French.De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera,Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,Peste & Famine tous les devorera,Horsmis septante qui seront profligez.English.Of that great number which shall be sent,To succour the besieged in the Fort,Plague and Famine shall devour them all,Except seventy that shall be beaten.
French.De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera,Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,Peste & Famine tous les devorera,Horsmis septante qui seront profligez.English.Of that great number which shall be sent,To succour the besieged in the Fort,Plague and Famine shall devour them all,Except seventy that shall be beaten.
De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera,Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,Peste & Famine tous les devorera,Horsmis septante qui seront profligez.
De ce grand nombre que l’on envoiera,
Pour secourir dans le fort assiegez,
Peste & Famine tous les devorera,
Horsmis septante qui seront profligez.
Of that great number which shall be sent,To succour the besieged in the Fort,Plague and Famine shall devour them all,Except seventy that shall be beaten.
Of that great number which shall be sent,
To succour the besieged in the Fort,
Plague and Famine shall devour them all,
Except seventy that shall be beaten.
This is so plain, that it needeth no explication.
French.Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre,Quand les Monarques seront conciliez,Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre,Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez.English.There shall be a great number of condemned men,When the Monarchs shall be reconciled,But one of them shall come to such misfortune,That their reconciliation shall not last long.
French.Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre,Quand les Monarques seront conciliez,Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre,Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez.English.There shall be a great number of condemned men,When the Monarchs shall be reconciled,But one of them shall come to such misfortune,That their reconciliation shall not last long.
Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre,Quand les Monarques seront conciliez,Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre,Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez.
Des Condamnez sera fait un grand nombre,
Quand les Monarques seront conciliez,
Mais l’un deux viendra si mal encombre,
Que guere ensemble ne seront raliez.
There shall be a great number of condemned men,When the Monarchs shall be reconciled,But one of them shall come to such misfortune,That their reconciliation shall not last long.
There shall be a great number of condemned men,
When the Monarchs shall be reconciled,
But one of them shall come to such misfortune,
That their reconciliation shall not last long.
The words and sense of this are easie to be understood.
French.Un an devant le conflictItalique,Germains,Gaulois,Espagnolspour le Fort,Cherra l’Escole maison de republique,Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts.English.One year before theItalianfight,Germans,French,Spaniardsfor the Fort,The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall,Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead.
French.Un an devant le conflictItalique,Germains,Gaulois,Espagnolspour le Fort,Cherra l’Escole maison de republique,Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts.English.One year before theItalianfight,Germans,French,Spaniardsfor the Fort,The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall,Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead.
Un an devant le conflictItalique,Germains,Gaulois,Espagnolspour le Fort,Cherra l’Escole maison de republique,Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts.
Un an devant le conflictItalique,
Germains,Gaulois,Espagnolspour le Fort,
Cherra l’Escole maison de republique,
Ou horsmis peu, seront suffoquez morts.
One year before theItalianfight,Germans,French,Spaniardsfor the Fort,The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall,Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead.
One year before theItalianfight,
Germans,French,Spaniardsfor the Fort,
The School-house of the Common-wealth shall fall,
Where, except few, they shall be suffocated, and dead.
It seemeth there should be a Battle between theItalians,Germans,French,Spaniardsfor a Fort, which I suspect to have been that ofSerizoles, wherein all those Nations were engaged, and that one year before that Battle, the publick house of aCommon-wealthshould fall, and kill abundance of people; But of this I could find nothing in History.
French.Un peu apres non point long intervalle,Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte,Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle,Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte.English.A little while after, without any great distance of time,By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made,The Sea fight shall be much greater,Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult.
French.Un peu apres non point long intervalle,Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte,Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle,Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte.English.A little while after, without any great distance of time,By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made,The Sea fight shall be much greater,Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult.
Un peu apres non point long intervalle,Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte,Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle,Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte.
Un peu apres non point long intervalle,
Par Mer & Terre sera fait grand tumulte,
Beaucoup plus grande sera pugne Navalle,
Feu, Animaux, qui plus feront d’Insulte.
A little while after, without any great distance of time,By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made,The Sea fight shall be much greater,Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult.
A little while after, without any great distance of time,
By Sea and Land shall a great tumult be made,
The Sea fight shall be much greater,
Fire and Beasts which shall make greater insult.
This hath a Relation to a foregoing Stanza, and likewise is not hard to be understood.
French.La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera,Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir,Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir.English.The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days,A Cloud shall make two Suns appear,The big Mastif shall houl all night,When the great Pope shall change his Countrey.
French.La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera,Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir,Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir.English.The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days,A Cloud shall make two Suns appear,The big Mastif shall houl all night,When the great Pope shall change his Countrey.
La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera,Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir,Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir.
La grand Estoile par sept jours bruslera,
Nuce fera deux Soleils apparoir,
Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,
Quand grand Pontife changera de terroir.
