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

Notwithstanding the obscurity of this sense, and the bad connexion of the words, we may perceive that by this Stanza is meant, that a King having two Mistresses shall exalt them in great honour, till by a report made by a fat woman and a lean one, that is in a consumption, that the said Ladies prove unfaithful to the King, he will depress them as low as they were before.

XXIX.

French.

De Pol Mansol dans Caverne caprine,

Caché & pris extrait hors par la barbe,

Captif mené comme beste mastine,

Par Begourdans amenée pres de Tarbe.

English.

From Pol Mansol in a Goats Den,

Hidden and taken, drawn out by the beard