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.

Que d’or, d’argent sera de pendre,

Quand Comte voudra Ville prendre,

Tant de mille & mille Soldats,

Tuez, noiez, sans y rien faire,

Dans plus forte mettra pied terre,

Pigmée aidé des Censuarts.

English.

How much Gold and Silver shall be spent,

When Earl shall go about to take a Town,

So many thousands and thousands of Soldiers,

Killed, drowned, without doing any thing,

In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground,

A Pygmie helped by the Censuarts.

ANNOT.

This Stanza and the next are concerning the Town of Ostend, which was Besieged by the Arch-duke, and defended by the States of Holland, under the conduct of Earl Maurice of Nassaw.

In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground, signifieth that Earl Maurice during the said Siege, took the Sluys another Town of the Spaniards, thought stronger then Ostend. A Pygmie helped by the Censuarts, signifieth that Prince Maurice whom he calleth here a Pygmie in comparison of the Arch-duke, was helped by the French and English, whom he calleth here Censuarts, to rime with the word Soldats in the foregoing Verse.