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

En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre,

Lieu bien infime d’exigue Comté,

Ou au milieu viendra poser son Scepter.

English.

The great Empire shall soon be translated,

Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards.

An inferiour place of a small County,

In the middle of which he shall come to lay down his Scepter.

ANNOT.

This is concerning the same Charles the V. Emperour, who about three years before his death, being weary of the World, resigned his Dominions of Spain and of the Low-Countries, to his Son Philip the II. and his Empire to his Brother Ferdinand, and retired himself into a Monastery of Castile, called l’Escurial, which after his death, was much enlarged and beautified by his Son Philip: and that is the meaning of our Author when he saith: