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

XV.

French.

D’ou pensera faire venir famine,

De la viendra le rassasiement,

L’œil de la Mer par avare canine,

Pour de l’un lautre donra Huile, Froment.

English.

Whence one thought to make famine to come,

Thence shall come the fulness,

The eye of the Sea through a doggish covetousness,

Shall give to both Oyl and Wheat.

ANNOT.

This Prophecie was fulfilled at the famous Siege of Ostend, which lasted three years and three Months; for the Hollanders that brought relief to the Town, did for covetousness sell the ammunition to the Spaniards that besieged it, for which complaint being made by the States to the Prince of Orenge, Maurice of Nassaw, as also that they did the like to Newport, which he had besieged; he replyed smartly, do you not know that your Countrey men would Sail into Hell, were it not for fear to have their Sails burnt.