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

LXXIX.

French.

Les vieux chemins seront tous embellis,

L’on passera a Memphis somentrées,

Le grand Mercure d’Hercule fleur de lys,

Faisant trembler Terre, Mer, & Contrées.

English.

The old ways shall be made all fair,

There shall be a passage to Memphis Somentrées,

The great Mercury of Hercules Flower de luce,

Making the Earth, the Sea, and the Countreys to quake.

ANNOT.

This word Somentrees, being altogether barbarous, is the reason that neither sense nor construction can be made of all these words.