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

XVI.

French.

Faux a l’Estang, joint vers la Sagittaire,

En son haut Auge de l’Exaltation,

Peste, Famine, mort de main Militaire,

Le Siecle approcher de renovation.

English.

The Sith to the Fish-pond, joyned to Sagittarius,

In the highest Auge of the Exaltation,

Plague, Famine, Death by a Military hand,

The age groweth near to its renovation.

ANNOT.

The sense of all this is, that when a Meadow that was a Fish-pond before, shall be Mowed, the Sign of Sagittarius being in its Auge or ascendant, then shall Plague, Famine, and War Reign, and that age (which a Century of years shall be near its end and renovation viz. of another Century.)