by Michel Nostradamus

Century I

Quatrain 1,1

Estant assis de nuict secret estude

Seul repos sur la selle d'aerain;

Flambe exigu sortant de solitude

Fait prosperer qui n'est croire vain.

Sitting alone at night in secret study;

it is placed on the brass tripod.

A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and

makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.

Quatrain 1,2

La verge en main mise au milieu de BRANCHES

De l'onde il moulle & le limbe & le pied:

Un peur & voix fremissant par les manches:

Splendeur divine. Le divin pres s'assied.

The wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripod's legs.

With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot.

A voice, fear: he trembles in his robes.

Divine splendour; the god sits nearby.

Quatrain 1,3

Quand la licture du tourbillon versee,

Et seront faces de leurs manteaux convers:

La republique par gens nouveaux vexe,

Lors blancs & rouges jugeront l'envers

When the litters are overturned by the whirlwind

and faces are covered by cloaks,

the new republic will be troubled by its people.

At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.

Quatrain 1,4

Par l'univers sera faict un monarque,

Qu'en paix & vie ne sera longuement,

Lors se perdra la piscature barque,

Sera regie en plus grand detriment.

In the world there will be made a king

who will have little peace and a short life.

At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,

governed to its greatest detriment.

Quatrain 1,5

Chasss seront pour faire long combat,

Par le pays seront plus fort grevs:

Bourg & Cit auront plus grand debat,

Carcas Narbonne auront coeur esprouvz.

They will be driven away for a long drawn out fight.

The countryside will be most grievously troubled.

Town and country will have greater struggle.

Carcassonne and Narbonne will have their hearts tried.

Quatrain 1,6

L'oeil de Ravenne sera destitu,

Quand ses pieds les ailles failliront:

Les deux de Bress auront constitu,

Turin Derseil que Gaulois fouleront.

The eye of Ravenna will be forsaken,

when his wings will fail at his feet.

The two of Bresse will have made a constition

for Turin and Vercelli, which the French will trample underfoot

Quatrain 1,7

Tard arriv l'execution faicte,

Le vent contraire lettres aux chemin prinses:

Les conjurez xiiii d'une secte:

Par le Rousseau semez les entreprinses.

Arrived too late, the act has been done.

The wind was against them, letters intercepted on their way.

The conspirators were fourteen of a party.

By Rousseau shall these enterprises be undertaken.

Quatrain 1,8

Combien de fois prinse cit solaire.

Seras changeant les loix barbares & vaines:

Ton mal s'approche. Plus sera tributaire,

La grand Hadrie recourira des veines.

How often will you be captured, O city of the sun ?

Changing laws that are barbaric and vain.

Bad times approach you. No longer will you be enslaved.

Great Hadrie will revive your veins.

Quatrain 1,9

De l'Orient viendra la coeur Punique

Facher Hadrie & les hoirs Romulides

Accompagn de la classe Libyque

Temples Mellites & proches isles vuides.

From the Orient will come the African heart

to trouble Hadrie and the heirs of Romulus.

Accompanied by the Libyan fleet

the temples of Malta and nearby islands shall be deserted.

Quatrain 1,10

Serpens transmis dans la caige de fer,

Ou les enfans septaines du Roy sont pris:

Les vieux & peres sortiront bas de l'enfer,

Ains mourir voir de fruict mort & cris.

A coffin is put into the vault of iron,

where seven children of the king are held.

The ancestors and forebears will come forth from the depths of hell,

lamenting to see thus dead the fruit of their line.

Quatrain 1,11

Le mouvement de sens, coeur, pieds & mains,

Seront d'accord Naples, Lyon, Sicille:

Glaves, feux, eaux puis aux nobles Romains

Plongez tuez mors par cerveau debile.

The motion of senses, heart, feet and hands

will be in agreement between Naples, Lyon and Sicily.

Swords, fire, floods, then the noble Romans drowned,

killed or dead because of a weak brain.

Quatrain 1,12

Dans peu dira faulce brute fragile,

De bas en haut eslue promptement:

Puis un instant desloyale & labile,

Qui de Veronne aura gouvernement.

There will soon be talk of a treacherous man, who rules a short time,

quickly raised from low to high estate.

He will suddenly turn disloyal and volatile.

This man will govern Verona.

Quatrain 1,13

Les exilez pare ire, haine intestine,

Feront au Roy grand conjuration:

Secret mettront ennemis par la mine,

Et ses vieux siens contre aux sedition.

Through anger and internal hatreds, the exiles

will hatch a great plot against the king.

Secretly they will place enemies as a threat,

and his own old (adherents) will find sedition against them.

Quatrain 1,14

De gent esclave chansons, chant & requestes,

Captifs par Princes & Seigneur aux prisons:

A l'avenir par idiots sans testes,

Seront reus par divines oraisons.

From the enslaved populace, songs, chants and demands,

while Princes and Lords are held captive in prisons.

These will in the future by headless idiots

be received as divine prayers

Quatrain 1,15

Mars nous menace par la force bellique,

Septante fois fera le sang espandre:

Auge & ruine de l'Ecclesiastique,

Et plus ceux qui d'eux rien voudront entendre.

Mars threatens us with the force of war

and will cause blood to be spilt seventy times.

The clergy will be both exalted and reviled moreover,

by those who wish to learn nothing of them.

Quatrain 1,16

Faulx l'estang joint vers le Sagitaire,

En son hault AUGE de l'exaltation,

Peste, famine, mort de main militaire,

La siecle approche renouvation.

A scythe joined with a pond in Sagittarius

at its highest ascendant.

Plague, famine, death from military hands;

the century approaches its renewal.

Quatrain 1,17

Par quarante ans l'Iris n'apparoistra,

Par quarante ans tous les jours sera veu:

La terre aride en siccit croistra,

Et grans deluges quand sera aperceu.

For forty years the rainbow will not be seen.

For forty years it will be seen every day.

The dry earth will grow more parched,

and there will be great floods when it is seen.

Quatrain 1,18

Par la discorde negligence Gauloise,

Sera passaige Mahommet ouvertL

De sang tremp la terre & mer Senoise,

Le port phocen de voiles & nefs couvert.

Because of French discord and negligence

an opening shall be given to the Mohammedans.

The land and sea of Siena will be soaked in blood,

and the port of Marseilles covered with ships and sails.

Quatrain 1,19

Lors que serpens viendront circuir l'are,

Le sang Troyen vex par les Espaignes:

Par eux grand nombre en sera faicte tare.

Chef fruict, cach aux mares dans les saignes.

When the snakes surround the altar,

and the Trojan blood is troubled by the Spanish.

Because of them, a great number will be lessened.

The leader flees, hidden in the swampy marshes.

Quatrain 1,20

Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angiers, Reims, & Nantes,

Cits vexes par subit changement:

Par langues estranges seront tendues tentes,

Fleuves, dards Rones, terre & mer tremblement.

The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes

are troubled by sudden change.

Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;

rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.

Quatrain 1,21

Profonde argille blanche nourrit rochier,

Qui d'un abisme istra lactineuse:

En vain troublez ne l'oseront toucher,

Ignorans estre au fond terre argilleuse.

The rock holds in its depths white clay

which will come out milk-white from a cleft

Needlessly troubled people will not dare touch it,

unaware that the foundation of the earth is of clay.

Quatrain 1,22

Ce que vivra & n'ayant ancien sens,

Viendra leser mort son artifice:

Austun, Chalan, Langres & les deux Sens,

La gresle & glace fera grand malefice.

A thing existing without any senses

will cause its own end to happen through artifice.

At Autun, Chalan, Langres and the two Sens

there will be great damage from hail and ice.

Quatrain 1,23

Au mois troisiesme se levant le soleil

Sanglier, Liepard au champ Mars pour combattre:

Liepard laiss, au ciel extend son oeil,

Un aigle autour de Soleil voit s'esbattre.

In the third month, at sunrise,

the Boar and the Leopard meet on the battlefield.

The fatigued Leopard looks up to heaven

and sees an eagle playing around the sun.

Quatrain 1,24

A cit neufue pensif pour condemner,

L'oisel de proye au ciel se vient offrir:

Apres victoire captifs pardonner,

Cremone & Mantoue grands maux aura souffert

At the New City he is thoughtful to condemn;

the bird of prey offers himself to the gods.

After victory he pardons his captives.

At Cremona and Mantua great hardships will be suffered.

Quatrain 1,25

Perdu trouv, cach de si long siecle,

Sera Pasteur demi Dieu honor:

Ains que la lune acheve son grand siecle,

Par autres vents sera deshonor.

The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a god-like figure.

This is when the moon completes her great cycle,

but by other rumours he shall be dishonoured.

Quatrain 1,26

Le grand du fouldre tumbe d'heure diurne,

Mal & predict par porteur postulaire:

Suivant presage tumbe d'heure nocturne,

Conflict Reims, Londres, Etrusque pestifere.

The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt.

An evil deed, foretold by the bearer of a petition.

According to the prediction another falls at night time.

Conflict at Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.

Quatrain 1,27

Dessouz de chaine Guien du ciel frapp,

Non loing de l est cach le tresor:

Qui par longs siecles avoit est grapp,

Trouve mourra, l'oeil crev de ressort:

Beneath the oak tree of Gienne, struck by lightning,

the treasure is hidden not far from there.

That which for many centuries had been gathered,

when found, a man will die, his eye pierced by a spring.

Quatrain 1,28

La tour de Boucq craindra fuste barbare

Un temps, long temps apres barque hesperique:

Bestail, gens, meubles tous deux feront grand tare

Taurus & Libra quelle mortelle picque?

