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.

Le deux malins de Scorpion conjoint,

Le grand Seigneur meurtry dedans sa salle,

Peste a l’Eglise par le nouveau Roy joint,

L’Europe basse, & Septentrionale.

English.

The two malignants of Scorpion being joyned,

The grand Seignor murdered in his Hall,

Plague to the Church by a King newly joyned to it,

Europe low, and Septentrional.

ANNOT.

This third position of the Celestial bodies foretelleth the death of the great Turk, who should be murdered in his own Chamber, as happened to Sultan Osman, who was strangled in his Chamber, by the command of Daout Bassa great Vizeir, about the year 1622. vide the Turkish History.

The rest of the Prophecy is concerning a King, who being newly joyned to the Church, (I suppose of Rome) shall bring much mischief to it, and in his time Europe shall be brought very low, and in a manner confined to a corner of the North, which hath relation to the foregoing 49. Stanza, which see in its place.