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

LXXVIII.

French.

La Dame Grecque de Beauté laydique,

Heureuse faite de proces innumerable,

Hors translatée au Regne Hispanique,

Captive prinse mourir mort miserable.

English.

The Græcian Lady of exquisite Beauty,

Made happy from innumerable quarrels,

Being translated into the Spanish Kingdom,

Shall be made a Prisoner, and die a miserable death.

ANNOT.

This Stanza is concerning the Lady Elizabeth of France, Daughter to Henry the II. and Sister to Charles the IX. who being promised first to Don Carlo Infante of Spain, was afterwards Married to his Father Philip the II. at which the young man being vexed and discontented, began to raise combustions in the State, for which, and his too much familiarity with his Mother in Law, he was strangled by his Fathers command, and she poisoned.