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

French.

De cinq cens ans plus compte l’on tiendra,

Celuy qu’estoit l’ornement de son temps,

Puis a un coup grande clarté donra,

Que pour ce Siecle les rendra tres-contens.

English.

For five hundred years no account shall be made,

Of him who was the ornament of his time:

Then on a sudden he shall give so great a light,

That for that age he shall make them to be most contented.