Tobruk will fear the barbarian fleet for a time,

then much later the Western fleet.

Cattle, people, possessions, all will be quite lost.

What a deadly combat in Taurus and Libra.

Quatrain 1,29

Quand la poisson terrestre & aquatique,

Par forte vague au gravier sera mis:

Sa forme estrange sauve & horrifique,

Par mer aux mure bien tost les ennemis.

When the fish that travels over both land and sea

is cast up on to the shore by a great wave,

its shape foreign, smooth and frightful.

From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.

Quatrain 1,30

La nef estrange par le tourment marin,

Abourdera pres de port incogneu:

Nonobstant signes de rameau palmerin,

Apres mort pille bon avis tard venu.

Because of the storm at sea the foreign ship

will approach an unknown port.

Notwithstanding the signs of the palm branches,

afterwards there is death and pillage. Good advice comes too late.

Quatrain 1,31

Tant d'ans les guerres en Gaule dureront

Outre la course du Castalon monoarque:

Victoire incerte trois grands couronneront,

Aigle, coq, lune, lion, soleil en marque.

The wars in France will last for so many years

beyond the reign of the Castulon kings.

An uncertain victory will crown three great ones,

the Eagle, the Cock, the Moon, the Lion, the Sun in its house.

Quatrain 1,32

Le grand empire sera tost translat,

En lieu petit, qui bien tost viendra croistre:

Lieu bien infine d'exigue cont,

Ou au milieu viendra poser son sceptre.

The great Empire will soon be exchanged

for a small place, which soon will begin to grow.

A small place of tiny area

in the middle of which he will come to lay down his sceptre.

Quatrain 1,33

Pres d'un grand pont de plaine spatieuse,

Le grand lion par forces Cesarees:

Fera abbattre hors cit rigoreuse,

Par effrai portes lui seront reseres.

Near a great bridge near a spacious plain

the great lion with the Imperial forces

will cause a falling outside the austere city.

Through fear the gates will be unlocked for him.

Quatrain 1,34

L'oiseau de proie volant la semestre,

Avant conflict faict aux Franois pareure:

L'un bon prendra l'un ambigue sinistre,

La partie foible tiendra par bon augure.

The bird of prey flying to the left,

before battle is joined with the French, he makes preparations.

Some will regard him as good, others bad or uncertain.

The weaker party will regard him as a good omen.

Quatrain 1,35

Le lion jeune le vieux surmontera,

En champ bellique par singulier duelle:

Dans caige d'or les yeux lui crevera,

Deux classes une, puis mourir, mort cruelle.

The young lion will overcome the older one,

in a field of combat in single fight:

He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage;

two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.

Quatrain 1,36

Tard la monarque se viendra repentir

De n'avoir mis mort son adversaire:

Mais viendra bien plus hault consentir,

Que tout son song par mort fera deffaire.

Too late the king will repent

that he did not put his adversary to death.

But he will soon come to agree to far greater things

which will cause all his line to die.

Quatrain 1,37

Un peu devant que le soleil s'excuse,

Conflict donn grand peuple dubiteux:

Profliges, port marin ne faict response,

Pont & sepulchre en deux estranges lieux.

Shortly before sun set, battle is engaged.

A great nation is uncertain.

Overcome, the sea port makes no answer,

the bridge and the grave both in foreign places.

Quatrain 1,38

Le sol & l'aigle an victuer paroistront

Response vaine au vaincu l'on asseure:

Par cor ne cris harnois n'arresteront,

Vindicte paix par mors si acheve l'heure.

The Sun and the Eagle will appear to the victor.

An empty answer assured to the defeated.

Neither bugle nor shouts will stop the soldiers.

Liberty and peace, if achieved in time through death.

Quatrain 1,39

De nuict dans lict le suspresme estrangle,

Par trop avoir sejourn, blond esleu:

Par trois l'empire subrog exanche,

A mort mettra carte, et pacquet ne leu.

At night the last one will be strangled in his bed

because he became too involved with the blond heir elect.

The Empire is enslaved and three men substituted.

He is put to death with neither letter nor packet read.

Quatrain 1,40

La trombe fausse dissimulant folie,

Fera Bisance un changement de loix:

Istra d'Egypte qui veut que l'on deslie,

Edict changeant monnaies & alois.

The false trumpet concealing maddness

will cause Byzantium to change its laws.

From Egypt there will go forth a man who wants

the edict withdrawn, changing money and standards.

Quatrain 1,41

Seige en cit est de nuict assaillie,

Peu eschaps non loin de mer conflict:

Femme de joie, retours fils defaillie,

Poison & lettres cachees dans le plic.

The city is beseiged and assaulted by night;

few have escaped; a battle not far from the sea.

A woman faints with joy at the return of her son,

poison in the folds of the hidden letters.

Quatrain 1,42

Le dix Kalende d'Avril de faict Gothique,

Resuscit encor par gens malins:

Le feu estainct assembl diabolique,

Cherchant les os du d'Amant & Pselin.

The tenth day of the April Calends, calculated in Gothic fashion

is revived again by wicked people.

The fire is put out and the diabolic gathering

seek the bones of the demon of Psellus.

Quatrain 1,43

Avant qu'advienne le changement d'Empire

Il adviendra un cas bien merveilleux:

Un champ mu, le pillier de paphire

Mis translat sur le rocher noilleux.

Before the Empire changes

a very wonderful event will take place.

The field moved, the pillar of porphyry

put in place, changed on the gnarled rock.

Quatrain 1,44

En bref seront de retour sacrifices,

Contrevenans seront mis martyre:

Plus ne seront maines, abbez, ne novices,

Le miel sera beaucoup plus cher que cire.

In a short time sacrifices will be resumed,

those opposed will be put (to death) like martyrs.

The will no longer be monks, abbots or novices.

Honey shall be far more expensive than wax.

Quatrain 1,45

Secteur de sectes grand peine au delateur,

Beste en theatre, dresse le jeu scenique,

De faict antique ennobly l'inventeur,

Par sectes monde confus & schismatique.

A founder of sects, much trouble for the accuser:

A beast in the theatre prepares the scene and plot.

The author ennobled by acts of older times;

the world is confused by schismatic sects.

Quatrain 1,46

Tout aupres d'Aux, de Lestoure & Mirande,

Grand feu du ciel en trois nuicts tumbera:

Cause adviendra bien stupende & mirande,

Bien peu aupres la terre tremblera.

Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande

a great fire will fall from the sky for three nights.

The cause will appear both stupefying and marvellous;

shortly afterwards there will be an earthquake.

Quatrain 1,47

Du lac Leman les sermons fascheront,

Les Jours seront reduicts par les sepmaines:

Puis mois, puis ans, puis tous defailliront,

Les magistrats damneront leurs loix vaines.

The speeches of Lake Leman will become angered,

the days will drag out into weeks,

then months, then years, then all will fail.

The authorities will condemn their useless powers.

Quatrain 1,48

Vingt ans du regne de la lune passez,

Sept mil and autre tiendra sa monarchie:

Quand le soleil prendra ses jours lassez,

Lors accomplit & mine ma prophetie.

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed

another will take up his reign for seven thousend years.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle

then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Quatrain 1,49

Beaucoup avant telles menees,

Ceux d'orient par la vertu lunaire:

L'an mil sept cens feront grands emmenees,

Subjugant presque le coing Aquilonaire.

Long before these happenings

the people of the East, influenced by the Moon,

in the year 1700 will cause many to be carried away,

and will almost subdue the Northern area.

Quatrain 1,50

De l'aquatique triplicit naistra.

D'un qui fera le jeudi pour sa feste:

Son bruit, loz, regne, sa puissance croistra,

Par terre & mer aux Oriens tempeste.

From the three water signs will be born a man

who will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.

His renown, praise, rule and power will grow

on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.

Quatrain 1,51

Chef d'Aries, Jupiter & Saturne,

Dieu eternel quelles mutations?

Puis par long siecle son maling temps retourne

Gaule, & Italie quelles emotions?

The head of Aries, Jupiter and Saturn.

Eternal God, what changes!

Then the bad times will return again after a long century;

what turmoil in France and Italy.

Quatrain 1,52

Les deux malins de Scorpion conjoinct,

Le grand seigneur meutri dedans sa salle:

Pesta l'Eglise par le nouveau roy joinct

L'Europe basse & Septentrionale.

Two evil influences in conjunction in Scopio.

The great lord is murdered in his room.

A newly appointed king persecutes the Church,

the lower (parts of) Europe and in the North.

Quatrain 1,53

Las qu'on verra grand peuple tourment,

Et la loi saincte en totale ruine:

Par autres loix toute la Cristient,

Quand d'or, d'argent trouve nouvelle mine.

Alas, how we will see a great nation sorely troubled

and the holy law in utter ruin.

Christianity (governed) throughout by other laws,

when a new source of gold and silver is discovered.

Quatrain 1,54

Deux revolts faicte de maling falcigere,

De regne & siecles faict permutation:

Le mobil signe son endroit si ingere,

Aux deux egaux & d'inclination.

Two revolutions will be caused by the evil scythe bearer

making a change of reign and centuries.

The mobile sign thus moves into its house:

Equal in favour to both sides.

Quatrain 1,55

Soubs l'opposite climat Babylonique,

Grand sera de sang effusion:

Que terre & mer, air, ciel sera inique,

Sectes, faim, regnes, pestes, confusion.

In the land with a climate opposite to Babylon

there will be great shedding of blood.

