These words signifie, that a great man or Tyrant shall be found dead in another mans Bed, having his _Legs_ and _Arms_ broken, the body of which shall be devoured by these three kinds of Creatures, a _Cock_, a _Dog_, and a _Cat_. The last Verse signifieth that this Tyrant had escaped a _cruel Death_. XLIII. French. Durant l’estoile cheuelue apparente, Les trois grand Princes seront faits ennemis, Frappez du Ciel, Paix, Terre tremulente, _Arne_, _Tibre_, undans Serpent sur le bord mis. English. During the hairy apparent Star, The three great Princes shall be made Enemies, Struck from Heaven, Peace, quaking Earth, _Arne_, _Tyber_, full of Surges, Serpent cast upon the Shore. ANNOT. In the year 1556. upon the first day of _March_ appeared a blazing Star which lasted three Months, and in that year the three great Princes were made Enemies, _viz._ _Paul_ IV. Pope, _Henry_ II. King of _France_, and _Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, about the breaking of the Truce by _Henry_ II. The Affairs not succeeding according to the Pope’s, and the King of _France_’s desire, they made Peace with the _Spaniard_ the 14th of _October_ 1557. and because it was an effect of Gods Providence, which moved the Pope’s, and the Kings hearts; the Author saith, they were _struck from Heaven_. After this _Peace_ the Author mentions an _Earth-quake_, which is very likely considering the overflowing of the _Tyber_, which followed immediately. The night after, that _Peace_ was proclaimed at _Rome_, on a _Tuesday_ the _Tyber_ did so overflow his Banks, that the inundation was thought the greatest that ever was, yea greater than that which happened in the year 1530. under _Clement_ VII. There were ten or twelve Mills carried away, all the Vine-yards along the _Tyber_, from _Pontemole_ to St. _Peters_ Church, were buried under the Sands, that the water carried. Abundance of Houses fell to the ground. In _Rome_ many Gardens and houses of pleasure were destroyed, the loss of the Wines, Hay, Wood, and Corn could not be valued. In _Florence_ the River of _Arno_ did more mischief than the _Tyber_ at _Rome_, the History of the Genealogy of the house of _Medicis_, made by _Peter de Boissat_, mentioneth, that in some places of the City of _Florence_, the water overflowed to the heigth of eight Fathoms, and covered all the valley of _Arne_. The damage was yet greater at _Empoly_, a Town in _Tuscany_, where, of three thousand people, there escaped but eighteen. But to return to _Tyber_, its waters being retired into their Channel, left so much mud, where it had overflowed, that no body could walk upon it, and upon that mud near the _Tyber_, was a Serpent seen of a prodigious bigness, which was killed by the Countrey people. This is the Authors meaning in the last Verse, _Arne, Tyber, full of Surges, Serpent cast upon the Shore_.