaded) left any note of Infamy upon their Posterity, should -not the Prince of _Condé_ my Uncle have been beheaded the next day, if -King _Francis_ the II. had not dyed? Therefore ye that are Kinsmen to -the Duke of _Biron_, cannot be noted with Infamy, if you continue in -your faithfulness, as (I assure my self) you will. And I am so far from -depriving you of your Offices, that if any new one should fall, I would -bestow them upon you: I am more sorry for his fault than you can be; but -to conspire against me that am his King and Benefactor, is a crime that I -cannot forgive, without losing my self, my Wife, my Son, and my Estate, -I know you to be so good _French_ men, that you would not have the last, -and shall take Patience for the first. Thus the King dismissed him, and -sent his Commission to the Court of Parliament, to decide the business. -The Process was framed in the _Bastille_, by the Lords of _Achilles de -Harlay_, first President in the Court of Parliament of _Paris_, _Nicolas -Potier_ second President, _Stephen Fleury_, and _Philibert_ of _Thurin_, -Councellors in the same Court. They asked him if he did not write in -Cyphers, he denyed it, then were shewed unto him several Letters, written -and sealed with his own hand, which did witness his Intelligences with -the _Spaniard_ and the Duke of _Savoy_, and contained advices that he -gave of the wants that were in the Kings Army; How little Money he had -to maintain the War, and to satisfie the _Suitzers_ of the discontent of -the _French_ Nobility, and how several _French_ Troops might easily be -defeated, and that to divert the Kings forces it was necessary to invade -_Provence_, and did much press upon the 50000. Crowns, and the 4000 men -promised or else said, all is lost. Some of these things he confessed, -and did so intangle and contradict himself, that the Commissioners had -pity on his indiscretion. - -He was asked what opinion he had of _La Fin_, he said he took him for -an honest Gentleman, his Friend and Kinsman, his Evidences being read -to him, and himself brought face to face, he did with the most horrid -Imprecations and Blasphemies in the World deny them, and charged _La Fin_ -with the most horrid Crimes that can be Imagined, calling still God for -a Witness of his Innocency; _La Fin_ stood firm in the confirming of his -Evidence, and did more particularly declare the whole conspiracy. The -Duke answered, that if _Renazé_ were there he would tell the contrary, -_Renazé_, who had a little while before escaped his Prison in _Piemont_, -was brought before him, and confirmed all what _La Fin_ had said. - -Next to that was brought one of the Kings waiting men, who witnessed, -that having lyen in his Chamber by the Kings command, the first night of -his Imprisonment he had adjured him, by several offers and promises of -rewards, to give notice to his Secretaries to be out of the way for some -days, and to tell the Earl of _Roussy_ his Brother in Law, that he should -send presently to _Dijon_, to give the same advice to those that were -left there, and above all that if they were examined; they should all -constantly deny that ever he did write in Cyphers. - -Thus the business having been thorowly examined, it remained only to -proceed unto Judgment; but the Prisoner being a Peer of _France_, (the -King having erected the Barony of _Biron_ into a Dukedom) by the Laws the -Prisoner could not be judged, but by his Peers, which being summoned, -and not appearing, the Court of Parliament being authorised by the Kings -Commission, proceeded to Judgement. - -The 23 of _July_ 1602. the Chancellor, with the _Maisses_ and -_Pontcarré_, Privy Councellors, went to the Parliament, where all -the Chambers were assembled together. There he made known the Kings -intention, in a business, wherein the good of the Kingdom was so -much concerned, and represented on one part the quality of a Person, -commendable for his services; but on the other, the foulness of the -Crime, for the Judgement of which the King did rely upon the integrity -and prudence of the Court. The Kings Attorney, and Soliciter, having -represented to the Court, that the Peers summoned, gave no appearance, -and that the Prisoners petition (who asked for Councel), was not to -be received. The Court proceeded to examine the Evidences, whereupon -they sat three times, after which the Prisoner was brought from the -_Bastille_, by _Montigny_ Governour of _Paris_, and _Vitry_, Captain of -the Kings Guards, in a close Barge, covered with Tapistry, and followed -by two other Barges full of Souldiers, and _Switzers_. He entred into the -Palace, through the Garden of the first President, and rested himself in -one of the Chambers, where he was offered a Breakfast. - -The time being come, he was to be heard, the Recorder went and called -him into the Guild-hall, where when he saw one Hundred and twelve Judges -before his face, he was some thing daunted, and was made to sit within -the Bar upon a joint stool; where he sat in such a posture, as stretching -forth his right foot, and having his Cloak under his arm, and his left -hand upon his side, he kept the right one free, either to stretch it -forth to Heaven, or to smite his brest, when occasion served. The -Chancellor did so frame his discourse, that he never named him by his -name, nor that of his qualities. - -Of many evidences there was five chiefly urged against him. - -The first to have been conversant with one _Picotée_, born in _Orleans_, -and refugied in _Flanders_, to keep intelligence with the Arch-duke, and -to have give him 150. Crowns for two journeys to that end. - -The second to have treated with the Duke of _Savoy_, three days after his -arrival to _Paris_ without the Kings leave, and to have offered him all -assistance and service against any person whatsoever, upon the hope or -promiss of marrying his third daughter. - -The third to have kept intelligence with the said Duke in taking of the -City of _Bourg_ and other places, giving him advice how he might defeat -the Kings Army, and destroy his person, with many other circumstances to -that purpose. - -The fourth to have sent by _Renazée_ a note to the Governour of the Fort -of Saint _Catherine_, promising to bring the King before the said Fort, -so near that he might be either killed or taken, telling what cloths -he himself would wear, and what Horse he would ride, that he might be -distinguished. - -To have sent several times _la Fin_ to treat with the Duke of _Savoy_, -and the Earl of _Fuentes_ against the Kings service. - -These are the first confessions and acknowledgements that the Prisoner -made before the Commissioners in the Bastille, but now he thinketh, he -may as lightly deny them, as he had unadvisedly before confessed them. - -Upon the first Article he answered, that _Picoté_ being once his -Prisoner, had offered his service for the reduction of the Town of -_Seurre_ in _Burgundy_, and that the King had approved of it, that it is -true he had given him the said sum, but it was as a reward for his pains -and charges in this negotiation, which sum he hath charged upon the Kings -account, with some other small ones, laid out by him for the King; that -since the reduction of the said Town he had not seen _Picoté_ but in -_Flanders_, when he went thither Embassadour for the confirmation of the -Peace, where the said _Picotée_ came to him with many others, intreating -him he would be pleased to mediate with the King, for the liberty of -returning into their Countrey, and enjoying their Estates, and that he -did wish them to go to the Lords _Belieure_ and _Sillery_, who would -prescribe them what orders they were to follow in this business, and -never had any other conversation with _Picoté_. - -Upon the second, That he could not have treated with the Duke of _Savoy_ -three days after his arrival at _Paris_, seeing that himself did not come -there but a fortnigh-after, and that _la Fin_ came but after him, that -all his discourses with him were in publick and before witnesses, and -therefore could not be suspected; that _Roncas_ had sometimes mentioned -to him the Marriage of the third daughter of the Duke, and that he did -impart it to the King; that his Majesty having sent him word by _la -Force_ his Brother in Law, that he did not approve of it, he never -thought of it since; that the intelligence he is accused to have kept -with the Duke of _Savoy_, is confuted enough by what he did, for when the -King had commanded him to wait and keep company to the Duke in his return -from _France_, and to shew him the strongest places upon the Frontiers of -_Burgundy_, he did humbly excuse himself to the King of it, saying, that -he foresaw well enough that the Duke would not keep the Treaty of Peace, -and that it would be a great grief to him to make War against a Prince, -with whom he should have kept company, and made good cheer; and that he -did advise the Baron of _Lux_ to let him see only the weaker places, that -he might not know the strength of the Countrey. - -Upon the third, That if he had kept correspondence with the Duke of -_Savoy_, he would not have undertaken the taking of _Bourg_, almost -against the Kings will, without any other help then of those that were -ordinarily with him; that of fourty Convoys that were brought to relieve -the Town, he had routed thirty seven, and the other three entered in his -absence; that the King knoweth very well he was offered 200000. Crowns -to let the succours enter into the Citadel of _Bourg_; that although his -Majesty had commanded him in the time of a Truce made with the Duke of -_Savoy_, to let those of the Citadel of _Bourg_ have every day 400. Loafs -of Bread, 50. bottles of Wine, half an Oxe, and six Sheep, he did only -let them have fifty bottles of Wine and one Sheep, by which means the -Town was surrendred within the time promised; that if he had had any evil -design against the King and Kingdom, he would not so freely and willingly -put the Town into the hands of him that is now Governour of it; that the -Governours of Places that were in the Duke’s service, and are now in that -of the King, can witness whether he shewed them any favour; that for his -giving advice to the Duke to defeat the Regiment of _Chambauld_, he will -prove that _Chambauld_ did not come into the Army, but one Month after -the time mentioned in his Calumny; besides that, this advice was without -appearance of reason, for from _Chambauld_’s quarters to his, there was -at least six days journey, and as much to go to the Duke, and as much -to come back, besides the time required for the marching of the Forces; -therefore all that was a meer invention of _la Fin_. - -Upon the fourth, That he intreated his Majesty to call to memory, that he -was the onely man who dissuaded him to go and view the Fort, representing -unto him that there was in it extraordinary good Gunners, and that he -could not view it without great danger, and upon that he offered the King -to bring him the next day the Plat-form of it, and to take it with 500. -Musquettiers, and that himself would be in the Head of them. - -Upon the fifth, That it was true all the evil he had done was in two -Months time that _la Fin_ had been with him, during which, he did hearken -and write more then he ought: but that with the same he had written, he -had so long served the King, that it was enough to prove the sincerity -of his intentions; that the refusal of the Citadel of _Bourg_, which he -thought the King had promised him, had put him into such a discontent, -that he found himself in a capacity to hearken to any thing, and to do -any thing, that if he had been a Protestant, it may be the place should -have been refused him no more then it was to _de Boaisse_, who was such -an one, as he told the King himself at _Lyon_; that _la Fin_ had also -once told him, that the King speaking of him, and of his Father, said, -that God had done well for to take him out of this world when he was -killed, for he was a very chargeable and unprofitable servant; and for -the Son, it was not all Gold that shined; that these words had so much -incensed him, that he could have found in his heart to be all covered -with blood. Upon that the Chancellor asked him of what blood he meaned? -he answered, of my own: desiring not to live any longer, after he had -heard such reproches, as blemished the services of his Father and his -own; that nevertheless his anger and discontent went never so far, as to -attempt upon the King; that his fault was only in words, and it may be -little in Writting; that his Majesty seeing with how much ingenuity he -did acknowledge his fault, had forgiven him all what was past, in the -presence of the Lords _Villeroy_ and _Sillery_, and that if since that -time he was found to have done any thing amiss, he would blame his Judges -of Injustice, if they did not condemn him to death, that if he had done -nothing amiss since, he thought the Kings pardon to be sufficient for -what was, and if there was need to ask for it again, his knees were as -supple and plyable as ever. - -But a Letter, which he had written to _la Fin_ since the pardon of -_Lyon_, and the Birth of the Dolphin, did spoil all, for it was a -manifest evidence of the continuation of his ill designs, and the -Chancellor having produced it, he answered, he would never deny his -hand, but that _Imbert_ and _Renazée_ Domestick Servants to _la Fin_ -could counterfeit it; that though he might have some ill thoughts, he -had always well done; that although the King would not forgive him this -fault, it was not in the power of men to condemn him justly for single -words, which were contradicted by the effects; that his consolation was -in his misfortune, his Judges were not ignorant of the services he had -done to the Kingdom, which he had Sealed with five and thirty wounds; -that his body whose life and death was in the disposition of their -Justice, had not a vain but had bleeded for their service, and to restore -them into their places, from whence the League had driven them; that the -hand which had written the Letters produced against him, was the same -that had done contrary to what it did write; that he had written and -spoke more then he ought, but that it could not be proved he had ever ill -done; that there was no Law that punished with death the lightness of a -single word or motion of the thoughts; that anger and discontent had made -him capable of saying and doing any thing, but that his reason had not -given leave to say or to do, ought but what deserveth to be commended; -which words were as carefully considered, as he repeated them often with -several Oaths and Imprecations. - -Upon that the Chancellor having asked him why then he did not open -himself more to the King, who desired him with great affection to do -it at _Fountain-bleau_, seeing he knew in his conscience to have done -nothing against his duty since his pardon. There he cut himself in his -answer, and said he thought _la Fin_ had revealed nothing of what was -between them, and that he had lately assured him so with Oaths and -fearful imprecations, that he would never have thought _la Fin_ had been -such a damnable man, as to reveal that which with so many deep Oaths and -Imprecations they had promised to keep secret between themselves; that -having propounded the question to a Monk of the Order of _Minimes_ at -_Lyon_, whether he might with a safe conscience reveal what was between -them, and what he had promised with Oath to _la Fin_ to keep secret, -because he suspected that _la Fin_ would deceive him, and tell all to -the King, and so ruine him. The _Minime_ had answered, that seeing they -had no more intention to put in execution the things they had projected, -he was not to reveal them, and if _la Fin_ did it, he should go to Hell, -and himself to Heaven; that he did so firmly believe this, that although -the Archbishop of _Bourges_ had visited him in Prison, and alledged many -reasons to the contrary, yet his soul was so settled in that belief, that -he thought it was only the part of an Atheist to swear with intention to -deceive. - -Upon this he begin to accuse _la Fin_ of the most execrable crimes that -a man is capable of, saying that he made use of _Renazée_ for _Sodomy_ -that he was a Witch, and had ordinary communication with the Devils, -that he had so be witched him with enchanted Waters and Wax Images, that -spoke, that he was constrained to submit himself to all his will; that -he never spoke to him but whispering, and in unknown words, and after -he had kissed him in the left eye, and he could not deny but he had -shewed him a Wax Image, speaking and saying, _Rex impie morieris_, _thou -shalt die ungodly King_, and called him continually his Master, Lord, -Prince and King; that he was a false Coiner, and had persuaded him many -times to attempt upon the King, but that he would never hearken to it, -that the quality of the Accusators was to be considered, who not only -were partners, but instigators of the Fact; that certainly the Duke of -_Savoy_ was his mortal enemy, for having since his pardon left of all -his intelligences with him, and seeing that after a long detention he -had released _Renazée_, to come and to be a witness against him; that -the King had forgiven him at _Lyon_ and that upon his acknowledging many -times to the King, that the refusal of the Citadel of _Bourg_ had very -much incensed him, his Majesty did comfort him with these words. Marshal -never remember _Bourg_, and I will never remember what is past, that in -22 Months after he had not offended, that if he had continued his ill -designs, he might have done it easily in _England_ and _Switzerland_. -That above 100. Gentlemen shall be Witnesses of his first Embassy, -and for the second, he desireth no other Witnesses than the Kings -Embassadors themselves, that if they would be pleased to consider how -he was come, and in what case he had left the Province of _Burgundy_, -it was impossible to have an ill opinion of his designs; for there was -not one Souldier in all the Countrey, and at his going away he gave no -other charge to the Commanders and Captains, than to serve the King -faithfully, that every one disswaded him to come to Court, and in the -way he received many Letters to that purpose, that he was come upon the -Kings word, trusting upon his own Conscience and Innocency. If the King -be not pleased to consider my services (said he to the Court) and those -assurances he hath given me of his Mercy, I acknowledge my self guilty of -Death, and do not expect my life from his Justice, but from yours, (my -Lords) who will remember better than he what dangers I have undergone -for his service. I confess I had a mind to do ill, but I never proceeded -to effects: It would be a hard matter if I should be the first in whom -thoughts should be punished; Great offences require great clemency. I -do implore that of the King, and nevertheless I am the onely one in -_France_, that is made an example of his severity, and that can have no -hope in his clemency, which he never denyed to those that had done worse: -However I trust more in you my Lords, than I do in the King, who having -heretofore looked upon me with his Eyes of love, looketh upon me now with -those of his anger, and thinketh it a Vertue to be cruel unto me, and a -Vice to excercise upon me the act of clemency. - -Thus pleaded the Prisoner, with so much eloquency and boldness, that if -his Judges had not seen evidently the truth of the fact, under his own -Hand and Seal, the respect of his first condition might have perswaded -them to believe his Innocency, and to take compassion of his ruined -fortune. - -The Court did hear him as long as he would speak, with so much patience, -that never a man had the like audience. The Prisoner spoke so much, that -his last reasons were found contrary to his first, his allegations did -not shew his Innocency; for the Embassadors themselves which he took for -Witnesses of his carryage in _Switzerland_, did report many words of his, -which shewed his anger and passion. Besides the King had not given his -word, that he might come in Safety, and those Letters which he alleadged -for his justification, did prove the continuation of his treacherous -designs, seeing that he had sent _la Fin_ and _Hebert_, to _Turin_ and -_Milan_, since the pardon, He could not then expect but Justice, in a -case where neither passion nor favour could alter Judgment: Nevertheless -he shewed himself much satisfied with his answers, and therefore being -come back again to the _Bastille_, he passed the rest of that day, and -the two next, to relate unto his Guards the questions of the Court and -his answers therereunto, counterfeiting the gesture and the words which -he Imagined the Chancellor had spoken after his going away, though that -grave and venerable old man neither said nor did any thing, but what -was becoming to his Age and quality, having shewed himself as full of -compassion, as the prisoner was of his vanity; for when he was nearer to -death he thought less upon it, and thinking himself the only man capable -of commanding an Army, he found some fault in those that were thought -capable of it, saying, that one was unhappy in his undertakings, the -other was not respected by the Souldiers, such a one was a brave man, but -he wanted experience, and another that hath both was a Protestant. To -conclude, he did so please himself with his own praise and deserts, that -he thought no body could come near him, and that he was so useful to the -Kingdom, that it would be a great Crime to think to undo him. - -He had spoken so long the 27 of the Month, that there was no time left -to gather the Voices: The Chancellor therefore went into the Palace the -29 following to gather the Voices of the Judges. _Fleury_ the reporter -of the Proces, did conform his opinion to the conclusions of the Kings -Attorney, all the rest agreed to it, either by Words or by Signs, and -all the proofs necessary for the verification of a Crime meeting in this -case, as his Answers, Confessions, Writings, Letters, Instructions, and -Evidence of Witnesses not reproached; It was found, that the unnatural -Conspiracy against the State, the detestable attempt upon the Kings -Person, makes him guilty of high Treason in the first and second degree. - -He confesseth he had evil intentions, it is enough, the Laws do punish -the Councels, the resolutions, and the effects; for if the Traitor be not -prevented, time may give him the opportunity to accomplish his Design -and Will, and the Will of a Subject in point of State, doth depend -immediately upon that of the Prince. He sayeth moreover, that without the -Kings Mercy he is undone, and that if he would have put in Execution the -ill designs that were propounded to him against his Majesty, he should -have been gone long ago: Did he ever give notice of them to the King or -to any body else. If the Prisoner had brought to pass his intent, we -might have said, farewell State, farewell Justice, it is too late to -believe the Conspiracy against Princes, when they are murdered by the -Conspirators. - -He hath well Served the King, it is true; but his Offices and Dignities -did call him to that Duty, he hath had notable rewards for it, and from -the time that he hath shewed himself so unfaithfull, he hath diminished -the lustre of his deserts. His deserts had made him capable of the first -dignities of the Kingdom, but the merit of them is vanished away, by the -greatness of his Crime. - -And what is the State beholding to him, if after he hath contributed -so much for its restauration, he goeth about to turn up side down the -Foundation of it, and to betray it to the Enemies. It is nothing to begin -well unless you end well, the actions are judged by the end: Those that -have deserved best of the States, are the most severely punished when -they fall into Sedition and Rebellion. There is many sheets of Paper in -the Hands of the Court, containing in them one hundred advices given to -the Enemy, the least of which is capable to make him guilty. - -The Prisoners quality is not considerable in this case; Justice is blind -to all distinctions, and rather considereth the offence according to -the quality of the offender; Crimes of high Treason are not considered -by things past, but by things present and that are to come; we must not -put in an account what he hath done, but what he had a mind to do. The -quality of a Duke and Peer of _France_, of Knight of the Kings Order, of -Marshal, doth not exempt him from the Law, and from being judged as an -Enemy to the State, and to the Majesty of the Prince, seeing he would -have troubled the State, and attempted upon the Kings person. Who in -_France_ besides is more obliged to the King? the greater then is the -Obligation, the greater the ingratitude. God forbid that the respect of -the quality should stop the course of Justice: a Limb must be cut off to -save all the body. - -But his offence hath been forgiven: The pardon cannot extend but to the -things that are confessed; but he acknowledgeth himself that he hath not -told all, therefore he hath confessed as little as he could, his own -confessions Witness, he only asked forgiveness, that he might continue -his Crimes with more security: Besides, he would not acknowledge his -fault to the King, for all the King promised to forgive him, and lately -he told the Court, he did not believe that _la Fin_ had revealed what was -secret between them; and thought he would have kept his word, which he -had confirmed with so many Oaths, and that if he had doubted of it, he -would have cast himself at his Majesties Feet as readily as he, and asked -him forgiveness. It followeth then that there was some thing left behind -that was not confessed: Thus he accuseth himself, thinking to excuse his -fault; besides, he mistaketh himself thinking to persuade the Court, -that since the pardon he hath done nothing amiss, for the Pardon was in -_January_ 1600. and here be Letters of _September_ last, by which he -recalleth _la Fin_, telleth him, he will think no more upon the Vanities -that were past since, God was pleased to have given the King a Dolphin. -It is apparent then that he hath employed _la Fin_ at least since the -Pardon, till the birth of the Dolphin, and _la Fin_ maintaineth that -there was a note quite to the contrary, and that they did continue their -intelligences and practises unknown to the King. That the Duke did recal -him, fearing he should discover the Conspiracy, when a man continues in -his faults and abuseth his Pardon, the last fault payeth for all. - -Besides, the Court hath not seen that Pardon, he oughted to have produced -it in writing under the Kings Hand and Seal, and to forgive him once -more, would put him into such a condition, as to contrive always Treasons -against the State; the remedy of a present evil is not to be neglected -upon the hope of an uncertain good; he is in a case to be no more useful; -nothing can be expected from his courage but revenge; he that can bring -no profit by his virtue and faithfulness, must do it by being made an -exemple. - -Such were for the most part the reasons of the Court, according to which, -and to the conclusions of the Attorney General, the Chancellor did -pronounce Sentence of death against the Prisoner; some were of opinion -that _la Fin_ should be arrested, as one that could not justifie himself, -for having concealed such a damnable Conspiracy, till he saw that the -_Spanish_ affairs went to wrack. The Chancellor did moderate these -opinions, representing that the Conspiracy was not yet wholly discovered, -and that such things would hinder the rest of those that knew some thing -of it to reveal it; that a man that saveth the Kings Person and his -Estate, ought rather to be rewarded then punished. And in confirmation of -this, the King sent Letters to _la Fin_, by which he assured him, that -such a service done to him and his Kingdom, should never prove his ruine. - -The Court stayed onely for the Kings intention upon the execution of the -Sentence, which _Sillery_ had carried to St. _Germain_. The Scaffold was -ready to be set up in the place of _Greve_, but the execution might have -proved dangerous, in the middle of so much people of different humors and -tempers; and already there was a rumour, as if some body should throw -him a Sword, with which he should make himself a passage, or else have -died with a blow less shameful then that of the Hangman; upon his friends -intreaty the execution was ordered to be done in the _Bastille_. - -The next day about noon, the people knowing that the Sentence was past, -went some to the _Greve_, thinking that the execution should be done -there, others to St. _Antony_ street, to see the Prisoner pass by; he -saw from his Chamber that multitude, and guessed that he was to be the -Spectacle of those Spectators; here the anguish of the Grave began to -beset him, and drawing a consequence from the shadow of death, that the -body was not far of; he sent _Baranton_ a _Scotish_ Gentleman to intreat -the Marquess of _Rhosny_ to come to see him, or if he could not come, to -sue for his Pardon to the King. He sent him answer, he could do neither, -and that he was extreamly sorry for his misfortune, that if he had -believed him at his coming to Court, he should have confessed what the -King did desire to know of him, for by concealing of it, he did hinder -the King to give him his life, and all his friends to sue for it. - -The next day last of _July_ 1602. the Chancellor, the first President, -_Sillery_, three Masters of Requests, some Officers of the Chancery, -_Rapin_ Lieutenant of the short Gown, his Lieutenant, _Daniel Voisin_ -Register of the Court of Parliament, six Sergeants, and seven or eight -more went to the Bastille, about ten of the Clock in the morning, as -soon as they were come in the Chancellor commanded that the Prisoners -Dinner should be carryed, without giving him notice of his coming, and -in the mean time he and the first President made a List of those whom -they would have to be present in that action: Some Presidents, three -Masters of Requests, three Auditors, six Serjeants of the Parliament, -the Lieutenant Civil, the Kings Attorney at the _Chastelet_, _Rapin_ and -his Lieutenant, the Knight of the Watch, the Prevost of the Merchants, -four Aldermen, four Councellors of the City, and some few others, to the -number of fifty. - -About noon the Prisoner looking through the Grates of his Chamber -Windows, perceived the Wife of _Rumigny_, Captain of the Castle, weeping -with her hands up and guessed that those Tears were drawn by the -compassion of his Fortune. He was confirmed in his opinion, when he saw -the Chancellor followed by the Serjeants, _Rapin_ and his Lieutenant, and -some others go through the _Bastilles_ Yard into the Chappel, then he -began to cry aloud, O my God I am a dead man, ah, what injustice it is to -put an Innocent Person to death, thereupon he intreated _Rumigny_ to tell -his Brothers, Sisters and Kindred, that they should not be ashamed of his -death, because he was Innocent of that he was accused. - -The Chancellor commanded he should be brought down into the Chappel, -where as soon as he saw the Chancellor, are you come, said he, to -pronounce me my death: The Chancellor saluted him, then put on his Hat, -the Prisoner stood bare headed, and began to speak first. Ah my Lord -Chancellor, is there no pardon? is there no Mercy? such and such (whom -he did name one after another) have committed such offences and yet have -been pardoned. What? you that look like an honest man, have you suffered -that I should be so miserably condemned? ah! my Lord, if you had not -told the Court that the King would have me to die, they would not have -condemned me so. My Lord, my Lord, you could have hindred that evil, and -you have not done it, you shall answer for that injustice before all the -rest of the Judges that have condemned me, and saying so, he stroke the -Chancellor upon the Arm. Ah! what a great service the King doth this -day to the King of _Spain_, to rid him of such an Enemy as I was, might -I not have been kept within four Walls, till some occasion had offered -where I might have been useful? Ah my Lord, have you forgot my fathers -love to you so much, as not to give notice to the King of what I say, -and what dammage he suffereth in loosing me: I am yet as willing as ever -to do Service to the Kingdom, you could let him know so much, he hath -so good an opinion of you, I am sure he would believe you: A Messenger -could quickly go thither and back again; what shall a thousand Gentlemen -my Kinsmen say? doth he think that after my death they can do him any -service? and what if I had been guilty, would I have come upon those -false assurances that President _Janin_ that great Cheat gave me, when -he told me, that businesses were so ill mannaged in _France_, that it -was fit I should see the King and tell him of it, who at my perswasion -would settle them in better order: I have neglected all the advices of my -friends to hearken unto his perswasions. I have trusted to that cursed -Traitor _la Fin_, who writ to me that I could come in all safety, and -that he had told the King nothing but of the Marriage that was propounded -to me with a daughter of _Savoy_, that the King would receive me with -all kindness. What then? the goings to and fro of many, the reasons -of those who advised me to come, and the Kings Letters, were they all -baits to catch me: I am well served to have trusted to much upon his -Word, I could have sought and got other securities, if I had not trusted -to my Innocency; I am come upon the confidence of my integrity since -his pardon. Ah! doth he not know that he hath forgiven me; I have lied -some evil designs, I have hearkened, I have written, I have spoken, I -confessed them all at _Lyon_, he did assure me never to remember it, and -did exhort me that from hence forwards I should commit nothing that -might compel me to have recourse to his clemency: Nevertheless I am now -accused of things that are blotted out by his pardon; I have not offended -him since, unless it be in that I desired War rather than Peace, because -my humour is not peaceable, had not the King at that time reason to -approve of it? if this Crime deserveth death I fly to his clemency, I -implore his Mercy. The Queen of _England_ told me, that if the Earl of -_Essex_ would have humbled himself, and asked forgiveness, he should have -obtained it: I do, being Innocent, what he would not do being guilty. Ah! -Shall all Mercy be put out for me; those that have done worse have found -Grace and Mercy: I perceive what it is, I am not the more guilty but the -most unhappy, and the King, who hath been so sparing of his Subjects -lives, hath a mind to be prodigal of mine. - -To conclude, he forgot nothing of what might be said by a soul pierced -with grief spite, anger, and violent threatning, in exclamations and -revilings against the King and his Parliament, in reproaches against the -Chancellor, that he had more contributed to his condemnation than to his -absolution, in words that are not fit to be spoken nor related. - -His words ran so fast that the Chancellor could not stop them: -Nevertheless he took occasion to tell him, his passion suggested him many -things without appearance of reason, and against his own judgment, that -no body had known his defects better than he, and that he could have -wished his faults had been as unknown as dissembled, that the knowledge -of them had been so visible and apparent, that his Judges had more ado -to moderate his punishment than to inflict it. That Sentence was given -upon the proofs of several attemps he had made against the Kings Person -and his Estate, and for having kept intelligence and correspondency with -the Enemies of the Kingdom, of which he had been found guilty, that if he -had concealed the truth in the answers to his accusations, he should now -reveal it being so near to his end, and that for these causes the King -did ask his Order of Knighthood, and his staff of Marshal of _France_, -with which he had formerly honoured him: He pulled the Order out of his -Pocket and put it into the Chancellors hands, Protesting and Swearing -upon the Salvation of his Soul, that he never had broken the Oath he made -in receiving it, that (it is true) he had desired War more than Peace; -because he could not preserve in Peace, the reputation he had got in War, -as for the Staff, he never carryed it: Nevertheless by the Oath that the -Knights of the Holy Ghost take, they are bound to take no Pension, Wages -nor Money from forrain Princes, and to engage themselves in no bodies -service but the Kings, and faithfully to reveal what they shall know to -be for or against the Kings service. - -After that the Chancellor exhorted him to lift up his thoughts from Earth -to Heaven, to call upon God, and to hear patiently his Sentence. - -My Lord (said he) I beseech you do not use me as other men; I know what -my Sentence beareth, my accusations are false, I wonder the Court would -Condemn me upon the Evidence of the most wicked and detestable man that -is alive; he never came near me without Witchcraft, nor never went from -me till he had bewitched me, he did bite my left ear off, and made me -drink inchanted waters, and when he said, that the King had a mind to rid -himself of me, he called me his King, his Benefactor, his Prince, his -Lord, he hath communication with the Devils, and hath shewed me a Wax -Image, speaking these words in Latine, _Rex impie morieris_, ungodly King -thou shalt die. If he hath had so much power by his Magick, as to make -an inanimate body to speak, it is no wonder that he should make my Will -conformable to his. - -Here the Chancellor stopt him, and told him, that the Court had well -considered his answers, and his Letters, that he ought not to find fault -with his Sentence, that it had done him the same justice as a Father -should do to his son, if he had offended in the like manner. He had -scarce spoken these words when the other answered, what Judgment? I -have been heard but once, and had no time to tell the fiftieth part of -my justification; if I had been heard at large, I could have made it -clearly appear that _la Fin_ is such a one as I say; what Judgment upon -the Evidence of a Bougerer? of a Rogue that hath forsaken his Wife, of -a treacherous and perfidious man, that had Sworn so many times upon the -Holy Sacrament, never to reveal what was between us, of a Knave that -hath so often counterfeited my Hand and Seal: It is true, I have written -some of those Letters that were shewed me, but I never intended to put -them in Execution: and the rest are falsified: Is there not many that -can counterfeit so well the Hand and Seal of others, that themselves can -scarce distinguish them. It is well known that the Lady _Marchioness_ -of _Vernevil_ hath lately acknowledged that to be her own hand, which -she had never written. My Heart and my Actions have sufficiently -countervailed the faults of my Hand, and of my Tongue. Besides, the King -hath forgiven me, I do implore his Memory for a Witness. You say I have -been found guilty to have attempted upon the Kings Person; that is false, -that never came into my mind, and I knew nothing of it till that _la Fin_ -did propose it to me before St. _Katherines_ Fort, six or seven days -after the Siege, if I had been thus minded, I could have easily brought -it to pass; I was the only man that hindred the King to go before the -Fort: If my services had been taken into consideration, I should not have -been thus condemned: I believe that if you had not been present, the -Parliament would not have judged me so rigorously; I wonder that you, -whom I thought to be prudent and wise, have used me so cruelly; it would -have been more honourable for your quality and old age to implore for me -the Kings Mercy, than his Justice. There is Dungeons here where I might -have been kept bound hand and foot; I should have at last that comfort to -pray for those who should have got me that favour from the King. If I had -been but a single Souldier, I should have been sent to the Galleys; but -because I am a Marshal of _France_, I am thought to be as dangerous a man -to the State, as I have been useful heretofore. My life is sought after, -I see there is no Mercy for me; the King hath often forgiven those, -who not only intended to do evil, but had done it; this Vertue is now -forgotten, he giveth occasion now to the World to believe, that he never -used clemency or forgiveness, but when he was afraid. I was of opinion, -that if I had killed one of his Children he would have forgiven me. Is it -not pity that my Father should have run so many dangers, and at last died -in the field to keep the Crown upon his Head, and that now he should take -my head off my Shoulders, is it possible he should forget the services I -have done him? doth he not remember the conspiracy of _Mantes_, and the -dangers he should have been in if I had taken the Conspirators part? Hath -he forgotten the Siege of _Amiens_, where I have been so often among the -fire and Bullets, neglecting my own life to preserve his, I have not a -Vein but hath been open to preserve his own Blood, I have received five -and thirty wounds to save his life; he sheweth now that he never loved me -but when he had need of me, he taketh away my head, but let him beware -that the Justice of God doth not fall upon his. My Blood shall cry for -revenge for the wrong that is done me to day, I call the King of _Spain_ -and the Duke of _Savoy_ to Witness, if I know any thing what is laid to -my charge. _La Fin_ himself did shew me sometimes a Catholick List of -about fourscore Gentlemen, who received Pension from the King of _Spain_, -I had never so much curiosity as to read it; let him be put to the rack -he shall tell many particularities of it; the King within a little while -shall perceive what he getteth by my death; I shall at last die a good -Catholick, and constant in my Religion, I believe that’s the cause of my -death. - -The Chancellor seeing that all his discourses were full of passion, -vanity and repetitions, and void of reason, and were like an impetuous -Torrent that cannot be stopt, and that all his words were nothing but -reproaches against the King and the Court of Parliament, blasphemies -against God, and execrations against his Accusers; said that his business -called him away, and that in his absence he would leave him two Divines -to comfort him, and to dispose his soul to leave quietly this World, for -the enjoying of a better. - -As the Chancellor was going out, the Prisoner begged of him that he might -have the liberty to make his Will, because he did owe much, and much -was owing to him, and he desired to satisfie every body. The Chancellor -answered, that the Recorder _Voisin_ should stay with him to write his -Will under the Kings good pleasure. And as the Chancellor spoke to -_Voisin_, the Prisoner turning to _Roissy_, Master of Requests, asked him -if he were, one of those that had condemned him: my Father hath loved -you so much, that though you were one, yet should I forgive you. _Roissy_ -answered, my Lord, I pray God Almighty to comfort you. - -They went out, and he with a quiet mind and free from passion, did -dictate his Will in what form he would, with the same _Garbe_, as if he -had been making a Speech at the head of an Army; he remembred his friends -and servants, and did not forget the Baron of _Lux_, whom he loved above -all the rest. He lest eight hundred Livers a year to a Bastard of his, -whom he begot of a woman that he left with Child of another, to which -child he left a Mannor near _Dijon_ that had cost him six thousand -Crowns, he disposed all the rest of his Debts, and answered modestly, and -without confusion to all the Notes and Bills that were brought him about -his affairs. Took three Rings off his fingers, and intreated _Baranton_ -to give them to his Sisters, two to the Countess of _Roussy_, and the -other to that of Saint _Blancard_, desiring they would wear them for -his sake; he distributed in Alms about 200. Crowns that he had in his -Pocket, fifty to the _Capuchines_, fifty to the _Fueillants_, fifty to -the _Minimes_, and the rest to several poor people. - -The Will being made, the Recorder put him in mind how my Lord Chancellor -had told him he was condemned to death, and that according to the -ordinary forms of the Law, he must have his Sentence read to him; that -this action required humility, therefore willed him to kneel before the -Altar, leaving off hence forth all thoughts of this World, to think upon -the Father of Mercies; he kneeled with the right knee upon the first step -of the Altar, and heard it read as followeth: - - _Seen by the Court, the Chambers being assembled together, - the Process extraordinarily made by the Presidents and - Councellors, appointed by the King under his Letters Patents, - dated the 18 and 19 of ~June~, at the request of the Kings - Sollicitor General, against the Lord ~Charles~ of ~Gontault~ - of ~Biron~, Knight of both Orders, Duke of ~Biron~, Peer and - Marshal of ~France~, Governour of ~Burgundy~, Prisoner in the - Castle of ~Bastille~, accused of high Treason, Informations, - Interrogations, Confessions and denials, Confrontations, and - Witnesses, Letters, Advices, and Instructions given to the - Enemies, and acknowledged by him, and all what the Solliciter - General hath produced. Sentence of the 22 of this Month, by - which it was ordered, that in the absence of the Peers of - ~France~ summoned, it should be further proceeded to Judgment - Conclusions of the Kings Sollicitor, the accuser being heard - and interrogated, all things being duly considered, hath been - concluded, that the said Court hath declared, and declareth the - said Duke of ~Biron~, attainted and convicted of high Treason, - for the conspiracies by him made against the Kings Person and - Estates, Proditions and Treaties with his Enemies, when he - was Marshal of the Army of the said King, for reparation of - which Crime, the said Court hath deprived and depriveth him - of all his Estates, Honours and Dignities, and hath condemned - and condemneth him to be beheaded upon a Scaffold, which for - that purpose shall be erected in the place of ~Greve~, hath - declared, and declareth, all and every one of his Goods, - moveable or unmoveable, in whatsoever places scituated and - seated, to be acquired and confiscated to the King, the Mannor - of ~Biron~, deprived for ever of the Title and Dukedom and - Peerage, and altogether all his other Goods, immediately holden - from the King, reunited to the Crown again. Done in Parliament - the last day of ~July 1602~. Signed in the Original by ~de - Belieure~, Chancellor of ~France~, Councillor in the Court, - Reporter of the Process._ - -He was not moved at these words, _attainted and convicted of high -Treason_, but at these, _against the Person of the King_, he fell into -a rage, and Swearing as he had done many times before, and shall do -hereafter with great Oaths and Imprecations, there is no such thing, said -he to the Recorder, it is false, blot out that; he was also very angry, -hearing that he was to be executed in the place of _Greve_, thinking that -for several respects he was to be distinguished from the common sort of -people, and Swore again, that he would not go thither, and that he had -rather to be torn in pieces by wild Horses, and that it was not in the -power of all those that stood by to carry him thither, then he was a -little appeased, when _Voisin_ told him, that the King had done him that -favour to change the place of Execution, and that it was to be done in -the _Bastille_. The confiscation of his Goods, and the revenues of the -Dukedom of _Biron_ to the Crown, was the last point of the Sentence that -vexed him. What? said he, doth the King intend to grow rich out of my -poverty? The Lordship of _Biron_ cannot be confiscated, I only possessed -it by substitution of my Brethren, what shall my Brethren do, the King -ought to have been satisfied with the loss of my life. - -The Sentence being pronounced, _Voisin_ did exhort him again to renounce -all the vanities of the world, to take no other care but of the -Salvation of his Soul, which was to be first by reconciling himself to -God Almighty, and that there was two Divines for that purpose, and that -according to the usual forms of Executions, he would be pleased to suffer -himself to be bound. That word of Execution did seem so horrid to him, -that he fell into a new rage, Swearing, that he would never permit so -infamous a person to touch him, otherwise than with the Sword, and that -he had rather be hewen in pieces. To keep him from falling into a further -despair, _Voisin_ left him, with his Divines, _viz._ _Garnier Almonec_, -and Confessor to the King, and after that Bishop of _Montpelier_, and -_Magnan_, Curate of St. _Nicolas_ in the fields at _Paris_, who began -to talk boldly to him of his death, and to disvest himself of all his -thoughts, as he had done of his Goods, and to take no other care than -that of his Soul, whereupon he fell into a passion again, Let me alone -(said he) it is I that must think upon my Soul, you have nothing to do -with it, I had no need of you, you shall not be troubled to hear my -confession; what I speak aloud is my confession, I have been these eight -days a confessing my self, and the last night, me thought I saw the -Heavens opened, and that God lent me his Hand; my Keepers heard me laugh -for joy in my sleep. The Divines did not loose Courage for all that, but -more and more intreated him to consider, that he was no more what he had -been before, that within one or two hours he should be no more, that he -must change to be for evermore, that his Soul was ready to appear before -the fearfull Throne of the living God, to be rewarded with a more happy -life than that he had hitherto passed; or be condemned to an Eternal -pain and that in comparison of that which he was to suffer now, it was -no more than the slight pricking of a Pin, and having in some measure -appeased him, they left him to examine his Conscience, while _Voisin_ -went to give notice of his refusing to be bound; the Chancellor doubted -whether he should be compelled to it; the first President said, that it -was dangerous to let him loose; _Sillery_ having learned of _Voisin_ that -the Prisoner was at that time very quiet, said, that if they went about -to bind him, he would break all the bonds of Patience, and should never -be brought to Execution but in a rage and dispair; according to that -opinion he was left free in his body, that he might be the more free in -his thoughts. - -Which were more to the World, and to the setling of his affairs, than to -the saving of his Soul, which he had neglected all his life time, and -shewed himself utterly ignorant of the principles of his Religion, for -which he said a little before, he was put to death, and those that were -present related, that his Prayers made him appear more a Souldier than a -Christian; he prayed in commanding, and commanded in praying. - -His Confession being ended, he walked in the Chappel with one hand upon -his side, and with the other holding the strings of his Shirt, did -unbutton and button again his Doublet. _Voisin_ being come back told -him, that the Chancellor and the first President were very glad to hear -of his Patience, and of his constant resolution to die. He talked much -of the Money he had at _Dijon_, of the worth of his Jewels, and of what -was owing to him, and what himself did owe, he desired that some Sums of -Money should be paid to certain Gentlemen, that had no Obligation for it: -But still he broke forth into exclamations concerning his Innocency, and -execrations against _la Fin_, asking if it should not be lawfull for his -Brothers to prosecute him, and to cause him to be burnt. - -Upon this, those that kept him during his Imprisonment, came to take -their leave of him, every one having his left hand upon the handle of his -Sword, and Tears in his Eyes, he moved them to compassion by the sight of -his present condition, and exhorted them to serve the King faithfully, -against whom he had said he had done nothing amiss, and complained that -he could find no Mercy at his Hands, intreated them to pray to God for -him, and to oblige them to that, distributed among them all his Cloaths -and linnen, and Watches; he desired also the Knight of the Watch to tell -the King, that his Servants knew nothing of his Affairs, that the Earl of -_Auvergne_ was not to be questioned upon that account: He intreated much -one exempt of the Guards to go to the said Earl, and tell him he had laid -nothing to his charge, and that he went to die without any grief, but of -the loss of his friendship, and that the shortness of his life would not -give him leave to shew in effect how much he was his servant. The Earl -sent him word, that he did accept of his farewell, as of an intimate -friend; and that he remained behind to lament all the days of his life -the loss he suffered in him, intreated him to leave him his Bastard Son, -to have him brought up with his own Children. After this the Prisoner saw -a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of _Mayene_, and entreated him to tell -his Master, that if ever in his life he had given him some occasion not -to love him, that he prayed to believe that he would die his servant, as -also of the Duke of _Aiguillon_, and Earl of _Sommerive_ his Children; he -likewise intreated _Arnaut_, Secretary to the Marquess of _Rhosny_, to -remember his last commendations to his Master, and desire him to remember -not so much him that went to die, as his Brethren whom he left behind, -that he had him in opinion of a good and usefull servant to the King, and -repented much he had not believed his Councel. - -About three of the Clock the Chancellor and the first President went -up again into the Chappel, and finding him in a good disposition, did -fortifie his resolution by their discourses, and desiring to know more -particularities from his own mouth, sent all the standers by away, except -the Divines and the Recorder: They did exhort him to consider, that the -days of man are limited, that the end of his days depended from the -Providence of the Almighty, who would take him out of this world before -some great and long misery should make him weary of it. He answered, no, -no my Lords, do not trouble you about comforting me and strengthning me -against the fear of death, I have not been afraid of it these 20 years; -you have given me 40 days to study it, but I could not believe that -having not been in the power of my Enemies to take away my life, I should -be so miserable as to loose it by the consent of my friends; having said -this they left him, and took their leaves of him with Tears in their -Eyes, he would not suffer them to depart till they had received a new -Protestation of his, that he never had attempted any thing against the -King, Swearing, that if he would have done it, the King should not have -been alive three years ago. - -As they were going out of the _Bastille_ with _Sillery_, he sent the -Knight of the Watch to intreat the Chancellor, that his Body might be -buried at _Biron_, in the Sepulchre of his Ancestors, and that he would -desire the King to give to his younger Brother some Office in the house -of the _Dolphin_, and shewing by his Countenance, Carryage, and Words, to -care as little for death as one that is a great way from it gave cause to -suspect, that he was not out of hope to obtain his pardon from the King, -or to escape by some extraordinary means. - -The Divines did exhort him to keep nothing back of what might serve for -the discharging of his Conscience, and to consider, that they could give -him absolution for no more than what he did confess. Although, said he, -the King causeth me to die unjustly, nevertheless I have served him with -so much affection and obedience, and I have near my death so much good -will and affection for him, that if I knew any thing against his Person -or State, I would tell it freely, and upon that whispered some things to -his Confessors, which _Voisin_ did presently write. - -Being about five of the Clock, _Baranton_ was sent to tell him it was -time to go; let us go said he, seeing I must die, and desired he would -charge his Brothers from him, to remain faithful to the King, and not to -go to Court, till time had blotted, or at least lessened the shame of -his death. He kneeled before the Altar, and having ended his Prayer, he -desired the Company to pray for him. - -Coming out of the Chappel, he met the Executioner, who offered to follow -him, and he thinking it was to bind him; keep off, (said he) and do not -touch me till it be time; I shall go willingly to die without troubling -any body; but it shall never be said that I am dead like a Slave, or -a Thief, and swore by God that if he came near him he would strangle -him. The Divines exhorted him going down the stairs to resist those -impaciencies and temptations of the Devil, who striveth most to deviate -the Soul from her Salvation, when as he hath most need of the Divine -assistance to withstand his assaults, remonstrating also unto him, that -all his violences and passions could not hinder the Soul to depart from -a place where she was but a Tenant at Will. He hearkened to them, and -saying three times ah, ah, ah, raising his voice at every one, he said, -is there no Mercy in the world, I see to day, that all the world hath -forsaken me. - -He came into the Yard, and seeing the Lieutenant of the City, in whose -house the King had put _la Fin_, to secure him from all attempts, My Lord -Lieutenant (said he) I am very much your friend, take heed to have any -thing to do with that Witch and Magician that lyeth at your house, if you -meddle with him he will undo you. - -The Scaffold was set up in the corner of the Yard, over against the -Garden gate, six foot high, and seven long, without any Ornament or -distinction. He kneeled upon the first step, lifted up his Eyes to Heaven -and made a short Prayer, like a Souldier, and went up as couragiously -as if he had gone to an assault, clad in a Gray Taffety Suit, with a -black Hat on his Head, but as soon as he saw the Executioner, he looked -furiously upon him, and bid him stand aside till he were ready to receive -the last stroke: He threw his Hat, his Handkarchief, and Doublet to the -first that would take it, nevertheless one of the Executioners men was -nimbler than all the rest, and looking upon the Souldiers that kept the -Gate armed, with Musquets and Fire-locks. Ah! said he, must I die? is -there no pardon? if at least some of those good fellows would shut me -(opening his Breast) he should oblige my very much, what pity is it to -die so miserably, and of so shameful a blow, then directing his speech -to the Spectators, he said, I have put my Soul into such a state as she -ought to be to appear before the face of Almighty God, but I pity that -of the King, who causeth me to die unjustly: I have erred I confess, -but I never attempted anything against the Kings Person, he should have -been dead ten years ago if I would have believed the evil Councel that -was given me concerning that the trouble and distress of his Soul was so -great, that a little while before he said three years, and now he says -ten; the Divines having setled him a little once more, he received their -absolution. - -The Executioner then presented unto him a Frontlet, but it proved to him -a new wound, an increase of grief, and swore if he toucht him any other -way than with the Sword he would strangle him, & thereupon he asked -again for his own Handkarchief to make use of it, his hollow and gastly -Eyes shewed he was not in his right mind. _Voisin_ intreated him to be -patient, and to raise his thoughts to the place where his Soul was to go, -and to be attentive to the reading of his Sentence. He was unwilling to -hear the repetition of his Crimes, and to have occasion to exclaim again -against the Iniquitie, of those that had condemned him, against the Kings -cruelty, as he called it, that would not grant him his pardon, and that -this was to make him feel death before death. _Voisin_ answered, that it -could not be done otherwise. He answered that every body knew for what -reason he was there and then as if it were by confession, he said, _well, -read_, and thereupon held his Peace till _Voisin_ came to these words, -_for having attempted against the Kings Person_; for then he fell into a -passion again, as he had done before, and said, that it was false, that -this never came into his mind, that as God was his Judge, he would be for -ever deprived of his Grace if it were true, that since two and twenty -Months he had done nothing against the Kings service, that it is true he -had written some Letters, but that the King had forgiven him, protesting -and calling the Spectators to Witness, that it was the truth what he -spoke, as he would answer it before God, and spoke so many words, and so -fast that neither he nor the Sheriff could be understood. - -The Sentence being read, the Divines did admonish him to leave all -Earthly thoughts, to implore the assistance of Heaven, and to resign his -Soul to the Eternal providence of the Almighty, and his Body to what the -Law had ordained of it, he made some Prayer to God, and bound his Eyes -with his own Handkarchief, and asked the Executioner in what place he was -to put himself, the Executioner pointing with his finger, said, there -my Lord; he pulled off his Handkarchief in a rage, and where is that -there, said he? thou seest I am blind fold, and thou shewest me as if I -could see; he bound himself again, and bid the Executioner to dispatch -quickly: The Executioner told him he ought to kneel, for fear he should -do something amiss. No, no, said he, I shall not stir, if thou canst not -do it at one blow do it at thirty, he was intreated again to kneel, which -he did, and spoke these Imperious words, dispatch, dispatch, then rose -up again, and untied his Handkarchief, and by casting his Eyes upon the -Executioner, made the people believe, that either he had a mind to seize -upon the Sword, or that he was terribly afrighted by the approaches of -Death, and began again his former complaints, is there no pardon? must -I die so miserably? after so many services. The Executioner intreated -him to suffer his hairs behind to be cut off; he began to swear again -fearfully, that if he toucht him otherwise than with the Sword, he would -strangle him. The Divines told him that he was too carefull of his Body, -he would hear no more of that, but fell into a rage, and swore, that he -would not be toucht by so Infamous a Person as long as he was alive, that -if they did provoke him too much, he would strangle half the Company, and -oblige the other half to kill him, those that were upon the Scaffold went -down and left him with the Executioner, who repented himself heartily -that he had taken the care of him unbound. - -The Divines went up again upon the Scaffold, and desired him for the -love of God to resolve to step over that pass, which was necessary for -every man to do, and with some few other words, whispered into his ears, -did calm him a little, and made him resolve to undergo the Execution, -after he had made many complaints, and shewed great fears of dying. A -strange thing that as stout and valiant a man as ever was born, who had -so many times cast himself amongst the greatest dangers, without any fear -or apprehension, as if there was no death for him, should shew himself -now so fearful at the coming of it; we may judge by this, that the -apprehension of death is incomparably greater when it cometh upon a cold -blood, and those that know what his Chirurgion was wont to say, shall -less wonder at it; for he said, that the Duke of _Biron_ used to wonder -at himself, that being not afraid of the thrust of a Sword, nevertheless -he was very timerous at the pricking of a Launcet, when he had occasion -to be let blood: Whereupon we must confess, that the greatest courage, -and most undaunted stoutness of a man, is nothing in comparison of human -Natures weakness. - -The Divines judging him to be out of fear, gave him his last absolution, -he kneeled again, and cried aloud three times, _My God, my God, my -God, have Mercy upon me_, then turning to the Executioner, he took the -headband that he had in his hand, and intreated _Baranton_ to do him -that last curtesie as to lift up his hairs behind, which _Baranton_ -did, and the Duke himself did tie the Handkarchief about his Eyes. The -Divines seeing him in that good disposition, did assure him, that he -was ready to go to Heaven, and to see God, and to enjoy his Glory. Yes, -said he, Heaven is open to receive my Soul, and so stooped his neck for -the Executioner to do his office. The Executioner considering, that he -had untied himself three times before, and might do so again for the -fourth, thought fitting to entertain him with fair words, to desire his -forgiveness, and to put him in mind of saying his last Prayer, in the -mean time he beckened to his man, who was at the foot of the Scaffold, -to reach him the Sword, which no sooner was in his hand, but the Duke of -_Birons_ Head was off his Shoulders, it fell from the Scaffold to the -ground, and was thrown again by the Executioners man upon the Scaffold, -the Body was stript to its Shirt, and wraped in a Sheet, and the same day -buried, about nine of the Clock at night, in St. _Pauls_ Church, without -any shew or Ceremony. Thus ended the Tragical History of the Duke of -_Biron_. - -Now follows the two last Verses of this Prophecie. - - _A Post overtaken in the Countrey,_ - _And the Scrivener shall cast himself into the Water._ - -Which as we have said before, were concerning _Nicolas L’oste_, Secretary -to the Lord _Villeroy_, chief Secretary of State. The History therefore -is thus. - -The _French_ Embassador at _Madrid_, complained once to _Henry_ the -IV. he was so ill informed, and so late of Affairs, that the King of -_Spain_’s Ministers knew them before him: The King was a great while -troubled before he could discover the spring of that infidelity, at last -it came out in this manner. _Villeroy_ that great Oracle of _France_, -and the most confident Secretary to the King, had among his servants -one _Nicolas l’Oste_, born at _Orleans_, in whom he did confide so much -the more, because his Father had been the most part of his life in his -service. - -The Lord _Rochepot_ going Embassador into _Spain_, _Oste_ desired to be -admitted into his Family, to serve him as his secretary, that he might -the better fit himself for publick employment. _Villeroy_’s commendation -got him easily that employment, by which in a few Months he became so -capable of the _Spanish_ Tongue and manners, that no body could have -distinguished him from a natural _Spaniard_. The Embassador having sworn -in the name of the most Christian King the treaty of Peace made at -_Veruins_, the King of _Spain_ presented him with a rich Chain of Jewels, -and with six other of Gold, valued at 150. Crowns apiece, to bestow upon -as many of his own servants as he should think fit. - -The pride and presumption of this young man was such as to perswade him -he deserved one of them, and chiefly because one of his fellows was -thought worthy of it, but his Master did not think so, and thus he was -neglected. - -Thus envy and jealousie were the Windows by which the Devil crept into -his soul; the vanity, lying, pride, and debauchery gave him a full -admittance, he had spent all his Money to buy the love of a Courtisane, -and wanted means to follow that course which he had no mind to leave off. -His Masters neglecting of him, had extraordinarily vexed him, but he -comforted himself that he knew his secrets, and that in revealing them to -the King of _Spains_ Ministers he shot two Birds with one shot; for he -should avenge himself of that contempt he had received, and should have a -way to continue his amorous expences. With that intention he made himself -known to _Don Franchese_ one of the Secretaries of State, and told him -what means he had to serve the King of _Spain_, and to shew him proofs of -that service and affection he had vowed to him long before, by imparting -to him all the Letters that the Embassador did both send and receive from -the King his Master. - -_Don Franchese_ heard this proposition as from a young man, whose Brains -were not well settled, or perhaps did abhor such infidelity, therefore -told him coldly, that the Catholick King was in so good amity with the -most Christian one, that he desired to know no more of his business, than -what his Embassador should tell him. - -L’_Oste_ did not despond for all this, but went to _Don Ydiaques_ another -Secretary of State, who knowing how important it is for a Prince to know -the secrets of his Neighbours, and that the slighting of such an offer -would be prejudicial to the King his Masters Service, did hearken unto -this Traitor, approved of his design, and exhorted him to persevere in -the good affection he shewed to the King of _Spains_ service, promised to -acquaint the King with it, and to procure him such a reward, as he should -have reason to be satisfied with. - -The Councel agreed that L’_Oste_ should be incouraged, and _Don -Ydiaques_, presented him to the Duke of _Lerma_, to whom he shewed -the Alphabet of Cyphers, with which his Master writ his Letters into -_France_, and for a further proof unciphered the last Letter that the -King of _France_ had sent. The Duke exhorted him to continue his good -Will, gave him 1200. Crowns for an earnest of the Bargain, with a promise -of as much for a yearly pension, besides a considerable gratification he -was to expect from the King. - -Since that time the _French_ Embassador received no Letters but they -were presently imparted to the _Spanish_ Councel: But the Lord _la -Rochepot_ being called back into _France_, L’_Oste_ lost the conveniency -of prosecuting his Treasons, and consequently the hopes of his promised -reward, therefore sought means to come again into his first Masters, -that is, _Villeroy_’s service, but he was a while kept back from it by -reason of a difference between his Mother and _Villeroy_, about some -rest of Accounts; but L’_Oste_ had rather take that loss upon him than -to be deprived of that occasion. The Embassador himself gave him a large -Testimony Of his ability and faithfulness, and was Instrumental for his -re-admission into that service. - -Thus being re-established, he became more diligent and sedulous than ever -before, and not only writ more Letters than any of his fellows, but also -offered them his service to help them, that he might have a more perfect -knowledge of all transactions, and so impart them to the _Spaniard_, -and so visited and conferred with _Taxis_ the _Spanish_ Embassador at -_Paris_, and after that with his successor, _Don Baltazar de Cuniga_, -with so much cunning and secrecy, that the Councel of _Spain_ received -his Letters, before _des Barreaux_ the _French_ Embassador at _Madrid_, -could receive those of the King. - -_Des Barreaux_ sent word to the King, that when he propounded any thing, -according to his Majesties command, to the Councel of _Spain_, he found -them always preadvised, and could not find out by what means; certainly -said the King, there must be some in my Councel that keep a strict -intelligence with the _Spaniard_, and I can not tell whom to suspect. -Providence doth often draw good effects out of the worse causes, and -permitteth that the wicked should disclose one anothers wickedness, as -a Nail driveth out another. _Loste_ had revealed himself familiarly to -one _Raffis_, formerly Secretary to the Lord _Lansac_, a fugitive into -_Spain_, for many Treasons, and exempted from pardon; but the _Spaniard_ -had begun to cut him short of his former Pensions, since the Treason of -the Baron of _Fontanelles_, Governour of _Dornavenest_ in _Brittanny_, -in which the said _Raffis_ had been a principal Actor, though in vain, -so that since, the Councel of _Spain_ looked upon him as an unprofitable -servant, and withdrew their Pension. - -_Raffis_ finding himself near a great want and misery, thought this -occasion might be a means to prevent it, and to procure his return into -his native Countrey, by doing so great a service to his Prince; therefore -he went to one of the _French_ Embassadors most faithful servants, and -told him his grief, for having had a share in so many Treasons and -Rebellions in _France_, which he acknowledged God had into his particular -protection, that he was resolved to blot out the memory of them by a -notable service done to the King and Kingdom, but that could not be, -unless he had first obtained pardon for all his former misdemeanors. - -This being told to the Embassadour, he heard _Raffis_, who told him in -general that the King was betrayed, and his most secret Councel bewrayed, -but that he could not name the Traitor, no not to his Majesty himself, -before he had his pardon: that being done, he would wholly withdraw -himself from those whom he knew certainly to be enemies to the Kingdom. -The Embassadour sent an express to the King to give him notice of it. The -King sent him full power to treat with _Raffis_, with promiss to ratifie -whatsoever he should promiss to _Raffis_; _Raffis_ could not make good -his accusation, but by two Letters written by _Loste_, to a great friend -of his, named _Blas_, which Letters he knew to be in a Box of _Blas_, -who lodged with him; therefore upon some pretext or another, they found -means to send _Blas_ as far as l’_Escurial_. In his absence _Raffis_ and -_Descardes_ Secretary to the Embassadour, broke open the Box, and took -out the Letters, by which _Loste_ did much magnifie the liberalities of -_Spain_, as being above his desert and expectation; with this proofs -and the Embassadors Letters, _Raffis_ fained to go to a Monastery near -_Madrid_, and there make his devotions upon Palm-Sunday, as he was wont -to do, but he went directly to _Bayone_, where he met with _Discardes_ -upon a set day. _Blas_ came back after Palm-Sunday, and finding his Box -open, and his companion run away, he suspected the matter, and gave -notice of it to the _Spanish_ Ministers, who presently dispatched two -Courriers to the _Spanish_ Embassador at _Paris_, to give him notice -that a man was gone from _Madrid_; who would discover _Loste_ and his -practises, therefore he should give him notice of it, and bid him look to -himself, and that in case he should be taken, to keep secresie. - -_Descardes_ and _Raffis_ came to _Paris_ the _Wensday_ after Easter, and -carried themselves with all faithfulness in this occasion, but not with -all the prudence that could have been desired. _Villeroy_ was going the -same day to lie at his own House, between _Paris_ and _Fountain-bleau_, -where the Court was then; they met with him at _Juvisy_, and waited on -him as far as _Villeroy_, but told him nothing of the occasion of their -coming by the way, till they presented him with the Embassadors Letters, -which was a notable fault, for he would certainly have neglected all -other business to secure his man, who was then doing his devotions at the -Charter-house of _Paris_. - -The next day _Villeroy_ was the first that told the King of the coming of -_Raffis_, and of the perfidiousness of his own servant. As he was going -back to his Lodging, notice was given him that two _Spanish_ Courtiers -were arrived at the Post-house; he commanded one of the Commissioners -of the Post-house, that he should cause them to withdraw into a Room, -and that no body should speak with them; he charged also _Descardes_, -that he should spy the coming of _Loste_, that he should keep him close -company, and send him presently notice of his arrival. The Commissioner -and _Descardes_ did commit here another great fault, for _Loste_ being -come to the Post-house about noon, this silly Commissioner told him that -there were arrived two _Spanish_ Courtiers who asked for him, that they -had Letters for him, and more then that, suffered him to go into their -Chamber and see them, he saluted them, and one of them whispered him in -the ear that he was undone if he did not save himself presently, and -that _Raffis_ had discovered him; fear and astonishment with his guilty -conscience, persuaded him easily to look to himself. - -Nevertheless, he settled his countenance the best he could, he went out -with an intention to take his Horse again, which he had sent before, and -so save himself; _Descardes_ and _Raffis_ perceived him, _Descardes_ came -and saluted him, and thinking perhaps that he was strong enough to give -an account of him, neglected to send word to _Villeroy_, who was then -in his Closet with the Bishop of _Chartres_; _Descardes_ presence was a -great thorn in _Loste_’s foot, to be rid of him, he said he was going to -his Master, who stayed for him; _Descardes_ offered to accompany him: he -answered, he had not dined, and that believing it was past Dinner time -at home, he would go into some Cabaret to look for a Dinner, the other -answered I have not dinned neither, we shall dine together. _Loste_ found -another excuse, and said my Boots hurt me, I pray give me leave that -I may go and pull them off; _Descardes_ answered, he must needs drink -with him. Thus arguing together, they came to _Villeroy_’s Lodging, -where _Descardes_ thinking to have him sure, left him in the Room, not -knowing that the _Spanish_ Courtiers had talked with him, and came near -the Closet to give notice of it to _Villeroy_; but as soon as he saw -himself rid of _Descardes_, he went down into the Stable, and finding -his Horse yet Sadled he Mounted, and with all speed rid to _Paris_; -_Villeroy_ in the mean time having notice that his man was come, he -commanded they should bring them in; but he was not to be found, nor his -Horse neither, no body knowing which way he was gone. _Villeroy_ told -the King that his man was escaped, they sent after him on all sides, and -_Villeroy_ particularly sent all his Servants after into all the ways. -_Loste_ coming to _Paris_ about nine of the Clock at night, went to take -counsel of the _Spanish_ Embassadour, and before day, went out habited -like a _Spaniard_, with the Embassadors Steward, and took his way towards -_Meaux_, with an intent to get into _Luxembourg_ by Poste. - -That every one might endeavour the apprehending of that Traitor, it was -spread abroad that one of _Villeroy_’s Secretaries had attempted upon -the Kings Person, and notice was given of his Stature, Age, Cloaths and -Horse. The Sheriffs of every Countrey were in quest, and all Post-Masters -were forbidden to let out any Horses, but that of _Meaux_ had notice -of it too late; _Loste_ was got on Horseback already, but assoon as he -began to gallop, his Horse fell to the ground, and was an ill _Omen_ -to the Rider; he got up again, and shewed so much fearfulness in his -Countenance, that the Postillion himself thought he had committed some -notorious villany, which he did run for. Being come home, he gave -notice of it to his Master, who suspecting him to be the man enquired -off, he gave notice of it to the Sheriff, who presently made after him -at the second Ferry of _la Ferte soubs Jouare_, where he was Crossing -the River; the Sheriff cried after the Ferry man to come back, but -the fear of his life, which the two run aways put him into, prevailed -upon him, above the Sheriffs commands, being got over, and judging that -their Post-Horses should be quickly overtaken by those of the Sheriff, -they forsook them and the Postillion; and trusted to their heels in the -darkness of the night among the Bushes and Brambles that are upon the -River _Marne_. The Sheriff scattered his men all about, caused fires to -be made, and raised up all the Countrey people thereabout; the _Spaniard_ -ran over the Champion Countrey, and _Loste_ went from Bush to Bush, and -whether accidentally or wilfully he fell into the River _Marne_, where he -was drowned; the next day his Hat was found between two posts, and his -body two days after not far from that place. - -Thus you may plainly see the full event of those two famous Prophecies, -contained in this sixth Stanza. - - -VII. - - French. - - La Sangsue au Loup se joindra, - Lors qu’en Mer le bled defaudra, - Mais le grand Prince sans envie, - Par Ambassade luy donra, - De son bled pour luy donner vie, - Pour un besoing s’en pourvoira. - - English. - - The Leech will joyn it self to the Wolf, - When in the Sea Corn shall be wanting, - But the great Prince without envy, - By Embassy shall give him, - Of his Corn to give him life, - Of which in his need he shall make provision. - -ANNOT. - -By the _Leech_ is understood the _Spaniard_. By the _Wolf_ is meant the -_French_, by reason of the multitude of those Creatures in that Kingdom; -the meaning therefore of this Prophecy is, that there should be a great -famine in _Spain_, wherein the _Spaniard_ should be constrained to -make his application to the _French_ for relief of Corn, which should -be granted him. This happened in the year 1665 for you must understand -that most of these last Prophecies were to be fulfilled in the Reign of -_Henry_ IV. - - -VIII. - - French. - - Un peu devant l’ouvert commerce, - Ambassadeur viendra de _Perse_, - Nouvelle au Franc Pais porter, - Mais non receu vaine esperance, - A son grand Dieu sera l’offense, - Feignant de le vouloir quitter. - - English. - - A little before that Trade shall be open, - An Embassador shall come from _Persia_, - To bring news into _France_, - But he shall not be received, O vain hope! - To his great God shall the offence be, - Faining that he would leave him. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1608. the year before the Truce was concluded between the -_Spaniard_ and the _Hollanders_, by which all free Commerce was opened -through _Europe_. The King of _Persia_ being then in War with the great -_Turk_, sent an Embassador to all the Christian Princes, and chiefly into -_France_, to move them to make a diversion in so fit a time, but he could -prevail nothing, and went back again _re infecta_, which he thought to be -a great injury done to his Prophet _Mahomet_. - - -IX. - - French. - - Deux Estendars du costé de l’_Auvergne_, - Senestre pris, pour un temps prison regne, - Et un Dame enfant voudra mener, - An Censuart, mais discouvert l’affaire, - Danger de mort, murmure sur la Terre, - Germain, _Bastille_, Frere & Sœur prisonier. - - English. - - Two Standards in the County of _Auvergne_, - The left one taken, for a while Prison shall reign, - And a Lady shall endeavour to carry a child - To the Censuart, but the plot being discovered, - Danger of Death, murmur upon Earth, - Own Brother, _Bastille_, Brother and Sister prisoners. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza being most obscure and difficult, cannot be understood so -well by parcels, as by laying down the whole _Synopsis_ of it, which I do -the more willingly, because I think it will be delightful to the Reader, -and that the whole being known, the meaning of every particular will -easily be understood. - -_Charles_ the IX. King of _France_, the last of the House of _Valois_ -left only one natural Son, called the Earl of _Auvergne_, who had a -Sister by the Mothers side, that was called _Henrietta de Balzac_ -Duchess of _Verneuil_, once Mistriss to _Henry_ the IV. by whom she had -upon promiss of marriage one Son, at this time Duke of _Verneuil_, and -Governour of _Languedoc_; but this promiss being made void by Act of -Parliament, _Henry_ IV. married _Mary_ of _Medicis_, by which he had -issue _Lewis_ the XIII. and other children: now upon the discontent -of the Marshal of _Biron_, the Dutchess of _Verneuil_, the Earl of -_Auvergne_ her Brother, and their party joyned with him for the promoting -of the Duke of _Verneuil_’s interest to the Crown, whereupon the King -sent for the Earl of _Auvergne_, who was then in his County a hundred -Leagues from _Paris_; but the Earl trusting more the good will of the -Citizens of _Clermont_ in _Auvergne_ who loved him, then to the Kings -Clemency, neglected to come, whereupon the King sent again the Lord -d’_Escures_, with a pardon for what was past; he promised to come when -he should see his pardon Signed and Sealed in good form; the King was -offended at his proceeding, and took it very ill that a Subject of his -would capitulate with him, who intended to deal plainly and sincerely; -the King nevertheless past that over for many considerations, one of -them was that the Earl was of the blood of _France_, and brother by the -Mother to one that had been his Mistress, besides that he was a Prince -endowed with many good qualities, most of which did Sympathise with those -of the King, thus the King sent him his Pardon as well for what was -past, as for the present, but with this proviso that he should come; for -all this, he did not stir out of _Clermont_; the King seeing that, did -resolve to have him at any rate: there was several propositions made for -to take him: at Hunting, at running of the Ring, at some Banquet, in the -Fields, in the City; all these ways might be suspected by the Earl, but a -new one was found out, of which he himself was the Author; the Troop of -the Duke of _Vendosme_ was preparing for to Muster, the Earl intreated -d’_Eurre_ Lieutenant of the said company, that it might be in the Fields -by _Clermont_ towards _Nonnain_, because he intended to take revenge -in the behalf of a Lady, upon the Inhabitants of that place. The King -sent directions and orders to d’_Eurre_, how he should govern himself -in that action, and gave him for Associates, _la Boulaye_, Lieutenant -of the Marquess of _Verneuil_’s Troop, and _Nerestan_ Colonel of a Foot -Regiment. By the Kings advice they imparted the business to the Viscount -of _Pont du Chasteau_, to the Baron of _Canillac_ and some others, that -had authority in that Province, and were devoted to the Kings service, -and all keeping religiously the Laws of silence. The 12 of _November_ the -Troop met at the Rendezvous; the Earl came thither by times with two only -of his followers, thinking that the Troop should not be ready so soon, -and so he should have pretext either to go back to _Clermont_, or to go -on further to visit his Mistress. The prudence and diligence of those -that managed the business did prevent him, and begot a suspition in him, -for he was seen to truss up his Cloak and to try whither his sword did -not stick to the Scabbard. D’_Eurre_ went to him, and having complemented -him rode on his left hand, while the Troop was setting in order; -_Nerestan_ came to salute him on the other side, and rode on his right -hand, being followed by three stout Souldiers, habited like Lackeys, and -appointed for this action. The Viscount of _du Pont du Chasteau_ and his -brother rode out of the Troop and encompassed him on all sides. One of -the Souldiers laid hold on the Horses Bridle; d’_Eurre_ at the same time -laid hold on his Swords Hilt, saying, my Lord, we are commanded by the -King to give him an account of your person, and we intreat you to submit -unto his Majesties good pleasure, that we may have no occasion to use -you otherways then we desire. _Maison-ville_ and _Liverne_ who were his -two followers drew their Swords, thinking to make him way to escape, but -some shot spent upon them, made them presently retire and run away. He -was put upon a Trumpeters Nag as far as _Briare_, and thence conducted to -_Montargis_ in a Coach, and afterwards by water to _Paris_ and put in the -Bastille. - -By this History, and the explication of the word _Censuart_, which is an -ancient word derived from the Latine word _Censor_; and taken here for -the Kingly office, the whole Prophecy is easily understood, and obvious -to the meanest capacity. - - -X. - - French. - - Embassadeur pour une Dame, - A son Vaissau mettra la rame, - Pour prier le grand Medecin, - Que de l’Oster de telle peine, - Mais a ce s’opposera Roine, - Grand peine avant qu’en voir la fin. - - English. - - An Embassador for a Lady, - Shall set Oares to his Ship, - To intreat the great Physition, - To take her out of such pain, - But a Queen shall oppose it, - A great deal of trouble before the end of it. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy is concerning _Mary Stuart_ Queen of _Scots_ put in Prison -by Queen _Elizabeth_, who is called here the opponant Queen, to the -Embassy that the said Queen of _Scots_ sent for relief to the King of -_France_, called here the great Physitian. - - -XI. - - French. - - Durant le Siecle on verra deux ruisseaux, - Tout un terrouer inonder de leurs eaux, - Et submerger par Ruisseaux & Fontaines, - _Coups_, & _Monfrein_, _Beccoyran_ & _Alais_, - Par le _Gardon_ bien souvent travaillez, - Six cens & quattre, _Ales_ & trente Moines. - - English. - - In this Age two Rivolets shall be seen, - To overflow a whole Countrey with their waters, - And to drown by Rivolets and Fountains, - _Coups_, and _Monfrein_, _Beccoiran_ and _Alais_, - By the _Gardon_ often troubled, - Six hundred and four _Alais_, and thirty Monks. - -ANNOT. - -An Age is the space of one hundred years, the meaning therefore of this -is, that within the Age following, his Prophecies namely as he saith -after, in the year 1664. there shall be great Inundation in _Languedoc_, -caused by the overflowing of two small Rivers, besides that of _Gardon_, -which Inundation shall drown these following places, _Coups_, _Monfrein_, -_Becoyran_ and _Alais_, besides, and Abbey wherein there was 30. Monks, -but of this I could find nothing in the History, therefore those that -live about those places must make it good. - - -XII. - - French. - - Six cens & cinq tres grand nouvelle, - De deux Seigneurs la grand querelle, - Proche de _Gevaudan_ sera, - En une Eglise apres l’offrande, - Meuttre commis, prestre de mande, - Tremblant de peur se sauvera. - - English. - - In six hundred and five shall be great news; - The quarrel of two great Lords, - Shall be near _Gevaudan_, - In a Church after the Offering, - A murder committed, the Priest shall ask, - And quaking for fear, shall save himself. - -ANNOT. - -This (like the former) is a particuler accident, of which the publick -History taketh no notice; it seemeth that in the year 1665. in -_Gevaudan_, a Province of _France_ near _Languedoc_, there was a great -quarrel between two Lords who meeting at Church, did about the time of -the Offering set one upon another, and one of them was killed, whereupon -the Priest being terrified, ran away. - - -XIII. - - French. - - L’aventurier, six cens, & six ou neuf, - Sera surpris par fiel mis dans un Oeuf, - Et peu apres sera hors de puissance, - Par le puissant Empereur General, - Qu’ou Monde nest an pereil ny esgal, - Dont un chascun luy rend obeissance. - - English. - - The adventurer, six hundred, six or nine, - Shall be surprised by Gall put into an Egge, - And a little while after shall be out of power, - By the potent Emperour General, - To whom in the world there is not his like or equal, - Wherefore every one yieldeth obedience to him. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie was concerning the Duke of _Savoy_ and _Henry_ the IV. for -about that time mentioned by the Author, after the death of Marshal _de -Biron_, who sided with the Duke of _Savoy_ (which death is called here -Gall put into an Egg;) the Duke of _Savoy_ refused to perform the treaty -concerning the restitution of the Marquisate of _Saluces_, wherefore -_Henry_ the IV. went and subdued most of his Countrey, and compelled him -to give the Province of _Bresse_ instead of the said Marquisate. - - -XIV. - - French. - - Au grand Siege encor grand forfaits, - Recommenceant plus que jamais, - Six cens & cinq sur la verdure, - La prise & reprise sera, - Soldats es Champs jusqu’ en froidure, - Puis apres recommencera. - - English. - - At the great Siege yet great misdemeanors, - Beginning again more than ever, - Six hundred and five about the Spring, - The taking and retaking shall be, - Souldiers in the fields till Winter, - And after that shall begin again. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is about the same subject as the precedent. By the great -Siege here is meant the Siege of _Montpelian_, the strongest place in -_Savoy_, which _Henry_ the IV. took, and by it compelled the Duke of -_Savoy_ to an agreement. The rest is easie. - - -XV. - - French. - - Nouveau esleu Patron du grand Vaisseau, - Verra long temps briller le grand flambeau, - Qui sert de Lampe a ce grand territoire, - Et auquel temps Armées soubs son nom, - Jointes a celles de l’heureux de _Bourbon_, - Levant, Ponant, & Couchant sa memoire. - - English. - - The new elected Master of the great Ship, - Shall a great while see the great light shine, - Which serveth for a Lamp to this great Territory, - And at which time Armies under his name, - Joyned with those of happy of _Bourbon_, - East, West, and North his memory shall be. - -ANNOT. - -The three first Verses are concerning _Clement_ the VIII. who was elected -Pope about that time, and was Instrumental to make a Peace between the -King of _France_ and the Duke of _Savoy_, and was Pope a good while. - -By the great Ship is meant the Church, of which he is called Master. The -rest is easie. - - -XVI. - - French. - - En _Octobre_ Six cens & cinq, - Pour voieur du Monstre Marin, - Prendra du Souverain le cresme, - Ou en six cens & six en _Juin_, - Grand joye aux Grands & au Commun, - Grand faits apres ce grand Baptesme. - - English. - - In _October_ six hundred and five, - The Purveyor of the Sea Monster, - Shall take the unction of the Sovereign, - Or in six hundred and six in _June_, - Great joy shall be to the Great ones, and to the Commons, - Great feats shall be after this great Baptism. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1606. the 14 of _September_, instead of which the printer -hath put _October_, the Dolphin of _France_, _Lewis_ the XIII. son to -_Henry_ the IV. was Christened with his two Sisters at _Fountainbleau_, -and because the Ceremonies were extraordinary, and our Author calleth -this a great Baptism, it will not be amiss for the satisfaction of the -curious Reader, to give here succinctly a description of it. - -In the great quadrangle of the Castles Yard, was erected a great -Theatre, all spread and hanged with most rich Carpets and Hangings, in -the middle of which Theatre was a square of thirty foot on each side, -with rails about it, all covered with Carpets, in the front of it was -erected an Altar, adorned with the Ornaments belonging to the Order of -the Holy Ghost, behind the Table was a Footstool of three steps, spread -with Carpets, and in the middle of the Footstool was a kind of a Stand, -covered with a Silver Cloth, upon which were the Fount, covered with a -most exquisite Towel, and a Canopy over it, on both sides of the Altars -were two Scaffolds for two Quires of Musick, and a little lower on the -right hand a Bench covered with Carpets for the Prelates to sit, among -which were three Archbishops, nine Bishops and three Abbots, on the -left hand were the Lords of the Councel, and before the Altar was the -Cardinal of _Gondy_, encompassed with Almoners and Chaplains, and a great -multitude of spectators seated upon Benches, in form of a Theatre, round -about the Theatre were the guard of _Switzers_, having every one a Torch -in his hand. - -The Dolphin and his Sisters were in their Chambers upon Beds of State, -with their Robes lined with Hermines, and were brought to the quadrangle, -the waiting Gentlemen going before with Torches in their hands, with the -Bed Chamber men, and Gentlemen of the Chamber, five Drums, Waits, and -Trumpeters, Heralds, and the Knights of the Holy Ghost, with the three -Honours; in the first, for the youngest Daughter, the Ewer, the Bason, -the Pillow, the Wax Taper, the Chrisme, the Saltseller, were carryed -by the Baron, Son to Marshal _de la Chastre_, by the Lords _Montigny_, -_la Rochepot_, _Chemerand_, _Liencourt_, _Fervacques_, and the Lady was -carryed by the Marshal of _Bois Dauphin_, followed by _Charles_ Duke of -_Lorrain_ Godfather, and of _Don Juan de Medicis_, Brother to the great -Duke of _Tuscany_, representing _Christian_, Daughter to the Duke of -_Lorrain_, and Wife of the great Duke. After that followed the Dutches -of _Guise_, the Countesses of _Guiche_, of _Saulx_, the Marchioness -_Monlaur_, and other Ladies. - -The Marshals of _Laverdin_, and of _la Chastre_, the Dukes of _Silly_, -of _Monbazon_, of _Espernon_, of _Esguillon_ did the same office for -the elder Lady. The Lord of _Ragny_ carryed her for _Diana_ Dutchess -of _Angoulesme_, who did represent the _Infanta_, _Clara_, _Eugenia_, -_Eusabella_, Archidutchess of _Austria_, followed by the Dutchess of -_Rohan_, _Montmorency_, _Mayenne_. - -The third Honour for the Dolphin was carried by the Earl of _Vaudemont_, -the Knight of _Vendosme_ his elder Brother, the Duke of _Mensier_, the -Earl of _Soissons_, and the Prince of _County_, all three Princes of the -Blood, and the Dolphin was carryed by the Lord _Souvray_ his Governour, -in the room of the Prince of _Condé_, first Prince of the Blood, who -because of his sickness could do him no other service then to hold him -by the hand. The Duke of _Guise_ carryed his Train, and the Cardinal of -_Joyouse_ followed him, representing the Pope _Paul_ the V. then followed -_Eleonor_ Wife to _Vincent_ Duke of _Mantua_, and the Princess of the -Blood, all richly attired. - -The Dolphin being brought upon the Table of the quadrangle, the Cardinal -of _Gondy_ appointed for this Ceremony, came near him; and having heard -him answer pertinently to the questions asked by the Almoner according to -the usual forms, and to say the Lords Prayer and the Creed in Latine, he -was exercised, appointed, and by the Cardinal of _Joyouse Legat_, named -_Lewis_. - -The Ladies were afterwards brought upon the Table, and the eldest, -named _Elizabeth_ by the Dutchess of _Angoulesme_, representing the -Archidutchess her Godmother, without any Godfather. - -The youngest was named by _Don Juan_ of _Medicis_ (representing the great -Dutchess) _Christierne_. - -At Supper the King was waited upon by the Princess of his Blood; -the Prince of _Condé_ served for Pantler, the Prince of _Compty_ -for Cupbearer, the Duke of _Monpensier_ for Squire Carver, the Earl -of _Soissons_ for high Steward, the Duke of _Guise_ and the Earl of -_Vondemont_ waited upon the Queen, and the Duke of _Sully_ waited upon -the Legat. The Godfathers sat, and after them the Princesses, Ladies -and Lords of high quality, at the great Ball the Duke of _Lorrain_ did -precede by the Kings order, for the only consideration that he was -Godfather. - -The next day there was a runing at the Ring, and at night the Duke of -_Sully_ caused an artificial Castle to be assaulted with an innumerable -quantity of Squibs, Chambers, Canon shots, and other Fire Works, but -never any thing was seen more incredible or wonderful, then the beauty, -ornament and lustre of the Princesses and Ladies of the Court; The Eyes -could not stedfastly behold the splendor of the Gold, nor the brightness -of the Silver, nor the glittering of Jewels; the Princes and Lords did -out vie one another who should be most richly attired, among the rest -the Duke of _Espernon_ had a Sword valued at 30000. Crowns, and upon the -Queens Gown were 32000. Pearls, and 3000. Diamonds. - - -XVII. - - French. - - Au mesme temps un grand endurera, - Joyeux, malsain, l’an complet ne verra, - Et quelques uns qui Seront de la feste, - Feste pour un feulement, a ce jour, - Mais peuapres sans faire long sejour, - Deux se donront l’un l’autre de la teste. - - English. - - At the same time a great one shall suffer, - Joyful, sickly, shall not see the year compleat, - And some others who shall be of the feast, - A feast for one only at that day, - But a little while after without long delay, - Two shall knock one another in the head. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza hath relation to the precedent, for about the time of, or a -little before that famous Christning died Pope _Leo_ the IX. formerly -called Cardinal of _Florence_, who did not live a whole year in the -papacy; and is called here _Joyful_, _Sickly_, because though infirm, he -did much rejoyce in the obtaining of it; those others that were of the -Feast, were some Cardinals of his party, who died also within the same -year. - -The two last Verses signifie the differences that happened, between -_Paul_ V. his Successor, and the Common-wealth of _Venice_ presently -after his death. - - -XVIII. - - French. - - Considerant la triste _Philomele_, - Qu’en pleurs & cris sa plainte renouvelle, - Racourcissant par tel moyen ses jours, - Six cens & cinq elle en verra l’yssue, - De son tourment, ia la toile tissue, - Por son moien senestre aura secours. - - English. - - Considering the sad _Philomela_, - Who in tears and cries reneweth her complaint, - Shortning by such means her days, - Six hundred and five shall see the end, - Of her torment, then the Cloath Woven, - By her sinister means shall have help. - -ANNOT. - -This sad _Philomela_ was _Henrietta_ of _Balzac_ Daughter to _Francis_ of -_Balzac_, Marquess of _Entragues_, and Mistress to _Henry_ the IV. who -being found guilty of a Conspiracy against the State, was confined to the -Abbey of the Nuns of _Beaumont lez Tours_, where she was seven Months, -after which the King taking pitty of her, passed a Declaration, wherein -in respect of his former Love, and of the Children that he had by her, -he forgave her all what was past, did abolish and suppress for ever the -Memory of the Crime that she was accused off, and did dispense her from -appearing before the Parliament, who in her absence did Register her -Letters of Pardon the 6. of _September_ 1605. Thus Reader you may see how -punctual was our Author in his Prognostications. - - -XIX. - - French. - - Six cens & cinq, six cens & six & sept. - Nous monstrera jusques l’an dixsept, - Du boutefeu l’Ire, haine & envie, - Soubs l’Olivier d’assez long temps caché, - Le Crocodil sur la Terre a caché, - Ce qui estoit mort sera pour lors en vie. - - English. - - Six hundred and five, six hundred and six and seven, - Will shew us unto the year seventeen, - The anger of the bontefeu, his hatred and envy, - Under the Olive-Tree a great while hidden, - The Crocodile upon the ground hath hidden, - What was dead, shall then be alive. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is so difficult, signifieth nothing but the confusions that -have happened in _France_ from the year 1605. to the year 1617. which -would be too tedious and prolix here to relate, the Reader may see them -in the _French_ History. - - -XX. - - French. - - Celuy qui a par plusieurs fois, - Tenu la Cage & puis les bois, - Rentre a son premier estre, - Vie sauve pen apres sortir, - Ne se scachant encor cognoistre, - Cherchera subject pour mourir. - - English. - - He that hath many times, - Been in the Cage and in the Woods, - Cometh again to his first being, - And shall go out a little after with his life safe, - And not able yet to know himself, - Shall seek a subject to be put to death. - -ANNOT. - -This is yet concerning the Earl of _Auvergne_ half Brother to the -Dutchess of _Verneuil_, who for his misdemeanours having been put several -times in the Bastille, and set free again, nevertheless was attempting -still some new thing, which might have endangered his life. - - -XXI. - - French. - - L’Autheur des maux commencera Regner, - En l’an fix cens & sept sans espargner, - Tous les subjects qui sont a la Sangsüe, - Et puis apres s’en viendra peu a peu, - Au franc Païs rallumer son feu, - S’en retournant d’ou elle est issue. - - English. - - The Author of evils shall begin to Reign, - In the year six hundred and seven, without sparing, - All the subjects that belong to the Leech, - And afterwards shall come by little and little, - To the free Countrey to kindle again his fire, - Going back again from whence it came. - -ANNOT. - -The Author being a zealous Roman Catholick, calls here the _Hollanders_ -the Authors of evils, who in the year 1607 and 1608. made a grievous War, -and had several successes against the _Spaniard_, with the help of the -_French_ and _English_, till the year 1609. when by the mediation of the -_French_ and _English_ Embassadors, the Truce was concluded at _Antwerp_, -between the Arch-duke and the States of the _United Provinces_, the -Articles of it to the number of 38. were solemnly proclaimed and -published the ninth of _April_, and ratified by the King of _Spain_ in -the Month of _July_ next ensuing. - - -XXII. - - French. - - Cil qui dira descouvrisant l’affaire, - Comme du mort, la mort pourra bien faire, - Coups de Poniards par un qu’auront induits, - Sa fin sera pis qu’il n’aura fait faire, - La fin conduit les homines sur la Terre, - Gueté par tout, tant le jour que la nuit. - - English. - - He that shall say discovering the business, - How of the dead, can make a death well, - Strokes of a Dagger by one that hath been induced to it, - His end shall be worse then he hath caused to be done, - The end leadeth all men upon the Earth, - Espied every where, as well by day as by night. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza is wholly abstruse and Enigmatical, therefore I will not -pretend to expound it, but leave the interpretation to those that have -more time and leasure then I. - - -XXIII. - - French. - - Quand la grand Nef, la prove & Gouvernail, - Du franc Pais, & son Esprit vital, - Descueils & slots par la Mer Secovée, - Six cens & sept & dix cœur assiegé, - Et des reflux de son corps afflegé, - Sa vie estant sur ce mal renovée. - - English. - - When the great Ship, the Prow, and Rudder, - Of the _French_ Countrey, and her vital Spirit, - Being tossed by Baks and Waves, - Six hundred and seven, and ten, a heart beset, - And by the ebbing of his body afflicted, - Her life being upon this, evil knotted again. - -ANNOT. - -This Stanza signifieth the great troubles that were in _France_ from the -year 1610 in which _Henry_ the IV. died, to the year 1617. in which the -Marshal d’_Ancre_ was killed. - -This man was named _Concino Concini_ a _Florentine_ born, who in a little -time was grown very great, and from a base extraction had ascended to -the dignity of Marshal of _France_, by the favour of the Queen Regent -_Mary_ of _Medicis_, and grew so rich, that he offered to the King to -maintain at his own charge 6000. foot, and 800. Horses for four Months -together; he had made himself Master of many strong Places in _Picardy_ -and _Normandy_, went about to buy the Government of several Provinces, -did dispose of the Kings Exchequer at his pleasure, and spent vast sums -of money at his Masters charge. His insolencies were the cause of his -ruine, when he thought least of it; for he threatned every one with words -and deeds, so far as to say, that he would cause them to eat up their -fingers, that should oppose his Will, and so caused many Officers and -Souldiers of the contrary party to be put to death. The King _Lewis_ -the XIII. was particularly informed of the unsufferable pride and -misdemeanors of this Marshal, and that his design was to keep up the War -in _France_, to continue his Authority and Power; therefore the King -commanded _Vitry_, the Captain of his Guards, to apprehend him. This was -a difficult thing, because that the Marshal (besides his Menial servants) -had always twelve Guards wearing his Livery, that were desperate fellows; -there was also another difficulty, because no body could tell, when or -at what time he would come to the _Louvre_; nevertheless at last he came -to it, upon the 24. of _April_ 1617. attended with a great Train and -his Guards; the great Gate was opened to him, and presently shut again, -_Vitry_ drew near to him, and holding his staff to him, said, _I arrest -you in the Kings name_, upon these words the Marshal stept back, as if -it were to make resistance, saying, _Me?_ whereupon those that were with -_Vitry_ shot three Pistols at him, one did hit him in the Heart, the -other in the Head, and the third in the Belly, so that he fell down dead -immediately upon his left side, a certain Lord that was on his right hand -speaking with him, fell down also without any hurt, but his followers -seeing him dead run away. - -This death was the cause of great alteration, in the publick Government. -The body of the said Marshal was buried at St. _Germain de l’Auxerrois_, -but the people digged it out, and dragged it to the new Bridge, where -they hanged it by the feet upon a Gibbet, having cut off his Nose, -his Ears and his privy parts, then they took him down, and dragged him -through the Town, and afterwards burnt it. Thus did perish he that was -worth about two Millions of Pounds Sterling, and pretended to make his -house perpetual and Sovereign. The new Officers that had governed the -State from the 24 of _November_ to the 24 of _April_ 1617. were arrested -in their houses, and the old ones put in again, and the Princes called -back again to the Court. - - -XXIV. - - French. - - Le _Mercurial_ non de trop longue vie, - Six cens & huit & vingt, grand maladie, - Et encor pis danger de feu & d’eau, - Son grand amy lors luy sera contraire, - De tels hazards se pourroit bien distraire, - Mais bref, le ser luy sera son Tombeau. - - English. - - The _Mercurial_ not too long lived, - Six hundred and eight and twenty, a great sickness, - And what is worse a danger of fire and water, - His great friend then shall be against him, - He might well avoid those dangers, - But a little after, the Iron shall make his Sepulcher. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning _Lewis_ the XIII. King of _France_, who fell -dangerously sick of the Plague at _Lions_, about the year 1628. after -that went with his Army into _Savoy_, where he escaped many dangers of -fire and water. As for the Verse it must not be understood, as if he had -been killed, but that the cares he took about his Armies should shorten -his days. The fourth Verse is to be understood of the Lord _Bellingham_, -then favorite to the King, who forsook him in his sickness, for which he -was afterwards disgraced, and could never come into favour again. - - -XXV. - - French. - - Six cens & six, six cens & neuf, - Un Chancelier gros comme un Bœuf - Vieux comme le _Phœnix_ du Monde, - En ce Terroir plus ne luira, - De la Nef doubly passera, - Au Champs _Elysiens_ faire ronde. - - English. - - Six hundred and six, six hundred and nine, - A Chancellor big as an Oxe, - Old as the _Phœnix_ of the World, - Shall shine no more in this Countrey, - Shall pass from the Ship of forgetfulness, - Into the _Elysian_ Fields to go the round. - -ANNOT. - -Six and nine joyned together makes 15. the meaning of this therefore is, -that about the year 1615. should die the Chancellor of _France_, who was -then _Nicolas Brulart_ Lord of _Sillery_ a very corpulent man. - - -XXVI. - - French. - - Deux freres sont de l’ordre Ecclesiastique, - Dont l’un prendra pour la _France_ la pique, - Encor un coup si l’an six cens & six, - N’est afflige d’une grand maladie, - Les Armes en main jusques six cens & dix, - Gueres plus loing ne s’estendant sa vie. - - English. - - Two Brothers are of the Ecclesiastical Order, - One of which shall take up the Pike for _France_, - Once more, is in the year six hundred and six, - He be not afflicted with a great sickness, - The Weapons in his hands till six hundred and ten, - His Life shall reach not much further. - -ANNOT. - -In the year 1606. there was two Brothers of the House of _Joyeuse_, one -called _Francis_ Cardinal of _Joyeuse_, and the other a Capuchin Frier, -the rest of the Brothers being dead without issue; Father Angel got a -dispensation from the Pope to go out of his Covent, and to Marry, that -the Family might not be extinguished, and so turned Courtier and Souldier -again, till he had got a Daughter, who was afterwards married to the Duke -of _Guise_; after that, remembring his Vows, he turned Capuchin again, -and a little while after died, coming from _Rome_ to _Paris_. - - -XXVII. - - French. - - Celeste seu du costé d’Occident, - Et du Midy courir jusqu’au Levant, - Vers demy morts sans point trouver racine, - Troisiesme Age a _Mars_ le Belliqueux, - Des _Escarboucles_ on verra briller feux, - Age _Escarboucle_, & a la fin famine. - - English. - - A Cœlestial fire on the West side, - And from the South shall run to the East, - Warm, half dead, and incapable to find Roots, - The third Age to _Mars_ the Warriour, - Out of _Carbuncles_ fires shall be seen to shine, - The Age shall be a _Carbuncle_, but in the end famine. - -ANNOT. - -This signifies nothing but the troubles that were all _France_ over, from -the year 1620. to the year 1628. when _Rochel_ was taken, and the great -famine that was in the year 1626. - - -XXVIII. - - French. - - L’An mil six cens & neuf ou quatorziesme - Le vieux _Charon_ sera Pasques en Caresme, - Six cens & six par escrit le mettra, - Le Medecin de tout cecy s’estonne, - A mesme temps assigné en personne, - Mais pour certain l’un deux comparoistra. - - English. - - In the year a thousand six hundred and nine or fourteen, - The old _Charon_ shall Celebrate _Easter_ in Lent, - Six hundred and six shall put it in writing, - The Physician wondereth at all this. - At the same time being Cited in person, - But for certain, one of them shall appear. - -ANNOT. - -This signifieth that about the time mentioned by the Author, some great -one should be very sick in Lent, and should eat flesh, which is called -here to _Celebrate Easter in Lent_; and that his Physician wondering -at it should fall sick himself, and that without fail, one of them two -should die. - - -XXIX. - - French. - - Le Griffon Se peut apprester, - Pour a l’ennemy resister, - Er renforcer bien son Armée, - Autrement l’Elephant viendra, - Qui d’un abord le surprendra, - Six cens & huit, Mer enflammée. - - English. - - The Griffin may prepare himself, - To resist the Enemy, - And to strengthen his Army, - Otherways the Elephant shall come, - Who on a sudden shall surprise him. - Six hundred and eight, the Sea shall be inflamed. - -ANNOT. - -By the Griffin was meant the _Hollanders_, who were warned here to beware -of the Elephant, that is, the _Spaniard_, and to strengthen their Army -for fear of being surprised. - -The last Verse signifieth, that in the year 1608. there should be a -notable Sea-fight, which was then frequent enough between the said -_Hollanders_ and _Spaniard_. - - -XXX. - - French. - - Dans peu de temps Medicin du grand mal, - Et la Sangsue d’ordre & rang inegal, - Mettront le feu a la branche d’Olive, - Poste courir d’un & d’autre costé, - Et par tel feu leur Empire accosté, - Se rallumant du franc finy salive. - - English. - - Within a little while the Physician of the great disease, - And the Leech, of order and rank unequal, - Shall set fire to the branch of Olive, - Posts shall run to and fro, - And with such fire their Empire acquainted, - Shall kindle again with the _French_ finished spittle. - -ANNOT. - -By the Physitian of the great disease, is meant the King of _France_; -and the Leech the King of _Spain_, so that it is foretold here, how they -shall set fire to the branch of Olive, that is, shall break the Peace and -fall to War, which in the year 1636. when upon the imprisoning of the -Archbishop of _Triers_ by the King of _Spain_, because he had put himself -under the _French_ Protection, the King of _France_ sent an Armv of -40000. men in the _Low-Countreys_, to come with the Prince of _Orange_ at -_Mastricht_, which quarrel hath continued till the Marriage of the King -of _France_ with the Infanta of _Spain_, Daughter to _Philip_ the IV. The -last Verse is forced in, only to make up the rime. - - -XXXI. - - French. - - Celuy qui a les hazards surmouté, - Qui fer, feu, eau, na jamais redouté, - Et du Pais bien proche du _Basacle_, - D’un coup de fer tout le Monde eftonné, - Par Crocodil estrangement donné, - Peuple ravy de voir un tel spectacle. - - English. - - He that hath overcome the dangers, - That hath never feared Iron, Fire nor Water, - And of the Countrey near the _Basacle_, - By a stroke of Iron (all the World being astonished), - By a Crocodile strangely given, - People will wonder to see such a spectacle. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy may admit of two Interpretations; the first, that -_Henry_ the IV. who was born in the Province of _Bearn_, not far from -_Thoulouze_, the chief City of _Languedoc_, wherein there is a place upon -the River called _Basacle_, where the Mills are, who was stobbed with a -knife by _Francis Ravillac_ in the year 1610. - -The other is of the last Duke of _Montmorency_, who being Governour of -_Languedoc_, took up Arms against the King, in the behalf of the Duke of -_Orleans_, for which he was beheaded at _Thoulouse_ at the solicitation -of Cardinal _Richelieu_, which happened about the year 1632. - - -XXXII. - - French. - - Vin a foison tres-bon pour les Gendarmes, - Pleurs & soupirs plaintes, cris, & alarmes, - Le Ciel fer ses Tonnerres pleuvoir, - Feu, eau, & sang le tout meslé ensemble, - Le Ciel de Sol en fremit & en tremble, - Vivant na veu ce quil pourra bien voir. - - English. - - Plenty of Wine, very good for Troopers, - Tears, and sighs, complaints, cries, and alarums, - Heaven shall cause its Thunders to rain, - Fire, water and blood, all mixed together, - The Suns Heaven, quaketh and shaketh for it, - No living man hath seen what he may see then. - -ANNOT. - -This great plenty of Wine happened in the year 1634. at which time there -was in _France_ such plenty of Grapes, that half of them perished for -want of Vessels to put them in, and I remember very well, that then -whosoever would bring a Poinchon Vessel, which is the third part of a -Tun, might have it filled with Grapes for half a Crown, and that being -my self at that time at a Town of _Burgundy_, called _Beaune_, where -the best Wine of _France_ groweth, four of us had one Pottle of Wine -_English_ measure for one half penny. The rest signifieth no more but -the miseries that happened in _Germany_, by the Wars that the King of -_Sweden_ brought in about the same time. - - -XXXIII. - - French. - - Bien peu apres sera tres-grand misere, - De pou de Bled qui sera sur la Terre, - De _Dauphiné_, _Provence_ & _Vivarois_, - Au _Vivarois_ est un pauvre presage, - Pere du fils sera _Antrophophage_, - Et mangeront Racine & gland du Bois. - - English. - - A little after shall be a great misery, - Of the scarcity of Corn that shall be upon the ground - Of _Dauphine_, _Provence_, and _Vivarois_, - In _Vivarois_ is a poor presage, - Father of son shall be Antropophage, - And shall eat Roots and Acorns of the Wood. - -ANNOT. - -This came to pass when the Duke of _Rohan_ headed the Protestant party, -and made those Provinces the seat of the Civil Wars in _France_, about -the year 1640. or 1642. - - -XXXIV. - - French. - - Princes & Seigneurs tous se feront la guerre, - Cousin Germain, le Frere avec le Frere, - Finy l’Arby de l’heureux de _Bourbon_, - De _Hierusalem_ les Princes aimables, - Du fait commis enorme & execrable, - Se ressentiront sur la bourse sans fond. - - English. - - Princes and Lords shall war one against another - Cousin German, the Brother against the Brother, - The Arby finished of the happy _Bourbon_, - The Princes of _Hierusalem_ so lovely, - Of the enormous and execrable fact committed - Shall ressent upon the bottomless Purse. - -ANNOT. - -This foretelleth of the Wars that were to be between the Princes and -Lords a little after the death of _Henry_ the IV. when the Marshal -d’_Ancre_ took upon him the administration of affairs by the favour of -the Queen Regent _Mary_ of _Medicis_. - - -XXXV. - - French. - - Dame par mort grandement atristée, - Mere & tutrice au lang qui la quittée, - Dame & Seigneurs faits enfants Orphelins, - Par les Aspics & par les Crocodiles, - Seront surpris forts bourgs, Chasteaux & Villes, - Dieu tout puissant les garde des malins. - - English. - - A Lady by death greatly afflicted, - Mother and Tutor to the Blood that hath left her, - Ladies and Lords made Orphans, - By Asps and by Crocodiles, - Shall strong holds, Castles and Towns be surprised, - God Almighty keep them from the wicked. - -ANNOT. - -That great Lady afflicted by death, and Mother and Tutor to the Blood -that left her was _Mary_ of _Medicis_, Wife to _Henry_ the IV. who after -the death of her Husband was much troubled in her regency by her own Son -_Lewis_ the XIII. and several great Lords of his party whence did follow -the Battle of _Pont de Cé_. - - -XXXVI. - - French. - - La grand rumeur qui sera par la _France_, - Les impuissans voudront avoir puissance, - Langue emmiellée & vrais Cameleons, - De boutefeus, allumeurs de chandelles, - Pyes & Geais, rapporteurs de nouvelles, - Dont la morsure semblera Scorpions. - - English. - - The great rumor that shall be through _France_, - The impuissants would fain have power, - Honey Tongues, and true Camelions, - Bourefeux, and lighters of Candles, - Magpies and Jays, carriers of news, - Whose biting shall be like that of Scorpions. - -ANNOT. - -This hath a relation to the precedent, and expresseth further the misery -of those times. - - -XXXVII. - - French. - - Foible & puissant seront en grand discord, - Plusieurs mourront avant faire l’accord, - Foible ou puissant vainqueur se fera dire, - Le plus puissant au jeune cedera, - Et le plus vieux des deux decedera, - Lors que l’un d’eux envahira l’Empire. - - English. - - The Weak and powerfull shall be at great variance, - Many shall die before they agree, - The weak shall cause the powerful to call him Victor, - The most potent shall yield to the younger, - And the older of the two shall die, - When one of the two shall invade the Empire. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecie is not come to pass yet (for all I know) therefore I leave -the interpretation to every ones liberty. - - -XXXVIII. - - French. - - Par Eau, & par fer & par grand maladie, - Le Pourvoieur a l’hazard de sa vie, - Scaura combien vaut le Quintal de Bois, - Six cens & quinze ou le dixneufiesme, - On gravera d’un grand Prince cinquiesme, - L’Immortel nom sur le pied de la Croix. - - English. - - By Water, by Fire, and by great sickness, - The Purveyor to the hazard of his life, - Shall know how much is worth the Quintal of Wood, - Six hundred and fifteen, or the nineteen, - There shall be graven of a great Prince the fifth, - The immortal name upon the foot of the Cross. - -ANNOT. - -By the Purveyor is meant the King of _France_, as we have said before. - -The great Prince the V. was _Paul_ the V. who was foretold he should die -about the year 1615. 1619. - - -XXXIX. - - French. - - Le Pourvoieur de Monstre sans pareil, - Se sera voir ainsy que le Soleil, - Montant le long la ligne Meridienne, - En poursuivant l’Elephant & le Loup, - Nul Empereur ne fit jamais tel coup, - Et rien plus pis a ce Prince n’avienne. - - English. - - The Purveyor of the Monster without equal, - Shall shew himself like the Sun, - Ascending in the Meridional line, - In persecuting the Elephant and the Wolf, - No Emperour did ever such an act, - I wish nothing worse may happen to that Prince. - -ANNOT. - -This is a Prophecie of the glorious success that _Lewis_ the XIII. was to -have against the _Spaniard_ in _Italy_, and the Protestant party at home. - - -XL. - - French. - - Ce qu’en vivant le Pere n’avoit sceu, - Il acquerra ou par guerre ou par feu, - Et Combatra la sangsue irritée, - Ou jouira de son bien paternel, - Et savory du grand Dieu Eternel, - Aura bien tost sa Province heritée. - - English. - - That which while he lived the father did not know, - He shall get it either by Water or by Fire, - And shall fight with the angry Leech, - Or shall enjoy his Paternal goods, - And be favorised by the great Eternal God, - Shall quickly become Heir of his Province. - -ANNOT. - -This concerneth the present King of _France_ _Lewis_ the XIV. who hath -lately got by Fire and Sword those Provinces in the _Low Countreys_, to -which he laid claim by his Wives Title, which his father never knew nor -attempted. - - -XLI. - - French. - - Vaisseaux Galeres avec leur Estendar, - Sentrebattront pres du Mont _Gilbatar_, - Et lors sera forfait a _Pampelonne_, - Qui pour son bien souffrira mille maux, - Par plusieurs fois soustiendra les assaux, - Mais a la fin unie a la Coronne. - - English. - - Ships and Galleys with their Standard, - Shall fight near the Mountain _Gilbatar_, - And then shall be endeavoured against _Pampelonne_, - Which for her good shall suffer a thousand evils, - And many times shall resist the assaults; - But at last shall be united to the Crown. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecieth the reduction of the City of _Pampelona_, the chief City -of the Kingdom of _Navarre_, under the obedience of the King of _France_ -and _Navarre_. - - -XLII. - - French. - - La grand Cité ou est le premier homme, - Bien amplement la ville ie vous nomme, - Tout en alarme, & le Soldat es Champs, - Par Fer & Eau grandement affligée, - Et a la fin des _Francois_ soulagée, - Mais ce sera des six cens & dix ans. - - English. - - The great City where the first man is, - Fully I name the Town to you, - Shall be alarmed and the Souldier in the field, - Shall be by Fire and Water greatly afflicted, - And at last shall be helped by the _French_, - But it shall be from six hundred and ten years. - -ANNOT. - -That great City where the first man is, is _Amsterdam_, because the first -Letter and the last Sylable of it maketh _Adam_: But of her affliction -by Fire and Water, and of her being relieved by the _French_ in the year -1610. I can find nothing in the History; those that are better furnished -with Books than I am, may chance to satisfie themselves and others, -better than I can do. - - -XLIII. - - French. - - Le petit coin Provinces mutinées, - Par forts Chasteaux se verront dominées, - Encor un coup par la gent Militaire, - Dans bref seront fortement assiegez, - Mais il seront d’un tres grand soulagez, - Qui aura fait entrée dans Beaucaire. - - English. - - The little corner, Provinces revolted, - By strong Castles, shall see themselves commanded, - Once more by the Military Troops, - Within a little while shall be strongly Besieged, - But shall be helped by a great one, - That hath made his entry in _Beaucaire_. - -ANNOT. - -This little Corner and Provinces revolted are _Holland_, and the rest of -the United Provinces, who are threatned here with many troubles, as they -did suffer till the Peace of _Munster_. - -That great man that helped them, was the King of _France_. - - -XLIV. - - French. - - La belle Rose en la _France_ admirée, - D’un tres-grand Prince a la fin desirée, - Six cens & dix lors naistront ses amours, - Cinq ans apres sera d’un grand blessée, - Du tract d’Amour elle sera enlassée, - Si a quinze ans du Ciel recoit secours. - - English. - - The faire Rose admired in _France_, - Shall at last be desired by a great Prince, - Six hundred and ten, then shall her love begin, - Five years after she shall be wounded, - With the love of a great one she shall be intangled, - If at five years she receiveth help from Heaven. - -ANNOT. - -This Prophecy was concerning the Match between _Lewis_ the XIII. and -_Ann_ of _Austria_ Infanta of _Spain_, who were both Married very young. - - -XLV. - - French. - - De coup de fer tout le Monde estonné, - Par Crocodil estrangement donné, - A un bien grand, parent de la Sangsue, - Et peu apres sera un autre coup, - De guet a pens commis contre le Loup, - Et de tels faits on en verra l’yssue. - - English. - - All the World being astonished at a blow of Iron, - Strangely given by a Crocodile, - To a great one, kin to the _Leech_, - And a little while after another blow, - On purpose given against the Wolf, - And of such deeds the end shall be seen. - -ANNOT. - -I think this needeth no further explication, then that I have given upon -the 31. Stanza. - - -XLVI. - - French. - - Les Pourvoieux mettra tout en desroute, - Sangsue & Loup, en mon dire escoute, - Quand _Mars_ sera au Signe du _Mouton_, - Joint a _Saturne_, _Saturne_ a la Lune, - Alors sera ta plus grande infortune, - Le Soleil lors en exaltation. - - English. - - The Purveyor shall put all in disorder, - Leech and Wolf, do ye hearken to me, - When _Mars_ shall be in the Sign of _Aries_, - Joyned with _Saturn_, and _Saturn_ with the Moon, - Then shall be thy greatest misfortune, - The Sun being then in its exaltation. - -ANNOT. - -This is plain, if you remember that by the Purveyor is meant the King of -_France_, by the Leech the King of _Spain_, and by the Wolf the Duke of -_Savoy_. - - -XLVII. - - French. - - Le grand d’_Hongrie_ ira dans la Nacelle, - Le nouveau né sera guerre nouvelle, - A son voisin, qu’il tiendra assiegé, - Et le noireau avec son Altesse, - Ne souffrira que par trop on le presse, - Durant trois ans ses gens tiendra rangé. - - English. - - The great one of _Hungary_ shall go in the Boat, - The new born shall make a new War, - To his Neighbour, whom he shall Besiege, - And the black one with his Highness, - Shall not suffer to be overpressed, - During three years he shall keep his Men in order. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning the King of _Bohemia_, and his War with the Emperour, -who is called here the _great one of Hungary_, because he is King of it; -_the black one with his Highness_, is the Pals-grave, who after three -years broils was defeated at the Battle of _Prage_. - - -XLVIII. - - French. - - Du vieux _Charon_ on verra le Phœnix, - Estre premier & dernier des fils, - Reluire en _France_, & d’un chascun aimable, - Regner long temps, avec tous les honneurs, - Qu’auront jamais eu ses Predecesseurs, - Dont il rendra sa gloire memorable. - - English. - - The Phœnix of the old _Charon_ shall be seen, - To be the first and last of the Sons, - To shine in _France_, beloved of every one, - To Reign a great while with all the honours, - That ever his Predecessors had, - By which he shall make his glory memorable. - -ANNOT. - -No doubt but this is meant of some King of _France_, which is to come. - - -XLIX. - - French. - - _Venus_ & _Sol_, _Jupiter_ & _Mercure_, - Augmenteront le genre de nature, - Grande Alliance en _France_ se fera, - Et du Midy la Sangsue de mesme, - Le feu esteint par ce remede extreme; - En Terre ferme Olivier plantera. - - English. - - _Venus_ and _Sol_, _Jupiter_ and _Mercury_, - Shall augment humane kind, - A great Alliance shall be made in _France_, - And on the South the Leech shall do the same, - The fire extinguished by this extreme remedy, - Shall plant the Olive-Tree in a firm ground. - -ANNOT. - -By the consent of all Astronomers, those four benigne Planets augment -generation. - -That great Alliance mentioned here, by which the fire was extinguished, -and the Olive-Tree planted in a firm ground, is the Marriage of the -present King of _France_, _Lewis_, the XIV. with the Infanta of _Spain_, -by which all differences were composed, and the Peace firmly settled. - - -L. - - French. - - Un peu devant ou apres l’_Angleterre_, - Par mort de Loup mise aussy bas que terre, - Verra le feu resister contre l’eau, - Le rallumant avecque telle force, - Du sang humain, dessus l’humaine escorce, - Faute de pain, bondance de cousteau. - - English. - - A little while before or after, _England_, - By the death of the Wolf being put as low as the ground, - Shall see the fire resist against the water, - Kindling it again with such force, - Of humane blood, upon the humane bark, - That want of bread and abundance of knives shall be. - -ANNOT. - -The meaning is, that a little while after or before the said match -mentioned in the foregoing: _England_ was or should be brought as low as -the ground, and that there should be abundance of humane blood spilled, -and a great decay of Trade, with Wars, which is that he calleth, Want of -Bread and abundance of knives. - - -LI. - - French. - - La Ville qu’avoit en ses ans, - Combatu l’Injure du temps, - Qui de son Vainqueur tient la vie, - Celuy qui premier la surprit, - Que peu apres _Francois_ reprit, - Par Combats encore affoible. - - English. - - The City that had in her years, - Resisted the injury of the times, - And oweth her life to him that overcame her, - Being the first that surprised it, - Which a little while after _Francis_ took again, - Being yet weakened with fightings. - - -LII. - - French. - - La grand Cité qui n’a Pain a demy, - Encor un coup la saint _Barthelemy_, - Engravera au profond de son Ame, - _Nismes_, _Rochelle_, _Geneve_ & _Montpelier_, - _Castres_, _Lion_, _Mars_ entrant au _Belier_, - S’entrebattront le tout pour une Dame. - - English. - - The great City that hath not bread half enough, - Shall once more engrave - In the bottom of her soul St. _Bartholomew_’s day, - _Nismes_, _Rochel_, _Geneva_ and _Montpelier_, - _Castres_, _Lion_, _Mars_ coming into _Aries_, - Shall fight one against another, and all for a Lady. - -ANNOT. - -That great City mentioned here, is _Paris_, which is threatned of another -St. _Bartholomew_’s day, which was fatal to the Protestants in _France_, -for upon that day in the year 1572. there was a general Massacre made -of them through all _France_, insomuch, that in _Paris_ alone there was -above ten thousand slain. - -As for those Towns here named that are to fight about a Lady, I cannot -guess what Lady it should be, unless he meaneth the _Roman_ Church. - - -LIII. - - French. - - Plusieurs mourront avant que Phœnix meure, - Jusques six cens septante est sa demeure, - Passé quinze ans, vingt & un, trente neuf, - Le premier est Subjet a maladie, - Et le second au fer, danger de vie, - Au feu a l’eau est subjet a trenteneuf. - - English. - - Many shall die before that Phœnix dieth, - Till six hundred and seventy he shall remain, - Above fifteen years, one and twenty, thirty nine, - The first shall be subject to sickness, - And the second to Iron, a danger of life, - Thirty nine shall be subject to fire and water. - -ANNOT. - -By the Phœnix is meant a Pope, because there is but one of that kind at -once, the meaning of the rest is unknown to me. - - -LIV. - - French. - - Six cens & quinze vingt, grand Dame mourra, - Et peu apres un fort long temps pleuvra, - Plusieurs Pais _Flandres_ & l’_Angleterre_, - Seront par seu & par fer affligez, - De leurs Voisins longuement assiegez, - Contraints seront de leur faire la Guerre. - - English. - - Six hundred and fifteen, and twenty, a great Lady shall die, - And a little after it shall rain for a great while, - Many Countreys as _Flanders_ and _England_, - Shall by fire and Iron be afflicted, - And a good while Besieged by their Neighbours, - So that they shall be constrained to make War against them. - -ANNOT. - -What that great Lady was, that should die in the year 653. is not easie -to guess, there being many in every Countrey that died that year. The -rest is easie, and we have seen the truth of it in our days, and may see -it hereafter. - - -LV. - - French. - - Un peu devant ou apres tres grand’ Dame, - Son ame au Ciel, & son corps soubs la lame, - De plusieurs gens regretée sera, - Tous ses parens seront en grand tristesse, - Pleurs & souspirs d’une Dame en jeunesse, - Et a deux grands le dueil delaissera. - - English. - - A little while before, or after, a very great Lady, - Her soul in Heaven, and her body in the Grave, - Shall be lamented by many, - All her kindred shall be in great mourning, - Tears and sighs of a Lady in her youth, - And shall leave the mourning to two great ones. - -ANNOT. - -This may be understood of the death of _Anna_ of _Austria_, Queen of -_France_, who left in mourning two great ones, _viz._ her two Sons -_Lewis_ the XIV. King of _France_, and _Philip_ of _Bourbon_ Duke of -_Orleans_. - -Or of the death of the Queen Dowager of _England_, _Henrietta Maria_, -who also was much lamented, and left in mourning two great ones, _viz._ -_Charles_ the II. King of _England_, and _James_ Duke of _York_ his -Brother. - - -LVI. - - French. - - Tost l’Elephant de toutes parts verra, - Quand Pourvoyeur au Griffon se joindra, - Sa ruine proche, & _Mars_ qui tousiour gronde, - Fera grands faits aupres de _Terre Sainte_, - Grands Estendars sur la Terre & sur l’Onde, - Si la Nef a esté, de deux frere enceinte. - - English. - - Shortly the Elephant on all sides shall see, - When the Purveyor shall joyn with the Griffin, - His ruine at hand, and _Mars_ which always grumbleth, - Shall do great feats near the _Holy Land_, - Great Standarts upon the Earth and the Sea, - If the Ship hath been with Child of two Brothers. - -ANNOT. - -The Elephant is the Emperor, the Purveyor the King of _France_, the -Griffin the _Hollanders_; the meaning then is that the Emperor shall go -to ruine, when the _French_ and the _Hollanders_ shall joyn together. - -And that there shall be great Wars and Fightings in the Holy Lands, both -by Sea and Land, when two Brothers of great quality shall go in one Ship. - - -LVII. - - French. - - Peu apres l’Alliance faite, - Avant solemnises la Feste, - L’Empereur le tout troublera, - Et la nouvelle Mariée, - Au _Franc_ Païs par sort liée, - Dans peu de temps apres mourra. - - English. - - A little after the Alliance made, - Before the Feast be Solemnized, - The Emperor shall trouble all, - And the new Bride, - Being by fate tied to the _French_ Countrey, - A little while after shall die. - -ANNOT. - -This is concerning a match that shall be made between the _French_ King, -and some Lady of another Countrey, which Match shall be disturbed by the -Emperour, and the Bride shall die a little while after her Marriage. - - -LVIII. - - French. - - Sangsue en peu de temps mourra, - Sa mort bon signe nous donra, - Pour l’accroissement de la _France_, - Alliances se trouveront, - Deux grands Roiaumes se joindront, - _Francois_ aura sur eux puissance. - - English. - - The Leech within a little while shall die, - His death shall be a good sign to us, - For the augmentation of _France_, - Alliances shall be found, - Two great Kingdoms shall joyn together, - The _French_ shall have power over them. - -ANNOT. - -The _Leech_ was _Philip_ the IV. the last King of _Spain_, who died a -little while after he had Married his Daughter to _Lewis_ the XIV. now -King of _France_, by which Marriage the Peace was made between the two -Kingdoms, in the Island of the _Conference_, upon the Borders of _France_ -and _Spain_. 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Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were.</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Michael Nostradamus</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Translator: Theophilus de Garencieres</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: September 4, 2022 [eBook #68907]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Curtis Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Posner Memorial Collection.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE PROPHECIES OR PROGNOSTICATIONS OF MICHAEL NOSTRADAMUS, PHYSICIAN TO HENRY II. FRANCIS II. AND CHARLES IX. KINGS OF FRANCE, AND ONE OF THE BEST ASTRONOMERS THAT EVER WERE. ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp52" id="frontispiece" style="max-width: 45em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/frontispiece.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="poetry-container smaller"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gallica quem genuit retinetque Britannica tellus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Calluit Hermetis quicquid in arte fuit</div> - </div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="cover"> - -<p><span class="smaller">THE TRUE</span><br /> -<span class="larger red">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OR</span><br /> -<b>PROGNOSTICATIONS</b><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -<span class="larger red">Michael Nostradamus,</span><br /> -<span class="larger gesperrt"><b>PHYSICIAN</b></span><br /> -<span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -<span class="red">Henry II.</span> <span class="red">Francis II.</span> and <span class="red">Charles IX.</span><br /> -<span class="red">KINGS</span> of <span class="red">FRANCE,</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">And one of the best<br /> -<i class="red larger gesperrt">ASTRONOMERS</i> that ever were.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smaller">A</span><br /> -<span class="red">WORK</span> full of <span class="smcap red">Curiosity</span> and <span class="smcap red">Learning</span>.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p>Translated and Commented by <i class="red">THEOPHILUS de<br /> -GARENCIERES</i>, Doctor in Physick <i>Colleg. Lond.</i></p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="red"><i>LONDON</i>,</p> - -<p class="hanging">Printed by <i class="red">Thomas Ratcliffe</i>, and <i class="red">Nathaniel Thompson</i>, and are to be -sold by <i>John Martin</i>, at the <i>Bell</i> in St. <i>Pauls Church-yard</i>, <i>Henry Mortlack</i> at the -<i>White Hart</i> in <i>Westminster-Hall</i>, <i>Thomas Collins</i>, at the <i>Middle-Temple Gate</i>, <i>Edward -Thomas</i>, at the <i>Adam</i> and <i>Eve</i> in <i>Little Britain</i>, <i>Samuel Lowndes</i> over against -<i>Exeter-house</i> in the <i>Strand</i>, <i>Rob. Bolter</i>, against the South door of the <i>Exchange</i>, <i>Jon. Edwin</i>, -at the <i>Three Roses</i> in <i>Ludgate-street</i>, <i>Moses Pits</i> at the <i>White Hart</i> in <i>Little Britain</i>, 1672.</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header1.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">To his most Honoured Friend<br /> -<span class="larger gesperrt">NATHANIEL PARKER</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -<span class="larger">Grayes-Inne, Esq;</span><br /> -<i>THEOPHILUS de GARENCIERES</i>,<br /> -<span class="smaller">D. Med. Colleg. <i>Lond.</i></span><br /> -Humbly Dedicateth this Book.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Namque erit ille mihi</i>, &c. Virg. Eccl. I.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header2.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -Courteous Reader.</h2> - -</div> - -<p><i>Reader,</i></p> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-b.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">Before thou goest on further to the perusing of -this Work, thou art humbly intreated by the -Authour, to forgive him his Anglicisme; -for being born a Forreigner, and having had -no body to help him to the polishing of it, for several reasons, -it cannot be expected he should please thine Ears, so -much as he may perhaps do thy Fancy. Every Exotick -Plant can hardly become Domestical under one or two -Generations: Besides that, the Crabbedness of the Original -in his own Idiome, can scarce admit a Polite Eloquency -in another. The very Antient <i>English</i> Language -in this refined Age, is become both obsolete and -unintelligible, as we may see in <i>Chaucer</i>, <i>Gower</i>, and others. -If you adde to this, that the Authours Nation hath been -alwayes famous for its Civility to those that were Strangers -to their Language, as not onely to abstain from -laughing at them when they spoke amiss, but also in redressing -them charitably to the best of their power. I -may probably expect you will measure me with the same -measure, as you would be if you were in my case.</p> - -<p>As for the Errataes of the Press, I could not help them, -being out of Town most part of the time that the Book was -a Printing; when you meet with any, I hope your Charitable -Pen will either mend or obliterate them, and not lay -another mans fault upon me, who neither for pride nor -ostentation undertook this laborious Work, but that I -might give some Satisfaction and Recreation to the Learned -and Curious, who have had a longing for it ever since -its Birth.</p> - -<p class="right"><i>Farewell.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header4.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">IN</span><br /> -Explicatum à doctissimo sagacissimoq; Viro Domino<br /> -<span class="smaller">De</span><br /> -<span class="larger">GARENCIERES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">FAMOSI</span><br /> -Nostradami Vaticinium.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Abdita qui medici legit præsagia Vatis,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Non valet hoc quisquam pandere carmen, ait.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Falleris, en Medicus merito quoque nomine Vates,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Invia luminibus permeat antra novis.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sed minus ingenio tantum mirere laborem</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Id succisivo tempore fecit opus.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Petrus Cottereau.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h3 class="mid">Aliud.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Præteritos in vate tuo cognoscere casus</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Vix licet; ast etiam nota futura tibi.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Si potes è mediis lucem proferre tenebris;</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Ipsa metallorum semina te-ne latent?</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nulla tuum fugiunt naturæ arcana cerebrum,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Per quem <span class="antiqua">Nostradami</span> Pythica verba patent.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Idem.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header5.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak mid">Perenni Famæ Doctissimi Viri <i>Theophili de Garencieres</i> -Doctoris Medici Colleg. <i>Lond.</i> de Interpretatione <i class="gesperrt">NOSTRADAMI</i> -Fatidici Tetrastichon hoc dicavit.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3 class="mid">Dudleyus, <i>dimidia pars ipsius animæ</i>.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Qvæ primus fecit, facit illa secundus <span class="antiqua">Apollo</span>,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Conjungens medicis oracula sacra triumphis.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Quis major, rogitas? facile est discernere noris</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Si Latonigenæ cessare oracula <span class="antiqua">Phœbi</span>.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3 class="mid"><i>By the same,<br /> -To the Author of this, and a more Excellent Work.</i></h3> - -<p class="center">Mystically.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The God of Arts that gives thee Light, as clear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As his, that thou might’st be his Agent here</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all his Secrets; courts thee to go on,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till thou hast made thy self another Sun.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Æternum vivant si vera Oracula Phœbi</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostradami</span> vivent; & Patris illa mei;</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Petrus.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="larger gesperrt">PREFACE</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">READER.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p><i>READER</i>,</p> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-b.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">Before I speak any thing of the Author, or of his -Works, I think it convenient to speak somthing of -my self, and of my intention in setting out this Translation, -with my Annotations.</p> - -<p>The Reputation that this Book hath amongst all -the <i>Europeans</i>, since its first coming out, which was -in the year 1555. and the curiosity that from time to time the -learned have had to see the Mysteries contained in it, unfolded: -is a sufficient warrant for my undertaking.</p> - -<p>Many better Pens (I confess) could have performed this work -with better success, but not with greater facility than I, having from -my youth been conversant with those that pretended or endeavered -to know somthing in it. Otherwise, it would have been impossible -for a man of my profession to wade through it. This Book -was the first after my Primmer, wherein I did learn to read, it being -then the Custom in <i>France</i>, about the year 1618. to initiate Children -by that Book; First, because of the crabbidness of the words; -Secondly, that they might be acquainted with the old and absolete -<i>French</i>, such as is now used in the <i>English</i> Law; and Thirdly, for -the delightfulness and variety of the matter, so that this Book in -those days was printed every year like an Almanack, or a Primer -for Children. From that time, without any other Study than reading -of History, and observing the events of the world, and conversing -with those that made it their Study, (some of which were like -to run mad about it) I have attained to so much Knowledge, as -to bring it into a Volume.</p> - -<p>The Book is written in the Nature of Prophecies, digested into -old <i>French</i> Verses, most of which are very hard to be understood, -and others impossible at all, whether the Author did affect obscurity, -or else wanted the faculty to express himself, which is the cause -that it could not be rendred into <i>English</i> Verses, it being troublesome -enough to be understood in Prose, as the Reader will find. -That’s the reason that I have translated it almost word for word, to -make it as plain as I could; as also because the Reader (if curious -of it) may benefit himself in the knowledge of the <i>French</i> -Tongue, by comparing the <i>English</i> and <i>French</i> together. The rest -that can be said upon this subject, you shall find either in the Authors -Life, or in the Appology made for him.</p> - -<p>And because I have told you before, that many have been like -to run mad by over-studying these, and other Prophecies, give me -leave to give you this advice, that in vain, or at least without any -great profit, thou shalt bestow thy time, care, and study upon it: -for which I will give thee the chief reasons, that have disswaded -me from it.</p> - -<p>The first is, that the thing it self, which you may think to understand, -is not certain in it self; because the Author disguiseth it -in several manners, sometimes speaking a double sense, as that of -the ancient Oracle.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aio te Æacida Romanos vincere posse.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Which is to be understood two ways, and cannot be determinated, -till the event of it be past.</p> - -<p>It is true, that the Author doth mark so many particular Circumstances, -that when the thing is come to pass, every one may clearly -see that he pretended to Prophecie that particular thing. And besides -he doth sometimes deliver the thing in so obscure terms, that -without a peculiar <i>Genius</i>, it is almost impossible to understand it.</p> - -<p>The second is, that though the Prophecie be true in it self, yet -no body knoweth, neither the time, nor how: For example, he -plainly foretelleth, that the Parliament of <i>England</i> should put their -King to death; nevertheless no body could tell, nor when, nor how, -till the thing was come to pass, nor what King it should be, till we -had seen it.</p> - -<p>The third is, that he marketh the times with Astrological terms, -<i>viz.</i> when such and such Planets, shall be in such and such Signs; -but as those Planets are often here, and go out of it, and come -there again, no certain judgement can be made of it.</p> - -<p>The fourth is, that many times he giveth some peculiar Circumstances -to those he speaketh of, which may be found in others. -Thus <i>the Royal first born</i> might have been applied to <i>Lewis</i> the -XIII. to <i>Lewis</i> the XIV. to the first born of <i>Philip</i> the II. and -<i>Philip</i> the III. King of <i>Spain</i>, and to Kings of <i>England</i>, Father and -Son. Nevertheless we find that this word <i>Royal first born</i>, was intended -for <i>Henry</i> IV. Grandfather on his Mothers side, as we shall shew -hereafter. This being so, it cannot be expounded, but after the event.</p> - -<p>The fifth is, that the knowledge of future things, belongeth to -God alone, and no body can pretend by any study, to have a certain -acquisition of it in all its Circumstances.</p> - -<p>The sixth is, that the orders of Gods providence, which cause -the several events in all States, will not permit that men should -have a publick notion of his designs, sometimes he revealeth them -to his Servants, or to some particular man as he pleaseth, but he -will not have them to be known among the common sort of men.</p> - -<p>The seventh, is the experience we have had of many, who pretending -to understand the Author, have made a quantity of false -Prophecies, expounding the Stanza’s according to their fancy, as if -God had given them the same understanding that he gave the Author, -and what ought to confirm us more in this point, is, that -they have expounded some Prophecies, as if they were to come to -pass, which were past already, by which we see the darkness of -humane wit, who without authority pretendeth to bite into the -forbidden fruit of knowledge.</p> - -<p>The eighth is, that this knowledge is no way profitable for the -Vulgar; because those things being decreed by God, they shall -come to pass without forceing our liberty, nor hindering the contingency -of sublunary things, where we must observe that the Prophecies -which were revealed to men, are many times conditional, as -we see in that of <i>Jonas</i> against <i>Ninive</i>, but those that they have -left in writing for the times that should come after them, are absolutely -true, and shall infallibly come to pass, as they have foretold -them. This no ways hindereth, but God may reveal some secrets of -his to private men, for their benefit, and that of their friends, without -imparting it to the Vulgar, who may be, should laugh at them.</p> - -<p>The ninth is, that God hath peculiarly reserved to himself the -knowledge of times. <i>Daniel</i>, by a special favour, knew the end -of the <i>Babylonian</i> Captivity, and the time of the <i>Messiah</i>’s birth, -and yet the interpreters can scarce yet expound clearly the meaning -of the seventy weeks of <i>Daniel</i>, and we see, that since 1600 years -ago, holy men, from age to age, have foretold the proximity of -Dooms-day, and the coming of Antichrist.</p> - -<p>The tenth is, that the foretelling of future things in this Author, -is for the most part included in business of State, and one might be -guilty of a criminal temerity, if he would discover things that concern -us not, and the concealing of which, is commended by all -prudent persons, seeing that we owe respect, love, and submission -to those that bear rule over us.</p> - -<p>For these reasons (dear Reader) I would not have thee intangle -thy self in the pretentions of knowing future things. If you -have light concerning them, keep thine own secret, and make use -of it for thy self: Preserve peace, and let the Almighty govern the -World: for he can turn all things to his Glory, and may when -he pleaseth, raise up some Wits that will make known unto us, what -we desire, without any further trouble to our selves. Before I -make an end, I cannot but acquaint thee for gratitude sake, of my -Obligation to several persons, which have lent me Books, to help -me towards the finishing of this work, as namely that worthy Gentleman, -and the Honour of his profession Mr. <i>Francis Bernard</i>, -Apothecary to St. <i>Bartholemews</i> Hospital, and Mr. <i>Philip Auberton</i> -Gentleman, belonging to the Right Honourable the Earl of <i>Bridgwater</i>. -Farewell.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="larger gesperrt">LIFE</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -<span class="larger">Michael Nostradamus,</span><br /> -Physitian in Ordinary to <span class="gesperrt">HENRY</span> the II. and<br /> -<span class="smaller"><span class="gesperrt">CHARLES</span> the IX. Kings of <i>France</i>.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-m.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap"><i>Michael Nostradamus</i>, the most renowned and famous Astrologer, -that hath been these many Ages, was born in St. <i>Remy</i>, a Town -of <i>Provence</i>, in the year 1503. upon a <i>Thursday</i>, the 14th of <i>December</i>, -about noon. His father was <i>James Nostradamus</i>, a Notary -of the said Town, his Mother was <i>Renata</i> of St. <i>Remy</i>, -whose Grandfathers by the Fathers and Mothers side, were men -very skilfull, in Mathematick and Physick, one having been -Physitian to <i>Renatus</i>, King of <i>Jerusalem</i>, and <i>Sicily</i>, and Earl of <i>Provence</i>, and the -other Physition to <i>John</i>, Duke of <i>Calabria</i>, Son to the said <i>Renatus</i>, whence cometh -that our Author saith in his Commentaries, that he hath received from hand to -hand the Knowledge of Mathematicks, from his ancient Progenitors. After the -death of his great Grandfather by the Mothers side, who first gave him a slight -tincture, and made him in love with the Mathematicks, he was sent to School to -<i>Avignon</i>. After that he went to Mount <i>Pelier</i>, to study Philosophy and Physick, -till a great Plague coming, he was compelled to go to <i>Narbonne</i>, <i>Thoulouse</i>, and -<i>Bourdeaux</i>, where he first began to practise, being then about 22 years of age. -Having lived four years in those parts, he went back again to <i>Monpelier</i>, to get -his degrees, which he did with a great deal of applause. Going to <i>Thoulouse</i>, he -past through <i>Agen</i>, where <i>Julius Cæsar Scaliger</i> stayed him, with whom he was -very familiar and intimately acquainted, though they fell out afterward; there he -took to wife a very honourable Gentlewoman, by whom he had two Children, a -Son and a Daughter, all which being dead, and seeing himself alone, he resolved -to retire himself into <i>Provence</i> his Native Countrey. After he had gone to <i>Marseille</i>, -he went to <i>Aix</i>, where the Parliament of <i>Provence</i> sitteth, and was there -kept three years at the City Charges; because of the violent Plague that raged -then in the year 1546. as you may read in the Lord of <i>Launay</i>’s Book, called the -Theater of the World, who describeth that Plague according to the informations -our Author gave him. Thence he went to <i>Salon de Craux</i>, a City distant from <i>Aix</i> -one dayes Journey, and in the middle way between <i>Avignon</i> and <i>Marseille</i>; there he -Married his second Wife <i>Anna Ponce Genelle</i>, by whom he had three Sons and one -Daughter, the eldest was <i>Michael Nostradamus</i>, who hath written some pieces of -Astrology, Printed at <i>Paris</i> in the year 1563.</p> - -<p>The second was <i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i>, who hath deserved to be numbred among -the <i>French</i> Historians, by reason of the great Volume he hath written of <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<p>The third was a Capuchine Frier. <i>Cæsar</i> did insert in his History the propagation -of that Order in <i>Provence</i>. The fourth was a Daughter.</p> - -<p><i>Nostradamus</i> having found by experience that the perfect knowledge of Physick -dependeth from that of Astrology, he addicted himself to it, and as this Science -wanteth no allurement, and that besides his Genius he had a peculiar disposition -and inclination to it; he made such a progress in it, that he hath deserved the Title -of the most illustrious one in <i>France</i>, insomuch that making some Almanacks for -recreation sake, he did so admirably hit the conjuncture of events, that he was sought -for far and near.</p> - -<p>This success was the cause of an extraordinary diminution of his fame; for the -Printers and Booksellers seeing his fame, did print and vent abundance of false -Almanacks under his name for lucre sake, whence it came that his reputation suffered -by it, and was the cause that the Lord <i>Pavillon</i> wrote against him, and that the -Poet <i>Jodele</i> made this bitter Distichon.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span>.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>To which may be answered.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum verba damus quæ <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> dat,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Nam quæcunque dedit nil nisi vera dedit.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Or thus</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Vera damus cum verba damus quæ <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> dat,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Sed cum <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span>, nil nisi falsa damus.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Nevertheless the Beams of Truth did shine through the Clouds of Calumny; for -he was singularly esteemed of by the Grandees, Queen <i>Katharine</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, who -had a natural inclination to know future things.</p> - -<p>And <i>Henry</i> the II. King of <i>France</i>, who sent for him to come to the Court -in the year 1556. and having had private conference with him about things of -great concernment, sent him honourably back again with many gifts. He went -from <i>Salon</i> to the Court upon the 14 of <i>July</i> in the year 1555. and came to <i>Paris</i> upon -the 15 of <i>August</i>. As soon as he was come to Town, the Lord Constable of <i>Montmorency</i> -went to see him at his Inn, and presented him to the King, who received -him with much satisfaction, and commanded that his lodging should be at the Palace -of the Cardinal of <i>Bourbon</i> Archbishop of <i>Sens</i>.</p> - -<p>There he was taken with the Gout for ten or twelve days, after which his Majesty -sent him one hundred Crowns in Gold in a Velvet Purse, and the Queen as much. -Their Majesties desired him to go to <i>Blois</i> to see the Princes their Children, and to -tell them his opinion of them. It is certain that he did not tell them what he thought, -considering the Tragical end of those three Princes, <i>viz.</i> <i>Francis</i> the II. <i>Charles</i> the -IX. and <i>Henry</i> the III.</p> - -<p>Having been so much honoured at Court, he went back again to <i>Salon</i>, where he -made an end of his last Centuries, two years after he dedicated them to the King -<i>Henry</i> the II. in the year 1557. and in his Luminary Epistle discovereth unto him the -future events that shall happen from the Birth of <i>Lewis</i> the XIV. now Reigning, till -the coming of Antichrist.</p> - -<p>While he was at <i>Salon</i> he received there the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and the Lady <i>Margaret</i> -of <i>France</i>, Sister to <i>Henry</i> the II. who was to Marry the said Duke according to -the treaty of the general Peace made at <i>Cambresis</i>, both entertained him very familiarly, -and honoured him often with their presence. The Duke came in <i>October</i> and -the Lady in <i>December</i>.</p> - -<p>When <i>Charles</i> the IX. went a progress through his Kingdom, he came into <i>Provence</i>, -and did fail not to go to <i>Salon</i> to visit our Author, who in the name of the -Town went to salute him, and make a Speech, this was in the year 1564. the 17 -of <i>November</i>.</p> - -<p>The extraordinary satisfaction that the King and the Queen Mother received from -him was such, that being both at <i>Lion</i>, they sent for him again, and the King gave -him 200 Crowns in Gold, and the Queen almost as much, with the quality of Physician -in Ordinary to the King, with the Salaries and profits thereunto appertaining. -Being come back to <i>Salon</i> he lived about 16 Months longer, and died upon the 2 of -<i>July</i> 1566. in his Climacterical year of 63. having all his senses about him: His -Disease was a Gout at first, which turned into a Dropsie; the time of his death it -seemeth was known to him; for a friend of his witnesseth, that at the end of <i>June</i> in -the said year he had writen with his own hand upon the Ephemerides of <i>John Stavius</i> -these Latine words, <i>Hic prope mors est</i>; that is, near here is my death, and the day -before his death that friend of his having waited on him till very late took his leave, -saying, I shall see you again to morrow morning, you shall not see me alive when the -Sun riseth, which proved true. He died a <i>Roman</i> Catholick, having received all -his Sacraments, and was solemnly buried in the Church of the <i>Franciscan</i> Friers at -<i>Salon</i>, on the left hand of the Church door, where his Widow erected him a Marble -Table fastened in the Wall with this Epitaph, with his Figure to the Life, and his -Arms above it.</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="center larger">The Inscription of his <span class="gesperrt">EPITAPH</span> is in imitation of -that of <i>Titus Livius</i>, and is thus.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>D. M.</i></p> - -<p class="hanging"><i>Ossa clarissimi <span class="antiqua">Michaelis Nostradami</span>, unius omnium pene mortalium -digni, cujus Divino calamo totius Orbis ex astrorum influxu futuri -eventus conscriberentur. Vixit annos <span class="antiqua">LXII.</span> menses <span class="antiqua">VI.</span> dies <span class="antiqua">X.</span> -Obiit. Salonæ <span class="antiqua">CIↃ IↃLXVI</span>. <span class="antiqua">Anna Pontia Gemella</span>, conjugi -optimo. <span class="antiqua">V. E.</span></i></p> - -<p>Which may be rendred thus:</p> - -<p class="hanging">Here lies the Bones of the most famous <i>Nostradamus</i>, one who among -Men hath deserved by the opinion of all, to set down in -writting with a Quill almost Divine, the future Events of all the -Universe, caused by the Cœlestial influences; he lived 62. years -6. Months and 10. days, he died at <i>Salon</i>, in the year 1566.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O Posterity do not grudge at his rest.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><i>Anna Pontia Gemella</i> wisheth to her most loving Husband the -true Happiness.</p> - -</div> - -<p>He had a Brother named <i>John Nostradamus</i>, famous for several Works that he -hath written, the Catalogue of which is in the Book of Mr. <i>du Maine de la Croix</i>, -Intitled, the <i>Library</i>.</p> - -<p>As for our Author, he hath left several Works, among which is a Book of -Receits, for the preservation of health, Printed at <i>Poitiers</i>, in the year 1556.</p> - -<p>Another concerning the means of beautifying the Face and the Body, that was -Printed at <i>Antwerp</i> by <i>Plantin</i> in the year 1557. which he Dedicated to his Brother -<i>John Nostradamus</i>, an Attorney at the Parliament of <i>Aix</i>.</p> - -<p>Besides this, he Translated from Latine into French the <i>Paraphases of Galen</i>, upon -the Exhortation of <i>Menedotus</i>, which was Printed at <i>Lyon</i> by <i>Antony du Rhosne</i>, in -the year 1557.</p> - -<p>But before we conclude, it will not be amiss to give some recreation to the Reader, -by relating a merry passage that happened to <i>Nostradamus</i> being in <i>Lorrain</i>, for being -in the Castle of <i>Faim</i>, belonging to the Lord of <i>Florinville</i>, and having in cure the -Mother of the said Lord; it chanced one day that they both walking in the Yard, -there was two little Piggs, one white, and the other black, whereupon the Lord enquired -of <i>Nostradamus</i> in jest, what should become of these two Piggs? he answered -presently, we shall eat the black, and the Wolf shall eat the white.</p> - -<p>The Lord <i>Florinville</i> intending to make him a Lyar, did secretly command the -Cook to dress the white for Supper; the Cook then killed the white, drest it, and -spitted it ready to be rosted when it should be time; In the mean time having some -business out of the Kitchin, a young tame Wolf came in, and eat up the Buttocks of -the white Pig, that was ready to be rosted; the Cook coming in the mean time, and -fearing least his Master should be angry, took the black one, killed it, and drest it, -and offered it at Supper. Then the Lord thinking he had got the Victory, not -knowing what was befallen, said to <i>Nostradamus</i>, well Sir, we are eating now the white -Pigg, and the Wolf shall not touch it. I do not believe it (said <i>Nostradamus</i>) it is the -black one that is upon the Table. Presently the Cook was sent for, who confessed -the accident, the relation of which was as pleasing to them as any meat.</p> - -<p>In the same Castle of <i>Faim</i>, he told many that in a little Hill that was near the -Castle, there was a Treasure hidden, which should never be found, if it were sought -with design, but that it should be discovered when the Hill should be digged for -some other intent. There is a great probability in this prediction, for there was an -ancient Temple built upon it, and when they dig there, many times several Antiquities -are found. All <i>France</i> telleth several Histories foretold by the Author, but I -am unwilling to write any thing without good warrant. His Stanza’s are sufficient -to prove the extraordinary Talent he had in foretelling future things.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="larger gesperrt">APOLOGY</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">FOR</span><br /> -<span class="larger">Michael Nostradamus.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<h3>CHAP. I.</h3> - -<p class="dcap">It is not unusual for Calumny to follow the best Wits, and those whom God -hath endowed with so extraordinary Talent, upon weak and slight grounds. -It is not also unusual for Men to side easier with calumny against innocent -persons, then with those truths that justifie them; therefore no body ought -to wonder, if <i>Michael Nostradamus</i> hath been so much cried down and defamed -by several Authors, being in the number of those extraordinary persons, -whom God had priviledged with that grace so much desired by curious Men, <i>viz.</i> -the knowledge of future events.</p> - -<p>Besides that, there was four things in him, which might have been the grounds of -this diffamation.</p> - -<p>The first was the vulgar life which he led in the Roman Catholik Religion, which -seemed to bear no proportion with such an extraordinary favour of God.</p> - -<p>The second was his application to judicial Astrology, which is condemned by many -learned Men, and detested by those that pretend to ignorant devotion.</p> - -<p>The third was a suspition brought by his enemies, and many devout persons in -his time, that he was a Negromancer, and had familiarity with the Angel of darkness.</p> - -<p>The fourth was the obscurity of his Stanza’s, which was made worse by the -enormous faults of those that first Copied them, and by the carelesness of the Printers.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. II.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>How the first Objection hath caused the Author to be reputed -a false Prophet.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">In consequence of the first Objection, calumny hath endeavoured to place him -among the false Prophets, because scarce any body can persuade himself, that -there being among the Faithful so many Illustrious persons in Holiness and Learning, -the Holy Ghost would have made choice of a common person, and to reveal him so -many rare secrets, concerning the future Estate of his Church, and of those Kingdoms -that acknowledge her for their Mother, seeing that the Holy Scriptures shew -us, that the knowledge of future things (chiefly if it be extraordinary in its extent) -is a special Priviledge wherewith God honoureth his most faithful Servants.</p> - -<p>And to say truth, when the Holy Fathers and the Interpreters of the Scripture -speak of the Prerogatives of the Apostle St. <i>John</i>, they make the chiefest to be that -by which being full of Prophetical Spirit, he foretold the future Estate of the Church; -and in the Old Testament, so many Prophets were so many Miracles and Prodigies -of Holiness, and the only name of Prophet in the Scripture is the most glorious Title -that is given to those that were Gods most faithful Servants.</p> - -<p>If we find in the Scripture that <i>Balaam</i> hath Prophesied notwithstanding his perfidiousness, -and that the High Priest <i>Caiaphas</i>, notwithstanding his wicked design -of murdering Christ, hath also Prophesied; it was only for a few things, and in such -cases where God would singularly shew forth his Glory, by those that would have -smothered it.</p> - -<p>How can we then believe the same of <i>Nostradamus</i>, who had not so much as an -extraordinary atom of Christian piety, by which he might have been so much priviledg’d -of God, as to know by his Divine Light the future Estate of the Church, -her Persecutions and her Victories from the year 1555. to the end of the World.</p> - -<p>Can it be possible that a Physician, an Astrologer, and one of the common sort -of people should have been chosen of God among so many thousands his betters, to -impart unto him those Graces, which have been the reward of the purity and holiness -of his Apostles, and of the faithfulness of St. <i>John</i> the Evangelist.</p> - -<p>This seemeth altogether improbable to Christian piety.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. III.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>The second Objection hath ranked the Author among Dreamers -and false Visionaries.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">Some are more moderate in the censuring of this Author, and being unwilling to -call him maliciously a false Prophet, would have him to be a foolish Dreamer, -who believed his own imaginations, and took pleasure in his own fancies, whence -came that Latine Distick of the Poet <i>Jodelle</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span>.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>This Distick was so pleasing to the Wits of the times, that without further inquiry, -since that time <i>Nostradamus</i> went for a Dreamer and a doting fool.</p> - -<p>This opinion increased more and more by his making of many Almanacks, wherein -every body may see how much he was taken with judicial Astrology; and we see -often in his Stanza’s the decision of the times, by the conjunction of the Planets with -the Signs, and by the Eclipses, whence sometimes he doth infer some events that -were to happen.</p> - -<p>But what did undo him most, was the covetousness of the Printers and Booksellers -of his time, who seeing his Almanacks so well received, did set forth a thousand -others under his name, that were full of lies and fopperies.</p> - -<p>From that time the Author went for one of those poor Astrologers, who get their -living by foretelling absurdities; and pretend to read in the Heavens, that which is -only in their foolish imagination.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. IV.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>The third Objection accuseth the Author of medling with the black Art, -of being a Negromancer, and a Disciple of the Devil.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">If the precedents have been moderate in their censure; others have been more severe -in delivering their opinion, accusing him to have kept acquaintance with -the Devil, as the Negromancers and other Prestigiators of the ancient times did.</p> - -<p>The reason that made them think so is, that seeing so many things come to pass, -just as the Author had foretold; they could not attribute it to the knowledge of judicial -Astrology, nor to Divine Revelation, and consequently concluded, that it -must of necessity come from Satan.</p> - -<p>They could not attribute it to judicial Astrology, either because they had no opinion -of it, or that the greatest defensors of that Astrology do agree among themselves, -that it cannot reach so far as to foretell a thousand peculiar circumstances, -which depend purely from the freedom of Men, such as proper names are, and the like, -which nevertheless our Author did foretell.</p> - -<p>They could neither attribute it to Divine Revelation, for the reasons alledged in -the first objection; moreover, because he was accused of a thousand falsities and fopperies, -Printed in those Almanacks that went falsly under his name, whence they -concluded that it could not come by Divine Revelation, seeing that the Holy Ghost -is the Spirit of Truth.</p> - -<p>It followeth then (say they) that it must come from the Devil, by the help of the -Black Art; the Lord <i>Florimond de Raimond</i> a very considerable Author, was of that -opinion in his Book of the <i>Birth of Heresies</i>, Chap. 3.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. V.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>The fourth Objection maketh him the Head of those Seductors and Impostors, -which are dangerous in a Common-wealth.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">As Fame doth increase by continuation of time, so doth calumny increase by -the multiplicity of opinions, she was not contented to deflour slightly the Authors -reputation, by making him pass for some sottish Dreamer, and to rank him -amongst the false Prophets, by accusing him to meddle with the black Art, but -must needs also sacrifice him to the infernal Furies, by making him the Prince of -Seductors and Impostors, that ought to be banished out of every Common-wealth. -The fondamental reason of this was the obscurity of his Stanza’s, where there was -neither rime nor reason; the obscurity did proceed of abundance of gross faults, which -the Copisters and Printers have inserted in them, from the omission of several words, -from the changing and altering of others, and from the addition of some others, -which did destroy the sense.</p> - -<p>From this great obscurity, calumny draweth this argument, to ruine utterly the -Author, charging him to be all at once a false Prophet, a dotish Dreamer, a Magician, -and an infamous Seductor of people.</p> - -<p>If God had inspired him what he hath written, he would have done it for the good -of his Church and true Believers, seeing he never granteth this Prophetical Grace to -any, but to that end as it appeareth in the Holy Scriptures.</p> - -<p>This being so, what profit can any body draw from him, if the sense of his Stanza’s -be so obscure, as not to be understood? and although it should be granted, that some -accidents that have happened in Christendom, may sometimes be found in his Prophecies, -what fruit hath the Church reaped of it, seeing that those accidents that -were foretold, were never known, till they had come to pass, and that there was no -avoiding of them?</p> - -<p>It cannot therefore be believed, that God should have been the Author of his -Predictions, but rather the Subtle Spirit of Satan, with whom he was acquainted by -such like black Arts.</p> - -<p>According to those four Objections, the Lord <i>Sponde</i> in the third Volume of his -<i>Annals</i>, made him this Epitaph in the year 1566. <i>Mortuus est hoc anno nugax ille -toto orbe famosus <span class="antiqua">Michael Nostradamus</span>, qui se præscium & præsagum eventuum futurorum -per astrorum influxum venditavit, sub cujus deinceps nomine quivis homines ingeniosi -suas hujusmodi cogitationes protendere consueveruent, in quem valde apposite lusit qui -dixit. <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum falsa damus</i>, &c. In <i>English</i>. In the year 1566. died that -Trifler so famous through all the World, <i>Michael Nostradamus</i> who boasted while he -lived, to know and foretell future things, by the knowledge he had of the influences -of the Planets, under whose name afterwards many ingenious Men have vented their -Imaginations, insomuch, that he that made that Distick, Nostra damus <i>cum falsa -damus</i>, &c. seemeth to have very well said.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. VI.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Proofs setting forth evidently that <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> was enlightned -by the Holy Ghost.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">In consequence of these objections forged by calumny, <i>Nostradamus</i> name hath -been so cried down, that I have thought me self oblidged to make his Apology, -to give the greater credit to his Prophecy, the exposition of which I do here -undertake, and to proove, that effectually he was enlightned by the Holy Ghost: -first, by writting the History of his Life, as I have done in the beginning of this Book; -Secondly, by answering to all the said Objections; Thirdly, by alledging the Elogies -given him by several Grave and Authentical Authors.</p> - -<p>First, I maintain that he was enlightned by the Holy Ghost, by an unanswerable -reason, drawn out the Theology, but before we discourse of it, let us suppose that -<i>Nostradamus</i> hath foretold many things, which absolutely depends from the free will -of men, and cannot be known, neither by judicial Astrology, nor by Satan himself, -such are for exemple the proper names of Persons, which nevertheless he doth in his -Prophecies.</p> - -<p>He nameth the Lord of <i>Monluc</i>, the Sprightful <i>Gascon</i>, the Captain <i>Charry</i>, his -Camerade, the Lord <i>de la Mole</i>, Admiral of <i>Henry</i> the II. Galleys, <i>Entragues</i>, who -was beheaded by order of <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. the Headsman of the Duke of <i>Montmorency</i>, -named <i>Clerepegne</i>; the Bassa <i>Sinan</i>, destroyer of <i>Hungary</i>; the Murderer of <i>Henry</i> -the III. named <i>Clement</i>; the Attorney <i>David</i>, the Captain <i>Ampus</i>; the Mayor of -the City of <i>Puy</i> in <i>Gelay</i>, named <i>Rousseau</i>, under Henry the IV. <i>Lewis</i> Prince of <i>Condé</i>, -under <i>Francis</i> II. <i>Sixtus</i> V. calling him the Son of <i>Hamont</i>; <i>Gabrielle d’Estrée</i>; the -Lord <i>Mutonis</i> sent to <i>Paris</i> by those of <i>Aix</i>, under <i>Charles</i> the IX. the Lord Chancellor -of <i>France</i>, named <i>Antony de Sourdis</i>; the Queen <i>Leuise</i>: <i>Antony</i> of <i>Portugal</i>: -the Governour of <i>Cazal</i> under <i>Henry</i> II.</p> - -<p>Secondly, The number of things is of the same nature: <i>Nostradamus</i> doth often -calculate it; he reckoneth fourteen Confederates for the service of <i>Henry</i> IV. in the -City of <i>Puy</i>: ten great Ships prosecuting extreamly the Admiral in the Battle of -<i>Lepanto</i>: five Ships taken from the <i>Spaniard</i> by those of <i>Diepe</i>, under <i>Henry</i> II. nine -hundred thousands <i>Mores</i> that went out of <i>Spain</i> under <i>Henry</i> IV. three hundred and -fifty thousands killed under <i>Charles</i> IX. and <i>Henry</i> III. three saved at the taking of a -Town in <i>Hungary</i> by the <i>Turks</i>: nine separated from the company of Seditious, that -were to be put to death, three Princes of <i>Turky</i> Massacred, and the fourth being the -youngest saved; thirty Conspirators upon <i>London</i> Bridge, against the Majesty of -King <i>Charles</i> I. and such like.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, We find in these Prophecies, the Prodigies that have no other causes in -nature, then the meer will of God; such as Comets are, the casting of monstrous -Fishes by the Sea upon the Land, the Armies in the Air, the speaking of Dogs, the -birth of Monsters, and such like.</p> - -<p>Fourthly, We find in those Prophecies those actions that are purely indifferent; -for example, that the King of <i>England</i> did appear upon a Scaffold without his Doublet; -that in the place where he was beheaded, another man had been killed three -days before; that <i>Libertat</i> went a Hunting with a Greyhond, and a Blood-hond; -that the two little Royals were conducted to St. <i>Germain</i>, rather then to any other -place, and such like.</p> - -<p>Fifthly, We find the Birth of several particular persons that were born after his -death.</p> - -<p>Sixthly, The Governments of Places given by the free will of Kings to such and -such.</p> - -<p>All these things cannot be known by judicial Astrology, seeing that in Heaven -there is neither Names, nor Numbers, nor extraordinary Prodigies: seeing also that -judicial Astrology presupposeth the Birth of persons, that one may foretel their future -actions; the same things are also unknown to Satan, for the Angelical species -know nothing of individual things, but under the notion of possible, and not of -future.</p> - -<p>Whence I conclude with this irrefragable Argument, that the Author hath -known many several things that are not written in the Heavenly Book, nor represented -to him by Angelical Species, therefore he hath known them from God himself.</p> - -<p>The Author himself in his Epistle to his Son <i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i> confesseth, that he -hath foretold many things by Divine Virtue and Inspiration.</p> - -<p>And a little after he saith, that the knowledge of those things, which meerly depends -from free will, cannot be had either by humane auguries, nor by any other humane -knowledge, nor by any secret virtue that belongeth to sublunary things, but -only by a Light, belonging to the Order of Eternity.</p> - -<p>This is not a small Argument, to confirm what we have said, and to prove that -the Author hath evidently been conscious, that his knowledge came from Heaven, -and that Gods goodness did him that grace; for having rejected and abhorred other -means, that Impostors make use of for foretelling something.</p> - -<p>He writteth all these things of himself: First, in his Liminary Epistle to his Son -<i>Cæsar</i>, he conjureth him, that when he should go about to study the foretelling of -future things by Astrology, to avoid all kind of Magick, prohibited by the Holy -Scripture, and the Canons of the Church; and to encourage him the more to it, he -relateth what happened to him, <i>viz.</i> that having been Divinely enlightned, and fully -persuaded that God only can give the knowledge of future things, which absolutely -depends of the free will of men, he did burn abundance of Writings, wherein was -taught the Art of Prophecying, and as they were a burning, there came out a great -flame, which was like (he thought) to burn his House all to ashes, by which accident -he understood the falsity of such Writings, and that the Devil was vexed to see his -plots discovered; besides that, he confesseth that being the greatest Sinner of the -World, nevertheless he got that favour from Heaven by a Divine Inspiration; and -because no body should doubt of it, he learnedly expoundeth wherein consisteth that -inspired Revelation, he saith that it is, <i>A participation of the Eternal Divinity</i>, by -which we come to judge of what the Holy Ghost imparteth to us; by that participation -of Eternity, the Author doth not understand a communication of the continuance -of the Divine being, but a participation of the Divine knowledge, measured -by its Eternity, as the Schools terms it.</p> - -<p>Effectively, the Author compareth this participation to a glistering flame, which -createth a new day in our understanding, which flame proceeding from Gods infinite -knowledge, who seeth and comprehendeth what is Eternity, doth impart unto us -what is inclosed in the volubility of the Heavens.</p> - -<p>After this testimony, which wholly destroyeth the Sinister opinions that men had -of his Prophecies, he sheweth how Judicial Astrology may agree with the knowledge -of that which proceedeth from a Prophetical Spirit.</p> - -<p>It is true, saith he, that sometimes God imparteth this Light not only to the unlearned, -and to his Holy Prophets, but also to those that are versed in Judicial Astrology, -making that instrumental for the confirmation of his inspired truths: As we -see that natural Sciences, help the light of the Faith, and make a certain disposition in -the mind fitter then ordinary, to receive those Divine impressions.</p> - -<p>Thus (saith he) in the beginning of the Epistle, God did supernaturaly inspire me, -not by any Bacchick fury, nor by Lymphatical motions, as he did the <i>Sybilles</i>; but -by Astronomical assertions; that is to say, that God gave him that grace, not by -any Extasy, but by studying those rules, which Astrology teacheth.</p> - -<p>The same things he saith again a little after in this manner: the Astrologer being -in his Study, and consulting the Astronomical Rules upon the motions of the Heavens, -the Conjunction and several Aspects of the Planets, he guesseth at some future -events, of which being not certain, this Divine Light riseth in his mind, and imparteth -clearly to him what he knew before, only <i>Ænigmatically</i> and obscurely, and -in the shade of that natural light.</p> - -<p>Sometimes also (saith he) this Light cometh the first into the Astrologers mind, -and he afterwards comparing the thing revealed unto him with the Astronomical -rules, he seeth that they do wholly agree together; and this is the method that he -hath made use of, to know whether the inspired truths were agreeing with the Astronomical -Calculations; a method that he hath made use of some times, but not always, -for he hath foretold many things, which he could not read in the Heavens.</p> - -<p>By these testimonies of the Author himself, every one may see how he made use -of Judicial Astrology, and wherefore he studied it so much; how far his knowledge -did extend; the glory he giveth to God alone, for his Prophetical knowledge; what -horrour he hath always had against unlawful means to attain unto it; how much he -did value that Grace, considering his unworthiness; and the manner how the Lord -was pleased to gratifie him.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. VII.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Answer to the first Objection against <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span>, which pretendeth to -rank him among the false Prophets.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">Let us see now what calumny pretendeth for the obscuring this Prophet of our -days; the knowledge of future things (saith she) is a priviledge belonging to -the Saints, and to those whom God hath endowed with an eminent vertue. I acknowledge, -it is so commonly, and in the ordinary way of Grace, but if God be -pleased to impart that priviledge to those that have not attained to that Degree of -Holiness, and that it really appeareth by the reasons of Theologie, that they have -been gratified with it, we are bound to admire his Royal bounty, which giveth when, -and to whom he pleaseth: for example, no body deserveth to be a Marshal of -<i>France</i>, but he that hath been in several Battles, and at the taking of many Towns; -but if the King be pleased to honour with that Dignity a Gentleman that never -Warred but against the Deer, the Kings goodness is to be praised, which extendeth -even to those that have not deserved it; it is the same reason here, it is visibly apparent -that <i>Nostradamus</i> hath been enlightned by the Holy Ghost, and yet he hath not -imitated the lifes of those great Saints of the Church: what can be inferred from -thence, but that it was Gods pleasure to extend his bounty upon his poor Creatures, -which is easie to be granted in this point, because the gift of Prophecy is not a sanctifying -Grace, but a supernatural gift, of which a sinner is capable of, as we see in -<i>Balaam</i>, <i>Caiaphas</i>, and the <i>Sybilles</i>, and much more in a Christian, who observeth -Gods Commandments, and endeavoureth to keep himself in his Grace.</p> - -<p>But (saith calumny) Christian piety seemeth to be repugnant to this Divine disposition, -seeing that in <i>Nostradamus</i> time, there were thousands in the Church of -God that were capable of this favour, and to prefer to them a Physitian, an Astrologer, -and an Almanack-maker, is a thing that the Wits cannot apprehend so well, as -to frame a good opinion for this Author.</p> - -<p>Hold there Reader, do not enter into the Sanctuary of Gods secret Judgements, -you should loose you self, and never find the way out: how many such questions -might I ask you? why did God in former times chuse the Family and person of -David, and preferred it to so many others of the Children of <i>Israel</i>? why did Christ -raise <i>Judas</i> to the dignity of an Apostle, preferring him before <i>Nathaniel</i>, and so many -others that lived Holily.</p> - -<p>Bring therefore no more such questions, but say with the Scripture, <i>As it pleased -the Lord, so it was done</i>: I will nevertheless give you some satisfaction in that point. -There was two things in the Author which might have procured that blessing from -God.</p> - -<p>The first is, that having in his possession those writtings which promised the knowledge -of future things, to which he was much inclined, he slighted and burnt them, -being persuaded that God alone was the Author of this Grace; I do esteem that -action very Heroical in its circumstance, because being inticed by a vehement curiosity -to know future things, and having in his hand the means that opened the way to -it, he did Sacrifice them to God, for which perhaps God was willing to gratifie him -with this favour.</p> - -<p>The second thing that was in <i>Nostradamus</i> is, that he had naturally a <i>Genius</i> for -the knowing of future things, as himself confesseth in two Epistles to King <i>Henry</i> -the II. and to <i>Cæsar</i> his own Son, and besides that <i>Genius</i>, the knowledge of Astrology, -did smooth him the way to discover many future events. Having those two -things, he had a greater disposition then others to receive those Supernatural Lights; -and as God is pleased to work sweetly in his Creatures, and to give some forerunning -dispositions to those Graces he intendeth to bestow, it seemeth that to that purpose -he did chuse our Author to reveal him so many wonderful secrets.</p> - -<p>We see every day that God in the distributing of his Graces carrieth himself towards -us, according to our humours and natural inclinations, he employeth those -that have a generous and Martial heart for the defence of his Church, and the destruction -of Tyrants; he leadeth those of a melancholick humour into Colledges and -Cloisters, and cherisheth tenderly, those that are of meek and mild disposition; even -so, seeing <i>Nostradamus</i> inclined to this kind of knowledge, he gave him in a great -measure the grace of it.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. VIII.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Answer to the second Objection, which would have him pass -for a Doctor.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">We shall not have much to say to these more moderate persons, seeing that we -have already given the reason of it, <i>viz.</i> the covetousness of the Booksellers -and Printers, who made use of the Authors name, for the better sale of their -false Almanacks, therefore if <i>Jodelle</i> the Poet grounded upon this opinion, made that -Satyrical Distick.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span>.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>We answer him,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span> cum verba damus quæ <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> dat,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Nam quæcunque dedit nil nisi vera dedit.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Or thus</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i><span class="antiqua">Vera damus</span> cum verba damus quæ <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> dat,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Sed cum <span class="antiqua">Nostra damus</span>, nil nisi falsa damus.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h3>CHAP. IX.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Answer to the third Objection, which accuseth him of the Black -Art, and of Negromancy.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">The more doth Calumny lift up her self against this great man, the weaker are -her arguments, like the smoke which is so much the easier dissipated, as it -ascendeth higher.</p> - -<p>Her reason is impertinent in this distributive argument, he hath known those -things (saith she) which he could not know by the Planets, and he had them not from -God, therefore he had them from Satan.</p> - -<p>And we answer this argument in the same way, he hath known those things which -he could not know by the Planets, nor by Satan, therefore he had them from God; -this Argument is concluding, but that of calumny halteth, for it ought to have proved -that he had not his knowledge from God, and that all those things he hath -known may be known to Satan, which two things we have manifestly proved to be -false, therefore if the Lord <i>Florimond de Raimond</i> was alive, I believe he would correct -what he hath written against him.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. X.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Answer to the fourth Objection, of Calumny, which brandeth our Author -with the title of Chief of the Seductors and Impostors.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">The Weapons of this <i>Medusa</i> are sharper in this point then in others, therefore -our Buckler accordingly must be of the best mettle and temper.</p> - -<p>We cannot deny but <i>Nostradamus</i> hath affected obscurity, himself acknowledgeth -it in his two Epistles, in that to <i>Cæsar</i> his son, he saith, he hath done -it, not only because of the times wherein he lived, but also by reason of those that -were to follow, in the times wherein he lived the Case was as it is now, <i>Veritas odium -parit</i>, and this hatred in powerful men is prejudicial to those that speak the Truth, -he was also cautious in that, by reason of the times following; for if he had plainly -declared what he meant, the Wits would have laughed at it, and would not have -believed those strange revolutions that came to pass, and which our Author had -foretold. In his Epistle to <i>Henry</i> the II he telleth him, that he doth purposely -make use of obscure terms to express his mind, for the reasons before alledged.</p> - -<p>Now <i>Calumny</i> saith, that this affectation of obscurity is a sign that God was not -the Author of his Knowledge, seeing that by this obscurity they have proved unprofitable -to the Church.</p> - -<p>I answer first, that the consequence is false; for the Holy Prophets have spoken -so obscurely, that a great part of what they had Prophecied was not known till -after it had come to pass.</p> - -<p>I answer secondly, that although Prophecies were not understood till after the -fulfilling thereof, it doth not follow that they were unprofitable; because by their -fulfilling in due time, we gather, that he who revealed them was the true God, -Lord of times and Eternity, and therefore being the God of <i>Israel</i>, and of the -Christians, he ought to be worshiped. By this principle <i>Cyrus</i> and <i>Alexander</i> knew -the true God, <i>Cyrus</i> by having seen the Prophecies of <i>Isaiah</i>, and <i>Alexander</i> those -of <i>Daniel</i>.</p> - -<p>Therefore as the Prophecies of the Saints have not been fruitless, though not -understood till they were fulfilled, even so we must not infer that <i>Nostradamus</i>’s Prophecies -have been useless, though they have remained in obscurity so long a while.</p> - -<p>Besides, there is no doubt but <i>Nostradamus</i> having Prophecied so many several -things that are come to pass, but that hereafter when the Heathen shall see it they -shall glorifie God, and shall acknowledge a true Religion, as did <i>Cyrus</i>, who many -Authors believe to have obtained Salvation.</p> - -<p>I answer in the third place, that God permitteth ordinarily that Prophecies lie long -in the dark, and then raiseth the Spirit of some men to expound them, as he did -that of <i>Daniel</i> to interpret the 70 Weeks of the <i>Babylonian</i> Captivity, Prophecied -by <i>Jeremiah</i>, to incourage the faithful three ways.</p> - -<p>First, in shewing them, that if the first Prophecies have been punctually fulfilled, -the rest will likewise come to pass, seeing the same God hath dictated them.</p> - -<p>Secondly, in unfolding to them the future wonders, of which they shall be partakers.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, in giving warning how they may attain to them, and shew those accidents -that might be an hindrance. Thus God did permit, that for the space of -100. years <i>Nostradamus</i> Prophecies should lie in darkness, and be contemned, but -after that time God will raise some body to interpret them, whence the faithful seeing -so many things foretold come to pass so exactly, will incourage one another by -seing so many wonderful prodigies, of whom they shall be Eye Witnesses.</p> - -<p>As for my part I have undertaken this Work, only to authorise the wonders that -shall be seen in our days, and to invite the Christian Princes to the same design.</p> - -<p>The conclusion of this discourse is, that our <i>Medusa Calumny</i>, must needs retreat -in her dens, and that we ought to forgive those Authors that have spoken so ill of -our Author, seing they wanted the Intelligence of his Prophecies, and that the -Church did suspend the authorising of them.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. XI.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Some difficulties against what we have said, drawn out of -<span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> his own Epistles.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">We have (thanks be to God) sheltered this famous man from the back-biting -of <i>Calumny</i>, but that we may clear wholly the Heaven of this -reputation, we add this Chapter more for the clearing of some words that are in -his Epistles, which seem to contradict some of those things we have said; the Author -in his Epistles to his Son <i>Cæsar</i>, after he had said that God had disposed him to -receive thy impression of supernatural lights, not by a <i>Bacchant furor</i>, nor by a <i>Lymphatical -motion</i>, but by <i>Astronomical assertions</i>, he saith in the same Epistle towards -the end; <i>That sometimes in the Week being surprised by a Lymphatick humor, and -making his Nocturnal Studies sweet by his calculations, he made Books of Prophecies, -each one containing a hundred Astronomical Stanza’s, which he endeavoured to set out -something obscurely</i>, from which words it might be gathered, that he made his -Prophecies by a Lymphatical Spirit, and by the only judicial Astrology.</p> - -<p>And in the Epistle to King <i>Henry</i> the II. he seemeth to confess, that his Prophecie -is nothing but a natural Genius, which he had by Inheritance from his Ancestors.</p> - -<p>To these difficulties I answer, supposing first that anciently those were called -Lymphaticks, who were mad for Love; because the first that was observed among -the Ancients to be mad with that passion, threw himself into the water, which in -Latine is called <i>Lympha</i>, whence all those that were afterwards transported with the -excess of any passion, either of Love, Melancholy, Choler or Envy, have been -called Lymphaticks.</p> - -<p>So that in this place a Lymphatical motion is nothing properly but a deep Melancholy, -which separating us from all Earthly things, doth transport the mind to extraordinary -thoughts either good or bad.</p> - -<p>This being suposed, I say that the Author confesseth, that his retreat, solitariness, -nocturnal Watchings, and Melancholy, have disposed him much to the -receiving of that Heavenly flame, which is the cause of Vaticination and Prophecie.</p> - -<p>And because he did often spend the whole nights in this study, this Nocturnal -retreat caused in him a retirement from all worldly things, at which time he felt a -Divine elevating Virtue, that raised his understanding to those Divine Knowledges.</p> - -<p>And because this elevating Vertue was caused in him by Divine operation, he -doth attribute always his Prophecies to God alone; and by reason that this elevation -hath some resemblance with that of the Lymphaticks, he saith, that sometimes -he did Lymphatise not properly speaking, but by resemblance.</p> - -<p>So that it is true, our Author did not receive his Prophecies by Lymphatical motion, -or <i>Bacchant furie</i>, but from God himself, who did work in him while he observed -his Astronomical assertions; and it is also true, that he felt this Divine operation -by a kind of a Lymphatical motion.</p> - -<p>Concerning what he saith to <i>Henry</i> the II. it is certain he maketh use of that Language -as much by a motive of Truth to conceal that Grace which he had received -from God, as of Humility.</p> - -<p>By a Motive of Truth, because effectually; because all the <i>Nostradamus</i>’s had -some tincture of Prophecie, and his Son the Capucin acknowledgeth it himself.</p> - -<p>By a Motive of Humility; because acknowledging himself to be a miserable sinner, -and seeing that this gift of Prophecie was not ordinarily granted but unto Saints. -He chuseth rather to attribute his Prophecies to his Genius, than otherways to procure -a Fame and Authority to his predictions.</p> - -<p>In confirmation of what we have said, <i>That he was often in that transport</i>, many -years before his death he made the Stanza of the Century, in which is contained all -the great Works of the Philosophers, and foretelleth, that a great Divine shall attain -to the perfection of that great Work, which Divine is called, the <i>Divine -Verbe</i>, turning into <i>French</i> the Word θεολογος, which signifieth Divine Word or -Verb. Nevertheless he never wrought himself at that Work, but got his living -Honourably by his practise of Physick, by which we may see, that he did write -some things which himself understood not, unless they were such general ones, as -might be read in the Heavens.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. XII.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Elogies given to <span class="antiqua">Nostradamus</span> by several Authentical Authors.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">If several Authors either by envy or ignorance have defamed our Author, others -of no shall repute have taken his defence in hand.</p> - -<p>D’<i>Aurat</i> one of the most excellent Poets of <i>France</i>, living at the same time as -<i>Nostradamus</i>, made a few explications of his Prophecies, which as the report goes, -did please the Readers. I am sorry I could not get them, it would have been some -ease to me; for it is easier to add than to invent. The first Volume of the Lord -<i>la Croix du Main</i>, maketh honourable mention of him, the same saith, that his -Motto was <i>Felix Oviam prior Ætas</i>, Happy the first Age that was contented with -their Flock, shewing by that, what esteem he had of frugality and sincerity of manners, -and what aversion he had against the Vices of his Age, the unruliness of manners, -and cousenage of men. <i>Ronsard</i> the Prince of the <i>French</i> Poets singeth his -praises: The Lord <i>Boucher</i> in that great Volume, intitled the <i>Mistical Crown</i>, in -favour of the future <i>Croisade</i>, doth vindicate our Author from <i>Calumny</i>, and expoundeth -some of his Prophecies pretty happily.</p> - -<p>I will not relate here what his Son <i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i> writeth modestly of him in -his History of <i>Provence</i>, under <i>Lewis</i> the XII. <i>Henry</i> the II. and <i>Charles</i> the IX. his -Evidence may be suspected, because of the Consanguinity.</p> - -<p>One of the greatest Wits of this last Age, who desireth to be nameless, giveth -him this Character.</p> - -<p>First, That God Almighty hath chosen <i>Michael Nostradamus</i> among the common -sort of Christians, to impart unto him the knowledge of many prodigious and -extraordinary future things.</p> - -<p>Secondly, He maintaineth, that after the Apostles and Canonical Prophets, he -is the first of all in three things, in his certainty and infallibility, in the generality and -in the quantity. As to the first, he doth not doubt but the Abbot <i>Joachim</i> ought -to give him place; for though he hath foretold some things that have come to pass, -he hath written a hundred others which are meer fopperies.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, He maintaineth that the Emperour <i>Leo</i> in his prophetical Tables is far -below him; for he doth only aim at those things which regard the Eastern Empire, -as <i>Theophrastus Paracelsus</i> hath done for the Western.</p> - -<p>Concerning the quantity of things, he maintaineth, that none of the others can -dispute it with him; for <i>Nostradamus</i> hath made above a thousand stanza’s (if we -had them all) each of which containeth two or three prophetical Truths, some of -which regard the East, others the West, others some private Kingdoms and States -others private and particular things, and all with Truth and certainty.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. XIII.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>What these Stanza’s Prophecie of.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">The Author in his Epistle to King <i>Henry</i> the II. saith, that he treateth of -things which were to happen in many Cities and Towns of <i>Europe</i>, and of a -part of <i>Asia</i> and <i>Africa</i>.</p> - -<p>And to say Truth, I have found nothing in them concerning the East or West, -<i>Jappan</i> or <i>China</i>.</p> - -<p>He treateth chiefly of <i>France</i> as of his Native Kingdom, and of his own Countrey -<i>Provence</i>, and that which is next to it, viz. <i>Piemont</i>.</p> - -<p>He speaketh amply of the Popes, and of <i>Italy</i>, <i>Turky</i> and <i>England</i>: As for the -Empire <i>Spain</i>, and <i>Suedeland</i>, he doth moderately speak of them. Concerning -<i>Æthiopia</i> and <i>Africa</i> there is some nine or ten Stanza’s.</p> - -<p>In all those places he foretelleth many things, not only general for every State, -but also particular and individual for several persons. He also foretelleth many supernatural -prodigies in the Heavens, the Air, the Sea, and the Land.</p> - -<p>He hath inserted among his Prophecies four Horoscopes, the first of the Grandfather -of the Lord l’<i>Ainier</i> in the Province of <i>Anjou</i>; the second of one called <i>Urnel -Vausile</i>; the third of one <i>Cosme du Jardin</i>; and the fourth of one, whom he nameth -not, but describeth him by his stature.</p> - -<h3>CHAP. XIV.<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>Since what time these Prophecies began.</i></span></h3> - -<p class="dcap">It is certain that they began in <i>January</i> 1555. because he dedicated the first -seven Centuries to his Son <i>Cæsar</i> the first day of <i>March</i> in the said year, and -consequently they were made before that time, and we cannot allow less than -two Months to an Author for the making of 700. Stanza’s: Nevertheless for a -greater manifestation of his prophetical Spirit, I have not found any of his Prophecies -that did come to pass before the first of <i>March</i> 1555.</p> - -<p>As for the Eight, Ninth and Ten Century, there is reason to believe, that the -effect of them doth not begin before the <i>27 June 1558</i>. which is the date of his Liminary -Epistle to <i>Henry</i> the II. Nevertheless he saith in the same Epistle, that in a -writing by it self he will set down the exposition of his Prophecies, beginning the -14 of <i>March</i> 1557. and in the Epistle to <i>Nostradamus</i> his Son, he saith in general that -he hath composed Books of Prophecies, each one containing one hundred Stanza’s, -without specifying whether he spoke of the seven that he dedicated to him, or of all -the others.</p> - -<p>As for my part, I believe he had made them all in the year 1555. but that he had -not yet examined the three last Centuries, according to the Calculation of his Astronomical -assertions, as he seemeth to indicate often in his Epistle to <i>Henry</i> II. and to -say the truth, I have found some Stanza’s, which were fulfilled before the year 1558. -though very few.</p> - -<p>As for the extent of his Prophecies, it is certain, that it is to the end of the World, -as I shall make it appear in the explication of the 48, the 49, and 56. Stanza’s of the -first Century, and the 72, 73, and 94. of the tenth, and all according to the Holy -Scripture.</p> - -<p>All these things being premised, we shall proceed to the explication of the Prophecies, -setting first the Authors Luminary Epistle to his Son.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller gesperrt">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PREFACE</span><br /> -<span class="smaller"><span class="gesperrt">TO</span> <i>Mr.</i></span><br /> -<span class="larger">Michael Nostradamus</span><br /> -<span class="smaller gesperrt">HIS</span><br /> -<span class="larger">PROPHECIES,</span><br /> -<i>Ad <span class="antiqua">Cæsarem Nostradamum</span> Filium vita -& Felicitas.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-t.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">Thy late coming, <i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i>, my son, hath -caused me to bestow a great deal of time in continual -and nocturnal watchings, that I might leave a -Memorial of me after my death, to the common -benefit of Mankind, concerning the things which the -Divine Essence hath revealed to me by Astronomical -Revolutions; and since it hath pleased the immortal God, that -thou are come late into this World, and canst not say that thy -years that are but few, but thy Months are incapable to receive -into thy weak understanding, what I am forced to define of futurity, -since it is not possible to leave thee in Writing, what might -be obliterated by the injury of times, for the Hereditary word of -<i>occult prædictions</i> shall be lockt up in my brest, considering also -that the events are definitely uncertain, and that all is governed by -the power of God, who inspired us not by a Bacchant fury or -Lymphatick motion, but by Astronomical affections. <i>Soli numine -Divino afflati præsagiunt & Spiritu Prophetico particularia</i>: Although -I have often foretold long before what hath afterwards -come to pass, and in particular Regions, acknowledging all to -have been done by Divine Vertue and Inspiration, being willing -to hold my peace by reason of the injury, not onely of the present -time, but also of the future, and to put them in Writing, because -the Kingdoms, Sects, and Regions shall be so Diametrically opposed, -that if I should relate what shall happen hereafter, those of -the present Reign, Sect, Religion and Faith, would find it so disagreeing -with their fances, that they would condemn that which -future Ages shall find and know to be true; considering also the -saying of our Saviour, <i>Nolite Sanctum dare canibus ne conculcent -pedibus & conversi discumpant vos</i>, which hath been the cause that -I have withdrawn my tongue from the Vulgar, and my Pen from -Paper. But afterwards I was willing for the common good to enlarge -my self in dark and abstruse Sentences, declaring the future -Events, chiefly the most urgent, and those which I foresaw (what -ever humane mutation happened) would not offend the hearers, all -under dark figures more then Prophetical, for although, <i>Abscondisti -hæc a sapientibus & prudensibus</i>, i. e. <i>potentibus & Regibus enucleasti -ea exiguis & tennibus</i>, and the Prophets by means onely of -the immortal God and good Angels, have received the Spirit of -Vaticination, by which they foresee things, and foretel future events; -for nothing is perfect without him, whose power and goodness is so -great to his Creatures, that though they are but men, nevertheless -by the likeness of our good Genius to the Angels, this heat and -Prophetical power draws near us, as it happens by the Beams of -the Sun, which cast their influence both on Elementary and not -Elementary bodies; as for us who are men, we cannot attain any -thing by our natural knowledge, of the secrets of God our Creator. -<i>Quia non est nostrum nosse tempora nec momenta</i>, &c.