Heaven will seem unjust both on land and sea and in the air.

Sects, famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.

Quatrain 1,56

Vous verres tost & tard taire grand change,

Horreurs extremes, & vindications:

Que si la lune conduicte par son ange,

Le ciel s'approche des inclinations.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made,

dreadful horrors and vengeances.

For as the moon is thus led by its angel

the heaves draw near to the Balance.

Quatrain 1,57

Par grand discord la trombe tremblera

Accord rompu dressant la teste au ciel:

Bouche sanglante dans le sang nagere,

Au sol la face ointe de laict & miel.

The trumpet shakes with great discord.

An agreement broken: lifting the face to heaven:

the bloody mouth will swim with blood;

the face anointed with milk and honey lies on the ground.

Quatrain 1,58

Tranche le ventre, naistra avec deux testes,

Et quatre bras: quelques ans entiers vivra:

Jour qui Alquiloie celebrera ses festes,

Fossen, Turin, chef Ferrare suivra.

Through a slit in the belly a creature will be born with two heads

and four arms: it will survive for some few years.

The day that Alquiloie celebrates his festivals

Fossana, Turin and the ruler of Ferrara will follow.

Quatrain 1,59

Les exilez deportez dans les isles,

Au changement d'un plus cruel monarque

Seront meurtris: & mis deux les scintiles,

Qui de parler ne seront estez parques.

The exiles deported to the islands

at the advent of an even more cruel king

will be murdered. Two will be burnt

who were not sparing in their speech.

Quatrain 1,60

Un Empereur naistra pres d'Italie

Qui a l'Empire sera vendu bien cher:

Diront avec quels gens il se ralie,

Qu'on trouvera moins prince que boucher.

An Emperor will be born near Italy,

who will cost the Empire very dearly.

They will say, when they see his allies,

that he is less a prince than a butcher.

Quatrain 1,61

La republique miserable infelice

Sera vastee de nouveau magistrat:

Leur grand amus de l'exile malefice,

Fera Sueve ravir leur grand contracts.

The wretched, unfortunate republic

will again be ruined by a new authority.

The great amount of ill will accumulated in exile

will make the Swiss break their important agreement.

Quatrain 1,62

Le grande parte las que feront les lettres,

Avant le cycle de Latona parfaict:

Feu grand deluge plus par ignares sceptres,

Que de long siecle ne se verra refaict.

Alas! what a great loss there will be to learning

before the cycle of the Moon is completed.

Fire, great floods, by more ignorant rulers;

how long the centuries until it is seen to be restored.

Quatrain 1,63

Les fleurs passs diminue le monde,

Long temps la paix terres inhabites:

Seur marchera par ciel, serre, mer & onde:

Puis de nouveau les guerres suscites.

Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,

for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully.

People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:

then wars will start up again.

Quatrain 1,64

De nuict soleil penseront avoir veu,

Quand le pourceau demi-homme on verra:

Bruict, chant, bataille, au ciel battre aperceu:

Es bestes brutes parler lon orra.

At night they will whine they have seen the sun,

when they see the half pig man:

Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies.

The brute beasts will be heard to speak.

Quatrain 1,65

Enfant sans mains jamais veu si grand faudre,

L'enfant royal au feu d'oesteuf bless:

Au pui brises fulgures allant mouldre,

Trois souz les chaines par le milieu trousss

A child without hands, never so great a thunderbolt seen,

the royal child wounded at a game of tennis.

At the well lightning strikes, joining together

three trussed up in the middle under the oaks.

Quatrain 1,66

Celui qui lors portera les nouvelles,

Apres un peu il viendra respirer

Viviers, Tournon, Montferrand & Pradelles,

Gresle & tempestes les fera soupirer.

He who then carries the news,

after a short while will (stop) to breathe:

Viviers, Tournon, Montferrand and Praddelles;

hail and storms will make them grieve.

Quatrain 1,67

La grande famine que je sens approcher,

Souvent tourner, puis estre universelle:

Si grand & long qu'un viendra arracher,

Du bois racine & l'enfant de mamelle

The great famine which I sense approaching

will often turn (in various areas) then become world wide.

It will be so vast and long lasting that (they) will grab

roots from the trees and children from the breast.

Quatrain 1,68

O quel horrible & malheureux tourment,

Trois innocens qu'on viendra livrer:

Poison suspecte, mal garde tradiment,

Mis en horreur par bourreaux envirez.

O to what a dreadful and wretched torment

are three innocent people going to be delivered.

Poison suggested, badly guarded, betrayal.

Delivered up to horror by drunken executioners.

Quatrain 1,69

La grand montaigne ronde de sept stades,

Apres paix, guerre, faim, innondation:

Roulera loin abismant grands contrades,

Mesmes antiques, & grand fondation.

The great mountain, seven stadia round,

after peace, war, famine, flooding.

It will spread far, drowning great countries,

even antiquities and their mighty foundations.

Quatrain 1,70

Plui, faim, guerre en Perse non cesse,

La foi trop grand trahira le monarque:

Par la finie Gaule commencee,

Secret augure pour un estre parque.

Rain, famine and war will not cease in Persia;

too great a faith will betray the monarch.

Those (actions) started in France will end there,

a secret sign for on to be sparing.

Quatrain 1,71

La tour marine trois fois prise & reprise,

Par Hespagnols, Barbares, Ligurins:

Marseilles & Aix, Arles par ceux de Pise,

Vast, feu, fer, pill Avignon des Thurins.

The marine tower will be captured and retaken three times

by Spaniards, barbarians and Ligurians.

Marseilles and Aix, Ales by men of Pisa,

devastation, fire, sword, pillage at Avignon by the Turinese.

Quatrain 1,72

De tout Marseille des habitants changee,

Course & poursuitte jusqu'au pres de Lyon,

Nalbon Tholoze par Bordeaux outragee,

Tuez captifs presque d'un million.

The inhabitants of Marseilles completely changed,

fleeing and pursued as far as Lyons.

Narbonne, Toulouse angered by Bordeaux;

the killed and captive are almost one million.

Quatrain 1,73

France cinq pars par neglect assaillie,

Tunis, Argel esmuez par Persiens:

Leon, Seville, Barcelonne faillie

N'aura la classe par les Venetiens.

France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners.

Tunis, Algiers stirred up by the Persians.

Leon, Seville and Barcelona having failed,

they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians.

Quatrain 1,74

Apres sejourn vogueront en Epire

Le grand secours viendra vers Antoche:

Le noir poil crespe tendra fort l'Empire

Barbe d'aerain se roustira en broche

After a rest they will travel to Epirus,

great help coming from around Antioch.

The curly haired king will strive greatly for the Empire,

the brazen beard will be roasted on a spit.

Quatrain 1,75

Le tyran Sienne accupera Savone,

Le fort gaign tiendra classe marine:

Les deux armees par la marque d'Ancomme,

Par effrayeur le chef s'en examine.

The tyrant of Siena will occupy Savona,

having won the fort he will restrain the marine fleet.

Two armies under the standard of Ancona:

the leader will examine them in fear.

Quatrain 1,76

D'un nom farouche tel profer sera,

Que les trois soeurs auront fato le nom:

Puis grand peuple par langue & faict dira

Plus que nul autre bruit & renom.

The man will be called by a barbaric name

that three sisters will receive from destiny.

He will speak then to a great people in words and deeds,

more than any other man will have fame and renown.

Quatrain 1,77

Entre deux mers dressera promontaire,

Que plus mourra par le mords du cheval:

Le sien Neptune pliera voille noire,

Par Calpre & classe aupres de Rocheval.

A promontory stands between two seas:

A man who will die later by the bit of a horse;

Neptune unfurls a black sail for his man;

the fleet near Gibraltar and Rocheval.

Quatrain 1,78

D'un chef naistra sens hebet

Degenerant par savoir & par armes:

Le chef de France par sa soeur redout,

Champs divisez, concedez aux gendarmes.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,

weak both in knowledge and in war.

The leader of France is feared by his sister,

battlefields divided, conceded to the soldiers.

Quatrain 1,79

Bazaz, Lestore, Condon, Ausch, Agine,

Esmens par loix querelle & menopole:

Car Bourd, Toulouze Bay mettra en ruine.

Renouveller voulant leur tauropole.

Bazas, Lectoure, Condon, Auch and Agen

are troubled by laws, disputes and monopolies.

Carcassone, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Bayonne will be ruined

when they wish to renew the massacre.

Quatrain 1,80

De la sixieme clair splendeur celeste,

Viendra tonner si fort en la Bourgogne:

Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste,

Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin grand charpin & rongne.

From the sixth bright celestial light

it will come to thunder very strongly in Burgundy.

Then a monster will be born of a very hideous beast:

In March, April, May and June great wounding and worrying.

Quatrain 1,81

D'humain troupeau neuf seront mis part,

De jugement & conseil separez:

Leur sort sera divis en depart,

Kappa, Thita, Lamda, mors bannis esgarez.

Nine will be set apart from the human flock,

separated from judgment and advise.

Their fate is to be divided as they depart.

Kappa, Thita, Lamda, dead, banished and scattered.

Quatrain 1,82

Quand les colomnes de bois grande tremblee,

D'Auster conduicte couverte de rubriche:

Tant videra dehors grand assemblee:

Trembler Vienne & le Pays d'Austriche.

When the great wooden columns tremble

in the south wind, covered with blood.

Such a great assembly then pours forth

that Vienna and the land of Austria will tremble.

