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

Sur le Canon du respiral estage,

Si haut viendra du froment le boisseau,

Que l’homme d’homme sera Antropophage.

English.

The noise of the unwonted Bird having been heard,

Upon the Canon of the highest story,

The Bushel of Wheat shall rise so high,

That man of man shall be Antropophage.

ANNOT.

This is a prediction of a mighty Famine, wherein men shall eat up one another, when an unwonted Bird shall be seen and heard to cry, being perched upon one of the biggest pieces of Ordinance.