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.