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.
Nostradamus
Astrology -- Early works to 1800; Prophecies -- Early works to 1800
It is not easie to understand what he meaneth by the Translator of
_Boure_, unless it be some mean and pittiful fellow, that lived by
Translating things from one language into another, because the _French_
use to call a man that is inconsiderable, _un homme du boure_, that is a
man of Flocks; and so much the more I am of this opinion, because of the
scurvy Epithetes, he attributeth to the same person, by which he might
easily be known as _blind of one eye, red, white, hoary_, &c.
II.
French.
Du haut du Mont _Aventin_ voix ouye,
Vuidez, vuidez de tous les deux costez,
Du sang des rouges sera l’Ire assouvie,
D’_Arimin_, _Prato_, Columna debotez.
English.
From the top of Mount _Aventin_, a voice was heard,
Get you gone, get you gone on all sides,
The Choler shall be fed with the blood of the red ones,
From _Arimini_ and _Prato_, the Colonnas shall be driven away.
ANNOT.
Mount _Aventine_ is one of the seven Mountains of _Rome_, from the top of
which our Author saith that a voice was heard crying and repeating, _get
you gone_, and the reason is, because choler and anger shall feed upon
the blood of the Cardinals, understood here by the name of _red ones_.
_Arimini_ and _Prato_ are two cities in _Italy_.
The _Colonna_ is the chiefest and ancientest family of _Rome_.
III.
French.
Le _magna vaqua_ a _Ravenne_ grand trouble,
Conduits par quinze enserrez a _Fornase_,
A _Rome_ naistra deux Monstres a teste double,
Sang, feu, deluge, les plus grands a l’espase.
English.
The _Magna vaqua_ great trouble at _Ravenna_,
Conducted by fifteen, shut up at _Fornase_,
At _Rome_ shall be born two Monsters with a double head,
Blood, fire, Flood, the greater ones astonished.
ANNOT.
This word of _Magna vaqua_ is either falsly printed, or altogether
barbarous and insignificant, and so is that of _Fornase_, which maketh
the two first Verses incapable of translation; the other are easie.
IV.
French.
L’An ensuivant descouverts par Deluge,
Deux chefs esleus, le premier ne tiendra,
De fuyr ombre a l’un deux le refuge,
Saccagée case qui premier maintiendra.
English.
The year following being discovered by a Flood,
Two Chiefs elected, the first shall not hold,
To fly from shade, to one shall be a refuge,
That house shall be plundered which shall maintain the first.
ANNOT.
Our Author meaneth, that the year after the former Prophecy is come to
pass, this shall also be fulfilled, whereby two Chief Commanders shall be
chosen, the first of which shall not stand, but shall be compelled to run
away, and to seek his security in the open Fields, and that house that
did uphold the first shall be plundered.
V.
French.
Tiers doigt du pied au premier semblera,
A un nouveau Monarque de bas haut,
Qui _Pise_ & _Luiques_ tyran occupera,
Du precedent corriger le defaut.
English.
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