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

Dedans l’Europe, en Asia apparoistra,

Un de la ligne yssu du grand Hermes,

Et sur tous Rois de Orient croistra.

English.

So long expected shall never come

Into Europe, in Asia shall appear,

One come forth of the line of the great Hermes,

And shall grow above all the Kings in the East.

ANNOT.

All is plain, but only this, whether he taketh Hermes as a King of Ægypt, or as the Father of the Hermetick Philosophers.