All Prophecies of Nostradamus
Century 4
IIII.1
[after the war of 1499 to
1503 between Venice and the Ottoman Turks]
This besides: for the remainder
of blood unshed
Venice demands that aid
be given.
After waiting for a very
long time,
the city yielded at the
first trumpet blast.
IIII.2
[possibly Froissart’s Chroniques,
describing Edward the Black Prince’s 1367 expedition into Spain]
Through [the] death, from
France he shall undertake a journey.
Via a fleet at sea, he shall
march over the Pyrenees Mountains.
Spain in turmoil, the troops
shall march:
some of the greatest ladies
abducted to France.
IIII.3
[possibly after Froissart,
as per the previous verse]
From Arras and Bourges [there
shall be] great hordes of Allobroges:
a greater number of Gascons
shall fight on foot.
Those along the Rhône
shall bleed Spain
near the mountain where
Sagunto sits.
IIII.4
[after the frustration of
the Emperor Charles V when, in 1536, the French and Turks allied to attack
him in Italy and Savoy]
The impotent Prince angry,
[there shall be] complaints and disputes
at rapes and pillage by
Cocks [French] and Africans [Turks?]:
a great is [host] by land,
by sea innumerable sails.
Italy [once] secure, the
Celts [French] shall be in pursuit.
IIII.5
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Christians [at] peace, under
One [Monarch] the divine word fulfilled,
Spain and Gaul shall be
united together.
Great disaster at hand,
and combat very bitter:
no heart there shall be
that is so bold as not to quake.
IIII.6
[source unidentified]
By those newly clad after
the discovery is made,
a malicious plot and machination:
the first to die shall be
the one who uncovers it,
tainted with Venetian guile.
IIII.7
[after Froissart’s Chroniques
and other documents describing the life and times of John of Gaunt (1340-99)
and his family]
The lesser son of the great
and hated Prince
of leprosy shall have a
great attack at the age of twenty:
from grief his mother shall
die very sad and emaciated,
and he shall die [be buried?]
where the cowardly leader falls [where Thom. Becket was hacked to death].
IIII.8
[source unidentified]
The great city by prompt
and sudden assault
[shall be] surprised at
night, the guards intercepted:
during the vigil and on
the eve of Saint-Quentin
the guards slaughtered and
the gates demolished.
IIII.9
[source unidentified]
The leader of the army in
the middle of the battle
by an arrow-shot shall be
wounded in the thighs,
when Geneva, in tears and
distress,
shall be betrayed by Lausanne
and the German Swiss.
IIII.10
[possibly after the attempted
coup against Henry V of England just before his departure for Harfleur
in 1415]
The young Prince falsely
accused
shall throw the army into
ferment and disputes:
the murder of the leader
for his support
shall pacify the Sceptre
[King]: then he shall cure scrofula.
IIII.11
[the appointment in 1493
by Pope Alexander VI of his own possibly illegitimate son Cesare Borgia
as a leading administrator]
He who shall have the government
of the Great Cope [the Papacy]
shall be prevailed upon
to commit some crime.
The twelve Red Ones [Cardinals]
shall sully their cloth:
murder upon murder shall
be perpetrated.
IIII.12
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
The greater army put shall
flight in disorder,
Scarcely further shall it
be pursued:
the army reassembled and
the legion reduced,
it shall then be chased
out completely by the Gauls.
IIII.13
[source unidentified]
Of greater losses the news
reported:
the report once made, the
army shall be astonished.
The troops [once] united
against [him] in revolt,
the double phalanx shall
abandon the lord.
IIII.14
[source unidentified]
The sudden death of the first
personage
shall have brought about
a change and put another in power,
sooner or later arriving
so high at so young an age,
that by land and sea he
shall be one to be feared.
IIII.15
[after an unidentified siege
and ruthless siege-breaker]
From where they shall think
to make famine come,
from there shall come replenishment.
The eye [King?/City?] of
the sea through [sheer] canine greed
to one or the other shall
give oil and wheat.
IIII.16
[after the then-recent history
of La Rochelle]
The Free City, become a servant
of liberty,
offers asylum to the downtrodden
and dreamers [of better times].
The King, [his mind] changed,
shall not be so hostile to them:
from a hundred they shall
have become more than a thousand.
IIII.17
[after an unidentified local
omen]
He shall change [route] via
Beaune, Nuits, Châlon and Dijon.
The duke, wishing to chastise
the Barrois,
walking by the river, of
a fish in a diver’s bleak
shall see the tail: the
gate shall be shut.
IIII.18
[after an unidentified persecution
of astrologers]
Some of those most learned
in celestial facts
shall be reproved by ignorant
princes,
punished by Edict, hounded
like criminals,
and put to death wherever
they shall be found.
