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

XVII.

French.

Au mesme temps un grand endurera,

Joyeux, malsain, l’an complet ne verra,

Et quelques uns qui Seront de la feste,

Feste pour un feulement, a ce jour,

Mais peuapres sans faire long sejour,

Deux se donront l’un l’autre de la teste.

English.

At the same time a great one shall suffer,

Joyful, sickly, shall not see the year compleat,

And some others who shall be of the feast,

A feast for one only at that day,

But a little while after without long delay,

Two shall knock one another in the head.

ANNOT.

This Stanza hath relation to the precedent, for about the time of, or a little before that famous Christning died Pope Leo the IX. formerly called Cardinal of Florence, who did not live a whole year in the papacy; and is called here Joyful, Sickly, because though infirm, he did much rejoyce in the obtaining of it; those others that were of the Feast, were some Cardinals of his party, who died also within the same year.

The two last Verses signifie the differences that happened, between Paul V. his Successor, and the Common-wealth of Venice presently after his death.