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

XXXVII.

French.

L’œuvre ancienne se parachevera,

Du toit cherra sur le grand mal ruine,

Innocent fait, mort on accusera,

Nocent caché taillis a bruine.

English.

The ancient work shall be finished,

From the tiling shall fall upon the great one an evil ruine,

The innocent declared to be so, shall be accused after his death,

The guilty shall be hidden in a wood in a misty weather.

ANNOT.

By the first Verse is understood an ancient building, which shall be finished and brought to perfection, I suppose it to be the Louvere, which hath been a building in the Reign of seven Kings. But before it be throughly finished, some ruine shall fall upon a great man and kill him; one declared innocent of the fact shall be accused of it after his death, and he that shall be guilty of it shall escape by hiding himself in a Wood in misty weather.