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

Dessoubs la laze escrits Capitolin,

Os, poil retors, Romain force prouvée,

Classe agiter au Port de Methelin.

English.

A deep Column of fine Porphyry shall be found,

Under whose Basis shall be Roman writings,

Bones, haires twisted, Roman force tried,

A Fleet a gathering about the Port of Methelin.

ANNOT.

Porphiry is a kind of hard red Marble speckled with white spots, which is very scarce, and chiefly in great pieces; our Author then saieth that a great Colomn of that stuff shall be found, and about the Basis of it some words in Roman Characters, and that about that time a great Fleet shall be a gathering at the Port of Methelin, which is an Island in the Archipelago, belonging now to the Turks, as for the third Verse, I cannot tell what to make of it.