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

LXXII.

French.

Pour le plaisir d’Edict voluptueux,

On meslera la poison dans la Loy,

Venus sera en cours si vertueux,

Qu’obfusquera du Soleil tout alloy.

English.

By the pleasure of a voluptuous proclamation,

The poison shall be mixed in the Law,

Venus shall be in so great request,

That it shall darken all the allay of the Sun.

ANNOT.

By a Proclamation, favouring or promoting Licentiousness, poison shall be mixed in the Law, and leachery so much countenanced, as it shall obscurate the allay of the Sun, that is, piety so much commended in the Gospel, to all those that will fight under Christs Banner.