L’Ennemy grand viel, deult, meurt de poison, Les Souverains par infinis subjugues, Pierres pleuvoir cache soubs la Toison, Par mort Articles en vain sont alleguez. English. The great and old Enemy grieveth, dieth by Poison, An infinite number of Soveraign’s conquered, It shall rain stones, they shall hide under Rocks, In vain shall death alledge Articles. ANNOT. This hath a relation to the foregoing Stanza, and is as it were the second part of it. For as the foremost speaketh of the last day, so doth this of Dooms-day. First, he saith that _the great and old Enemy grieveth and dieth by Poison_, that’s the Devil who shall be cast into a Lake of Fire and Brimstone. The second Verse signifieth, that all the Kings of the Earth shall be subdued by him that is _Lord of Lords and King of Kings_. The third Verse expresseth, the anguish of the reprobate, when they shall cry to the Rocks, hide us, and to the Mountains, fall upon us. And the fourth Verse saith, that Death shall alledge in vain, the Articles she made with the Devil, and his Angels. XLVIII. French. La grand Copie qui passera les Monts, _Saturne_, _Aries_, tournant au Poisson _Mars_, Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons, Leur chef pendu a fil de _Polemars_. English. The great Army that shall pass over the Mountains, _Saturn_, _Aries_, _Mars_, turning to the Fishes, Poisons hidden in Sheeps heads, Their Captain hang’d with a thred of _Polemars_. ANNOT. _Paradin_ relateth in his History, that after the Duke of _Alba_ had relieved _Vulpian_ with Victuals, which was done from the 22. of _July_ to the first of _August_, a Captain of the Emperors Army named _la Trinité_, went out of _Valfrenieres_ the same first day of _August_, to plunder the Countrey of _Piemont_. He had 400 Horses, and 500 Foot: The news being brought to the Marshal of _Brissac_, he sent out a great number of Horses, who did utterly destroy their Foot, so that but thirty escaped, to carry the news to _Valfrenieres_. The _Spanish_ Horse, seeing the _French_ in such a fury, ran away, and got some to _Ast_, some to _Alexandria_. After that, the _Spaniards_ seeking to revenge themselves, took a Castle three miles from _Cazal_, called _Frezene_, or _Fracinet du Pau_, where they hanged up the Captain, put to the sword all the _Italians_, and sent all the _French_ to the _Galleys_. This proceeding being not according to the Laws of Arms, we may believe, that the victorious discovered a malitious craft of the vanquished, who had left some Sheeps-heads poisoned, to revenge themselves of the victorious, which obliged the _Spaniards_ to serve so the Captain, the _Italians_ and the _French_; and because the _French_ were not so ill used, as the _Italians_, we may judge that the _Italians_ were the chief contrivers of this business.