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

XC.

French.

Quand des croisez un trouvé de sens trouble,

En lieu du sacre verra un Bœuf cornu,

Par vierge porc son lieu lors sera double,

Par Roy plus ordre ne sera soustenu.

English.

When of the crossed, one of a troubled mind,

In a sacred place shall see a horny Oxe,

By Virgin Pork then shall his place be double,

By King no henceforth, order shall be maintained.

ANNOT.

By the crossed is understood some order of Knight-hood, who for the most part wear that Badge, one of which being mad, and seeing in a Church a Horny Oxe come, by a Virgin Hog shall be kept from harm, or rescued by a Hog or Sow that was a Virgin, and it seems crossed the said Oxe, that he should not gore the Knight, that then such order of Knighthood shall be no more maintained nor upheld by the King of that Countrey, wherein such thing shall happen.