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.