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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

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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.

Name: 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: Nostradamus

Nostradamus

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

_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.

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