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.Nostradamus
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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.
Nostradamus
Astrology -- Early works to 1800; Prophecies -- Early works to 1800
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.
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