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.

La grande perte las que feront les Lettres,

Avant le Circle de Latona parfait,

Feu, grand Deluge, plus par ignares Sceptres,

Que de long siecle ne se verra refait.

English.

Alas what a great loss shall learning suffer,

Before the Circle of the Moon be accomplished,

Fire, great flood, and more by ignorant Scepters,

Then can be made good again in a long age.

ANNOT.

Here the Author bemoaneth the loss of one eminent person in Learning, be like of Julius Scaliger, who lived in his time, and was once his intimate friend, the two last Verses that great miseries, as Fire and Flood shall happen by the ignorance of Princes.