The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days,A Cloud shall make two Suns appear,The big Mastif shall houl all night,When the great Pope shall change his Countrey.
The great Star shall burn for the space of seven days,
A Cloud shall make two Suns appear,
The big Mastif shall houl all night,
When the great Pope shall change his Countrey.
The meaning of this is, that those three Prodigies, contained in the first three Verses, shall appear when aPopechangeth his Countrey.
French.A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus,Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort,Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus,Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort.English.A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood,And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead,In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken,Who could not die before by a cruel Death.
French.A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus,Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort,Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus,Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort.English.A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood,And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead,In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken,Who could not die before by a cruel Death.
A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus,Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort,Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus,Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort.
A Coq, Chiens, & Chats de sang seront repeus,
Et de la playe du Tyran trouvé Mort,
Au lict d’un autre, Jambes & Bras rompus,
Qui n’avoit peu mourir de cruel Mort.
A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood,And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead,In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken,Who could not die before by a cruel Death.
A Cock, Dogs, and Cats shall be fed with Blood,
And with the wound of the Tyrant found dead,
In the bed of another, with Legs and Arms broken,
Who could not die before by a cruel Death.
These words signifie, that a great man or Tyrant shall be found dead in another mans Bed, having hisLegsandArmsbroken, the body of which shall be devoured by these three kinds of Creatures, aCock, aDog, and aCat. The last Verse signifieth that this Tyrant had escaped acruel Death.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the year 1556. upon the first day ofMarchappeared a blazing Star which lasted three Months, and in that year the three great Princes were made Enemies,viz.PaulIV. Pope,HenryII. King ofFrance, andPhilipII. King ofSpain, about the breaking of the Truce byHenryII.
The Affairs not succeeding according to the Pope’s, and the King ofFrance’s desire, they made Peace with theSpaniardthe 14th ofOctober1557. and because itwas an effect of Gods Providence, which moved the Pope’s, and the Kings hearts; the Author saith, they werestruck from Heaven.
After thisPeacethe Author mentions anEarth-quake, which is very likely considering the overflowing of theTyber, which followed immediately.
The night after, thatPeacewas proclaimed atRome, on aTuesdaytheTyberdid so overflow his Banks, that the inundation was thought the greatest that ever was, yea greater than that which happened in the year 1530. underClementVII.
There were ten or twelve Mills carried away, all the Vine-yards along theTyber, fromPontemoleto St.PetersChurch, were buried under the Sands, that the water carried.
Abundance of Houses fell to the ground. InRomemany Gardens and houses of pleasure were destroyed, the loss of the Wines, Hay, Wood, and Corn could not be valued.
InFlorencethe River ofArnodid more mischief than theTyberatRome, the History of the Genealogy of the house ofMedicis, made byPeter de Boissat, mentioneth, that in some places of the City ofFlorence, the water overflowed to the heigth of eight Fathoms, and covered all the valley ofArne.
The damage was yet greater atEmpoly, a Town inTuscany, where, of three thousand people, there escaped but eighteen.
But to return toTyber, 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 theTyber, 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.
In the third Verse he saith, those three Princes were struck or moved from Heaven to makePeace, that is, from God; every one considering that this War was only for their mutual distruction.
The Vulgar impression putteth in the fourth Verse,Pau,Tyber, in stead ofArne,Tyber, which is a visible fault; for the History mentioneth only the inundation of those two Rivers inItaly, it may be that the likeness of those words,PauandArne, is the cause of the mistake; as also because the name ofPau, which is the biggest River inItaly, is more famous in History than that ofArne, which is the River that passeth throughFlorence.
French.L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons,Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé,Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons,Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée.English.The Eagle flying among the Tents,By other Birds shall be driven away,When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells,Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it.
French.L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons,Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé,Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons,Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée.English.The Eagle flying among the Tents,By other Birds shall be driven away,When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells,Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it.
L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons,Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé,Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons,Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée.
L’Aigles poussée entour de Pavillons,
Par autre oiseaux d’Entour sera chassé,
Quand bruit de Timbres, Tubes, & Sonaillons,
Rendront le sens de la Dame insensée.
The Eagle flying among the Tents,By other Birds shall be driven away,When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells,Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it.
The Eagle flying among the Tents,
By other Birds shall be driven away,
When noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells,
Shall render the sense to the Lady that was without it.
It is an Eagle driven from the Tents by other Birds, when a mad Lady shall recover her senses by the noise of Cymbals, Trumpets, and Bells.
French.Trop le Ciel pleure l’Androgynprocrée,Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu,Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée,Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.English.The Heaven bemoaneth too much theAndrogynborn,Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt,By death too late a great people shall be refreshed,Late and soon cometh the succours expected.
French.Trop le Ciel pleure l’Androgynprocrée,Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu,Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée,Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.English.The Heaven bemoaneth too much theAndrogynborn,Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt,By death too late a great people shall be refreshed,Late and soon cometh the succours expected.
