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.

Harnois trenchans dans les flambeaux cachez,

Dedans Lyon le jour du Sacrement,

Ceux de Vienne seront tretous hachez,

Par les Cantons Latins, Mascon eront.

English.

Sharp Weapons shall be hidden in burning Torches,

In Lyons the day of the Sacrament,

Those of Vienna shall be all cut to pieces,

By the Latin Cantons, after the example of Mascon.

ANNOT.

This foretelleth a notable Treason that shall be acted at Lyons, upon the Sacraments day, otherwise called Corpus Christi day, upon which the Roman Catholicks are wont to make a Procession with the Sacrament about the Town, with abundance of burning Torches, of fearful bigness, insomuch that some (as at Angeirs) require 20 or 24 men to carry them, in those Torches (our Author saith) shall Weapons be hidden, by means of which the fact shall be committed. The rest is easie.