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

XXV.

French.

Six cens & six, six cens & neuf,

Un Chancelier gros comme un Bœuf

Vieux comme le Phœnix du Monde,

En ce Terroir plus ne luira,

De la Nef doubly passera,

Au Champs Elysiens faire ronde.

English.

Six hundred and six, six hundred and nine,

A Chancellor big as an Oxe,

Old as the Phœnix of the World,

Shall shine no more in this Countrey,

Shall pass from the Ship of forgetfulness,

Into the Elysian Fields to go the round.

ANNOT.

Six and nine joyned together makes 15. the meaning of this therefore is, that about the year 1615. should die the Chancellor of France, who was then Nicolas Brulart Lord of Sillery a very corpulent man.