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.

Las, qu’on verra grand peuple tourmenté,

Et la Loy Sainte en totale ruine,

Par autres Loix toute la Chrestienté,

Quand d’Or, d’Argent trouve nouvelle Mine.

English.

Alas, how a great people shall be tormented,

And the Holy Law in an utter ruine;

By other Laws, all Christendom troubled,

When new Mines of Gold and Silver shall be found.

ANNOT.

This is a true Prophecy of the mischiefs that have happened in the World by the finding of the Mines in America; first to the Indians themselves, called here a great People, by the cruelty of the Spaniards, and then to all Christendom besides, by the evils that this Idol Mammon hath brought into it.