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
Get you gone, run away from _Thoulouse_ ye red ones,
There shall expiation be made of the Sacrifice,
The chief cause of the evil under the shade of gourdes,
Shall be strangled, a presage of the destruction of much flesh.
ANNOT.
This Prophecy doth onely and properly belong to the City of _Thoulouse_;
and by it are warned all the red ones, that is, all those that usually
wear Red or Scarlet Gowns, as those of the Parliament and the Capitols
to come out of it, because saith he, _There shall an expiation be made
of the Sacrifice_, meaning that there shall be a great slaughter among
the Citizens, as it did happen at several times, the first _Anno_ 1563.
another time when the first President _Durauti_, and several other of the
red Gowns were put to death, _&c._ The two last Verses signifie, that
the chief contriver of this uproar shall be strangled, and many others
besides him.
XLVII.
French.
Les soubsignez d’indigne deliverance,
Et de la multe auront contre advis,
Change Monarque mis en perrille pence,
Serrez en cage se verront vis a vis.
English.
The underwritten to an unworthy deliverance,
Shall have from the multitude a contrary advice,
They shall change their Monarch and put him in peril,
They shall see themselves shut up in a Cage over against.
ANNOT.
This is plainly to be understood of those Traytors, the delivered and
signed the death of King _Charles_ the I. of blessed Memory, against the
sense and advise of at least three parts of four of the Nation, and who
afterward saw themselves for the most part shut in Prison for this fact
and brought to a shameful end.
XLVIII.
French.
La grand Cité d’Occean Maritime,
Environnée de Marests en Crystal,
Dans le _Solstice_ hyemal & la prime,
Sera tentée de vent espouvental.
English.
The great Maritime City of the Ocean,
Encompassed with Chrystaline Fens,
In the Winter _Solstice_ and in the spring,
Shall be tempted with fearful wind.
ANNOT.
By _the great Maritime City of the Ocean, Encompassed with Crystaline
Fens_, is to be understood the City of _London_, for as for that of
_Venice_, it is situated upon the _Mediterranean_ or rather _Adriatick_
Sea: _London_ then is threatned here of a fearful wind, which whether
the Author meaneth for the time that is past now, and that shall come
hereafter I know not, sure I am, that I have within this fifteen years
seen two such winds in _London_, as I never saw the like any where else;
the first was that day that _Olivier_ the Usurpator died, the other
was about six or seven years ago, caused by the lightning that fell in
_Hereford-shire_, and did mix with a Western wind and came as far as
_London_, carrying the tops of houses, and doing then for above 10000.
pounds dammage.
XLIX.
French.
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