IIII.19
[possibly after the Mirabilis
Liber of 1522/3]
Before Rouen the siege laid
by the Insubrians [troops from Milan],
by land and sea the passages
closed off:
of Hainaut and Flanders,
of Ghent and those of Liége
through the gifts of Bacchus
[i.e. through drink] they shall ravage the Borders.
IIII.20
[after the ancient necropolis
at nearby Arles known as les Alyscamps, and punning on its name]
Peace and plenty the place
shall long host:
throughout its empty realm
lilies [shall grow].
Bodies of the dead by water
and land shall be brought there,
vainly hoping for the chance
to be buried there.
IIII.21
[possibly after the Mirabilis
Liber of 1522/3]
The change shall be most
difficult,
[yet] city, province shall
gain by the change.
Of high courage and wise,
the bungler banished,
[by] sea and land people
shall change their state.
IIII.22
[after the defeat of King
François I at the battle of Pavia in 1525]
The great host that shall
be sent away
all at once shall be needed
by the King.
The word given shall be
broken from afar:
he shall find himself exposed,
in piteous disarray.
IIII.23
[source unidentified]
The legion in the fleet
shall burn lime, magnesium,
sulphur and pitch:
[then] a long rest in the
secure place.
Genoa [?] and Port’Ecole,
fire shall consume them.
IIII.24
[after an unidentified aural
apparition in local mine-or quarry-workings]
Heard underground the faint
voice of the Holy Virgin –
‘The human flame shall be
seen to shine as the divine’:
it shall cause the ground
[of the monasteries] to be stained with monks’ blood,
and the holy temples to
be destroyed by the impure.
IIII.25
[after contemporary alchemical
experiments]
Sublimated substances endlessly
visible to the eye
shall hide from view, for
these reasons,
bodies, forehead included,
headless and invisible,
diminishing the sacred prayers.
IIII.26
[quatrain in Provençal
after Julius Obsequens’s On Omens for 48 BC and/or Livy’s History of Rome
(xxi.46) for 218 BC]
The great swarm of bees shall
arise,
such that nobody shall know
whence they came.
By night an ambush. The
watch [asleep] beneath the vines [through drink],
city betrayed by five hidden
babblers.
IIII.27
[after the so-called Antiques
just south of Nostradamus’s birthplace of Saint-Rémy, and Charlemagne’s
nearby defeat of the Saracens]
Salon, [St-Paul de] Mausole,
Tarascon, the arch of SEX.,
where the Pyramide still
stands:
they shall deliver the Prince
of Denmark –
a shameful ransom – at the
temple of Artemis.
IIII.28
[the first of three quatrains
with an unidentified alchemical theme, possibly connected with some domestic
incident]
When Venus [copper] shall
be covered by the sun [gold],
beneath the brightness shall
be a hidden form.
Mercury shall have exposed
them in the fire:
by the noise of war [through
Mars = iron] it shall be put to the attack.
IIII.29
[another alchemical quatrain]
The sun [gold] hidden, eclipsed
by Mercury,
shall be placed only second
in the firmament:
by Vulcan Hermes [Mercury]
shall be foddered.
The sun [gold] shall be
seen pure, glowing red and yellow.
IIII.30
[another alchemical quatrain,
possibly connected to contemporary fluctuations in the value of gold and
silver]
Eleven more times he shall
not wish the moon [silver] and sun [gold]
to be significantly raised
or lowered in value,
and so little valued that
little gold shall be spun.
After famine, plague, the
secret shall be discovered.
IIII.31
[after Lucian’s famous The
Death of Peregrinus, probably as translated from the Greek into Latin as
De Morte Peregrini by Erasmus in 1502]
The moon in the depths of
night on the high mountain
the latter-day sage has
single-mindedly seen:
by his disciples urged to
be[come] immortal,
eyes southward, hands in
lap, body aflame.
IIII.32
[after Froissart’s report
in his Chroniques of the incendiary speech of John Ball during the failed
English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381]
Someplace, sometime meat
shall give way to fish:
Common Law shall be turned
on its head.
The old one shall hold firm,
then [the new one be] removed from the midst,
‘everything shared among
friends’ be abandoned.
IIII.33
[a final alchemical quatrain]
Jupiter [tin] conjoined more
with Venus [copper] than with the moon [silver],
appearing in white fullness:
Venus [copper] hidden under
the whiteness of Neptune [water]
struck by the weighted branch
of Mars [iron].
IIII.34
[after book VII of Commynes’
Mémoires, describing the transfer in 1495 by Pope Alexander Borgia
VI to Charles VIII of France (here assimilated to the contemporary Henry
II) of Prince Zimzim, brother of the Turkish Sultan Bajazet]
The great one from the foreign
land [shall be] led captive,
chained in gold, presented
to King CHYREN [Henri],
who in Ausonia [Italy] and
Milan shall lose the war,
and all his host put to
fire and sword.
IIII.35
[in part after Livy’s History
of Rome (xxii.1) and Julius Obsequens’s On Omens for 98 BC]
The fire extinguished, the
virgins [nuns] shall betray
the greater part of the
new band.