Quatrain 1,83

La gent estrange divisera butins,

Saturne en Mars son regard furieux:

Horrible estrange aux Tosquans & Latins,

Grecs qui seront frapper curieux

The alien nation will divide the spoils.

Saturn in dreadful aspect in Mars.

Dreadful and foreign to the Tuscans and Latins,

Greeks who will wish to strike.

Quatrain 1,84

Lune obscurie aux profondes tenebres

Son frere passe de couleur ferrugine:

Le grand cach long temps soubs le tenebres,

Tiedera fer dans la plaie sanguine.

The moon is obscured in deep gloom,

his brother becomes bright red in colour.

The great one hidden for a long time in the shadows

will hold the blade in the bloody wound.

Quatrain 1,85

Par la response de dame Roi troubl,

Ambassadeurs mespriseront leur vie:

Le grand ses freres contrefera doubl,

Par deux mourront ire, haine, ennui.

The king is troubled by the queen's reply.

Ambassadors will fear for their lives.

The greater of his brothers will doubly disguise his action,

two of them will die through anger, hatred and envy.

Quatrain 1,86

La grande rine quand se verra vaincue,

Fera excs de masculin courage:

Sus cheval, fleuve passera toute nue,

Suite par fer: foi fera outrage.

When the great queen sees herself conquered,

she will show an excess of masculine courage.

Naked, on horseback, she will pass over the river

pursued by the sword: she will have outraged her faith

Quatrain 1,87

Ennosigee feu du centre de terre.

Fera trembler au tour de cit neufue:

Deux grands rochiers long temps feront la guerre,

Puis Arethuse rougira nouveau fleuve

Earthshaking fire from the centre of the earth

will cause tremors around the New City.

Two great rocks will war for a long time,

then Arethusa will redden a new river.

Quatrain 1,88

Le divin mal surprendra le grand prince,

Un peu devant aura femme espousee.

Son appuy & credit un coup viendra mince.

Conseil mourra pour la teste rassee.

The divine wrath overtakes the great Prince,

a short while before he will marry.

Both supporters and credit will suddenly diminish.

Counsel, he will die because of the shaven heads.

Quatrain 1,89

Tous ceux de Ilerde seront dans la Moselle,

Mettant mort tous ceux de Loire & Seine:

Le cours marin viendra pres d'haute velle,

Quand Espagnols ouvrira toute veine.

Those of Lerida will be in the Moselle,

kill all those from the Loire and Seine.

The seaside track will come near the high valley,

when the Spanish open every route.

Quatrain 1,90

Bourdeaux, Poitiers au son de la campane,

A grand classe ira jusques l'Angon:

Contre Gaulois sera lear tramontane,

Quand monstre hideux naistra pres de Orgon.

Bordeaux and Poitiers at the sound of the bell

will go with a great fleet as fas as Langon.

A great rage will surge up against the French,

when an hideous monster is born near Orgon.

Quatrain 1,91

Les dieux feront aux humains apparence,

Ce qu'il seront auteurs de grand conflict:

Avant ciel veu serein espee & lance

Que vers main guache sera plus grand affiict.

The gods will make it appear to mankind

that they are the authors of a great war.

Before the sky was seen to be free of weapons and rockets:

the greatest damage will be inflicted on the left.

Quatrain 1,92

Sous un la paix par tout sera clamee

Mais non long temps pill & rebellion:

Par refus ville, terre, & mer entamee,

Mors & captifs le tiers d un million.

Under one man peace will be proclaimed everywhere,

but not long after will be looting and rebellion.

Because of a refusal, town, land and see will be broached.

About a third of a million dead or captured.

Quatrain 1,93

Terre Italique pres des monts tremblera,

Lyon & coq non trop confederez:

En lieu de peur l'un l'autre s'aidera.

Seul Catulon & Celtes moderez.

The Italian lands near the mountains will tremble.

The Cock and the Lion not strongly united.

In place of fear they will help each other.

Freedom alone moderates the French.

Quatrain 1,94

Au port Selin le tyran mis mort,

La Libert non pourtant recouvree:

Le nouveau Marc par vindicte & remort

Dame par force de frayeur honnoree

The tyrant Selim will be put to death at the harbour

but Liberty will not be regained, however.

A new war arises from vengeance and remorse.

A lady is honoured through force of terror.

Quatrain 1,95

Devant moustier trouv enfant besson,

De heroic sang de moine & vestutisque:

Son bruit par secte langue & puissance son,

Qu'on dira fort esleue le vopisque.

In front of a monastery will be found a twin infant

from the illustrious and ancient line of a monk.

His fame, renown and power through sects and speech

is such that they will say the living twin is deservedly chosen.

Quatrain 1,96

Celui qu'aura la charge de destruire

Templus, & sectes, changez par fantasie:

Plus aux rochiers qu'aux vivans viendra nuire,

Par langue ornee d'oreilles ressasie

A man will be charged with the destruction

of temples and sectes, altered by fantasy.

He will harm the rocks rather than the living,

ears filled with ornate speeches.

Quatrain 1,97

Ce que fer, flamme n'a sceu paracheuer,

La douce langue an conseil viendra fair:

Par repos, songe, le Roy fera resver,

Plus l'ennemy en feu, sang militaire.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish

will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Sleeping, in a dream, the king will see

the enemy not in war or of military blood.

Quatrain 1,98

Le chef qu'aura conduit peuple infiny

Loing de son ciel, de meurs & langue estrange:

Cinq mil en Crete & Thessalie fini

Le chef fuyant, sauv en marine grange.

The leader who will conduct great numbers of people

far from their skies, to foreign customs and language.

Five thousand will die in Crete and Thessaly,

the leader fleeing in a sea-going supply ship.

Quatrain 1,99

Le grand monarque que fera compagnie,

Avec deux rois unis par amit:

O quel soupir fera la grand mesgnie,

Enfans Narbon l'entour quel piti

The great king will join

with two kings, united in friendship.

How the great household will sigh:

around Narbon what pity for the children.

Quatrain 1,100

Longtemps au ciel sera veu gris oiseau,

Aupres de Dole & de Touscane terre:

Tenant au bec un verdoyant rameau,

Mourra tost grand & finera la guerre.

For a long time a grey bird will be seen in the sky

near Dole and the lands of Tuscany.

He holds a flowering branch in his beak,

but he dies too soon and the war ends.

CENTURIE II

Quatrain 2,1

VERS Aquitaine par insuls Britanniques

De par eux-mesmes grandes incursions

Pluyes, gelees feront terroirs iniques,

Port Selyn fortes fera inuasions.

Towards Aquitaine by the British isles

By these themselves great incursions.

Rains, frosts will make the soil uneven,

"Port Selyn" will make mighty invasions

Quatrain 2,2

La teste bleue fera la teste blanche

Autant de mal, que France a faict leur bien:

Mort l'anthene, grand pendu sus la branche,

Quand prins des siens le Roy dira combien.

The blue head will inflict upon the white head

As much evil as France has done them good:

Dead at the sail-yard the great one hung on the branch.

When seized by his own the King will say how much.

Quatrain 2,3

Pour la chaleur solitaire sus la mer,

De Negrepont les poissons demy cuits:

Les habitans viendront entamer,

Quand Rhod & Gennes leur faudra le biscuit.

Because of the solar heat on the sea

Of Euboea the fishes half cooked:

The inhabitants will come to cut them,

When the biscuit will fail Rhodes and Genoa.

Quatrain 2,4

Depuis Monach iusqu'aupres de Sicille,

Toute la plage demourra desolee:

Il n'y aura fauxbourgs, cit, ne ville,

Que par Barbares pillee soit & vollee.

From Monaco to near Sicily

The entire coast will remain desolated:

There will remain there no suburb, city or town

Not pillaged and robbed by the Barbarians.

Quatrain 2,5

Qu'en dans poisson, fer & lettre enfermee,

Hors sortira, qui puis fera la guerre,

Aura par mer sa classe bien ramee,

Apparoissant pres de Latine terre.

That which is enclosed in iron and letter in a fish,

Out will go one who will then make war,

He will have his fleet well rowed by sea,

Appearing near Latin land.

Quatrain 2,6

Aupres des portes & dedans deux citez

Seront deux fleaux, & onc n'apperceut vn tel,

Faim, dedans peste, de fer hors gens boutez,

Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel.

Near the gates and within two cities

There will be two scourges the like of which was never seen,

Famine within plague, people put out by steel,

Crying to the great immortal God for relief.

Quatrain 2,7

Entre plusieurs aux isles deportez,

L'vn estre nay deux dents en la gorge

Mourront de faim les arbres esbrotez,

Pour eux neuf Roy, nouuel edict leur forge.

Amongst several transported to the isles,

One to be born with two teeth in his mouth

They will die of famine the trees stripped,

For them a new King issues a new edict.

Quatrain 2,8

Temples sacrez prime faon Romaine,

Reietteront les gofres fondements,

Prenant leurs loix premieres & humaines,

Chassant non tout des saincts les cultements.

Temples consecrated in the original Roman manner,

They will reject the excess foundations,

Taking their first and humane laws,

Chasing, though not entirely, the cult of saints.

Quatrain 2,9

Neuf ans le regne le maigre en paix tiendra,

Puis il cherra en soif si sanguinaire,

Pour luy peuple sans foy & loy mourra

Tu vn beaucoup plus debonnaire.

Nine years the lean one will hold the realm in peace,

Then he will fall into a very bloody thirst:

Because of him a great people will die without faith and law

Killed by one far more good-natured.