Trop le Ciel pleure l’Androgynprocrée,Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu,Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée,Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.
Trop le Ciel pleure l’Androgynprocrée,
Pres de Ciel sang humain respandu,
Par mort trop tard grand peuple recrée,
Tard & tost vient le secours attendu.
The Heaven bemoaneth too much theAndrogynborn,Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt,By death too late a great people shall be refreshed,Late and soon cometh the succours expected.
The Heaven bemoaneth too much theAndrogynborn,
Near Heaven humane blood shall be spilt,
By death too late a great people shall be refreshed,
Late and soon cometh the succours expected.
Androgyn, is one that is Male and Female, from the Greek word ἀνηρ, which signifieth a Male, and γυνή, which signifieth a Female; the meaning then of the first Verse is, that some great persons, suppose a King and Queen, which he calleth Heaven, by reason of their exaltation above the common sort of people, shall bemoan too long one of their Children, that was, or shall be born Male and Female.
The second Verse is easie to be understood, if you take Heaven in the same sense that we have said. The last two Verses are plain.
French.Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste,Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle,Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste,Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle.English.After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand,The great Motor reneweth the Ages,Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague,In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks.
French.Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste,Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle,Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste,Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle.English.After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand,The great Motor reneweth the Ages,Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague,In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks.
Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste,Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle,Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste,Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle.
Apres grand troche humain, plus grand sapreste,
Le grand Moteur les siecles renouvelle,
Pluye, Sang, Lait, Famine, Fer & Peste,
Au Ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle.
After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand,The great Motor reneweth the Ages,Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague,In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks.
After a great humane change, another greater is nigh at hand,
The great Motor reneweth the Ages,
Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, Sword, Plague,
In the Heaven shall be seen a running fire with long sparks.
Trochein Greek is a Pulley, the meaning therefore of the Author, that after a great mutation, God shall renew the Ages, and according to his promise shall create a new Heaven, and a new Earth.
By those prodigies related in the two last Verses, it seemeth the Author intendeth to speak of the last day, and of the fore-runners of it.
French.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.
French.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 thatthe 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 isLord 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.
French.La grand Copie qui passera les Monts,Saturne,Aries, tournant au PoissonMars,Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons,Leur chef pendu a fil dePolemars.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 ofPolemars.
French.La grand Copie qui passera les Monts,Saturne,Aries, tournant au PoissonMars,Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons,Leur chef pendu a fil dePolemars.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 ofPolemars.
La grand Copie qui passera les Monts,Saturne,Aries, tournant au PoissonMars,Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons,Leur chef pendu a fil dePolemars.
La grand Copie qui passera les Monts,
Saturne,Aries, tournant au PoissonMars,
Venins cachez sous testes de Moutons,
Leur chef pendu a fil dePolemars.
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 ofPolemars.
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 ofPolemars.
Paradinrelateth in his History, that after the Duke ofAlbahad relievedVulpianwith Victuals, which was done from the 22. ofJulyto the first ofAugust, a Captain of the Emperors Army namedla Trinité, went out ofValfrenieresthe same first day ofAugust, to plunder the Countrey ofPiemont.
He had 400 Horses, and 500 Foot: The news being brought to the Marshal ofBrissac, he sent out a great number of Horses, who did utterly destroy their Foot, so that but thirty escaped, to carry the news toValfrenieres.
TheSpanishHorse, seeing theFrenchin such a fury, ran away, and got some toAst, some toAlexandria.
After that, theSpaniardsseeking to revenge themselves, took a Castle three miles fromCazal, calledFrezene, orFracinet du Pau, where they hanged up the Captain, put to the sword all theItalians, and sent all theFrenchto theGalleys.
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 theSpaniardsto serve so the Captain, theItaliansand theFrench; and because theFrenchwere not so ill used, as theItalians, we may judge that theItalianswere the chief contrivers of this business.
Therefore the Author foreseeing this, saith, that the great Army of theFrench, which shall go over the Mountains, shall come to this mischief, because of the poison that was hidden in the Sheeps heads.
The Vulgar impression erreth much in puttingSalmons, forMuttons; for every body knoweth that theSalmonsdo not come into the Mountains ofMontserrat, and that in the Month ofAugustit is not a meat fit for Souldiers, therefore in stead ofSalmons, we have putMuttons, or Sheep.
The Captain was hanged with a thread of Polemars, that is, with a Match, of which, I am perswaded, that one certainPolemarswas the Inventor.
The Author saith in the second Verse, that the time when this accident happened, was, whenSaturnwas inAries, the Vulgar impression puttethArein stead ofAries, but that’s false, therefore set downAries.Saturnwas in that Sign in the year 1555. from the 20th ofFebruary, to the 14th ofJuly, where from the 12th degree and four Minutes, he began to retrograde in the same Sign ofAries, till the 18th ofNovember, so thatSaturnwas almost all that year inAries.
