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

XLII.

French.

Par avarice, par force & violence,

Viendra vexer les siens chefs d’Orleans,

Prez Saint Memire assaut & resistance,

Mort dans sa Tente, diront quil dort leans.

English.

By avarice, by force and violence,

Shall come to vex his own chief of Orleans,

Near Saint Memire assault and resistance,

Dead in his Tent, they’l say he sleepeth there.

ANNOT.

The construction of this must be thus made. The Chiefs of Orleans, (which is a famous Town in France) shall come to vex their own (I suppose) Citizens. And near that place called Saint Memire, shall be a fight, where one of those chief ones shall be killed, or die in his Tent, and shall be denyed under pretence of being asleep.