This Prediction seemeth to have not only a relation to the foregoing, but also a connexion; for the Author still handleth the matter of the Popedome, and saith, that after that Pope shall have Reigned four years, there shall succeed one that shall be notorious for debauchedness and lechery, and that those Towns he mentioneth here (which are all in _Italy_) shall take the Popes part. XXVII. French. Dedans les Isles de cinq fleuves a un, Par le croissant du grand _Chyren Selin_, Par les bruynes de l’air fureur de l’un, Six eschapez, chachez fardeaux de lin. English. In the Islands from five Rivers to one, By the increase of great _Chyren Selin_, By the Frost of the Air one shall under furious, Six shall escape, hidden within bundles of Flax. ANNOT. _Chyren_ by transposition is taken for _Henry_, and _Selin_ for a King called so; because it is the name of a _Turkish_ Emperour: So that by this Stanza I suppose he means _Henry_ II. his Master, King of _France_. The rest is plain. XXVIII. French. Le grand _Celtique_ entrera dedans _Rome_, Menant amas d’exilez & bannis, Le grand Pasteur mettra a mort tout homme, Qui pour le Coq estoient aux _Alpes_ unis. English. The great _Celtique_ shall enter into _Rome_, Leading with him a great number of banished men, The great Shepheard shall put to death every man, That was united for the Cock near the _Alpes_. ANNOT. Because this word _Celtique_ is often repeated in this Book, it would not be amiss to satisfie the Reader of the meaning of it; it is properly the Nation of the _Flemings_, and some others of the Low-Countreys as far as the _Mase_ and the _Rhyne_, which anciently were called _Galli Celtæ_. By _the great Shepheard_, is meant the Pope, and by the _Cock_ is meant the _French_ Nation. The rest is easie. XXIX. French. La Veufve Sainte entendant les nouvelles, De ses rameaux mis en perplex & trouble, Qui sera duit appaiser les querelles, Par son pourchas des Razes sera comble. English. The holy Widow hearing the News Of her Branches put in perplexity or trouble, That shall be skilfull in appeasing of quarrels, By his purchase shall make a heap of shaven heads. ANNOT. By the _holy Widow_, is meant the City of _Rome_, which is called in _Italian_, _Roma la santa_, because of the blood of so many Martyrs that hath been shed there, for the maintenance of the Christian Religion, he calleth it a _Widow_; because at that time there will be no Pope elected, and there shall be a kind of _interregnum_, as it always happens when a Pope is dead, until the new one be elected. What he calleth here Branches, are the Clergy men, and the shaven heads the Priests. XXX. French. Par l’apparence de feinte Saincteté, Sera trahy aux ennemis le siege, Nuit qu’on croioid dormir en seureté, Pres de _Brabant_ marcheront ceux de _Liege_. English.