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

LXV.

French.

Le vieux frustré du principal espoir,

Il parviendra au chef de son Empire,

Vingt mois tiendra le Regne a grand pouvoir,

Tyran, cruel en delaissant un pire.

English.

The old man frustrated of his chief hope,

He shall attain to the head of his Empire,

Twenty months he shall keep the Kingdom with great power,

Tyrant, cruel, and having a worse one.

ANNOT.

The words of this Prophecy are plain enough, and because I cannot learn in History that such things have come to pass yet, therefore I reckon it among those de futuro.