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

ANNOT.

This Key of the sense of this Stanza lieth in the last word Tauropole, which is compounded of the Latin word Taurus a Bull, and of the Greek word πολέω, that is, to sell; so that the meaning of it is, that those Cities mentioned shall rise in Rebellion against the Monopolites, and those that shall lay a Tax upon Cattle.

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French.

De la sixiesme claire splendeur Celeste,

Viendra Tonnerre si fort en la Bourgongne,

Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste,

Mars, Avril, May, Juin, grand charpin & rogne.

English.

From the sixth bright Cœlestial splendour,