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

XXVI.

French.

Deux freres sont de l’ordre Ecclesiastique,

Dont l’un prendra pour la France la pique,

Encor un coup si l’an six cens & six,

N’est afflige d’une grand maladie,

Les Armes en main jusques six cens & dix,

Gueres plus loing ne s’estendant sa vie.

English.

Two Brothers are of the Ecclesiastical Order,

One of which shall take up the Pike for France,

Once more, is in the year six hundred and six,

He be not afflicted with a great sickness,

The Weapons in his hands till six hundred and ten,

His Life shall reach not much further.

ANNOT.

In the year 1606. there was two Brothers of the House of Joyeuse, one called Francis Cardinal of Joyeuse, and the other a Capuchin Frier, the rest of the Brothers being dead without issue; Father Angel got a dispensation from the Pope to go out of his Covent, and to Marry, that the Family might not be extinguished, and so turned Courtier and Souldier again, till he had got a Daughter, who was afterwards married to the Duke of Guise; after that, remembring his Vows, he turned Capuchin again, and a little while after died, coming from Rome to Paris.