He saith also thatMarswas going back toPisces; because in that same year,Marsthat was gone out of the Sign ofPiscesfrom the 19 ofMarch1554. was retrograding to come back again into it upon the 20th ofJanuary1556.
Thus the Author meaneth, that this accident should happen in the year thatSaturnshould be inAries, andMarsshould be near the Sign ofPisces.
And to say truth, in the Month ofAugust,Marswas in the Sign ofScorpio; upon the 23 ofSeptember, he entred into that ofSagitarius; the third ofNovember, into that ofCapricornus; the 12th ofDecemberinto that ofAquarius; and the year following,viz.1556. into that ofPisces; so thatMarswas returning intoPisces, which is the end of its particular motion.
By this Astrological and Historical discourse we correct the Vulgar impression, which putteth turning fromPisces,Mars, in stead of which, we put, turning toPisces,Mars, which we do by changing onlyfrom, intoto, and sheweth us how careful we ought to be in the explication of these Stanza’s, when the time is prefixed to us by Astronomical calculations.
The Authors Phrase doth confirm us in this correction, when he useth this wordturning, which signifieth the motion that tendeth towards its end, and not the motion that cometh from its end.
French.Les conseillers du premier Monopole,Les Conquerans seduits par laMelite,Rhodes,Bisancepour leur exposant pole,Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.English.The advisers of the first Monopoly,The Conquerors seduced by theMelite,Rhodes,Bizance, for exposing their Pole,The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.
French.Les conseillers du premier Monopole,Les Conquerans seduits par laMelite,Rhodes,Bisancepour leur exposant pole,Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.English.The advisers of the first Monopoly,The Conquerors seduced by theMelite,Rhodes,Bizance, for exposing their Pole,The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.
Les conseillers du premier Monopole,Les Conquerans seduits par laMelite,Rhodes,Bisancepour leur exposant pole,Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.
Les conseillers du premier Monopole,
Les Conquerans seduits par laMelite,
Rhodes,Bisancepour leur exposant pole,
Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.
The advisers of the first Monopoly,The Conquerors seduced by theMelite,Rhodes,Bizance, for exposing their Pole,The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.
The advisers of the first Monopoly,
The Conquerors seduced by theMelite,
Rhodes,Bizance, for exposing their Pole,
The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.
All the difficulty of this lieth in the signification of the wordPole, which in Greek signifieth a City. The wordMonopolyis Vulgar, and signifieth when one or few would engross all the Trade of a Town. The rest is so obscure, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, than break my Brains about it, considering chiefly that I am going to bed, the precedent Stanza having exhausted all my Spirits, and so farewell till to morrow.
French.Quand ceux d’Hainault, deGand, & deBruxelles,Verront aLangresle Siege devant mis,Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles,La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis.English.When these ofHainault, ofGand, and ofBruxelles,Shall see the Siege laid beforeLangres,Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars,The old wound shall be worse then Enemies.
French.Quand ceux d’Hainault, deGand, & deBruxelles,Verront aLangresle Siege devant mis,Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles,La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis.English.When these ofHainault, ofGand, and ofBruxelles,Shall see the Siege laid beforeLangres,Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars,The old wound shall be worse then Enemies.
Quand ceux d’Hainault, deGand, & deBruxelles,Verront aLangresle Siege devant mis,Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles,La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis.
Quand ceux d’Hainault, deGand, & deBruxelles,
Verront aLangresle Siege devant mis,
Derrier leur flancs seront guerres cruelles,
La playe antique sera pis qu’Ennemis.
When these ofHainault, ofGand, and ofBruxelles,Shall see the Siege laid beforeLangres,Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars,The old wound shall be worse then Enemies.
When these ofHainault, ofGand, and ofBruxelles,
Shall see the Siege laid beforeLangres,
Behind their sides shall be cruel Wars,
The old wound shall be worse then Enemies.
Hainaultis a Province of the Low-Countries, andGandthe chief Town inFlanders, andBruxellesthe chief Town of the Dukedome ofBrabant.
Langresis a City inFrance, in the Province ofChampagne, which is called the Maiden Town; because it was never besieged. The rest is easie.
French.Le sang du juste aLondresfera faute,Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six,La Dame antique cherra de place haute,De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.English.The blood of the just shall be wanting inLondon,Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six,The antient Dame shall fall from her high place,Of the same Sect many shall be killed.
French.Le sang du juste aLondresfera faute,Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six,La Dame antique cherra de place haute,De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.English.The blood of the just shall be wanting inLondon,Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six,The antient Dame shall fall from her high place,Of the same Sect many shall be killed.
Le sang du juste aLondresfera faute,Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six,La Dame antique cherra de place haute,De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.
Le sang du juste aLondresfera faute,
Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six,
La Dame antique cherra de place haute,
De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.
The blood of the just shall be wanting inLondon,Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six,The antient Dame shall fall from her high place,Of the same Sect many shall be killed.
