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

LII.

French.

La grand Cité qui n’a Pain a demy,

Encor un coup la saint Barthelemy,

Engravera au profond de son Ame,

Nismes, Rochelle, Geneve & Montpelier,

Castres, Lion, Mars entrant au Belier,

S’entrebattront le tout pour une Dame.

English.

The great City that hath not bread half enough,

Shall once more engrave

In the bottom of her soul St. Bartholomew’s day,

Nismes, Rochel, Geneva and Montpelier,

Castres, Lion, Mars coming into Aries,

Shall fight one against another, and all for a Lady.

ANNOT.

That great City mentioned here, is Paris, which is threatned of another St. Bartholomew’s day, which was fatal to the Protestants in France, for upon that day in the year 1572. there was a general Massacre made of them through all France, insomuch, that in Paris alone there was above ten thousand slain.

As for those Towns here named that are to fight about a Lady, I cannot guess what Lady it should be, unless he meaneth the Roman Church.