Quatrain 2,10

Auant long temps le tout sera rang,

Nous esperons vn siecle bien senestre,

L'estat des masques & des seuls bien chang.

Peu trouueront qu' son rang veuille estre.

Before long all will be set in order,

We will expect a very sinister century,

The state of the masked and solitary ones much changed,

Few will be found who want to be in their place.

Quatrain 2,11

Le prochain fils de l'aisnier paruiendra

Tant esleu iusqu'au regne des fors:

Son aspre gloire vn chacun craindra,

Mais ses enfans du regne gettez hors.

The nearest son of the elder will attain

Very great height as far as the realm of the privileged:

Everyone will fear his fierce glory,

But his children will be thrown out of the realm.

Quatrain 2,12

Yeux clos ouuerts d'antique fantasie,

L'habit des seuls seront mis neant:

Le grand monarque chastiera leur frenaisie,

Ravir des temples le thresor par deuant.

Eyes closed, opened by antique fantasy,

The garb of the monks they will be put to naught:

The great monarch will chastise their frenzy,

Ravishing the treasure in front of the temples.

Quatrain 2,13

Le corps sans ame plus n'estre en sacrifice,

Iour de la mort mis en natiuit:

L'esprit diuin fera l'ame felice,

Voiant le verbe en son eternit.

The body without soul no longer to be sacrificed:

Day of death put for birthday:

The divine spirit will make the soul happy,

Seeing the word in its eternity.

Quatrain 2,14

A Tours, Gien, gard seront yeux penetrans,

Descouuriront de loing la grand sereine:

Elle & sa suitte au port seront entrans,

Combat, poussez, puissance souueraine.

At Tours, Gien, guarded, eyes will be searching,

Discovering from afar her serene Highness:

She and her suite will enter the port,

Combat, thrust, sovereign power.

Quatrain 2,15

Vn peu deuant monarque trucid?

Castor Pollux en nef, astre crinite:

L'erain public par terre & mer vuid,

Pise, Ast, Ferrare, Turin terre interdicte.

Shortly before the monarch is assassinated,

Castor and Pollux in the ship, bearded star:

The public treasure emptied by land and sea,

Pisa, Asti, Ferrara, Turin land under interdict.

Quatrain 2,16

Naples, Palerme, Sicile, Syracuses,

Nouueaux tyrans, fulgures feux celestes:

Force de Londres, Gand, Bruxelles & Suses,

Grand hecatombe, triomphe faire festes.

Naples, Palermo, Sicily, Syracuse,

New tyrants, celestial lightning fires:

Force from London, Ghent, Brussels and Susa,

Great slaughter, triumph leads to festivities.

Quatrain 2,17

Le champ du temple de la vierge vestale,

Non esloign d'Ethne & monts Pyrenees:

Le grand conduit est cach dans la male,

North gettez fleuues & vignes mastinees.

The field of the temple of the vestal virgin,

Not far from Elne and the Pyrenees mountains:

The great tube is hidden in the trunk.

To the north rivers overflown and vines battered.

Quatrain 2,18

Nouelle & pluye subite, impetueuse,

Empeschera subit deux exercites.

Pierre ciel, feux faire la mer pierreuse,

La mert de sept terre & marin subites.

New, impetuous and sudden rain

Will suddenly halt two armies.

Celestial stone, fires make the sea stony,

The death of seven by land and sea sudden.

Quatrain 2,19

Nouueaux venus lieu basty sans defence,

Occuper la place par lors inhabitable:

Prez, maisons, champs, villes, prdre plaisance,

Faim peste, guerre, arpen long labourage.

Newcomers, place built without defense,

Place occupied then uninhabitable:

Meadows, houses, fields, towns to take at pleasure,

Famine, plague, war, extensive land arable.

Quatrain 2,20

Freres & soeurs en diuers lieux captifs,

Se trouueront passer pres du monarque:

Les comtempler ses rameaux ententifs.

Desplaisant voir menton frt, nez, les marques.

Brothers and sisters captive in diverse places

Will find themselves passing near the monarch:

Contemplating them his branches attentive,

Displeasing to see the marks on chin, forehead and nose.

Quatrain 2,21

L'ambassadeur enuoy par biremes,

A my chemin d'incogneuz repoussez:

De sel renfort viendront quatre triremes,

Cordes & chaines en Negre pont troussez.

The ambassador sent by biremes,

Halfway repelled by unknown ones:

Reinforced with salt four triremes will come,

In Euboea bound with ropes and chains.

Quatrain 2,22

Le camp Ascop d'Europe partira,

S'adioignant proche de l'Isle submergee:

D'Araon classe phalange pliera,

Nombril du monde plus grand voix subrogee:

The imprudent army of Europe will depart,

Collecting itself near the submerged isle:

The weak fleet will bend the phalanx,

At the navel of the world a greater voice substituted.

Quatrain 2,23

Palais, oyseaux, par oyseau dechass,

Bien tost apres le prince paruenu:

Combien qu'hors fleuue ennemy repouss,

Dehors saisir trait d'oyseau soustenu.

Palace birds, chased out by a bird,

Very soon after the prince has arrived:

Although the enemy is repelled beyond the river,

Outside seized the trick upheld by the bird.

Quatrain 2,24

Bestes farouches de faim fleuues tranner;

Plus part du champ encontre Hister sera,

En cage de fer le grand fera treisner,

Quand rien enfant de Germain obseruera.

Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers:

The greater part of the region will be against the Hister, +

The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage,

When the German child will observe nothing.

Quatrain 2,25

La garde estrange trahira forteresse,

Espoir & vmbre de plus hault mariage:

Garde deeu, fort prinse dans la presse,

Loyre, Saone, Rosne, Gar, mort oultrage.

The foreign guard will betray the fortress,

Hope and shadow of a higher marriage:

Guard deceived, fort seized in the press,

Loire, Saone, Rhone, Garonne, mortal outrage.

Quatrain 2,26

Pour sa faueur que la cit fera,

Au grand qui tost perdra camp de bataille,

Puis le rang Pau Thesin versera,

De sang, feux morts yeux de coup de taille.

Because of the favor that the city will show

To the great one who will soon lose the field of battle,

Fleeing the Po position, the Ticino will overflow

With blood, fires, deaths, drowned by the long-edged blow.

Quatrain 2,27

Le diuin verbe sera du ciel frapp,

Qui ne pourra proceder plus auant:

Du reseruant le secret estoup,

Qu'on marchera par dessus & deuant.

The divine word will be struck from the sky,

One who cannot proceed any further:

The secret closed up with the revelation, +

Such that they will march over and ahead.

Quatrain 2,28

Le penultiesme du surnom du Prophete,

Prendra Diane pour son iour & repos:

Loing vaguera par frenetique teste,

En deliurant vn grand peuple d'impos.

The penultimate of the surname of the Prophet

Will take Diana for his day and rest:

He will wander far because of a frantic head,

And delivering a great people from subjection.

Quatrain 2,29

L'Oriental sorrira de son siege,

Passer les monts Apennons voir la Gaule:

Transpercera le ciel, les eaux & neige,

Et vn chacun frappera de sa gaule.

The Easterner will leave his seat,

To pass the Apennine mountains to see Gaul:

He will transpire the sky, the waters and the snow,

And everyone will be struck with his rod.

Quatrain 2,30

Vn qui les dieux d'Annibal infernaux,

Fera renaistre, effrayeur des humains.

Oncq' plus d'horreur ne plus pire iournaux,

Qu'auint viendra par Babel aux Romains.

One who the infernal gods of Hannibal

Will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind

Never more horror nor worse of days

In the past than will come to the Romans through Babel.

Quatrain 2,31

En Campanie le Cassilin fera tant,

Qu'on ne verra d'aux les champs couuers:

Deuant apres la pluye de long temps,

Hors mis les arbres rien l'on verra de vert.

In Campania the Capuan [river] will do so much

That one will see only fields covered by waters:

Before and after the long rain

One will see nothing green except the trees.

Quatrain 2,32

Laict, sang grenoilles escoudre en Dalmatie.

Conflict donn preste pres de Balennes:

Cry sera grand par toute Esclauonie,

Lors naistra monstre pres & dedans Rauenne.

Milk, frog's blood prepared in Dalmatia.

Conflict given, plague near Treglia:

A great cry will sound through all Slavonia,

Then a monster will be born near and within Ravenna.

Quatrain 2,33

Par le torrent qui descent de Veronne,

Par lors qu'au Pau guindera son entree.

Vn grand naufrage, & non moins en Garonne,

Quand ceux de Gnes marchert leur contree

Through the torrent which descends from Verona

Its entry will then be guided to the Po,

A great wreck, and no less in the Garonne,

When those of Genoa march against their country.

Quatrain 2,34

L'ire insensee du combat furieux,

Fera table par freres le fer luire:

Les desparrit bless, & curieux,

Le fier duelle viendra en France nuire.

The senseless ire of the furious combat

Will cause steel to be flashed at the table by brothers:

To part them death, wound, and curiously,

The proud duel will come to harm France.

Quatrain 2,35

Dans deux logis de nuict la feu prendra,

Plusieurs dedans estoffez & rostis.

Pres de deux fleuues pour seul il aduiendra:

Sol, l'Arq, & Caper tous seront amortis.

The fire by night will take hold in two lodgings,

Several within suffocated and roasted.

It will happen near two rivers as one:

Sun, Sagittarius and Capricorn all will be reduced.

Quatrain 2,36

Du grand Prophete les lettres seront prinses,

Entre les mains du tyran deuiendront:

Frauder son Roy seront ses entreprinses,

Mais ses rapines bien tost le troubleront.

