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

X.

French.

Un peu du temps les Temples des Couleurs,

De blanc & noir des deux entremislée,

Rouges & jaunes leur embleront les leurs,

Sang, terre, peste, faim, feu, eau affollée.

English.

Within a little while the Temples of the Colours,

White and Black shall be intermixt,

Red and Yellow shall take away their Colours,

Blood, earth, plague, famine, fire, water shall destroy them.

ANNOT.

By the Temples of the Colours White and Black, I suppose he means that of Peace, and of War; by the Red and Yellow, may be meant the Empire of the Sweads, who shall be at variance together; and by their long War shall bring the Plagues here mentioned, as it came to pass in the Wars of Germany, between the Emperour and Gustavus Adolphus, King of the Sweads.