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

LXXXIV.

French.

Paterne aura de la Sicile crie,

Tous les aprests du Gouphre de Trieste,

Qui s’entendra jusques a la Trinacrie,

De tant de voiles, fuy, fuy, l’horrible peste.

English.

Paterne shall have out of Sicily a cry,

All the preparations of the Gulph of Trieste,

That shall be heard as far as Trinacry,

Of so many Sails, fly, fly, the horrid plague.

ANNOT.

It hath been impossible for me to make any sense of this, and therefore I believe that it is falsely printed, and that instead of Paterne, it should be Palerme, which is the chief Town in Sicily. Trinacry is Sicily it self, so called, quod tria habeat, άκρα seu promontoria.