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

VI.

French.

Apparoistra vers le septentrion,

Non loing de Cancer l’estoille cheveluë,

Suze, Sienne, Boëce, Eretrion,

Mourra de Rome grand, la nuict disperuë.

English.

Towards the North shall appear,

Not far from Cancer a blazing Star,

Suza, Sienna, Boëce, Eretrion,

There shall die at Rome a great man, the night being past.

ANNOT.

Here he foretelleth the apparition of a Commet that shall be vertical to the Cities here named, and not far from the Sign of Cancer, at which time a great person shall die at Rome, about the dawning of the day.