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

LI.

French.

La Ville qu’avoit en ses ans,

Combatu l’Injure du temps,

Qui de son Vainqueur tient la vie,

Celuy qui premier la surprit,

Que peu apres Francois reprit,

Par Combats encore affoible.

English.

The City that had in her years,

Resisted the injury of the times,

And oweth her life to him that overcame her,

Being the first that surprised it,

Which a little while after Francis took again,

Being yet weakened with fightings.