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

LXX.

French.

Il entrera vilain, meschant, infame,

Tyrannisant la Mesopotamie,

Tous amis fait d’Adulterine Dame,

Tetre horrible noir de Physiognomie.

English.

He shall come in villaen, wicked, infamous,

To tyranise Mesopotamia,

He maketh all friends by an adulteress Lady,

Foul, horrid, black in his Physiognomie.

ANNOT.

Mesopotamia is a Greek word, signifying a Countrey between two Rivers; and though there be many Countreys so seated, yet to this day, it properly belongeth to that Countrey, that lyeth between the two famous Rivers Tigris and Euphrates near Babylon; the rest is easie.