</p> - -<p>Besides, although there is, or may come some persons, to whom -God Almighty will reveal by impressions made on his understanding -some secrets of the future, according to the Judicial Astrology, as -it hath happened in former times, that a certain power and voluntary -faculty possessed them as a flame of fire, so that by his inspiration, -they were able to judge of Divine and Humane things: for -the Divine works that are absolutely necessary, God will end. But -my son, I speak to thee too obscurely; but as for the secrets that -are received by the subtle Spirit of fire, by which the understanding -being moved, doth contemplate the highest Celestial Bodies, -as being active and vigilant to the very pronunciation without fear, -or any shameful loquacity: all which proceeded from the Divine -Power of the Eternal God, from whom all goodness floweth. Now -my son, although I have inserted the name of Prophet here, I will -not attribute to my self so sublime a Title, for <i>qui Propheta dicitur -hodie olim vocabatur videns</i>, and Prophets are those properly -(my Son) that see things remote from the natural knowledge of -Men; but put the case, the Prophets by the means of the perfect -light of Prophecy, may see as well Divine things as Humane, -(which cannot be seeing the effects of future predictions) do extend -a great way, for the secrets of God are incomprehensible, and the -efficient power moveth afar off the natural knowledge, taking their -beginning at the free will, cause those things to appear, which -otherwise could not be known, neither by humane auguries, or -any hidden knowledge or secret virtue under Heaven, but only by -the means of some indivisible Eternal being, or Comitial and -Herculean agitation, the causes come to be known by the Cœlestial -motion. I say not therefore my Son, that you may not understand -me well, because the knowledge of this matter cannot -yet be imprinted in thy weak brain, but that future causes afar off -are subject to the knowledge of humane Creatures, if (notwithstanding -the Creature) things present and future were neither obscure -nor hidden from the intellectual seal; but the perfect knowledge -of the cause of things, cannot be acquired without the Divine -Inspiration, seeing that all Prophetical Inspiration received, -hath its original principle from God the Creator, next, from good -Luck, and afterwards from Nature, therefore cases indifferently -produced or not produced, the Prophecy partly happens where -it hath been foretold, for the understanding being intellectually -created, cannot see occult things, unless it be by the voice coming -from the <i>Lymbo</i>, by the means of the thin flame, to which the -knowledge of future causes is inclined; and also my Son I intreat -thee not to bestow thy understanding on such fopperies, -which drie up the Body and damn the Soul, bringing vexation to -the Senses; chiefly abhor the vanity of the execrable Magick, forbidden -by the Sacred Scriptures, and by the Canons of the Church; -in the first of which is excepted Judicial Astrology, by which, and -by the means of Divine Inspiration, with continual supputations, -we have put in writting our Prophecies. And although this occult -Philosophy was not forbidden, I could never be persuaded to -meddle with it, although many Volums concerning that Art, which -hath been concealed a great while, were presented to me; but -fearing what might happen, after I had read them, I presented -them to <i>Vulcan</i>, who while he was a devouring them, the flame -mixing with the Air, made an unwonted light more bright then the -usual flame, and as if it had been a Lightning, shining all the house -over, as if it had been all in a flame; therefore that henceforth you -might not be abused in the search of the perfect Transformation, as -much selene as solar, and to seek in the waters uncorruptible mettal; -I have burnt them all to ashes, but as to the judgement which -cometh to be perfected by the help of the Cœlestial Judgement, I -will manifest to you, that you may have knowledge of future -things, rejecting the fantastical imaginations that should happen -by the limiting the particularity of Places; by Divine inspiration, -supernatural, according to the Cœlestial figures, the places, and a -part of the time, by an occult, property, and by a Divine virtue, -power and faculty, in the presence of which the three times are -comprehended by Eternity, revolution being tyed to the cause -that is past, present, and future, <i>Quia omnia sunt Nuda & aperta</i>, -&c. therefore my Son, thou mayst notwithstanding thy tender -brain comprehend things that shall happen hereafter, and may be -foretold by cœlestial natural lights, and by the Spirit of Prophecy; -not that I will attribute to my self the name of a Prophet, but as a -mortal man, being no farther from Heaven by my sence, then I am -from Earth by my Feet, <i>possum errare, falli, decipi</i>; I am the greatest -Sinner of the World, subject to all humane afflictions, but being -supprised sometimes in the week by a Prophetical humour, and by -a long Calculation, pleasing my self in my Study, I have made -Books of Prophecies, each one containing a hundred Astronomical -Stanza’s, which I have joyned obscurely, and are perpetual Vaticinations -from this year to the year 3797. at which some perhaps -will frown, seeing so large an extention of time, and that I treat of -every thing under the Moon, if thou livest the natural Age of a -Man, thou shalt see in thy Climat, and under the Heaven of thy -Nativity the future things that have been foretold, although God -only is he who knoweth the Eternity of his Light, proceeding from -himself; and I say freely to those to whom his incomprehensible -greatness hath by a long melancholick inspiration revealed, that by -the means of this occult cause Divinely manifested, chiefly by two -principal causes, which are comprehended in the understanding of -him that is Inspired and Prophecyeth, one is that he cleareth the -supernatural Light in the person that foretelleth by the Doctrine -of the Planets, and Prophecyeth by inspired Revelation, which is a -kind of participation of the Divine Eternity, by the means of -which the Prophet judgeth of what the Divine Spirit hath given -him by the means of God the Creatour, and by a natural instigation, -<i>viz.</i> that what is predicted is true, and hath taken its original -from above, and such light and small flame is of all efficacy and -sublimity, no less then the natural light makes the Philosophers so -secure, that by the means of the principles of the first cause, they -have attained the greatest depth of the profoundest science; but that -I may not wander too far (my Son) from the capacity of thy sense, -as also, because I find that Learning would be at a great loss, and -that before the universal Conflagration shall happen so many great -Inundations, that there shall scarce be any Land, that shall not be -covered with water, and this shall last so long, that except <i>Ænographies</i> -and <i>Topographies</i> all shall perish, also before and after these -Inundations in many Countreys there shall be such scarcety of rain, -and such a deal of fire, and burning stones shall fall from Heaven, -that nothing unconsumed shall be left, and this shall happen a little -while before the great conflagration; for although the Planet <i>Mars</i> -makes an end of his course, and is come to the end of his last Period, -nevertheless he shall begin it again, but some shall be gathered -in <i>Aquarius</i> for many years, others in <i>Cancer</i> also for many -years, and now we are governed by the Moon, under the power of -Almighty God; which Moon before she hath finished her Circuit, -the Sun shall come, and then <i>Saturn</i>, for according to the Cœlestial -Signs, the Reign of <i>Saturn</i> shall come again, so that all being Calculated, -the World draws near to an Anaragonick revolution, and -at this present that I write this before 177. years, three Months, -eleven Days, through Pestilence, Famine, War, and for the most -part Inundations, the World between this and that prefixed time, -before and after for several times shall be so diminished, and the -people shall be so few, that they shall not find enough to Till the -Ground, so that they shall remain fallow as long as they have been -Tilled; although we be in the seventh Millenary, which ends all -and brings us near the eighth, where the Firmament of the eighth -Sphere is, which in a <i>Latitudinary dimention</i> is the place where the -great God shall make an end of the revolution, where the Cœlestial -Bodies shall begin to move again. By that Superiour motion -that maketh the Earth firm and stable, <i>non inclinabitur in seculum -seculi</i>, unless his will be accomplished, and not otherwise; although -by ambiguous opinions exceeding all natural reasons by -<i>Mahometical</i> Dreams, also sometimes God the Creator by the Ministers -of his Messengers of fire and flame shows to our external -senses, and chiefly to our eyes, the causes of future Predictions, -signifying the future Event, that he will manifest to him that Prophecyeth -for the Prophecy that is made by the Internal Light, -comes to judge of the thing, partly with and by the means of External -Light, for although the party which seemeth to have by the -eye of understanding, what it hath not by the Lœsion of its imaginative -sense, there is no reason why what he foretelleth should -come by Divine Inspiration, or by the means of an Angelical Spirit, -inspired into the Prophetick person, annointing him with vaticination, -moving the fore part of his fancy, by divers nocturnal -apparitions, so that by Astronomical administration, he Prophecyeth -with a Divine certitude, joyned to the Holy prediction of -the future, having no other regard then to the freedom of his -mind. Come now my Son, and understand what I find by my revolutions, -which are agreeing with the Divine Inspiration, <i>viz.</i> -that the Swords draws near to us now, and the Plague and the War -more horrid then hath been seen in the Life of three Men before, -as also by Famine, which shall return often, for the Stars agree -with the revolution, as also he said <i>visitabo in virgâ ferreà iniquitates -eorum & in verberibus percutiam eos</i>, for the Mercies of God -shall not be spread a while, my Son, before most of my Prophecies -shall come to pass; then oftentimes shall happen sinister storms, -(<i>Conteram ergo <span class="antiqua">(said the Lord)</span> & confringam & non miserebor</i>) -and a thousand other accidents that shall happen by Waters and -continual Rains, as I have more fully at large declared in my other -Prophecies, written in <i>solutâ oratione</i>, limiting the places, times -and prefixed terms, that men coming after, may see and know -that those accidents are certainly come to pass, as we have marked -in other places, speaking more clearly, although the explication be -involved in obscurity, <i>sed quando submovenda erit ignorantia</i>, the -case shall be made more clear; making an end here, my Son, accept -of this Gift of thy Father <i>Michael Nostradamus</i>, hoping to -expound to thee every Prophecy of these Stanza’s, praying to the -Immortal God, that he would grant thee a long Life in Felicity.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>From <span class="antiqua">Salon</span> this 1. of <span class="antiqua">March</span> 1555.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h1><span class="smaller gesperrt">THE TRUE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller gesperrt">OR</span><br /> -PROGNOSTICATIONS<br /> -<span class="smaller gesperrt">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus,<br /> -<span class="smaller">Physician to <span class="gesperrt"><i>HENRY</i> II.</span> <span class="gesperrt"><i>FRANCIS</i> II.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">And <span class="gesperrt"><i>CHARLES</i> IX.</span> Kings of <span class="gesperrt">FRANCE</span>, and<br /> -one of the most excellent <i>Astronomers</i> that ever were.</span></span></h1> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> I</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-e.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Estant assis, de nuit secrette estude,</div> - <div class="verse">Seul, reposé sur la selle d’airain,</div> - <div class="verse">Flambe exigüe, sortant de solitude,</div> - <div class="verse">Fait proferer qui n’est a croire vain.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Sitting by Night in my secret Study</div> - <div class="verse">Alone, resting upon the Brazen Stool,</div> - <div class="verse">A slight flame breaking forth out of that solitude,</div> - <div class="verse">Makes me utter what is not in vain to believe.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOTATION.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In this <i>Stanza</i>, <i>Nostradamus</i> expresseth those Humane dispositions which he made -use of to be favoured of God, for the knowledge of future things, to the benefit -of the Publick.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<p>The first Disposition, was the tranquility of Mind, when he saith, <i>Sitting by night</i>; -Because a troubled Mind cannot see clearly the Things it is busie about, no more than -tossed Waters can distinctly represent the Objects that are opposed to them. Thus we -read in the Scripture, that the Prophet <i>Elishah</i>, being transported with Zeal against -<i>Joram</i> King of <i>Israel</i>; and nevertheless willing to consult God concerning the event -of the Warr against the <i>Moabites</i>, called for a Minstrel, that the Harmony of the Instrument -might quiet his Mind, as it did happen. <i>And it came to pass when the Minstrel -played, that the Hand of the Lord came upon him</i>, 2 Kings <i>chap. 3. ver. 15.</i></p> - -<p>The Author in his <i>Dedicatory Epistle</i> to his Son <i>Cæsar</i>, calleth this Tranquility of -Mind, <i>A long Melancholick Inspiration</i>; because the Melancholick Humour and Mind -sequestreth a Man from the concerns of worldly things, and maketh him present to -himself, so that his Understanding is not darkned by a multitude of <i>Species</i> that troubles -its Operation.</p> - -<p>The Second Disposition, was, the Silence of the Night; For Man who is compounded -of Body and Soul, doth notably intricate himself in External things by the -commerce of the Senses with the Objects; which obligeth him to withdraw himself -from visible things, when he intends to apply himself to some serious Study. And as -the silence of the Night causeth in the Universe a cessation of noises and clashings in -Business, Visits and Colloquies, the Mind is then more at rest. Besides that, Night -covering with her Darkness our Hemisphere, our Senses are less distracted, and our -Internal Faculties are more united to serve the Operations of the Understanding.</p> - -<p>Therefore the Author in his two <i>Liminary Epistles</i>, makes often mention of his -continual Nocturnal Watchings, of his Sweet-smelling nocturnal Studies, and of his -Nocturnal and Prophetical Calculations.</p> - -<p>The Third Disposition, was Solitariness; that is, having no other Conversation -then that of his Books, being retired in his Study, Alone. For it seemeth that God -commonly maketh use of Solitariness when he doth impart himself to Men, and revealeth -them his Oracles: And the <i>Sybils</i> were chosen to be Prophets, as much for -their Solitariness, as for their Chastity.</p> - -<p>The Author saith, that with those three Dispositions he raised himself to the -knowledge of future things; which is signified by those words, <i>Resting upon the Brazen -Stool</i>. <i>Servius</i> in his <i>Commentaries</i> upon <i>Virgil</i>, speaking of this Brazen Stool, saith -two things of it. The First, that this Stool was a Table set upon a <i>Trevet</i>, called by -the <i>Greeks</i> τρίπους, and by the Latines <i>Tripus</i>. The Second is, that the <i>Sybils</i>, or the -Priests of the <i>Delphick</i> Temple of <i>Apollo</i>, got upon that Table, when they went about to -pronounce their Oracles. <i>Pliny</i>, in his 33. Book, Chap. 3. saith, that they called -those Tables <i>Cortinas</i>, and that some were made of Brass for the use aforesaid.</p> - -<p>From the use of that Brazen <i>Trevet</i> is come the Proverb, <i>Ex tripode loqui</i>. When -one speaketh like an Oracle. Thus the Author willing to express, that being in his -Study in the solitariness of the Night, he raised himself to the Knowledge of Future -things, to write them, and transmit them to Posterity; he saith, <i>He was sitting or resting -upon the Brazen Stool</i>.</p> - -<p>Thus raising himself, and taking his Pen in hand to write what he should learn, he -saith in the Third Verse, that <i>A slight Flame</i>, or small Light did insinuate it self -in his understanding, by whose splendor and brightness he saw future things.</p> - -<p>The Author in his Epistle to <i>Cæsar</i> his Son, expoundeth always this Prophetical -Light, by the comparison of a shining Flame, and calleth it rather a Flame than a pure -Light, because this Light doth not only discover the Mysteries, but more-over it -lightens in us a certain Heat and Prophetical Power, as himself terms it; as if we should -say a Sacred Enthusiasm, even (saith he) as the Sun coming near us with his Light, -not only darteth upon all Elementary things the brightness of his Beams, but withal -infuseth in them a certain quickning heat, which causeth the Vegetables to grow, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span> -upholdeth the Being of all other natural things; Even so (saith he) this good <i>Genius</i>, -as the Ancients term it; or as we Christians say, that Divine Spirit of Prophecy -coming near our understandings, not only importeth a Light to them, but more-over -a certain heat and Prophetical Power, which strenghteneth them in the knowledge -of the aforesaid things, and causeth them to breath out, as by a Sacred Enthusiasm -some Prophetical Verses.</p> - -<p>Which happeneth to them (saith the Author) coming out of Solitude, that is to -say, when their Spirit stoopeth down, and by degrees cometh down from that sublime -Region and high elevation, taking the Pen to write down the future time. Therefore -he with his dispositions participating of that <i>slight flame, coming out of his solitude</i>, -began to write and to utter, <i>What is not in vain to believe</i>.</p> - -<p>The things that the Author hath written, shall not be unprofitable as we have -proved already, and the time will come, when by the means of Divine Providence -the Church shall receive the fruit thereof, at which we ought not to wonder, seeing -that God saith of himself in <i>Isaiah</i> <i>Chap. 48. Ver. 17.</i> <i>I am the Lord thy God, which -teacheth thee to profit.</i></p> - -<p>The Author foretelleth many wonders, of which we ought to be certain by the -verification of those that are already past, seeing that it is the same Spirit that shewed -them all.</p> - -<p>The same Prophecies are also profitable, in that every where the Author condemneth -Seditious and Rebellious persons, and Prophecieth the Churches Victory -over her Enemies.</p> - -<p>They are also profitable for particular Men that understand the meaning of them, -for by it they may provide for their own business, according to the storm, undertaking -nothing but upon sure grounds, following always the best party, and disposing -themselves to patience, when the calamities are general, and involve together -the guilty and guiltless. Therefore our Author saith well, <i>A slight flame breaking -forth out of that solitude, makes me utter what is not in vain to believe</i>.</p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Verge en main, mise au milieu des Branches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Onde je moüille & le Limbe & le Pied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En peur j’escris fremissant par les manches;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Splendeur Divine: le Divine prez s’assied.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">With Rod in hand, set in the middle of the Branches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With water I wet the Limb and the Foot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In fear I writ, quaking in my sleeves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Divine splendor! the Divine sitteth by.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Amongst the customs, the Ancients observed, before they pronounced their -Oracles; one was to take a Tuffie Branch of Laurel, and with it dipt in water, to -sprinkle the edges and Columns of the Table, that was upon the Brazen Trevet, by -which ceremonies they procured credit to their Oracles.</p> - -<p>The Author willing to let us know, that his Verses were not only a simple writing,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span> -but also Prophetical and full of Oracles, doth represent them to us by this Metaphore -of the Ancients, when they did amuse the people with their ambiguous, and -many times fallacious Oracles.</p> - -<p>Being then sitting and quiet in his solitariness; coming out of that great devotion -of mind, animated by the virtue of his good <i>Genius</i>, he putteth first <i>the Rod into his -hand</i>, that is the Pen, and putteth it <i>in the middle of the Branches</i>, putting it between -his Fingers. Secondly he dippeth this Rod <i>into Water</i>, dipping his Pen in his Ink; -with this Pen dipt in Ink, <i>he wetteth the Limb and the Foot</i>, writing upon his paper -from one end to the other, and from the top to the bottom.</p> - -<p>Which we must understand by this word <i>Lymbe</i>, which is a Latin word, signifying -the long and narrow pieces of stuffe, which women wore at the bottom of their -Petticoats, therefore the Latins called them <i>Lymbos</i>, from the Latin Verbe <i>Lambo</i>, -which in matter of cloths signifieth, to leek or sweep; and because those pieces of -cloath were in the bottom of their Garments, the word hath been afterwards employed -to signifie the brims of some things, so that the Lymbs of a sheet of paper, -are the two margines, and the top and the bottom, as if it were the four ends of a -Quadrangular Figure.</p> - -<p>The third Verse sheweth the internal disposition of the Author, after he hath -described his external one; that disposition was a Sacred quaking, which putting his -heart into a palpitation, caused his hands and arms to shake, as if he had been taken -with some fit of an Ague. This quaking is the disposition which the good <i>Genius</i> -causeth in Prophets, that they may be humbled, and not be puffed up with pride, -when they come near the Majesty of God, as we read in <i>Daniel</i>, St. <i>John</i>, and the -<i>4th.</i> of <i>Esdras</i>. Therefore the Author saith:</p> - -<p><i>In fear I write, quaking in my sleeves.</i> And because the Divine Spirit after he hath -cast down those, to whom he will impart himself, doth afterwards quiet them; the -Author therefore addeth, that a <i>Divine splendor did sit by him</i>.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la littiere du tourbillon versée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et seront faces de leurs Manteaux couvers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Republique par gens nouveaux vexée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors blancs & rouges jugeront a l’envers.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the litter shall be overthrown by a gust of wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And faces shall be covered with Cloaks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Common-wealth shall be troubled with a new kind of men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then white and red shall judge amiss.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses signifie that a great tempestuous wind was to happen, in -which a litter should be overturned, and every one should muffle his face in his Cloak, -for the fierceness of the wind.</p> - -<p>And that presently after the Common-wealth should be troubled with new Sects -and Opinions, which may be understood of the beginning of Reformation by <i>Luther</i> -and <i>Calvin</i>, which was about that time.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<p>The last Verse by the white and red signifieth here (as it doth thorough all the -Book) the <i>French</i> and the <i>Spaniards</i>, because the <i>French</i> wear white Scarfes, and the -<i>Spaniards</i> red ones: and consequently the troubles and jars that happened presently -between those two Nations.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’Univers sera fait un Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’en paix & vie ne sera longuement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors se perdra la Piscature Barque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera regie en plus grand detriment.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the World shall be one Monarch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall be not long alive, nor in peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall be lost the Fishing Boat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And be governed with worse detriment.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That Monarch was <i>Henry</i> the II. King of <i>France</i>, who did not Reign long, but -was unfortunately slain, running at Tilt against the Earl of <i>Montgomery</i> (as we shall -see hereafter) and almost during all his Reign had Wars with <i>Charles</i> the V. Emperour, -and his Son <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>; the said Emperour in that time did -sack <i>Rome</i>, took the Pope <i>Clement</i> the VII. prisoner, which is signified here; as also -in several other places by the loss of the <i>Fishing Boat</i>; the Roman Church being often -compared to a Ship or Boat.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassez seront sans faire long combat.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Païs seront plus fort grevez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bourg & Cité auront plus grand debat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carcas</i>, <i>Narbonne</i> auront cœurs esprouvez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be driven away without great fighting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of the Countrey shall be more grieved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Town and City shall have a greater debate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carcas</i>, <i>Narbonne</i> shall have their hearts tryed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Herein is nothing mystical, the meaning is that some of the Protestant party intending -to take or vex the Cities of <i>Carcassone</i> and <i>Narbonne</i> in <i>Languedoc</i>, shall be easily -repulsed, and shall afterward fall upon the Countrey round about, which shall -suffer for.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’œil de <i>Ravenne</i> sera destitué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand a ses pieds les aisles sailliront;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux de <i>Bresse</i> auront constitué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Turin</i>, <i>Verceil</i>, que <i>Gaulois</i> fouleront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The eye of <i>Ravenna</i> shall be forsaken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the wings shall rise at his feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two of <i>Brescia</i> shall have constituted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Turin</i>, <i>Verceil</i>, which the French shall tread upon.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a confirmation of the fourth Stanza, concerning the loss of the Pope, -<i>Clement</i> the VII. who is called here the eye of <i>Ravenna</i>, because he is Lord of that -famous City, which was once an Exarchat of the Empire.</p> - -<p>The wings that shall rise at, or against his feet, shall be those of the Eagle, which -are the Arms of the Emperour.</p> - -<p>The two of <i>Brescia</i> were the Governour and Proveditor of <i>Venice</i> in that place, -who would at that time have endeavoured to seize upon <i>Turin</i> and <i>Verceil</i>, the two -chiefest Towns of <i>Piemont</i>, but were prevented by the <i>French</i>.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tard arrivé, l’execution faite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Vent contrare, Lettres au chemin prinses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Conjurez quatorze d’une Secte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Rousseau seront les entreprinses.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One coming too late, the execution shall be done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Wind being contrary, and Letters intercepted by the way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Conspirators fourteen of a Sect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Red-hair’d Man the undertaking shall be made.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of the whole is this, there shall be fourteen Conspirators of one mind, -and their Ring-leader, a Red-haired man, who shall be put to death, because their -Reprieve could not come timely enough, being hindered by cross winds, and Letters -intercepted. I could find no particular things in History concerning this.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span></p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Combien de fois prinse Cité Solaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seras, changeant les Loix barbares & vaines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ton mal s’approche, plus seras tributaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Adrie</i> recouvrira tes veines.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">How often taken O solar City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shalt thou be? changing the barbarian and vain Laws,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy evil growth nigh, thou shalt be more tributary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Adria</i> shall recover thy veins.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is hard to judge what he meaneth by the Solar City that shall be so often -taken.</p> - -<p>As by <i>Adria</i>, it is certain he meaneth <i>Venice</i>, that was so called anciently, because -of its scituation in the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Orient viendra le cœur punique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fascher <i>Adrie</i>, & les hoirs <i>Romulides</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagné de la classe Libique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembler <i>Melites</i>, & proches Isles vuides.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the East shall come the <i>African</i> heart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To vex <i>Adria</i>, and the Heirs of <i>Romulus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompanied with the <i>Libian</i> fleet</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Melites</i> shall tremble, and the Neighbouring Islands be empty.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This was a clear and true Prognostication of that famous Invasion made upon -<i>Maltha</i>, by the grand Signor <i>Solyman</i> the magnificent, in the year of our Lord 1565. -and just ten years after the writing of this Prophecy, wherein that Island, and some -of the Neighbouring ones were wholly depopulated by the <i>Turks</i>, to the terror of -<i>Venice</i>, called here <i>Adria</i>, and of all the Islands of the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea. For the better -understanding of this, the Reader must observe, that <i>Punicus</i> in Latin signifieth <i>Africa</i>, -so that the <i>African</i> heart signifieth the help the <i>Turk</i> had from <i>Tunis, Tripoly</i>, -and <i>Algier</i>, Cities seated in <i>Africa</i>, and under the Turkish Dominion; by which -not only <i>Maltha</i> (which in Latin is <i>Melita</i>) but <i>Venice</i> and <i>Rome</i> were put into a -great fright; the conclusion of this Siege was, that after six weeks time, and the loss -of 26000. Men, the <i>Turks</i> were constrained shamefully to retire. <i>Vide</i> <i>the Turkish -History</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sergens transmis dans la Cage de Fer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou les Enfans septains du Roy sont pris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les vieux & Peres sortiront bas d’Enfer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ains mourir voir de son fruit mort & cris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sergeants sent into an Iron Cage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the seven Children of the King are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old Men and Fathers shall come out of Hell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And before they die shall see the death and cries of their fruit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy signifieth, that some Sergeants or Executioners shall be sent into -a Prison, to put to death seven Children, servants of a King that were Imprisoned -there, and that some old Men their Fathers, shall see their death, and hear their cries.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le mouvement de Sens, Cœur, Pieds, & Mains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront d’accord, <i>Naples</i>, <i>Leon</i>, <i>Sicile</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Glaives, Feux, Eaux, puis au Noble Romains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plongez, Tuez, Morts, par cerveau debile.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The motion of the Sense, Heart, Feet and Hands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall agree, <i>Naples</i>, <i>Leon</i>, <i>Sicily</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Swords, Fires, Waters, then to the noble <i>Romans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dipt, Killed, Dead, by a <i>weak-brain</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses signifie the concord that shall be among the <i>Spanish</i> dominions, -expressed here by <i>Sense</i>, <i>Heart</i>, <i>Feet</i>, and <i>Hands</i>. After which, the <i>Romans</i> -or those of <i>Rome</i>, shall be evilly intreated, being <i>drowned, killed, and put to death by a -weak brain</i>. I guess this to have come to pass, when the Emperour <i>Charles</i> the V. his -Army sacked <i>Rome</i>, under the command of the Duke of <i>Bourbon</i>, who was killed at -the Assault; and of the Prince of <i>Orange</i>, who permitted licentiousness to his Souldiers, -and suffered them to commit more violence, than ever the <i>Goths</i> or <i>Vandales</i> -did, and therefore is called here <i>weak brain</i>. This Prince of <i>Orange</i> was of the House -of <i>Chalon</i>, after which came that of <i>Nassau</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans peu ira fauce brute fragile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De bas en haut eslevé promptement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis en estant desloyal & labile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui de <i>Verone</i> aura gouvernment.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while a false frail brute shall go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From low to high, being quickly raised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By reason that he shall have the Government of <i>Verona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be unfaithful and slippery.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth of a wicked person, who in a short time shall be from a low degree -exalted to a high one, by reason that those that have the Government of <i>Verona</i>, -shall be unfaithful and slippery. That person seemeth to be some Pope, who from -a low degree shall be exalted to that dignity, by the unfaithfulness and slipperiness of -the <i>Venetians</i>, who are now Lords of the City <i>Verona</i> in <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les exiles, par ire, haine intestine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront au Roy grand conjuration,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secret mettront ennemis par la mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les vieux siens, contre eux sedition.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The banished, by choler, and intestine hatred</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make against the King a great conspiracy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall put secret enemies in the mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the old his own against them sedition.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Although this Prophecie seemeth to be indefinitely spoken, because in every -Countrey or Kingdom where there is banished people, they most commonly plot -against their King and Countrey; nevertheless I find two remarkable Histories to -make this good, one in <i>France</i>, and the other in <i>England</i>. That of <i>France</i> is thus.</p> - -<p>The Cardinal of <i>Lorrain</i>, and the Duke of <i>Guise</i> his Brother, being in great favour -with <i>Henry</i> II. the Queen Mother promoted them in the beginning of the -Reign of <i>Francis</i> II. his successor, so that the Cardinal was made Lord high Treasurer, -and the Duke General of the Armies, to the prejudice of the Constable of -<i>Montmorency</i>. Those two favourites, fearing the persecution that is raised by envy,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> -did remove all the great ones from the Court, whether they were commanded to do -so, or whether they had any other pretences.</p> - -<p>The Princes of <i>Condé</i>, and of <i>la Roche sur yon</i>, were sent into <i>Flanders</i> to <i>Philip</i> -II. <i>Condé</i>, to confirm the alliance between the two Crowns, and <i>la Roche sur yon</i> -to carry the Order of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Diana</i> of <i>Poitiers</i> Dutchess of <i>Valentenois</i>, was banished from Court, and compelled -to surrender to the Queen all the Jewels she had extorted from the King, besides -the Castle of <i>Chenonceaux</i>, which the Queen took for her self.</p> - -<p>The Marshal St. <i>Andrew</i> was likewise banished from the Court. The King of -<i>Navarre</i> was in <i>Bearn</i>.</p> - -<p>The Constable took also his leave, and surrendred to the King the Seal of his -Office. On the other side, the Protestants began to stir notably, having on their -part many Princes, as that of <i>Condé</i>, of <i>Porcien</i>, <i>Gaspard</i>, of <i>Coligny</i>, Admiral of -<i>France</i>, d’<i>Andelot</i>, and the Cardinal of <i>Chastillon</i> his brothers, <i>Magdalene</i> of <i>Mailly</i>, -their Sister, Lady of <i>Roye</i>, the King of <i>Navarre</i>. All these discontented persons, -and the Protestants made a great conspiracy under pretence of Religion, and of -freeing the King from the tyranny of the <i>Guisians</i>.</p> - -<p>They did by <i>Choler</i>, the Protestants because they had been so ill used, in the time -of <i>Francis</i> I. and <i>Henry</i> II. and lately by the <i>Guisians</i>. And the discontented, for to -pull down their power, it was also by an <i>intestine hatred</i>, because the Constable could -not brook to be dispossessed of his Office of great Master, which was given to the -Duke of <i>Guise</i>; and the others to see themselves from the management of Affairs, -and the Protestants by the spirit of a contrary Religion.</p> - -<p>Their <i>conspiracy</i> tended to expel the <i>Guisians</i>, and to seise upon the Queen, the -King, and his Brothers.</p> - -<p>To compass their end, they secretly sent some trusty persons of their own, who nevertheless -feigned to be their Enemies; insomuch that the King of <i>Navarre</i> sent them -word, that he would be always of their party, though apparently he took the -Courts part.</p> - -<p>But <i>the Old his own</i>, saith the fourth Verse, that is to say, the Kings old friends shall -raise <i>Sedition</i> against them, which happened in the year 1650. when the <i>Guisians</i> -having discovered the conspiracy that was made at <i>Nantes</i>, the 1. of <i>February</i> 1560. -whose chief Ring-leader was the Lord <i>La Renaudie</i>; they presently got the King -out of <i>Blois</i>, and carryed him to <i>Amboise</i>, caused the Town to be fortified, and set -strong Guards upon all the passages.</p> - -<p>The day appointed for the execution of the conspiracy at <i>Blois</i>, was the 10th of -<i>March</i>: But the King being got to <i>Amboise</i>, the Conspirators went thither in such -great numbers, and under such specious pretences, that had they not been betrayed, -no body would have suspected them. All the Suburbs and the Countrey Towns -thereabouts were full of them. The Prince of <i>Condé</i>, the Admiral, d’<i>Andelot</i>, and -his Brother the Cardinal, were all there.</p> - -<p>Then the <i>Guisians</i> began to fall to work, and to set upon the Conspirators on all -sides.</p> - -<p>Abundance were taken, some in the City, some in the Suburbs, others in the -Countrey round about.</p> - -<p>Most of these were slain before they could come to Town, or be carried to Prison. -And their process was so short that they were hanged in their Boots and -Spurs.</p> - -<p>The Scouts did every where kill those they met withall. To conclude, it proved -a very Bloody Tragedy.</p> - -<p><i>La Renaudie</i> the Chief of the Conspirators, was met with by the Lord <i>Pardaillan</i> -a <i>Gascon</i>. At the first approach <i>La Renaudie</i> killed him; but himself was killed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> -by <i>Pardeillan</i>’s Servant, and his dead body brought and hanged at <i>Amboise</i>.</p> - -<p>The second History is concerning <i>England</i>, which palpably makes this Prophecie -good, if we make reflection upon what hath happened in this last Century of years, -concerning banished people that have conspired against their King and Countrey, -as we may see through all the Life of Queen <i>Elizabeth</i>, and by that famous Plot -of the Gun-powder-Treason in King <i>James</i>’s time, which must be understood here -by the <i>Mine</i>.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De gens esclave, chansons, chants, & requestes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captifs par Princes, & Seigneurs aux prisons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A l’advenir par Idiots sans testes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront receus par divins oraisons.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From slavish people, Songs, Tunes and requests,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being kept Prisoners by Princes and Lords,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the future by headless Idiots,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be admitted by divine prayers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a prognostication of the beginning and increase of the Protestants in -<i>France</i>, who began to sing their Psalms in <i>French</i>, and from time to time presented -their request for tolleration. The Author being a zealous Papist calleth them -<i>Idiots</i>, and that notwithstanding the persecution that should be against them, being -put in Prison by <i>Princes</i> and <i>Lords</i>, they should at last be admitted by reason of their -often praying to God.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> nous menace par la force bellique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Septante fois fera le sang respandre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Auge & ruine de l’Ecclesiastique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et par ceux qui d’eux rien ne voudront entendre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> threatneth us of a Warlike force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seventy times he shall cause blood to be shed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The flourishing and ruine of the Clergy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by those that will hear nothing from them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author having premonished us in his Preface, that God having imparted to -him the knowledge of many future things, he was curious to know if his Divine<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> -Majesty had written the same thing in the Cœlestial Book, as concerning the States, -Empires, Monarchies, Provinces and Cities, and he found that it was even so as it -had been revealed to him, so that the Book of Heaven, written with Gods own -hand, in so many shining Characters, might serve to studious men for a light and a -Torch to discover very near the common estate of the world.</p> - -<p>He then having learned from God in his solitariness, the prosperities and afflictions -of the Clergy, from the beginning of the year 1555. to the end of the world; he found -that there was an agreement between his prophetical Knowledge, and the motion of -the Heavenly Bodies; because having made the Systeme of the years after 1550. -he found that <i>Mars</i> was in a dangerous Aspect to the Ecclesiastical estate, and found -that this Planet by its position did presage a long, bloody and horrid Catastrophe in -the world, by which the Ecclesiastical estate should suffer much.</p> - -<p>To make good this prediction, the Author doth assure us in his Preface, that he -had considered the disposition of this Planet, not only in the year 1555. but also in -the years following, and joyning together all that he had found in his Ephemerides, -he found that this Planet did on all sides presage most bloody actions. Although, -saith he, the Planet of <i>Mars</i> maketh an end of its course, and is come to its last -Period: nevertheless it will begin it again, but some gathered in <i>Aquarius</i> for many -years, and others by long and continual years.</p> - -<p>As if he would say that his prediction ought not to be rejected; because <i>Mars</i> -ended his course, and cometh to its late period; for it would take again its Exaltation -and Dominion with a worse conjunction, having his Astronomical dignities, -with the Conjunction of other Planets in the Sign of <i>Aquarius</i> during many years, -and in the Sign of <i>Cancer</i> for many years more.</p> - -<p>Which maketh the Author conclude, that within the space of 177. years, three -months and eleven dayes, the world shall be afflicted with Wars, Plagues, Famines -and Innundations, that scarce any body shall be left to Till the Ground. By which -prediction we learn that those evils began in the year 1555. the first of <i>March</i>, which -is the date of the Authors Book, and shall last till the second of <i>June</i> 1732. abating -the ten days of the Gregorian Calender.</p> - -<p>During which time, he saith, that <i>Mars</i> threatneth us with bloody Wars that -shall be reiterated 70 times.</p> - -<p>This word seventy doth not signifie a determinate number, but a great number -indeterminated according to the Phrase of the Scripture, which by the number of -seven signifieth many times, and by that of seventy incomparably many times more. -Thus the Scripture saith, that the just man falleth seven times in one day, that is -many times, and our Saviour saith to St. <i>Peter</i>, that we ought to forgive our Enemies, -not only seven times, but seventy times seven; that is innumerable times.</p> - -<p>We have found the truth of this Prophecie to this very day. 1. In <i>France</i>, by -the Wars between <i>Henry</i> II. and <i>Charles</i> V. and <i>Philip</i> II. 2. By the Wars of -<i>Charles</i> IX. against the Protestants, wherein so much blood was spilt on both sides. -3. By <i>Henry</i> III. against the same Protestants, and factions of his time, and then -against the <i>Parisians</i> and others of their league. 4. Between <i>Henry</i> IV. and those -of the league in his revolted Kingdom. 5. By the Wars of <i>Lewis</i> XIII. against the -Protestants, against the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, in the <i>Valteline</i>, in <i>Piemont</i>, in <i>Lorrain</i>, -in <i>Alsatia</i>, in <i>Catalonia</i>, in <i>Franche-Conty</i>, in <i>Flanders</i>, and for the defence of -<i>Portugal</i>, which have been continued by his successor <i>Lewis</i> XIV. now Reigning.</p> - -<p><i>Italy</i> did also find the truth of this prophecie, by the Wars between <i>Paul</i> IV. -and the <i>Spaniard</i>, between <i>Pius</i> V. and the <i>Turks</i>, between <i>Clement</i> VIII. and the -Duke of <i>Ferrara</i>, between the Emperour and the Duke of <i>Mantua</i>, between -<i>Urban</i> VIII. and the Duke of <i>Parma</i>, between the <i>Venetians</i> and the <i>Florentines</i>,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> -by the revolt of the Kingdom of <i>Naples</i>, under the conduct of the Duke of -<i>Guise</i>.</p> - -<p><i>England</i> hath had its share of it under Queen <i>Elizabeth</i>, by the revolt of <i>Yorkshire</i>, -and some other Provinces, by the <i>Spanish</i> fleet of 88.</p> - -<p>By the death of Queen <i>Mary</i>, by the revolt of the Kingdom against <i>Charles</i> I. -And by the horrid perfidiousness of <i>Cromwel</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Germany</i> hath made it good by the War against the <i>Turks</i>, the Protestants and the -<i>Swedes</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Poland</i> hath done the same against the <i>Russians</i>, <i>Tartars</i>, <i>Turks</i>, <i>Cassaks</i> and -<i>Swedes</i>.</p> - -<p>And <i>Venice</i> against the <i>Turk</i>, for the Islands of <i>Cyprus</i> and <i>Candia</i>, the Battle of -<i>Lepanto</i>, and the Wars of <i>Dalmatia</i>.</p> - -<p>This <i>Mars</i> besides presageth two contrary things, one is the <i>Auge</i> or Exaltation, -the other the <i>ruine of the Clergy</i>: where it is to be observed, the <i>Auge</i> in tearms of -Astrology signifieth mounting or ascending, and cometh from the Latin <i>verbe augere</i>, -which signifieth to augment or increase. This augmentation and ruine of the -<i>Clergy</i> is made good by the several changes that have been in the Ecclesiastical -estate, in <i>France</i>, <i>England</i>, Low-Countreys, <i>Denmark</i>, <i>Swede</i>, <i>Poland</i>, <i>Hungary</i>, -<i>Valachia</i>, <i>Transylvania</i>, <i>Moldavia</i>, <i>Dalmatia</i>, <i>Geneva</i>, <i>Switzerland</i>, &c.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse saith. By those that will hear nothing from them: that is, -by the Protestants that will hear nothing from the <i>Roman</i> Catholicks.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Faux a l’Estang, joint vers la <i>Sagittaire</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En son haut <i>Auge</i> de l’Exaltation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peste, Famine, mort de main Militaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Siecle approcher de renovation.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sith to the Fish-pond, joyned to <i>Sagittarius</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the highest <i>Auge</i> of the Exaltation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plague, Famine, Death by a Military hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The age groweth near to its renovation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of all this is, that when a Meadow that was a <i>Fish-pond</i> before, shall -be Mowed, the Sign of <i>Sagittarius</i> being in its <i>Auge</i> or ascendant, then shall <i>Plague</i>, -<i>Famine</i>, and <i>War</i> Reign, and that age (which a Century of years shall be near its end -and renovation <i>viz.</i> of another Century.)</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par quarante ans l’Iris n’apparoistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par quarante ans tous les jours sera veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Terre aride en siccité croistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et grand deluge quand sera apparceu.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">During fourty years the Rainbow shall not appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">During fourty years it shall be seen every day.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The parched Earth shall wax dryer and dryer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And great Flouds shall be when it shall appear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Interpretation of this is easie, and signifieth nothing else but that during 40. -years the <i>Rainbow</i> shall not be seen, and during that time there shall be an exceeding -great drought upon the Earth, and that for 40. years after the <i>Rainbow</i> shall be -seen every day, which shall cause great flouds and innundations.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la discorde, negligence <i>Gauloise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera passage a <i>Mahomet</i> ouvert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang trempé la Terre & Mer <i>Senoise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Port <i>Phocen</i> de Voiles & Nefs couvert.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the discord and negligence of the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A passage shall be opened to <i>Mahomet</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Land and Sea of <i>Sienna</i> shall be bloody,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Phocen</i> Haven shall be covered with Sails and Ships.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1559. <i>Sultan Solyman</i> called <i>Leonclavius</i>, according to the alliance -made between him and <i>Francis</i> I. King of <i>France</i>, was desired by <i>Henry</i> II. his -Son to send him some succours: Whereupon he sent some of his Gallies to scour -the <i>Tyrrhenean</i> Sea (otherwise the Sea of <i>Tuscany</i>) to give a diversion to the -<i>Spanish</i> forces in <i>Italy</i>, while the King by the means of the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>, should -continue his Conquests in the <i>Piemont</i> and <i>Milanese</i>.</p> - -<p>All what this <i>Turkish</i> Fleet did, was to plunder and over-run the Island of <i>Elbe</i>, -and to attempt <i>Piombino</i> without effect; and because these places were seated upon -the Sea of <i>Sienna</i>, called in Latin <i>Mare Tirrhenum</i>, the Author saith that both the -Land and Sea of <i>Sienna</i> shall be died with Blood, and at that time the Haven of <i>Marseilles</i>, -which was called by the Ancients, Port-<i>Phocen</i> was full of Sales and Ships, -as well to go into the Island of <i>Corse</i>, as for other designs. This History makes good -that <i>Stanza</i> which saith, that through the <i>discord</i> and <i>negligence</i> of the <i>French</i>, a passage -shall be opened to <i>Mahomet</i>, wherein it is to be observed that the Marshal of -<i>Brissac</i> doing wonders for the King in <i>Piemont</i>, his virtue got him abundance of -enviers and enemies in the Kings Councel, which was the cause of a great discord -among them, by the diversity of opinions, and this diversity was the cause of a prodigious -negligence in sending to him relief, as <i>Turpin</i> witnesseth in his History -of <i>Naples</i>, and <i>Paradin</i> in the continuation of his History.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span></p> - -<p>By this discord and negligence, <i>a passage was opened to Mahomet</i>, his Fleet going -freely upon the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea near the Coasts of <i>France</i>. And the reason of it -was, because this discord and negligence did compel <i>Henry</i> the II. to ask succours of -<i>Solyman</i>, that the <i>Spaniard</i> might be compelled to divide his Forces in sending some -to the Sea-Towns, and so should not be so strong in <i>Piemont</i>; and thus must be understood -the <i>French discord and negligence</i>, in the first and second Verse. As for the -many Sails and Ships that were then in the Haven of <i>Marseilles</i>, to go into the -Island of <i>Corsica</i>, the following Stanza’s are full of predictions concerning it.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que Serpens viendront circuir l’Air,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang <i>Troien</i> versé par les <i>Espagnes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par eux: grand nombre en sera fait tare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef fuit, caché aux Marets dans les saignes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When Serpents shall come to encompass the Are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Trojan</i> blood shall be vexed by <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By them, a great number shall perish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chief runneth away, and is hid in the rushes of the Marishes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Serpents</i>, the Author being a Roman Catholick, meaneth the Protestants, -who then began to appear numerous in the Reigns of <i>Francis</i> the I. and <i>Henry</i> the II. -in whose time the Admiral <i>Coligny</i> was the chief among them, for his great feats in -War.</p> - -<p>These Serpents or Protestants begun to encompass the <i>Are</i>, that is to say, the -Church and the Altar, which in Latin is called <i>Ara</i>.</p> - -<p>And that happened when <i>the Trojan-blood was vexed by Spain</i>. By the <i>Trojan-blood</i>, -the Author meaneth the <i>French</i> blood, according to the vulgar opinion, that the -<i>French</i> are descended from the <i>Trojans</i>. The <i>French</i> were then vexed by the <i>Spaniards</i>, -at the Battle of St. <i>Laurence</i>, and at the taking of St. <i>Quentin</i>, and other places in the -Year 1557.</p> - -<p>The third Verse saith <i>by them</i>, that is, by the Protestants <i>a great number shall perish</i>, -that is to say, a great number of <i>French</i>. Among whom the Admiral of <i>Chatillon</i> -having done what was possible to be done at the defence of St. <i>Quentin</i>, and seeing -the Town taken, run away with three more, and hid himself among the Rushes that -are in the Boggs about the Town, where he was found, and carried Prisoner to the -Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, who received him very honorably, according to his valour and -deserts.</p> - -<p>Observe that the word <i>Saignes</i> here signifieth in old <i>Provencal</i> a <i>Marish</i>.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tours</i>, <i>Orleans</i>, <i>Blois</i>, <i>Angers</i>, <i>Renes</i> & <i>Nantes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cités vexées par soudain changement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Langues estranges seront tendues Tentes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleuves, Darts, Rennes, Terre & Mer tremblement.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tours</i>, <i>Orleans</i>, <i>Blois</i>, <i>Angers</i>, <i>Renes</i>, and <i>Nantes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cities vexed by a sudden change,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By strange Languages Tents shall be set up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rivers, Darts, <i>Rennes</i>, Land, and Sea shall quake.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All the Cities mentioned in the first Verse are seated by the River of <i>Loire</i>, and are -threatned here of a sudden change, and that some strangers shall set up their Tents -against them, and chiefly at <i>Rennes</i>, there shall be an Earth-quake felt both by Sea -and Land.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Profonde argile blanche nourrit rocher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui d’un abysme istra l’acticineuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En vain troublez ne l’oseront toucher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignorant estre au fond terre argileuse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A deep white clay feedeth a Rock,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which clay shall break out of the deep like milk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In vain people shall be troubled not daring to touch it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Rock in the middle of the Sea, whose Roots are fed by a white clay, which -is at the foot of this Rock, in the bottom of the Sea, and therefore called deep.</p> - -<p>This clay being softned, and dissolved by the Sea-water, shall appear upon the -superficies of it like milk about the Rock. Those that shall see this wonder, <i>being -ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay</i>, shall in vain be troubled at it, and shall -not dare to touch it.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce qui vivra & n’aura aucun sens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra le Fer a mort son artifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Autun</i>, <i>Chalons</i>, <i>Langres</i> & les deux <i>Sens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Guerre & la Glasse fera grand malefice.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">That which shall live, and shall have no sence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lion shall destroy the art of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Autun</i>, <i>Chalons</i>, <i>Langres</i>, and both <i>Sens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The War and the Ice shall do great harm.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a great Riddle, which was never found out till now; and had I not been -born in the Countrey where the History did happen, it might have been unknown -to this day, and buried in oblivion.</p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>The History of a -λιθοπαίδιον or -petrified child</i>.</div> - -<p>In the year of the Lord 1613. which was that of my Birth. There was in the -Town of <i>Sens</i> a Taylors Wife named <i>Columba Chatry</i>, who presently after her marriage -conceived, and for the space of 28. years persuaded her self to be with Child, -had all the signs of it in the beginning of her impregnation, and having -gone her compleat time, she begun to feel the pains of a woman -in Labour, with great gripings in the Guts. The Urine was suppressed -for a while, but at last it broke out with a strong current. This quantity -of water not coming so much out of the Bladder as was supposed, as from the womb, -by the breaking of the Membrane, called <i>Amnion</i>, seeing that with those serous excrements, -she avoided some conjealed blood. After that her breast begun to fall, -and the Child had little or no motion, her pains being less than they were, which -caused no small admiration to the Midwifes, who expected a safe deliverance. For -the space of three years after, this woman kept her Bed, and was brought to Deaths -door, complaining of gripings and a hard swelling, which she desired all the Physitians -and Chyrurgeons to feel, having lost all appetite, but that little which she recovered -by the use of sharp things, as Verjuice, Lemmons, <i>&c.</i> she was wont to say -to her Neighbours, that she bare a Child that should be the cause of her death. After -she was dead, her Husband got two experienced Chyrurgeons to open her body, who -having opened the belly, and taken away the <i>Peritonæum</i>, saw the Womb of several -colours, as the flesh that is about the head and neck of a Turky-cock, but as it were -of a Horny substance. They begun to make an incision in it with a Rasour, but finding -it resisted the edge, they begun to use their Incision knives with all their strength; -at last one of them by chance hit the Scull, and after that some Ribs, and then the -Shoulder bone, by which, knowing that there was bones contained in that lump, with -greater strength they made a deeper incision, and having parted the edges of the -womb, saw in the bottom of the womb a Child, wrapped in the membrane, called -<i>Allantoides</i>; at which the Chyrugeons wondering, sent for the Physitians to have -their opinion in a thing that is almost beyond belief; in the mean time people flocking -thither from all parts, and troubling the Chyrurgeons in their operation; they -thought good to take away with their Instruments all that Lump, as a Tree from its -Roots, and to carry it home, that they might with more time and leasure examine -the whole Anatomy of it. In that hasty pulling out of the Child, they had no time -to observe what Chorion it had, what umbilical Vessels, and what connexion there -was of the Allantoides with the Womb, and with the Child, chiefly about the right -hip, the Buttocks, and the Back-bone being all grown solid together.</p> - -<p>The scituation of the Child was almost <i>Spherical</i>, the face leaning upon the breast, -and the Nostrils upon the Knees; the bones of the Head were but thin, but very -hard, and shining like Horn; the skin of the Head was hairy in many places; the -head did hang so much upon the left arm, that the Ear, and part of the skull had given -way to the Shoulder-bone; the Elbow was bent towards the Shoulder stretching only -his hand, which was so close shut, and the fingers sticking so fast to the Palm of -it, that although they did appear distinct one from another, nevertheless it was all -but one and the same stone; the right arm did stretch its hand towards the Navel, -which unadvisedly was broken by the wrist, and left in the Mothers Belly; the left -Thigh, Knee and Leg were on the top of the right ones, with which they were so -entangled, that the left heel, and the sole of the foot were planted upon the right foot,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> -who seemed to have given place to them, and were almost inseparably joyned; for all -such hardness of the matter, the body was not less than that of other Children of the -same age, but kept a perfect fulness and proportion all the internal parts, as the Brains, -the Heart, the Liver, had their natural shape, and were not altogether so hard as the external -parts, so that to this very day this little body defieth all kind of corruption.</p> - -<p>This Child was kept in my time by one Mr. <i>Michel</i> a Chirurgion of <i>Sens</i>, who -kindly shewed it to all the strangers that came far and near to see it. The Fame -of it was so great, that Doctor <i>Mayerne</i> coming from <i>Switzerland</i> to <i>England</i>, took -his way through <i>Sens</i> to see it, and would have perswaded King <i>Charles</i> I. to buy it, -as himself told me; since that I hear it was fallen into the hands of the <i>Venetians</i>. -In this History there is two observable wonders. One, that the Child dying in the -Womb, did not corrupt, and so cause the death of its Mother. The other, by what -vertue or power of the body this child was petrified, seeing that the Womb is a hot -and moist place, and therefore more subject to putrifaction. Those that will satisfie -themselves with the reasons of it, and the truth of the History, may read <i>Johannes -Alibosius</i> Physician of <i>Sens</i>, who was an eye witness of it, and <i>Sennertus</i> in his book -of Sympt. <i>quam feminis in utero accidant</i>.</p> - -<p>Now this accident being so rare, and without parallel, our Author thought fit -to foretel it, and to cover it in abscure tearms, that he might not appear ridiculous -in so admirable an event. When therefore he saith, <i>That which shall live and shall -have no Sense</i>, he meaneth this λιθοπαίδιον or child petrified, which had a Life while -it was in the Mothers belly, being tied to it by the several Vessels and connexions, -known to Anatomists, and yet was senseless in that it was petrified. When in the -second verse he saith, <i>The Iron shall destroy the art of it</i>, he meaneth that it should be -spoiled by the rasour, in the two last verses he saith, that the Towns of <i>Autun</i>, -<i>Chalons</i>, <i>Langres</i>, and <i>Sens</i> the Town in which this did happen should that same year -suffer much damage by Hail and Ice, which did come to pass, as many persons may -justify in that Countrey, that are alive to this day.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au mois troisiesme se levant le Soleil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sanglier, Leopard, aux champs <i>Mars</i> pour combatre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leopard lassé au Ciel esttend son œil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Aigle autour du Soleil voit sesbatre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the third month at the rising of the Sun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Boar and Leopard in <i>Marth</i> camp to fight;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Leopard weary, lift his eyes to Haven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And seeth an Eagle playing about the Sun.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth a particular accident, <i>viz.</i> that in the third Month, which is -that of <i>March</i>, at the rising of the <i>Sun</i>, the <i>Boar</i> and the <i>Leopard</i>, that is, two persons -of quality hidden under these names, shall go into the fields to fight a Duel. The -<i>Leopard</i> one of them being weary, shall lift up his eyes to Heaven, calling upon God, -and thereupon shall see an <i>Eagle</i> playing about the <i>Sun</i>, that is, shall get the Victory, -of which the <i>Eagle</i> is the Emblem.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Cité nevue pensif pour condamner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loisel de proie au ciel se vient offrir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Victoire a Captifs pardonner</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cremone</i> & <i>Mantoue</i> grands maux auront souffert.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the new City for to condemn a Prisoner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bird of pray shall offer himself to Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Victory, the Prisoners shall be forgiven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After <i>Cremona</i> and <i>Mantua</i> have suffered many troubles.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This name of new City is appropriated to several ones in every Countrey. The -<i>French</i> have many <i>Villeneufuas</i>, the Germans many <i>Newstads</i>, the <i>Italians</i> and <i>Spaniards</i> -many <i>Villanovas</i>, so that it is hard to guess which of them the Author meaneth. -The missing of this dore makes the rest of the Prophecie so obscure, that I -had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, than to pretend a true explication -of it. I shall only say, that <i>Cremona</i> and <i>Mantua</i> are two famous Towns in <i>Italy</i>, -which are here threatned.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Perdu, trouvé, caché de si long siecle</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera Pasteur demy-Dieu honoré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ains que la Lune acheve son grand Siecle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par autre vents sera deshonoré.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lost, found again, hidden so great a while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Pastor as Deme-God shall be honoured;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But before the Moon endeth her great Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By other winds he shall be dishonoured.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Prophecie is concerning the body of a famous Churchman, which was lost, -and shall be found again, and worshiped as a <i>Demy-God</i>, but before the <i>Moon</i> hath -run her great age, which is of 13 Months, it shall be vilified and dishonoured.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand du Foudre tombe d’heure diurne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mal & predit par Porteur populaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Suivant presage tombe d’heure nocturne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflit <i>Rheims</i>, <i>Londres</i>, <i>Etrusque</i> Pestifere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Man falleth by the Lightning in the day time,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An evil foretold by a common Porter;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">According to this foretelling another falleth in the night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fight at <i>Rhemes</i>, and the Plague at <i>London</i> and <i>Tuscany</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning some great man, who being premonished by a common Carrier -not to travel upon a certain day, did slight the advice, and was strucken by Lightning -in the day time, and another in the night; at the same time there was a fight at -<i>Rhemes</i>, and the Plague at <i>London</i> and in <i>Tuscany</i>, which in Latin is called <i>Etruria</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des soubs le Chesne <i>Guyen</i> du Ciel frappé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loin de la est caché le Thresor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui par long Siecles avoit esté grappé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trouvé mourra, l’œil crevé de ressor.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the Oak <i>Guyen</i> strucken from Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from it is the Treasure hidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which hath been many Ages a gathering;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being found he shall die, the eye put out by a spring.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of it is, that some body (who is named here <i>Guyen</i>) being under an Oak -shall be strucken with the lightning, and that near that place there is a great Treasure, -that hath been many years a gathering, and that he who shall find it shall die, being -shot in the eye with a Fire-lock.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Tour de <i>Bouk</i> craindra fuste Barbare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un temps, long temps apres Barque <i>Hesperique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bestial, gens meubles tous deux feront grand tare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Taurus</i> & <i>Libra</i>, quelle mortelle pique?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Tower of <i>Bouk</i> shall be in fear of a Barbarian Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For a while, and long after afraid of <i>Spanish</i> shipping,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Flocks, peoples, goods both shall receive great damage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Taurus</i> and <i>Libra</i>, O what a deadly feud.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Tower of <i>Bouk</i> is a strong place seated by the <i>Rhosne</i>, where it entereth into -the Mediterranean Sea; it is said here that it shall be in fear of a Barbarian Fleet, and -after that of a <i>Spanish</i> one, and that both the <i>Spaniard</i> and the <i>French</i> shall have great -losses in Cattle, People and Goods, and this shall happen when the Sun shall be in -the Signs of <i>Taurus</i> and <i>Libra</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Poisson, Terrestre & <i>Aquatique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par forte vague an gravier sera mis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa forme estrange suave & horrifique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer aux murs bien tost les Enemies.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Fish that is both Terrestrial and Aquatick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a strong Wave shall be cast upon the Sand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his strange fearful sweet horrid form,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon after the enemies will come near to the Walls by Sea.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth no more but that after, a Fish, Terrestrial and Aquatick, that is -which, liveth in Land and Water, called by the Greeks αμφίβιον, shall be cast upon -the Sand by a storm, then a little while after, that Town which lieth near to that -place where the Fish was cast, shall be Besieged by her Enemies, who shall come by -Sea.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Nef estrange par le tourment Marin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Abordera pres le Port incognu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nonobstant signs du rameau palmerin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres mort, pille, bon advis tard venu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Outlandish Ship by a Sea storm,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come near the unknown Haven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Notwitstanding the signs given to it with Bows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall die, be plundered, a good advice come too late.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Forrein Ship which by a storm shall be driven to an unknown Harbour, and -notwithstanding the signs that shall be made to it with Branches, by those that are -upon the Land to beware of the entrance of the Harbour, it shall be cast away, and -plundered; thus a good advice shall come too late.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant d’ans les guerres, en <i>Gaule</i> dureront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outre la course du <i>Castulon</i> Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Victoire incerte trois grands couroneront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aigle, Coq, Lune, Lion Soleil en marque.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So many years the Wars shall last in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the course of the <i>Castulon</i> Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An uncertain Victory three great ones shall Crown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Eagle, the Cock, the Moon, the Lion having the Sun in its mark.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That is, the Wars shall last so long in <i>France</i> after the death of one King of <i>Spain</i>, -till three great ones shall challenge an uncertain Victory, these three great ones are -the Emperour designed by the Aigle, the King of <i>France</i> by the Cock, and the -<i>Turk</i> by the Moon, and this shall happen when the Sun is in the sign of the Lion. -I suppose that came to pass in the time of <i>Charles</i> the V. <i>Henry</i> the II. and <i>Soliman</i>. -For the <i>Turk</i> had no great odds upon the Emperour, nor he upon the King of -<i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Empire sera tost translaté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lieu bien infime d’exigue Comté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou au milieu viendra poser son Scepter.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Empire shall soon be translated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An inferiour place of a small County,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the middle of which he shall come to lay down his Scepter.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the same <i>Charles</i> the V. Emperour, who about three years before -his death, being weary of the World, resigned his Dominions of <i>Spain</i> and of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> -<i>Low-Countries</i>, to his Son <i>Philip</i> the II. and his Empire to his Brother <i>Ferdinand</i>, -and retired himself into a Monastery of <i>Castile</i>, called l’<i>Escurial</i>, which after his -death, was much enlarged and beautified by his Son <i>Philip</i>: and that is the meaning -of our Author when he saith:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>An inferiour place of a small County,</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>For this <i>Escurial</i> being seated in a Desert place of a County of <i>Spain</i>, called <i>Castilia</i>, -which the <i>Spanish</i> vanity calleth a Kingdom, (whose Use, Fruit, or Revenues, -the said <i>Charles</i> only reserved for his maintenance) is now by the <i>Spaniards</i> accounted -to be the eighth wonder of the World.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres d’un grand Pont de plaine spacieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Lion par force, Cesarées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera abatre hors Cité rigoureuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par effroy portes luy seront reserrées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Bridge near a spacious Plain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Lion by <i>Cæsarean</i> Forces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause to be pulled down, without the rigorous City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For fear of which, the Gates shall be shut to him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that a great Captain, Commander of the Imperial Forces, -shall cause a Bridge that was built near a spacious Plain to be thrown down. The -City near the Bridge being terrified at it, shall shut up their Gates against him.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Oiseau de proye volant a la Fenestre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant conflict, fait au <i>Francois</i> parure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’un bon prendra, l’autre ambigue sinistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La partie foible tiendra pour bonne augure.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bird of Prey flying to the Window,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before Battle, shall appear to the <i>French</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall take a good omen of it, the other a bad one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The weaker part shall hold it for a good sign.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Hawk which in presence of two Armies ready to give Battle, shall fly to a -window and perch upon it, in the presence of them all, one of the Armies shall take<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> -it for a good sign; and the other, for an ambiguous and sinister one. In Conclusion, -the weaker party shall get the Victory.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Lion jeune le vieux surmontera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En champ bellique par singulier Duelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans Cage dor Lœil il lui crevera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux playes une puis mourir mort cruelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The young Lion shall overcome the old one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Martial field by a single Duel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a Golden Cage he shall put out his Eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two wounds from one, then he shall die a cruel death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is one of the Prophecies that hath put our Author in credit, as well for the -clearness as for the true event of it.</p> - -<p><i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i> our Authors son, in his History of <i>Provence</i>, writeth that by -this <i>Stanza</i> his father intended to foretell the manner of <i>Henry</i> the second’s death.</p> - -<p>The <i>French</i> Histories relate that this great Prince desiring to honour the Nuptial -of his Daughter <i>Elizabeth</i>, married to <i>Philip</i> II. King of <i>Spain</i>, did appoint a Tournament -to be kept in St. <i>Anthony</i>’s street in <i>Paris</i>, where himself would be one of the -Defendants against all comers, and for that purpose chose for his companions and -associates <i>Don Alfonso d’Este</i> Duke of <i>Ferrara</i>, and <i>Francis</i> of <i>Lorrain</i>, Duke of -<i>Guise</i>.</p> - -<p>The Tornament being almost ended, in which the King had shewed much Valour -being mounted upon a Horse of the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, <i>Philibert</i>’s, <i>Emanuel</i> his Brother in -Law, this Duke intreated the King to leave off, because he had got the Victory; and -the weather was hot, and the night drawing on: But this Martial King would need -break one Launce more, and commanded the Captain <i>Gabriel de Lorges</i> to be called, -a young and valiant Lord and Captain of the <i>Scottish</i> Guard. Being come, the King -commanded him to run against him, which he refused a great while; but the King -waxing angry, he obeyed, and set Spurs to his Horse, he did hit the King in the -lower part of his Beaver, the Launce was broken into shivers, and the mean stump -lifting up the Beaver, a splinter got in, and wounded the King a little above the -right <i>Eye</i>, where finding the Bone too hard, it went very deep under the said <i>Eye</i>, -and broke some Veins belonging to the Membrane, called <i>Pia Mater</i>.</p> - -<p>The blow was so violent that the King bended his head towards the lists, and fell, -into a Swound, being presently disarmed, they perceived the splinter of the Launce -in his <i>Eye</i>, and his face all bloody. He lived ten days after, and died with great -Convulsions, because the Sinews were offended, whereupon he suffered grievous -Torment.</p> - -<p>His death was also foretold by <i>Luke Gaurick</i> a great Astrologer, who being constrained -by the Queen <i>Catharine</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, to tell her by what kind of death her -Husband should end his days, told her it should be in a <i>Duel</i>, which made him to be -hissed at, Kings being exempted of those accidents.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span></p> - -<p>According to this Narrative the Author calleth the King an old <i>Lion</i>, and the -Captain <i>Lorges</i>, since Earl of <i>Montgomery</i>, the <i>young Lion</i>; because both fought -like <i>Lions</i>. The <i>young Lion</i> overcame the old one in <i>Martial field</i>, and in a fight of -one against one, and consequently a <i>Duel</i>.</p> - -<p>He overcame him by putting his <i>Eye</i> out in a <i>Golden Cage</i>, that is, in his Gilded -Helmet.</p> - -<p>Of which <i>Wound</i> there came another, because the blood of some broken Veins, -creeping into the Brains by the vehement agitation of the head, caused an Impostume -there, which could not be remedied: therefore the Author saith <i>two Wounds</i> from -one, that is, one wound made two: and the King died of a cruel death, as we have -said before.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tard le Monarque se viendra repentir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De navoir mis a Mort son Adversaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais viendra bien a plus haut consentir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que tout son sang par Mort sera deffaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Monarque shall too late repent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he hath not put to death his Adversary;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But he shall give his consent to a greater thing than that,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which is to put to death all his Adversaries Kindred.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of this are plain, though it be questionable whether the thing is come -to pass already, or not.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant que le Soleil sabsconse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflict donné, grand peuple dubieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Profligez, Port-Marin ne fait responce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pont & Sepulchre en deux estranges lieux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before the Sun setteth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Battle shall be given, a great people shall be doubtful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of being foiled, the Sea-Port maketh no answer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Bridge and Sepulchre shall be in two strange places.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first verses I believe are concerning the Battle of Saint <i>Denis</i>, which -was fought in the Evening hard by <i>Paris</i>, and where the Constable of <i>Montmorency</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> -was kill’d, which made that great people of <i>Paris</i> to be doubtful.</p> - -<p>The other two Verses I leave to the interpretation of the Reader.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Sol & l’Aigle Victeur paroistront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Response vain au vaincu lon asseure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Cor ne cris, harnois narresteront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vindicte paix, par Mort lacheve a l’heure.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun and the Eagle shall appear to the Victorious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A vain Answer shall be made good to the vanquished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By no means Arms shall not be stopped,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vengeance maketh Peace, by death he then accomplisheth it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza being full of Figures and Equivoques, I will not interpose my Judgement -in it, lest I undertake too much, and perform too little.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit dans le lit le supresme estranglé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour avoir trop suborné blond esleu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par trois l’Empire subroge Exancle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A mort mettra, Carte ne Pacquet leu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By night in the bed the chief one shall be strangled.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For having too much suborned fair Elect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By three the Empire subrogate Exancle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall put him to death, reading neither Card nor Packet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author hath purposely obscured this Prophecie in the third Verse, to take -away the Knowledge of it from the Reader; because the parties concerned were -then alive, <i>viz.</i> <i>Philip</i> II. King of <i>Spain</i>, who caused his only son <i>Don Carlo</i> to -be strangled in his bed, for suspicion of being too familiar with his wife <i>Elizabeth</i> of -<i>France</i>, and Daughter to <i>Henry</i> II. The last Verse saith, that he was so implacable, -that he would read neither <i>Card</i> nor <i>Packet</i>, that is, no requests.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La tourbe fausse dissimilant folie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera <i>Bizance</i> un changement de loix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Istra d’<i>Ægypt</i> qui veus que l’on deslie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Edict, changant Monnoys & alloys.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The false Troup dissembling their folly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make in <i>Bizance</i> an alteration of <i>Laws</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall come out of <i>Ægypt</i> who will have untied</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Edict, changing the Coin and allay.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is two things in this Prognostication, the first that in <i>Bizance</i>, which is -<i>Constantinople</i>, a <i>Troop</i> of tumultuous persons gathered together, and dissembling -their folly, shall cause an alteration in the <i>Laws</i>.</p> - -<p>The other, that some <i>Bassa</i> come out of <i>Ægypt</i>, shall perswade them at <i>Constantinople</i> -to alter their <i>Coin</i>, and the allay of it.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Siege a Cité & de nuit assaille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu eschapez non loing de Mer conflict,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Femme de joye, retour fils, de faillie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poison & Lettres caché dedans le plie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Siege laid to a City, and assaulted by night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Few escaped, a fight not far from the Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A woman swoundeth for joy to see her son returned;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A poison hidden in the fold of Letters.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">After the taking of <i>Vulpian</i>, the <i>French</i> came to <i>Montcalvo</i>, and in the night -surprized it by <i>Scalado</i>, and <i>Paradin</i> saith, that not a drop of Blood was shed on -either side.</p> - -<p>The Town being taken, the Citadel did hold out a good while, and at last did -surrender, <i>Don Arbre</i>, who was in the place of the Marques of <i>Pescaire</i>, and of the -Duke of d’<i>Alva</i>, knowing that the besieged had not made a sufficient resistance, -caused the Captain, and eleven more of the chief ones to be hanged; because the -place was of consequence, and those within had not made a sufficient resistance.</p> - -<p>The Author saith in the first Verse, Siege was laid to a City, that is, it was -resolved to besiege <i>Montcalvo</i>, as the Martial of <i>Brissac</i> had advised. In the execution -it was assaulted by night, in the taking few escaped; for they were all taken,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> -and yielded to the Victorious. There were none killed or wounded, all were taken, -except few who ran away, and carried the news to the <i>Spaniards</i>.</p> - -<p>At the same time <i>a fight not far from the Sea</i>, that is, at the same time there was -another Battle by the Sea, between the <i>Spaniards</i> and the <i>Pope</i>, as we shall shew hereafter.</p> - -<p>The third and fourth Verses are concerning a particular accident, which happened -presently after the taking of <i>Montcalvo</i>, which is, that a woman seeing her Son come -back safe, fell in a swound, or died for joy, because knowing the danger wherein he -was, she had lost all hopes of ever seeing him. This fellow had brought Poison in -a Letter to give to one that had not rewarded him according to his desire. His -wickedness being discovered, his Master put him in Prison, whence he escaped, and -came back again to <i>Montcalvo</i>; the Author speaketh of the same in another place, -which we shall set down in its order.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les dix Calendes d’<i>Avril</i> de fait <i>Gothique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Resuscité encor par gens malins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le feu estaint, assemblée Diabolique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherchant les Os de <i>Damant</i> & <i>Psellin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The tenth of the Calends of <i>April</i>, <i>Gothik</i> account,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Raised up again by malitious persons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire put out, a Diabolical assembly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall seek for the Bones of <i>Damant</i> and <i>Psellin</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The tenth of the Calends of <i>April</i> is the 23. of <i>March</i>, <i>Gothik</i> account signifieth -the old account of the Calendar, before the reformation of it by Pope <i>Gregory</i> the -XIII. which old account is called here <i>Gothik</i>, because it is kept still by the Northern -Nations, which do not acknowledge the Pope, as <i>Sweden</i>, <i>Denmark</i>, <i>Holland</i>, <i>England</i>, -&c. at that time saith our Author, a Magician shall be raised up by malitious -persons; which fire or tumult being put out, that Diabolical assembly will go about -to seek the bones of two famous Magicians, <i>viz.</i> <i>Damant</i> and <i>Psellin</i> that were dead -before.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant qu’aviene le changement d’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il adviendra un cas bien merveilleux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Champ mué, le Pilier de <i>Porphyre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis, translaté sur le Rocher Noileux.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the change of the Empire cometh,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall happen a strange accident,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A field shall be changed, and a Pillar of <i>Prophyry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be transported upon the Chalky Rock.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This will not seem incredible to those that have read the <i>English</i> Chronicles, who -relates that in a County of <i>England</i> (I think it is <i>Herefordshire</i>) there was an Earthquake, -which transposed a large piece of ground in another place, with the Trees that -were in it, and if I remember well, half a Chappel, those that have the Books may -examine the truth of the History, and satisfie themselves better.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En bref seront de retour Sacrifices,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contrevenans seront mis a Martyre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus ne seront Moins, Abbez ne Novices,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Miel sera beaucoup plus cher que Cire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while Sacrifices shall come again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Opposers shall be put to Martyrdom;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be no more Monks, Abbots, nor Novices,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Honey shall be much dearer then Wax.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a true Prophecy of the miserable condition of the Church and Clergy in -our Fore-fathers times, and chiefly of <i>Henry</i> the II. in <i>France</i>, and <i>Henry</i> the VIII. -in <i>England</i>, when in the beginning of the Reformation there was such a confusion -of opinions, and such unsettledness in Ecclesiastical Government, that sometimes -the Popish party prevailed, and put to death the Opposers; at another time the -Protestants, who drove away the Monks, Abbots and Novices, as is expressed here, -and proved true in <i>Henry</i> the VIII. time. As for what he saith, that <i>Honey shall be -much dearer than Wax</i>. It is to be understood of the downfal of the Romish Religion, -who maketh use of Wax Candles and Tapers in their superstitious ceremonies, -as if he would say, that the Romish Religion being down, Wax shall be cheap, -and Honey dear.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Secteur de Sectes, grand paine au Delateur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beste en Theatre, dresse le jeu Scenique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du fait antique ennobly l’Inventeur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Sectes, Monde confus & Schismatique.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Follower of Sects, great troubles to the Messenger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Beast upon the Theatre prepareth the Scenical play,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Inventor of that wicked fact shall be famous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sects the World shall be confounded and Schismatik.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author being a Papist, is probable that in this Prophecy he aimed at <i>Luther</i>, -after whose coming the world hath been full of Sects and Schisms.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout aupres d’<i>Auch</i>, de <i>Lectoure</i> & <i>Mirande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand feu du Ciel en trois nuits tombera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chose adviendra bien stupende & mirande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien peu apres la Terre tremblera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Auch</i>, <i>Lectoure</i> and <i>Mirande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great fire from Heaven shall fall three nights together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A thing shall happen stupendious and wonderful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after, the Earth shall quake.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Auch</i>, <i>Lectoure</i> and <i>Miranda</i> are three Towns in <i>Guyenna</i>, a Province of <i>France</i>, -the chief City whereof is <i>Bourdeaux</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Lac <i>Leman</i> les Sermons fascheront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des jours seront reduits par des Sepmaines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis mois, puis an, puis tous defalliront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Magistrats damneront leurs Loix vaines.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sermons of the <i>Leman</i> Lake shall be troublesome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some days shall be reduced into weeks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then into months, then into year, then they shall fail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Magistrates shall condemn their vain Laws.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Leman Lake</i>, in Latin <i>Lacus Lemanus</i>, is the Lake of <i>Geneva</i>, therefore it -is palpable, that by this Prophecy, the Author aimeth at <i>Calvin</i>, and his Successors, -who began the Reformation in that Town. I leave the rest to the Readers Judgement, -it is enough I have opened the door.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vingt ans du Regne de la Lune passez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept mil ans autre tiendra sa Monarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Soleil prendra ses jours laissez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors accomplit & fine ma Prophecie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Twenty years of the Reign of the Moon being past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven thousands years another shall hold his Monarchy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Sun shall reassume his days past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then is fulfilled, and endeth my Prophecy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All this signifieth no more, but that the Authors Prophecies extend to the end -of the world.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaucoup, beaucoup avant relics menées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux d’Orient par la vertu Lunaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An mil sept cens feront grands emmenées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subjugant presque le coin Aquilonaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great while before these doings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of the East by the virtue of the Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year <i>1700.</i> shall carry away great droves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall subdue almost the whole Northern corner.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I desire Posterity to take special notice of this <i>Stanza</i>, that in case it should come -to pass, our Author may be admired for the specification of the time, which is so -punctually set down, here that it admitteth no ambiguity. The plain meaning is, that -the <i>Turks</i>, which he calleth those of the East. By the virtue of the Moon, which -is their Ensign and Badge, shall in the year 1700. carry away abundance of people, -and shall subdue almost the whole Northern Countrey, which to them is <i>Russia</i>, -<i>Poland</i>, <i>Hungary</i>, <i>Sweden</i>, <i>Denemark</i>, &c.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span></p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Aquatique triplicity naistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un qui fera le <i>Jeudy</i> pour sa feste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Bruit, Loz, Regne & puissance croistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre & Mer, aux Orients tempeste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Aquatick triplicity shall be born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One that shall make <i>Thursday</i> his Holiday,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Fame, Praise, Reign, and Power shall grow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Land and Sea, and a Tempest to the East.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that at that time, as such conjunction of Planets shall be, which -he calleth here <i>Aquatick triplicity</i>, there shall be born upon a <i>Thursday</i> a famous man, -such as he describeth here, who shall be a foe and a terrour to the <i>Turks</i>, signified -here by the <i>Orients</i>.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef d’<i>Aries</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> & <i>Saturne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dieu Eternel quelles mutations!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis apres long siecle son malin temps retourne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaule</i> & <i>Italy</i> quelles emotions?</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Heads of <i>Aries</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> and <i>Saturn</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O Eternal God, what changes shall there be!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After a long age his wicked time cometh again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> and <i>Italy</i>, what commotions?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth, that when <i>Jupiter</i> and <i>Saturn</i> shall be in conjunction in the head -of <i>Aries</i>, that then shall be great commotions in <i>France</i> and <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le deux malins de <i>Scorpion</i> conjoint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Seigneur meurtry dedans sa salle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peste a l’Eglise par le nouveau Roy joint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Europe</i> basse, & Septentrionale.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The two malignants of <i>Scorpion</i> being joyned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The grand Seignor murdered in his Hall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plague to the Church by a King newly joyned to it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Europe</i> low, and Septentrional.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This third position of the Celestial bodies foretelleth the death of the great <i>Turk</i>, -who should be murdered in his own Chamber, as happened to Sultan <i>Osman</i>, who -was strangled in his Chamber, by the command of <i>Daout Bassa</i> great Vizeir, about the -year 1622. <i>vide</i> the Turkish History.</p> - -<p>The rest of the Prophecy is concerning a King, who being newly joyned to the -Church, (I suppose of <i>Rome</i>) shall bring much mischief to it, and in his time <i>Europe</i> -shall be brought very low, and in a manner confined to a corner of the North, which -hath relation to the foregoing 49. Stanza, which see in its place.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Las, qu’on verra grand peuple tourmenté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la Loy Sainte en totale ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par autres Loix toute la Chrestienté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand d’Or, d’Argent trouve nouvelle Mine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas, how a great people shall be tormented,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Holy Law in an utter ruine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By other Laws, all Christendom troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When new Mines of Gold and Silver shall be found.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a true Prophecy of the mischiefs that have happened in the World by the -finding of the Mines in <i>America</i>; first to the <i>Indians</i> themselves, called here a great -People, by the cruelty of the <i>Spaniards</i>, and then to all Christendom besides, by the -evils that this Idol <i>Mammon</i> hath brought into it.</p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux revolts faits du malin facigere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Regne & Siecles fait permutation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le mobil signe a son endroit s’Ingere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux deux egaux & d’Inclination.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two revolts shall be made by the wicked Link-carrier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall make a change of the Reign and the Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The moveable Sign doth offer it self for it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the two equals in inclination.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This obscure Stanza must be interpreted thus.</p> - -<p><i>Two revolts shall be made by the wicked Link-carrier</i>; that is, <i>Paris</i> which is the -<i>Link-carrier</i> of <i>France</i>, and whose example the rest of the Towns follow, shall revolt -twice, the first revolt was against <i>Henry</i> III. in the time of the <i>Barricadoes</i>, the -second against <i>Henry</i> IV. his successor.</p> - -<p><i>Which shall make a change of the Reign and the Age</i>: This happened when the house -of <i>Valois</i> was extinguished, and the house of <i>Bourbon</i> came in, and that is <i>the change -of the Reign</i>. <i>The change of the Age</i>, was, because this did happen about the end of the -year 1599. and the beginning 1600. which was a <i>change of Age</i>.</p> - -<p><i>The moveable sign offers it self for it</i>: That is, the position of the Heavens was -such as to forward these accidents.</p> - -<p><i>To the two equals in ambition</i>: That is, to <i>Henry</i> III. and <i>Henry</i> IV. who both -intended, and went about to reduce <i>Paris</i> to obedience.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs lopposite climat <i>Babilonique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grande sera de sang effusion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que Terre, & Mer, Air, Ciel sera inique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sectes, Faim, Regnes, Pestes, Confusion.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Climat opposite to the <i>Babylonian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a great effusion of Blood.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Insomuch that the Land, and Sea, Air and Heaven shall seem unjust</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sects, Famine, Reigns, Plague, Confusion.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult here, but what <i>Climat</i> is that is <i>opposite to the Babylonian</i>, -of which every body may satisfie himself by perusing the Globe.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vous verrez tost on tard faire grand change,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Horreurs extremes & vindications,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que si la Lune conduite par son Ange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel sapproche des inclinations.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">You shall see soon or late great alterations</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Extreme horrours and revenges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Moon leaden by her Angel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven draweth near its inclinations.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I conceive there is some things omitted, and corrupted by the Press in this Stanza, -which rendreth it so difficult, therefore I had rather leave it to the decision of -the impartial Reader, than venture my opinion upon it.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par grand discord la trombe tremblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accord rompu, dressant la teste au Ciel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bouche sanglante dans le sang nagera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Sol la face ointe le loit & Miel.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By great discord, the Trumpet shall sound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Agreement broken, lifting the head to Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A bloody mouth shall swim in blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The face turned to the Sun anointed with Milk and Honey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sence are plain, and I cannot believe that there is any great mystery -hidden under these words.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trenché le ventre, naistra avec deux testes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">& quattre bras, quel qu’ans entiers vivra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jour qu’Aquilare celebrera ses festes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Fossan</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, chef <i>Ferrare</i> fuiera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Slit in the belly, shall be born with two heads,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And four Arms, it shall live some years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The day that <i>Aquilare</i> shall celebrate his Festivals,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Fossan</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, chief <i>Ferrare</i> shall run away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the first Verse the Author speaketh of a Monster that had two heads, and four -Arms, and the Belly slit, that is to say, it was a female.</p> - -<p>His Son <i>Cæsar</i> in his History of <i>Provence</i>, saith, that in the Town of <i>Senan</i> in -<i>Provence</i>, a Child was born with two heads, and that it was foretold by some that -were skilful in Astronomy, by which words I guess he spake of his Father, sith the -Astrologers cannot foretel the birth of a particular Monster, and therefore <i>Nostradamus</i> -only was able to do it in those days.</p> - -<p>He saith in the same place, that it was born in <i>February</i> 1554. and was brought -to <i>Salon</i> to be shewed to his Father, and thence was carried to <i>Claudius</i> Earl of <i>Savoy</i> -Governour of <i>Provence</i>, who commonly had his residence at <i>Salon</i>.</p> - -<p>He maketh no mention if he had four Arms, nor what Sex it was of, it may be -that being in swadling cloths, nobody took notice of the Arms or Sex.</p> - -<p>The Author Prophecieth that it should live some years, it may be two or three, -and that is was preserved to see, whether in time it should have the use of its Senses, -of the Tongue, and understanding of its two Heads, to see whether there were two -Souls, or onely one, and to say the Truth. I think that in such an accident both -Heads ought to be Baptized, that in case there should be two Souls, both should -partake of the blood of Christ, for their Eternal Salvation.</p> - -<p>I do not find in the same History how long it lived, it being a thing not much -material to History. In the third Verse he marketh, <i>The day that <span class="antiqua">Aquilare</span> shall -celebrate his Festivals</i>; and in the fourth he saith that <i>Fossan, Thurin, chief Ferrare -shall run away</i>.</p> - -<p>To understand this, one must suppose here that the Town of <i>Cazal</i> is called here -the chief of <i>Ferrare</i>; because it is the chief City of <i>Montserrat</i>, and as <i>Paradin</i> saith, -is called <i>Cazal</i> St. <i>Bas</i>, a handsom and strong place, honoured with many Nobles -and antient Families, as of the Earls of St. <i>George</i> and of <i>Biandratte</i>.</p> - -<p>Secondly, We must suppose that in the year 1554. the Lord <i>Figuerol</i>, Lieutenant -to the Governour of <i>Milan</i> did command in that place. Of this <i>Figuerol</i> I find -in the Author of the four Volumes of the States and Empires, (when he speaketh -of <i>Spain</i>) that the House of <i>Figueroas</i> was the root of that of <i>Aquilar</i>, which hath -several branches, out of which came the Duke of <i>Feria</i>, and the Marquess of <i>Pliego</i>, -so that <i>Figuerol</i> and <i>Aquilar</i> is the same thing.</p> - -<p>If it be objected that <i>Figueroas</i> and <i>Figuerol</i> are not the same, <i>Paradin</i> teacheth -us, that this <i>Figuerol</i> was bred up amongst the <i>Genoeses</i>, and the corrupted <i>Italian</i> -of <i>Genoa</i> may have named the Captain <i>Figuerol</i> in stead of <i>Figueroas</i>.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, We must suppose here that <i>Cazal</i> was taken in the night that is between -<i>Shrove-Tuesday</i> and <i>Ash-Wednesday</i>, and that from <i>Shrove-Sunday</i> to that day there -were great rejoycings, because of a famous Marriage that was made between two -persons of quality, where the Lord <i>Figuerol</i> was one of the chief persons invited.</p> - -<p>Fourthly, That these rejoycings were the occasion of the taking of <i>Cazal</i>; because -the Lord <i>Salvaison</i> Governour of <i>Verrüe</i> hearing of this Feast, resolved to be -among them, though with a different intention. He had before hand made himself -sure of one <i>Fontarole</i>, who under pretence to sell fruit, went up and down the -Town to spie what was a doing.</p> - -<p>Fifthly, The resolution of surprizing <i>Cazal</i> was agreed upon, and the time appointed -to be the night between <i>Shrove-Tuesday</i> and <i>Ash-Wednesday</i>, when the Governour, -Inhabitants and Souldiers should be buried in sleep, weary of debaucheries -committed the day before.</p> - -<p>Sixthly, This resolution was so happily put into execution, that <i>Figuerol</i> hearing<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> -the noise of the <i>French</i> being in Town, came out of his house, having only his -night Gown upon him, and a Halbert in his hand, to quiet those whom he only -thought to be some drunken persons; but hearing the cry of <i>France, France</i>, he presently -retired into the Castle, with all those that were come to the Nuptials.</p> - -<p>Seventhly, The Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> coming about seven of the Clock in the Morning, -caused the Tower of <i>Cazal</i> to be assaulted, which was taken with a considerable -loss of the <i>French</i>, and after that the Castle which held out 12 days.</p> - -<p>All this being supposed, mark what the Author saith in the third Verse.</p> - -<p>The day that <i>Aquilare</i> shall celebrate his Festivals, that is, the day that <i>Figuerol -of the house of Aquilare shall celebrate his Festivals</i>, not only one Festival, but his -Festivals, that is of three days.</p> - -<p><i>Fossen</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, saith the fourth Verse, <i>Chief Ferrare shall run away</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Fossen</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, doth not signifie two Towns, but one onely; for although <i>Fossen</i> -and <i>Thurin</i> be two Towns, of which <i>Fossen</i> in the time of the Wars in <i>Italy</i> under -<i>Henry</i> II. belonged to the <i>Spaniard</i>, and <i>Thurin</i> to the <i>French</i>. These two Towns -signifie but one, which is that of <i>Fossen</i>, to which to distinguish it from <i>Marseilles</i>, he -giveth the Epithete of <i>Thurin</i>, so much as to say, that he speaketh of <i>Fossen</i> a Town -of <i>Piemont</i>, the chief Town of which is <i>Thurin</i>, and not of <i>Fossen</i>, which the Author -taketh often for <i>Marseilles</i>.</p> - -<p>Which the Author maketh plain, when he saith in the singular number, that -<i>Fossen, Thurin, chief Ferrare shall run away</i>, to shew that it is onely one Town of -which he speaketh, otherwise if he had intended to speake of two, he would have -put it in the plural number, which is more manifest by the History, wherein we -learn that <i>Fossen</i> belonged to the <i>Spaniards</i>, and <i>Thurin</i> to the <i>French</i>, and consequently, -being of contrary parties, they could neither follow, nor fly from a Town -which belonged to one of them.</p> - -<p>If any one should object, that the sense of the fourth Verse is, that the <i>Chief -Ferrare</i> shall fly or follow these two Towns, the preceding reason is repugnant to -that sense; because a Town that is of one party, cannot be friend to two Towns, -one of which is of its party, and the other of the contrary.</p> - -<p>The reading of this work shall convince every body, that the Author setteth -down sometimes two Towns for one, to distinguish them from others, as he nameth -<i>Paul Mansol</i>, to distinguish that Town of St. <i>Paul</i>, which is three Leagues from the -<i>Rhosne</i>, over against <i>Pont</i> St. <i>Esprit</i>, from that St. <i>Paul</i> which is in <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<p>Now that <i>Fossen</i> in <i>Piemont</i> shall run from <i>Cazal</i> the chief City of <i>Montserrat</i>, because -that being taken by the <i>French</i>, <i>Fossen</i> could not expect but perpetual damages -from it.</p> - -<p>But why? will you say, doth the Author speak rather of <i>Fossen</i>, than of other -places that held for the <i>Spaniards</i>? I answer, because <i>Fossen</i> was the strongest place -that the <i>Spaniards</i> had in <i>Piemont</i> and which could not be taken by the <i>French</i>, though -her neighbour <i>Saviliane</i> was, as we shall shew hereafter.</p> - -<p>In the Vulgar impression of this Stanza, there is two faults, one is, that in the -first Verse it puts <i>Aquileya</i>, which is a Town that is not in <i>Italy</i>, truth it is, that -there is <i>Aquilee</i> a little above <i>Venice</i>, but this hath no correspondency with <i>Fossen</i>, -<i>Thurin</i>, nor the <i>Chief of Ferrara</i>.</p> - -<p>In the fourth Verse the impression setteth down <i>shall follow</i>, which maketh nonsense, -and therefore I put <i>shall run away</i>, which is a word in <i>French</i> near the other, -and maketh a compleat sense, to which agreeth the birth of that Monster in <i>February</i>, -and the taking of <i>Cazal</i> in the Month of <i>March</i>. In that year, <i>John Statius</i> setteth -<i>Shrove-Tuesday</i> upon the 16 of <i>February</i>, and consequently we must say, that the -Town was not taken that year 1554. for the Citadel was taken 12 days after, which -should have been the 19 of <i>February</i>, and notwithstanding the History marks that it -was taken upon the 14 of <i>March</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p> - -<p>Therefore we must conclude, that it was taken the year following 1555. and to -say truth, in that year <i>Ash-wednesday</i> was the 27. of <i>February</i>; in that day the Town -was taken, and two days after the Tower of <i>Cazal</i>; after which the Citadel was besieged -the second of <i>March</i>, and the first <i>Saturday</i> of Lent, and was taken twelve -days after, which was the 14. of <i>March</i>, which convinceth me that <i>Cazal</i> was taken -in the year 1555. upon the 27. of <i>February</i>, and therefore that this Stanza is wholly -Prophetical.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les exilez deportez dans les Isles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au changement d’un plus cruel Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront meurtris & mis dans les Scintilles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui de parler ne seront este parques.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They banished that were carried into the Islands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the change of a more cruel Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be murdered, and put in the sparks of fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because they had not been sparing of their tongues.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is very plain, and signifieth no more, but that some persons that were banished -into Islands, and could not hold their tongues; upon the coming of a Monarque, -more cruel than his Predecessor, shall be murdered, and burnt.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Empereur naistra pres d’<i>Italie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui a l’Empire sera vendu bien cher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Diront avec quels gens il se ralie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on trouvera moins Prince que Boucher.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An Emperour shall be born near <i>Italy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall cost dear to the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall say, what people he keepeth company!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be found less a Prince, than a Butcher.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is for the future; for since <i>Nostradamus</i>’s time till now, such an -Emperour was not heard of, that was born near <i>Italy</i>, that cost the Empire so dear, -and proved more a Butcher, than a Prince.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span></p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Republique miserable infelice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera vastée du nouveau Magistrat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur grand amas de l’exil malefice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera <i>Suede</i> ravir leur grand contract.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The miserable and unhappy Common-wealth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be wafted by the new Magistrate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their great gathering from exiled persons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Swedeland</i> to break her Contract.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses foretell what hath happened to <i>England</i> under the Government -of a Common-wealth, and how their new Magistrate <i>Cromwel</i> made a havock -of them. The third and fourth Verses, mention what great sums they exacted from -those of the Kings party, and how for that cause <i>Swedeland</i> foresook their friendship.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grande perte las que feront les Lettres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant le Circle de Latona parfait,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, grand Deluge, plus par ignares Sceptres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que de long siecle ne se verra refait.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas what a great loss shall learning suffer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Circle of the Moon be accomplished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, great flood, and more by ignorant Scepters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then can be made good again in a long age.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here the Author bemoaneth the loss of one eminent person in Learning, be like -of <i>Julius Scaliger</i>, who lived in his time, and was once his intimate friend, the two -last Verses that great miseries, as Fire and Flood shall happen by the ignorance of -Princes.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Fleaux passez, diminué le Monde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps la Paix, Terres inhabitées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seur marchera par le Ciel, Terre, Mer & Onde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis de nouveau les Guerres suscitées.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Scourges being past, the World shall be diminished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace for a great while, Lands inhabited,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Every one safe shall go by Heaven, Land and Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then the Wars shall begin a fresh.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth a great tranquillity every where, and after that, Wars again:</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit Soleil penseront avoir veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Pourceau demy homme on verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bruit, Chant, Bataille au Ciel battre apperceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et bestes brutes a parler on orra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall think to have seen the Sun in the night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Hog half a man shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noise, Singing, Battles in Heaven shall be seen to fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And brute beasts shall be heard to speak.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is full of prodigies that are to happen, and for that in the last Verse, -it is no great wonder, for many brute beasts have spoken, speak now a days, and shall -speak hereafter.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Enfant sans mains, jamais veu si grand Foudre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant Royal au jeu d’esteuf blessé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au puy brisez, fulgures allant moudre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois sur les champs par le milieu troussez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A child without hands, so great Lightning never seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Royal Child wounded at Tennis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bruised at the Well, Lightnings, going to grind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three shall be strucken by the middle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of all this is, that when a child shall be born without hands, there -shall be fearful Lightning; a Royal child shall be hurt at <i>Tennes</i>, and by that Lightning -some shall be bruised by a Well, and in a Mill, and three in the Field shall be -killed.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qui lors portera les nouvelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres un peu il viendra respirer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Viviers</i>, <i>Tournon</i>, <i>Montferrand</i> & <i>Pradelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gresle & tempeste les fera souspirer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that then shall carry the news,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after shall draw his breath,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Viviers</i>, <i>Tournon</i>, <i>Montferrant</i>, and <i>Pradelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hail and storm shall make them sigh.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza hath a connexion with the foregoing, for the two first Verses signifie, -that he who shall carry the news of that fearful Lightning, and of the mischief done -by it, shall have much ado to recover his breath.</p> - -<p>In the last two Verses, the Towns are named which shall suffer most by that storm, -and chiefly by the Hail and the Wind.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand famine que je vois approcher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souvent tourner puis estre universelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grande & longue qu’on viendra arracher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Bois racine, & l’Enfant de mamelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What a great famine do I see drawing near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To turn one way, then another, and then become universal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So great and long, that they shall come to pluck</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The root from the Wood, and the child from the breast.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense of this are plain, and foretell a great famine, which being -first in one Countrey and then in another, shall at last become general, and last so -long, that people shall pluck the Roots from the Trees, and the children from the -breast to feed upon.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O quel horrible & malheureux tourment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois innocens qu’on viendra a livrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poison suspect, mal garde tradiment.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis en horreur par Bourreaux enyvrez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O to what a horrid and unhappy torment</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be put three Innocents!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poison shall be suspected, evil Keepers shall betray them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be put to horrour by drunken Executioners.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is very plain concerning three innocent persons, who shall be delivered up by -their unfaithful keepers, and shall be put to great torments by drunken Executioners, -which torments shall be suspected to come by poison.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Montagne ronde de sept Stades,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Paix, Guerre, Faim, Inondation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roulera loing, abisuant grand contrades,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mesmes antiques, & grand Fondation.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Mount in compass seven Stades,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After Peace, War, Famine, and Innundation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall tumble a great way, sinking great Countries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yea ancient Buildings, and great Foundation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Stade cometh from the Greek word σταδιον, ἀπὸ τῆς στασεος, because <i>Hercules</i> did -overrun so much ground at one breath; but what space of ground the Author meaneth -by seven Stades, is unknown to me. The rest of the Prophecy may very well be -appropriated to the last fearful eruption of Mount <i>Ætna</i>, which sunk so many -Towns and Buildings, and the relation of which is so handsomly and truly made -by the most honourable the Earl of <i>Winchelsey</i>, who was an eye witness to it, in his -return from his Embassy at <i>Constantinople</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pluye, Faim, Guerre en <i>Perse</i> non cessée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La foy trop grande trahira le Monarque;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la finie en <i>Gaule</i> commencée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secret augure pour a un estre parque.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Rain, Famine, War, in <i>Persia</i> being not ceased,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Too great credulity shall betray the Monarque;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being ended there it shall begin in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A secret Omen to one that he shall die.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of the two first Verses, is, that while the Rain, Famine, and War shall -be in <i>Persia</i>, a Monarque shall be betrayed by his credulity. The third Verse signifieth -that this Rain, Famine and War being ended in <i>Persia</i>, it shall begin in <i>France</i>. And -the fourth Verse, that this shall be an Omen to a great Person of his approaching -death.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Tour Marine troisfois prise & reprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Espagnols</i>, <i>Barbares</i>, <i>Ligurins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Marseille</i> & <i>Aix</i>, <i>Arles</i> par ceux de <i>Pise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vast, feu, fer, pille, <i>Avignon</i> des <i>Thurins</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sea-tower three times taken and retaken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Spaniards</i>, <i>Barbarians</i>, and <i>Ligurians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Marseilles</i> and <i>Aix</i>, <i>Arles</i> by those of <i>Pisa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wast, fire, Iron, plunder, <i>Avignon</i> of <i>Thurins</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is hard to guess what this Sea Tower is, which was taken and retaken three times; -first by the <i>Spaniards</i>, next by the <i>Barbarians</i>, and then by the <i>Ligurians</i>, that is, either -the <i>Genoeses</i>, or those of <i>Ligorne</i>, unless he meaneth the <i>Pignon de Velez</i> in <i>Africa</i>, first -taken by <i>Charles</i> the V. upon the <i>Barbarians</i>, then retaken again by them, taken -again by the <i>Spaniards</i>, by the help of the <i>Genoeses</i>. In the third Verse <i>Marseille</i>, -<i>Aix</i>, and <i>Arles</i>, are threatned by those of <i>Pisa</i>, that is the <i>Florentines</i>, of being ruinated -by Fire and Sword, and to be plundered, as also <i>Avignon</i> by those of <i>Piemont</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du tout <i>Marseille</i> des habitans changee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Course & poursuite jusques pres de <i>Lion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i>, <i>Tholoze</i> par <i>Bourdeaux</i> outragée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tuez, Captifs presque d’un Milion.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Marseille</i> shall wholly change her Inhabitants</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These shall run and be pursued as far as <i>Lion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i>, <i>Tholoze</i> shall wrong <i>Bourdeaux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be killed and taken prisoner almost a Milion.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Marseilles</i> is a Sea-Town in <i>Provence</i>, <i>Narbon</i>, and <i>Tholoze</i> are Cities of <i>Languedoc</i>, -and <i>Bourdeaux</i> is the chief Town in <i>Gascony</i>, the rest is easie to be understood.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> a cinq parts par neglect assaillie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tunis</i>, <i>Argier</i>, esmeus par <i>Persiens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leon</i>, <i>Seville</i>, <i>Barcelonne</i> faillie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">N’aura la chasse par les <i>Venetiens</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> by a neglect shall be assaulted on five sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tunis</i>, <i>Argier</i> shall be moved by the <i>Persians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leon</i>, <i>Sevil</i>, <i>Barcelone</i> shall be missed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And not be pursued by the <i>Venetians</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is concerning as many Countreys, as there are Verses: the first is -<i>France</i>, which by neglect and carelesness of her in Inhabitants, <i>shall be assaulted on -five several sides</i>. The second is concerning <i>Tunis</i> and <i>Argier</i>, Cities of <i>Barbary</i>, -<i>which shall be stirred and moved</i> (I suppose) to rebel. The third regardeth <i>Leon</i>, -<i>Sevil</i>, <i>Barselona</i>, Cities in <i>Spain</i>, and the fourth the <i>Venetians</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres sejourné vogueront en Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand secours viendra vers <i>Antioche</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le noir poil crespe tendra fort a l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Barbe d’Airain se rostira en broche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After a stay, they shall Sail towards an Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great succours shall come towards <i>Antioch</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Black Hair Curled, shall aim much to the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Brazen Beard shall be roasted on a Spit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is no difficulty in this, but in the last Verse, which I had rather leave to the -judgment of the judicious Reader, than to offer any thing that might make me ridiculous.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Tyran <i>Sienne</i> occupera <i>Savone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fort gaigné tiendra classe Marine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux Armées par la marque d’<i>Ancone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par effrayeur le chef sen examine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Tyrant <i>Sienna</i> shall occupy <i>Savona</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fort being won, shall hold a Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two Armies shall go in the mark of <i>Ancona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By fear the chief shall be examined.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">For the explication of this Stanza, you must understand that <i>Sienna</i> is a City in -<i>Italy</i>, now under the Dominion of the Duke of <i>Tuscany</i>, who shall occupy <i>Savona</i>, -a City now under the Dominion of the Common-wealth of <i>Genoa</i>; the rest is plain -enough.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un nom farouche tel proferé sera.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que les trois Sœurs auront <i>Fato</i> le nom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis grand peuple par langue & fait dira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus que nul autre aura bruit & renom.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a wild name one shall be called</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that the three Sisters shall have the name of <i>Fato</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Afterwards a great people by Tongue and Deeds, shall say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall have fame and renown more than any other.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the three Sisters, he meaneth the three Destinies, <i>viz.</i> <i>Clotho</i>, <i>Lachesis</i> and -<i>Atropos</i>, which the Poets have fained to Spin every mans destiny, which he calleth -here <i>Fato</i>, from the Latin word <i>Fatum</i>. The rest may be interpreted as well by the -Reader, as by my self.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux Mers dressera promontoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui puis mourra par le mors du Cheval,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fier <i>Neptune</i> pliera Voile noire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Calpre</i>, & Classe aupres de <i>Rocheval</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Seas shall a Promontory be raised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By him, who shall die by the biting of a Horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The proud <i>Neptune</i> shall fold the black Sail.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through <i>Calpre</i>, and a fleet shall be near <i>Rocheval</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find what he meaneth by <i>Calpre</i>, nor by <i>Rocheval</i>, which I suppose to -be the proper names of places, when he saith, that proud <i>Neptune</i> shall fold the black -Sail; he maketh an allusion to the History of <i>Theseus</i>, Son of <i>Ægeus</i> King of -<i>Athens</i>, who being sent with other Children into <i>Candia</i>, to become a prey to the -<i>Minotaure</i>, his Father sent the Ship with black <i>Sails</i>, as in a case of Mourning, -charging <i>Theseus</i>, that if he came back again safe he should put on white Sails, but -coming in sight of <i>Athens</i>, <i>Theseus</i> for joy forgot to put on the white Sails, so that -his Father <i>Ægeus</i> thinking he had miscarried, cast himself from a Rock into the Sea, -so that he saying that <i>Neptune</i> shall fold the black Sail, he meaneth, that there shall -be joyful news.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un chef vieillard naistre sens habeté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Degenerant par scavoir & par Armes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le chef de <i>France</i> par sa Sœur redouté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Champs divisez concedez aux Gensdarmes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An old head shall beget an Idiot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall degenerate in Learning and in Arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The head of <i>France</i> shall be feared by his sister,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fields shall be divided and granted to the Troopers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is so plain, that any body may make his interpretation of it.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bazas</i>, L’<i>Estoure</i>, <i>Condom</i>, <i>Auch</i>, <i>Agine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esmeus par Loix, querelle & Monopole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Car <i>Bourd</i>, <i>Tholose</i>, <i>Bay</i>, mettra en ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Renouveler voulant leur <i>Tauropole</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bazas</i>, L’<i>Estoure</i>, <i>Condom</i>, <i>Auch</i>, <i>Agen</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being moved by Laws, quarrels and Monopoly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For they shall put to ruine <i>Bordeaux</i>, <i>Tholose</i>, <i>Bayonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going about to renew their <i>Tauropole</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Key of the sense of this Stanza lieth in the last word <i>Tauropole</i>, which is -compounded of the Latin word <i>Taurus</i> a Bull, and of the Greek word πολέω, that is, -to sell; so that the meaning of it is, that those Cities mentioned shall rise in Rebellion -against the <i>Monopolites</i>, and those that shall lay a Tax upon Cattle.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De la sixiesme claire splendeur Celeste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra Tonnerre si fort en la <i>Bourgongne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i>, <i>Avril</i>, <i>May</i>, <i>Juin</i>, grand charpin & rogne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the sixth bright Cœlestial splendour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come very great Lightning in <i>Burgundy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that shall be born a Monster of a most hideous beast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>March</i>, <i>April</i>, <i>May</i>, <i>June</i> shall be great quarelling and muttering.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse is of a most dark and abstruse sense, in which I confess my ignorance, -unless he meant from the sixth of the seven Planets, the rest is plain enough.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’humain troupeau neuf seront mis a part,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Jugement & Conseil separez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur sort sera divisé en depart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Kappa</i>, <i>Theta</i>, <i>Lambda</i>, mors, bannis egarez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nine shall be set aside from the human flock,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being divided in Judgement and Counsel</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their fortune shall be to be divided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Kappa</i>, <i>Theta</i>, <i>Lambda</i>, dead, banished, scattered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by <i>Kappa</i>, <i>Theta</i>, <i>Lambda</i>, -which are three Letters of the Greek <i>Alphabet</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand les Colomnes de Bois grande tremblée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Auster</i> conduite, couverte de rubriche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant videra dehors grande assemblée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tremble <i>Vienne</i>, & le Païs d’<i>Austriche</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the wooden Columns shall be much shaken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Auster</i>, and covered with rubbish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall go out a great assembly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And <i>Vienne</i>, and the Land of <i>Austria</i> shall tremble.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Auster</i>, in Latin is the Southwind. <i>Vienna</i> is the chief City of <i>Austria</i>, belonging -to the Emperour of <i>Germany</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Agent estrange divisera butins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> & <i>Mars</i> son regard furieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Horrible, estrange, aux <i>Thoscans</i> & <i>Latins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Grees</i> qui seront a frapper curiux.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The stranger Agent shall divide booties,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> in <i>Mars</i> shall have his aspect furious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Horrid, and strange to the <i>Tuscans</i> and <i>Latines</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Grecians</i> shall be curious to strike.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Tuscans</i> are meant the people under the Dominion of the Duke of <i>Florence</i>; -and by the <i>Latines</i>, those under the <i>Pope</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lune obscurie aux profondes tenebres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son frere passe de couleur ferrugine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand caché long temps soubs les tenebres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiedera Fer dans la Pluie sanguine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Moon shall be darkned in the deepest darkness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her brother shall pass being of a ferrugineous colour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one long hidden under darkness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make his Iron lukewarm in the bloody Rain.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth, that when the Moon shall be totally Eclipsed in the night, and -that all the next day her Brother the Sun shall be seen of a ferrugineous, (that is an -Iron like colour) then shall a great one that was hidden arise, and do great feats of -Arms with the death of many men.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la responce de Dame Roy troublé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ambassadeurs mespriseront leur vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand ses Freres contrefera doublé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par deux mourront, hain, ire, & envie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall be troubled by the answer of a Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Embassadors shall despise their lives,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one being double in mind shall counterfeit his Brothers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall die by two, anger, hatred, and envy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult here, but the last Verse, which yet will be plain enough, -if you make these three words anger, hatred, and envy not co-herent with the foremost, -but subsisting by themselves; as if one should say, there shall be anger, hatred, -and envy.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grande Roine quand se verra vaincue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera exces de Masculin courage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Cheval, Fleuve passera nue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Suite par Fer, a Foy fera outrage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Queen shall see her self vanquished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She shall do a deed of a Masculine courage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon a Horse, she shall pass over the River naked,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Followed by Iron, she shall do wrong to her Faith.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is some great Queen, who seeing her self vanquished, shall swim naked on Horseback -over a River, being followed by those that would have either killed or taken -her, and after that shall forfeit her faith, but whether it be to her Husband, Friends, -or Relations, is not expressed.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ennosigee</i> feu du Centre de Terre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera trembler autour de Cité Neuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux grands Rochers long temps feront la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis <i>Arethuse</i> rougira nouveau fleuve.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ennosigee</i>, fire of the Center of the Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make quake about the New City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great Rocks shall a great while War one against the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, <i>Arethusa</i> shall colour red a new River.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Ennosigee</i> is a Greek word εννοσίγαιος, in Latin <i>Terræ quassator</i>, from ἔνίω <i>moveo</i>, -and γαῖα <i>Terra</i>, and is an Epithete of <i>Neptune</i>. The meaning then of this Stanza is, -that the Sea shall make the Earth quake, and fire come out of the Earth about <i>Naples</i>, -which in Greek is called <i>Neapolis</i>, that is, a <i>New City</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p> - -<p><i>Arethusa</i> is a Fountain in <i>Sicily</i>, which a little way from its Spring, groweth into -a River. The rest is left to the interpretation of the Reader.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Divin mal surprendra un grand Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant aura femme espousée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son appuy & credit a un coup viendra mince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conseil mourra pour la teste rasée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Divine sickness shall surprise a great Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after he hath married a woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His support and credit shall at once become slender,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Council shall die for the shaven head.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Divine sickness, he meaneth the <i>falling sickness</i>, called by the Greeks -<i>Epilepsia</i>, and by the Latines <i>Morbus Sacer</i>. By the shaven head, he meaneth some -Ecclesiastical person of the <i>Romish</i> Religion; the construction of the whole is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous ceux d’<i>Illerde</i> seront dans la <i>Moselle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettant a mort tous ceux de <i>Loire</i> & <i>Seine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le course Marin viendra pres d’<i>Hautevelle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Espagnols</i> ouvrira toute veine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All those of <i>Illerde</i> shall be in the <i>Mosel</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Putting to death all those of <i>Loire</i> and <i>Seine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sea course shall come near <i>Hautevelle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the <i>Spaniard</i> shall open all veins.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Illerde</i> he meaneth the City of l’<i>Isle</i> in <i>Flanders</i>, the <i>Mosel</i> is a River that runneth -through <i>Lorrain</i>, the <i>Loire</i> and <i>Seine</i> are two other Rivers of <i>France</i>, the first -of which passeth at <i>Orleans</i>, and the second at <i>Paris</i>; the two last Verses are too hard -for me to interpret.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Poitiers</i>, au son de la Campane,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A grande classe ira jusqu’a <i>Langon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre <i>Gaulois</i> sera leur <i>Tramontane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand Monstre hideux naistra pres de <i>Orgon</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Poitiers</i>, at the sound of the Bell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a great Navy shall go as far as <i>Langon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the <i>French</i> shall their <i>Tramontane</i> be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When an hideous Monster shall be born near <i>Orgon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tramontana</i>, in <i>Italian</i>, is the North-wind. <i>Orgon</i>, is the name of a Town in <i>Gascony</i>, -the rest of the construction is not difficult.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les dieux feront aux humains apparence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce quils seront auteurs de grand conflict,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant ciel veu serain, Espée & Lance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que vers main gauche sera plus grande affliction.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Gods shall make it appear to Man-kind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they are the Authors of a great War;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the Heaven that was Serene, shall shew Sword and Lance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Signifying, that on the left hand the affliction shall be greater.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">He foretelleth here some Prodigies that shall be in the Air, as <i>Swords</i> and <i>Lances</i> -after fair weather, which shall be forerunners of great Wars, and chiefly in those -Countries that shall be situated on the left hand of these Prodigies.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs un la paix, par tout sera clemence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais non long temps, pille & rebellion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par refus Ville, Terre & Mer entamée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Morts & Captifs le liers d’un Million.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under one shall be peace, and every where clemency,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But not a long while, then shall be plundering and Rebellion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a denyal shall Town, Land and Sea be assaulted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be Dead and taken Prisoners the third part of a Million.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Terre <i>Italique</i> des Mons tremblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lion</i> & <i>Coq</i> non trop confederez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">en lieu & peur l’un l’autre saidera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seul <i>Catulon</i> & <i>Celtes</i> moderez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Italian</i> Land of the Mountains shall tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Lion</i> and the <i>Cock</i> shall not agree very well together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall for fear help one another,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The only <i>Catulon</i> and <i>Celtes</i> shall be moderate.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Lion</i> he understandeth the <i>English</i>, because of their Arms, and by the -<i>Cock</i> the <i>French</i>, called in Latin <i>Gallus</i>, which signifieth a Cock; <i>Catulon</i> is the -<i>Spaniards</i>, as if he should say <i>Castilian</i>; the <i>Celtes</i> are the <i>Dutch</i> of the Low-Countries.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Port Selyn</i> le Tyrant mis a Mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La liberté non pourtant recouvrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nouveau <i>Mars</i> par vindict & remort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame par force de frayeur honorée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Port Selyn</i> the Tyrant shall be put to death</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And yet the liberty shall not be recovered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new <i>Mars</i> by vengeance and remorse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lady by excess of fear honoured.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Port Selyn</i>, is meant <i>Constantinople</i>, because of several Emperours of the -<i>Turks</i> that have been of that name, therefore the intention of this Prophecy, is, that -one of the Turkish Emperours shall be put to death at <i>Constantinople</i>, which for all -that, shall not recover her liberty. The <i>new Mars</i>, be like he is so called, that shall -put him to death <i>by vengeance without remorse</i>. <i>The Lady by excess of fear honoured</i>, -may be applied to the present great Sultaness, Mother to this present Emperour of -the <i>Turks</i>, who hath hitherto made her self very considerable by a great party, which -she hath raised against her Son, to prevent him from putting his Brothers to death, as -is usually practised in that Court.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant Moustier trouvé enfant besson,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Heroik sang de Moine & vetustique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son bruit per Secte, Langue, & puissance Son,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on dira fort eslevé le Vopisque.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Minster shall one twin be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From Heroik blood, of a Monk and Ancient,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His fame by Sect, Tongue, and Power shall be sounded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that they shall say the Vopisk is much raised.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of the whole is, that a Twin shall be found before a Church, begot -by a Monk, of Illustrious and Ancient Family, and shall become very famous, -<i>So that they shall say the Vopisk is much raised</i>. <i>Vopiscus</i> in Latin, is, that one of the -Twins, which cometh to perfect Birth.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’aura la charge de destruire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Temples & Sectes changez par fantaisie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus aux Rochers, qu’aux vivans viendra nuire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par langue ornée d’oreille rassasie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall have charge to destroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Churches and Sects, changed by fancy;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall do more harm to the Rocks, than to the living,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a smooth tongue filling up the Ears.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">As the words of this Stanza are plain, so is the sense most obscure, and so to be left -to the Readers private Judgement.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce que fer, flamme, na sceu parachever,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La douce langue au conseil viendra faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par respos, songe le Roy fera resuer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus l’Ennemy en feu sang militaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What neither Iron nor Fire could compass,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be done by a smooth tongue in the Councel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In sleep a dream shall make the King to think,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The more the Enemy in fire and Military blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is plain, though the words be somthing untowardly expressed.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef qu’aura conduit peuple infiny,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loin de son Ciel: de mœurs & langue estrange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq mille en <i>Crete</i> & <i>Thessalie</i> finy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef fuiant sauvé en la Marine Grange.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Captain that shall lead an infinite deal of people</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from their Countrey, to one of strange manners and Language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Five thousand in <i>Candia</i> and <i>Thessalia</i> finished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Head running away, shall be safe in a Barn by the Sea.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is some great Commander that shall lead a multitude of people into a strange -Countrey, far from their own; suppose <i>Candia</i> and <i>Thessalia</i>, where the said Commander -shall be compelled to run away, and to save himself in a Barn by the Sea side.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Monarque qui fera compagnie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avec deux Rois unis par amitié,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O quel souspir fera la grand mesgnie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enfans, <i>Narbonne</i> alentour, quel pitié!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Monarch shall keep company,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With two Kings united in friendship;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O what fights shall be made by their followers!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Children, O what pity shall be about <i>Narbon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza requireth no interpretation more, than what every one will be pleased -to give himself.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps au Ciel sera veu gris Oiseau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres de <i>Dole</i> & de <i>Tuscane</i> Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tenant au Bec un verdoiant rameau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourra tost Grand, & finira la Guerre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great while shall be seen in the Air a gray Bird,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Dola</i> and the <i>Tuscan</i> Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Holding in his Bill a green bough;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall a great one die, and the War have and end.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Dola</i> is a Town in <i>Burgundy</i>. The <i>Tuscan</i> Land, is that which belongeth to the -Duke of <i>Florence</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> II</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-v.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Vers <i>Aquitaine</i> par insults <i>Britanniques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">De par eux mesmes grandes incursions,</div> - <div class="verse">Pluyes, Gelees, feront terroirs iniques,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Port Selyn</i> fortes fera invasions.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Towards <i>Gascony</i> by <i>English</i> assaults,</div> - <div class="verse">By the same shall be made great incursions,</div> - <div class="verse">Rains, Frosts, shall marre the ground.</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Port Selyn</i> shall make strong Invasions.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Three Prophecies are contained in this Stanza, the first that the <i>English</i> shall -make an incursion in <i>Gascony</i>; the second, that there shall be a great dearth -by Rains and Frosts; the third, that the <i>Turks</i> shall make great Incursion.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La teste glue sera la teste blanche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Autant de mal que <i>France</i> a fait leur bien,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort a l’<i>Anthene</i>, grand pendu fus la branche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand prins des siens, le Roy dira combien.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Glue-head shall do the white head</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As much harm, as <i>France</i> hath done it good,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead at the Sails yard, a great one hang’d on a Tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When a King taken by his own, shall say, how much?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I did never find that word of Glue-head before in any Author, and I believe if -<i>Cotgrave</i> were alive again, it would puzzle him to give the interpretation thereof.</p> - -<p>The third and fourth signifie, that one shall be hanged on the Sails-yard, and another -on a Tree, when a King shall be taken by his own Men, and shall say how much? -that is, how much money shall I give you to set me free.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la chaleur Solaire sur la Mer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Negrepont</i>, les Poissons demy cuits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Habitans les viendront entamer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Rhode</i> & <i>Genes</i> leur faudra le Biscuit.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the heat of the Sun upon the Sea</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Negrepont</i>, the Fishes shall be half broiled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Inhabitants shall come to cut them up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Rhodes</i> and <i>Genoa</i> shall want Biscake.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Negrepont</i> is an Island of the <i>Archipelago</i> near <i>Morea</i>, anciently called <i>Eubœa</i>. <i>Rhodes</i> -is another Island, and, <i>Genoa</i> a City in <i>Italy</i>, by the Seaside. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Depuis <i>Monac</i> jusqu’aupres de <i>Sicile</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Toute la plage demoura desolée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il ny aura Fauxbourgs, Cité, ne Ville,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que par <i>Barbares</i> pillée soit & volée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Monaco</i> as far as <i>Sicily</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the Sea coast shall be left desolate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall not be Suburbs, Cities, nor Towns,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall not be pillaged and plundred by <i>Barbarians</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Monaco</i> is a Town seated by the Sea-side in <i>Italy</i>, between <i>Provence</i> and <i>Genoa</i>. -This Prophecy hath been once already fulfilled, when the famous Pyrate <i>Barbarossa</i>, -being sent by the grand Seignor, to help the <i>French</i> King against the Emperour -<i>Charles</i> the V. in his return home, plundered all that Coast, and carried away an innumerable -multitude of people into slavery.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand dans Poisson, Fer & Lettre enfermée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors sortira qui puis fera la Guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aura par Mer sa classe bien ramée;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aparoissant pres de <i>Latine</i> Terre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When in a Fish, Iron and a Letter shall be shut up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall go out that afterwards shall make War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall have his Fleet by Sea well provided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appearing by the <i>Roman</i> Land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres des Portes & dedans deux Citez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront deux Fleaux & onc n’aperceu un tel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faim, dedans Peste, de Fer hors gens boutez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Gates and within two Cities</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be two Scourges, I never saw the like,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Famine, within Plague, people thrust out by the Sword,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cry for help to the great God immortal.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Interpretation.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre plusieurs aux Isles deportez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’un estre nay a deux dens en la gorge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourront de Faim, les Arbres esbroutez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour eux neuf Roy, nouvel Edict leur forge.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Among many that shall be transported into the Islands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall be born with two Teeth in his mouth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall die of hunger, the Trees shall be eaten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall have a new King, who shall make new Laws for them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no explication.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Temples Sacrez, prime facon <i>Romaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rejetteront les goffes Fondemens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prenant leurs Loix premieres & humaines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassants non tout, de Saints le cultement.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Churches Consecrated, and the ancient <i>Roman</i> way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall reject the tottering Foundations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sticking to their first humane Laws,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Expelling, but not altogether the worshipping of Saints.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy, is concerning the beginning of the Reformed Religion, when the -<i>Roman</i> Church rejected it, yet nevertheless, for shame they left off many of their -fopperies, for ever since they never appeared so great Worshippers of Saints as -before.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Neuf ans le Regne le maigre en paix tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis il cherra en soif si sanguinaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour luy grand peuple sans Foy & Loy mourra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tué par un beaucoup plus debonaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nine years shall the lean one keep the Kingdom in Peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then he will fall into such a bloody thirst,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That a great people shall die without Faith or Law,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be killed by one milder than himself.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a lean man that shall keep in Peace the Kingdom, for the space of nine years, -and then shall become cruel; so that he shall put to death many people without Law, -or regard of his promise.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant long temps le tout sera rangé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nous esperons un siecle bien senestre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Estat des masques & des seuls bien changé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu trouveront qui a son rang vueille estre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before it be long, all shall be set in order,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We look for a sinister Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The state of the Visards and of <i>the alone</i> shall be changed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall find few that will keep their ranks.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All the difficulty of this consisteth in what he meaneth by the <i>Visard</i> and <i>alone</i>, -for my part, I believe he aimeth at the <i>Popish</i> Clergy and Monks; the first by reason -of their Hypocrisy, the other by reason of their solitariness. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le prochain, fils de l’<i>Aisnier</i> parviendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant eslevé jusqu’au au Regne des fors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son aspre gloire un chascun la craindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais les enfans du Regne jettez hors.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The eldest Son of l’<i>Aisnier</i> shall prosper,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being raised to the degree of the great ones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Every one shall fear his high glory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But his children shall be cast out.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is an Horoscope, for the Interpretation of which we are beholding to, Mr. -<i>Mannessier</i> of <i>Amiens</i>, who saith that the Father of the Lords l’<i>Aisniers</i> writ to -<i>Nostradamus</i> his friend, to know his childrens fortune, who sent him those four Verses -for an answer, by which it is evident that the eldest should be an eminent Man, as it -fell out, being one of the chiefest men in the Province of <i>Anjou</i>, and one of the chiefest -instruments to make Peace between <i>Louis</i> the XIII. and his Mother <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, -after the Battle of <i>Pont de Cé</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse saith, that some of his other Children should be expelled the -Kingdom, as it happened by reason of a false report raised against one of them, which -compelled him to retire into <i>Portugal</i> till the truth was known, as it was afterwards -to his great repute and honour.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Yeux clos ouverts d’antique fantaisie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’habit des seuls sera mis a neant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Monarque chastiera leur frenesie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ravir des Temples le Thresor par devant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Eyes shut, shall be open by an antick fancy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The cloths of the alone shall be brought to nothing.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Monarck shall punish their frenzy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For having ravished the Treasure of the Temple before.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I can fasten this upon no body, but upon some Monks, which are called here <i>The -alone</i>, because of their solitary life, who shall be punished by a King, for having robbed -the Church.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le corps sans ame plus n’estre en sacrifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jour de la mort mis en Nativité.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Esprit Divin sera l’ame fœlice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voiant le Verbe en son Eternité.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The body without the soul shall be no more admitted in Sacrifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The day of the death shall be put for the Birth-day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Divine Spirit shall make the Soul happy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By seeing the Word in its Eternity.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse seemed to Prophecy the Reformation of Religion, and the change -of opinion concerning the Lords Supper, which should be no more a Sacrifice (as the -<i>Roman</i> Church calleth the Mass) of a body without a soul, but only a commemoration -of the Lords death, as the second Verse confirmeth, saying, <i>The day of the death -shall be put for the Birth-day</i>, seeing, that by the commemoration of that death, we are -renewed into a newness of life, and as it were born again. The last two Verse are -easie.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Tours</i>, <i>Gien</i>, <i>Gergeau</i>, seront yeux penetrans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Descouvriront le long de la grande <i>Sereine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Elle & sa Suite au Port seront entrans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Combat poussez Puissance Souveraine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At <i>Tours</i>, <i>Gien</i>, <i>Gergeau</i>, shall be piercing eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall discover along the great <i>Syren</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She and her Attendans shall enter into the Port,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a fight shall be thrust out the Soveraign Power.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tours</i>, <i>Gien</i>, and <i>Gergeau</i> are Cities upon the River of <i>Loire</i>, which is called here -<i>the great Syren</i>, because of the length of its course, the meaning then is, that those -Cities shall be watchful, and stand upon their guard, and shall fight against a King, -which if it hath already come to pass in the Civil Wars, or shall happen hereafter, I -cannot affirm.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant Monarque trucidé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castor</i>, <i>Pollux</i>, en nef astre crinite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Airain public, par Terre & Mer vuidé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pisa</i>, <i>Ast</i>, <i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Turin</i> Terre interdite.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before a Monarch be killed</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castor</i>, and <i>Pollux</i> shall appear, and a Comet in the Ship;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The publick brass, by Land and Sea shall be emptyed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pisa</i>, <i>Ast</i>, <i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Turin</i>, Countreys forbidden.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that a little before a Monarck be killed, <i>Castor</i> and <i>Pollux</i> -two Meteores so called, as also a Comet in that constellation of the Heavens, called -<i>the ship of Argos</i>, and <i>the Publick Brass</i>, that is, the Canons by Land and Sea shall be -emptied, and these Towns of <i>Italy</i>, viz. <i>Pisa</i>, <i>Ast</i>, <i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Turin</i>, shall be excommunicated -by the <i>Pope</i>.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Palerme</i>, <i>Sicile</i>, <i>Syracuse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouveaux Tyrants, fulgures, feu Cœlestes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Force de <i>Londres</i>, <i>Gand</i>, <i>Bruxelles</i>, & <i>Suse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Hecatombe, Triomphe, faire Festes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Palermo</i>, <i>Sicily</i>, <i>Syracusa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">New Tyrants, Lightnings, Celestial fires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Army from <i>London</i>, <i>Ghent</i>, <i>Bruxelles</i>, and <i>Suse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Hecatomb, Triumphs, and Feasts.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult but the word <i>Hecatomb</i>, which is a Greek word, signifying -a Sacrifice of an hundred Oxen.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Camp du Temple de la Vierge Vestale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non esloigné d’<i>Ethene</i> & Monts <i>Pyrenées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand conduit est chassé dans la Male,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">North gettez Fleuves, & Vignes mastinées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Camp of the Temple of the Vestal Virgin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from <i>Ethene</i> and the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Conduit is driven in the Clock-bag,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rivers overflown in the North, and the Vines spoiled.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is so many faults in the impression of this, and so hard to be rectified, that I -had rather leave it to the liberty of the judicious Reader, then make my self ridiculous -in not giving him satisfaction.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouvelle Pluie, subite, impetueuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Empeschera subit deux excercites,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pierre, Ciel, Feux, faire la Mer pierreuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La mort de sept, Terre & Marin subites.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A new Rain, sudden, impetuous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall suddenly hinder two Armies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stone, Heaven, Fire, shall make the Sea stony,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The death of seven shall be sudden upon Land and Sea.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first two Verses signifie, that a sudden and impetuous Rain shall hinder two -Armies from fighting.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses foretell several Prodigies, the which happening, seven persons -shall suddenly die upon the Sea and Land.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouveaux venus, lieu basty sans defence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occuper place pour lors inhabitable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prez, Maisons, Champs, Villes prendre a plaisance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faim, Peste, Guerre, arpent long labourable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">New comers shall build a place without fence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall occupy a place that was not then habitable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall at their pleasure take Fields, Houses and Towns.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be Famine, Plague, War, and a long arable field.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no Interpretation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Freres & Sœurs en divers lieux captifs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se trouveront passer pres du Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les contempler ses deux yeux ententifs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des plaisant vont, Menton, Front, Nez les marques.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Brothers and Sisters shall be made slaves in divers places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall pass before the Monarck,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall look upon them with attentive eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall go in heaviness, witness their Chin, Forehead and Nose.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is obvious to the meanest capacity.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ambassadeur envoié par <i>Biremes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A my chemin incogneus repoulsez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Sel renfort viendront quatre triremes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cordes & Chaines en <i>Negrepont</i> troussez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Embassadour that was sent in <i>Biremes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the midleway shall be repulsed by unknown Men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Salt to his succours shall come four triremes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ropes and Chains shall be carried to <i>Negrepont</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bireme</i> is a Galley that hath two ranges of Oares, <i>Trireme</i> is one that hath three -ranges. The meaning then of this is, that an Embassadour shall be sent in a Galley -with two ranges of Oares, and that he shall be met in his way by unknown men, that -is, Pyrates; there shall come to his succours <i>from the Salt</i>, that is, from the <i>French</i> -four <i>Triremes</i>, that is four Galleys, every one having three ranges of Oares, but they -shall all be carried to <i>Negrepont</i>, an Island belonging to the <i>Turk</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Camp <i>Ascop</i> d’<i>Europe</i> partira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sadioignant proche de l’Isle submergée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Arton</i> classe Phalange partira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nombril du Monde plus grand voix subrogée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Camp <i>Ascop</i> shall go from <i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall come near the drowned Island;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Arton</i> shall go an Army by Sea and Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Navel of the World a greater vice shall be substituted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author hath darkned this Stanza with so many barbarous words, as <i>Camp -Ascop</i>, <i>drowned Island</i>, D’<i>Arton</i>, <i>Navel of the World</i>, that it is very like either he did -not understand himself, or would not be understood by others.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Palaces</i> Oiseaux, par Oiseau dechassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien tost apres le Prince parvenu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Combien qu’hors Fleuve ennemy repoulsé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dehors saisy, trait d’Oiseau soustenu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Palais</i> Birds, driven away by a Bird,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon after that, the Prince is come to his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Although the enemy be driven beyond the River,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be seased upon without, by the trick of the Bird.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that many Courtiers (called here <i>Palace</i> Birds) shall be -justled out of favour by another principal Bird, that is a great Courtier, as soon as the -Prince shall come to his own.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses seem to foretell that the said principal Courtier shall seize -upon the Prince, notwithstanding that some succour shall come to his help, which -shall be beaten back beyond the River.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bestes farouches de faim Fleuves traner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus part du Champ encontre <i>Ister</i> sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Cage de Fer le grand fera traisner.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand rien enfant de <i>Germain</i> n’observera.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Wild Beasts for hunger shall swim over Rivers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Most part of the field shall be near <i>Ister</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into an Iron Cage he shall cause the great one to be drawn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Child of <i>German</i> shall observe nothing.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Ister</i> is a River, <i>German</i> is a proper name of some considerable person, whose Son -shall not observe or take notice when that eminent person mentioned here, shall be -drawn into an Iron Cage.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Garde estrange trahira Forteresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Espoir & umbre de plus haut mariage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Garde deceüe Fort prins dedans la presse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Loire</i>, <i>Saone</i>, <i>Rhosne</i>, <i>Gar</i>, a Mort outrage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Garrison of strangers shall betray the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the hope and shadow of a higher Match,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Garrison shall be deceived, and the Fort taken in the crowd,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Loire</i>, <i>Saone</i>, <i>Rhosne</i>, <i>Gar</i>, shall do harm to Death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is no difficulty but in the last Verse, where you must observe that <i>Loire</i>, -<i>Saone</i>, <i>Rhosne</i>, and <i>Gardon</i>, which for the Verses sake is contracted into <i>Gar</i>; are -Rivers of <i>France</i>, which are threatned here of overflowing, and causing the death of -many people.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour la faveur que la Cité fera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand qui tost perdra Camp de Bataille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang d’ans <i>Pau</i> le <i>Thesin</i> versera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang feux, mors, noyez de coup de taille.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Because of the favour the City shall shew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the great one, who soon after shall loose the Battle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Thesin</i> shall pour blood into the <i>Pau</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of blood, fire, dead, drowned, by Edgeling.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain, if you observe that the <i>Thesin</i> is a River of <i>Italy</i>, and the <i>Pau</i> another, -into the which the <i>Thesin</i> runneth.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Divin Verbe sera du ciel frappé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui ne pourra proceder plus avant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du resserrant le secret estoupé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quon marchera par dessus & devant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Divine Word shall be struck by Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that he shall proceed no further,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The secret of the close Keeper, shall be so closed up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That people shall tread upon, and before it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Divine Word</i>, you must not understand the second person of the Trinity, -or else all this Stanza would be absurd; but you must understand a Divine or Theologian, -called in Greek θεόλογος, which signifieth a <i>Divine Word</i>. The meaning -therefore of it, is, that a <i>Theologian shall be struck by Heaven</i>; that is, shall die, so that -he shall proceed no further in his work, which I suppose by the two last Verses, was -the Philosophers stone; for in the two last Verses he saith, that the <i>secret of the -close Keeper</i>, that is, of him that wrought secretly, shall (by his death) be so -closed up, <i>that people shall tread on, and before it</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le penultiesme de Surnom de Prophete,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prendra <i>Diane</i> pour son jour & repos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loing vaguera par Frenetique teste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et delivrant un grand peuple d’Impos.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The last, but one of the Sirname of the Prophet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall take <i>Diana</i> for his day and his rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall wander far by reason of his Frenetick head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Delivering a great people from impositions.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a <i>false Prophet</i>, which is called here the last but one of that -Surname, who shall make <i>Diana</i> (that is <i>Monday</i> which is dedicated to <i>Diana</i>) his -<i>Sunday</i> or <i>Sabbath day</i>, and so wandring to and fro in a <i>Frenetick</i> manner, shall perswade -many people to pay no Taxes.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Oriental sortira de son Siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer les Monts <i>Apennins</i>, voir la <i>Gaule</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Transpassera le Ciel, les Eaux & Neige,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et un chacun frappera de sa Gaule.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Oriental shall come out of his Seat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall pass over the <i>Apennine</i> Mountains, and see <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall go over the Air, the Waters and Snow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall strike every one with his Rod.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is an Eastern Prince, who leaving his Countrey, shall come over the <i>Apennine</i> -Mountains, which divide <i>Italy</i>, and come as far as <i>France</i>, destroying all before -him.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un qui les Dieux d’<i>Annibal</i> infernaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera renaistre, effrayeur des Humains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onc plus d’horreur ne plus dire journaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’avint viendra par <i>Babel</i> aux <i>Romains</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One that shall cause the infernal Gods of <i>Hannibal</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">To live again, the terror of Mankind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was never more horror, not to say ill dayes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did happen, or shall, to the <i>Romans</i> by <i>Babel</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was concerning <i>Charles</i> V. Emperour, who sacked <i>Rome</i>, took -the Pope Prisoner, and filled it with more horror and slaughter than <i>Hannibal</i> did, -though a Heathen.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Campanie</i> le <i>Cassilin</i> fera tant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quon ne verra que d’Aux les Champs couvers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant apres la pluye de long temps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hormis les arbres rien lon verra de verts.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Campania</i> the <i>Cassilin</i> shall so behave himself,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That nothing shall be seen but Fields covered with Garlick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before, and after it, shall not Rain for a good while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except the Trees, no Green shall be seen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a dependance upon the foregoing Stanza; for <i>Campania</i> is the Province -wherein <i>Rome</i> is seated, and <i>Cassilin</i>, called <i>Campania di Roma</i>, is the same as <i>Castillan</i>, -because <i>Charles</i> V. was not only Emperour, but also King of <i>Spain</i>, the -chief Province of which is <i>Castilia</i>: therefore the Author describeth here the misery -and devastation of <i>Campania di Roma</i> by the <i>Castilian</i>, who left nothing in the -ground, but Garlick, which is their most delicate food, and nothing Green but the -Trees.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lait Sang, Grenovilles, escouldre en <i>Dalmatie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflit donné, peste pres de <i>Balene</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cry sera grand par toute <i>Esclavonie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors naistra Monstre pres & dedans <i>Ravenne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Milk, Blood, Frogs shall reign in <i>Dalmatia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Battle fought, the Plague near <i>Balene</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great cry shall be through all <i>Sclavonia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall be born a Monster, near and within <i>Ravenna</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Dalmatia</i> and <i>Sclavonia</i>, are Countreys joyning to the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea, belonging -to the <i>Venetians</i>. <i>Ravenna</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>, the rest needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le torrent qui descend de <i>Verone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par lors qu’au Pau guidera son entrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un grand Naufrage, & non moins en <i>Garonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand ceux de <i>Genes</i> Marcheront leur contrée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the torrent which cometh down from <i>Verona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">About the place where it falleth into the <i>Pau</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Shipwrack, and no less in <i>Garonna</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When those of <i>Genoa</i> shall go into their Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Verona</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>, belonging to the <i>Venetians</i>, through the middle of which -runneth a River called <i>Adde</i>, which falleth into the River <i>Pau</i>, about which place -there shall be a great Shipwrak; as also another in the River of <i>Garonna</i>, which passeth -at <i>Bordeaux</i>, the time that the Author marketh, is when those of <i>Genoa</i> shall -go into their Countrey, that is to say, when some Ships of <i>Genoa</i> shall come to -<i>Bordeaux</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ire insensée du Combat furieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera a Table par Freres le Fer luire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les departir, blessé, curieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fier duel viendra en <i>France</i> nuire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The mad anger of the furious fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause by Brothers the Iron to glister at the Table,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To part them one wounded, curious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fierce Duel shall do harm after in <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is the short History of two Brothers, who fought at the Table, whereby one -that was curious to part them was wounded, they afterwards fought a Duel, in whose -imitation many since have been fought, to the great harm of the <i>French</i> Gentry.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans deux Logis de nuit le feu prendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs dedans estoufez & rostis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de deux Fleuves pour seur il adviendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sol, l’Arc, & Caper, tous seront amortis.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire shall take by night in two Houses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many shall be stifled and burnt in it;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near two Rivers it shall for certain happen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sun, Arc, Caper, they shall all be mortified.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Sun</i>, <i>Arc</i>, <i>Caper</i>, he meaneth the Sun being in the Signs of <i>Sagitarius</i> and <i>Capricornus</i>.</p> - -<p>This Prophecy was fulfilled about 90. years ago in the City of <i>Lion</i>, seated upon -two Rivers, <i>viz.</i> the <i>Rhosne</i> and the <i>Saone</i>, for about that time several Merchants -coming to the Fair, some went to lodge at the Silver Head, in the street <i>de la Grenete</i>, -where being in an upper room, as they were talking of their businesses, and passing -the time merrily, the fire took in the Kitchen where was abundance of Oil, -which did burn so suddenly and so violently, that the lower part of the House was -presently consumed. Those Merchants that were in the upper room towards the -street, begun to look for their Clock-bags, that were lockt up in a Trunk; but while -they were busie about opening the Trunk, the Stair-case fell, and the fire got into -their Room, then begun they to cry for help through the Windows. They would -willingly have thrown themselves down the Windows, but they were barred with -Iron, so that they could not save themselves, the House being a fire on all sides; -Moreover, the neighbours taking more care of their own Houses, then of those Strangers, -did run every one to his own concerns, so that they all miserably perished. -<i>Parradin</i> in his 3. Book of the History of <i>Lyon</i>, <i>Chap. 22.</i></p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand Prophete les Lettres seront prinses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre les Mains du Tyran deviendront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Frauder son Roy seront ses entreprinses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais ses rapines bien tost le troubleront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Letters of the great Prophet shall be intercepted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall fall into the hands of the Tyrant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His undertakings shall be to deceive his King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But his extortions shall trouble him soon.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is some eminent Churchman, whose Letters shall be intercepted, by which he -intended to betray his King, therefore his actions shall be called in question, and being -found guilty of extortion, he shall suffer for it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peste & Famine tous les devorera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Horsmis septante qui seront profligez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of that great number which shall be sent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To succour the besieged in the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plague and Famine shall devour them all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except seventy that shall be beaten.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no explication.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand les Monarques seront conciliez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a great number of condemned men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Monarchs shall be reconciled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But one of them shall come to such misfortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That their reconciliation shall not last long.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense of this are easie to be understood.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un an devant le conflict <i>Italique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Germains</i>, <i>Gaulois</i>, <i>Espagnols</i> pour le Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherra l’Escole maison de republique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One year before the <i>Italian</i> fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Germans</i>, <i>French</i>, <i>Spaniards</i> for the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth there should be a Battle between the <i>Italians</i>, <i>Germans</i>, <i>French</i>, <i>Spaniards</i> -for a Fort, which I suspect to have been that of <i>Serizoles</i>, wherein all those -Nations were engaged, and that one year before that Battle, the publick house of -a <i>Common-wealth</i> should fall, and kill abundance of people; But of this I could find nothing -in History.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu apres non point long intervalle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after, without any great distance of time,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sea fight shall be much greater,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a Relation to a foregoing Stanza, and likewise is not hard to be understood.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Cloud shall make two Suns appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The big Mastif shall houl all night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Pope shall change his Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that those three Prodigies, contained in the first three -Verses, shall appear when a <i>Pope</i> changeth his Countrey.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who could not die before by a cruel Death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These words signifie, that a great man or Tyrant shall be found dead in another -mans Bed, having his <i>Legs</i> and <i>Arms</i> broken, the body of which shall be devoured -by these three kinds of Creatures, a <i>Cock</i>, a <i>Dog</i>, and a <i>Cat</i>. The last Verse signifieth -that this Tyrant had escaped a <i>cruel Death</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Durant l’estoile cheuelue apparente,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les trois grand Princes seront faits ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Frappez du Ciel, Paix, Terre tremulente,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arne</i>, <i>Tibre</i>, undans Serpent sur le bord mis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">During the hairy apparent Star,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The three great Princes shall be made Enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Struck from Heaven, Peace, quaking Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arne</i>, <i>Tyber</i>, full of Surges, Serpent cast upon the Shore.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1556. upon the first day of <i>March</i> appeared a blazing Star which -lasted three Months, and in that year the three great Princes were made Enemies, -<i>viz.</i> <i>Paul</i> IV. Pope, <i>Henry</i> II. King of <i>France</i>, and <i>Philip</i> II. King of <i>Spain</i>, about -the breaking of the Truce by <i>Henry</i> II.</p> - -<p>The Affairs not succeeding according to the Pope’s, and the King of <i>France</i>’s desire, -they made Peace with the <i>Spaniard</i> the 14th of <i>October</i> 1557. and because it<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span> -was an effect of Gods Providence, which moved the Pope’s, and the Kings hearts; -the Author saith, they were <i>struck from Heaven</i>.</p> - -<p>After this <i>Peace</i> the Author mentions an <i>Earth-quake</i>, which is very likely considering -the overflowing of the <i>Tyber</i>, which followed immediately.</p> - -<p>The night after, that <i>Peace</i> was proclaimed at <i>Rome</i>, on a <i>Tuesday</i> the <i>Tyber</i> did -so overflow his Banks, that the inundation was thought the greatest that ever was, -yea greater than that which happened in the year 1530. under <i>Clement</i> VII.</p> - -<p>There were ten or twelve Mills carried away, all the Vine-yards along the <i>Tyber</i>, -from <i>Pontemole</i> to St. <i>Peters</i> Church, were buried under the Sands, that the water -carried.</p> - -<p>Abundance of Houses fell to the ground. In <i>Rome</i> many Gardens and houses of -pleasure were destroyed, the loss of the Wines, Hay, Wood, and Corn could not -be valued.</p> - -<p>In <i>Florence</i> the River of <i>Arno</i> did more mischief than the <i>Tyber</i> at <i>Rome</i>, the -History of the Genealogy of the house of <i>Medicis</i>, made by <i>Peter de Boissat</i>, mentioneth, -that in some places of the City of <i>Florence</i>, the water overflowed to the heigth -of eight Fathoms, and covered all the valley of <i>Arne</i>.</p> - -<p>The damage was yet greater at <i>Empoly</i>, a Town in <i>Tuscany</i>, where, of three thousand -people, there escaped but eighteen.</p> - -<p>But to return to <i>Tyber</i>, its waters being retired into their Channel, left so much -mud, where it had overflowed, that no body could walk upon it, and upon that mud -near the <i>Tyber</i>, was a Serpent seen of a prodigious bigness, which was killed by the -Countrey people.</p> - -<p>This is the Authors meaning in the last Verse, <i>Arne, Tyber, full of Surges, Serpent -cast upon the Shore</i>.</p> - -<p>In the third Verse he saith, those three Princes were struck or moved from Heaven -to make <i>Peace</i>, that is, from God; every one considering that this War was -only for their mutual distruction.</p> - -<p>The Vulgar impression putteth in the fourth Verse, <i>Pau</i>, <i>Tyber</i>, in stead of <i>Arne</i>, -<i>Tyber</i>, which is a visible fault; for the History mentioneth only the inundation of -those two Rivers in <i>Italy</i>, it may be that the likeness of those words, <i>Pau</i> and <i>Arne</i>, -is the cause of the mistake; as also because the name of <i>Pau</i>, which is the biggest River -in <i>Italy</i>, is more famous in History than that of <i>Arne</i>, which is the River that -passeth through <i>Florence</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Eagle flying among the Tents,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By other Birds shall be driven away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is an Eagle driven from the Tents by other Birds, when a mad Lady shall recover -her senses by the noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trop le Ciel pleure l’<i>Androgyn</i> procrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven bemoaneth too much the <i>Androgyn</i> born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By death too late a great people shall be refreshed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Late and soon cometh the succours expected.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Androgyn</i>, is one that is Male and Female, from the Greek word ἀνηρ, which -signifieth a Male, and γυνή, which signifieth a Female; the meaning then of the first -Verse is, that some great persons, suppose a King and Queen, which he calleth Heaven, -by reason of their exaltation above the common sort of people, shall bemoan too -long one of their Children, that was, or shall be born Male and Female.</p> - -<p>The second Verse is easie to be understood, if you take Heaven in the same sense -that we have said. The last two Verses are plain.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Motor reneweth the Ages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Troche</i> in Greek is a Pulley, the meaning therefore of the Author, that after a -great mutation, God shall renew the Ages, and according to his promise shall create -a new Heaven, and a new Earth.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span></p> - -<p>By those prodigies related in the two last Verses, it seemeth the Author intendeth -to speak of the last day, and of the fore-runners of it.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ennemy grand viel, deult, meurt de poison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Souverains par infinis subjugues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pierres pleuvoir cache soubs la Toison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par mort Articles en vain sont alleguez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great and old Enemy grieveth, dieth by Poison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An infinite number of Soveraign’s conquered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall rain stones, they shall hide under Rocks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In vain shall death alledge Articles.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a relation to the foregoing Stanza, and is as it were the second part of -it. For as the foremost speaketh of the last day, so doth this of Dooms-day.</p> - -<p>First, he saith that <i>the great and old Enemy grieveth and dieth by Poison</i>, that’s the -Devil who shall be cast into a Lake of Fire and Brimstone. The second Verse signifieth, -that all the Kings of the Earth shall be subdued by him that is <i>Lord of Lords and King -of Kings</i>. The third Verse expresseth, the anguish of the reprobate, when they shall -cry to the Rocks, hide us, and to the Mountains, fall upon us. And the fourth -Verse saith, that Death shall alledge in vain, the Articles she made with the Devil, -and his Angels.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Copie qui passera les Monts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i>, <i>Aries</i>, tournant au Poisson <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur chef pendu a fil de <i>Polemars</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Army that shall pass over the Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i>, <i>Aries</i>, <i>Mars</i>, turning to the Fishes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poisons hidden in Sheeps heads,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their Captain hang’d with a thred of <i>Polemars</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Paradin</i> relateth in his History, that after the Duke of <i>Alba</i> had relieved <i>Vulpian</i> -with Victuals, which was done from the 22. of <i>July</i> to the first of <i>August</i>, a Captain -of the Emperors Army named <i>la Trinité</i>, went out of <i>Valfrenieres</i> the same first day -of <i>August</i>, to plunder the Countrey of <i>Piemont</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span></p> - -<p>He had 400 Horses, and 500 Foot: The news being brought to the Marshal of -<i>Brissac</i>, he sent out a great number of Horses, who did utterly destroy their Foot, -so that but thirty escaped, to carry the news to <i>Valfrenieres</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Spanish</i> Horse, seeing the <i>French</i> in such a fury, ran away, and got some to -<i>Ast</i>, some to <i>Alexandria</i>.