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

XLVIII.

French.

La saincteté trop faincte & seductive,

Accompagne d’une langue diserte,

La Cité vieille, & Parme trop nastive,

Florence & Sienne rendront plus desertes.

English.

The fained and seducing holiness,

Accompanied with a fluent tongue,

Shall cause the old City, and too hasty Parma,

Florence and Sienna to be more desert.

ANNOT.

I know not what he means by the old City, unless it be Rome, by reason of its antiquity.