The letters of the great Prophet will be seized,

They will come to fall into the hands of the tyrant:

His enterprise will be to deceive his King,

But his extortions will very soon trouble him.

Quatrain 2,37

De ce grand nombre que l'on enuoyera,

Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,

Peste & famine tous les deuorera,

Hors mis septante qui seront profligez.

Of that great number that one will send

To relieve those besieged in the fort,

Plague and famine will devour them all,

Except seventy who will be destroyed.

Quatrain 2,38

Des condamnez sera fait vn grand nombre,

Quand les monarques seront conciliez:

Mais l'vn d'eux viendra si malencombre,

Que guerre ensemble: ne seront raliez.

A great number will be condemned

When the monarchs will be reconciled:

But for one of them such a bad impediment will arise

That they will be joined together but loosely.

Quatrain 2,39

Vn deuant le conflict Italique,

Germains, Gaulois, Espaignols pour le fort:

Cherra l'escolle maison de republique,

O, hors mis peu, seront suffoqu morts.

One year before the Italian conflict,

Germans, Gauls, Spaniards for the fort:

The republican schoolhouse will fall,

There, except for a few, they will be choked dead.

Quatrain 2,40

Vn peu apres non point longue interualle,

Par mer & terre sera faict grand tumulte:

Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne nauale,

Feux, animaux, qui plus feront d'insulte.

Shortly afterwards, without a very long interval,

By sea and land a great uproar will be raised:

Naval battle will be very much greater,

Fires, animals, those who will cause greater insult.

Quatrain 2,41

La grand' estoille par sept iours bruslera,

Nuee fera deux soleils apparoir:

Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,

Quand grand pontife changera de terroir.

The great star will burn for seven days,

The cloud will cause two suns to appear:

The big mastiff will howl all night

When the great pontiff will change country.

Quatrain 2,42

Coq, chiens & chats de sang seront repeus,

Et de la playe du tyran trouu mort,

Au lict d'vn autre iambes & bras rompus,

Qui n'avoit peu mourir de cruelle mort.

Cock, dogs and cats will be satiated with blood

And from the wound of the tyrant found dead,

At the bed of another legs and arms broken,

He who was not afraid to die a cruel death.

Quatrain 2,43

Durant l'estoille cheuelue apparente,

Les trois grands princes seront faits ennemis:

Frappez du ciel paix terre tremulente,

Pau, Timbre vndans, serpent sur le bort mis.

During the appearance of the bearded star.

The three great princes will be made enemies:

Struck from the sky, peace earth quaking,

Po, Tiber overflowing, serpent placed upon the shore.

Quatrain 2,44

L'Aigle poussee en tout de pauillons,

Par autres oyseaux d'entour sera chassee:

Quand bruit des cymbres tube & sonnaillons

Rendont le sens de la dame insensee.

The Eagle driven back around the tents

Will be chased from there by other birds:

When the noise of cymbals, trumpets and bells

Will restore the senses of the senseless lady.

Quatrain 2,45

Trop du ciel pleure l'Androgin procree,

Pres du ciel sang humain respandu:

Par mort trop tard grand peuple recree,

Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.

Too much the heavens weep for the Hermaphrodite begotten,

Near the heavens human blood shed:

Because of death too late a great people re-created,

Late and soon the awaited relief comes.

Quatrain 2,46

Apres grd troche humain plus grd s'appreste

Le grand moteur les siecles renouuelle:

Pluye sang, laict, famine, fer & peste,

Au ciel veu feu, courant longue estincelle.

After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared

The Great Mover renews the ages:

Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,

Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.

Quatrain 2,47

L'ennemy grand vieil dueil meurt de poison,

Les souuerains par infinis subiuguez:

Pierres plouvoir, cachez soubs la toison,

Par mort articles en vain sont alleguez.

The great old enemy mourning dies of poison,

The sovereigns subjugated in infinite numbers:

Stones raining, hidden under the fleece,

Through death articles are cited in vain.

Quatrain 2,48

La grand copie qui passera les monts.

Saturne en l'Arq tournant du poisson Mars:

Venins cachez soubs testes de saumons,

Leurs chief pendu fil de polemars.

The great force which will pass the mountains.

Saturn in Sagittarius Mars turning from the fish:

Poison hidden under the heads of salmon,

Their war-chief hung with cord.

Quatrain 2,49

Les conseilliers du premier monopole.

Les conquerants seduits pour la Melite,

Rode, Bisance pour leurs exposant pole.

Terre faudra les poursuiuans de fuite.

The advisers of the first monopoly,

The conquerers seduced for Malta:

Rhodes, Byzantium for them exposing their pole:

Land will fail the pursuers in flight.

Quatrain 2,50

Qud ceux d'Hainault, de Gd & de Bruxelles,

Verront Langres le siege deuant mis:

Derrier leurs flancs seront guerres cruelles

La playe antique fera pis qu'ennemis.

When those of Hainaut, of Ghent and of Brussels

Will see the siege laid before Langres:

Behind their flanks there will be cruel wars,

The ancient wound will do worse than enemies.

Quatrain 2,51

Le sang du iuste Londres fera faute,

Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six:

La dame antique cherra de place haute,

De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.

The blood of the just will commit a fault at London,

Burnt through lightning of twenty threes the six:

The ancient lady will fall from her high place,

Several of the same sect will be killed.

Quatrain 2,52

Dans plusieurs nuits la terre tremblera:

Sur le printemps deux effors suite:

Corinthe, Ephese aux deux mers nagera,

Guerre s'esmeut par deux vaillans de luite.

For several nights the earth will tremble:

In the spring two efforts in succession:

Corinth, Ephesus will swim in the two seas:

War stirred up by two valiant in combat.

Quatrain 2,53

La grande peste de cit maritime,

Ne cessera que mort ne soit vengee

Du iuste sang par pris damn sans crime,

De la grand dame par feincte n'outragee.

The great plague of the maritime city

Will not cease until there be avenged the death

Of the just blood, condemned for a price without crime,

Of the great lady unwronged by pretense.

Quatrain 2,54

Pour gent estrange, & Romains loingtaine,

Leur grand cit apres eaue fort troublee:

Fille sans trop different domaine,

Prins chef, ferreure n'auoir est riblee.

Because of people strange, and distant from the Romans

Their great city much troubled after water:

Daughter handless, domain too different,

Chief taken, lock not having been picked.

Quatrain 2,55

Dans le conflict le grand qui peut valloit.

A son dernier fera cas merueilleux.

Pendant qu'Hadrie verra ce qu'il falloit,

Dans le banquet pongnale l'orgueilleux.

In the conflict the great one who was worth little

At his end will perform a marvelous deed:

While "Adria" will see what he was lacking,

During the banquet the proud one stabbed.

Quatrain 2,56

Que peste & glaiue n'a sceu definer,

Mort dans le puys sommet du ciel frapp:

L'abb mourra quand verra ruiner,

Ceux du naufraige l'escueil voulant grapper.

One whom neither plague nor steel knew how to finish,

Death on the summit of the hills struck from the sky:

The abbot will die when he will see ruined

Those of the wreck wishing to seize the rock.

Quatrain 2,57

Auant conflict le grand tumbera,

Le grand mort, mort, trop subite & plainte,

Nay miparfaict la plus part nagera,

Aupres du fleuue de sang la terre teinte.

Before the conflict the great wall will fall,

The great one to death, death too sudden and lamented,

Born imperfect: the greater part will swim:

Near the river the land stained with blood.

Quatrain 2,58

Sans pied ne main dend aygu & forte,

Par glob au fort de port & layn nay:

Pres du portail desloyal transport,

Silene luit, petit, grand emmen.

With neither foot nor hand because of sharp and strong tooth

Through the crowd to the fort of the port and the elder born:

Near the portal treacherous proceeds,

Moon shining, little great one led off.

Quatrain 2,59

Classe Gauloyse par apuy de grand garde,

Du grand Neptune, & ses tridens souldars.

Rongee Prouence pour soustenir grand bande:

Plus Mars Narbon, par iauelotz & dards.

Gallic fleet through support of the great guard

Of the great Neptune, and his trident soldiers,

Provence reddened to sustain a great band:

More at Narbonne, because of javelins and darts.

Quatrain 2,60

La foy Punicque en Orient rompue.

Grand Iud, & Rosne Loyre & Tag changeront:

Quand du mulet la faim sera repue,

Classe espargie, sang & corps nageront.

The Punic faith broken in the East,

Ganges, Jordan, and Rhone, Loire, and Tagus will change:

When the hunger of the mule will be satiated,

Fleet sprinkles, blood and bodies will swim.

Quatrain 2,61

Enge, Tamins, Gironde & la Rochele,

O sang Troyen mort au port de la fleche

Derrier le fleuue au fort mise l'chelle

Pointes feu grand meurtre sus la bresche.

Bravo, ye of "Tamins," Gironde and La Rochelle:

O Trojan blood! Mars at the port of the arrow

Behind the river the ladder put to the fort,

Points to fire great murder on the breach.

Quatrain 2,62

Mabus plustost alors mourra, viendra,

De gens & bestes vn horrible defaite:

Puis tout coup la vengeance on verra,

Cent, main, faim quand courra la comete.

"Mabus" then will soon die, there will come

Of people and beasts a horrible rout:

Then suddenly one will see vengeance,

Hundred, hand, thirst, hunger when the comet will run.

Quatrain 2,63

Gaulois, Ausone bien peu subiugera,

Pau, Marne & Seine fera Perme l'vrie:

Qui le grand mur contre eux dressera,

Du moindre au mur le grand perdra la vie.