</p> - -<p>After that, the <i>Spaniards</i> seeking to revenge themselves, took a Castle three -miles from <i>Cazal</i>, called <i>Frezene</i>, or <i>Fracinet du Pau</i>, where they hanged up the -Captain, put to the sword all the <i>Italians</i>, and sent all the <i>French</i> to the <i>Galleys</i>.</p> - -<p>This proceeding being not according to the Laws of Arms, we may believe, that -the victorious discovered a malitious craft of the vanquished, who had left some -Sheeps-heads poisoned, to revenge themselves of the victorious, which obliged the -<i>Spaniards</i> to serve so the Captain, the <i>Italians</i> and the <i>French</i>; and because the -<i>French</i> were not so ill used, as the <i>Italians</i>, we may judge that the <i>Italians</i> were the -chief contrivers of this business.</p> - -<p>Therefore the Author foreseeing this, saith, that the great Army of the <i>French</i>, -which shall go over the Mountains, shall come to this mischief, because of the -poison that was hidden in the Sheeps heads.</p> - -<p>The Vulgar impression erreth much in putting <i>Salmons</i>, for <i>Muttons</i>; for every -body knoweth that the <i>Salmons</i> do not come into the Mountains of <i>Montserrat</i>, and -that in the Month of <i>August</i> it is not a meat fit for Souldiers, therefore in stead of -<i>Salmons</i>, we have put <i>Muttons</i>, or Sheep.</p> - -<p><i>The Captain was hanged with a thread of Polemars</i>, that is, with a Match, of which, -I am perswaded, that one certain <i>Polemars</i> was the Inventor.</p> - -<p>The Author saith in the second Verse, that the time when this accident happened, -was, when <i>Saturn</i> was in <i>Aries</i>, the Vulgar impression putteth <i>Are</i> in stead of <i>Aries</i>, -but that’s false, therefore set down <i>Aries</i>. <i>Saturn</i> was in that Sign in the year 1555. -from the 20th of <i>February</i>, to the 14th of <i>July</i>, where from the 12th degree and four -Minutes, he began to retrograde in the same Sign of <i>Aries</i>, till the 18th of <i>November</i>, -so that <i>Saturn</i> was almost all that year in <i>Aries</i>.</p> - -<p>He saith also that <i>Mars</i> was going back to <i>Pisces</i>; because in that same year, <i>Mars</i> -that was gone out of the Sign of <i>Pisces</i> from the 19 of <i>March</i> 1554. was retrograding -to come back again into it upon the 20th of <i>January</i> 1556.</p> - -<p>Thus the Author meaneth, that this accident should happen in the year that <i>Saturn</i> -should be in <i>Aries</i>, and <i>Mars</i> should be near the Sign of <i>Pisces</i>.</p> - -<p>And to say truth, in the Month of <i>August</i>, <i>Mars</i> was in the Sign of <i>Scorpio</i>; upon -the 23 of <i>September</i>, he entred into that of <i>Sagitarius</i>; the third of <i>November</i>, into -that of <i>Capricornus</i>; the 12th of <i>December</i> into that of <i>Aquarius</i>; and the year following, -<i>viz.</i> 1556. into that of <i>Pisces</i>; so that <i>Mars</i> was returning into <i>Pisces</i>, which -is the end of its particular motion.</p> - -<p>By this Astrological and Historical discourse we correct the Vulgar impression, -which putteth turning from <i>Pisces</i>, <i>Mars</i>, in stead of which, we put, turning to <i>Pisces</i>, -<i>Mars</i>, which we do by changing only <i>from</i>, into <i>to</i>, and sheweth us how careful we -ought to be in the explication of these Stanza’s, when the time is prefixed to us by -Astronomical calculations.</p> - -<p>The Authors Phrase doth confirm us in this correction, when he useth this word -<i>turning</i>, which signifieth the motion that tendeth towards its end, and not the motion -that cometh from its end.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les conseillers du premier Monopole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Conquerans seduits par la <i>Melite</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rhodes</i>, <i>Bisance</i> pour leur exposant pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The advisers of the first Monopoly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Conquerors seduced by the <i>Melite</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rhodes</i>, <i>Bizance</i>, for exposing their Pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All the difficulty of this lieth in the signification of the word <i>Pole</i>, which in Greek -signifieth a City. The word <i>Monopoly</i> is Vulgar, and signifieth when one or few -would engross all the Trade of a Town. The rest is so obscure, that I had rather -leave it to the liberty of the Reader, than break my Brains about it, considering chiefly -that I am going to bed, the precedent Stanza having exhausted all my Spirits, and -so farewell till to morrow.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand ceux d’<i>Hainault</i>, de <i>Gand</i>, & de <i>Bruxelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Verront a <i>Langres</i> le Siege devant mis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When these of <i>Hainault</i>, of <i>Gand</i>, and of <i>Bruxelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall see the Siege laid before <i>Langres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old wound shall be worse then Enemies.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Hainault</i> is a Province of the Low-Countries, and <i>Gand</i> the chief Town in <i>Flanders</i>, -and <i>Bruxelles</i> the chief Town of the Dukedome of <i>Brabant</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Langres</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, in the Province of <i>Champagne</i>, which is called the -Maiden Town; because it was never besieged. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang du juste a <i>Londres</i> fera faute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Dame antique cherra de place haute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood of the just shall be wanting in <i>London</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The antient Dame shall fall from her high place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the same Sect many shall be killed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Leaving unto the impartial Reader his liberty to judge of this Prophecy, we for -our part understand by it the impious and execrable murder, committed upon the -person of our last most gracious Sovereign King <i>Charles</i> I. of blessed memory, to -whose expiation it seemeth our Author attributeth the conflagration of <i>London</i>. By -that proportion <i>of three and twenty, the Six</i>, is to be understood the number of Houses -and Buildings that were burnt, which is about the proportion of three in four, -and cometh near to the computation, as also by that <i>three twenties and Six</i>, may be -understood the year 66. <i>By the antient Dame that shall fall from the high place</i>, is understood -the Cathedral Church of St. <i>Paul</i>, which in the time of Paganism was dedicated -to <i>Diana</i>, meant here by the title of an antient Dame, the <i>fall from her -high place</i>, hath relation both to the sumptuousness and height of her building, as also -to her situation, which is in the most eminent place of the City.</p> - -<p>By this Verse, <i>Of the same Sect many shall be killed</i>, is signified the great number -of other Churches even the number of 87 (which he intimateth here by the name -of the same Sect), that should be involved in the same woful conflagration.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corinthe</i>, <i>Ephese</i> aux deux Mers nagera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">During many nights the Earth shall quake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corinth</i>, <i>Ephesus</i> shall swim in the two Seas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Corinth</i> is a City of <i>Grecia</i> and <i>Ephesus</i> one of <i>Asia</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grande Peste de cité maritime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Plague of the Maritime City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall not cease till the death be revenged</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the just blood by price condemned without crime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the great Dame not fainedly abused.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a confirmation of the LI. Stanza and foretelleth the great Plague we have -had here in the year 1665. which he saith shall not cease till the death of the Just -blood, meaning King <i>Charles</i> the I. be avenged who was as is here expressed, condemned -without crime, and sold for a Price.</p> - -<p>By the great Dame unfainedly abused, he meaneth the sumptuous Cathedral of -St. <i>Paul</i>, which was polluted and made a Stable by those prophane wretches.</p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fille sans trop different de domaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a strange people and remote Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City near the water shall be much troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Girl without great difference for a portion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the explication of this mystical Stanza, I believe every body may be as wise -as I.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son dernier fera cas merveilleux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pendant qu’<i>Adrie</i> verra ce qu’il failloit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the fight the great one who was but little worth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While <i>Adria</i> shall see what was wanting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning some eminent person, who having shewed no great valour in a -Battle, shall nevertheless in a Banquet be so bold as to stab a person of quality, that -was proud.</p> - -<p>This accident must happen somewhere about <i>Venice</i>, because he saith that <i>Adria</i>, -which is taken for <i>Venice</i> shall look on.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is two accidents contained in this Stanza, the first is in the two first Verses, -where he saith that some considerable person, who had escaped the Sword, and the -Plague shall be strucken by the Thunder, and die in a great showr of Rain.</p> - -<p>The second is, in the two last Verses, where he saith, an Abbot shall perish by -Shipwrack, thinking to save himself by holding the Rock.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant conflit le grand tombera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Battle the great one shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one to death too sudden and bewailed;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain enough, but of the sense every one may think what he -pleaseth.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span></p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du portail, desloial le transporte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Seline</i> luit, petit grand emmené.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Seline</i> shineth, the little great one carried away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of the whole is this, that an Infant begot by some person of quality -shall be exposed in the night time, the Moon Shining, which he calleth <i>Seline</i>, from -the Greek word σεληνη, which signifieth the Moon.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe <i>Gauloise</i> par appuy de grand Garde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand <i>Neptune</i> & ses tridens Soldats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ronger <i>Provence</i> pour soustenir grand bande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus <i>Mars</i>, <i>Narbon</i>, par Javelots & Dards.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> Fleet by the help of the great Guard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of great <i>Neptune</i> and his Tridentary Soldiers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall gnaw <i>Provence</i> by keeping great company,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Besides, <i>Mars</i> shall plague <i>Narbon</i> by Javelins and Darts.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here be two things designed in this Stanza one is concerning <i>Provence</i>, which -shall be eaten up by Soldiers, and the other concerning the City of <i>Narbon</i>, which -shall be Besieged, or the Citizens fall out among themselves.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La foy Punique en Orient rompue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand <i>Jud.</i> & <i>Rhosne</i>, <i>Loire</i> & <i>Tag</i> changeront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The punick faith broken in the East,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Jud.</i> and <i>Rhosne</i>, <i>Loire</i> and <i>Tag.</i> shall be changed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Punick Faith in Latine <i>Punica fides</i>, a false Faith, was so called from the <i>Carthaginians</i>, -called in Latine <i>Pæni</i>, which was an unfaithful Nation.</p> - -<p>I do not know what he meaneth by great <i>Jud.</i> as for <i>Rhosne</i>, <i>Loire</i> and <i>Tag</i>, they -are three Rivers, the two first in <i>France</i>, the last is the River of <i>Lisbone</i> called in Latine -<i>Tagus</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Agen</i>, <i>Tonneins</i>, <i>Gironde</i> & la <i>Rochelle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O sang <i>Troien</i> mort au Port de la fleche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Agen</i>, <i>Tonneins</i>, <i>Gironde</i> and <i>Rochelle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O <i>Trojan</i> blood death is at the harbour of the Arrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Points, fire, great murder upon the breach.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Agen</i> and <i>Tonneins</i> are two Towns in <i>Gascony</i>, <i>Gironde</i> is a River that passeth in -that Countrey, the sense therefore of the whole is, that there shall be great Wars, -and fightings in those Towns, as also upon that River, which happened in the time -of the civil Wars in <i>France</i>, as every body may read in the <i>Annals</i>, and also in the -Commentaries of the Lord of <i>Monluck</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mabus</i> puis tost alors mourra, viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mabus</i> shall come, and soon after shall die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is nothing hard but who should be this <i>Mabus</i>, at last I found by transposition -of Letters that he meaneth <i>Ambus</i>, which was the name of the Heades man that -beheaded the Duke of <i>Montmorency</i> at <i>Thoulouse</i>, how miraculous therefore appeareth -our Author, who did not only foretell general things, but also particular accidents, -even the names of the persons that were to be born a hundred years after.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaulois</i>, <i>Ausone</i> bien peu subiuguera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Marne</i> & <i>Seine</i> fera <i>Perme l’Vrie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> shall a little subdue <i>Ausonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Marne</i>, and <i>Seine</i> shall make <i>Perme l’Urie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall raise a great Wall against them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Ausonne</i> is always taken by the Author for the City of <i>Bordeaux</i>, because <i>Ausonius</i> -a famous Latine Poet was born there, the rest is so obscure, and the text so corrupted, -that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, then to become ridiculous, -by not acknowledging my ignorance.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seicher de faim, de soif, gent <i>Genevoise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur point tremblant sera Loy <i>Gebenoise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Geneva</i> shall be dried up with hunger and thirst,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Gebenna</i> Law shall be upon a quaking point,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here you must observe that <i>Gebenna</i> in Latine signifieth <i>Geneva</i>, and therefore this -whole Stanza is concerning the City of <i>Geneva</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span></p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le park enclin grande calamité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’<i>Hesperie</i> & <i>Insubre</i> sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mercure</i> en l’<i>Ar</i>, <i>Saturn</i> fenera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Park enclineth to great calamity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall be through <i>Hesperia</i> and <i>Insubria</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mercury</i> in <i>Aries</i>, <i>Saturn</i> shall wither.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Though the words be plain, nevertheless the sense is very obscure, and chiefly as -I suppose by the faults of the impression, all what I can tell you here, is, that <i>Hesperia</i> -in Latine, is <i>Spain</i>, and <i>Insubria</i>, is <i>Savoy</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu de temps grand a fortune changée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Prisoner escaped through great danger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Palace the people shall be caught,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All this is plain, both in the words and the Sense.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le blond au nez forche viendra commettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Duel & chassera dehors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les exiles dedans fera remettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux lieux marins commettans les plus forts.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fair one shall fight with the forked Nose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Duel, and expel him out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall re-establish the banished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Putting the stronger of them in Maritine places.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Both the Sense and the words are plain.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Aquilon les efforts seront grands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur l’Occean sera la Porte ouverte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne en l’Isle sera re-integrand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tremblera <i>Londres</i> par voiles descouvertes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The endevours of the North shall be great,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Ocean the gate shall be open,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom in the Island shall be re-established,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>London</i> shall quake, for fear of Sails discovered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a very remarkable one, which hath been fulfilled since the happy restauration -of his sacred Majesty King <i>Charles</i> II. now Reigning: For the endevours of -the North, (<i>viz.</i> the <i>Dutch</i>) have been very great. The <i>ocean</i>; like a <i>gate</i>, hath -been open to all kind of Armies, to play their pranks upon. His Majesty, and -Kingdom, have been happily restored.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy <i>Gaulois</i> par la Celtique dextre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voiant discorde de la grand Monarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur les trois parts fera fleurir son Sceptre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre la Cappe de la grand Hierarchie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> King, by the Low-Countreys right hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeing the discord of the great Monarchy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon three parts of it, will make his Scepter to flourish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the Cap of the great Hierarchy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth, that the <i>French</i> King, through the discord that is in the <i>Spanish</i> -Monarchy, shall cause his <i>Scepter to flourish</i> upon three parts of the <i>Netherlands</i>; notwithstanding -the assistance of the King of <i>Spain</i>, who is called here <i>the Cap of the -great Hierarchy</i>; that is, the great defender of the Popedom and Popery.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Dard du Ciel fera son estendue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Morts en parlant, grande execution,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La pierre en larbre la fiere gent rendue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brait Humain, Monstre purge expiation.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Dart of Heaven shall make his circuit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some die speaking, a great execution,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The stone in the tree, the fierce people humbled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Humane noise, a Monster purged by expiation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All this Stanza signifieth nothing but a fearful Thunder and Lightning, called -here, <i>the Dart of Heaven</i>, that shall do a great deal of mischief; for as he saith, <i>some -shall die speaking</i>, there shall be <i>a great execution</i>, the <i>Thunderbolt</i> shall stick in the -<i>Tree</i>, <i>the people that was fierce, shall be humbled, and a Monster purged by expiation</i>, -that some notorious wicked person shall be consumed by that Cœlestial fire.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les exiles en <i>Sicile</i> viendront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour delivrer de faim la gent estrange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au point du jour les <i>Celtes</i> luy faudront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La vie demeure a raison Roy se range.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The banished persons shall come into <i>Sicily</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To free the forrain Nation from hunger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the dawning of the day the <i>Celtes</i> shall fail them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their Life shall be preserved, the King shall submit to reason.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is hard to judge what he meaneth by that <i>Forreign Nation</i>, which shall be relieved -in <i>Sicily</i>, by the banished, nor what <i>King</i> is that which <i>shall submit to reason</i>; -let it be left to every body’s private judgement.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Armée <i>Celtique</i> en <i>Italie</i> vexée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De toutes partes conflit & grande perte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Romains</i> fuis O <i>Gaule</i> repoulsée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du <i>Thesin</i>, <i>Rubicon</i> pugne incerte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> Army shall be vexed in <i>Italy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On all sides fighting, and great loss,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Romans</i> run away, and thou <i>France</i> repulsed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Thesin</i>, by <i>Rubicon</i> the fight shall be doubtful.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A <i>French</i> Army shall be distressed, if not destroyed in <i>Italy</i>. The <i>Romans</i>, that -is, those under the Pope, that shall take their part, shall be put to flight, and this -battle shall be fought by the River <i>Thesin</i>. Another shall be fought by the River -<i>Rubicon</i>, whose event shall be doubtful, that is to say, it shall hardly be known who -got the victory.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Lac <i>Fucin</i> de <i>Benacle</i> Rivage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du <i>Leman</i> au port de <i>Lorguion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nay de trois Bras prædit Bellique Image,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par trois courones au grand <i>Endymion</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the <i>Fucin</i> Lake of the <i>Benacle</i> Shore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Leman</i>, at the Port of <i>Lorguion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Born with three Arms, a Warlike Image,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By three Crowns to the great <i>Endimion</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is a Lake in <i>Italy</i> called <i>Lacus Fucinius</i>; the Lake of <i>Geneva</i> is called <i>Lacus -Lemanus</i>; the meaning then of this obscure Stanza, is, (if I understand any -thing) that a Monster shall be <i>born with three Arms</i>, near one of those Lakes, which -shall be a sign of great Wars: what he meaneth by the <i>three Crowns to the great Endymion</i>, -is unknown to me.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Sens</i>, d’<i>Autun</i> viendront jusques au <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour passer outre vers les Monts <i>Pyrenée</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La gent sortir de la Marque d’<i>Ancone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre & Mer Suivra a grand trainées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall come from <i>Sens</i> and <i>Autun</i>, as far as the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To go further to the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Nation come from the Mark of <i>Ancona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Land and Sea shall follow speedily after.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Sens</i> and <i>Autun</i> are two Cities in <i>France</i>, the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains, are those which -divide <i>France</i> from <i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La voix ouie de l’Insolit oiseau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Canon du respiral estage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si haut viendra du froment le boisseau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que l’homme d’homme sera <i>Antropophage</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The noise of the unwonted Bird having been heard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Canon of the highest story,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bushel of Wheat shall rise so high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That man of man shall be <i>Antropophage</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a prediction of a mighty Famine, wherein men shall eat up one another, -when an <i>unwonted Bird</i> shall be seen and heard to cry, being perched upon one of the -biggest pieces of <i>Ordinance</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Antropophage</i> is a Greek word, signifying a <i>Man-eater</i>, from ἄνθροπος, <i>homo</i>, and -φαγος, <i>comedens</i>, of which sort of men there be too many already.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Foudre en <i>Bourgongne</i> avec cas portenteux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que par engin oncques ne pourroit faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De leur Senat <i>Sacriste</i> fait boiteux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera Scavoir aux ennemis l’affaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lightning in <i>Burgundy</i>, with marvellous accidents,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which could never have been done by art,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of their Senate <i>Sacriste</i> being lamed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make known the business to the enemies.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Senate</i> or Parliament of <i>Burgundy</i>, sits at <i>Dijon</i>, among them there is always -a Church-man, that is one of the Judges, to see that nothing be done to the prejudice -of the Church. I suspect that it is he, that is called here <i>Sacriste</i>, and who shall -reveal the business to the <i>Enemies</i>. The two first Verses need no explication.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Arcs, Fœux, Poix, & par feux repoussez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cris hurlemens sur la minuit ouys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans sont mis par les rempars cassez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Canicules les Traditeurs fuis.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Being repulsed with Bows, Fires, and Pitch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cries and howlings shall be heard about midnight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall get in through the broken Walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The betrayers shall run away through the Conduits.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Town Besieged, where after a repulse given to the Besiegers, they shall get -in by the Treason of some within, who shall run away through the Conduits or -Channels of the Town.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Neptune</i> du profond de la Mer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang punique & sang <i>Gaulois</i> meslé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Isles a sang pour le tardif ramer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus luy nuira que loccult mal celé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Neptune</i> in the middle of the Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Having joyned <i>African</i> and <i>French</i> blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Islands shall be put to the Sword, and the slow rowing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall do them more prejudice, than the concealed evil.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">To understand this, you must know that Henry the II. King of <i>France</i>, having renewed -his Alliance with the Grand Seignior <i>Sultan Solyman</i>, he asked him succours -for to take <i>Nice</i>, which he pretended to belong to the Earldom of <i>Provence</i>. To that -purpose the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> went from Court with the Kings Army in the year -1557. to set upon <i>Nice</i>, <i>Savona</i>, and <i>Genoa</i>, and so to hinder the <i>Spaniard</i> from coming -by Sea in <i>Piemont</i>, and the <i>Milanese</i>. The <i>Turk</i> sent him a good Fleet, consisting -of 105. Galleys, and 14. Galliots.</p> - -<p>The <i>French</i> Fleet consisted of 26 Galleys, of which the great Prior was Admiral, -who went with them from the Castle of <i>Yf</i>, the 9. of <i>June</i> 1558.</p> - -<p>Being at Sea, and not knowing where the <i>Turkish</i> Fleet was, he went to and fro -to seek it out, at last he found it pillaging and plundering the Island of <i>Minorica</i>. -The <i>Turks</i> had already taken the chief Town, where 800. <i>Turks</i> were killed, which -so incensed the rest, that they set the Town on fire; then going up and down the -Countrey, they took 5000. Prisoners, and if the Lords of <i>Carces</i> and <i>Vence</i> had not -stayed them, they would have ruinated the whole Island.</p> - -<p>Then forsaking the Island, they joyned with the <i>French</i>, but the perfidious <i>Bassa</i> -being bribed by the <i>Genoeses</i>, and those of <i>Nice</i>, went slowly to work, and at last retreated -without doing any thing for the <i>French</i>. This is the relation of <i>Cæsar Nostradamus</i>, -in his History of <i>Provence</i> under <i>Henry</i> the II. and according to this the Author -saith, that <i>the great Neptune in the middle of the Sea, shall joyn <span class="antiqua">French</span> and <span class="antiqua">African</span> -blood</i>. <i>Neptune</i> signifieth the <i>Mediterranean Sea</i>.</p> - -<p><i>The Islands shall be put to the Sword</i>, by the taking of <i>Minorica</i>, after which the -<i>Turks</i> being bribed, went slowly to work, and in conclusion did nothing of consequence.</p> - -<p>The third and fourth Verse adds, that this <i>Bassa</i>’s slow rowing, <i>shall do them more prejudice -then the concealed evil</i>; that is, shall do more damage to the <i>French</i> by his hidden<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span> -design of the Bassa of not serving the <i>French</i>; because this slowness of the Bassa -spoiled the <i>French</i> activity, lessened their provisions, and at last discouraged them; -whereas if the <i>Turks</i> had not come, the <i>French</i> Galleys alone were able to take -<i>Nice</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Barbe crespe & noire par engin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subjuguera la gent cruelle & fiere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Cheyren</i> ostera du longin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous les Captifs par <i>Seline</i> Baniere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The frizled and black Beard by fighting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall overcome the fierce and cruel Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Cheyren</i> shall free from Bands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the Captives made by <i>Selyne</i> Standard.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1571. upon the seventh day of <i>October</i>, -when that famous Battle of <i>Lepanto</i> was fought between the Christians and the Turks, -the General of the Christians being <i>Don Juan of Austria</i>, whom he calleth here the -<i>frizled and black Beard</i>.</p> - -<p>In this Battle the Christians lost 7566. men, and the Turks about 32000. besides -220. Ships of all sorts, and all the Christian slaves released that were in them. By -the <i>Selyne</i> Banner is understood that of the great Turk, whose name at that time was -<i>Selyne</i>. By the great <i>Cheyren</i> is understood <i>Henry</i> the II. King of <i>France</i>, who redeemed -many slaves, for <i>Cheyren</i> by transposition of Letters is <i>Henry</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres conflit du læse l’Eloquence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par peu de temps se trame Saint repos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Point l’on admet les grand a delivrance.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des ennemis sont remis a propos.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Battle, the eloquency of the wounded man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while shall procure a holy rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great ones shall not be delivered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But shall be left to their Enemies will.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">After the Battle of St. <i>Laurence</i>, the Prisoners taken by the <i>Spaniard</i> were the -Constable of <i>France</i>, the Dukes of <i>Montpensier</i>, of <i>Longueville</i>, the Marshal S. <i>André</i>, -<i>Ludovic</i> Prince of <i>Mantua</i>, the <i>Rhingrave</i> Colonel of the <i>Germans</i>, the Earl of <i>la -Rochefoucaud</i>, and several other persons of quality.</p> - -<p>They were Prisoners from the <i>10th</i> of <i>August</i> 1557. to the third of <i>April</i> 1559. -that is, one year and eight Months; during which time the Pope’s <i>Nuncios</i>, <i>Christierne</i> -Dutchess Dowager of <i>Lorraine</i>, the Constable, and Marshal St. <i>André</i> endeavoured -to make the peace.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span></p> - -<p>Among them the Constable was chief, and <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i> gave him -leave to go to and fro upon his Paroll; and of him it is our Author speaketh in the -first Verse; <i>After the Battle the eloquency of the wounded man</i>, that is after the Battle -of <i>Saint Laurence</i>, where the Constable of <i>Monmorency</i> was wounded in the hip. His -eloquency procured the peace, which was concluded in a short time, for had it not -been for the death of Queen <i>Mary</i> of <i>England</i>, that happened upon the 15 of <i>November</i> -1558. it should have been concluded three Months after the conference that -was begun in the Abbey of <i>Cercamp</i> near <i>Cambray</i>.</p> - -<p>The third Verse saith, that <i>the great ones shall not be delivered</i>, because during the -Treaty of Peace, <i>Philip</i> the II. would not hearken to take any Ransom, but they were -kept Prisoners till the Peace. It is the meaning of the fourth Verse, when it saith, -<i>but shall be left to the Enemies will</i>, <i>viz.</i> the <i>Spaniards</i> who gave them liberty after the -Peace.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par feu du Ciel la Cité presqu’aduste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Urne menace encor <i>Deucalion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vexée <i>Sardaigne</i> par la punique fuste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres le <i>Libra</i> lairra son <i>Phaeton</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By fire from Heaven the City shall be almost burnt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Waters threatens another <i>Deucalion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sardaigne</i> shall be vexed by an <i>African</i> Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that <i>Libra</i> shall have left her <i>Phaeton</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All is plain but the last Verse, the sense of which is, that the things before spoken, -shall happen when the Sun is newly come out of the sign of <i>Libra</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par faim la proye fera Loup prisonier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Assaillant lors en extresme detresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lesnay ayant au devant le dernier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand neschape au milieu de la presse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By hunger, the prey shall make the Wolf prisoner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assaulting him then in a great distress,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The eldest having got before the last,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one doth not escape in the middle of the crowd.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses signifie, that an hungry Wolf seeking for a Prey, shall be -caught in some trap, where being almost famished, the Prey shall assault him. The last -two Verses being obscure and not material to any thing I have neglected them.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le gros Traffic d’un grand Lion changé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La pluspart tourne en pristine ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proye aux Soldats par playe vendangé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Jura Mont</i>, & <i>Sueve</i> bruine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Trade of a great Lion alter’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The most part turneth into its former ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall become a Prey to Soldiers and reaped by wound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Mont-Jura</i>, and <i>Suaube</i> great Foggs.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning the City of <i>Lion</i> in <i>France</i>, which is a Town of an -exceeding great Trade, and is threatned to suffer an alteration, and a decay by War.</p> - -<p>The last Verse is concerning a great Mist or Fogg, which shall be upon <i>Mont-Jura</i> -and in <i>Suabeland</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre <i>Campagne</i>, <i>Sienne</i>, <i>Pise</i> & <i>Ostié</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six mois neuf jours ne pleuvra une goute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Estrange Langue en Terre <i>Dalmatie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Courira sus vastant la Terre toute.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between <i>Campania</i>, <i>Sienna</i>, <i>Pisa</i> and <i>Ostia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For six Months and nine days there shall be no rain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The strange Language in <i>Dalmatia</i>’s Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall overrun, spoiling all the Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All those places mentioned, in the first Verse are seated in <i>Italy</i>; the Author -saith that in that Countrey it shall not rain for the space of six Months and nine days, -which if it be past, or to come, I know not.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses signifie, that a strange Nation shall come into <i>Dalmatia</i>, and -overrun and spoil all that Countrey.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux plein barbe soubs le statut severe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Lion fait dessus l’Aigle Celtique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le petit grand trop outre persevere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bruit d’Arme au Ciel, Mer rouge <i>Ligustique</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old plain beard under the severe Statute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made at <i>Lion</i> upon the <i>Celtique</i> Aigle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The little great persevereth too far,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noise of Arms in the Skie, the <i>Ligustrian</i> Sea made red.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could scrape no sense out of the first three Verses; the last signifieth, that a -noise of Arms shall be heard in the Skies, and that the <i>Ligustrian</i> Sea, which is that -of <i>Genoa</i>, shall be made red with blood, when the former prodigy hath appeared.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Naufrage a classe pres d’Onde <i>Adriatique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Terre tremble emeue sur l’Air en Terre mis</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ægypt</i> tremble augment Mahometique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Heraut soy rendre a crier est commis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet shall suffer Shipwrack near the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Earth quaketh, a motion of the Air cometh upon the Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ægypt</i> trembleth for fear of the Mahometan increase.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Herald surrendring shall be appointed to cry.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the two first Verses is foretold a great storm by the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea, in which a -Fleet shall be dispersed, and many suffer Shipwrack.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses relate the great fear <i>Ægypt</i> was in, when the great Turk -<i>Sultan Selyn</i> went to conquer it.</p> - -<p>The last Verse is concerning a Herald, which was surrendered to the contrary party, -and by them was appointed to perform that office in their behalf.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres viendra des extremes Contrées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prince <i>Germain</i> dessus Throsne d’Oré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La servitude & les Eaux rencontrées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Dame serve son temps plus n’adoré.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After that shall come out of the remote Countreys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>German</i> Prince upon a gilded Throne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The slavery and waters shall meet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lady shall serve, her time no more worshipped.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning <i>Gustavus Adolphus</i> King of <i>Swedeland</i>, who is called -<i>German</i> Prince, because his Ancestors came out of <i>Germany</i>, he came out of a remote -Countrey, that is <i>Swedeland</i>, he came upon a gilded Throne, that is a Ship gilded, -he shall make slavery and waters meet, because as soon as he was Landed he began -to conquer, and to subdue that Lady (<i>viz. Germania</i>) that was no more worshipped -since as she was before.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Circuit du grand fait ruineux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nom septiesme du cinquiesme sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un tiers plus grand l’estrange belliqueux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Ram</i>, <i>Lutece</i>, <i>Aix</i> ne garentira.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The circumference of the ruinous building,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The seventh name shall be that of the fifth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From a third, one greater, a Warlike man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aries</i> shall not preserve <i>Paris</i> nor <i>Aix</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Circumference of that ruinous building, was the <i>French</i> league against <i>Henry</i> -III. and <i>Henry</i> IV. which numbers being joyned together, make seven, mentioned -in the second Verse.</p> - -<p><i>By the strange Warlike man</i>, in the third Verse, is understood <i>Henry</i> IV. because -he was not born in <i>France</i>, but in <i>Navarre</i>, and therefore called a stranger, who subdued -both <i>Paris</i> and <i>Aix</i>, seated under the constellation of <i>Aries</i>. If you had not -rather, by the name of the <i>Ram</i>, or <i>Aries</i>, understand the Duke of <i>Mayenne</i>, who -was head of the league.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un jour seront amis les deux grands Maistres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur grand pouvoir se verra augmenté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Terre neufue sera en ses hauts estres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au sanguinaire le nombre raconté.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One day the two great Masters shall be friends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their great power shall be increased,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new Land shall be in a flourishing condition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The number shall be told to the bloody person.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We must suppose here three Kings of <i>Europe</i>, two of which shall become friends, -and by their agreement, <i>the new Land</i>, that is, either the Plantations, or the Trade -either in the <i>East</i> or <i>West Indies</i>, shall flourish, their prosperities shall be related and -told to the third King, who shall be a bloody and cruel man.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par vie & mort changé Regne d’<i>Hungrie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La loy sera plus aspre que service,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur grand Cité d’Urlemens plaine & crie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castor</i> & <i>Pollux</i> ennemis dans la Lice.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Life and Death the Kingdom of <i>Hungary</i> shall be changed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Law shall be more severe than the service,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their great City shall be full of howling and crying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castor</i> and <i>Pollux</i> shall be enemies in the List.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There shall happen a great change in the Kingdom of <i>Hungary</i>, caused by the -birth of one, and the death of another.</p> - -<p>The meaning of the second Verse is, that it will be more tolerable to go to War, -than to Law.</p> - -<p>The last verse signifieth, that this dissention shall happen between two Brothers; -because <i>Castor</i> and <i>Pollux</i> were such.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soleil levant ungrand feu lon verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bruit & clarté vers Aquilon tendans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le rond mort & cris lon orra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Glaive, Feu, Faim, mort les attendans.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the rising of the Sun a great fire shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noise and light tending towards the North,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the round death and cries shall be heard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Death by Sword, Fire, Hunger watching for them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These are Prodigies that shall be seen, a little before that a great Calamity shall -happen.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu couleur d’or, du Ciel en terre veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Frappé du haut nay, fait cas merveilleux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand meurtre humain, prinse du grand Neveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Morts de spectacles, eschapé lorgueilleux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A fire from Heaven of a Golden colour shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stricken by the high born, a wonderful case,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great murder of Mankind, the taking of the great Neveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some dead looking, the proud one shall escape.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a continuation of the former, relating more Prodigies that are to -happen.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du <i>Tybre</i> bien pres la <i>Lybitine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant grand Inondation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le chef du nef prins, mis a la sentine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chasteau, Palais en conflagration.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Tyber</i>, going towards <i>Lybia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before a great Innundation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Master of the Ship being taken shall be put into the Sink,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a Castle and Palace shall be burnt.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand <i>Pau</i>, grand mal par <i>Gaulois</i> recevra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaine terreur au Maritin Lion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple infiny par la Mer passera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sans eschaper un quart d’un Million.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Pau</i> shall receive great harm by the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A vain terrour shall seize upon the Maritine Lion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Infinite people shall go beyond Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of which shall not escape a quarter of a Million.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse signifieth that the Countrey about the <i>Pau</i>, (which is the greatest -River in <i>Italy</i>) shall receive great damage by the <i>French</i>.</p> - -<p>The second, that the Maritine Lion, <i>viz.</i> the <i>Hollanders</i> shall fear in vain. The -third and fourth are plain.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les lieux peuplez seront inhabitables,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour Champs avoir grande division,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regnes livrez a prudents incapables,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors les grands Freres mort & dissension.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The populous places shall be deserted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great division to obtain Fields,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kingdoms given to prudents incapable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Brothers shall die by dissention.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Flambeau ardant au Ciel soir sera veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de la fin & principe du <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Famine, Glaive, tard le secours pourveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La <i>Perse</i> tourne envahir <i>Macedoine</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A burning shall be seen by night in Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the end and beginning of the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Famine, Sword, too late succours shall be provided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Persia</i> shall come against <i>Macedonia</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is easie.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Romain Pontife</i> garde de taprocher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la Cité que deux fleuves arrouse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ton sang viendras aupres de la cracher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Toy & les tiens quand fleurira la Rose.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Roman Pontife</i> take heed to come near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the City watered with two Rivers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shall spit there thy blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou and thine, when the Rose shall blossom.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Although there may be many Cities watered with two Rivers, yet I know none -more famous than <i>Lions</i> in <i>France</i>, where two famous Rivers, the <i>Rhosne</i> and the <i>Saone</i> -meet together, and I believe this is the place that our Author forewarneth the <i>Pope</i> -to come to, for fear of his death, and that of his attendants.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy du sang respersé le visage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la Victime proche du Sacrifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Venant en <i>Leo</i>, augure par presage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis estre a mort alors pour la fiance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall have his face bloody,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the blood of the Victim near to be sacrificed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun coming into <i>Leo</i> shall be an Augury by presage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That then he shall be put to death for his confidence.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102"></a>[102]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I suppose this to be spoken of a Jewish Priest, who going about to practice the -Ceremonial Law, in a Countrey where it is forbidden, shall be put to death for his -bold confidence.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Terroir <i>Romain</i> qu’interpretoit <i>Augure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par gent <i>Gauloise</i> par trop sera vexée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais Nation <i>Celtique</i> craindra l’heure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Boreas</i>, classe trop loing l’avoit poussée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Roman</i> Countrey in which the <i>Augur</i> did interpret,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be too much vexed by the <i>French</i> Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the <i>Celtique</i> Nation shall fear the hour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Northwind had driven the Navy in too far.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Since the Reign of <i>Henry</i> the II. King of <i>France</i>, the Historians do not mention -that the Countrey about <i>Rome</i> hath been troubled by the <i>French</i> Armies. It was -only in the time of <i>Paul</i> the IV. who was assisted by the <i>French</i> Troops, under -the conduct of the Lord <i>Strozy</i>, and Captain <i>Monluc</i>, therefore this Stanza belongeth -to the time of that Kings Reign.</p> - -<p>And indeed what he foretelleth here, came to pass in the year 1556. for the -Countrey about <i>Rome</i> was vexed by the <i>French</i> Nation, who went about then to -take the places, which the Duke of <i>Alba</i> had taken from the <i>Pope</i>, and thereby -caused those disorders, which commonly are incident to War.</p> - -<p>The second Verse saith, <i>the Countrey shall be too much vexed</i>, and not a little, because -<i>Monluc</i>, whom the Author calleth the <i>quick Gascon</i>, did continually torment -the Enemies, which could not be done without a great prejudice to the Countrey; -Moreover, his Troops being for the most part <i>Gascons</i>, and consequently active -men; the Soldiers did more harm than ordinary.</p> - -<p>In the first Verse he saith, that this Countrey about <i>Rome</i> was marked by an <i>Augury</i>, -to be the place upon which the sad effect of the <i>Augury</i> should fall, which -proved true; for the first of <i>March 1556</i>, appeared a Blazing Star, which did presage -to that Countrey of <i>Rome</i>, its disaster.</p> - -<p><i>Roman Countrey in which the Augur did interpret</i>, that is to say, which the <i>Augur</i> -did signifie, and presage should be vexed by the <i>French</i> Nation.</p> - -<p>Afterwards the Author saith, that the same <i>French</i> Nation, or <i>Celtique</i>, shall -fear the hour when <i>Boreas</i> should drive to far the Fleet, that is to say, shall fear much, -when the Baron <i>de la Garde</i> was so troubled with the storm (as we have said) and in -truth it was <i>Boreas</i>, or the <i>Northwind</i>, that drove him into St. <i>Florents</i> road.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans les Isles si horrible tumulte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rien on n’orra qu’une bellique brigue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant grand sera des predareurs l’Insult,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on se viendra ranger a la grand ligue.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Islands shall be so horrid tumults,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That nothing shall be heard but a Warlike surprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So great shall be the insult of the Robbers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That every one shall shelter himself under the great League.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain, if by the great League, you understand the soundest and most -powerful party.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104"></a>[104]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> III</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-a.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Apres Combat & Bataille Navale,</div> - <div class="verse">Le grand <i>Neptune</i> a son plus haut beffroy,</div> - <div class="verse">Rouge adversaire de peur de viendra pasle,</div> - <div class="verse">Mettant le grand <i>Occean</i> en effroy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">After the fight and Sea Battle,</div> - <div class="verse">The great <i>Neptune</i> in his highest Steeple,</div> - <div class="verse">The red adversary shall wax pale for fear,</div> - <div class="verse">Putting the great <i>Occean</i> in a fright.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I find no mystical sence in this, unless by the red adversary he should understand -the <i>Pope</i>, because clothed in Scarlet. Therefore I leave the explication to the judgement -of every particular Reader.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105"></a>[105]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Divin Verbe donra a la substance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Compris Ciel, Terre, or occult au lait mystique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corps, Ame, Esprit, ayant toute puissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant sous ses pieds comme au Siege Celique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Divine Word shall give to the substance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heaven and Earth, and Gold hid in the mystical milk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Body, Soul, Spirit, having all power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I desire the judicious Reader, and chiefly if he be given to the Hermetick Philosophy, -to take a special notice of this Stanza, for in it is contained the secret of the -<i>Elixir</i> or Philosophers Stone, more clearly and plainly then in the <i>Tabula Smaragdina</i> -of <i>Hermes</i>, which to make appearent, we shall expound it Verse by Verse.</p> - -<p><i>The Divine Word shall give to the substance</i>; by the Divine word you must not understand -the second person of the Trinity, but a Doctor in Divinity or a Theologian, -called in Greek θεόλογος or Divine word, who shall be an <i>Adeptus</i>, a Disciple of -<i>Hermes</i>, and one that shall attain to the secret of the Philosophers stone.</p> - -<p>That man shall give to the substance, that is, to Gold; <i>Heaven and Earth, and -gold hid in the mystical Milk</i>. Heaven and Earth, that is all the Celestial and Terrestrial -qualities, lurking in the Gold, which is hid in the mystical milk, that is in -the <i>Azoth</i>, or <i>Mercury</i> of the Philosophers.</p> - -<p><i>Body, Soul, Spirit, having all Power</i>, that is, the three principles, of which the Philosophers -say their stone is compounded, <i>viz. Body, Soul, and Spirit</i>.</p> - -<p>Having <i>all Power</i>, that is, having the power to transmute all Mettals into its kind; -as also having all the powers from above and below, as <i>Hermes</i> saith, <i>Pater ejus est -<span class="antiqua">Sol</span>, Mater vero <span class="antiqua">Luna</span>, & Terra nutrix ejus</i>.</p> - -<p>Which is confirmed by the last Verse, <i>As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly -Seat</i>.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> & <i>Mercure</i>, & Largent joint ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vers le Midy extreme siccité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au fond d’<i>Asie</i> on dira Terre tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corinthe</i>, <i>Ephese</i> lors en perplexite.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> and <i>Mercury</i>, and Silver joyned together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards the South a great drought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the bottome of <i>Asia</i> shall be an Earth-quake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corinth</i> and <i>Ephesus</i> shall then be in perplexity.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106"></a>[106]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">After the Author hath in the foregoing Stanza expressed the mistery of the Philosophers -stone, he seemeth to give here a receit, though Sophistical, for the relief -of the Inquisitors, and as it were a <i>Viaticum</i>, for them to subsist till they can -attain to the perfection, as <i>Basilius</i>, <i>Valentinus</i> hath done since to his disciples.</p> - -<p>He saith then, that with <i>Mars</i>, that is, Iron, <i>Mercury</i> and Silver joyned together, -some thing may be done, if you beware of a <i>drought in the South</i>; that is, -in the middle of the operation; and this is concerning the two first Verses. Those -that shall desire to be better and further informed, may come to me, and they shall -have all the satisfaction I can afford them.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses have no relation to the first two, and foretel onely a great -<i>Earthquake</i> in <i>Asia</i>, by which, those two Towns, <i>Corinth</i> and <i>Ephesus</i>, shall be in -great perplexity.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand seront proches le defaut des Lunaires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’un a lautre ne distant grandement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Froid, siccité, dangers vers les frontieres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mesme ou l’Oracle a pris commencement.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the want of the Luminaries shall be near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not being far distant one from another,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cold, drought, danger towards the Frontiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Even where the Oracle had his beginning.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The word <i>near</i>, sheweth that the two Eclipses, one of the Sun and the other of the -Moon, shall be near one another.</p> - -<p>The Ephemerides of <i>John Stadius</i>, teach us, that in the year 1556 in the Month -of <i>November</i>, these two Eclipses did meet. That of the Sun upon the first of -<i>November</i>, at 17 hours (as the Astrologers reckon) and 53 Minutes. That of the -Moon at 12 hours and 43 Scruples; and thus the two last Verses are plain.</p> - -<p>Concerning the other two: <i>Belleforest</i> teacheth us two things; the first, that the -same year was extraordinary dry, in so much that from <i>April</i> to <i>October</i> it did not -rain, but only upon the Eve of St. <i>John</i> the Baptist, and that the Vintage was made -in <i>August</i>, the Wine proving excellent. The second is, that in the Month of <i>December</i> -began a horrid Frost, which lasted a great while. Thus there was <i>Cold and -drought</i>.</p> - -<p>Concerning the dangers towards the Frontiers, <i>Belleforest</i> saith, that towards -<i>Pickardy</i> the <i>Spaniard</i> began to break the truce, making inrodes about <i>Abbeville</i>, -St. <i>Spirit</i> of <i>Rue</i>, <i>la Chapele</i>, <i>Rozoy</i>, <i>Thierasse</i>, and <i>Aubenton</i>.</p> - -<p>When complaints were made of it, they alledged their necessity and want of -Victuals; which did oblige the Lord Admiral to permit the Souldiers retaliation; -and in this manner, <i>there was danger towards the Frontiers</i>.</p> - -<p>As for the Town where the <i>Oracle</i> (that is, our Author) had his beginning or -birth, whether it be that of St. <i>Remy</i> or <i>Salon de Craux</i>. The dangers that were -there, proceeded from the Civil Wars between the Protestants and the <i>Roman</i> Catholicks.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107"></a>[107]</span></p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres le defaut des deux grands luminaires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui surviendra entre l’<i>Avril</i> & <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O quel cherté! mais deux grands debonnaires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre & Mer secourront toutes parts.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Ecclipses of the two great Luminaries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall happen between <i>April</i> and <i>March</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O what a dearth! but two great ones bountiful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Land and Sea shall succour them on all sides.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There shall happen two great Ecclipses between <i>March</i> and <i>April</i>, one of the Sun, -and the other of the Moon; then shall be a great dearth, but the afflicted shall be -relieved by the two powerful Princes of a good Nature.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans Temple clos le foudre y entrera.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Citadins dedans leur fort grevez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chevaux, Bœufs, Hommes, l’Onde mur touchera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par faim, soif, soubs les plus foibles armez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Into a close Church the lightning shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Citizens shall be distressed in their Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Horses, Oxen, Men, the Water shall touch the Wall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By hunger, thirst, down shall come the worst provided.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les fugitifs, feu du Ciel sur les Piques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflit prochain des Corbeaux sesbatans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Terre on crie, aide, secours Celiques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand pres des murs seront les combatans.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The runaways, fire of Heaven upon the Pikes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fight near hand, the Ravens sporting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They cry from the Land, succours O Heavenly powers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When near the walls shall be the fighting men.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[108]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse signifieth, that there shall be some <i>Fugitives</i>, upon whose <i>Pikes</i> -the Lightning shall fall.</p> - -<p>The second, that when a multitude of <i>Ravens shall be sporting</i>, a great fight shall -be near hand.</p> - -<p>The third, that there shall be a great exclamation and prayers, when the Souldiers -shall come near the wall to give an assault.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Cimbres</i> joints avecques leurs voisins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Depopuler viendront presque l’<i>Espagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gens ramassez, <i>Guienne</i> & <i>Limosins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront en ligue & leur feront Compagne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Cimbres</i> joyned with their neighbours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to depopulate almost all <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People gathered from <i>Guienna</i> and <i>Limosin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be in league with them, and keep them Company.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Cimbres</i> and <i>Teutons</i> were a Northern people, <i>viz</i>: the <i>Swedes</i> and <i>Danes</i>, -who came once out of their Countrey to sack <i>Rome</i>, and were overcome by <i>Marius</i>, -near the Town of <i>Orenge</i>, in a place where his Triumphal Arch is seen to this day. -The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Rouan</i> & la <i>Rochelle</i> joints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiendront autour la grand Mer Occeane,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Anglois Bretons</i>, & les <i>Flamans</i> conjoints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les chasseront jusque aupres de <i>Rouane</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Rouan</i>, and <i>Rochel</i> joyned together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will range about upon the great Ocean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>English Brittans</i>, and <i>Flemings</i> joyned together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall drive them away as far as <i>Rouane</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By mentioning <i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Rouan</i>, and <i>Rochel</i>, the Author understandeth the -whole Naval forces of <i>France</i>, which (he saith) shall be defeated, by the <i>English</i>, -<i>Brittains</i>, and <i>Hollanders</i>, and pursued as far as <i>Rouane</i>, which is a Town at the head -of the River <i>Loire</i>, from whence it runneth down for the space of 500 Miles to <i>Nantes</i>, -and a while after dischargeth it self into the Ocean.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[109]</span></p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang & faim plus grand calamité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept fois sapreste a la Marine plage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Monech</i> de faim, lieu pris, captivité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand mené, <i>Croc</i>, enserré en cage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of blood and famine, what a great calamity!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven times is ready to come upon the Sea Coast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Monech</i> by hunger, the place taken, captivity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one carried away, <i>Croc</i>, shut up in a Cage.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Monech</i> or <i>Monaco</i> is a Town and Principality belonging to the Family of the -<i>Grimaldi</i> of <i>Genua</i>, and is seated by the Sea side, between <i>Provence</i> and <i>Genoa</i>; that -place is threatned here with many afflictions, as is plain in this Stanza.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Armées battre au Ciel longue saison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Arbre au milieu de la Cité tombé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vermine, Rogne, Glaive en face tison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors le Monarque d’<i>Adrie</i> succombé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Armies shall fight in the Air a great while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The tree shall fall in the middle of the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vermin, Scabs, Sword, fire-brand in the face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Monarck of <i>Adria</i> shall fall.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses contain several prodigies, that shall happen before the -death of the Duke of <i>Venice</i>, or rather (because he is no Monarck) before the fall -of that Monarchy or Common-wealth.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la tumeur du <i>Heb.</i> <i>Po.</i> <i>Tag.</i> <i>Tibre</i> de <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et par lestang <i>Leman</i> & <i>Aretin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux grands chefs, & Citez de <i>Garonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prins, Morts, Noiez. Partir humain butin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the swelling of <i>Heb.</i> <i>Po.</i> <i>Tag.</i> <i>Tiber</i> of <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by the Lake <i>Leman</i> and <i>Aretin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two great Heads, and Cities of <i>Garonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taken, Dead, Drowned. The human booty shall be divided.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[110]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Heb.</i> is the River <i>Hebrus</i> in <i>Thracia</i>, <i>Po</i>, is the great River of <i>Italy</i>, <i>Tag.</i> is <i>Tagus</i>, -the River of <i>Lisbonne</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Foudre en Arche Or & Argent fondu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De deux Captifs l’un l’autre mangera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la Cité le plus grand estendu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand submergée la Classe nagera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Lightning shall gold and silver be melted in the Arch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of two Prisoners one shall eat up the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest of the City shall be laid down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Navy that was drowned shall swim.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Rameau du vaillant personage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>France</i> infirme, par le Pere infelice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Honeurs, Richesses, travail en son viel Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour avoir creu le conseil d’homme nice.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Bow of the valliant men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of weak <i>France</i>, by the unfortunate Father,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Honours, Riches, labour in his old age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For having believed the councel of a nice man.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Every body may understand this as well as I do.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur, vigueur, gloire, le Regne changera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De tous points contre, ayant son adversaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors <i>France</i> enfance par mort subjuguera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un grand Regent sera lors plus contraire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Heart, vigour, and glory shall change the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all points, having an adversary against it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall <i>France</i> overcome Childhood by death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Regent shall then be more adversary to it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[111]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses seem to have foretold of the late Tyrant <i>Cromwel</i>.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses may be applied to <i>France</i>, when the Infant of <i>Spain</i> <i>Don Balthazar</i> -died, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Prince <i>Anglois</i> <i>Mars</i> a son cœur du Ciel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voudra poursuivre sa fortune prospere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des deux duelles l’un percera le fiel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hay de luy, bien aymé de sa Mere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An <i>English</i> Prince <i>Mars</i> hath his heart from Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will follow his prosperous fortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of two Duels one shall pierce the gall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being hated of him, and beloved of his Mother.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By this Stanza is promised to <i>England</i> a Martial Prince, who shall have his heart -from Heaven, and with all endeavours follow his prosperous fortune, which is a remarkable -and commendable part in a man.</p> - -<p>By the last two Verses, it seemeth that this Prince shall have a Son, who shall fight -two duels, for one of which his Father shall be angry and hate him, but his Mother -shall love him for it.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mont <i>Aventine</i> brusler nuit sera veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel obscur tout a un coup en <i>Flandres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Monarque chassera son Neveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors gens d’Eglise commettront les esclandres.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mount <i>Aventine</i> shall be seen to burn in the night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven shall be darkned upon a sudden in <i>Flanders</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Monarch shall expel his Neveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then Churchmen shall commit scandals.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Mount-<i>Aventine</i> is one of the seven Mountains in <i>Rome</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres la pluye de lait assez longuette,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En plusieurs lieux de <i>Rheims</i> le Ciel touché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O quel conflit de sang pres deux lapreste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pere & Fils Rois, noseront approché.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112"></a>[112]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After a pretty long rain of Milk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In many places of <i>Rhemes</i> the lightning shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O what a bloody fight is making ready near them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Father and Son, both Kings, shall not dare to come near.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Rhemes</i> is a City in <i>France</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Lucques</i> sang & lait viendra pleuvoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant changement de Preteur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Peste & Guerre, Faim & soif sera voir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loin ou mourra leur Prince Recteur.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Luca</i> it shall rain Blood and Milk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before the change of the Magistrate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Plague, War, Hunger and Thirst shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great way off, where their Prince Ruler shall die.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Luca</i> at present is a strong Town, and a little Common-wealth by it self in -<i>Italy</i>, governed by their own Magistrate: That Town is threatned here to see those -prodigies mentioned, a little before the change of their Government, besides a -great Plague and dearth; as also the death of their chief Magistrate, who shall die -far off that Countrey.</p> - -<p>As for the <i>raining Milk and Blood</i>, they are Prodigies that have appeared often before, -and therefore not incredible, as those that are Versed in History may justifie: -and although the reasons may be drawn from natural causes, yet would they be too -tedious if I should insert them here.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les Contrées du grand flevue <i>Betique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loin d’<i>Ibere</i>, au Royaume de <i>Grenade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Croix repoussées par gens Mahometiques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un de <i>Cordube</i> trahira a la fin Contrade.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the Countreys of the great River <i>Betis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from <i>Iberia</i>, in the Kingdom of <i>Granada</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crosses beaten back by Mahometan people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One of <i>Corduba</i> shall at last betray the Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The great River, called in Latine <i>Betis</i>, and in Spanish <i>Guadalquivir</i>, is the River -of <i>Sevilia</i>, the most famous Town in <i>Spain</i> for Trade. This River runneth through -most of the <i>Spanish</i> Dominions, and dischargeth it self into the Ocean about the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113"></a>[113]</span> -mouth of the Straights, over against <i>Barbary</i>, upon which Coast of <i>Spain</i> lyeth the -Kingdom of <i>Granada</i>, the chief City of which is <i>Corduba</i>, in <i>Spanish Cordua</i>. This -Kingdom was of time almost immemorial, occupied and inhabited by the <i>Moores</i>, -till they were expelled and driven back into <i>Barbary</i>, by <i>Ferdinand</i> and <i>Isabella</i>, King -and Queen of <i>Castilia</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Crustamin</i> pres Mer <i>Adriatique</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoistra un horrible poisson,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De face humaine & de corps aquatique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui se prendra dehors de l’Hamecon.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Crustamin</i> near the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An horrid Fish shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Having a mans face, and a fishes body,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall be taken without a hook.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I suppose this <i>Crustamin</i> to be some place so called, near the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea.</p> - -<p>As for Fishes with an humane face, we have several examples of them. <i>Ambrosius -Paræus</i> relateth divers, and in his works hath inserted the Pictures of them.</p> - -<p>1. When <i>Mena</i> was Governour of <i>Ægypt</i>, and walked by the <i>Nilus</i> side, he -saw a Sea-man rising out of the River, having an humane shape as far as the Navel, -and with a grave look and fair hairs, intermixed with white ones, bony Breast, and distinct -Arms, the rest of the body was like a Fish. Three days after in the Morning appeared -another Sea-monster like a woman: those two Monsters appeared so long, -that every body had time to consider them.</p> - -<p>2. <i>Rondeletius</i> saith, that in our age was taken a Fish in the Sea of <i>Norway</i>, which -every body presently called a Monk, because of the resemblance.</p> - -<p>3. In the year 1531. was seen a Sea-monster, covered with Scales, which for -the resemblance was called a Bishop, <i>Rondeletius</i> and <i>Gesuerus</i> have the Picture of it.</p> - -<p>4. In the year 1523. was seen in <i>Rome</i> a Fish about the bigness of a Child of five -years old, that had humane shape to the Navel, except the ears: So that all those -things related of <i>Tritons</i>, <i>Nereides</i> and <i>Sirens</i> seem not altogether fabulous, and we -may conclude with <i>Pliny</i>: <i>Vera est vulgi opinio, quicquià nascatur in parte naturæ ulla, -& in Mariesse, præterque multa quæ nusquam alibi</i>, lib. 9. cap. 2.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six jours lassaut devant Cité donné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Livrée sera forte & aspre Bataille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois la rendront, & a eux pardonné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le reste a feu & sang trauche taille.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six days shall the assault be given to the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great and fierce Battle shall be fought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three shall surrender it and be pardoned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The rest shall be put to fire and sword, cut and slasht.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Some famous City must be here understood, which the Author hath not named. -The same shall be assaulted for six days continually, and in conclusion shall be surrendred<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114"></a>[114]</span> -or betrayed by three men, who shall be pardoned, and all the rest put to Fire and -Sword. Most men that have knowledge in History, interpret this of the City of <i>Magdebourg</i> -in <i>Germany</i>, that was destroyed with Fire and Sword by the Earl of <i>Tilly</i>, General -for the Emperour against <i>Gustavus Adolphus</i>, King of <i>Swedeland</i>. For the like -devastation and cruelty was never heard of in <i>Europe</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Si <i>France</i> passe outre Mer <i>Liquistique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tu te verras en Isles & Mers enclos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mahomet contraire plus Mer l’<i>Adriatique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chevaux & Asnes tu rongeras les os.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If <i>France</i> goeth beyond the <i>Ligustick</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shall see thy self inclosed with Islands and Seas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mahomet</i>, against thee besides the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Horses and Asses thou shalt gnaw the bones.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the miseries which the <i>French</i> were to suffer in the Island of -<i>Corsica</i>, till the peace was concluded in the year 1559. The Author directeth his -speech to the <i>French</i> Fleet that went to <i>Corsica</i> in the year 1555.</p> - -<p>He saith in the first Verse, <i>If France goeth beyond the Ligustik Sea</i>; that is, if thou -goest to <i>Corsica</i>, which is beyond the <i>Ligustik</i> Sea towards <i>Africa</i>. <i>Thou shalt see thy -self enclosed with Islands and Seas</i>; that is, thou shalt be constrained to keep within those -two Towns which thou hast there, without going out either by Land or Sea; not by -Sea for want of Ships, nor by Land the Garrisons being weak, because the King had -then so much business that he could not suffice all.</p> - -<p>Moreover the Author addeth that <i>Mahomet shall be contrary</i>; not that he was an -Enemy to <i>France</i>, but because he was then Master of the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea; so that the -<i>Venetians</i>, which were then friends to the <i>French</i>, could not succour them.</p> - -<p>And thus the news of the peace being brought, the <i>French</i> did eat their Horses and -Asses, and there was never a peace so well come as to the <i>French</i> that were in <i>Corsica</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Entreprise grande confusion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perte de gens Thresor innumerable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tu ny doibs faire encore tension,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> a mon dire fais que sois recordable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the undertaking great confusion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loss of people and innumerable Treasury,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou oughtest not yet to tend that way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> endeavour to remember my saying.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is annexed and hath relation to the precedent, therefore needeth no other -interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui au Royaume <i>Navarrois</i> parviendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la <i>Sicile</i> & <i>Naples</i> seront joints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bigorre</i> & <i>Landes</i> par <i>Foix</i> lors on tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Un qui d’<i>Espagne</i> sera par trop conjoint.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115"></a>[115]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall obtain the Kingdom of <i>Navarre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Sicily</i> and <i>Naples</i> shall be joyned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bigorre</i> and <i>Landes</i> then by <i>Foix</i> shall beheld</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of one who shall too much be joyned to <i>Spain</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bigorre</i> is a Town in <i>Gascony</i>, the <i>Landes</i> is a desert Countrey about <i>Bourdeaux</i> wherein -nothing groweth but <i>Pine-Trees</i>, <i>Foix</i> is a Country of <i>Gascony</i>, called the County, -of <i>Foix</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Rois & Princes dresseront simulachres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Augures, creux eslevez aruspices:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corne victime dorée, & d’<i>Azur</i> & de Nacre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Intrepretez seront les extispisces.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Some Kings and Princes shall set up Idols,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Divinations and hollow raised Divinators,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Victim with gilded Horns, and set with <i>Azur</i> and Mother of Pearl</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The looking into the Entrals shall be interpreted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I can find nothing in this but a description of the Heathens sacrifices in ancient -times, where they brought the Victim, that is, the beast that was to be sacrificed, -trimmed in a gallant manner, having the Horns gilded, and set with Azure and Mother -of Pearl, and after the Entrals were taken out, by the inspection of them they practised -their Soothsaying. This inspection of Entrals was called by the Latines <i>Extispicium</i>, -from the word <i>Exta</i> which signifieth Entrals, and <i>specto</i> which signifieth to look.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Prince <i>Libique</i> puissant en Occident,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Francois</i> d’<i>Arabe</i> viendra tant enflammer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Scavant aux Lettres sera condescendent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Langue <i>Arabe</i> en <i>Francois</i> translater.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Libian</i> Prince being powerful in the West,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> shall love so much the <i>Arabian</i> Language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he being a Learned man shall condescend,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To have the <i>Arabian</i> tongue translated into <i>French</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is <i>de Futuro</i>, and is concerning a <i>Libian</i> Prince (now <i>Libia</i> is a Kingdom -of <i>Africa</i>) who shall be a powerful man in the West, and being a lover of learning -shall condescend to have the <i>Arabian</i> Language translated into <i>French</i>, because -the <i>French</i> at that time shall be much in love with it.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De Terre foible & pauvre parentale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par boute & paix parviendra a l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps regner une jeune femelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’oncques en Regne nen survint un si pire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116"></a>[116]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One weak in Lands and of poor Kindred,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By thrusting, and peace shall attain to the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long time shall Reign a young woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such as in a Reign was never a worse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are so plain, that every body may interpret them.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux Neveux en divers lieux nourris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Navale pugne, Terre peres tombez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendront si haut eslevez aguerris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Venger l’Injure ennemis succombez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The two Nephews brought up in divers places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Sea fight, fathers fallen to the Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall came highly educated, and expert in Arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To avenge the injury, their enemies shall fall down under them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning two <i>Nephews</i>, who shall be educated in divers places, and grow -expert in Arms, their Fathers shall be killed, but those <i>Nephews</i> shall come, and -having fought at Sea, shall revenge the injury done to them, overcoming their -enemies.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’en luitte & fer au fait Bellique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aura porte plus grand que luy le prix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit au lit six luy feront la pique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nud sans harnois subit sera surprins.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He who in Wrestling and Martial affairs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had carried the prize before his better,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night Six shall abuse him in his bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being naked, and without harness, he shall suddenly be surprised.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Many attribute this to the Earl of <i>Montgomery</i> in <i>France</i>, who having run a tilt -against <i>Henry</i> II. unfortunately killed him, for which, and for being of the Protestant -party, he was afterwards beheaded, though quarter had been given him.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117"></a>[117]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Champs de <i>Mede</i>, d’<i>Arabe</i>, & d’<i>Armenie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux grands Copies trois fois sassembleront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du Rivage d’<i>Araxes</i> la mesgnie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand <i>Soliman</i> en Terre tomberont.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the fields of <i>Media</i>, <i>Arabia</i>, and <i>Armenia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great Armies shall meet thrice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Shore of <i>Araxes</i>, the people</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of great <i>Solyman</i> shall fall down.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth no more, but the loss of three famous Battles on the <i>Turks</i> side, -against the <i>Persians</i>.</p> - -<p>The first that I find after the coming out of these Prophesies, is the Battle of -<i>Sancazan</i>, seven miles from <i>Tauris</i>, and hard by the River <i>Araxes</i>, where 20000 -<i>Turks</i> were slain, without any considerable loss of the <i>Persians</i>; this was in the time -of <i>Amurath</i> the III. Emperour of the <i>Turks</i>, and son to <i>Selyman</i> the second. The other -two Battles I could not make good, because I want the supplement of the <i>Turkish</i> -History, as also because they have not yet happened.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand sepulchre du peuple <i>Aquitanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">S’aprochera aupres de la <i>Toscane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Mars</i> sera pres du coin <i>Germanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et au terroir de la gent <i>Mantuane</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great grave of the <i>Aquitanick</i> people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come near <i>Tuscany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Mars</i> shall be in the <i>German</i> corner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in the Territory of the <i>Mantuan</i> people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Lord of <i>Thou</i> saith in his History, that the Cardinal <i>Caraffa</i> got by the King -of <i>France</i>’s permission, out of <i>Corsica</i>, several Troops of <i>Gascons</i>, and brought some -with them, to the number of about 2000 which were quartered about <i>Rome</i>. Many -of them were among the Troops of the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, being allured thither by -the reputation of their Countreyman Captain <i>Monluc</i>.</p> - -<p>The Author foretelleth, that they shall find their Graves near <i>Tuscany</i>, because -the Territory of <i>Rome</i> joyneth to that Province.</p> - -<p>Then in the 3 and 4 Verse he specifieth the time by two marks; one is, <i>when <span class="antiqua">Mars</span> -shall be near the German corner</i>; the other, <i>when he shall be in the Territory of the Mantuan -people</i>, and the War was then in that Territory; for the Duke of <i>Ferrara</i> to -shew he would not stand still, sent his son <i>Alphonso d’Este</i> to make incursions there, -and to take some places.</p> - -<p>Moreover the War was then near the <i>German corner</i>, which is <i>Lorrain</i>, when<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118"></a>[118]</span> -<i>Henry</i> II. besieged <i>Thionville</i> in the year 1558. <i>Paradin</i> sheweth, that <i>Mars</i> was in -the <i>German corner</i> two years before, sith about the end of the year 1555; the -Duke of <i>Nevers</i> by an extraordinary endeavour in the middle of the Winter, did relieve -<i>Mariembourg</i>: and the following years the <i>French</i> Garrisons kept the fields to avoid -surprises. And in the year 1557. when the Duke of <i>Guise</i> fought in <i>Italy</i>, -the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> brought his Army against <i>Mariembourg</i>; so it proved true that -<i>Mars</i>, <i>viz.</i> the War was in the <i>German corner</i>; for that Town is in the borders of -<i>Germany</i>, and was in that corner till the taking of <i>Thionville</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En la Cité ou le loup entrera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien pres de la les ennemis seront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Copie estrange grand pais gastera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Monts des <i>Alpes</i> les amis passeront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the City wherein the Wolf shall go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near that place the enemies shall be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Army of strangers shall spoil a great Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The friends shall go over the Mountains of the <i>Alpes</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two last Verses make me think that this Prophesie was fulfilled in the time -of <i>Henry</i> II. King of <i>France</i>, because the <i>French</i> being then friends to the Pope, -went over the <i>Alpes</i> to serve him.</p> - -<p>This Stanza might also be applyed to <i>Lewis</i> 13, who caused his Army to go beyond -the <i>Alpes</i>, but that word <i>Friends</i> is more convenient to the time of <i>Henry</i> II. because -the <i>French</i> went then over the <i>Alpes</i> in quality of friends to serve the Pope.</p> - -<p>According to this conjecture, the <i>wolf</i> which signifieth the <i>Spaniard</i>, came <i>anno</i> -1556. into many Towns, which the Duke of <i>Alba</i> took, as we have said in another -place, and because among those Towns <i>Neptune</i> was one of the most considerable, -being seated by the Sea side near <i>Rome</i>: I believe that by this word <i>City</i> he meaneth -that Town which belonged to the <i>Colonese</i>.</p> - -<p>And to say truth, the <i>French</i> were then very near it, to endeavour the relief of -it.</p> - -<p>Afterwards came the Duke of <i>Guise</i>’s Army, which is named by the Author, <i>an -Army of strangers</i>, because the <i>French</i> and <i>Germans</i> are strangers to <i>Italy</i>. <i>This -Army shall spoil a great Countrey</i>; for in that year it went through all <i>Italy</i>, and where -an Army passeth, nothing but ruine can be expected.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le defaut du Soleil lors sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le plein jour le Monstre sera veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout autrement on l’Interpretera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherté na garde, nul ny aura pourveu.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119"></a>[119]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Ecclipse of the Sun shall be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At noon day, the Monster shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be interperted otherways,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then for a dearth, because no body hath provided against it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is, that when the Sun shall be Eclipsed at noon, a Monster shall -be born, which shall presage a dearth, though no body will believe it, because they -were unprovided against it.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du plus profond de l’Occident d’<i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De pauvre gens un jeune enfant naistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui par sa langue seduira grande troupe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son bruit au Regne d’Orient plus croistra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of the deepest part of the West of <i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From poor people a young child shall be born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who with his tongue shall seduce many people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His fame shall increase in the Eastern Kingdom.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no explication.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ensevely non mort Apoplectique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera trouvé avoir les mains mangees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la Cité damnera l’Heretique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’avoit leur Loix ce leur sembloit changees.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One buried, not dead, but Apoplectical,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be found to have eaten up his hands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the City shall blame the heretical man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who as they thought had changed their Laws.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Many persons (according to Histories being only in a fit of Apoplexy) have been -buried for dead, and being afterwards taken out of the ground, have been found to have -eaten up their hands, as I my self have seen one digged out of Saint <i>Bartholomews</i> -Church-yard, about the time that the City of <i>London</i> began to be weary of <i>Cromwels</i> -devices and Tyranny, yet I would not here definitively assert, he was the man here -pointed at by the Title and Epithete of Heretical man, unless it were in the point of -government.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120"></a>[120]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant l’assault l’Oraison pronouncée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Milan</i> prins l’Aigle, par embusche deceus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Muraille antique par Canons enfonsée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par feu & sang a mercy peu receus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the assault the Prayer shall be said,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Eagle shall take a Kite, they shall be deceived by an Embuscado.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ancient wall shall be beaten down with Canons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By fire and blood, few shall have quarter.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La gent <i>Gauloise</i> & Nation estrange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outre les Monts, morts pris & profligez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au mois contraire & proche de vendange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les Seigneurs en accord redigez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> Nation, and another Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being over the Mountains, shall die, and be taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a month contrary to them, and near the vintage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Lords agreed together.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Two kind of Nations were led into <i>Italy</i> by the Duke of <i>Guise</i> to succour the -Pope, <i>viz.</i> <i>French</i> and <i>Germans</i>, meaning by the <i>Germans</i> all those that use the <i>German</i> -Tongue, as <i>Switzers</i>, &c.</p> - -<p>The Author saith, these two Nations were led beyond the Mountains, because -they went beyond the <i>Apennine Alpes</i>, to come down into the Champion Countrey -of <i>Italy</i>, where some of them died by the Sword, others by famine and sickness; -others lost their liberty, being made prisoners of War, others were exposed to the -inconveniences that attend a ruined Army. He addeth, that these accidents shall -befall them in a Month near the <i>Vintage</i>, that Month is <i>September</i>: He calleth it -<i>Contrary</i>, because the Grapes being ripe, the starved Souldiers did eat abundance of -them, and so fell into a bloody flux. The <i>Pope</i>’s Tenants made use of this Stratagem -to ruine that Army.</p> - -<p>The <i>Spaniard</i> had his revenge the year following, for the Duke of <i>Guise</i> having -missed his design, and being stept before <i>Civitella</i>, and incensed that the <i>Pope</i> did -not keep his word with him, he resolved to go back again into <i>France</i>, and so the -<i>Pope</i> did by the means of the Common-wealth of <i>Venice</i>, and of the Duke of <i>Florence</i>, -it was concluded and signed with the 23 of <i>September</i>.</p> - -<p>This is the Authors meaning in the 4 Verse, that all the misfortune which befell -the <i>French</i>, was by reason of that peace; for the <i>Pope</i> disbanded his Troops, consisting -most of <i>French</i> and <i>Switzers</i>, the greatest part of whom fell into the hands of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121"></a>[121]</span> -their enemies, and of the Countrey people, others died of sickness. It is true, -that the Duke of <i>Guise</i> brought his own Army back without much loss, but the -Author speaketh here of the <i>Gascons</i> and <i>Switzers</i>, that were in the <i>Pope</i>’s service, -under the command of Marshal <i>Strozzy</i>, <i>Monluc</i>, Cardinal <i>Caraffa</i>, and others.</p> - -<p>The time of this peace agreeth with the Prophesie, for it was concluded on the -23 of <i>September</i>, which is a Month near the <i>Vintage</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les sept en trois Mois en concorde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour subjuger les <i>Alpes Apeninnes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais la tempeste & <i>Ligure</i> coüarde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les profligent en subites ruines.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The seven shall agree together within three Months,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To conquer the <i>Apennine Alpes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the tempest, and coward <i>Genoese</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall sink them into sudden ruines.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There shall be seven persons, who shall be three Months in making an agreement -to go beyond the <i>Apennines</i>, but they shall be hindred by a tempest, and by -the cowardliness of the <i>Genoeses</i>.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Theatre se viendra redresser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les dez jettez & les rets ia tendus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trop le premier en glaz viendra lasser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par arc prostrais de long temps ia fendus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Theatre shall be raised up again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Dice being cast, and the nest spread,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The first shall too much in Glass.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaten down by Bows, who long before were split.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This must be put among <i>Insolubilia de Alliaco</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bossu sera esleu par le Conseil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus hideux Monstre en Terre napperceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le coup volant luy crevera un œil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le traistre au Roy pour fidele receu.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122"></a>[122]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Crook-back shall be chosen by the Councel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A more hideous Monster I never saw upon Earth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The flying blow shall put out one of his eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Traitor to the King, shall be admited as faithful.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needs no explication.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant naistra a deux dents en la gorge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Purres en <i>Tuscie</i> par pluie tomberont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">peu d’ans apres ne sera Bled ny Orge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">pour saouler ceux qui de faim failleront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Child shall be born with two Teeth in his mouth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall rain stones in <i>Tuscany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A few years after there shall be neither Wheat nor Barley</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To feed those that shall faint for hunger.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Those two Prodigies mentioned in the two first Verses, do presage a great Famine -that shall ensue a few years after.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gens d’alentour du <i>Tar</i>, <i>Lot</i>, & <i>Garonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gardez les Monts <i>Apennins</i> de passer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vostre tombeou pres de <i>Rome</i> & d’<i>Ancone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le noir poil crespe fera Trophée dresser.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">People that live about the <i>Tar</i>, <i>Lot</i>, and <i>Garonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take heed to go over the <i>Apennine</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your Grave is near <i>Rome</i> and <i>Ancona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The black frisled hair shall dress a Trophy of you.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Tar</i>, the <i>Lot</i>, and the <i>Garone</i>, are three Rivers of <i>Gascony</i>, the Inhabitants -of which are forewarned not to go over the <i>Apennine</i> Mountains, or else they shall -meet with their Graves near <i>Rome</i> and <i>Ancona</i>. This hath relation to the 38 Stanza, -and to the interpretation thereof, therefore <i>vide</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123"></a>[123]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand l’Animal a l’Homme domestique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres grands peines & sauts viendra parler,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le foudre a vierge sera si malefique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Terre prinse & suspendue en l’Air.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Beast familiar to Mankind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After great labour, and leaping shall come to speak,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lightning shall be so hurtful to a Virgin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That she shall be taken from the Earth, and suspended in the Air.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Dog that shall come howling and leaping to his Mistresses friends; because -she was killed and suspended in the Air by the Lightning.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les cinq estranges entrez dedans le Temple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur sang viendra la Terre prophaner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux <i>Thoulousain</i> sera bien dur exemple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un qui viendra ses loix exterminer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The five strangers having come into the Church,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood shall prophane the ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be a hard example to those of <i>Thoulouse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Concerning one that came to break their Laws.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I suppose these <i>five strangers</i> to be <i>five Commissioners</i>, for the altering something -in the Government of <i>Thoulouse</i>, who shall be all killed in a Church, and the ground -prophaned by their blood, according to the <i>Romish</i> opinion.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel (de <i>Plancus</i> la Cité) nous presage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par clercs insignes & par estoiles fixes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que de son change subit saproche lage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne pour son bien, ne pour ses malefices.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven foretelleth concerning the City of <i>Plancus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By famous Clerks, and fixed Stars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the time of her sudden change is near hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither because of her goodness, or wickedness.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124"></a>[124]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The City of <i>Plancus</i> is <i>Lion</i>, because he was the Founder of it. That City is -threatned here of a sudden change, caused neither by her goodness or wickedness, -but by a certain position and aspect of the fixed Stars, which makes it fatal.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux Monarque dechassé de son Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Orients son secours ira querre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour peur des Croix ploiera son Enseigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Mitylene</i> ira par Mer & par Terre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old Monarch being expelled out of his Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall go into the East to get succours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For fear of the Crosses he shall fold up his Colours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall go into <i>Mitylene</i> by Sea and Land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mitylene</i> is an Island of the <i>Archipelago</i>, belonging to the Turk.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept cens Captifs attachez rudement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour la moitie meurtrir, donné le sort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le proche espoir viendra si promptement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais non si tost qu’une quinziesme mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven hundred prisoners shall be tied together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To murder half of them, the lot being cast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The next hope shall come quickly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And not so quickly, but fifteen shall be dead before.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the next hope, he meaneth the reprieve. The rest is clear.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Regne <i>Gaulois</i> tu seras bien changé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu estrange est translaté l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En autre mœurs & Lois seras rangé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouan</i> & <i>Chartres</i> te feront bien du pire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125"></a>[125]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>French</i> Kingdom thou shalt be much changed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Empire is translated in another place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shalt be put into other manners and Laws,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouan</i> and <i>Chartres</i> shall do the worse they can to thee.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Rouan</i> is the chief City of the Province of <i>Normandie</i>, and <i>Chartres</i> the chief City -of that of <i>Beausse</i>.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Republique de la grande Cité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A grand rigueur ne voudra consentir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy sortir hors par Trompette Cité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Eschelle au Mur la Cité repentir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Common-wealth of the great City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With great harshness shall not consent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the King should go out being summoned by a Trumpet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Ladder shall be put to the Wall, and the City repent.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is hard to know what he meaneth by the great City wherein there is a Common-wealth, -whether it be <i>Venice</i>, <i>Genoa</i>, <i>Geneva</i>, <i>Luca</i>, or some of the Cities of -<i>Switzerland</i>; but it seemeth that a King shall take shelter in it, who shall be summoned -by a Trumpet to come out, but the City will not suffer it, for which the said -City shall be scaled, and repent.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Paris</i> conjure un grand meurtre commettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Blois</i> le fera sortir en plein effet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux d’<i>Orleans</i> voudront leur Chef remettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Angers</i>, <i>Troyes</i>, <i>Langres</i>, leur seront un mes fait.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Paris</i> conspireth to commit a great murder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Blois</i> will cause it to come to pass,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Orleans</i> will set up their head again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Angers</i>, <i>Troyes</i>, <i>Langres</i> will do them a mischief.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Prophecy contained in the two first Verses came to pass in the time of <i>Henry</i> -the III. King of <i>France</i>, when the <i>Parisians</i> did rebel against him, and made Barricadoes -in the streets, thinking to have taken him, who was compelled to run away for -his life, and fly to <i>Chartres</i>. This rebellion was raised and fomented by <i>Henry</i> of -<i>Lorraine</i> Duke of <i>Guise</i>, whom the King afterwards caused to be murdered, with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126"></a>[126]</span> -his brother the Cardinal of <i>Lorraine</i>, at the Convention of the three Estates kept at -<i>Blois</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Orleans</i>, <i>Angers</i>, <i>Troyes</i>, <i>Langres</i>, are remarkable Cities in <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En la <i>Campagne</i> sera si longue pluye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et en l’<i>Apoville</i> si grande siccité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coq verra l’Aigle l’aisle mal accomplie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Lion mise sera en extremité.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Campania</i> shall be so long a rain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in <i>Apulia</i> so great a drought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Cock shall see the Eagle with his wing disordered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by the Lion brought to extremity.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Campania</i>, and <i>Apulia</i> are two Provinces of the Kingdom of <i>Naples</i>.</p> - -<p>The last two Verses of the Prophecy came to pass about the years 1630 and 1631. -when <i>Gustavus Adolphus</i> King of <i>Swedeland</i>, called here the Lion, brought the Empire -(signified by the Eagle) to extremity; the King of <i>France</i> signified by the -Cock, looking upon, and underhand assisting him.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le plus grand emportera le prix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Nuremberg</i>, d’<i>Ausbourg</i>, & ceux de <i>Basle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Agripine</i> Chef de <i>Frankfort</i> repris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Traverseront par <i>Flandres</i> jusqu’en <i>Gale</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great one shall carry the prize,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Nuremberg</i>, <i>Ausbourg</i>, and <i>Basil</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Agrippina</i> the Chief of <i>Frankfort</i> shall be taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall go through <i>Flanders</i> as far as <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nuremberg</i>, <i>Ausbourg</i>, and <i>Basil</i> are Cities of <i>Germany</i>.</p> - -<p>By <i>Agrippine</i> is understood the City of <i>Cologne</i>, called in Latine <i>Colonia Agrippina</i>, -from the Founderess of it <i>Agrippina</i>, Mother of the Emperour <i>Nero</i>, or from -<i>M. Agrippa</i> favourite of <i>Augustus Cæsar</i>.</p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’un des plus grands fuira aux <i>Espagnes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’en longue playe apres viendra seigner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passant Copies par les hautes Montagnes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devastant tout, & puis apres regner.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127"></a>[127]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One of the greatest shall run away into <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall cause a wound to bleed long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leading Armies over the high Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Destroying all, and afterwards shall Raign.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En l’an qu’un œil en <i>France</i> Regnera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cour sera en un bien fascheux trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand de <i>Blois</i> son amy tuera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne mis en mal & doubte double.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that one eye shall Reign in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Court shall be in a very hard trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Blois</i> shall kill his friend,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom shall be in an ill case, and double doubt.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of the first Verse is, when a King having but one eye shall Reign in -<i>France</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Blois</i> is a City in <i>France</i> upon the River <i>Loire</i>.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Montauban</i>, <i>Nismes</i>, <i>Avignon</i> & <i>Besier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peste, Tonnerre & Gresle a fin de <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Paris</i> Pont, de <i>Lion</i> Mur, <i>Monpelier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Depuis six cens & sept vingt, trois parts.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Montauban</i>, <i>Nismes</i>, <i>Avignon</i> and <i>Besier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plague, Lightning and Hail at the end of <i>March</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bridge of <i>Paris</i>, the Wall of <i>Lion</i>, and <i>Monpelier</i>, shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From six hundred and seven score, three parts.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Montauban</i> is a Town in <i>Gascony</i>, <i>Nismes</i> and <i>Besiers</i> are Towns in <i>Languedoc</i>; -<i>Avignon</i> is a Town in <i>France</i> belonging to the Pope, which shall suffer these damages -by Lightning at the end of <i>March</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128"></a>[128]</span></p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept fois changer verrez gens <i>Britanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Teints en sang en deux cens nonante an,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> non point par appuy <i>Germanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aries</i> double son Pope <i>Bistarnan</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven times you shall see the <i>English</i> to change,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Died in blood, in two hundred ninety year,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not <i>France</i>, by the <i>German</i> support,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aries</i> doubleth his <i>Bastarnan</i> Pole.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses concern <i>England</i>; the third <i>France</i>; the fourth marketh -the time by the motion of the Sign of <i>Aries</i>, which shall be favourable to <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p>We shall leave the two first Verses to be interpreted by the <i>English</i> Nation, -which is most concerned in it, and come to the last two, which concern <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p>The third Verse saith that <i>France</i> shall not change as <i>England</i>, by reason of the -help it shall have from <i>Germany</i>, which hath been made good already for these hundred -years, notwithstanding the Wars between <i>Henry</i> II. and the <i>Spaniard</i>; the -Conspiracy of the Protestant party against <i>Francis</i> the II. at <i>Amboise</i>; the civil Wars -under <i>Charles</i> the IX. the League under <i>Henry</i> III. and <i>Henry</i> IV. the Forrain Wars -under <i>Lewis</i> XIII. and <i>Lewis</i> XIV. now Reigning.</p> - -<p>The Authors meaning by these words, <i>but France not</i>, is, you shall not see <i>France</i> -change seven times in two hundred ninety years, as the <i>Brittish</i> nation, and then he -giveth the reason of it, <i>by German help</i>, that is to say, that <i>France</i> shall have help from -<i>Germany</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse saith, that during those two hundred ninety years, <i>Aries doubleth -his Bastarnan Pole</i>, to understand this, we must suppose first that the Sign of <i>Aries</i> -ruleth over <i>France</i>, <i>Palestine</i>, <i>Bastarnia</i>, &c.</p> - -<p>Secondly, we must learn from <i>Ptolomy</i> and other Geographers, that <i>Bastarnia</i> -containeth the people that are towards <i>Sarmatia</i> or <i>Poland</i>, which were called by the -Ancients, the people of <i>Admone</i>, <i>Sidane</i>, <i>Roxolane</i>, and by others <i>Peucins</i>, from the -Island <i>Peuce</i>, which is in <i>Istria</i>.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, we must suppose, that the Sign of <i>Aries</i> hath two Poles, the first is that -of the Æquinoctial Line, and the second, that of the <i>Eccliptick</i>, because the Sign of -<i>Aries</i> beginneth just in the Line of the <i>Equator</i>, and afterwards stretcheth towards -the North. Now it is so that the place where its extension endeth in the Eccliptical -Line of the Sun, is called by the Author the <i>Bastarnan Pole</i>.</p> - -<p>It is a <i>Pole</i> sith in the constellations of Heaven, we call <i>Poles</i>, the two ends or extremities -of them, and in the constellations of the Zodiack, we call the first Pole -that which is next to the Equator, and the second Pole that which stretcheth towards -the North, or towards the South in the Eccliptical Line.</p> - -<p>In this sense, the first Pole of the Sign of <i>Aries</i>, is that which hath its first degree -in the Equator; the second is, that which stretcheth towards the North in the Eccliptick, -and this last Pole is called <i>Bastarnan</i>, because it is Vertical to <i>Bastarnia</i>, as -the Astrologers set down their Climates, Kingdoms, Provinces and Towns under -the twelve Signs.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129"></a>[129]</span></p> - -<p>Fourthly, We must suppose that this word <i>to double</i>, may signifie three things. -1. In Sea-mens tearms; it signifieth to go beyond some place, as to double the Cape of -<i>bona Speranza</i>, which is called in <i>Italian</i>, <i>Tramontare</i>; that is, to go beyond. -2. It signifieth to do twice the same thing, as <i>Jacob</i> did double his service for <i>Rachel</i>, -&c. 3. In matter of traveling; it signifieth to go twice as far as is requisite.</p> - -<p><i>To double</i>, in this place cannot be understood in the first sense; because the constellations -never stretcht out of their compasses, though the Stars of which they -are compounded, have their peculiar motions.</p> - -<p>To understand this, we must know that the Stars of the Firmament have their -peculiar motions from West to East, upon the Pole of the Eccliptick, and that -they go that way a matter of one Degree, in the space of about 100 years, and consequently -the Stars do retrograde every year in the Eccliptick from West to East 52 -Seconds. <i>Ptolomeus</i> holdeth this opinion, but other renowned Astrologers give -them more: For my part I am of <i>Tychobrahe</i>’s opinion, who allowed them one Degree -of retrogradation in 70 years and 7 Months, and consequently 51 Seconds every -year.</p> - -<p>According to this Doctrine the Star that is in the Horn of <i>Aries</i>, was observed by -<i>Tymocharis</i> in 2d Degree; 150 years after, <i>Hipparchus</i> observed it in the first; 265 -years after, <i>Ptolomeus</i> saw it in the 6 Degree; 740 years after, <i>Albathognius</i> observed -it in the 18 Degree; 304 years after, <i>Alphonsus</i> King of <i>Spain</i>, found it in the 6 -Degree; 265 years after, <i>Copernicus</i> did observe it to be in the 27 Degree and two -Minutes; 61 years after, <i>Tychobrahe</i> saw it in the 27 Degree, and above 37 Minutes; -so that in the space of 61 years it had gone 35 Minutes.</p> - -<p>By this Doctrine we see that the whole constellations do not go beyond their -Poles, though the Stars that Compound them change their Poles every year of 51 -Seconds.</p> - -<p>To double, then here cannot be taken in the first sense, nor in the third sense, for -the first reason, it must then be in the second sense; and thus <i>Aries doubleth his Bastarnan -Pole</i>; that is, <i>Aries</i> maketh twice his Pole, which answereth to <i>Bastarnia</i>.</p> - -<p>If you ask how it cometh to pass that <i>Aries</i> doubleth this Pole, and in what place -of Heaven we set this <i>Bastarnan Pole</i>. I answer to the first, that <i>Aries</i> doubleth his -Pole, when one of those 13 Stars cometh to that point, which is a Northern or -Western Pole to that sign in the Eccliptick. As to the second: I answer, that the -place ought to be its last Degree, <i>viz.</i> the end of the 30 Degree.</p> - -<p>Why? (will you say) did the Author mark that difference of the Sign of <i>Aries</i>, -rather than that of <i>Taurus</i>, or of another?</p> - -<p>I answer, that it was in favour of <i>France</i>; because <i>Aries</i> doth govern in <i>France</i>, -and if it hath been favourable to it, when it came first to the <i>Bastarnan Pole</i>, it will be -so too when it doubleth the same Pole, seeing that it will have the same position -and Aspect. Now we see, that in the space of these 100 years, <i>France</i> was not -overcome, much less shall it be hereafter, seeing that the Stars do promise its exaltation -for a long continuance.</p> - -<p>If I were a great Astrologer, I should observe exactly by this, that within the space -of 290 years, <i>Aries shall double his Cape Bastarnan</i>, and consequently <i>Aries</i> should -come to that Pole just in the year 1845. which is according to that we have said.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130"></a>[130]</span></p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du <i>Rhin</i> des Montagnes <i>Noriques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Naistra un grand de gens trop tard venu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui defendra <i>Sarmates</i> & <i>Pannoniques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on ne scaura quil sera devenu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Rhine</i>, out of the <i>Norick</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be born a great one, though too late come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall defend the <i>Polonians</i> and <i>Hungarians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that it shall not be known what is become of him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barbare</i> Empire par le tiers usurpé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La plus grand part de son sang mettre amort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par mort senicle par luy quart frappé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour peur que sang par le sang ne soit mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Barbarian</i> Empire shall be usurped by a third person,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall put to death the greatest part of his Kindred,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By death of old age, the fourth shall be stricken by him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For fear that blood should not die by blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain, I acknowledge my Ignorance in the last two.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par toute <i>Asia</i> grande proscription,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mesme en <i>Mysie</i>, <i>Lydie</i>, & <i>Pamphilie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang versera par dissolution,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un jeune noir remply de felonie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through all <i>Asia</i> shall be a great proscription,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yea in <i>Mysia</i>, <i>Lydia</i>, and <i>Pamphilia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood shall be spilled by the debauchness</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a young black man, full of felony.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mysia</i>, <i>Lydia</i>, and <i>Pamphilia</i>, are Countreys of <i>Asia</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131"></a>[131]</span></p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grande bande & secte Crucigere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se dressera en <i>Mesopotamie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du proche Fleuve compagnie legere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui telle Loy tiendra pour ennemie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great troop and sect wearing a Cross,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall rise up in <i>Mesopotamia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the next River shall be a light company,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall hold that law for enemy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is an Army of Christians (be like <i>Armenians</i>) that shall rise in <i>Mesopotamia</i> -against whom shall an Army of Turkish Horseman come, who did live by the next -River.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche del <i>Duero</i> par Mer <i>Cyrene</i> close,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra percer les grands Monts <i>Pyrenees</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La main plus courte & sa percée gloses</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Carcasonne</i> conduira ses menées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Duero</i> closed by the <i>Cyrenian</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to pierce the great <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The shorter hand and his pierced glose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall in <i>Carcassone</i> lead his plot.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Cyrenian</i> Sea, is that Sea which is by the Province of <i>Cyrene</i>. The <i>Pyrenean</i> -Mountains part <i>Spain</i> from <i>France</i>. <i>Carcassonne</i> is a Town in <i>France</i> near unto -<i>Spain</i>. The rest passeth my understanding.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Romain</i> pouvoir sera du tout a bas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son grand Voisin imiter les vestiges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occultes haines civiles, & debats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Retarderont aux boufons leur folies.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Roman</i> power shall be quite put down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His great Neighbour shall follow his steps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secret and civil hatreds and quarrels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall stop the Buffons folly.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132"></a>[132]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse signifieth, that the <i>Pope</i>’s Authority shall be put down.</p> - -<p>The second, that his great neighbour, that is the Empire shall follow his steps, -that is, be put down too. The two last Verses are plain.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef de <i>Perse</i> remplira grand <i>Olchade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe trireme contre gent <i>Mahometique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Parthe</i> & <i>Mede</i> & piller les <i>Cyclades</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Repos long temps au grand Port <i>Jonique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Head of <i>Persia</i> shall fill a great <i>Olchade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet of Galleys against the <i>Mahometan</i> Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Parthia</i> and <i>Media</i> they shall come to plunder the <i>Cyclades</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A long rest shall be on the <i>Jonique</i> Port.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find what he meaneth by <i>Olchade</i>. The second Verse is plain.</p> - -<p><i>Parthia</i> and <i>Media</i> are two Kingdoms depending from that of <i>Persia</i>. The Islands -of <i>Cyclades</i> are in the <i>Ægean</i> Sea, and are so called because they are like a Garment -about the City of <i>Delos</i>, for κυκλας in Greek signifieth a round garment of a woman.</p> - -<p>The <i>Jonique</i> Sea is that Sea in <i>Grecia</i>, which is about <i>Athens</i> and <i>Corinth</i>, &c.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Sepulchre du grand <i>Romain</i> trouvé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jour apres sera esleu Pontife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Senat gueres il ne sera prouvé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Empoisonné, son sang au Sacre <i>Scyphe</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Sepulcher of the great <i>Roman</i> shall be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The next day after a Pope shall be elected,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall not be much approved by the Senate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poisoned, his blood in the Sacred <i>Scyphe</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to foretel the finding out of the Sepulcher of some famous <i>Roman</i>, -and that the next day after a <i>Pope</i> shall be Elected, who being not well approved of -by the Conclave, shall be poisoned in the Chalice, which is the Communion Cup -that the Roman Catholicks use at <i>Mass</i>, signified here by the Latine word <i>Scyphus</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Baillif d’<i>Orleans</i> mis a mort.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera par un de sang vindicatif,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De mort merite ne mourra, ne par sort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des pieds & mains mal, le faisoit captif.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133"></a>[133]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Bailif of <i>Orleans</i> shall be put to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By one of a revengeful blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall not die of a deserved death, nor by chance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the disease of being tied hand and foot, hath made him prisoner.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Bailif of <i>Orleans</i> is a great Officer, for he is there Lord Chief Justice, and of -all the precincts. It seemeth that this man shall be put to death, by one of a revengeful -blood, not that he had deserved it, or come to it by chance, but because he -shall be tied hand and foot, and die in prison.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Une nouvelle Secte de Philosophes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mesprisant mort, or, honneurs & richesses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Monts <i>Germains</i> seront fort limitrophes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A les ensuivre auront appuy & presses.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A new Sect of Philosophers shall rise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Despising Death, Gold, Honours and Riches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be near the Mountains of <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall have abundance of others to support and follow them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is properly said of the Anabaptists in <i>Germany</i>, in the time of <i>John de -Leyden</i>, and now of the Quakers in <i>England</i>, and elsewhere.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple sans Chef d’<i>Espagne</i> & d’<i>Italie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Morts, profligez dedans le <i>Cheronese</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur dict trahy par legere folie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang nager per tout a la traverse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A people of <i>Spain</i> and <i>Italy</i> without a Head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall die, being overcome in the <i>Cheronese</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their saying shall be betrayed by a light folly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood shall swim all over at random.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Cheronese</i> is a Land or ground unmanured; the rest is plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134"></a>[134]</span></p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand exercite conduit par jouvenceau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se viendra rendre aux mains des ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais le vieillard nay au demy pourceau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera <i>Chalon</i> & <i>Mascon</i> estre amis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Army led by a young man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall yield it self in the hands of the enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the old man born at the sign of the halfe-Hog,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Chalon</i> and <i>Mascon</i> to be friends.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain; as for the third Verse, I could not find who that -<i>Old man</i> should be, that shall be born at the sign of the <i>half-Hog</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Chalon</i> and <i>Mascon</i> are two Cities in <i>France</i>, the first in <i>Champagne</i>, the last in <i>Burgundy</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand <i>Bretagne</i> comprise d’<i>Angleterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra par eaux si haut a inondre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Ligue nevue d’<i>Ausone</i> fera gerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que contre eux ils se viendront bander.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Britany</i> comprehended in <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall suffer so great an Inundation by Waters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new League of <i>Ausone</i> shall make Wars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that they shall stand against them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is divided in two parts. The first two Verses foretel a great Innundation, -that was to happen in <i>England</i>.</p> - -<p>The last two speak of a league and insurrection, that shall be at <i>Bordeaux</i>, which -is here called <i>Ausone</i>, from a famous Latine Poet, named <i>Ausonius</i>, who was born -in that City.</p> - -<p>As to the first part, after much seeking and enquiry: I found the truth of it in a -Latine book, called <i>Rerum in Gallia, Belgia, Hispania, Anglia, &c. gestarum anno -1607. Tomi septimi Liber secundus conscriptus a <span class="antiqua">Nicolao Gotardo</span> Artus Dantiscano</i>, -where the History is related thus.</p> - -<p>About the end of <i>January</i> 1607 the Sea broke out so violently in <i>England</i>, that after -the breaking of Fences and Dikes, it caused very great damages to the Inhabitants. -The greatest mischief was done in <i>Somersetshire</i>, where the water did overflow, ten -Leagues in length, and two in breadth, twelve foot high in the most eminent places. -This sudden Innundation brought a fearful alarm to the Countrey people; some of -them going to their Plough, were fained to run back to their houses, where they -found their enemies at their doors, <i>viz.</i> Death and Water, who without distinction -swept them away. In a little time, the Towns appeared like Islands, encompassed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135"></a>[135]</span> -on all sides, and presently after were swallowed up, so that the tops of the Trees -were scarce seen. This new Flood covered so the Towns of <i>Hansfield</i>, in the same -County, those of <i>Grantham</i>, <i>Kenhus</i>, <i>Kingston</i>, and <i>Briandon</i>, with several Farms -built in the Champion Countrey, that none of the Buildings could be seen. If you -add to this the devastation of the places, the quantity of Corn, Fruit, and Grass that -was lost, the misery shall be so great, as not to be expressed. During this fearful -quarrel between the Water and the Land, an exceeding great number of people died -of all Ages, and Sexes, it would avail them nothing to get into the upper Stories and -Roofs of houses, nor upon the highest Trees; for the imperious Waters did so swell -and rage, that the Foundations of the houses, and roots of the Trees were loosened, -so that both fell to the Ground, or rather into the Water. The people seeing no -way to escape, resolved to die patiently. No body could without great grief see -the Oxen and Sheep drowning; for there was such a numerous quantity of them, -that afar off one would have thought them to be Rocks in the Sea, but seeing them -swiming, and hearing them bleating and bellowing, one would have thought them to -be a storm and hissing of winds. A rich Farmer, and father of seven Children, being -involved in the Flood, and much astonished at this accident, nevertheless thinking -the danger less then it was, went about to save some of his best Goods; but seeing -the Waters to increase, he forsook all, and went to save one of his Children, whom -he loved best; but the Waters followed him so close, that all he could do, was to get -upon the Roof of his house. Among the Children there was a little one sleeping -in a Cradle, which being made of close boards, did swim upon the Waters about -three Miles, and was taken up alive, and sound. The Hay-cocks did swim like Ships -upon the Waves, the Pigeons and Pigs were upon the Sheaves that the Water -carried away. The Coneys being driven out of their holes, had leapt upon the backs -of the swiming Sheep. A certain Shepheard being about to gather his Sheep into -their Fold, was followed by the Flood, ran for his life, and climbed upon a high -Tree, where seeing his Sheep bleating in the water, he began to tear his hair, to -smite his breast, to lift up his hands and his eyes to Heaven, and when his Sheep had -all perished, and himself endured an extream cold and hunger, he was at last taken -up in a Boat that was sent to save the distressed.</p> - -<p>But here we must talk of <i>Bristol</i>, which is one of the chiefest Cities in <i>England</i>, -by reason of the Haven, which bringeth thither abundance of Merchants, from several -Nations. The same day of that Inundation, the Sea breaking into a great -Channel, did presently overflow the Countrey with such quickness and violence, -that it covered the Valleys, and the smaller Hills, in so much that nothing but an -utter ruine was expected; many whole houses were turned upside down, and carried -away with the Flood. The Barns full of Corn, Hay, and Straw, were overthrown, -and the Cattle carried away, besides abundance of people of all sorts. The Merchants -of <i>London</i> and <i>Bristol</i>, and the rest of the Inhabitants, besides the loss of Provisions, -suffered an inestimable one in their Commodities, which they had provided -for the Fair, that was then near hand, the most part of them being carryed away by -the Flood, and the rest so spoiled, that the owners could not tell what to do with -them. A Gentleman dwelling between <i>Barnstable</i> and <i>Bristol</i>, and two Leagues off -from the Sea, being gone abroad in the Morning to oversee his grounds, did look towards -the Sea, ran back again to his house, to bring this sad news to his Wife and -Servants, while they were endeavouring to pack up the most precious of their Goods, -the Water came about the house so fast, that they altered their resolution, and bethought -themselves only to save their lives; the servants busied themselves about -tying the Goods together, thinking the Water could not have carryed them away. -As for the Gentleman, he went with his Wife and Children to the top of the house, -and got upon the rafters of the Roof. Although nothing appeared to them but<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136"></a>[136]</span> -the Image of death; nevertheless some hope and desire of escaping, made the Gentleman -come down to save a little Trunk, wherein his papers of greatest concernment -were. Being come down from the Rafter, he laid hold of the Trunk, and -fastened it to a Manger; while he was busie about it, the Waves of the Sea did so -beat against that house, that it fell down to the Ground. The Wife, Children, and -Servants were swallowed up in the ruine. The Gentleman laid hold on a Rafter, -and was carryed away with it above half a League further, to a Mountain, where he -set his foot upon dry Ground, being half dead with fear and grief, and bewailing the -loss of his Wife, Children, and Servants, he spyed the little Trunk and the Manger, -which he drew to Land, and that was all he saved, besides his Life.</p> - -<p>Another Gentleman living thereabouts, and newly married, was resolved that day -to go to the next Town, and make merry with some friends, whereupon he bid his -man make his Horse ready, and himself went to put on his Boots; after he had put -on one, and whilst he held the other in his hand, the Waters came so fiercely into -that house, that they compelled the half Booted Gentleman to run away for his life, -in an upper Chamber, but he was followed so close by that merciless Element, that -he was fained to get upon the top of the Roof, to save his life, and to ride upon the -upper Rafter, but the house and Roof melting by the violence of the Waves, this -new Knight was carryed by the violence of them towards the Town where he intended -to make merry, and there was saved with much adoe.</p> - -<p>It happened at the same time near <i>Markand</i>, in the Dutchy of <i>Norfolk</i>, that two -Thieves, going about to steal some Cattle, while they were driving of them, perceived -in the Morning the Justice of God following them; it was the Water, -which having overtopped the Dikes, threatned the takers of being taken, and compelled -them to save themselves with all speed. From their wickedness did arise a -great good; for to the next Town they went, and bid the Sexton to Ring the Bell, -and to cry Water, Water: The Inhabitants being for the most part asleep, did -not know what to do in such an Alarm: Some climbed into the Church’s Steeple; -others thinking there were Thieves went about to fence and defend their houses; -others hearing of a Flood, laughed at it, and said, that those who brought this -News, deserved to be punished; but presently they altered their Languages, and -their laughing was turned into a fearful mourning, every one flying to save himself, -his Wife, and Children, and whatsoever they could pack up of their most precious -Goods. Some thinking to have more wit than others, went about to divert the -Current of the Water from their houses; but seeing there was no remedy, they -went with their Wives and Children to the tops of their houses, in a lamentable -fright.</p> - -<p>But when the Water came to seize upon the houses, wherein there were some -Playing, some Drinking, others already Drunken, a great part of them were drowned, -others ran to a Hill near the Town, where they spent the rest of that night, and -the day following with great lamentations.</p> - -<p>The next day they saw their houses half under Water, and many people, who -from the windows and Steeples cryed for help; others endeavoured to save themselves -upon Boards and Rafters; the Horses tyed to the Manger were all suffocated. The -Cattle in the fields, were by this time driven to the Mount called <i>Truhill</i>, and for all -that, were not out of danger; for the Mountain was encompassed with Water to such -a heighth and depth, that without Boats there was no access to it; chiefly because -of the Thickets and Bushes. Thus so much Cattle was about to perish, had not -some Shepherds brought Boats loaded with provisions for Men and Beasts, till the -Waters retired again, and the Dikes were made good.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137"></a>[137]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux dans les Isles de long temps assiegez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prendront vigueur force contre ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux par dehors morts de faim profligez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En plus grand faim que jamais seront mis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Those in the Islands that have been long besieged,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall take vigour and force against their enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those without shall die for hunger; being overcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be put in greater famine then they were before.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy came to pass when the <i>Spaniards</i> Besieged <i>Leyden</i> in <i>Holland</i>, for -the <i>Dutch</i> broke the Dikes, whereby the water came upon them so fast, that they -were more besieged and starved then those of the Town, and their Army wholly destroyed. -Read Cardinal <i>Bentivoglios</i> his History of the <i>Low-Countreys</i>, as also <i>Strada</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le bon Vieillard tout vis Ensevely,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prez du grand Fleuve par faux soupcon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nouveaux vieux de richesse ennobly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prins en chemin tout l’or de la Rancon.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The good old man shall be buried alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the great River by a false suspicion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new old one made noble by his riches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The gold of his ransom shall be taken in the way.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is divided into two parts: the two first Verses are concerning an -old man that shall be buried alive near a great River, upon a false suspition.</p> - -<p>The latter two are concerning a young man, who shall assume unto himself the -name of a noble Family, and so make himself noble by his riches, but being afterward -taken prisoner, the money that was sent for his Ransom, shall be taken in the -way.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand dans le Regne parviendra le boiteux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Competiteur aura proche Bastard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy & le Regne viendront si fort rogneux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’ains quil guerisse son fait sera bien tard.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the lame man shall attain to the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall have a Bastard for his near competitor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He, and his Kingdom shall be so scabby,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That before he be cured it will be late.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Florence</i>, <i>Fayence</i> & <i>Imole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront en termes de telle fascherie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que pour complaire au malheureux de <i>Nole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plaint d’avoir fait a son Chef moquerie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Florence</i>, <i>Fayenza</i>, and <i>Imola</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be put into so much distress,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For being complaisant to the unhappy one of <i>Nola</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who was complained of for having mocked his Superiour.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Florence</i>, <i>Fayenza</i>, <i>Imola</i> and <i>Nola</i> are all Cities in <i>Italy</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Verone</i>, <i>Vicence</i>, <i>Saragousse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Glaive atteints, Terroirs de sang humides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peste si grande viendra a la grand gousse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche secours & bien long les remedes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Verona</i>, <i>Vicenza</i>, <i>Saragossa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be hit by the Sword, the Countrey shall be moist with blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So great a plague and so vehement shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That though the succours be near, the remedy shall be far off.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Pau</i> here are understood the Towns that are seated upon that River.</p> - -<p><i>Verona</i>, <i>Vicenza</i>, are two Cities in <i>Italy</i>, belonging to the <i>Venetians</i>. <i>Saragossa</i> is a -City in <i>Sicily</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Germanie</i> naistront diverses Sectes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saprochant sort de l’heureux <i>Paganisme</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le cœur captif & petites receptes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront retour a payer le vray disme.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139"></a>[139]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Germany</i> shall divers Sects arise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coming very near the happy <i>Paganism</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The heart captivated and small receivings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall open the gate to pay the true Tithes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first and second Verses have been verified sufficiently.</p> - -<p>By the two last Verses, he meaneth that the heart of everyone shall be in fear, so -that they shall come to an agreement, which the true Tithes shall be paid, and every -one come to his own again.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tiers climat soubs <i>Aries</i> comprins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An mil sept cens vingt sept en <i>Octobre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy de <i>Perse</i> par ceux d’<i>Ægypte</i> prins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflict, mort, perte, a la Croix grand opprobre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The third Climat comprehended under <i>Aries</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year 1700. the twenty seven of <i>October</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King of <i>Persia</i> shall be taken by those of <i>Ægypt</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Battle, death, loss, a great shame to the Christians.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here be three notable things to be observed: one is the plain and punctual specification -of the time, in which the Prophecy shall come to pass, <i>viz.</i> the 7. of <i>October</i> -in the year 1700. The second is, that the King of <i>Persia</i> shall be taken by those -of <i>Ægypt</i>. The third is, the shame and confusion that the Christians shall suffer for -the same.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef d’<i>Escosse</i> avec six d’<i>Allemagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par gents de mer Orientaux captif,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Traverseront le <i>Calpre</i> & <i>Espagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Present en <i>Perse</i> au nouveau Roy craintif.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief of <i>Scotland</i> with six of <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be taken prisoners by Seamen of the East,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall go through the <i>Calpre</i> and <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be made a present in <i>Persia</i> to the new fearful King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Calpre</i> is understood the <i>Capzor</i> promontory, which is at the mouth of the -<i>Streights</i>, by and beyond which these Prisoners will be carried into <i>Persia</i> for a present -to the King, who then shall be some fearful person.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140"></a>[140]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand criard sans honte audacieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera esleu Governeur le d’Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La hardiesse de son contentieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le pont rompu, Cité de peur pasmée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great bawler proud without shame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be elected Governour of the Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The stoutness of his Competitor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bridge being broken, the City shall faint for fear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Paradin</i> saith, that in the year 1558. the Lord of <i>Bonnivet</i> being dead, the King -of <i>France</i> did chuse <i>Francis</i> of <i>Vendosme</i>, <i>Vidame</i> of <i>Amiens</i>, to succeed the said <i>Bonnivet</i>, -in the Office of Colonel of the <i>French</i> Foot. This <i>Vidame</i> is noted by all Historians, -for a rash proud man, that had a good opinion of himself, and found fault -with all the commands of the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>, then General of the Army.</p> - -<p>The King in consideration of his Birth, and that he was a good Souldier, gave -him the place of the Lord <i>Bonnivet</i>, according to what the Author saith, <i>The -great Bawler, <span class="antiqua">&c.</span> shall be elected Governour in the Army</i>. If you ask in what Army -he was elected Governour, the third Verse answereth, <i>in the Army of his Competitor</i>, -that is, the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>, who did chide him severely for disobeying his -commands, and was like once to have killed him.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse proved true at the taking of <i>Queiras</i>, where the Bridge, through -which the succours came to relieve the Town, being broken, the Town grew so -fearful, that it surrendred it self to the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Erins</i>, <i>Antibe</i>, villes auteur de <i>Nice</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront vastées fort par Mer & par Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Sauterelles Terre & Mer vent propice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prins, morts, troussez, pillez, sans loy de guerre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Erins</i>, <i>Antibe</i>, and the Towns about <i>Nices</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be destroyed by Sea and Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Grashopers shall have the Land, the Sea, and Wind favourable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be taken, killed, thrust up, plundered, without Law of War.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Erins</i> and <i>Antibe</i> are Towns of <i>Provence</i>, bordering upon <i>Nice</i>, which is a Town -of <i>Piemont</i>, all that Coast is threatned here to be ruined by the Grashopers, that is, -the <i>Turks</i>, which fell out about the year 1558. for the King of <i>France</i> having called -the <i>Turks</i> to his succours against <i>Charles</i> V. Emperour, they came and took <i>Nice</i> in -the behalf of the <i>French</i>, where they committed unheard cruelties, as also upon all -that Coast.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141"></a>[141]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ordre fatal sempiternal par chaisne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra tourner par ordre consequent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Port <i>Phocen</i> sera rompue la chaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité prinse, l’ennemy quant & quant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fatal and eternal order by chain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to turn by consequent order,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Port <i>Phocen</i> the chain shall be broken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The City taken, and the enemy presently after</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy regardeth onely the City of <i>Marseilles</i>, which is the most famous -Port Town that the <i>French</i> have upon the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, and which was anciently -a <i>Greek</i> Colony, peopled by the <i>Phocen</i> Seas. This City is threatned here -to have the chain of her Port broken, and to be taken by her enemies, and the said -enemies to be a little while after taken in it.</p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Regne <i>Anglois</i> le digne dechassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Conseiller par ire mis a feu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ses adherans iront si bas tracer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que le bastard sera demy receu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the <i>English</i> Kingdom the worthy driven away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Councellor through anger shall be burnt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His partners shall creep so low,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the bastard shall be half received.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is one of those Prophecies that concern the <i>English</i> Nation, and which by -its event, hath made this Book and the Author thereof famous, for nothing can be -more plain to the meanest capacity, then the sense and words of these four Verses.</p> - -<p>By the first, is meant the Kings most excellent Majesty <i>Charles</i> II. now Reigning, -who being the true Heir to the Kingdom, and most worthy to rule, was driven -out of the Kingdom by a rebellious rout of his Subjects.</p> - -<p>The second Verse expresseth, the punishment inflicted upon the Councellors and -Abettors of so hainous a crime, who were most of them hanged, drawn and quartered, -their entrals burnt.</p> - -<p>The third Verse, signifieth the low estate of the Abettors of that pernicious -Councel.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse, is understood that bastard Faction, which was like to supplant -<i>Cromwel</i>, upon the division of the Army.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142"></a>[142]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les longs cheveux de la <i>Gaule Celtique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagnez d’Estranges Nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettront captif l’Agent <i>Aquitanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour succomber a leurs intentions.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The long hairs of the <i>Celtian France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyned with forrain Nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall put in prison the <i>Aquitanick</i> Agent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make him yield to their intentions.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Celtan France</i> is that part of <i>France</i> included between the River <i>Loire</i>, and -that of <i>Scheld</i> in <i>Flanders</i>. they are called here the <i>long hairs</i>; because in antient -time they used to wear long hairs.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cite sera bien desolée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des habitans un seul n’y demoura,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mur, Sexe, Temple, & Vierge violée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Fer, Feu, Peste, Canon, peuple mourra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City shall be made very desolate.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not one of the Inhabitants shall be left in it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wall, Sex, Church, and Virgin ravished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sword, Fire, Plague, Canon, people shall die.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the Town of St. <i>Quentin</i>, which was taken by the <i>Spaniards</i> -in the year 1557. upon the 27 of <i>August</i>, and 17 days after the Battle of St. <i>Laurence</i>, -it was taken by assault, and all the Inhabitants put to the Sword.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité prinse par tromperie fraude,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le moyen d’Un bean jeune attrapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assaut donné, <i>Raubine</i> pres de <i>Laude</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy & touts morts pour avoir bien trompé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The City shall be taken by cheat and deceit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the means of a fair young one caught in it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assault shall be given, <i>Raubine</i> near <i>Laude</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He, and all shall die, for having deceived.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143"></a>[143]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a City that shall be taken by the cheat and deceit of a young fair man, who -himself shall be taken in his craft.</p> - -<p>The difficulty lyeth in the third Verse, <i>viz.</i> what he meaneth by <i>Raubine</i> and -<i>Laude</i>. I could find nothing by transposition of Letters: therefore I suppose the -Author had a mind to reserve the exposition to himself, and to one that should be -clearer sighted than I.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un chef d’<i>Ausonne</i> aux <i>Espagnes</i> ira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer, sera arrest dedans <i>Marseilles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant sa mort un long temps languira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres sa mort on verra grand merveille.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A chief man of <i>Ausone</i> shall go into <i>Spain</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea, he shall stay at <i>Marseilles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall languish a great while before his death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After his death great wonders shall be seen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is nothing obscure but the word <i>Ausone</i>, by which is meant the City of -<i>Bordeaux</i>, so named by the Author every where, for having brought forth that -famous Latine Poet, and Counsul of <i>Rome</i>, <i>Ausonius</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe <i>Gauloise</i> naproche de <i>Corsegne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Moins de <i>Sardaigne</i> tu ten repentiras,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tretous mourrez frustrez de laide <i>Greigne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang nagera, captif ne me croiras.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>French</i> Fleet do not come near unto <i>Corsica</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Much less to <i>Sardinia</i>, thou shalt repent of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All of you shall die frustrate of the help <i>Greigne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood shall swim, being Captive thou shalt not believe me.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Baron of <i>la Garde</i> coming from <i>Rome</i>, where he had carryed the Cardinals -of <i>Tournon</i> and <i>Lorrain</i>, received order to go into <i>Corsica</i>, to relieve with ammunition -the two Towns, that the <i>French</i> kept still in possession in that Island, <i>Glasse</i> and St. -<i>Boniface</i>, which after the general peace made at <i>Cambray</i>, <i>anno</i> 1559. were restored -to the Common-wealth of <i>Genoa</i>. When he was coming near the Island, there arose -such a storm, that they were constrained to go as near land as they could, <i>viz.</i> in St. -<i>Florents</i>, till the storm was over.</p> - -<p>At the same time, by reason of the said storm, eleven Ships loaded with six thousand -<i>Spaniards</i>, going for <i>Italy</i>, took shelter in the same place, a good way off from -the said Baron.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144"></a>[144]</span></p> - -<p>At the first, the <i>Spanish</i> Ships did not spie the <i>French</i> Galleys, but the Baron <i>de -la Garde</i> discovered the <i>Spaniards</i>, and bid his Galleys to set upon them. Two of -the <i>Spanish</i> Ships were taken, in which were 1200. or 1500. <i>Spaniards</i>, part of which -were drowned, and the rest made slaves.</p> - -<p>The Baron chased the rest, but the storm so scattered them, that the nine escaped.</p> - -<p>Before this encounter the <i>Genoese</i> Captain, <i>Andrew d’Oria</i>, took all the Island -from the <i>French</i>, <i>Anno</i> 1553. and kept it ever since, by sending continual supplies. -On the other side, the King of <i>France</i> sent supplies by the Lord of <i>Termes</i>, to those -that were retired in the Island of <i>Glasse</i>.</p> - -<p>One time among the rest, about the latter end of the year 1555. there was sent a -notable supplie from the <i>French</i>, to which the Author speaketh now in these -tearms.</p> - -<p><i>French fleet do not come near unto <span class="antiqua">Corsica</span></i>, nor <i>Sardinia</i>, which is another Island -near <i>Corsica</i>. The third Verse giveth the Reason of it; <i>ye shall die, being frustrated -of the help <span class="antiqua">Greigne</span></i>. <i>Greigne</i> is the Provencal Language, which was the Maternal -one of our Author, signifieth a Galley: The sense therefore is this, you shall be -frustrate of the help of the Galleys, that are under the command of the Baron <i>de la -Garde</i>, who carryed unto you men, money, and ammunition; because he shall be -then in pursute of the <i>Spanish</i> fleet, that were scattered by a storm.</p> - -<p>In the mean time <i>Blood shall swim</i> in the fight of the Baron <i>de la Garde</i>, and thou, <i>poor -Prisoner</i> in that Island, <i>Thou shalt not believe me</i>; those slaves were they, which went -in the year 1555. And the Author saying, <i>Thou shalt not believe me</i>, sheweth, that -being very famous in <i>Provence</i>, for his Prophecies, the General of the Army had asked -him concerning the success of his Journey, and that he did warn him not to undertake -it; but having an express command from the King, his Master, he would need -go. Therefore he saith, <i>Poor prisoner thou shalt not believe me</i>. We find in this -work many examples of those, who went to consult with the Author concerning -the success of their undertakings, as did the Earl of <i>Sommerive</i>, before the besieging -of <i>Bagnole</i>, to whom he answered, that he should leave the Trees loaded -with a new kind of fruit, that is to say, of the Rebels, whom he caused to be hanged -on Trees.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Barcelone</i> par Mer si grande Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Toute <i>Marseille</i> de frayeur tremblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Isles saisies, de Mer aide fermeé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ton traditeur en Terre nagera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall come from <i>Barcelona</i> by Sea so great a fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>Marseilles</i> shall quake for fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Islands shall be seized, the help by Sea shut up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy Traitor shall swim to Land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Barcelona</i> is a Town in <i>Spain</i>, upon the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea; <i>Marseilles</i> is another in -<i>France</i>, upon the same Sea. The rest is easie.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145"></a>[145]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En ce temps la sera frustrée <i>Cypre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De son secours, de ceux de Mer <i>Ægée</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vieux trucidez mais par <i>Mesles</i> & <i>Lipre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seduit leur Roy, Roine plus outragée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At that time <i>Cyprus</i> shall be frustrated</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of its succours, of those of the <i>Ægean</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old ones shall be killed, but by <i>Mesles</i> and <i>Lipre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their King shall be seducted, and the Queen more wronged.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain, the two last have need of an <i>Oedipus</i>.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Satyre</i> & <i>Tygre</i> d’<i>Hircanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Don presenté a ceux de l’Occean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un chef de Classe istra de <i>Carmanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui prendra Terre au <i>Thyrren Phocean</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Satyr</i> and <i>Tyger</i> of <i>Hircania</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be a gift presented to those of the Ocean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Admiral of a fleet shall come out of <i>Carmania</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall Land in the <i>Thyrren Phocean</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>By the great Satyr and Tyger of Hircania</i>, is meant, the King of <i>Persia</i>, who is also -King of <i>Hircania</i>, abounding with <i>Tygers</i>.</p> - -<p>That King of <i>Persia</i> shall be made a gift to those of the Ocean; that is, shall be -either drowned in it, or do some wonderful things upon it.</p> - -<p><i>Carmania</i> is a Province in <i>Asia</i>, belonging to the <i>Turk</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Thyrren Phocean</i> is the City of <i>Marseilles</i> in <i>France</i>, so called by the Author -in this Book; because it was a Colony of the <i>Phocenses</i> in <i>Greece</i>; it is also -called <i>Thyrren</i>, because it is seated upon the <i>Tyrrhenean</i> Sea, as <i>Virgil</i> saith,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">————<i>Thyrrenum navigat Æquor</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146"></a>[146]</span></p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Arbre qu’estoit par long temps mort seiché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans une nuit viendra a reverdir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Roy malade, Prince pied attaché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Craint d’ennemis fera Voiles bondir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Tree that had been long dead and withered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In one night shall grow green again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His King shall be sick, his Prince shall have his foot tied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being feared by his enemies, he shall make his Sails to rebound.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are Metaphorical, and are to be understood of a considerable -person, who having been for a long time despised and under a cloud, shall on a sudden -rise again and be in repute. The two last Verses are intelligible enough.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le monde proche du dernier periode,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> encor sera tard de retour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Translat Empire devers Nations brode,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’œil arraché a <i>Narbon</i> par Autour.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The world being near its last period,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> shall come yet late to his return,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Empire shall be translated into <i>brode</i> Nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i> shall have her eye pickt out by a Hawk.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of the first and second Verses is, that the world shall be at an end, -before <i>Saturn</i> hath performed his whole course, which (if I do not mistake) is thought -by the Astronomers to be of 36000. years.</p> - -<p>The third Verse signifieth, that before the end of the world, the Empire shall be -translated or possessed by a black Nation, for <i>brode</i> in old <i>French</i> signifieth black, -whence it cometh that to this day they call a handsom black woman, <i>une belle Brode</i>, -that is a fair black woman.</p> - -<p><i>Narbon</i> is a famous City in <i>Languedoc</i>, and the seat of an Archbishop.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147"></a>[147]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans <i>Avignon</i> tout le Chef de l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera arrest, pour <i>Paris</i> desole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tricast</i> tiendra l’<i>Annibalique</i> ire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lion</i> par change sera mal consolé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Avignon</i> all the Chief of the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall stay, by reason of <i>Paris</i> being desolate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tricast</i> shall stop the <i>Annibalik</i> anger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lion</i> by change shall be ill comforted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first and second Verse signifie, that the Pope once more shall keep his seat in -<i>Avignon</i>, which is a Town in <i>France</i> belonging to the Pope, and where formerly -they kept their See, for the space of above an hundred years. As for the word <i>Tricast</i>, -there must be a foul errour in the impression or else; I must confess I understand it -not. By the <i>Annibilik</i> anger, is meant those of <i>Barbary</i>, where <i>Annibal</i> was born. -<i>Lion</i> is a famous Town in <i>France</i>, where is kept the greatest trading for Bills of -Exchange.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De cinq cens ans plus compte l’on tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’estoit l’ornement de son temps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis a un coup grande clarté donra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que pour ce Siecle les rendra tres-contens.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For five hundred years no account shall be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of him who was the ornament of his time:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then on a sudden he shall give so great a light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That for that age he shall make them to be most contented.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lu Loy <i>Morique</i> on verra defaillir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres un autre beaucoup plus seductive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Boristhenes</i> premier viendra faillir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par dons & langue une plus attractive.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148"></a>[148]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We shall see the <i>Morish</i> Law to decline,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After which, another more seducing shall arise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Boristhenes</i> shall be the first that shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By gifts and tongue that Law shall be most seducing.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth the declining of the <i>Mahometan</i> Religion, after which another -Religion shall be set up worse then the <i>Mahometan</i>. The first decay of it shall begin -in <i>Scythia</i>, a Kingdom belonging to the King of <i>Persia</i>, through which runneth the -River <i>Boristhenes</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef de <i>Fossan</i> aura gorge coupée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Ducteur du Limier & L’curier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fait patré par ceux du Mont <i>Tarpée</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> en <i>Leo</i> 13. de <i>February</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief of <i>Fossan</i> shall have his throat cut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Leader of the Hunt and Greyhond,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fact committed by those of the <i>Tarpeian</i> Mountain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> being in <i>Leo</i> the 13. of <i>February</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Fossan</i> is a City in <i>Piemont</i>, belonging to the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, the Chief man or -Governour of which is threatned here to have his throat cut by some Souldiers, -either of <i>Rome</i>, or belonging to <i>Rome</i>, signified here by the <i>Tarpeian</i> Mountain, upon -which the Capitol was built, and this fact to be committed by one that shall be a -famous Huntsman; upon the 13 of <i>February</i>, <i>Saturn</i> being then in the Sign of <i>Leo</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouvelle Loy, Terre neuve occuper,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vers la <i>Syrie</i>, <i>Judée</i> & <i>Palestine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Empire, <i>Barbare</i> corruer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant que <i>Phebe</i> son Siecle determine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A new Law shall occupy a new Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards <i>Syria</i>, <i>Judea</i> and <i>Palestina</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Barbarian</i> Empire shall fall down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before <i>Phœbe</i> maketh an end of her course.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense are plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149"></a>[149]</span></p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux Royal Freres si fort guerroieront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’entreux sera la guerre si mortelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’un chacun places fortes occuperont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Regne & vie sera leur grand querelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two Royal Brothers shall War so much one against the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the War between them shall be mortal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each of them shall seize upon strong places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their quarrel shall be concerning Kingdom and Life.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Champs Herbus d’<i>Alein</i> & du <i>Varneigre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Mont <i>Lebron</i> proche de la <i>Durance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Camps des deux parts conflict sera si aigre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mesopotamie</i> defaillira en <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Meadow Fields of <i>Alein</i> and <i>Varneigre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Mountain <i>Lebron</i> near the <i>Durance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Armies on both sides, the fight shall be so sharp,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>Mesopotamia</i> shall be wanting in <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Alain</i> and <i>Varnaigre</i> are two small Towns in <i>France</i>, seated by the Mountain <i>Lebron</i>, -near the River called <i>Durance</i>, where the Author saith there shall be such a sharp -fight, that <i>Mesopotamia</i> shall be wanting in <i>France</i>, to understand this you must -know, that <i>Mesopotamia</i> is a Countrey between two Rivers from the Greek words -μεσος, which signifieth middle, and ποταμὸς which signifieth a River, the meaning then -of the Author is, that the Battle so sharp, the ground shall be wanting to bury the -dead.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre <i>Gaulois</i> le dernier honoré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’homme ennemy sera victorieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Force & terreur en moment exploré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Un coup de trait quand mourra l’envieux.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150"></a>[150]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that is the least honoured among the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be Conqueror of the man that was his Enemy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strength and terrour shall in a moment be tried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the envious shall be killed with an Arrow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151"></a>[151]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> IV</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-s.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Sera du reste de sang non espandu,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Venice</i> quiert secours estre donné,</div> - <div class="verse">Apres avoir bien lon temps attendu,</div> - <div class="verse">Cité livrée au premier Cor sonné.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">There shall be a remnant of blood unspilt,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Venice</i> shall seek for succours,</div> - <div class="verse">After having long waited for it,</div> - <div class="verse">The City shall be surrendred at the first sound of the Trumpet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This to my judgement is concerning the Siege of <i>Candia</i>, in which the <i>Venetians</i> -for the space of about twenty years desired and expected succours from the Christian -Princes, which came so slowly, that the City was fained to surrender upon honorable -terms, which is the meaning of the first Verse, <i>There shall be a remnant of blood unspilt</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152"></a>[152]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par mort la <i>France</i> prendra voiage a faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe par Mer, marcher Monts <i>Pyrenées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Espagne</i> en trouble marcher gent militaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des plus grands Dames en <i>France</i> emmenées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By reason of a death, <i>France</i> shall undertake a Journey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall have a Fleet at Sea, and march towards the <i>Pyrenes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Spain</i> shall be in trouble by an Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some of the greatest Ladies in <i>France</i> carried away</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The whole sense of this is, that by reason of some bodies death, <i>France</i> shall make -war against <i>Spain</i> by Sea and Land, and put <i>Spain</i> in great trouble.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse saith, that some of the greatest Ladies in <i>France</i> shall be carried -away, but the question is, whether by the <i>Spaniards</i>, or (which is more probable) by -their own Husbands going to war against <i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Arras</i> & <i>Bourges</i> de Brodes grands enseignes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un plus grand nombre de <i>Gascons</i> battre a pied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux long du <i>Rhosne</i> saigneront les <i>Espagnes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche du Mont ou <i>Sagunte</i> sassied.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Arras</i> and <i>Bourges</i> many colours of black men shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A greater number of <i>Gascons</i> shall go on foot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those along the <i>Rhosne</i> shall let <i>Spain</i> blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Mountain where <i>Saguntus</i> is seated.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Arras</i> and <i>Bourges</i> are Cities of <i>France</i>. As for <i>brodes</i>, we have said before that it -signifie brown men, such as are the <i>Gascoins</i>, inhabiting the Province of <i>Aquitania</i> -near <i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Saguntus</i> is a City in <i>Spain</i>, that was destroyed by the <i>Romans</i>.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Important Prince fasché, plaint & querelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De rapts & pillé par Coqs & par Libiques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand & par Terre, par Mer infinis Voiles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seule <i>Italie</i> sera chassant <i>Celtiques</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153"></a>[153]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The considerable Prince vexed, complaineth and quarelleth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Concerning rapes and plunderings done by the Cocks and Libiques</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great trouble by Land, by Sea infinite Sails,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Italy</i> alone shall drive away the <i>French</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This considerable Prince was <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>, who was vexed to see -the Cocks, that is the <i>French</i>, and Libiques that is the <i>Turks</i> joyned together, under -<i>Barbarossa</i> to commit so many Rapes and violences upon his Subjects.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Croix Paix, soubs un accomply Divin Verbe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Espagne</i> & <i>Gaules</i> seront unis ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand clade proche & combat tresacerbe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur si hardy ne sera qui ne tremble.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Cross shall have peace, under an accomplished Divine Word,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Spain</i> and <i>France</i> shall be united together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Battle near hand, and a most sharp fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No heart so stout but shall tremble.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We have said before that by <i>Divine Word</i>, we must not understand the second -person of the Trinity, but a Divine or Theologian, called in Greek θεόλογος, which -also signifieth <i>Divine Word</i>. Therefore the meaning of the first Verse is, that under -the Goverment of some eminent Divine, (be like a good Pope) the Cross shall -have peace, that is, the Christian Religion shall be in Peace, and persecution shall -cease. The last three Verses are plain.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Habits nouveaux apres faite la treuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Malice, trame, & machination,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier mourra qui en fera la preuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Couleur <i>Venise</i>, insidiation.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the new Cloaths shall be found out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be malice, plotting and machination,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall die the first that shall make trial of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under colour of <i>Venice</i>, shall be a conspiracy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Everybody may be as wise as I in the interpretation of this.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154"></a>[154]</span></p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fils mineur du grand & hay Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Lepre aura a vingt ans grande tache,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De dueil mourra triste & mince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et il mourra la ou tombe chair lache.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The younger Son of the great and hated Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being twenty years, old shall have a great touch of Leprosie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His mother shall die for grief, very sad and lean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he shall die of the disease loose flesh.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is easie to be understood, if we remember that <i>Charles</i> IX. King of <i>France</i>, -younger son to <i>Henry</i> II. died of a foul disease, and his Mother <i>Catharine</i> of <i>Medicis</i> -died of grief.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité dassaut prompt repentin</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Surpris de nuit, gardes interrompus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Excubies & veilles Saint <i>Quentin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trucidez gardes, & les Portails rompus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City shall be taken by a sudden assault,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being surprised by night, the Watch being beaten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Court of Guard and Watch of Saint <i>Quentin</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be killed, and the Gates broken.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This great City was the City of St. <i>Quentin</i> in <i>Picardy</i>, taken by assault by <i>Philip</i> -the II. <i>Anno</i> 1557.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef du Camp au milieu de la presse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un coup de flesche sera blessé aux cuisses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que <i>Geneve</i> en larmes & destresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera trahie par <i>Lozanne</i> & <i>Souisses</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief of the Camp in the middle of the crowd,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be wounded with an Arrow through both his thighs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Geneva</i> being in tears and distress,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be betrayed by <i>Lozane</i> and the <i>Switzers</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense are plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155"></a>[155]</span></p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jeune Prince accusé faucement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettra le camp en trouble & en querelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meurtry le chef par le souslevement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sceptre appaiser, puis guerir escroüelles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The young Prince being falsely accused,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall put the Camp in trouble, and in quarrele,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief shall be murdered by the tumult,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Scepter shall be appeased, and after cure the Kings-evil.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie must needs be concerning <i>England</i> or <i>France</i>; for there is but -those two Kings that challenge the cure of the Kings-evil.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy quaura couvert de la grand Cappe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera induit a quelque cas patrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les douze rouges viendront soüiller la nappe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs meurtre, meurtre se viendra perpetrer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall be covered with a great Cloak,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be induced to commit some great fact,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The twelve red ones shall Soil the Table-cloth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under murder, murder shall be committed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Every one may interpret this as well as I, provided that by the <i>twelve red ones</i>, -he understandeth twelve Cardinals.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Camp plus grand de route mis ensuite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gueres plus outre ne sera pourchassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ost recampé & legion reduite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis hors, des <i>Gaules</i> du tout sera chassé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest Camp being in disorder, shall be routed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be pursued not much after,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Army shall incamp again, and the Troops set in order,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then afterwards, they shall be wholly driven out of <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156"></a>[156]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is concerning an out-landish Army that shall invade <i>France</i>, and -though numerous, yet shall be put to flight, and shall not be much pursued: therefore -it shall incamp again, and collect and gather again its Troops, and afterwards -shall be wholly driven out of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p>I am much mistaken if this Prophecie came not to pass, when the Duke of <i>Parma</i> -at the head of a <i>Spanish</i> numerous Army came into <i>France</i> in favour of the League; -for <i>Henry</i> IV. met him at the siege of <i>Roven</i>, beat him off, and suffered him to retire -quietly, and as the common saying is, made him a Golden Bridge, to retreat into the -Low-Countries again.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De plus grand perte nouvelles rapportées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le rapport fait le camp festonnera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bandes unies encontre revoltées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Double <i>Phalange</i>, grand abandonnera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">News being brought of a great loss,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The report divulged, the Camp shall be astonished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Troops being united and revolted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The double <i>Phalange</i> shall forsake the great one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a connexion with the precedent; for while the Prince of <i>Parma</i> was -busied in <i>France</i>, news was brought to his Camp, that the <i>Hollanders</i> had taken -<i>Antwerp</i>, which discouraged his whole Host, and made him retire with all speed.</p> - -<p>The Word <i>Phalange</i> signifieth a Battailion or part of an Army, which being expressed -here by the word <i>double Phalange</i>, signifieth, that both Horse and Foot deserted -the Duke of <i>Parma</i> upon the hearing of this news.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La mort subite du premier personage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aura changé & mis un autre au Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tost, tard venu a si haut & basage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que Terre & mer faudra que lon le craigne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The sudden death of the chief man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause a change, and put another in the Raign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon, late come to so high a degree, in a low age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that by Land and Sea he must be feared.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain.</p> - -<p>The two last signifie, that a youth shall come to the Kingdom, <i>soon</i>, that is, by -reason of the sudden death of the <i>chief man</i>, and <i>late</i>; because being but young, he -shall Reign so long, that he shall be famous, and feared by Sea and Land.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157"></a>[157]</span></p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">D’ou pensera faire venir famine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la viendra le rassasiement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’œil de la Mer par avare canine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour de l’un lautre donra Huile, Froment.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Whence one thought to make famine to come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thence shall come the fulness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The eye of the Sea through a doggish covetousness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall give to both Oyl and Wheat.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie was fulfilled at the famous Siege of <i>Ostend</i>, which lasted three -years and three Months; for the <i>Hollanders</i> that brought relief to the Town, did -for covetousness sell the ammunition to the <i>Spaniards</i> that besieged it, for which -complaint being made by the States to the Prince of <i>Orenge</i>, <i>Maurice</i> of <i>Nassaw</i>, -as also that they did the like to <i>Newport</i>, which he had besieged; he replyed smartly, -do you not know that your Countrey men would Sail into Hell, were it not for -fear to have their Sails burnt.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité franche de liberté fait serue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des profligés & resueurs fait azyle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy changé a eux non si proterue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De cent seront devenus plus de Mille.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The free City from a free one shall become slave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of the banished and dreamers shall be a retreat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King changed in mind, shall not be so froward to them.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of one hundred they shall become more than a thousand.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here you must observe that the Author being a Papist, speaketh this concerning -the City of <i>Geneva</i>, which he saith from a free City became a slave, when it -shook off the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>’s domination, and became a retreat to the Protestants, -whom he called the <i>banished</i> and <i>dreamers</i>.</p> - -<p>In the third Verse, by <i>the King changed in his mind that shall not be so froward to them</i>, -he meaneth, <i>Henry</i> IV. who having changed the Protestant Religion, to be a <i>Roman</i> -Catholick, did undertake their protection against the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> their -Prince.</p> - -<p>Hence followeth the explication of the fourth Verse, when he saith, that <i>of one -hundred they shall become more than a thousand</i>; for in few years the Protestants became -so numerous, that they drove the <i>Roman</i> Catholicks wholly out of the Town, -and so have remained to this day Masters of it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158"></a>[158]</span></p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Changer a <i>Beaune</i>, <i>Nuis</i>, <i>Chalons</i>, & <i>Dijon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Duc voulant amender la barrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Marchant pres Fleuve, Poisson, bec de plongeon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Verra la queüe: Porte sera serrée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a change at <i>Beaune</i>, <i>Nuis</i>, <i>Chalons</i>, <i>Dijon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke going about to raise Taxes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Merchant near the River shall see the tail</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a Fish, having the Bill of a Cormorant: the door shall be shut.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Beaune</i>, <i>Chalons</i>, and <i>Dijon</i>, are Cities in <i>France</i>, <i>Nuis</i> is a Town in <i>Germany</i> near -the <i>Rhyne</i>, three or four Leagues below <i>Colen</i>.</p> - -<p>For the rest, every one may make his own interpretation, for it is hard to guess -who this Duke should be, or that Fish either, that shall have a Cormorants Bill after -whom the door shall be shut.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les plus Lettrez dessus les faits Cœlestes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront par Princes ignorans reprouvez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Punis d’Edict, chassez comme scelestes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et mis a mort la ou seront trouvez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The most Learned in the Celestial sciences,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be found fault with, by ignorant Princes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Punished by proclamation, chased away as wicked,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put to death where they shall be found.