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

LIII.

French.

Plusieurs mourront avant que Phœnix meure,

Jusques six cens septante est sa demeure,

Passé quinze ans, vingt & un, trente neuf,

Le premier est Subjet a maladie,

Et le second au fer, danger de vie,

Au feu a l’eau est subjet a trenteneuf.

English.

Many shall die before that Phœnix dieth,

Till six hundred and seventy he shall remain,

Above fifteen years, one and twenty, thirty nine,

The first shall be subject to sickness,

And the second to Iron, a danger of life,

Thirty nine shall be subject to fire and water.

ANNOT.

By the Phœnix is meant a Pope, because there is but one of that kind at once, the meaning of the rest is unknown to me.