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
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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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