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
The ancient _Vestals_, were a Kind of Religious Virgins in the ancient
_Romans_ time, who if they did forfeit their honour, were buried alive
in a Cave, with a little Bread and Water, and a Lamp burning, our
Author would have, that when a Lamp shall be found lighted with an
unquenchable fire, in that place where then their Temple was, that then
_Nismes_ (which is a City of _Languedoc_), shall perish by Water, and
the Market-hall of _Tholouse_ shall fall, whether such a Lamp may be
contrived as to burn with an unquenchable fire, is too long and tedious a
discourse to be disputed here.
X.
French.
Moine, Moinesse d’Enfant mort exposé,
Mourir par Ourse & ravy par verrier,
Par _Foix_ & _Panniers_ le Camp sera posé,
Contre _Tholose_, _Carcas_, dresser forrier.
English.
Monk and Nun having exposed a dead Child,
To be killed by a she Bear, and snatcht away by a Glazier,
The Camp shall be set by _Foix_ and _Panniers_,
And against _Tholouse_, _Carcas_ shall raise a Harbinger.
ANNOT.
_Foix_ and _Panniers_ are two Towns in _Languedoc_, and so are _Tholouse_
and _Carcassonne_, called here _Carcas_, for the abbreviation of the
Verse, the sense then of this prophecy is, that when the two first Verses
shall come to pass, that then an Army shall lie about those Towns, and
_Carcassonne_ shall be against _Thoulouse_.
XI.
French.
Le juste a tort a mort l’on viendra mettre,
Publiquement, & du milieu estaint,
Si grande Peste en ce lieu viendra naistre,
Que les Jugeans fouyr seront contraints.
English.
The just shall be put to death wrongfully,
Publickly, and being taken out of the midst,
So great a Plague shall break into that place,
That the Judges shall be compelled to run away.
ANNOT.
Many understand this of the late King, and last Plague.
XII.
French.
Le tant d’argent de _Diane_ & _Mercure_,
Les simulachres au Lac seront trouvez,
Le Figulier cherchant argille neuve,
Luy & les siens, d’or seront abreuvez.
English.
The so much Silver of _Diana_ and _Mercury_,
The Statues shall be found in the Lake,
The Potter seeking for new clay,
He and his shall be filled with Gold.
ANNOT.
This Prophecy is concerning a _Potter_, who seeking and digging for
new Clay, shall find in a drained Lake the Statues of _Diana_ and
_Mercury_ all of silver, besides other great riches; seeing this Prophecy
is not come to pass yet (that I know) it will not be amiss, for the
divertisement of the Reader, to relate here a notable and authentical
History of a Potter that hath much ressemblance with this, and will be
a convincing Argument, that Mines grow in the Earth as Turfs do, and as
_Virgil_ sayeth of the golden branch:
_Uno avulso non deficit alter._
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