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

Monaco is a Town seated by the Sea-side in Italy, between Provence and Genoa. This Prophecy hath been once already fulfilled, when the famous Pyrate Barbarossa, being sent by the grand Seignor, to help the French King against the Emperour Charles the V. in his return home, plundered all that Coast, and carried away an innumerable multitude of people into slavery.

V.

French.

Quand dans Poisson, Fer & Lettre enfermée,

Hors sortira qui puis fera la Guerre,

Aura par Mer sa classe bien ramée;

Aparoissant pres de Latine Terre.

English.

When in a Fish, Iron and a Letter shall be shut up,

He shall go out that afterwards shall make War,