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain, and signifieth no more then a persecution against the Professors of -Heavenly sciences, such as are Astrologers, Astronomers, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant <i>Rouan</i> d’<i>Insubres</i> mis le Siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre & Mer enfermez les passages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Hainaut</i>, de <i>Flandres</i> de <i>Gand</i> & ceux de <i>Liege</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par leurs levées raviront les Rivages.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before <i>Rouan</i> a Siege shall be laid by the <i>Insubrians</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea and Land the passages shall be shut up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Hainaut</i>, <i>Flanders</i>, <i>Ghent</i>, and <i>Liege</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With their Troops shall plunder the Sea-shore.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159"></a>[159]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is still concerning the Duke of <i>Parma</i>’s Army, when he came into <i>France</i> -against <i>Henry</i> the IV. in favour of the League, for his Army wherewith he Besieged -<i>Rouen</i>, was compounded of all those Nations; the greatest part of which were <i>Italians</i>, -called here <i>Insubrians</i>, from the Latin word <i>Insubria</i>, which signifieth the -Countreys of <i>Savoy</i> and <i>Piemont</i>.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Paix uberté long temps on ne loüera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Part tout son Regne desert la fleur de Lis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corps mort d’Eau, Terre on apportera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sperants vain heur d’estre la ensevelis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace and plenty shall not be long praised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the time of his Reign the Flower de Luce shall be deserted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bodies shall die by water, Earth shall be brought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hoping vainly to be there Buried.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This only foretelleth a great Famine and Inundation in <i>France</i>, signified here by -the <i>Flower de Luce</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le changement sera fort difficile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cité Province au change gain fera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur haut, prudent mis, chassé l’Inhabile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mer, Terre, Peuple, son estat changera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The change shall be very hard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The City and Countrey shall gain by the change,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A high prudent heart shall be put in, the unworthy expelled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sea, Land, People shall change its condition.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Copie qui sera dechassée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans un moment fera besoing au Roy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Foy promise de loing sera faucée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nud se verra en piteux defarroy.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160"></a>[160]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Army that shall be rejected,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a moment shall be wanted by the King.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The faith promised a far off shall be broken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that he shall be left naked in a pitiful case.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Legion dans la Marine classe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Calcine Magnes</i>, Souphre & Poix bruslera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le long repos de l’asseurée place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Port Selin</i> chercher, feu les consumera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Legion in the Maritine Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Calcineth Magnes</i>, shall burn Brimstone and Pitch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The long rest of the secure place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall seek <i>Port Selyn</i>, but fire shall consume them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here we must observe four things, the first is, that <i>Calais</i> is called by the Author, -<i>The long rest of the secure place</i>. Because then <i>viz.</i> in the year 1555. it was yet in the -power of the King of <i>England</i>, and had been quietly before, for the space of 287. -years, that is, from the year 1347. till the year 1555. and was so still, till the year -1557. when the Duke of <i>Guise</i> took it, whence we gather that it was a secure place -that had enjoyed so long a rest.</p> - -<p>The second is, that those of <i>Diepe</i> did watch for the <i>Spaniards</i>, in the passage between -<i>Dover</i> and <i>Calais</i>, therefore the Author saith, <i>They shall seek Port Selyn</i>, <i>Selyn</i> -Port or Harbour is always taken by the Author for an Harbour in the <i>Ocean</i>.</p> - -<p>The third is, that the great fight between the <i>French</i> and the <i>Spaniards</i> was by -fire, so that most part of the Ships on each side were burnt, and the <i>Spanish</i> and <i>French</i> -Souldiers did cast themselves into the Sea, to save their lives in their enemies Ships, -where they were slain.</p> - -<p>The fourth is, that those of <i>Diepe</i> being extraordinary skilful in Sea-fights had -made great quantity of artificial fires, to cast into the <i>Spanish</i> Ships, but the Ships -grapling one with another, they were burnt on both sides.</p> - -<p>Upon those four circumstances the two first Verses say, that <i>the Legion in the Fleet -Calcineth magnes</i>, that is Loadstone burnt, and shall <i>burn Pitch and Brimstone</i>, to make -Artificial fires.</p> - -<p>The third and fourth Verse say, that this <i>Sea Legion</i> shall seek an Harbour in the -Ocean, which shall be <i>a secure place, by a long rest</i>, that is <i>Calais</i>. She will seek that -<i>Selyn</i> Harbour to shelter her self, because <i>Calais</i> did then belong to the <i>English</i>, -but by reason of the narrowness of the <i>Sea</i>, the <i>French</i> watched for the <i>Spaniards</i> -there, and to shew that they sought onely for <i>Calais</i> to meet the <i>Spaniards</i>, they -carried the <i>Spanish</i> Ships which they took into <i>Diepe</i>, and not into <i>Calais</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>French</i> Impression hath a fault here, putting <i>Port Hercle</i> instead of <i>Port Selyn</i>, -which is a manifest error, for the taking of <i>Port Hercle</i> by the <i>Florentines</i> the 14. of -<i>June</i> 1555. was by a Land Army, besides, that <i>Port Selyn</i> is always taken by the Author -for a Port in the Ocean.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161"></a>[161]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ouy soubs Terre Sainte Dame voix feinte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Humaine flamme pour Divine voir luire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera des sœurs de leur sang Terre tainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les Saints Temples par les impurs destruire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under ground shall be heard the fained voice of a Holy Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An humane flame to see a Divine one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the ground to be died with the sisters blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Holy Temples to be destroyed by the wicked.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Every one may understand this as well as I.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Corps sublimes sans fin a l’œil visibles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Obnubiler viendront par ces raisons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corps, front compris, sens & chef invisibles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Diminuant les Sacrées Oraisons.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Celestial bodies that are always visible to the eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be darkened for these reasons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The body with the forehead sense and head invincible.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Diminishing the Sacred Prayers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is of the same nature as the foregoing.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lou grand Cyssame se levera d’abelhos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que non lauran don te siegen venguddos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Denuech lenbousq, lun gach dessous las treilhos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ciutad trahido per cinq lengos non nudos.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great swarm of Bees shall rise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And it shall not be known whence they come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards the Ambush so the Jay shall be under a Vine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A City shall be betray’d by five tongues not naked.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author having made this Stanza in the <i>Provencal</i> Language, that was his Mother -Tongue, which hath very little relation to the rest of the <i>French</i> tongue, hath put -me to some trouble to understand it; at last I found the meaning to be this, that when a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162"></a>[162]</span> -great swarm of Bees shall light on some place, and it shall not be known whence -they came, then shall be seen a Jay under a Vine, and a City shall be betrayed by -five several Nations.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Salon</i>, <i>Mansol</i>, <i>Tarascon</i>, <i>de Sex</i>, Larc,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou est debout encor la <i>Pyramide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendront livrer le Prince <i>Denemark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rachat honny au Temple d’<i>Artemide</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Salon</i>, <i>Mansol</i>, <i>Tarascon</i>, <i>Desex</i>, the arche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where to this day standeth the <i>Pyramis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to deliver the Prince of <i>Denmark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A shameful ransom shall be paid in the Temple of <i>Artemis</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Salon</i>, <i>Mansol</i>, <i>Tarascon</i>, <i>Desex</i>, are Towns in <i>Provence</i> and <i>Languedo</i>.</p> - -<p>By the <i>Arch</i>, here is meant the Triumphal Arch of <i>Caius Marius</i>, which he -erected after the defeat of the <i>Cimbres</i> and <i>Teutons</i>, and remaineth to this day in that -Province, within two or three Leagues off the Town of <i>Orenge</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Artemis</i> is an Epethete of <i>Diana</i>, so called ’πο τοῦ ἀερὰ τεμνειν, <i>a secando -aerem</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que <i>Venus</i> du Sol sera couvert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs la splendeur sera la forme occulte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mercure</i> au feu les aura descouvert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par bruit Bellique sera mis a l’Insulte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Venus</i> shall be covered by the Sun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the splendor of it shall be an occult form,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mercury</i> in the fire shall discover them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by a Warlike rumor shall be provoked.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">If this Book cometh ever into the hands of <i>Hermes</i>’s Disciples, I shall desire -they would consider diligently this Stanza, and the three following; for they are -all concerning the <i>Elixir</i> of the Philosophers, or the making of the Philosophers -stone. To begin with this:</p> - -<p><i>When <span class="antiqua">Venus</span> shall be covered by the Sun.</i></p> - -<p>This is the Astral point, so much sought after by the Philosophers, for the beginning -of their work, without the knowledge of which they cannot begin their -work, or come to any good.</p> - -<p><i>Under the splendor of it shall be an occult form</i>, that is, under that conjunction -lyeth a great mystery.</p> - -<p><i><span class="antiqua">Mercury</span> in the fire shall discover them</i>, <i>viz.</i> Mercury of the Philosophers, made -by Cœlestial fire.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163"></a>[163]</span></p> - -<p><i>And by a Warlike rumor shall be provoked</i>; that is, the Planet of <i>Mercury</i> shall be -provoked to mix his variable and changable disposition with theirs, by his Aspects, -Oppositions, Conjunctions, &c. It is not possible to speak more plainly.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Sol caché, eclipsé par <i>Mercure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne sera mis que pour le Ciel second,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Vulcan</i> <i>Hermes</i> sera faite Pasture,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sol sera veu pur, rutilant & blond.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun shall be hid and eclipsed by <i>Mercury</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall not be set but for the second Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hermes</i> shall be made a prey to <i>Vulcan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And after that the Sun shall be seen pure, shining and yellow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here I must lead the Reader with <i>Ariadnes</i> Thread, that he may extrecate himself -out of this Labyrinth.</p> - -<p><i>The Sun shall be hid and Eclipsed by <span class="antiqua">Mercury</span></i>; that is, Gold shall be Eclipsed and dissolved -by the Philosophers Mercury, which is the Key and foundation of all the work.</p> - -<p><i>And shall not be set but for the second Heaven</i>; that is, shall not be used till you -come to the second part of the work, which is that of the Furnace.</p> - -<p><i><span class="antiqua">Hermes</span> shall be made a prey to <span class="antiqua">Vulcan</span></i>; that is, the matter and composition of the -<i>Elixir</i>, shall be put upon the fire in a Furnace.</p> - -<p><i>And after that the Sun shall be seen pure, shining, yellow</i>; that is, in conclusion after -projection made, thou shalt see pure, shining, and Yellow Gold.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus d’unze fois Luna Sol ne voudra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous augmentes & baissez de degre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et si bas mis que peu d’Or on coudra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’apres faim, peste, descouvert le secret.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put so low, that a little Gold shall be sowed up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that after hunger and plague, the secret shall be discovered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times</i>; that is, the Moon of the Philosophers -will not imbibe their Sun above Eleven times.</p> - -<p><i>Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree</i>; that is, both shall be encreased in -quality, and lessened in quantity.</p> - -<p><i>And put so low that a little Gold shall be sowed up</i>; that is, the powder of projection, -or Philosophers stone shall be so small in Bulk, that one may sow it about him, and -hide it in his Cloths.</p> - -<p><i>After famine and plague the secret shall be discovered</i>; that is, somebody shall die, -with famine or plague, about which the secret shall be found and discovered.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164"></a>[164]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Lune au plain de nuit sur le haut Mont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nouveau <i>Sophe</i> d’Un seul cerveau la veu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ses Disciples estre immortel semond,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yeux au Midy, enfin, mains corps au feu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Moon at full by night upon the high Mount,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new <i>Sophe</i> with one onely Brain hath seen it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Invited by his Disciples to become immortal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His eyes to the South, conclusion, his hands and body to the fire.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Sophe</i> in Greek signifieth a wise man or Philosopher, who shall find the Philosophers -stone, when the Moon shall come to the full in the night upon a high Mount. -His Disciples shall perswade him to make himself immortal, they being perswaded -that the <i>Elixir</i> cureth all diseases.</p> - -<p>The last Verse saith, <i>His eyes to the South, his hands and body to the fire</i>; that is, -this Chymist or <i>Adeptus</i>, shall retire into some Southern Countrey to work.</p> - -<p>I cannot omit here that a conceited Chymist in <i>Paris</i>, whose name was <i>Haumont</i>, -in <i>English</i>, <i>Highmount</i>, could not be disswaded but our Author spake of him in this -Stanza, and that he could not die till he had got the Philosophers stone, but to other -matters.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Es lieux & temps chair au poisson donra lieu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La loy commune sera faite au contraire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vieux tiendra fort puis osté du milieu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Panta</i>, <i>Choina</i>, <i>Philon</i> mis fort arriere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In places and times, flesh shall give place to fish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The common Law shall be made against it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old man shall stand fast, then being taken away</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Panta</i>, <i>Choina</i>, <i>Philon</i>, shall be set aside.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Panta</i>, <i>Choina</i>, <i>Philon</i>, are three Greek words, παντὰ χοινα φιλῶν, which signifie in -Latine, <i>omnia inter amicos communia</i>, and in <i>English</i>, all things are common among -friends. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Jupiter</i> joint plus <i>Venus</i> qu’a la Lune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoissant de plenitude blanche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> cachée soubs la blancheur <i>Neptune</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Mars</i> frappée par la gravée branche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165"></a>[165]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Jupiter</i> being more joyned to <i>Venus</i> then to the Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appearing in a full whiteness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> being hid under the whiteness of <i>Neptune</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stricken by <i>Mars</i> through the ingraved branch.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These terms being <i>Astronomical</i> and <i>Astrological</i>, it is hard to guess at the Authors -mind.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand mené captif d’estrange Terre;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dor enchainé au Roy <i>Cheyren</i> offert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui dans <i>Ausonne</i>, <i>Milan</i> perdra la Guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et tout son Ost mis a Feu & a Fer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one brought Prisoner from a far Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And chained with Gold, shall be presented to the King <i>Chyren</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being then at <i>Ausone</i>. <i>Milan</i> shall loose the War.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all its Host shall be put to fire and sword.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that when a great one from a far Countrey, shall be -brought Prisoner chained with gold, and presented to a King called <i>Henry</i> (for -<i>Cheyren</i> by transposition of letters is <i>Henry</i>) who then shall beat <i>Bordeaux</i>; <i>Milan</i> -shall loose a great Army.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le feu esteint, les vierges trahiront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La plus grand part de la bande nouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pouldre a feu les seuls Rois garderont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hetrusque</i> & <i>Corse</i>, de nuit, gorge alumelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire being put out, the Virgins shall betray,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest part of the new troup,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gunpowder, Lance, shall keep only the Kings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Hetruria</i> and <i>Corsica</i> by night throats shall be cut.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Hetruria</i> is the Country <i>Tuscany</i> now under the Duke of <i>Florence</i>, and <i>Corsica</i> -is an Island in the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea belonging to the <i>Genoese</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166"></a>[166]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les jeux nouveaux en <i>Gaule</i> redressez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Victoire de l’<i>Insubre</i> Campagne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Monts d’<i>Hesperie</i>, les grands liez troussez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De peur trembler la <i>Romagne</i> & l’<i>Espagne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The new plays shall be set up again in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Victory obtained in <i>Piemont</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mountains of <i>Spain</i>, the great ones tied, carried away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Romania</i> and <i>Spain</i> shall quake for fear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prognostication of the rejoycing that should be in <i>France</i>, after the winning -of that famous battle <i>Serizoles</i> in <i>Piemont</i>, against the Armies of the Emperour -and the King of <i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaulois</i> par saults Monts viendra penetrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occupera le grand Mont de l’<i>Insubre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au plus profond son Ost sera entrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Genes</i>, <i>Monech</i> pousseront classe rubre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> by leaping shall go over the Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall seize upon the great Mount of the <i>Savoyard</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause his Army to go to the furthermost,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Genoa</i>, and <i>Monaco</i> shall set out their red Fleet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning <i>Henry</i> the IV. King of <i>France</i>, who went over the -<i>Alpes</i> and conquered the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>’s Countrey, because he would not restore -the Markdom of <i>Salvees</i>. <i>Genoa</i> and <i>Monaco</i> are Cities near <i>Savoy</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pendant que Duc, Roy, Roine occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef <i>Bizantin</i> captif en <i>Samothrace</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant lassault l’un l’autre mangera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rebours</i> ferré suivra du sang la trace.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">While the Duke shall busie the King and the Queen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great man of <i>Constantinople</i> shall be prisoner in <i>Samothracia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the assault one shall eat up the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rebours</i> shod shall trace one by the blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167"></a>[167]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses are plain, as for the fourth, either it is falsly Printed, or I -must confess I understand it not.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Rhodiens</i> demanderont secours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le neglect de ses hoirs delaissée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Empire <i>Arabe</i> ravalera son cours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Hesperie</i> la cause redressée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Rhodiens</i> shall ask for succours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being forsaken by the neglect of her Heirs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Arrabian</i> Empire shall slack his course,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the means of <i>Spain</i> the case shall be mended.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Rhodians</i> are understood the Knights of <i>Maltha</i>, because they dwelt first -at <i>Rhodes</i>.</p> - -<p>By the second Verse it is said, it was <i>the neglect of her Heirs</i>, that is of the Heirs of -<i>Rhodes</i> the Knights of <i>Maltha</i>, who being careless of themselves, were besieged by -<i>Solyman</i>, which constrained them to ask succours of all the Christian Princes, which -came very slowly, at last <i>Dom Garcia</i> Viceroy of <i>Sicily</i> relieved them, and drove away -the Turks that had suffered great loss, therefore the Author saith in the third Verse, -<i>The <span class="antiqua">Arabian</span> Empire shall slack his course</i>.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Forteresses des Assiegez serrez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par poudre a feu profondez en abysme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les proditeurs seront tous vifs serrez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onc aux <i>Sacristes</i> navint si piteux schisme.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The strong places of the Besieged shall be straightned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Gunpowder they shall be plonged into a pit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Traytors shall be shut up alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never did happen so pitiful schisme to the <i>Sacristes</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Sacristes</i>, he understandeth the Clergy of the Roman Religion.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gynique</i> Sexe captive par Hostage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra de nuit custodes decevoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef du Camp deceu par son language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lairra la gente, sera piteux a voir.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_168"></a>[168]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gynical</i> sexe being captive by Hostage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come by night to deceive her keepers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief of the Camp being deceived by her Language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall leave her folks, a thing pitiful to behold.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Gynical</i> Sex is a woman from the Greek word γυνὴ, which signifieth a woman.</p> - -<p>The meaning then of this Stanza is, that a woman being given in Hostage, and -made prisoner, shall deceive her keepers, and among the rest, the chief Captain who -shall forsake his Troops and run away with her.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Geneve</i> & <i>Langres</i> par ceux de <i>Chartre</i> & <i>Dole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et par <i>Grenoble</i> captif au <i>Montlimar</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Seysset</i>, <i>Lausane</i>, par fraudulente dole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les trahiront pour Or soixante mark.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Geneve</i> and <i>Langres</i> by those of <i>Chartres</i> and <i>Dole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by one of <i>Grenoble</i> captive at <i>Montlimar</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Seisset</i>, <i>Lozanne</i> by a fraudulent deceit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall betray them for thirty pounds weight of Gold.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All those Towns are in <i>France</i>, the sense is plain.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seont ouis au Ciel les Armes battre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy an mesme les Divins ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voudront Loix Saintes injustement debatre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Foudre & guerre bien croians a mort mis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be heard in the Air noise of Weapons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in that same year the Divines shall be enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall unjustly put down the Holy Laws,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by the Thunder and the War true believers shall die.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is no obscurity in this.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_169"></a>[169]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux gros de <i>Mende</i>, de <i>Rhodez</i>, & <i>Millaud</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cahors</i>, <i>Limoges</i>, <i>Castre</i>, malo sepmano,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuech l’intrado, de <i>Bourdeaux</i> an cailhau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Perigort</i> au toc de la Campano.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great ones of <i>Mende</i>, of <i>Rhodez</i> and <i>Milliaud</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cahors</i>, <i>Limoges</i>, <i>Castres</i> an evil week,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night the entry shall be from <i>Bourdeaux</i> one cailhau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through <i>Perigort</i> at the ringing of the Bell.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is half <i>French</i> and half <i>Provencal</i> language.</p> - -<p>All the Cities named here, <i>Mende</i>, <i>Rhodez</i>, <i>Milliaud</i>, <i>Cahors</i>, <i>Limoges</i>, <i>Castres</i>, -<i>Bourdeaux</i>, <i>Perigort</i>, are Cities of <i>France</i>, bordering upon <i>Provence</i>, which is the -Countrey wherein our Author was born.</p> - -<p>The meaning of it is, that all those Cities shall rise against the Collectors of the -Kings Taxes, and shall set upon them by the sound of the Bell, which is already come -to pass, and may come to pass yet.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par conflict, Roy Regne abandonera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le plus grand Chef faillira au besoing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Morts, profligez peu en rechapera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous destrenchez un en sera tesmoin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a Battle the King shall forsake his Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest Commander, shall fail in time of need,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be killed and routed, few shall escape,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be cut off, one only shall be left for a witness.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prognostication of a great Battle, by the loss of which a King shall forsake -his Kingdom, his chief Commander having deserted him in time of need. The -slaughter shall be so great, that none shall be left but one for a witness.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien defendu le fait par excellence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Garde toy <i>Tours</i> de ta proche ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Londres</i> & <i>Nantes</i> par <i>Rheims</i> fera defence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne passes outre au temps de la bruine.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_170"></a>[170]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fact shall be defended excellently well</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tours</i> beware of thy approaching ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>London</i> and <i>Nantes</i> by <i>Rhemes</i> shall stand upon their defence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Do not go further in foggy weather.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tours</i> is the chief City of a Province in <i>France</i>, called <i>Touraine</i>, which is commended -here for having resisted excellently well; but is forewarned to look to her -self after that, and to beware of her approaching ruine.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le noir farouche quand aura essayé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa main sanguine par feu, fer, arcs tendus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trestout le peuple sera tant effrayé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voir les plus grands par col & pieds pendus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The wild black one, after he shall have tryed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His bloody hand by fire, Sword, bended Bows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the people shall be so frighted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To see the greatest hanged by the neck and feet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a description of a Tyrant, who after he shall have tryed his bloody hand by -Fire, Sword, and bent Bows, shall cause his chief men to be hanged by the neck -and feet. Since the Author did write there had been such a Tyrant in the world, -namely, <i>John Basilides</i>, great Duke of <i>Russia</i>, in the year 1572. Read <i>Paul Osburne</i> -in his Life.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Planure <i>Ausone</i> fertile spacieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Produira taons, & tant de sauterelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clarte solairé deviendra nubilense,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ronger le rout, grand peste venir delles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Plain about <i>Bourdeaux</i> fruitful and spacious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall produce so many Hornets and so many Grashopers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the light of the Sun shall be darkened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall crap all, a great plague shall come from them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I cannot find in History that this hath yet happened, since the writing of these -Prophecies, therefore I reckon it <i>de futuro</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_171"></a>[171]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant le peuple sang sera respandu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui du haut Ciel ne viendra esloigner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais d’un long temps ne sera entendu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Esprit d’un seul le viendra tesmoigner.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the people blood shall be spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who Shall not come far from the high Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But it shall not be heard of for a great while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Spirit of one shall come to witness it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is concerning some just person, that shall be murdered openly: -His blood shall cry to Heaven, but shall not be heard for a good while, till at last it -shall be discovered by some body.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Libra</i> verra regner les <i>Hesperies</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Ciel & Terre tenir la Monarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Asie</i> forces nul ne verra peries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que sept ne tiennent par rang la Hierarchie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Libra</i> shall see <i>Spain</i> to Reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And have the Monarchy of Heaven and Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No body shall see the forces of <i>Asia</i> to perish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till seven have kept the Hierarchy successively.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Libra</i> is one of the twelve signs of the <i>Zodiack</i>, which is favourable to <i>Spain</i>, so -that the meaning of this is, that <i>Libra shall see <span class="antiqua">Spain</span> to Reign</i>.</p> - -<p>And besides that, <i>to have the Monarchy of Heaven and Earth</i>; that is, to have the -command of the Pope, and of the best part of <i>Europe</i>. So that no <i>Asian</i> or <i>Turkish</i> -forces shall receive damage by the Christians, till seven Popes of the <i>Spanish</i> faction -have Reigned successively, and one after another.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Duc cupide son ennemy poursuivre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans entrera empeschant la Phalange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hastez a pied si pres viendront poursuivre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que la journée conflite aupres du <i>Gange</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_172"></a>[172]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Duke being earnest in the pursute of his enemy</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come in, hindering the Phalange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hastened on foot shall follow them so close,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the day of the Battle shall be near <i>Ganges</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A <i>Phalange</i>, in Latine <i>Phalanx</i>, is a Squadron of Souldiers, which word was -anciently proper only to the <i>Macedonians</i>. <i>Ganges</i> is a River in <i>India</i>.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En Cité obsesse aux murs hommes & femmes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ennemis hors, le chef prest a soy rendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vent sera fort encontre les gens darmes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassez seront par chaux, poussiere & cendre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In a besieged City, men and women being upon the walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The enemies without, the Governour ready to surrender,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Wind shall be strong against the Souldiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be driven away by lime, dust, and ashes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a peculiar and remarkable accident, wherein the besiegers of a City shall -be driven away from their enterprise, by Lime, Dust, and Ashes, scattered and dispersed -against them by a mighty wind.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les fugitifs & bannis revoqués,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peres & Fils garnissant les hauts puits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le cruel pere & les tiens suffoquez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Fils plus pire submergé dans le puits.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The runnaways and banished men being recalled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fathers and Sons garnishing the high wells,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The cruel father and his retinue shall be suffocated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Son being worse, shall be drowned in the Well.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain, out of which every one may make his own sense.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_173"></a>[173]</span></p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du nom qui on ne fut au Roy <i>Gaulois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jamais ne fut un Foudre si craintif,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tremblant l’<i>Italie</i>, l’<i>Espagne</i>, & les <i>Anglois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De femmes estrangeres grandement attentif.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the name that a <i>French</i> King never was,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was never a Lightning so much feared,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Italy</i> shall tremble, <i>Spain</i> and the <i>English</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be much taken with women strangers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth that when a <i>French</i> King shall have a name that never any of his -Predecessors had, he shall be so much feared as that <i>Italy</i>, <i>Spain</i>, and <i>England</i> shall -tremble, and that besides he shall be much given to women.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la Corneille sur Tour de Brique jointe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Durant sept heures ne fera que crier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort presagée, de sang Statue teinte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyran meurdry, aux Dieux peuple prier.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Crow upon a Tower made of Brick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For seven hours shall do nothing but cry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Death shall be foretold, and the Statue died with blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyrant shall be murdered, and the people pray to the Gods.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This extraordinary Prodigy of a Crow crying for seven hours together upon a -Brick Tower, foretelleth that some notorious Tyrant shall be put to death, and his -statue sprinkled with blood, and withall, that the people either for joy or fear shall be -much given to prayer.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Victoire de rabieuse Langue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Esprit tempté, en tranquil & repos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Victeur sauguin par conflict, fait Harangue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roustir la Langue, & la Chair & les Os.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Victory got over a raging tongue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The mind that was tempted, shall be in tranquility and rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The bloody Conqueror by Battle shall make a Speech,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And roast the tongue, the flesh, and the bones.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_174"></a>[174]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Conquerour who having been much railed at by his enemies, shall in conclusion -after he hath overcome them, take a severe vengeance of them.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignare envie au grand Roy supportée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiendra propos deffendre les escrits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa femme non femme par un autre tentée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus double deux ira au fort de cris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignorant envy being supported by the great King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall talk of prohibiting the writtings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His wife no wife, being tempted by another,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall more then they two prevail by crying.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Some ignorant envious person being in favour with the King, shall go about to -suppress learning, but the Kings wife no wife, that is his Concubine, shall persuade -him to the contrary, and shall prevail.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soleil ardent dans la gosier couler,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang humain arrouser Terre <i>Etrusque</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef seille d’eau, mener son fils filer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captive Dame conduite Terre <i>Turque</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Burning Sun shall be poured into the throat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This human blood shall wet the <i>Hetrurian</i> ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief pale of water, shall lead his son to Spin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A captive Lady shall be carried into the <i>Turkish</i> Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By burning Sun must be understood melted gold, which shall be poured into ones -throat, in the <i>Hetrurian</i> ground, that is in <i>Tuscany</i>.</p> - -<p>By the chief Pale of water is to be understood, some Water-bearer, who shall -make his son an Eunuch to make benefit on’t. The fourth Verse is plain.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux assiegez en ardante ferveur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De soif estaints pour deux plaines Tasses;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fort limé & un vieillard resueur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Genois</i>, de <i>Nizza</i> monstrera trace.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_175"></a>[175]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two besieged, being in a burning heat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall die for thirst, want of two Bowls full,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fort being filed, an old doting man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall show to the <i>Genoese</i> the way to <i>Nizza</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain. The two last Verses signifie that an old doting -man shall shew to the <i>Genoeses</i> the way how to take <i>Nizza</i>, a Town hard by them, -by filing some Iron Grates, by which they shall get into the Town.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les sept enfans en Hostage laissez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tiers viendra son enfant trucider,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux par son fils seront d’estoc percez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Genes</i>, <i>Florence</i> les viendra seconder.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The seven Children being left in Hostage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The third shall come to kill his child,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two by their sons shall be run through,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Genoa</i> and <i>Florence</i> shall second them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words being so plain, every body may give as good an interpretation as I.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux mocqué & privé de sa place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’Estranger qui le subornera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais de son filz mangé devant sa face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Frere a <i>Chartres</i>. <i>Orl.</i> <i>Rouen</i> trahira.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old man shall be baffled and deprived of his place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the stranger that shall suborn him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But of his son shall be eaten before his face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Brother at <i>Chartres</i>. <i>Orl.</i> shall betray <i>Rouen</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is divided into two parts. The first part runneth from the first Verse -to the middle of the fourth. The meaning is, that an old man shall be baffled and -deprived of his place by a stranger that shall suborn him, but that strangers sons brother -shall be eaten up before his face in the Town of <i>Chartres</i>; what he meaneth by -eaten up, is hard to guess, whether it be by poverty, sutes at Law, Envy, Lice, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p>The Hemisthikion of the last Verse, <i><span class="antiqua">Orl.</span> shall betray <span class="antiqua">Rouen</span></i>, signifieth, that -<i>Orleans</i> shall betray <i>Rouen</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_176"></a>[176]</span></p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Coronel machine ambition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se saisira de la plus grande Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre son Prince feinte invention,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et descouvert sera soubs sa ramée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Colonel deviseth a plot by his ambition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall seize upon the best part of the Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against his Prince he shall have a fained invention,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be discovered under the Harbour of the Vine.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I never saw the last Tyrant <i>Cromwel</i> better painted to the life, then in the three -first Verses.</p> - -<p>As for the fourth, it is certain that his intention among his Camerades was first -discovered by him unto them at the <i>Star Tavern in Coleman-street</i>, which is the place -that the Author calleth the <i>Harbour of the Vine</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Armée <i>Celtique</i> contre les <i>Montagnars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui seront sus & pris a la pipée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paisants irez pulseront tost faugnars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Precipitez tous au fil de l’Espée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Celtique</i> Army shall go against the <i>Highlanders</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall stand upon their guard, and be taken with Bird-lime twigs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Peasant being angry, shall roll down the stones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be all put to the edge of the sword.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a description of the attempt made by the <i>French</i> upon <i>Savoy</i>, which Countrey -lieth in the Mountains of the <i>Alpes</i>, therefore called here <i>Highlanders</i>; where -the Peasants being incensed for the loss of their goods and the ruine of their Countrey, -rolled stones from the top of the Mountains against the <i>French</i> Army, which -could not hinder them from being destroyed; this came to pass under <i>Henry</i> the IV. -King of <i>France</i>, in the year 1662.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le defaillant en habit de Bourgeois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra le Roy tenter de son offence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quinze Soldats la pluspart Villageois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vie derniere & chef de sa chevance.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_177"></a>[177]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The guilty, in a Citizens habit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to tempt the King concerning his offence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fifteen Soldiers the most part Countrey men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The last shall be his life, and the best part of his Estate.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that a great man having committed an offence against the King, shall -come to him in a mean habit, to sue for his Pardon, and shall be carried away by fifteen -Souldiers, the most part Countrey fellows; and in conclusion he shall have his life -saved, and the best part of his Estate.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au deserteur de la grand Forteresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres qu’aura son lieu abandonné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son adversaire fera si grand provesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Empereur tost mort sera condamné.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After that the desertor of the great Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall have forsaken his place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His adversary shall do so great feats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the Emperor, shall soon be condemned to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs couleur feinte de sept testes rasées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront formez divers explorateurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puits & Fontains de poison arrousées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Fort de <i>Genes</i> humains devorateurs.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the fained colour of seven shaven heads,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall divers spies be framed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wells and Fountains shall be sprinkled with poison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Fort of <i>Genoa</i> shall be humane devourers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses belong to the same sense; <i>viz.</i> that seven men shall be -spies, under pretence to be Priests or Monks, (which is the meaning of the shaven -heads) and shall poison the Wells and Springs.</p> - -<p>The last Verse signifieth that in the Fort of <i>Genoa</i>, their shall be devourers of men, -that is, Usurers and Extortioners, which is no new thing in that Nation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_178"></a>[178]</span></p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An que <i>Saturne</i> & <i>Mars</i> esgaux combust,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Air fort seiché, longue trajection,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par feux secrets d’ardeur grands lieux adust,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu pluye, Vent chauds, Guerres, Incursions.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that <i>Saturn</i> and <i>Mars</i> shall be fiery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Air shall be very dry, in many Countreys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By secret fires, many places shall be burnt with heat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be scarcity of Rain, hot Winds, Wars, in-roads.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is the Prognostication of a mighty dry season, and other accidents that -shall happen when <i>Saturn</i> and <i>Mars</i> shall be in a fiery disposition, which whether -it be by Opposition, Conjunction, Aspect, &c. Let the Astrologers judge.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En l’an bien proche non esloigné de <i>Venus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux plus grands de l’<i>Asie</i> & d’<i>Affrique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Rhine</i> & <i>Ister</i> qu’on dira sont venus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cris, pleurs a <i>Malthe</i>, & coste <i>Ligustique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In a year that is to come shortly, and not far from <i>Venus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two greatest ones of <i>Asia</i> and <i>Affrica</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be said to come from the <i>Rhine</i> and <i>Ister</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crying, and tears shall be at <i>Maltha</i> and in the <i>Ligurian</i> shore.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Rhine</i> is a River in <i>Germany</i>, <i>Ister</i> is another in the Countrey of <i>Istria</i>, belonging -to the <i>Venetians</i>.</p> - -<p>By the first Verse, I conclude that this Prophecy came to pass a little while after -the Author wrote this Book, when the grand Segnor <i>Solyman</i> besieged <i>Maltha</i>, and -put in fear all the <i>Ligurian</i> Coast, which is that of <i>Genoa</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité grande les exilez tiendront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Citadins morts, meurtris & chassez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux d’<i>Aquilee</i> a <i>Parme</i> promettront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Monstrer l’entrée par les lieux non tracez.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_179"></a>[179]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The banished shall keep the great City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Citizens being dead, murdered and expelled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Aquileia</i> shall promise to <i>Parma</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To shew the entrance by unknown paths.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Aquileia</i> and <i>Parma</i> are two Cities in <i>Italy</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien contigu des grands Monts <i>Pyrenées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un contre l’Aigle grand copie, adresser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ouvertes veines, forces exterminées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que jusqu’au <i>Pau</i> le chief viendra chasser.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the great <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall raise a great Army against the Eagle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Veins shall be opened, forces driven out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that the chief shall be driven as far as the <i>Pau</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Eagle here is understood the Empire; because his Ensign is an Eagle.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu d’Espouse les Filles trucidées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meurtre a grand faute, ne sera superstite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le puis vestues inondées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Espouse esteinte par haut d’Aconite.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Instead of the Bride, the Maid shall be killed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The murder shall be a great fault, none shall be surviving,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Well they shall be drowned with their Cloaths,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bride shall be extinguished by an high Aconite.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prophecie of a Tragical Nuptial, where all the Maids shall be drowned -with their Cloaths in a Well, insomuch that none shall survive, and the Bride shall -be poisoned, and die by <i>Aconite</i>, which is one of the most poisonous herbs that is, -witness <i>Juvinal</i>: <i>Lurida terribiles miscent asonita novercæ.</i></p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Artomiques</i> par <i>Agen</i> & <i>Lectoure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A saint <i>Felix</i> feront leur Parliament,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Bazas</i> viendront a la malhoure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saisir <i>Condon</i> & <i>Marsan</i> promptement.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_180"></a>[180]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Artomiques</i> through <i>Agen</i> and <i>Lectoure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall keep their Parliament at Saint <i>Fœlix</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These of <i>Bazas</i> shall come in an unhappy hour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To seize upon <i>Condon</i> and <i>Marsan</i> speedily.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Artomiques</i> he meaneth the Protestants; because they take the Communion -with leavened Bread, which in Greek is called <i>Artos</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Agen</i>, <i>Lectoure</i>, saint <i>Fœlix</i>, <i>Bazas</i>, <i>Condon</i> and <i>Marzan</i>, are Cities of <i>Gascony</i>. The -rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le neveu grand par force prouvera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le peche fait de Cœur pusillanime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ferrare</i> & <i>Ast</i> le Duc esprouvera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par lors qu’au soir sera le <i>Pantomime</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great nephew by force shall provoke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sin committed by the pusillanimous heart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ferrara</i> and <i>Ast</i> shall make tryal of the Duke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the <i>Pantomime</i> shall be in the evening.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">To understand the whole sense of this, we must first know what is meant by the -particular terms.</p> - -<p>The great Nephew is the Brother or Sisters son of some great person, who by -force shall discover the Treason or Cowardise, committed by some pusillanimous or -fearful man.</p> - -<p><i>Ferrara</i> and <i>Ast</i> are two towns in <i>Italy</i>, shall make tryal of a Duke, by being -either taken or assaulted.</p> - -<p><i>When the Pantomime shall be in the evening</i>; that is, when the Comedy shall be -acted; for <i>Pantomime</i> in Greek signifieth a Comedian.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du lac <i>Leman</i> & ceux des <i>Brannonices</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous assemblez contre ceux d’<i>Aquitaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Germans beaucoup encores plus <i>Sovisses</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seronts des faits avec ceux du <i>Maine</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_181"></a>[181]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From lake <i>Leman</i>, and from the <i>Brannonues</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be gathered against those of <i>Aquitania</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great many <i>Germans</i>, and many more <i>Switzers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be routed together with those of <i>Maine</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Lake <i>Leman</i>, is the Lake of <i>Geneva</i>. The <i>Brannonices</i> are those of <i>Sens</i>, so called; -because they took <i>Rome</i> under the Conduct of their Captain <i>Brennus</i>, and afterwards -built <i>Brenona</i>, a Town belonging since to the <i>Venetians</i>, who calls it -<i>Verona</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Aquitania</i> is that Province of <i>France</i>, called now <i>Gascony</i>. <i>Maine</i> is a Province in -<i>France</i>. The rest needeth no explication.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Prest a combattre fera defection,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef adversaire obtiendra la victoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Larriere garde fera defension,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les defaillans morts au blanc terretoire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One being ready to fight, shall faint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief of the adverse party shall obtain the victory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The rearegard, shall withstand it out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that fall away shall die in the white Terretory.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by the white Terretory, -whether it be positive, or Allegorical, I leave the judgement of it to the Reader.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Nictobriges</i> par ceux de <i>Perigort</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront vexez tenants jusques au <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Associé de <i>Gascons</i> & <i>Bigorre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trahir le Temple le prestre estant au Prosne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Nictobriges</i> by those of <i>Perigort</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be vexed as far as the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The associate of the <i>Gascons</i> and <i>Bigorre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall betray the Church while the Priest is in his Pulpit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nictobriges</i> in Greek signifieth a people living in a dark and moist Countrey. -<i>Perigort</i> and <i>Bigorre</i> are two Towns in <i>France</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_182"></a>[182]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Selyn</i> Monarque, l’<i>Italie</i> pacifique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regnes unis, Roy Chrestien du monde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourant voudra coucher en Terre <i>Blesique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Pyrates avoir chassé de L’onde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Selyn</i> being Monarch, <i>Italy</i> shall be in peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kingdoms shall be united, a Christian King of the world,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dying, shall desire to be buried in the Countrey of <i>Blois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After he shall have driven the Pyrates from the Sea.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Selyn</i> is the name of a <i>Turkish</i> Emperour, the meaning therefore of this, is, that -under the Reign of one <i>Selyn</i> a <i>Turkish</i> Emperour, <i>Italy</i> shall be in peace, and all the -Christian Princes united.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Armée de la pugne civile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour de nuit <i>Parme</i> a l’Estranger trouvée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Septante neuf meurtris dedans la Ville,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les estrangers passez tous a l’Espée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Army belonging to the Civil War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Having found by night <i>Parma</i> possessed by Strangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall kill seventy nine in the Town,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put all the Strangers to the Sword.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Parma</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang Royal fuis, <i>Monheurt</i>, <i>Mars.</i> <i>Aiguillon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Remplis seront de <i>Bourdelois</i> les <i>Landes</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Navarre</i>, <i>Bigorre</i>, pointes & Aiguillons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Profonds de faim, vorer de Liege, Glandes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Royal blood run away from <i>Monheurt</i>, <i>Marsan</i>, <i>Aiguillon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Landes</i> shall be full of <i>Bourdeloir</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Navarre</i>, <i>Bigorre</i>, shall have points and Pricks.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being deep in hunger, they shall devour the Cork and Akorns.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_183"></a>[183]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Monheurt</i>, <i>Marsan</i>, <i>Aiguillon</i>, are Towns in <i>Gascony</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Landes</i> is a desert Countrey, wherein nothing groweth but Pine-trees, <i>Bourdelois</i> -are those of <i>Bourdeaux</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Navarre</i> is a Kingdom, and <i>Begorre</i> a Province joyning to those <i>Landes</i>, or Pine-trees -Countrey.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du grand Fleuve, grand fosse, terre egeste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En quinze parts l’eau sera divisée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité prinse, feu, sang, cris, conflict mettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la plus part concerne au collisée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the great River, a great pit, Earth digged out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In fifteen parts the Water shall be divided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The City taken, fire, blood, cries, fighting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the greatest part concerneth the Collisés.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled, when <i>Rome</i> was taken and sacked by <i>Charles</i> Duke of -<i>Bourbon</i>, and <i>Philibert</i> of <i>Chalon</i> Prince of <i>Orenge</i>, Generals of the Emperour <i>Charles</i> -the V. with such cruelties, as never was committed by the bloody <i>Goths</i> and <i>Vandales</i>, -and to shew that the Author intended <i>Rome</i>, is apparant by two instances. The -first is by <i>the great River</i>, which is the <i>Tyber</i>, which though not very great in its -Channel and depth, yet is very great, yea, the greatest in <i>Europe</i> by its fame. The -other is the word <i>Colisée</i>, which is that famous Arch of <i>Traian</i> in <i>Rome</i>, remaining -yet to this day.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pont on fera promptement de nacelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer l’Armée du grand Prince <i>Belgique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans profondres, & non loing de <i>Bruxelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outrepassez detrenchez sept a picque.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Bridge of Boats shall suddenly be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To pass over the Army of the great <i>Belgick</i> Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In deep places, and not far from <i>Bruxelles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being gone over, there shall be seven cut with a Pike.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the Siege of <i>Antwerp</i> by the Prince of <i>Parma</i>, Governour of -the <i>Low-Countreys</i> for the King of <i>Spain</i>, who having besieged, caused a Bridge of -Boats to be made upon the River <i>Scheld</i>, to hinder the succours of the <i>Hollanders</i>, -who by that means were constrained to surrender it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_184"></a>[184]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Amas sapproche venant d’<i>Esclavonie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Olestant vieux Cité ruinera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fort desolée verra sa <i>Romanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis la grand flamme estaindre ne scaura.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great troop gathered, shall come from <i>Sclavonia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old Olestant shall ruine a City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall see his <i>Romania</i> very desolate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And after that, shall not be able to quench that great flame.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That great troop from <i>Sclavonia</i> shall be the <i>Venetians</i>, because they possess most -part of that Countrey. <i>The old Olestant</i> is their Duke, because he is not chosen unless -he be very old, by <i>Romania</i> is understood what the <i>Venetians</i> possess in that -Countrey.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Combat nocturne le vaillant Capitaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaincu fuira, peu de gens profligé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son peuple esmeu, sedition non vain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son propre fils le tiendra assiegé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In a fight by night, the valliant Captain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being vanquished shall run away, overcome by few,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His people being moved, shall make no small mutiny,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His own son shall besiege him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un grand d’<i>Auxerre</i> mourra bien miserable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassé de ceux qui soubs luy ont esté.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Serré de chaines, apres d’un rude cable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En l’an que <i>Mars</i>, <i>Venus</i> & <i>Sol</i> mis en Esté.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great man of <i>Auxerre</i> shall die very miserably,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being expelled by those that have been under him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bound with Chains, and after that with a strong Cable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that <i>Mars</i>, <i>Venus</i>, and <i>Sol</i> shall be in a conjunction in the Summer.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_185"></a>[185]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Auxerre</i> is a City of <i>France</i>, distant from <i>Paris</i> 40. leagues to the <i>Southward</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Charbon blanc du noir sera chassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prisonier fait, mené au Tombereau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More Chameau sus pieds entrelassez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors le puisné fillera l’Aubereau.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The white Coal shall be expelled by the black one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be made Prisoner, carried in a Dung-cart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His feet twisted upon a black Camel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the youngest, shall suffer the Hobby to have more thread.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse is altogether Allegorical and Metaphorical, therefore I leave it to -the judgement of every Reader. I shall only deliver my opinion upon the whole: -I take it to be some white Prince, that shall be overcome by a black one, put in a -Dungcart, after that, tied upon a black Camel, and then the younger son of that black -Prince shall give the prisonner a little more liberty.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An que <i>Saturne</i> en eau sera conjoint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avecques <i>Sol</i> le Roy fort & puissant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Rheims</i> & <i>Aix</i> sera receu & oingt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres Conquestes meurtrira innocens.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that <i>Saturn</i> in <i>Aquarius</i> shall be in conjunction</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With <i>Sol</i>, the King being strong and powerful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be received and Anointed at <i>Rheines</i> and <i>Aix</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After Conquest he shall murder innocent persons.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is remarkable for the things that it foretelleth, <i>viz.</i> that in the -year that <i>Saturn</i> shall be in conjunction with <i>Sol</i> in the Sign of <i>Aquarius</i>, a King of -<i>France</i> shall be annointed both at <i>Rhemes</i> and <i>Aix</i>, for <i>Rhemes</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, -where the Kings use to be Annointed and Crowned, and <i>Aix</i> is another in <i>Germany</i>, -where the Emperours use to be so. But the last Verse is ominous, where he saith, -that after his Conquests he shall murder innocent persons.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un fils de Roy tant de Langues apprins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son Aisné au Regne different,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Pere beau au plus grand fils comprins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera perir principal adherent.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_186"></a>[186]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A son of a King having learned divers Languages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall fall out with his elder Brother for the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His father in Law being more concerned with his elder son,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the principal adherent to perish.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">One King shall have two Sons, the eldest shall succeed him in the Kingdom, the -youngest having been well brought up and educated, shall raise troubles, against -the King his Brother; but he shall be destroyed by the means of his own Father in -Law.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand <i>Antoine</i> du nom de fait sordide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Phtyriase</i> a son dernier rongé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un qui de plomb voudra este cupide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passant le port d’<i>Esleu</i> sera plongé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Antony</i> by name, but in effect sordid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Phtyriasis</i> shall at last be eaten up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One that shall be covetous of Lead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going upon Port d’<i>Esleu</i> shall fall into the Water.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Phtyriasis</i> in Greek is the disease called by the Latines <i>Morbus pedicularis</i>, when -one is devoured by Lice, as were <i>Herodes</i>, <i>Sylla</i>, <i>Pherecydes</i>, and <i>Philip</i> II. King of -<i>Spain</i>, &c.</p> - -<p>As for Port d’<i>Esleu</i>, the question is, whether it be the proper name of a place, or -the name of a man, that shall throw another in the water.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trente de <i>Londres</i> secret conjureront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre Leur Roy, sur le pont l’Entreprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Satellites</i> la mort desgouteront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Roy esleu blond & natif de <i>Frize</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thirty of <i>London</i> shall secretly conspire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against their King, upon the Bridge the Plot shall be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These <i>Satellites</i> shall taste of death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall be elected, fair, and born in <i>Friezeland</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here may be alleadged that passage of Scripture, <i>There is nothing so secret but shall be -revealed</i>; for here is plainly told the number of those wicked persons, who conspired -against their lawful Sovereign King <i>Charles</i> I. of blessed memory, as also the -place where the Plot was first laid; for it is well known that they used to assemble -at the <i>Bear</i> at the Bridge foot.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_187"></a>[187]</span></p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux copies au murs ne pourront joindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans cet instant trembler <i>Milan</i>, <i>Thesin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faim soif, doutance si fort les viendront prendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chair, pain, ne vivres nauront un seul boucin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The two Armies shall not be able to joyn by the Walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At that instant <i>Milan</i> and <i>Thesin</i> shall tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hunger, thirst, and fear shall so seize upon them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall not have a bit of meat, bread, nor victuals.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Milan</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>, and <i>Thesin</i> is the River that passeth by it.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Duc <i>Gaulois</i> contraint battre au Duelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La nef de Mole, <i>Monech</i> naprochera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tort accuse, prison perpetuelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Fils regner avant mort taschera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>French</i> Duke compelled to fight a Duel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Ship of Mole shall not come near <i>Monaco</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wrongfully accused shall have a perpetual Prison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His son shall endeavour to Reign before his death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">To understand this Stanza, we must suppose four Histories, <i>Paradin</i> relateth the -first, which is, that the <i>French</i> and <i>Spanish</i> Armies having their Winter quarters in -the Dukedome of <i>Milan</i>, <i>Anno</i> 1555.</p> - -<p>The Marquess of <i>Pescaire</i>, sent word to the Duke of <i>Nemours</i>, by a <i>French</i> Gentleman, -that he and three more desired to break a Lance with him upon the borders of -<i>Ast</i>.</p> - -<p>The Duke accepted the challenge, without giving notice to the Marquess of -<i>Brissac</i>, then General of the <i>French</i> Army, who was very angry at it, nevertheless -he advised the Duke to go, but not with a Guilt and light Armour, but with a -wrong one, such as became a Cavaliero, which he did not do, nor the other three -that went with him: whence it came, that the Lord <i>Classe</i> a <i>French</i> man, running -against <i>Malespine</i>, was wounded to death in the shoulder; nevertheless one of the -seconds to the Duke of <i>Nemours</i>, the Lord <i>Moncha</i> killed upon the place <i>Carassa</i>, -Nephew to pope <i>Marcel</i> II. and the Lord <i>Manoa</i>, one of the Duke of <i>Nemours</i> -party, falling from his Horse a little wounded, broke his neck.</p> - -<p>As for the Duke of <i>Nemours</i>, he ran twice against the said Marquess, without hitting -one another, but at the third time they both brake their Lances, without -doing any harm. Thus, <i>the French Duke was compelled to fight a Duel</i>.</p> - -<p>We have the second History from <i>Turpin</i>, and many others, which is, that the -Marquess of <i>Masseran</i>, having put himself into the King of <i>France</i>’s service, in hopes<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_188"></a>[188]</span> -to have the Government of <i>Bielais</i>; and proving a Traitor, the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>, -who had discovered his perfidiousness, resolved to take him in his house of <i>Gaillany</i>, -which he had fortified to secure his retreat after his Treason.</p> - -<p>The Lord <i>de Termes</i> was commanded to do it, which he did so dexterously, that -he took him into his house after dinner, and then compelled him presently to surrender -the Castle of <i>Jamaglia</i>, the Marquess obeying, sent thither presently his -son <i>Claudius</i>, to put it into the hands of the Lords <i>de la Mante</i>, and of <i>Villars</i>.</p> - -<p>These two viewing the Castle, to observe the places that might be fortified, and -going from room to room, heard a lamentable voice, crying. <i>Have mercy upon -me.</i> They caused presently the Prison doors to be opened, and found a poor Gentleman -of <i>Vercelle</i>, whom the Marquess had detained there 18 years, for endeavouring -to serve an execution against him, in the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>’s behalf.</p> - -<p>And it is remarkable that his Imprisonment was all this while concealed, so that -no body ever heard of it, in so much that his friends suspecting he had been killed by -one of his enemies, they prosecuted him so hard, that after much tortering, he confessed -what he had not done, and was consequently put to death in the presence of -the said Marquess of <i>Masseran</i>, who knew the Countrey. Thus we see <i>one wrongfully -accused</i> that was executed, and this Gentlemans Imprisonment, which was to be -perpetual.</p> - -<p>After this, they carryed the poor Gentleman almost all naked, and being nothing -but skin and bones, to the Lord of <i>Termes</i>, who caused him to be clothed, and gave -him Money to go back to his friends.</p> - -<p>The third History is, that the Duke of <i>Nemours</i> Son was one of the chief ring-leaders -of the League against <i>Henry</i> IV. and did what he could before he dyed to get -the Kingdom of <i>France</i>, endeavouring first to make himself Sovereign Prince of -<i>Lion</i>, <i>Forrest</i>, and <i>Beaucolois</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth History is, that at the latter end of the year 1555. the Lord <i>la Mole</i> -carrying to <i>Rome</i> the Cardinals of <i>Tournon</i> and <i>Lorrain</i>, went directly to the Island -of <i>Corsica</i>, whence he drew some Forces, which he joyned to his, and to those of -<i>Monluc</i>, and would not Land at <i>Monaco</i> for some reasons, but went directly to <i>Civita -Vecchia</i>. By this we understand that Verse of the Stanza. <i>The Ship of the Mole shall -not come near <span class="antiqua">Monaco</span>.</i></p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Teste trenchée du vaillant Capitaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera jettée devant son adversaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son corps pendu de la Classe a l’Antenne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Confus fuira par rames avent contraire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The head cut off the valliant Captain</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be thrown down before his adversary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His body hanged at the Sails Yard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Confused, they shall fly with Oars against the Wind.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These words are plain enough, though no body can tell whether the thing is past -already, or shall come to pass hereafter.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_189"></a>[189]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Serpent veu proche du lict Royal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera par Dame nuict chien n’abageronts</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors nastre en <i>France</i> un Prince tant Royal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Ciel venu tous les Princes verront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Serpent shall be seen near the Royal bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a Lady in the night, the Dogs shall not bark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall be born in <i>France</i> a Prince so Royal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come from Heaven all the Princes shall see it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to be an allusion to the Birth of <i>Alexander</i> the great; for it is said, -that when his mother <i>Olympia</i> proved with Child of him, there was seen in her -Bed, and about her Bed a great Serpent, which was the presage of his future greatness: -therefore our Author also will have, that when such a Prodigie shall appear in -<i>France</i>, that then shall be born such a Prince as he mentioneth here: the circumstances -are, that this Serpent shall be seen by a Lady in the night time, and that the Dogs -of the house shall not bark at him.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux grand, freres seront chassez d’<i>Espagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laisné vaincu soubs les Monts <i>Pyrænæes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rougis Mer, <i>Rhosne</i>, sang <i>Leman</i>, d’<i>Alemagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i>, <i>Blyterre</i>, d’<i>Agath</i> contaminées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great Brothers shall be driven from <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The elder of them shall be overcome under the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bloody Sea, <i>Rhosne</i>, Blood <i>Leman</i> of <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i>, <i>Bliterre</i> of <i>Agath</i> polluted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are easily understood by those that know the <i>Pyrenean</i> -Mountains, to be those that part <i>Spain</i> from <i>France</i>. The two last Verses -signifie there shall be bloody Wars in those places; the <i>Rhosne</i> is a swift River -of <i>France</i>, that passeth through the City of <i>Lyons</i>; <i>Leman</i> is the Lake of <i>Geneva</i>, -and <i>Narbon</i> is a City of <i>Languedock</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne a deux laissé bien peu tiendront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois ans sept mois passez feront la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux vestales contre rebelleront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Victor puisnay en <i>Armorique</i> Terre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_190"></a>[190]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom being left to two, they shall keep it but a little while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three years and seven months being past, they shall make War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two Vestals shall rebel against them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The youngest shall be Conquerour in the <i>Armorick</i> Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies, that a Kingdom shall be left to two, who shall keep it but a little -while, about the space before mentioned.</p> - -<p>By the two Vestals that shall rebel, are to be understood two Nuns, who having -Interest in the state by their nearness of blood, shall challenge a title in the Kingdom. -The last Verse signifies, that the youngest that contended for the Kingdom, shall -overcome the eldest, in the Province of <i>Gascony</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La sœur aisnée de l’Isle <i>Britannique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quinze ans devant le frere aura naissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par son promis moyenant verifique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Succedera au Regne de Balance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The eldest Sister of the <i>Brittain</i> Island,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be born fifteen years before her Brother,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By what is promised her, and help of the truth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She shall succeed in the Kingdom of <i>Libra</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies, that the Princess born so long after her Brother, shall be married to -a King of <i>France</i>, which is understood here by the Kingdom of <i>Libra</i>; therefore the -last King <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. was called <i>the Just</i>, because born under the Sign of <i>Libra</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An que <i>Mercure</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Venus</i> retrograde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand Monarque la ligne ne faillit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu du peuple <i>Lusitant</i> pres de <i>Pactole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’en Paix & Regne viendra fort enveillir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Mercury</i>, <i>Mars</i> and <i>Venus</i> shall retrograde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Line of the great Monarch shall be wanting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be elected by the <i>Lusitanians</i> near <i>Pactole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall Reign in Peace a good while.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies the late change of state in <i>Portugal</i>, when they threw off the <i>Spanish</i> -yoke, and chose a King amongst themselves, <i>John</i> the IV. Duke of <i>Branganza</i>, Father<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_191"></a>[191]</span> -to the present Queen of <i>England</i>; for by the <i>Lusitanians</i> are meant the <i>Portugals</i>, -so called from their Countreys name <i>Lusitania</i>; <i>Pactoles</i> is the River that runs -by <i>Lisbonne</i>, otherwise called <i>Tagus</i>, in Greek χροσοροος from the Sands.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Albanois</i> passeront dedans <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Moyennant <i>Langres</i> demipiler affubles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Marquis & Duc ne pardonnes a l’homme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, sang, morbilles point d’eau, faillir les blés.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Albanians</i> shall pass through <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the means of <i>Langres</i> covered with half Helmets,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Marquess and Duke shall spare no man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, blood, small Pox, Water shall fail us, also Corn.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that when the people of <i>Albania</i> lying between the <i>Venetian</i> -Territories, and <i>Grecia</i>, shall come to <i>Rome</i>, by the means of a Bishop of <i>Langres</i>, who -is a Duke and Peer of <i>France</i>; being <i>covered with half Helmets</i>, a kind of a Cap that -they wear in War; then shall be <i>fire, blood, small Pox, and want of Corn</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Aisné vaillant de la fille du Roy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Repoussera si profond les <i>Celtiques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’il mettra Foudres, combien en tel arroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu & loing puis profond es <i>Hesperiques</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The valliant eldest son of the daughter of the King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall beat back so far those of <i>Flanders</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he will cast Lightnings, O how many in such orders</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Little and far, after shall go deep in <i>Spain</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is scarce to be understood of any body, but the present King of <i>France</i> <i>Lewis</i> -the XIV. who was the elder son, and born of Queen <i>Ann</i>, Daughter to the King of -<i>Spain</i>, who by his valour and fortune made last year such progress in the Conquest -of <i>Flanders</i>, that it hath caused admiration in every body; insomuch that is he do -the like this year, it may be probably suspected, he will afterwards go deep into <i>Spain</i> -according to the contents of this Prophecy.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du feu Celeste au Royal edifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la lumiere de <i>Mars</i> defaillira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept mois grand Guerre, mort gent de malefice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouen</i>, <i>Eureux</i> au Roy ne faillira.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_192"></a>[192]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire shall fall from the skies on the Kings Palace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Mars</i>’s light shall be Ecclipsed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great War shall be for seven months, people shall die by witchcraft.</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouen</i>, and <i>Eureux</i> shall not be wanting to the King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that when <i>Mars</i> is Ecclipsed, the Lightning shall fall on some of -the King of <i>Frances</i> Palaces, then shall be a great War, for the space of seven -Months, and many shall die by witchcraft; and <i>Rouen</i> the chief City of <i>Normandy</i>, -and <i>Eureux</i> another of the same province, shall stick fast to the Kings Interest.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_193"></a>[193]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> V</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-a.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Avant venue de ruine <i>Celtique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Dedans le Temple d’eux parlementeront,</div> - <div class="verse">Poignard cœur d’un monté au coursier & picque,</div> - <div class="verse">Sans faire bruit le grand enterreront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Before the coming of the ruine of <i>Flanders</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Two shall discourse together in the Church,</div> - <div class="verse">Dagger in the heart by one, on Horse-back and Spurring,</div> - <div class="verse">Without noise they shall bury the great one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a further specification of the whole ruine of <i>Flanders</i>, before which it shall -happen, saith our Author, that two shall talk together in the Church, and one shall -stabb the other with a Dagger, and then take Horse, and fly, the dead one being -buried without Pompe or Ceremony.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_194"></a>[194]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept conjurez au Banquet feront luire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Centre les trois le Fer hors de Navire.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’un les deux classes au grand fera conduire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand par le mail dernier au front luy tire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven Conspirators at a Banquet shall make their Iron glister</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against three, out of a Ship:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall carry the two Fleets to the great one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in the Palle-malle the last shall shoot him in the forehead.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses foretell a Conspiracy of seven against three, one of which -seven shall carry both Fleets to some eminent person, at which time he shall be shot -in the forehead by the last of the seven.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Successeur de la Duché viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaucoup plus outre que la Mer de <i>Toscane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gauloise</i> branche la <i>Florence</i> tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans son Giron d’accord nautique Rane.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Successor to the Dukedom shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Far beyond the <i>Tuscane</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>French</i> branch shall hold <i>Florence</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">In its Lap, to which the Sea-frog shall agree.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the two first Verses is meant a lawful Successor to the Duke of <i>Tuscany</i> who -shall come to recover the said Dukedom, which shall then be in the possession -of the <i>French</i>.</p> - -<p>It is hard to guess what he means by the Sea-frog, unless it be some considerable -Prince at Sea, which shall then be in League with the <i>French</i>.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le gros Mastin de Cité dechassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera fasché de l’estrange Alliance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres aux Champs avoir le Cerf chassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Loup & l’Ours se donront defiance.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_195"></a>[195]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Mastif being driven from the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be angry at the strange Alliance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After he shall have hunted the Hart in the Fields,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Wolf, and the Bear shall defie one another.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the strange Alliance is meant that which <i>Cromwel</i> had with <i>France</i>, to the -prejudice of his Majesty of <i>England</i>, who is here meant by the Mastif, a Creature, -for which <i>England</i> hath been famous.</p> - -<p>By the Wolf and the Bear are meant the <i>French</i> King and the <i>Switzers</i>, or those -of <i>Savoy</i>.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sous ombre faincte d’oster de servitude,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple & Cité l’usurpera luy-mesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pire sera par fraus de jeune pute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Livré au Champ lisant le faux proësme.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the fained shadow of freeing people from slavery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall usurpe the people and City for himself;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall do worse by the deceit of a young Whore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For he shall be betrayed in the field reading a false proem.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first are plain, and may be referred to the foregoing Stanza concerning -<i>Oliver</i>.</p> - -<p>The last Verses are plain, and I leave them to the judicious Reader.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Roy l’<i>Augur</i> sur le chef le main mettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra prier pour la Paix <i>Italique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A la main gauche viendra changer le Sceptre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Roy viendra Empereur pacifique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Augur</i> shall come to put his hand upon the Kings head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And pray for the Peace of <i>Italy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the left hand he shall change the Scepter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a King he shall become a peaceful Emperour.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Although the <i>Augur</i> in Latine signifieth one that telleth events of matters by the -flying voices, or sitting of Birds, yet it is taken also (as here) for a Prelat or Clergyman, -who shall put his hand upon a Kings head, and pray for the peace of <i>Italy</i>, -and shall put a Scepter in his hand, and install him Emperour, what King this should<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_196"></a>[196]</span> -be, is easie to be conjectured by the Author, being a <i>French-man</i>, and setting down -a King without any Epithite, and this Prophecy is a confirmation of one before of -the same nature.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Triumuir</i> seront trouvez les os,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherchant profond Thresor ænigmatique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux d’alentour ne seront en repos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce concaver Marbre & plomb Metallique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The bones of the <i>Triumuir</i> shall be found out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall seek for a deep and ænigmatical Treasure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those there about shall not be in rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This concavity shall be Marble and Metallick Lead.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I suppose none so ignorant in the Roman History, but knows, that there was a -combination between <i>Octavius Cæsar</i>, <i>Marcus Antonius</i>, and <i>Lepidus</i>, to make themselves -Masters of the <i>Roman</i> Empire, and to divide it amongst themselves, this plot -being made by three, was made by the <i>Triumuiri</i>, the meaning then is, that when they -shall go to seek for a Treasure, they shall find the bones of one of those three persons, -and in that cavity that they shall have digged, they shall find Marble and -Lead.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera laissé le feu vif, mort caché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans les Globes horrible espouventable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuict a classe Cité en poudre lasché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité a feu, l’ennemy favourable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire shall be left burning, the dead man shall be hid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the Globes terrible and fearful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night the Fleet shall shoot against the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The City shall be on fire, the enemy shall be favourable unto it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two Verses signifie, that fire shall be hid within Globes, I suppose them to be -Granado’s, or a Mine.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses signifie, that the Fleet in the Harbour, or near it, shall set the -City on fire, and that they shall come out of the Fleet to help to quench the fire, -and so shall the enemy be favourable.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_197"></a>[197]</span></p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jusques au fond la grand Arche <i>Maluë</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par chef Captif l’amy anticipé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Naistra de Dame front, face cheveluë,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors par astuce Duc a mort attrapé</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To the bottom of the great Arch <i>Malüe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a Captain that is a Prisoner, the friend shall be anticipated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall be born of a Lady with a hoary face and forehead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then by craft shall a Duke be put to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of the first is unknown to me: I leave it to the Reader.</p> - -<p>The sense of the last is as obvious to the meanest capacity, as the two precedent -are obscure.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un chef <i>Celtique</i> dans le conflict blessé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres de Cave, voiant, siens mort abattre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang & playes & d’ennemis pressé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Est se couru par incogneus de quattre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A General of <i>Flanders</i> wounded in Battle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near a Cellar, seeing death to overthrow his people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being much oppressed with blood, wounds and enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is succoured by four unknown.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no further interpretation, than that it seemeth to be near its event.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mer par solaires seure passera</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Venus</i> tiendront toute l’<i>Afrique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur Regne plus <i>Saturne</i> n’occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et changera la part <i>Asiatique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By solaries she shall pass secure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Venus</i> shall hold all <i>Africa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> shall hold their Kingdom no longer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall change the <i>Asiatick</i> part.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_198"></a>[198]</span> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so obscure in words and sense, that I can judge no more than that it signifies -a great change in <i>Africa</i> and <i>Asia</i>, which I suppose is already come to pass by -<i>Taffaletta</i>.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au pres du lac <i>Leman</i> sera conduite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par garse estrange Cite voulant trahir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant son meurtre a <i>Ausbourg</i> la grand suite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et ceux du <i>Rhin</i> la viendront envahir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Leman</i> Lake shall be a Plot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a strange Whore to betray a City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before she be kill’d her great retinue will come to <i>Ausbourg</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And those of the <i>Rhine</i> shall come to invade her.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We have said often before, that the <i>Leman</i> Lake is that of <i>Geneva</i>. The rest is -so manifest, that it needs no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par grand fureur le Roy <i>Romain Belgique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Veexer voudra par phalange <i>Barbare</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Furent grinssant chassera gent <i>Lybique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Depuis <i>Pannons</i> jusque <i>Hercules</i> la bare.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through great anger the <i>Roman Belgick</i> King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to vex with <i>Barbarian</i> Troops,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gnashing with fury, he shall draw away the <i>Lybian</i> people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the <i>Pannons</i> as far as <i>Hercules</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Roman Belgick</i> King, is understood <i>Philip</i> the second King of <i>Spain</i>; because -he was made King in <i>Flanders</i>, by his father <i>Charles</i> V.</p> - -<p>The second Verse signifieth the diverse Nations that his Army was composed -of.</p> - -<p>In the third, by the <i>Lybian</i> people are understood the <i>Jews</i>, which he drove away -from <i>Spain</i> into <i>Africa</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Pannons</i> are the people of <i>Hungary</i>, called <i>Pannones</i>, and the meaning that he -drove them out as far as <i>Hercules</i> Pillar, at the mouth of the Straits, signifies the -great expulsion he made of them, which were about the number of 200000.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> & <i>Mars</i> en <i>Leo Espagne</i> captifue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par chef <i>Lybique</i> au conflict attrapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche de <i>Malte</i>, Herede Prinse vive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et <i>Romain</i> Sceptre sera par <i>Coq</i> frappé.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_199"></a>[199]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> and <i>Mars</i> being in <i>Leo</i>, <i>Spain</i> shall be captive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a <i>Lybian</i> General taken in the Battle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Malta</i>, an Heirse shall be taken alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the <i>Roman</i> Scepter shall be strucken by the <i>Cock</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Cock</i> is meant the King of <i>France</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En navigant Captif prins grand pontife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand apres faillir les clercs tumultuez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Second esleu absent son bien debife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son favory Bastard a mort tué.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In Sailing a Pope shall be taken Captive;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After which, shall be a great uproar amongst the Clergy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A second absent elected, consumeth his goods,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His favourite Bastard shall be killed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These Verses signifie no more, but that a Pope going by water, shall be taken -Prisoner, for which, all the Clergy shall be in disorder, and elect a new one, who -shall consume his Goods, and shall have a favourite Bastard, that shall be killed.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A son haut prix plus la larme <i>Sabæe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’humaine chair par mort en cendre mettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Isle <i>Pharos</i> par <i>Croisars</i> perturbée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alors qua <i>Rhodes</i> paroistra dur espectre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Sabæan</i> Tear shall be no more at its high price,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To turn humane flesh by death into ashes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Island <i>Pharos</i> shall be troubled by <i>Croisars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When at <i>Rhodes</i> shall a hard Phantasm appear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Sabæan Tear</i>, is Frankincense, so called; because it is the Gum of a Tree -that groweth in that Countrey, whence the Poet saith,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>India mittit ebur, molles sua thura Sabæi.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The meaning therefore of the two first Verses, is, that Frankincense shall be no -more so dear as it hath been; because it shall be no more used, in enbalming and -burning of dead bodies.</p> - -<p>The third verse saith, the Island <i>Pharos</i> (which is that little Island that lyeth before -the Harbour of <i>Alexandria</i>) shall be troubled by <i>Croisars</i>, that is, Christians, -when there shall appear a Phantasme, or a Vision shall be seen at <i>Rhodes</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_200"></a>[200]</span></p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit passant le Roy pres d’une <i>Andronne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy de <i>Cipres</i> & principal de guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy failly la main fuit long du <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les conjurez liront la a mort mettre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The King going along by night near an <i>Andronne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He of <i>Cyprus</i> and chief of the War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King having missed the hand, runneth away along by the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Conspirators shall put him to death there.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find what he meaneth by <i>Andronne</i>, therefore I believe it is a barbarous -and forged word, which the Author hath foisted in, to make the first Verses -rhime with the word <i>Rhosne</i> in the third Verse, which is a famous River in -<i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De duel mourra l’infelix profligé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celebrera son victrix l’Hecatombe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pristine loy franc edict redigé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le mur & Prince septiesme ira au tombe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The unhappy being overcome, shall die for grief,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Victrix shall celebrate the Hecatomb,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The former law and free Edict shall be brought again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The wall and seventh Prince shall go to the Grave.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Victrix</i> is a Latine word, and the Feminine Gender of <i>victor</i>, and signifieth a -woman that is victorious; <i>Hecatomb</i> is a Sacrifice, wherein an hundred Oxen are -killed.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Royal d’Or, d’Airain augmenté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rompu la pache par jeune, ouverte guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple affligé par un chef lamenté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang barbare sera couverte Terre;</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Golden Royal, being increased with Copper,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The agreement being broken by a young man, there shall be open War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People afflicted by the loss of a General lamented,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ground shall be covered with barbarous blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_201"></a>[201]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the great golden Royal, is understood (if I mistake not) a King rich in Gold -and Silver, who being joyned with one rich in Copper, shall make open War against -one that shall have broken his agreement.</p> - -<p><i>Quære</i>: Whether this came not to pass when <i>Gustaphus Adolphus</i> King of <i>Sweden</i> -and rich in Brass, being helped by the <i>French</i> Gold and Silver; was not the General -so much lamented, after he had almost ruined the Emperour, whom he did challenge -to have broken his word, and had covered the ground with <i>German</i> and <i>Swedish</i> -blood.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De la les <i>Alpes</i> grand Armée passera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant naistra monstre vapin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prodigieux, & subit tournera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Toscan</i> a son lieu plus propin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the <i>Alpes</i> shall a great Army go, and</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before shall be born a Vapin Monster,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prodigious and suddenly the great <i>Toscan</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall return to his nearest place.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What the Author meaneth by <i>vapin</i>, is unknown to me, as for the word <i>propin</i>, -it is a diminutive of the Latine word <i>propinquus</i>, by the figure of Rhetorick, called -<i>Tmesis</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le trespas du Monarque Latin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux quil aura par Regne secourus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le feu livra divisé le butin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La mort publique aux hardis accourus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the death of the Latine Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that he shall have succoured in his Reign.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire shall shine, the booty shall be divided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The stout comers in shall be put to publick death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Every body may judge of this as well as I, therefore to trouble my self it should -be to no purpose.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant qu’a <i>Rome</i> grand aye rendu l’Ame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Effrayeur grande a l’Armée estrangere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par escadrons l’embusche pres de <i>Parme</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis les deux rouges ensemble feront chere.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_202"></a>[202]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before that a great man yeildeth up his Soul at <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Army of strangers shall be put into a great fright,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Squadrons the ambush shall be near <i>Parma</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, the two red ones shall make good cheer together.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is nothing difficult, but what he meaneth by the two red ones, for my part -I suppose them to be two Cardinals.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux contens seront unis ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la pluspart a <i>Mars</i> seront conjoints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand d’<i>Affrique</i> en effrayeur & tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Duumuirat</i> par la chassé desjoint.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The two contented shall be united together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the most part shall be joyned to <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Africa</i> shall be in fear and terrour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Duumuirat</i> shall by the pursuit be disjointed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth, that two powerful Princes shall joyn together, to make War in -<i>Africa</i>, which shall be much terrified at it, but this <i>Duumuirat</i>, that is, this agreement -of two Princes shall be broken off, and disjoyned.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne & Roy soubs <i>Venus</i> eslevé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> aura sur <i>Jupiter</i> Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Loy & Regne par <i>Jupiter</i> levé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Saturnins</i> endurera le pire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom and King being raised under <i>Venus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> shall have power over <i>Jupiter</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Law and Reign raised by <i>Jupiter</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be put to the worse by the <i>Saturnins</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I shall leave this to be expounded by those that have more skill in Astronomy then -I have.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Prince <i>Arabe</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Sol</i>, <i>Venus</i>, <i>Lion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regne d’Eglise par Mer succombera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devers la <i>Perse</i> bien pres d’un Million,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bizance</i>, <i>Ægypte</i>, <i>Ver.</i> <i>Serp.</i> invadera.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_203"></a>[203]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Arabian</i> Prince, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Sol</i>, <i>Venus</i>, <i>Leo</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom of the Church shall be overcome by Sea</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards <i>Persia</i> very near a Million,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Byzance</i>, <i>Ægypt</i>, <i>Ver.</i> <i>Serp.</i> shall invade.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is of the same nature as the foregoing, therefore I leave it to the same expositors.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La gent esclave par un heur Martial,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra en haut degré tant eslevée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Changeront Prince, naistra un Provincial,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer la Mer, copie aux Monts levée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Slavish Nation shall by a Martial luck</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be raised to so high a degree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they shall change their Prince, and elect one among themselves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall cross the Sea with an Army raised in the Mountains.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par feu & armes non loin de la Mar negro,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra de <i>Perse</i> occuper <i>Trebisonde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembler <i>Pharos</i>, <i>Metelin</i>, Sol alegro,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang <i>Arabe</i> d’<i>Adrie</i> couvert l’Onde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Fire and Sword not far from the black Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall come from <i>Persia</i> to seize upon <i>Trebisonde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pharos</i> and <i>Methelin</i> shall quake, Sun be merry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sea of <i>Adria</i> shall be covered with <i>Arabian</i> blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy foretelleth clearly and plainly, that the <i>Persians</i> shall come to invade -the Turkish dominions, a part of which is the Empire of <i>Trebisond</i>, and that -<i>Pharos</i> and <i>Methelin</i> two Islands in the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, shall quake for fear.</p> - -<p>As also that the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea, which is that Sea that belongeth to the <i>Venetians</i> -shall be covered with Turkish blood, at which the Author is so jocund, as with an exclamation -he inviteth the Sun to be merry, and rejoyce at it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_204"></a>[204]</span></p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le bras pendu & la jambe liée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Visage pasle, au sein poignard caché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois qui seront jurez de la meslée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand de <i>Genes</i> sera le Fer lasché.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The arm hanging, and the leg bound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a pale face, a Dagger in the bosom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three that shall be sworn to the fray,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the great one of <i>Genoa</i> the Iron shall be darted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This manifestly foretelleth a conspiracy of three men against the Duke of <i>Genoa</i>, -one of which three men, under the shew of a sore Arm, and an impotent Leg, shall -carry a Dagger in his bosom, with which he shall stabb the said Duke.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La liberté ne sera recouvrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Occupera noir, fier, vilain inique;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la matiere du Pont sera ouvrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Hister</i>, <i>Venise</i> faschée la Republique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The liberty shall not be recovered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be occupied, by a black, fierce, and wicked villain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the work of the <i>Hister</i>-Bridge shall be ended,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Venetian</i> Common-wealth shall be vexed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is divided into two parts, the first of which is comprehended in the -two first Verses, <i>viz.</i> that the liberty of some politick body (he nameth not which) -shall not be recovered, but shall be seized upon, by a black, fierce, and wicked villain.</p> - -<p>The second part is contained in the two last Verses, wherein he saith, that the -Common-wealth of <i>Venice</i> shall be in trouble, when the Bridge made over the River -<i>Hister</i> shall be finished.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout a l’entour de la grande Cité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront Soldats logez par Champs & Villes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Donner l’assaut <i>Paris</i>, <i>Rome</i> incité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Pont sera faite grand pille.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_205"></a>[205]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Round about the great City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soldiers shall lye in the Fields and Towns,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paris shall give the Assault, <i>Rome</i> shall be attached;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then upon the Bridge shall be great plundering.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the taking and sacking of <i>Rome</i>, by the Duke of <i>Bourbon</i>, General -of <i>Charles</i> V. Forces, therefore he saith that <i>Paris</i> shall give the Assault, because -the said Duke of <i>Bourbon</i> was a <i>Frenchman</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre <i>Attique</i> chef de la sapience,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui de present est la Rose du Monde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pont ruiné & sa grand preeminence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera subdite & naufrage des Ondes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Countrey of <i>Attica</i> which is the head of wisdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now is the Rose of the World,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Bridge shall be ruinated with its great preeminence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be subdued, and made a wrack by the Waves.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">He foretelleth the destruction of a famous Bridge in the Countrey of <i>Attica</i>, of -which <i>Athens</i> is the chief City, and because it was always famous for learning, he -calleth it here the head of Wisdom; and that Wisdom, the Rose of the -World.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou tout bon est, tout bien Soleil & Lune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Est abondant, sa ruine s’approche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel s’advance a changer ta fortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En mesme estat que la septiesme Roche.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Where all well is, all good O Sun and Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is existent, his ruine draweth near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven is making hast to change thy fortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into the same case as the seventh Rock is.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By this dark Stanza, the Author seemeth to foretell the woful condition of a -Countrey that was happy before, but shall fall to ruine, I suspect he intended <i>France</i>, -because being a <i>Frenchman</i> he did not name it, for I think there was never such a -change in the world as was in that Kingdom, in the time of the Civil Wars between -the Roman Catholicks, and the Protestants.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_206"></a>[206]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des principaux de Cité rebellée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui tiendront fort pour liberté r’avoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Detrencher masles, infœlice meslée!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cris, hurlemens a <i>Nantes</i> pitieux voir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the chief men in a rebelled City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall stand out to recover their liberty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Males shall be cut in pieces, O unhappy quarrel!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cries and houlings, it shall be pity to see at <i>Nantes</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author applyeth this Prophecie to the City of <i>Nantes</i> in <i>Britany</i>, but want -of Books that treat of the History of that Countrey; I could neither satisfie my self, -nor the Reader, if this hath come to pass already or not.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du plus profond de l’occident <i>Anglois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou est le chef de l’Isle <i>Britanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entrera classe en <i>Garonne</i> par <i>Blois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Vin & Sel faux cachez aux barriques.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the deepest Westerly part of <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the chief of the <i>Britain</i> Island is,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet shall come into the <i>Garonne</i> by <i>Blaye</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Wine and Salt fire shall be hidden in Barrels.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is a notable and sensible error in the <i>French</i> Copy, and without reforming -it, the sense is not only obscure, but also impossible; for instead of <i>Blois</i>, which the -Author hath put here, I suppose to make the rime good, it must be written <i>Blaye</i>, -which is a Sea Town of the mouth of the River <i>Garonne</i>, and <i>Blois</i> is a mid-Land -Town, upon the River <i>Loire</i>, about a hundred Leagues distant from the other.</p> - -<p>The rest signifieth no more, but that there shall be some Warlike Stratagem -made use of by the <i>French</i> (understood here by the names of <i>Wine and Salt</i>) in -puting fire into Barrels.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Cité franche de la grand Mer <i>Seline</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui porte encor l’estomach la pierre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Angloise</i> classe viendra soubs la bruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prendre un rameau de grand ouverte guerre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_207"></a>[207]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a free City of the <i>Selyne</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which carrieth yet the stone in the Stomach,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An <i>English</i> Fleet shall come under a fog,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To take a branch of great open War.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What should the Author mean by the free City of the great <i>Seline</i> Sea that carryeth -yet the stone in the Stomach, is hard to guess; for my part I believe it to be -<i>Venice</i>. First, because by the <i>Seline</i> Sea, he always understands the <i>Mediterranean</i>; -because the great <i>Turks</i> name in our Authors time was <i>Selyn</i>, who was Master of -the greatest part of it. Secondly, there is no other free City so considerable as this. -Thirdly, by the stone in the Stomach, may be understood, the Pillars that are in -the <i>Piazza</i> of St. <i>Mark</i>, and as it were in the Centre of <i>Venice</i>, as the Stomach is in -the Body. The sense therefore is this, as I take it, that a considerable <i>Fleet</i> shall -come to <i>Venice</i>, or rather to <i>Molamocco</i>, which is the Harbour, and there take a branch -of great open War, that is, to be either against the <i>Venetians</i>, or against the <i>Turk</i> in -their behalf.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De Sœur le frere par simulte feintise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra mesler rosee en Mineral,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur la placente donne a vieille tardive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meurt le goustant, sera simple rural.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Brother of the Sister, with a fained dissimulation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall mix Dew with Mineral,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a Cake given to a slow old woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She dieth tasting of, the deed shall be simple, and Countrey like.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth a notable poisoning that shall be done by a Brother upon his -Sister, which, because she died not fast enough, according to his mind: and therefore -called her <i>slow</i>, he would set her forward with a poisoned Cake, the Poison was -<i>Mineral</i>, and therefore <i>Arsenick</i> or <i>Sublimate</i>, mixed with <i>Manna</i>, called here <i>Dew</i>; -because <i>Manna</i> is nothing but a <i>Dew</i>, condensed upon the Bark of a certain Tree; -the Conclusion is, that the woman shall die eating of it, though the meat seemed to -be simple and rural.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois sens seront d’un vouloir & accord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui pour venir au bout de leur attainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vingt mois apres tous eux & leurs records,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur Roy trahy simulant haine, feinte.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_208"></a>[208]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Three hundred shall be of one mind and agreement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they may compass their ends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">twenty months after by all them and their partners,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their King shall be betrayed, by dissembling a fained hatred.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The difficulty of meeting in any Countrey three hundred men of one mind, hath -perswaded me that our Author writ this for <i>England</i>; but by reason there hath been -since a general pardon, I will keep my mind to my self.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce grand Monarque qu’au mort succedera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Donnera vie illicite & lubrique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par nonchalance a tous concedera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qua la parfin faudra la loy <i>Salique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Monarch that shall succeed to the great one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall lead a Life unlawfull, and lecherous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By carelesness he shall give to all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that in Conclusion the <i>Salique</i> Law shall fail.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a Relation to the precedent Stanza, therefore, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du vray rameau de fleur de Lis issu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis & loge heritier d’<i>Hetrurie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son sang antique de longue main tissu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera <i>Florence</i> florir en l’Armoirie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Issued out of the true branch of the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be set for Heir of <i>Hetruria</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His ancient blood waved by a long while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Florence</i> to flourish in the Scutcheon.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is only in commendation of the Family of the <i>Medicis</i>, and of their Alliance -with the Crown of <i>France</i>; for <i>Catharine</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, wife to <i>Henry</i> II. was -Queen of <i>France</i> when our Author lived.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_209"></a>[209]</span></p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang Roial sera si tresmeslé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contraints seront <i>Gaulois</i> de l’<i>Hesperie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On attendra que terme soit coulé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et que memoire de la voix soit perie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Royal blood shall be so much mixed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> shall be constrained by the <i>Spaniards</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall stay till the term be past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the remembrance of the voice be over.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This only signifieth a strict Union between the <i>French</i> and the <i>Spaniards</i>, by several -Alliances.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nay soubs les ombres & journée nocturne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Séra en Regne & bonté Souveraine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera renaistre son sang de l’antique <i>Urne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Renouvelant siecle d’Or pour l’airain.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Being born in the shadows and nocturnal time,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be a Soveraign in Kingdom and bounty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause his blood to come again from the ancient <i>Urn</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Renewing a golden Age instead of a brazen one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth the greatness and goodness of a Prince that shall be born in the -beginning of the night.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> eslevé en son plus haut befroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera retraire les <i>Allobrox</i> de <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La gent <i>Lombarde</i> fera si grand effroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A ceux de l’Aigle comprins soubs la <i>Balance</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> being elevated in its higher Steeple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the <i>Allobrox</i> to retreat from <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The people of <i>Lombardy</i> shall be in so great fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of those of the Eagle comprehended under <i>Libra</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Allobrox</i> are the people of <i>Savoy</i>. Those of the Eagle comprehended under -<i>Libra</i>, are the subjects of the Empire that use the <i>French</i> tongue.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_210"></a>[210]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand ruine des Sacrez ne sesloigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Provence</i>, <i>Naples</i>, <i>Sicile</i>, <i>Seez</i> & <i>Ponce</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Germanie</i> au <i>Rhin</i> & la <i>Coloigne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vexez a mort par tous ceux de <i>Mogunce</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great ruine of the sacred things is not far off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Provence</i>, <i>Naples</i>, <i>Sicily</i>, <i>Sez</i> and <i>Ponce</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Germany</i> towards the <i>Rhyne</i> and <i>Colen</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be vexed to death by those of <i>Moguntia</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">He foretelleth the troubles that were to be shortly in those Countreys for Religion.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer le rouge sera prins the Pyrates,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La paix sera par son moyen troublée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’une & l’auare commettra par faincte acte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand Pontife fera l’Armée d’oublée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea the red one shall be taken by Pyrates,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The peace by that means shall be troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall commit anger and coveteousness by a feigned action,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The High Priest shall have a double Army.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the red one is understood some Cardinal that shall be taken by Pyrates, for -which the peace shall be in danger to be broken, the same Cardinal shall by a feigned -action be guilty of choler and covetousness, and for his recovery and the defending -the Rites of the Church, the Pope shall have a double Army granted to him.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Empire fera tost desolé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et translate pres d’<i>Arduenne</i> silve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux batards par l’aisné decollé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Regnera <i>Ænodarbnez</i> de milve.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Empire shall soon be made desolate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be translated near the Forrest of <i>Arden</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two Bastards shall have their heads cut off by the eldest son,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he that shall reign, shall be <i>Ænodarbnez</i> nosed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_211"></a>[211]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the great Empire is meant that of <i>Germany</i>, which he says shall be translated -near the Forrest of <i>Ardens</i>, which is near the borders of <i>France</i>. Two Bastards shall be -beheaded by command of the elder Brother of the House, and he that shall Reign -shall have a reddish beard, and a Hawks nose.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Chapeaux rouges querelles & nouveaux schismes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand on aura esleu le <i>Sabinois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On produira contre luy grands sophismes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et sera <i>Rome</i> lessée par <i>Albanois</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By red Hats, quarrels and new schismes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the <i>Sabin</i> shall be Elected,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great sophismes shall be produced against him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And <i>Rome</i> shall be endamaged by the <i>Albanois</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By red Hats are understood Cardinals of <i>Rome</i>, who shall raise great quarrels and -schismes, when a Pope of the Countrey of the <i>Sabins</i> (which is near <i>Rome</i>) shall be -Elected, against whom many things shall be objected, and that <i>Rome</i> shall be endamaged -by the <i>Albanians</i>, which are a Warlike people, and for the most part subject -to the Common-wealth of <i>Venice</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Arabe</i> marchera bien avant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trahy sora par le <i>Bisantinois</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Antique <i>Rhodes</i> luy viendra au devant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et plus grand mal par Austre <i>Pannonois</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Arabian</i> shall proceed a great way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be betrayed by the <i>Bisantines</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ancient <i>Rhodes</i> shall come to meet him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a greater evil by a South wind from <i>Hungary</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Bisantine</i> is understood the great Turk, Master of <i>Constantinople</i>, formerly called -<i>Bysantium</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres la grande affliction du Sceptre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux ennemis par eux seront defaicts:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classes d’<i>Affrique</i> aux <i>Pannons</i> viendra naistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre seront horribles Faicts.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_212"></a>[212]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the great afflictions of the Scepter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two enemies shall be overcome by themselves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet of <i>Affrica</i> shall be born to the <i>Hungarians</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea and Land shall be horrid facts.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of this Stanza are plain, though the sense be something obscure.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nul de l’<i>Espagne</i>, mais de l’antique <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera esleu pour le tremblant nacelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A l’ennemy sera faicte fiance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui dans son Regne sera peste cruelle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">None out of <i>Spain</i>, but of the ancient <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be Elected to govern the tottering Ship.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The enemy shall be trusted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who to his Kingdom shall be a cruel plague.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses foretell a schisme in the Church of <i>Rome</i>, understood by a -tottering Ship, and that a <i>French-man</i> shall be Elected Pope to remedy it.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses are easie to be understood.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An que les Freres du Lys seront an Aage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Un d’euz tiendra la grand <i>Romanie</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembler les Monts ouvert <i>Latin</i> passage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bache</i> marcher contre Fort d’<i>Armenie</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that the Brethren of the Lillies shall be at Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One of them shall hold the great <i>Romanie</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Mountains shall tremble, the <i>Latine</i> passage shall be opened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Bassha</i> shall march against the Fort of <i>Armenia</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Brethren of the Lillies are meant the Heirs of the Crown of <i>France</i>; the -rest is plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_213"></a>[213]</span></p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La gent de <i>Dace</i>, d’<i>Angleterre</i>, & <i>Polone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et de <i>Boësme</i> feront nouvelle ligue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour passer outre d’<i>Hercules</i> la Colonne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barcins</i>, <i>Thyrrans</i> dresser cruelle brigue.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The people of <i>Dacia</i>, <i>England</i>, and <i>Poland</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of <i>Bohemia</i> shall make a new League,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To go beyond <i>Hercules</i> Pillars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barcins</i> and <i>Thyrrens</i> shall make a cruel plot.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Barcins</i> he means those of <i>Carthage</i>, which is now <i>Tunis</i>, and by the <i>Thyrrens</i>, -those that live near that Sea.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Roy sera qui donra l’opposite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les exilez eslevez sur le Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang nager la gent caste hyppolite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et florira long-temps sous telle enseigne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall be, who shall be opponent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the banished persons raised upon the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chast <i>Hippolite</i> Nation shall swim in blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall flourish a great while under such an Ensign.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is <i>Demorritus</i>’s Well where the truth may be, but I cannot find it.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Loy du <i>Sol</i>, & <i>Venus</i> contendans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appropriant l’Esprit de Prephetie:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne l’un ne l’autre ne seront entendus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Sol</i> tiendra la Loy du grand <i>Messie</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Law of the <i>Sun</i> and <i>Venus</i> contending,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appropriating the spirit of Prophecy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither one nor the other shall be heard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Sol</i> the Law of the great <i>Messias</i> shall subsist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is of the same obscurity with the foregoing one.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_214"></a>[214]</span></p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du pont <i>Euxine</i>, & la grand <i>Tartarie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Roy sera qui viendra voir la <i>Gaule</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Transpercera <i>Alane</i> & l’<i>Armenie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et dans Bisance Lairra sanglante <i>Gaule</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the <i>Euxin</i> Sea, and great <i>Tartaria</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall come to see <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall go through <i>Alanea</i> and <i>Armenia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall leave a bloody rod in <i>Constantinople</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so plain, that it needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De la felice <i>Arabie</i> contrade,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Maistra puissant de la loy Mahometique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vexer l’<i>Espagne</i>, conquestre la <i>Grenade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et plus par Mera la gent <i>Ligustique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of the Countrey of <i>Arabia</i> the happy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be born a powerful man of the Mahometan Law,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall vex <i>Spain</i> and conquer <i>Grenada</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by Sea shall come to the <i>Ligurian</i> Nation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Ligurian</i> Nation are those of <i>Genoa</i>.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le traspas du tres-vieillard Pontife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera esleu <i>Romain</i> de bon aage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui sera dit que le siege debiffe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et long tiendra & de picquant courage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the death of the very old high-Priest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be a <i>Roman</i> elected of good age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of whom it shall be said, that he dishonoureth the Seat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall live long, and be of a fierce courage.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense and the words are plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_215"></a>[215]</span></p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Istra du Mont <i>Gaulsier</i> & <i>Aventine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui par le trou advertira l’Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux Rocs sera prins le butin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Sext.</i> <i>Mansol</i> faillir la renommée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall go out of the Mountains <i>Gaulsier</i> and <i>Aventine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who through a hole shall give notice to the Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Rocks the booty shall be taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Sext.</i> <i>Mansol</i> shall loose his renown.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Mountains of <i>Gaulsier</i> and <i>Aventine</i> are two of the seven Mountains of <i>Rome</i>, -out of which, it seems, one shall go out to give notice to the Army without, and the -Booty of the <i>Pope</i>, called <i>Sextus</i>, shall be taken.</p> - -<p>But what he meaneth by <i>Mansol</i>, I am ignorant.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’Aqueduct d’<i>Uticense</i>, <i>Gardoing</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Forest & Mont inaccessible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Emmy du pont sera taché ou poing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La chef <i>Nemans</i> qui tant sera terrible.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Conduit of <i>Uticense</i> and <i>Gardoing</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the Forrest and unaccessible Mountain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the middle of the Bridge shall be tyed by the Wrist,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief <i>Nemans</i>, that shall be so terrible.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Conduit of <i>Gardoing</i>, he means that of the River <i>Gardon</i>, that passeth by -<i>Nismes</i>, where there is a famous Conduit.</p> - -<p>But what he meaneth by the chief <i>Nemans</i>, I cannot find.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au chef <i>Anglois</i> a <i>Nismes</i> trop sejour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devers l’<i>Espagne</i> au secours Ænobarbe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs mouront par Mars ouvert ce jour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand en <i>Artois</i> faillir estoile en Barbe.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_216"></a>[216]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief <i>English</i> shall stay too long at <i>Nismes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A red haird man shall go to the succours of <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many shall die by open War that day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in <i>Artois</i> the Star shall fail in the Beard.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All the difficulty lyeth in the last Verse: for my part I believe he meaneth by it -a bearded Comet, such as the Latines call <i>Cometa barbatus</i>.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par teste rase viendra bien mal eslire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus que sa charge ne porte passera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grand fureur & rage fera dire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qua feu & sang tout Sexe tranchera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a shaven head shall be made an ill choice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall go beyond his commission,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall proceed with so great fury and rage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he shall put both Sexes to fire and Sword.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By a shaven head must be understood a Priest of the <i>Romish</i> Religion; because -they all have their heads shaven.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant du grand nestant a sa naissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subjugera les hauts Monts <i>Apennins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera trembler tous ceux de la balance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Depuis Monts <i>Feurs</i> jusques a Mont <i>Senis</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Child of the great man that was not at his birth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall subdue the high <i>Apennine</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make all those under <i>Libra</i> to quake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From Mount <i>Feurs</i>, as far as Mount <i>Senis</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Apennine</i> Mountains, are those that divide <i>Italy</i> in two parts.</p> - -<p>Those under the Sign of <i>Libra</i> are the people of <i>France</i>. <i>Feurs</i> is a City in -<i>France</i>, in the Province of <i>Forrest</i>. Mount <i>Senis</i> is a high Mountain in -Savoy.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_217"></a>[217]</span></p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur les Rochers sang on verra pleuvoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sol Orient, <i>Saturne</i> Occidental,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres d’<i>Orgon</i> Guerre, a <i>Rome</i> grand mal voir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nefs parfondrées, & prins le Tridental.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall rain blood upon the Rocks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun being in the East, and <i>Saturn</i> in the West,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">War shall be near <i>Orgon</i>, and great evil at <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ships shall be cast away, and the Trident be taken.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find what he meaneth by <i>Orgon</i>. As by <i>the Trident being taken</i>, I suppose -he meaneth a Ship called <i>Neptune</i>, because <i>Neptune</i> is always painted with a -Trident.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De vaine emprise l’honneur indue plainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Galliots errants par <i>Latins</i> froid, faim vagues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loin du <i>Tybre</i> de sang la Terre teinte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et sur humains seront diverses plagues.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Honour bringeth a complaint against a vain undertaking,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Galleys shall wander through the <i>Latin</i> Seas, cold, hunger, Waves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from <i>Tyber</i> the Earth shall be died with blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And upon Mankind shall be several plagues.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tyber</i> is the River of <i>Rome</i>, the rest are several prodigies that shall come to pass.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les assembles par repos du grand nombre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Terre & Mer conseil contremandé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de l’<i>Autonne</i>, <i>Genes</i>, <i>Nue</i>, de lombre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Champs & Villes le Chef contrebandé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The gathered by the rest of the great numbers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Land and Sea shall recall their Councel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Autonne</i>, <i>Genes</i>, and <i>Nue</i> of the shadow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Fields and Towns the Chief shall be one against another.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This passeth my understanding.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_218"></a>[218]</span></p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Subit venu l’effrayeur sera grande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des principaux de l’affaire cachés:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Dame <i>Embraise</i> plus ne sera en veuë,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et peu a peu seront le grands fachés.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One coming upon a suddain shall cause a great fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Chief men that were hidden and concerned in the business,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Lady <i>Ambraise</i> shall be seen no more,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by little and little the great one shall be angry.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What he meaneth by the lady <i>Ambraise</i>, I cannot find, the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sous les antiques edifices <i>Vestaux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non esloignez d’<i>Aqueduct</i> ruiné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Sol & Lune sont les luissans metaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ardente Lampe <i>Trajan</i> d’or buriné.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the ancient edifices of the <i>Vestals</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from an <i>Aqueduct</i> ruinated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are the bright mettals of Sun and Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A burning Lamp of <i>Trajan</i> of ingraven gold.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Monsieur <i>Catel</i> in his second Book of <i>Languedoc</i> Chap. V. saith, that there was a -famous <i>Aqueduct</i>, which the <i>Romans</i> builded from the River <i>Gar</i> to the Town of -<i>Nismes</i>, which at present is ruinated.</p> - -<p>Secondly, Near the Town there was a famous Temple dedicated to <i>Diana</i>, where -there is a Spring of water so great, that it seemeth rather a Lake then a Fountain.</p> - -<p>Thirdly, I find that the Emperour <i>Adrian</i> caused a Temple to be built in the honour -of <i>Plotina</i> <i>Trajan</i>’s wife.</p> - -<p>Fourthly, He relateth that <i>Jean Poldo</i> found in the Town of <i>Aix</i> a Marble with -this inscription: <i><span class="antiqua">Plotina</span> <span class="antiqua">Trajanis</span> uxor, summa honestate & integritate fulgens, sterilitatis -defectu sine prole fecit conjugem, qui ejus opera <span class="antiqua">Adrianum</span> adoptatum in Imperio Successorem -habuit, a quo in beneficii memoriam Nemausi æde sacra maximo Sumptu, sublimique -structura, ac Hymnorum cantu decorata, post mortem donata est</i>: That is to say, -<i>Plotina</i>, <i>Trajans</i> wife, famous for her honesty and integrity, was barren and left no -Children to her Husband, which she perceiving, intreated the Emperour to adopt -<i>Adrian</i> for his Son, and to make him his Successor in the Empire, which being come -to pass, the new Emperour in acknowledgement of such a benefit, did build her a -Temple of a magnificent Structure, and caused it to be Consecrated with Musick -after her death.</p> - -<p>Fifthly, The said Author saith, that this Marble was taken out of that Temple, -when the River of <i>Gardon</i> did so overflow, as we have said.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_219"></a>[219]</span></p> - -<p>By all this we see, that there was a Temple of <i>Vestals</i> at <i>Nismes</i>, <i>Diana</i> the Maid -being their chief Patroness, which is made now a Nunnery, called <i>la Fontaine</i>. There is -also to be seen the Temple of <i>Plotina</i>, <i>Trajans</i> wife, built by <i>Adrian</i> his Successor. -And as it was the manner of the Ancients to put some of those inextinguishable -Lamps in their Graves; it is very likely, there was one of them in this Temple, and -because it should be known whose Grave it was, he caused <i>Trajans</i> name to be Engraven -in the foot of the said Lamp.</p> - -<p>Let us explain now the Stanza: <i>Under the Ancient Vestal buildings of the Temple -of <span class="antiqua">Diana</span>, not far from the ruined Aqueduct</i>, which carrieth the water from the River -<i>Gar</i> to <i>Nismes</i>, <i>shall be found shining mettals of <span class="antiqua">Sol</span> and <span class="antiqua">Luna</span></i>, that is, Meddals of gold -and silver, with <i>a burning Lamp of gold</i>, wherein the name of <i>Trajan</i> was Engraven. -Histories make mention of several burning Lamps in this manner, that have been -found still burning in the ground, and not consumed, though they had been there -above 500 years; certainly the Oil of it must have been incombustible, and could -be extracted out of nothing but gold, <i>quia nil dat quod non habet</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand Chef <i>Perouse</i> n’osera sa Tunique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sens au convert tout nud s’expolier:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront prins sept faict Aristocratique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere & Fils morts par poine te au collier.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Chief of <i>Perouse</i> shall not dare without a Tunick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To expose himself naked in the dark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven shall be taken for setting up Aristocracy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Father and the Son shall die by pricks in the Collar.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Perouse</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le <i>Danube</i> & le <i>Rhine</i> viendra boire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Chameau, ne sen repentira:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembler le <i>Rhosne</i> & plus fort ceux de <i>Loire</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et pres des <i>Alpes</i> Coq le ruinera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Danubius</i> and the <i>Rhine</i> shall come to drink,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Camel, and shall not repent;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Rhosne</i> shall tremble, and more those of <i>Loire</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And near the <i>Alpes</i> the Cock shall ruine him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth a great incursion of the <i>Turks</i> into <i>Germany</i>, insomuch that they -shall water their Camels in the Rivers of <i>Danubius</i>, and of the <i>Rhyne</i>, to the great -terrour of <i>France</i>, wherein those Rivers of <i>Rhosne</i> and <i>Loire</i> are.</p> - -<p>But the last Verse, saith the Cock; that is, the <i>French</i>, shall overcome and ruine the -<i>Turks</i>, near the Mountains of the <i>Alpes</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_220"></a>[220]</span></p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus ne sera le grand en saux sommeil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Inquietude viendra prendre repos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dresser Phalange d’Or, Azur, & vermeil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subjuguer <i>Affrique</i> & ronger jusqu’aux os.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one shall be no more in a false sleep,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The restlessness shall take rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall raise an Army of Gold and Azure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall conquer <i>Affrica</i> and gnaw it to the bones.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning some great Prince, who shall raise a powerful Army, and conquer -<i>Affrica</i> with it.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Regions subietes a la <i>Balance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront trembler les Monts par grande Guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captifs tout sexe, avec toute <i>Bizance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on criera a l’Aube Terre a Terre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Regions under the sign of <i>Libra</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make the Mountains quake with great War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Slaves of all sexes, with all <i>Bizance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that in the dawning of the day, they shall cry to Land to Land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth the destruction of <i>Constantinople</i>, anciently called <i>Byzantium</i>, by -those that live under the Sign of <i>Libra</i>, that is, the <i>Europeans</i>, and chiefly the -<i>French</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la fureur d’un qui attendra l’eau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la grand rage tout l’exercite esmeu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Charge des Nobles a dixsept Bateaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au long du <i>Rhosne</i> tard Messager venud.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the fury of one staying for the Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By his great rage the whole Army shall be troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be seventeen Boats full of Noblemen</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Along the <i>Rhosne</i>, the Messenger shall come too late.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_221"></a>[221]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour le plaisir d’Edict voluptueux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On meslera la poison dans la Loy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> sera en cours si vertueux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’obfusquera du Soleil tout alloy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the pleasure of a voluptuous proclamation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The poison shall be mixed in the Law,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> shall be in so great request,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That it shall darken all the allay of the Sun.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By a Proclamation, favouring or promoting Licentiousness, poison shall be mixed -in the Law, and leachery so much countenanced, as it shall obscurate the allay of the -Sun, that is, piety so much commended in the Gospel, to all those that will fight -under Christs Banner.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Persecutée sera de dien l’Eglise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les Saints Temples seront expoliez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant la mere mettra nud en chemise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront <i>Arabes</i> au <i>Polous</i> ralliez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Church of God shall be persecuted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the holy Temples shall be spoiled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Child shall turn out his Mother in her Smock,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arrabians</i> shall agree with the <i>Polonians</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author could not be mistaken in this Prophecie; for the Church of God -shall always be persecuted, the Apostle confirmeth it, when he saith, <i>that all those -that will live piously in Christ, must suffer persecution</i>: As for the spoiling of Churches, -and other barbarous actions, it hath been seen so often in <i>France</i>, in the time of the -Civil Wars for Religion, that it needeth no confirmation.</p> - -<p>The last Verse concerning a peace between the <i>Turks</i> and the <i>Polonians</i>, was fulfilled -in the year 1623. when <i>Sigismundus</i> King of <i>Poland</i>, by his Embassador the -Duke <i>Šbarasky</i>, and by the mediation of the <i>English</i> Embassador, concluded a Peace -with the great Turk <i>Mustapha</i>, the Articles of which you may read at large in the -<i>Turkish</i> History.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_222"></a>[222]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang <i>Trojen</i> naistra cœur <i>Germanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui deviendra en si haute puissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors chassera gent estrange <i>Arabique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tournant l’Eglise en pristine préeminence.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Trojan</i> blood shall be born a <i>German</i> heart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall attain to so high a power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he shall drive away the strange <i>Arrabian</i> Nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Restoring the Church to her former splendor.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth to signifie, that by Alliance made between a <i>German</i> Emperour, and -a Daughter of <i>France</i>, which derive their Pedigree from the <i>Trojans</i>, a Prince -shall be born of so stout and valiant a heart, as shall drive away all the <i>Turkish</i> power -out of <i>Germany</i>, and shall restore the Church to her former splendor.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Montera haut sur le bien plus a dextre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Demourra assis sur la pierre carrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vers le midy posé a la senestre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Baston tortu en main, bouche ferrée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall go up upon the good more on the right hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall stay sitting upon the square stone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards the South; being set, on the left hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A crooked stick in his hand, and his mouth shut.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I do acknowledge my Ignorance in this.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu libere tendra son Pavillon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et ne voudra en Citez prendre place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aix</i>, <i>Carpentras</i>, <i>Lisle</i>, <i>Volce</i>, <i>Mont Cavaillon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par tous ces lieux abolira sa trace.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall pitch his Tent in the open air,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Refusing to lodge in the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aix</i>, <i>Carpentras</i>, <i>Lisle</i>, <i>Volce</i>, <i>Mont Cavaillon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all those places, he shall abolish his trace.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_223"></a>[223]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Aix</i>, <i>Carpentras</i>, <i>Lisle</i> <i>Volce</i>, <i>Mont Cavaillon</i>, are Cities of <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous les degres d’honneur Ecclesiastique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront changez en Dial Quirinal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Martial, quirinal, Flaminique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis un Roy de <i>France</i> le rendra Vulcanal.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All the degrees of Ecclesiastical honour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be changed into a Dial Quirinal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into Martial, Quirinal, Flaminick;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, a King of <i>France</i> shall make it Vulcanal.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All what I can say upon this, is, that <i>Dialis</i> in Latine is a Priest of <i>Jupiter</i>, and -<i>Quirinal</i> is a Priest of <i>Romulus</i>, <i>Martial Flamen</i> is a Priest of <i>Mars</i>, <i>Vulcanal</i> is a -Priest of <i>Vulcan</i>, let the ingenious Reader make of all these the best construction -he can.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux unis ne tiendront longuement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et dans treize ans au Barbare <i>Satrape</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux deux costez feront tel perdement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’un benira la Barque & sa cappe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The two united shall not hold long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within thirteen years to the Barbarian <i>Satrape</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall cause such loss on both sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That one shall bless the Boat and its covering.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The word <i>Satrape</i> is a <i>Persian</i> word, signifying one of the Grandees at Court. By -the last Verse is meant, one that shall save his life and make his escape, by the means -of a covered Boat or Barge.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La sacree Pompe viendra baisser les aisles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la venue de grand Legislateur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Humble haussera, vexera les rebelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Naistra sur Terre aucun Æmulateur.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_224"></a>[224]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The sacred Pomp shall bow down her wings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the coming of the great Lawgiver,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall raise the humble and vex the rebellious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No Emulator of his shall be born.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to have a relation to the birth of Christ, or Christmas-day.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Ogmion</i> grande <i>Bizance</i> approchera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassée sera la Barbarique ligue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des deux Loix l’une unique lachera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barbare</i> & <i>France</i> en perpetuelle brigue.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Ogmion</i> shall come near great <i>Bizance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall expel the Barbarian League,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the two Laws, the wicked one shall yeild,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Barbarian</i>, and the <i>French</i> shall be in perpetual jar.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the word <i>Ogmion</i>, every where in his Book, the Author meaneth the King of -<i>France</i>, who according to his words shall come near <i>Constantinople</i>, and shall break -the Barbarian League, and of the two Laws, that is, the Christian and the Mahometan, -the Mahometan shall yield to the other.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Oyseau Royal sur la Cité solaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept mois devant fera nocturne augure:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mur d’Orient cherra Tonnerre esclaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept jours aux Portes les ennemies a l’heure.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Royal Bird upon the solar City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven Months together shall make a nocturn augury,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Eastern Wall shall fall, the Lightning shall shine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the enemies shall be at the Gate for seven days.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Royal Bird is meant an Eagle, which for seven days together shall be observed -upon some Eastern City, and shall be taken for a presage, that the Eastern -Wall of that City shall fall by Lightning, at which time the enemies shall be at the -Gate for seven days together.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_225"></a>[225]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au conclud pache hors de la Forteresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne sortira celuy en desespoir mis:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand ceux d’<i>Arbois</i>, de <i>Langres</i>, contre <i>Bresse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Auront mis <i>Dolle</i> bouscade d’ennemis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the agreement made, out of the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall not come he that was in despair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When those of <i>Arbois</i>, of <i>Langres</i>, against <i>Bresse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall have put in <i>Dolle</i> an Ambuscado of foes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense is, that according to the Articles or agreement made between the Besieger -of a Fort, and the Governour of it, the said Governour by despair will not -come out, and this shall happen, when those of <i>Arbois</i> and <i>Langres</i>, shall be against -those of <i>Bressia</i>, and shall have put an Ambuscado in the City of <i>Dolle</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux qui auront entreprins subvertir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nompareil Regne, puissant & invincible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront par fraude, nuicts trois advertir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le plus grand a Table lira Bible.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that shall have undertaken to subvert</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom that hath no equal in power and victories,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause by fraud, notice to be given for three nights together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the greatest shall be reading a Bible at the Table.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What place is meant by the unparalell’d Kingdom, the Author hath hid as well -from me as the Reader.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Naistre du Gouphre & Cité immesurée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nay de parens obscurs & tenebreux:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui la puissance du grand Roy reverée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voudra destruire par <i>Rouen</i> & <i>Eureux</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall be born out of the Gulf and the unmeasurable City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Born of Parents obscure and dark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who by the means of <i>Rouen</i> and <i>Eureux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will go about to destroy the power of the great King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_226"></a>[226]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Without doubt by this Gulf and unmeasured City the Author means <i>Paris</i>, by -reason of its greatness, and the multitude of its Inhabitants.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Sueves</i> & lieux circonvoisins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront en guerre pour cause des nuées:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gammares, locustes & cousins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Leman</i> fautes seront bien desnuées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through <i>Swedeland</i> and the Neighbouring places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By reason of the Clouds shall fall to War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lobstars, Grass-hoppers and Gnats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The faults of <i>Leman</i> shall appear very naked.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Leman</i> is meant the City of <i>Geneva</i>, the rest needeth no further interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les deux testes, & trois bras separez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité sera par eaux vexée;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Grands d’entre eux par esgarez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par teste <i>Perse</i> <i>Byzance</i> fort pressée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Divided in two heads and parted into three arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City shall be troubled with Waters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some great ones among them scattered by banishment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a <i>Persian</i> head <i>Byzance</i> shall be sore oppressed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy containeth three things, the first is an Inundation by which <i>Paris</i> -is threatened, for without doubt he meaneth here that City, at the head of which the -River <i>Seine</i> is divided in two heads, and makes an Island where the Cathedral Church -and the Palace are situated, and then parted into three branches, one of which runneth -by the Church of the <i>Augustines</i>, the other by the <i>Quay</i> of <i>la Megisserie</i>, and -the third passeth under the great Hospital; this City then is threatned here of an -Inundation, to which it is very subject, by reason of the lowness of her situation, -and the confluence of several Rivers that meet at the head of it. The second part of -the Prophecy hinteth that at that time, some great ones of that City shall be banished; -and the third, that <i>Constantinople</i>, which was anciently called <i>Byzantium</i>; or -rather the great Turk by a figure of Rhetorick, called <i>Synecdoche</i>, shall be much oppressed -by the <i>Persians</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_227"></a>[227]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An que <i>Saturne</i> hors de servage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au franc terroir sera d’eau inondé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sang <i>Troien</i> sera son mariage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et sera seur d’<i>Espagnols</i> circondé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year that <i>Saturn</i> out of slavery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the free Countrey shall be drowned by water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With <i>Troian</i> blood his marriage shall be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And for certain he shall be hedged about with <i>Spaniards</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Troian</i> blood is understood the <i>French</i> Nation, the meaning therefore is, that -in the year that a great Inundation shall be in <i>France</i>, then shall a notable marriage be -made, by which the <i>French</i> shall be hedged about, or fenced by <i>Spaniards</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Sablon par un hideux Deluge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des autres Mers trouvé Monstre Marin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche de lieu sera fait un refuge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tenant <i>Savone</i> esclave de <i>Turin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the sand through an hideous Deluge</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of other Seas, shall be found a Sea Monster,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near to that place shall be made a Sanctuary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall make <i>Savone</i> a slave to <i>Turin</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">When by the overflowing of the Neighbouring Seas, a Sea Monster shall be cast -upon the Sand, near to that Place shall be built a Fort, that shall make <i>Savona</i> a slave -to <i>Turin</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Savona</i> is a Town by the Sea side, belonging to the <i>Genoese</i>, <i>Turin</i> is the chief -City of <i>Piemont</i>, belonging to the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Hongrie</i> par <i>Boheme</i>, <i>Navarre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et par Banieres feintes seditious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par fleurs de Lis paix portant la barre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre <i>Orleans</i> fera esmotions.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_228"></a>[228]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Hungaria</i>, through <i>Bohemia</i> and <i>Navarre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by banners fained seditions,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through flower de Luce the Countrey that wears the Bar,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against <i>Orleans</i> shall make commotions.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is divided into two parts; the two first Verses foretell the troubles -that were to happen in <i>Hungaria</i>, <i>Bohemia</i>, and <i>Navarre</i> for Religion sake. The two -last ones were fulfilled, when the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, who in his Arms wears the flower -de Luce with the Bar, did seize upon <i>Orleans</i> for the Protestant party.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans les <i>Cyclades</i>, en <i>Corinthe</i>, & <i>Larisse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Sparte</i> tout le <i>Peloponese</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grand famine peste far faux conisse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neuf mois tiendra & tout le <i>Cherronesse</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Cyclades</i>, in <i>Corinthe</i>, and <i>Larisse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Sparta</i>, and all <i>Peloponesus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be so great a famine and plague by false arts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall last nine months in <i>Chersonesus</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Cyclades</i> are the Islands in the <i>Ægean</i> Sea; <i>Corinth</i>, <i>Larissa</i>, <i>Sparta</i>, <i>Peloponesus</i>, -and <i>Chersonesus</i>, are Countreys of <i>Grecia</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand marché qu’on dit des mensongers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De tout <i>Torrent</i> & Champ <i>Athenien</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront surpris par les Chevaux legers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des <i>Albanois</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Leo</i>, <i>Sat.</i> au <i>Versien</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the great Market called of the Liars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which is all <i>Torrent</i> and <i>Athenian</i> Field,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be surprised by the light Horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the <i>Albanese</i>, <i>Mars</i> in <i>Leo</i>, <i>Saturn</i> in <i>Aquarius</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">When <i>Mars</i> shall be in the sign of <i>Leo</i>, and <i>Saturn</i> in that of <i>Aquarius</i>, then the -Countrey of <i>Athens</i> shall be over-run by light Horsemen of <i>Albania</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_229"></a>[229]</span></p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres le siege tenu dixsept ans</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq changeront en tel revolu terme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis sera l’un esleu de mesme temps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui des <i>Romains</i> ne sera trop conforme.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the seat possessed seventeen years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Five shall change in such a space of time;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, one shall be elected at the same time,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall not be very conformable to the <i>Romans</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that when a Pope shall have sat in the Chair, for the space of 17 -years, within the same space of 17 years, five others shall be elected; and after them -another, that shall not be well approved of by the <i>Roman</i> Clergy, and Nobility. If -my memory doth not fail me, this is come to pass already; but wanting the Popes -Chronology, I could not make it good.</p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs le terroir du rond Globe Lunaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que sera dominateur <i>Mercure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Isle d’<i>Escosse</i> fera un Lumenaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que les <i>Anglois</i> mettra a desconfiture.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the Territory of the round Lunary Globe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Mercury</i> shall be Lord of the ascendant;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Island of <i>Scotland</i> shall make a Luminary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall put the <i>English</i> to an overthrow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie must of necessity be past; for since the union of both Kingdom -under one King, such a thing hath not happened, nor is it likely it should be hereafter.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Translatera en la grand <i>Germanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Brabant</i> & <i>Flanders</i>, <i>Gand</i>, <i>Bruges</i> & <i>Bologne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La trefue fainte le grand Duc d’<i>Armenie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assailera <i>Vienne</i> & la <i>Coloigne</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_230"></a>[230]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall translate into the great <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Brabant</i>, <i>Flanders</i>, <i>Gand</i>, <i>Bruges</i>, and <i>Bullen</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The truce fained, the great Duke of <i>Armenia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall assault <i>Vienna</i> and <i>Colen</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is concerning an Emperour that shall add all those Countreys to the Empire of -<i>Germany</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nautique rame invitera les umbres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand Empire lors viendra conciter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La mer <i>Ægee</i> des lignes des Encombres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Empeschant londe <i>Tirrhene</i> de fletter.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sea Oare shall invite the shades,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the great Empire, then shall it come to stir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Ægean</i> Sea, with lines of Encumbers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hindering the <i>Tirrhene</i> Sea to roll.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is either Mistical or Metaphorical, or I understand it not.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le milieu du grand monde la Rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour nouveaux faits sang public espandu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A dire uray on aura bouche close,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors au besoing viendra tard lattendu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Rose shall be in the middle of the great world,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood shall be publickly spilt for new deeds;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To say the truth, every one shall stop his mouth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then at the time of need shall come long looked for.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain, out of which every one may make what construction he -pleaseth.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le na difforme par horreur suffoqué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans la Cité du grand Roy habitable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’edit severy des captifs revoqué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gresle & Tonnerre, <i>Condon</i> inestimable.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_231"></a>[231]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The deformed born shall through horror be suffocated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the habitable City of the great King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The severe Proclamation against banished shall be recalled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hail and Thunder shall do inestimable harm at <i>Condon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Condon</i> is a Town in <i>France</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A quarante huit degré Climacterique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fin de <i>Cancer</i> si grande secheresse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poisson en Mer, Fleuve, Lac cuit hectique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bearn</i>, <i>Bigorre</i>, par feu Ciel en detresse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the Climacterical degree of eight and fourty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the end of <i>Cancer</i>, shall be such a drougth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That Fish in the Sea, River, and Lake shall be boiled to a consumption,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bearn</i> and <i>Bigorre</i> by Heavenly fire shall be in distress.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bearn</i> and <i>Bigorre</i> are two Provinces of <i>France</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Milan</i>, <i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Turin</i> & <i>Aquilee</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Capne</i>, <i>Brundis</i> vexez par gent <i>Celtique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Lion & Phalange <i>Aquilee</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Rome</i> aura le chef vieux <i>Britannique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Milan</i>, <i>Ferrara</i>, <i>Turin</i>, and <i>Aquileia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Capne</i>, <i>Brundis</i>, shall be vexed by the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Lion and troop of <i>Aquileia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Rome</i> shall have an old <i>Brittanick</i> Head.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Cities here mentioned are all in <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le boutefeu par son feu attrapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du feu du Ciel a <i>Tartas</i> & <i>Comminge</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Foix</i>, <i>Aux</i>, <i>Mazere</i>, haut vieillard escapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ceux de <i>Hess</i>, de <i>Saxe</i> & de <i>Turinge</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_232"></a>[232]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The incendiary shall be overtaken by his own fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heavenly fire shall fall at <i>Tartas</i> and <i>Cominge</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Foix</i>, <i>Auch</i>, <i>Mazerre</i>, a tall old man shall escape,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the means of those of <i>Hessia</i>, <i>Saxony</i>, and <i>Turinge</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tartas</i>, <i>Cominge</i>, <i>Foix</i>, <i>Auch</i>, <i>Mazere</i> are Towns in <i>France</i>. <i>Hessia</i>, <i>Saxony</i>, and -<i>Turinge</i> are Provinces of <i>Germany</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_233"></a>[233]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> VI</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-a.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Autour des Monts <i>Pyrenees</i> grand amas,</div> - <div class="verse">De gent estrange secourir Roy nouveau,</div> - <div class="verse">Pres de <i>Garonne</i> du grand Temple du <i>Mas</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Un <i>Romain</i> Chef le craindra dedans l’Eau.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">About the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains there shall be a great gathering</div> - <div class="verse">Of strange Nations to succour a new King;</div> - <div class="verse">Near <i>Garonne</i> and the great Temple of <i>Mas</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">A <i>Roman</i> Captain shall fear him in the Water.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains are those that part <i>Spain</i> from <i>France</i>; <i>Garonne</i> is the -River that runneth at <i>Bourdeaux</i>, it seemeth then, that upon that River a <i>Roman</i> -Captain shall stand in much fear of the new King before mentioned.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_234"></a>[234]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En la cinq cens octante plus & moins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On attendra le siecle bien estrange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En l’an sept cens & trois (cieux en tesmoins),</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regnes plusieurs un a cinq feront change.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year five hundred fourscore more or less,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a strange Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year seven hundred and three (witness Heaven),</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many Kingdoms, one to five shall be changed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What strange age it was in the year 1580. every one may satisfie himself by History. -As for the year 1703. our Author saith there will be great wonders, chiefly -there shall many changes be in Kingdoms, insomuch, that one shall be divided into -five.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleuve qu’esproune le nouveau nay <i>Celtique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera en grande de l’Empire discorde:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jeune Prince par gent Ecclesiastique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Sceptre osté Corone de concorde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The River that makes tryal of the new born <i>Celtick</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be at great variance with the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The young Prince shall be an Ecclesiastical person,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And have his Scepter taken off, and the Crown of concord.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This River is the River of <i>Rhyne</i>, because the ancient <i>French</i> when they had a -King newly born, they used to put him upon a Target, to make him swim upon that -River, to try whether by his swimming he was lawfully begotten or no; the meaning -therefore is, that this new born <i>Celtique</i> or <i>French</i> King shall be at variance with the -Empire, and that in his young years the Clergy shall take his Scepter and Crown -from him.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleuve <i>Celtique</i> changera de Rivage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus ne tiendra la Cité d’<i>Agripine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout transmué horsmis le viel Language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i>, <i>Leo</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Cancer</i> en rapine.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_235"></a>[235]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The River of the Low-Countreys shall change her Shoare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall touch no more the City of <i>Agrippina</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All shall be transformed, except the old Language,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i>, <i>Leo</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Cancer</i> in <i>Rapine</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a strange prediction, if it should prove true, that the <i>Rhine</i> should change -its course, and should touch no more the City of <i>Colen</i>, which is here called -<i>Agrippina</i>; because its name in Latine is <i>Colonia Agrippina</i>, being a Colony of the -<i>Romans</i>, built by <i>M. Agrippa</i>, son in Law to <i>Augustus</i>; others say by <i>Agrippina</i>, -Mother to the Emperour <i>Nero</i>.</p> - -<p>The last Verse signifieth no more than an unfortunate position and Aspect of -the two Planets, <i>Saturn</i> and <i>Mars</i>, and of the two Signs, <i>Leo</i> and -<i>Cancer</i>.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grand famine par une pestifere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par pluye longue le long du Pole <i>Artique</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Samarobryn</i> cent lieux de l’Hemisphere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vivront sans loy exempt de politique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So great a famine with a plague,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through a long Rain shall come along the <i>Artick</i> Pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Samarobryn</i> a hundred Leagues from the Hemisphere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall live without Law, exempt from pollicy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two last Verses foretel a great Plague and Famine that shall come from the -North, by the means of the long Rain.</p> - -<p><i>Samarobryn</i> he calls a people, that shall be a hundred Leagues from our Hemisphere, -and shall live without Law and Policy.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoistra vers le septentrion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loing de <i>Cancer</i> l’estoille cheveluë,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Suze</i>, <i>Sienne</i>, <i>Boëce</i>, <i>Eretrion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourra de <i>Rome</i> grand, la nuict disperuë.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards the North shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from <i>Cancer</i> a blazing Star,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Suza</i>, <i>Sienna</i>, <i>Boëce</i>, <i>Eretrion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall die at <i>Rome</i> a great man, the night being past.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_236"></a>[236]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here he foretelleth the apparition of a Commet that shall be vertical to the Cities -here named, and not far from the Sign of <i>Cancer</i>, at which time a great person -shall die at <i>Rome</i>, about the dawning of the day.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Norvege</i> & <i>Dace</i>, & l’Isle <i>Britannique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les unes freres seront vexées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le chef <i>Romain</i> issu du sang <i>Gallique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les copies aux forests repousées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Norvegia</i>, and <i>Dacia</i>, and the <i>Brittish</i> Island,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be vexed by the Brothers united.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Roman</i> Captain issued from <i>French</i> blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Forces shall be beaten back to the Forrest.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The difficulty lyes in the word <i>Brothers</i>, which I suppose to be the United Provinces. -The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux qui estoient en regne pour scavoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Royal change deviendront a pauvris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Uns exilez sans appuy, Or navoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lettréz & lettres ne seront a grand pris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that were in esteem for their learning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the change of a King shall become poor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some banished, without help, having no Gold,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Learned and learning shall not be much valued.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is clear enough, and here the Author hath said nothing, but what -doth commonly happen.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Temples Saints seront faits grands scandales,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Comptez seront peur honneurs & louanges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un que l’on grave d’Argent, d’Or les Medals,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La fin sera en tourmens bien estranges.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_237"></a>[237]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To the holy Temples shall be done great scandals,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall be accounted for honours and praises,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By one, whose medals are graven in Gold and Silver,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The end of it shall be in very strange torments.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here the Reader must understand that the Author was a <i>Roman</i> Catholick, and -therefore calleth Holy Temples, the Churches of the <i>Romish</i> Religion, which in the -beginning of the Civil Wars in <i>France</i>, were much abased by those of the Protestant -Religion, then called <i>Huguenots</i>, whose chief was <i>Henry</i> King of <i>Navarre</i>, who was -the only man amongst the Protestant party, that could have Money and Medals -coined to his stamp, as being King of <i>Navarre</i>. But the last Verse of this Prophecie -proved too true, when upon St. <i>Bartholomews</i> day, the 24 of <i>August</i>, in the year -1572. the general Massacre of the Protestants was made through <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu du temps les Temples des Couleurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De blanc & noir des deux entremislée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rouges & jaunes leur embleront les leurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang, terre, peste, faim, feu, eau affollée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while the Temples of the Colours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">White and Black shall be intermixt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Red and Yellow shall take away their Colours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, earth, plague, famine, fire, water shall destroy them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Temples of the Colours White and Black, I suppose he means that of -Peace, and of War; by the Red and Yellow, may be meant the Empire -of the <i>Sweads</i>, who shall be at variance together; and by their long War shall -bring the Plagues here mentioned, as it came to pass in the Wars of <i>Germany</i>, between -the Emperour and <i>Gustavus Adolphus</i>, King of the <i>Sweads</i>.