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

XVIX.

French.

A soustenir la grand cappe troublée,

Pour l’esclaireir les rouges marcheront,

De mort famille sera presqu’accablée,

Les rouges rouges, le rouge assommeront.

English.

To maintain up the great troubled Cloak,

The red ones shall march for to clear it,

A family shall be almost crushed to death,

The red, the red, shall knock down the red one.

ANNOT.

This seemeth to carry no other sense than a conspiracy of the Cardinals, called here by the name of the Red, the Red against the Pope, who is called the Red one.