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

VIII.

French.

Un peu devant l’ouvert commerce,

Ambassadeur viendra de Perse,

Nouvelle au Franc Pais porter,

Mais non receu vaine esperance,

A son grand Dieu sera l’offense,

Feignant de le vouloir quitter.

English.

A little before that Trade shall be open,

An Embassador shall come from Persia,

To bring news into France,

But he shall not be received, O vain hope!

To his great God shall the offence be,

Faining that he would leave him.

ANNOT.

In the year 1608. the year before the Truce was concluded between the Spaniard and the Hollanders, by which all free Commerce was opened through Europe. The King of Persia being then in War with the great Turk, sent an Embassador to all the Christian Princes, and chiefly into France, to move them to make a diversion in so fit a time, but he could prevail nothing, and went back again re infecta, which he thought to be a great injury done to his Prophet Mahomet.