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
The _Senate_ or Parliament of _Burgundy_, sits at _Dijon_, among them
there is always a Church-man, that is one of the Judges, to see that
nothing be done to the prejudice of the Church. I suspect that it is he,
that is called here _Sacriste_, and who shall reveal the business to the
_Enemies_. The two first Verses need no explication.
LXXVII.
French.
Par Arcs, Fœux, Poix, & par feux repoussez,
Cris hurlemens sur la minuit ouys,
Dedans sont mis par les rempars cassez,
Par Canicules les Traditeurs fuis.
English.
Being repulsed with Bows, Fires, and Pitch,
Cries and howlings shall be heard about midnight,
They shall get in through the broken Walls,
The betrayers shall run away through the Conduits.
ANNOT.
It is a Town Besieged, where after a repulse given to the Besiegers, they
shall get in by the Treason of some within, who shall run away through
the Conduits or Channels of the Town.
LXXVIII.
French.
Le grand _Neptune_ du profond de la Mer,
De sang punique & sang _Gaulois_ meslé,
Les Isles a sang pour le tardif ramer,
Plus luy nuira que loccult mal celé.
English.
The great _Neptune_ in the middle of the Sea,
Having joyned _African_ and _French_ blood,
The Islands shall be put to the Sword, and the slow rowing
Shall do them more prejudice, than the concealed evil.
ANNOT.
To understand this, you must know that Henry the II. King of _France_,
having renewed his Alliance with the Grand Seignior _Sultan Solyman_,
he asked him succours for to take _Nice_, which he pretended to belong
to the Earldom of _Provence_. To that purpose the Marshal of _Brissac_
went from Court with the Kings Army in the year 1557. to set upon _Nice_,
_Savona_, and _Genoa_, and so to hinder the _Spaniard_ from coming by
Sea in _Piemont_, and the _Milanese_. The _Turk_ sent him a good Fleet,
consisting of 105. Galleys, and 14. Galliots.
The _French_ Fleet consisted of 26 Galleys, of which the great Prior was
Admiral, who went with them from the Castle of _Yf_, the 9. of _June_
1558.
Being at Sea, and not knowing where the _Turkish_ Fleet was, he went to
and fro to seek it out, at last he found it pillaging and plundering
the Island of _Minorica_. The _Turks_ had already taken the chief Town,
where 800. _Turks_ were killed, which so incensed the rest, that they set
the Town on fire; then going up and down the Countrey, they took 5000.
Prisoners, and if the Lords of _Carces_ and _Vence_ had not stayed them,
they would have ruinated the whole Island.
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