As the words of this Stanza are plain, so is the sense most obscure, and so to be left to the Readers private Judgement. XCVII. French. Ce que fer, flamme, na sceu parachever, La douce langue au conseil viendra faire, Par respos, songe le Roy fera resuer, Plus l’Ennemy en feu sang militaire. English. What neither Iron nor Fire could compass, Shall be done by a smooth tongue in the Councel, In sleep a dream shall make the King to think, The more the Enemy in fire and Military blood. ANNOT. The sense of this is plain, though the words be somthing untowardly expressed. XCVIII. French. Le Chef qu’aura conduit peuple infiny, Loin de son Ciel: de mœurs & langue estrange, Cinq mille en _Crete_ & _Thessalie_ finy, Le Chef fuiant sauvé en la Marine Grange. English. The Captain that shall lead an infinite deal of people Far from their Countrey, to one of strange manners and Language, Five thousand in _Candia_ and _Thessalia_ finished, The Head running away, shall be safe in a Barn by the Sea. ANNOT. It is some great Commander that shall lead a multitude of people into a strange Countrey, far from their own; suppose _Candia_ and _Thessalia_, where the said Commander shall be compelled to run away, and to save himself in a Barn by the Sea side. XCIX. French. Le grand Monarque qui fera compagnie, Avec deux Rois unis par amitié, O quel souspir fera la grand mesgnie, Enfans, _Narbonne_ alentour, quel pitié! English. The great Monarch shall keep company, With two Kings united in friendship; O what fights shall be made by their followers! Children, O what pity shall be about _Narbon_. ANNOT. This Stanza requireth no interpretation more, than what every one will be pleased to give himself. C. French. Long temps au Ciel sera veu gris Oiseau, Aupres de _Dole_ & de _Tuscane_ Terre, Tenant au Bec un verdoiant rameau, Mourra tost Grand, & finira la Guerre. English. A great while shall be seen in the Air a gray Bird, Near _Dola_ and the _Tuscan_ Land, Holding in his Bill a green bough; Then shall a great one die, and the War have and end. ANNOT. _Dola_ is a Town in _Burgundy_. The _Tuscan_ Land, is that which belongeth to the Duke of _Florence_. THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus. _CENTURY_ II. I. French. Vers _Aquitaine_ par insults _Britanniques_, De par eux mesmes grandes incursions, Pluyes, Gelees, feront terroirs iniques, _Port Selyn_ fortes fera invasions. English. Towards _Gascony_ by _English_ assaults, By the same shall be made great incursions, Rains, Frosts, shall marre the ground. _Port Selyn_ shall make strong Invasions. ANNOT.