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.

Celuy qui a par plusieurs fois,

Tenu la Cage & puis les bois,

Rentre a son premier estre,

Vie sauve pen apres sortir,

Ne se scachant encor cognoistre,

Cherchera subject pour mourir.

English.

He that hath many times,

Been in the Cage and in the Woods,

Cometh again to his first being,

And shall go out a little after with his life safe,

And not able yet to know himself,

Shall seek a subject to be put to death.

ANNOT.

This is yet concerning the Earl of Auvergne half Brother to the Dutchess of Verneuil, who for his misdemeanours having been put several times in the Bastille, and set free again, nevertheless was attempting still some new thing, which might have endangered his life.