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

LVI.

French.

Prelat Roial soy baissant trop tiré,

Grand Flux de Sang sortira par sa bouche,

Le Regne Anglicque par Regne respiré,

Long temps mort vif en Tunis comme souche.

English.

Royal Prelate bowing himself too much,

A great flood of Blood shall come out of his mouth,

The English Reign by Reign respited,

A great while dead, alive in Tunis like a Log.

ANNOT.

A Prelate, is a man of eminent dignity in the Church, the Royal prelate must be a Churchman of the Royal Blood, who bowing himself too much, shall fall into an Hæmorhagie or Flux of Blood at his Mouth. The third Verse signifieth, that the Kingdom of England shall be relieved from some distress by another Kingdom or Prince that had been a Slave a great while at Tunis, and lyen there, dead alive like a Log of Wood.