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les sept rameaux a trois seront reduits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les plus aisnez seront surprins par morts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fratricider les deux seront seduits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Conjures en dormant seront morts.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The seven branches shall be reduced to three,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The eldest shall be surprised by death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two shall be said to kill their Brothers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Conspirators shall be killed, being asleep.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_238"></a>[238]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is apparent, that he speaks of seven Brethren, that shall be reduced to three, -whereof the eldest son shall be surprised by death, and two of the rest shall be said -to have murdered their Brother, the Conspirators shall afterwards be killed in their -sleep.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dresser Copie pour monter a l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Vatican</i> le sang Royal tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Flamens</i>, <i>Anglois</i>, <i>Espagne</i> aspire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre l’<i>Italie</i> & <i>France</i> contendra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To raise an Army, for to ascend unto the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the <i>Vatican</i>, the Royal blood shall endeavour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Flemings</i>, <i>English</i>, <i>Spain</i> shall aspire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall contend against <i>Italy</i> and <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This prediction signifies no more, but that there shall be a great commotion -among the Nations, of <i>Europe</i>, concerning the election of a Pope, which is called -here the Empire of the <i>Vatican</i>; because the <i>Vatican</i> is the Popes Palace in -<i>Rome</i>.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un dubieux ne viendra loing du regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La plus grand part le voudra soustenir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Capitole ne voudra point quil regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa grande Chaire ne pourra maintenir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A doubtful man shall not come far from the Reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest part will uphold him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Capitol will not consent that he should Reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His great Chair he shall not be able to maintain.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What should that doubtful man be, whom our Author doth mention here, is not -easie to be understood; but it seemeth that it shall be some body pretending to -the Popedom, who shall have a great party for himself, and yet for all that shall be -excluded, and not able to keep his Seat; so that this Prophecie is but the second part -of the foregoing; for they have both a relation together. The Capitol anciently -was the Citadel of <i>Rome</i>, and now is the place where the Courts of Judicature meet, -called <i>Campidoglio</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_239"></a>[239]</span></p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Loing de sa Terre Roy perdra la Bataille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prompt, eschapé poursuivy, suivant pris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignare pris soubs la dorée maille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs feint habit, & l’Ennemy surpris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from his Countrey the King shall loose a Battle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nimble, escaped, followed, following, taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignorantly taken under the gilded Coat of Mail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under a feigned habit the enemy taken.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1578. when <i>Don Sebastian</i> King of <i>Portugal</i>, -went into <i>Affrica</i>, to help and succour <i>Muley Hamet</i>, against <i>Muley Maluc</i>, that -had expelled him out of the Kingdom of <i>Fez</i> and <i>Morocco</i>, and there fought that famous -Battle of <i>Alcasserquibir</i>, wherein his whole Army was routed, and himself slain -by the <i>Moores</i>, and his body afterwards sold to the King of <i>Spain</i> for a 100000. -Crowns.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dessous la Tombe sera trouvé le Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’aura le pris par dessus <i>Nuremberg</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Espagnol</i> Roy en <i>Capricorne</i> mince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feinct & trahy par le grand <i>Vutitemberg</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the Tomb shall be found the Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall have a price above <i>Nuremberg</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>Spanish</i> King in <i>Capricorn</i> shall be thine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deceived and betrayed by the great <i>Vutitemberg</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We hear of no Prince that had that advantage upon <i>Nuremberg</i>, but only <i>Gustavus -Adolphus</i> King of <i>Sweden</i>, who took it. The last two Verses signifie no more, -then that the King of <i>Spain</i> shall be wasted at the time when the Sun is in <i>Capricorn</i>.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce que ravy sera du jeune Milve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Normans</i> de <i>France</i> & <i>Picardy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les noirs du Temple du lieu de <i>Negrisilve</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront aux Berge & feu de <i>Lombardie</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_240"></a>[240]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">That which shall be taken from the young Kite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the <i>Normans</i> of <i>France</i> and <i>Picardie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The black ones of the Temple of the place called black Forrest.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make a Rendezvouz, and a fire in <i>Lombardie</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that what the <i>Normans</i> and those of <i>Picardie</i> shall save from the -hand of a young conquering Prince, the same shall be imployed in building a Temple -in the black Forrest, which is that part of the Forrest of <i>Arden</i>, that lies near <i>Bohemia</i>, -and another part of it to build a House in <i>Lombardie</i>.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres les livres bruslez les Asiniers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contraints seront changer d’habits divers:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Saturnins</i> bruslez par les meusniers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors la pluspart qui ne sera convers.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Books shall be burnt, the Asses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be compelled several times to change their Cloaths,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Saturnins</i> shall be burnt by the Millers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except the greater part, that shall not be discovered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seems to foretell a persecution of ignorant men against the learned, after -which shall happen a confusion amongst the ignorant persons, who shall be forced to -disguise themselves.</p> - -<p>The last two Verses seem to be of the same sense, for by the <i>Saturnins</i> I understand -studious people, and by the <i>Millers</i> rude and unlearned persons.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les Physiques le grand Roy delaissé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par sort non art de l’Ebrieu est en vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy & son Genre au Regne hault pousé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grace donnée a gent qui Christ envie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great King being forsaken by Physicians,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be kept alive by the Magick and not by the art of a Jew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He, and his kindred shall be set at the top of the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grace shall be given to a Nation that envieth Christ.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This in plain words signifieth no more, but that a King shall be desparately sick -and forsaken by his <i>Physicians</i>, and shall recover by the help of a Jew, for which fact -those of that Nation shall be reestablished in his Countrey.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_241"></a>[241]</span></p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La vraye flamme engloutira la Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que voudra mettre les Innocens a feu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de l’aussaut l’exercite s’enflamme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand dans <i>Seville</i> monstre en Bœuf sera veu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The true flame shall swallow up the Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That went about to burn the guiltless,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Assault the Army shall be incouraged,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in <i>Seville</i>, a Monster like an Ox shall be seen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Seville</i> is the chiefest City of <i>Andalusia</i> a Province in <i>Spain</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Union feinte sera peu de durée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les uns changes reformez la plus part:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans les Vaisseaux sera gent endurée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors aura <i>Rome</i> un nouveau Leopart.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The feigned union shall not last long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some shall be changed, others for the most part reformed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Ships people shall be pen’d up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall <i>Rome</i> have a new Leopard.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">When the things contained in the three first Verses shall come to pass, then <i>Rome</i> -shall have a new Pope, expressed here by the word Leopard from the variousness, -that is, in his Pontifical Garments.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand ceux du Pole <i>Artique</i> unis ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Orient grand effrayeur & crainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu nouveau soustenu le grand tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rodes</i>, <i>Bisance</i> de sang <i>Barbare</i> taincte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When those of the <i>Artick</i> Pole shall be united together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be in the East a great fear and trembling,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One shall be newly Elected, that shall bear the brunt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rodes</i>, <i>Bisance</i>, shall be dy’d with <i>Barbarian</i> blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_242"></a>[242]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth an union between the <i>Europeans</i>, or Nations of the North against -the Eastern people, or Turks, and that the Christians shall make choice of such a -General, that shall make the East quake, and get such Victories, whereby <i>Rhodes</i> -and <i>Constantinople</i> shall be dyed with Turkish blood.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans la Terre du grand Temple Celique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neveu a <i>Londres</i> par paix feinte meurtry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Barque alors deviendra Schismatique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Liberté feinte sera au corne & cry.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the ground of the great Cœlestial Temple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Nephew at <i>London</i> by a fained peace shall be murdered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Boat at that time shall become Schismatical,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fained liberty shall be with <i>Hue and Cry</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I think that by the <i>great Cœlestial Temple</i>, he meaneth that of St. <i>Paul</i>, in which, -or in the ground about it, shall be murdered a Nephew by his Uncle, which shall -cause great divisions and dissensions in the City, compared here to a Boat, and that -a dissembled or fained liberty shall be proclaimed.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Despit de Roy, numismes descriez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuples seront esmeus contre leur Roy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paix fait nouveau, Saintes Loix empirées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rapis</i> onc fut en si piteux arroy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The despight of a King, and Coin being brought lower</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People shall rise against their King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace newly made, Holy Laws being made worse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rapis</i> was never in such a great disorder.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first thing here to be observed, is the word <i>Rapis</i>, which is the <i>Anagramme</i> of -<i>Paris</i>, which he saith was never in such a trouble before, as it shall be when the -people shall rebel against the King for hatred, and because he shall have put low the -price and intrinsical value of Coin and Money; he foretelleth also that there shall be -a new Peace made, and that the Holy Laws shall be much impaired.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> & le Sceptre se trouvera conjoint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dessoubs <i>Cancer</i> calamiteuse guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu apres sera nouveau Roy oingt.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui par long temps pacifiera la Terre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_243"></a>[243]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i> and the Scepter, being conjoyned together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under <i>Cancer</i> shall be a calamitous War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after a new King shall be anointed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who for a long time shall pacifie the Earth.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that when the Planet of <i>Mars</i> shall be in conjunction with -the constellation he calleth here the <i>Scepter</i>, that then shall be a very calamitous War. -The two last Verses are plain enough of themselves.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Mars</i> contraire sera la Monarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand Pescheur en trouble ruineux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jeune, noir, rouge prendra la Hierarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les proditeurs iront jour bruineux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Mars</i> contrary shall the Monarchy</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the great Fisherman, be brought into ruinous trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A young, black, red shall possess himself of the Hierarchy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Traitors shall undertake it on a misty day.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is concerning a certain Pope, signified here by the word of great -<i>Fisherman</i>; because in his Seal is graven a Fisherman, and therefore in all his Bulls -and Expeditions, it is always written, <i>Datum Romæ sub sigillo piscatoris</i>: this Pope then -it seemeth, shall be brought to ruine, and another it seemeth shall succeed him, having -here three Epithetes, <i>viz.</i> <i>Young</i>, <i>Black</i>, and <i>Red</i>, which signifieth, that against the -common election of Popes, he shall be elected young, and shall be Black in -his complexion, and Red in Cloaths, <i>viz.</i> a Cardinal. <i>Hierarchy</i> is a Greek word, -signifying Dominion over the Church. The last Verse needeth no explication, being -plain enough of it self.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quattre ans le siege quelque peu bien tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un surviendra libidineux de vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ravenna</i>, & <i>Pise</i>, <i>Verone</i> soustiendront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour eslever la Croix de Pape envie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Four years he shall keep the Papal seat pretty well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall succeed one of a libidinous life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ravenna</i>, <i>Pisa</i>, shall take <i>Verona</i>’s part,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To raise up the Popes Cross to Life.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_244"></a>[244]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prediction seemeth to have not only a relation to the foregoing, but also a -connexion; for the Author still handleth the matter of the Popedome, and saith, -that after that Pope shall have Reigned four years, there shall succeed one that shall -be notorious for debauchedness and lechery, and that those Towns he mentioneth -here (which are all in <i>Italy</i>) shall take the Popes part.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans les Isles de cinq fleuves a un,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le croissant du grand <i>Chyren Selin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les bruynes de l’air fureur de l’un,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six eschapez, chachez fardeaux de lin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Islands from five Rivers to one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the increase of great <i>Chyren Selin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Frost of the Air one shall under furious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six shall escape, hidden within bundles of Flax.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Chyren</i> by transposition is taken for <i>Henry</i>, and <i>Selin</i> for a King called so; because -it is the name of a <i>Turkish</i> Emperour: So that by this Stanza I suppose he means -<i>Henry</i> II. his Master, King of <i>France</i>. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Celtique</i> entrera dedans <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Menant amas d’exilez & bannis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Pasteur mettra a mort tout homme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui pour le Coq estoient aux <i>Alpes</i> unis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Celtique</i> shall enter into <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leading with him a great number of banished men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Shepheard shall put to death every man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That was united for the Cock near the <i>Alpes</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Because this word <i>Celtique</i> is often repeated in this Book, it would not be amiss -to satisfie the Reader of the meaning of it; it is properly the Nation of the <i>Flemings</i>, -and some others of the Low-Countreys as far as the <i>Mase</i> and the <i>Rhyne</i>, which -anciently were called <i>Galli Celtæ</i>. By <i>the great Shepheard</i>, is meant the Pope, and -by the <i>Cock</i> is meant the <i>French</i> Nation. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Veufve Sainte entendant les nouvelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De ses rameaux mis en perplex & trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui sera duit appaiser les querelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par son pourchas des Razes sera comble.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_245"></a>[245]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The holy Widow hearing the News</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of her Branches put in perplexity or trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall be skilfull in appeasing of quarrels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By his purchase shall make a heap of shaven heads.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>holy Widow</i>, is meant the City of <i>Rome</i>, which is called in <i>Italian</i>, <i>Roma la -santa</i>, because of the blood of so many Martyrs that hath been shed there, for the -maintenance of the Christian Religion, he calleth it a <i>Widow</i>; because at that time -there will be no Pope elected, and there shall be a kind of <i>interregnum</i>, as it always -happens when a Pope is dead, until the new one be elected. What he calleth here -Branches, are the Clergy men, and the shaven heads the Priests.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’apparence de feinte Saincteté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera trahy aux ennemis le siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nuit qu’on croioid dormir en seureté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Brabant</i> marcheront ceux de <i>Liege</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the appearance of a feigned holiness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The siege shall be betrayed to the enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a night that every one thought to be secure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Brabant</i> shall march those of <i>Liege</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Brabant</i> is one of the seventeen Provinces, and <i>Liege</i> is a great City upon the -River of <i>Maze</i>. The rest is not difficult.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy trouvera ce quil desiroit tant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand le Prelat sera repris a tort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Response au Duc le rendra mal content,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui dans <i>Milan</i> mettra plusieurs a mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall find what he so much longed for,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When a Prelate shall be censured wrongfully,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An answer to the Duke will make him discontented,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who in <i>Milan</i> shall put many to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is too indefinite, to admit of a particular sense; for there be so -many Prelates, so many Kings, so many Dukes, that it is not easie to fix upon any -particular one, and therefore we must leave this Stanza in <i>Democritus</i>’s Well.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_246"></a>[246]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par trahison de verges a mort battu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis surmonté sera par son desordre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conseil frivole au grand captif sentu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nez par fureur quand <i>Berich</i> viendra mordre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Treason one shall be beaten with rods to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the Traitor shall be overcome by his disorder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Prisoner shall try a frivilous Counsel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Berich</i> shall bite anothers nose through anger.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are so plain, that every one may make his own interpretation of -them.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa main derniere par <i>Alus</i> sanguinaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne le pourra par la Mer garentir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux fleuves craindra main militaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le noir l’Ireux le fera repentir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">His last hand bloody through <i>Alus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall not save him by Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Rivers he shall fear the military hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The black and Cholerick one shall make him repent.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to be concerning a bloody man, that had killed one <i>Alus</i>, and -sought to save himself by Sea; but was taken between two Rivers, and put to death -by the command of one that was a black and Cholerick man.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De feu volant la machination,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra troubler le Chef des Assiegez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans sera telle sedition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’en desespoir seront les profligez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The device of flying fire</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall trouble so much the Captain of the Besieged,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And within shall be such mutiny,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the Besieged shall be in despair.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Fort or Town besieged by an Enemy, who shall torment the besieged so -much with Bombs and Granadoes, and other flying fire, that they shall despair to -escape.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_247"></a>[247]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Rion</i> & proche <i>Blanchelaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aries</i>, <i>Taurus</i>, <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Leo</i>, <i>La Vierge</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i>, <i>Jupiter</i>, le <i>Sol</i> ardra grand plaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bois & Citez, Lettres cachez au Cierge.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Rion</i> going to <i>Blanchelaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aries</i>, <i>Taurus</i>, <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Leo</i>, <i>Virgo</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mars</i>, <i>Jupiter</i>, <i>Sol</i> shall burn a great Plain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Woods and Cities, Letters hidden in a wax Candle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of it is, that when by the virtues and meetings of the said Constellations, -a great plain shall be burnt by <i>Rion</i> (which is a City in <i>Auvergne</i>) that -then Letters shall be found hidden in a wax Candle.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne bien ne mal par bataille terrestre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne parviendra au confins de perouse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rebeller pise, <i>Florence</i> voir mal estre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy nuit blessé sur mulet a noire house.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither good nor evil by a Land-fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall reach to the Borders of <i>Perusa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pisa</i> shall rebel, <i>Florence</i> shall be in an ill case,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A King being upon his Mule shall be wounded in the night time.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Perusa</i>, <i>Pisa</i>, and <i>Florence</i> are Cities in Italy; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’œuvre ancienne se parachevera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du toit cherra sur le grand mal ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Innocent fait, mort on accusera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nocent caché taillis a bruine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The ancient work shall be finished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the tiling shall fall upon the great one an evil ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The innocent declared to be so, shall be accused after his death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The guilty shall be hidden in a wood in a misty weather.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_248"></a>[248]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the first Verse is understood an ancient building, which shall be finished and -brought to perfection, I suppose it to be the <i>Louvere</i>, which hath been a building in -the Reign of seven Kings. But before it be throughly finished, some ruine shall fall -upon a great man and kill him; one declared innocent of the fact shall be accused of -it after his death, and he that shall be guilty of it shall escape by hiding himself in a -Wood in misty weather.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux profligez de Paix les ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres avoir l’<i>Italie</i> superée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noir sanguinaire, rouge sera commis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, sang verser, eau de sang colorée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To the vanquished the enemies of peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After they shall have overcome <i>Italy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A bloody black one shall be committed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire and blood shall be powerd, and water coloured with blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A bloody black man shall be put into the hands of the vanquished, by those that -were enemies to peace, after they have conquered <i>Italy</i>, whence shall proceed fire -and blood, and water coloured with blood.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant du Regne par Paternelle prinse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Expolier sera pour delivrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du Lac <i>Trasym</i> en la Tour prinse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La troupe hostage pour trop fort s’enyvrer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Child of the Kingdom, through his Fathers imprisonement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be deprived of his Kingdom for the delivering of his father,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Lake <i>Trasymene</i> shall be taken in a Tower,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The troop that was in Hostage, being drunk.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Lake <i>Trasymene</i> in <i>Italy</i>, is that near which <i>Annibal</i> got that famous Battle -upon the <i>Romans</i>. The rest is as plain as the words can bear.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand de <i>Mogonce</i> pour grande soif esteindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera privé de sa grand dignité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Cologne</i> si fort le viendront plaindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que le grand <i>Groppe</i> au <i>Rhin</i> sera jetté.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_249"></a>[249]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Ments</i> for to quench a great thirst,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be deprived of his high dignity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Colen</i> shall bemoan him so much.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the great <i>Groppe</i> shall be thrown into the <i>Rhine</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth the fall of an Archbishop of <i>Ments</i>, in Latine <i>Moguntia</i>, who is -the first Ecclesiastical Elector, and shall be deprived of his dignity by a covetous -and powerful Prince to satisfie his covetousness, at which those of <i>Colen</i> his neighbours -shall be so incensed, that they shall throw that covetous person into the <i>Rhine</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les second Chef du Regne <i>Dannemark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ceux de <i>Frize</i> & l’Isle <i>Britannique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera despendre plus de cent mille mark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vain exploiter voiage en <i>Italique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The second head of the Kingdom of <i>Dannemark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By those of <i>Friezeland</i>, and the <i>Brittish</i> Island,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause to be spent above 100000. Mark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vainly endeavouring a journey into <i>Italy</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth onely a conjunction of the <i>Dutch</i>, <i>Danish</i>, and <i>English</i> Forces, to -attempt something in <i>Italy</i>, which shall prove fruitless, and cost a great deal of -Money.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A l’<i>Ogmion</i> sera laissé le Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand <i>Selin</i>, qui plus fera de fait,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’<i>Italie</i> estendra son enseigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regira par prudent contrefait.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Unto l’<i>Ogmion</i> shall be left the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of great <i>Selyn</i>, who shall do more then the rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through <i>Italy</i> he shall spread his Ensigns,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall govern by a prudent dissimulation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We have said before, that when ever the Author speaks of <i>Ognion</i>, he meaneth -the King of <i>France</i>, the meaning therefore of this whole Stanza is, that <i>Henry</i> the -II. Son to <i>Francis</i> the I. whom he calls here great <i>Selin</i>, shall do more in <i>Italy</i> then -his Predecessors had done, which proved true, and he governed his Kingdom with a -prudent dissimulation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_250"></a>[250]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps sera sans estre habitée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou <i>Siene</i> & <i>Marne</i> autour vient arrouser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la <i>Thamise</i> & Martiaux tentée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deceus les gardes en evidant repousser.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great while shall be unhabited,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where <i>Seine</i>, and <i>Marne</i> comes to water about,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being attempted by the <i>Thames</i> and Martial people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Guards deceived in thinking to resist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the two first Verses, he meaneth without doubt the City of <i>Paris</i>, for it is -watered by those two Rivers the <i>Seine</i> and <i>Marne</i>, that joyn together at the head of -it, but how this City should become unhabited is the great question, and chiefly by -the means here alledged, <i>viz.</i> of the <i>English</i> signified by the <i>Thames</i>, and other Martial -people, <i>the Guards deceived in thinking to repulse</i> the enemy.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuict par <i>Nantes</i> l’Iris apparoistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des Arcs Marins susciteront la pluye:</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arabique</i> Goulfre grand classe parfondra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Monstre en <i>Saxe</i> naistre d’Ours & Truye.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By night in <i>Nantes</i> the Rain-bow shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sea Rain-bows shall cause Rain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Arabian</i> Gulf shall drownd a great Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Monster shall be in <i>Saxony</i> from a Bear and a Sow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nantes</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, <i>Iris</i> is the Rainbow, <i>Saxony</i> is a Province in <i>Germany</i>; -the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Governeur du Regne bien scavent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne consentir voulant au faict Royal:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Medite classe par le contraire vent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le remettra a son plus desloyal.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Governour of the Kingdom being learned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall not consent to the Kings will:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall intend to set out a Fleet by a contrary Wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which he shall put into the hands of the most disloyal.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_251"></a>[251]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies that the Governour or Vice-Roy of a Kingdom shall refuse to consent -to his Kings Deeds; the rest needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Unjuste sera en exil Anvoyé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par pestilance aux confins de non seggle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Response au rouge le fera desvoye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy retirant a la Rane & a l’Aigle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A just person shall be banished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By plague to the Borders of Non seggle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The answer to the red one shall make him deviate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Retiring himself to the Frog and the Eagle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I cannot find what he meaneth by <i>Non-seggle</i>; by the Eagle he meaneth the Emperour, -and by the Frog the King of <i>France</i>, for before he took the Flower de Luce, -the <i>French</i> bore three Frogs.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux Monts les deux grands Assemblez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De laisseront leur simulte secrete,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bruxelle</i> & <i>Dolle</i> par <i>Langres</i> accablez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour a <i>Maline</i> executer leur peste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Mountains the two great ones shall meet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall forsake their secret enmity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Brusselle</i> and <i>Dolle</i> shall be crushed by <i>Langres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To put their plague in Execution at <i>Maline</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Brussel</i> is a Town of <i>Brabant</i>, and so is <i>Maline</i>; <i>Dolle</i> is one of <i>Burgundy</i>; and -<i>Langres</i> another of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La saincteté trop faincte & seductive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagne d’une langue diserte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité vieille, & <i>Parme</i> trop nastive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Florence</i> & <i>Sienne</i> rendront plus desertes.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_252"></a>[252]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The fained and seducing holiness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompanied with a fluent tongue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the old City, and too hasty <i>Parma</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Florence</i> and <i>Sienna</i> to be more desert.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I know not what he means by the old City, unless it be <i>Rome</i>, by reason of its -antiquity.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De la partie de <i>Mammer</i> grand Pontife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subjuguera les confins du <i>Danube</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chasser les croix, par fer raffe ne riffe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captifs, Or, bagues, plus de cent mille Rubles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the party of <i>Mammer</i> high Priest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall subdue the borders of <i>Danubius</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall expel crosses, by Sword topse-turvy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Slaves, Gold, Jewels, more than 100000. Rubles.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Some parties of the Popes side, shall subdue those bordering upon <i>Danubius</i>, and -drive away the Priests, turn all things topse-turvy, make slaves, and take a booty -above the value of 100000. Rubles. A Ruble is a piece of Gold of the great <i>Mogul</i>, -worth two or three pound sterling.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le puis seront trouvez les os,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se l’inceste commis par la Marastre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’estat changé, en fera bruit des os,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et aura <i>Mars</i> ascendant pour son astre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Well shall be found the bones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Incest shall be committed by the Stepmother,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The case being altered, there shall be great stir about the bones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And she shall have <i>Mars</i> for her ascending Planet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is the strange wickedness of a woman, that shall incestuously be got with Child -by her Son in Law, and when she is delivered, shall kill her Child, and throw him -into a Well; a while after the water beginning to corrupt, a search shall be made of -the cause, and then the Childs Bones shall be found, which shall cause a great stir, -and for to know this wicked woman, he saith, that the Planet of <i>Mars</i> shall be the -ascendant in her Horoscope.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_253"></a>[253]</span></p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple assemble voir nouveau spectacle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Princes & Roys par plusieurs assistans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Piliers faillir, murs, mais comme miracle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy fauve & trente des instans.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">People assembled to see a new show,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Princes and Kings, with many assistants,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pillars shall fail, walls also, but as a miracle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King saved, and thirty of the standers by.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of this prediction are plain and easie, and signifie no more than what -often happeneth, and may happen yet, <i>viz.</i> that where a concourse of people shall -be to see a new show, the Pillars and walls of the Building shall fall, and people -perish by the ruine, (as if it were by a Miracle) the King and thirty of the spectators -shall be preserved.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu du grand qui sera condamné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De prison hors, son amy en sa place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’espoir <i>Troyen</i> en six mois joinct, mort né,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Sol</i> a l’<i>Vurne</i> seront prins fleuves en glace.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Instead of the great one that shall be condemned</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put out of Prison, his friend being in his place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Trojan</i> hope in six months joyn, still born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Sun</i> in <i>Aquarius</i>, then Rivers shall be frozen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Trojan</i> hope, is meant a King of <i>France</i>, who after he hath been marryed -six Months, shall have a Child still born.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Prelat <i>Celtique</i> a Roy suspect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuict par cours sortira hors du Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Duc fertile a son grand Roy <i>Bretagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bisance</i> a <i>Cypres</i>, & <i>Tunis</i> insuspect.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Celtique</i> Prelate suspected by his King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall in hast by night go out of the Kingdom</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the means of a Duke the fruitful <i>Britanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bisance</i> by <i>Cyprus</i>, and <i>Tunis</i> shall be unsuspected.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_254"></a>[254]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The great <i>Celtique</i> Prelate, was the Cardinal of <i>Lorrain</i>, Brother to the Duke of -<i>Guizse</i>, who being suspected by the King, went away by night to <i>Rome</i>.</p> - -<p>By fruitfull <i>Brittain</i>, is understood the province of that name in <i>France</i>, which by -the means of the Duke of <i>Mercure</i>, her Governour shall be unsuspected by the -King.</p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au point du jours au second chant du Coq,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Tunes</i>, de <i>Fez</i>, & de <i>Bugie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Arabes</i> captif le Roy <i>Maroq</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’an mil six cens & sept, de Liturgie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the break of day, at the second crowing of the Cock,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Tunis</i>, and <i>Fez</i>, and <i>Bugia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By means of the <i>Arabians</i>, shall take Prisoner the King of <i>Morocco</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year 1607. by Liturgie.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Liturgie</i>, I suppose he meaneth under pretext of Religion. The rest is easie -to be understood.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Chelme</i> Duc, en arrachant l’esponce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voile <i>Arabesque</i> voir, subit descouverte:</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tripolis</i>, <i>Chio</i>, & ceux de <i>Trapesonce</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Duc prins, <i>Marnegro</i>, & la Cité deserte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Chelme</i> Duke, in pulling a spunge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall see <i>Arabian</i> Sails suddenly discovered:</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tripolis</i>, <i>Chios</i>, and those of <i>Trapesan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke shall be taken, <i>Marnegro</i> and the City shall be desert.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Chelme</i> is a <i>German</i> word, that signifies a Rogue. By <i>Marnegro</i>, is meant the -Black Sea, or <i>Nigropont</i>. By pulling a Spunge, I suppose the great quantity of -Spunges that stick to the Rocks in that Sea.</p> - -<p><i>Tripolis</i>, <i>Chios</i>, and <i>Trapezon</i>, are places in the <i>Turkish</i> Dominions.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La crainte Armée de l’ennemy <i>Narbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Effroyera si fort les <i>Hesperiques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Parpignan</i> vuide par l’aveugle d’<i>Arbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors <i>Barcelon</i> par Mer donra les piques.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_255"></a>[255]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The feared Army of the enemy <i>Narbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall so much terrifie the <i>Spaniards</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>Parpignan</i> shall be left empty by the blind d’<i>Arbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then <i>Barcelon</i> by Sea shall give the Chase.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A great Army gathered about <i>Narbon</i>, shall so much terrifie the <i>Spaniards</i>, that -<i>Parpignan</i> a Town of theirs shall be desolate, and left empty by the Governour, here -called <i>the blind d’Arbon</i>, then <i>Barcelon</i>, which is a Sea-Town in <i>Catalonio</i>, belonging -to the <i>Spaniards</i> shall come to its succours, and chase the enemy by Sea.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’estoit bien avant dans le Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ayant Chef rouge proche a la Hierarchie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aspre & cruel, & se fera tant craindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Succedera a sacrée Monarchie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that was a great way in the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Having a red head and near the Hierarchy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Harsh and cruel, shall make himself so dreadful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he shall succeed to the Sacred Monarchy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a person of great quality, and near of blood to a King, who being a Cardinal, -cruel and dreadful, shall be Elected Pope, I suppose <i>Clement</i> the VII.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre les deux Monarques esloignez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que le Sol par <i>Selin</i> clair perdue:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Simulté grande entre deux indignez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’aux Isles & <i>Sienne</i> la liberté renduë.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between the two Monarchs that live far one from the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Sun shall be Ecclipsed by <i>Selene</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great enmity shall be between them two,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that liberty shall be restored to the Isles and <i>Sienne</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is nothing difficult but the word <i>Selene</i>, which is the Moon from the Greek -σεληνη.</p> - -<p>The meaning is, that at such a time when the Sun is Ecclipsed by the Moon, <i>Sienna</i> -and the Islands about it shall be at liberty.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_256"></a>[256]</span></p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame en fureur par rage d’adultere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra a son Prince conjurer non dire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais bref cogneu sera le vitupere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que seront mis dixsept a Martyre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Lady in fury by rage of an Adultery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to her Prince and conjure him to say nothing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But shortly shall the shameful thing be known,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that seventeen shall be put to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this Stanza and the words are plain.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Prince hors de son Terroir <i>Celtique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera trahy, deceu par interprete,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouen</i>, <i>Rochelle</i>, par ceux de l’<i>Armorique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Port de <i>Blavet</i> deceux par Moin & Prestre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">That Prince being out of his <i>Celtick</i> Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be betrayed and deceived by an Interpreter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rouen</i>, <i>Rochel</i>, by those of <i>Gascony</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the Port of <i>Blavet</i> shall be deceived by Monk and Priest.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We have said many times before, what is meant by the word <i>Celtique</i>. The Port -of <i>Blavet</i> is that of the River of <i>Bordeaux</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Tapis plié ne monstrera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fors qu’a demy la pluspart de l’Histoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassé du Regne aspre loin paroistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au fait Bellique chacun le viendra croire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Carpet folded shall not shew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But by half the greatest part of the History,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The driven out of the Kingdom shall appear sharp afar off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Warlike matters every one shall believe him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_257"></a>[257]</span></p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trop tard tous deux les fleurs seront perdües,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre lay loy Serpent ne voudra faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des ligueurs forces par gallops confondues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Savone</i>, <i>Albingue</i>, par <i>Monech</i> grand martyre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Both the flowers shall be lost too late,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the Law the Serpent will do nothing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The forces of the Leaguers by gallops shall be confounded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Savone</i>, <i>Albingue</i>, by <i>Monech</i> shall suffer great pain.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first verses are too mistical for me; the third signifieth, that by gallops; -that is, by Troops of Horses, the Leaguers, <i>viz.</i> those that held the party of the -League, shall be routed by the Kings Cavalry. The fourth, that <i>Savone</i> and -<i>Albingue</i>, two Towns of the <i>Genoeses</i>, shall be put to much trouble by those of <i>Monech</i> -and <i>Monaco</i>, another Town near them, belonging to the Prince of <i>Monaco</i>, a <i>Genoese</i> -of the house of <i>Grimald</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Dame seule au Regne demurée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’unique esteint premier au lict d’honneur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept ans sera de douleur epleurée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis longue vie au regne par bonheur.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lady shall be left to reign alone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The only one being extinguished, first in the Bed of Honour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven years she shall weep for grief,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that she shall live long in the Reign by good luck.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The second and fourth Verses perswade me, that this Stanza came to pass in the time -of <i>Catharine</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, wife to <i>Henry</i> II. because she lived long, and the King -died in the bed of Honour, and thus he saith, <i>that she was left to Reign alone</i>; because -her four Sons were all little ones, so that she alone was Regent in <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p>The second Verse saith, <i>The holy one being extinguished, first, in the Bed of Honour</i>.</p> - -<p>By this word <i>the only one</i>, the Author meaneth not the only Son, but the only one -living, such as <i>Henry</i> II. was to her, <i>who was extinguished in the Bed of Honour</i>, and -died of the wound he received at Tilting.</p> - -<p>The third Verse saith, that after his death, her mourning lasted seven years, -that is, from the first of <i>August</i> 1559. to the first of <i>August</i> 1566. because that all -those 16 Months that <i>Francis</i> II. she had nothing but continual sorrow, by the conspiracy -of <i>Amboise</i>, the secret practises of the King of <i>Navarre</i>, and Prince of <i>Condé</i> -his Brother, by the insurrection of the Protestants, when <i>Charles</i> IX. visited his -Kingdom, <i>Anno</i> 1556. after which she put off her mourning.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse signifieth, that she should be long lived; for she lived above<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_258"></a>[258]</span> -60 years, He saith also, that she was Regent by great luck, that is, great luck for her -self, but not for the Kingdom, for it was most unhappy in her time.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">On ne tiendra pache aucun arresté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous recevants iront par tromperie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De trefue & paix, Terre & Mer protesté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Barcelone</i> classe prins d’industrie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">No agreement shall be kept,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All those that shall admit of it deal falsly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be protestations made by Land and Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barcelone</i> shall take a Fleet by craft.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a description of the sad and calamitous estate of <i>France</i>, in the time of the -Civil wars, when no agreement could be kept on the <i>Roman</i> Catholicks side, witness -the several Peaces that were made and broken, the Massacre of <i>Vassa</i>, and that infamous -perfidy committed by them on St. <i>Bartholomews</i> day, being the 24 of <i>August</i>, -<i>Anno</i> 1572.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gris & bureau demy ouverte guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit seront assaillis & pillez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le bureau prins passera par la serre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son Temple ouvert, deux au plastre grillez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between the Gray and sad Gray shall be half open War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night they shall be assaulted and plundered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sad Gray being taken, shall be put in Custody,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Temple shall be open, two shall be put in the Grate.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza affordeth us a commical History, which is, that about the year 1601. -when there sprang up in <i>France</i> a Kind of Friers, who bosted themselves to be -the true observers of the Rule of St. <i>Francis</i>, and that the Cordeliers and Capushines -did not keep it so exactly, but they had need of a great reformation; the King <i>Henry</i> IV. -granted them a Convent at <i>Beaufort</i>, and upon his example many other places desired -them, they went to possess themselves of the house of <i>la Blamet</i>, near <i>Angiers</i>; but -the Cordeliers being loath to be dispossessed by these new comers, called <i>Recollets</i>, did -besiege them by main force, broke open the Gates, scaled the Walls, the besieged -did not defend themselves by words or exorcismes, but with good Stones and Flints, -so that if the people had not come, the fray would not have ended without murder, -some of them were put in Prison, others kept in Custody: this is the meaning of -the Author, when he saith, <i>There will be half an open War between the Gray and the sad -Gray</i>; for the Cordeliers have a Gray habit, and the Recollets a sad Gray.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_259"></a>[259]</span></p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au fondement de nouvelle secte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront les os du grand <i>Romain</i> trouvez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sepulchre en Marbre, apparoistra converte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Terre trembler en <i>Auril</i> mal enfeüvez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the foundation of a new sect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bones of the great <i>Roman</i> shall be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sepulchre shall appear covered with Marble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Earth shall quake in <i>April</i>, they shall be ill buried.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that when they shall go about to make a foundation of a house, -for a new Sect of Friers; they shall find the bones of a famous <i>Roman</i> in a Marble -Sepulchre, and that in <i>April</i> the Earth shall quake, whereby many shall be swallowed -up.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand Empire par viendra tout un autres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bonté distant plees de felicité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rege par un issu non loing du peautre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corruer Regnes grande infelicité.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To the great Empire quite another shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being farther from goodness and happiness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Governed by one of base parentage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom shall fall, a great unhappiness.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que Soldats fureur seditieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre leur Chef seront denuit fer livre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ennemy d’<i>Albe</i> doibt par main furieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors vexer <i>Rome</i> & principaux seduire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the seditious fury of the Souldiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against their Chief shall make the Iron shine by night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The enemy d’<i>Albe</i> shall by a furious hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then vex <i>Rome</i>, and seduce the principal one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_260"></a>[260]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Lord <i>de Thou</i> doth judiciously observe, that the Pope being unacquainted -with things belonging to War, as to Money, Victuals, and Ammunition, was easily -persuaded by Cardinal <i>Caraffa</i> to make war against <i>Spain</i>, for without being provided -of all these things, he put his Armies into the Field, <i>nec satis perpendens quám a pecuniâ, -milite ac cæteris rebus ad bellum necessariis imparatus intempestive arma sumeret</i>.</p> - -<p>In the 15. Book of his History: the Duke of <i>Vrbin</i> had commission to raise 6000. -Foot and 300. Horses in the Dukedom of <i>Spoleto</i>, and in <i>Mark</i> of <i>Ancona</i>. <i>John -Caraffe</i> the Popes Nephew was made General of the Army, and being but Earl of -<i>Mortor</i>, was Created Duke of <i>Palliano</i>, by the confiscation of the goods of <i>Mark -Antony Colonna</i>. <i>Camillo Ursini</i> was made General of the Forces in <i>Rome</i>, and in the -Territory thereof; <i>Blasius</i> of <i>Monluc</i>, the <i>Mars</i> of his time, and by birth a <i>Gascon</i>, was -sent by the King to help (with his advice and courage) the <i>Romans</i>, who are always fitter -for the Breviary, then for the Sword.</p> - -<p>Besides these Forces raised within the Church Dominions, <i>Charles Caraffa</i> gathered -all the Bandittes of <i>Naples</i> and <i>Florence</i>, and raised some Regiments of <i>Switzers</i> -that came to succour the Pope.</p> - -<p>With these Troops the Pope seized upon the most important places and persons -belonging to the <i>Spanish</i> party, as the <i>Coloneses</i> and the <i>Vitelly</i>.</p> - -<p>These asked succours of the Emperour <i>Charles</i> the V. who presently commanded -<i>Ferdinand</i> of <i>Toledo</i> Duke of <i>Alba</i> to succour them. He was then tasked in the <i>Piemont</i> -and <i>Milanes</i>, to resist the <i>French</i> that were then under the conduct of the Marshal -of <i>Brissac</i>.</p> - -<p>To conclude his design the better, he wrote many Letters to the Pope and the -Colledge of Cardinals, full of respect and submission, desiring them to moderate -their passion against the <i>Spanish</i> party, but the Pope being angry by several reports, -answered him, complaining of many things, which made the Duke resolve to the -war, and to be there in person.</p> - -<p>He took his occasion as a prudent Captain, when the news was brought to him -that the Popes Forces were in mutiny against their General for want of pay, and -made a great tumult in the night, hearing that he was approaching with a great train -of Artillery. <i>Bzovius</i> saith, that the Earl of <i>Montor</i> regarded more his profit then -the Popes Interest, and kept back a great part of the money that was to pay the -Souldiers, whence proceeded this tumult, which helped much the Duke of <i>Alva</i>’s -business.</p> - -<p>This is the explanation of the two first Verses of this Stanza, concerning the mutiny -of the Souldiers that were in the Popes service, during which mutiny the enemy -d’<i>Alba</i> did not fail to vex Rome; this word the enemy d’<i>Alba</i> doth not signifie the enemy -of the Duke of <i>Alba</i>, as if one should say in Latine <i>Hostis Albanus</i>. He did then -vex <i>Rome</i>; for in a short time he took <i>Ponte Corvino</i>, <i>Frusino Anagnia</i>, <i>Marino</i>, <i>Lavaci</i>, -<i>Prœneste</i>, <i>Tivoli</i>, <i>Ostia</i>, <i>Neptuno</i>, <i>Alba Vico-Varro</i>, <i>Monte Fortino</i>, and almost all the -places of the <i>Roman</i> Territory.</p> - -<p>This did streighten <i>Rome</i> so much, that the General <i>Camillo Ursini</i> made several -Trenches within the Walls of <i>Rome</i>, instead of preserving the outworks, as <i>Montluc</i> -would have persuaded him to do; the alarums were so great at <i>Rome</i>, that <i>Montluc</i> -was fain to encourage the <i>Romans</i>, and to make a Warlike Speech to them, which is -inserted in his Works.</p> - -<p>Moreover, the same Duke began to seduce the Principals of <i>Rome</i> by his friends -that he had in it, but particularly by the cheat that he put upon the Pope; for his design -being to prevent the <i>French</i> Forces, and to surprize the Pope, he resolved to go -streight to <i>Rome</i>, and to bring his design the better to pass, he sent <i>Pyrrhus Coffrede</i> to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_261"></a>[261]</span> -the Pope, to see if there was any way of agreement, to the end that upon this proposition -the Pope should mistrust nothing. In the mean time the Duke of <i>Alba</i> was -coming near <i>Rome</i>, at which the Pope was so angry, that he put this Embassadour in -Prison, where he was kept till the conclusion of the Peace; in this sort were the -principal men of <i>Rome</i> seduced, having no thought of the <i>Spaniards</i> approaches, this -is the relation of the Lord <i>de Thou</i>, <i>Lib.</i> 16.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand pitie sera sans long tarder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux qui donnoient seront contraints de prendre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nuds affamez, de froid, soif, soy bander,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer les Monts en faisant grand esclandre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What a great pitty will it be e’re-long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that did give shall be constrained to receive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Naked, famished with cold, thirst, to mutiny,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To go over the Mountains making great disorders.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of the first Verse, <i>before it be long</i>, is the Key of the Stanza, because -we infer from thence it was shortly to happen, as in truth it did at the latter end of the -year 1556. when the Duke of <i>Guise</i> came into <i>Piemont</i> to joyn with the Marshal of -<i>Brissac</i>. Then the troops of the <i>Marshal</i> seeing those of the Duke better paid then -they were, forsook the Marshal, the History saith there was above 1500. of them, -and that the Marshal paid the Souldiers of his own money to stay them.</p> - -<p>The great pitty was, when he had no more to give, he was compelled by the -Kings order it self, and against his own inclination to raise some moneys upon the -Countreys. Secondly, to take some Towns and give the plunder to the Souldiers. -Thirdly, to permit the Souldiers to pillage the Countrey.</p> - -<p>The Author was willing to foretell this, because there was never a man more -strict in keeping the Martial discipline, then this General was.</p> - -<p>The Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> being thus abused, some of his troops forsook him to follow -the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, being for the most part naked and starved with cold, hunger -and thirst, which makes the Author to specifie <i>hunger, cold and thirst</i>; want having -compelled them to disband, they went over the Mountains, not of <i>Piemont</i>, but the -<i>Apennines</i> of <i>Montserrat</i>, and whatsoever thing they found was a Fish for their Net.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Chef du Monde le grand <i>Cheiren</i> sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus outre, apres aime, craint, redouté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son bruit & los les Cieux surpassera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et du seul titre Victeur sort contente.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_262"></a>[262]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Chief of the World the great <i>Cheiren</i> shall be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Moreover, beloved afterwards, feared, dreaded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His fame and praise shall go beyond the Heavens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be contented with the only title of Victor.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We have said already before, that the Author by the word <i>Cheyren</i> meaneth <i>Henry</i> -the II. his Master, by transposition of Letters, who as he saith was contented with -the bare title of Victorieux, when he had undertaken the protection of the <i>German</i> -Princes against the Emperour <i>Charles</i> the V.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand on viendra le grand Roy parenter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant quil ait du tout l’Ame rendue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On le verra bien tost apparenter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Aigles, Lions, Croix, Courone de Rüe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall come to celebrate the obsequies of the great King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A day before he be quite dead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be seen presently to be allyed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Eagles, Lions, Crosses, Crowns of Rüe.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the general Peace made <i>Anno</i> 1559. two Marriages were concluded, one of <i>Elizabeth</i> -of <i>France</i>, daughter to <i>Henry</i> II. King of <i>France</i>, with <i>Philip</i> II. King of <i>Spain</i>, -which was Celebrated at <i>Paris</i> with an extraordinary magnificence, in the presence -of the Duke of <i>Alba</i>, the Prince of <i>Orenge</i>, and the Earl of <i>Egmont</i>, who came to fetch -the Princess.</p> - -<p>In the Celebrating of these Nuptials happened the unfortunate death of <i>Henry</i> II. -This brought such a sadness to the Court, that the second match which was between -<i>Margaret</i> of <i>France</i>, Daughter to <i>Francis</i> I. and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> was Celebrated -without solemnity.</p> - -<p>We must add to this, that the Duke weareth in his Coat of Arms some Eagles, -some Lions, some Crosses, and a Crown of Rue; by this, we understand this Stanza, -which saith, that the King being mortally wounded, every one was preparing himself -to render him the last duties, which the Author calleth to <i>Parante</i>, from the Latine -word <i>Parentare</i>, which signifieth to Celebrate the Funeral duties of a man. Thus the -second Verse saith, <i>before the day that he yieldeth up his Soul</i>, in hast was the Marriage -Celebrated, between the Lady <i>Margaret</i> of <i>France</i>, and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, who -beareth for his Arms some Eagles, some Lions, some Crosses, and a Crown of Rue.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par fureur feinte devotion Divine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera la femme du grand fort violée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Judges voulants damner telle Doctrine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Victime au peuple ignorant immolée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_263"></a>[263]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a faigned fury of Divine inspiration,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The wife of the great one shall be ravished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Judges willing to condemn such a Doctrine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Victimo shall be sacrificed to the ignorant people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Of this fact and others as bad, have been seen strange examples, formerly done by -those called <i>Enthousiastes</i>, who have committed horrible villanies, under pretence of -divine inspiration, some commiting Incests, others rapes, others murders, as may be -seen at large in the History of <i>John de Leiden</i>, and other desperate Anabaptists, too -tedious to be inserted here; I shall only relate here a little remarkable History, in confirmation -of this, to discover the Wiles of the spirits of error, transformed into an -Angel of Light.</p> - -<p>The 7 day of <i>February</i> 1526. two Brothers, <i>Thomas</i> and <i>Leonard Schyker</i>, living -near the Town of St. <i>Gal</i> in <i>Switzerland</i>, did assemble together with some other -Anabaptists, in their fathers house, where they passed the most part of the night in -discourses, making of faces, and relating of Visions, which every one said he had -seen. The next day, upon break of day; <i>Thomas</i> did lay hold on his Brother <i>Leonard</i>, -and dragged him in the middle of the company, bid him kneel in the presence of -his Father and Mother, and of all the rest there present, and as all the rest of the -Company bid him take heed to do any thing amiss; he answered, that there was no -need to fear, and that in this business, nothing could be done against the Will of the -Father; thereupon he drew his Sword, and cut off the head of his Brother, who was on -his knees, all besotted before this murderer. All the rest being astonished, and besides -their wits for this furious blow, and lamenting the dead, <i>Thomas</i> ran towards -the Town with a fearful Countinance, as a Phanatick besides himself, without Shooes; -and having no Cloaths but his Shirt and Breeches. At that time the Burg-master -of St. <i>Gal</i> was <i>Joachim Vadian</i>, a wise and learned person, before whom the said <i>Thomas</i> -stood, crying aloud with a fearful Countenance, that the day of Judgment was near; -saying besides, that strange things had come to pass, (without telling what) -that the will of his Father was done for his part. The Burg-master after he had -reprehended him very much for his madness, and insolent carriage, commanded a -Cloak to be put upon him, and to lead him home softly back again. But in the -mean time, news was brought of his detestable murder, whereupon he was apprehended, -examined, convicted, and executed. The like hath been done many times -for Rapes and Incests: What is particular here, is, that our Author saith, that the -Judges being willing to punish such Villanies, yet that unhappy accident shall fall, -that an innocent person shall be put to death (belike) instead of the guilty, to please -the people.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En Cité grande en moyne & artisan,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de la porte logez & aux murailles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre modene secret, Cave disant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trahis pour faire sous couleur d’espousailles.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_264"></a>[264]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In a great City a Monk and an Artificer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dwelling near the Gate, and the Walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near an old woman, ’tis a secret saying Cave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Treason shall be plotted under pretence of a Marriage.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Paradin</i> maketh mention, that in the year 1552. a Monk deceived the Marshal of -<i>Brissac</i>, making him believe that he would put him in possession of the Town of -<i>Quizres</i>, if he would give him so much for reward. The Marshal used all the -Caution possible, not to be deceived by that Imposter, who took Money on both -sides, <i>viz.</i> the <i>French</i> and the <i>Spaniards</i>; nevertheless the Monk plaid the Knave -with him, and the undertakings proved prejudicial to the <i>French</i>, though not considerably -by reason of the precaution of the said Marshal.</p> - -<p>The same Author writes, that in the year 1555. the 17 of <i>August</i>, the <i>Spaniard</i> -had designed to retake <i>Cazal</i>, the same way that the <i>French</i> had surprised it. First, -they had got a Widow in the Town, who received the undertakers in her house, -which was near the Gate, and the Wall. Secondly there was a Marriage to be made -between two persons of quality, where great Cheer and rejoycings were to be. Thirdly -they got a woman that carryed Herbs to sell in the Town, and under the Herbs -the Letters were hidden. The Author says likewise, that there was a Monk and a -Tradesman, that lodged at this Widows house, those two actors in this business, -<i>viz.</i> the Monk said Tradesman, ane secretly to the woman that sold Herbs, <i>Cave</i>, -which signifies take heed, they said these words <i>secretly near Matrone</i>, that is, they -whisperd in her ear <i>Cave</i>. Their design was to betray the Town, under pretence of -a Marriage, but it did not succeed; because the Letters in the womans Basket were -intercepted, the Vulgar impression hath a fault in the third Verse, where there -is Modene instead of Matrone, and another in the fourth Verse, when instead of -Treason, they have put for betrayed. The History obligeth us to correct it, as we -have done.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le dechassé au regne tournera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ses ennemis trouvez des conjurez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus que jamais son temps triomphera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois & septante a mort trop asseurez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The expelled shall come again to the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her enemies shall be found to be the Conspirators,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More than ever his time shall triumph,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three and seventy appointed for death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a clear and express prediction of the happy restauration of his sacred Majesty, -and our dread Sovereign <i>Charles</i> II. now Reigning, who after a long exile is -come again to enjoy his own Kingdom, and to flourish more than ever he did before, -by these seventy appointed to death, are meant the Judges and murderers of his -Father, who with some few others of the same gang made about that number, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_265"></a>[265]</span> -some of which have payed their shot by the hand of publick Justice, others have prevented -their shame by dying before hand, others have been their own Executioners, -and those that remain, lead a life worse then death it self; so true it is that vengeance -dances the round.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Pilot sera par Roy mandé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laisser la classe pour plus haut lieu atteindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept ans apres sera contrebandé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Barbare</i> Armée viendra <i>Venise</i> craindre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Pilot shall be sent for by the King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To leave the Fleet, and be preferred to a higher place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven years after he shall be countermanded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Barbarian</i> Army shall put <i>Venice</i> to a fright.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no further explanation.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité antique d’<i>Antenorée</i> forge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus ne pouvant le Tyran supporter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le manche feint au Temple couper gorge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les siens le peuple a mort viendra bouter.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The ancient City founded by <i>Antenor</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being not able to bear the Tyrant any longer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a fained haft, in the Church cut a throat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The people will come to put his servants to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The City founded by <i>Antenor</i> (who was Companion and came into <i>Italy</i> with -<i>Æneas</i>) is <i>Padua</i>, a University of the <i>Venetians</i>, of which it is said here, that being no -longer able to bear a Tyrant, the said Tyrant shall be murdered in the Church with a -knife hidden in a haft, and all his Men and Servants killed by the people of the -Town.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la victoire du deceu fraudulente,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux classes une, la revolte <i>Germaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Chef meurtry & son fils dans la Tente,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Florence</i>, <i>Imole</i> pourchassez dans <i>Romaine</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_266"></a>[266]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the deceitful victory of the deceived,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One of the two Fleets shall revolt to the <i>Germans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief and his Son murdered in their Tent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Florence</i>, <i>Imole</i> persecuted in <i>Romania</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses are plain. <i>Florence</i> and <i>Imole</i> are two Cities of <i>Italy</i>, seated -in the Province of <i>Romania</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Crier victoire du grand <i>Selin</i> croissant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Romains</i> sera l’Aigle clamé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ticin</i>, <i>Milan</i>, & <i>Gennesny</i> consent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis par eux mesmes <i>Basil</i> grand reclamé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall cry up the victory of the great <i>Selins</i> half Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the <i>Romans</i> the Eagle shall be claimed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ticin</i>, <i>Milan</i> and <i>Genoa</i>, consent not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then by themselves the great <i>Basil</i> shall be claimed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse foretelleth some conquests of the <i>Turks</i>, whose Arms is the half -Moon. The second Verse signifies, the <i>Romans</i> shall move the Emperour to succour -them, which is the Eagle. <i>Ticin</i>, <i>Milan</i> and <i>Genoa</i> shall refuse to give help, -and afterwards they shall call the great <i>Basil</i> (which in Greek signifies the great King, -from βασίλευς) to their help.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Tesin</i> les habitants de <i>Logre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Garonne</i> & <i>Saone</i>, <i>Seine</i>, <i>Tar</i>, & <i>Gironde</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outre les Monts dresseront promonitoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflict donné, <i>Pau</i> franchi, submerge onde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Tesin</i> the Inhabitants of <i>Logre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Garonne</i> and <i>Saone</i>, <i>Seine</i>, <i>Tar</i> and <i>Gironde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall erect a promontory beyond the Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Battle shall be fought, the <i>Po</i> shall be passed over, some shall be drowned in it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tesin</i> is the River that passeth by <i>Milan</i>. <i>Garonne</i>, <i>Saone</i>, <i>Seine</i>, <i>Tar</i>, and <i>Gironde</i> -are Rivers of <i>France</i>. <i>Po</i> is the greatest River of <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_267"></a>[267]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Fez</i> le Regne parviendra a ceux d’<i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu leur Cité, & Lame tranchera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand d’<i>Asie</i> Terre & Mer a grand troupe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que bleux, pars, Croix a mort dechassera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom of <i>Fez</i> shall come to those of <i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire and Sword shall destroy their City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Asia</i> by Land and Sea with a great troop,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that blews, greens, Crosses to death he shall drive.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is strange Prophecy if it prove true, <i>viz.</i> that the Kingdom of <i>Fez</i> (which -is in <i>Africa</i>) shall be taken by those of <i>Europe</i>, and the Town put to Fire and Sword, -after which the great one of <i>Asia</i> (meaning the great Turk) shall come by Land and -by Sea with an innumerable Army, and shall drive and destroy all before him.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleurs, cris & plaincts, heurlemens, effrayeur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur inhumain, cruel, noir & transy:</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leman</i>, les Isles de <i>Gennes</i> les majeurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang espancher, tochsain, a nul mercy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tears, cryes and complaints, howlings, fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An inhumane heart, cruel, black, astonished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leman</i>, the Islands the great ones of <i>Genoa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall spill blood, the Bell shall ring out, no mercy shall be given.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretels bloody Wars only, and needs no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les Deserts de lieu libre & farouche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra errer Neveu du grand Pontife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assomme a sept avec lourde souche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ceux qu’apres occuperont le <i>Scyphe</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the Deserts of a free and ragged place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Nephew of the Pope shall come to wander,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Knockt in the head by seven with a heavy Club,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By those who after shall obtain the <i>Scyphe</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_268"></a>[268]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies that the Nephew of a Pope shall be driven away, and shall wander -in a desert place, where he shall be knockt in the head by seven men, one of which -shall afterwards enjoy the Papacy; for <i>Scyphe</i> is a Latine word, signifying a Cup -or Chalue, such as the <i>Romish</i> Priests say Mass with, and take the Sacrament.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’aura tant d’honneurs & caresses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son entrée en la Gaule <i>Belgique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un temps apres sera tant de rudesses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et sera contre a la fleur tant bellique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall have had so many honours and welcoms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At his going into <i>Flanders</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A while after shall commit so many rudenesses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be against the warlike flower.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is positively concerning the Duke of <i>Alencon</i>, Brother to <i>Henry</i> III. King of -<i>France</i>, who having been sent for by the States of the Low-Countreys, and received -with much honour to be their General and Governour against the <i>Spaniard</i>, did most -unworthily break his trust, and being come to <i>Antwerp</i>, he was so ravished with the -beauty and riches of the Town, that he seized upon it for himself, but was beaten out -by the Citizens, and most of his men killed.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse saith. <i>He shall be against the warlike flower</i>; that is, his action -shall be against Military Honour, and common practice of Honourable Souldiers.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qu’en <i>Sparte</i> <i>Claude</i> ne veut regner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il fera tant par voye seductive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que du court, long, le sera arraigner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que contre Roy fera sa perspective.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that <i>Claudius</i> will not have to reign in <i>Sparta</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The same shall do so much by a deceitful way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he shall cause him to be arraigned short and long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if he had made his prospect upon the King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I believe the words of <i>Claudius</i> and <i>Sparta</i> here are Metaphorical, and the Author -was unwilling they should be known.</p> - -<p>The sense is, one shall be hindred from Reigning by another, whom he shall accuse -of Treason against the King.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_269"></a>[269]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité de <i>Tharse</i> par <i>Gaulois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera d’estriute captifs tous a <i>Turban</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secours par Mer du grand <i>Portugalois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier d’esté le jour du sacre <i>Vrban</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City of <i>Tharsis</i> shall be taken by the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All those that were at <i>Turban</i> shall be made slaves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Succours by Sea from the great <i>Portugals</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The first day of the Summer, and of the installation of <i>Urban</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here are two difficulties in this Stanza; the first is, what the Author means by -the great City <i>Tharsis</i>; the second is in the last Verse, what he meaneth by the Installation -of <i>Vrban</i>, I believe he meaneth no more then the election of a Pope, whose -name shall be <i>Urban</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Prelat un jour apres son songe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Interprete au rebours de son sens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la <i>Gascogne</i> luy surviendra un Monge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui fera eslire le grand Prelat de <i>Sens</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Prelate the next day after his dream,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Interpreted contrary to his sense,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Gascony</i> shall come to him a Monge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall cause the great Prelate of <i>Sens</i> to be elected.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Monge</i> is a Barbarous word, that hath no relation to any Language in the world, -(that I know) unless it signifies a Monk. <i>Sens</i> is a fine City, about threescore -Miles beyond <i>Paris</i>, towards the South, and the Seat of an Arch-Bishop, who it -seemeth shall be elected into some eminent place, the next day after he that was in it -shall dream a dream, that shall be interpreted contrary to the sense and meaning of -it.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’election faicte dans <i>Francfort</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">N’aura nul lieu, <i>Milan</i> s’opposera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sien plus proche semblera si grand fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’oute le <i>Rhin</i> Marais les chassera.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_270"></a>[270]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The election made at <i>Francford</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be void, <i>Milan</i> shall oppose it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He of the <i>Milan</i> party shall be so strong,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As to drive the other beyond the Marshes of the <i>Rhine</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Election of <i>Francford</i> is concerning an Emperour; for there they are elected, -Crowned. The rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Regne grand demourra desolé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres de l’<i>Hebro</i> se seront assemblées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Monts <i>Pyrenees</i> le rendront consolé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que dans <i>May</i> seront Terres tremblées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Kingdom shall be left desolate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the River <i>Hebrus</i> an assembly shall be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains shall comfort him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in <i>May</i> shall be an Earth-quake.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation, but what any one may give that knoweth where -the River <i>Hebrus</i> is.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux cymbes pieds & mains attachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De miel face oingt & de laict substante,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Guespes & mouches feront amour fachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poccilateurs faucer, Scyphe tente.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Boats one shall be tyed hand and foot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His face annointed with Honey, and he nourished with Milk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wasps and Bees shall make much of him in anger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For being treacherous Cup-bearers, and poisoning the Cup.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a description of the punishment which the <i>Persians</i> use to afflict upon poisoners; -for they were put between two Troughs, which are here called Boats, from -their likeness to them, with their face only uncovered, which was daubed with -Honey, that the Wasps and Bees might be drawn to it and torment them, they -were fed with Milk, which if they refused to do, and had rather dye than be so tormented, -then did the Tormenter prick their Eyes with Needles to force them to -their diet, and so were they left, till the Vermin eat them up. We have an example -of this in the Life of <i>Artaxerxes</i> King of <i>Persia</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_271"></a>[271]</span></p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’honnessement puant abominable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres la faict sera felicité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand excusé, pour n’estre favorable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’a paix <i>Neptune</i> ne sera incité.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The stinking and abominable defiling</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After the secret shall succeed well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one shall be excused for not being favourable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>Neptune</i> might be perswaded to peace.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the two first Verses it seemeth that some abominable action, after its effect -shall succeed well; the two last signifie, that a great person shall be excused for not -permitting the Fleet to be at peace.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le conducteur de la guerre Navale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rouge effrené, severe horrible grippe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captif eschapé de l’aisné dans la baste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand il naistra du grand un Fils <i>Agrippe</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The leader of the naval forces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Red, rash, severe, horrible extortioner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being slave, shall escape, hidden amongst the Harnesses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When a Son named <i>Agrippa</i>, shall be born to the great one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Interpretation, the words being so plain.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Princesse de beauté tant venuste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au chef menée, le second faict trahy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité au Glaive poudre face aduste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par trop grand meurtre le chef du Roy hay.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Princess of an exquisite beauty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be brought to the General, the second time the fact shall be betrayed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The City shall be given to the Sword and fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By two great a murder the chief Person about the King shall be hated.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The only difficulty lyes in what City he doth mean.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_272"></a>[272]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Prelat avare, d’ambition trompé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rien ne fera que trop cuider viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ses Messagers, & luy bien attrapé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout au rebours voir qui les bois fendra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A covetous Prelate, deceived by ambition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall do nothing but covet too much,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His messengers and he shall be trapt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall see one cleave the Wood the contrary way.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Annotation.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Roy iré sera aux sedifragues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand interdicts seront harnois de guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La poison taincte au succre par les fragues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par eaux meurtris, morts, disant, serre, serre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A King shall be angry against the Covenant-breakers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Warlike Armour shall be forbidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Poison with Sugar shall be put in the Strawberries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be murdered and die, saying, close, close.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par detracteur calomnié puis nay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand istront faicts enormes & martiaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La moindre part dubieuse a l’aisné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et tost au Regne seront faicts partiaux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The youngest Son shall be calumniated by a slanderer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When enormous and Martial deeds shall be done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The least part shall be left doubtfull to the</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eldest, and soon after they shall be both equal in the Kingdom.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This lacketh no interpretation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_273"></a>[273]</span></p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Cité a Soldats abandonnée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onc ny eut mortel tumult si proche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O quelle hideuse calamités approche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fors une offence n’y sera pardonnée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great City shall be given up to the Souldiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was never a mortal tumult so near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh! what a hideous calamity draws near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except one offence nothing shall be spared.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the taking of the Town of St. <i>Quentin</i> in 1557. because the -Author saith, no tumult was like this, so near the year 1555. when our Author -writ.</p> - -<p>He calleth it great City; because it is one of the most considerable in <i>France</i>, -therefore it was besieged by the King of <i>Spain</i> with 37000. men, and 12000. Horses -and 8000. <i>English</i>. The plunder was given to the Souldiers; for it was taken by -assault.</p> - -<p><i>There was never a mortal tumult so near</i>; for the Souldiers taking revenge upon the -Inhabitants, and Garrison, put all to the Sword; the Admiral having much ado to -save himself.</p> - -<p>In consequence of this our Prophet cryeth, <i>O what a fearfull calamity</i>; because -the taking of this Town joyned with the loss of St. <i>Laurence</i> did almost ruine <i>France</i>. -He addeth, <i>except one offence nothing shall be forgiven</i>; that is, the Town should be -afflicted in all respects, except that it should not be burnt. The taking of this Town -was upon the 27 of <i>August</i>, 17 days after the Battle of St. <i>Laurence</i>.</p> - -<p>The loss was so great to <i>France</i>, that the King was fained to call the Duke of -<i>Guise</i> back from <i>Italy</i>, and <i>Charles</i> V. hearing this news, asked presently if his Son -<i>Philip</i> was not in <i>Paris</i>, as much as to say, it was a thing he ought to have done.</p> - -<p>But God permitted that the King of <i>Spain</i> went another way, and in the mean -time, the King of <i>France</i> strengthned himself, and the Duke of <i>Guise</i> took from the -<i>English</i>, <i>Calais</i>, <i>Guines</i>, and the County of d’<i>Oye</i>. The <i>Spanish</i> History saith, that -<i>Philip</i> had forbidden to touch any old people, Children and Ecclesiastical persons; -but above all St. <i>Quentins</i> reliques.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq & quarante degrez ciel bruslera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu approcher de la grand Cité neuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Instant grand flamme esparse sautera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand on voudra des <i>Normans</i> faire preuve.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_274"></a>[274]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Heaven shall burn at five and forty degrees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire shall come near the great new City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In an instant a great flame dispersed shall burst out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall make a trial of the <i>Normans</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies some extraordinary lightning under five and forty degrees, which is -about the Southern part of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p>It is not easie to guess what he meaneth by the great new City, unless it be one in -the Authors Countrey, called <i>Villa Nova</i>.</p> - -<p>The last Verse seemeth to intimate, that this shall happen when an Army of -<i>Normandie</i> shall be raised.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ruyne aux <i>Volsques</i> de peur si fort terribles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leur grand Cité taincte, faict pestilent:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Piller Sol, Lune, & violer leur Temples,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les deux Fleuves rougir de sang coulant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A ruine shall happen to the <i>Volsques</i> that are so terrible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their great City shall be dyed, a pestilent deed:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall plunder Sun and Moon, and violate their Temples,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the two Rivers shall be red with running blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Volsi</i> were a warlike people of <i>Italy</i> joyning to <i>Rome</i>, which makes me believe -that by the great City he meaneth <i>Rome</i>, which was plundered and sackt by the -Duke of <i>Burgondy</i> and the Prince of <i>Orange</i>, Generals of the Emperour <i>Charles</i> V.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ennemy docte se tournera confus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Camp malade, & de faict par embusches</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Monts <i>Pyrenees</i> luy seront faicts refus.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roche du Fleuve descouvrant antique ruches.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The learned enemy shall go back confounded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Camp shall be sick, and in effect through ambush,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains shall refuse him.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the River discovering the ancient Hives.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain, though the sense be too obscure, and I shall not endeavour -to give an interpretation, when every one may make one himself.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_275"></a>[275]</span></p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fill de <i>Laure</i>, asyle du mal sain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou jusqu’au Ciel se void l’<i>Amphitheatre</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prodige veu, ton mal est fort prochain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seras captive, & des fois plus de quatre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Daughter of <i>Laura</i>, Sanctuary of the sick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where to the Heavens is seen the <i>Amphitheatre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A prodigy being seen, the danger is near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shalt be taken captive above four times.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is an ingenious Stanza, concerning the City of <i>Nismes</i> in <i>Languedoc</i>, famous -for its <i>Amphitheatre</i> built by the <i>Romans</i>, and remaining to this day, which Town he -calleth Daughter of <i>Laura</i>, because the Lady <i>Laura</i>, Mistress to the famous Poet -<i>Petrarche</i> was born thereabout; he also calleth it Sanctuary of the sick, for the salubrity -of the air.</p> - -<p>The meaning of the two last Verses is, that when a prodigy shall be seen, <i>viz.</i> Civil -War in <i>France</i>, it shall be taken above four times, as it hath happened by one -party or other.</p> - -<h3>Legis cautio contra ineptos Criticos.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Qui legent hos versus, maturè censunto:</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Prophanum vulgus & inscium ne attrectato:</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Omnesque Astrologi, Blenni, Barbari procul sunto,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Qui aliter faxit, is rite sacer esto.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_276"></a>[276]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> VII</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-l.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">L’Arc du Thresor par <i>Achilles</i> deceu,</div> - <div class="verse">Aux procrées sceu le Quadrangulaire,</div> - <div class="verse">Au fait Roial le comment sera sceu,</div> - <div class="verse">Corps veu pendu au Sceu du populaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">The bow of the Treasure by <i>Achilles</i> deceived,</div> - <div class="verse">Shall shew to posterity the Quadrangulary,</div> - <div class="verse">In the Royal deed the Comment shall be known,</div> - <div class="verse">The body shall be seen hanged in the knowledge of the people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the bow of the Treasure, is understood the Marshal d’<i>Ancre</i>, Favorite to the -Queen Regent of <i>France</i> <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, who was first complained of, for his maleversations -by <i>Achilles de Harlay</i> President of <i>Paris</i>, whence followed his death being -Pistolled in the Quadrangle of the <i>Louvre</i>, by the command of <i>Lewis</i> XIII. and his -body afterwards dragged through the streets, and hanged publickly by the people -upon the new Bridge.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_277"></a>[277]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Mars</i> ouvert <i>Arles</i> ne donra guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit seront les Soldats estonnez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noir, blanc, a l’Inde dissimulez en terre.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs la feinte ombre traistre verrez sonnez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arles</i> shall not proceed by open War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night the Souldiers shall be astonished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Black, white, and blew, dissembled upon the ground.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the fained shadow you shall see them proclaimed Traitors.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Arles</i> is a considerable City in <i>France</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres de <i>France</i> la victoire Navale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Barchinons</i>, <i>Salinons</i>, les <i>Phocens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lierre d’or, l’Enclume serré dans balle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Toulon</i> au fraud seront consents.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Naval victory of the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon those of <i>Tunis</i>, <i>Sally</i>, and the <i>Phocens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A golden Juy the Anvil shut up in a pack,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Toulon</i> to the fraud shall consent.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth a Naval victory to the <i>French</i> against the <i>Turks</i>, by the means -of a Granado, called <i>Anvil</i>, that shall be shut up in a Barrel by a plot, to which those -of <i>Toulon</i> shall be privy.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Duc de <i>Langres</i> assiegé dedans <i>Dole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagné d’<i>Authun</i> & <i>Lionnois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Geneve</i>, <i>Auspourg</i>, ceux de la <i>Mirandole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer les Monts contre les <i>Anconois</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke of <i>Langres</i> shall be besieged in <i>Dole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being in company with those of <i>Autun</i> and <i>Lion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Geneva</i>, <i>Auspourg</i>, those of <i>Mirandola</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall go over the Mountains against those of <i>Ancona</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_278"></a>[278]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Langres</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, whose Bishop is a Duke and a Peer of the Kingdom; -<i>Dole</i> is a City in <i>Burgundy</i>, so is <i>Autun</i> and <i>Lion</i>, <i>Geneva</i> is a City by <i>Savoy</i>, <i>Auspourg</i>, -another in <i>Germany</i>, <i>Mirandola</i> is a Countrey in Italy, so is <i>Ancona</i>.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vin sur la Table en sera respandu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tiers naura celle quil pretendoit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux fois du noir de <i>Parme</i> descendu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Perouse</i> & <i>Pise</i> fera ce quil cuidoit.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Wine shall be spilt upon the Table,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By reason that a third man shall not have her whom he intended,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twice the black one descended from <i>Parma</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall do to <i>Perusa</i> and <i>Pisa</i> what he intended.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Perusa</i>, <i>Pisa</i>, and <i>Parma</i>, are three Cities in <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Palerme</i>, & toute la <i>Sicile</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par main <i>Barbare</i> sera inhabitée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corsique</i>, <i>Salerne</i> & de <i>Sardaigne</i> l’Isle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faim, peste, guerre, fin de maux intemptée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Naples</i>, <i>Palermo</i>, and all <i>Sicily</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By barbarous hands shall be depopulated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Corsica</i>, <i>Salerno</i>, and the Island of <i>Sardinia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In them shall be famine, plague, war, and endless evils.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Naples</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>, <i>Palermo</i> is a City in the Island of <i>Sicily</i>. <i>Corsica</i>, an Island -in the <i>Mediterranean Sea</i>, belonging to the <i>Genoese</i>; <i>Salerno</i> is a Town in <i>Italy</i>; <i>Sardinia</i> -an Island in the <i>Mediterranean</i>. The Reader may easily make an interpretation -of the rest.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le combat des grands chevaux legers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On criera le grand croissant confond,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit tuer Moutons, Brebis, Bergers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Abysmes rouges dans le fossé profond.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_279"></a>[279]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the fight of the great light Horsmen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall cry out, confound the great half Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By night they shall kill Sheep, Ewes, and Shepherds,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Red pits shall be in the deep ditch.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the great half Moon, is understood the <i>Turk</i>.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Flora</i> fuis, fuis le plus proche <i>Romain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Fesulan</i> sera conflict donné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang espandu les plus grands pris en main,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Temple ne Sexe ne sera pardonné.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Flora</i> fly, fly from the next <i>Roman</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Fesulan</i> shall be the fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood shall be spilt, the greatest shall be taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Temple nor Sex shall be spared.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Fesulan</i> is a Countrey in <i>Italy</i>. <i>Flora</i> is the Goddess of Flowers, the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame en l’absence de son grand Capitaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera priée d’amour du Viceroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feinte promesse & malheureuse estreine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre les mains du grand Prince <i>Barroy</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Lady in the absence of her great Captain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be intreated of love by the Viceroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fained promise, and unhappy new years gift,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the hand of the great Prince of <i>Bar</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bar</i> is a principality joyning to <i>Lorrain</i>, which <i>Henry</i> IV. King of <i>France</i> gave for -a Portion to his Sister <i>Catharine</i>, when she married the Duke of <i>Lorrains</i> Son. The -rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le grand Prince limitrophe du <i>Mans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Preux & vaillant chef de grand exercite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre de <i>Galois</i> & <i>Normans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cap passer <i>Barcelonne</i> pillé l’Isle.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_280"></a>[280]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Prince dwelling near the <i>Mans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stout and valiant, General of a great Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Welchmen</i> and <i>Normans</i> by Sea and Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall pass the Cape <i>Barcelone</i>, and plunder the Island.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mans</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, chief of the Province called <i>le Main</i>. The rest is -plain.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Enfant Roial contemnera la Mere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oeil, pieds blessez, rude inobeissant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouvelle a Dame estrange & bien amere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront tuez des siens plus de cinq cens.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Royal Child shall despise his Mother,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eye, feet wounded, rude disobedient,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">News to a Lady very strange and bitter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be killed of hers above five hundred.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This was fulfilled about the year 1615. when <i>Lewis</i> XIII. King of <i>France</i>, being -then about 15 years of age, by the perswasion of some Grandees about him, made -War against his own Mother <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, then Regent of the Kingdom, whereupon -was fought between them the Battle <i>du pont de say</i>, where above five hundred -on the Queens side were slain, whereupon it was a good Jest of the Prince of <i>Guimena</i>, -who being required by the Queen <i>Anna</i> of <i>Austria</i>, to lay his hand upon her -side; and to feel her Child (now <i>Lewis</i> XIV.) stirring, after he had felt; now I -know, said he, he is a true Son of <i>Bourbon</i>; for he beginneth to kick his Mother.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand puisnay fera fin de la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En deux lieux assemble les excusez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cahors</i>, <i>Moissac</i>, iront loing de la serre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rufec</i>, <i>Lectoure</i>, les <i>Agenois</i> rasez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great younger Brother shall make an end of the War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In two places he shall gather the excused,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cahors</i>, <i>Moissac</i>, shall go out of his clutches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ruffec</i>, <i>Lectoure</i>, and those of <i>Agen</i> shall be cut off.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Cahors</i>, <i>Moissac</i>, <i>Ruffec</i>, <i>Lectoure</i>, <i>Agen</i>, are all Cities of the Province of <i>Guyenne</i> -in <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_281"></a>[281]</span></p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De la Cité Marine & tributaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La teste rase prendra la Satrapie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chasser sordide qui puis sera contraire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par quatorze and tiendra la Tyrannie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the City Maritine and tributary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The shaven head shall take the Government,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall turn out a base man who shall be against him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">During fourteen years he will keep the tyranny.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is positive concerning the Cardinal of <i>Richelieu</i>, who made himself Governor -of <i>Havre de Grace</i>, called here the Maritine City, and there kept his Treasure, and -tyrannised for the space of about fourteen years.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Faux exposer viendra Topographie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront les Urnes des Monuments ouvertes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pulluler Sectes, sainte Philosophie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour blanches noires, & pour antiques vertes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall expound Topography falsly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Urnes of the Monuments shall be open,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sects shall multiply, and holy Philosophy</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall give black for white, and green for old.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a perfect description of our late miserable estate in <i>England</i>, when there was -such multiplicity of Sects, and such a Prophanation of sacred things.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant Cité de l’<i>Insubre</i> Countrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept ans sera le Siege devant mis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tres-grand Roy fera son entrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cité puis libre hors de ses ennemis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before a City of <i>Piemont</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven years the Siege shall be laid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The most great King shall make his entry into it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the City shall be free being out of the enemies hand.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_282"></a>[282]</span></p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entrée profonde par la grande Roine faite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rendra le lieu puissant inaccessible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Armée de trois Lions sera défaite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faisant dedans cas hideux & terrible.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The deep entry made by the Queen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make the place powerful and inaccessible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Army of the three Lions shall be routed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doing within an hideous and terrible thing.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Queen shall cause such a deep Trench to be made before a Town, that it shall be -impregnable, and the Army of Lions, that is either Generals, or of a Prince that -shall bear three Lions in his Arms, shall be routed.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Prince rare en pitié & clemence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres avoir la paix aux siens baillé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra changer par mort grand cognoissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres grand repos le regne travaillé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Prince rare in pity and Clemency,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After he shall have given peace to his Subjects,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall by death change his great knowledge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After great rest the Kingdom shall be troubled.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This positively concerneth <i>Henry</i> the IV. King of <i>France</i>; who after he had by -many Battles and dangers given peace to his Kingdom, was by a Murderer snatched -away, and the Kingdom put into new troubles, by the war that the Princes had among -themselves.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Assiegez couloureront leurs paches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept jours apres feront cruelle issüe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans repoulsez, feu, sang, sept mis a l’hache,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame captive qu’avoit la paix issüe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Besieged shall dawb their Articles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven days after they shall make a cruel event,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be beaten back, fire, blood, seven put to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lady shall be Prisoner who endeavoured to make peace.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_283"></a>[283]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Fort <i>Nicene</i> ne sera combatu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaincu sera par rutilant metal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son fait sera un long temps debatu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Citadins estrange espouvental.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fort <i>Nicene</i> shall not be fought against,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By shining metal it shall be overcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The doing of it shall be long and debating,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be a strange fearful thing to the Citizens.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nice</i> is a Town in <i>Piemont</i>, situated by the Sea side, now whether this Prophecy -came to pass in the time of the Wars between <i>France</i> and <i>Savoy</i>, or shall come to -pass hereafter, it is more then I can tell. As for winning of it by glistering Metal, -it is no new thing or practice, witness <i>Philippus</i> of <i>Macedon</i>, who said no City was -impregnable, wherein might enter an Ass loaded with gold.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ambassadeurs de la <i>Toscane</i> langue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Avril</i> & <i>May</i> <i>Alpes</i> & Mer passer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy de Veau exposera l’harangue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vie <i>Gauloise</i> en voulant effacer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Embassadors of the <i>Tuscan</i> tongue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>April</i> and <i>May</i>, shall go over the <i>Alpes</i> and the Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One like a Calf shall make a speech:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Attempting to defame the <i>French</i> customes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense and the words are plain.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par pestilente inimitie <i>Volsicque</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dissimulée chassera le Tyran,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Pont de <i>Sorgues</i> se fera la trafique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De mettre a mort luy & son adherent.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_284"></a>[284]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a pestilent <i>Italian</i> enmity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The dissembler shall expel the Tyrant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The bargain shall be made at <i>Sorgues</i> Bridge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To put him and his adherent to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is no difficulty in this.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Citoiens de <i>Mesopotamie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Irez encontre amis de <i>Tarragone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jeux, Ris, Banquets toute gent endormie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vicaire au Prone, pris Cité, ceux d’<i>Ausone</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Citizens of <i>Mesopotamia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being angry with the friends of <i>Tarragone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Playes, laughter, feasts, every body being asleep,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Vicar being in the Pulpit, City taken by those of <i>Ausone</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Citizens of <i>Mesopotamia</i>, is understood a people that live between two -Rivers, from the Greek words μέσος and ποταμὸς, the rest is easie. We have said -before, that by <i>Ausone</i> the Author understands the City of <i>Bourdeaux</i>, which he called -<i>Ausone</i>, from the Poet and Consul of <i>Rome</i> <i>Ausonius</i> who was born there.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roial Sceptre sera contraint de prendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce que ses Predecesseurs voient engagé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis a Laigneau on fera mal entendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors qu’on viendra le Palais saccager.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Royal Scepter shall be constrained to take</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What his Predecessors had morgaged;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, they shall mis-inform the Lamb,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall come to plunder the Palace.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is obvious to every body’s capacity.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_285"></a>[285]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ensevely sortira du tombeau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera de chaisnes lier le fort du pont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Empoisoné avec œufs de Barbeau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand de <i>Lorrain</i> par le Marquis du pont.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The buried shall come out of his Grave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause the fort of the Bridge to be tied with Chains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poisoned with Barbels hard Row,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall a great one of <i>Lorrain</i> be by the Marques du pont.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is divided in two parts. The first two Verses talk of a man that -shall be taken out of his Grave alive. The two last speak, that a great man of -<i>Lorrain</i> shall be poisoned by the Marques <i>de pont</i>, in the Row of a Barbel, which according -to Physitians, is a dangerous meat of it self, and chiefly if it be Stewed, the -Poisoner himself seemeth to be no other than a Duke of <i>Lorrain</i>, or one of his Sons, -for he stileth himself <i>N.</i> Duke of <i>Lorrain</i>, Prince of <i>Bar</i>, and Marques <i>du -Pont</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par guerre longue tout l’exercite espuiser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que pour Soldats ne trouveront pecune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lieu d’Or, d’Argent cair on viendra cuser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaulois</i> Ærain, signe croissant de Lune.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By a long War, all the Army drained dry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that to raise Souldiers they shall find no Money,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Instead of Gold and Silver, they shall stamp Leather,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> Copper, the mark of the stamp the new Moon.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This maketh me remember the miserable condition of many Kingdoms, before -the <i>west-Indies</i> were discovered; for in <i>Spain</i> Lead was stamped for Money, and so -in <i>France</i> in the time of King <i>Dagobert</i>, and it seemeth by this Stanza, that the like -is to come again, by reason of a long and tedious War.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fustes Galées autour de sept Navires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera livrée une mortelle guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef de <i>Madrid</i> recevra coups de vires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux eschapées & cinq menez a Terre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_286"></a>[286]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fly-boats and Galleys round about seven Ships,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A mortal War there shall be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief of <i>Madrid</i> shall receive blows of Oars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two shall escape, and five carried to Land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Paradin</i> saith in his History, that in the year 1555. towards the end of <i>August</i>, -those of <i>Diepe</i> had permission from the King to fight a Fleet of the <i>Spaniards</i>, which -was coming into <i>Flanders</i>, and brought Men, Money, and several Merchandises. -They went to Sea, and after much searching, they discovered the Fleet, wherein -were 22 great Ships.</p> - -<p>The <i>Diepois</i> had but 19 men of War, and five or six Pinnaces, with which they -set upon them between <i>Calais</i> and <i>Dover</i>. The fight was very bloody, almost all -the Ships grapled one with another, and being so close together, represented a Land -fight.</p> - -<p>The <i>French</i> at last did their utmost endeavour against the Admiral, which was -succoured by six other Ships, of which two were taken with the Admiral, and carryed -to <i>Diepe</i>; this is the Authors meaning, when he saith, <i>Fly-boats and Galleys about -seven Ships</i>. He nameth the Admiral <i>Chief of Madrid</i>; that is, chief <i>Spaniard</i>, -which received blows of Oars, whose Ship was taken, and four more of his Company, -which were brought to <i>Diepe</i>. In this agree the Historians on both sides.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au coin de <i>Vast</i> la grand Cavalerie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche a <i>Ferrare</i> empeschée au Bagage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pompe</i> a <i>Turin</i> front telle volerie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que dans le fort raviront leur hostage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the corner of <i>Vast</i> the great Troop of Horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Ferrara</i>, shall be busied about the baggage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pompe</i> at <i>Turin</i>, they shall make such a robbery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That in the Fort they shall ravish their hostage.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find what he meaneth by this place <i>Vast</i>, which being the Key of all -the rest, I could proceed no further, but am constrained to go to bed, and leave this -for to night, among <i>Insolubilia de Alliaco</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Capitaine conduira grande proye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur la Montagne des ennemis plus proche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Environné par feu fera telle voye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous eschapez, or trente mis en broche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_287"></a>[287]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Captain shall lead a great Prey</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Mountain, that shall be nearest to the Enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being encompassed with fire, he shall make such a way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That all shall escape, but thirty that shall be spitted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain.</p> - -<p>The meaning of the last two is, that the said Captain being encompassed with -Fire, shall make himself such a way, that all his men shall escape, but thirty that shall -be spitted by the enemies.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Duc d’<i>Albe</i> se viendra rebeller,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A ses grands peres fera le tradiment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand de <i>Guise</i> le viendra debeller,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captif mené & dresse monument.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Duke of <i>Alba</i> shall rebel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To his Grandfathers he shall make the Plot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Guise</i> shall vanquish him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Led Prisoner, and a Monument erected.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Ferdinand</i> of <i>Toledo</i>, Duke of <i>Alba</i> in <i>Spain</i>, a faithfull servant of <i>Charles</i> V. and -<i>Philip</i> II. his Son, after he had made several proofs of his Valour, and prudence in -the affairs of <i>Piemont</i> and <i>Milanese</i>, was commanded to go to <i>Naples</i> and <i>Rome</i>, to -succour the <i>Colonesse</i>, and others of the <i>Spanish</i> party; to obey this command, the -Author saith, <i>He went about to rebel</i>, not against his Prince, but his <i>Grandfathers</i>, <i>viz.</i> -the Pope and the Cardinals, upon which the Senate of <i>Venice</i> wrote to him, desiring -that he would not trouble the Pope, seeing that all his Predecessors had fought -for him, as the Lord of <i>Thou</i> saith in his sixteenth Book; but he answered, that it -was the Pope himself that was the cause of it, and that he was bound to oppose him.</p> - -<p>During that rebellion to his great fathers, as the Author calleth it, the great <i>de -Guise</i>, came with his Troops, and compelled him to a diversion, and to let alone -Marshal <i>Strozzy</i>, the Cardinal <i>Caraffa</i>, Captain <i>Montluc</i>, <i>Camillo Ursini</i>, Captain -<i>Charry</i>, and others; so that all the Countrey about <i>Rome</i> was freed, and thus the -Author saith, <i>the great de Guise shall come to quell him</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse addeth two things, that a Prisoner was carryed away, and that -a Monument was erected. History makes no mention of the Prisoner, unless it -were that Captain <i>Montluc</i>, having taken by assault the Town of <i>Pianea</i> or <i>Corsmian</i>, -by a sink which he broke; the Captain <i>Gougues</i> a <i>Gascon</i> being a Prisoner of War -in the Town, with many others, and hearing the cries of <i>France, France</i>, perswaded -his Comrades to fall upon their Keepers, and to kill them with their own weapons -and this Prisoner that was taken at <i>Montisel</i>, was brought back again into <i>France</i>, -as well for his known Valour, as for his Warlike deliverance, and since that made -himself famous in <i>Florida</i>.</p> - -<p><i>As for the Monument erected</i>, makes me think he meaneth the Constable of <i>France</i>, -who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of St. <i>Quentin</i>, and by the Monument, he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_288"></a>[288]</span> -meaneth the <i>Escurial</i>, which <i>Philip</i> the II. caused to be built in memory of that -Victory, which obliged <i>Henry</i> the II. to call back again in all hast the Duke of -<i>Guise</i> with all his Forces, or else <i>France</i> had been in danger to be lost.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sac sapproche, feu, grand sang espandu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i> grand Fleuve, aux Bouviers l’entreprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Genes</i>, <i>Nice</i> apres long temps attendu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Fossan</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, a <i>Savillan</i> la prise.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The plundering draws near, fire, abundance of blood spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pau</i> a great River, an enterprise by Herdsmen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Genes</i>, <i>Nice</i> after they shall have staid long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Fossan</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, the prize shall be at <i>Savillan</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The plundering draweth near, here the Author speaketh of things that should -happen in his days. He writ this the first of <i>March</i> 1555. and History mentioneth -that from the first of <i>March</i> 1555. till the beginning of 1559. the plundering of <i>Piemont</i> -in <i>Italy</i> was very great, since the taking of <i>Cazal</i> by the <i>French</i>, for there was -nothing but continual fightings, taking and retaking Towns, Skirmishes and Battles, -and most of them by the River <i>Pau</i>, the greatest of <i>Italy</i>. The rest of the second -Verse, and the beginning of the third saith, that the undertaking of <i>Genoa</i> shall be by -the Herdsmen, by whom he meaneth the <i>Turks</i>, who being called by the <i>French</i> to -help them in the taking of <i>Nice</i>, made an action fit for Herdsmen and villanous Traitors, -doing nothing, because they had been bribed by the <i>Genoeses</i>.</p> - -<p>This was done after the <i>French</i> had stay’d long for this infidel, who endeavoured -to delude the <i>French</i>, and take all for himself; and this is the meaning of, <i>After Nice -had stayed long</i>. In the mean time the <i>Spaniards</i> increased their Victories, as the -fourth Verse witnesseth to the taking of <i>Fossan</i>, <i>Thurin</i>, and <i>Savillan</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Fossan</i> is a Town of <i>Piemont</i>, which that it might be distinguished from <i>Marseilles</i>, -which the Author often calleth <i>Fossen</i> or <i>Phocen</i>, he putteth in the Epithete of <i>Thurin</i>, -to signifie he meaneth <i>Fossan</i> in <i>Piemont</i>.</p> - -<p>He saith that <i>Fossan</i> of <i>Piemont</i> shall have the taking towards <i>Savillan</i>, that is, this -<i>Fossan</i> which belongeth to the <i>Spaniards</i>, will take some Towns near <i>Sivillan</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Languedoc</i>, & <i>Guienna</i> plus de dix</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mille, voudront les <i>Alpes</i> repasser.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grans <i>Allobroges</i> marcher contre <i>Brundis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aquin</i> & <i>Bresse</i> les viendront recasser.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Languedoc</i>, and <i>Guienna</i> more then 10000.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would be glad to come back over the <i>Alpes</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Allobroges</i> shall march against <i>Brundis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aquin</i> and <i>Bresse</i> shall beat them back.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_289"></a>[289]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Languedoc</i> and <i>Guienne</i> are two Provinces in <i>France</i>, from whence many Souldiers -shall be raised to go into <i>Italy</i>, but being distressed, shall wish to come back again -over the <i>Alpes</i>. By the great <i>Allobroges</i>, I understand those of <i>Savoy</i> and <i>Piemont</i>, -who shall go against <i>Brundis</i>, in Latine <i>Brundusium</i>, but shall be beaten back by -<i>Aquin</i> and <i>Bresses</i>, Cities belonging to the <i>Venetians</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Mont Royal naistra d’une Casane,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui Duc, & Compte viendra tyranniser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dresser Copie de la marche <i>Millane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Favence</i>, <i>Florence</i> d’or & gens espuiser.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of the Royal Mount shall be born in a Cottage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One that shall tyranise over Duke and Earl,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall raise an Army in the Land of <i>Millan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall exhaust <i>Favence</i> and <i>Florence</i> of their gold.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no Interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par fraude Regne, forces expolier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La classe obsesse, passages a l’espie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux faincts amis se viendront r’allier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esueiller haine de long temps assoupie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By fraud a Kingdom and an Army shall be spoilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fleet shall be put to a strait, passages shall be made to the spies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two feigned friends shall agree together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall raise up a hatred that had been long dormant.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En grand regret sera la gent <i>Gauloise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur vain, leger croira temerité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pain, sel, ne vin eau venin ne cervoise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus grand captif, faim, froid, necessité.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_290"></a>[290]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In great regret shall the <i>French</i> Nation be.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their vain and light heart shall believe rashly.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall have neither Bread, Salt, Wine, nor Beer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Moreover they shall be Prisoners, and shall suffer hunger, cold, and need.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words are plain, and the onely question is whither this distress threatned here -to <i>France</i> is past or to come.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand poche viendra plaindre pleurer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’avoir esleu, trompez seront en l’Aage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Guiere avec eux ne voudra demeurer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deceu sera par ceux de son langage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Pocket shall bewaile and bemoan,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For having Elected one, they shall be deceived in his Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall not stay long with them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be deceived by those of his own language.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The great Pocket which is the Key of this Stanza being obscure, forceth me to -leave the rest unperfect.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dieu, le Ciel tout le Divin Verbe a l’Onde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Porté par rouges sept razes a <i>Bizance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre les oingts trois cens de <i>Trebisonde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux Loix mettront, & horreur, puis credence.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">God, Heaven, all the Divine Word in water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carryed by red ones, seven shaved heads at <i>Bisantium</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the anointed three hundred of <i>Trebisond</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall put two Laws, and horror, and afterwards believe.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to foretel that the Sacrament according to the <i>Roman</i> Church, shall -be carried by Cardinals and seven Priests to <i>Constantinople</i>, against which three hundred -of <i>Trebison</i> shall dispute, who shall compare the two Laws with horror, and afterwards -believe.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_291"></a>[291]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dix envoyez, chef de nef mettre a mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un adverty, en classe guerre ouverte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Confusion chef, l’un se picque & mord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leryn</i>, <i>Stecades</i> nefs, cap dedans la nerte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ten shall be sent to put the Captain of the Ship to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall have notice by one, the Fleet shall be in open War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A confusion shall be amongst the Chief, one pricks and bites,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Leryn</i>, <i>Stecades</i> nefs, caps dedans la nerte.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses are plain; as for the fourth I believe it to be the Language -of the <i>Antipodes</i>, for I think no man can understand it.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Aisné Roial sur coursier voltigeant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Picquer viendra si rudement courir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gueule lipée, pied dans l’Estrein pleignant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Traine, tiré, horriblement mourir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The eldest Royal prancing upon a Horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall spur, and run very fiercely</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Open mouth, the foot in the Stirrup, complaining,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drawn, pulled, die horribly.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth of the eldest Son of a King, who prancing upon his Horse, shall -Spur and run so fiercely, that his foot being intangled in the Stirrup he shall be dragged -and pulled, and die a fearful death.</p> - -<p>In the year 1555. upon the 25 of <i>May</i>, this came to pass in the person of <i>Henry</i> -of <i>Albret</i>, the second of that name, King of <i>Navarre</i>.</p> - -<p>This Prince <i>Henry</i> II. the eldest Royal riding upon a horse did spur him so hard, that -he ran away with him, so that he perceiving the danger he was in, pulled the Bridle so -hard that the horse’s mouth was broken; the pain did not stop the horse, but contrariwise, -he grew the more untoward, that <i>Henry</i> fell down, and in falling one of his -feet hung in the stirrup, so that he was drawn, and died a horrid death. This I -found in the History of <i>Naples</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_292"></a>[292]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le conducteur de l’Armée <i>Francoise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cuidant perdre le principal Phalange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par sus pavé de l’<i>Avaigne</i> & Ardoise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soy parfondra par <i>Gennes</i> gent estrange.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The leader of the <i>French</i> Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thinking to rout the chiefest Phalange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Pavement of <i>Avaigne</i>, and Slate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall sink in the ground by <i>Gennes</i>, a strange Nation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth that a <i>French</i> General, thinking to rout and overcome the chiefest -strength of his enemy, and going upon a brittle Pavement, made of Slate, shall sink -in the ground not far from <i>Genoa</i>, which he calleth a strange Nation to the <i>French</i>.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans tonneaux hors oingts d’huile & graisse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront vingt un devant le port fermez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au second guet feront par mort prouesses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gaigner les portes & du quet assommez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">With Pipes annointed without with Oyl and Grease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the harbour, one and twenty shall be shut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the second Watch, by death, they shall do great feats of Arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To win the Gates, and be killed by the Watch.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense of this Stanza are plain.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les os des pieds, & des mains enferrez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par bruit maison long temps inhabitée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront par songes concavant deterrez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Maison salubre & sans bruit habitée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_293"></a>[293]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The bones of the feet and of the hands in shackles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a noise a house shall be a long time deserted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a dream the buried shall be taken out of the ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The house shall be healthful, and inhabited without noise.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I have found the truth of this Stanza upon the place, in my going to <i>Lion</i>, it was -my fortune to lye at a Town four Leagues on this side of it, called <i>Lapacodier</i>, where -this Story was told me to have happened few days before.</p> - -<p>It chanced that a Company of Foot was to lie in the Town, and distressed for -quarter, they enquired why such a house was empty, and were told it was not inhabited -by reason of a noise heard there every night. The Captain of the Troop resolved, -since he feared not the living, not to fear the dead, and thereupon lay in the -house that night, where Beds were provided for him, and about half a Dozen of his -stoutest Souldiers; so they laid down their weapons on the Table, and began to be -merry at Cards and Dice, expecting the event. The door being fast locked, about -twelve and one they heard as though some body knockt at the door, one of the Souldiers -by the Captains command, with a Pistol in his hand, and a Candle, opened the -door, then appeared to them a Phantasm, in the shape of an old man, loaded with -Chains, that made a great noise, this Phantasm beckened to the Captain at the Table -to come to him, the Captain also rising, beckened to the Phantasm to come to him, -this lasted for a while, till the Captain resolved to go to him, and so taking a Candle -in one hand, and a Pistol in the other, bid his Souldiers follow him hand in hand -with their Arms, then taking the Phantasm by the hand, which was exceeding cold, -he led them into the Cellar, and through many turnings, till at last the Phantasm -vanished, and the Candles went out, then were they constrained to remain there till -day light, when perceiving where they were, and having taken notice of the Place -where the Phantasm left them, they went out, and related the story to the Townsmen; -so afterwards they digged in that place, where they found a kind of a Trunk, -and the bones of a man in it shackled, they buryed the body in a Church-yard, and no -noise was heard afterwards in that house, this came to pass about 1624.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Innocent</i> tiendra le lieu de <i>Pierre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Nizaram Sicilian</i> se verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En grands honneurs, mais apres il cherra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le bourbier d’une Civile guerre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Innocent</i> shall hold the place of <i>Peter</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Sicilian Nizaram</i> shall see himself</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In great honours, but after that he shall fall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into the dirt of a Civil war.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_294"></a>[294]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Nothing can be more plain and true than this Prophecie, and those that deny it, -may also deny the light of the Sun, but to make it more evident, we will examine it -Verse by Verse.</p> - -<p><i>When <span class="antiqua">Innocent</span> shall hold the place of <span class="antiqua">Peter</span></i>; that is, when one named <i>Innocent</i> shall -be Pope, as he was that preceded the last.</p> - -<p><i>The <span class="antiqua">Sicilian Nizaram</span> shall see himself in great honours</i>; that is, the <i>Sicilian Nizarim</i>, -for <i>Nizaram</i>, is the Annagramme of <i>Mazarin</i>, letter for letter, who was born in <i>Sicily</i>, -shall see himself in great honours, as he did; for he was then in his greatest splendor.</p> - -<p><i>But after that he shall fall into the dirt of a Civil war</i>; As every one knows he did, -having put in Prison the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, the Prince of <i>Conty</i>, and the Duke of <i>Congueiulle</i>, -can any thing be more plain, and yet when I read this forty years ago, I -took it to be ridiculous.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lutece</i> en <i>Mars</i>, Senateurs en credit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par une nuict <i>Gaule</i> sera troublée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du grand <i>Cræsus</i> l’Horoscope predit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Saturnus</i>, sa puissance exillée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lutetia</i> in <i>Mars</i>, Senators shall be in credit.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a night <i>France</i> shall be troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Horoscope of the great <i>Cræsus</i> foretelleth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That by <i>Saturn</i> his power shall be put down.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Lutetia</i> in Latine is the City of <i>Paris</i>, after the death of <i>Henry</i> IV. the Parliament -of <i>Paris</i> began to prick up their ears, and to go about to call the great ones to -account, amongst whom was the Marquess d’<i>Ancre</i>, favourite of the Queen Regent, -that had gathered great riches, and therefore is called here <i>Cræsus</i>, our Author saith, -that his power shall be put down by <i>Saturnus</i>, which must here be understood mistically, -which proved true, for by the Kings command, then <i>Lewis</i> XIII. he was shot -with three Pistols in the <i>Louvre</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux de poison saisis nouveaux Venus</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans la cuisine du grand Prince verser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le souillard tous deux au fait cogneus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prins qui cuidoit de mort l’aisné vexer.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_295"></a>[295]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two newly come being provided with poison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To pour in the Kitchin of the great Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Cooks Boy the fact shall be known,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he taken, that thought by death to vex the elder.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This came to pass in the time of <i>Henry</i> IV. who was poisoned at <i>Melan</i>, by two -unknown men, who were discovered by the Cooks Boy in the doing of it, and were -both taken, the History is at large in <i>Peter Matthew</i> his Historiographer, which I -could not insert here for the satisfaction of the Reader; because I could not get the -Book, the Reader may satisfie himself upon the place.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_296"></a>[296]</span></p> - -<h3 class="hanging">Other Stanzas, taken out of twelve, under the seventh -Century, out of which eight have been rejected, because -they were found in the foregoing Centuries.</h3> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-r.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Renfort de Sieges manubis & maniples,</div> - <div class="verse">Changez le sacre & passe sur le pronsne,</div> - <div class="verse">Prins & captifs n’arreste les prez triples,</div> - <div class="verse">Plus par fonds mis elevé, mis au Trosne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Recruit of Sieges, spoils and prizes,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Corpus Christi</i> day shall be changed, and the pronsne slighted,</div> - <div class="verse">They shall be taken and made Prisoners, do not stay in the threefold Field,</div> - <div class="verse">Moreover, one put in the bottom shall be raised to the Throne.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Occident libre les Isles <i>Britanniques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le recogneu passer le bas, puis haut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne content triste Rebel corss. <i>Escotiques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis rebeller par plui & par nuict chaut.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The West shall be free, and the <i>Brittish</i> Islands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The discovered shall pass low, then high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Scottish</i> Pirates shall be, who shall rebel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a rainy and hot night.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La stratageme simulte sera rare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Mort en voye rebelle par contrée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le retour du voyage <i>Barbare</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Exalteront la potestante entrée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The stratagem and grudge shall be scarce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Death shall be in a rebellious way through the Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the return from a <i>Barbarian</i> travel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall exalt the Protestant entrance.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_297"></a>[297]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vent chaut, conseil, pleurs, timidité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuict au lict assailly sans les Armes:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’oppression grand calamité,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Epithalame</i> converty pleurs & larmes.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Hot wind, councel, tears, fearfulness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be assaulted in his bed by night without Arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From that oppression shall be raised a great calamity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Epithalamium</i> shall be converted into tears.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The reason why I have put no Annotations to these, as I have done to the rest, is, -because according to my judgement, and that of the most Learned, they are spurious.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_298"></a>[298]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak gesperrt"><span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -READER.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Friendly Reader,</p> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Before you Read the following Epistle, I would have you be -warned of a few things: One is, that according to my opinion, -it is very obscure and intelligible in most places, being -without any just connection, and besides the obscurity of the -sense, the crabbedness of the expression is such, that had not the importunity -of the Bookseller prevailed, I would have left it out, but -considering the respect due to Antiquity, the satisfaction we owe to -curious persons, who would perhaps have thought the Book imperfect -without it, we let it go, trusting to your Candor and Ingenuity.</i></p> - -<p class="right">Farewell.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_299"></a>[299]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> VIII</span>. IX. & X.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center"><i>That had not been Printed before, and are in the same -Edition of 1568.</i></p> - -<p class="center">TO THE</p> - -<p class="hanging"><i>Most Invincible, most High, and most Christian King of -<span class="antiqua">France</span> <span class="antiqua gesperrt">HENRY</span> the Second; <span class="antiqua">Michael Nostradamus</span> -his most obedient Servant and Subject, wisheth Victory -and Happiness.</i></p> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-b.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">By reason of that singular observation, I had O most -Christian and Victorious King, since my Face, who -had been cloudy a great while, did present it self -before your immeasurable Majesty. I have been -ever since perpetually dazled, continually honouring -and worshipping that day, in which I presented my self before it, -as before a singular humane Majesty; now seeking after some occasion, -whereby I might make appear the goodness and sincerity of -my heart, and extend my acquaintance towards your most Excellent -Majesty; and seeing that it was impossible for me to declare -it by effects, as well because of the darkness and obscurity of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_300"></a>[300]</span> -my mind, as for the enlightning it did receive from the face of -the greatest Monarch in the World; I was a great while before I -could resolve to whom I should Dedicate these three last Centuries -of my Prophecies, which make the compleat thousand, and after -I had a long time considered, I have with a great temerity made -my address to your Majesty, being no ways dainted by it, as the -grave Author <i>Plutarch</i> related in the Life of <i>Lycurgus</i>, that seeing -the offerings and gifts that were Sacrificed in the Temples of their -Heathen Gods, durst not come thither no more, least the people -should wonder at the costs and charges. Notwithstanding, seeing -your Royal Splendour joyned with an incomparable Humanity, I -have made my address to it, not as to the Kings of <i>Persia</i>, of -whom to come near, it was forbidden, but to a most Prudent and -Wise Prince I have Dedicated my Nocturnal and Prophetical Supputations, -written rather by a natural instinct, and Poetical furour, -then by any rules of Poetry; and most part of it written and agreeing -with the Years, Months and Weeks, of the Regions, Countreys -and most part of the Towns and Cities in <i>Europe</i>; touching also -some thing of <i>Africa</i>, and of a part of <i>Asia</i>, by the change of Regions -that come near to those Climats, and compounded of natural -faction. But some body may answer (who hath need to blow his -Nose) the Rime to be as easie to be understood, as the intelligence -of the sence is hard and difficult, and therefore O most humane -King, most of the Prophetical Stanza’s are so difficult, that there -is no way to be found for the Interpretation of them; nevertheless -being in hope of setting down the Towns, Cities, and Regions, -wherein most of those shall happen, especially in the year 1585. -and in the year 1606. beginning from this present time, which is -the 14. of <i>March</i> 1557. and going further to the fulfilling of those -things, which shall be in the beginning of the seventh Millenary, -according as my Astronomical Calculation, and other Learning -could reach, at which time the adversaries of Christ and of his -Church shall begin to multiply; all hath been composed and calculated -in days and hours of Election, and well disposed, and all as accurately -as was possible for me to do. And the whole <i>Minerva -libera & non invita</i>, Calculating almost as much of the time that is -come, as of that which is past, comprehending it in the present time, -and what by the course of the said time shall be known to happen -in all Regions punctually as it is here written, adding nothing superfluous -to it, although it be said; <i>Quod de futuris contingentibus, -non est determinata omnino veritas</i>. It is very true Sir, that by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_301"></a>[301]</span> -my natural instinct given me by my Progenitors, I did think I could -foretel any thing; but having made an agreement between this -said instinct of mine, and a long Calculation of Art, and by a great -tranquility and repose of mind, emptied my Soul of all care and -carefulness, I have foretold most part of these <i>ex tripode æneo</i>, -though there be many who attribute to me some things that are no -more mine, then what is nothing at all. The only Eternal God, -who is the searcher of men’s hearts, being pious, just, and merciful, -is the true Judge of it, whom I beseech to defend me from the -calumny of the wicked men, who would as willing calumniously -inquire for what reason all your ancient Progenitors Kings of <i>France</i> -have healed the disease called the <i>Kings-evil</i>, and some other Nations -have cured the biting of venomous Beasts; others have had a -certain instinct to foretell things that are to come, and of several -others, too tedious to be here inserted; notwithstanding those in -whom the malignancy of the wicked spirit shall not be suppressed by -length of time; after my decease my work shall be in more esteem, -then when I was alive; nevertheless if I should fail in the supputation -of times, or could not please some, may it please your most Imperial -Majesty to forgive me, protesting before God and his Saints, -that I do not intend to insert any thing by writing in this present Epistle, -that may be contrary to the true Catholick Faith, in conferring -the Astronomical Calculation, according to my learning; for the -space of times of our Fathers that have been before us, are such, -submitting my self to the correction of the most Learned, that the -first man <i>Adam</i> was before <i>Noah</i>, about one thousand two hundred -forty two years, not computing the time according to the supputation -of the <i>Gentiles</i>, as <i>Varro</i> did, but onely according to the Sacred -Scriptures, and the weakness of my wit in my Astronomical -Calculations. After <i>Noah</i> and the universal Flood about a thousand -and fourscore years came <i>Abraham</i>, who was a supreme Astrologer, -according to most mens opinion, and did first invent the -<i>Chaldæan</i> Letters; after that came <i>Moses</i>, <i>viz.</i> some five hundred -and fifteen or sixteen years after, and between the time of <i>David</i> -and <i>Moses</i> have passed about 570. years. After which between the -time of <i>David</i> and that of our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, -born of the Virgin <i>Mary</i>, have passed (according to some Chronographers) -a thousand three hundred and fifty years. Some body -may object, that this supputation is not true; because it differeth -from that of <i>Eusebius</i>. And from the time of humane redemption, -to that of the execrable seduction of the <i>Saracens</i>, have passed six<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_302"></a>[302]</span> -hundred and four and twenty years, or thereabouts. From that -time hitherto, it is easie to collect what times are past, if my supputation -be not good among all Nations; because all hath been -calculated by the course of the Cœlestial bodies, joyned with -motion, infused in me at certain loose hours, by the motion of my -ancient Progenitors; but the injury of the time (most excellent -King) requireth, that such secret events should not be manifested, -but by an enigmatical Sentence, having the only sense, and one -only intelligence, without having mixed with it any ambiguous -or amphibological calculation, but rather under a Cloudy obscurity, -through a natural infusion, coming near to the Sentence of one -of the Thousand and two Prophets, that have been since the Creation -of the World, according to the supputation and punical Chronick -of <i>Joel</i>. <i>Effundam spiritum meum super omnem, & carnem -& prophetabunt filli vestri & filiæ vestræ</i>: But such a Prophecy did -proceed from the mouth of the Holy Ghost, who was the Supreme -and eternal Power, which being come with that of the Cœlestial -bodies, hath caused some of them to foretel great and wonderful -things; as for my part I challenge no such thing in this place, God -forbid, I confess truly, that all cometh from God, for which I give -him thanks, honour, and praise, without having mixed any thing -of that divination, which proceedeth <i>a Fato</i>, but only of that which -proceedeth <i>a Deo & Natura</i>, and most of it joyned with the motion -and course of the Cœlestial Bodies; insomuch that seeing as in a -burning Glass, and through a Cloudy Vision, the great and sad -events, the prodigious and calamitous accidents, that shall befall -the Worshippers, first of God, and secondly, those that are Earthly -propped up, with a thousand other calamitous accidents, which -shall be known in course of time; for God will take notice of the -long barrenness of the great Dame, who afterwards shall conceive -two principal Children: But being in danger, she that shall be added -to her by the temerity of age, running a danger in the 18, -and not able to go beyond the 36, shall leave behind her three -females, and he shall have two that never had any of the same father, -the differences between the three Brothers shall be such, and then -shall they be united and agreed, insomuch that the three and four -parts of <i>Europe</i> shall quake: by the lesser in years shall the -Christian Monarchy be upheld and augmented, Sects shall rise, and -presently be put down again, the <i>Arabians</i> shall be put back, Kingdoms -shall be united, and new Laws made. Concerning the other -Children; the first shall possess the furious Crowned Lions, holding<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_303"></a>[303]</span> -their Paws upon the Escutcheons. The second, well attended, -will go so deep among the Lions, that the second way shall be open, -all trembling and furious going down, to get upon the <i>Pyrenæan</i> -Mountains. The ancient Monarchy shall not be transferred, the third -innundation of humane blood shall happen, and for a good while -<i>Mars</i> shall not be in Lent. And the Daughter shall be given for -the preservation of the Church, the Dominator of it falling into -the <i>Pagan</i> Forces of the new unbelievers, she shall have two Children, -one from faithfulness, and the other from unfaithfulness, -for the confirmation of the Catholick Church; and the other, who -to his confusion and late repentance, shall go about to ruine her. -There shall be three Regions by the extreme differences of the -leagues, <i>viz.</i> the <i>Roman</i>, the <i>German</i>, and the <i>Spanish</i>, who by a -Military hand shall make divers Sects, forsaking the 50 and 52 degrees -of altitude, and all those of remote Regions shall do homage -to the Regions of <i>Europe</i>, and of the North of 40 Degrees Altitude, -who by a vain fright shall quake, after that those of the West, -South, and East shall quake because of their power, insomuch that -what shall be done, cannot be undone by Warlike power. They -shall be equal in Nature, but much different in Faith. After this, -the barren Dame of a greater power then the second, shall be admitted -by two people, by the first obstinate that had power over the -others; by the second, and by the third, that shall extend his -Circuit of the East of <i>Europe</i>, as far as the <i>Hungarians</i>, vanquished -and overcome, and by a Maritine Sail, shall make his excursions -into the <i>Trinarrian</i> and <i>Adriatick</i> Sea, by his <i>Mirmidons</i>, and <i>Germany</i> -shall fall, and the <i>Barbarian</i> Sect shall be wholly driven from -among the Latines. Then the great Empire of Antichrist shall -begin in the <i>Attila</i>, and <i>Xerxes</i> to come down with an innumerable -multitude of people, insomuch that the coming of the Holy -Ghost, proceeding from the 48 Degree, shall transmigrate, driving -away the abomination of the Antichrist, who made War against -the Royal, who shall be the great Vicar of <i>I. C.</i> and against -his Church, and his Kingdom, <i>per tempus, & in occasione temporis</i>, -and before this shall precede a Solar Eclipse, the most dark and obscure -that was since the Creation of the World, till the death and -passion of <i>I. C.</i> and from him till then, and it shall be in the Month -of <i>October</i>, when such a great Translation shall be made, that every -body will think that the weight of the Earth, shall have lost its natural -motion, and be swallowed up in perpetual darkness. In the -Spring before and after this, shall happen extraordinary changes, -mutations of Kingdoms, and great Earth-quakes, with pullulation<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_304"></a>[304]</span> -of the new <i>Babylons</i> miserable daughter, increased by the abomination -of the first Holocaust, and shall last only 73 years and 7 -Months, then from that Stock she that had been long time barren, -proceeding from the fifth Degree, who shall renew all the Christian -Church, and then shall be a great Peace, Union and Concord, -between one of the Children of the wandring and seperated foreheads -by divers Kingdoms, and such Peace shall be made, that the -Instigator and Promoter of Military function, by diversity of Religions, -shall be tied to the bottom of the deep, and the Kingdom -of the <i>Rabious</i>, who shall counterfeit the wise, shall be united. -And the Countreys, Towns, Cities and Provinces, that had deserted -their first ways to free themselves, captivating themselves -more deeply, shall be secretly angry at their liberty and Religion -lost, and shall begin to strike from the left, to turn to the right, -restoring the holiness beaten down long before with their former -writing; so that after the great Dog, shall come forth the biggest -Mastif, who shall destroy all that was done formerly, then -Churches shall be built up again as before, the Clergy shall be -restored to its former state, and shall begin to Whore, and Luxuriate, -and to commit a Thousand Crimes. And being near unto -another desolation, when she shall be in her higher and more sublime -dignity, there shall rise powers and Military hands, who -shall take away from her the two Swords, and leave her only the -Ensigns, from which by the means of the crookedness that draweth -them, the people causing it to go straight, and not willing to -submit unto them by the end opposite to the sharp hand that -toucheth the Ground, they shall provoke till that a branch shall -proceed from the barren, which shall deliver the people of the -World from that meek and voluntary slavery, putting themselves -under the protection of <i>Mars</i>, depriving <i>Jupiter</i> of all his honours -and dignities, for the free City established and seated in another -little <i>Mesopotamia</i>. And the chief Governour shall be thrust -out of the middle, and set in the high place of the Air, being -ignorant of the conspiracy of the Conspirators, with the second -<i>Thrasibulus</i>, who long before did manage this thing, then shall -the impurities and abominations be objected with great shame, -and made manifest to the darknes of the darkened light, -and shall cease towards the end of the change of his Kingdom, -the chief men of the Church shall be put back from the love of -God, and many of them shall apostatise from the true faith, and -from the true Sects, the middlemost of which by her worshippers,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_305"></a>[305]</span> -be a little put into ruine; the first, wholly in all <i>Europe</i>, and most -part of <i>Africa</i> undone by the third, by the means of the poor in -Spirit, who by madness elevated, shall through libidinous luxury, -commit adultery. The people will rise and maintain it, and shall -drive away those that did adhere to the Legislators, and shall seem -by the Kingdoms spoiled by the Eastern men, that God the Creator -hath loosed Satan from his Infernal Prison, to cause to be born -the great <i>Dog</i> and <i>Doham</i>, who shall make so great and abominable -a fraction in the Churches, that the Red nor the White, -without Eyes and without Hands, shall not judge of it, and their -power shall be taken away from them. Then shall be a greater -persecution against the Church than ever was, and in the mean -time shall be so great a Plague, that two parts of three in the world -shall fail, insomuch that no body shall be able to know the true -owners of fields and houses, and there shall happen a total desolation -unto the Clergy, and the Martial men shall usurpe what shall -come back from the City of the Sun, and from <i>Molita</i>, and the -<i>Stæchades</i> Islands, and the great Chain of that Port shall be open, -which taketh its denomination from a Sea Oxe, and a new incursion -shall be made through the Sea Coasts, willing to deliver the -<i>Castulan</i> Leap from the first Mahometan taking, and the assaulting -shall not altogether be in vain, and that place where the habitation -of <i>Abraham</i> was, shall be assaulted by those, who shall -have a respect for the Jovials. And that City of <i>Achem</i>, shall be -encompassed and assaulted on all sides, by a great power of Armed -men; their Sea Forces shall be weakened by the Western men, -and to that Kingdom shall happen great desolation, and the great -Cities shall be depopulated, and those that shall come in, shall be -comprehended within the vengeance of the wrath of God, and the -Sepulchre held in so great veneration, shall remain a great while -open to the universal Aspect of the Heavens, Sun and Moon, and -the sacred place shall be converted into a Stable for small and great -Cattle, and put to prophane uses. O what a calamitous affliction -shall be then for women with Child, and chiefly by the principal -Easterly head, being for the most part moved by the Northern -and Westerly men, vanquished and put to death, beaten, and all -the rest put to flight, and the Children he had by many women, -put in Prison, then shall be fulfilled the Prophecy of the Kingly -Prophet. <i>Ut audiret gemitus compeditorum, ut solveret filios interemptorum</i>, -what great oppression shall be made then upon the -Princes and Governours of Kingdoms, and especially of those that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_306"></a>[306]</span> -shall live Eastward and near the Sea, and their Languages inter-mixed -very sociably. The Language of the <i>Arabians</i> and Latines -by the <i>African</i> communication, and all the Eastern Kings shall be -driven away, beaten and brought to nothing, not altogether by -the means of the strength of the Kings of the North, and by the -drawing near of our age, by the means of three secretly united, -seeking for death by ambushes one against another. And the renewing -of the Triumvirate shall last seven years, while the fame -of such a sect shall be spread all the world over, and the Sacrifice -of the Holy and immaculate Host shall be upheld: And then shall -the Lords be two in number victorious in the North against the -Eastern ones, and there shall be such a great noise and Warlike -tumult, that all the East shall quake for fear of those two Brothers, -not Northern Brothers. And because, Sir, by this discourse, I -put all things confusedly in these predictions, as well concerning -the event of them, as for the account of the time which followeth, -which is not at all, or very little conformable to that I have done -before, as well by Astronomical way, as other of the sacred Scriptures -which cannot erre, I could have set down to every quatrain -the time in which they shall happen, but it would not please every -body, much less the interpretation of them, till, Sir, your Majesty -hath granted me full power so to do, that my Calumniators may -have nothing to say against me. Nevertheless reckoning the years -since the Creation of the World to the Birth of <i>Noah</i> have passed -1506. years, and from the Birth of <i>Noah</i> to the perfect building of -the Ark near the universal Flood have passed 600. years, whither -solary, or lunary, or mixed, for my part according to the Scriptures, -I hold that they were solary. And at the end of those -600. years <i>Noah</i> entered into the Ark, to save himself from the -Flood, which Flood was universal upon the Earth, and lasted a -year and two months; and from the end of the Flood, to the birth -of <i>Abraham</i> did pass the number of 295. years; and from the birth -of <i>Abraham</i> to that of <i>Isaac</i> did pass 100. years, and from <i>Isaac</i> to -<i>Jacob</i> 60. years; and from the time that he went into <i>Ægypt</i> till -he came out of it, did pass 130. years; and from the time that <i>Jacob</i> -went into <i>Ægypt</i> till his posterity came out of it did pass 430. -years; and from the coming out of <i>Ægypt</i> to the building of <i>Salomon</i>’s -Temple in the fourth year of his Reign did pass 480. years; -and from the building of the Temple till Jesus Christ, according to -the supputation of the Chronographers, did pass 490. years; and -so by this supputation, which I have gathered out of the Holy<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_307"></a>[307]</span> -Scriptures, the whole cometh to about 4173. years, eight Months -more or less. But since the time of I. C. hitherto, I leave it because -of the diversity of Opinions. And having calculated these -present Prophecies according to the order of the Chain, which containeth -the revolution, and all by Astronomical Doctrine, and according -to my natural instinct, and after some time, and in it comprehending -since the time that <i>Saturn</i> shall turn to come in on the -7 of the Month of <i>April</i>, till the 25 of <i>August</i>; <i>Jupiter</i> from the -14 of <i>June</i> to the 7 of <i>October</i>; <i>Mars</i> from the 27 of <i>April</i> till -22 of <i>June</i>; <i>Venus</i> from the 9 of <i>April</i> to the 22 of <i>May</i>; <i>Mercury</i> -from the 3 of <i>February</i> till the 24 of the same; afterwards from -the 1 of <i>June</i> till the 24 of the same; and from the 25 of <i>September</i> -till the 16 of <i>October</i>, <i>Saturn</i> in <i>Capricorn</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> in <i>Aquarius</i>, <i>Mars</i> -in <i>Scorpio</i>, <i>Venus</i> in <i>Pisces</i>, <i>Mercury</i> within a Month in <i>Capricorn</i>, -<i>Aquarius</i> in <i>Pisces</i>, <i>Luna</i> in <i>Aquarius</i>, the <i>Dragons head</i> in <i>Libra</i>, -the Tail opposite to her sign according to a Conjunction of <i>Jupiter</i> -and <i>Mercury</i>, with a quadrin Aspect of <i>Mars</i> to <i>Mercury</i>, and the -head of the <i>Dragon</i> shall be with a Conjunction of <i>Sol</i> and <i>Jupiter</i>: -the year shall be peacefull without Eclipse, and in the beginning -of that year shall be a greater persecution against the Christian -Church than ever was in <i>Affrica</i>, and it shall last till the year 1792. -at which time every body will think it a renovation of Age. -After that the <i>Roman</i> people shall begin to stand upright again, -and to put away some obscure darknesses, receiving some of its former -light, but not without great divisions, and continual changes. -<i>Venice</i> after that with great strength and power shall lift up her -Wings so high, that she will not be much inferiour to the strength -of the old <i>Rome</i>, and in that time great <i>Bizantine</i> Sails, joyned -with the <i>Ligustiques</i>, by the Northern help and power shall give -some hinderance, whereby those of <i>Crete</i> shall not keep their faith, -the Arches built by the antient Martial men, will keep company -together with <i>Neptun</i>’s Waves. In the <i>Adriatick</i> shall be a great -discord, what was united shall be parted asunder, and what was -before, and is a great City, will go near to becom a house, including -the <i>Pempotan</i>, and the <i>Mesopotamia</i> of <i>Europe</i> to 45, and others -to 41, 42, and 37. And in that time, and Countrey, the Infernal power -shall rise against the Church of I. C. with the power of the Enemies -to his Law, which shall be the second Antechrist, who shall persecute -the said Church and its Vicar by the means of the power of -Temporal Kings, who through their Ignorance shall be seduced -by Tongues more sharp than any Sword in the hands of a mad man.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_308"></a>[308]</span> -The said Reign of Antichrist shall not last but till the ending of -him, born by Age, and of the other in the City of <i>Plancus</i>, accompanied -by the Elect of <i>Modone</i>, <i>Fulcy</i> by <i>Ferrara</i>, maintained by -<i>Adriatick</i>, <i>Liguriens</i>, and the proximity of the great <i>Trinacria</i>, and -after that shall pass over the Mount <i>Jovis</i>. The <i>Gallique Ogmyon</i> -followed with such a number, that even from afar off the Empire of -the great Law, shall be presented to him, and then, and after shall -be profusedly spilled the blood of the Innocent by the Nocent, -raised on high; then by great Floods the memory of those things -contained by such Instruments, shall receive an innumerable loss, -as also shall learning towards the North by the Divine Will, -Satan bound once more, and an universal Peace shall be among -men, and the Church of I. C. shall be free from all tribulation, -although the <i>Azosrains</i> would fain mix among it the Honey of their -pestilent seduction, and this shall happen about the seventh Millinary; -so that the Sanctuary of I. C. shall be no more trodden down -by the unbelievers that shall come from the North, the world being -near to some conflagration, although by my supputations in -my Prophecies, the course of the time goeth much further. In the -Epistle that within the late years I have dedicated to my Son <i>Cæsar -Nostradamus</i>, I have openly enough declared some things, without -prognosticating. But here (Sir) are comprehended many great -and wonderful events, which those that come after us shall see. And -during the said Astrological supputation, conferred with the sacred -Scripture, the persecution of the Clergy shall have its beginning -from the power of Northern Kings, joyned with the Eastern ones; -that persecution shall last Eleven years and a little less, at which -time the chief Northern King shall fail, which years being ended, -shall come in his united Southern one, who shall yet more violently -persecute the Clergy by the Apostatical seduction of one that shall -have the absolute power over the Militant Church of God: And -the Holy people of God and keeper of his Law, and all order of -Religion shall be grievously persecuted and afflicted, insomuch that -the blood of the true Ecclesiastical men shall float all over, and -unto one of those horrid Kings this praise shall be given by his followers -to have spilt more humane blood of the Innocent Clergymen, -than any body can do Wine, and the said King shall commit -incredible crimes against the Church; humane blood shall run -through publick streets and Churches, as water coming from an impetuous -Rain, and the next Rivers shall be red with blood, and by -another Sea fight the Sea shall be red, insomuch that one King shall<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_309"></a>[309]</span> -say to another, <i>Bellis rubuit navalibus æquor</i>. After that in the -same year, & those that follow, shall happen the most horrid Plague, -caused by the precedent famine, and so great tribulations as ever -did happen since the first foundation of the Christian Church -through all the Latine Regions; some marks of it remaining in some -Countreys of <i>Spain</i>. At that time the Northern King hearing the -complaint of the people of his principal title, shall raise up so great -an Army, and shall go through the straights of his last Ancestors -and Progenitors, that he will set up all again in their first state, and -the great Vicar of the Cope, shall be restored in his former estate, -but desolate and altogether forsaken, and then shall the <i>Sancta sanctorum</i> -be destroyed by Paganism, and the old and New Testament -be thrust out and burnt, after that shall Antechrist be the infernal -Prince, and once more for the last all the Kingdoms of Christendom -and also of the unbelievers shall quake for the space of 25 -years, and there shall be more grievous Wars and Battles, and -Towns, Cities, Castles and other buildings shall be burnt, desolate, -and destroyed with a great effusion of Vestal blood, Married -Women and Widows ravished, sucking Children dashed against the -Walls of the Towns, and so many evils shall be committed by the -means of the Infernal prince Satan, that almost the universal world -shall be undone and desolate, and before these events many unusual -Birds shall cry through the Air, <i>Huy, Huy</i>, and a little while -after shall vanish away: And after that time shall have lasted a good -while, there shall be renewed a Kingdom of <i>Saturn</i> and Golden -Age. God the Creator shall say, hearing the affliction of his people, -Satan shall be put, and tied in the bottom of the deep, and there -shall begin an universal peace between God and men, and the -Ecclesiastical power shall be in its greater force, and Satan shall be -left bound for the space of a thousand years, and then shall be -loosed again. All these Figures are justly fitted by the sacred -Scripture, to the visible Cœlestial things, <i>viz.</i> <i>Saturn</i>, <i>Jupiter</i>, and -<i>Mars</i>, and others joyned with them, as more at large may be seen -in some of my Stanza’s. I would have calculated it more deeply, -and compared one with the other, but seeing (most excellent -King) that some stand ready to censure me, I shall withdraw my -Pen to its Nocturnal repose. <i>Multa etiam O Rex potentissime præclara, -& sane in brevi ventura, sed omnia in hac tua Epistola innectere -non possumus, nec volumus, sed ad intelligenda quedam facta, horrida -fata pauca libanda sunt, quamvis tanta sit in omnes tua amplitudo & -humanitas homines, deosque pietas, ut solus amplissimo & Christianissimo<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_310"></a>[310]</span> -regis nomine, & ad quem summa totius Religionis authoritas -deferatur, dignus esse videare.</i> But only I shall beseech you O most -Merciful King, through your singular and prudent goodness, to -understand rather the desire of my Heart, and the earnest desire I -have to obey your most excellent Majesty, since my Eyes were so -near your Royal Splendor, than the greatness of my work can deserve -or require.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>From <span class="antiqua">Selin</span> this 27 <span class="antiqua">June</span>, 1558.</i></p> - -<p class="right"><i>Faciebat <span class="antiqua">Michael Nostradamus</span>,</i><br /> -<i><span class="antiqua">Salonæ Petreæ</span>, Provinciæ.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_311"></a>[311]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> VIII</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-p.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Nay</i>, <i>Loron</i>, plus feu qu’a sang sera,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Laude</i> nager, fuir grands aux <i>Surrez</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Les <i>Agassas</i> entrée refusera,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Pampon</i>, <i>Durance</i>, les tiendront enserrez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse"><i>Pau</i>, <i>Nay</i>, <i>Loron</i>, more in fire then blood shall be,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Lauda</i> to swim, great ones run to the <i>Surrez</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">The <i>Agassas</i> shall refuse the entry,</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Pampon</i>, <i>Durance</i> shall keep them enclosed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Prophecies of this, and of the remaining Centuries being for the most part so -obscure, as no man is able to make any sense of them, the judicious Reader must not -expect from me, what no man else can do; let him suffice if I give him as much light -as I can, and leave the rest to his own judgement and industry.</p> - -<p><i>Pau</i> is the chief Town of the Province of <i>Bearn</i>, in the Kingdom of <i>Navarre</i>, where -<i>Henry</i> the IV. King of <i>France</i> and <i>Navarre</i> was born. <i>Nay</i> and <i>Loron</i> are barbarous -words, so are <i>Surrez</i>, <i>Agassas</i> and <i>Pampon</i>. <i>Durance</i> is a River of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_312"></a>[312]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Condon</i> & <i>Aux</i>, & autour de <i>Mirande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Je voy du Ciel feu qui les environne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i>, <i>Mars</i>, conjoint au <i>Lion</i>, puis <i>Marmande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Foudre, grand guerre, mur tomber dans <i>Garonne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Condon</i> and <i>Aux</i>, and about <i>Mirande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I see a fire from Heaven that encompasseth them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i>, <i>Mars</i>, in conjunction with the Lion, and then <i>Marmande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lightning, great War, Wall falls into the <i>Garonne</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Condon</i>, <i>Aux</i>, <i>Mirande</i>, and <i>Marmande</i> are Towns in the Province of <i>Guyenne</i> and -<i>Languedoc</i>, <i>Garonne</i> is the River of <i>Bourdeaux</i>.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au fort Chasteau de <i>Vigilanne</i> & <i>Resviers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera serré les puisnay de <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Turin</i> seront ards les premiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que de dueil <i>Lyon</i> sera transy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the strong Castle of <i>Vigilanne</i> and <i>Resviers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be kept close the youngest son of <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within <i>Turin</i> the first shall be burnt up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Lyon</i> shall be overwhelmed with sorrow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Vigilanne</i> and <i>Resviere</i> being falsly writen here, it must be set down <i>Veillane</i> and -<i>Riuiere</i>, which are two strong Castles, the first being seated in <i>Piemont</i>, and the -last in <i>Burgundy</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Nancy</i> is the chief Town of <i>Lorrain</i>, and <i>Turin</i> of <i>Piemont</i>, <i>Lyon</i> is a famous City -in <i>France</i>, so that the sense of this Prophecy seemeth to be, that the youngest Son -of <i>Nancy</i>, (that is of <i>Lorrain</i>) shall be kept close Prisoner in those two Castles of -<i>Veillane</i> and <i>Riuiera</i>, and that the chief men of <i>Turin</i> shall be burnt, when the City -of <i>Lyon</i> shall be oppressed with sorrow.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Monech</i> le Coq sera receu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Cardinal de <i>France</i> apparoistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Logarion</i> <i>Romain</i> sera deceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Foiblesse a l’Aigle, & force au Coq croistra.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_313"></a>[313]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within <i>Monech</i> the Cock shall be admitted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Cardinal of <i>France</i> shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Logarion</i>, <i>Roman</i> shall be deceived,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weakness to the Eagle, and strength to the Cock shall grow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Monech</i> is false written here, it must be <i>Monaco</i>, which is a Principality and Town -in <i>Italy</i> by <i>Genoa</i>, belonging to the House of the <i>Grimaldi</i>, wherein the <i>French</i> were -admitted by the policy of Cardinal <i>Richelieu</i>, during the Wars between <i>France</i> and -<i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Logarion</i> is a Barbarous name, by which he meaneth some body unknown to us.</p> - -<p>By the Eagle is meant the Emperour, who was very low at that time, and by the -Cock, the King of <i>France</i>, who was very powerful, where it is to be observed, that -by the Eagle the Emperour is always understood, because it is his Arms, and by the -Cock is meant the King of <i>France</i>, because a <i>Frenchman</i> is called in Latine <i>Galius</i>, -which also signifieth a Cock.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoistra Temple luisant orné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Lampe & Cierge a <i>Borne</i> & <i>Bretueil</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour la <i>Lucerne</i> le Canton destourné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand on verra le grand Coq au Cercueil.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A shining adorned Temple shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lamp and wax Candle at <i>Borne</i> and <i>Bretueil</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For <i>Lucerne</i> the Canton turned of,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Cock shall be seen in his Coffin.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Borne</i> and <i>Bretueil</i> are two particular places, the first is one of the four Baronies of -the River <i>Mase</i>, <i>viz.</i> <i>Petersem</i>, <i>Steen</i>, <i>Horne</i>, <i>Borne</i>, the other is a little Town in -<i>Britany</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Lucerne</i> is one of the Cantons of <i>Switzerland</i>. We have said before what is -meant by the great Cock, <i>viz.</i> the King of <i>France</i>. Let the Reader make up the -rest, according to his fancy.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Charté fulgure a <i>Lyon</i> apparente,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luysant, print <i>Malte</i>, subit sera estainte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sardon</i>, <i>Mauris</i> traitera decevante,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Geneve</i> a <i>Londres</i>, a Coq trahison feinte.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_314"></a>[314]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A thundering light at <i>Lyons</i> appearing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bright, took <i>Maltha</i>, instantly shall be put out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sardon shall treat <i>Mauris</i> deceitfully,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To <i>Geneva</i>, <i>London</i>, and the Cock a fained treason.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Maltha</i> is an Island in the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, famous for the Knights that inhabit -it, and take their name from thence. <i>Sardon</i> and <i>Mauris</i> are barbarous words.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Verceil</i>, <i>Milan</i> donra intelligence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Tycin</i> sera faite la paye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Courir par <i>Seine</i> eau, sang, feu par <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unique choir d’hault en bas faisant maye.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Verceil</i>, <i>Milan</i> shall give intelligence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Tycin</i> shall the Peace be made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Run through <i>Seine</i> water, blood, fire through <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The only one shall fall from top to bottom making maye.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Verceil</i> and <i>Milan</i> are two Cities in <i>Italy</i>, the <i>Tycin</i>, or rather <i>Thesin</i> is a River of -the same Countrey; <i>Seine</i> is the River that runneth at <i>Paris</i>. <i>Florence</i> is a famous -City in <i>Italy</i>, and <i>maye</i> a barbarous word, foisted up to patch up his Rime.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Linterne</i> dans des tonnes fermez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Chivas</i> fera pour l’Aigle la menée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Esleu cassé, luy ses ges enfermez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Turin</i> rapt espouse emmenée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Linterne</i>, enclosed within Tuns,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Chivas</i> shall drive the plot for the Eagle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Elect cashiered, he and his men shut up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within <i>Turin</i>, a rape, and Bride carried away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Linterne</i> is a small Town in <i>Italy</i>; by <i>Tuns</i> are meant woodden Vessels, such as -they put Rhenish wines and others in.</p> - -<p><i>Chivas</i> is a Town in <i>Piemont</i>, and <i>Turin</i> the chief Town of the said Countrey.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_315"></a>[315]</span></p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pendant que l’Aigle & le Coq a <i>Savone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront unis, Mer, <i>Levant</i> & <i>Hongrie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Armée a <i>Naples</i>, <i>Palerme</i>, Marque d’<i>Ancone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rome</i>, <i>Venise</i>, par barbe horrible crie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst the Eagle and the Cock at <i>Savona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be united, Sea, <i>Levant</i>, and <i>Hungary</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Army at <i>Naples</i>, <i>Palermo</i>, Mark of <i>Ancona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Rome</i>, <i>Venice</i>, cry because of a horrid beard.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Eagle is meant the Emperour, and by the Cock the King of <i>France</i>; the -rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Puanteur grande sortira de <i>Lausane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on ne scaura l’origine du fait,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’on mettra hors toute la gent loingtaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu veu au Ciel peuple estranger deffait.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great stink shall come forth out of <i>Lausane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that no body shall know the ofspring of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall put out all the Forreiners,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire seen in Heaven, a strange people defeated.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Lausane</i> is a City situated in <i>Savoy</i>, by the Lake of <i>Geneva</i>, but now as I take it in -the possession of the <i>Switzers</i>.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple infiny paroistre a <i>Vicence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sans force feu brusler la <i>Basilique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Lunage</i> des fait grand de <i>Valence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que <i>Venise</i> par morte prendre pique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Infinite deal of people shall appear at <i>Vicence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without force, fire shall burn in the <i>Basilick</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Lunage</i> the great one of <i>Valence</i> shall be defeated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Venice</i> by death shall take the pique.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_316"></a>[316]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Vicenza</i> is a Town in <i>Italy</i>, under the dominion of the <i>Venetians</i>. <i>Basilick</i> is the -name of the biggest sort of Canons or pieces of Ordinance. As for <i>Valence</i> there is -three Cities of that name, one in <i>Spain</i>, the second in <i>France</i>, and the third in <i>Italy</i>; -instead of <i>Lunage</i>, it must be <i>Lignago</i> which is a Town in <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoistra aupres du <i>Bufalore</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’haut & procere entré dedans <i>Milan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Abbé de <i>Foix</i> avec ceux de Saint <i>Maure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront la fourbe habillez en vilain.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the <i>Bufalore</i> shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The high and tall, come into <i>Milan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Abbot of <i>Foix</i> with those of Saint <i>Maure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make the trumpery being cloathed like rogues.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bufalore</i> is a barbarous word; <i>Foix</i> is a Countrey in <i>France</i>, and St. <i>Maure</i> a little -Town in the said Countrey.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le croisé Frere par amour effrenée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera par <i>Praytus</i> <i>Bellerophon</i> mourir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe a mil ans, la femme forcenée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beu le breueage, tous deux apres perir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The crossed Brother through unbridled love,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Bellerophon</i> to be killed by <i>Praytus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleet to thousand years, the woman out of her wit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The drink being drunk, both after that, perish.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bellerophon</i> and <i>Praytus</i> are two supposed and fictitious names.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand credit, d’or, d’argent l’abundance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aveuglera par <i>Libide</i> l’honneur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cogneu sera d’adultere l’offence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui parviendra a son grand deshonneur.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_317"></a>[317]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great credit, the abundance of Gold and Silver</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall blind honour by lust,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The offence of the Adulterer shall be known,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall come to his great dishonour.