Qui ne fut onc un si horrible Throsne.
English.
From Mount Aymar shall proceed a Noble obscurity,
The evil shall come to the joyning of the Saone and Rhosne,
Soldiers shall be hid in the Wood on St. Lucy’s day,
So that there was never such an horrid Throne.
ANNOT.
There is a notable fault in the impression of the first Verse of this Stanza, for instead of Mount Aymar, it must be Montlimar, which is a Town in Provence or Languedoc, situated by the River Rhosne, the sense therefore of this, is, that from Montlimar shall proceed some notable and obscure design, and that shall reach as far as Lyons, which is the City where the Saone and Rhosne meet, and that for that purpose, there shall be hidden a great many Souldiers in a Wood on St. Lucy’s day, which is the 13th. of December.