The blood of the just shall be wanting inLondon,
Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six,
The antient Dame shall fall from her high place,
Of the same Sect many shall be killed.
Leaving unto the impartial Reader his liberty to judge of this Prophecy, we for our part understand by it the impious and execrable murder, committed upon the person of our last most gracious Sovereign KingCharlesI. of blessed memory, to whose expiation it seemeth our Author attributeth the conflagration ofLondon. By that proportionof three and twenty, the Six, is to be understood the number of Houses and Buildings that were burnt, which is about the proportion of three in four, and cometh near to the computation, as also by thatthree twenties and Six, may be understood the year 66.By the antient Dame that shall fall from the high place, is understood the Cathedral Church of St.Paul, which in the time of Paganism was dedicated toDiana, meant here by the title of an antient Dame, thefall from her high place, hath relation both to the sumptuousness and height of her building, as also to her situation, which is in the most eminent place of the City.
By this Verse,Of the same Sect many shall be killed, is signified the great number of other Churches even the number of 87 (which he intimateth here by the name of the same Sect), that should be involved in the same woful conflagration.
French.Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera,Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte,Corinthe,Epheseaux deux Mers nagera,Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte.English.During many nights the Earth shall quake,About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another,Corinth,Ephesusshall swim in the two Seas,War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers.
French.Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera,Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte,Corinthe,Epheseaux deux Mers nagera,Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte.English.During many nights the Earth shall quake,About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another,Corinth,Ephesusshall swim in the two Seas,War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers.
Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera,Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte,Corinthe,Epheseaux deux Mers nagera,Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte.
Dans plusieurs nuits la Terre tremblera,
Sur le printemps deux efforts feront suitte,
Corinthe,Epheseaux deux Mers nagera,
Guerre sesmeut par deux vaillants de Luitte.
During many nights the Earth shall quake,About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another,Corinth,Ephesusshall swim in the two Seas,War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers.
During many nights the Earth shall quake,
About the Spring two great Earth-quakes shall follow one another,
Corinth,Ephesusshall swim in the two Seas,
War shall be moved by two great Wrestlers.
Corinthis a City ofGreciaandEphesusone ofAsia; the rest is plain.
French.Le grande Peste de cité maritime,Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée,Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime,De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée.English.The great Plague of the Maritime City,Shall not cease till the death be revengedOf the just blood by price condemned without crime,Of the great Dame not fainedly abused.
French.Le grande Peste de cité maritime,Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée,Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime,De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée.English.The great Plague of the Maritime City,Shall not cease till the death be revengedOf the just blood by price condemned without crime,Of the great Dame not fainedly abused.
Le grande Peste de cité maritime,Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée,Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime,De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée.
Le grande Peste de cité maritime,
Ne cessera que Mort ne soit vengée,
Du juste sang par prix damné sans crime,
De la grande Dame par feinte noutragée.
The great Plague of the Maritime City,Shall not cease till the death be revengedOf the just blood by price condemned without crime,Of the great Dame not fainedly abused.
The great Plague of the Maritime City,
Shall not cease till the death be revenged
Of the just blood by price condemned without crime,
Of the great Dame not fainedly abused.
This is a confirmation of the LI. Stanza and foretelleth the great Plague we have had here in the year 1665. which he saith shall not cease till the death of the Just blood, meaning KingCharlesthe I. be avenged who was as is here expressed, condemned without crime, and sold for a Price.
By the great Dame unfainedly abused, he meaneth the sumptuous Cathedral of St.Paul, which was polluted and made a Stable by those prophane wretches.
French.Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine,Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée,Fille sans trop different de domaine,Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée.English.By a strange people and remote Nation,The great City near the water shall be much troubled,The Girl without great difference for a portion,Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt.
French.Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine,Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée,Fille sans trop different de domaine,Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée.English.By a strange people and remote Nation,The great City near the water shall be much troubled,The Girl without great difference for a portion,Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt.
Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine,Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée,Fille sans trop different de domaine,Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée.
Par gent estrange & Nation lointaine,
Leur grand Cité, apres eau fort troublée,
Fille sans trop different de domaine,
Prins chef, serreure, navoir esté riblée.
By a strange people and remote Nation,The great City near the water shall be much troubled,The Girl without great difference for a portion,Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt.
By a strange people and remote Nation,
The great City near the water shall be much troubled,
The Girl without great difference for a portion,
Shall take the Captain, the Lock having not been pickt.
In the explication of this mystical Stanza, I believe every body may be as wise as I.
French.Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit,A son dernier fera cas merveilleux,Pendant qu’Adrieverra ce qu’il failloit,Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux.English.In the fight the great one who was but little worth,At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing.WhileAdriashall see what was wanting,In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one.
