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.

Le faux message par election feinte,

Courir par Urbem rompue pache arreste,

Voix acheptées de sang chappelle teinte,

Et a un autre qui l’Empire conteste.

English.

The contract broken, stoppeth the message,

From going about the Town, by a fained election,

Voices shall be bought, and a Chappel died with blood,

By another, who challengeth the Empire.

ANNOT.

This was so falsely printed, and so preposterously set in order, that I had much ado to pick out this little sense of it, which amounteth to no more, than that by reason of an agreement broken, the Messenger, that went to publish a faigned election (it seemeth of the Empire) shall be hindred, and that one of the Competitors to the said Empire, shall be killed in or near a Chappel, that shall be soiled by his Blood.