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

V.

French.

Feu, flamme, faim, furt, farouche fumée,

Fera faillir, froissant fort, soy faucher,

Fils de Deité! toute Provence humée,

Chasse de Regne, enragé sans crocher.

English.

Fire, flame, hunger, theft, wild smoak,

Shall cause to fail, brusing hard, to move Faith,

Son of God! all Provence swallowed up?

Driven from the Kingdom, raging mad without spitting.

ANNOT.

The curiosity of the Author in striving to begin all his words, in the two first Verses hath made the tense of this Stanza so obscure, that I believe no body ever did or shall truely understand it, all what can be gathered out of it, is great threatning of several calamities, that were to happen upon Provence his native Countrey, as it did a little while after his death, by the Civil Wars for Religion.