French.Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit,A son dernier fera cas merveilleux,Pendant qu’Adrieverra ce qu’il failloit,Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux.English.In the fight the great one who was but little worth,At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing.WhileAdriashall see what was wanting,In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one.
Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit,A son dernier fera cas merveilleux,Pendant qu’Adrieverra ce qu’il failloit,Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux.
Dans le conflit le grand qui peu valoit,
A son dernier fera cas merveilleux,
Pendant qu’Adrieverra ce qu’il failloit,
Dans le Banquet poignarde l’orgueilleux.
In the fight the great one who was but little worth,At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing.WhileAdriashall see what was wanting,In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one.
In the fight the great one who was but little worth,
At his last endeavour shall do a wonderful thing.
WhileAdriashall see what was wanting,
In the Banquet he shall stabb the proud one.
This is concerning some eminent person, who having shewed no great valour in a Battle, shall nevertheless in a Banquet be so bold as to stab a person of quality, that was proud.
This accident must happen somewhere aboutVenice, because he saith thatAdria, which is taken forVeniceshall look on.
French.Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer,Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé,L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner,Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper.English.He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy,Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder,The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined,Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock.
French.Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer,Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé,L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner,Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper.English.He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy,Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder,The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined,Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock.
Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer,Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé,L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner,Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper.
Que Peste & Glaive n’a sceu definer,
Mort dans les pluies, sommet du Ciel frappé,
L’Abbé mourra quand verra ruiner,
Ceux du Naufrage, l’Escueil voulant graper.
He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy,Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder,The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined,Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock.
He whom neither Plague, nor Sword could destroy,
Shall die in the Rain being stricken with Thunder,
The Abbot shall die when he shall see ruined,
Those in the Shipwrack, striving to catch hold of the Rock.
There is two accidents contained in this Stanza, the first is in the two first Verses, where he saith that some considerable person, who had escaped the Sword, and the Plague shall be strucken by the Thunder, and die in a great showr of Rain.
The second is, in the two last Verses, where he saith, an Abbot shall perish by Shipwrack, thinking to save himself by holding the Rock.
French.Avant conflit le grand tombera,Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte,Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera,Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte.English.Before the Battle the great one shall fall,The great one to death too sudden and bewailed;One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim,Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood.
French.Avant conflit le grand tombera,Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte,Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera,Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte.English.Before the Battle the great one shall fall,The great one to death too sudden and bewailed;One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim,Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood.
Avant conflit le grand tombera,Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte,Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera,Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte.
Avant conflit le grand tombera,
Le grand a mort trop subite & plainte,
Nay miparfait, la plus part nagera,
Aupres du Fleuve, de sang la Terre teinte.
Before the Battle the great one shall fall,The great one to death too sudden and bewailed;One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim,Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood.
Before the Battle the great one shall fall,
The great one to death too sudden and bewailed;
One shall be born half perfect, the most part shall swim,
Near the River the Earth shall be dyed with blood.
The words are plain enough, but of the sense every one may think what he pleaseth.
French.Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte.Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay,Pres du portail, desloial le transporte,Selineluit, petit grand emmené.English.Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth,By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born,Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor,Selineshineth, the little great one carried away.
French.Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte.Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay,Pres du portail, desloial le transporte,Selineluit, petit grand emmené.English.Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth,By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born,Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor,Selineshineth, the little great one carried away.
Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte.Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay,Pres du portail, desloial le transporte,Selineluit, petit grand emmené.
Sans pied ne main, dent aigue, & forte.
Par Globe au fort de Port & laisne nay,
Pres du portail, desloial le transporte,
Selineluit, petit grand emmené.
Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth,By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born,Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor,Selineshineth, the little great one carried away.
Without foot or hand, sharp and strong tooth,
By a Globe, in the middle of the Port, and the first born,
Near the Gate shall be transported by a Traitor,
Selineshineth, the little great one carried away.
The sense of the whole is this, that an Infant begot by some person of quality shall be exposed in the night time, the Moon Shining, which he callethSeline, from the Greek word σεληνη, which signifieth the Moon.
French.ClasseGauloisepar appuy de grand Garde,Du grandNeptune& ses tridens Soldats,RongerProvencepour soustenir grand bande,PlusMars,Narbon, par Javelots & Dards.English.TheFrenchFleet by the help of the great Guard,Of greatNeptuneand his Tridentary SoldiersShall gnawProvenceby keeping great company,Besides,Marsshall plagueNarbonby Javelins and Darts.
French.ClasseGauloisepar appuy de grand Garde,Du grandNeptune& ses tridens Soldats,RongerProvencepour soustenir grand bande,PlusMars,Narbon, par Javelots & Dards.English.TheFrenchFleet by the help of the great Guard,Of greatNeptuneand his Tridentary SoldiersShall gnawProvenceby keeping great company,Besides,Marsshall plagueNarbonby Javelins and Darts.
ClasseGauloisepar appuy de grand Garde,Du grandNeptune& ses tridens Soldats,RongerProvencepour soustenir grand bande,PlusMars,Narbon, par Javelots & Dards.
