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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

L’Occident libre les Isles _Britanniques_,
    Le recogneu passer le bas, puis haut,
    Ne content triste Rebel corss. _Escotiques_,
    Puis rebeller par plui & par nuict chaut.

    English.

    The West shall be free, and the _Brittish_ Islands,
    The discovered shall pass low, then high,
    _Scottish_ Pirates shall be, who shall rebel,
    In a rainy and hot night.


LXXXII.

    French.

    La stratageme simulte sera rare,
    La Mort en voye rebelle par contrée,
    Par le retour du voyage _Barbare_,
    Exalteront la potestante entrée.

    English.

    The stratagem and grudge shall be scarce,
    Death shall be in a rebellious way through the Countrey,
    By the return from a _Barbarian_ travel,
    They shall exalt the Protestant entrance.


LXXXIII.

    French.

    Vent chaut, conseil, pleurs, timidité,
    De nuict au lict assailly sans les Armes:
    D’oppression grand calamité,
    L’_Epithalame_ converty pleurs & larmes.

    English.

    Hot wind, councel, tears, fearfulness,
    He shall be assaulted in his bed by night without Arms,
    From that oppression shall be raised a great calamity,
    The _Epithalamium_ shall be converted into tears.

ANNOT.

The reason why I have put no Annotations to these, as I have done to
the rest, is, because according to my judgement, and that of the most
Learned, they are spurious.




TO THE READER.


Friendly Reader,

_Before you Read the following Epistle, I would have you be warned of
a few things: One is, that according to my opinion, it is very obscure
and intelligible in most places, being without any just connection, and
besides the obscurity of the sense, the crabbedness of the expression is
such, that had not the importunity of the Bookseller prevailed, I would
have left it out, but considering the respect due to Antiquity, the
satisfaction we owe to curious persons, who would perhaps have thought
the Book imperfect without it, we let it go, trusting to your Candor and
Ingenuity._

                                                                 Farewell.




THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus.

_CENTURY_ VIII. IX. & X.

_That had not been Printed before, and are in the same Edition of 1568._


TO THE

_Most Invincible, most High, and most Christian King of ~France~ ~HENRY~
the Second; ~Michael Nostradamus~ his most obedient Servant and Subject,
wisheth Victory and Happiness._

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