De gens esclave, chansons, chants, & requestes, Captifs par Princes, & Seigneurs aux prisons, A l’advenir par Idiots sans testes, Seront receus par divins oraisons. English. From slavish people, Songs, Tunes and requests, Being kept Prisoners by Princes and Lords, For the future by headless Idiots, Shall be admitted by divine prayers. ANNOT. This is a prognostication of the beginning and increase of the Protestants in _France_, who began to sing their Psalms in _French_, and from time to time presented their request for tolleration. The Author being a zealous Papist calleth them _Idiots_, and that notwithstanding the persecution that should be against them, being put in Prison by _Princes_ and _Lords_, they should at last be admitted by reason of their often praying to God. XV. French. _Mars_ nous menace par la force bellique, Septante fois fera le sang respandre, Auge & ruine de l’Ecclesiastique, Et par ceux qui d’eux rien ne voudront entendre. English. _Mars_ threatneth us of a Warlike force, Seventy times he shall cause blood to be shed, The flourishing and ruine of the Clergy, And by those that will hear nothing from them. ANNOT. The Author having premonished us in his Preface, that God having imparted to him the knowledge of many future things, he was curious to know if his Divine Majesty had written the same thing in the Cœlestial Book, as concerning the States, Empires, Monarchies, Provinces and Cities, and he found that it was even so as it had been revealed to him, so that the Book of Heaven, written with Gods own hand, in so many shining Characters, might serve to studious men for a light and a Torch to discover very near the common estate of the world. He then having learned from God in his solitariness, the prosperities and afflictions of the Clergy, from the beginning of the year 1555. to the end of the world; he found that there was an agreement between his prophetical Knowledge, and the motion of the Heavenly Bodies; because having made the Systeme of the years after 1550. he found that _Mars_ was in a dangerous Aspect to the Ecclesiastical estate, and found that this Planet by its position did presage a long, bloody and horrid Catastrophe in the world, by which the Ecclesiastical estate should suffer much. To make good this prediction, the Author doth assure us in his Preface, that he had considered the disposition of this Planet, not only in the year 1555. but also in the years following, and joyning together all that he had found in his Ephemerides, he found that this Planet did on all sides presage most bloody actions. Although, saith he, the Planet of _Mars_ maketh an end of its course, and is come to its last Period: nevertheless it will begin it again, but some gathered in _Aquarius_ for many years, and others by long and continual years.