ClasseGauloisepar appuy de grand Garde,
Du grandNeptune& ses tridens Soldats,
RongerProvencepour soustenir grand bande,
PlusMars,Narbon, par Javelots & Dards.
TheFrenchFleet by the help of the great Guard,Of greatNeptuneand his Tridentary SoldiersShall gnawProvenceby keeping great company,Besides,Marsshall plagueNarbonby Javelins and Darts.
TheFrenchFleet by the help of the great Guard,
Of greatNeptuneand his Tridentary Soldiers
Shall gnawProvenceby keeping great company,
Besides,Marsshall plagueNarbonby Javelins and Darts.
Here be two things designed in this Stanza one is concerningProvence, which shall be eaten up by Soldiers, and the other concerning the City ofNarbon, which shall be Besieged, or the Citizens fall out among themselves.
French.La foy Punique en Orient rompue,GrandJud.&Rhosne,Loire&Tagchangeront,Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue,Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront.English.The punick faith broken in the East,GreatJud.andRhosne,LoireandTag.shall be changed,When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied,The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim.
French.La foy Punique en Orient rompue,GrandJud.&Rhosne,Loire&Tagchangeront,Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue,Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront.English.The punick faith broken in the East,GreatJud.andRhosne,LoireandTag.shall be changed,When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied,The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim.
La foy Punique en Orient rompue,GrandJud.&Rhosne,Loire&Tagchangeront,Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue,Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront.
La foy Punique en Orient rompue,
GrandJud.&Rhosne,Loire&Tagchangeront,
Quand du Mulet la faim sera repeue,
Classe espargie, Sang & Corps nageront.
The punick faith broken in the East,GreatJud.andRhosne,LoireandTag.shall be changed,When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied,The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim.
The punick faith broken in the East,
GreatJud.andRhosne,LoireandTag.shall be changed,
When the Mules hunger shall be satisfied,
The Fleet scattered, Blood and Bodies shall swim.
The Punick Faith in LatinePunica fides, a false Faith, was so called from theCarthaginians, called in LatinePæni, which was an unfaithful Nation.
I do not know what he meaneth by greatJud.as forRhosne,LoireandTag, they are three Rivers, the two first inFrance, the last is the River ofLisbonecalled in LatineTagus. The rest is easie.
French.Agen,Tonneins,Gironde& laRochelle,O sangTroienmort au Port de la fleche,Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle,Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche.English.Agen,Tonneins,GirondeandRochelle,OTrojanblood death is at the harbour of the Arrow,Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort,Points, fire, great murder upon the breach.
French.Agen,Tonneins,Gironde& laRochelle,O sangTroienmort au Port de la fleche,Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle,Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche.English.Agen,Tonneins,GirondeandRochelle,OTrojanblood death is at the harbour of the Arrow,Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort,Points, fire, great murder upon the breach.
Agen,Tonneins,Gironde& laRochelle,O sangTroienmort au Port de la fleche,Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle,Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche.
Agen,Tonneins,Gironde& laRochelle,
O sangTroienmort au Port de la fleche,
Derrier le Fleuve au Fort mise leschelle,
Pointes, feu, grand meurtre sur la bresche.
Agen,Tonneins,GirondeandRochelle,OTrojanblood death is at the harbour of the Arrow,Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort,Points, fire, great murder upon the breach.
Agen,Tonneins,GirondeandRochelle,
OTrojanblood death is at the harbour of the Arrow,
Beyond the River the Ladder shall be raised against the Fort,
Points, fire, great murder upon the breach.
AgenandTonneinsare two Towns inGascony,Girondeis a River that passeth in that Countrey, the sense therefore of the whole is, that there shall be great Wars, and fightings in those Towns, as also upon that River, which happened in the time of the civil Wars inFrance, as every body may read in theAnnals, and also in the Commentaries of the Lord ofMonluck.
French.Mabuspuis tost alors mourra, viendra,Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.English.Mabusshall come, and soon after shall die,Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.
French.Mabuspuis tost alors mourra, viendra,Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.English.Mabusshall come, and soon after shall die,Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.
Mabuspuis tost alors mourra, viendra,Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.
Mabuspuis tost alors mourra, viendra,
Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,
Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,
Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.
Mabusshall come, and soon after shall die,Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.
Mabusshall come, and soon after shall die,
Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,
Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,
Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.
Here is nothing hard but who should be thisMabus, at last I found by transposition of Letters that he meanethAmbus, which was the name of the Heades man that beheaded the Duke ofMontmorencyatThoulouse, how miraculous therefore appeareth our Author, who did not only foretell general things, but also particular accidents, even the names of the persons that were to be born a hundred years after.
French.Gaulois,Ausonebien peu subiuguera,Pau,Marne&SeineferaPerme l’Vrie,Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera,Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie.English.TheFrenchshall a little subdueAusonne,Pau,Marne, andSeineshall makePerme l’Urie,Which shall raise a great Wall against them,From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life.
