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.

Du haut du Mont Aventin voix ouye,

Vuidez, vuidez de tous les deux costez,

Du sang des rouges sera l’Ire assouvie,

D’Arimin, Prato, Columna debotez.

English.

From the top of Mount Aventin, a voice was heard,

Get you gone, get you gone on all sides,

The Choler shall be fed with the blood of the red ones,

From Arimini and Prato, the Colonnas shall be driven away.

ANNOT.

Mount Aventine is one of the seven Mountains of Rome, from the top of which our Author saith that a voice was heard crying and repeating, get you gone, and the reason is, because choler and anger shall feed upon the blood of the Cardinals, understood here by the name of red ones.

Arimini and Prato are two cities in Italy.

The Colonna is the chiefest and ancientest family of Rome.