XXXIX.
French.
L’Enfant du Regne par Paternelle prinse,
Expolier sera pour delivrer,
Aupres du Lac Trasym en la Tour prinse,
La troupe hostage pour trop fort s’enyvrer.
English.
The Child of the Kingdom, through his Fathers imprisonement,
Shall be deprived of his Kingdom for the delivering of his father,
Near the Lake Trasymene shall be taken in a Tower,
The troop that was in Hostage, being drunk.
ANNOT.
The Lake Trasymene in Italy, is that near which Annibal got that famous Battle upon the Romans. The rest is as plain as the words can bear.