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

XIII.

French.

Soubs la pasture d’animaux ruminans,

Par eux conduits au ventre Herbi-polique,

Soldats cachez, les armes bruit menants,

Non loin tentez de Cité Antipolique.

English.

Under the pasture of Beasts chewing the cud,

Conducted by them to the Herbi-polique belly,

Souldiers hidden, the Weapons making a noise,

Shall be attempted not far from Antipolick City.

ANNOT.

The sense of this is, that some Souldiers disguised like Herds-men, shall lead Oxen into a place where were hidden before Weapons in the Grass, but the Weapons making a noise by their clashing they shall be discovered, not far from a place that he calleth here Antipolique, purposely to rime with Herbipolique in French, which word Herbipolique signifieth a Town of Pasture.