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

LXXXV.

French.

La Cité prinse par tromperie fraude,

Par le moyen d’Un bean jeune attrapé,

Assaut donné, Raubine pres de Laude,

Luy & touts morts pour avoir bien trompé.

English.

The City shall be taken by cheat and deceit,

By the means of a fair young one caught in it,

Assault shall be given, Raubine near Laude,

He, and all shall die, for having deceived.

ANNOT.

It is a City that shall be taken by the cheat and deceit of a young fair man, who himself shall be taken in his craft.

The difficulty lyeth in the third Verse, viz. what he meaneth by Raubine and Laude. I could find nothing by transposition of Letters: therefore I suppose the Author had a mind to reserve the exposition to himself, and to one that should be clearer sighted than I.