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

LVII.

French.

Le sublevé ne cognoistra son Sceptre,

Les enfans jeunes des plus grands honnira,

Oncques ne fut un plus ord cruel estre,

Pour leur Espouses a mort noir bannera.

English.

The exalted shall not know his Scepter

He shall put to shame the young Children of the greatest,

Never was one more dirty and cruel,

He shall banish to Black death their Spouses.

ANNOT.

This is concerning a great Tyrant, who being exalted to the dignity of a King, shall not know how to govern; but shall slight and put to shame the Children of the greatest Nobility, and shall banish their Wives out of the Land; this hath a relation to the late Tyrant Cromwell.