French.Gaulois,Ausonebien peu subiuguera,Pau,Marne&SeineferaPerme l’Vrie,Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera,Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie.English.TheFrenchshall a little subdueAusonne,Pau,Marne, andSeineshall makePerme l’Urie,Which shall raise a great Wall against them,From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life.
Gaulois,Ausonebien peu subiuguera,Pau,Marne&SeineferaPerme l’Vrie,Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera,Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie.
Gaulois,Ausonebien peu subiuguera,
Pau,Marne&SeineferaPerme l’Vrie,
Qui le grand Mur contre eux dressera,
Du moindre au Mur le grand perdra la vie.
TheFrenchshall a little subdueAusonne,Pau,Marne, andSeineshall makePerme l’Urie,Which shall raise a great Wall against them,From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life.
TheFrenchshall a little subdueAusonne,
Pau,Marne, andSeineshall makePerme l’Urie,
Which shall raise a great Wall against them,
From the less to the Wall the great one shall loose his life.
Ausonneis always taken by the Author for the City ofBordeaux, becauseAusoniusa famous Latine Poet was born there, the rest is so obscure, and the text so corrupted, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, then to become ridiculous, by not acknowledging my ignorance.
French.Seicher de faim, de soif, gentGenevoise,Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir,Sur point tremblant sera LoyGebenoise,Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir.English.Those ofGenevashall be dried up with hunger and thirst,A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting,TheGebennaLaw shall be upon a quaking point,The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port.
French.Seicher de faim, de soif, gentGenevoise,Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir,Sur point tremblant sera LoyGebenoise,Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir.English.Those ofGenevashall be dried up with hunger and thirst,A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting,TheGebennaLaw shall be upon a quaking point,The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port.
Seicher de faim, de soif, gentGenevoise,Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir,Sur point tremblant sera LoyGebenoise,Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir.
Seicher de faim, de soif, gentGenevoise,
Espoir prochain viendra au defaillir,
Sur point tremblant sera LoyGebenoise,
Classe au grand Port ne se peut accueillir.
Those ofGenevashall be dried up with hunger and thirst,A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting,TheGebennaLaw shall be upon a quaking point,The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port.
Those ofGenevashall be dried up with hunger and thirst,
A near hope shall come when they shall be fainting,
TheGebennaLaw shall be upon a quaking point,
The Navy shall not be capable to come into the Port.
Here you must observe thatGebennain Latine signifiethGeneva, and therefore this whole Stanza is concerning the City ofGeneva.
French.Le park enclin grande calamité,Par l’Hesperie&Insubresera,Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité,Mercureen l’Ar,Saturnfenera.English.The Park enclineth to great calamity,Which shall be throughHesperiaandInsubria,The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity,MercuryinAries,Saturnshall wither.
French.Le park enclin grande calamité,Par l’Hesperie&Insubresera,Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité,Mercureen l’Ar,Saturnfenera.English.The Park enclineth to great calamity,Which shall be throughHesperiaandInsubria,The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity,MercuryinAries,Saturnshall wither.
Le park enclin grande calamité,Par l’Hesperie&Insubresera,Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité,Mercureen l’Ar,Saturnfenera.
Le park enclin grande calamité,
Par l’Hesperie&Insubresera,
Le Feu en Nef, Peste, & Captivité,
Mercureen l’Ar,Saturnfenera.
The Park enclineth to great calamity,Which shall be throughHesperiaandInsubria,The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity,MercuryinAries,Saturnshall wither.
The Park enclineth to great calamity,
Which shall be throughHesperiaandInsubria,
The Fire in the Ship, Plague, and Captivity,
MercuryinAries,Saturnshall wither.
Though the words be plain, nevertheless the sense is very obscure, and chiefly as I suppose by the faults of the impression, all what I can tell you here, is, thatHesperiain Latine, isSpain, andInsubria, isSavoy.
French.Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé,Peu de temps grand a fortune changée,Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé,Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée.English.The Prisoner escaped through great danger,A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed,In the Palace the people shall be caught,And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged.
French.Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé,Peu de temps grand a fortune changée,Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé,Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée.English.The Prisoner escaped through great danger,A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed,In the Palace the people shall be caught,And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged.
Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé,Peu de temps grand a fortune changée,Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé,Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée.
Par grand dangers le Captif eschapé,
Peu de temps grand a fortune changée,
Dans le Palais le peuple est attrapé,
Par bonne augure la Cité assiegée.
The Prisoner escaped through great danger,A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed,In the Palace the people shall be caught,And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged.
The Prisoner escaped through great danger,
A little while after shall become great, his fortune being changed,
In the Palace the people shall be caught,
And by a good Sign the City shall be besieged.
All this is plain, both in the words and the Sense.