in the beginning of that year shall be a greater persecution against the Christian Church than ever was in _Affrica_, and it shall last till the year 1792. at which time every body will think it a renovation of Age. After that the _Roman_ people shall begin to stand upright again, and to put away some obscure darknesses, receiving some of its former light, but not without great divisions, and continual changes. _Venice_ after that with great strength and power shall lift up her Wings so high, that she will not be much inferiour to the strength of the old _Rome_, and in that time great _Bizantine_ Sails, joyned with the _Ligustiques_, by the Northern help and power shall give some hinderance, whereby those of _Crete_ shall not keep their faith, the Arches built by the antient Martial men, will keep company together with _Neptun_’s Waves. In the _Adriatick_ shall be a great discord, what was united shall be parted asunder, and what was before, and is a great City, will go near to becom a house, including the _Pempotan_, and the _Mesopotamia_ of _Europe_ to 45, and others to 41, 42, and 37. And in that time, and Countrey, the Infernal power shall rise against the Church of I. C. with the power of the Enemies to his Law, which shall be the second Antechrist, who shall persecute the said Church and its Vicar by the means of the power of Temporal Kings, who through their Ignorance shall be seduced by Tongues more sharp than any Sword in the hands of a mad man. The said Reign of Antichrist shall not last but till the ending of him, born by Age, and of the other in the City of _Plancus_, accompanied by the Elect of _Modone_, _Fulcy_ by _Ferrara_, maintained by _Adriatick_, _Liguriens_, and the proximity of the great _Trinacria_, and after that shall pass over the Mount _Jovis_. The _Gallique Ogmyon_ followed with such a number, that even from afar off the Empire of the great Law, shall be presented to him, and then, and after shall be profusedly spilled the blood of the Innocent by the Nocent, raised on high; then by great Floods the memory of those things contained by such Instruments, shall receive an innumerable loss, as also shall learning towards the North by the Divine Will, Satan bound once more, and an universal Peace shall be among men, and the Church of I. C. shall be free from all tribulation, although the _Azosrains_ would fain mix among it the Honey of their pestilent seduction, and this shall happen about the seventh Millinary; so that the Sanctuary of I. C. shall be no more trodden down by the unbelievers that shall come from the North, the world being near to some conflagration, although by my supputations in my Prophecies, the course of the time goeth much further. In the Epistle that within the late years I have dedicated to my Son _Cæsar Nostradamus_, I have openly enough declared some things, without prognosticating. But here (Sir) are comprehended many great and wonderful events, which those that come after us shall see.