The learned enemy shall go back confounded, A great Camp shall be sick, and in effect through ambush, The _Pyrenean_ Mountains shall refuse him. Near the River discovering the ancient Hives. ANNOT. The words are plain, though the sense be too obscure, and I shall not endeavour to give an interpretation, when every one may make one himself. C. French. Fill de _Laure_, asyle du mal sain, Ou jusqu’au Ciel se void l’_Amphitheatre_: Prodige veu, ton mal est fort prochain, Seras captive, & des fois plus de quatre. English. Daughter of _Laura_, Sanctuary of the sick, Where to the Heavens is seen the _Amphitheatre_, A prodigy being seen, the danger is near, Thou shalt be taken captive above four times. ANNOT. This is an ingenious Stanza, concerning the City of _Nismes_ in _Languedoc_, famous for its _Amphitheatre_ built by the _Romans_, and remaining to this day, which Town he calleth Daughter of _Laura_, because the Lady _Laura_, Mistress to the famous Poet _Petrarche_ was born thereabout; he also calleth it Sanctuary of the sick, for the salubrity of the air. The meaning of the two last Verses is, that when a prodigy shall be seen, _viz._ Civil War in _France_, it shall be taken above four times, as it hath happened by one party or other. Legis cautio contra ineptos Criticos. _Qui legent hos versus, maturè censunto:_ _Prophanum vulgus & inscium ne attrectato:_ _Omnesque Astrologi, Blenni, Barbari procul sunto,_ _Qui aliter faxit, is rite sacer esto._ THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. _CENTURY_ VII. I. French. L’Arc du Thresor par _Achilles_ deceu, Aux procrées sceu le Quadrangulaire, Au fait Roial le comment sera sceu, Corps veu pendu au Sceu du populaire. English. The bow of the Treasure by _Achilles_ deceived, Shall shew to posterity the Quadrangulary, In the Royal deed the Comment shall be known, The body shall be seen hanged in the knowledge of the people. ANNOT. By the bow of the Treasure, is understood the Marshal d’_Ancre_, Favorite to the Queen Regent of _France_ _Mary_ of _Medicis_, who was first complained of, for his maleversations by _Achilles de Harlay_ President of _Paris_, whence followed his death being Pistolled in the Quadrangle of the _Louvre_, by the command of _Lewis_ XIII. and his body afterwards dragged through the streets, and hanged publickly by the people upon the new Bridge. II. French. Par _Mars_ ouvert _Arles_ ne donra guerre, De nuit seront les Soldats estonnez, Noir, blanc, a l’Inde dissimulez en terre. Soubs la feinte ombre traistre verrez sonnez. English. _Arles_ shall not proceed by open War, By night the Souldiers shall be astonished, Black, white, and blew, dissembled upon the ground. Under the fained shadow you shall see them proclaimed Traitors. ANNOT. _Arles_ is a considerable City in _France_; the rest is plain. III.