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

III.

French.

Le magna vaqua a Ravenne grand trouble,

Conduits par quinze enserrez a Fornase,

A Rome naistra deux Monstres a teste double,

Sang, feu, deluge, les plus grands a l’espase.

English.

The Magna vaqua great trouble at Ravenna,

Conducted by fifteen, shut up at Fornase,

At Rome shall be born two Monsters with a double head,

Blood, fire, Flood, the greater ones astonished.

ANNOT.

This word of Magna vaqua is either falsly printed, or altogether barbarous and insignificant, and so is that of Fornase, which maketh the two first Verses incapable of translation; the other are easie.