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is easie to be understood; for it is frequently seen, that Honour is made blind -by lust, and chiefly if that lust be propped up with credit; and abundance of Gold -and Silver.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vers Aquilon grands efforts par hommasse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Presque l’<i>Europe</i>, l’Univers vexer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux Eclipses mettra en telle chassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et aux <i>Pannons</i> vie & mort renforcer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Towards the North great endeavours by a manly woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To trouble <i>Europe</i>, and almost all the world,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She shall put to flight the two Eclipses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall re-inforce life and death to the <i>Pannons</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Pannons</i> is meant the <i>Hungarians</i>. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lieu que <i>Hieson</i> fit sa nef fabriquer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grand Deluge sera & si subite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on n’aura lieu ne Terre sattaquer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’onde monter <i>Fesulan Olympique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place where <i>Jason</i> caused his Ship to be built,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So great a Flood shall be, and so sudden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That there shall be neither place nor Land to save themselves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Waves shall climb upon the <i>Olympick Fesulan</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Jason</i> was Son to King <i>Æson</i>, who built a Ship called <i>Argos</i>, in which he went to -<i>Colchos</i>, to Conquer the Golden Fleece.</p> - -<p><i>Fesulan</i> here is to be understood of some high and eminent place, which therefore -he calleth <i>Olympick</i>, from <i>Olympus</i> a high Mountain in <i>Grecia</i>. The place -where <i>Jason</i> builded his Ship.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_318"></a>[318]</span></p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les bien aisez subit seront desmis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le monde mis par les trois freres en trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cité Marine saisiront ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faim, feu, sang, peste, & de tous maux le double.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that were at ease shall be put down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The world shall be put in trouble by three Brothers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Maritine City shall be seized by its enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hunger, fire, blood, plague, and the double of all evils.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is not easie to tell what them three Brothers have been, or shall be, nor that -Maritine or Sea City, therefore we leave it to the liberty of every ones judgement, -the words being plain enough.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Flore</i> issue de sa mort sera cause,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un temps devant par jeusne & vieille bueyre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Car les trois lis luy feront telle pause,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par son fruit sauve comme chair crüe mueyre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Issued from <i>Flora</i> shall be the cause of her own death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One time before, through fasting and old drink,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the three Lillies shall make her such a pause,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saved by her fruit, as raw flesh dead.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is one of those, wherein the Author would not be understood, and may be -did not understand himself.</p> - -<h3>XVIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A soustenir la grand cappe troublée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour l’esclaireir les rouges marcheront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De mort famille sera presqu’accablée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les rouges rouges, le rouge assommeront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To maintain up the great troubled Cloak,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The red ones shall march for to clear it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A family shall be almost crushed to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The red, the red, shall knock down the red one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_319"></a>[319]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to carry no other sense than a conspiracy of the Cardinals, called here -by the name of the <i>Red</i>, the <i>Red</i> against the Pope, who is called the <i>Red one</i>.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le faux message par election feinte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Courir par Urbem rompue pache arreste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voix acheptées de sang chappelle teinte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a un autre qui l’Empire conteste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The contract broken, stoppeth the message,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From going about the Town, by a fained election,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voices shall be bought, and a Chappel died with blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By another, who challengeth the Empire.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This was so falsely printed, and so preposterously set in order, that I had much -ado to pick out this little sense of it, which amounteth to no more, than that by -reason of an agreement broken, the Messenger, that went to publish a faigned -election (it seemeth of the Empire) shall be hindred, and that one of the Competitors -to the said Empire, shall be killed in or near a Chappel, that shall be soiled -by his Blood.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au port de <i>Agde</i> trois fustes entreront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Portant infection avec soy, pestilence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passant le pont mil milles embleront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le pont rompre a tierce resistance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Three Galleys shall come into the harbour of <i>Agde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carrying with them infection and Pestilence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going beyond the Bridge, they shall carry away thousands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the third resistance the Bridge shall be broken.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Agde</i> is a Sea Town in <i>France</i> upon the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, which is threatned -here of three Galleys, that shall come into the Harbour of it, and shall bring with -them infection and Plague; and besides carry away thousands of Captives, by which it -seemeth, that these should be <i>Turkish</i> Galleys, till at last upon the third resistance of -the Townsmen the Bridge shall be broken.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_320"></a>[320]</span></p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gorsan</i>, <i>Narbonne</i>, par le Sel advertir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tucham</i>, la Grace <i>Perpignan</i> trahie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La ville rouge ny voudra consentir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par haute <i>Voldrap</i>, Gris vie faillie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gorsan</i>, <i>Narbonne</i>, by the Salt shall give notice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To <i>Tucham</i>, the Grace <i>Perpignan</i> betrayed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The red Town will not give consent to it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By high <i>Woldrap</i>, Gray, life ended.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is another, wherein my best skill faileth me; for take away <i>Narbonne</i>, -which is a City of <i>France</i>, in the Province of <i>Languedoc</i>, and <i>Perpignan</i>, which is -another in the County of <i>Roussilon</i> near <i>Spain</i>. The rest are either barbarous words -or nonsensical to me.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lettres trouvées de la Reyne les Coffres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Point de subscrit, sans aucun nom d’Autheur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la police seront cachez les offres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on ne scaura qui sera lamateur.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Letters found in the Queens Coffers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No superscription, no name of the Author,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By policy shall be concealed the offers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that no body shall know who shall be the lover.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This needeth no great explication, being pretty plain, and foretelleth only that -a Queens Trunks shall be opened, wherein many love Letters shall be found without -subscription, with many great offers, which by policy being suppressed, or no -notice taken of. The lover was never known.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Lieutenant a l’entrée l’huis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assommera le grand de <i>Perpignan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En se cuidant sauver a <i>Montpertuis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera deceu Bastard de <i>Lusignan</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_321"></a>[321]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lieutenant shall at the doors entry.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Knock down the great one of <i>Perpignan</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Bastard of <i>Lusignan</i> shall be deceived,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thinking to save himself at <i>Montpertuis</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are clear, though the meaning is hard to be understood.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cœur de l’Amant ouvert d’amour furtive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le ruisseau sera ravir la Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le demy mal contrefaira lascive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere a deux privera corps de l’Ame.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lovers heart being by a stoln love,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the Dame to be ravished in the Brook,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The lascivious shall counterfeit half a discontent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Father shall deprive the bodies of both of their souls.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth nothing but a Lover, who meeting in or by a Brook, his Mistress -shall enjoy her, for which she shall fain a little discontent, as if she had been ravished -against her will, but her jealous Father not contented therewith, shall kill them both, -which is an ordinary <i>Italian</i> trick.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Carones</i> trouvez en <i>Barcelonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mys descouvers, lieu terrouers & ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand qui tient ne voudra <i>Pampelone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par l’Abbaye de <i>Montferrat</i> bruine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Carones</i> fond in <i>Barcelona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Put discovered, place soil and ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great that hold will not <i>Pampelona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Abbaye of <i>Montferrat</i>, mist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Barcelona</i> is a Town of a Province in <i>Spain</i>, called <i>Catalonia</i>. <i>Pampelona</i> is the -chief Town of the Kingdom of <i>Navarre</i>. <i>Montferrat</i> is an Abbaye in the Mountains -of <i>Catalonia</i>; the rest is insignificant.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_322"></a>[322]</span></p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La voye <i>Auxelle</i> l’un sur l’autre fornix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du muy de fer hors mis brave & genest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Escrit d’Empereur la Phœnix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Veu en celuy ce qu’a nul autre nest.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The way <i>Auxelle</i>, one Arch upon another,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being brave and gallant put out of the Iron vessel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The writing of the Emperour the Phœnix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In it shall be seen, what no where else is.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I can find nothing in this worth interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Simulachres d’or & d’argent enflez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’apres le rapt, Lac au feu furent jettez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au descouvert estaints tous & troublez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Marbre escripts, prescripts interjettez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Images sweld with Gold and Silver,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which after the rape were thrown into the Lake and fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being discovered after the putting out of the fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be written in Marble, prescripts being intermixed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth that this gold and silver Idols having been stoln, were afterwards thrown -into a Lake and a fire, which fire being put out, those Idols were found, and the memorial -engraven in Marble.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au quart pilier ou l’on sacre a <i>Saturne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par tremblant Terre & Deluge fendu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs l’edifice <i>Saturnin</i> trouvée Urne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’or <i>Capion</i>, ravy puis tost rendu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the fourth Pillar where they sacrifice to <i>Saturn</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cloven by an Earth-quake and a Flood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Urne shall be found under that <i>Saturnian</i> building,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Full of <i>Capion</i> gold stoln, and then restored.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_323"></a>[323]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth, that at the fourth Pillar of a Temple that was dedicated to <i>Saturn</i>, -which Pillar shall be split by an Earth-quake and a Flood, there shall be found -an Urne, (which is an Earthen Vessel, wherein the ancient <i>Romans</i> used to keep the -ashes of their dead friends) full of gold, that shall be carried away, and then restored.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Tholose</i> non loin de <i>Beluzer</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faisant un puis loing Palais d’espectacle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thresor trouvé un chacun ira vexer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et en deux locs tout aupres des <i>Vesacle</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within <i>Tholose</i> not far from <i>Beluzer</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Digging a Well, for the Pallace of spectacle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A treasure found that shall vex every one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In two parcels, in, and near the <i>Basacle</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Tholose</i> is the chief City of <i>Languedoc</i>, <i>Beluzer</i> is a private place within its precinct, -Spectacle is insignificant, and is onely foisted in, to Rime with <i>Basacle</i>, which is a -place in <i>Tholose</i>, where there is aboundance of Water-mills, that make a hideous -and fearful noise.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier grand fruit le Prince de <i>Pesquiere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais puis viendra bien & cruel malin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Venise</i> perdra sa gloire fiere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et mis a mal par plus joyve <i>Celin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The first great fruit the Prince of <i>Pesquiere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But he shall become very cruel and malicious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall loose his fierce pride in <i>Venice</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be put to evil by the younger <i>Celin</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Pescaire</i> is a Town in the Kingdom of <i>Naples</i>, belonging to the noble <i>Spanish</i> Family -of <i>Avalos</i>, of which it seemeth one shall prove cruel and malicious; but he shall -be killed in <i>Venice</i> by one young <i>Celin</i>, by which formerly, and in other places the -Author understandeth the <i>Turk</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Garde toy Roy <i>Gaulois</i> de ton Nepveu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui fera tant que ton unique filz,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera meurtry a <i>Venus</i> faisant vœu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagné de nuit que trois & six.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_324"></a>[324]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Take heed O <i>French</i> King of thy Nephew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall cause that thine only Son</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be murdered making a vow to <i>Venus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompanied with three and six.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a plain warning to a <i>French</i> King to beware of his Nephew, who accompanied -with nine others, shall cause his Son to be murdered when he went about some -venereal employment.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand naistra de <i>Verone</i> & <i>Vicence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui portera un surnom bien indigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui a <i>Venise</i> voudra faire vengeance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy mesme prins homme du guet & signe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Verona</i> and <i>Vicenza</i> shall be born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall bear a very unworthy surname,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall endeavour at <i>Venice</i> to avenge himself,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But he shall be taken by a Watch-man.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Verona</i> and <i>Vicenza</i> are two famous Cities in <i>Italy</i>, under the dominion of the <i>Venetians</i>; -the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres victoire du Lion au Lion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur la Montagne de <i>Jura Secatombe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Delues</i>, & <i>Brodes</i> septiesme milion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lyon</i> Ulme a <i>Mausol</i> mort & tombe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After the Victory of the Lion against the Lion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Mountain <i>Jura Secatomb</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Delues</i>, and <i>Brodes</i> the seventh Million,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lyons</i>, Ulme fall dead at <i>Mausol</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Mount <i>Jura</i> is in <i>Switzerland</i>; <i>Lyon</i> is a great City in <i>France</i>; and <i>Ulme</i> another -in <i>Germany</i>; the rest is either barbarous or insignificant.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_325"></a>[325]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans l’entree de <i>Garonne</i> & <i>Blaye</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la Forest non loing de <i>Damazan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Marsaves</i> gelées, puis gresle & <i>Bize</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Dordonois</i> gelé par erreur de <i>Mezan</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the entrance of <i>Garonne</i> and <i>Blaye</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Forrest not far from <i>Damazan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Marsaves</i> frosts, then Hail and North wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Dordonois</i> frozen by the error of <i>Mezan</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Garonne</i> is the River that runneth at <i>Bourdeaux</i>, and <i>Blaye</i> is the Port Town that -lieth at the mouth of it; I should think that instead of <i>Dordonois</i>, it should be -Printed <i>Dordone</i>, which is another River thereabouts, and is here threatned to be -frozen.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera commis contre <i>Oinde</i> a Duché</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Saulne</i>, & Saint <i>Aubin</i>, & <i>Belœuvre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paver de Marbre, de tours loing pluche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non <i>Bleteran</i> resister & chef d’œuvre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Dukedom shall be committed against <i>Oinde</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Saulne</i>, and Saint <i>Aubin</i>, and <i>Belœuvre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To pave with Marble, and of Towers well pickt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not <i>Bleteran</i> to resist, and master-piece.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I confess my Ignorance, and should be glad that a better <i>Oedipus</i> than I would -undertake this.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La forteresse aupres de la <i>Thamise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherra par lors, le Roy dedans serré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du pont sera veu en chemise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un devant mort, puis dans le fort barré.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_326"></a>[326]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The strong Fort near the <i>Thames</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall fall then, the King that was kept within,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be seen near the Bridge in his Shirt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One dead before, then in the Fort kept close.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>The Dream be to them that hate thee, and the Interpretation thereof to thine Enemies</i>, -Dan. 4, v. 10.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy de <i>Blois</i> dans <i>Avignon</i> regner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un autrefois le peuple emonopole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le <i>Rhosne</i> par murs fera baigner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jusques a cinq, le dernier pres de <i>Nole</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The King of <i>Blois</i> in <i>Avignon</i> shall Reign</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another time the people do murmur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause in the <i>Rhosne</i> to be bathed through the Walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As many as five, the last shall be near <i>Nole</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth that a King of <i>France</i> shall take <i>Avignon</i>, which is a City in <i>France</i> -belonging to the Pope. And that some of the people beginning to murmur and -mutiny, he shall cause five of them to be thrown over the Walls into the <i>Rhosne</i>, -which is a swift River that passeth by. <i>Nole</i> must be some place thereabouts.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’aura esté par Prince <i>Bizantin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera tollu par Prince de <i>Tholose</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La foy de <i>Foix</i>, par le chef <i>Tholentin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy faillira ne refusant l’espouse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What shall have been by a <i>Bizantin</i> Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be taken away by the Prince of <i>Tholose</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The faith of <i>Foix</i> by the chief <i>Tholentin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall fail him, not refusing the Spouse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I can understand nothing else by Prince <i>Bizantin</i>, but some Prince of the house -of <i>Gonzague</i>, who derive their pedigree from that of the <i>Palæologues</i>, formerly Emperours -of <i>Constantinople</i>, called in ancient time <i>Bizantium</i>. As for the Prince of <i>Tholose</i>, -there having been none this two or three hundred years since that Country was -devolved to the Crown of <i>France</i>; but the King himself, I suppose he must be understood -here; so that the sense of this Prophecie, (if any be) is, that the King of -<i>France</i> shall take something from the Duke of <i>Mantua</i>, who is the head of the <i>Gonzagues</i>, -as he hath done formerly several times.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_327"></a>[327]</span></p> - -<p>By the faith of <i>Foix</i>, is understood the late Duke of <i>Rohan</i>, who descended from -the house of <i>Foix</i>, and who did war against the said Duke of <i>Mantua</i> at that time, -when the King of <i>France</i>, <i>Lewis</i> XIII. would not suffer his Brother the Duke of <i>Orleans</i> -to Marry the Princess <i>Mary</i>, Daughter of the Duke of <i>Nevers</i>, of the house of <i>Gonzague</i>, -and lately Queen of <i>Poland</i>.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sang du juste par <i>Taur</i> & la <i>Dorade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour se vanger contre les <i>Saturnins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au nouveau Lac plongeront la <i>Mainade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis marcheront contre les <i>Albanins</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood of the just by <i>Taur</i> and <i>Dorade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To avenge themselves against the <i>Saturnins</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the new Lake shall sink the <i>Mainade</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall go forth against the <i>Albanins</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here the Author hath kept his mind to himself, as for my part, being ignorant of -his barbarous words, I had rather leave the sense of this to the judgment of the -Reader, than by an incongruous and far fetched interpretation make my self ridiculous.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu sera Renard ne sonnant mot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faisant le Saint public, vivant pain d’orge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyranniser apres tant a un cop,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettant le pied des plus grands sur la gorge.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fox shall be elected that said nothing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making a publick Saint, living with Barley bread,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall tyrannise after upon a sudden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put his foot upon the Throat of the greatest.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy seemeth to regard particularly the Pope, who having played the -Hypocrite before his Election, eating nothing but Barley bread, that he might be -reputed a Spaint, shall after his Election shall tyrannise upon a sudden, and trample -upon the Throat of the greatest Monarchs, as they have done formerly, and would -do yet if they could.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par avarice, par force & violence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra vexer les siens chefs d’<i>Orleans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prez Saint <i>Memire</i> assaut & resistance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort dans sa Tente, diront quil dort leans.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_328"></a>[328]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By avarice, by force and violence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to vex his own chief of <i>Orleans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near Saint <i>Memire</i> assault and resistance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead in his Tent, they’l say he sleepeth there.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The construction of this must be thus made. The Chiefs of <i>Orleans</i>, (which is a -famous Town in <i>France</i>) shall come to vex their own (I suppose) Citizens. And -near that place called Saint <i>Memire</i>, shall be a fight, where one of those chief ones -shall be killed, or die in his Tent, and shall be denyed under pretence of being asleep.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le decide de deux choses Bastars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nepveu du sang occupera le Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Lectoure</i> seront les coups de dards,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nepveu par peur pleira l’Enseigne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the decision of two things, Bastards,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nephew of the Blood shall occupy the Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within <i>Lectoure</i> shall be strokes of Darts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nephew through fear shall fold up his Ensign.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I think that instead of decision it should be division, and then the sense is easily -made up, thus; that through the division of two Bastards, the Nephew of the -Blood shall occupy the Kingdom, which Nephew afterwards in a fight at <i>Lectoure</i>, -(which is a strong Town in <i>Gascony</i>) shall be put to the worst, and compelled to -fold up his Ensigns.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le procrée naturel d’<i>Ogmion</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sept a neuf du chemin destourner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Roy de longue & amy au my hom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doit a <i>Navarre</i> fort de <i>Pau</i> prosterner.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The natural begotten of <i>Ogmyon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From seven to nine shall put out of the way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To King of long, and friend to the half man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ought to <i>Navarre</i> prostrate the fort of <i>Pau</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_329"></a>[329]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A man needeth a good pair of Spectacles to see through all this, what I understand -in it is that this Bastard of <i>Ogmyon</i>, by whom he meaneth the King of <i>France</i>, -ought to submit the Fort of <i>Pau</i> to <i>Navarre</i>, and good reason too; for <i>Navarre</i> is -the Kingdom, and <i>Pau</i> only the chief Town of one Province of it, called <i>Bearn</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La main escharpe & la jambe bandée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Louis</i> puisné de <i>Palais</i> partira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au mot du guet la mort sera tardée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis dans le Temple a Pasques seignera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The hand on a Scarf, and the leg swadled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The younger <i>Lewis</i> shall go from <i>Palais</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the Watch word his death shall be protracted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then afterwards at <i>Easter</i> he shall bleed in the Temple.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Prince of <i>Condé</i>, whose name was <i>Lewis</i>, and the youngest of the Children -of <i>Charles</i> of <i>Bourbon</i>, the first Duke of <i>Vendosme</i>, father to <i>Anthony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i>, King -of <i>Navarre</i>, went away from the Court in the time of <i>Francis</i> the second King of -<i>France</i>, and came into <i>Bearn</i> to the King his Brother. He was summoned many -times by <i>Francis</i> II. to come to Court; but finding his name to be amongst those -that intended to surprise <i>Lion</i>, he durst not venture.</p> - -<p>Nevertheless he was perswaded by his Uncle the Cardinal of <i>Bourbon</i>, and came -to the Court at <i>Orleans</i>. It is easie to believe that he fained himself to be hurt by -a fall from his Horse, or that really he was so; <i>having his Arm in a Scarf, and his -Leg swadled up</i>, in which posture he came to testifie his obedience to the Kings -commands.</p> - -<p>In this posture of a wounded man, whether really and fictitiously he came from -<i>Palais</i>, which by mistake is printed <i>Calais</i>; the Printer being ignorant, that in <i>Bearn</i>, -where the Prince had sheltered himself, there is a Castle called <i>Palais</i>, which was the -place that the Prince used to live in.</p> - -<p>Being come to Court he was presently arrested, arraigned and condemned to -death. Nevertheless the Kings sickness proving mortal, the execution was suspended, -and his life saved. After that the Prince sought all occasions to revenge himself, -and began about <i>Easter</i> in <i>April</i> following. It was not by an open Rebellion -against the King, but under pretence to maintain the Protestant Religion: therefore -the Author saith, <i>that this life saved shall bleed in the Temple</i>; because the Princes -pretext was the Temple and the Church; that is Religion. Hence the fourth -Verse is clearly understood. Resteth the third Verse, which saith, that his life was -differred till the <i>Watch word</i>; because the Queen seeing the King her Son upon his -death bed, caused secretly the execution of the Sentence to be differred, that she -might make use of the King of <i>Navarre</i>, and of the Prince his Brothers favour, -against the house of <i>Guise</i>, for the obtaining of the Regency.</p> - -<p>Moreover I observe, that in the year 1562. the Prince of <i>Condé</i> began openly to -rebel, surprising the City of <i>Orleans</i> the 29 of <i>March</i>, which was <i>Easter day</i> that year, -which sheweth the truth of the fourth Verse.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_330"></a>[330]</span></p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Pol Mensolée</i> mourra trois lieues du <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fuis les deux prochains <i>Tarare</i> destrois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Car <i>Mars</i> sera le plus horrible Throsne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Coq & d’Aigle, de <i>France</i> frere trois.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Paul Mensolée</i> Shall die three Leagues from the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avoid the two straights near the <i>Tarare</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For <i>Mars</i> shall keep such a horrible throsne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Cock and Eagle, of <i>France</i> three Brothers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By this <i>Pol Mensolée</i>, he meaneth some proper name. <i>Tarare</i> is a great Mountain -near the City of <i>Lions</i>, that hath two principal ways to go through, which -here he calleth Straights; for indeed they are very dangerous for Thieves and Murderers. -The rest is but a threating of War between the Emperour and <i>France</i>, -when there shall be three Brothers in <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lac <i>Trasmenien</i> portera tesmoignage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des conjurez ferrez dedans <i>Perouse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un <i>Despolle</i> contrefera le sage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tuant <i>Tedesque</i> de <i>Sterne</i> & <i>Minuse</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Trasmenian</i> Lake shall bear witness</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Conspirators shut up in <i>Perugia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Despolle</i> shall counterfeit the wise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Killing <i>Tedesque</i> of <i>Sterne</i> and <i>Minuse</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I think that the Impression is false here; for instead of <i>Despolle</i>, which is a barbarous -word, and signifieth nothing, I would have it in <i>French</i> <i>Despoville</i>, in <i>English</i> -robbed of all; so that <i>Trasmenian</i> Lake is that Lake in <i>Italy</i> not far from the Town -of <i>Perugia</i>, where <i>Hannibal</i> gave that notable overthrow to the <i>Romans</i>, and killed -above 20000. of them, with their consul <i>Flaminius</i>.</p> - -<p>That man whom he calleth here robbed of all, shall kill some <i>Germans</i>; for <i>Tudesco</i> -in <i>Italian</i>, is a <i>German</i>, the two last words are barbarous.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> en <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> avec <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Fevrier</i> <i>Caldondon</i>, <i>Salvaterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sault</i>, <i>Castalan</i>, assailly des trois parts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Verbiesque</i>, conflict mortelle guerre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_331"></a>[331]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> in <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> with <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>February</i> <i>Caldondon</i>, <i>Salvaterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sault</i>, <i>Castalon</i>, assaulted on three sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Verbiesque</i>, fight and mortal War.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The multiplicity of barbarous and insignificant words, makes this incapable of -any construction, if any body will exercise his wit thereupon, I shall willingly lend -him my ear.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Satur</i> au Bœuf, <i>Jove</i> en l’Eau, <i>Mars</i> en fleche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six de <i>Fevrier</i> mortalité donra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Tardaigne</i> a <i>Bruges</i> si grand breche</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’a <i>Ponterose</i> chef <i>Barbarin</i> mourra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Satur</i> in Ox, <i>Jupiter</i> in water, <i>Mars</i> in arrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sixth of <i>February</i> shall give mortality,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Tardaigne</i> shall make in <i>Bruges</i> so great a breach,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the chief <i>Barbarin</i> shall die at <i>Pontrose</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Satur in Ox</i>; that is, <i>Saturn</i> in <i>Taurus</i>, <i>Jupiter in Water</i>; that is, <i>Jupiter</i> in <i>Aquarius</i>; -<i>Mars in arrow</i>, is <i>Mars</i> in <i>Sagitarius</i>; when these things shall happen. <i>The -sixth day of <span class="antiqua">February</span> shall bring a great mortality.</i> <i>Tardaigne</i> is a fictitious name, unless -he intended <i>Sardaigne</i>. <i>Bruges</i> is a Town in <i>Flander</i>, <i>Ponterose</i> is some place, -where he saith, that the chief <i>Barbarin</i> shall die, the chief Barbare was the Pope <i>Urban</i> -the eighth; but because I do not know the particularities of his death, and the place -of it, I cannot make the rest good.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Pestilence lentour de <i>Capadille</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un autre faim pres de <i>Sagunt</i> sapreste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Chevalier Bastard de bon senille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand de <i>Thunes</i> fera trancher la teste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Plague shall be round about <i>Capadille</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another famine cometh near to that of <i>Sagunce</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Knight Bastard of the good old man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the great one of <i>Tunis</i> to be beheaded.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_332"></a>[332]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The difficulty here, is what is meant by that word <i>Cappadille</i>, for my part I think -he meaneth <i>Italy</i>, for some times the <i>Italians</i> use by way of admiration to say <i>Capoli</i>, -or <i>Capadillo</i>. <i>Sagunce</i> is a Town in <i>Spain</i>, which for the love of the <i>Carthaginians</i> -withstood the <i>Romans</i> a great while, till they were brought to an extremity of famine, -and then set fire in their Town.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Bizantin</i> faisant oblation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres avoir <i>Cordube</i> a soy reprinse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son chemin long, repos, pamplation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mer passant proye par la <i>Cologne</i> a prinse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Bizantin</i>, making an offering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After he hath taken <i>Cordua</i> to himself again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His way long, rest, contemplation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crossing the Sea hath taken a prey by <i>Cologne</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is an express delineation of <i>Charles</i> the V. Empire, who at the latter end of -his days retired into a Monastery, reserving unto himself for his subsistance the revenue -of the Kingdom of <i>Castille</i>, expressed here by <i>Cordua</i>, which is a City of -<i>Spain</i>.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy de <i>Blois</i> dans <i>Avignon</i> Regner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Amboise</i> & <i>Seme</i> viendra le long de <i>Lindre</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ongle a <i>Poitiers</i> Saintes aisles ruiner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant <i>Bony</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The King of <i>Blois</i> shall Reign in <i>Avignon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall come from <i>Amboise</i> and <i>Seme</i>, along the <i>Linder</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Nail at <i>Poitiers</i> shall ruine the Holy Wings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before <i>Bony</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse and the interpretation is easie.</p> - -<p><i>Amboise</i> is a Town in <i>France</i> upon the River of <i>Loire</i>.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses being inperfect, admits of no interpretation, onely to let the -Reader know that <i>Poitiers</i> is a very great City in <i>France</i>, and Capital of the Province -of <i>Poitou</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_333"></a>[333]</span></p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Boulogne</i> voudra laver ses fautes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il ne poura au Temple du Soleil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il volera faisant choses si hautes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Hierarchie</i> n’en fut onc un pareil.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall desire to wash his faultes in <i>Bulloin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Church of the Sun, but he shall not be able,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall fly doing so high things,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the like was never in <i>Hierarchy</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is two Towns called <i>Bolloin</i>, one is in <i>Italy</i>, the other in <i>France</i>, the last is -that which is meant here; for Cardinal <i>Richelieu</i> who is the man that did so high -things, and the like of which was never in <i>Hierarchy</i> (that is in the Clergy) a little -afore his death had vowed if he recovered his health to go in Pilgrimage to <i>Bulloin</i>, -where there is a famous Temple for Miracles, (as they say) dedicated to our Lady, -which is called here the Sun, by an allusion to that passage of the Revelation: <i>And -there appeared a Woman cloathed with the Sun</i>; but the said Cardinal was prevented by -death.</p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs la couleur du traité mariage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fait magnanime par grand <i>Chiren Selin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Quintin</i>, <i>Arras</i>, recouvrez au voiage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Espagnols</i> fait second banc <i>Macelin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Magnanimous act shall be done by the great <i>Cheiren Selin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Quintin</i>, <i>Arras</i> recovered in the journey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Spaniards</i> shall be made a second <i>Macelin</i> Bench.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prognostication concerning a King of <i>France</i>, meant here by the great -<i>Cheiren Selin</i>, who under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage, shall recover in his journey -these two Towns Saint <i>Quintin</i> and <i>Arras</i>, for the Shambles are called in Latine -<i>Macellum</i>. <i>Quod ibi mactentur pectora quæ mercatoribus venundantur.</i></p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre deux Fleuves se verra enserré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tonneaux & caques unis a passer outre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Huit Pont rompus chef a tant enferré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enfans parfaits sont jugulez en coultre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_334"></a>[334]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Rivers he shall find himself shut up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tuns and Barrels put together to pass over,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eight Bridges broken, the chief at last in Prison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Compleat children shall have their throat cut.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is an accident that hath often happened to a Commander of an Army, to find -himself either by his own oversight, or by the policy of his enemies, shut up between -two Rivers, having upon neither of them a Bridge at his command; as it did happen -once to the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, the Grandfather of this, in the time of the Civil war -for Religion, who was forced by it to dissolve his Army, and bid every one shift for -himself, so that they almost all escaped by several small parties, some going one way -some another, at such time it is an ordinary shift to make use of empty Vessels and -Caskes to make a Bridge, as our Author doth mention here.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La bande foible la Terre occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux du haut lieu feront horribles cris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le gros troupeau d’estre coin troublera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tombe pres <i>D. nebro</i> descouvert les escrits.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The weak party shall occupy the ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of the high places shall make fearful cries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall trouble the great flock in the right corner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He falleth near <i>D. nebro</i> discovereth the writings.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I dare not comment upon this, for fear it should be said of me, what was said of the -Glose of <i>Accurtius</i>; <i>obscura per obscurius</i>.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De Soldat simple parviendra en Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Robe courte parviendra a la longue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaillant aux Armes, en Eglise ou plus pire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vexer les Prestres comme l’eau fait l’esponge.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From a simple Souldier he shall come to have the supreme command,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From a short Gown he shall come to the long one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaillant in Arms, no worse man in the Church,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall vex the Priests, as water doth a Spunge.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I never knew nor heard of any body to whom this Stanza might be better -applied, then to the late Usurper <i>Cromwel</i>, for from a simple Souldier, he became<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_335"></a>[335]</span> -to be Lord Protector, and from a Student in the University he became a graduate -in <i>Oxford</i>, he was valliant in Arms, and the worse Churchman that could be -found; as for vexing the Priests, I mean the Prelatical Clergy, I believe none went -beyond him.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Regne en querelle aux freres divisé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prendre les Armes & les nom <i>Britannique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiltre <i>Anglican</i> sera tard advisé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Surprins de nuit, mener a l’air <i>Gallique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Kingdom in dispute, and divided between the Brothers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To take the Arms and the <i>Britannick</i> name,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the <i>English</i> title, he shall advise himself late,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Surprised in the night and carried into the <i>French</i> air.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This prognosticateth a great division in <i>England</i> between Brothers, about the -Title and Kingdom of <i>England</i>, insomuch, that in conclusion one shall be surprised -by night, and carried away into <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par deux fois haut, par deux fois mis a bas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Orient aussi l’Occident foiblira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son adversaire apres plusieurs combats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer chassé au besoin faillira.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Twice set up high, and twice brought down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The East also the West shall weaken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His adversary after many fights,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Expelled by Sea, shall fail in need.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth of some considerable person, who shall be twice set up, and brought -down again. The second Verse is pronounced after the manner of the old Oracles, as</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Aio te Æacida Romanos vincere posse</i>,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>For no body can tell here whither the East shall weaken the West, or otherways. -The last two Verses are easie.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier en <i>Gaule</i>, premier en <i>Romanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre aux <i>Anglois</i> & <i>Paris</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Merveilleux faits par cette grand mesgnie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Violant, <i>Terax</i> perdra le <i>Norlaris</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_336"></a>[336]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The first in <i>France</i>, the first in <i>Romania</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea and Land to the <i>English</i> and <i>Paris</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wonderful deeds by that great company,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By ravishing, <i>Terax</i> shall spoil the <i>Norlaris</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first in <i>France</i> is the King, the first in <i>Romania</i> is the <i>Pope</i>, who it seemeth -shall joyn together by Sea and Land, and come against <i>Paris</i>, who shall call the <i>English</i> -to its help, insomuch, that strange deeds shall be done by that great company. -As for <i>Terax</i>, it seemeth to be the proper name of some man, who by ravishing a -woman called here the <i>Norlaris</i>, shall spoil her and cause sad consequences. <i>Norlaris</i> -by transposition of Letters is <i>Lorrain</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jamais par le decouvrement du jour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne parviendra au signe Sceptrifere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que tous Sieges ne soient en sejour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Portant au Coq don du <i>Tag</i> a misere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Never by the discovering of the day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall attain to the Sceptriferous sign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till all his seats be settled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carrying to the Cock a gift from the <i>Tag</i> to misery.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that one pretending to a Kingdom, shall never attain to it by often -removing his place, until all his seats be settled, that is, untill his wandring be ceased. -And a gift brought by him to the King of <i>France</i> from <i>Portugal</i>, signified here by -the <i>Tag</i>, which is the River of <i>Lisbon</i> the Capital City of it, from which gift shall -proceed misery.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors qu’on verra expiler le Saint Temple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus grand du <i>Rhosne</i>, & sacres prophaner:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par eux naistra pestilence si grande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy fait injuste ne sera condamner.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When one shall see spoiled the Holy Temple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest of the <i>Rhosne</i>, and sacred things prophaned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">from them shall come so great a pestilence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the King being unjust shall not condemn them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_337"></a>[337]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The greatest Temple of the <i>Rhosne</i>, is that of the City of <i>Lion</i>, which is seated -upon that River of <i>Rhosne</i>, which when it shall be robbed and spoiled, then shall come -a horrid Pestilence, which our Author attributeth to the injustice of the King then -Reigning, who shall neglect to punish those Sacriledges.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand l’adultere blessé sans coup aura,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meurdry la femme & le fils par depit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Femme assomée l’Enfant estranglera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Huit captifs prins sestoufer sans respit.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Adulterer wounded without a blow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall have murdered the wife and son by spight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The woman knocked down, shall strangle the child,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eight taken prisoners, and stifled without tarrying.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is the description of a sad Tragedy, which to understand, you must joyn all -the Verses together, and make it one sense. The Adulterer wounded without a -blow, is one that shall get a disease, (suppose the <i>Pox</i>) his wife finding fault with it, -he shall murder her, and her Son; she not being quite dead shall strangle another Child -(which it seemeth she had by this Adulterer) and for this fact eight shall be taken prisoners -and immediately hanged, by which you must suppose the fact to be done in -<i>France</i>, for there they Judge and Hang immediately, whereby in <i>England</i> they must -stay till Sessions-time.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans les Isles les enfans transportez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux de sept seront en desespoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de terrouer en seront supportez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nompelle</i> prins, des ligues fuy l’espoir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Islands the Children shall be transported,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two of seven shall be in despair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of the Countrey shall be supported by,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nompelle</i> taken, avoid the hope of the League.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to have a great relation to our late unhappy troubles in <i>England</i>, when -the Princess <i>Elizabeth</i> and the Duke of <i>Glocester</i> were transported into the Isle of -<i>Wight</i>, which are the two of the seven, (for the Queen hath had seven children) -and the Kings Majesty and his Highness the Duke of <i>York</i>, were driven into the -<i>Low-Countreis</i>, being in a manner in dispair of ever coming again, and those Countreys -were much the better for the harbouring of them; in the last Verse by <i>Nompelle</i> -I understand Anagrammatically <i>Monpelier</i>, which being taken, there is no more<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_338"></a>[338]</span> -hope in the League, as it did happen in the time of <i>Henry</i> the IV. King of <i>France</i>, who -never saw the League or Covenant quite routed, till that Town was taken; for it is -familiar enough to those kind of Prophets to make an ὕστερον πρώτερον, and joyn things -past, to those that are to come, to darken the Readers understanding, and as the -Scripture saith, <i>Ut videntes non videant</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux frustré du principal espoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il parviendra au chef de son Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vingt mois tiendra le Regne a grand pouvoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyran, cruel en delaissant un pire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old man frustrated of his chief hope,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall attain to the head of his Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twenty months he shall keep the Kingdom with great power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyrant, cruel, and having a worse one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of this Prophecy are plain enough, and because I cannot learn in History -that such things have come to pass yet, therefore I reckon it among those <i>de -futuro</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand l’Escriture D. M. trouvée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Cave antique a Lampe descouverte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loy, Roy, & Prince <i>Vlpian</i> esprouvée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pavillon, Royne & Duc soubs la couverte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the writing D. M. shall be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And an ancient Cave discovered with a Lamp,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Law, King, and Prince <i>Ulpian</i> tried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tent, Queen and Duke under the rugge.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1555. <i>Ferdinand Alvaro</i> of <i>Toledo</i> Duke of <i>Alba</i>, being sent by <i>Charles</i> -the V. into <i>Italy</i> to resist the <i>French</i>, arrived in <i>June</i> at <i>Milan</i>, and having gathered -together, all his Forces, Besieged the Town St. <i>Jago</i>, but <i>Henry</i> II. King of <i>France</i> -sending some succours by the Duke of <i>Aumale</i>, he raised up his siege, and put his -Army into Garrisons. The Duke of <i>Alba</i> leaving the Field in this manner, the -Duke of <i>Aumale</i> besieged <i>Vulpian</i>, wherein were 1000. souldiers in Garrison, under -the command of <i>Cæsar</i> of <i>Naples</i>, besides the Inhabitants. Never was a place so furiously -assaulted, and so manfully defended, so that the <i>French</i> were many times -beaten back; but at last after 24. days siege the Duke of <i>Aumale</i> did gloriously take it.</p> - -<p>The Author foretelling the time of this victory, said it was when the writing -D. M. in big letters was found, that is to say, about the 11. of <i>September</i> after the -Equinox, because in the Ephemerides, the Meridional descension of the Planets,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_339"></a>[339]</span> -and chiefly of <i>Sol</i>, <i>Venus</i>, and <i>Mercury</i> is marked with these two Letters D. M. which -descension cometh to pass after the Equinox of <i>Autumn</i> towards the end of <i>September</i>. -At the same time was discovered an ancient Cave, wherein was found one of those -Lamps, that cannot be put out, and burns continually without any addition of Oil, by -an invention that is lost. Such another was found in the time of <i>Alexander</i> the VI. -and <i>Adrian</i> the VI.</p> - -<p>The Town of <i>Vulpian</i> was at that time tried by a King and a Prince, <i>viz.</i> <i>Henry</i> the -II. and the Duke of <i>Aumale</i> Prince of <i>Lorrain</i>, and Brother to the Cardinal of <i>Lorrain</i>, -and to the Duke of <i>Guise</i>.</p> - -<p>The Author addeth, that besides these three things, <i>viz.</i> the finding of the letters -D. M. The Cave discovered the siege of <i>Vulpian</i>; there happened a fourth one, <i>viz.</i> -that a Queen and a Duke should consult together in a Summer-house, about the important -affairs of the Kingdom. To understand this, we must suppose that Pope <i>Paul</i> -the IV. willing to secure his own person and the Ecclesiastical State against the <i>Spanish</i> -faction, and that of the <i>Colonese</i>, did seize upon many places belonging to the -said <i>Colonese</i>, and knowing besides that the <i>Spaniards</i> being of the <i>Coloneses</i> party, -would not fail to come upon him, he disposed the King of <i>France</i> to come to his succours, -so that the Queen having a particular confidence in the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, did -consult with him about this business in some Summer-house, which the <i>French</i> call a -<i>Pavillon</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Par.</i> <i>Car.</i> <i>nersaf</i>, a ruine grand discorde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne l’un ne l’autre n’aura election,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nersaf</i> du peuple aura amour & concorde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Collonne</i> grande protection.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Par.</i> <i>Car.</i> <i>Nersaf</i>, to ruine great discord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither one nor the other shall be Elected,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nersaf</i>, shall have of the people love and concord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ferrare</i>, <i>Colonna</i>, great protection.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is very hard to say what the Author meaneth by these disjunctives <i>Par.</i> <i>Car.</i> -<i>Nersaf</i>, all what can be gathered by what follows, is, that there shall be a great variance -and strife about an Election, (I suppose of a Pope as it useth to be) and that -<i>Nersaf</i> shall have the good will of the people, and yet none of them shall be Elected.</p> - -<p>As for the fourth Verse, it is to be noted first that <i>Ferrara</i> is a strong Town in <i>Italy</i> -belonging to the Pope, and <i>Colonna</i> is the name of the chief Family in <i>Rome</i>, now -whether <i>Ferrara</i> shall be a protection to <i>Colonna</i>, or <i>Colonna</i> to <i>Ferrara</i>, we leave it to -the Reader to judge, because the Verse hath a double sense.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vieux Cardinal par le jeune deceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors de sa charge se verra desarmé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arles</i> ne monstres double fort apperceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et l’<i>Aqueduct</i> & le Prince embaumé.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_340"></a>[340]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An old Cardinal shall be cheated by a young one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall see himself out of his imployment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arles</i> do not show, a double fort perceived,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the <i>Aqueduct</i>, and the embalmed Prince.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are very plain, the two last not so; therefore observe that -<i>Arles</i> is a City in <i>France</i>, in the Countrey of <i>Dauphine</i> or <i>Provence</i>, famous for antiquity, -which is forwarned here not to shew its Fords, nor its Aqueducts, (which are -buildings to convey water), nor its embalmed Prince, which it seemeth lyeth thereabout -buried. The Author hath deprived here the Author of the reasons for why.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Aupres du jeune se vieux Ange baiser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le viendra surmonter a la fin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dix ans esgaux aux plus vieux rabaisser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De trois deux l’un huitiesme <i>Seraphin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the young one the old Angel shall bowe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall at last overcome him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ten years equal, to make the old one stoop,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of three, two, one, the eighth a <i>Seraphin</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is the description of a grand Cheat, when an old man called here Angel, shall -stoop before a young one, whom he shall overcome at last, after they have been ten -years equal. The last Verse is Mistical, for there is four numbers, three, two, one, -which make six; and eight, which he calleth <i>Seraphin</i>, whether by allusion to that -Quire of Angels, which some call the eight, or whether to the Order of St. <i>Francis</i>, -who calleth it self <i>Seraphical</i>, is not easie to determine.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Il entrera vilain, meschant, infame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyrannisant la <i>Mesopotamie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous amis fait d’Adulterine Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tetre horrible noir de <i>Physiognomie</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall come in villaen, wicked, infamous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To tyranise <i>Mesopotamia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He maketh all friends by an adulteress Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Foul, horrid, black in his <i>Physiognomie</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_341"></a>[341]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mesopotamia</i> is a Greek word, signifying a Countrey between two Rivers; and -though there be many Countreys so seated, yet to this day, it properly belongeth to -that Countrey, that lyeth between the two famous Rivers <i>Tigris</i> and <i>Euphrates</i> near -<i>Babylon</i>; the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Croistra le nombre si grand des Astronomes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chassez bannis & livres censureq,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An mil six cens & sept par sacrez glomes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que nul au sacres ne seront asseurez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The number of Astronomers shall grow so great,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Driven away, bannished, Books censured,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The year one thousand six hundred and seven by sacred glomes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That none shall be secure in the sacred places.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is clear, <i>viz.</i> that about the year 1607. the number of Astronomers -shall grow very great, of which some shall be expelled and banished, and their -Books censured and suppressed: the rest is insignificant to me.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Champ <i>Perusin</i> O l’Enorme deffaite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le conflict tout aupres de <i>Ravenne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passage sacra lors qu’on fera la feste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaincueur vaincu, Cheval mange L’avenne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Perugian</i> Field, O the excessive rout,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the fight about <i>Ravenna</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sacred passage when the Feast shall be celebrated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The victorious vanquished, the Horse to eat up his Oats.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Perugia</i> is a City in <i>Italy</i>, and so is <i>Ravenna</i>, by which it seemeth there shall be a -notable Battle fought, as was once before in the time at <i>Lewis</i> the XII. King of <i>France</i> -between <i>Gaston de Foix</i> his Nephew, and <i>Don Raimond de Cardonne</i> Vice-roy of <i>Naples</i>, -for there the <i>French</i> got the Battle; in conclusion of which, the said <i>Gaston de -Foix</i> pursuing a Troop of <i>Spaniards</i> that were retiring, was unfortunately kill’d, and -so the victorious were vanquished.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_342"></a>[342]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soldat Barbare le grand Roy frapera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Injustement non esloigné de mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Avare Mere du fait cause sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conjurateur & Regne en grand remort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Barbarous Souldier shall strike the King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unjustly, not far from death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The covetous Mother shall be the cause of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Conspirator and Kingdom in great remorse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These words are so plain that they need no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En Terre neuve bien avant Roy entré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pendant subjects luy viendront faire accueil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa parfidie aura tel rencontré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’aux Citadins lieu de feste & recueil.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A King being entered far into a new Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst his Subjects shall come to welcom him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His perfidiousness shall find such an encounter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That to the Citizens it shall be instead of feast and welcom.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this seemeth to be, that a certain King being far got into a new conquered -Countrey, where he shall deal perfidiously with his Subjects, that then he -shall meet with such an accident, as to his Citizens shall be instead of feast & welcom.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere & fils seront meurtris ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Prefecteur dedans son Pavillon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Mere a <i>Tours</i> du fils ventre aura enfle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cache verdure de fueilles papillon.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Father and Son shall be murdered together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Governour shall be so in his Tent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At <i>Tours</i> the Mother shall be got with child by her son,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hide the greenness with leaves Butter-flye.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_343"></a>[343]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing hard here but the last Verse, whereby it is signified, that after -such an incest of the Mother with the Son in the City of <i>Tours</i> (which is a Town in -<i>France</i>) the fruit of it shall be secretly buryed, and green Turfs laid upon the place, -and Leaves upon them, to take away the knowledge of it.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus <i>Macelin</i> que Roy en <i>Angleterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lieu obscur ne par force aura l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lasche, sans foy, sans loy, seignera Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son temps s’aproche si presque je souspire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">More <i>Macelin</i> then King in <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Born in obscure place, by force shall reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of loose disposition, without faith, without Law, the ground shall bleed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His time is drawing so near that I sigh for it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Macelin</i>, is a Butcher or cruel man, from the Latine word <i>Macellum</i>, which signifieth -the Shambles, it is without contradiction that by this Prophecy is plain concerning -the late tyrant <i>Cromwel</i>, and his unlawful Government.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Antechrist bien tost trois annichilez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vingt & sept ans durera sa guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Heretiques morts; captifs exilez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang corps humain eau rougie, gresler Terre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Antichrist three shall shortly be brought to nothing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His War shall last seven and twenty years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Hereticks dead, Prisoners banished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, humane body, water made red, Earth hailed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What he meaneth here by Antichrist is not easie to determine, for he cannot -mean the Pope, himself being a Papist, nor the great Antichrist, whose Reign, according -to the Scripture, shall last but three years and a half, it is more likely then -that this Stanza hath coherence with the precedent, and that by it he meaneth <i>Henry</i> -the VIII. who for the space of about 27 years before he dyed, did handle something -roughly the Clergy and Clergy-men.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un <i>Bragamas</i> avec la langue torte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra des dieux rompre le Sanctuaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux Heretiques il ouvrira la porte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En suscitant l’Eglise Militaire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_344"></a>[344]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Bragamas</i> with his crooked Tongue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come and break the Gods Sanctuary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall open the Gates unto Hereticks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By raising the Militant Church.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bragamas</i> is the same thing that we call now <i>Bragadocio</i>. By the Gods Sanctuary, -he meaneth the Temples of the <i>Romish</i> Religion, who are reputed Sanctuaries, and -are full of Images, which they worship as Gods, praying and offering Incense to -them.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui par fer pere perdra, nay de <i>Nonnaire</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Gorgon</i> sur la fin sera sang perferant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Terre estrange fera si tout de taire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’il bruslera luy mesme & son entant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that by Iron shall destroy his Father, born in <i>Nonnaire</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall in the end carry the blood of <i>Gorgon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall in a strange Countrey make all so silent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he shall burn himself and his intent.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nonnaire</i> and <i>Gorgon</i> are two barbarous words, as for the sense of that and the -rest, he that shall be able to read the words, shall be as wise as my self.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des innocens le sang de Vefue & Vierge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant de maux faits par moiens ce grand Roge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saints simulachres trempez en ardant cierge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De frayeur crainte ne verra nul que boge.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood of the innocent Widow and Virgin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So many evils committed by the means of that great Rogue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Holy Images, dipt in burning wax Candles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For fear no body shall be seen to stir.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What he meaneth by the great Rogue is not obvious, but the main drift of this -Stanza seemeth to be, to foretel the abuses that should be offered to the Popish Images -by the Protestant party, as it was done in the time of the Civil Wars of <i>France</i>, -and a little while after our Author had written his Prophecies.</p> - -<p>By the great Rogue, he meaneth some chief Commander of the Protestant party, -that were in those days, as the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, the Admiral of <i>Castilon</i>, or his Brother -<i>Dandelot</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_345"></a>[345]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le neuf Empire en desolation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera changé du Pole Aquilonaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la <i>Sicile</i> viendra l’emotion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Troubler l’Emprise a <i>Philip</i> tributaire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The new Empire in desolation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be changed from the Northern Pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The commotion shall come from <i>Sicily</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To trouble the undertaking, tributary to <i>Philip</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This threatneth the Empire that now is in <i>Germany</i>, of a great desolation, and to -be removed from its place, and threatneth also the Island of <i>Sicily</i> of a fearful -commotion, which shall trouble the undertakings of <i>Philip</i>, that is, King of <i>Spain</i>, -because they usually are called by that name.</p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ronge long, sec, faisant du bon valet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A la par fin n’aura que son congie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poignant poison & Lettres au colet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera saisy, eschapé, en dangié.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Long gnawer, dry, cringing and fawning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In conclusion shall have nothing but leave to be gone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Piercing poison and Letters in his Collar,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be seised, escape, and in danger.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words of this are easie to be understood, but not who should be that man to -whom he giveth these four famous Epithetes of <i>Long-gnawer</i>, <i>dry</i>, <i>cringing</i> and -<i>fawning</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le plus grand voile hors du port de <i>Zara</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Bizance</i> fera son entreprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Ennemy perte & l’amy ne séra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tiers a deux fera grand pille & prise.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest Sail out of the Port of <i>Zara</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Bizance</i> shall make his undertaking,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be no loss of foes or friends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The third shall make a great pillage upon the two.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_346"></a>[346]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Zara</i> I suppose that the <i>Venetians</i> are meant, who have a very strong Town of -that name, situated in <i>Dalmatia</i>. <i>Bizance</i> is <i>Constantinople</i>, as we have said before; -now whether this Prophecy was fulfilled when the <i>Venetians</i> took the Island of <i>Tenedos</i>, -some 20 years ago, which is not far from <i>Constantinople</i>, or whether it is to -come, I dare not assert.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Paterne</i> aura de la <i>Sicile</i> crie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous les aprests du Gouphre de <i>Trieste</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui s’entendra jusques a la <i>Trinacrie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De tant de voiles, fuy, fuy, l’horrible peste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Paterne</i> shall have out of <i>Sicily</i> a cry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the preparations of the Gulph of <i>Trieste</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall be heard as far as <i>Trinacry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of so many Sails, fly, fly, the horrid plague.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It hath been impossible for me to make any sense of this, and therefore I believe -that it is falsely printed, and that instead of <i>Paterne</i>, it should be <i>Palerme</i>, which is -the chief Town in <i>Sicily</i>. <i>Trinacry</i> is <i>Sicily</i> it self, so called, <i>quod tria habeat, άκρα -seu promontoria</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre <i>Bayonne</i> & a Sainct <i>Jean de Lux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera posé de <i>Mars</i> la promottoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux <i>Hanix</i> d’Aquilon, <i>Nanar</i> hostera <i>Lux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis suffoque au lit sans adjoutoire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Between <i>Bayonne</i> and Saint <i>John de Lux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be put down the promoting of <i>Mars</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the <i>Hunix</i> of the North, <i>Nanar</i> shall take away <i>Lux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall be suffocated in his bed without help.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bayonne</i> is a Town in <i>France</i>, upon the frontiers of <i>Spain</i>, and Saint <i>John de Lux</i> -is the utmost frontiere of <i>France</i>, that way, (that being supposed) he saith, that -about Saint <i>John de Lux</i>, the promoting of the war shall be set down; that is, that -peace shall be made, as it was about seven or eight years ago between <i>France</i> and <i>Spain</i>, -and the Marriage concluded between the King and the <i>Infanta</i>. The two last Verses -are nonsensical, and only set down to make up the rhime.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_347"></a>[347]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Arnani</i>, <i>Tholose</i>, & <i>Villefranque</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bande infinie par le Mont <i>Adrian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passe Riviere, hutin par pont la planque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bayonne</i> entrer tous <i>Bichoro</i> criant.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Arnani</i>, <i>Tholose</i>, and <i>Villefranche</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An infinite deal of people by the <i>Aprian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cross Rivers, noise upon the Bridge and plank,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come all into <i>Bayonne</i> crying <i>Bichoro</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Arnani</i>, <i>Tholose</i>, and <i>Villefranche</i> are Towns of a Province in <i>France</i> called <i>Languedoc</i>. -Mont <i>Adrian</i> is a Mountain thereabout, and <i>Hutin</i> is an old <i>French</i> word, -signifying noise and strife, the sense then of this Prophecy is, that by those Towns -and Mountains, shall pass an infinite multitude of people, with a great noise and strife, -and shall come and enter into <i>Bayonne</i>, every one crying in that Countrey Language -<i>Bichoro</i>, which is as much as to say, <i>Victory</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort conspirée viendra en plein effet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Charge donnée & voyage de mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu, crée, receus, par siens desfait,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang d’innocence devant soy par remort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A conspired death shall come to an effect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Charge given, and a journey of death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Elected, created, received, by his own defeated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood of Innocency before him by remorse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is no mistical sense in this, and the words are plain, although of a crabbid -construction.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans la <i>Sardaigne</i> un noble Roy viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui ne tiendra que trois ans le Royaume,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs couleurs avec soy conjoindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy mesme apres soin sommeil Matrirscome.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_348"></a>[348]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A noble King shall come into <i>Sardinia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall hold the Kingdom only three years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall joyn many Colours to his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Himself afterwards, care, sleep matrirscome.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Sardinia</i> is an Island in the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, now in the possession of the <i>Spaniard</i>, -since he took the Kingdom of <i>Naples</i>, the three first Verses are something -intelligible, the last is altogether impossible and barbarous.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour ne tomber entre mains de son oncle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui ses enfans par regner trucidez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Orant au peuple mettant pied sur <i>Peloncle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort & traisné entre Chevaux bardez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">That he might not fall into the hands of his Uncle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That had murdered his Children for to rule,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taking away from the people, and putting his foot upon <i>Peloncle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead and drawn among armed Horses.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that an Uncle shall murder his Nephews Children, that he may -Reign, and that the said Nephew shall withdraw, and save himself from the said -Uncle. The rest is altogether obscure, if not absurd.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand des croisez un trouvé de sens trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En lieu du sacre verra un Bœuf cornu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par vierge porc son lieu lors sera double,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Roy plus ordre ne sera soustenu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When of the crossed, one of a troubled mind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a sacred place shall see a horny Oxe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Virgin Pork then shall his place be double,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By King no henceforth, order shall be maintained.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the crossed is understood some order of Knight-hood, who for the most part -wear that Badge, one of which being mad, and seeing in a Church a Horny Oxe -come, by a Virgin Hog shall be kept from harm, or rescued by a Hog or Sow -that was a Virgin, and it seems crossed the said Oxe, that he should not gore the -Knight, that then such order of Knighthood shall be no more maintained nor upheld -by the King of that Countrey, wherein such thing shall happen.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_349"></a>[349]</span></p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Parmy les Champs des <i>Rhodanes</i> entrées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou les croisez seront presques unis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux <i>Brassiers</i> en <i>Pisces</i> rencontrées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et un grand nombre par Deluge punis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the Fields of the <i>Rhodanes</i> comings in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the crossed shall be almost united,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two <i>Brassiers</i> met in <i>Pisces</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a great number punished by a Flood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Rhodanus</i> in Latine is the River of <i>Rhosne</i>, which cometh from <i>Switzerland</i>, and -passing through the Lake of <i>Geneva</i>, runneth to <i>Lyon</i>, it seemeth then that in those -Fields that are about that River there, will be a fearful inundation, when the <i>Brassiers</i> -(or rather <i>Croziers</i>, which is a constellation so called) shall meet in <i>Pisces</i>, which -is one of the twelve Signs of the <i>Zodiack</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Loin hors du Regne mis en hazard voiage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Ost duyra, pour soy l’occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy tiendra les siens captif, ostage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son retour tout Pais pillera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from the Kingdom a hazardous journey undertaken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall lead a great Army, which he shall make his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King shall keep his prisoners, and pledges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At his return he shall plunder all the Countrey.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These obscure words signifie no more but that a King shall send a great Army far -from his Kingdom, the Commander of which Army shall make the Army his own, -which the King hearing, shall seize upon the Commanders Relations, and keep them -Prisoners and Hostages, for which the said General being angry, shall at his return -spoil the Countrey.</p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept mois sans plus obtiendra prelature,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par son decez grand schisme fera naistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept mois tiendra un autre la Preture,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Venise</i> paix union renaistre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_350"></a>[350]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven months and no more, he shall obtain the Prelacy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By his decease he shall cause a great Schisme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another shall be seven months chief Justice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Venice</i> peace and union shall grow again.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By this Prophecy three things are foretold, the first is of a Pope that shall sit but -seven months, at whose death there will be a great Schisme; the second is of a great -Governour or Chief Justice, such as were called by the ancient <i>Romans Prætores</i>, shall -be in authority also but seven months; and the third, that hard by <i>Venice</i> all these -differences shall be composed, and peace made again.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant la Lac ou plus cher fut getté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sept mois & son Ost desconfit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront <i>Hispans</i> par <i>Albanois</i> gastez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par delay perte en donnant le conflict.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Lake wherein most dear was thrown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of seven months, and his Army overthrown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Spaniards</i> shall be spoiled by <i>Albaneses</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By delaying; loss in giving the Battle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is very difficult, if not impossible to tell what our Author meaneth by the Lake, -wherein the most dear was thrown, and lost his Army. The <i>Albaneses</i> are a Nation -between the <i>Venetians</i> and <i>Greece</i>, now for the most part subject to the said <i>Venetians</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Seducteur sera mis dans la Fosse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et estaché jusques a quelque temps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Clerc uny, le Chef avec sa Crosse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pycante droite attraira les contems.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Deceiver shall be put into the Dungeon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And bound fast for a while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Clerk united, the head with his Crosierstaf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pricking upright, shall draw in the contented.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain, the two last Verses not so, which seemeth to foretell -of a great union among the Clergy, which shall draw to them those that were -peaceably affected.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_351"></a>[351]</span></p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Synagogue sterile sans nul fruit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera receue entre les Infideles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Babylon</i> la fille du poursuit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Misere & triste luy trenchera les Aisles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Synagogue barren, without fruit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be received among the Infidels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Babylon</i>, the daughter of the persecuted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Miserable and sad shall cut her wings.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Synagogue is a place where the Jews assemble for Divine Worship, as the -Christians do in Churches or Temples, the said Jews Synagogue is threatned here to -be unfruitful and barren, and chiefly in <i>Babylon</i>, by the means of a woman, daughter -of one persecuted; belike of some of their own tribe, whom the rest did persecute.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au fins du <i>Var</i> changer le <i>Pompotans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres du Rivage, les trois beaux enfans naistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ruine au peuple par Aage competans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regne au Pais changer plus voir croistre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the ends of the <i>Var</i> to change the <i>Pompotans</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near the Shore shall three fair Children be born,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ruine to the people by competent Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To change that Countreys Kingdom, and see it grow no more.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse being made of insignificant words, as <i>Var</i> and <i>Pompotans</i> cannot be -understood; the other three doth foretel of three handsom Children, that shall be -born near the Shore, which when they have attained a competent Age, shall change -the Kingdom of that Countrey, and suppress it.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des gens d’Eglise sang sera espanché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Comme de l’eau en si grande abundance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et de long temps ne sera retranché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Veüe au Clerc ruine & doleance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The blood of Churchmen shall be spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As water in such abundance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And for a good while shall not be stayed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ruine and grievance shall be seen to the Clerk.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_352"></a>[352]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is easie to be understood, which foretelleth a very great persecution -to the Clergy-men, <i>viz.</i> Papists, of which Religion our Author was, if this be -not already past in the Civil Wars of <i>France</i>, that were made for Religion, in the beginning -of Reformation, where abundance of Clergy-men did perish on both sides.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la puissance des trois Rois temporels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En autre lieu sera mis la Saint Siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou la substance de l’Esprit corporel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera remis & receu pour vray Siege.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the power of three Temporal Kings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Holy See shall be put in another place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the substance of the Corporeal Spirit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be restored and admitted for a true seat.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is very remarkable, for the thing it foretelleth, <i>viz.</i> a translation -of the See of <i>Rome</i>, that is, the Popedom into another place by three Temporal -Kings, and not onely that, but it seemeth by the sense of the last two Verses, that -these will keep the Ecclesiastical authority to themselves.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour l’abundance de l’Armée respandue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du haut en bas, par le bas au plus haut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trop grande foy par jeu vie perdue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De soif mourir par abondant defaut.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the abundance of the Army scattered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">High and low, low and high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Too great a belief a life lost in jesting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To die by thirst, through abundance of want.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is, that by reason of a great Army that shall be much scattered, -and occupy a great deal of room, water will be so scarce, that some shall die for -thirst, it is that he calleth here, <i>To die by thirst, through abundance of want</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_353"></a>[353]</span></p> - -<h3>Other Stanza’s heretofore Printed, under the VIII. -<span class="gesperrt">CENTURY</span>.</h3> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-s.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Seront confus plusieurs de leur attente,</div> - <div class="verse">Aux habitans ne sera pardonné,</div> - <div class="verse">Qui bien pensoint perseverer l’attente,</div> - <div class="verse">Mais grand loisir ne leur sera donné.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Many shall be confounded in their expectation,</div> - <div class="verse">The Citizens shall not be forgiven,</div> - <div class="verse">Who thought to persevere in their resolution,</div> - <div class="verse">But there shall not be given them a great leisure for it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain, and needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs viendront & parleront de Paix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre Monarques & Seigneurs bien puissans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais ne sera accordé de si pres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que ne se rendent plus qu’autres obeissans.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Many shall come and shall talk of Peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Between Monarchs and Lords very powerful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But it shall not be agreed to it so soon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If they do not shew themselves more obedient then others.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">We are just now at the Eve of this Prophecy, when so many Princes and Potentates -do busie themselves about a Mediation between the two Crowns of <i>France</i> and -<i>Spain</i>, &c.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Las quelle fureur, helas quelle pitie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il y aura entre beaucoup de gens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On ne vit onc une tell amitié,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’auront les Loups a courir diligens.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_354"></a>[354]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ha! what fury, alas what pitty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be betwixt many people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was never seen such a friendship,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the Wolfs shall have in being diligent to run.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is indeed a great fury and pity to see how wicked people, and chiefly Usurers -and false dealers, (understood here by the name of Wolfs) are diligent in doing -mischief, and to make good the old Proverb, <i>Homo homini Lupus</i>, there being no -other Creature but the Wolf that devours those of his own kind.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaucoup de gens viendront parlementer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux grand Seigneurs qui leur feront la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On ne voudra en rien les escouter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Helas! si Dieu n’envoie Paix en Terre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Many folks shall come to speak,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To great Lords that shall make War against them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall not be admitted to a hearing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas! if God doth not send Peace upon Earth.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This carrieth its sense with it, and is plain.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs secours viendront de tous costez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De gens lointains qui voudront resister,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ils seront tout a coup bien hastez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais ne pourront pour cette heure assister.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Many helps shall come on all sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of people far off, that would fain to resist,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be upon a sudden all very hasty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for the present they shall not be able to assist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to point at this present conjuncture of affairs, where there is so many -buisying themselves about the relief of <i>Flanders</i>, of which I see no great likelihood.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_355"></a>[355]</span></p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Las quel plaisir ont Princes estrangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Garde toy bien qu’en ton Pais ne <i>Vienne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il y auroit de terribles dangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et en maintes Contrées, mesme en la <i>Vienne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ha! what pleasure take Forrain Princes?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take heed least any should come into thy Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There should be terrible dangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In several Countreys, and chiefly in <i>Vienna</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is two Towns called <i>Vienna</i>’s, one is in <i>Germany</i>, in the Province of <i>Austria</i>, -and is the Emperours Seat, the other in <i>France</i>, a metter of twenty miles beyond <i>Lion</i>, -the rest is easie.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_356"></a>[356]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> IX</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-d.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Dans la maison du Traducteur de <i>Boure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Seront les lettres trouvées sur la Table,</div> - <div class="verse">Borgne, roux blanc, chenu, tiendra de cours,</div> - <div class="verse">Qui changera au nouveau Connestable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">In the house of the Translator of <i>Boure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">The Letters shall be found upon the Table,</div> - <div class="verse">Blind of one eye, red, white, hoary, shall keep its course,</div> - <div class="verse">Which shall change at the coming of the new Constable.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is not easie to understand what he meaneth by the Translator of <i>Boure</i>, unless it -be some mean and pittiful fellow, that lived by Translating things from one language -into another, because the <i>French</i> use to call a man that is inconsiderable, <i>un homme -du boure</i>, that is a man of Flocks; and so much the more I am of this opinion, because -of the scurvy Epithetes, he attributeth to the same person, by which he might easily -be known as <i>blind of one eye, red, white, hoary</i>, &c.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_357"></a>[357]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du haut du Mont <i>Aventin</i> voix ouye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vuidez, vuidez de tous les deux costez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du sang des rouges sera l’Ire assouvie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Arimin</i>, <i>Prato</i>, Columna debotez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the top of Mount <i>Aventin</i>, a voice was heard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Get you gone, get you gone on all sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Choler shall be fed with the blood of the red ones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Arimini</i> and <i>Prato</i>, the Colonnas shall be driven away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Mount <i>Aventine</i> is one of the seven Mountains of <i>Rome</i>, from the top of which our -Author saith that a voice was heard crying and repeating, <i>get you gone</i>, and the reason -is, because choler and anger shall feed upon the blood of the Cardinals, understood -here by the name of <i>red ones</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Arimini</i> and <i>Prato</i> are two cities in <i>Italy</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Colonna</i> is the chiefest and ancientest family of <i>Rome</i>.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>magna vaqua</i> a <i>Ravenne</i> grand trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conduits par quinze enserrez a <i>Fornase</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Rome</i> naistra deux Monstres a teste double,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang, feu, deluge, les plus grands a l’espase.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Magna vaqua</i> great trouble at <i>Ravenna</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conducted by fifteen, shut up at <i>Fornase</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At <i>Rome</i> shall be born two Monsters with a double head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, fire, Flood, the greater ones astonished.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This word of <i>Magna vaqua</i> is either falsly printed, or altogether barbarous and -insignificant, and so is that of <i>Fornase</i>, which maketh the two first Verses incapable -of translation; the other are easie.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An ensuivant descouverts par Deluge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux chefs esleus, le premier ne tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De fuyr ombre a l’un deux le refuge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saccagée case qui premier maintiendra.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_358"></a>[358]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The year following being discovered by a Flood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two Chiefs elected, the first shall not hold,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To fly from shade, to one shall be a refuge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That house shall be plundered which shall maintain the first.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Our Author meaneth, that the year after the former Prophecy is come to pass, this -shall also be fulfilled, whereby two Chief Commanders shall be chosen, the first of -which shall not stand, but shall be compelled to run away, and to seek his security -in the open Fields, and that house that did uphold the first shall be plundered.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiers doigt du pied au premier semblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A un nouveau Monarque de bas haut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui <i>Pise</i> & <i>Luiques</i> tyran occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du precedent corriger le defaut.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The third toe of the foot shall be like the first,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To a new high Monarch come from low estate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who being a Tyrant shall cease upon <i>Pise</i> and <i>Luica</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To correct the faults of him that preceded him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that some body pretending to mend the Government of -those two places that are in Italy, shall tyrannically make himself Master of them.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la <i>Guyenne</i> infinité d’<i>Anglois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occuperont par nom d’<i>Angle Aquitaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Languedoc</i>. <i>I.</i> palme <i>Bourdelois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quils nommeront apres <i>Barboxitaine</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be in <i>Guyenna</i> an infinite number of <i>English</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall occupy it by the name of <i>Angle Aquitaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Languedoc</i>, <i>I</i> by the Land of <i>Bourdeaux</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which afterwards they shall call <i>Barboxitaine</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is foretold a famous invasion, that shall be made by the <i>English</i> upon that part -of <i>France</i> called <i>Guyenne</i>, and in Latine <i>Aquitania</i>, of which <i>Bourdeaux</i> is the chief -City, insomuch, that the <i>English</i> afterwards shall call that Countrey <i>Angl’ Aquitaine</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_359"></a>[359]</span></p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui ouvrira le Monument trouvé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et ne viendra le serrer promptement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mal luy viendra & ne poura prouvé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si mieux doibt estre Roy <i>Breton</i> ou <i>Normand</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall open the Sepulchre found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall not close it up again presently,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Evil will befall him, and he shall not be able to prove</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether is best a <i>Britain</i> or <i>Norman</i> King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is perspicuous.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Puisnay Roy fait son pere mettre a mort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres conflict de mort tres in honeste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Escrit trouvé soupcon, donra, remort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand loup chassé pose sur la couchete.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A younger King causeth his father to be put</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To a dishonest death, after a Battle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Writing shall be found, that shall give suspicion and remorse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When a hunted Wolf shall rest upon a truckle bed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense are plain.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand Lampe ardente de feu inextinguible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera trouvée au Temple des Vestales,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enfant trouvée, feu, eau passant par crible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nismes</i> eau perir, <i>Tholouse</i> cheoir les Halles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When a Lamp burning with unquenchable fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be found in the Temple of the Vestals,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Child shall be found, Water running through a Sieve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nismes</i> to perish by Water, the Market-hall shall fall at <i>Tholouse</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The ancient <i>Vestals</i>, were a Kind of Religious Virgins in the ancient <i>Romans</i> -time, who if they did forfeit their honour, were buried alive in a Cave, with a little -Bread and Water, and a Lamp burning, our Author would have, that when a Lamp -shall be found lighted with an unquenchable fire, in that place where then their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_360"></a>[360]</span> -Temple was, that then <i>Nismes</i> (which is a City of <i>Languedoc</i>), shall perish by Water, -and the Market-hall of <i>Tholouse</i> shall fall, whether such a Lamp may be contrived as -to burn with an unquenchable fire, is too long and tedious a discourse to be disputed -here.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Moine, Moinesse d’Enfant mort exposé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourir par Ourse & ravy par verrier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Foix</i> & <i>Panniers</i> le Camp sera posé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre <i>Tholose</i>, <i>Carcas</i>, dresser forrier.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Monk and Nun having exposed a dead Child,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To be killed by a she Bear, and snatcht away by a Glazier,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Camp shall be set by <i>Foix</i> and <i>Panniers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And against <i>Tholouse</i>, <i>Carcas</i> shall raise a Harbinger.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Foix</i> and <i>Panniers</i> are two Towns in <i>Languedoc</i>, and so are <i>Tholouse</i> and <i>Carcassonne</i>, -called here <i>Carcas</i>, for the abbreviation of the Verse, the sense then of this prophecy -is, that when the two first Verses shall come to pass, that then an Army shall lie about -those Towns, and <i>Carcassonne</i> shall be against <i>Thoulouse</i>.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le juste a tort a mort l’on viendra mettre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Publiquement, & du milieu estaint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si grande Peste en ce lieu viendra naistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que les Jugeans fouyr seront contraints.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The just shall be put to death wrongfully,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Publickly, and being taken out of the midst,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So great a Plague shall break into that place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the Judges shall be compelled to run away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Many understand this of the late King, and last Plague.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tant d’argent de <i>Diane</i> & <i>Mercure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les simulachres au Lac seront trouvez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Figulier cherchant argille neuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy & les siens, d’or seront abreuvez.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_361"></a>[361]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The so much Silver of <i>Diana</i> and <i>Mercury</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Statues shall be found in the Lake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Potter seeking for new clay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He and his shall be filled with Gold.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning a <i>Potter</i>, who seeking and digging for new Clay, -shall find in a drained Lake the Statues of <i>Diana</i> and <i>Mercury</i> all of silver, besides other -great riches; seeing this Prophecy is not come to pass yet (that I know) it will -not be amiss, for the divertisement of the Reader, to relate here a notable and authentical -History of a Potter that hath much ressemblance with this, and will be a -convincing Argument, that Mines grow in the Earth as Turfs do, and as <i>Virgil</i> -sayeth of the golden branch:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Uno avulso non deficit alter.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>It is written by Doctor <i>de Rochas</i>, Physitian to the present Chancellor or <i>France</i>, -who was upon the place, and an eye witness of the circumstances of it, having also -an interest in it, in the behalf of his Father, who was overseer of the Mines in that -Province, therefore I shall relate it in his own words, as they are in his Book of <i>Mineral -Waters</i>.</p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>A notable -History.</i></div> - -<p>In <i>Provence</i> near <i>Thoulon</i>, is a Mountain called <i>Carquairené</i>, at the foot of which -and near the brim of the Sea, there dwelled a Potter with all his tools about -him; It chanced that on a day as he went to fetch Wood in that Mountain, -to bake his wares, he heard a voice of a little Kid, which some Shepherd -had left behind them unawares, and was fallen in a little hole that answered to -natural, great and deep Caves; this man seeing no Shepherds about him, thought -presently it was a strayed Kid, therefore he followed the cry with his ear so directly, -that he came by the orifice of that hole, where he heard and saw the Kid, which -he resolved to carry away with his Wood, therefore he took the Cords that were -at his Mules Saddle, and that he used to bind his Load with, and with the help of -them, and of some big pieces of Wood he got down, where, he did observe round -about him many other Caves, contiguous and separated from this, which his curiosity -caused him to view, and found in the chief of these Caves a great quantity of -stones heaped upon one another, & of a substance and colour of Brass, and among the -rest there was one that came forth out of the Rock, about the bigness, shape, and -length of a mans arm, when it is stretched out; he did apparently judge that the -weight and brittleness of that matter had caused those stones to fall down, and that -the same that he saw come out of the Rock in this manner, was already loose and like -to fall; this man finding himself among such an abundance of rich Lingots, which -fortune did offer him, did not know the value of them, but did like the Cock of <i>Æsop</i> -which left the precious Pearl to take the Corn of Wheat; thus this <i>Jason</i> took -very little of this Golden Fleece, and only a small piece, which he broke from a bigger -with one of his Tools, and imployed all his industry to carry away his Kid, which -at last with much ado he got out, and carried upon his Mule, believing certainly that -this provision would be more profitable to him and his Family, then the yellow stone -which he had in his pocket, weighing about five pounds, and which he intended to -give to a Tinker of <i>Thoulon</i>, his Gossip and good friend, in hope that for the same -he might be presented with a bottle of Wine, to keep company to his Kid; and -accordingly the next morning by break of day he went to <i>Thoulon</i> and stayed in the -Shop of his friend, who did look with admiration upon so resplendent Brass; a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_362"></a>[362]</span> -Gold-smith who lodged over the way, and observed the splendor of that Divine -mettal, drew near, and presently would have bargained for it, with a great deal of -transportation and alteration. The Potter asked him only twenty pence, which the -Gold-Smith would have given him presently, but the Tinker making sign to him to -retract his words, he put his lingot in his pocket again, with protestation that he -would not part with it, unless he had something that were worth the pains of going -where he had it; in conclusion, after many contestations and disputes, the Potter who -did suspect that it might be gold, would not sell nor deliver it under the sum of thirty -Crowns, which the Gold-Smith paid him presently, and which he carried away -with more joy, then if he had been possessor of greater riches; the Gold-smith on -the other side, who thought that his profit would be above a hundred pounds sterlings, -did refine this stone, that was about five pound weight, out of which he drew -four pound weight, of very good and pure gold, the rest was a kind of dross, that -made it thus brittle; one ought not to think that the Mine is all of the same perfection, -but it purifieth it self, according as nature thrusteth it out of the Rock, as we -see that Rubies and Emeralds are purer, then the Rock from whence they come. This -Gold-Smith having found such fortune, and being resolved to make the best use of -it, went to the Lord <i>Scaravaque</i>, then Governour of the Town, and imparted unto -him this new discovery, that he might have his assistance and favour in it, and that -under his power and authority he might follow and wait upon this precious business -without being disturbed by any body, to which the Governour did so much the easier -consent, that this Tradesman did oblidge himself to give him the best part of the profit -that should arise from thence, and that should exceed any Travels into the <i>Indies</i> -or <i>Peru</i>.</p> - -<p>In the mean time the Potter was not asleep, the Gold-smiths money had stirred -his appetite, and the charm of this witchcraft that worketh generally upon all spirits, -did put him upon new hopes. He went into the Mountain with his wife, and with the -help of a rope Ladder, which he had provided, and some Iron tools, wherewith he -had loaded his Mule, he went down into the Caves, and with much endeavour did -at last break that piece, that came out of the Rock like a mans arm, because all the -other that were tumbled upon the ground, were so big and heavy that he could not -remove them, when he had broken it down, though it were about fourscore and two -pounds weight, nevertheless with the help of his wife and of his Ropes and Ladder -he got out again, and stopt the hole with a large stone, and some Earth, upon which -he planted some small Bushes so ingeniously, that this hole could never be found out -again.</p> - -<p>The Lord <i>Scaravaque</i> who was most impatient, to conquer like another <i>Jason</i> this -Golden Fleece, and who was set on by the persuasions of the Gold-smith, sent for -the Potter, under pretence to employ him in the making and furnishing of some Tiles -and other small commodities that depended on his art. The Potter obeyed presently, -drawn by the hopes to sell his wares well, and mistrusting nothing at all what -they would ask him. As soon as he came, the Governour asked him and perswaded -him with the best and most flattering words he could, to tell where he had the yellow -stone that he sold to the Gold-smith. The Potter who more and more began to -know the value of this rare Treasure, invented presently a lie, to free himself of the -importunity of them that would have deceived him; therefore with an ingenuity, as -simple as artificial he answered, he had found it upon the brim of the Sea, where -may be some Ship had been cast away, or the Waves had cast it upon the shore.</p> - -<p>The Governour answered that this could not be, and therefore threatned him of -violence, and to send for all that he had in his House, which put the fellow into a -great perplexity, because of the other stone that should be found there, therefore he -chose rather to give it them out of his good will, then to put himself in danger of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_363"></a>[363]</span> -loosing all, and perchance of being abused to boot, without any more ado, he ingenuously -confessed he had another piece of the same stuff as the former in his House, -which he had likewise found in the same place, which he was ready to put into their -hands, provided he might have his share of it, and be suffered to get his livelihood -peaceably. The Lord <i>Scaravaque</i> did promise him all what he desired, and gave -him some men to keep him company, with command to bring him back again, and -to take special care he should not make an escape. At last this poor man came back -again with that piece, which did more inflame the passion that the Governour had to -know the place whence came that rich treasure; but neither for prayers, promises, -or threats he would never reveal it, which did oblige the Governour to shut him -up close in a Chamber, where nevertheless they gave him Victuals and made ready a -Bed, but he refused both, and by an extraordinary sadness, gave shew that some notorious -mischance was waiting on him, which proved true, for he was found dead in the -Morning; which did put the Lord <i>Scaravaque</i> in a grief unexpressible, to see himself -deprived by this accident, of the fruit that his hopes had made him conceive. He -had recourse to the Potters wife for this discovery, but she could never attain to it, -whatsoever exact searches she could make: yea, and after she was married again with -a young man, who had spent in that search most of his time. The Lord <i>Scaravaque</i> -and other persons of quality have employed all their skills and endeavours, but all -their industry and charges have been without effect, as well as of many others, who -attempted the same; about that time my Father who was overseer of the Mines in -<i>Provence</i>, having received the news of a business of such consequence, that did concern -his place, went presently unto that Mountain, to see if he could discover those -wonders, I was then in his company, as also that woman, <i>viz.</i> the Potters wife, who -carried us in several places for many days, without any success at all, although she -gave notice that she could here the Waves of the Sea, when she was in the Cave with -her first Husband, so that all our endeavours proved fruitless and unprofitable, because -my Father fell sick, which made us forsake our quest, which is of such a consequence -as not to be neglected.</p> - -<p>During the time of our painful visiting that Mountain, I did consider the particularities -of that rich Mountain, and observed that the top of it was almost all Azur, -which tokens are the beams of that golden Sun and are the hairs of that fair goodness, -under whose feet all things submit; in a word, are the true and infallible signs that -underneath are Mines of Gold and Silver. And as I have directed all my thoughts -many times to find out the means to compass so excellent a work, whose profit would -surpass all what the <i>Indies</i> furnish unto strangers, and that with so much less charges -and danger, that there is no heed of Ships or Fleet to cross over the Sea, from one -Pole to the other, nor fight against any enemies: at last I have attained to a certain -knowledge, which putteth me in hope, and makes me promise and engage my word, -that at least I shall find a thred of that golden Mine, which may chance to lead us to -the Centre of all these Treasures, but the Royal Authority being necessary to prop -up this design, it belongeth to his Majesty to take what course he thinketh best for -this, and to me to obey, execute his will. This digression which is an assured experiment, -(that is a certain truth), is not come into this discourse, but only to prove that -Mines grow by augmentation, in converting into their own nature the more subtle -parts of the Neighbouring Earth. Thus far Doctor <i>de Rochas</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_364"></a>[364]</span></p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Exilez autour de la <i>Sologne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conduits de nuict pour marcher en l’<i>Auxois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux de <i>Modene</i> truculent de <i>Bologne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis discouverts par feu de <i>Burancois</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The banished about <i>Sologne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being conducted by night to go into <i>Auxois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two of <i>Modena</i>, the cruel of <i>Bolonia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be discovered by the fire of <i>Burancois</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Sologne</i> is a Province in <i>France</i>, between the <i>Perche</i> and the <i>Main</i>. <i>Auxois</i> is a -Countrey in the South of <i>France</i>, so called of its chief Town called <i>Auch</i>, the seat of -an Archbishop. <i>Modena</i> is a Town in <i>Italy</i>, and <i>Bolonia</i> another not far from it. <i>Burancois</i> -is a part of the Province of <i>Dauphiné</i>. The meaning then of this Prophecy is, -this being known, the Reader may easily find out the rest of the sense.</p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis en planure chauderon d’Infecteurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vin miel en huile & bastis sur Fourneaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront plongez sans mal dit malfacteurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept. fum. extaint au Canon des <i>Borneaux</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Dyers Kettle being put an a Plein,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Wine, Honey and Oil, and built upon Furnace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be dipt, without evil, called Malefactors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven. fum. put out at the Canon of <i>Borneaux</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a relation to the punishment, which in some parts of <i>France</i> and <i>Flanders</i> -is inflicted upon false Coiners, which are commonly boiled in Oil, in a great Kettle, -such as our Author here saith belong to Dyers. The Author then will have that the -time shall come, when seven of that gang shall be so punished together in a Plain, -where a great Kettle shall be set for that purpose upon a Furnace.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Parpan</i> les rouges detenus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux du milieu parfondrez menez loing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois mis en pieces, & cinq mal soustenus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour le Seigneur & Prelat de <i>Bourgoing</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_365"></a>[365]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near unto <i>Parpan</i> the red ones detained,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of the middle sunk and carried far off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three cut in pieces, and five ill backed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the Lord and Prelate of <i>Burgoing</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Parpan</i> is either a barbarous or fained name, by the <i>red ones</i>, he hath hitherto understood -some Cardinals, the Reader may expound the rest according to his fancy.</p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Castel Franco</i> sortira l’assemblée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Ambassadeur non plaisant fera Schisme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Riviere</i> seront en la meslée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et au grand Goulphre desnieront l’entrée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of <i>Castel Franco</i> shall come the Assembly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Embassador not pleased, shall make a Schisme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Riviere</i> shall be in the medley,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall deny the entry of the great Gulf.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Castel Franco</i> is a Town in <i>Piemont</i>; <i>Riviere</i> is a strong Castle in <i>Burgundy</i>, but -what he meaneth by the great Gulfe, is more then I can tell.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tiers premier, pis que ne fit <i>Neron</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vuidez vaillant que sang humain respandre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Redifier fera le Forneron,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Siecle d’or mort, nouveau Roy grand esclandre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The third first, worse than ever did <i>Nero</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Go out valliant, he shall spill much humane blood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause the Forneron to be builded again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Golden Age dead, new King great troubles.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy pointeth directly at our Authors Master <i>Charles</i> the IX. King of -<i>France</i>, whom he calleth he <i>the third first</i>, because he was the third son to <i>Henry</i> II. -and came to be King, using more cruelties then ever <i>Nero</i> did, for he was the cause of -the Massacre of the Protestants in <i>France</i> in the year 1572. where above a hundred -thousand people were murdered. <i>Forneron</i> is a barbarous word, put here to make a -Verse, and to rhime with <i>Neron</i>. At that time he saith the <i>Golden Age was dead</i>, and -upon the coming of a new King, who was <i>Henry</i> III. great tumults did happen, and -great Wars, as is to be seen in the <i>French</i> History.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_366"></a>[366]</span></p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Lys <i>Dauffois</i> portera dans <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jusques en <i>Flanders</i> Electeur de l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neusve obturée au grand <i>Montmorency</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors lieux pronez delivre a clere peyne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Dauffois</i> shall carry the Lillie into <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As far as <i>Flanders</i> the Elector of the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">New hinderance to great <i>Montmorency</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of proved places, delivered to a clear pain.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Although the words and sense of this Prophecy be most obscure, nevertheless we -shall endeavour as much as we can to render them something intelligible to the -Reader.</p> - -<p>By the first Verse is to be understood that <i>Dauffois</i>, or rather <i>Dauphinois</i>, which is the -Title of the Kings of <i>France</i> eldest Son shall carry the Lillie, which is the Arms of -<i>France</i> into <i>Nancy</i>, the chief Town in <i>Lorrain</i>, which came to pass in the time of the -last King <i>Lewis</i> the XIII.</p> - -<p>By the second Verse is understood the Elector of <i>Triers</i>, who was taken by the -<i>Spaniards</i> in his own Town, and carried prisoner to <i>Bruxelles</i>.</p> - -<p>By the third and fourth is expressed the ill luck of the Duke of <i>Montmorency</i>, who -having taken part with the Duke of <i>Lorrain</i>, and the Duke of <i>Orleans</i> the Kings Brother, -was routed in a Battle, taken prisoner, and afterwards beheaded at <i>Thoulouse</i>.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le milieu de la Forest <i>Mayenne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i> au <i>Lion</i> la Foudre tombera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Bastard issu du grand <i>du Maine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce jour <i>Fougeres</i> pointe en sang entrera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the middle of the Forrest of <i>Mayenne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i> being in <i>Leo</i> the Lightning shall fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Bastard begot by the great <i>du Main</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That day <i>Fougeres</i> shall enter its point into blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Fougeres</i> is either the name of a Town in little <i>Britanny</i>, or that of a Noble House, -the words are very plain, therefore I leave the sense to every ones capacity.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit viendra par la Forest de <i>Rennes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux parts <i>Voltorte Herne</i>, la pierre blanche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Moine noir en gris dedans <i>Varennes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu Cap. cause tempeste, feu, sang tranche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_367"></a>[367]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By night shall come through the Forrest of <i>Rennis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two parts <i>Voltorte Herne</i>, the white stone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The black Monk in gray within <i>Varennes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Elected Cap. causeth tempest, fire, blood cutteth.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Rennes</i> is the chief Town of little <i>Britanny</i>; the second Verse being made of barbarous -words, is impossible to be understood. The third and fourth Verse signifieth, -that when a black Monk in that Town of <i>Varennes</i> shall put on a gray sute, he shall -be elected Captain, and cause a great tempest or broils by fire and blood.</p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Temple hault de <i>Blois</i> sacre <i>Salonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nuict Pont de <i>Loire</i>, Prelat, Roy pernicant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cuiseur victoire aux marests de la <i>Lone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’ou Prelature de blancs abormeant?</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the high Temple of <i>Blois</i> sacred <i>Salonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the night the Bridge of <i>Loire</i>, Prelat, King mischievous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A smarting Victory in the Marsh of <i>Lone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whence Prelature of white ones shall be abortive.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is a mistake in the first Verse, for instead of <i>Salonne</i>, it must be written <i>Soulaire</i>, -which is a <i>Priory</i> and Church at the top of <i>Blois</i>, all the rest signifieth that in -one night these shall happen, <i>viz.</i> that the Bridge, the Prelat, and a pernicious King -with a smart victory shall perish, whence the Prelature, that is the place of Command -upon the white ones, <i>viz.</i> Canons and Prebends in their Surplices, shall be void -and empty.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy & sa Cour au lieu de la <i>langue halbe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le Temple vis a vis du Palais,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le Jardin Duc de <i>Montor</i> & d’<i>Albe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Albe</i> & <i>Mantor</i>, poignard, langue, en Palais.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">King and his Court in the place of <i>langue halbe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the Church over against the <i>Pallace</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Garden Duke of <i>Montor</i> and <i>Albe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Albe</i> and <i>Mantor</i>, dagger, tongue and Pallate.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is very obscure, for, first no body can tell what he meaneth by <i>langue -halbe</i>, which is the foundation of all the rest of the sense; Secondly, what this Duke -of <i>Montor</i> and <i>Mantor</i> should be, which has been unknown in the Histories hitherto;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_368"></a>[368]</span> -and thirdly, what construction and sense can be made of these disjunctives: <i>Albe</i>, -<i>Mantor</i>, <i>Dagger</i>, <i>Tongue</i>, <i>Palate</i>. Therefore i’le leave it free to every bodies opinion -to make his construction.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Puisnay jouant au fresch dessous la tonne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le haut du toit du milieu sur la teste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere Roy au Temple Saint <i>Solonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sacrifiant sacrera sum de feste.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The youngest Son playing under the tun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The top of the House shall fall upon his head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King his Father in the Temple of Saint <i>Soulaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sacrificing shall make festival smoak.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By this is meant, that the youngest Son of a King, shall be knocked in the head, -while he is a playing under a tun; his Father being at the same time in the Temple -of Saint <i>Soulaine</i> at Mass.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Palais au Rocher des Fenestres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront ravis les deux petits Roiaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer <i>Aurelle</i>, <i>Lutece</i>, <i>Denis</i> cloistres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nonnain</i>, <i>Mollods</i> avaler verts noiaux.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Pallace at the Rock of the Windows;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be carried the two little Royal ones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To pass <i>Aurele</i>, <i>Lutece</i>, <i>Denis</i> Cloisters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nonnain</i>, <i>Mollods</i> to swallow green stones of fruit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These two or three last Stanzas have been concerning the City of <i>Blois</i>, to which -it seemeth that this hath also relation, for he saith that two little Royal Children -shall be carried at the top of the Castle, and shall be conveyed beyond <i>Aurelle</i> (which -is <i>Orleans</i> in Latine <i>Aurelianum</i>) <i>Lutece</i>, which is <i>Paris</i>; S. <i>Denis</i> Cloisters, which is -beyond <i>Paris</i>, and a Nunnery besides, where it is like they shall be left to eat green -stones of fruit, which is not easie to be understood, no more then the word <i>Mollods</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Passant les Ponts, venir prez de Roziers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tard arrivé plustost quil cuidera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendront les noves <i>Espagnols</i> a <i>Beziers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui icelle chasse emprinse cassera.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_369"></a>[369]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Going over the Bridge to come near the Rose-trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come late, and sooner then he thought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new <i>Spaniards</i> shall come to <i>Beziers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall cashiere this new undertaken hunting.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Beziers</i> is a City in <i>Languedoc</i>; the rest may be construed by the meanest capacity.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nise sortie sur nom des Lettres aspres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La grande Cappe fera present non sien,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche de <i>Vultry</i> aux murs des vertes capres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres <i>Plombin</i> le vent a bon escient.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A silly going out, caused by sharp Letters</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Cap shall give what is not his,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Vultry</i> by the Walls of green Capers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">About <i>Piombino</i> the wind shall be in good earnest.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that there shall be a silly surrendring of a Town, caused by sharp -and threatning Letters that shall be sent into it. By the great <i>Cap</i> he useth to understand -the <i>Pope</i>, who he saith shall give what is not it, as he hath done many times; -<i>Vultry</i>, in Latine <i>Velitrum</i>, and <i>Piombino</i> are two Cities in <i>Italy</i>, which are threatned -here with mighty winds.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De bois la garde vent clos ront Pont sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Haut le receu frappera le <i>Dauphin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux <i>Teccon</i> bois unis passera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passant plus outre du Duc le droit confin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fence being of Wood, close Wind, Bridge shall be broken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He that’s received high, shall strike at the <i>Dolphin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old <i>Teccon</i> shall pass over smooth Wood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going over the right confines of the Duke.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse signifieth that a woodden Bridge shall be broken by a close wind, -as did happen to the Millers Bridge, and the Birds Bridge in <i>Paris</i>.</p> - -<p>The second Verse seemeth to foretel the conspiracy of the Mareshal of <i>Biron</i>, against -<i>Henry</i> IV. his Dolphin and Estate.</p> - -<p>The third and fourth, the Wars and Conquest which the said King (whom he called -old <i>Teccon</i>), made upon the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, who had corrupted the said Marshal -of <i>Biron</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_370"></a>[370]</span></p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Voile <i>Symacle</i>, Port <i>Massiliolique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans <i>Venise</i> Port marcher aux <i>Pannons</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Partir du Goulfre & sinus <i>Illirique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vast a <i>Sicile</i>, <i>Ligurs</i> coups de Canon.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Symaclian</i> Sail, <i>Massilian</i> Port,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Venice</i> to march towards the <i>Hungarians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To go away from the Gulf and <i>Illirick</i> Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Toward <i>Sicily</i>, the <i>Genoeses</i> with Cannon shots.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What he meaneth by <i>Symaclian Sail</i>, is not easie to determine; <i>Massilian Port</i> is -that of <i>Marseilles</i> in <i>France</i>, called in Latine <i>Massilia</i>, the sense of this Prophecy then -if any be, is, that a great Fleet shall go from thence to <i>Venice</i>, to carry succours to the -<i>Hungarians</i>, who it seemeth shall be much distressed at that time by the <i>Turks</i>, and -that <i>Sicily</i> and <i>Genoa</i> shall add to this Fleet a considerable succour of Men, and Warlike -Munition.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que celuy qu’a nul ne donne lieu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Abandonner voudra lieu prins non pris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, Nef, par faignes, bitument a <i>Charlieu</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront <i>Quintin</i>, <i>Bales</i> repris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When he that giveth place to no body,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall forsake the place taken, and not taken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, Ship, by bleeding bituminous at <i>Charlieu</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then <i>Quintin</i> and <i>Bales</i> shall be taken again.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>He that giveth place to no body</i> is the Pope; as for the last Verse, I had rather read -St. <i>Quintin</i> and <i>Gales</i>, which are two considerable Towns in <i>France</i>, then otherwise.</p> - -<p>That place taken, not taken was the City of <i>Noyon</i> in <i>Picardy</i>, which was taken -by the <i>Spanish</i> Cavalry, cloathed after the <i>French</i> Mode, which stratagem deceived the -Citizens and Soldiers that defended it: so he saith taken, because it fell into the -hands of the <i>Spaniards</i>, and <i>not taken</i>, because it was by a stratagem or deceit.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Port de <i>Puola</i> & de St. <i>Nicolas</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perir <i>Normande</i> au Gouffre <i>Phanatique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cap de <i>Bizance</i> rues crier Helas!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secours de <i>Gaddes</i> & du grand <i>Philippique</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_371"></a>[371]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the Harbour of <i>Puola</i> and of St. <i>Nicolas</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Norman</i> Ship shall perish in the Phanatick Gulf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the Cape of <i>Byzantium</i> the streets shall cry Alas!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Succours from <i>Cadis</i> and from the great <i>Philippe</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Puola</i> is for <i>Paulo</i> here, and by it is understood the port of <i>Malta</i>, which being -Besieged by the <i>Turks</i>, <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>, sent an Army to relieve it, which -made those of <i>Byzantium</i> (which is <i>Constantinople</i>) cry alas, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tremblement de Terre a <i>Mortara</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cassich</i>, St. <i>George</i> a demy perfondrez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paix assoupie la guerre esuaillera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans Temple a Pasques abysmes enfondrez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be an Earthquake at <i>Mortara</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cassich</i>, St. <i>George</i> shall be half swallowed up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The War shall awake the sleeping pace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon Easterday shall be a great hole sunk in the Church.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mortara</i> is a Town in <i>Italy</i>, by <i>Cassich</i> and St. <i>George</i> he meaneth two other places.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De fin <i>Porphire</i> profond Collon trouvée</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dessoubs la laze escrits Capitolin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Os, poil retors, <i>Romain</i> force prouvée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe agiter au Port de <i>Methelin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A deep Column of fine <i>Porphyry</i> shall be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under whose Basis shall be <i>Roman</i> writings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bones, haires twisted, <i>Roman</i> force tried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet a gathering about the Port of <i>Methelin</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Porphiry</i> is a kind of hard red Marble speckled with white spots, which is very -scarce, and chiefly in great pieces; our Author then saieth that a great Colomn of -that stuff shall be found, and about the Basis of it some words in Roman Characters, -and that about that time a great Fleet shall be a gathering at the Port of <i>Methelin</i>, -which is an Island in the <i>Archipelago</i>, belonging now to the <i>Turks</i>, as for the third -Verse, I cannot tell what to make of it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_372"></a>[372]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hercules</i> Roy de <i>Rome</i> & <i>Dannemark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Gaule</i> trois <i>Gayon</i> surnommé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembler l’<i>Itale</i> & l’un de Saint <i>Marc</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier sur tous Monarque renommée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hercules</i> King of <i>Rome</i>, and <i>Denmark</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>France</i> three <i>Guyon</i> surnamed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Italy</i> to quake and one of St. <i>Marck</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be above all a famous Monarch.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All these intricated words and sense foretell that, when a King of <i>Danmarck</i> named -<i>Hercules</i> shall be made King of the <i>Romans</i>, that then <i>Italy</i> and <i>Venice</i> it self shall -stand in great fear of him; and that he shall be as great a Prince or Monarch as ever -was in <i>Europe</i>; and that very likely, for by his dignity of King of the <i>Romans</i> he -consequently shall attain to the Empire.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le part solus Mary sera Mitré;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Retour conflict passera sur la tuille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par cinq cens un trahir sera tultré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i> & <i>Saulce</i> par coutaux avons d’huile.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The separated Husband shall wear a Miter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Returning, Battle he shall go over the Tyle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By five hundred one dignified shall be betrayed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Narbon</i> and <i>Salces</i> shall have Oil by the Quintal.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first Verse signifieth, that some certain man who was married, shall be parted -from his wife, and shall attain to some great Ecclesiastical Dignity.</p> - -<p>The second Verse is, that in coming back from some place or entreprise, he shall -be met and fought with, and compelled to escape over the Tyles of a House.</p> - -<p>The third Verse is, that a man of great account shall be betrayed by five hundred of -his men.</p> - -<p>And the last, that when these things shall come te pass, <i>Narbon</i> and <i>Salces</i>, which -are two Cities of <i>Languedoc</i>, shall reap and make a great deal of Oil.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Et <i>Ferdinand</i> blonde sera descorte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quitter la fleur suivre le <i>Macedon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand besoing defaillira sa routte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et marchera contre le <i>Myrmidon</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_373"></a>[373]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And <i>Ferdinand</i>, having a Troop of faire men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall leave the flower to follow the <i>Macedonian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At his great need his way shall fail him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he shall go against the <i>Myrmidon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy ought to be understood of an Emperour of <i>Germany</i>, whose name -shall be <i>Ferdinand</i>, who being accompanied with many <i>Germans</i>, that for the most -part are faire haired people shall come and War against <i>Græcia</i>, which is expressed -here by the names of <i>Macedon</i> and <i>Myrmidon</i>, the first of which is a Countrey, and -the last a Nation, both in <i>Græcia</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un grand Roy prins entre les mains d’un jeune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loin de Palques confusion, coup cultre:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perpet. cattif temps que foudre en la Hune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois Freres lors se blesseront & meurtre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great King taken in the hands of a young one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from Easter, confusion, stroke of a knife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall commit, pittiful time, the fire at the top of the Mast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three Brothers then shall wound one another, and murder done.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1560. when <i>Antony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> King of -<i>Navarre</i>, and his Brother <i>Lewis</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> Prince of <i>Condé</i>, coming to King <i>Francis</i> -II. at <i>Orleans</i>, upon the 29. of <i>October</i>, the Prince of <i>Condé</i> was put in prison, and the -King of <i>Navarre</i> arrested. The Lord <i>Andrew Fauyn</i> in his History of <i>Navarre</i>, saith, -that the opinion of the Councel was, that the Prince of <i>Condé</i> should be beheaded, for -having been the chief of the conspiracy at <i>Amboise</i>, and the King of <i>Navarre</i> should -be stabbed in the Kings Chamber by the King himself, assisted by others for that -purpose. The Lady of <i>Montpensier</i> gave notice of it to the King of <i>Navarre</i>, who being -sent for by the King, charged expresly <i>Cattin</i> his waiting man and an old servant of -his Father take a care and preserve his bloody shirt after his death till his son came -to Age, to revenge it upon the murderers. God be thanked this came not to pass, -for the King having called him, and going about to provoke him with foul words, -he answered so meekly and humbly, that the Kings anger was appeased, where upon -the Duke of <i>Guise</i> going out of the room said, <i>O what a cowardly Prince is this</i>. These -things are expressed in the first and second Verse, when he saith that a great King -should be put in Prison by a young one, because <i>Antony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i>, though he was -not a great King in Lands, yet he was a great one in courage and prudence. And it -was <i>not far from Easter</i>, sith it was but five months before, <i>viz.</i> from the beginning -of <i>November</i>, to the sixth of <i>April</i> 1591 which was Easterday; the Author putteth -in this circumstance, because the next Easter after, the King of <i>Navarre</i> was made -General of <i>France</i> under the Queen Regent.</p> - -<p>He addeth <i>the blow of a Knife</i>, as we have shewed; he also saith <i>a lasting bad time</i>, -which proved very true; moreover, he saith, <i>what lightning in the Hunt</i> or Topmast,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_374"></a>[374]</span> -because King <i>Francis</i> died presently after. In the fourth Verse he saith, <i>that three -Brothers shall be hurt and killed</i>, those three Brothers were <i>Antony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> King of -<i>Navarre</i>, killed at the Siege at <i>Rouen</i>, the Cardinal of <i>Bourbon</i>, and <i>Lewis</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> -Prince of <i>Condé</i>, killed at the Battle of <i>Jarnac</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pont & Molins en <i>December</i> versez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En si haut lieu montera la <i>Garonne</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Murs, Edifice, <i>Thoulouse</i> renversez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on ne scaura son lieu coutant matrone.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bridges and Mills in <i>December</i> overturned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In so high a place the <i>Garonne</i> shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Walls, Building, <i>Thoulose</i> overturned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that none shall know its place, so much Matrone.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is foretold a prodigious inundation of the River <i>Garonne</i>, in the month of -<i>December</i>, by which the Walls, Building, and the City of <i>Thoulouse</i> is threatned to -be overturned. The last word of all is barbarous, and added to make up the rhime.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Entrée de <i>Blaye</i> par <i>Rochelle</i> & l’<i>Anglios</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passera outre le grand <i>Æmathien</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loing d’<i>Agen</i> attendra le <i>Gaulois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secours <i>Narbonne</i> deceu par entretien.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The coming in at <i>Blaye</i> by <i>Rochel</i> and the <i>English</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall go beyond the great <i>Æmathien</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from <i>Agen</i> shall expect the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Help from <i>Narbonne</i> deceived by entertainment.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">For the better understanding of this, the hard words must first be made plain; -<i>Blaye</i> is a City upon the River <i>Garonne</i>, and the Port-Town to <i>Bourdeaux</i>; <i>Rochel</i> is -a City upon the same Coast; <i>Agen</i> is a City in <i>Gascony</i> not far from <i>Bourdeaux</i>, and -<i>Narbonne</i> is a City in <i>Languedoc</i>, by the Mediterranean Sea; <i>Æmathian</i> was formerly -the Countrey of <i>Macedonia</i>, wherein <i>Julius Cæsar</i> and <i>C. Pompeius</i> fought their -last Battle in the <i>Pharsalian</i> Fields, and therefore saith the Latine Poet <i>Lucanus</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bella per Æmathios plusquam civilia campos.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>These things being considered the sense is, that there shall be an Invasion made by -the <i>English</i>, to whom those of <i>Rochel</i> shall joyn, upon the Town of <i>Blaye</i>, which shall -proceed as far as <i>Agen</i>, and that thereabout will be a bloody Encounter between the -<i>English</i> and <i>French</i>, beyond that which was fought in the <i>Æmathian</i> Fields, and that -the succours that should come from <i>Narbonne</i> to the <i>French</i>, shall be deluded and hindered -by the speech and discourse of some.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_375"></a>[375]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Arbissella</i>, <i>Vezema</i> & <i>Crevari</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De nuit conduits pour <i>Savonne</i> atraper,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vif <i>Gascon</i>, <i>Giury</i>, & la <i>Charry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Derrier Mur vieux & neuf Palais grapper.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Arbissella</i>, <i>Vezema</i> and <i>Crevari</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being conducted by night to take <i>Savona</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The quick <i>Gascon</i>, <i>Giury</i> and the <i>Charry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Behind old Walls and new Pallace to graple.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Arbissella</i> is a Town situated by the Sea-side above <i>Savona</i>, going towards <i>Genoa</i>. -<i>Vezema</i> and <i>Crevari</i> are in the Inland Countrey, and a little further remoted from the -Sea then <i>Arbissella</i>. <i>The quick Gascon</i> was <i>Blasius</i> of <i>Monluc</i>, one of the Valliantest -men of his time, who came from a single Souldier to be Marshal of <i>France</i>. <i>Guiry</i> and -<i>la Charry</i> were two of his Companions. This Stanza doth Prophetically foretell -two things, one is, the design that the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i>, then Governour of <i>Piemont</i> -had upon <i>Savona</i>: the other, the taking of <i>Pianca</i> by <i>Blasius</i> of <i>Monluc</i>, as to the -first, the Lord of <i>Villars</i> writeth in his Memorials, that the Lord <i>Damzay</i> sent advice -to the King, that the taking of <i>Savona</i> was more probable then any other design, -which signifieth that the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> had of a long time eyed that Town, and -therefore he sent by night some Troops into those three little Towns, to see if they -could surprise <i>Savona</i>, but the design did not succeed. The Histories only mention -that the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> went from Court in the year 1557. with a design to take -<i>Savona</i>; but this stanza speaketh of the same design 1556.</p> - -<p>At the same time in the year 1556. the 29. of <i>June Blasius</i> of <i>Monluc</i>, as he relateth -in his Commentaries, did surprise the Town and Fort of <i>Piance</i>, called in Latine <i>Corsinianum</i>, -he had with him the Captain <i>la Charry</i>, the Captain <i>Bartholomew</i> of <i>Pezero</i>, -and the son of Captain <i>Luzzan</i>. At first the <i>French</i> were beaten back, but the valliant -<i>Monluc</i> did encourage them again by his example, going the first in, and saying -only, <i>follow your Captain</i>.</p> - -<p>Which having said, he thrust himself under the Gate, where three or four men -might stand sheltered by the planks of the Fort, and having his Sword in the left -hand, and his dagger in the right, he began to break and cut the Brick and made a -hole, which opening by degrees, he thrust his arm through, and pulled the gap so -strongly, that he caused all the Wall to fall down upon himself, without being hurt -by it. This is the meaning of the Author in the fourth Verse; when he saith, <i>the quick -Gascon was behind the Wall</i>; In prosecution of this, the Switzers did beat down the -rest of the Wall, and all came into the Town crying, <i>France, France</i>. <i>Monluc</i> ran -presently to the Fort, and with the help of his men took it, that is the meaning of -the Author, when he saith, <i>old and new Pallace to graple</i>. The old Pallace was adjoining -to the Market-place of the Town, in which the <i>French</i> were prisoners with the Captain -<i>Gourgues</i>, to the number of fifty or sixty tied two and two, and so kept by twenty -Souldiers, whom they did kill as we have said. The new Pallace was the Fort. -The Author used that ancient word <i>grapper</i>, which in the <i>Provencal</i> languague signifieth, -to pull down with ones hands, and in the contrary sense, to shut and plaister so -well some thing, that there will be a necessity of the help of the hands to open what -was shut up.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_376"></a>[376]</span></p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Quentin</i> dans la Forest <i>Bourlis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans l’Abbaye seront <i>Flamands</i> tranchez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les deux puisnez de coups my estourdis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Suitte appressée & gardes tous hachez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Quentin</i> in the Forrest <i>Bourlis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Abby the <i>Flemmings</i> shall be slashed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two younger sons half a stonished with blows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The followers oppressed, and the Guards all cut in pieces.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a peculiar accident that happened before the taking of the Town of Saint -<i>Quentin</i> by the <i>Spaniard</i> in the year 1557. and fell out thus. News being come to -the King of <i>France</i>, that the powerful Army of the <i>Spaniard</i> was gone to Besiege St. -<i>Quentin</i>, he made all imaginable diligence to succour it; the <i>Spaniards</i> to hinder the -relief had seized upon an ancient Abby of the <i>Vermandois</i>, which is in the next Forrest, -that was anciently called the Forrest <i>Bourlis</i>, and is at present called the Forrest -of the <i>Abbay Vermandois</i>, called in Latine <i>Augusta Veromanduorum</i>, builded by an ancient -<i>Hungarian</i> Captain called <i>Vermandig</i>. In process of time it was all ruinated, and -only one Abby left, wherein was the Episcopal See, which afterwards was transferred -into the City of <i>Noyon</i>. After the ruine of this Town, that of St. <i>Quentin</i> -next to it became the chief City of <i>Vermandois</i>; It was named St. <i>Quentin</i>, because -the Emperor <i>Dioclesian</i> having sent St. <i>Quentin</i> a <i>Roman</i> Senator to be Governour of -it, he did convert the Inhabitants to the Christian Faith, and after he himself did -suffer there Martyrdom.</p> - -<p>In that Abby a great many <i>Flemmings</i> had intranched themselves, but the <i>French</i> -going to relieve the Town, did force their Trenches and Fortifications, and in the -heat of the fight the two younger Sons of the Captain being armed <i>Cap a pée</i>, though -they were not killed, yet were astonished with blows they did receive upon their -heads, their followers and Guards being all cut in pieces.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Chyren</i> soy saisir d’<i>Avignon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Rome</i> Lettres en miel plein d’amertume,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lettre, Ambassade partir de <i>Chanignon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carpentras</i> pris par Duke noir, rouge plume.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Cheyren</i> shall seize upon <i>Avignon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Letters from <i>Rome</i> shall come full of bitterness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Letters and Embassies shall go from <i>Chanignon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carpentras</i> taken by a black Duke with a red Feather.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_377"></a>[377]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This did happen lately, <i>viz.</i> some five or six years ago, when the Duke of <i>Crequy</i> -Embassadour at <i>Rome</i> was affronted by the <i>Corses</i>, which are the Popes Guard: for -which the King of <i>France</i> demanded reparation, and seized upon <i>Avignon</i>, till the Pope -granted him that all the said <i>Corses</i> should be banished, and a Pyramis erected in <i>Rome</i> -to the perpetual infamy of that Nation.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Barcelonne</i>, de <i>Gennes</i> & <i>Venise</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la <i>Sicile</i> pres <i>Monaco</i> unis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre Barbare classe prendront la vise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Barbar poulsé bien loing jusqu’a <i>Thunis</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Barcelona</i>, from <i>Genoa</i> and <i>Venice</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Sicily</i> near <i>Manaco</i> united,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the Barbarian the fleet shall take her aim,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Barbarian shall be driven back as far as <i>Thunis</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of these words is very plain and signifieth onely, that there will be an -union and League between these Towns, <i>viz.</i> <i>Barcelona</i>, <i>Genoa</i>, <i>Vinice</i>, and the Kingdom -of <i>Sicily</i> against the Turks, whom they shall encounter near <i>Monaco</i>, and put -them to flight, and follow them as far as <i>Tunis</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche a descendre l’Armée <i>Crucigere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera guettée par les <i>Ismaelites</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De tous costez battus par nef <i>Raviere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prompt assailies de dix Galeres d’eslite.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Crucigere</i> Army being about to Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be watched by the <i>Ismaelites</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being beaten on all sides by the Ship <i>Raviere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Presently assaulted by ten chosen Galleys.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Crucigere</i> Army is understood the Christian Army, because the word -<i>Crucigere</i> signifieth one that beareth a Cross, from the two Latine words <i>Crux</i> and -<i>gero</i>; the <i>Ismaelites</i> are the <i>Turks</i>, who boast themselves to be descended from <i>Ismael</i>, -the son of <i>Abraham</i> and <i>Agar</i>, the meaning of this is, that the Christians going about -to attempt some landing place, the Turks shall watch them, and set upon them -by Land and Sea, in which Sea fight he mentioneth only ten choice Galleys, and a -notable Ship called <i>Raviere</i>, (if it be not false printed) I am much of an opinion that -this came to pass when <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i> made an attempt upon <i>Algiers</i>, by -his Admiral <i>André d’Oria</i>, who had to do with the <i>Moores</i> upon the Land, ready to receive -him, and some part of their fleet that watched him, but cross and contrary -winds caused him to return <i>re infecta</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_378"></a>[378]</span></p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Migrez, migrez de <i>Geneve</i> tretous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> d’Or en Fer se changera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le contre <i>Raypoz</i> exterminera tous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant l’advent le Ciel signes sera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Go forth, go forth out of <i>Geneva</i> all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> of gold, shall be changed into Iron,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They against <i>Raypos</i> shall extermine them all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before it happeneth, the Heavens will shew signs.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Called here against -Raypos.</i></div> - -<p>This is a Prophecy concerning <i>Geneva</i>, out of which he warneth every one to come; -his reason is, that the golden Age of that Town shall be changed into an Iron one; and -that there shall be one against <i>Raypos</i>, that shall extermine them all, before which there -shall appear some signs in Heaven. Now the Author being a rank Papist, it is to be supposed -that he warneth out of <i>Geneva</i> all those of his Faith, because of -the coming of <i>Calvin</i>, whom he foresaw was to come into that Town, -and to change the Government thereof, and to <i>extermine them all</i>, which -is to be understood, in point of Religion, as for what prodigies did precede that -change; I had no time to consult Authors upon it, the judicious Reader may chance -to find them in those that have written of this matter.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne sera soul jamais de demander,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand <i>Mendosus</i> obtiendra son Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loing de la Cour fera contremander,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Piemont</i>, <i>Picard</i>, <i>Paris</i>, <i>Tyrhen</i> le pire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall never be weary of asking,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Mendosus</i> shall obtain his dominion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from the Court he shall cause him to be countermanded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Piemont</i>, <i>Picardy</i>, <i>Paris</i>, <i>Tyrhen</i> the worse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>Mendosus</i>, is Anagrammatically to be understood <i>Vendosme</i>; but who is that -shall never be weary of asking, or whose Dominion <i>Vendosme</i> shall have, or what is -meant by the last two Verses, passeth my understanding.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vuidez fuyez de <i>Thoulouse</i> les rouges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Sacrifice faire expiation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef du mal dessoubs l’ombre des courges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort estrangler carne omination.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_379"></a>[379]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Get you gone, run away from <i>Thoulouse</i> ye red ones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall expiation be made of the Sacrifice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The chief cause of the evil under the shade of gourdes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be strangled, a presage of the destruction of much flesh.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy doth onely and properly belong to the City of <i>Thoulouse</i>; and by -it are warned all the red ones, that is, all those that usually wear Red or Scarlet -Gowns, as those of the Parliament and the Capitols to come out of it, because saith -he, <i>There shall an expiation be made of the Sacrifice</i>, meaning that there shall be a great -slaughter among the Citizens, as it did happen at several times, the first <i>Anno</i> 1563. -another time when the first President <i>Durauti</i>, and several other of the red Gowns -were put to death, <i>&c.</i> The two last Verses signifie, that the chief contriver of this -uproar shall be strangled, and many others besides him.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les soubsignez d’indigne deliverance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et de la multe auront contre advis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Change Monarque mis en perrille pence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Serrez en cage se verront vis a vis.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The underwritten to an unworthy deliverance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall have from the multitude a contrary advice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall change their Monarch and put him in peril,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall see themselves shut up in a Cage over against.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plainly to be understood of those Traytors, the delivered and signed the -death of King <i>Charles</i> the I. of blessed Memory, against the sense and advise of at least -three parts of four of the Nation, and who afterward saw themselves for the most part -shut in Prison for this fact and brought to a shameful end.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité d’Occean Maritime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Environnée de Marests en Crystal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le <i>Solstice</i> hyemal & la prime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera tentée de vent espouvental.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Maritime City of the Ocean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Encompassed with Chrystaline Fens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Winter <i>Solstice</i> and in the spring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be tempted with fearful wind.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_380"></a>[380]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>the great Maritime City of the Ocean, Encompassed with Crystaline Fens</i>, is to be -understood the City of <i>London</i>, for as for that of <i>Venice</i>, it is situated upon the <i>Mediterranean</i> -or rather <i>Adriatick</i> Sea: <i>London</i> then is threatned here of a fearful wind, -which whether the Author meaneth for the time that is past now, and that shall come -hereafter I know not, sure I am, that I have within this fifteen years seen two such -winds in <i>London</i>, as I never saw the like any where else; the first was that day that -<i>Olivier</i> the Usurpator died, the other was about six or seven years ago, caused by the -lightning that fell in <i>Hereford-shire</i>, and did mix with a Western wind and came as -far as <i>London</i>, carrying the tops of houses, and doing then for above 10000. pounds -dammage.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gand</i> & <i>Bruxelles</i> marcheront contre <i>Anvers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Senat de <i>Londres</i> mettront a mort leur Roy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Sel & Vin luy seront a l’envers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour eux avoir le Regne or desarroy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gand</i> and <i>Bruxelles</i> shall go against <i>Antwerp</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Senat of <i>London</i> shall put their King to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Salt and Wine shall not be able to do him good,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they may have the Kingdom into ruine.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy taken with all its circumstances, and the subject it treateth of, is -the most remarkable of all those that ever <i>Nostradamus</i> was Author of, for here we see -a concatenation of circumstances linked together, to make it true to any bodies eyes, -for first the number of this Stanza being 49, signifieth the year wherein the King -died, for although by the <i>English</i> account, who begin their year at the 25. of <i>March</i>, -it may be said it was in 48, because it did happen upon the 30<i>th.</i> of <i>January</i>, yet according -to the general account of the most part of the World, the year begin upon -the first day of <i>January</i>, so that the King dying on the 30<i>th.</i> of <i>January</i>, it may be -said it was in the year 1649.</p> - -<p>The first Verse signifieth, that at that time there was no good intelligence between -the Cities of <i>Flanders</i> and <i>Brabant</i>, as I remember very well that there was not, but -upon what score, I have forgotten.</p> - -<p>The second Verse is plain to any body that can either read or hear it.</p> - -<p>The third Verse by <i>the Salt and Wine</i>, understandeth <i>France</i>, who was then in War -with the <i>Spaniard</i>, and in some divisions among themselves, so that they could not -take the Kings part as to relieve and free him by force, but sent Embassadours to mediate -a composure of the difference.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse intimateth that by reason of the said Wars that were in <i>France</i>, -the said murdering Parliament had liberty to do what they listed for the bringing the -Kingdom into ruine.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_381"></a>[381]</span></p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mensodus</i> tost viendra a son haut Regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettant arriere un peu le <i>Norlaris</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le rouge blesme, le masle a l’interregne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jeune crainte & frayeur Barbaris.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mensodus</i> shall soon come to his high Government,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Putting a little aside the <i>Norlaris</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The red, pale, the Male at the interreigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The young fear, and dread barbarisme.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Mensodus</i> is the Anagramme of <i>Vendosme</i>, by which is meant <i>Antony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> -Duke of <i>Vendosme</i>, brother to the then Prince of <i>Condé</i>, and father to <i>Henry</i> IV. -<i>Norlaris</i> is the Anagram of <i>Lorrain</i>; now any body that understandeth any thing in -History, knoweth what dissention and feud there was between the House of <i>Bourbon</i>, -and that of <i>Lorrain</i> in the time of <i>Francis</i> the II. for the House of <i>Bourbon</i>, though -next to the Royal blood, was the least in favour, and those of the House of <i>Lorrain</i> did -Govern all, and had so far prevailed as to have got the Prince of <i>Condé</i> into their -hands, and had him condemned to have his head cut of, which would have been executed, -had not the King that very day fallen sick of the disease he died of. Now this -being understood our Author will have that <i>Mensodus</i>, which is <i>Vendosme</i> shall lay aside -the <i>Norlaris</i>, that is <i>Lorrein</i>. By <i>the red pale</i> is meant the Cardinal of <i>Lorrain</i>, brother -to the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, who grew pale at this. By <i>the male at the interreigne</i> is so -obscure, that we leave it to the judgement of the Reader.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre les rouges Sectes se banderont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, eau, fer, corde, par paix se minera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au point mourir ceux qui machineront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fors un que monde sur tout ruinera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the red, Sects shall gather themselves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, water, iron, rope, by peace it shall de destroyed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those that shall conspire shall not be put to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except one, who above all shall undo the World.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The name of <i>red Sects</i>, may very well be applied to the Protestants of <i>France</i>, against -whom in those days it seemed that fire, Water, Iron and Rope had conspired, -for they were put to death by each one of those fatal instruments for their Religion -sake. This is a lively expression of the unhappy Massacre of the Protestants in <i>France</i> -upon St. <i>Bartholomews</i> day 1572.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_382"></a>[382]</span></p> - -<p>The two last Verses signifie, that all the Contrivers of that Councel, were of -opinion at first to proceed some other way, but only the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, who was the -principal actor in it, and whom our Author saith, did undo the world; for he was -the cause of mischief, not only then but ofterwards.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La paix sapproche d’un cosié & la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oncques ne fut la poursuite fi grande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plaindre homme & femmene sang Innocent par Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et ce sera de <i>France</i> a toute bande.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace is coming on one side and War on the other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was never so great a pursuing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Man, Woman shall bemoan, Innocent blood shall be spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be in <i>France</i> on all sides.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled in the Reign of <i>Charles</i> the IX. in the year 1558. -when the peace was treated of, and concluded the year after 1559. the War on the -other side begun to appear by the raising of the Protestants, who begun publickly -their opinion in the time of <i>Francis</i> the II. and <i>Charles</i> the IX.</p> - -<p>There was never seen such a prosecution of War and of Peace together; for -there was never an estate more embroiled in Wars than that of <i>Charles</i> the IX. was, -nor where Peace was more sought after; for there was nothing but Wars and treaties -of Peace, Men and Women did complain on all sides, for the wrong and dammages -they received from both parties, the Protestants believing to do God a good -service in destroying Images, and killing Priests and Monks. And the Papists -on the other side thinking to make a sweet Sacrifice unto God, in practising the same -cruelties upon the Protestants, and so in all corners of <i>France</i> every one did set himself -to do evil.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Neron</i> jeune dans les trois Cheminées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera de Pages vifs pour ardoir ietter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heureux qui loin sera de tels menées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois de son sang le feront mort guetter.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The young <i>Nero</i> in the three Chimneys.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause Pages to be thrown to be burnt alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Happy shall he be who shall be far from this doing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three of his own blood shall cause him to be put to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A young Tyrant called here <i>Nero</i>, shall cause some Pages to be burnt alive in -three Chimneys, and afterwards himself shall be put to death by three of his own -blood, this fact savoureth so much of bestial cruelty, that I cannot belive any Christian -Prince can ever be guilty of it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_383"></a>[383]</span></p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Arrivera au port de <i>Corsibonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Ravenne</i>, qui pillera la Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Mer profonde legat de <i>Ulisbone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs Roc cachez raviront septante ames.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall come into the Port of <i>Corsibonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Ravenna</i>, those that shall plunder the Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the deep Sea shall be the Embassador of <i>Lisbonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The hidden under the Rock, shall carry away seventy Souls.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Port of <i>Corsibonne</i>, must of necessity be that of <i>Ancona</i>; first because there is -no Port of the former name near the City of <i>Ravenna</i>. Secondly, because <i>Ancona</i> -is near <i>Ravenna</i>.</p> - -<p>By the Lady is meant the Chappel or Church of our Lady of <i>Loretto</i>, which is -threatned here to be plundred by some <i>Turks</i> or Pyrates, inticed thereunto by the -manifold riches that are said to be therein.</p> - -<p>The third Verse speaketh of a <i>Portugues</i> Embassador, who it seemeth shall be -drowned or buried in the main Sea.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse giveth warning of some Robbers and Pyrates, very like to be -<i>Turks</i>, who being in Ambuscado, and shrouded among the Rocks by the Sea side, shall -carry away seventy Souls.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Horrible guerre qu’en Occident s’appreste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An ensuivant viendra la Pestilence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si fort terrible, que jeune, viel, ne beste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang, feu, <i>Mercu.</i> <i>Mars</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> en <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An horrid War is a preparing in the West,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The next year shall come the Plague,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So strangly terrible, that neither young nor old, nor beast shall escape</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, fire, <i>Mercu.</i> <i>Mars</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> in <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That word <i>a preparing</i> in the first Verse, signifieth that he speaketh of a time, -wherein War was a making ready, when he was a writing.</p> - -<p>The <i>West</i>, of which our Author speaketh, is not formerly the West which is <i>Spain</i>, -but is the West respectively to his Countrey of <i>Provence</i>, which is <i>Picardy</i>, <i>Lorrain</i>, -and the Countrey of <i>Mets</i>, in all these Places that are Westerly from <i>Provence</i>, there -was great Wars in the year 1557 in <i>Picardy</i> in the year 1558. at <i>Calais</i> and <i>Thionville</i>, -and at last from the middle of that year to the end of it, were seen two great Armies -of both Kings, which threatned a horrid slaughter, had not God Almighty provided -against it by the treaty of Peace of the <i>3d.</i> of <i>April</i> 1559 the year following, -which was 1559. there did happen what he foretelleth, <i>viz.</i>, the Plague so strangely -terrible to Young, Old, and Beasts <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_384"></a>[384]</span></p> - -<p>And in those quarters there was nothing but Fire and Blood; that is, Massacres -and ruines of all sorts, then did Rule in <i>France</i>, the three Planets of <i>Jupiter</i>, <i>Mars</i> -and <i>Mercury</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> and <i>Mercury</i>, for the peace that was then concluded, and <i>Mars</i> -for the War that was then on foot.</p> - -<p>The History of <i>Provence</i> mentioneth, that that Pestilence was called by the Physitians, -<i>Febris erratica</i>, by which within the space of five or six Months, died almost -an infinite number of people.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Camp prés de <i>Noudam</i> pasiera <i>Goussanville</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a <i>Maiotes</i> laissera son enseigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Convertira en instant plus de mille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherchant le deux remettre en chaine & legne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Camp shall by <i>Noudam</i> go beyond <i>Goussanville</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall leave its Ensign at <i>Maiotes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall in an instant convert above a thousand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeking to put the two parties in good understanding together.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These three words of <i>Noudam</i>, <i>Goussanville</i>, and <i>Maiotes</i> are three little inconsiderable -Countrey Towns, situated near one another; the meaning then of it is, that -an Army near <i>Noudam</i>, shall go through <i>Goussanville</i>, and shall in an instant convert, -that is, draw to his party above a thousand of the contrary party, the business being -about the procuring of a good understanding and amity between two great ones.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lieu de <i>Drux</i> un Roy reposera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et cherchera Loy changeant d’Anatheme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pendant le Ciel si tresfort Tonnera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Portée neufve Roy tuera soy mesme.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place of <i>Drux</i> a King shall rest himself,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall seek Law changing Anatheme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the mean while the Heaven shall Thunder so strongly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That a new gate shall kill the King him self.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Drux</i> is a City in <i>Normandy</i>, near which <i>Henry</i> the IV. got a memorable victory.</p> - -<p>It is said that in that place a King shall rest himself, and shall endeavour to change -Religion, but at that time it shall Thunder and Lighten so much, that by the fall of a -new gate, the King himself shall be killed.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_385"></a>[385]</span></p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au costé gauche a lendroit de <i>Vitry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront guettez les trois rouges de <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous assommez rouge, noir non meurdry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Bretons</i> remis en asseurance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">On the left hand over against <i>Vitry</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The three red ones of <i>France</i> shall be watched for,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the red shall be knockt dead, the black not murdered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the <i>Britains</i> set up again in security.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What is meant here by the three red ones of <i>France</i> is hard to decide, whether -they be Cardinals or Judges; because both wear commonly Scarlet Gowns, or some -Noblemen cloathed in Scarlet, but it seemeth by this that there shall be a lying in -wait for four men, three of which shall be cloathed in Red, and one in Black, those -in Red shall be knockt down dead, but he in Black shall not, and this is to be done -on the left hand, over against <i>Vitry</i>, which is a City in <i>Champagne</i>.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A la <i>Ferté</i> prendra la <i>Vidame</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nicol</i> tenu rouge quavoit produit la vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand <i>Loyse</i> naistra qui fera clame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Donnant <i>Bourgongne</i> a <i>Bretons</i> par envie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the <i>Ferté</i> the <i>Vidame</i> shall take</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nicol</i>, reputed red, whom life hath produced,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Lewis</i> shall be born, who shall lay claim,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Giving <i>Burgundy</i> to the <i>Britains</i>, through envy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza wanting both quantity in the Cadence of the Verse, and Connexion -in the sense, sheweth that it is either falsly printed, or else the Author had no -mind it should be understood; we shall only say, the <i>Ferté</i> is a Town in <i>Champagne</i>. -<i>Vidame</i> is a Lords Title in <i>France</i>, of which there are but four of that sort, and are -called in Civil Law <i>Vicedominus</i>, who by his first Institution, was temporal Judge of -the Bishop; the first of those <i>Vidames</i> or <i>Vicedomini</i> in <i>France</i>, is that of <i>Amiens</i>, -the second of <i>Chartres</i>, the third of <i>Rhemes</i>, and the fourth of <i>Gerberon</i>.</p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflict <i>Barbare</i> en la Cornere noire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang espandu trembler la <i>Dalmatie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand <i>Ismael</i> mettra son promontoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ranes trembler, secours <i>Lusitanie</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_386"></a>[386]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Barbarian</i> fight in the black Corner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood shall be spilt, <i>Dalmatia</i> shall tremble for fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great <i>Ismael</i> shall set up his promontory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Frogs shall tremble, <i>Portugal</i> shall bring succour.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie foretelleth divers accidents in several places, without determination -of any precise time; as for example, I understand by that <i>Barbarian conflict, near -the black Corner</i>, to be some famous Battle among the Infidels themselves, some where -about the Black Sea; then he saith, <i>that abundance of Blood shall be spilt, and <span class="antiqua">Dalmatia</span> -shall tremble</i>, which is a Province belonging to the <i>Venetians</i>, and bordering upon -<i>Græcia</i>; by great <i>Ismael</i> he understandeth the great Sophy of <i>Persia</i>, whose name -hath been often so. By the Frogs it is not easie to know whether he meaneth -<i>France</i> or <i>Spain</i>, for both abound in that kind of Insects.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La pille faite a la Coste Marine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Incita nova</i> & parens amenez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs de <i>Malthe</i> par le fait de <i>Messine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Estroit serrez seront mal guerdonnez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The plunder made upon the Sea Coast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Incita nova</i> and friends brought up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many of <i>Maltha</i>, for the fact of <i>Messina</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being close kept, shall be ill rewarded.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth that this Plunder made upon the Sea Coast, shall be about <i>Messina</i>, by -the <i>Maltheses</i>, who afterwards shall rue for it, being taken Prisoners, and severely -punished.</p> - -<p>As for the expression <i>Incita nova</i>, it is a barbarous derivation of the Latine, to signifie -the stirring of new troubles.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand de <i>Cheramonagora</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront croisez par rangs tous attachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Pertinax Oppi</i>, & <i>Mandragora</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Raugon</i> d’<i>Octobre</i> le tiers seront laschez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To the great one of <i>Cheramonagora</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be crossed by Ranges, all tyed up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">the <i>Pertinax Oppi</i>, and <i>Mandragora</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Raugon</i> the third of <i>October</i> shall be set loose.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_387"></a>[387]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The word <i>Cheramonagora</i>, is either altogether barbarous and insignificant, or must -be derived from these three Greek words, χεὶρ, <i>manus</i>, μόνος, <i>folus</i>, and ἄγω, <i>duco</i>, -and so it may signifie one than leadeth along by the hand, in which sense may be understood -the King of <i>France</i>, who alone leadeth his people by the hand, without any -help of Councel.</p> - -<p>The second Verse signifieth the Oppositions he shall meet with among his -Neighbours, combined together to hinder him.</p> - -<p>By <i>Oppi</i>, he meaneth here <i>Opium</i>, the Juice of Poppies, which he calleth here -<i>Pertinax</i>; because of its pertinacious quality in procuring sleep, as also <i>Mandragora</i>.</p> - -<p>By <i>Raugon</i>, he meaneth some other soporiferous Herb; so that it seemeth -that those three things shall be given upon the third of <i>October</i> to some body, it -seemeth to that <i>Cheramonagora</i>, by whom some understand the King of <i>France</i>, others -<i>Oliver</i> the last usurpator.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plaintes, & pleurs, cris, & grands hurlemens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Narbonne</i>, a <i>Bayonne</i> & en <i>Foix</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O quels horribles, calamitez, changemens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant que <i>Mars</i> revolu quelquefois.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Complaints and tears, cries, and great howlings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Narbonne</i>, <i>Bayonne</i> and in <i>Foix</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O what horrid calamities and changes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before <i>Mars</i> hath made sometimes his revolution.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Narbonne</i>, <i>Bayonne</i>, and <i>Foix</i> are Towns of <i>Languedoc</i>, a Province in <i>France</i>; the -rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Æmathian</i> passer Monts <i>Pyrenées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Mars Narbon</i> ne fera resistance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre sera si grand menée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cap. n’ayant Terre seure pour demeurance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Æmathian</i> shall pass by the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>March Narbon</i> shall make no resistance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea and Land he shall make so much ado,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cap. shall not have safe ground to live in.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Æmathian</i> properly should be the <i>Macedonian</i>, but by it is understood here -the <i>Spaniard</i>, whose Countrey is on one side fenced by the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains; the -rest is plain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_388"></a>[388]</span></p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le coing de <i>Luna</i> viendra rendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou sera prins & mis en Terre estrange,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les fruits immeurs seront a grand esclandre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand vitupere, a l’un grande loüange.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall come into the corner of <i>Luna</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where he shall be taken and put in a strange Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The green fruits shall be in great disorder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great shame, to one shall be great praise.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza hath relation and connexion to the precedent, and by it ought to be -understood, that the said <i>Æmathian</i> or <i>Spaniard</i> shall come as far as the corner of -<i>Luna</i>, wherein he shall be taken and sent into a strange Countrey, at which time the -green Fruits and Grass shall be much damaged, for which one of the parties shall receive -great shame, and the other great praise. But what he meaneth by the Corner -of <i>Luna</i>, I must leave the judgement of it to the Reader, for I do ingeniously confess -that I neither know City nor Countrey of that name.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Paix, union, sera & changement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Estats, Offices, bas hault, & hault bien bas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dresser voiages, le fruit premier, torment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Guerre cesser, civils proces, debats.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace, union, shall be, and mutation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">States, and Offices, low high, and high low,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A journey shall be prepared for, the first fruit, pains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">War shall cease, as also, civil suits, and strifes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is easie to be understood, many interpret it of the downfall of <i>Rome</i>, at which -time all quarrels both of Religion and States would be laid aside, if the world were -all of one mind.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du haut des Monts a lentour de <i>Dizere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Port a la Roche <i>Valent</i>, cent assemblez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Chasteau-Neuf</i>, <i>Pierrelate</i>, en <i>Douzere</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre le <i>Crest</i>, <i>Romans</i> soy assemblez.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_389"></a>[389]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the top of the Mountains about <i>Dizere</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gate at the Rock <i>Valence</i>, a hundred gathered together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Chasteau-Neuf</i>, <i>Pierrelate</i>, in <i>Douzere</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the <i>Crest</i>, <i>Romans</i>, shall be gathered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a peculiar Prophecy for the Provinces of <i>Dauphiné</i> and <i>Languedoc</i>, in which -all the Towns and Rivers here mentioned are situated.</p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Mont <i>Aymar</i> sera noble obscurcie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le mal viendra au joint de <i>Saone</i> & <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans bois cachez Soldats jour de <i>Lucie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui ne fut onc un si horrible Throsne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From Mount <i>Aymar</i> shall proceed a Noble obscurity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The evil shall come to the joyning of the <i>Saone</i> and <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soldiers shall be hid in the Wood on St. <i>Lucy</i>’s day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that there was never such an horrid Throne.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is a notable fault in the impression of the first Verse of this Stanza, for -instead of Mount <i>Aymar</i>, it must be <i>Montlimar</i>, which is a Town in <i>Provence</i> or -<i>Languedoc</i>, situated by the River <i>Rhosne</i>, the sense therefore of this, is, that from <i>Montlimar</i> -shall proceed some notable and obscure design, and that shall reach as far as -<i>Lyons</i>, which is the City where the <i>Saone</i> and <i>Rhosne</i> meet, and that for that purpose, -there shall be hidden a great many Souldiers in a Wood on St. <i>Lucy</i>’s day, which -is the <i>13th.</i> of <i>December</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur le Mont de <i>Bailly</i> & la <i>Bresse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront cachez de <i>Grenoble</i> les fiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outre <i>Lyon</i>, <i>Vien.</i> cula si grand gresle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Langoult en Terre n’en cessara un tiers.