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

This Stanza being full of Figures and Equivoques, I will not interpose my Judgement in it, lest I undertake too much, and perform too little.

XXXIX.

French.

De nuit dans le lit le supresme estranglé,

Pour avoir trop suborné blond esleu,

Par trois l’Empire subroge Exancle,

A mort mettra, Carte ne Pacquet leu.

English.

By night in the bed the chief one shall be strangled.

For having too much suborned fair Elect,