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

XXXVI.

French.

De Sœur le frere par simulte feintise,

Viendra mesler rosee en Mineral,

Sur la placente donne a vieille tardive,

Meurt le goustant, sera simple rural.

English.

The Brother of the Sister, with a fained dissimulation,

Shall mix Dew with Mineral,

In a Cake given to a slow old woman,

She dieth tasting of, the deed shall be simple, and Countrey like.

ANNOT.

This foretelleth a notable poisoning that shall be done by a Brother upon his Sister, which, because she died not fast enough, according to his mind: and therefore called her slow, he would set her forward with a poisoned Cake, the Poison was Mineral, and therefore Arsenick or Sublimate, mixed with Manna, called here Dew; because Manna is nothing but a Dew, condensed upon the Bark of a certain Tree; the Conclusion is, that the woman shall die eating of it, though the meat seemed to be simple and rural.