The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

II.

French.

La teste glue sera la teste blanche,

Autant de mal que France a fait leur bien,

Mort a l’Anthene, grand pendu fus la branche,

Quand prins des siens, le Roy dira combien.

English.

The Glue-head shall do the white head

As much harm, as France hath done it good,

Dead at the Sails yard, a great one hang’d on a Tree,

When a King taken by his own, shall say, how much?

ANNOT.

I did never find that word of Glue-head before in any Author, and I believe if Cotgrave were alive again, it would puzzle him to give the interpretation thereof.

The third and fourth signifie, that one shall be hanged on the Sails-yard, and another on a Tree, when a King shall be taken by his own Men, and shall say how much? that is, how much money shall I give you to set me free.