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

LXII.

French.

Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra,

Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite,

Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,

Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.

English.

Mabus shall come, and soon after shall die,

Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction,

Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen,

Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.

ANNOT.

Here is nothing hard but who should be this Mabus, at last I found by transposition of Letters that he meaneth Ambus, which was the name of the Heades man that beheaded the Duke of Montmorency at Thoulouse, how miraculous therefore appeareth our Author, who did not only foretell general things, but also particular accidents, even the names of the persons that were to be born a hundred years after.