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

XXXIX.

French.

De nuit dans le lit le supresme estranglé,

Pour avoir trop suborné blond esleu,

Par trois l’Empire subroge Exancle,

A mort mettra, Carte ne Pacquet leu.

English.

By night in the bed the chief one shall be strangled.

For having too much suborned fair Elect,

By three the Empire subrogate Exancle,

He shall put him to death, reading neither Card nor Packet.

ANNOT.

The Author hath purposely obscured this Prophecie in the third Verse, to take away the Knowledge of it from the Reader; because the parties concerned were then alive, viz. Philip II. King of Spain, who caused his only son Don Carlo to be strangled in his bed, for suspicion of being too familiar with his wife Elizabeth of France, and Daughter to Henry II. The last Verse saith, that he was so implacable, that he would read neither Card nor Packet, that is, no requests.