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

XX.

French.

De la les Alpes grand Armée passera,

Un peu devant naistra monstre vapin,

Prodigieux, & subit tournera,

Le grand Toscan a son lieu plus propin.

English.

Beyond the Alpes shall a great Army go, and

A little before shall be born a Vapin Monster,

Prodigious and suddenly the great Toscan

Shall return to his nearest place.

ANNOT.

What the Author meaneth by vapin, is unknown to me, as for the word propin, it is a diminutive of the Latine word propinquus, by the figure of Rhetorick, called Tmesis.