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

XLIX.

French.

Satur au Bœuf, Jove en l’Eau, Mars en fleche,

Six de Fevrier mortalité donra,

Ceux de Tardaigne a Bruges si grand breche

Qu’a Ponterose chef Barbarin mourra.

English.

Satur in Ox, Jupiter in water, Mars in arrow,

The sixth of February shall give mortality,

Those of Tardaigne shall make in Bruges so great a breach,

That the chief Barbarin shall die at Pontrose.

ANNOT.

Satur in Ox; that is, Saturn in Taurus, Jupiter in Water; that is, Jupiter in Aquarius; Mars in arrow, is Mars in Sagitarius; when these things shall happen. The sixth day of February shall bring a great mortality. Tardaigne is a fictitious name, unless he intended Sardaigne. Bruges is a Town in Flander, Ponterose is some place, where he saith, that the chief Barbarin shall die, the chief Barbare was the Pope Urban the eighth; but because I do not know the particularities of his death, and the place of it, I cannot make the rest good.