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

XXXI.

French.

Celuy qui a les hazards surmouté,

Qui fer, feu, eau, na jamais redouté,

Et du Pais bien proche du Basacle,

D’un coup de fer tout le Monde eftonné,

Par Crocodil estrangement donné,

Peuple ravy de voir un tel spectacle.

English.

He that hath overcome the dangers,

That hath never feared Iron, Fire nor Water,

And of the Countrey near the Basacle,

By a stroke of Iron (all the World being astonished),

By a Crocodile strangely given,

People will wonder to see such a spectacle.

ANNOT.

This Prophecy may admit of two Interpretations; the first, that Henry the IV. who was born in the Province of Bearn, not far from Thoulouze, the chief City of Languedoc, wherein there is a place upon the River called Basacle, where the Mills are, who was stobbed with a knife by Francis Ravillac in the year 1610.

The other is of the last Duke of Montmorency, who being Governour of Languedoc, took up Arms against the King, in the behalf of the Duke of Orleans, for which he was beheaded at Thoulouse at the solicitation of Cardinal Richelieu, which happened about the year 1632.