The Gauls, Ausonia will subjugate very little,

Po, Marne and Seine Parma will make drunk:

He who will prepare the great wall against them,

He will lose his life from the least at the wall.

Quatrain 2,64

Secher de faim, de soif, gent Geneuoise,

Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir:

Snr point tremblant sera loy Gebenoise,

Classe au grand port ne se peut accueillir.

The people of Geneva drying up with hunger, with thirst,

Hope at hand will come to fail:

On the point of trembling will be the law of him of the Cevennes,

Fleet at the great port cannot be received.

Quatrain 2,65

Le pare enclin grande calamit,

Par l'Hesperie & Insubre fera:

Le feu en nef peste & captiuit,

Mercure en l'Arc Saturne fenera.

The sloping park great calamity

To be done through Hesperia and Insubria:

The fire in the ship, plague and captivity, +

Mercury in Sagittarius Saturn will fade.

Quatrain 2,66

Par grand dangiers le captif eschap,

Peu de temps grand a fortune changee:

Dans le palais le peuple est attrap,

Par bon augure la cit assiegee.

Through great dangers the captive escaped:

In a short time great his fortune changed.

In the palace the people are trapped,

Through good omen the city besieged.

Quatrain 2,67

Le blonde au nez force viendra commettre,

Par la duelle & chassera dehors:

Les exilez dedans fera remettre,

Aux lieux marins commettant les plus fors.

The blond one will come to compromise the fork-nosed one

Through the duel and will chase him out:

The exiles within he will have restored,

Committing the strongest to the marine places.

Quatrain 2,68

De l'Aquilon les efforts seront grands:

Sus l'Ocean sera la porte ouuerte:

Le regne en l'Isle sera reintegrand,

Tremblera Londres par voille descouuerte.

The efforts of "Aquilon" will be great:

The gate on the Ocean will be opened,

The kingdom on the Isle will be restored:

London will tremble discovered by sail.

Quatrain 2,69

Le Roy Gaulois par la Celtique dextre,

Voyant discorde de la grand Monarchie:

Sur les trois parts fera florir son sceptre,

Contre la chappe de la grand Hierarchie.

The Gallic King through his Celtic right arm

Seeing the discord of the great Monarchy:

He will cause his sceptre to flourish over the three parts,

Against the cope of the great Hierarchy.

Quatrain 2,70

Le dard du ciel fera son estandue,

Morts en parlant grande execution:

La pierre en l'arbre la fiere gent rendue,

Bruit humain monstre purge expiation.

The dart from the sky will make its extension,

Deaths speaking: great execution.

The stone in the tree, the proud nation restored,

Noise, human monster, purge expiation.

Quatrain 2,71

Les exilez en Sicile viendront,

Pour deliure de faim la gent estrange:

Au point du iour les Celtes luy faudront

La vie demeure raison: Roy se range.

The exiles will come into Sicily

To deliver form hunger the strange nation:

At daybreak the Celts will fail them:

Life remains by reason: the King joins.

Quatrain 2,72

Armee Celtique en Italie vexee,

De toutes pars conflict & grande perte:

Romains fuis, Gaule repousse,

Pres du Thesin Rubicon pugne incerte.

Celtic army vexed in Italy

On all sides conflict and great loss:

Romans fled, O Gaul repelled!

Near the Ticino, Rubicon uncertain battle.

Quatrain 2,73

Au lac Fucin de Benac le riuage,

Prins de Leman au port de l'Orgion:

Nay de trois bras predict bellique image,

Par trois couronnes au grand Endymion.

The shore of Lake Garda to Lake Fucino,

Taken from the Lake of Geneva to the port of "L'Orguion":

Born with three arms the predicted warlike image,

Through three crowns to the great Endymion.

Quatrain 2,74

De Sens, d'Autun viendront iusques au Rosne,

Pour passer outre vers les monts Pyrenees:

La gent sortit de la marque d'Anconne,

Par terre & mer suyura grands trainees.

From Sens, from Autun they will come as far as the Rhone

To pass beyond towards the Pyrenees mountains:

The nation to leave the March of Ancona:

By land and sea it will be followed by great suites.

Quatrain 2,75

La voix ouye de l'insolit oyseau,

Sur le canon du respiral estage:

Si haut viendra du froment le boisteau

Que l'homme d'homme sera Antropophage.

The voice of the rare bird heard,

On the pipe of the air-vent floor:

So high will the bushel of wheat rise,

That man will be eating his fellow man.

Quatrain 2,76

Foudre en Bourgongne fera cas portenteux.

Que par engin oncques ne pourroit faire,

De leur senar sacrist fait boiteux,

Fera savoir aux ennemis l'affaire.

Lightning in Burgundy will perform a portentous deed,

One which could never have been done by skill,

Sexton made lame by their senate

Will make the affair known to the enemies.

Quatrain 2,77

Par arcs, feux, poix & par feux repoussez,

Cris hurlements sur la minuit ouys:

Dedans sont mis par les rampars cassez,

Par cunicules les traditeurs fuys.

Hurled back through bows, fires, pitch and by fires:

Cries, howls heard at midnight:

Within they are place on the broken ramparts,

The traitors fled by the underground passages.

Quatrain 2,78

Le grand Neptune du profond de la mer,

De gent punique & sang Gaulois mesl:

Les Isles sang pour le tardif ramer,

Puis luy nuira que l'occult mal cel.

The great Neptune of the deep of the sea

With Punic race and Gallic blood mixed.

The Isles bled, because of the tardy rowing:

More harm will it do him than the ill-concealed secret.

Quatrain 2,79

La barbe crespe & noire par engin,

Subiuguera la gent cruelle & fiere:

Le grand Chiren ostera du longin.

Tous les captifs par Seline banniere.

The beard frizzled and black through skill

Will subjugate the cruel and proud people:

The great "Chyren" will remove from far away

All those captured by the banner of "Selin". +

Quatrain 2,80

Apres conflict du les l'eloquence,

Par peu de temps se trame faint repos.

Point l'on n'admet les grands deliurance,

Des ennemis sont remis propos.

After the conflict by the eloquence of the wounded one

For a short time a soft rest is contrived:

The great ones are not to be allowed deliverance at all:

They are restored by the enemies at the proper time.

Quatrain 2,81

Par feu du ciel la cit presque aduste,

L'vne menace encor Deucalion,

Vexee Sardaigne par la Punique fuste,

Apres que Libra lairra son Phaton.

Through fire from the sky the city almost burned:

The Urn threatens Deucalion again:

Sardinia vexed by the Punic foist,

After Libra will leave her Phaethon.

Quatrain 2,82

Par faim la proye fera loup prisonner,

L'assaillant lors en extreme detresse.

Le nay ayant au deuant le dernier,

Le grand n'eschappe au milieu de la presse.

Through hunger the prey will make the wolf prisoner,

The aggressor then in extreme distress.

The heir having the last one before him,

The great one does not escape in the middle of the crowd.

Quatrain 2,83

Le gros traffic d'vn grand Lyon chang,

La plus part tourne en pristine ruine,

Proye aux soldats par pille vendang:

Par Iura mont & Sueue bruine.

The large trade of a great Lyons changed,

The greater part turns to pristine ruin

Prey to the soldiers swept away by pillage:

Through the Jura mountain and "Suevia" drizzle.

Quatrain 2,84

Entre Campaigne, Sienne, Flora, Tustie,

Six mois neuf iours ne pleuura vne goutte:

L'estrange langue en terre Dalmatie,

Couurira sus, vastant la terre toute.

Between Campania, Siena, Florence, Tuscany,

Six months nine days without a drop of rain:

The strange tongue in the Dalmatian land,

It will overrun, devastating the entire land.

Quatrain 2,85

Le vieux plein barbe soubs le statut seuere,

A Lion faict dessus l'Aigle Celtique,

Le petit grand trop outre perseuere,

Bruist d'arme au ciel: mer rouge Ligustique.

The old full beard under the severe statute

Made at Lyon over the Celtic Eagle:

The little great one perseveres too far:

Noise of arms in the sky: Ligurian sea red.

Quatrain 2,86

Naufrage classe pres d'onde Hadriatique,

La terre tremble esmeu sus l'air en terre mis:

Egypte tremble augment Mahometique,

L'Herault sov rendre crier est commis.

Wreck for the fleet near the Adriatic Sea:

The land trembles stirred up upon the air placed on land:

Egypt trembles Mahometan increase, +

The Herald surrendering himself is appointed to cry out.

Quatrain 2,87

Apres viendra des extremes contrees,

Prince Germain, dessus le throsne dor:

La seruitude & eaux rencontrees,

La dame serue, son temps plus n'ador.

After there will come from the outermost countries

A German Prince, upon the golden throne:

The servitude and waters met,

The lady serves, her time no longer adored.

Quatrain 2,88

Le circuit du grand faict ruineux,

Le nom septiesme du cinquiesme sera:

D'vn tiers plus grand l'estrange belliqueur:

Mouton, Lutece, Aix ne garantira.

The circuit of the great ruinous deed,

The seventh name of the fifth will be:

Of a third greater the stranger warlike:

Sheep, Paris, Aix will not guarantee.

Quatrain 2,89

Vn iour seront demis les deux grands maistres,

Leur grand pouuoir se verra augment:

La terre neuue sera en ses hauts estres,

Au sanguinaire le nombre racompt.

One day the two great masters will be friends,

Their great power will be seen increased:

The new land will be at its high peak,

To the bloody one the number recounted.