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Mount of <i>Bailly</i>, and the Countrey of <i>Bresse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be hidden the fierce ones of <i>Grenoble</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond <i>Lyons</i>, <i>Vienna</i>, upon them shall fall such a hail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That languishing upon the ground, the third part shall not be left.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Mount <i>Bailly</i>, and the Countrey of <i>Bressia</i>, are by <i>Savoy</i>, in which place (our -Author saith) the fierce ones; that is, the stout men of <i>Grenoble</i>, the chief Town of -<i>Dauphiné</i>, shall be hidden, and that such a Hail shall fall upon them, as not one third -part shall be left.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_390"></a>[390]</span></p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Harnois trenchans dans les flambeaux cachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans <i>Lyon</i> le jour du Sacrement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ceux de <i>Vienne</i> seront tretous hachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les <i>Cantons</i> Latins, <i>Mascon</i> eront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sharp Weapons shall be hidden in burning Torches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Lyons</i> the day of the Sacrament,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those of <i>Vienna</i> shall be all cut to pieces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Latin <i>Cantons</i>, after the example of <i>Mascon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth a notable Treason that shall be acted at <i>Lyons</i>, upon the Sacraments -day, otherwise called <i>Corpus Christi</i> day, upon which the <i>Roman</i> Catholicks -are wont to make a Procession with the Sacrament about the Town, with abundance -of burning Torches, of fearful bigness, insomuch that some (as at <i>Angeirs</i>) require -20 or 24 men to carry them, in those Torches (our Author saith) shall Weapons -be hidden, by means of which the fact shall be committed. The rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lieux Sacrés, animaux veus a <i>Trixe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avec celuy qui nosera le jour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Carcassonne</i> pour disgrace propice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera posé pour plus ample sejonr.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Sacred places, Animals shall be seen at <i>Trixe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With him that shall not dare in the day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Carcassonne</i> for a favourable disgrace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be set to make a longer stay.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Whether the Author did understand himself here I know not, I am sure I do not; -<i>Carcassonne</i> is a City of <i>Languedoc</i>, and <i>Trixe</i> is a barbarous word.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Encor seront les Saints Temples pollus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et expilez par Senat <i>Tholosain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> deux trois Siecles revolus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans <i>Auril</i>, <i>May</i>, gens de nouveau Levain.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_391"></a>[391]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Once more shall the Holy Temples be polluted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And depredated by the Senate of <i>Thoulouze</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> two three Ages finished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>April</i>, <i>May</i>, people of a new Leaven.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is, when the Planet <i>Saturn</i> hath finished twice three Ages; that is, 600 -years from the time that this Prophecy was written, then the Senates of <i>Thoulouze</i>, -being men of a new Leaven (meaning being Protestants) shall cause the <i>Romish</i> -Churches to be polluted and depredated in the Months of <i>April</i> and <i>May</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans <i>Foix</i> entrez Roy Cerulée Turban,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et regnera moins evolu <i>Saturne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy Turban Blanc, <i>Bizance</i> cœur ban,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Mercure</i>, pres la Hurne.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Foix</i> shall come a King with a Blew Turbant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall Reign before <i>Saturn</i> is revolved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then a King with a White Turbant shall make <i>Bizance</i> to quake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Sol</i>, <i>Mars</i>, <i>Mercury</i>, being near the top of the Mast.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Foix</i> is a Countrey of <i>France</i>, near <i>Gascony</i>, where the Author saith, a King with -a Blew Turbant shall come, and shall govern less then an Age, that is 100 years, -after which another King with a White Turbant shall come, and shall Conquer <i>Bizance</i> -(which in Latine is <i>Constantinople</i>) the Blew or Green Turbant is attributed -to the great <i>Turk</i>, and the White one to the King of <i>France</i>, by whom the <i>Turks</i> -have a Prophecie, their Monarchy shall be subverted.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans la Cité de <i>Fertsod</i> homicide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fait & fait multe Bœuf arant ne macter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Retour encore aux honneurs d’<i>Artemide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a <i>Vulcan</i> corps morts sepulturer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the City of <i>Fertsod</i> one murdered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Causeth a Fine to be laid for killing a plowing Oxe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a return of the honours due to <i>Artemide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And <i>Vulcan</i> shall bury dead bodies.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What is that City of <i>Fertsod</i>, is hard to guess, there being none of this name in -<i>Europe</i> that I know. The rest of the words are plain, though the sense be abstruce -enough, therefore we shall leave them to the liberty of the Reader.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_392"></a>[392]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’<i>Ambraxie</i> & du pais de <i>Thrace</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple par Mer, Mal, & secours <i>Gaulois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perpetuelle en <i>Provence</i> la Trace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avec vestiges de leur Coustumes & Loix.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Ambraxia</i>, and from the Countrey of <i>Thracia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People by Sea, Evil, and <i>French</i> succours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Trace of it shall be perpetual in <i>Provence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The footsteps of their Customs and Laws remaining.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What Countrey this <i>Ambraxia</i> should be, is yet unknown, for my part I take it -to be a forged word, as for <i>Thracia</i> it is a Countrey between <i>Hungary</i> and <i>Greece</i>.</p> - -<p>Observe here that Evil is not an Epithete, to either People or Sea, but a word -of admiration by it self, as <i>malum</i> in Latine, which is called <i>vox admirantis</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Avec le noir <i>Rapax</i> & sanguinaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yssu du peaultre de l’inhumain <i>Neron</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Emmy deux Fleuves main gauche Militaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera meurtry par <i>Joyn Chaulveron</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">With the Black and bloody <i>Rapax</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Descended from the paultry of the inhumane <i>Nero</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Between two Rivers, on the left Military hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be murdered by <i>Joyne Caulveron</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie portendeth the death of a black, bloody, and ravenous man (which -in Latine is <i>Rapax</i>) who shall be murdered between two Rivers, by one whose proper -name shall be <i>Joyne Chaulveron</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne prins le Roy conviera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Dame prinse a mort jurez a sort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La vie a Royne Fils on desniera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la pellix au fort de la consort.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_393"></a>[393]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingdom being taken, the King shall invite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Lady taken to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Life shall be denyed unto the Queens Son,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Pellix shall be at the height of the Consort.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">You must observe, that there is a word false printed, which is <i>Pellix</i>, instead of -which should be <i>Pellex</i>, which in Latine signifieth a Whore or Concubine.</p> - -<p>The sense therefore of this is, that a certain King having taken another Kingdom, -shall put the Queen of it to death, as also her own Son, after which, he shall make -his Concubine Queen.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Dame <i>Grecque</i> de Beauté laydique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heureuse faite de proces innumerable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hors translatée au Regne <i>Hispanique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captive prinse mourir mort miserable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Græcian</i> Lady of exquisite Beauty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made happy from innumerable quarrels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being translated into the <i>Spanish</i> Kingdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be made a Prisoner, and die a miserable death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is concerning the Lady <i>Elizabeth</i> of <i>France</i>, Daughter to <i>Henry</i> the II. -and Sister to <i>Charles</i> the IX. who being promised first to <i>Don Carlo Infante</i> of <i>Spain</i>, -was afterwards Married to his Father <i>Philip</i> the II. at which the young man being -vexed and discontented, began to raise combustions in the State, for which, and his -too much familiarity with his Mother in Law, he was strangled by his Fathers command, -and she poisoned.</p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef de Classe par fraude, stratageme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera timides sortir de leurs Galeres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sortis meurdris chef renieux de Cresme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis par l’Embusche luy rendront les salaires.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Commander of a Fleet by fraud and stratagem,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause the fearful ones to come forth of their Galleys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come out murdered, chief renouncer of Baptism,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that by an Ambuscado they’l give him again his salary.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_394"></a>[394]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are plain, the third signifieth, that these fearful ones being -come out of their Galleys, part of them shall be murdered, and among them the -Captain, a renouncer of his Baptism, or Renegado, and the rest afterwards by an Ambuscado, -shall requite in the same Coin those that had used them so.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Duc voudra les siens exterminer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Envoyera les plus forts, lieux estranges,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par tyrannie <i>Bize</i> & <i>Luc</i> ruiner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis les <i>Barbares</i> sans Vin feront Vendanges.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke shall endeavour to exterminate his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall send away the strongest of them into remote places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall also ruinate <i>Bize</i> and <i>Luc</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Barbarians</i> shall make Vintage without Wine.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is a great fault in the impression of the <i>French</i> Copy in this Stanza, which -maketh the sense altogether inexplicable, it must then in stead of <i>Bize</i> and <i>Luc</i>, be -written <i>Pise</i> and <i>Lucques</i>, which are two Towns in <i>Italy</i>, near the Duke of <i>Florence</i>’s -Dominions; one of these Towns, <i>viz.</i> <i>Pisa</i> he hath taken already, and from a Common-Wealth -made it subject to himself; the other though several times attempted -by him, hath preserved its liberty to this day. The last Verse signifieth, that after -this is come to pass, the <i>Barbarians</i>, that is, the <i>Florentins shall make Vintage without -Wine</i>; that is, shall plunder and spoil at their pleasure.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">LeRoy rusé entendra ses Embusches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De trois quartiers Ennemis assaillir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un nombre estrange Larmes de coqueluches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra <i>Lamprin</i> du traducteur faillir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The crafty King shall hear of his Ambuscadoes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall assail his Enemies on three sides,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A strange number of Friers, mens Tears,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause <i>Lamprin</i> to desert the Traitor.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The only difficulty here is to know who that <i>Lamprin</i> should be, who shall be diverted -from following a Traitor (which he meaneth here by the <i>French</i> word <i>Traducteur</i>) -and shall be diverted from it by the Tears of Fryers, which are meant here -by the ancient <i>French</i> word <i>Coqueluches</i>, which signifieth a Fryers Cool or Capuchon.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_395"></a>[395]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le Deluge & pestilence forte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Cité grande de long temps Assiegée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Sentinelle & Garde de main morte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subite prinse mais de nul outragée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City having been long Besieged,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By an Innundation and violent Plague,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sentinal and Watch being surprised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be taken on a sudden, but hurt by no body.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is very plain, if by the great City you understand <i>Paris</i>, who is subject to frequent -Innundations and Plagues.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sol Vingt de <i>Taurus</i>, si fort terre tremblera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Theatre remply ruinera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Air, Ciel, & Terre, obscurcir & troubler,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors l’Infidele Dieu, & Saints voguera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun being in the <i>20th</i> of <i>Taurus</i>, the Earth shall so quake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That it shall fill and ruinate the great Theater</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Air, the Heaven, & the Earth shall be so darkened, and troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the unbelievers shall call upon God, and his Saints.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This famous Earth-quake having not yet happened in <i>Europe</i>, it is like to happen -within few years, for our Authors Prophecies (by his own confession) do not extend -further than the year 1700.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy exposé parfaira l’Hecatombe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres avoir trouve son Origine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Torrent ouvrir de Marbre & Plomb la Tombe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un grand <i>Romain</i> d’Enseigne <i>Medusin</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The King exposed shall fulfill the Hecatombe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After he hath found out his Offspring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Torrent shall open the Sepulcher, made of Marble and Lead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a great <i>Roman</i>, with a <i>Medusean</i> Ensign.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_396"></a>[396]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is divided into two parts, The first two Verses are concerning -a King, who shall perform the Funeral Rites and Ceremonies to his Parents, when -he is come to the knowledge of them, having been exposed for lost before.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses are concerning an ancient Sepulcher of a <i>Roman</i>, that shall -be digged up and found out by a Torrent, and the Arms of the said <i>Roman</i> shall be -something like the head of <i>Medusa</i>, whose Hairs were Serpents, and was so fearful to -behold, that by seeing of it, the beholders were turned into stones.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Passer <i>Guenne</i>, <i>Languedoc</i>, & le <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’<i>Agen</i> tenants, de <i>Marmande</i> & la <i>Reole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’Ouvrir par foy parroy, <i>Phocen</i> tiendra son Throne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conflict aupres Saint <i>Pol</i> de <i>Manseole</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall pass over <i>Gascony</i>, <i>Languedoc</i>, and the <i>Rhosne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Agen</i> keeping <i>Marmande</i>, and the <i>Reole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To open the Wall by Faith, <i>Phocen</i> shall keep his Throne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Battle shall be by St. <i>Paul</i> of <i>Manseole</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The whole of this Prophecie signifieth no more, but that an Army shall pass -through all these places, and that at last there will be a Battle fought by that place, -called St. <i>Paul de Manseole</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Bourg la Reyne</i> parviendront droit a <i>Chartres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et feront pres du <i>Pont Antony</i> pose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept pour la paix cauteleux comme <i>Martres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront entrée d’Armée a <i>Paris</i> clause.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Bourg la Reyne</i> they shall come straight to <i>Chartres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall make a stand near <i>Pont Antony</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven for Peace as crafty as <i>Martres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall enter in <i>Paris</i> besieged with an Army.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bourg la Reyne</i> is a little town within six Miles of <i>Paris</i>, <i>Chartres</i> is the chief City -of the Province <i>Beausse</i>, <i>Pont Antony</i> is a little Town between them both, so that the -sense of the whole is this, that seven men, crafty like <i>Martres</i> (which are those -<i>Russia</i> Foxes that afford the richest Furres, called <i>Martres Zibellines</i>) shall go from -<i>Bourg la Reyne</i> to <i>Chartres</i>, making a little stay at <i>Pont Antony</i>, and then shall come -with an Army into <i>Paris</i>, which shall be besieged at that time, I believe this Prophecy -is come to pass already in the time of the Civil Wars of <i>France</i>; but for want -of the History I could not quote the time.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_397"></a>[397]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par la Forest du <i>Touphon</i> essartée</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Hermitage sera posé le Temple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Duc d’<i>Estampes</i> par sa ruse inventée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du <i>Montlehery</i> Prelat donra exemple.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Forrest <i>Touphon</i> cut off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the Hermitage shall the Temple be set,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke of <i>Estampes</i> by his invented trick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall give example to the Prelat of <i>Montlehery</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is a fault in the Impression, for instead of <i>Touphon</i>, it must be written <i>Torfou</i>, -which is a Forrest some 30 Miles from <i>Paris</i> towards <i>Beausse</i>, near which is seated the -Town of <i>Montlehery</i>, in the said Forrest is seated an Hermitage, and not far from -thence the City of <i>Estampes</i>, which carryeth the Title of Dutchy; so that the sense -of it is this, that this Forrest being cut off (as it is now for the most part) in the place -where that Hermitage was, shall be built a Church or Convent, as it is now <i>Cælestins -friars</i>, called <i>Marcoussy</i>, and that the said Hermitage shall be taken from the jurisdiction -of the Town of <i>Montlehery</i>, under which it was before.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Calais</i>, <i>Arras</i>, secours a <i>Theroanne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paix & semblant simulera l’escoute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soulde d’<i>Allobrox</i> descendra par <i>Roane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Destornay peuple qui defera la routte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Calais</i>, <i>Arras</i>, shall give succours to <i>Theroanne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace or the like, shall dissemble the hearing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souldiers of <i>Allobrox</i> shall descend by <i>Roane</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People perswaded, shall spoil the March.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy did happen in the time of <i>Henry</i> the II. King of <i>France</i>, about the -year 1559.</p> - -<p>The last Verse saith, that those two Towns <i>Calais</i> and <i>Arras</i> gave succours to -<i>Theroanne</i>, that is to the Countrey where <i>Therouenne</i> was seated, which was destroyed -by <i>Charles</i> the V. Emperour. This Countrey was called <i>Ponthieu</i>, of which <i>Therouenne</i> -was the chief Town.</p> - -<p>The second Verse doth determine the time whereabout this came to pass, when -he saith, <i>peace or the like shall dissemble the hearing</i>; because in the year 1556. in the -beginning of <i>February</i> there was a Truce for five years between the two Crowns of -<i>France</i> and <i>Spain</i>, concerning the Low Countreys, and this Truce signified not much, -nor was well cemented, so that the Author saith, <i>Peace or the like shall dissemble the -hearing</i>; that is, shall fain not to hear that the Cardinal <i>Caraffa</i> did endeavour in -<i>France</i> to have the Truce broken.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_398"></a>[398]</span></p> - -<p>The third Verse is obscure, because of a fault in the Impression, wherein they -have put <i>Ronane</i> instead of <i>Noanne</i>, that is <i>Hannone</i> by transposition of letters, but -that being corrected, the Verse is clear, supposing that <i>Philibertus Emanuel</i> Duke of -<i>Savoy</i> was General of the Army, against <i>France</i> in the <i>Low-Countreis</i>, and wandering -about to do some notable exploit, he came down through the Province of <i>Hainault</i>, -called in Latine <i>Hannonia</i>, and came to <i>Mariembourg</i>, as if he would have Besieged -it, but after some light skirmishes he laid Siege to <i>Rocroy</i>, and this is the meaning of -the third Verse, when he saith, <i>Souldiers of <span class="antiqua">Allobrox</span> shall descend by <span class="antiqua">Noanne</span></i>, that is, -Souldiers in the Army of the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, which in Latine is <i>Allobrox</i>, came down -to <i>Mariembourg</i>, and turned back again to <i>Rocroy</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth Verse mentioneth what did happen at the Siege of <i>Rocroy</i>; that place -being not yet very well fortified; the King was unwilling to put any of his best Souldiers -therein, but the Duke of <i>Nevers</i> undertook the defence of it, which he did -really and gloriously perform, in so much, that the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> was compelled to -raise up the Siege, and going back towards St. <i>Quentin</i>, he took <i>Vervins</i> by storm, -and gave the booty of it to his Souldiers, who took heart upon it, having been much -discouraged before by the resistance of the Duke of <i>Nevers</i>. This is the sense of the -fourth Verse, <i>People persuaded shall spoil the march</i>; that is, the people of <i>Rocroy</i> persuaded -to hold out by the courage and presence of the Duke of <i>Nevers</i>, spoiled the -march that the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> had propounded to himself, insomuch, that raising -the Siege he went to <i>Vervins</i>, and from thence to St. <i>Quentin</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept ans <i>Philip</i> fortune prospere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rabaissera des <i>Barbares</i> l’effort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis son midy perplex rebours affaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jeune <i>Ogmion</i> abysmera son fort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Philip</i> shall have seven years of prosperous fortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall beat down the attempt of the <i>Barbarians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then in his Noon he shall be perplexed and have untoward business,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Young <i>Ogmion</i> shall pull down his strength.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza was made concerning <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>, who for the first -seven years that he came to his Crown, had prosperous fortune, did brave exploits -against the <i>Barbarians</i>, and chiefly in the person of his Brother <i>Don Juan</i> of <i>Austria</i>, -who got the memorable Battle of <i>Lapantho</i> against the <i>Turks</i>, but in the middle of -<i>his Noon</i>, that is of his Age, fell into great perplexities and cross businesses, being -constrained to put his onely son <i>Don Carla</i> to death, and to poison his wife and after -that never prospered, when young <i>Ogmion</i> (that is <i>Henry</i> IV. King of <i>France</i>) came -to the Crown.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Capitaine de la grand <i>Germanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se viendra rendre par simulé secours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Roy des Roys, aide de <i>Pannonie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que sa revoke fera de sang grand cours.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_399"></a>[399]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Captain of the great <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to yield himself with a fained help,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unto the King of Kings, help of <i>Hungary</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that his revolt shall cause a great bloodshed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Pannonia</i> in Latine is <i>Hungary</i>, there is nothing hard in this, unless it be what he -meaneth by the King of Kings, whether it be the great Turk or the Emperour.</p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Horrible peste <i>Perynthe</i> & <i>Nicopole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Chersonese</i> tiendra & <i>Marceloine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La <i>Thessalie</i> naistera l’<i>Amphipole</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mal incogneu & le refus d’<i>Antoine</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The horrid pestilence shall seize upon <i>Perynthe</i> and <i>Nicopolis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Chersonese</i> and <i>Marceloine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall waste <i>Thessalia</i> and <i>Amphipolis</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An unknown evil and the refusal of <i>Antony</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is several faults in the impression here, for instead of <i>Perynthe</i>, it must be -<i>Corinth</i>. For <i>Marceloine</i>, it must be <i>Macedoine</i>: the substance of the whole is, that -there shall be a great plague in all these Countries of <i>Asia</i>. The refusal of <i>Antony</i> is -foisted here to make up the rime with <i>Macedony</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy voudra dans Cité neufve entrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ennemis expugner l’on viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captif libere, faulx dire & perpetrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy dehors estre, loin d’ennemis tiendra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The King shall desire to enter into the new City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With foes they shall come to overcome it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Prisoner being free, shall speak and act falsly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King being gotten out, shall keep far from enemies.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of all these words so ill jointed, is no more but that a certain King shall -desire to enter into a new City, and there they shall come and Besiege him, where -he shall both act and speak deceitfully to get his liberty, which having obtained, -shall keep far from his foes.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_400"></a>[400]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les ennemis du Fort bien esloignez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Chariots conduits le Bastion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par sur les Murs de <i>Bourges</i> esgrongnez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Hercules</i> battra l’<i>Hæmathion</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The enemies being a good way from the Fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall upon Wagons be conducted to the Bulwark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the top of <i>Bourges</i> Walls they shall be cut less,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Hercules</i> shall beat the <i>Hæmathion</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Bourges</i> is the chief City of a Province in <i>France</i> called <i>Berry</i>.</p> - -<p>There is nothing difficult in this, but onely what he meaneth by <i>Hercules beating -the Æmathion</i>, unless by <i>Hercules</i> he meaneth the <i>French</i>, and by <i>Æmathion</i> the -<i>Spaniard</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Foibles Galeres seront unis ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ennemis faux, le plus fort en rempart,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Foible assailies <i>Wratislavie</i> tremble;</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lubeck</i> & <i>Mysne</i> tiendront <i>Barbare</i> part.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Weak Galleys shall be united together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">False enemies, the strongest shall be fortified,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weak assaults, and yet <i>Breslaw</i> quaketh for fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lubeck</i> and <i>Misne</i> shall take the part of the <i>Barbarians</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Breslaw</i>, <i>Lubeck</i> and <i>Misne</i>, are three Cities of <i>Germany</i>; the rest is plain.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nouveau fait conduira l’exercite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche apamé jusque aupres du Rivage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tendant secours de <i>Melanoise</i> eslite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Duc yeux privé, a <i>Milan</i> fer de Cage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The new man shall lead up the Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Apamé</i>, till near the Bank,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carrying succours of choice Forces from <i>Milan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke deprived of his eyes, and an Iron Cage at <i>Milan</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_401"></a>[401]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Apamé</i> is a barbarous word, at least I cannot tell what language it is, the rest is -plain enough, and signifieth that a Duke shall be deprived of his eyes, and shall be put -in an Iron Cage at <i>Milan</i>.</p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans Cité entrer exercite desniée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Duc entrera par persuasion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux foibles portes clam Armée amenée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettront feu, mort, de sang effusion.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Army being denied the entrance of the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Duke shall enter by persuasion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the weak Gates, <i>clam</i> the Army being brought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall put all to fire and sword.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Clam</i> here is in Latine <i>præposition</i>, signifying secretly; the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De Mer Copies en trois parts divisées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A la seconde les Vivres failliront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Desesperez cherchant Champs <i>Elisées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Premiers en breche entrez victoire auront.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Fleet being divided into three parts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The victuals will fail the second part,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being in despaire they’l seek the <i>Elysian</i> Fields,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And entring the breach first, shall obtain victory.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Fleet being divided into three parts, the second division shall fall into want of -victuals, for which being desperate, they shall attempt the Town of the enemy, and -shall enter it by the breach, and get the victory.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les affligez par faute d’un seul taint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contremenant a partie opposite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux <i>Lygonois</i> mandera que contraint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront de rendre le grand chef de <i>Molite</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The afflicted want of one only died,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carrying against the opposite part,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall send word to those of <i>Lyon</i>, they shall be compelled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To surrender the great chief of <i>Molite</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_402"></a>[402]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is the most nonsensical thing that is in all the Book, for neither the words nor -the connexion is intelligible, therefore it being so much out of the common road of -our Author, I am apt to believe that it was at first very falsly printed, and that those -that came after, were loth to alter it for the respect of antiquity.</p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vent <i>Aquilon</i> fera partir le Siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par murs jetter cendres, chaulx, & poussiere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par pluye apres qui leur sera bien piege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dernier secours encontre leur Frontiere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The North wind shall cause the Siege to be raised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall throw ashes, lime, and dust,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a rain after that shall be a trap to them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be the last succours against their Frontiere.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here is described a notable stratagem of a Besieged Town, who against rainy -weather cast so much ashes, lime and dust, that the rain coming thereupon, it made -such a mire, as the Besiegers were not able to assault it.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Navale pugne nuict sera superée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le feu, aux Naves a l’Occident ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rubriche neuve, la grand néf colorée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ire a vaincu, & victoire en bruine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In a Sea-fight, night shall be overcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By fire, to the Ships of the West ruine shall happen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A new stratagem, the great Ship coloured,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a Mist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">He foretelleth of a Sea-fight in the night, wherein by the light of the burning -Ships night shall be overcome, the Ships that came from the West shall be worsted, -and by a stratagem of a great Ship painted in colours, anger shall remain to the vanquished, -and the victory shall be got in a Mist.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_403"></a>[403]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> X</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-a.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">A l’Ennemy, l’ennemy foy promise,</div> - <div class="verse">Ne se tiendra, les captifs retenus,</div> - <div class="verse">Prins preme mort & le reste en chemise,</div> - <div class="verse">Donnant le reste pour estre secourus.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">To the enemy, the enemy faith promised,</div> - <div class="verse">Shall not be kept, the prisoners shall be detained,</div> - <div class="verse">The first taken, put to death, and the rest stripped,</div> - <div class="verse">Giving the remnant that they may be succoured.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These words are plain, though the sense be a little intricated, and the contents -being of small concernments, deserve no further explanation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_404"></a>[404]</span></p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Voile Gallere Voile nef Cachera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Classe viendra sortir la moindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dix Naves proches le tourneront poulser,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand vaincüe, unies a soy joindre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Galley and the Ship shall hide their Sails,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Fleet shall make the little one to come out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ten Ships near hand, shall turn and push at it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great being vanquished, they shall unite together.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These are some particularities of a Sea fight between a great Fleet and a small one, -wherein he saith, that some had hid their Sails, belike they were unwilling to come -out of the Harbour and to fight; but he saith, that the great Fleet will compel the -little one to come out; but ten great Ships will come to help the little Fleet, and -after the great one hath been overcome, will joyn themselves to the little Fleet.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En apres cinq troupeau ne mettra hors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un fuitif pour <i>Penelon</i> laschera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faux murmurer secours venir par lors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef le Siege lors abandonnera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After that, five shall not put out his flock,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He’l let loose a runnaway for <i>Penelon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a false rumour, succours shall come then,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Commander shall forsake the Siege.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is either nonsensical or falsely printed, and what he meaneth by <i>Penelon</i>, -is utterly unknown.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sur la minuit conducteur de l’Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se sauvera subit esvanovy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept ans apres la fame non blasmée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son retour ne dira oncq ouy.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">About midnight the leader of the Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall save himself, vanishing suddenly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seven years after his fame shall not be blamed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at his return he shall never say yea.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_405"></a>[405]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain of a General of an Army, who shall forsake his Army, and save himself, -and yet seven years after when he cometh back, his reputation shall be as clear, -as if he never had committed such an errour.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Albi</i> & <i>Castres</i> feront nouvelle ligue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neuf <i>Arriens</i>, <i>Lisbonne</i>, & <i>Portuguez</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carcas.</i> <i>Thoulouze</i>, consumeront leur brigue</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand chef neuf monstre de <i>Lauraguez</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Albi</i> and <i>Castres</i> shall make a new league,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nine <i>Arriens</i>, <i>Lisbonne</i>, and <i>Portuguez</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Carcas.</i> <i>Thoulouse</i>, shall make an end of their confederacy;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the new chief shall come from <i>Lauragais</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Albi</i>, <i>Castres</i>, <i>Carcassonne</i>, and <i>Thoulouse</i>, are Cities of <i>Languedock</i>, which our Author -saith, will enter into a confederacy among themselves, and joyn with <i>Lisbon</i> -and the <i>Portuguez</i>, and this shall happen when the general of the Army, shall be one -born in <i>Lauragais</i>, which is another of the same Province.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gardon</i> a <i>Nismes</i> eaux si haut desborderont,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’on cuidera <i>Deucalion</i> renaistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le <i>Colosse</i> la pluspart fuiront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vesta Sepulchre feu esteint apparoistre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gardon</i> at <i>Nismes</i>, waters shall overflow so high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they’l think that <i>Deucalion</i> is born again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Most of them will run into the <i>Colossus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a Sepulchre, and fire extinguished, shall appear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Near <i>Nismes</i> there is the River called <i>Gardon</i>, which cometh from St. <i>Romans</i>, -and dischargeth it self into the <i>Rhosne</i> at <i>Beaucaire</i>, there is to be seen in that City -abundance of <i>Antiquitez</i>, which the <i>Goths</i> had built 1150. years before; there is also -many <i>Roman</i> Antiquities, as an <i>Amphitheater</i>, so well builded that neither the <i>Goths</i> -nor the <i>Saracens</i>, nor <i>Attila</i>, nor <i>Charles Martel</i>, with all their power, could not utterly -demolish it. The Author nameth it <i>Colossus</i>, because its building appeared like -a <i>Colossus</i> for solidity.</p> - -<p>There is also an ancient Temple which is called the <i>Fountain</i>, builded as a Quadrangle, -and supported by two rows of great Pillars, which at present is a Church -of Nuns.</p> - -<p>This being supposed, the River of <i>Gardon</i> did overflow so much, that its Waters -joyning with that of a Flood that happened there the ninth of <i>September</i> 1557. every -one thought that <i>Deucalion</i> had been born again. The Author saith this; because<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_406"></a>[406]</span> -in the fables of the ancients. <i>Deucalion</i> is thought to be the Author of the Flood -which <i>Ovid</i> mentioneth. During this Flood which was like to overflow the Town, -as well as the Countrey, many did retire themselves into that Amphitheater.</p> - -<p>And in that ancient Temple of the <i>Fountain</i>, the Waters overthrowing a great -many old buildings did discover abundance of Antiquities, and amongst the rest one -of those Lamps that burneth always, in the Sepulchre of a <i>Vestal</i>, which went out -as soon as it felt the fresh Air.</p> - -<p>In confirmation of this, the History of <i>Provence</i> saith, that the storm began about -five of the Clock in the Morning, and lasted till Eight of the Clock at night, and -that these waters did uncover abundance of Antiquities that were hidden 1100. years -before, as Pillars, Portico’s, Medals, Jasper-stones, and serpentine-stones, pieces of -broken Vessels, Epitaphs, lodging Rooms, and Caves, and all other things that -use to be found in the ruines of a Palace.</p> - -<p>There was also heard in the Air Dogs barking, Pillars of fire, Armed men fighting, -and were seen two Suns in the Clouds of the Colour of Blood, all which were the -sad presages of the Civil Wars of <i>France</i> presently after, and chiefly that of <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<p>The ninth Century in the ninth Stanza, speaketh almost the same, and sheweth -that <i>Nismes</i> shall perish by Water.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand conflict qu’on appreste a <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Æmathien</i> dira tout je soubmets,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Isle <i>Britane</i> par Vin Sel en solcy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hem. mi.</i> deux <i>Phi.</i> long temps ne tiendra <i>Mets</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great War is preparing at <i>Nancy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Æmathien</i> shall say I submit to all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>British</i> Island shall be put in care by Salt and Wine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hem. mi.</i> two <i>Phi.</i> shall not keep <i>Mets</i> long.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Nancy</i> is the chief City of <i>Lorrain</i>, and by the <i>Æmathien</i> is understood the <i>French</i>, -the <i>British</i> Isle is <i>England</i>, which is said here, shall come into great distress by Salt and -Wine, because the Countrey aboundeth in those two Commodities. The last -Verse I do not understand, save that <i>Mets</i> is a great City in <i>Lorrain</i>.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Index</i> & <i>Poulse</i> parfondera le front</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Senegalia</i> le Comte a son Fils propre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La <i>Myrnamée</i> par plusieurs de plain front,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trois dans sept jours blessez mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Index</i> and <i>Poulse</i> shall break the forehead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Son of the Earl of <i>Senegalia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Myrnamée</i> by many at a full bout,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Three within seven days shall be wounded to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_407"></a>[407]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Senegalia</i> is a Town in <i>Italy</i>, all what can be gathered out of the obscurity of this -Stanza, is, that the son of the Earl of that Town shall have his forehead broken, and -within seven days after, three more shall be wounded to death.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Castilon figuieres</i> jour de brune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De femme infame naistra Souverain Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Surnum de chausses per hume luy posthume,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onc Roy ne fut si pire en sa Province.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of <i>Castilon figuieres</i> upon a misty day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From an infamous woman shall be born a Soveraign Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His surname shall be from <i>Breeches</i>, himself a posthume,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never a King was worse in his Province.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Castilon figuieres</i> is a petty Town in <i>Provence</i>, in which he saith that a Soveraign -Prince shall be born of an infamous Woman, and shall be a posthume, which in Latine -signifieth one that is born after his Fathers death; he saith also that his name -shall be derived from <i>Breeches</i> and that never a King was worse in his Countrey, -whether by worse, he meaneth in manners or fortune, I know not.</p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tasche de murdre, enormes Adulteres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand ennemy de tout le genre humain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que sera pire qu’ayeulx, Oncles ne Pere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En fer, feu, eau, sanguin & inhumain.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Endeavour of Murder, enormous Adulteries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great enemy of all mankind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall be worse then Grand-father, Uncle, or Father,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Iron, fire, water, bloody and inhumane.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza as well as the next hath relation to the precedent, making mention -what a wicked person shall that Posthume be of which he spoke before.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dessoubs <i>Jonchere</i> du dangereux passage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera passer le posthume sa bande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Monts <i>Pyrens</i> passer hors son bagage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Parpignan</i> courira Duc a <i>Tende</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_408"></a>[408]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Below <i>Joncheres</i> dangerous passage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The posthume shall cause his Army to go over,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And his Baggage to go over the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Duke shalt run from <i>Perpignan</i> to <i>Tende</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is still concerning the same posthume or Bastard, who shall cause his Army -to pass at <i>Jonchere</i>, and his Bagage to go over the <i>Pyrenean</i> Mountains, which parts -<i>Spain</i> from <i>France</i>, and that upon the fear of him a Duke shall run from <i>Perpignan</i>, -which is the chief City of <i>Roussillon</i> to <i>Tende</i>, which is a little Town in <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Esleu en Pape, d’Esleu sera mocqué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Subit soudain, esmeu prompt & timide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par trop bon doux a mourir provoqué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crainte estainte la nuit de sa mort guide.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Elected for a Pope, from Elected shall be baffled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon a sudden, moved quick and fearful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By too much sweetness provooked to die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His fear being out in the night shall be Leader to his death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was fulfilled in the person of the Cardinal <i>Santa Severina</i>, who in -the Conclave of Cardinals after the death of Pope <i>Innocent</i> IX. was Elected Pope, and -presently after was baffled by the same Cardinals, and <i>Clement</i> the VIII. chosen in -his place, for which the other a little while after died for grief.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs la pasture d’animaux ruminans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par eux conduits au ventre <i>Herbi-polique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soldats cachez, les armes bruit menants,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non loin tentez de Cité <i>Antipolique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the pasture of Beasts chewing the cud,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conducted by them to the <i>Herbi-polique</i> belly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souldiers hidden, the Weapons making a noise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be attempted not far from <i>Antipolick</i> City.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is, that some Souldiers disguised like Herds-men, shall lead -Oxen into a place where were hidden before Weapons in the Grass, but the Weapons -making a noise by their clashing they shall be discovered, not far from a place -that he calleth here <i>Antipolique</i>, purposely to rime with <i>Herbipolique</i> in <i>French</i>, which -word <i>Herbipolique</i> signifieth a Town of Pasture.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_409"></a>[409]</span></p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Urnel</i>, <i>Vaucile</i>, sans conseil de soy mesmes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hardy, timide par crainte prins vaincu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagné de plusieurs putains, blesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Barcelonne</i> aux Chartreux convaincu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Urnel</i>, <i>Vaucile</i>, without advice of his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stout and fearful, by fear taken and overcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pale, and in company of many Whores,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be convicted at <i>Barcelone</i> by the Charterhouse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is an Horoscope, which the Author made upon that Gentleman named -<i>Urnel Vaucille</i>, and signifieth that the said man should find himself in such perplexity -that he could not be able to take advice what to do, and that fear should make him -hide himself, to be apprehended, in a place where he should be taken.</p> - -<p>When he was taken, he was presently convicted of those crimes that he was accused -of: therefore the Officers of Justice did conduct him to the Charter-house of -<i>Barcelone</i>, which is four miles from the said Town, in a place called <i>Campo alegre</i>, for -the beauty and situation of it, to that place many Whores did accompany him to receive -the punishment they had deserved, therefore the Author saith that he went -thither pale, as foreseeing the terrour of the punishment he was to undergo.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pere Duc vieux d’ans & de soif chargé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au jour extreme fils desniant l’esguiere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le puis vif, mort viendra plongé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Senat au fils la mort longue & legere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Father Duke, aged and very thirsty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his extremity, his son denying him the Ewer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alive into a Well, where he shall be drowned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For which the Senate shall give the son a long and easie death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a Duke very aged who shall die of a Dropsie, or of some other burning disease, -which will make him very thirsty, the Physitians shall forbid any water to be given -him, therefore this Duke shall press his son very much to give him the Ewer, that he -may drink his fill, but his son refusing, the Father shall fall into such a rage, that -being alone he will go and throw himself into a Well, where he shall be drowned.</p> - -<p>This unhappy death will be the cause of much murmuring, and the Senate or Parliament -of that place will make enquiry after it, by which enquiry the son will be -found guilty, therefore for his punishment, he shall be condemned to a long and easie -death, as to live all his days in some Monastery.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_410"></a>[410]</span></p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Heureux au Regne de <i>France</i> heureux de vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignorant sang, mort, fureur, rapine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par non flatteurs seras mis en envie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy desrobé, trop de foy en cuisine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Happy in the Kingdom of <i>France</i>, happy in his Life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ignorant of blood, death, fury, of taking by force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By no flatterers shall be envied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">King robbed, too much faith in Kitchin.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prognostication of a King of <i>France</i>, who though happy in his Reign -and Life, and being given to no great vices, as blood, fury, or taking by force, -yet shall be much envied and robbed by his Subjects, and chiefly by those he trusteth -about his Kitchin.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Reyne <i>Ergaste</i> voiant sa fille blesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par un regret dans l’estomach enclos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cris lamentables seront lors d’<i>Angolesme</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et au germain mariage forclos.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Queen <i>Ergaste</i> seeing her Daughter pale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a regret contained in her Breast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall great cries come out of <i>Angolesme</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Marriage shall be denyed to the Cousin German.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is unknown what Queen he meaneth by the name of <i>Ergaste</i>; the rest is easie. -<i>Angolesme</i> is a City of <i>Gascony</i> or <i>Languedoc</i>.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le rang <i>Lorrain</i> fera place a <i>Vendosme</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le haut mis bas, & le bas mis en haut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fils d’<i>Hamon</i> sera esleu dans <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et les deux grands seront mis en defaut.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The House of <i>Lorrain</i> shall give place to <i>Vendosme</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">The high pulled down, the low raised up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The son of <i>Hamon</i> shall be Elected into <i>Rome</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the two great ones shall not appear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_411"></a>[411]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses of this Prophecy were fulfilled in the time of <i>Henry</i> the third -King of <i>France</i>, in whose time the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, and House of <i>Lorrain</i> were grown -so powerful in <i>France</i>, that they drove the King from <i>Paris</i>, and assumed themselves -a rank and authority over the Princes of the Blood, so that the King was forced to -cause them to be slain, after which <i>Henry</i> IV. who was King of <i>Navarre</i> and Duke -of <i>Vendosme</i> took his place again as first Prince of the Blood.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses are too obscure to be interpreted, and I believe were onely -forced by our Author to make up his Rime, as he hath done in several other places.</p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jour que sera pour Roine saluée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jour apres le salut, la Priere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le compte fait raison & valbuée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par avant humble oncques ne fut si fiere.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The day that she shall be saluted Queen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The next day after the Evening Prayer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All accompts being summoned and cast up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She that was humble before, never was one so proud.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It is a woman (be like of a small Fortune) who coming to be a Queen by her humility, -the next day after Evening Prayer she shall appear so proud, as the like was -never seen.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous les amis qu’auront tenu party,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour rude en lettres mis mort & saccage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Biens publiez par fixe, grand neanty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onc <i>Romain</i> peuple ne fut tant outrage.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All the friends that shall have taken the part</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Unlearned, put to death and robbed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Goods sold publickly by proclamation, a great man seized of them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never <i>Roman</i> people was so much abused.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is, that a great man that took part with all those that were unlearned -shall be put to death, and their goods praised and sold publickly, upon which goods -another great man shall seize, and this is to be done in <i>Rome</i>.</p> - -<p>There is fault in the Impression of the third <i>French</i> Verse, for instead of <i>fixe</i> it must -be <i>fisc</i> and instead of <i>Neanty</i> it must be <i>Nancy</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_412"></a>[412]</span></p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le despit du Roy soustenant moindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera meurdry luy presentant les bagues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere & Fils voulant Noblesse poindre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fait comme a <i>Perse</i> jadis firent les <i>Magues</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To spite the King, who took the part of the weaker,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be murdered, presenting to him Jewels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Father and the Son going to vex the Nobility,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It shall be done to them as the <i>Magi</i> did in <i>Persia</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a King who with his son taking the peoples part against the Nobility shall -be killed, in presenting to him Jewels, and he and his son shall be dealt with all as -the <i>Magi</i>, that is the Grandees of <i>Persia</i> used to do with their Kings, whom they -were wont to murder, or depose.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour ne vouloir consentir au divorce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui puis apres sera cogneu indigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Roy des Isles sera chassé par force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis a son lien qui de Roy n’aura signe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For not consenting to the divorce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which afterwards shall be acknowledged unworthy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The King of the Island shall be expelled by force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And another subrogated, who shall have no mark of a King.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain concerning <i>England</i> and the late calamities thereof, when our gracious -King for not consenting to the wicked factions of the Parliament then, and -that have been acknowledged so since, was expelled by force, and an Usurpator that -had not the least sign of a King sat in his place.</p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au peuple ingrat faites les remonstrances,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par lors l’Armée se saisira d’<i>Antibe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans larc <i>Monech</i> feront les doleances,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a <i>Freius</i> l’un l’autre prendra ribe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The remonstrances being made to the ungrateful people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At that time the Army shall seize upon <i>Antibe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the River of <i>Monaco</i> they shall make their complaints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at <i>Freius</i> both of them shall take their share.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_413"></a>[413]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that at the same time that the remonstrances shall be made to an -ungrateful people; the Army shall seize upon the Town of <i>Antibe</i>, which is a Sea -Town between <i>France</i> and <i>Italy</i>, and that there shall be great complaints at <i>Monaco</i>, -which is another Sea Town near it, and at the place called <i>Freius</i>, both parties shall -either agree, or divide their shares.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le captif Prince aux <i>Itales</i> vaincu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passera <i>Gennes</i> par Mer jusque a <i>Marseille</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par grand effort des forens survaincu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sauf coup de feu, barril liqueur d’Abeille.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The captive Prince vanquished in <i>Italy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall pass by Sea through <i>Genoa</i> to <i>Marseilles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By great endeavours of forrain forces overcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that a Barrel of Honey shall save him from the fire.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Prince vanquished in <i>Italy</i>, and taken Prisoner shall come through <i>Genoa</i> to -<i>Marseilles</i>, where he shall be once more overcome by strangers, but that a Barrel of -Honey shall save him from being burnt. This is the sense of the words as near as I -can judge, the judicious Reader may make what construction he pleaseth upon them.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Nebro</i> ouvrir de <i>Brisanne</i> passage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien esloignez <i>el tago fara muestra</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans <i>Pelligouxe</i> sera commis l’outrage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la grand Dame assise sur l’<i>Orchestra</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Nebro</i> to open the passage of <i>Brisanne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great way off, <i>el tago fara muestra</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Pelligouxe</i> the wrong shall be done</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the great Lady sitting in the <i>Orchestra</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here once more I lost my Spectacles, and could not see through, therefore I had -rather be silent then coin lies, I shall only tell you, that <i>orchestra</i> in Latine is the seat -wherein noble Personages sit at the beholding of Stage-plays.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le successeur vengera son Beau frere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occuper Regne soubs ombre de vengeance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Occis obstacle son sang mort vitupere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps <i>Bretagne</i> tiendra avec la <i>France</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_414"></a>[414]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Successour shall avenge his Brother in Law,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall hold by force the Kingdom, upon pretence of revenge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That hinderance shall be killed, his dead blood ashamed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A long time shall <i>Brittany</i> hold with <i>France</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain enough of it self, without any interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Charle</i> cinquiesme & un grand <i>Hercules</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendront le Temple ouvrir de main bellique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Une Colonne, <i>Jules</i> & <i>Ascan</i> reculez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>E’pagne</i>, clef, Aigle neurent onc si grand pique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Charles</i> the Fifth, and one great <i>Hercules</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall open the Temple with a Warlike hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One Colonne, <i>Julius</i> and <i>Ascan</i> put back,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Spain</i>, the Key, Eagle were never at such variance.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Charles</i> the V. was the Emperour, and that great <i>Hercules</i> was <i>Henry</i> the II. King -of <i>France</i>, whom he calleth <i>Hercules</i>, because he was King of <i>France</i>, and the Author -nameth often in his Stanzas the Kings of <i>France Hercules</i> or <i>Ogmions</i>, because that -great Captain of the Antiquity left his name glorious in the <i>Gaules</i>, whence the ancient -Historians have given him the name of <i>Hercules Gallicus</i>. <i>Henry</i> the II. also -was not only an <i>Hercules</i> by being King of <i>France</i>, but also a great <i>Hercules</i>, because -of his Warlike humour, and for his great feats in Arms.</p> - -<p><i>To open the Temple</i>, signifieth to make War, because the <i>Romans</i> in ancient time -were wont to shut the Temple of <i>Janus</i> in time of Peace, and kept it open during the -War. <i>Cæsar Augustus</i> did shut that Temple once in his time, which was never done -before but twice, the first under <i>Numa Pompilius</i>, the second after the overcoming -of <i>Charthage</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Second & tiers qui font prime Musique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera par Roy en honneur sublimée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par grasse & maigre presque a deny etique;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rapport de <i>Venus</i> faux rendra deprimée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Second and third that make prime Musick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall by the King be exalted to honour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a fat one, and a lean one, one in consumption,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A false report of <i>Venus</i> shall pull her down.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_415"></a>[415]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Notwithstanding the obscurity of this sense, and the bad connexion of the words, -we may perceive that by this Stanza is meant, that a King having two Mistresses shall -exalt them in great honour, till by a report made by a fat woman and a lean one, that -is in a consumption, that the said Ladies prove unfaithful to the King, he will depress -them as low as they were before.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Pol Mansol</i> dans Caverne caprine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Caché & pris extrait hors par la barbe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captif mené comme beste mastine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Begourdans</i> amenée pres de <i>Tarbe</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Pol Mansol</i> in a Goats Den,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hidden and taken, drawn out by the beard</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prisoner, led as a Mastiff,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Begourdans</i> shall be brought near to <i>Tarbe</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here and in some other places of this work is to be observed, that the Author doth -sometimes put two Towns instead of one, that he may distinguish it from others of -the same name, as here he calleth <i>Pol Mansol</i> to distinguish the Town of St. <i>Paul</i>, -which is three Leagues from the <i>Rhosne</i>, over against the Town of <i>Pont St. Esprit</i>, from -that which is in the lower parts of <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<p>The sense therefore of this Stanza is, that this <i>Begourdans</i> (a proper name of a man) -shall pull out another by the beard, that was hidden in a Goats Den, and shall lead -him captive as far as <i>Tarbe</i>, which is another Town of <i>Provence</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nepveu & sang du St. nouveau venu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le surnom soustient arcs & couvert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront chassez mis a mort chassez nu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En rouge & noir convertiront leur vert.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nephew and blood of the Saint newly come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the surname upholdeth Vaults and Covering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be driven, put to death, and driven out naked.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall change their red and black into green.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Here I confess to be at a loss, as may be a wiser man then I.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_416"></a>[416]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Sainct Empire viendra en <i>Germanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ismaelites</i> trouveront lieux ouverts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Asnes viendront aussy de la <i>Caramanie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les soustenans de Terre tous couverts.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Holy Empire shall come into <i>Germany</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Ismaelites</i> shall find open places,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Asses shall also come out of <i>Caramania</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taking their part, and covering the Earth.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Ismaelites</i> he meaneth the <i>Turks</i>, who brag to be descended from <i>Ismael</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Caramania</i> is a Province of <i>Turky</i>, so that the sense of this Stanza is, that there shall -be a great Invasion of the <i>Turks</i> into <i>Germany</i>, and that those of <i>Caramania</i> with -their Asses shall come to their help, and shall be in such numbers, as that the Earth -shall be covered with them.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Empire chascun en devoit estre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un sur les autres le viendra obtenir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais peu de temps sera son Regne & estre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux ans aux Naves se pourra soustenir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Empire, every one would be of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One above the rest shall obtain it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But his time and his Reign shall last little,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He may maintain himself two years in his Shipping.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain enough without interpretation.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La faction cruelle a Robe longue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viendra cacher soubs les pointus Poignards,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saisir <i>Florence</i>, le Duc & le <i>Diphlongue</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa discouverte par Immeurs & Flagnards.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The cruel faction of long Robe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come and hide under the sharp Daggers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seize upon <i>Florence</i>, the Duke and the <i>Diphlongue</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The discovery of it shall be by Countrey fellows.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_417"></a>[417]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is the Prognostication of a conspiracy against the Duke and City of <i>Florence</i>, -by those of the long Gown, which shall be discovered by Countrey fellows, -that live in places without Walls.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaulois</i> qu’Empire par Guerre occupera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par son Beau-frere mineur sera trahi,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Cheval rude voltigeant trainera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du fait le frere long temps sera hay.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Frenchman</i> who shall occupy an Empire by War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be betrayed by his Brother in Law a Pupil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be drawn by a rude prancing Horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For which fact his brother shall be long hated.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth of a <i>Frenchman</i>, who shall by War obtain an Empire or Kingdom, -and shall be betrayed by his Brother in Law a Pupil, whom afterwards he shall -treacherously cause to mount a fierce prancing Horse, who shall throw him down -and drag him, for which the said King shall be hated long after.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Puisné Roial flagrant d’ardant libide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour se jouir de cousine <i>Germaine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Habit de femme au Temple d’<i>Artemide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Allant murdry par incogneu <i>du Marne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kingly youngest son heated with burning lust,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For to enjoy his Cosen German,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall in womans apparrel go to the Temple of <i>Artemis</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going, shall be murdered by unknown <i>du Marne</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the younger son of a King, who being extreamly in love with -his Cosen German, shall disguise himself in a womans apparel, and shall go so disguised -to the Temple of <i>Artemide</i> (that is of some Church Dedicated to the Virgin <i>Mary</i>) -to meet her, but in going, shall be murdered by an unknown man named <i>du Marne</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Apres le Roy du Sud guerres parlant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Isle <i>Harmotique</i> le tiendra a mespris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quelques ans bons rongeant un & pillant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par tyrannie a l’Isle changeant pris.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_418"></a>[418]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">After that the King of the South shall have talked of Wars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Harmotick</i> Island shall despise him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some good years gnawing one and plundering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by tyranny shall change the price of the Island.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two first Verses are concerning <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>, who is called here -the King of the <i>South</i>, whom after his vain and frustrated Invasion of 88. the <i>Harmotique</i> -Island (that is <i>England</i>) shall deride, and he after that shall have some good -years, that is of Peace, still pillaging and plundering his Subjects, and shall change -the price of <i>England</i>, that is, make it of a higher value, and more flourishing then -ever it was before, as it did prove in Queen <i>Elizabeth</i>’s time.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grande assemblée pres du Lac du <i>Borget</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se rallieront pres de <i>Montmelian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passants plus outre pensifs feront projet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Chambray</i>, <i>Morienne</i>, combat Saint <i>Julian</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great assembly of people near the Lake of <i>Borget</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will go and gather themselves about <i>Montmelian</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going beyond, they shall make an enterprize,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon <i>Chambery</i>, <i>Moriene</i>, and shall fight at St. <i>Julian</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Lake of <i>Borget</i> is in <i>Savoy</i>, as also <i>Montmelian</i>, <i>Chambery</i>, <i>Moriene</i>, and St. -<i>Julian</i>; the meaning of it then is, that a great Army shall be gathered about that -Lake, which shall go through <i>Chambery</i>, <i>Moriene</i>, and <i>Montmelian</i>, and shall fight at -St. <i>Julian</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Amour alegre non loin pose le Siege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Saint <i>Barbar</i> seront les Garnisons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ursins</i>, <i>Hadrie</i> pour <i>Gaulois</i> feront plaige.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour peur rendus de l’Armée, aux <i>Grisons</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cheerful love doth lay Siege not far,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Garrisons shall be at Saint <i>Barbar</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ursini</i>, <i>Hadria</i> shall be sureties for the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And many for fear shall go from the Army to the <i>Grisons</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The first two Verses are inexplicable; the two last signifie that there shall be an -Army of <i>Frens</i>, with whom <i>Hadria</i> (that is <i>Venice</i>) and the <i>Ursini</i> the noblest Family -in <i>Italy</i> shall take part, insomuch, that many of the contrary party shall run for fear -to the <i>Grisons</i>, which is a Nation dwelling in the <i>Valteline</i> and other Countreis there -about, between the <i>Venetians</i> and the <i>Switzers</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_419"></a>[419]</span></p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Premier fils veusve malheureux mariage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sans nuls enfans deux Isles en discord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant dixhuit incompetant Aage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De l’autre pres plus bas sera l’accord.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the first son a widow, an unhappy match,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without any Children, two Islands at variance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before eighteen an incompetant Age,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the other lower shall be the agreement.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Although the words be intricate, nevertheless the sense is plain, concerning <i>Francis</i> -the II. King of <i>France</i>, who being married young, and before he was 18. years of -Age, to <i>Mary Stuart</i> Queen of <i>Scotland</i>, died presently after, and left her a widow, -and also <i>England</i> and <i>Scotland</i> (which he calleth here two Islands) at variance among -themselves; of the last Verse the sense is very obscure, and hath relation to what -did happen afterwards to the said <i>Mary</i> Queen of <i>Scots</i> and Dowager of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le jeune nay au Regne <i>Britannique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’aura le Pere mourant recommandé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Iceluy mort <i>Londre</i> donra topique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a son fils le Regne demandé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The young man born to the Kingdom of <i>Britanny</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whom his Father dying shall have recommended,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After his death <i>London</i> shall give him a topick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall ask the Kingdom from his son.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is plain, concerning his Majesty King <i>Charles</i> II. now Reigning, -who having been recommended by his dying Father to his Subjects, presently after -his death they turned tail, and took the Kingdom from him for a good while.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En la frontiere de <i>Caussade</i> & <i>Charlus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non gueres loing du fond de la valée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Ville Franche</i> Musique a son de Luths,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Environnez Combouls & grand myrtée.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_420"></a>[420]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the Frontiere of <i>Caussade</i> and <i>Charlus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from the bottom of the Valley,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Ville Franche</i> there shall be Musick of Lutes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great dancing and great company of people met together.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Caussade</i>, <i>Charlus</i>, and <i>Villefranche</i> are little Towns in <i>Provence</i>, not far one from -another; the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne humain d’Angelique geniture,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera son Regne, paix, union tenir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Captive guerre demy de sa closture,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps la paix leur fera maintenir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The humane Reign of an Angelical brood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall cause his Reign to be in peace and union,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make War, captive shutting it half up,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause them to keep peace a great while.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is only a foretelling of some Gallant Prince, who shall maintain his Subjects -in great peace and tranquility.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le trop bon temps, trop de bonté Roiale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faits & desfaits prompt, subit, negligence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leger croira faux, despouse loiale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Luy mis a mort par sa benevolence.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The time too good, too much of Royal bounty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made and unmade, nimble, quick, negligence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fickle shall believe false o’ his loyal Spouse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be put to death for his good will.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning another King, who through his too much goodness, simplicity -and negligence, shall make and unmake those about him, and being fickle, shall believe -false reports, made concerning his own wife; and at last by his to much goodness, shall -be put to death.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par lors qu’un Roy sera contre les siens;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Natif de <i>Blois</i> subjuguera <i>Ligueres</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mammel</i>, <i>Cordube</i>, & les <i>Dalmatiens</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des sept puis l’ombre a Roy estrennes & <i>Lemures</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_421"></a>[421]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At that time that a King shall be against his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One born at Blois shall subdue the <i>Ligures</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Mammel</i>, <i>Cordua</i> and the <i>Dalmatians</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After that the shadow of the seven shall be to the King a new-years gift and Hoggoblins.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Blois</i> is a City in <i>France</i>; <i>Ligures</i> are the <i>Genoeses</i>, in Latine called <i>Ligures</i>; as for -<i>Mammel</i> I cannot tell what to make of it; <i>Cordua</i> is a City of <i>Spain</i>, and the <i>Dalmatians</i> -is a Nation near the <i>Adriatick</i> Sea, and under the <i>Venetians</i>; I leave the interpretation -of the last Verse to the ingenious Reader.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lombre du Regne de <i>Navarre</i> non vray,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera la vie de sort illegitime,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La vers promis incertain de <i>Cambray</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy d’<i>Orleans</i> donra mur legitime</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The shadow of the Reign of <i>Navarre</i> not true,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make the life of illegitimate chance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The uncertain allowance from <i>Cambray</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">King of <i>Orleans</i> shall give a lawfull Wall.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Reign</i> or Kingdom of <i>Navarre</i> is called <i>not true</i>, because the King of <i>Spain</i> -doth possess it, and not the King of <i>France</i>, who is the lawful King thereof, as also in -regard of the Kings of <i>France</i>, and before of <i>Jane</i> of <i>Albret</i>, and <i>Antony</i> of -<i>Bourbon</i>.</p> - -<p>This Kingdom being <i>not true</i> in regard of the said ones, the title and quality is called -here <i>shadow</i>. The Author saith that the quality of the King of <i>Navarre</i> <i>shall make -the life of illigitimate chance</i>, because after the death of <i>Francis</i> the II <i>Catherine</i> of -<i>Medicis</i> being not opposed in the Regence by <i>Antony</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> King of <i>Navarre</i>, -she was willing to gratifie him in what she could.</p> - -<p>And because his Brother <i>Lewis</i> Prince of <i>Condé</i> had been condemned to death, and -not executed, it was a fair occasion for her to shew the King of <i>Navarre</i> how much -she did defer to him. Therefore twelve days after the death of King <i>Francis</i>, he was -freed out of Prison, and was admitted to justifie himself under the King of <i>Navarre</i>’s -Bail.</p> - -<p>Thus the <i>shadow of the Kingdom of <span class="antiqua">Navarre</span> not true</i>, did cause the life of a Prince to -be saved, but that life was illegitimate, <i>and that Kingdom not true by chance</i>, that is, -by accident, because of the death of King <i>Francis</i>.</p> - -<p>Leaving off the third Verse to be explained after the fourth; <i>King</i> (saith the Author) -<i>shall give</i> Orleans <i>for legitimate</i>, because <i>Charles</i> the IX. who during the life of -<i>Francis</i> the II. did bear the title of Duke of <i>Orleans</i>, did succeed his Brother; thus the -Verse saith that <i>Orleans shall give a King for legitimate</i>.</p> - -<p>Now for the third Verse, you must suppose that by the Treaty at <i>Madrid</i> 1526. -and after this by that of <i>Cambray</i>, the King <i>Francis</i> the I. did part with the Sovereignty -of <i>Flanders</i>, and of all the <i>Low Countreis</i> in favour of <i>Charles</i> the V. Emperour,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_422"></a>[422]</span> -it is of that <i>uncertain allowance</i> of Cambray, of which the Author talketh here, and -saith, that in that time <i>viz.</i> of the death of <i>Francis</i> the II. that <i>allowance shall be uncertain</i>, -because <i>Francis</i> the I. having no power of himself to renounce the rights and -dependance of the Crown of <i>France</i>, the Parliament that was assembled then, would -have made void that <i>allowance</i> without breaking the Peace, declaring that the Kings -of <i>France</i> ought to preserve the right they had upon the <i>Low-Countreis</i>, and to require -them again upon any occasion, and upon that <i>France</i> did not refuse the Election -which the <i>Low-Countreis</i> made of the Duke of <i>Alencon</i> for their Sovereign Prince -and Duke of <i>Brabant</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vif sort mort de l’or vilain indigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera de <i>Saxe</i> non nouveau Electeur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Brunswick</i> mandra d’amour signe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faux le rendant au peuple seducteur.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The living receives his death from Gold, infamous slut!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be of <i>Saxony</i> not the new Elector,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Brunswick</i> shall come a sign of love,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Falsly persuading the people that he is a seductor.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning an old Elector of <i>Saxony</i>, who being in health before, -shall die suddenly, being poisoned in a golden Cup by a woman, whom he calleth -here <i>infamous slut</i>.</p> - -<p>And that from <i>Brunswick</i> (a Countrey adjacent to <i>Saxony</i>) shall come a Messenger, -upon pretence of Love, who shall persuade the people that the said Elector was a -Seducer.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Bourze</i> Ville a la Dame <i>Guyrlande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’on mettra sus par la trahison faite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Prelat de <i>Leon</i> par <i>Formande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faux Pellerins & Rauisseurs deffaite.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Bourze</i> City belonging to the Lady <i>Garlant</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall impose by a set treason,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Prelate of <i>Leon</i> by <i>Formande</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">False Pilgrims and Ravishers destroyed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I believe that there is a fault here in the impression, and that instead of <i>Bourze</i> it -must be <i>Bourges</i>, which is a famous City in <i>France</i>, and Capitol of the Province of -<i>Berry</i>, for I do not know any Town in <i>Europe</i> called <i>Bourze</i>. What he meaneth by -the Lady <i>Garlant</i> is unknown. I believe also that instead of <i>Leon</i> it should be <i>Lyon</i>, -which is another famous City, and the first Archbishoprick of the said Kingdom. -<i>Formande</i> is a barbarous word, and I believe put in only to make up the Rime, as he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_423"></a>[423]</span> -hath done in several other places, as much then as can be gathered out of the sense is -this, that from that City <i>Bourges</i>, which usually is a Dowry for a Queen of -<i>France</i>, which is called here <i>Garlant</i>, shall a treason be hatched against the Archbishop -of <i>Lion</i>, which I suppose came to pass in the time of <i>Henry</i> the III. when <i>Peter</i> -of <i>Pinac</i> Archbishop of the said <i>Lion</i>, being accused by the Deputies of <i>Bourges</i> for -siding with the League, escaped narrowly to be killed, when the Duke of <i>Guise</i> and -the Cardinal his brother were. Queen <i>Catherine</i> of <i>Medicis</i> the Kings Mother having -then the said Province and Town of <i>Bourges</i> for her jointure.</p> - -<p>The last Verse hath no relation to the three foremost, and hath its interpretation -by it self, which is plain enough.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du plus profond de l’<i>Espagne</i> ancienne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sortants du bout & des fins de l’<i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trouble passant aupres du Pont de <i>Laigne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera deffaits par bande sa grand troppe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the utmost part of old <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going out of the extremities of <i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He that troubled the travellers by the Bridge of <i>Laigne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall have his great Troop defeated by another.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Every Traveller knoweth that <i>Castille</i> (which is taken here for <i>Spain</i>) is divided -into two parts <i>viz.</i> <i>Castilia la Vecchia</i>, and <i>Castilia la Nuova</i>, our Author then saith -that out of <i>Castilia la Vecchia</i>, which is situated at the further end of <i>Europe</i> on that -side, shall come a band of men, who shall destroy the Thieves that robbed and vexed -the Travellers by the Bridge of <i>Laigne</i>, which it seemeth was an infamous place for -robbing.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jardin du Monde aupres de Cité neufve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans le chemin des Montagnes cavées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera saisi & plongé dans la Cuve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beuvant par force eaux Soulphre envenimées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Garden of the World, near the new City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the way of the digged Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be seized on, and thrown into the Tub,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being forced to drink Sulphurous poisoned waters.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This word <i>Garden of the World</i>, doth signifie a particular person, seeing that this -<i>Garden of the World</i> was seized on and poisoned in a Tub of Sulphurous water, in -which he was thrown.</p> - -<p>The History may be this, that <i>Nostradamus</i> passing for a Prophet and a great Astrologer -in his time, abundance of people came to him to know their Fortunes, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_424"></a>[424]</span> -chiefly the Fathers to know that of their Children, as did Mr. <i>Lafnier</i>, and Mr. <i>Cotton</i>, -Father of that renowned Jesuit of the same name, very like then that Mr. <i>du -Jardin</i> having a son did ask <i>Nostradamus</i> what should become of him, and because -his son was named <i>Cosmus</i>, which in Greek signifieth the World, he answered him -with these four Verses.</p> - -<p><i>Garden of the World</i>, for <i>Cosmus of the Garden</i>, In his travels shall be taken hard by -the New City, in a way that hath been digged between the Mountains, and there -shall be thrown in to a Tub of poisoned Sulphurous water to cause him to die, being -forced to drink that water which those rogues had prepared for him.</p> - -<p>Those that have learned the truth of this History, may observe it here. This -ought to have come to pass in the last Age, seeing that the party mentioned was then -born when this Stanza was written, and this unhappy man being dead of a violent -death, there is great likelyhood, that he was not above forty years old.</p> - -<p>There is another difficulty, to know which is that new City, there being many of -that name in <i>Europe</i>, nevertheless the more probable is, that there being many Knights -of <i>Maltha</i> born in <i>Provence</i> (the native Countrey of our Author) it may be believed -that by the new City he meaneth the new City of <i>Maltha</i> called <i>la Valete</i>, hard by -which there is paths and ways digged in the Mountains, which Mountains are as if it -were a Fence and a Barricado against the Sea, or else this <i>Cosmus</i> might have been -taken by Pyrats of <i>Algiers</i>, and there in the new City of the <i>Goulette</i> be put to death -in the manner aforesaid.</p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La <i>Meuse</i> au jour Terre de <i>Luxembourg</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Descouvrira <i>Saturne</i> & trois en <i>Lurne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Montaigne & plaine, Ville, Cité & Bourg,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lorrain</i> Deluge, trahison par grand <i>hurne</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Maes</i> by day in the Land of <i>Luxembourg</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall discover <i>Saturn</i>, and three in the <i>Lurne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mountain and plain, Town, City, and Countrey Town,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A <i>Lorrain</i> flood, treason by a great <i>hurne</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Maes</i> is a River that runneth through a part of <i>Lorrain</i> and <i>Luxembourg</i>; as -for the words <i>Lurne</i> and <i>hurne</i> I do not understand them, neither do I think they are -to be found in all the <i>French</i> Language, both obsolete and modern; all what I can -gather out of this, is, that a great overflowing of the River <i>Maes</i>, shall be both in -<i>Luxembourg</i> and <i>Lorrain</i>, insomuch that three Leaden Mines (which is meant here -by <i>Saturn</i>) shall be discovered, and after that, a great Treason shall happen in the -said <i>Lorrain</i>.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Des lieux plus bas du Pais de <i>Lorraine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront des basses <i>Allemagnes</i> unis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par ceux du Siege <i>Picards</i>, <i>Normans</i>, du <i>Maine</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et aux Cantons se seront reunis.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_425"></a>[425]</span></p> - -<p class="transnote">Transcriber’s Note: An English version was omitted from this printing, -but the annotation below is an accurate enough (if not very poetic) translation.</p> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The sense of this is, that the lower <i>Lorrain</i> and <i>Germany</i> being united together, -shall have War with the other three Nations, of <i>Picards</i>, <i>Normans</i>, and <i>Manceaux</i>, -which having Besieged a Town, shall constrain the <i>Lorrainers</i> and <i>Low-germans</i>, to -unite themselves with the Cantons of <i>Switzerland</i>.</p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lieu ou <i>Laye</i> & <i>Scelde</i> se marient,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront les Nopces de long temps mamée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au lieu d’<i>Anvers</i> ou la grappe charient,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jeune vieillesse conforte intammée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place where <i>Laye</i> and <i>Scelde</i> are united,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall the Nuptials be, that were long a doing.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place of <i>Antwerp</i> where they draw the grape,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The young unspotted will comfort the old Age.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is fault in the Impression, for instead of <i>Laye</i> it must be <i>Lis</i>, which is a River -that runneth through <i>Flanders</i>, and dischargeth it self into the <i>Scelde</i>, which is -the River that passeth at <i>Antwerp</i>, the sense therefore of this Prophecy is, that in the -place where the River of <i>Lis</i> joyneth with the <i>Scelde</i>, there shall the Nuptials be -consummated that were long a doing, and the place of <i>Antwerp</i>, where they unload -the Wines, there shall a young unspotted Lady Marry, and comfort an old man.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les trois Pellices de loing s’entrebattront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La plus grand moindre demeurera a l’ecoute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Selin</i> n’en sera plus patron,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nommera feu, pelte, blanche, route.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The three Concubines shall fight one with another a far off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The greatest less shall remain watching,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Selin</i> shall be no more their Patron,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall call it fire, pelte, white, route.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning the <i>Turkish</i> Empire, where three of the great <i>Turks</i> -Concubines, which in Latine are called <i>Pellices</i>, shall make War one against another, -the great <i>Turk</i> himself favouring neither party.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_426"></a>[426]</span></p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Née en ce Monde par Concubine furtive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A deux hault mise par les tristes nouvelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entre Ennemis sera prinse Captive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et amenée a <i>Malines</i> & <i>Bruxelles</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Born in this world from a stolen Concubine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Set up at two heights by the sad news,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be taken Prisoner among the Enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And brought to <i>Malines</i> and <i>Bruxelles</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning some Lady of quality, born of a Concubine, who shall be set -up by reason of some sad news that shall be brought, and afterwards shall be taken -Prisoner, and carryed to <i>Malines</i> and <i>Bruxelles</i>, two Cities of the Low-Countreys.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les malheureuses Nopces celebreront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En grande joye mais la fin malheureuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mary & Mere <i>Nore</i> desdaigneront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Phibe</i> mort, & <i>Nore</i> plus piteuse.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The unhappy Nuptials shall be celebrated,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With great joy, but the end shall be unhappy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Husband and Mother shall scorn <i>Nore</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Phybe</i> dead, and <i>Nore</i> more pitifull.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">If by <i>Phybe</i> we understand the Admiral of <i>Chastillon</i>, and by <i>Nore</i>, Queen <i>Margaret</i> -of <i>Valois</i>, the rest will be easie. For in the year 1572. a Match was made between -<i>Henry</i> the IV. then King of <i>Navarre</i>, chief of the Protestant party, and <i>Margaret</i> -of <i>Valois</i>, Sister to <i>Charles</i> the IX. to this Wedding were the chief of the Protestant -party invited, who were there Massacred, and among the rest <i>Gaspard</i> of -<i>Coligny</i>, Lord of <i>Chastillon</i>, and Admiral of <i>France</i>, whom he calleth here <i>Phybe</i>. -And when he saith, that <i>Husband and Mother shall scorn <span class="antiqua">Nore</span></i>, he sheweth the slight -Opinion and regard that the Queen Mother had for her Daughter, and <i>Henry</i> the -IV. for his Wife, whom he after repudiated.</p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Prelat Roial soy baissant trop tiré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Flux de Sang sortira par sa bouche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Regne <i>Anglicque</i> par Regne respiré,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long temps mort vif en <i>Tunis</i> comme souche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_427"></a>[427]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Royal Prelate bowing himself too much,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great flood of Blood shall come out of his mouth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>English</i> Reign by Reign respited,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great while dead, alive in <i>Tunis</i> like a Log.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A Prelate, is a man of eminent dignity in the Church, the Royal prelate must be -a Churchman of the Royal Blood, who bowing himself too much, shall fall into an -Hæmorhagie or Flux of Blood at his Mouth. The third Verse signifieth, that the -Kingdom of <i>England</i> shall be relieved from some distress by another Kingdom or -Prince that had been a Slave a great while at <i>Tunis</i>, and lyen there, <i>dead alive like a -Log of Wood</i>.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le sublevé ne cognoistra son Sceptre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les enfans jeunes des plus grands honnira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oncques ne fut un plus ord cruel estre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour leur Espouses a mort noir bannera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The exalted shall not know his Scepter</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall put to shame the young Children of the greatest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never was one more dirty and cruel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall banish to Black death their Spouses.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a great Tyrant, who being exalted to the dignity of a King, -shall not know how to govern; but shall slight and put to shame the Children of -the greatest Nobility, and shall banish their Wives out of the Land; this hath a -relation to the late Tyrant <i>Cromwell</i>.</p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au temps du dueil que le <i>Selin</i> Monarque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Guerroiera le jeune <i>Æmathien</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Gaule</i> bransler, pericliter la barque,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tenter <i>Phocens</i> au ponant entretien.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the time of mourning, when the Monarch <i>Selin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make War against the young <i>Æmathien</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> shall quake, the Ship shall be in danger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Phocens</i> shall be attempted, the business shall be in the West.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_428"></a>[428]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">You must observe here, that by <i>Æmathien</i> the Author meaneth the King of -<i>France</i>, as he doth in many other places; and by <i>Selin</i>, he meaneth the great <i>Turk</i>, -because such was the name of him that lived in his time, this being presupposed the -meaning of this is, that the great <i>Turk</i> shall fight against the King of <i>France</i>, and shall -attempt <i>Phocens</i>, which is <i>Marseilles</i>, as being a Colony of the old <i>Phocenses</i> in -<i>Græcia</i>, which shall cause all <i>France</i> to quake, and the Ship to be in danger, which -is <i>Paris</i>, who beareth a Ship for its Arms.</p> - -<h3>LIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans Lion vingt & cinq d’une haleine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq Citoyens <i>Germains</i>, <i>Bressans</i>, <i>Latines</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par dessous Noble conduiront longue traine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et descouvers par abboy de Mastins.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Lyons</i> five and twenty of a breadth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Five Citizens <i>Germans</i>, <i>Bressans</i>, <i>Latines</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under Noblemen shall conduct a long Train,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall be discovered by the barking of Mastiffs.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Marshal of St. <i>André</i>, Governour of <i>Lyon</i> being absent, the Protestants -undertook the taking of it, at the solicitation of some principal Lords at Court, -among whom were named the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, and the Vidame of <i>Chartres</i>, <i>Francis</i> -of <i>Vendosme</i>, Knight of the Order. The Abbot of <i>Savigny</i>, who did supply the -place of the Governour, and was named <i>Antony</i> of <i>Albon</i>, since that Archbishop of -<i>Arles</i>, having discovered this Conspiracy, went to surprise the undertakers, but as -he was going upon the night of the 5 of <i>September</i>, he met with some of the confederates -upon the Bridge of <i>Saone</i>, which made him retreat with some loss.</p> - -<p>The next day having gathered more Forces, he took three of them that were strangers -and young, the rest escaping, those three were hanged the next <i>Saturday</i>, which -was the 7 of that Month.</p> - -<p>The Marshal being come to Town, there was Execution made upon some of the -Inhabitants, to the number of 4 that were hanged.</p> - -<p>After that there were informations made concerning the Authors and Abettors of -the said conspiracy, and many other Citizens and strangers were put to Prison, and -besides them the Vidame of <i>Chartres</i>, who was carryed to <i>Paris</i>, and put into the -<i>Bastille</i>, and after that in the <i>Tournelles</i>, where he died before his process was ended, -the <i>23 December 1560</i>.</p> - -<p>It is what our Author saith in this stanza; in the first Verse he saith, that there -were <i>five and twenty of a breadth</i>, of whose five and twenty there was <i>five Citizens of -the Town</i>, and the rest were <i>Germans, Bressans and Italians</i>, of these Citizens 4 were -hanged, and three of the strangers.</p> - -<p>Those 25 undertakers, of which the Author saith, that <i>under Noblemen they shall -conduct a long Train</i>; that is, that under the support and favour of many Noblemen, -they would undertake a thing that should not end so soon as it proved afterwards; for -although this enterprise did fail, yet was the beginning of horrid combustions that -followed afterwards.</p> - -<p>This enterprise it seemeth was discovered by barking of Mastiffs.</p> - -<p>The Apology for the City of <i>Lyon</i> treateth at large of this, and nameth all those -conspirators, who for the most part were of <i>Germany</i> and <i>Geneva</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_429"></a>[429]</span></p> - -<h3>LX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Je pleure <i>Nice</i>, <i>Monaco</i>, <i>Pise</i>, <i>Genes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Savone</i>, <i>Sienne</i>, <i>Capoue</i>, <i>Modene</i>, <i>Malthe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le dessus sang & glaive par estrenes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, trembler Terre, eau, malheureuse <i>nolte</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I bewail <i>Nice</i>, <i>Monaco</i>, <i>Pisa</i>, <i>Genoa</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Savona</i>, <i>Sienna</i>, <i>Capoua</i>, <i>Modena</i>, <i>Maltha</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon them blood and sword for a new years-gift,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, Earth-quake, water, unhappy <i>nolte</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All these Cities are situated by the <i>Mediterranean</i> Sea, and most of them upon -that part of it, which is called the River of <i>Genoa</i>, and are threatned here by all the -plagues above mentioned; as for the word <i>nolte</i> it is a barbarous one, forced here to -make up the Rime in <i>French</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Betta</i>, <i>Vienne</i>, <i>Comorre</i>, <i>Sacarbance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Voudront livrer aux Barbares <i>Pannone</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par picque et feu, enorme violence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les conjurez d’escouverts par Matrone.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Betta</i>, <i>Vienna</i>, <i>Comorre</i>, <i>Sacarbance</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall endeavour to deliver <i>Pannone</i> to the Barbarians,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Pike, and fire, extraordinary violence!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The conspirators discovered by a Matron.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth that there will be a conspiracy of some men out of all the above mentioned -Cities, to surrender <i>Hungary</i> (which in Latine is called <i>Pannonia</i>) to the great -Turk, but that conspiracy shall be discovered by a Matron, that is, a grave ancient -Woman.</p> - -<h3>LXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres de <i>Sorbin</i> pour assaillir <i>Hongrie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Heraut de <i>Bude</i> le viendra advertir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chef <i>Bizantin</i>, <i>Sallon</i> de <i>Sclavonie</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Loy d’<i>Arabes</i> les viendra convertir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Near <i>Sorbin</i>, to invade <i>Hungary</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Herald of <i>Buda</i> shall come to give them notice of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chief <i>Bizantin</i>, <i>Sallon</i> of <i>Sclavonia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come to turn them to the <i>Arabian</i> Religion.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_430"></a>[430]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to have a relation to the precedent, and that near that place he calleth -<i>Sorbin</i>, preparations shall be made to Invade <i>Hungary</i>, but they shall have -notice of it by some body of <i>Buda</i>.</p> - -<p>He that is called here <i>Chief Bizantin</i>, is the great Turk or his grand Vizir, who -hath his abode in <i>Constantinople</i>, anciently called <i>Bizantium</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cydron</i>, <i>Ragusa</i>, la Cité au Sainct <i>Hieron</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reverdira le medicant secours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mort fils de Roy part mort de deux <i>Heron</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’<i>Arabe</i>, <i>Hongrie</i>, feront un mesme cours.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cydron</i>, <i>Raguse</i>, the City of Saint <i>Hieron</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall make green again the Physical help,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Kings Son dead, by the death of two <i>Herons</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Arabia</i> and <i>Hungary</i> shall go the same way.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning of this is, that when those three Cities named in the first Verse -shall have need of succours, and that a Kings Son shall die in flying two <i>Herons</i>, then -shall <i>Arabia</i> and <i>Hungary</i> be under the same Master.</p> - -<h3>LXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleure <i>Milan</i>, pleure <i>Lucques</i>, <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que ton grand Duc sur le Char montera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Changer le Siege pres de <i>Venise</i> s’advance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que <i>Colonne</i> a <i>Rome</i> changera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Weep <i>Milan</i>, weep <i>Lucques</i>, and <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Duke shall go upon the Chariot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To change the Siege near <i>Venice</i> he goeth about,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Colonne</i> shall change at <i>Rome</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy seemeth to portend the change of the See of <i>Rome</i> in some place -near to <i>Venice</i>, and this is to happen when the great Duke of <i>Tuscany</i> shall ascend upon -a Triumphant Chariot, and that the House of <i>Colonne</i> (which is the more powerfull -in <i>Rome</i>) shall take his part.</p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O vaste <i>Rome</i> ta ruine s’aproche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non de tes Murs, de ton sang, & substance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’aspre par lettres fera si horrible coche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fer pointu mis a tous jusques au manche.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_431"></a>[431]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O great <i>Rome</i> thy ruine draweth near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not of thy Walls, of thy blood and substance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sharp by Letters shall make so horrid a notch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sharp Iron thrust in all to the haft.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a confirmation of the foregoing Prophecy, by which it is said that the destruction -of <i>Rome</i> shall not be in <i>her Walls, blood or substance</i>, but onely by Letters or -Doctrine that shall put quite down the <i>Roman</i> Religion.</p> - -<h3>LXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Chef de <i>Londres</i> par Regne l’<i>Americh</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Isle d’<i>Escosse</i> tempiera par gelée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy, Reb. auront un si faux Antechrist,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que les mettra tretous dans la meslée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief of <i>London</i> by Reign of <i>America</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Island of <i>Scotland</i> shall catch thee by a frost,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">King and Reb. shall have so false an Antichrist,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As will put them altogether by the ears.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I conceive this Prophecy can be appropriated to no body better then <i>Oli. Cromwel</i>, -who is called here <i>the Chief of <span class="antiqua">London</span> by Reign of <span class="antiqua">America</span></i>, that is, by Reign of -confusion, whose projects and treasons were all brought to nought, by the victorious -<i>Mars</i> of the ever renowned General <i>Monck</i>, who came with his Army from <i>Scotland</i> -to <i>London</i> in the Winter time, he is called also a false Antichrist, because he was an -enemy to King and Reb. that is <i>Respublica</i> or Common-wealth.</p> - -<h3>LXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tremblement si fort au mois de <i>May</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i>, <i>Caper</i>, <i>Jupiter</i>, <i>Mercure</i> au Bœuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> aussy, <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Mars</i> en <i>Nonnay</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tombera gresle lors gresse qu’un œuf.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Earth-quake shall be so great in the month of <i>May</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i>, <i>Caper</i>, <i>Jupiter</i>, <i>Mercury</i> in the Bull,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> also, <i>Cancer</i>, <i>Mars</i> in <i>Nonnay</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall fall Hail bigger then an Egge.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that when all these Cœlestial bodies shall be so disposed, that -there will be a fearful Earth-quake and Hail.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_432"></a>[432]</span></p> - -<h3>LXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Armée de Mer devant Cité tiendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis partira sans faire longue allée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Citoyens grande proye en Terre prendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Retourner classe reprendre grand emblée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fleet shall stand before the City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall go away for a little while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then shall take a great troop of Citizens on Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleet shall come back and recover a great deal.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth here he speaketh of two Fleets, one of which shall stand a little while -before a Town, and carry a great many Citizens away, but that the other Fleet shall -come in the mean time, and redeem them.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le fait luysant de neuf vieux eslevé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront si grands par Midy <i>Aquilon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De sa sœur propre grandes alles levé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fuyant meurdry au buisson d’<i>Ambellon</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The bright actions of new old exalted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be so great through the South and North,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By his own Sister great forces shall be raised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Running away he shall be murdered near the bush of <i>Ambellon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The question here is, whether this <i>neuf vieux</i> in <i>French</i> or <i>new old</i> in <i>English</i> be the -proper name of a man, or be a Metaphor, to express a young man of an ancient Family, -when the Reader hath satisfied himself upon that, the rest is easie enough.</p> - -<h3>LXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’œil par objet fera telle excroissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant & ardente que tombera la Neige,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Champ arrousé viendra en decroissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que le <i>Primat</i> succombera a <i>Rhege</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The eye by the object shall make such an excressency,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because so much, and so burning shall fall the Snow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Field watered shall come to decay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Insomuch that the <i>Primat</i> shall fall down at <i>Rhege</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_433"></a>[433]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All this is nothing but an extraordinary great Snow that shall fall about <i>Rhegio</i> a -City of <i>Italy</i>, whereby the Fields shall be drowned and fall to decay; insomuch, that -the chief men, called here <i>Primate</i> shall fall to poverty.</p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Terre & l’Air geleront si grand eau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors qu’on viendra pour <i>Jeudy</i> venerer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce qui sera jamais ne fut si beau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des quattre parts le viendront honorer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Earth and the Air shall freeze with so much water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they shall come to worship <i>Thursday</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That which shall be never, was so fair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the four parts they shall come to honour him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth an exceeding great frost, which shall happen on a Holy <i>Thursday</i>, -where the ground and sky shall be so clear, that men may come from the four parts -(<i>viz.</i> of the Earth) without trouble for to worship.</p> - -<h3>LXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’an mil neuf cent nonante neuf, sept mois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Ciel viendra un grand Roy d’effrayeur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Resusciter le grand Roy d’<i>Angoumois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant apres, <i>Mars</i> Regner par bonheur.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year a thousand nine hundred ninety nine, and seven months,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From Heaven a great terrible King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To raise again the great King of <i>Angoulesme</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before and after, <i>Mars</i> shall Reign luckily.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">He that is called here King of <i>Angoulesme</i> was <i>Francis</i> the I. as gallant a Prince as -ever <i>France</i> had, who before he was King went by the title of Duke of <i>Angoulesme</i>; -the rest is easie.</p> - -<h3>LXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le temps present avecque le passé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera jugé par grand <i>Jovialiste</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Monde tard de luy sera lassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et desloial par le Clergé juriste.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_434"></a>[434]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The time present, together with the past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be judged by a great <i>Jovialiste</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The World shall at last be weary of him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he shall be thought unfaithful by the Canon-Law Clergy.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy concerneth meerly <i>Francis Rabelais</i>, who was the greatest <i>Jovialist</i>, -that is, Merry-man that ever was, and did so lash and censure the abuses of every -profession, and chiefly of the Clergy, that to this very day he goeth among them for -an Atheist, and a Prophaner of Sacred and Civil things.</p> - -<h3>LXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An revolu du grand nombre septiesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apparoistra au temps jeux d’<i>Hecatombe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non esloignez du grand age milliesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que les entrez sortiront de leur Tombe.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The year of the great number seven being past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be seen at that time the sports of <i>Hecatombe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not far from the great age thousand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the Buried shall come out of their Graves.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Hecatombe</i> signifieth a Sacrifice, wherein a hundred beasts were killed.</p> - -<p>The sense therefore is this, that when the year a thousand seven hundred is past, -that such sport of <i>Hecatombe</i> shall be seen again, not far from the sixth Millenary, -when the day shall rise, for it is a common opinion among the Learned, that as God -Created the World in six days, and rested the seventh, so when the World hath -lasted six thousand years, for a thousand years before God are as one day, there shall -be an Eternal Sabbath and a Resurrection, both of the just and unjust.</p> - -<h3>LXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant attendu ne reviendra jamais,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans l’<i>Europe</i>, en <i>Asia</i> apparoistra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un de la ligne yssu du grand <i>Hermes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et sur tous Rois de Orient croistra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So long expected shall never come</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into <i>Europe</i>, in <i>Asia</i> shall appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One come forth of the line of the great <i>Hermes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall grow above all the Kings in the East.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">All is plain, but only this, whether he taketh <i>Hermes</i> as a King of <i>Ægypt</i>, or as -the Father of the Hermetick Philosophers.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_435"></a>[435]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Senat decernera la Pompe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A un qu’apres sera vaincu chassé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des adhærans seront a son de trompe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Biens publiez, ennemy dechassé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Senate will decree a Pomp,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To one who after shall be vanquished and expelled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The goods of his partners shall be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Publickly sold, and the enemy shall be driven away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What Senate and particular man he meaneth, is the only difficulty in this.</p> - -<h3>LXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Trente adhærans de l’Ordre des <i>Quirettes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bannis, leurs biens donnez ses adversaires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous leurs bienfaits seront pour demerites,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Classe espargie, delivrez aux corsaires.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thirty associated of the Order of <i>Quirettes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Banished, their goods shall be given to their adversaries,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All their good deeds shall be imputed to them as crimes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fleet scattered, they shall fall into the hands of Pyrates.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I could not find any man or Author that knew what is meant here by <i>Quirettes</i>, -which is only the difficulty of this Stanza.</p> - -<h3>LXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Subite joye en subite tristesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera a <i>Rome</i> aux graces embrassées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dueil, cris, pleurs, larm, sang, excellent liesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contraires bandes surprises & troulsées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sudden joy shall turn into a sudden sadness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At <i>Rome</i> to the embraced graces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourning, cries, weeping, tears, blood, excellent joy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contrary Troops surprized and carryed away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">There is nothing difficult here, but what he meaneth by <i>Embraced graces</i>, for my -part I believe them some new married Couples, who in the middle of their jollity -shall fall into these disasters.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_436"></a>[436]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les vieux chemins seront tous embellis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’on passera a <i>Memphis</i> somentrées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand <i>Mercure</i> d’<i>Hercule</i> fleur de lys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faisant trembler Terre, Mer, & Contrées.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old ways shall be made all fair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be a passage to <i>Memphis</i> <i>Somentrées</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great <i>Mercury</i> of <i>Hercules</i> Flower de luce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making the Earth, the Sea, and the Countreys to quake.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This word <i>Somentrees</i>, being altogether barbarous, is the reason that neither sense -nor construction can be made of all these words.</p> - -<h3>LXXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Regne grand, du grand Regne Regnant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par force d’armes les grands Portes d’airain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera ouvrir le Roy & Duc joignant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Port demoly, nef a fonds jour serain.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the great Reign, of the great Reign Reigning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By force of Arms the great Brass Gates,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall cause to be open, the King being joyned with the Duke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Haven demolish’d, Ship sunk on a fair day.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and the sense are plain, though the parties be unknown.</p> - -<h3>LXXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis Tresor Temple, Citadins <i>Hesperiques</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans iceluy retire en secret lieu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Temple ouvrir, les liens fameliques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Repris, ravis proye horrible au milieu.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Treasure put in a Temple by <i>Hesperian</i> Citizens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the same hid in a secret place,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The hungry bonds shall cause the Temple to be open,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And take again and ravish, a fearful prey in the middle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a Treasure hid by <i>Spaniards</i> (called here <i>Hesperian Citizens</i>) in -a Church, which the people of a Town being poor, and almost starved, caused to be -open, and did ransack it, but in the middle of it they found a strange prey, but what -it was God knows.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_437"></a>[437]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cris, pleurs, larmes viendront avec couteaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Semblant faux donront dernier assaut,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’entour parques planter profons plateaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vifs repoussez & meurdris de plain saut.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cries, weeping, tears, shall come with daggers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a false seeming they shall give the last assault,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Set round about they shall plant deep,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaten back alive, and murdered upon a sudden.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This seemeth to have a relation to the Scalado of <i>Geneva</i>, of which you shall have -a full account in the 69 Stanza, of the twelfth Century.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De batailler ne sera donné signe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du Parc seront contraints de sortir hors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Gasp</i> l’entour sera cogneu l’enseigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui fera mettre de tous les siens a mort.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall no sign of battle be given,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall be compelled to come out of the Park,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Round about <i>Gasp</i> shall be known the Ensign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That shall cause all his own to be put to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie was fulfilled in the year 1556. by the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> in <i>Piemont</i>, -when he took the Town of <i>Vignal</i> by assault, where 1200. <i>Neapolitans</i> were put to -the Sword, who were called the braves of <i>Naples</i>; because they were all very gallantly -habited, and the Governour being wounded, cast himself desperately into a -Well, whence the Marshal caused him to be taken up, and to be cured of his wounds.</p> - -<p>In this conflict <i>there was no sign of Battle given</i>; because it was done by the rashness -of a Souldier, Bastard of a Bastard of the house of <i>Boissy</i>, who without expecting -the command of the General, went alone upon the breche, and after he had -<span class="transnote">[Transcriber’s Note: the text is illegible here with 1-2 words missing]</span> -against the Enemies, drew his Sword, and did fight a great while hand to hand without -being wounded.</p> - -<p>Some of his Companions seeing his valour, did follow him, and others came to -their help, and these carryed along with them all those that were appointed to give -the assault; insomuch that by a kind of Warlike emulation, all did carry themselves -so valliantly, that after a long and stout resistance, they routed the Enemies, and put -all the Garrisons to the Sword.</p> - -<p>It is what the Author saith in the first and second Verse, seeing that those that -were appointed to give Battle, every one in his Regiment or Squadron, were -compelled by emulation to come out of their <i>Park</i>; that is, from the Precinct of -place wherein they were. The third Verse addeth, that <i>round about the Ensign of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_438"></a>[438]</span> -<span class="antiqua">Gasp.</span> shall be known</i>; that is, in the assault the Captain of that place, named <i>Gaspar -Pagan</i>, was remarked to fight valliantly every where the <i>French</i> did assault, which the -Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> seeing, as also the forwardness of his men commanded the general -assault to be given. The Captain seeing the Town taken, though he had above twenty -wounds, for marks of his Valour, yet by that despair threw himself into a Well, -near which the Marshal passing, heard his voice, and caused him to be drawn out, and -cured of his wounds.</p> - -<p>This Captain being resolved to perish in this assault, <i>did cause all his own to be put -to death</i>, as the fourth Verse saith. The History of this Town was famous, for which -the Marshal of <i>Brissac</i> did present Gifts to the most Valiant, and among the rest to -this Bastard, after he had put him in jeopardy of his life, for having violated the -Military Orders in a matter of such concernment. That Town of <i>Vignal</i> is situated -upon a Mountain of the Countrey of <i>Montserrat</i>, of a difficult access, where no -pieces of Ordinance can be brought up, but by the help of Mens Arms; after the -taking of it, the Marshal did cause it to be raised even to the ground, because it could -not be useful to the <i>French</i>, that had many other places to keep, and might have been -very beneficial to the <i>Spaniard</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Naturel a si haut, haut non bas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le tard retour sera marris contens.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Recloing</i> ne sera sans debats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En emploiant & perdant tout son temps.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Natural to so high, high not low,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The late return shall make the sad contented,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Recloing</i> shall not be without strife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In employing and loosing all his time.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Recloing</i>, being a forged word, without signification, and being the Key of -all this Stanza, no body can tell what to make of it.</p> - -<h3>LXXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieil <i>Tribun</i> au point de la <i>Trehemide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera presse Captif ne delivrer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vueil non vueil, le mal parlant timide.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par legitime a ses amis livrer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old <i>Tribun</i>, at the point of the <i>Trehemide</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be much intreated not to deliver the Captain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They will not will, the ill speaking fearful,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By legitimate shall deliver to his friends.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_439"></a>[439]</span></p> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The old <i>Treban</i> is an old Captain or Governour of a Town, who shall be much -entreated not to deliver at the end of the <i>Trehemede</i> (that is, three Months) one that -he kept prisoner, but will they or not, he shall lawfully deliver him to his friends.</p> - -<h3>LXXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Comme un Gryphon viendra le Roy d’<i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompagne de ceux d’Aquilon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De rouges & blancs conduira grande Troupe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Iront contre le Roy de <i>Babylon</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">As a Griffin shall come the King of <i>Europe</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accompanied with those of the North,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of red and white shall conduct a great Troop,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And they shall go against the King of <i>Babylon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the King of <i>Swedeland</i>, <i>Gustavus Adolphus</i>, who is called here -the King of <i>Europe</i>; because he lived in a part of it, and because he was one, if not -the most gallant Prince of his time, who with a great Army of his Subjects, named -here those of <i>Aquilon</i>, invaded <i>Germany</i>, and made War against the Emperour, -whom he calleth here the King of <i>Babylon</i>, either because he is a great favourer of -the <i>Roman</i> Church, or because the Empire, by reason of so many sovereign Princes -in it is like a <i>Babel</i> and confusion.</p> - -<p><i>The great Troop of Red and White</i>, were his own Souldiers, whom he distinguished -by their several habits. Clothing them with several Colours, to breed an emulation -among them, there being the Red Regiment, the White, the Blew, the Yellow, the -Green, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<h3>LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand Roy viendra prendre port pres de <i>Nice</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Empire de la mort si en fera</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aux <i>Antipodes</i> posera son genisse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer la Pille tout esvanouira.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A great King shall land by <i>Nice</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Empire of death shall interpose with it.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall put his Mare in the <i>Antipodes</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Sea all the Pillage shall vanish.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">A great King shall land hard by <i>Nice</i>, which is a Sea Town in <i>Savoy</i>, but he shall -have a great loss of his men by death, and the Sea shall swallow all his plunder.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_440"></a>[440]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pieds & Cheval a la seconde veille,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feront entrée vastiant tout par Mer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dedans le Port entrera de <i>Marseille</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleurs, cris & sang, onc nul temps si amer.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Foot and Horse upon the second Watch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall come in destroying all by Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall come into the Harbour of <i>Marseilles</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tears, cryes and blood, never was so bitter a time.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is so clear that it needeth no interpretation.</p> - -<h3>LXXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De Bricque en Marbre seront les Murs reduits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sept & cinquante années pacifiques,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joye aux humains renevé l’aqueduct,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Santé, grands fruits, joye & temps mellifique.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Walls shall be turned from Brick into Marble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be peace for seven and fifty years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joy to mankind, the Aqueduct shall be built again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Health, abundance of fruit, joy and mellifluous time.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">After so many calamities Prognosticated by the Author, he promiseth here seven -and fifty year of a golden Age, but when? he maketh no mention.</p> - -<h3>XC.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cent fois mourra le Tyran inhumain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mis a son lieu scavant & debonnaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout le Senat sera dessoubs sa main;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fasche sera par malin temeraire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The inhumane tyrant shall die a hundred times,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his place shall be put a Learned and mild man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the Senate shall be at his command,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall be made angry by a rash malicious person.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prognostication is easie to be understood, only it is indeterminate, and specifieth -neither time nor persons.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_441"></a>[441]</span></p> - -<h3>XCI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Clergé <i>Romain</i> l’an mil six cens & neuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au chef de l’an fera Election,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un gris & noir de la Campagne yssu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui oncques ne fut si malin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Roman</i> Clergy in the year a thousand six hundred and nine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the beginning of the year shall make choice</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a gray and black, come out of the Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such a one as never a worse was.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Wanting the Chronology of the Popes, I have not set down who that Pope was, -then whom our Author saith there never was a worse, but the time being so punctually -prefixed, it will be an easie matter for the Reader to find out satisfaction in this -point.</p> - -<h3>XCII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Devant le Pere l’Enfant sera tué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pere apres entre cordes de jonc,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Genevois</i> peuple sera esvertué,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gisant le Chef au milieu comme un tronc.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Child shall be killed before the Fathers eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Father after shall enter into ropes of rushes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The people of <i>Geneva</i> shall notably stir themselves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Chief lying in the middle like a log.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is twofold, the two first Verses foretel of a man that shall have his -Son killed before his eyes, and himself afterward shall be strangled by a rope made of -Rushes.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses are concerning the people of <i>Geneva</i>, who (as he saith) shall -lustily bestir themselves, while their Captain, Chief, or Commander shall carelesly -lie like a log.</p> - -<h3>XCIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Barque neuve recevra les Voiages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La & aupres transfereront l’Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Beaucaire</i>, <i>Arles</i>, retiendront les Hostages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pres deux Colomnes trouvées de <i>Porphyre</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The new Ship shall make journeys</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into the place, and thereby where they shall translate the Empire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Beaucaire</i>, <i>Arles</i>, shall keep the Hostages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near them shall be found two Columns of <i>Porphyry</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_442"></a>[442]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning three things, the first is of a considerable new Ship, -that shall sail several times into a place where the Empire shall be translated.</p> - -<p>The second is concerning two Towns of <i>Languedoc</i>, <i>Beaucaire</i>, and <i>Arles</i>, who shall -not surrender the Hostages that they had.</p> - -<p>The third is concerning two Columns of <i>Porphiry</i> that shall be found there about.</p> - -<h3>XCIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Nismes</i>, d’<i>Arles</i>, & <i>Vienne</i> contemner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nobeyront a ledict <i>Hesperique</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Labouriez</i> pour le grand condamner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six eschapez en habit <i>Seraphique</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From <i>Nismes</i>, d’<i>Arles</i> and <i>Vienna</i> contempt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall not obey the <i>Spanish</i> Proclamation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the <i>Labouriez</i> for to condemn the great one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six escaped in a <i>Seraphical</i> habit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">It seemeth that those three aforenamed Towns will refuse to obey a <i>Spanish</i> Proclamation, -that would compel them to condemn a great man; as for <i>Labouriez</i> it is -a barbarous and non-sensical word.</p> - -<p>The last Verse signifieth, that six shall escape, cloathed in <i>Franciscan</i> habits, called -here <i>Seraphical</i>, because the Franciscans believe that a <i>Seraphin</i> did appear to St. -<i>Francis</i> their Patron, from whence their Order is called by many the <i>Seraphical</i> -Order.</p> - -<h3>XCV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans les <i>Espagnes</i> viendra Roy trespuissant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Mer & Terre subjugant au Midy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce mal sera rabaissant le croissant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Baisser les aisles a ceux de <i>Vendredy</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A most potent King shall come into <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who by Sea and Land shall make great Conquests towards the South,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This evil shall beat down the horns of the new Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And slack the Wings of those of <i>Friday</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>A great and potent King shall come out of <span class="antiqua">Spain</span>, who by Sea and Land shall make great -Conquest towards the South</i>, that is <i>Barbary</i>, which shall be a great prejudice to the -<i>Turkish</i> Empire, who hath for his Arms a new Moon; <i>And slack the wings of those of -<span class="antiqua">Friday</span></i>, that is, of the Turks, because they keep the <i>Friday</i> for their <i>Sabbath</i>. This -Prophecy was fulfilled by <i>Philip</i> the II. King of <i>Spain</i>, who drove away all the <i>Moores</i> -out of the South part of it, and took a great many places in the Coasts of <i>Barbary</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_443"></a>[443]</span></p> - -<h3>XCVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Religion du nom des Mers viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contre la Secte fils <i>Adaluncatif</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secte obstinée deplorée craindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des deux blessez par <i>Aleph</i> & <i>Aleph</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Religion of the name of the Seas shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the Sect son <i>Adaluncatif</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Obstinate Sect deplorate shall be afraid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the two wounded by <i>Aleph</i> and <i>Aleph</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I confess my ignorance in the intelligence of this Stanza.</p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Triremes</i> pleines tout aage captifs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Temps bon a mal, le doux pour amertume,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proye a <i>Barbare</i> trop tost seront hastifs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cupide de voir plaindre au vent la plume.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Triremes</i> full of Captives of all Age.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Time good for evil, the sweet for bitter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pray to the <i>Barbarian</i>, they shall be too hasty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Desirous to see the feather complain in the wind.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Triremes are Galleys with three benches of Oares, the rest is much of the nature -of the former.</p> - -<h3>XCVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La splendeur clairëa Pucelle joieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne luira plus, long temps sera sans Sel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avec Marchans, Ruffiens, Loups, odieuse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous pesle mesle monstre universel.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The clear splendour of the merry Maid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall shine no more, she shall be a great while without Salt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Merchants, Ruffans, Wolves, odious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All promiscuously, she shall be an universal Monster.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a famous beauty, who in her latter age shall prostitute her self -to all comers.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_444"></a>[444]</span></p> - -<h3>XCIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A la fin le Loup, le Lion, Bœuf & l’Asne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Timide dama seront avec Mastins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus ne cherra a eux la douce Manne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plus vigilance & custode aux Mastins.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At last the Wolf, the Lion, Oxe and Asse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fearful Doe, shall be with the Mastiffs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sweet Manna shall no more fall to them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be no more watching and keeping of Mastiffs.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prognostication of a general peace all <i>Europe</i> over.</p> - -<p><i>The sweet Manna shall no more fall to them</i>, signifieth that the <i>Europeans</i> shall be -fed no more with Manna, as the Jews were in the Desert, but shall pass to the Land -of Promise, that is of peace and quietness.</p> - -<h3>C.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand Empire sera par l’<i>Angleterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Pempotan</i> des ans plus de trois cens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grandes Copies passer par Mer & Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les <i>Lusitains</i> n’en seront pas contens.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great Empire shall be in <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Pempotan</i> for more then three hundred years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great Armies shall pass through Sea and Land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Portugueses</i> shall not be contented therewith.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a favourable one for <i>England</i>, for by it the Empire, or the greatest Dominion -of <i>Europe</i> is promised to it, for the space of above three hundred years, at which -the <i>Portugueses</i> or <i>Spaniards</i> shall much repine.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_445"></a>[445]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> XI</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-m.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap"><i>Meysinier</i>, <i>Manthi</i>, & le tiers qui viendra,</div> - <div class="verse">Peste & nouveau insult, enclos troubler.</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Aix</i> & les lieux fureur dedans mordra,</div> - <div class="verse">Puis les <i>Phocens</i> viendront leur mal doubler.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse"><i>Meysinier</i>, <i>Manthi</i>, and the third that shall come,</div> - <div class="verse">Plague and new attempt shall trouble them enclosed,</div> - <div class="verse">The fury of it shall bite in <i>Aix</i> and the places there about,</div> - <div class="verse">Then they of <i>Phocens</i> shall come and double their misery.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">These are names of particular persons that are here threatned of the Plague, as also -the City of <i>Aix</i> Capital of <i>Provence</i>, and the Countrey about it, and after that the -City of <i>Marseilles</i> named here <i>Phocens</i>, because they are a Colony of the old <i>Phocenses</i> -in <i>Greece</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_446"></a>[446]</span></p> - -<h3>XCVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par <i>Ville Franche</i>, <i>Mascon</i> en desarroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans les Fagots seront Soldats cachez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Changer de temps en prime pour le Roy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par de <i>Chalon</i> & <i>Moulins</i> tous hachez.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Ville Franche</i>, <i>Mascon</i> shall be put in disorder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Faggots shall Souldiers be hidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The time shall change in prime for the King,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By <i>Chalon</i> and <i>Moulins</i> they shall be all hewed to pieces.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>Ville Franche</i> is a Town five Leagues from <i>Lion</i>; and <i>Mascon</i> another about the -same distance from <i>Ville Franche</i>, and <i>Chalon</i> from <i>Mascon</i>, and <i>Moulins</i> from <i>Chalon</i>.</p> - -<p>The meaning of it is this, that there shall be an attempt from <i>Ville Franche</i> upon -<i>Mascon</i>, by Souldiers hidden in Faggots, that shall be cut off by the succours of those -<i>Chalons</i> and <i>Moulins</i>; which like did happen in the time of the Civil Wars in -<i>France</i>, between the King and the League, when the Towns stood one against another, -but because I can find nothing of it in the History, I suspend my further judgement -therein.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_447"></a>[447]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter century"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="gesperrt"><i>CENTURY</i> XII</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-f.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Feu, flamme, faim, furt, farouche fumée,</div> - <div class="verse">Fera faillir, froissant fort, soy faucher,</div> - <div class="verse">Fils de Deité! toute <i>Provence</i> humée,</div> - <div class="verse">Chasse de Regne, enragé sans crocher.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Fire, flame, hunger, theft, wild smoak,</div> - <div class="verse">Shall cause to fail, brusing hard, to move Faith,</div> - <div class="verse">Son of God! all <i>Provence</i> swallowed up?</div> - <div class="verse">Driven from the Kingdom, raging mad without spitting.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The curiosity of the Author in striving to begin all his words, in the two first Verses -hath made the tense of this Stanza so obscure, that I believe no body ever did or -shall truely understand it, all what can be gathered out of it, is great threatning of -several calamities, that were to happen upon <i>Provence</i> his native Countrey, as it did -a little while after his death, by the Civil Wars for Religion.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_448"></a>[448]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand secours venu de la <i>Guyenne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">S’arrestera tout aupres de <i>Poitiers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lion</i> rendu par <i>Montluel</i> en <i>Vienne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et saccagez par tous gens de Mestiers.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great succours that came from <i>Gascony</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall stop hard by <i>Poitiers</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Lion</i> surrendred by <i>Montluel</i> and <i>Vienna</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And ransacked by all kinds of Tradesmen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The words and sense of this are plain.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Assault farouche en <i>Cypre</i> se prepare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La larme a l’œil de ta ruine proche,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bizance</i> Classe <i>Morisque</i> si grand tare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux differens le grand vast par la Roche.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A cruel assault is preparing in <i>Cyprus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tears in my eye, thou art near thy ruine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Fleet of <i>Constantinople</i> and the <i>Morick</i> so great damage.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two differents the great wast shall be by the Rock.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap"><i>A cruel assault is preparing</i>, signifies the shortness of the time in which it was to -happen, for our Author Prophecied 1555. and <i>Cyprus</i> was taken by the <i>Turks</i> in the -Month of <i>August</i> 1571. <i>Selymus</i> the II. fifth Emperour of the <i>Turks</i>, where the -perfidiousness of the Bassa <i>Mustapha</i> that Besieged it is remarkable, for having the -Town delivered him upon Articles; First, that the Inhabitants of the City yet alive -should enjoy their lives, liberty, and goods, with free exercise of Christian Religion, -that the Governour <i>Bragadinus</i> with the rest of the Captains and Souldiers might in -safty depart with Bag and Baggage, and at their departure take with them five pieces -of Ordinance, and three Horses, which soever it should please them to make -choise of, and that the <i>Turks</i> should safely conduct them into <i>Crete</i>, finding them -both Victual and Shipping; yet all these matters agreed upon, and commenced into -Writting, as also by solemn Oaths on both side confirmed; the perfidious Bassa -nevertheless caused <i>Bragadinus</i> to have his Ears cut off, then caused him to be set in a -Chair, and his skin to be flain off from him quick, his head to be cut from his dead -body, and upon the point of a Spear to be set upon a high place, his skin also stuffed -with Chaff, he caused to be hanged up at the Yards Arm, and so to be carried about.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_449"></a>[449]</span></p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux corps un chef, champs divisez en deux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et puis respondre a quattre non ouys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Petits pour grands a pertius mal pour eux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tour d’<i>Aigues</i> foudre, pire pour <i>Eussovis</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two bodies, one head, fields divided into two,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then answer to four unheard ones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Small for great ones, open evil for them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Tower of <i>Aigues</i> beaten by Lightning, worse for <i>Eussovis</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Out of this crabbid Stanza we shall pick what we can, and leave the rest to the -judgment of the judicious Reader. First,</p> - -<p><i>The two bodies, one head</i> may be understood either a Monster that was so, as it did -happen once in <i>Italy</i>, as <i>Pareus</i> witnesseth; or of the union of the two Kingdoms of -<i>France</i> and <i>Navarre</i>, under <i>Henry</i> the IV. or of <i>England</i> and <i>Scotland</i> under King -<i>James</i>.</p> - -<p>The Tower of <i>Aiguemortes</i> was strucken with the Lightning, a while after our -Author had put out his Prophecies.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tristes Conseils, desloiaux, cauteleux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aduis meschant, la loy sera trahie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le peuple esmeu, farouche, querelleux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant Bourg que Ville toute le paix haie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sad Councels, unfaithful, malicious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ill advice the Law shall be betrayed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The people shall be moved, wild & quarrelsome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both in Countrey and City the peace shall be hated.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Roy contre Roy, & le Duc contre Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Haine entre iceux dissension, horrible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rage & fureur sera toute Province,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>France</i> grand guerre & changement terrible.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_450"></a>[450]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">King against King, and Duke against a Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hatred between them, horrid dissension,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rage and fury shall be in every Province,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great War in <i>France</i>, and horrid changes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a true picture of the miseries of the Civil Wars in <i>France</i>, when <i>Charles</i> the -IX. King of <i>France</i>, was against <i>Henry</i> King of <i>Navarre</i>, and the Duke of <i>Guise</i> against -the Prince of <i>Condé</i>.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’accord & pache sera du tout rompue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les amitiez pollues par discorde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’haine euvieille, toute foy corrompue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et l’esperance, <i>Marseilles</i> sans concorde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The agreement and contract shall be broken in pieces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The friendships polluted by discord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The hatred shall be old, all faith corrupted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And hope also, <i>Marseilles</i> without concord.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a second part of the foregoing.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Guerre & debats, a <i>Blois</i> guerre & tumulte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Divers aguets, adveux inopinables,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Entrer dedans <i>Chasteau Trompette</i>, insulte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Chasteau du Ha</i> qui en seront coulpables.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">War and strifes, at <i>Blois</i> war and tumult,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Several lying in wait, acknowledgment unexpected,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They shall get into the <i>Chasteau Trompette</i> by assault,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And into the <i>Chasteau du Ha</i>, who shall be guilty of it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning the Civil Wars of <i>France</i> between the King and the -League.</p> - -<p>He saith, <i>at <span class="antiqua">Blois</span> war and tumult</i>; because the Duke of <i>Guise</i>, and the Cardinal -his Brother were both killed there, at the convention of Estates by the Kings command, -which he calleth here <i>acknowledgment unexpected</i>, because the Kingdom did -own the fact.</p> - -<p>The last two Verses are concerning the two Castles or Fortresses of <i>Bourdeaux</i>, -who in those days were sometimes by one party, and sometimes by another.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_451"></a>[451]</span></p> - -<h3>LXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A tenir fort par fureur contraindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout cœur trembler, <i>Langon</i> advent terrible,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le coup de pied mille pieds te rendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Girond.</i> <i>Garon.</i> ne furent plus horribles.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall by fury compel them to hold out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Every heart shall tremble, <i>Langon</i> shall have a terrible event,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The kick shall return to thee a thousand kicks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Girond.</i> <i>Garon.</i> are no more horrid.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The two last Verses seem to have a relation to the foregoing Stanza, and to import, -that the Governour of <i>Bourdeaux</i> shall compel them to hold out, and because -<i>Langon</i>, a Town 20 or 30 Miles distant from <i>Bourdeaux</i>, was of the contrary party, -and did annoy sometimes those of <i>Bourdeaux</i>, it is threatned here to have a thousand -kicks for one.</p> - -<p><i>Gironde</i> and <i>Garonne</i> are the two Rivers of <i>Bourdeaux</i>.</p> - -<h3>LXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Eiovas</i> proche, esloigner Lac <i>Leman</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fort grand apprests, retour confusion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loin des <i>Nepueux</i>, du feu grand <i>Supelman</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous de leur suyte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Eiovas</i> near, yet seemeth to be far from the Lake <i>Leman</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very great preparatives, return confusion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Far from the <i>Neveux</i> of the late great <i>Supelman</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All of their train.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a notable one, directly foretelling the Enterprise or Scalado made by the -Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, upon <i>Geneva</i>: for the better Intelligence of which, we shall first -give the sense word for word, and then set down the whole History as a piece of -Cabinet, that the Reader after so much tedious and crabbid reading, may have -some field to spatiate and recruit it self.</p> - -<p><i>Eiovas near</i>, <i>Eiovas</i> by Anagram is <i>Savoy</i>, or the Duke of it, who at that time -was near <i>Geneva</i>; <i>yet seemeth far from the Lake <span class="antiqua">Leman</span></i>, which is the Lake that passeth -through <i>Geneva</i>, called in Latine <i>Lacus Lemannus</i>. <i>Very great preparatives</i>; -because at that time he made great preparations to Scale the Walls of <i>Geneva</i>. <i>Return</i>; -because he was forced to retire. <i>Confusion</i>; because he was confounded in his undertaking. -<i>Far from the <span class="antiqua">Neveux</span> of the great <span class="antiqua">Supelman</span></i>; that is, an action much -unworthy the Kindred of <i>Henry</i> the IV. called here great <i>Supelman</i>, to whom he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_452"></a>[452]</span> -was Allied. <i>All of their Train</i>; that is, all that were with him in that undertaking, -did partake of his return and confusion. Now the History is thus.</p> - -<p>About the latter end of the year 1600. the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> having done before all -his endeavours to take the City of <i>Geneva</i> by force, did resolve at last to have it by -craft, and stratagem. He did frame a design full of Courage, Understanding, and -Conduct, as well as of misfortune; it was long a hatching without being discovered, -and although it was known that he caused Ladders to be made, and that he -bought every where men of courage and resolution, and had a great number of them -already at <i>Chambery</i>, well payed and maintained, waiting for the ripeness of the design, -though Ignorant of it. No body could believe that it was against those of -<i>Geneva</i>; because at that time he did treat with them of the manner of living friendly, -and of the liberty of Trade, having sent to them for this purpose a few days before -the President <i>Rochette</i>, to treat and advise of a manner of living friendly together, -for the ease of the people. They did so much hearten and relish his propositions -and promises, that although Cities of such condition, do not lightly believe them -that have been their Enemies, nevertheless they trusted to that, and grew careless -of their own preservation, thinking that there was nothing more powerfull for their -security than the treaties of peace between <i>France</i>, <i>Spain</i>, and <i>Savoy</i>, in which they -thought themselves included, under the name of the confederate with the Cantons -of <i>Switzerland</i>; insomuch that the Dukes subjects went thither so familiarly, that -the day before this Execution some Gentlemen that knew something of the design, -being come into the Town to buy some Horses, said they would come again the next -day to conclude the Bargain, and others had kept she same Language for other -Wares, so fully perswaded were they of a success, though Heaven, who laugheth -at the thoughts of the proud, had resolved to humble and abase them.</p> - -<p>The Governour of <i>Lion</i> had presently notice that the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> was coming -on the side of the Mountain, and carryed with him scaling Ladders, of which he -sent notice to the King, and provided what was necessary for the defence of <i>Lion</i>, -although the same Advice said it was not for <i>France</i>; yet all this could not hinder -the Execution which was in the mean time a doing. D’<i>Albigny</i> Lieutenant General -of the Duke in those Countreys he had on this side of the Mountains, had made the -Troops to pass, and for that purpose had assigned them of their Quarters in the -Towns of <i>Geneva</i>, in several places, that they might not be so soon discovered. -The Randezvous was at a place called <i>Chambery</i>, the time of the Execution was reserved -to the prudence of the Leader. The time was not according to the precept -of the <i>Parthians</i>, who ever fought by night, nor of the <i>Lacedemonians</i>, who undertook -nothing but in the time of the full Moon; for it was one of the darkest and -longest nights of all the year, the Troops began their March about six of the Clock. -<i>Brignoles</i> Governour of <i>Bonnes</i>, a small Town in <i>Fossigny</i>, distant three Leagues -from <i>Geneva</i>, was the man that had contributed most of his own for the performance -of this design, whom he thought so certain, that he said he would die to the -world, if he did not live in <i>Geneva</i>. D’<i>Albigny</i> had set up Watches upon all the -passes, to stop all Travellers, for fear notice should be given of their coming; and -of that of the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, to whom the Execution had been represented so sure -and certain, in that he should be there himself to reap the Honour and profit of it, -and to end the Triumph that his Grandfather had begun. He came over the -Mountains with five Gentlemen only in his Company, and the same day came to -<i>Tremblures</i>, a Village distant from <i>Geneva</i> about three Miles; and for all that they -could not hinder, but an unknown Trooper did ride as far as the New-gate, and -asked to speak to him that commanded there, bidding him look to themselves, -because the duke of <i>Savoy</i>, wished them no good, and so retreated galloping. This -News was brought to <i>Blondel</i>, the fourth Syndic of the Town, and who had the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_453"></a>[453]</span> -charge of the Guard that year; he answerd, he would provide for that. Another -came afterwards, and told him that the Dukes Forces were about the Town, -but knew not upon what design, and that himself was at <i>Bonne</i>; he answered, that -they were not Birds, and could not fly. Mistrust is not always be commended; -but too much confidence in such business, is exceedingly dangerous.</p> - -<p>Those that were to do the Execution, and to get up first upon the Ladders, -went along by the River of <i>Albe</i>, that the noise of the Waters might hinder the -Sentinals to hear them. Two things did happen, that were an ill Omen for them, -they saw in the Skies unusual fires, a Hare did many times cross their way, and gave -them a false Alarm, and as many things being considered in the night time, do trouble -the imagination, and that fear maketh one think that Bushes are Squadrons, and -Thistles Pikes, as it did happen once at the Siege of <i>Paris</i> by the <i>Burgundians</i>. They -did discover about Eleven of the Clock some Posts, to whom the Cloth-workers of -<i>Geneva</i> use to nail their Stuffs to dry them. Those that went formost would have -Charged them, thinking they had been an Ambuscado; from thence they went -all along the <i>Rhosne</i> to the Meadow of <i>Plain Palais</i>. <i>Brignolet</i>, and those that were -ordained for the Scalado followed d’<i>Albigny</i>, who led them down into the Town-Ditch, -on the side of the <i>Corraterie</i>, without being discovered by the Sentinals, -although the Ducks that were in the Ditch, did (for to awake those of <i>Geneva</i>) -what the Geese did at <i>Rome</i> against the <i>French</i>. They went over the Ditch upon -Hurdles for fear to sink in the Mire, and did set up three Ladders of a wonderful invention; -because they could be easily carryed upon Mules, and they could be folded -into so many pieces, that they could reach the highest wall that is; and besides that, -so strong and firm, that no Ladder of one piece could be more; they had besides -that provided Hatchets, Hammers, Pincers, and other such Tools, to cut Iron -Chains, break Locks, draw Nails and Bars, they had besides several Petardoes and -Petardo-Masters. Fortune, who hath a great power in such undertakings, did fail -them in their need, after she had brought them to the middle of the City, and made -them masters of the streets for above two hours.</p> - -<p>By one of those Ladders went up about two hundred men, <i>Brignolet</i> was the first, -followed by d’<i>Attignac</i> and <i>Sonas</i>, and did carry himself more valliantly and prudently; -having got over the Wall, he surprized the Sentinal, and drew from him the -Watch-word, and his Life, then threw him over into the Ditch, and stood in his -place to stay for the Round, that he might do as much to him, as he did when it -came near him to give him the Watch-word. D’<i>Albigny</i>, and one Father <i>Alexander</i> -a <i>Scotchman</i>, and a Jesuite, were at the Ladders foot, incouraging those that -went up. The Boy that carryed the Lanthorn saved himself, and gave notice to the -<i>Court de Garde</i> of what had befallen his Master, at which the <i>Court de Garde</i> was not -much moved. This was a doing between One and Two of the Clock, expecting -that of four, at the which they had proposed to make their greater attempt, and in -the mean while to give time to the succour to draw near, and to the day to break, -because all Warlike Executions done by night, carry always some confusion with -them. No body had gone to bed in the Town with a thought to be awakened so -soon, they rested upon the assurance of the Peace. The undertakers had a whole -hours time to get up, and as much before they met with any opposition. If d’<i>Albigny</i> -had been Within to husband that time better than did <i>Sonas</i>, <i>Brignolet</i>, and d’<i>Attignac</i>, -they might have cried, the Town is won. About half an hour past two of the -Clock, a Sentinal that was in the Mints Tower, having heard some noise in the -Ditch, shot off his Gun to give the Alarm, which compelled <i>Brignolet</i> to discover -himself, charging all that was in the <i>Court de Garde</i> of the New-gate, that he might -Plant the Petard, and make way for the main Body that was in <i>Plain Palais</i>. They -got very well the <i>Court de Garde</i>, but against the Rule of War, which commandeth<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_454"></a>[454]</span> -to kill all, they let one escape that had so much wit as to get up, and to let down -the Port-Cullis, to frustrate the effect of the Petard. The Town was at that time -full of Cries and horrid Houlings, of which the <i>Savoiards</i> should have made -their profit, and increased their courage, as it did weaken that of the Townsmen, -that knew not where to run, some crying one way, some another. The undertakers -lost themselves in the appearance of so happy a success, those that were without -should have given the Alarm at some other Gate, to divide the Forces of the -Town, those that were within made no use of their Hatchets, Hammers and Pincers, -they forgot to set some Houses on fire; the spirit of astonishment seized upon -them, having in their thoughts the Sack and Plunder of the Town, more than -the perfection of their Conquest; they made only use of a certain croaking like -Frogs, as the <i>Turks</i> use the <i>Bret, Bret</i>, to animate and rally themselves. <i>Brignolet</i> -being compelled to discover himself, marched towards the New Gate, distant from -that place about 200. Paces, and there was wounded, and died a little after; the -Fight began in the dark, and the <i>Court de Garde</i> was dispersed, one Souldier hearing -them call for the Petard, got upon the Gate, and cut the Rope that held the -Port-Culis, and shut up the Petard between the Port-Culis, and the Gate which -they went about to break open, with their Hatchets and Hammers, at the first -resistance the Petards Master was killed. The Order is such at <i>Geneva</i>, that in -all extraordinary accidents, every Citizen knoweth the place of his Randezvous, and -there goeth with his Arms, and the Town House is never destitute of Souldiers.</p> - -<p>In the mean time the Magistrate cryeth, He that loveth me let him follow me. -Some Countrey Fellows of the Neighbouring Towns, who kept their watch by -turns, being led by some Captains and Citizens, did present themselves at the -New Gate, where they were stoutly received, and beaten back, and yet the first -shot of theirs killed the Petard-Master, who was much troubled with his Tools. -This first Charge would not have driven them back, if the body of the Citizens had -not come, and Charged them so furiously, that they lost all their Courage; Necessity -which strengthens even those that want Courage, did so animate the Citizens -to their defence, that the undertakers were fained to give back. The more nimble -went again to their Ladders, which proved useless; because the Canon that was -Planted in the Fort of <i>Loye</i>, near the Ditch, had broken them; so that they left -four and fifty dead upon the place, and upon the Curtain of the <i>Corraterie</i>, and -thirteen that were taken alive. If the Town had had Souldiers in readiness to make -a Sally in that Andabatism, the night being sometimes favourable to such expeditions, -those that were at <i>Plain Palais</i>, would not have retreated in so good an -Order.</p> - -<p>There were thirteen taken alive, among whom were the Baron of <i>Attignac</i>, the -Lord <i>Sonas</i>, the Lord <i>Chaffardon</i>, upon promise of their Lives, and to be Prisoners -of War, or else they had preserved an Honourable death to all the promises, to be -spared in laying down their Arms; among them was d’<i>Attignac</i>, who fought valiantly, -and gave his order of St. <i>Maurice</i> to his man, bidding him save himself, -being resolved to die with his Sword in his hand.</p> - -<p>The Lords of <i>Geneva</i> would not use them as Prisoners of War; but as Thieves -and Robbers come into the City over the Walls. They said that the Duke was -too generous a Prince for so wicked and perfidious an action: there was several -Opinions concerning their Sentence of Death, the more moderate would have them -be put to Ransom, others would have them be kept Prisoners, that they might -serve for exchange, if some of the Town were taken in the continuation of the -War; but the more violent did stir the people, in representing unto them the loss -of their Religion, the ravishing of their Wives and Maids, the Massacre, the Sack<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_455"></a>[455]</span> -and Plunder of the Town, and their perpetual slavery, and the complaints of the -Widows and Children of those that had been killed, were so much considered, that -the more moderate Opinions did not appear injust, but in how much they tended -to Death. They were Condemned to be Hanged, which is thought the most Ignominious -Death: they desired to have their Heads cut off as Gentlemen, which -was granted, but it was after they were Hanged. Fifty nine were found killed and -wounded, who had all their Heads cut off. In the Ditch there were some Arms -found, thirty dead, and four wounded, all their Heads were cut off, and set with -the rest upon the Gallows. Of the Citizens of the Town there were seventeen found -dead, most of them killed by their Companions in the dark. Their Names were -<i>John Canal</i>, one of the Lords of the Councel, <i>Lewis Baudiere</i>, <i>John Vandel</i>, <i>Lewis -Galatin</i>, <i>Peter Cabriol</i>, <i>Mark Cambiagua</i>, <i>Nicolas Baugueret</i>, <i>James Mercier</i>, <i>Abraham -de Baptista</i>, <i>Daniel Humbert</i>, <i>Martin de Bolo</i>, <i>Michael Monard</i>, <i>Philip Potter</i>, <i>Francis -Bouzesel</i>, <i>John Buignet</i>, <i>James Petit</i>, <i>Gerrard Muzy</i>, and about twenty wounded. -The Sunday after Dinner, about two of the Clock, 67 Heads, as well of those that -were killed, as of those that were Hanged, were fastened upon the Gallows, and -the Bodies thrown into the <i>Rhosne</i>. The next <i>Tuesday</i> there was a solemn Fasting -day kept, and they began to publish every where the wonders of this Deliverance.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_456"></a>[456]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header7.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">Here followeth the Copy of their Letter, to the -Governour of <i>Lion</i>.</p> - -<p>My Lord,</p> - -<p class="dcap"><i>You have known before this by many of your Letters, how his Highness of <span class="antiqua">Savoy</span>, -notwithstanding he knew, and had confessed that we were included in the Peace -made in the year 1600. between his Royal Majesty of <span class="antiqua">France</span>, and him; hath nevertheless -divers times oppressed us, by detaining our Rents, prohibiting of Trade, other violences -and extortions, refusing to hearken to the just and pressing remonstrances, which -his Majesty hath made him several times in our behalf; but hath also contrived many designs -to surprise us in time of Peace. Now it is so, that for the encompassing his pernicious -design, the Lord <span class="antiqua">d’Albigny</span>, <span class="antiqua">Saturday</span> last, the Eleventh of this Month, did bring before -our Town, on the side of <span class="antiqua">Plain Palais</span>, about two Thousand men, Horse and Foot, -all choice men, and hath caused to pass about 200. of them over our Ditch, by the <span class="antiqua">Corraterie</span>, -and having set up Ladders one within another, hath caused them to come into our -Town, about three of the Clock in the Morning, upon <span class="antiqua">Sunday</span> the Twelfth of this Month, -encouraging them himself, being in the Ditch; so that being come down into the Town, -some went towards our New Gate to force it open, and give entrance to their Companions, -who were in the plain of <span class="antiqua">Plain Palais</span>, others went towards the Mint Gate, that they might -by this means come into the middle of the Town. But it hath pleased God to look upon us -with his favourable Eye, and to give such a Heart to the Citizens, that they beat them back, -and killed the best part of them taken upon the place, the rest hath been taken, and since -that Hanged by our Order, the rest threw themselves down from the wall; so that we hear, -many of them are either dead or grievously wounded. It is a wonderfull deliverance of our -God, for which we are particularly bound to Praise him. But as it is probable, that the -said Lord <span class="antiqua">d’Albigny</span> will continue his ill designs, by so much the more that we hear his -Highness is not far from us, we do intreat and request by all our affection, that you would -be pleased to consider what prejudice the taking of this place would be to his Majesty, and -to continue us your favour, and assist us with your wise and prudent advise, <span class="antiqua">&c.</span></i></p> - -<p><i>Many did judge of the success of this enterprise by the beginning, and were more forward -to write, than to perform well. The King had notice that the Duke was Master of the -Town, and the manner of doing was represented with so much felicity and facility, that -there was less reason to doubt of it, than believe it. The Truth was not known, but by the -advise of the Governour of <span class="antiqua">Lion</span>, which came before any discourse that the Town did publish -after its deliverance</i>:</p> - -<p><i>The Duke went Post back again over the Mountains, and left his Troops within three -miles of <span class="antiqua">Geneva</span> in three places, at <span class="antiqua">Tournon</span>, <span class="antiqua">Fossigny</span>, and <span class="antiqua">Ternier</span>, he caused his -Embassadours to say to the Lord of <span class="antiqua">Berne</span>, that he had not made that enterprise to trouble -the Peace of the Cantons; but to prevent <span class="antiqua">l’Esdiguieres</span> to seize upon it for the King of -of <span class="antiqua">France</span>, who should have been so powerfull a Neighbour, as would have given them great -occasion of fears and jealousies</i>.</p> - -<p><i>The success of this undertaking made it appear, that God will not have those Treaties to -the assurance of which his name hath been called for a Witness, to be violated, whatsoever -appearance or pretext of Religion there be.</i></p> - -<p><i>Thus Gentle Reader thou seest by all these Circumstances the Truth of our Authors -Prognostication.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_457"></a>[457]</span></p> - -<h3>LXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fleuves, Rivieres, de mal seront obstacles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La vielle flame d’ire non appaisée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Courir en <i>France</i>, cecy come d’Oracles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Maisons, Manoirs, Palais, secte rasée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Brooks and Rivers shall be a stopping to evil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old flame of anger being not yet ceased,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall run through <i>France</i>, take this as an Oracle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Houses, Mannors, Palaces, Sect shall be raced.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a perfect relation to the miseries that followed the general Massacre of -the Protestants in <i>France</i> in the year 1572. when the Rivers were a stop to the cruelty -of the Persecutors, and when so many Houses, Mannors and Palaces belonging to -those of the reformed Religion were demolished, and to signifie the certainty thereof, -he saith in the third Verse, <i>take this as an Oracle</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_458"></a>[458]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">To the Curious</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">READER</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p>Gentle Reader,</p> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-t.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap"><i>Thou shalt take notice, that in this place the covetousness -of Booksellers and Printers, hath in -the modern Copies vented new Prophecies, -which they call Prognostications, drawn out of -those of <span class="antiqua">Michael Nostradamus</span>, which are so -absurd and nonsensical, that they have been rejected, both by -his Son, and the best Wits of this age; therefore I would not soil -the Paper with them, for fear to put such a course List upon so -fine a Cloth, but shall proceed on to give you the rest of those Prophecies, -which truly and undoubtedly belong to our Author.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header6.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_459"></a>[459]</span></p> - -<h2 class="mid">Wonderful Prognostications for the Age 1600.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center"><span class="smaller">Gathered out of the Notes of <i>Mr.</i></span><br /> -<span class="larger">Michael Nostradamus,</span><br /> -Physitian to King CHARLES the IX. and one of the<br /> -most excellent Astronomers that ever were.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="gesperrt">PRESENTED</span><br /> -To the Most Victorious and Merciful <span class="gesperrt">PRINCE</span><br /> -<span class="larger"><span class="gesperrt">HENRY</span> the IV.</span><br /> -King of <span class="gesperrt">FRANCE</span> and <span class="gesperrt">NAVARRE</span>, at<br /> -<i>Chantilly</i> the Constable of <i>Montmorency</i>’s House the <i>19th</i>.<br /> -of <i>March</i> 1605.</p> - -<p class="center smaller">By <i>Vincent Seve</i> of the Town of <i>Beaucaire</i> in <i>Languedoc</i>.</p> - -<p class="center larger">To the King.</p> - -<p>Sir,</p> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-h.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap"><i>Having some years ago recovered certain Prophecies, or -Prognostications, made by the lately Deceased <span class="antiqua">Michael -Nostradamus</span>, from the hands of <span class="antiqua">Henry Nostradamus</span> -his Nephew, which he gave me before his -death, and which I have kept secret till now, that I -saw they treated of the affairs of your Estate, and particularly -of your Person and Successors, as your self may see if you please -to take the pains to look upon, and wherein you shall find things worthy -of admiration. I have taken the boldness (though unworthy) to present<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_460"></a>[460]</span> -them to you, transcribed in this little Book, no less wonderful then -the other two which he made, for in it he hath treated of what shall -happen in this Age 1600. not so obscurely as he hath done formerly but -by <span class="antiqua">ænigmes</span>, specifying so clearly the things he speaketh of, that one may -certainly judge of them, as of things that are already come to pass. -Being therefore desirous that your Majesty should have the first notice -thereof, I thought to discharge my duty in this as one of your most obedient -and faithful Subjects, which I intreat your Majesty would be pleased -to agree, obliging so not onely the body of one of your faithful Subjects -already yours, but also the Soul who shall continue to pray for the -health and prosperity of your Majesty, and of all those that have relation -to it, as one that is, and shall ever be</i>,</p> - -<p><span class="gesperrt">SIR</span>,</p> - -<p class="center">Your most humble, most obedient and faithful Servant and Subject,</p> - -<p class="right">SEVE.</p> - -<p><i>From your Town of <span class="antiqua">Beaucaire</span> -in <span class="antiqua">Languedoc</span>.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_461"></a>[461]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller gesperrt">OTHER</span><br /> -<span class="gesperrt">PROPHECIES</span><br /> -<span class="smaller gesperrt">OF</span><br /> -Michael Nostradamus.<br /> -<span class="smaller">For the Years of this Age 1600.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry first"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-s.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> - <div class="verse dropcap">Siecle nouveau, alliance nouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse">Un Marquisat mis dedans la Nacelle,</div> - <div class="verse">A qui plus fort des deux l’emportera,</div> - <div class="verse">D’un Duc, d’un Roy, Gallere de <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Port de <i>Marseille</i>, Pucelle dans la <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">De <i>Catherine</i> Fort Chef on rasera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">New Age, new Alliance,</div> - <div class="verse">A Markdom put into a Boat,</div> - <div class="verse">Who shall be the strongest of the two to carry it,</div> - <div class="verse">Of a Duke or of a King, Galley of <i>Florence</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">In the Port of <i>Marseilles</i>, a Maid in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Of the Fort <i>Catherine</i> the Head shall be demolished.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By <i>New Age</i> is meant the Age 1600. to the end of the Century, each age containing -a hundred years.</p> - -<p><i>The new Alliance</i> was the match between <i>Henry</i> the IV. and <i>Catherine</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, -made and celebrated that year.</p> - -<p><i>A Markdom put into a Boat</i>, was the Markdom of <i>Saluces</i> in <i>Italy</i>, which the Duke -of <i>Savoy</i> had surrepticiously taken from the Crown of <i>France</i>, in the time of the -Civil Wars, and would not restore it, for which there was great Wars between the -King of <i>France</i> and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, till at last they agreed that the Duke of <i>Savoy</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_462"></a>[462]</span> -should give in exchange of it the Countrey of <i>Brescia</i>; and this is the sense of the -second, third, and half the fourth Verse.</p> - -<p><i>Galley of <span class="antiqua">Florence</span> in the Port of <span class="antiqua">Marseilles</span>, a Maid in <span class="antiqua">France</span></i>, signifieth the arrival -of <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i> in the Galleys of <i>France</i>, and her Landing in the Port of -<i>Marseilles</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Of the Fort <span class="antiqua">Catherine</span> the head shall be demolished</i>; the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> to plague -and bridle those of <i>Geneva</i>, upon whom he hath had always pretentions, had built a -strong Fort two leagues from <i>Geneva</i>, called the Fort St <i>Catherine</i>, which did so -annoy the Town, that they made their addresses to <i>Henry</i> the IV. who was then in -War with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, representing to him that they were not able to relieve -his Army with Victuals, because of the said Fort, whereupon <i>Henry</i> the IV. took -it, and demolished it to the ground.</p> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Que d’or, d’argent sera de pendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand Comte voudra Ville prendre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tant de mille & mille Soldats,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tuez, noiez, sans y rien faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans plus forte mettra pied terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pigmée aidé des <i>Censuarts</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">How much Gold and Silver shall be spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When Earl shall go about to take a Town,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So many thousands and thousands of Soldiers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Killed, drowned, without doing any thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Pygmie helped by the <i>Censuarts</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza and the next are concerning the Town of <i>Ostend</i>, which was Besieged -by the Arch-duke, and defended by the States of <i>Holland</i>, under the conduct of Earl -<i>Maurice</i> of <i>Nassaw</i>.</p> - -<p><i>In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground</i>, signifieth that Earl <i>Maurice</i> during the -said Siege, took the <i>Sluys</i> another Town of the <i>Spaniards</i>, thought stronger then -<i>Ostend</i>. <i>A Pygmie helped by the</i> Censuarts, signifieth that Prince <i>Maurice</i> whom he -calleth here a <i>Pygmie</i> in comparison of the Arch-duke, was helped by the <i>French</i> and -<i>English</i>, whom he calleth here <i>Censuarts</i>, to rime with the word Soldats in the foregoing -Verse.</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Ville sans dessus dessoubs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Renversée de mille coups,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De Canons, & forts dessous Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq ans tiendra, le tout remis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et lasché a ses ennemis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’eau leur fera apres la guerre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_463"></a>[463]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Town shall be upside down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Overthrown by a thousands shot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Canons, and Forts under ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall hold five years, all shall be returned,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And surrendred to the enemies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Water after that shall make War against them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is as well as the former concerning the Town of <i>Ostend</i>, which after -three years Siege instead of five (which is falsly printed here) was surrendred to the -Arch-Duke, and presently after like to be drowned by the Sea.</p> - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du rond d’un Lis naistra un si grand Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien tost & tard venu dans sa Province,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturne</i> en <i>Libra</i> en exaltation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Maison de <i>Venus</i> en descroissante force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame en apres masculin soubs l’Escorce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour maintenir l’heureux sang de <i>Bourbon</i>.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the round of a Lilly shall be born a great Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon and late come into his Province,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Saturn</i> in <i>Libra</i> being in exaltation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The House of <i>Venus</i> in a decreasing strength,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Woman afterwards and a Male under the Bark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To maintain the happy blood of <i>Bourbon</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was concerning <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. King of <i>France</i>, son of <i>Henry</i> the -IV. who was born under the Sign of <i>Libra</i>, and therefore called the <i>Just</i>; the rest -is easie.</p> - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qui la Principauté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tiendra par grande cruauté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A la fin verra grand <i>Phalange</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par coup de feu tres dangereux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par accord pourroit faire mieux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Autrement boira suc d’Orenge.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_464"></a>[464]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that the Principality,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall keep by great cruelty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At last shall see a great Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a fire blow most dangerous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He should do better by agreement.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Otherways he shall drink juyce of Orenge.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a Governour of the Principality of <i>Orenge</i>, under the authority -of a Prince, which Governour having been long in possession of that Government, -and the Prince being busie in the Wars of the <i>Netherlands</i>, the said Governour plaid -<i>Rex</i> in his absence, so that the Prince was forced to have him made away privately.</p> - -<h3>VI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand de <i>Robin</i> la traistreuse entreprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettra Seigneurs & en peine un grand Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sceu par <i>la Fin</i>, chef on luy tranchera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La Plume au vent, amye dans <i>Espagne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poste attrapé estant en la Campagne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et l’Escrivain dans l’eau se jettera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the treacherous plot of <i>Robin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall put many Lords and a great Prince in trouble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being known by <i>la Fin</i>, his head shall be cut off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Feather in the Wind, friend to <i>Spain</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Post overtaken in the Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Scrivener shall cast himself into the Water.