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

LIX.

French.

Au chef Anglois a Nismes trop sejour,

Devers l’Espagne au secours Ænobarbe,

Plusieurs mouront par Mars ouvert ce jour,

Quand en Artois faillir estoile en Barbe.

English.

The chief English shall stay too long at Nismes,

A red haird man shall go to the succours of Spain,

Many shall die by open War that day,

When in Artois the Star shall fail in the Beard.

ANNOT.

All the difficulty lyeth in the last Verse: for my part I believe he meaneth by it a bearded Comet, such as the Latines call Cometa barbatus.