Quatrain 2,90

Par vie & mort chang regne d'Ongrie,

La loy sera plus aspre que seruice:

Leur grand cit d'hurlemens plaincts & crie,

Castor & Pollux ennemis dans la lice.

Though life and death the realm of Hungary changed:

The law will be more harsh than service:

Their great city cries out with howls and laments,

Castor and Pollux enemies in the arena.

Quatrain 2,91

Soleil leuant vn grand feu l'on verra,

Bruit & clart vers Aquilon tendants:

Dedans le rond mort & cris l'on orra,

Par glaiue, feu faim, mort les attendants.

At sunrise one will see a great fire,

Noise and light extending towards "Aquilon:"

Within the circle death and one will hear cries,

Through steel, fire, famine, death awaiting them.

Quatrain 2,92

Feu couleur d'or du ciel en terre veu,

Frapp du haut nay, faict cas merueilleux.

Grand meurtre humain: prinse du grand le neueu,

Morts d'espactacles eschapp l'orgueilleux.

Fire colour of gold from the sky seen on earth:

Heir struck from on high, marvelous deed done:

Great human murder: the nephew of the great one taken,

Deaths spectacular the proud one escaped.

Quatrain 2,93

Biens pres du Tymbre presse la Lybitine,

Vn peu deuant grand inondation:

Le chef du nef prins, mis la sentine,

Chasteau, palais en conflagration.

Very near the Tiber presses Death:

Shortly before great inundation:

The chief of the ship taken, thrown into the bilge:

Castle, palace in conflagration.

Quatrain 2,94

Grand Paud, grand mal pour Gaulois receura,

Vaine terreur au maritin Lyon:

Peuple infiny par la mer passera,

Sans eschapper vn quart d'vn million:

Great Po, great evil will be received through Gauls,

Vain terror to the maritime Lion:

People will pass by the sea in infinite numbers,

Without a quarter of a million escaping.

Quatrain 2,95

Les lieux peuplez seront inhabitables:

Pour champs auoir grande diuision:

Regnes liurez prudens incapables,

Lors les grands freres mort & dissention.

The populous places will be uninhabitable:

Great discord to obtain fields:

Realms delivered to prudent incapable ones:

Then for the great brothers dissension and death.

Quatrain 2,96

Flambeau ardant au ciel soir sera veu,

Pres de la fin & principe du Rosne,

Famine, glaiue: tardue secours pourueu,

La Perse tourne enuahir Macedoine.

Burning torch will be seen in the sky at night

Near the end and beginning of the Rhone:

Famine, steel: the relief provided late,

Persia turns to invade Macedonia.

Quatrain 2,97

Romain Pontife garde de t'approcher,

De la cit qui deux fleuues arrouse,

Ton sang viendra aupres de la cracher

Toy & les tiens quand fleurira la rose.

Roman Pontiff beware of approaching

The city that two rivers flow through,

Near there your blood will come to spurt, +

You and yours when the rose will flourish.

Quatrain 2,98

Celuy de sang reperse le visage,

De la victime proche sacrifiee,

Tonant en Leo, augure par presage,

Mis estre mort lors pour la fiancee.

The one whose face is splattered with the blood

Of the victim nearly sacrificed:

Jupiter in Leon, omen through presage:

To be put to death then for the bride.

Quatrain 2,99

Terroir Romain qu'interpretoit augure,

Par gent Gauloise par trop sera vexee:

Mais nation Celtique craindra l'heure,

Boreas, classe trop loing l'auoit poussee.

Roman land as the omen interpreted

Will be vexed too much by the Gallic people:

But the Celtic nation will fear the hour,

The fleet has been pushed too far by the north wind.

Quatrain 2,100

Dedans les isles si horrible tumulte,

Bien on n'orra qu'vne bellique brigue,

Tant grand sera de predateurs l'insulte,

Qu'on te viendra ranger la grand ligue.

Within the isles a very horrible uproar,

One will hear only a party of war,

So great will be the insult of the plunderers

That they will come to be joined in the great league.

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CENTURIE III.

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Quatrain 3,1

APRES combat & bataille nauale,

Le grand Neptune son plus haut befroy:

Rouge aduersaire de peur vidra pasle,

Mettant le grand Occean en effroy.

After combat and naval battle,

The great Neptune in his highest belfry:

Red adversary will become pale with fear,

Putting the great Ocean in dread.

Quatrain 3,2

Le diuin Verbe donra la substance,

Cpris ciel, terre, or occult au laict mystique:

Corps, ame esprit ayant toute puissance,

Tant soubs ses pieds comme au siege Celique.

The divine word will give to the substenance,

Including heaven, earth, gold hidden in the mystic milk:

Body, soul, spirit having all power,

As much under its feet as the Heavenly see.

Quatrain 3,3

Mars & Mercure, & l'argent ioint ensemble,

Vers le midy extreme siccit:

Au fond d'Asie on dira terre tremble,

Corinthe, Ephese lors en perplexit.

Mars and Mercury, and the silver joined together,

Towards the south extreme drought:

In the depths of Asia one will say the earth trembles,

Corinth, Ephesus then in perplexity.

Quatrain 3,4

Quand seront proches le defaut des lunaires,

De l'vn l'autre ne distant grandement,

Froid, siccit, danger vers les frontieres,

Mesme o l'oracle a prins commencement.

When they will be close the lunar ones will fail,

From one another not greatly distant,

Cold, dryness, danger towards the frontiers,

Even where the oracle has had its beginning.

Quatrain 3,5

Pres loing defaut de deux grands luminaires.

Qui suruiendra entre l'Auril & Mars:

O quel cherr! mais deux grands debonnaires

Par terre & mer secourront toutes pars.

Near, far the failure of the two great luminaries

Which will occur between April and March.

Oh, what a loss! but two great good-natured ones

By land and sea will relieve all parts.

Quatrain 3,6

Dans temple clos le foudre y entrera,

Les citadins dedans leur fort greuez.

Cheuaux, boeufs, hmes, l'onde mur touchera,

Par faim, soif, soubs les plus foibles armez.

Within the closed temple the lightning will enter,

The citizens within their fort injured:

Horses, cattle, men, the wave will touch the wall,

Through famine, drought, under the weakest armed.

Quatrain 3,7

Les fugitifs, feu du ciel sus les picques,

Conflict prochain des corbeaux, s'esbatans

De terre on crie, ayde, secours celiques,

Quand pres des murs seront les combatans.

The fugitives, fire from the sky on the pikes:

Conflict near the ravens frolicking,

From land they cry for aid and heavenly relief,

When the combatants will be near the walls.

Quatrain 3,8

Les Cimbres ioints auecques leurs voisins

De populer viendront presque l'Espagne:

Gens amassez Guienne & Limosins

Seront en ligue, & leur feront compagne.

The Cimbri joined with their neighbors

Will come to ravage almost Spain:

Peoples gathered in Guienne and Limousin

Will be in league, and will bear them company.

Quatrain 3,9

Bourdeaux Roan, & la Rochelle ioints,

Tiendront autour la grand mer Occeane,

Anglois, Bretons, & les Flamans conioints

Les chasseront iusqu'aupres de Roane.

Bordeaux, Rouen and La Rochelle joined

Will hold around the great Ocean sea,

English, Bretons and the Flemings allied

Will chase them as far as Roanne.

Quatrain 3,10

De sang & faim plus grand calamit,

Sept fois s'appreste la marine plage:

Monech de faim, lieu pris, captiuit,

Le grand, men croc en ferree cage.

Greater calamity of blood and famine,

Seven times it approaches the marine shore:

Monaco from hunger, place captured, captivity,

The great one led crunching in a metaled cage.

Quatrain 3,11

Les armes batre au ciel longue saison

L'arbre au milieu de la cit tomb:

Verbine rogne, glaiue, en face tison,

Lors le monarque d'Hadrie succomb.

The arms to fight in the sky a long time,

The tree in the middle of the city fallen:

Sacred bough clipped, steel, in the face of the firebrand,

Then the monarch of "Adria" fallen.

Quatrain 3,12

Par la tumeur de Heb, Po, Timbre, & Rome

Et par l'estang Leman & Aretin.

Les deux grands chefs & citez de Garonne,

Prins, mortz noyez: Partir humain butin.

Because of the swelling of the Ebro, Po, Tagus, Tiber and Rhone

And because of the pond of Geneva and Arezzo,

The two great chiefs and cities of the Garonne,

Taken, dead, drowned: human booty divided.

Quatrain 3,13

Par foudre en l'arche or & argent fondu,

De deux captifs l'vn l'autre mangera

De la cit le plus grand estendu,

Quand submergee la classe nagera.

Through lightning in the arch gold and silver melted,

Of two captives one will eat the other:

The greatest one of the city stretched out,

When submerged the fleet will swim.

Quatrain 3,14

Par le rameau du vaillant personnage,

De France infime, par le pere infelice:

Honneurs, richesses: trauail en son viel aage,

Pour auoir creu le conseil d'homme nice.

Through the branch of the valiant personage

Of lowest France: because of the unhappy father

Honors, riches, travail in his old age,

For having believed the advice of a simple man.

Quatrain 3,15

Coeur, vigueur, gloire le regne changera.

De tous points contre ayant son aduersaire:

Lors France enfance par mort subiugera,

Vn grand Regent sera lors plus contraire.

The realm, will change in heart, vigor and glory,

In all points having its adversary opposed:

Then through death France an infancy will subjugate,

A great Regent will then be more contrary.

Quatrain 3,16