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Two notable Histories are contained in this Stanza, the first is of the Marshal of -<i>Biron</i>; the second is of <i>Nicolas</i>, High Secretary to the Lord <i>Villeroy</i>, who himself -was chief Secretary of State to <i>Henry</i> the IV. and because they are curious ones, and -not to be met every where, we shall set them down:</p> - -<p>The first four Verses are concerning the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, who by transposition of -letters is called here <i>Robin</i>; this man by his Military Valour and experience, had -from a private Gentleman ascended to the highest degrees of honour and preferment, -that his condition was capable of, for though he were not forty years old, he -had attained unto the greatest dignities of the Kingdom; being fourteen years old, -he was made Colonel of the <i>Switzers</i> in <i>Flanders</i>; a little while after he was made -Marshal of Camp, and after Marshal General: he was admitted Admiral of <i>France</i> -in the Parliament of <i>Tours</i>, and then Mareshal of <i>France</i> in that of <i>Paris</i>; at the Siege -of <i>Amiens</i> he was sole Lieutenant of his Majesty, though there were many Princes -of the Blood in the Army, and to compleat his greatness, he was made Peer of -<i>France</i>, and the Barony of <i>Biron</i> erected into a Dukedom, not contented with all -that, he said, he would not go to the retaking of the rest of the Towns in <i>Picardy</i>, unless -his Statue were erected in Brass before the <i>Louvre</i>; and in conclusion, that he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_465"></a>[465]</span> -had rather die upon a Scaffold, undertaking some great matters, then to live idle in -his own House, and always among these Bravadoes, he did mix some bold and dangerous -words, which he would have every body to approve of.</p> - -<p>When he saw that after the Siege of <i>Amiens</i> the War was at an end, that <i>Britany</i> -was reduced, and that all the Swords were sheathed for a good while, he thought that -having no more occasion to exercise his valour, he should grow out of credit, and -that he should have no more that power, by which he plaised the King and do without -fear all what he did without Justice. The fire of that great courage finding no work -without, began to work within, that burning desire of being always the first, did fill -his head with flames and smoak of a great design, he complained of the King, and of -the unequal reward of his deserts and services, did publish his discontents, adding -threatnings to his complaints, and spoke of the King with little respect, that his most -intimate friends did judge his words insolent and dangerous.</p> - -<p>It is true it was the vice of his nature, but there were also some of Fortune, for -finding himself filled with all the prosperities, that a moderate man might wish for in -his condition, he found that men loose themselves by too much happiness. He began -then to lend his Ears unto flatterers, and when they told him that he was the greatest -Captain in <i>France</i>, he answered that he would die upon a scaffold, or he would go -beyond the condition of a single Gentleman, that the goodness of his sword should -give him what Fortune had denied; and the Astrologers to whom he gave great -credit, had foretold him in ambiguous terms, that nothing could hinder him from -being a Sovereign, but the blow of a sword given by a <i>Burgundian</i>, and though all -his life time he had shewed but little Devotion and Zeal to Religion, yet from that -time that he prepared his soul to the motion of his ambition, he fained himself very -devout and zealous, and began to wear Beads, that the Baron of <i>Lux</i> had given -him in a Tennis-Court, and to declare himself an irreconcilsable enemy to the Protestants, -seeking every where some discontented Spirits, whom he did encourage -with the hopes of a profitable change.</p> - -<p><i>La Nocle</i> Lord of <i>la Fin</i> was then for the troubles of <i>Provence</i>, and for the quarrel -he had with l’<i>Esdigvieres</i>, retired into his House, threatened of ill usage by the King, -enemy to some great ones, loaded with debts and Sutes in Law. The discontented -meet always, either by design or by chance. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> who knew that -he had been deeply engaged in the business of the late Duke of <i>Alecon</i>, that he had -Negotiated with the Ministers of the King of <i>Spain</i>, and of the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, during -the Siege of <i>Amiens</i>, that he was full of discontents, thought that such a one was -seeking for a Master. They spoke together and mixed their grievances, propounding -to seek out of the Kingdom what they could not find within, and to contract an -intelligence with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>; thus after so many examples of unavoidable -dangers, the Duke of <i>Biron</i> did venture upon a Journey full of Rocks and Shelves, -under the conduct of one who was yet wet with the Shipwrack he had lately made.</p> - -<p>The Duke went into <i>Flanders</i>, for the execution of the Treaty of <i>Vervins</i>, where -one <i>Picoté</i> of <i>Orleans</i> spoke to him, and inspired into him strange desires of raising his -Fortune, with those that knew and admired his defects. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> did -hearken to him, and told him he would be glad to hear him some other time upon -that subject. From that time forwards the <i>Spaniards</i> thought themselves sure of -him, and grew confident, either to have him, or to destroy him: a <i>French</i> Gentleman, -who because of the Civil Wars was retired into <i>Flanders</i>, and had some imployment -in the Arch-Dukes Court, gave the first intelligence of it to the King, who -took it kindly, but sent him word, that the Duke of <i>Biron</i> had too much courage and -honesty to harbour such a wickedness; being come back again from <i>Flanders</i> the -King wished him to Marry, but he shewed that his inclinations tended to some other -party, then that which was offered unto him, and though he made shew to court the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_466"></a>[466]</span> -Daughter of my Lady <i>Lucé</i>, he nevertheless intended to have the natural Sister of -the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, of which the Knight <i>Breton</i> had spoken to him. <i>La Fin</i> had in -charge from the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, to do all what he could for his satisfaction. <i>Picoté</i> -had made a Journey into <i>Spain</i>, only to know and receive the propositions. <i>Farges</i> -a Monk of the Order of <i>Fisteaux</i>, went into <i>Savoy</i>, and from thence to <i>Milan</i> to receive -Orders how to pluck of this Plant out of <i>France</i>. Things went very slowly; -for the <i>Spaniards</i> do not easily believe the words of the <i>French</i>, unless they be with -great effects of rebellion and change; but the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> being at <i>Paris</i>, -did wholly put out the Flower de Luces he had in his Heart, and did dispose him to -disturb the King so much at home, that he should have but little time to dispute him -the Markdom of <i>Suluces</i>, upon that hope the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> neglected the Execution -of the treaty of Peace made at <i>Paris</i>, the War was proclaimed, and the Duke of -<i>Biron</i> took the chief places in <i>Bresse</i>. Being at <i>Pierre Chastet</i> in the beginning of -<i>September</i>, <i>La Fin</i> came to him, and by his order made two Journeys to St. <i>Claude</i>, -where <i>Roncas</i> was. The King had notice of it, but thought it better to dissemble it -than to surprise a man he loved in his infidelity, he thought enough to bid him come -into <i>Savoy</i>, and to rid himself of <i>La Fin</i>. He did believe that what the King said to -him out of his affection, proceeded from fear, and kept company still with <i>La Fin</i>, -and never went to see the King, but with great many attendants, refusing to take -his lodging near his, that he might have more liberty; he perswaded the King -being at <i>Annessy</i>, that he did desire to discover some passages, and therefore desired -to have some guides of the Countrey, but it was to send safely <i>Renazé</i>, <i>La Fin</i>’s -Secretary to the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, to give him intelligence in what state the Kings -Army was, and to bid d’<i>Albigny</i> retreat, who otherwise had been defeated. This -was about the time that the Duke of <i>Biron</i> did intreat the King to bestow the Government -of the Citadel of <i>Bourg</i> on him, whom he should name. It is the Nature -of the great ones that serve Princes to believe they deserve all, and to become -more dangerous than Enemies if they are refused what they ask for. The King did -declare, that he would bestow the place upon <i>de Boisses</i>. This denial did so trouble -the mind of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, and put him upon such a strange and diabolical resolutions, -that he resolved one Morning, being yet in his Bed at <i>Chamont</i>, to kill the -King, as it is expressed in the depositions of <i>La Fin</i> and <i>Renazé</i>, but this took no -effect, himself afterwards did abhor the thought of it. <i>La Fin</i> also went from the -Army to conclude the Bargain with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i>, -he treated first with the Duke of the <i>Spanish</i> Embassador at <i>Yurée</i>, afterwards at -<i>Thurin</i> with <i>Roncas</i>, where also came <i>Picoté</i>, bringing the answers of the Councel -of <i>Spain</i>, upon the propositions of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, with order to confer with <i>La -Fin</i>, and to perswade him to make a Journey into <i>Spain</i>. He said plainly, that the -King of <i>Spain</i> was resolved to have the Duke of <i>Biron</i> at any rate. The Duke of -<i>Savoy</i> and the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i> appointed a day to be at <i>Some</i> with <i>La Fin</i> and <i>Picoté</i>; -there the minds of every one were clearly expressed and understood.</p> - -<p><i>La Fin</i>, who was acquainted with all his secret Councels, told the King, that the -Marriage of the third Daughter of the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, was the fodder and cement -of all the treaty, with a promise of five hundred thousand Crowns, and all the rights -of Soveraignty in <i>Burgundy</i>.</p> - -<p>While <i>La Fin</i> treated in <i>Italy</i> the capitulation of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, the treaty -of Peace was concluded at <i>Lyons</i>.</p> - -<p>The Duke of <i>Biron</i> had been always against this Peace; when he saw that it was -concluded, and that the King had heard something of his dealings with <i>La Fin</i>, he -fained to be very penitent of it, and asked the King forgiveness in the Cloister of the -<i>Franciscan</i> Friers at <i>Lyons</i>, and intreated him most humbly to forgive the evil intentions -that the denial of the Citadel of <i>Bourg</i> had put into his mind. The King did<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_467"></a>[467]</span> -forgive him, and told him, that he was glad he had trusted to his clemency, and in -the affection he bore to him, of which he would always give him such tokens, that he -should never have occasion to doubt of it. Leaving the King, he met with the Duke -of <i>Espernon</i>, and told him, that he would impart unto him as unto his best friend, -the best fortune that ever he had in his life, which was, that he had discharged his -Conscience to the King, and that he had forgiven him all what was past. The -Duke of <i>Espernon</i> told him, that he was glad of it, but that it was necessary he should -have his pardon in writing; for such faults could not be so easily blotted out. -What, said he, upon what can I rely better than upon the Kings word; if the Duke -of <i>Biron</i> wanteth an abolition, what shall others do? So they parted, one thinking -that his Lyons Courage ought not to be used so meanly; the other wiser, remembring -that a Lyon is never so well tamed, but one time or another he will prove still -a Lyon, and at last biteth the hand of him that hath wronged him so fiercely, that he -is for ever avenged of him. The Duke of <i>Espernon</i> had reason to advise him to take -an abolition in writing, and the Duke of <i>Biron</i> was not too blame to trust to the -Kings Word, who certainly would have forgiven that fault, if he had done nothing -since to renew the Memory of it. But here is once more to be observed a passage -that containeth all the signs of an implacable Spirit. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> being sent -for by the King to receive his commands, and the effects of his clemency, went from -<i>Bourg</i>, and came to lie at <i>Vimy</i>. From thence he wrote a Letter to <i>La Fin</i> that -was at <i>Milan</i>, and then went to <i>Lyons</i>, where he was received by the King as the prodigal -Son, he stayed some time at <i>Lyons</i>, and went to <i>Vimy</i> again, from whence he -wrote another Letter to <i>La Fin</i> by <i>Farges</i>. As soon as he came to <i>Bourg</i>, he sent to -<i>Bosco</i>, cousin of <i>Roncas</i> to advance the business. This negotiation did continue at -<i>Some</i> between the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i>, and <i>La Fin</i>. The Earl of -<i>Fuentes</i> carryed <i>La Fin</i> to <i>Milan</i>, and being desirous to be better informed, upon -some points, and finding <i>La Fin</i> not so firm in his answers, he thought it not good -to trust him wholly with the secret, and resolved to rid himself of him, therefore he -sent him back, and intreated him to see the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> in his way. He had the -good fortune to go by the way of the <i>Grisons</i>, and so through <i>Basle</i>, <i>Porentru</i>, and -<i>Besancon</i>, for <i>Renazé</i> his Secretary, that went through <i>Savoy</i>, was there Arrested and -made Prisoner. The work nevertheless went on; <i>Alphonsus</i>, <i>Casal</i>, and <i>Roncas</i>, -did continue it with the Baron of <i>Lux</i>, and in the mean time the Duke of <i>Biron</i> -plaid his part, having sent an express into <i>Spain</i>, though he were then with the King, -who loth to loose him, kept him near, carryed him to see the Frontier Towns, and -sent him Embassador into <i>England</i>, where he saw the head of the Earl of <i>Essex</i>, a late -example of justice upon those who will be feared by their Masters, and abuse their -favour. At his return he made a Journey into <i>Gascony</i>, where he was visited and honoured -by the Nobility of the Countrey, as a Prince; and being come to <i>Dijon</i>, he -went into <i>Switzerland</i>, to make an end of the renewing of the Alliance between the -King and the <i>Switzers</i>, where he continued still his practises with the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i>, -to whom he sent his secretary, under pretence to send his Pages into the Garrisons -of <i>Palma</i>, for the <i>Venetians</i>. Being come back from <i>Switzerland</i>, he came not -to the King to give an account of his negotiation, excusing himself upon the convocation -of the Estates in the Province. The King, that had some notice of these -broils by <i>Combelles</i>, was infinitely desirous to speak with <i>La Fin</i> to know the truth -of it. <i>La Fin</i>, who was highly incensed, that the Baron of <i>Lux</i> would have all the -fruit of this negotiation, and that <i>Renazée</i> is kept Prisoner in <i>Savoy</i>, sent <i>Cerezat</i> to -the Duke of <i>Biron</i> to let him know that he could be no longer his Servant, if his Secretary -was not set at liberty, and that he could no longer defer to go to the King, -desiring also to know what he should say upon the things that were past. He slighted -the first of these propositions, and spoke of <i>Renazée</i> as of one that was not to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_468"></a>[468]</span> -reckoned among the living; concerning the other, he told <i>Cerezat</i> that he was of -opinion he might go to the Court with a small train, and that he should prepare himself -at the first to receive ill language and contempt from the King, which he should -sweeten by intreating him to believe, that the Journey he had made into <i>Italy</i> had no -other design than to visit our Lady of <i>Loretta</i>: And that passing through <i>Milan</i> -and <i>Thurin</i> he had been chared to propound the Marriage between him and the -third Daughter of <i>Savoy</i>, to which he would not hearken, because the King would -take care to provide for him. He did intreat and adjure <i>Cerezat</i> to tell <i>La Fin</i>, -that he should rid himself of all those that travailed with him, and chiefly of a Curate, -and that he should secure his Papers, if he had not rather to burn them. In a -word, to consider, his life, his fortune, his honour, were in his Hands.</p> - -<p><i>La Fin</i> came to Court at the end of Lent, and saw the King at the Wine-press of -<i>Fountainbleau</i>, and after that at the mid way. He spake first to the King, after to -<i>Villeroy</i>, and after to the Chancellor in his house at <i>Fontainbleau</i>, and with <i>Rhosny</i> in -the Forrest, and with <i>Sillery</i> in the Wine-press; all with horror saw the writings, -and heard his designs. The King could hardly believe such a wickedness; for who -could have believed that he, who had driven the <i>Spaniard</i> from the Frontiers of -<i>Picardy</i>, would let him in again by that of <i>Burgundy</i>? that he who had a hundred -times beaten and defeated them, could contract a friendship with them, and conspire -with them against the service of his Prince, and the love of his Countrey? that he -who hated them to death, would have trusted his life in their Hands? He had shewed -himself so much their Enemy, that seeing his Father would not charge the -Prince of <i>Parma</i> in an advantagious place, said aloud, that if he were King for 24 -hours, he would cause the head of the Marshall of <i>Biron</i> to be cut off. He -pronounced against his Father the Sentence that was to be executed once upon -him.</p> - -<p><i>La Fin</i> shewed the King so many true and undeniable tokens of this conspiracy, -that he was fained to believe more that he desired. He told him all what did pass in -his Journeys to the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i> concerning the Duke of -<i>Biron</i>, saying, that for his part he would have been glad that the War had continued, -that he might have benifitted himself therein; but finding that his sacred person -was not excepted, and that there were cruel designs made against it, either to kill him, -or to carry him prisoner into <i>Spain</i>, he was resolved to give him notice of it, choosing -rather to disoblige the Servant than the Master. The King full of clemency and -goodness, was extreamly sorry to see such an unnatural conspiracy: Nevertheless he -said, that if the Conspirators did their duty, and gave him means to prevent the designs -of his Enemies, he would forgive them. If they remember what they owe -me, I will not forget what I owe them; they shall find me as full of clemency, as -they are void of affection: I would not have the Duke of <i>Biron</i> to be the first example -of my Justice, and to be the cause that my Reign, which hitherto hath been like -an Air, calm and pure, should upon a sudden be disturbed with Clouds and Lightning, -and so made a resolution, that if the Duke of <i>Biron</i> should tell him the truth, -he would forgive him, his Councel was of the same advice, provided he would shew -himself thenceforth as forward for his service against his Enemies, as he had been -earnest to do mischief.</p> - -<p>Out of many Papers that <i>la Fin</i> put into the Kings hands, there were seven and -twenty pickt out, which onely spoke of him; the King being unwilling to discover -the rest of the Conspirators, and intending that the punishment of one should serve -for example to all the rest.</p> - -<p>The Chancellor kept those Papers with such care, that he caused them to be -sowed in his Doublet, that no body might have a sight of them till it was time. The -Baron of <i>Lux</i> was yet at <i>Fountainbleau</i>, when <i>la Fin</i> came thither.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_469"></a>[469]</span></p> - -<p>The King told him that he was very well pleased, that <i>la Fin</i> had spoken to him so -honourably and wisely of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, and that he was confident now, that -the intentions of the Duke of <i>Biron</i> were righteous and sincere. The Baron of <i>Lux</i> -did not perceive the Kings anger, so much the more dangerous that it was hidden; he -went back again to <i>Dijon</i> very well pleased, that the things were always in the same -state. <i>La Fin</i> did write to the Duke of <i>Biron</i> that he had satisfied the King concerning -his actions, and had told him onely what might serve for his justification. The -King did manage this business so prudently, that the success of it was fortunate, he -was well informed of all the Dukes designs, and desired to hear them out of his own -mouth, that he might have occasion to forgive him, for that purpose he sent to -him the Lord d’<i>Escures</i>, bidding him to come, because he had a mind to trust him -with the Army that he was raising upon the Frontiers, he excused himself, and said -that the enemy being so near, it would be a shame to him to turn his back, and that -the States of the Province were convented at <i>Dijon</i>, and therefore could not forsake -neither the Frontiers nor the States. The <i>Vidame</i> of <i>Chartres</i> made a Journey to -him, and assured him that his Uncle <i>la Fin</i> had said nothing to his prejudice.</p> - -<p>The persuasions of the President <i>Janin</i> were more powerful for flattering the -Duke in his humour, he also made him sensible of the Kings power and anger in case -of refusal; his friends gave him contrary advices, and desired him not to stir, and to -make his peace afar off; the <i>Bastille</i> is a repairing said they, and the common talk -is, that it is for such one as less thinketh upon it: the King hath been heard say, that -they cut heads in <i>England</i>, and that some shall compel him upon that example to -change his wonted Clemency into a just severity: in conclusion, they advise him to -mistrust all things, and to beware of those that persuaded him to come; others did -assure him of the contrary, and that his coming should dissipate all mistrusts, suspicions -and jealousies.</p> - -<p>The Duke of <i>Biron</i> holdeth here the Wolf by the ears, for let him come or not, -there is danger; by not coming he accuseth himself, and the King swore he would -fetch him himself; and in coming, his conscience was a witness against him, that the -same fault can hardly be forgiven twice. He seeth <i>la Fin</i> retired into his House and -living in peace, and hath so good an opinion of his own Valour, that he thinketh -no body so bold as to seize upon him. The discourses of reason, the discerning of the -truth, serve no more to a wicked and passionate man, then the Wings serve to a -Bird, when they are clogged with Bird-lime. But now we talk of Birds, there were several -ill <i>Omens</i> of his journey, one Bird of Prey called a Duck was found in his Closet, -no body knowing which way it was come in; he commanded it to be carefully kept -and lookt to, but as soon as the Duke was upon his journey the Bird died. Presently -after the Horse that the Arch-Duke had given him, called the <i>Pastrave</i>, became -mad, and killed himself, so did another that was given him by the Duke of <i>Florence</i>, -another that the Duke of <i>Lorrain</i> had given him, fell into a consumption. He came -to <i>Fountainbleau</i> when he was no more expected, and the King was resolved to get -on Horseback and to fetch him. As his Majesty went about six of the Clock into -the great Garden, he was heard to say unto the Lord of <i>Souvray</i>, <i>he will not come</i>, he -had no sooner ended the words, but the Duke appeared among seven or eight, he -drew near, and being yet a pretty way off, he made three great Congies, the King -did embrace him, and the first words he spoke to the King, were about the delaying -of his coming. The King heard but few words of it, and took him by the hand to -walk, and to shew him his buildings; as he passed from one Garden into another, the -Duke of <i>Espernon</i> took occasion to salute him, and to whisper him in the ear, that -in his coming he had believed his courage more, then the Councel of his friends.</p> - -<p>In all the discourse he had with the King, there was observed a great coldness in -the Kings face, and a great deal of fire in the Dukes words. The King told him of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_470"></a>[470]</span> -the evil way which he had taken, the end of which could be nothing but ruine, despair -and confusion. The Duke answered that he was not come to ask forgiveness, -not to justifie himself, with many other frivolous and impudent words, which the -Kings presence and his own duty ought to have restrained. The time of dinner being -come, he asked the Duke of <i>Espernon</i> to dine with him, because his Train was -not yet come; this was the first fault of his carriage, for he ought to dine at the -Table of the great Master, and to harbour in no other House then that of the King, -seeing his own was not open.</p> - -<p>After dinner they came to see the King, who having walked one turn or two about -the dinning-room, entered into his Closet, bidding two or three to go in with him, -and saying nothing to the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, who was at the corner of the Bed near the -Chair, taking notice that he was not looked upon as formerly.</p> - -<p>The Marquess of <i>Rhosny</i> went into the Closet, passing by the Duke of <i>Biron</i> without -taking notice of him, and after he had stayed there about half an hour, he came -and saluted the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, and told him the King asked for him; there he was -exhorted not to conceal what time would ere long discover, and of what he was so -well informed, that the desire he had to know it from himself, was meerly because -no body else should take notice of it. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> who thought that <i>la Fin</i> -had revealed nothing, stood still upon the protestations of his own innocency, beseeching -the King to do him justice, of those who went about to oppress him with -unsufferable calumnies, or to permit him to do himself reason. The King carried -him to the Tennis-court, where the Duke took upon him to order the match, and -said that the Duke of <i>Espernon</i> and himself would hold it against the King and the -Earl of <i>Soisson</i>, the Duke of <i>Espernon</i> answered presently: you play well, but you do -not make your matches well; which was observed by the King and the standers by. -Supper time being come, he did sup at the Table of the great Master, to repare the -fault he had done in the morning. Every one did perceive that he was not contented, -for he eat little or nothing, and no body spoke to him, every one holding him -already for a cast-away. The King in the mean while was walking in his Chamber, -meditating some great resolution, and he was heard to say these words, <i>he must either -bow or break</i>.</p> - -<p>That evening past away so quietly, that many thought it would be a Thunder with -much noise and little hurt. The King commanded the Earl of <i>Soissons</i> to go to the -Duke of <i>Biron</i>, and to do his best to break the hardness of his heart, and to draw the -truth out of him; he went and intreated him to satisfie the King in what he desired -to know from him, and to be afraid of the Kings displeasure and indignation. The -Duke of <i>Biron</i> for answer told him, that the King could not complain but of the good -services he had done to him, and that he himself had great occasion to complain of -the King who mistrusted him after so many trials and experiments of his faithfulness, -and that he should never have more of him then he had at his first coming; the Earl -of <i>Soissons</i>, seeing his obstinacy, left him.</p> - -<p>The next day early the King walking in the little Garden, sent for the Duke of -<i>Biron</i>, and spoke to him a great while, thinking to overcome his obstinacy, and to -give him means to escape the danger he was running into; he was seen a great while -with his Hat off, his eyes lifted up to Heaven, smiting his breast, and making great -protestations to uphold his innocency; there appeared then in the Kings face a great -deal of anger, and in that of the Duke of <i>Biron</i> a great deal of fire and violence, all his -words were nothing but threatnings, lightnings, ruines, and Hell against those that -had spoken ill of him; from thence he went to dinner, and met with a man who -brought him a Letter, to advise him to look to himself, he shewed it to the Captain -of his Guards, and made slight of it, and said, he would be beholding to his valor for -his life, and not to a flight; all the afternoon the King stayed in the Gallery, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_471"></a>[471]</span> -spoke four hours to the Lord of <i>la Curée</i>, the Queen being present and speaking -never a word; the King was in a great perplexity of mind, before he could resolve -himself. The Lords of <i>Vileroy</i>, <i>Sillery</i> and <i>Geure</i> were seen often to go to and fro, -which made some suspect, that it was to begin by the execution in so great a crime; -but the King was against that, such proceedings had been blamed in his Predecessor, -he would have every body to know that he had authority and power enough to exterminate -his enemies, according to the Laws.</p> - -<p>The resolution was taken to have him arrested, and also the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i>, the -King would not have them to be taken in the Castle, but in their own Lodgings; -the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, who was in some suspicion of it, and had prepared himself to what -he could, neither prevent nor hinder, did imagine that there was no fear of any thing -in the Kings Chamber, and that all the danger should be at the going out, and therefore -by time had provided himself with a short Sword, with which he promised to -make himself room through all dangers. They represented to the King, that if he -were Arrested any where but in the Castle, it could not be done without bloodshed, -and that it was no matter where the Lyon was taken, so that profit might arise of his -prize.</p> - -<p>It was perceived that in the same Gallery the King sent for <i>Vitry</i> and <i>Pralin</i>, two -Captains of his Guards, and gave them the order he would have to be observed for -the execution of his commands, and then called for his Supper. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> -was at supper in the Lord <i>Montignys</i> Lodging, where he spoke more highly and -bravely then ever of his Deserts, and of the friends he had made lately in <i>Switzerland</i>; -then began to fall upon the praises of the late King of <i>Spain</i>, extolling his Piety, Justice -and liberality; <i>Montigny</i> stopt him, saying, that the greatest commendation -that could be given to his memory, was, that he had put his own Son to death, for -endeavouring to trouble his Estate; this word stopt those of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, who -answered only with his eyes, and thought upon it with some amazement. After supper -the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> and the Duke of <i>Biron</i> came to the King, who was walking -in the Garden, the King making an end of his walk did invite the Duke of <i>Biron</i> to -play at Cards, they went into the Queens Cnamber, the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> passing -by the Duke of <i>Biron</i> told him softly, <i>we are undone</i>; the Game begun at the <i>primara</i>, -the Queen was one of the Gamsters, the Duke of <i>Biron</i> another, and two more. -The King went into his Closet, divided between two contrary passions; the love he -had formerly for the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, the knowledge he had of his valour, and the remembrance -of his services, excluded all thoughts of his Justice; on the other side, -the fear of troubles in his Estate, the horrid effects of so unnatural a conspiracy did -accuse his Clemency of cruelty, if he went about to prefer the particular good to the -publick, he prayed to God to assist him with his Holy Spirit, to appease the troubles -of his soul, and to strengthen him with a Holy resolution, that he might do what was -for the good of his people, upon whom he Reigned by his only Grace; his prayer -being ended, all the difficulties that troubled his soul vanished away, there remained -only a firm resolution, to put the Duke into the hands of Justice, if he could not -draw the truth out of him; the Game went on still, the King took sometimes the -Queens Cards, expecting the appointed time. The Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> was gone to -his Lodging, the King sent for him, and walked in the Chamber, while the Duke -thought upon nothing but his play. <i>De Varennes</i> Lieutenant of his Troop faining to -take up his Cloak, whispered him softly that he was undone; this word did trouble -him so much, that he neglected his play, and oversaw himself, the Queen gave him -notice of it; the King did bid them to give over playing, and commanded every one -to retire, he went into his Closet, and took the Dake of <i>Biron</i> with him, whose good -and bad fortune depended from an answer pleasing his Majesty, who bid him once -for all to tell what he had done with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> and the Earl of <i>Fuentes</i>,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_472"></a>[472]</span> -assuring him, that his clemency should be greater than his fault. The Duke of -<i>Biron</i> answered the King more proudly than ever, that it was to press an honest man -too much, that he never had any other design, but what he had told him already. -<i>Would to God it were so</i>, said the King. You will not tell me: Farewell, good -night.</p> - -<p>As he went out of the Closet, and had passed the Chamber door, he met <i>Vitry</i>, -who with his right hand seized upon the Hilt of his Sword, and with his left upon -his right Arm, saying, <i>The King hath commanded me to give him an account of your Person, -give up your Sword.</i> <i>You jeer</i>, said the Duke. <i>No my Lord, he hath so commanded -me.</i> The Duke of <i>Biron</i> answered, <i>I pray thee let me speak to the King.</i> -No my Lord, the King is gone to Bed. He saw the Duke of <i>Monbazon</i>, and desired -him to intreat the King, that he might surrender it into his own Hands. The -King sent word to <i>Vitry</i> to obey his commands. The Duke was fained to suffer his -Sword to be taken from him; saying, <i>My Sword that hath done so many good services!</i> -Yes my Lord, give me your Sword, said <i>Vitry</i>. To me, said the Duke, -that have served the King so well, that my Sword should be taken from me, my -Sword that hath made an end of the War, and given Peace to <i>France</i>, that my -Sword, which could not be taken by my Enemies, should be taken away by my -Friends. All these complaints availed nothing; he ungirted his Sword with his -left hand, and gave it to <i>Vitry</i>, looking about if he could seize upon any other, but -care was taken for that.</p> - -<p>When he saw all the Guards in order in the Gallery, he thought he should have -been Massacred upon the place, and cryed to them, fellow Souldiers give me a little -time to pray to God, and let me have some Firebrand or Candlestick in my hand, -that I may have the Honour to die defending my self. He was answered, that -no Body would offend him, that his best defence was to obey the King, who commanded -to lead him to Bed, you see said he, how the good Catholicks are used. -He was carryed into the Arms Closet, where he neither slept nor lay down, but -past the night in blasphemies against God, and reviling words against the King.</p> - -<p><i>Pralin</i> was staying for the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> at the Castle Gate, and when he offered -to go out to his lodging; stay my Lord, you are the Kings Prisoner. The Earl -astonished, answered I, I? and <i>Pralin</i> answered, yes my Lord, you, I Arrest you -by the King, and make you his Prisoner, give up your Sword, take it said the Earl -it never killed any thing but Boars, if you had given me notice of this, I should -have been in Bed and asleep two hours ago.</p> - -<p>The next day about dinner time the Duke of <i>Biron</i> sent word to the King, that if -he did not take care of the Province of <i>Burgundy</i>, it would be lost, because the Baron -of <i>Lux</i> would let in the <i>Spaniards</i> as soon as he should have notice of his detention. -The King was very much offended at this message, and said, see the impudence -and boldness of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, who sendeth me word that <i>Burgundy</i> -is lost, if I do not look to it. His obstinacy hath undone him, if he would have -confessed the truth of a thing that I have under his hand, he should not be where he -is. I wish I had paid 200000. Crowns, and he had given me the means to forgive -him. I never loved any man so much, I would have trusted him with my Son and -my Kingdom. ’Tis true, he hath served me well, but he cannot deny but that I -have saved his life three times; I rescued him once from the hands of the Enemy at -<i>Fontain Francoise</i>, so wounded and astonished with blows, that as I plaid the part of -a Souldier to save him, I was also fained to make that of a Captain to make the retreat; -for he told me he was not in a case to do it.</p> - -<p>The <i>Saturday</i> next the prisoners were carryed to <i>Paris</i> by water, and put into -the <i>Bastille</i> in several Chambers. The Duke of <i>Biron</i> was put into that, -called of the Saints famous, for the Prison of the Constable of Saint <i>Paul</i>,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_473"></a>[473]</span> -executed in the time of <i>Lewis</i> the XI. and the Earl in the Chamber above -him.</p> - -<p>The care, the order and vigilancy, with which he was guarded, did put him -in some amazement; for his Guards waited on him without Arms, and served him -with a Knife without a point, which made him say, that it was the way to the Grave -(the place of Execution.) But when he knew that the Hangman of <i>Paris</i> was a <i>Burgundian</i>, -he remembred that <i>La Brosse</i> an Astrologer had foretold him sometimes, -seeing his Horoscope, which he fained to be that of one of his friends, that he should -be beheaded, and <i>Cæsar</i> a Magician, that a blow of a <i>Burgundian</i> given behind; -should hinder him to attain the Kingdom.</p> - -<p>The Arch-Bishop of <i>Bourges</i> went to see him, and endeavoured to settle his Conscience, -and to disswade him from some Atheistical opinions that he had: <i>Villeroy</i> -and <i>Sillery</i> went also to see him, and by the Kings Command, and at his request.</p> - -<p>Few days after, the King being at St. <i>Mourder</i>, <i>Fossez</i>, the <i>Lords la Force</i>, the -Earl of <i>Roussy</i>, Brother in Law to the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, Saint <i>Blancard</i> his Brother, -<i>Chasteau-neuf</i>, <i>Themines</i>, <i>Salignac</i>, St. <i>Angel</i>, <i>Longuac</i>, Friends and Kinsmen of -the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, went and cast themselves at the Kings feet, to implore his -Mercy, and that he would be pleased to moderate the severity of his Justice, requesting -that the same clemency which he had shewed to many others that had as -grievously offended him, would at least save his life, and confine him into such a -place, where he might do no harm, that their whole Kindred might not be branded -with Infamy, and have a regard to his Fathers service and his, which though they -were not equal to his offence, yet at least to consider, that he was only guilty for -his intention.</p> - -<p>The King bid them rise, and told them, that their requests were not displeasing -to him. That he would not be like his Predecessors, who would not suffer any body -to intercede for those that were guilty of high Treason. The King <i>Francis</i> II. would -never give a hearing to the Wife of the Prince of <i>Condé</i> my Uncle. Concerning -the clemency you would have me shew to the Duke of <i>Biron</i>; it should -not be clemency but cruelty, if it were only my particular Interest, I would forgive -him, as I do now with all my heart; but my Kingdom and my Children, to -whom I owe much, are concerned in it; or they might reproach me hence forwards, -that I have tollerated an evil which I might have prevented; my Life, that of my -Children, and the preservation of my Kingdom, are concerned in it. I will leave -it to the course of Justice, you shall see what Judgement shall be given: I will contribute -what I can to his Innocency, I give you leave to do the same till he be found -guilty of high Treason; for then the Father cannot intercede for the Son, nor the -Son for the Father; the Wife for the Husband, nor the Brother for the Brother. -Do not become odious to me for the love you bear him: As for the note of Infamy, -there is none but himself. Have the Constable of St. <i>Paul</i>, from whom I derive my -Pedigree, and the Duke of <i>Nemours</i>, of who I am Heir (both beheaded) left any -note of Infamy upon their Posterity, should not the Prince of <i>Condé</i> my Uncle have -been beheaded the next day, if King <i>Francis</i> the II. had not dyed? Therefore ye -that are Kinsmen to the Duke of <i>Biron</i>, cannot be noted with Infamy, if you continue -in your faithfulness, as (I assure my self) you will. And I am so far from -depriving you of your Offices, that if any new one should fall, I would bestow -them upon you: I am more sorry for his fault than you can be; but to conspire against -me that am his King and Benefactor, is a crime that I cannot forgive, without -losing my self, my Wife, my Son, and my Estate, I know you to be so good -<i>French</i> men, that you would not have the last, and shall take Patience for the first. -Thus the King dismissed him, and sent his Commission to the Court of Parliament,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_474"></a>[474]</span> -to decide the business. The Process was framed in the <i>Bastille</i>, by the Lords of -<i>Achilles de Harlay</i>, first President in the Court of Parliament of <i>Paris</i>, <i>Nicolas Potier</i> -second President, <i>Stephen Fleury</i>, and <i>Philibert</i> of <i>Thurin</i>, Councellors in the same -Court. They asked him if he did not write in Cyphers, he denyed it, then were -shewed unto him several Letters, written and sealed with his own hand, which did -witness his Intelligences with the <i>Spaniard</i> and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and contained -advices that he gave of the wants that were in the Kings Army; How little Money -he had to maintain the War, and to satisfie the <i>Suitzers</i> of the discontent of the -<i>French</i> Nobility, and how several <i>French</i> Troops might easily be defeated, and that -to divert the Kings forces it was necessary to invade <i>Provence</i>, and did much press -upon the 50000. Crowns, and the 4000 men promised or else said, all is lost. -Some of these things he confessed, and did so intangle and contradict himself, that -the Commissioners had pity on his indiscretion.</p> - -<p>He was asked what opinion he had of <i>La Fin</i>, he said he took him for an honest -Gentleman, his Friend and Kinsman, his Evidences being read to him, and himself -brought face to face, he did with the most horrid Imprecations and Blasphemies in -the World deny them, and charged <i>La Fin</i> with the most horrid Crimes that can -be Imagined, calling still God for a Witness of his Innocency; <i>La Fin</i> stood firm -in the confirming of his Evidence, and did more particularly declare the whole conspiracy. -The Duke answered, that if <i>Renazé</i> were there he would tell the contrary, -<i>Renazé</i>, who had a little while before escaped his Prison in <i>Piemont</i>, was brought -before him, and confirmed all what <i>La Fin</i> had said.</p> - -<p>Next to that was brought one of the Kings waiting men, who witnessed, that -having lyen in his Chamber by the Kings command, the first night of his Imprisonment -he had adjured him, by several offers and promises of rewards, to give notice -to his Secretaries to be out of the way for some days, and to tell the Earl of <i>Roussy</i> -his Brother in Law, that he should send presently to <i>Dijon</i>, to give the same advice -to those that were left there, and above all that if they were examined; they -should all constantly deny that ever he did write in Cyphers.</p> - -<p>Thus the business having been thorowly examined, it remained only to proceed -unto Judgment; but the Prisoner being a Peer of <i>France</i>, (the King having erected -the Barony of <i>Biron</i> into a Dukedom) by the Laws the Prisoner could not be judged, -but by his Peers, which being summoned, and not appearing, the Court -of Parliament being authorised by the Kings Commission, proceeded to Judgement.</p> - -<p>The 23 of <i>July</i> 1602. the Chancellor, with the <i>Maisses</i> and <i>Pontcarré</i>, Privy -Councellors, went to the Parliament, where all the Chambers were assembled together. -There he made known the Kings intention, in a business, wherein the -good of the Kingdom was so much concerned, and represented on one part the quality -of a Person, commendable for his services; but on the other, the foulness of -the Crime, for the Judgement of which the King did rely upon the integrity and prudence -of the Court. The Kings Attorney, and Soliciter, having represented to -the Court, that the Peers summoned, gave no appearance, and that the Prisoners -petition (who asked for Councel), was not to be received. The Court proceeded -to examine the Evidences, whereupon they sat three times, after which the Prisoner -was brought from the <i>Bastille</i>, by <i>Montigny</i> Governour of <i>Paris</i>, and <i>Vitry</i>, -Captain of the Kings Guards, in a close Barge, covered with Tapistry, and followed -by two other Barges full of Souldiers, and <i>Switzers</i>. He entred into the -Palace, through the Garden of the first President, and rested himself in one of the -Chambers, where he was offered a Breakfast.</p> - -<p>The time being come, he was to be heard, the Recorder went and called him -into the Guild-hall, where when he saw one Hundred and twelve Judges before his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_475"></a>[475]</span> -face, he was some thing daunted, and was made to sit within the Bar upon a joint -stool; where he sat in such a posture, as stretching forth his right foot, and having -his Cloak under his arm, and his left hand upon his side, he kept the right one free, -either to stretch it forth to Heaven, or to smite his brest, when occasion served. The -Chancellor did so frame his discourse, that he never named him by his name, nor that -of his qualities.</p> - -<p>Of many evidences there was five chiefly urged against him.</p> - -<p>The first to have been conversant with one <i>Picotée</i>, born in <i>Orleans</i>, and refugied -in <i>Flanders</i>, to keep intelligence with the Arch-duke, and to have give him 150. -Crowns for two journeys to that end.</p> - -<p>The second to have treated with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, three days after his arrival to -<i>Paris</i> without the Kings leave, and to have offered him all assistance and service against -any person whatsoever, upon the hope or promiss of marrying his third daughter.</p> - -<p>The third to have kept intelligence with the said Duke in taking of the City of -<i>Bourg</i> and other places, giving him advice how he might defeat the Kings Army, and -destroy his person, with many other circumstances to that purpose.</p> - -<p>The fourth to have sent by <i>Renazée</i> a note to the Governour of the Fort of Saint -<i>Catherine</i>, promising to bring the King before the said Fort, so near that he might -be either killed or taken, telling what cloths he himself would wear, and what Horse -he would ride, that he might be distinguished.</p> - -<p>To have sent several times <i>la Fin</i> to treat with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and the Earl of -<i>Fuentes</i> against the Kings service.</p> - -<p>These are the first confessions and acknowledgements that the Prisoner made before -the Commissioners in the Bastille, but now he thinketh, he may as lightly deny -them, as he had unadvisedly before confessed them.</p> - -<p>Upon the first Article he answered, that <i>Picoté</i> being once his Prisoner, had offered -his service for the reduction of the Town of <i>Seurre</i> in <i>Burgundy</i>, and that the King -had approved of it, that it is true he had given him the said sum, but it was as a reward -for his pains and charges in this negotiation, which sum he hath charged upon -the Kings account, with some other small ones, laid out by him for the King; that -since the reduction of the said Town he had not seen <i>Picoté</i> but in <i>Flanders</i>, when he -went thither Embassadour for the confirmation of the Peace, where the said <i>Picotée</i> -came to him with many others, intreating him he would be pleased to mediate with -the King, for the liberty of returning into their Countrey, and enjoying their Estates, -and that he did wish them to go to the Lords <i>Belieure</i> and <i>Sillery</i>, who would prescribe -them what orders they were to follow in this business, and never had any other -conversation with <i>Picoté</i>.</p> - -<p>Upon the second, That he could not have treated with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> three -days after his arrival at <i>Paris</i>, seeing that himself did not come there but a fortnigh-after, -and that <i>la Fin</i> came but after him, that all his discourses with him were in publick -and before witnesses, and therefore could not be suspected; that <i>Roncas</i> had -sometimes mentioned to him the Marriage of the third daughter of the Duke, and -that he did impart it to the King; that his Majesty having sent him word by <i>la Force</i> -his Brother in Law, that he did not approve of it, he never thought of it since; -that the intelligence he is accused to have kept with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, is confuted -enough by what he did, for when the King had commanded him to wait and keep -company to the Duke in his return from <i>France</i>, and to shew him the strongest places -upon the Frontiers of <i>Burgundy</i>, he did humbly excuse himself to the King of it, -saying, that he foresaw well enough that the Duke would not keep the Treaty of -Peace, and that it would be a great grief to him to make War against a Prince, with -whom he should have kept company, and made good cheer; and that he did advise -the Baron of <i>Lux</i> to let him see only the weaker places, that he might not know the -strength of the Countrey.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_476"></a>[476]</span></p> - -<p>Upon the third, That if he had kept correspondence with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, he -would not have undertaken the taking of <i>Bourg</i>, almost against the Kings will, without -any other help then of those that were ordinarily with him; that of fourty Convoys -that were brought to relieve the Town, he had routed thirty seven, and the -other three entered in his absence; that the King knoweth very well he was offered -200000. Crowns to let the succours enter into the Citadel of <i>Bourg</i>; that although -his Majesty had commanded him in the time of a Truce made with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, -to let those of the Citadel of <i>Bourg</i> have every day 400. Loafs of Bread, 50. -bottles of Wine, half an Oxe, and six Sheep, he did only let them have fifty bottles -of Wine and one Sheep, by which means the Town was surrendred within the time -promised; that if he had had any evil design against the King and Kingdom, he -would not so freely and willingly put the Town into the hands of him that is now -Governour of it; that the Governours of Places that were in the Duke’s service, and -are now in that of the King, can witness whether he shewed them any favour; that -for his giving advice to the Duke to defeat the Regiment of <i>Chambauld</i>, he will -prove that <i>Chambauld</i> did not come into the Army, but one Month after the -time mentioned in his Calumny; besides that, this advice was without appearance of -reason, for from <i>Chambauld</i>’s quarters to his, there was at least six days journey, and as -much to go to the Duke, and as much to come back, besides the time required for -the marching of the Forces; therefore all that was a meer invention of <i>la Fin</i>.</p> - -<p>Upon the fourth, That he intreated his Majesty to call to memory, that he was -the onely man who dissuaded him to go and view the Fort, representing unto him -that there was in it extraordinary good Gunners, and that he could not view it without -great danger, and upon that he offered the King to bring him the next day the -Plat-form of it, and to take it with 500. Musquettiers, and that himself would be in -the Head of them.</p> - -<p>Upon the fifth, That it was true all the evil he had done was in two Months time -that <i>la Fin</i> had been with him, during which, he did hearken and write more then -he ought: but that with the same he had written, he had so long served the King, -that it was enough to prove the sincerity of his intentions; that the refusal of the -Citadel of <i>Bourg</i>, which he thought the King had promised him, had put him into -such a discontent, that he found himself in a capacity to hearken to any thing, and to -do any thing, that if he had been a Protestant, it may be the place should have been -refused him no more then it was to <i>de Boaisse</i>, who was such an one, as he told the -King himself at <i>Lyon</i>; that <i>la Fin</i> had also once told him, that the King speaking of -him, and of his Father, said, that God had done well for to take him out of this world -when he was killed, for he was a very chargeable and unprofitable servant; and for -the Son, it was not all Gold that shined; that these words had so much incensed -him, that he could have found in his heart to be all covered with blood. Upon that -the Chancellor asked him of what blood he meaned? he answered, of my own: desiring -not to live any longer, after he had heard such reproches, as blemished the services -of his Father and his own; that nevertheless his anger and discontent went never -so far, as to attempt upon the King; that his fault was only in words, and it may -be little in Writting; that his Majesty seeing with how much ingenuity he did acknowledge -his fault, had forgiven him all what was past, in the presence of the Lords -<i>Villeroy</i> and <i>Sillery</i>, and that if since that time he was found to have done any thing -amiss, he would blame his Judges of Injustice, if they did not condemn him to -death, that if he had done nothing amiss since, he thought the Kings pardon to be -sufficient for what was, and if there was need to ask for it again, his knees were as -supple and plyable as ever.</p> - -<p>But a Letter, which he had written to <i>la Fin</i> since the pardon of <i>Lyon</i>, and the -Birth of the Dolphin, did spoil all, for it was a manifest evidence of the continuation<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_477"></a>[477]</span> -of his ill designs, and the Chancellor having produced it, he answered, he would -never deny his hand, but that <i>Imbert</i> and <i>Renazée</i> Domestick Servants to <i>la Fin</i> could -counterfeit it; that though he might have some ill thoughts, he had always well -done; that although the King would not forgive him this fault, it was not in the -power of men to condemn him justly for single words, which were contradicted by -the effects; that his consolation was in his misfortune, his Judges were not ignorant -of the services he had done to the Kingdom, which he had Sealed with five and -thirty wounds; that his body whose life and death was in the disposition of their Justice, -had not a vain but had bleeded for their service, and to restore them into their -places, from whence the League had driven them; that the hand which had written -the Letters produced against him, was the same that had done contrary to what it did -write; that he had written and spoke more then he ought, but that it could not be -proved he had ever ill done; that there was no Law that punished with death the -lightness of a single word or motion of the thoughts; that anger and discontent had -made him capable of saying and doing any thing, but that his reason had not given -leave to say or to do, ought but what deserveth to be commended; which words -were as carefully considered, as he repeated them often with several Oaths and Imprecations.</p> - -<p>Upon that the Chancellor having asked him why then he did not open himself -more to the King, who desired him with great affection to do it at <i>Fountain-bleau</i>, -seeing he knew in his conscience to have done nothing against his duty since his pardon. -There he cut himself in his answer, and said he thought <i>la Fin</i> had revealed -nothing of what was between them, and that he had lately assured him so with Oaths -and fearful imprecations, that he would never have thought <i>la Fin</i> had been such a -damnable man, as to reveal that which with so many deep Oaths and Imprecations -they had promised to keep secret between themselves; that having propounded the -question to a Monk of the Order of <i>Minimes</i> at <i>Lyon</i>, whether he might with a safe -conscience reveal what was between them, and what he had promised with Oath to -<i>la Fin</i> to keep secret, because he suspected that <i>la Fin</i> would deceive him, and tell -all to the King, and so ruine him. The <i>Minime</i> had answered, that seeing they had -no more intention to put in execution the things they had projected, he was not to -reveal them, and if <i>la Fin</i> did it, he should go to Hell, and himself to Heaven; that -he did so firmly believe this, that although the Archbishop of <i>Bourges</i> had visited him -in Prison, and alledged many reasons to the contrary, yet his soul was so settled in that -belief, that he thought it was only the part of an Atheist to swear with intention to -deceive.</p> - -<p>Upon this he begin to accuse <i>la Fin</i> of the most execrable crimes that a man is -capable of, saying that he made use of <i>Renazée</i> for <i>Sodomy</i> that he was a Witch, and -had ordinary communication with the Devils, that he had so be witched him with -enchanted Waters and Wax Images, that spoke, that he was constrained to submit -himself to all his will; that he never spoke to him but whispering, and in unknown -words, and after he had kissed him in the left eye, and he could not deny but he had -shewed him a Wax Image, speaking and saying, <i>Rex impie morieris</i>, <i>thou shalt die -ungodly King</i>, and called him continually his Master, Lord, Prince and King; that -he was a false Coiner, and had persuaded him many times to attempt upon the King, -but that he would never hearken to it, that the quality of the Accusators was to be -considered, who not only were partners, but instigators of the Fact; that certainly -the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> was his mortal enemy, for having since his pardon left of all his intelligences -with him, and seeing that after a long detention he had released <i>Renazée</i>, -to come and to be a witness against him; that the King had forgiven him at <i>Lyon</i> and -that upon his acknowledging many times to the King, that the refusal of the Citadel -of <i>Bourg</i> had very much incensed him, his Majesty did comfort him with these words.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_478"></a>[478]</span> -Marshal never remember <i>Bourg</i>, and I will never remember what is past, that in 22 -Months after he had not offended, that if he had continued his ill designs, he might -have done it easily in <i>England</i> and <i>Switzerland</i>. That above 100. Gentlemen shall -be Witnesses of his first Embassy, and for the second, he desireth no other Witnesses -than the Kings Embassadors themselves, that if they would be pleased to -consider how he was come, and in what case he had left the Province of <i>Burgundy</i>, -it was impossible to have an ill opinion of his designs; for there was not one -Souldier in all the Countrey, and at his going away he gave no other charge to the -Commanders and Captains, than to serve the King faithfully, that every one disswaded -him to come to Court, and in the way he received many Letters to that -purpose, that he was come upon the Kings word, trusting upon his own Conscience -and Innocency. If the King be not pleased to consider my services (said he to the -Court) and those assurances he hath given me of his Mercy, I acknowledge my -self guilty of Death, and do not expect my life from his Justice, but from yours, -(my Lords) who will remember better than he what dangers I have undergone for -his service. I confess I had a mind to do ill, but I never proceeded to effects: -It would be a hard matter if I should be the first in whom thoughts should be punished; -Great offences require great clemency. I do implore that of the King, and -nevertheless I am the onely one in <i>France</i>, that is made an example of his severity, -and that can have no hope in his clemency, which he never denyed to those that -had done worse: However I trust more in you my Lords, than I do in the King, -who having heretofore looked upon me with his Eyes of love, looketh upon me now -with those of his anger, and thinketh it a Vertue to be cruel unto me, and a Vice to -excercise upon me the act of clemency.</p> - -<p>Thus pleaded the Prisoner, with so much eloquency and boldness, that if his -Judges had not seen evidently the truth of the fact, under his own Hand and -Seal, the respect of his first condition might have perswaded them to believe his Innocency, -and to take compassion of his ruined fortune.</p> - -<p>The Court did hear him as long as he would speak, with so much patience, that -never a man had the like audience. The Prisoner spoke so much, that his last reasons -were found contrary to his first, his allegations did not shew his Innocency; for -the Embassadors themselves which he took for Witnesses of his carryage in <i>Switzerland</i>, -did report many words of his, which shewed his anger and passion. Besides -the King had not given his word, that he might come in Safety, and those Letters -which he alleadged for his justification, did prove the continuation of his treacherous -designs, seeing that he had sent <i>la Fin</i> and <i>Hebert</i>, to <i>Turin</i> and <i>Milan</i>, since the -pardon, He could not then expect but Justice, in a case where neither passion nor -favour could alter Judgment: Nevertheless he shewed himself much satisfied with his -answers, and therefore being come back again to the <i>Bastille</i>, he passed the rest -of that day, and the two next, to relate unto his Guards the questions of the Court -and his answers therereunto, counterfeiting the gesture and the words which he Imagined -the Chancellor had spoken after his going away, though that grave and venerable -old man neither said nor did any thing, but what was becoming to his Age and -quality, having shewed himself as full of compassion, as the prisoner was of his vanity; -for when he was nearer to death he thought less upon it, and thinking himself the -only man capable of commanding an Army, he found some fault in those that were -thought capable of it, saying, that one was unhappy in his undertakings, the other -was not respected by the Souldiers, such a one was a brave man, but he wanted experience, -and another that hath both was a Protestant. To conclude, he did so please -himself with his own praise and deserts, that he thought no body could come near -him, and that he was so useful to the Kingdom, that it would be a great Crime to -think to undo him.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_479"></a>[479]</span></p> - -<p>He had spoken so long the 27 of the Month, that there was no time left to gather -the Voices: The Chancellor therefore went into the Palace the 29 following to gather -the Voices of the Judges. <i>Fleury</i> the reporter of the Proces, did conform his opinion -to the conclusions of the Kings Attorney, all the rest agreed to it, either by -Words or by Signs, and all the proofs necessary for the verification of a Crime -meeting in this case, as his Answers, Confessions, Writings, Letters, Instructions, -and Evidence of Witnesses not reproached; It was found, that the unnatural Conspiracy -against the State, the detestable attempt upon the Kings Person, makes him -guilty of high Treason in the first and second degree.</p> - -<p>He confesseth he had evil intentions, it is enough, the Laws do punish the Councels, -the resolutions, and the effects; for if the Traitor be not prevented, time may -give him the opportunity to accomplish his Design and Will, and the Will of a Subject -in point of State, doth depend immediately upon that of the Prince. He sayeth -moreover, that without the Kings Mercy he is undone, and that if he would have -put in Execution the ill designs that were propounded to him against his Majesty, -he should have been gone long ago: Did he ever give notice of them to the King -or to any body else. If the Prisoner had brought to pass his intent, we might -have said, farewell State, farewell Justice, it is too late to believe the Conspiracy against -Princes, when they are murdered by the Conspirators.</p> - -<p>He hath well Served the King, it is true; but his Offices and Dignities did call -him to that Duty, he hath had notable rewards for it, and from the time that he -hath shewed himself so unfaithfull, he hath diminished the lustre of his deserts. His -deserts had made him capable of the first dignities of the Kingdom, but the merit -of them is vanished away, by the greatness of his Crime.</p> - -<p>And what is the State beholding to him, if after he hath contributed so much for -its restauration, he goeth about to turn up side down the Foundation of it, and to betray -it to the Enemies. It is nothing to begin well unless you end well, the -actions are judged by the end: Those that have deserved best of the States, are the -most severely punished when they fall into Sedition and Rebellion. There is -many sheets of Paper in the Hands of the Court, containing in them one hundred -advices given to the Enemy, the least of which is capable to make him -guilty.</p> - -<p>The Prisoners quality is not considerable in this case; Justice is blind to all distinctions, -and rather considereth the offence according to the quality of the offender; -Crimes of high Treason are not considered by things past, but by things present and -that are to come; we must not put in an account what he hath done, but what he -had a mind to do. The quality of a Duke and Peer of <i>France</i>, of Knight of the -Kings Order, of Marshal, doth not exempt him from the Law, and from being judged -as an Enemy to the State, and to the Majesty of the Prince, seeing he would have -troubled the State, and attempted upon the Kings person. Who in <i>France</i> besides -is more obliged to the King? the greater then is the Obligation, the greater the ingratitude. -God forbid that the respect of the quality should stop the course of -Justice: a Limb must be cut off to save all the body.</p> - -<p>But his offence hath been forgiven: The pardon cannot extend but to the things -that are confessed; but he acknowledgeth himself that he hath not told all, therefore -he hath confessed as little as he could, his own confessions Witness, he only -asked forgiveness, that he might continue his Crimes with more security: Besides, -he would not acknowledge his fault to the King, for all the King promised to forgive -him, and lately he told the Court, he did not believe that <i>la Fin</i> had revealed -what was secret between them; and thought he would have kept his word, which -he had confirmed with so many Oaths, and that if he had doubted of it, he would -have cast himself at his Majesties Feet as readily as he, and asked him forgiveness.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_480"></a>[480]</span> -It followeth then that there was some thing left behind that was not confessed: Thus -he accuseth himself, thinking to excuse his fault; besides, he mistaketh himself -thinking to persuade the Court, that since the pardon he hath done nothing amiss, for -the Pardon was in <i>January</i> 1600. and here be Letters of <i>September</i> last, by which he -recalleth <i>la Fin</i>, telleth him, he will think no more upon the Vanities that were past -since, God was pleased to have given the King a Dolphin. It is apparent then that -he hath employed <i>la Fin</i> at least since the Pardon, till the birth of the Dolphin, and -<i>la Fin</i> maintaineth that there was a note quite to the contrary, and that they did -continue their intelligences and practises unknown to the King. That the Duke -did recal him, fearing he should discover the Conspiracy, when a man continues in -his faults and abuseth his Pardon, the last fault payeth for all.</p> - -<p>Besides, the Court hath not seen that Pardon, he oughted to have produced it in -writing under the Kings Hand and Seal, and to forgive him once more, would put -him into such a condition, as to contrive always Treasons against the State; the remedy -of a present evil is not to be neglected upon the hope of an uncertain good; -he is in a case to be no more useful; nothing can be expected from his courage but revenge; -he that can bring no profit by his virtue and faithfulness, must do it by being -made an exemple.</p> - -<p>Such were for the most part the reasons of the Court, according to which, and to -the conclusions of the Attorney General, the Chancellor did pronounce Sentence of -death against the Prisoner; some were of opinion that <i>la Fin</i> should be arrested, as -one that could not justifie himself, for having concealed such a damnable Conspiracy, -till he saw that the <i>Spanish</i> affairs went to wrack. The Chancellor did moderate -these opinions, representing that the Conspiracy was not yet wholly discovered, and -that such things would hinder the rest of those that knew some thing of it to reveal -it; that a man that saveth the Kings Person and his Estate, ought rather to be rewarded -then punished. And in confirmation of this, the King sent Letters to <i>la Fin</i>, -by which he assured him, that such a service done to him and his Kingdom, should -never prove his ruine.</p> - -<p>The Court stayed onely for the Kings intention upon the execution of the Sentence, -which <i>Sillery</i> had carried to St. <i>Germain</i>. The Scaffold was ready to be set -up in the place of <i>Greve</i>, but the execution might have proved dangerous, in the -middle of so much people of different humors and tempers; and already there was a -rumour, as if some body should throw him a Sword, with which he should make himself -a passage, or else have died with a blow less shameful then that of the Hangman; -upon his friends intreaty the execution was ordered to be done in the <i>Bastille</i>.</p> - -<p>The next day about noon, the people knowing that the Sentence was past, went -some to the <i>Greve</i>, thinking that the execution should be done there, others to St. -<i>Antony</i> street, to see the Prisoner pass by; he saw from his Chamber that multitude, -and guessed that he was to be the Spectacle of those Spectators; here the anguish -of the Grave began to beset him, and drawing a consequence from the shadow -of death, that the body was not far of; he sent <i>Baranton</i> a <i>Scotish</i> Gentleman to intreat -the Marquess of <i>Rhosny</i> to come to see him, or if he could not come, to sue for -his Pardon to the King. He sent him answer, he could do neither, and that he was -extreamly sorry for his misfortune, that if he had believed him at his coming to -Court, he should have confessed what the King did desire to know of him, for by -concealing of it, he did hinder the King to give him his life, and all his friends to sue -for it.</p> - -<p>The next day last of <i>July</i> 1602. the Chancellor, the first President, <i>Sillery</i>, three -Masters of Requests, some Officers of the Chancery, <i>Rapin</i> Lieutenant of the short -Gown, his Lieutenant, <i>Daniel Voisin</i> Register of the Court of Parliament, six Sergeants, -and seven or eight more went to the Bastille, about ten of the Clock in the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_481"></a>[481]</span> -morning, as soon as they were come in the Chancellor commanded that the Prisoners -Dinner should be carryed, without giving him notice of his coming, and in -the mean time he and the first President made a List of those whom they would -have to be present in that action: Some Presidents, three Masters of Requests, -three Auditors, six Serjeants of the Parliament, the Lieutenant Civil, the Kings -Attorney at the <i>Chastelet</i>, <i>Rapin</i> and his Lieutenant, the Knight of the Watch, the -Prevost of the Merchants, four Aldermen, four Councellors of the City, and some -few others, to the number of fifty.</p> - -<p>About noon the Prisoner looking through the Grates of his Chamber Windows, -perceived the Wife of <i>Rumigny</i>, Captain of the Castle, weeping with her hands -up and guessed that those Tears were drawn by the compassion of his Fortune. -He was confirmed in his opinion, when he saw the Chancellor followed by the Serjeants, -<i>Rapin</i> and his Lieutenant, and some others go through the <i>Bastilles</i> Yard -into the Chappel, then he began to cry aloud, O my God I am a dead man, ah, -what injustice it is to put an Innocent Person to death, thereupon he intreated <i>Rumigny</i> -to tell his Brothers, Sisters and Kindred, that they should not be ashamed of -his death, because he was Innocent of that he was accused.</p> - -<p>The Chancellor commanded he should be brought down into the Chappel, where -as soon as he saw the Chancellor, are you come, said he, to pronounce me my death: -The Chancellor saluted him, then put on his Hat, the Prisoner stood bare headed, -and began to speak first. Ah my Lord Chancellor, is there no pardon? is there -no Mercy? such and such (whom he did name one after another) have committed -such offences and yet have been pardoned. What? you that look like an honest -man, have you suffered that I should be so miserably condemned? ah! my Lord, -if you had not told the Court that the King would have me to die, they would not -have condemned me so. My Lord, my Lord, you could have hindred that evil, -and you have not done it, you shall answer for that injustice before all the rest of the -Judges that have condemned me, and saying so, he stroke the Chancellor upon the -Arm. Ah! what a great service the King doth this day to the King of <i>Spain</i>, to -rid him of such an Enemy as I was, might I not have been kept within four Walls, -till some occasion had offered where I might have been useful? Ah my Lord, have -you forgot my fathers love to you so much, as not to give notice to the King of what -I say, and what dammage he suffereth in loosing me: I am yet as willing as ever to -do Service to the Kingdom, you could let him know so much, he hath so good an -opinion of you, I am sure he would believe you: A Messenger could quickly go -thither and back again; what shall a thousand Gentlemen my Kinsmen say? doth -he think that after my death they can do him any service? and what if I had been -guilty, would I have come upon those false assurances that President <i>Janin</i> that great -Cheat gave me, when he told me, that businesses were so ill mannaged in <i>France</i>, -that it was fit I should see the King and tell him of it, who at my perswasion would -settle them in better order: I have neglected all the advices of my friends to -hearken unto his perswasions. I have trusted to that cursed Traitor <i>la Fin</i>, who -writ to me that I could come in all safety, and that he had told the King nothing but -of the Marriage that was propounded to me with a daughter of <i>Savoy</i>, that the King -would receive me with all kindness. What then? the goings to and fro of many, -the reasons of those who advised me to come, and the Kings Letters, were they -all baits to catch me: I am well served to have trusted to much upon his Word, I -could have sought and got other securities, if I had not trusted to my Innocency; -I am come upon the confidence of my integrity since his pardon. Ah! doth he not -know that he hath forgiven me; I have lied some evil designs, I have hearkened, I -have written, I have spoken, I confessed them all at <i>Lyon</i>, he did assure me never -to remember it, and did exhort me that from hence forwards I should commit nothing<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_482"></a>[482]</span> -that might compel me to have recourse to his clemency: Nevertheless I am -now accused of things that are blotted out by his pardon; I have not offended him -since, unless it be in that I desired War rather than Peace, because my humour is -not peaceable, had not the King at that time reason to approve of it? if this Crime -deserveth death I fly to his clemency, I implore his Mercy. The Queen of <i>England</i> -told me, that if the Earl of <i>Essex</i> would have humbled himself, and asked forgiveness, -he should have obtained it: I do, being Innocent, what he would not do being -guilty. Ah! Shall all Mercy be put out for me; those that have done worse have -found Grace and Mercy: I perceive what it is, I am not the more guilty but the -most unhappy, and the King, who hath been so sparing of his Subjects lives, -hath a mind to be prodigal of mine.</p> - -<p>To conclude, he forgot nothing of what might be said by a soul pierced with grief -spite, anger, and violent threatning, in exclamations and revilings against the King -and his Parliament, in reproaches against the Chancellor, that he had more contributed -to his condemnation than to his absolution, in words that are not fit to be spoken -nor related.</p> - -<p>His words ran so fast that the Chancellor could not stop them: Nevertheless he -took occasion to tell him, his passion suggested him many things without appearance -of reason, and against his own judgment, that no body had known his defects better -than he, and that he could have wished his faults had been as unknown as dissembled, -that the knowledge of them had been so visible and apparent, that his Judges had -more ado to moderate his punishment than to inflict it. That Sentence was given -upon the proofs of several attemps he had made against the Kings Person and his -Estate, and for having kept intelligence and correspondency with the Enemies of the -Kingdom, of which he had been found guilty, that if he had concealed the truth in -the answers to his accusations, he should now reveal it being so near to his end, and -that for these causes the King did ask his Order of Knighthood, and his staff of Marshal -of <i>France</i>, with which he had formerly honoured him: He pulled the Order out -of his Pocket and put it into the Chancellors hands, Protesting and Swearing upon -the Salvation of his Soul, that he never had broken the Oath he made in receiving it, -that (it is true) he had desired War more than Peace; because he could not preserve -in Peace, the reputation he had got in War, as for the Staff, he never carryed -it: Nevertheless by the Oath that the Knights of the Holy Ghost take, they are -bound to take no Pension, Wages nor Money from forrain Princes, and to engage -themselves in no bodies service but the Kings, and faithfully to reveal what they -shall know to be for or against the Kings service.</p> - -<p>After that the Chancellor exhorted him to lift up his thoughts from Earth to -Heaven, to call upon God, and to hear patiently his Sentence.</p> - -<p>My Lord (said he) I beseech you do not use me as other men; I know what my -Sentence beareth, my accusations are false, I wonder the Court would Condemn me -upon the Evidence of the most wicked and detestable man that is alive; he never -came near me without Witchcraft, nor never went from me till he had bewitched me, -he did bite my left ear off, and made me drink inchanted waters, and when he said, that -the King had a mind to rid himself of me, he called me his King, his Benefactor, his -Prince, his Lord, he hath communication with the Devils, and hath shewed me a -Wax Image, speaking these words in Latine, <i>Rex impie morieris</i>, ungodly King -thou shalt die. If he hath had so much power by his Magick, as to make an inanimate -body to speak, it is no wonder that he should make my Will conformable to -his.</p> - -<p>Here the Chancellor stopt him, and told him, that the Court had well considered -his answers, and his Letters, that he ought not to find fault with his Sentence, that -it had done him the same justice as a Father should do to his son, if he had offended<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_483"></a>[483]</span> -in the like manner. He had scarce spoken these words when the other answered, -what Judgment? I have been heard but once, and had no time to tell the fiftieth -part of my justification; if I had been heard at large, I could have made it clearly -appear that <i>la Fin</i> is such a one as I say; what Judgment upon the Evidence of a -Bougerer? of a Rogue that hath forsaken his Wife, of a treacherous and perfidious -man, that had Sworn so many times upon the Holy Sacrament, never to reveal -what was between us, of a Knave that hath so often counterfeited my Hand and Seal: -It is true, I have written some of those Letters that were shewed me, but I never -intended to put them in Execution: and the rest are falsified: Is there not many -that can counterfeit so well the Hand and Seal of others, that themselves can scarce -distinguish them. It is well known that the Lady <i>Marchioness</i> of <i>Vernevil</i> hath -lately acknowledged that to be her own hand, which she had never written. My -Heart and my Actions have sufficiently countervailed the faults of my Hand, and of -my Tongue. Besides, the King hath forgiven me, I do implore his Memory for a -Witness. You say I have been found guilty to have attempted upon the Kings Person; -that is false, that never came into my mind, and I knew nothing of it till that -<i>la Fin</i> did propose it to me before St. <i>Katherines</i> Fort, six or seven days after the -Siege, if I had been thus minded, I could have easily brought it to pass; I was -the only man that hindred the King to go before the Fort: If my services had -been taken into consideration, I should not have been thus condemned: I believe -that if you had not been present, the Parliament would not have judged me so -rigorously; I wonder that you, whom I thought to be prudent and wise, have -used me so cruelly; it would have been more honourable for your quality and old -age to implore for me the Kings Mercy, than his Justice. There is Dungeons here -where I might have been kept bound hand and foot; I should have at last that comfort -to pray for those who should have got me that favour from the King. If I had -been but a single Souldier, I should have been sent to the Galleys; but because I -am a Marshal of <i>France</i>, I am thought to be as dangerous a man to the State, as I -have been useful heretofore. My life is sought after, I see there is no Mercy for -me; the King hath often forgiven those, who not only intended to do evil, but -had done it; this Vertue is now forgotten, he giveth occasion now to the World -to believe, that he never used clemency or forgiveness, but when he was afraid. I -was of opinion, that if I had killed one of his Children he would have forgiven me. -Is it not pity that my Father should have run so many dangers, and at last died in the -field to keep the Crown upon his Head, and that now he should take my head off my -Shoulders, is it possible he should forget the services I have done him? doth he not -remember the conspiracy of <i>Mantes</i>, and the dangers he should have been in if -I had taken the Conspirators part? Hath he forgotten the Siege of <i>Amiens</i>, where -I have been so often among the fire and Bullets, neglecting my own life to preserve -his, I have not a Vein but hath been open to preserve his own Blood, I have received -five and thirty wounds to save his life; he sheweth now that he never loved -me but when he had need of me, he taketh away my head, but let him beware that -the Justice of God doth not fall upon his. My Blood shall cry for revenge for the -wrong that is done me to day, I call the King of <i>Spain</i> and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> to -Witness, if I know any thing what is laid to my charge. <i>La Fin</i> himself did shew me -sometimes a Catholick List of about fourscore Gentlemen, who received Pension -from the King of <i>Spain</i>, I had never so much curiosity as to read it; let him be put -to the rack he shall tell many particularities of it; the King within a little while -shall perceive what he getteth by my death; I shall at last die a good Catholick, and -constant in my Religion, I believe that’s the cause of my death.</p> - -<p>The Chancellor seeing that all his discourses were full of passion, vanity and repetitions, -and void of reason, and were like an impetuous Torrent that cannot be stopt,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_484"></a>[484]</span> -and that all his words were nothing but reproaches against the King and the Court -of Parliament, blasphemies against God, and execrations against his Accusers; said -that his business called him away, and that in his absence he would leave him two -Divines to comfort him, and to dispose his soul to leave quietly this World, for the -enjoying of a better.</p> - -<p>As the Chancellor was going out, the Prisoner begged of him that he might have -the liberty to make his Will, because he did owe much, and much was owing to him, -and he desired to satisfie every body. The Chancellor answered, that the Recorder -<i>Voisin</i> should stay with him to write his Will under the Kings good pleasure. And as -the Chancellor spoke to <i>Voisin</i>, the Prisoner turning to <i>Roissy</i>, Master of Requests, -asked him if he were, one of those that had condemned him: my Father hath -loved you so much, that though you were one, yet should I forgive you. <i>Roissy</i> answered, -my Lord, I pray God Almighty to comfort you.</p> - -<p>They went out, and he with a quiet mind and free from passion, did dictate his -Will in what form he would, with the same <i>Garbe</i>, as if he had been making a Speech -at the head of an Army; he remembred his friends and servants, and did not forget -the Baron of <i>Lux</i>, whom he loved above all the rest. He lest eight hundred Livers -a year to a Bastard of his, whom he begot of a woman that he left with Child of -another, to which child he left a Mannor near <i>Dijon</i> that had cost him six thousand -Crowns, he disposed all the rest of his Debts, and answered modestly, and without -confusion to all the Notes and Bills that were brought him about his affairs. Took -three Rings off his fingers, and intreated <i>Baranton</i> to give them to his Sisters, two to -the Countess of <i>Roussy</i>, and the other to that of Saint <i>Blancard</i>, desiring they would -wear them for his sake; he distributed in Alms about 200. Crowns that he had in -his Pocket, fifty to the <i>Capuchines</i>, fifty to the <i>Fueillants</i>, fifty to the <i>Minimes</i>, and -the rest to several poor people.</p> - -<p>The Will being made, the Recorder put him in mind how my Lord Chancellor -had told him he was condemned to death, and that according to the ordinary forms -of the Law, he must have his Sentence read to him; that this action required humility, -therefore willed him to kneel before the Altar, leaving off hence forth all -thoughts of this World, to think upon the Father of Mercies; he kneeled with the -right knee upon the first step of the Altar, and heard it read as followeth:</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p><i>Seen by the Court, the Chambers being assembled together, the Process extraordinarily made -by the Presidents and Councellors, appointed by the King under his Letters Patents, dated the -18 and 19 of <span class="antiqua">June</span>, at the request of the Kings Sollicitor General, against the Lord <span class="antiqua">Charles</span> -of <span class="antiqua">Gontault</span> of <span class="antiqua">Biron</span>, Knight of both Orders, Duke of <span class="antiqua">Biron</span>, Peer and Marshal of <span class="antiqua">France</span>, -Governour of <span class="antiqua">Burgundy</span>, Prisoner in the Castle of <span class="antiqua">Bastille</span>, accused of high Treason, Informations, -Interrogations, Confessions and denials, Confrontations, and Witnesses, Letters, Advices, -and Instructions given to the Enemies, and acknowledged by him, and all what the -Solliciter General hath produced. Sentence of the 22 of this Month, by which it was ordered, -that in the absence of the Peers of <span class="antiqua">France</span> summoned, it should be further proceeded to Judgment -Conclusions of the Kings Sollicitor, the accuser being heard and interrogated, all things -being duly considered, hath been concluded, that the said Court hath declared, and declareth -the said Duke of <span class="antiqua">Biron</span>, attainted and convicted of high Treason, for the conspiracies by him -made against the Kings Person and Estates, Proditions and Treaties with his Enemies, -when he was Marshal of the Army of the said King, for reparation of which Crime, the said -Court hath deprived and depriveth him of all his Estates, Honours and Dignities, and -hath condemned and condemneth him to be beheaded upon a Scaffold, which for that purpose -shall be erected in the place of <span class="antiqua">Greve</span>, hath declared, and declareth, all and every one -of his Goods, moveable or unmoveable, in whatsoever places scituated and seated, to be acquired -and confiscated to the King, the Mannor of <span class="antiqua">Biron</span>, deprived for ever of the Title and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_485"></a>[485]</span> -Dukedom and Peerage, and altogether all his other Goods, immediately holden from the -King, reunited to the Crown again. Done in Parliament the last day of <span class="antiqua">July 1602</span>. -Signed in the Original by <span class="antiqua">de Belieure</span>, Chancellor of <span class="antiqua">France</span>, Councillor in the Court, Reporter -of the Process.</i></p> -</div> - -<p>He was not moved at these words, <i>attainted and convicted of high Treason</i>, but at -these, <i>against the Person of the King</i>, he fell into a rage, and Swearing as he had -done many times before, and shall do hereafter with great Oaths and Imprecations, -there is no such thing, said he to the Recorder, it is false, blot out that; he was -also very angry, hearing that he was to be executed in the place of <i>Greve</i>, thinking -that for several respects he was to be distinguished from the common sort of people, -and Swore again, that he would not go thither, and that he had rather to be torn in -pieces by wild Horses, and that it was not in the power of all those that stood by to -carry him thither, then he was a little appeased, when <i>Voisin</i> told him, that the -King had done him that favour to change the place of Execution, and that it was to -be done in the <i>Bastille</i>. The confiscation of his Goods, and the revenues of the -Dukedom of <i>Biron</i> to the Crown, was the last point of the Sentence that vexed -him. What? said he, doth the King intend to grow rich out of my poverty? -The Lordship of <i>Biron</i> cannot be confiscated, I only possessed it by substitution of -my Brethren, what shall my Brethren do, the King ought to have been satisfied -with the loss of my life.</p> - -<p>The Sentence being pronounced, <i>Voisin</i> did exhort him again to renounce all the -vanities of the world, to take no other care but of the Salvation of his Soul, which -was to be first by reconciling himself to God Almighty, and that there was two Divines -for that purpose, and that according to the usual forms of Executions, he would -be pleased to suffer himself to be bound. That word of Execution did seem so horrid -to him, that he fell into a new rage, Swearing, that he would never permit so -infamous a person to touch him, otherwise than with the Sword, and that he had -rather be hewen in pieces. To keep him from falling into a further despair, <i>Voisin</i> -left him, with his Divines, <i>viz.</i> <i>Garnier Almonec</i>, and Confessor to the King, and -after that Bishop of <i>Montpelier</i>, and <i>Magnan</i>, Curate of St. <i>Nicolas</i> in the fields at -<i>Paris</i>, who began to talk boldly to him of his death, and to disvest himself of all his -thoughts, as he had done of his Goods, and to take no other care than that of his -Soul, whereupon he fell into a passion again, Let me alone (said he) it is I that -must think upon my Soul, you have nothing to do with it, I had no need of you, you -shall not be troubled to hear my confession; what I speak aloud is my confession, I -have been these eight days a confessing my self, and the last night, me thought I -saw the Heavens opened, and that God lent me his Hand; my Keepers heard me -laugh for joy in my sleep. The Divines did not loose Courage for all that, but -more and more intreated him to consider, that he was no more what he had been -before, that within one or two hours he should be no more, that he must change to -be for evermore, that his Soul was ready to appear before the fearfull Throne of the -living God, to be rewarded with a more happy life than that he had hitherto passed; -or be condemned to an Eternal pain and that in comparison of that which he was to -suffer now, it was no more than the slight pricking of a Pin, and having in some -measure appeased him, they left him to examine his Conscience, while <i>Voisin</i> went -to give notice of his refusing to be bound; the Chancellor doubted whether he -should be compelled to it; the first President said, that it was dangerous to let him -loose; <i>Sillery</i> having learned of <i>Voisin</i> that the Prisoner was at that time very quiet, -said, that if they went about to bind him, he would break all the bonds of Patience, -and should never be brought to Execution but in a rage and dispair; according to -that opinion he was left free in his body, that he might be the more free in his -thoughts.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_486"></a>[486]</span></p> - -<p>Which were more to the World, and to the setling of his affairs, than to the -saving of his Soul, which he had neglected all his life time, and shewed himself -utterly ignorant of the principles of his Religion, for which he said a little before, -he was put to death, and those that were present related, that his Prayers made -him appear more a Souldier than a Christian; he prayed in commanding, and commanded -in praying.</p> - -<p>His Confession being ended, he walked in the Chappel with one hand upon his -side, and with the other holding the strings of his Shirt, did unbutton and button -again his Doublet. <i>Voisin</i> being come back told him, that the Chancellor and the -first President were very glad to hear of his Patience, and of his constant resolution -to die. He talked much of the Money he had at <i>Dijon</i>, of the worth of his Jewels, -and of what was owing to him, and what himself did owe, he desired that some Sums -of Money should be paid to certain Gentlemen, that had no Obligation for it: But -still he broke forth into exclamations concerning his Innocency, and execrations -against <i>la Fin</i>, asking if it should not be lawfull for his Brothers to prosecute him, -and to cause him to be burnt.</p> - -<p>Upon this, those that kept him during his Imprisonment, came to take their leave -of him, every one having his left hand upon the handle of his Sword, and Tears -in his Eyes, he moved them to compassion by the sight of his present condition, and -exhorted them to serve the King faithfully, against whom he had said he had done -nothing amiss, and complained that he could find no Mercy at his Hands, intreated -them to pray to God for him, and to oblige them to that, distributed among them -all his Cloaths and linnen, and Watches; he desired also the Knight of the Watch -to tell the King, that his Servants knew nothing of his Affairs, that the Earl of -<i>Auvergne</i> was not to be questioned upon that account: He intreated much one exempt -of the Guards to go to the said Earl, and tell him he had laid nothing to his -charge, and that he went to die without any grief, but of the loss of his friendship, -and that the shortness of his life would not give him leave to shew in effect how much -he was his servant. The Earl sent him word, that he did accept of his farewell, as -of an intimate friend; and that he remained behind to lament all the days of his life -the loss he suffered in him, intreated him to leave him his Bastard Son, to have him -brought up with his own Children. After this the Prisoner saw a Gentleman belonging -to the Duke of <i>Mayene</i>, and entreated him to tell his Master, that if ever -in his life he had given him some occasion not to love him, that he prayed to believe -that he would die his servant, as also of the Duke of <i>Aiguillon</i>, and Earl of <i>Sommerive</i> -his Children; he likewise intreated <i>Arnaut</i>, Secretary to the Marquess of -<i>Rhosny</i>, to remember his last commendations to his Master, and desire him to remember -not so much him that went to die, as his Brethren whom he left behind, -that he had him in opinion of a good and usefull servant to the King, and repented -much he had not believed his Councel.</p> - -<p>About three of the Clock the Chancellor and the first President went up again -into the Chappel, and finding him in a good disposition, did fortifie his resolution -by their discourses, and desiring to know more particularities from his own mouth, -sent all the standers by away, except the Divines and the Recorder: They did exhort -him to consider, that the days of man are limited, that the end of his days depended -from the Providence of the Almighty, who would take him out of this -world before some great and long misery should make him weary of it. He answered, -no, no my Lords, do not trouble you about comforting me and strengthning -me against the fear of death, I have not been afraid of it these 20 years; you have -given me 40 days to study it, but I could not believe that having not been in the -power of my Enemies to take away my life, I should be so miserable as to loose it -by the consent of my friends; having said this they left him, and took their leaves<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_487"></a>[487]</span> -of him with Tears in their Eyes, he would not suffer them to depart till they had received -a new Protestation of his, that he never had attempted any thing against the -King, Swearing, that if he would have done it, the King should not have been alive -three years ago.</p> - -<p>As they were going out of the <i>Bastille</i> with <i>Sillery</i>, he sent the Knight of the -Watch to intreat the Chancellor, that his Body might be buried at <i>Biron</i>, in the -Sepulchre of his Ancestors, and that he would desire the King to give to his younger -Brother some Office in the house of the <i>Dolphin</i>, and shewing by his Countenance, -Carryage, and Words, to care as little for death as one that is a great way from it gave -cause to suspect, that he was not out of hope to obtain his pardon from the King, or -to escape by some extraordinary means.</p> - -<p>The Divines did exhort him to keep nothing back of what might serve for the -discharging of his Conscience, and to consider, that they could give him absolution -for no more than what he did confess. Although, said he, the King causeth me -to die unjustly, nevertheless I have served him with so much affection and obedience, -and I have near my death so much good will and affection for him, that if I -knew any thing against his Person or State, I would tell it freely, and upon that -whispered some things to his Confessors, which <i>Voisin</i> did presently write.</p> - -<p>Being about five of the Clock, <i>Baranton</i> was sent to tell him it was time to go; -let us go said he, seeing I must die, and desired he would charge his Brothers from -him, to remain faithful to the King, and not to go to Court, till time had blotted, or -at least lessened the shame of his death. He kneeled before the Altar, and having -ended his Prayer, he desired the Company to pray for him.</p> - -<p>Coming out of the Chappel, he met the Executioner, who offered to follow him, -and he thinking it was to bind him; keep off, (said he) and do not touch me till it -be time; I shall go willingly to die without troubling any body; but it shall never -be said that I am dead like a Slave, or a Thief, and swore by God that if he came near -him he would strangle him. The Divines exhorted him going down the stairs to -resist those impaciencies and temptations of the Devil, who striveth most to deviate -the Soul from her Salvation, when as he hath most need of the Divine assistance to -withstand his assaults, remonstrating also unto him, that all his violences and passions -could not hinder the Soul to depart from a place where she was but a Tenant at -Will. He hearkened to them, and saying three times ah, ah, ah, raising his voice -at every one, he said, is there no Mercy in the world, I see to day, that all the world -hath forsaken me.</p> - -<p>He came into the Yard, and seeing the Lieutenant of the City, in whose house -the King had put <i>la Fin</i>, to secure him from all attempts, My Lord Lieutenant -(said he) I am very much your friend, take heed to have any thing to do with that -Witch and Magician that lyeth at your house, if you meddle with him he will undo -you.</p> - -<p>The Scaffold was set up in the corner of the Yard, over against the Garden gate, -six foot high, and seven long, without any Ornament or distinction. He kneeled -upon the first step, lifted up his Eyes to Heaven and made a short Prayer, like a -Souldier, and went up as couragiously as if he had gone to an assault, clad in a -Gray Taffety Suit, with a black Hat on his Head, but as soon as he saw the Executioner, -he looked furiously upon him, and bid him stand aside till he were ready -to receive the last stroke: He threw his Hat, his Handkarchief, and Doublet to -the first that would take it, nevertheless one of the Executioners men was nimbler -than all the rest, and looking upon the Souldiers that kept the Gate armed, with -Musquets and Fire-locks. Ah! said he, must I die? is there no pardon? if at -least some of those good fellows would shut me (opening his Breast) he should oblige -my very much, what pity is it to die so miserably, and of so shameful a blow,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_488"></a>[488]</span> -then directing his speech to the Spectators, he said, I have put my Soul into such a -state as she ought to be to appear before the face of Almighty God, but I pity that -of the King, who causeth me to die unjustly: I have erred I confess, but I never -attempted anything against the Kings Person, he should have been dead ten years -ago if I would have believed the evil Councel that was given me concerning that -the trouble and distress of his Soul was so great, that a little while before he said -three years, and now he says ten; the Divines having setled him a little once more, -he received their absolution.</p> - -<p>The Executioner then presented unto him a Frontlet, but it proved to him a new -wound, an increase of grief, and swore if he toucht him any other way than with the -Sword he would strangle him, & thereupon he asked again for his own Handkarchief to -make use of it, his hollow and gastly Eyes shewed he was not in his right mind. <i>Voisin</i> -intreated him to be patient, and to raise his thoughts to the place where his Soul was -to go, and to be attentive to the reading of his Sentence. He was unwilling to hear -the repetition of his Crimes, and to have occasion to exclaim again against the Iniquitie, -of those that had condemned him, against the Kings cruelty, as he called it, -that would not grant him his pardon, and that this was to make him feel death before -death. <i>Voisin</i> answered, that it could not be done otherwise. He answered -that every body knew for what reason he was there and then as if it were by confession, -he said, <i>well, read</i>, and thereupon held his Peace till <i>Voisin</i> came to these -words, <i>for having attempted against the Kings Person</i>; for then he fell into a passion -again, as he had done before, and said, that it was false, that this never came into his -mind, that as God was his Judge, he would be for ever deprived of his Grace if it -were true, that since two and twenty Months he had done nothing against the Kings -service, that it is true he had written some Letters, but that the King had forgiven -him, protesting and calling the Spectators to Witness, that it was the truth what he -spoke, as he would answer it before God, and spoke so many words, and so fast that -neither he nor the Sheriff could be understood.</p> - -<p>The Sentence being read, the Divines did admonish him to leave all Earthly -thoughts, to implore the assistance of Heaven, and to resign his Soul to the Eternal -providence of the Almighty, and his Body to what the Law had ordained of it, he -made some Prayer to God, and bound his Eyes with his own Handkarchief, and asked -the Executioner in what place he was to put himself, the Executioner pointing with -his finger, said, there my Lord; he pulled off his Handkarchief in a rage, and where -is that there, said he? thou seest I am blind fold, and thou shewest me as if I could -see; he bound himself again, and bid the Executioner to dispatch quickly: The Executioner -told him he ought to kneel, for fear he should do something amiss. No, -no, said he, I shall not stir, if thou canst not do it at one blow do it at thirty, he was -intreated again to kneel, which he did, and spoke these Imperious words, dispatch, -dispatch, then rose up again, and untied his Handkarchief, and by casting his Eyes -upon the Executioner, made the people believe, that either he had a mind to seize upon -the Sword, or that he was terribly afrighted by the approaches of Death, and began -again his former complaints, is there no pardon? must I die so miserably? after so -many services. The Executioner intreated him to suffer his hairs behind to be cut -off; he began to swear again fearfully, that if he toucht him otherwise than with the -Sword, he would strangle him. The Divines told him that he was too carefull of -his Body, he would hear no more of that, but fell into a rage, and swore, that he -would not be toucht by so Infamous a Person as long as he was alive, that if they -did provoke him too much, he would strangle half the Company, and oblige the -other half to kill him, those that were upon the Scaffold went down and left him -with the Executioner, who repented himself heartily that he had taken the care of -him unbound.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_489"></a>[489]</span></p> - -<p>The Divines went up again upon the Scaffold, and desired him for the love of -God to resolve to step over that pass, which was necessary for every man to do, and -with some few other words, whispered into his ears, did calm him a little, and made -him resolve to undergo the Execution, after he had made many complaints, and -shewed great fears of dying. A strange thing that as stout and valiant a man as ever -was born, who had so many times cast himself amongst the greatest dangers, without -any fear or apprehension, as if there was no death for him, should shew himself now -so fearful at the coming of it; we may judge by this, that the apprehension of death -is incomparably greater when it cometh upon a cold blood, and those that know -what his Chirurgion was wont to say, shall less wonder at it; for he said, that the -Duke of <i>Biron</i> used to wonder at himself, that being not afraid of the thrust of a -Sword, nevertheless he was very timerous at the pricking of a Launcet, when he had -occasion to be let blood: Whereupon we must confess, that the greatest courage, and -most undaunted stoutness of a man, is nothing in comparison of human Natures -weakness.</p> - -<p>The Divines judging him to be out of fear, gave him his last absolution, he -kneeled again, and cried aloud three times, <i>My God, my God, my God, have Mercy upon -me</i>, then turning to the Executioner, he took the headband that he had in his -hand, and intreated <i>Baranton</i> to do him that last curtesie as to lift up his hairs behind, -which <i>Baranton</i> did, and the Duke himself did tie the Handkarchief about his Eyes. -The Divines seeing him in that good disposition, did assure him, that he was ready to -go to Heaven, and to see God, and to enjoy his Glory. Yes, said he, Heaven is -open to receive my Soul, and so stooped his neck for the Executioner to do his office. -The Executioner considering, that he had untied himself three times before, and -might do so again for the fourth, thought fitting to entertain him with fair words, -to desire his forgiveness, and to put him in mind of saying his last Prayer, in the -mean time he beckened to his man, who was at the foot of the Scaffold, to reach -him the Sword, which no sooner was in his hand, but the Duke of <i>Birons</i> Head was -off his Shoulders, it fell from the Scaffold to the ground, and was thrown again by -the Executioners man upon the Scaffold, the Body was stript to its Shirt, and wraped -in a Sheet, and the same day buried, about nine of the Clock at night, in -St. <i>Pauls</i> Church, without any shew or Ceremony. Thus ended the Tragical History -of the Duke of <i>Biron</i>.</p> - -<p>Now follows the two last Verses of this Prophecie.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>A Post overtaken in the Countrey,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>And the Scrivener shall cast himself into the Water.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Which as we have said before, were concerning <i>Nicolas L’oste</i>, Secretary to the -Lord <i>Villeroy</i>, chief Secretary of State. The History therefore is thus.</p> - -<p>The <i>French</i> Embassador at <i>Madrid</i>, complained once to <i>Henry</i> the IV. he was -so ill informed, and so late of Affairs, that the King of <i>Spain</i>’s Ministers knew them -before him: The King was a great while troubled before he could discover the -spring of that infidelity, at last it came out in this manner. <i>Villeroy</i> that great Oracle -of <i>France</i>, and the most confident Secretary to the King, had among his servants -one <i>Nicolas l’Oste</i>, born at <i>Orleans</i>, in whom he did confide so much the more, because -his Father had been the most part of his life in his service.</p> - -<p>The Lord <i>Rochepot</i> going Embassador into <i>Spain</i>, <i>Oste</i> desired to be admitted -into his Family, to serve him as his secretary, that he might the better fit himself for -publick employment. <i>Villeroy</i>’s commendation got him easily that employment, -by which in a few Months he became so capable of the <i>Spanish</i> Tongue and manners, -that no body could have distinguished him from a natural <i>Spaniard</i>. The Embassador -having sworn in the name of the most Christian King the treaty of Peace<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_490"></a>[490]</span> -made at <i>Veruins</i>, the King of <i>Spain</i> presented him with a rich Chain of Jewels, and -with six other of Gold, valued at 150. Crowns apiece, to bestow upon as many of -his own servants as he should think fit.</p> - -<p>The pride and presumption of this young man was such as to perswade him he deserved -one of them, and chiefly because one of his fellows was thought worthy of it, -but his Master did not think so, and thus he was neglected.</p> - -<p>Thus envy and jealousie were the Windows by which the Devil crept into his -soul; the vanity, lying, pride, and debauchery gave him a full admittance, he -had spent all his Money to buy the love of a Courtisane, and wanted means to follow -that course which he had no mind to leave off. His Masters neglecting of him, had -extraordinarily vexed him, but he comforted himself that he knew his secrets, and -that in revealing them to the King of <i>Spains</i> Ministers he shot two Birds with one -shot; for he should avenge himself of that contempt he had received, and should -have a way to continue his amorous expences. With that intention he made himself -known to <i>Don Franchese</i> one of the Secretaries of State, and told him what -means he had to serve the King of <i>Spain</i>, and to shew him proofs of that service and -affection he had vowed to him long before, by imparting to him all the Letters that -the Embassador did both send and receive from the King his Master.</p> - -<p><i>Don Franchese</i> heard this proposition as from a young man, whose Brains were -not well settled, or perhaps did abhor such infidelity, therefore told him coldly, that -the Catholick King was in so good amity with the most Christian one, that he -desired to know no more of his business, than what his Embassador should tell -him.</p> - -<p>L’<i>Oste</i> did not despond for all this, but went to <i>Don Ydiaques</i> another Secretary of -State, who knowing how important it is for a Prince to know the secrets of his -Neighbours, and that the slighting of such an offer would be prejudicial to the King -his Masters Service, did hearken unto this Traitor, approved of his design, and exhorted -him to persevere in the good affection he shewed to the King of <i>Spains</i> service, -promised to acquaint the King with it, and to procure him such a reward, as -he should have reason to be satisfied with.</p> - -<p>The Councel agreed that L’<i>Oste</i> should be incouraged, and <i>Don Ydiaques</i>, presented -him to the Duke of <i>Lerma</i>, to whom he shewed the Alphabet of Cyphers, with -which his Master writ his Letters into <i>France</i>, and for a further proof unciphered the -last Letter that the King of <i>France</i> had sent. The Duke exhorted him to continue -his good Will, gave him 1200. Crowns for an earnest of the Bargain, with a promise -of as much for a yearly pension, besides a considerable gratification he was to -expect from the King.</p> - -<p>Since that time the <i>French</i> Embassador received no Letters but they were presently -imparted to the <i>Spanish</i> Councel: But the Lord <i>la Rochepot</i> being called back -into <i>France</i>, L’<i>Oste</i> lost the conveniency of prosecuting his Treasons, and consequently -the hopes of his promised reward, therefore sought means to come again into his -first Masters, that is, <i>Villeroy</i>’s service, but he was a while kept back from it by reason -of a difference between his Mother and <i>Villeroy</i>, about some rest of Accounts; but -L’<i>Oste</i> had rather take that loss upon him than to be deprived of that occasion. The -Embassador himself gave him a large Testimony Of his ability and faithfulness, and -was Instrumental for his re-admission into that service.</p> - -<p>Thus being re-established, he became more diligent and sedulous than ever before, -and not only writ more Letters than any of his fellows, but also offered them his service -to help them, that he might have a more perfect knowledge of all transactions, -and so impart them to the <i>Spaniard</i>, and so visited and conferred with <i>Taxis</i> the <i>Spanish</i> -Embassador at <i>Paris</i>, and after that with his successor, <i>Don Baltazar de Cuniga</i>, -with so much cunning and secrecy, that the Councel of <i>Spain</i> received his Letters,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_491"></a>[491]</span> -before <i>des Barreaux</i> the <i>French</i> Embassador at <i>Madrid</i>, could receive those of the -King.</p> - -<p><i>Des Barreaux</i> sent word to the King, that when he propounded any thing, according -to his Majesties command, to the Councel of <i>Spain</i>, he found them always preadvised, -and could not find out by what means; certainly said the King, there must be -some in my Councel that keep a strict intelligence with the <i>Spaniard</i>, and I can not -tell whom to suspect. Providence doth often draw good effects out of the worse -causes, and permitteth that the wicked should disclose one anothers wickedness, as a -Nail driveth out another. <i>Loste</i> had revealed himself familiarly to one <i>Raffis</i>, formerly -Secretary to the Lord <i>Lansac</i>, a fugitive into <i>Spain</i>, for many Treasons, and -exempted from pardon; but the <i>Spaniard</i> had begun to cut him short of his former -Pensions, since the Treason of the Baron of <i>Fontanelles</i>, Governour of <i>Dornavenest</i> in -<i>Brittanny</i>, in which the said <i>Raffis</i> had been a principal Actor, though in vain, so that -since, the Councel of <i>Spain</i> looked upon him as an unprofitable servant, and withdrew -their Pension.</p> - -<p><i>Raffis</i> finding himself near a great want and misery, thought this occasion might -be a means to prevent it, and to procure his return into his native Countrey, by doing -so great a service to his Prince; therefore he went to one of the <i>French</i> Embassadors -most faithful servants, and told him his grief, for having had a share in so many -Treasons and Rebellions in <i>France</i>, which he acknowledged God had into his particular -protection, that he was resolved to blot out the memory of them by a notable -service done to the King and Kingdom, but that could not be, unless he had first obtained -pardon for all his former misdemeanors.</p> - -<p>This being told to the Embassadour, he heard <i>Raffis</i>, who told him in general that -the King was betrayed, and his most secret Councel bewrayed, but that he could -not name the Traitor, no not to his Majesty himself, before he had his pardon: that -being done, he would wholly withdraw himself from those whom he knew certainly -to be enemies to the Kingdom. The Embassadour sent an express to the King to -give him notice of it. The King sent him full power to treat with <i>Raffis</i>, with promiss -to ratifie whatsoever he should promiss to <i>Raffis</i>; <i>Raffis</i> could not make good -his accusation, but by two Letters written by <i>Loste</i>, to a great friend of his, named -<i>Blas</i>, which Letters he knew to be in a Box of <i>Blas</i>, who lodged with him; therefore -upon some pretext or another, they found means to send <i>Blas</i> as far as l’<i>Escurial</i>. -In his absence <i>Raffis</i> and <i>Descardes</i> Secretary to the Embassadour, broke open the -Box, and took out the Letters, by which <i>Loste</i> did much magnifie the liberalities of -<i>Spain</i>, as being above his desert and expectation; with this proofs and the Embassadors -Letters, <i>Raffis</i> fained to go to a Monastery near <i>Madrid</i>, and there make his -devotions upon Palm-Sunday, as he was wont to do, but he went directly to <i>Bayone</i>, -where he met with <i>Discardes</i> upon a set day. <i>Blas</i> came back after Palm-Sunday, -and finding his Box open, and his companion run away, he suspected the matter, and -gave notice of it to the <i>Spanish</i> Ministers, who presently dispatched two Courriers -to the <i>Spanish</i> Embassador at <i>Paris</i>, to give him notice that a man was gone from -<i>Madrid</i>; who would discover <i>Loste</i> and his practises, therefore he should give him -notice of it, and bid him look to himself, and that in case he should be taken, to -keep secresie.</p> - -<p><i>Descardes</i> and <i>Raffis</i> came to <i>Paris</i> the <i>Wensday</i> after Easter, and carried themselves -with all faithfulness in this occasion, but not with all the prudence that could have -been desired. <i>Villeroy</i> was going the same day to lie at his own House, between <i>Paris</i> -and <i>Fountain-bleau</i>, where the Court was then; they met with him at <i>Juvisy</i>, and -waited on him as far as <i>Villeroy</i>, but told him nothing of the occasion of their coming -by the way, till they presented him with the Embassadors Letters, which was a notable<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_492"></a>[492]</span> -fault, for he would certainly have neglected all other business to secure his man, -who was then doing his devotions at the Charter-house of <i>Paris</i>.</p> - -<p>The next day <i>Villeroy</i> was the first that told the King of the coming of <i>Raffis</i>, and -of the perfidiousness of his own servant. As he was going back to his Lodging, -notice was given him that two <i>Spanish</i> Courtiers were arrived at the Post-house; he -commanded one of the Commissioners of the Post-house, that he should cause them -to withdraw into a Room, and that no body should speak with them; he charged also -<i>Descardes</i>, that he should spy the coming of <i>Loste</i>, that he should keep him close -company, and send him presently notice of his arrival. The Commissioner and <i>Descardes</i> -did commit here another great fault, for <i>Loste</i> being come to the Post-house -about noon, this silly Commissioner told him that there were arrived two <i>Spanish</i> -Courtiers who asked for him, that they had Letters for him, and more then that, -suffered him to go into their Chamber and see them, he saluted them, and one of -them whispered him in the ear that he was undone if he did not save himself presently, -and that <i>Raffis</i> had discovered him; fear and astonishment with his guilty conscience, -persuaded him easily to look to himself.</p> - -<p>Nevertheless, he settled his countenance the best he could, he went out with an -intention to take his Horse again, which he had sent before, and so save himself; -<i>Descardes</i> and <i>Raffis</i> perceived him, <i>Descardes</i> came and saluted him, and thinking -perhaps that he was strong enough to give an account of him, neglected to send word -to <i>Villeroy</i>, who was then in his Closet with the Bishop of <i>Chartres</i>; <i>Descardes</i> presence -was a great thorn in <i>Loste</i>’s foot, to be rid of him, he said he was going to his -Master, who stayed for him; <i>Descardes</i> offered to accompany him: he answered, he -had not dined, and that believing it was past Dinner time at home, he would go into -some Cabaret to look for a Dinner, the other answered I have not dinned neither, -we shall dine together. <i>Loste</i> found another excuse, and said my Boots hurt me, I -pray give me leave that I may go and pull them off; <i>Descardes</i> answered, he must -needs drink with him. Thus arguing together, they came to <i>Villeroy</i>’s Lodging, -where <i>Descardes</i> thinking to have him sure, left him in the Room, not knowing that -the <i>Spanish</i> Courtiers had talked with him, and came near the Closet to give notice -of it to <i>Villeroy</i>; but as soon as he saw himself rid of <i>Descardes</i>, he went down into the -Stable, and finding his Horse yet Sadled he Mounted, and with all speed rid to <i>Paris</i>; -<i>Villeroy</i> in the mean time having notice that his man was come, he commanded they -should bring them in; but he was not to be found, nor his Horse neither, no body -knowing which way he was gone. <i>Villeroy</i> told the King that his man was escaped, -they sent after him on all sides, and <i>Villeroy</i> particularly sent all his Servants after into -all the ways. <i>Loste</i> coming to <i>Paris</i> about nine of the Clock at night, went to take -counsel of the <i>Spanish</i> Embassadour, and before day, went out habited like a <i>Spaniard</i>, -with the Embassadors Steward, and took his way towards <i>Meaux</i>, with an intent -to get into <i>Luxembourg</i> by Poste.</p> - -<p>That every one might endeavour the apprehending of that Traitor, it was spread -abroad that one of <i>Villeroy</i>’s Secretaries had attempted upon the Kings Person, and -notice was given of his Stature, Age, Cloaths and Horse. The Sheriffs of every -Countrey were in quest, and all Post-Masters were forbidden to let out any Horses, -but that of <i>Meaux</i> had notice of it too late; <i>Loste</i> was got on Horseback already, but -assoon as he began to gallop, his Horse fell to the ground, and was an ill <i>Omen</i> to the -Rider; he got up again, and shewed so much fearfulness in his Countenance, that the -Postillion himself thought he had committed some notorious villany, which he did -run for. Being come home, he gave notice of it to his Master, who suspecting him to -be the man enquired off, he gave notice of it to the Sheriff, who presently made after -him at the second Ferry of <i>la Ferte soubs Jouare</i>, where he was Crossing the River;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_493"></a>[493]</span> -the Sheriff cried after the Ferry man to come back, but the fear of his life, which the -two run aways put him into, prevailed upon him, above the Sheriffs commands, being -got over, and judging that their Post-Horses should be quickly overtaken by -those of the Sheriff, they forsook them and the Postillion; and trusted to their heels -in the darkness of the night among the Bushes and Brambles that are upon the River -<i>Marne</i>. The Sheriff scattered his men all about, caused fires to be made, and raised -up all the Countrey people thereabout; the <i>Spaniard</i> ran over the Champion -Countrey, and <i>Loste</i> went from Bush to Bush, and whether accidentally or wilfully -he fell into the River <i>Marne</i>, where he was drowned; the next day his Hat was found -between two posts, and his body two days after not far from that place.</p> - -<p>Thus you may plainly see the full event of those two famous Prophecies, contained -in this sixth Stanza.</p> - -<h3>VII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Sangsue au Loup se joindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors qu’en Mer le bled defaudra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais le grand Prince sans envie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Ambassade luy donra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De son bled pour luy donner vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour un besoing s’en pourvoira.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Leech will joyn it self to the Wolf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in the Sea Corn shall be wanting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the great Prince without envy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Embassy shall give him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of his Corn to give him life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of which in his need he shall make provision.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the <i>Leech</i> is understood the <i>Spaniard</i>. By the <i>Wolf</i> is meant the <i>French</i>, by -reason of the multitude of those Creatures in that Kingdom; the meaning therefore -of this Prophecy is, that there should be a great famine in <i>Spain</i>, wherein the <i>Spaniard</i> -should be constrained to make his application to the <i>French</i> for relief of Corn, which -should be granted him. This happened in the year 1665 for you must understand -that most of these last Prophecies were to be fulfilled in the Reign of <i>Henry</i> IV.</p> - -<h3>VIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant l’ouvert commerce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ambassadeur viendra de <i>Perse</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouvelle au Franc Pais porter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais non receu vaine esperance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son grand Dieu sera l’offense,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feignant de le vouloir quitter.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_494"></a>[494]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little before that Trade shall be open,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Embassador shall come from <i>Persia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To bring news into <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But he shall not be received, O vain hope!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To his great God shall the offence be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faining that he would leave him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1608. the year before the Truce was concluded between the <i>Spaniard</i> -and the <i>Hollanders</i>, by which all free Commerce was opened through <i>Europe</i>. The -King of <i>Persia</i> being then in War with the great <i>Turk</i>, sent an Embassador to all the -Christian Princes, and chiefly into <i>France</i>, to move them to make a diversion in -so fit a time, but he could prevail nothing, and went back again <i>re infecta</i>, which he -thought to be a great injury done to his Prophet <i>Mahomet</i>.</p> - -<h3>IX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux Estendars du costé de l’<i>Auvergne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Senestre pris, pour un temps prison regne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et un Dame enfant voudra mener,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An Censuart, mais discouvert l’affaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Danger de mort, murmure sur la Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Germain, <i>Bastille</i>, Frere & Sœur prisonier.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two Standards in the County of <i>Auvergne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The left one taken, for a while Prison shall reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a Lady shall endeavour to carry a child</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Censuart, but the plot being discovered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Danger of Death, murmur upon Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Own Brother, <i>Bastille</i>, Brother and Sister prisoners.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza being most obscure and difficult, cannot be understood so well by -parcels, as by laying down the whole <i>Synopsis</i> of it, which I do the more willingly, -because I think it will be delightful to the Reader, and that the whole being known, -the meaning of every particular will easily be understood.</p> - -<p><i>Charles</i> the IX. King of <i>France</i>, the last of the House of <i>Valois</i> left only one natural -Son, called the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i>, who had a Sister by the Mothers side, that -was called <i>Henrietta de Balzac</i> Duchess of <i>Verneuil</i>, once Mistriss to <i>Henry</i> the IV. -by whom she had upon promiss of marriage one Son, at this time Duke of <i>Verneuil</i>, -and Governour of <i>Languedoc</i>; but this promiss being made void by Act of Parliament, -<i>Henry</i> IV. married <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, by which he had issue <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. -and other children: now upon the discontent of the Marshal of <i>Biron</i>, the Dutchess -of <i>Verneuil</i>, the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> her Brother, and their party joyned with him for -the promoting of the Duke of <i>Verneuil</i>’s interest to the Crown, whereupon the King -sent for the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i>, who was then in his County a hundred Leagues from -<i>Paris</i>; but the Earl trusting more the good will of the Citizens of <i>Clermont</i> in <i>Auvergne</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_495"></a>[495]</span> -who loved him, then to the Kings Clemency, neglected to come, whereupon -the King sent again the Lord d’<i>Escures</i>, with a pardon for what was past; he promised -to come when he should see his pardon Signed and Sealed in good form; the -King was offended at his proceeding, and took it very ill that a Subject of his would -capitulate with him, who intended to deal plainly and sincerely; the King nevertheless -past that over for many considerations, one of them was that the Earl was of -the blood of <i>France</i>, and brother by the Mother to one that had been his Mistress, -besides that he was a Prince endowed with many good qualities, most of which did -Sympathise with those of the King, thus the King sent him his Pardon as well for -what was past, as for the present, but with this proviso that he should come; for -all this, he did not stir out of <i>Clermont</i>; the King seeing that, did resolve to have -him at any rate: there was several propositions made for to take him: at Hunting, -at running of the Ring, at some Banquet, in the Fields, in the City; all these ways -might be suspected by the Earl, but a new one was found out, of which he himself -was the Author; the Troop of the Duke of <i>Vendosme</i> was preparing for to Muster, -the Earl intreated d’<i>Eurre</i> Lieutenant of the said company, that it might be in the -Fields by <i>Clermont</i> towards <i>Nonnain</i>, because he intended to take revenge in the behalf -of a Lady, upon the Inhabitants of that place. The King sent directions and -orders to d’<i>Eurre</i>, how he should govern himself in that action, and gave him for -Associates, <i>la Boulaye</i>, Lieutenant of the Marquess of <i>Verneuil</i>’s Troop, and <i>Nerestan</i> -Colonel of a Foot Regiment. By the Kings advice they imparted the business to -the Viscount of <i>Pont du Chasteau</i>, to the Baron of <i>Canillac</i> and some others, that had -authority in that Province, and were devoted to the Kings service, and all keeping -religiously the Laws of silence. The 12 of <i>November</i> the Troop met at the Rendezvous; -the Earl came thither by times with two only of his followers, thinking that -the Troop should not be ready so soon, and so he should have pretext either to go -back to <i>Clermont</i>, or to go on further to visit his Mistress. The prudence and diligence -of those that managed the business did prevent him, and begot a suspition in -him, for he was seen to truss up his Cloak and to try whither his sword did not stick -to the Scabbard. D’<i>Eurre</i> went to him, and having complemented him rode on his -left hand, while the Troop was setting in order; <i>Nerestan</i> came to salute him on the -other side, and rode on his right hand, being followed by three stout Souldiers, habited -like Lackeys, and appointed for this action. The Viscount of <i>du Pont du -Chasteau</i> and his brother rode out of the Troop and encompassed him on all sides. -One of the Souldiers laid hold on the Horses Bridle; d’<i>Eurre</i> at the same time laid -hold on his Swords Hilt, saying, my Lord, we are commanded by the King to give -him an account of your person, and we intreat you to submit unto his Majesties -good pleasure, that we may have no occasion to use you otherways then we desire. -<i>Maison-ville</i> and <i>Liverne</i> who were his two followers drew their Swords, thinking to -make him way to escape, but some shot spent upon them, made them presently retire -and run away. He was put upon a Trumpeters Nag as far as <i>Briare</i>, and thence -conducted to <i>Montargis</i> in a Coach, and afterwards by water to <i>Paris</i> and put in the -Bastille.</p> - -<p>By this History, and the explication of the word <i>Censuart</i>, which is an ancient word -derived from the Latine word <i>Censor</i>; and taken here for the Kingly office, the whole -Prophecy is easily understood, and obvious to the meanest capacity.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_496"></a>[496]</span></p> - -<h3>X.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Embassadeur pour une Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son Vaissau mettra la rame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour prier le grand Medecin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que de l’Oster de telle peine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais a ce s’opposera Roine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand peine avant qu’en voir la fin.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An Embassador for a Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall set Oares to his Ship,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To intreat the great Physition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To take her out of such pain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But a Queen shall oppose it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great deal of trouble before the end of it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy is concerning <i>Mary Stuart</i> Queen of <i>Scots</i> put in Prison by Queen -<i>Elizabeth</i>, who is called here the opponant Queen, to the Embassy that the said -Queen of <i>Scots</i> sent for relief to the King of <i>France</i>, called here the great Physitian.</p> - -<h3>XI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Durant le Siecle on verra deux ruisseaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout un terrouer inonder de leurs eaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et submerger par Ruisseaux & Fontaines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Coups</i>, & <i>Monfrein</i>, <i>Beccoyran</i> & <i>Alais</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le <i>Gardon</i> bien souvent travaillez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & quattre, <i>Ales</i> & trente Moines.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In this Age two Rivolets shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To overflow a whole Countrey with their waters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And to drown by Rivolets and Fountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Coups</i>, and <i>Monfrein</i>, <i>Beccoiran</i> and <i>Alais</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the <i>Gardon</i> often troubled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and four <i>Alais</i>, and thirty Monks.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">An Age is the space of one hundred years, the meaning therefore of this is, that -within the Age following, his Prophecies namely as he saith after, in the year 1664. -there shall be great Inundation in <i>Languedoc</i>, caused by the overflowing of two small -Rivers, besides that of <i>Gardon</i>, which Inundation shall drown these following places, -<i>Coups</i>, <i>Monfrein</i>, <i>Becoyran</i> and <i>Alais</i>, besides, and Abbey wherein there was 30. -Monks, but of this I could find nothing in the History, therefore those that live about -those places must make it good.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_497"></a>[497]</span></p> - -<h3>XII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & cinq tres grand nouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De deux Seigneurs la grand querelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proche de <i>Gevaudan</i> sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En une Eglise apres l’offrande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meuttre commis, prestre de mande,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tremblant de peur se sauvera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In six hundred and five shall be great news;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The quarrel of two great Lords,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be near <i>Gevaudan</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a Church after the Offering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A murder committed, the Priest shall ask,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And quaking for fear, shall save himself.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This (like the former) is a particuler accident, of which the publick History taketh -no notice; it seemeth that in the year 1665. in <i>Gevaudan</i>, a Province of <i>France</i> -near <i>Languedoc</i>, there was a great quarrel between two Lords who meeting at -Church, did about the time of the Offering set one upon another, and one of them -was killed, whereupon the Priest being terrified, ran away.</p> - -<h3>XIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’aventurier, six cens, & six ou neuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sera surpris par fiel mis dans un Oeuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et peu apres sera hors de puissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par le puissant Empereur General,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’ou Monde nest an pereil ny esgal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dont un chascun luy rend obeissance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The adventurer, six hundred, six or nine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be surprised by Gall put into an Egge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a little while after shall be out of power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the potent Emperour General,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whom in the world there is not his like or equal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore every one yieldeth obedience to him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie was concerning the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> and <i>Henry</i> the IV. for about -that time mentioned by the Author, after the death of Marshal <i>de Biron</i>, who sided -with the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> (which death is called here Gall put into an Egg;) the Duke -of <i>Savoy</i> refused to perform the treaty concerning the restitution of the Marquisate -of <i>Saluces</i>, wherefore <i>Henry</i> the IV. went and subdued most of his Countrey, and -compelled him to give the Province of <i>Bresse</i> instead of the said Marquisate.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_498"></a>[498]</span></p> - -<h3>XIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au grand Siege encor grand forfaits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Recommenceant plus que jamais,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & cinq sur la verdure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La prise & reprise sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soldats es Champs jusqu’ en froidure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Puis apres recommencera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the great Siege yet great misdemeanors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beginning again more than ever,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and five about the Spring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The taking and retaking shall be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souldiers in the fields till Winter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And after that shall begin again.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is about the same subject as the precedent. By the great Siege here is -meant the Siege of <i>Montpelian</i>, the strongest place in <i>Savoy</i>, which <i>Henry</i> the IV. -took, and by it compelled the Duke of <i>Savoy</i> to an agreement. The rest is -easie.</p> - -<h3>XV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nouveau esleu Patron du grand Vaisseau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Verra long temps briller le grand flambeau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui sert de Lampe a ce grand territoire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et auquel temps Armées soubs son nom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jointes a celles de l’heureux de <i>Bourbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Levant, Ponant, & Couchant sa memoire.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The new elected Master of the great Ship,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall a great while see the great light shine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which serveth for a Lamp to this great Territory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at which time Armies under his name,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyned with those of happy of <i>Bourbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">East, West, and North his memory shall be.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The three first Verses are concerning <i>Clement</i> the VIII. who was elected Pope -about that time, and was Instrumental to make a Peace between the King of <i>France</i> -and the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>, and was Pope a good while.</p> - -<p>By the great Ship is meant the Church, of which he is called Master. The rest -is easie.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_499"></a>[499]</span></p> - -<h3>XVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">En <i>Octobre</i> Six cens & cinq,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour voieur du Monstre Marin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prendra du Souverain le cresme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou en six cens & six en <i>Juin</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand joye aux Grands & au Commun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grand faits apres ce grand Baptesme.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>October</i> six hundred and five,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Purveyor of the Sea Monster,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall take the unction of the Sovereign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or in six hundred and six in <i>June</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great joy shall be to the Great ones, and to the Commons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great feats shall be after this great Baptism.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1606. the 14 of <i>September</i>, instead of which the printer hath put <i>October</i>, -the Dolphin of <i>France</i>, <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. son to <i>Henry</i> the IV. was Christened -with his two Sisters at <i>Fountainbleau</i>, and because the Ceremonies were extraordinary, -and our Author calleth this a great Baptism, it will not be amiss for the satisfaction -of the curious Reader, to give here succinctly a description of it.</p> - -<p>In the great quadrangle of the Castles Yard, was erected a great Theatre, all -spread and hanged with most rich Carpets and Hangings, in the middle of which -Theatre was a square of thirty foot on each side, with rails about it, all covered with -Carpets, in the front of it was erected an Altar, adorned with the Ornaments belonging -to the Order of the Holy Ghost, behind the Table was a Footstool of three -steps, spread with Carpets, and in the middle of the Footstool was a kind of a Stand, -covered with a Silver Cloth, upon which were the Fount, covered with a most exquisite -Towel, and a Canopy over it, on both sides of the Altars were two Scaffolds -for two Quires of Musick, and a little lower on the right hand a Bench covered -with Carpets for the Prelates to sit, among which were three Archbishops, nine -Bishops and three Abbots, on the left hand were the Lords of the Councel, and before -the Altar was the Cardinal of <i>Gondy</i>, encompassed with Almoners and Chaplains, -and a great multitude of spectators seated upon Benches, in form of a Theatre, -round about the Theatre were the guard of <i>Switzers</i>, having every one a Torch in his -hand.</p> - -<p>The Dolphin and his Sisters were in their Chambers upon Beds of State, with -their Robes lined with Hermines, and were brought to the quadrangle, the waiting -Gentlemen going before with Torches in their hands, with the Bed Chamber men, -and Gentlemen of the Chamber, five Drums, Waits, and Trumpeters, Heralds, and -the Knights of the Holy Ghost, with the three Honours; in the first, for the youngest -Daughter, the Ewer, the Bason, the Pillow, the Wax Taper, the Chrisme, the -Saltseller, were carryed by the Baron, Son to Marshal <i>de la Chastre</i>, by the Lords -<i>Montigny</i>, <i>la Rochepot</i>, <i>Chemerand</i>, <i>Liencourt</i>, <i>Fervacques</i>, and the Lady was carryed -by the Marshal of <i>Bois Dauphin</i>, followed by <i>Charles</i> Duke of <i>Lorrain</i> Godfather, and -of <i>Don Juan de Medicis</i>, Brother to the great Duke of <i>Tuscany</i>, representing <i>Christian</i>, -Daughter to the Duke of <i>Lorrain</i>, and Wife of the great Duke. After that followed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_500"></a>[500]</span> -the Dutches of <i>Guise</i>, the Countesses of <i>Guiche</i>, of <i>Saulx</i>, the Marchioness <i>Monlaur</i>, -and other Ladies.</p> - -<p>The Marshals of <i>Laverdin</i>, and of <i>la Chastre</i>, the Dukes of <i>Silly</i>, of <i>Monbazon</i>, of -<i>Espernon</i>, of <i>Esguillon</i> did the same office for the elder Lady. The Lord of <i>Ragny</i> -carryed her for <i>Diana</i> Dutchess of <i>Angoulesme</i>, who did represent the <i>Infanta</i>, <i>Clara</i>, -<i>Eugenia</i>, <i>Eusabella</i>, Archidutchess of <i>Austria</i>, followed by the Dutchess of <i>Rohan</i>, -<i>Montmorency</i>, <i>Mayenne</i>.</p> - -<p>The third Honour for the Dolphin was carried by the Earl of <i>Vaudemont</i>, the -Knight of <i>Vendosme</i> his elder Brother, the Duke of <i>Mensier</i>, the Earl of <i>Soissons</i>, -and the Prince of <i>County</i>, all three Princes of the Blood, and the Dolphin was carryed -by the Lord <i>Souvray</i> his Governour, in the room of the Prince of <i>Condé</i>, first Prince -of the Blood, who because of his sickness could do him no other service then to hold -him by the hand. The Duke of <i>Guise</i> carryed his Train, and the Cardinal of <i>Joyouse</i> -followed him, representing the Pope <i>Paul</i> the V. then followed <i>Eleonor</i> Wife -to <i>Vincent</i> Duke of <i>Mantua</i>, and the Princess of the Blood, all richly attired.</p> - -<p>The Dolphin being brought upon the Table of the quadrangle, the Cardinal of -<i>Gondy</i> appointed for this Ceremony, came near him; and having heard him answer -pertinently to the questions asked by the Almoner according to the usual forms, and -to say the Lords Prayer and the Creed in Latine, he was exercised, appointed, and -by the Cardinal of <i>Joyouse Legat</i>, named <i>Lewis</i>.</p> - -<p>The Ladies were afterwards brought upon the Table, and the eldest, named -<i>Elizabeth</i> by the Dutchess of <i>Angoulesme</i>, representing the Archidutchess her Godmother, -without any Godfather.</p> - -<p>The youngest was named by <i>Don Juan</i> of <i>Medicis</i> (representing the great Dutchess) -<i>Christierne</i>.</p> - -<p>At Supper the King was waited upon by the Princess of his Blood; the Prince of -<i>Condé</i> served for Pantler, the Prince of <i>Compty</i> for Cupbearer, the Duke of <i>Monpensier</i> -for Squire Carver, the Earl of <i>Soissons</i> for high Steward, the Duke of <i>Guise</i> and -the Earl of <i>Vondemont</i> waited upon the Queen, and the Duke of <i>Sully</i> waited upon -the Legat. The Godfathers sat, and after them the Princesses, Ladies and Lords of -high quality, at the great Ball the Duke of <i>Lorrain</i> did precede by the Kings order, -for the only consideration that he was Godfather.</p> - -<p>The next day there was a runing at the Ring, and at night the Duke of <i>Sully</i> caused -an artificial Castle to be assaulted with an innumerable quantity of Squibs, Chambers, -Canon shots, and other Fire Works, but never any thing was seen more incredible -or wonderful, then the beauty, ornament and lustre of the Princesses and Ladies of -the Court; The Eyes could not stedfastly behold the splendor of the Gold, nor -the brightness of the Silver, nor the glittering of Jewels; the Princes and Lords did -out vie one another who should be most richly attired, among the rest the Duke of -<i>Espernon</i> had a Sword valued at 30000. Crowns, and upon the Queens Gown were -32000. Pearls, and 3000. Diamonds.</p> - -<h3>XVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Au mesme temps un grand endurera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyeux, malsain, l’an complet ne verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et quelques uns qui Seront de la feste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feste pour un feulement, a ce jour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais peuapres sans faire long sejour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux se donront l’un l’autre de la teste.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_501"></a>[501]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At the same time a great one shall suffer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyful, sickly, shall not see the year compleat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And some others who shall be of the feast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A feast for one only at that day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But a little while after without long delay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two shall knock one another in the head.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza hath relation to the precedent, for about the time of, or a little before -that famous Christning died Pope <i>Leo</i> the IX. formerly called Cardinal of <i>Florence</i>, -who did not live a whole year in the papacy; and is called here <i>Joyful</i>, <i>Sickly</i>, -because though infirm, he did much rejoyce in the obtaining of it; those others that -were of the Feast, were some Cardinals of his party, who died also within the same -year.</p> - -<p>The two last Verses signifie the differences that happened, between <i>Paul</i> V. his -Successor, and the Common-wealth of <i>Venice</i> presently after his death.</p> - -<h3>XVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Considerant la triste <i>Philomele</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’en pleurs & cris sa plainte renouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Racourcissant par tel moyen ses jours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & cinq elle en verra l’yssue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De son tourment, ia la toile tissue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Por son moien senestre aura secours.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Considering the sad <i>Philomela</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who in tears and cries reneweth her complaint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shortning by such means her days,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and five shall see the end,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of her torment, then the Cloath Woven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By her sinister means shall have help.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This sad <i>Philomela</i> was <i>Henrietta</i> of <i>Balzac</i> Daughter to <i>Francis</i> of <i>Balzac</i>, Marquess -of <i>Entragues</i>, and Mistress to <i>Henry</i> the IV. who being found guilty of a Conspiracy -against the State, was confined to the Abbey of the Nuns of <i>Beaumont lez -Tours</i>, where she was seven Months, after which the King taking pitty of her, passed -a Declaration, wherein in respect of his former Love, and of the Children that he -had by her, he forgave her all what was past, did abolish and suppress for ever the -Memory of the Crime that she was accused off, and did dispense her from appearing -before the Parliament, who in her absence did Register her Letters of Pardon the -6. of <i>September</i> 1605. Thus Reader you may see how punctual was our Author in his -Prognostications.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_502"></a>[502]</span></p> - -<h3>XIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & cinq, six cens & six & sept.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nous monstrera jusques l’an dixsept,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du boutefeu l’Ire, haine & envie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soubs l’Olivier d’assez long temps caché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Crocodil sur la Terre a caché,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce qui estoit mort sera pour lors en vie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and five, six hundred and six and seven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will shew us unto the year seventeen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The anger of the bontefeu, his hatred and envy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under the Olive-Tree a great while hidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Crocodile upon the ground hath hidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What was dead, shall then be alive.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is so difficult, signifieth nothing but the confusions that have happened -in <i>France</i> from the year 1605. to the year 1617. which would be too tedious and -prolix here to relate, the Reader may see them in the <i>French</i> History.</p> - -<h3>XX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qui a par plusieurs fois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tenu la Cage & puis les bois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rentre a son premier estre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vie sauve pen apres sortir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne se scachant encor cognoistre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cherchera subject pour mourir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that hath many times,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Been in the Cage and in the Woods,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cometh again to his first being,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall go out a little after with his life safe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And not able yet to know himself,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall seek a subject to be put to death.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is yet concerning the Earl of <i>Auvergne</i> half Brother to the Dutchess of <i>Verneuil</i>, -who for his misdemeanours having been put several times in the Bastille, and -set free again, nevertheless was attempting still some new thing, which might have -endangered his life.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_503"></a>[503]</span></p> - -<h3>XXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Autheur des maux commencera Regner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En l’an fix cens & sept sans espargner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous les subjects qui sont a la Sangsüe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et puis apres s’en viendra peu a peu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au franc Païs rallumer son feu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">S’en retournant d’ou elle est issue.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Author of evils shall begin to Reign,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year six hundred and seven, without sparing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the subjects that belong to the Leech,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And afterwards shall come by little and little,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the free Countrey to kindle again his fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Going back again from whence it came.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Author being a zealous Roman Catholick, calls here the <i>Hollanders</i> the Authors -of evils, who in the year 1607 and 1608. made a grievous War, and had several -successes against the <i>Spaniard</i>, with the help of the <i>French</i> and <i>English</i>, till the year -1609. when by the mediation of the <i>French</i> and <i>English</i> Embassadors, the Truce was -concluded at <i>Antwerp</i>, between the Arch-duke and the States of the <i>United Provinces</i>, -the Articles of it to the number of 38. were solemnly proclaimed and published -the ninth of <i>April</i>, and ratified by the King of <i>Spain</i> in the Month of <i>July</i> -next ensuing.</p> - -<h3>XXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Cil qui dira descouvrisant l’affaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Comme du mort, la mort pourra bien faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coups de Poniards par un qu’auront induits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa fin sera pis qu’il n’aura fait faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">La fin conduit les homines sur la Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gueté par tout, tant le jour que la nuit.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that shall say discovering the business,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How of the dead, can make a death well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strokes of a Dagger by one that hath been induced to it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His end shall be worse then he hath caused to be done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The end leadeth all men upon the Earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Espied every where, as well by day as by night.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza is wholly abstruse and Enigmatical, therefore I will not pretend to -expound it, but leave the interpretation to those that have more time and leasure -then I.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_504"></a>[504]</span></p> - -<h3>XXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand la grand Nef, la prove & Gouvernail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du franc Pais, & son Esprit vital,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Descueils & slots par la Mer Secovée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & sept & dix cœur assiegé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et des reflux de son corps afflegé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa vie estant sur ce mal renovée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great Ship, the Prow, and Rudder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the <i>French</i> Countrey, and her vital Spirit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being tossed by Baks and Waves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and seven, and ten, a heart beset,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And by the ebbing of his body afflicted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her life being upon this, evil knotted again.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Stanza signifieth the great troubles that were in <i>France</i> from the year 1610 -in which <i>Henry</i> the IV. died, to the year 1617. in which the Marshal d’<i>Ancre</i> was -killed.</p> - -<p>This man was named <i>Concino Concini</i> a <i>Florentine</i> born, who in a little time was -grown very great, and from a base extraction had ascended to the dignity of Marshal -of <i>France</i>, by the favour of the Queen Regent <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, and grew so rich, -that he offered to the King to maintain at his own charge 6000. foot, and 800. -Horses for four Months together; he had made himself Master of many strong Places -in <i>Picardy</i> and <i>Normandy</i>, went about to buy the Government of several Provinces, -did dispose of the Kings Exchequer at his pleasure, and spent vast sums of money at -his Masters charge. His insolencies were the cause of his ruine, when he thought -least of it; for he threatned every one with words and deeds, so far as to say, that he -would cause them to eat up their fingers, that should oppose his Will, and so caused -many Officers and Souldiers of the contrary party to be put to death. The King -<i>Lewis</i> the XIII. was particularly informed of the unsufferable pride and misdemeanors -of this Marshal, and that his design was to keep up the War in <i>France</i>, to continue -his Authority and Power; therefore the King commanded <i>Vitry</i>, the Captain -of his Guards, to apprehend him. This was a difficult thing, because that the Marshal -(besides his Menial servants) had always twelve Guards wearing his Livery, that -were desperate fellows; there was also another difficulty, because no body could -tell, when or at what time he would come to the <i>Louvre</i>; nevertheless at last he -came to it, upon the 24. of <i>April</i> 1617. attended with a great Train and his Guards; -the great Gate was opened to him, and presently shut again, <i>Vitry</i> drew near to him, -and holding his staff to him, said, <i>I arrest you in the Kings name</i>, upon these words the -Marshal stept back, as if it were to make resistance, saying, <i>Me?</i> whereupon those -that were with <i>Vitry</i> shot three Pistols at him, one did hit him in the Heart, the other -in the Head, and the third in the Belly, so that he fell down dead immediately -upon his left side, a certain Lord that was on his right hand speaking with him, -fell down also without any hurt, but his followers seeing him dead run away.</p> - -<p>This death was the cause of great alteration, in the publick Government. The -body of the said Marshal was buried at St. <i>Germain de l’Auxerrois</i>, but the people -digged it out, and dragged it to the new Bridge, where they hanged it by the feet<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_505"></a>[505]</span> -upon a Gibbet, having cut off his Nose, his Ears and his privy parts, then they took -him down, and dragged him through the Town, and afterwards burnt it. Thus did -perish he that was worth about two Millions of Pounds Sterling, and pretended to -make his house perpetual and Sovereign. The new Officers that had governed the -State from the 24 of <i>November</i> to the 24 of <i>April</i> 1617. were arrested in their -houses, and the old ones put in again, and the Princes called back again to the -Court.</p> - -<h3>XXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le <i>Mercurial</i> non de trop longue vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & huit & vingt, grand maladie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et encor pis danger de feu & d’eau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son grand amy lors luy sera contraire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De tels hazards se pourroit bien distraire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais bref, le ser luy sera son Tombeau.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Mercurial</i> not too long lived,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and eight and twenty, a great sickness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And what is worse a danger of fire and water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His great friend then shall be against him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He might well avoid those dangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But a little after, the Iron shall make his Sepulcher.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. King of <i>France</i>, who fell dangerously sick of -the Plague at <i>Lions</i>, about the year 1628. after that went with his Army into <i>Savoy</i>, -where he escaped many dangers of fire and water. As for the Verse it must not be -understood, as if he had been killed, but that the cares he took about his Armies -should shorten his days. The fourth Verse is to be understood of the Lord <i>Bellingham</i>, -then favorite to the King, who forsook him in his sickness, for which he was -afterwards disgraced, and could never come into favour again.</p> - -<h3>XXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & six, six cens & neuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Un Chancelier gros comme un Bœuf</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vieux comme le <i>Phœnix</i> du Monde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En ce Terroir plus ne luira,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De la Nef doubly passera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au Champs <i>Elysiens</i> faire ronde.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and six, six hundred and nine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Chancellor big as an Oxe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old as the <i>Phœnix</i> of the World,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall shine no more in this Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall pass from the Ship of forgetfulness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into the <i>Elysian</i> Fields to go the round.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_506"></a>[506]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">Six and nine joyned together makes 15. the meaning of this therefore is, that about -the year 1615. should die the Chancellor of <i>France</i>, who was then <i>Nicolas -Brulart</i> Lord of <i>Sillery</i> a very corpulent man.</p> - -<h3>XXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux freres sont de l’ordre Ecclesiastique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dont l’un prendra pour la <i>France</i> la pique,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Encor un coup si l’an six cens & six,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">N’est afflige d’une grand maladie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Armes en main jusques six cens & dix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gueres plus loing ne s’estendant sa vie.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two Brothers are of the Ecclesiastical Order,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One of which shall take up the Pike for <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Once more, is in the year six hundred and six,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He be not afflicted with a great sickness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Weapons in his hands till six hundred and ten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His Life shall reach not much further.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">In the year 1606. there was two Brothers of the House of <i>Joyeuse</i>, one called -<i>Francis</i> Cardinal of <i>Joyeuse</i>, and the other a Capuchin Frier, the rest of the Brothers -being dead without issue; Father Angel got a dispensation from the Pope to go out -of his Covent, and to Marry, that the Family might not be extinguished, and so turned -Courtier and Souldier again, till he had got a Daughter, who was afterwards -married to the Duke of <i>Guise</i>; after that, remembring his Vows, he turned Capuchin -again, and a little while after died, coming from <i>Rome</i> to <i>Paris</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celeste seu du costé d’Occident,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et du Midy courir jusqu’au Levant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vers demy morts sans point trouver racine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Troisiesme Age a <i>Mars</i> le Belliqueux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Des <i>Escarboucles</i> on verra briller feux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Age <i>Escarboucle</i>, & a la fin famine.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Cœlestial fire on the West side,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And from the South shall run to the East,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Warm, half dead, and incapable to find Roots,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The third Age to <i>Mars</i> the Warriour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of <i>Carbuncles</i> fires shall be seen to shine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Age shall be a <i>Carbuncle</i>, but in the end famine.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_507"></a>[507]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifies nothing but the troubles that were all <i>France</i> over, from the year -1620. to the year 1628. when <i>Rochel</i> was taken, and the great famine that was in the -year 1626.</p> - -<h3>XXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">L’An mil six cens & neuf ou quatorziesme</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le vieux <i>Charon</i> sera Pasques en Caresme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & six par escrit le mettra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Medecin de tout cecy s’estonne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A mesme temps assigné en personne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais pour certain l’un deux comparoistra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In the year a thousand six hundred and nine or fourteen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old <i>Charon</i> shall Celebrate <i>Easter</i> in Lent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and six shall put it in writing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Physician wondereth at all this.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the same time being Cited in person,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for certain, one of them shall appear.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This signifieth that about the time mentioned by the Author, some great one -should be very sick in Lent, and should eat flesh, which is called here to <i>Celebrate -Easter in Lent</i>; and that his Physician wondering at it should fall sick himself, and -that without fail, one of them two should die.</p> - -<h3>XXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Griffon Se peut apprester,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour a l’ennemy resister,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Er renforcer bien son Armée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Autrement l’Elephant viendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui d’un abord le surprendra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & huit, Mer enflammée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Griffin may prepare himself,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To resist the Enemy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And to strengthen his Army,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Otherways the Elephant shall come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who on a sudden shall surprise him.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and eight, the Sea shall be inflamed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Griffin was meant the <i>Hollanders</i>, who were warned here to beware of the -Elephant, that is, the <i>Spaniard</i>, and to strengthen their Army for fear of being surprised.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_508"></a>[508]</span></p> - -<p>The last Verse signifieth, that in the year 1608. there should be a notable Sea-fight, -which was then frequent enough between the said <i>Hollanders</i> and <i>Spaniard</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans peu de temps Medicin du grand mal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la Sangsue d’ordre & rang inegal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mettront le feu a la branche d’Olive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poste courir d’un & d’autre costé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et par tel feu leur Empire accosté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se rallumant du franc finy salive.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while the Physician of the great disease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Leech, of order and rank unequal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall set fire to the branch of Olive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Posts shall run to and fro,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with such fire their Empire acquainted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall kindle again with the <i>French</i> finished spittle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Physitian of the great disease, is meant the King of <i>France</i>; and the Leech -the King of <i>Spain</i>, so that it is foretold here, how they shall set fire to the branch -of Olive, that is, shall break the Peace and fall to War, which in the year 1636. -when upon the imprisoning of the Archbishop of <i>Triers</i> by the King of <i>Spain</i>, because -he had put himself under the <i>French</i> Protection, the King of <i>France</i> sent an -Armv of 40000. men in the <i>Low-Countreys</i>, to come with the Prince of <i>Orange</i> at -<i>Mastricht</i>, which quarrel hath continued till the Marriage of the King of <i>France</i> -with the Infanta of <i>Spain</i>, Daughter to <i>Philip</i> the IV. The last Verse is forced in, -only to make up the rime.</p> - -<h3>XXXI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qui a les hazards surmouté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui fer, feu, eau, na jamais redouté,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et du Pais bien proche du <i>Basacle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un coup de fer tout le Monde eftonné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Crocodil estrangement donné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peuple ravy de voir un tel spectacle.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that hath overcome the dangers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That hath never feared Iron, Fire nor Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of the Countrey near the <i>Basacle</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a stroke of Iron (all the World being astonished),</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By a Crocodile strangely given,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">People will wonder to see such a spectacle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_509"></a>[509]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy may admit of two Interpretations; the first, that <i>Henry</i> the IV. -who was born in the Province of <i>Bearn</i>, not far from <i>Thoulouze</i>, the chief City of -<i>Languedoc</i>, wherein there is a place upon the River called <i>Basacle</i>, where the Mills -are, who was stobbed with a knife by <i>Francis Ravillac</i> in the year 1610.</p> - -<p>The other is of the last Duke of <i>Montmorency</i>, who being Governour of <i>Languedoc</i>, -took up Arms against the King, in the behalf of the Duke of <i>Orleans</i>, for which -he was beheaded at <i>Thoulouse</i> at the solicitation of Cardinal <i>Richelieu</i>, which happened -about the year 1632.</p> - -<h3>XXXII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vin a foison tres-bon pour les Gendarmes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleurs & soupirs plaintes, cris, & alarmes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel fer ses Tonnerres pleuvoir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feu, eau, & sang le tout meslé ensemble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Ciel de Sol en fremit & en tremble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vivant na veu ce quil pourra bien voir.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plenty of Wine, very good for Troopers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tears, and sighs, complaints, cries, and alarums,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heaven shall cause its Thunders to rain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fire, water and blood, all mixed together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Suns Heaven, quaketh and shaketh for it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No living man hath seen what he may see then.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This great plenty of Wine happened in the year 1634. at which time there was -in <i>France</i> such plenty of Grapes, that half of them perished for want of Vessels to -put them in, and I remember very well, that then whosoever would bring a Poinchon -Vessel, which is the third part of a Tun, might have it filled with Grapes for half a -Crown, and that being my self at that time at a Town of <i>Burgundy</i>, called <i>Beaune</i>, -where the best Wine of <i>France</i> groweth, four of us had one Pottle of Wine <i>English</i> -measure for one half penny. The rest signifieth no more but the miseries that happened -in <i>Germany</i>, by the Wars that the King of <i>Sweden</i> brought in about the same -time.</p> - -<h3>XXXIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien peu apres sera tres-grand misere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De pou de Bled qui sera sur la Terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Dauphiné</i>, <i>Provence</i> & <i>Vivarois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Vivarois</i> est un pauvre presage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pere du fils sera <i>Antrophophage</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et mangeront Racine & gland du Bois.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_510"></a>[510]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little after shall be a great misery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the scarcity of Corn that shall be upon the ground</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Dauphine</i>, <i>Provence</i>, and <i>Vivarois</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In <i>Vivarois</i> is a poor presage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Father of son shall be Antropophage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall eat Roots and Acorns of the Wood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This came to pass when the Duke of <i>Rohan</i> headed the Protestant party, and -made those Provinces the seat of the Civil Wars in <i>France</i>, about the year 1640. or -1642.</p> - -<h3>XXXIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Princes & Seigneurs tous se feront la guerre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cousin Germain, le Frere avec le Frere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Finy l’Arby de l’heureux de <i>Bourbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De <i>Hierusalem</i> les Princes aimables,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du fait commis enorme & execrable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se ressentiront sur la bourse sans fond.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Princes and Lords shall war one against another</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cousin German, the Brother against the Brother,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Arby finished of the happy <i>Bourbon</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Princes of <i>Hierusalem</i> so lovely,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the enormous and execrable fact committed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall ressent upon the bottomless Purse.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This foretelleth of the Wars that were to be between the Princes and Lords a -little after the death of <i>Henry</i> the IV. when the Marshal d’<i>Ancre</i> took upon him the -administration of affairs by the favour of the Queen Regent <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame par mort grandement atristée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mere & tutrice au lang qui la quittée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dame & Seigneurs faits enfants Orphelins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par les Aspics & par les Crocodiles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront surpris forts bourgs, Chasteaux & Villes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dieu tout puissant les garde des malins.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_511"></a>[511]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A Lady by death greatly afflicted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mother and Tutor to the Blood that hath left her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ladies and Lords made Orphans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Asps and by Crocodiles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall strong holds, Castles and Towns be surprised,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">God Almighty keep them from the wicked.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That great Lady afflicted by death, and Mother and Tutor to the Blood that -left her was <i>Mary</i> of <i>Medicis</i>, Wife to <i>Henry</i> the IV. who after the death of her Husband -was much troubled in her regency by her own Son <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. and several -great Lords of his party whence did follow the Battle of <i>Pont de Cé</i>.</p> - -<h3>XXXVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand rumeur qui sera par la <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Les impuissans voudront avoir puissance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Langue emmiellée & vrais Cameleons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De boutefeus, allumeurs de chandelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pyes & Geais, rapporteurs de nouvelles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dont la morsure semblera Scorpions.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great rumor that shall be through <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The impuissants would fain have power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Honey Tongues, and true Camelions,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bourefeux, and lighters of Candles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Magpies and Jays, carriers of news,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose biting shall be like that of Scorpions.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This hath a relation to the precedent, and expresseth further the misery of those -times.</p> - -<h3>XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Foible & puissant seront en grand discord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs mourront avant faire l’accord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Foible ou puissant vainqueur se fera dire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le plus puissant au jeune cedera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le plus vieux des deux decedera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lors que l’un d’eux envahira l’Empire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_512"></a>[512]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Weak and powerfull shall be at great variance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many shall die before they agree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The weak shall cause the powerful to call him Victor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The most potent shall yield to the younger,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the older of the two shall die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When one of the two shall invade the Empire.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecie is not come to pass yet (for all I know) therefore I leave the interpretation -to every ones liberty.</p> - -<h3>XXXVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Eau, & par fer & par grand maladie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pourvoieur a l’hazard de sa vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Scaura combien vaut le Quintal de Bois,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & quinze ou le dixneufiesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On gravera d’un grand Prince cinquiesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Immortel nom sur le pied de la Croix.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By Water, by Fire, and by great sickness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Purveyor to the hazard of his life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall know how much is worth the Quintal of Wood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and fifteen, or the nineteen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There shall be graven of a great Prince the fifth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The immortal name upon the foot of the Cross.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Purveyor is meant the King of <i>France</i>, as we have said before.</p> - -<p>The great Prince the V. was <i>Paul</i> the V. who was foretold he should die about -the year 1615. 1619.</p> - -<h3>XXXIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Pourvoieur de Monstre sans pareil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Se sera voir ainsy que le Soleil,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Montant le long la ligne Meridienne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En poursuivant l’Elephant & le Loup,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nul Empereur ne fit jamais tel coup,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et rien plus pis a ce Prince n’avienne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_513"></a>[513]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Purveyor of the Monster without equal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall shew himself like the Sun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ascending in the Meridional line,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In persecuting the Elephant and the Wolf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No Emperour did ever such an act,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish nothing worse may happen to that Prince.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is a Prophecie of the glorious success that <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. was to have -against the <i>Spaniard</i> in <i>Italy</i>, and the Protestant party at home.</p> - -<h3>XL.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ce qu’en vivant le Pere n’avoit sceu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Il acquerra ou par guerre ou par feu,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Combatra la sangsue irritée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ou jouira de son bien paternel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et savory du grand Dieu Eternel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aura bien tost sa Province heritée.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">That which while he lived the father did not know,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He shall get it either by Water or by Fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall fight with the angry Leech,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or shall enjoy his Paternal goods,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And be favorised by the great Eternal God,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall quickly become Heir of his Province.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This concerneth the present King of <i>France</i> <i>Lewis</i> the XIV. who hath lately got -by Fire and Sword those Provinces in the <i>Low Countreys</i>, to which he laid claim by his -Wives Title, which his father never knew nor attempted.</p> - -<h3>XLI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vaisseaux Galeres avec leur Estendar,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sentrebattront pres du Mont <i>Gilbatar</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et lors sera forfait a <i>Pampelonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui pour son bien souffrira mille maux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par plusieurs fois soustiendra les assaux,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais a la fin unie a la Coronne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_514"></a>[514]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ships and Galleys with their Standard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall fight near the Mountain <i>Gilbatar</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then shall be endeavoured against <i>Pampelonne</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which for her good shall suffer a thousand evils,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And many times shall resist the assaults;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But at last shall be united to the Crown.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecieth the reduction of the City of <i>Pampelona</i>, the chief City -of the Kingdom of <i>Navarre</i>, under the obedience of the King of <i>France</i> and <i>Navarre</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité ou est le premier homme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bien amplement la ville ie vous nomme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tout en alarme, & le Soldat es Champs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Fer & Eau grandement affligée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a la fin des <i>Francois</i> soulagée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais ce sera des six cens & dix ans.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City where the first man is,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fully I name the Town to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be alarmed and the Souldier in the field,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be by Fire and Water greatly afflicted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at last shall be helped by the <i>French</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But it shall be from six hundred and ten years.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That great City where the first man is, is <i>Amsterdam</i>, because the first Letter and -the last Sylable of it maketh <i>Adam</i>: But of her affliction by Fire and Water, and of -her being relieved by the <i>French</i> in the year 1610. I can find nothing in the History; -those that are better furnished with Books than I am, may chance to satisfie themselves -and others, better than I can do.</p> - -<h3>XLIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le petit coin Provinces mutinées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par forts Chasteaux se verront dominées,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Encor un coup par la gent Militaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans bref seront fortement assiegez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mais il seront d’un tres grand soulagez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui aura fait entrée dans Beaucaire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_515"></a>[515]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The little corner, Provinces revolted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By strong Castles, shall see themselves commanded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Once more by the Military Troops,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within a little while shall be strongly Besieged,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But shall be helped by a great one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That hath made his entry in <i>Beaucaire</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This little Corner and Provinces revolted are <i>Holland</i>, and the rest of the United -Provinces, who are threatned here with many troubles, as they did suffer till the -Peace of <i>Munster</i>.</p> - -<p>That great man that helped them, was the King of <i>France</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La belle Rose en la <i>France</i> admirée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D’un tres-grand Prince a la fin desirée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & dix lors naistront ses amours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cinq ans apres sera d’un grand blessée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du tract d’Amour elle sera enlassée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si a quinze ans du Ciel recoit secours.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The faire Rose admired in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall at last be desired by a great Prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and ten, then shall her love begin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Five years after she shall be wounded,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the love of a great one she shall be intangled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If at five years she receiveth help from Heaven.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This Prophecy was concerning the Match between <i>Lewis</i> the XIII. and <i>Ann</i> of -<i>Austria</i> Infanta of <i>Spain</i>, who were both Married very young.</p> - -<h3>XLV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De coup de fer tout le Monde estonné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Crocodil estrangement donné,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A un bien grand, parent de la Sangsue,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et peu apres sera un autre coup,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De guet a pens commis contre le Loup,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et de tels faits on en verra l’yssue.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_516"></a>[516]</span> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All the World being astonished at a blow of Iron,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strangely given by a Crocodile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To a great one, kin to the <i>Leech</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a little while after another blow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On purpose given against the Wolf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of such deeds the end shall be seen.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">I think this needeth no further explication, then that I have given upon the 31. -Stanza.</p> - -<h3>XLVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Les Pourvoieux mettra tout en desroute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sangsue & Loup, en mon dire escoute,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand <i>Mars</i> sera au Signe du <i>Mouton</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joint a <i>Saturne</i>, <i>Saturne</i> a la Lune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alors sera ta plus grande infortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le Soleil lors en exaltation.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Purveyor shall put all in disorder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leech and Wolf, do ye hearken to me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When <i>Mars</i> shall be in the Sign of <i>Aries</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyned with <i>Saturn</i>, and <i>Saturn</i> with the Moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall be thy greatest misfortune,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sun being then in its exaltation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is plain, if you remember that by the Purveyor is meant the King of <i>France</i>, -by the Leech the King of <i>Spain</i>, and by the Wolf the Duke of <i>Savoy</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Le grand d’<i>Hongrie</i> ira dans la Nacelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le nouveau né sera guerre nouvelle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A son voisin, qu’il tiendra assiegé,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le noireau avec son Altesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne souffrira que par trop on le presse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Durant trois ans ses gens tiendra rangé.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great one of <i>Hungary</i> shall go in the Boat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The new born shall make a new War,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To his Neighbour, whom he shall Besiege,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the black one with his Highness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall not suffer to be overpressed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">During three years he shall keep his Men in order.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_517"></a>[517]</span></p> -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning the King of <i>Bohemia</i>, and his War with the Emperour, who -is called here the <i>great one of Hungary</i>, because he is King of it; <i>the black one with his -Highness</i>, is the Pals-grave, who after three years broils was defeated at the Battle of -<i>Prage</i>.</p> - -<h3>XLVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Du vieux <i>Charon</i> on verra le Phœnix,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Estre premier & dernier des fils,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reluire en <i>France</i>, & d’un chascun aimable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regner long temps, avec tous les honneurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qu’auront jamais eu ses Predecesseurs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dont il rendra sa gloire memorable.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Phœnix of the old <i>Charon</i> shall be seen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To be the first and last of the Sons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To shine in <i>France</i>, beloved of every one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Reign a great while with all the honours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That ever his Predecessors had,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By which he shall make his glory memorable.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">No doubt but this is meant of some King of <i>France</i>, which is to come.</p> - -<h3>XLIX.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> & <i>Sol</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> & <i>Mercure</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Augmenteront le genre de nature,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grande Alliance en <i>France</i> se fera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et du Midy la Sangsue de mesme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le feu esteint par ce remede extreme;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">En Terre ferme Olivier plantera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Venus</i> and <i>Sol</i>, <i>Jupiter</i> and <i>Mercury</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall augment humane kind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A great Alliance shall be made in <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the South the Leech shall do the same,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fire extinguished by this extreme remedy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall plant the Olive-Tree in a firm ground.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the consent of all Astronomers, those four benigne Planets augment generation.</p> - -<p>That great Alliance mentioned here, by which the fire was extinguished, and the -Olive-Tree planted in a firm ground, is the Marriage of the present King of <i>France</i>, -<i>Lewis</i>, the XIV. with the Infanta of <i>Spain</i>, by which all differences were composed, -and the Peace firmly settled.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_518"></a>[518]</span></p> - -<h3>L.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant ou apres l’<i>Angleterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par mort de Loup mise aussy bas que terre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Verra le feu resister contre l’eau,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le rallumant avecque telle force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Du sang humain, dessus l’humaine escorce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faute de pain, bondance de cousteau.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while before or after, <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the death of the Wolf being put as low as the ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall see the fire resist against the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kindling it again with such force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of humane blood, upon the humane bark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That want of bread and abundance of knives shall be.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The meaning is, that a little while after or before the said match mentioned in the -foregoing: <i>England</i> was or should be brought as low as the ground, and that there -should be abundance of humane blood spilled, and a great decay of Trade, with Wars, -which is that he calleth, Want of Bread and abundance of knives.</p> - -<h3>LI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La Ville qu’avoit en ses ans,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Combatu l’Injure du temps,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui de son Vainqueur tient la vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Celuy qui premier la surprit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Que peu apres <i>Francois</i> reprit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Par Combats encore affoible.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The City that had in her years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Resisted the injury of the times,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And oweth her life to him that overcame her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being the first that surprised it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which a little while after <i>Francis</i> took again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being yet weakened with fightings.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_519"></a>[519]</span></p> - -<h3>LII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">La grand Cité qui n’a Pain a demy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Encor un coup la saint <i>Barthelemy</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Engravera au profond de son Ame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nismes</i>, <i>Rochelle</i>, <i>Geneve</i> & <i>Montpelier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castres</i>, <i>Lion</i>, <i>Mars</i> entrant au <i>Belier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">S’entrebattront le tout pour une Dame.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The great City that hath not bread half enough,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall once more engrave</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the bottom of her soul St. <i>Bartholomew</i>’s day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nismes</i>, <i>Rochel</i>, <i>Geneva</i> and <i>Montpelier</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Castres</i>, <i>Lion</i>, <i>Mars</i> coming into <i>Aries</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall fight one against another, and all for a Lady.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">That great City mentioned here, is <i>Paris</i>, which is threatned of another St. <i>Bartholomew</i>’s -day, which was fatal to the Protestants in <i>France</i>, for upon that day in -the year 1572. there was a general Massacre made of them through all <i>France</i>, insomuch, -that in <i>Paris</i> alone there was above ten thousand slain.</p> - -<p>As for those Towns here named that are to fight about a Lady, I cannot guess -what Lady it should be, unless he meaneth the <i>Roman</i> Church.</p> - -<h3>LIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs mourront avant que Phœnix meure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Jusques six cens septante est sa demeure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passé quinze ans, vingt & un, trente neuf,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Le premier est Subjet a maladie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et le second au fer, danger de vie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au feu a l’eau est subjet a trenteneuf.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Many shall die before that Phœnix dieth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till six hundred and seventy he shall remain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Above fifteen years, one and twenty, thirty nine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The first shall be subject to sickness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the second to Iron, a danger of life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thirty nine shall be subject to fire and water.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">By the Phœnix is meant a Pope, because there is but one of that kind at once, the -meaning of the rest is unknown to me.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_520"></a>[520]</span></p> - -<h3>LIV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six cens & quinze vingt, grand Dame mourra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et peu apres un fort long temps pleuvra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plusieurs Pais <i>Flandres</i> & l’<i>Angleterre</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seront par seu & par fer affligez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De leurs Voisins longuement assiegez,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contraints seront de leur faire la Guerre.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Six hundred and fifteen, and twenty, a great Lady shall die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a little after it shall rain for a great while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many Countreys as <i>Flanders</i> and <i>England</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall by fire and Iron be afflicted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a good while Besieged by their Neighbours,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So that they shall be constrained to make War against them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">What that great Lady was, that should die in the year 653. is not easie to guess, -there being many in every Countrey that died that year. The rest is easie, and we -have seen the truth of it in our days, and may see it hereafter.</p> - -<h3>LV.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Un peu devant ou apres tres grand’ Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Son ame au Ciel, & son corps soubs la lame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De plusieurs gens regretée sera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tous ses parens seront en grand tristesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleurs & souspirs d’une Dame en jeunesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et a deux grands le dueil delaissera.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while before, or after, a very great Lady,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her soul in Heaven, and her body in the Grave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall be lamented by many,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All her kindred shall be in great mourning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tears and sighs of a Lady in her youth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shall leave the mourning to two great ones.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This may be understood of the death of <i>Anna</i> of <i>Austria</i>, Queen of <i>France</i>, who -left in mourning two great ones, <i>viz.</i> her two Sons <i>Lewis</i> the XIV. King of <i>France</i>, -and <i>Philip</i> of <i>Bourbon</i> Duke of <i>Orleans</i>.</p> - -<p>Or of the death of the Queen Dowager of <i>England</i>, <i>Henrietta Maria</i>, who also -was much lamented, and left in mourning two great ones, <i>viz.</i> <i>Charles</i> the II. King -of <i>England</i>, and <i>James</i> Duke of <i>York</i> his Brother.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_521"></a>[521]</span></p> - -<h3>LVI.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tost l’Elephant de toutes parts verra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quand Pourvoyeur au Griffon se joindra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa ruine proche, & <i>Mars</i> qui tousiour gronde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fera grands faits aupres de <i>Terre Sainte</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grands Estendars sur la Terre & sur l’Onde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si la Nef a esté, de deux frere enceinte.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Shortly the Elephant on all sides shall see,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Purveyor shall joyn with the Griffin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His ruine at hand, and <i>Mars</i> which always grumbleth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall do great feats near the <i>Holy Land</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great Standarts upon the Earth and the Sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If the Ship hath been with Child of two Brothers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The Elephant is the Emperor, the Purveyor the King of <i>France</i>, the Griffin the -<i>Hollanders</i>; the meaning then is that the Emperor shall go to ruine, when the <i>French</i> -and the <i>Hollanders</i> shall joyn together.</p> - -<p>And that there shall be great Wars and Fightings in the Holy Lands, both by Sea -and Land, when two Brothers of great quality shall go in one Ship.</p> - -<h3>LVII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Peu apres l’Alliance faite,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Avant solemnises la Feste,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L’Empereur le tout troublera,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et la nouvelle Mariée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Au <i>Franc</i> Païs par sort liée,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dans peu de temps apres mourra.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A little after the Alliance made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Feast be Solemnized,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Emperor shall trouble all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the new Bride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Being by fate tied to the <i>French</i> Countrey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A little while after shall die.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">This is concerning a match that shall be made between the <i>French</i> King, and some -Lady of another Countrey, which Match shall be disturbed by the Emperour, and -the Bride shall die a little while after her Marriage.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_522"></a>[522]</span></p> - -<h3>LVIII.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <h4>French.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sangsue en peu de temps mourra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sa mort bon signe nous donra,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pour l’accroissement de la <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alliances se trouveront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deux grands Roiaumes se joindront,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Francois</i> aura sur eux puissance.</div> - </div> - <h4>English.</h4> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Leech within a little while shall die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His death shall be a good sign to us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the augmentation of <i>France</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alliances shall be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great Kingdoms shall joyn together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>French</i> shall have power over them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>ANNOT.</h4> - -<p class="dcap">The <i>Leech</i> was <i>Philip</i> the IV. the last King of <i>Spain</i>, who died a little while after -he had Married his Daughter to <i>Lewis</i> the XIV. now King of <i>France</i>, by which Marriage -the Peace was made between the two Kingdoms, in the Island of the <i>Conference</i>, -upon the Borders of <i>France</i> and <i>Spain</i>. 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