XXXIV.

French.

Princes & Seigneurs tous se feront la guerre,

Cousin Germain, le Frere avec le Frere,

Finy l’Arby de l’heureux de Bourbon,

De Hierusalem les Princes aimables,

Du fait commis enorme & execrable,

Se ressentiront sur la bourse sans fond.

English.

Princes and Lords shall war one against another

Cousin German, the Brother against the Brother,

The Arby finished of the happy Bourbon,

The Princes of Hierusalem so lovely,

Of the enormous and execrable fact committed

Shall ressent upon the bottomless Purse.

ANNOT.

This foretelleth of the Wars that were to be between the Princes and Lords a little after the death of Henry the IV. when the Marshal d’Ancre took upon him the administration of affairs by the favour of the Queen Regent Mary of Medicis.