Lightning to [strikes] sword,
lance: the monks shall guard the King.
[In] Etruria and Corsica,
by night throat[s] cut.
IIII.36
[source unidentified]
The Games once again set
up again in Gaul
after victory around Milan
and in Campania:
[in the] mountains of Hesperia
[Italy], the lords tied, trussed up.
The Papal States and Spain
shall tremble with fear.
IIII.37
[possibly after the Mirabilis
Liber of 1522/3]
The Gaul shall by leaps penetrate
the mountains:
he shall occupy the great
city of Milan.
He shall make his host enter
the [very] heart of it.
Genoa and Monaco shall repulse
the red [bloody] Fleet.
IIII.38
[source unidentified]
While the duke shall distract
the King and Queen
the Byzantine chief [shall
be held] captive in Samothrace.
Before the assault one shall
eat the other [they shall be like cannibals].
Cantankerous, intractable,
he shall follow the trail of blood.
IIII.39
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
The Rhodians shall request
help,
through the neglect of its
inheritors [having been] abandoned [left to rack and ruin].
The Arab empire shall retrace
its steps,
things [shall be] put right
again by Hesperia [the West].
IIII.40
[source unidentified]
The fortresses of the besieged
[shall be] locked up,
by gunpowder reduced to
ruins.
The traitors shall be sawn
apart alive:
never did such a piteous
schism [split] happen to the priesthood!
IIII.41
[after Plutarch’s Parallel
Lives (Romulus, 29: Camilla, 33)]
[Of] female sex, held hostage,
she shall manage by night
to deceive the guards.
The camp commandant, deceived
by her language,
shall give in to her charms:
it [the result] shall be piteous to see.
IIII.42
[source unidentified]
Geneva and Langres by those
of Chartres and Dôle
and by Grenoble [shall be
taken] captive at Montélimar:
Seyssel, Lausanne, through
fraudulent deceit,
shall betray them for sixty
marks in gold.
IIII.43
[after Julius Obsequens’s
On Omens, or an unknown contemporary omen-report]
Arms shall be heard clashing
in the sky:
that very same year the
religious foes
shall endeavour unjustly
to dispute the holy laws.
By dint of anathemas and
war true believers [shall be] put to death.
IIII.44
[a further quatrain in Provençal,
after contemporary religious conflicts in southwestern France]
The lords of Mende, of Rodez
and Milhau
[shall inflict on] Cahors,
Limoges, Castres a bad week:
the [there shall be a] night-raid
by an apostate from Bordeaux
through Périgord
as the tocsin sounds.
IIII.45
[after the battle of Pavia
in 1525]
Through conflict a King shall
abandon the kingdom:
the greatest leader shall
let him down in time of need.
Dead, ruined – few shall
escape it,
all cut apart. There shall
be one witness to it.
IIII.46
[probably after a manuscript
copy of Froissart’s celebrated Chroniques, detailing events during the
Hundred Years’ War (I, 158-167), and in particular those surrounding the
Battle of Poitiers of 1356]
Strong defences being your
strongest point,
beware, Tours, of your imminent
ruin:
London and Nantes shall
stake their claim to Reims.
Do not go any further while
the mist persists.
IIII.47
[once again after Froissart’s
Chroniques, and the Black Prince’s bloody campaign of burning and looting
across western France leading to the Battle of Poitiers of 1356]
The savage Black One, when
he shall have tried
his bloody hand at fire,
sword and drawn bows:
all the people shall be
so terrified,
seeing their greatest lords
hanged by neck and foot.
IIII.48
[after Julius Obsequens’s
On Omens for 125 BC]
The fertile, spacious Ausonian
[Italian] plain
shall produce so many gadflies
and locusts,
[that] the solar brightness
shall become clouded over.
They shall eat everything,
[and] great pestilence shall come from them.
IIII.49
[after the De pactiana coniuratione
commentarium by Angelo Poliziano of 1553, describing the murder of the
papally-connected Giuliano de’ Medici on April 26 1478 during Easter Mass]
Before the people blood shall
be shed
which shall not be distant
from highest heaven:
but for a long time this
shall not be understood.
The mind of one only [Poliziano]
shall bear witness to it.
IIII.50
[after Manilius’s Astronomica
(iv.773-5), in praise of the Emperor Augustus]
Libra shall see the West
in power:
over heaven and earth it
shall hold the monarchy.
No one shall see the forces
of Asia Minor [Turkey] defeated
until seven in turn hold
[have held] the hierarchy.
IIII.51
[source unidentified]
The duke, eager to pursue
his enemy,
shall interfere and get
in the way of his army:
they shall pursue those
fleeing on foot so closely
that that day [there shall
be] a conflict near Ganges [near Montpellier].
IIII.52
[source unidentified]
[In] the besieged city men
and women [shall be] on the walls,
[with the] enemies outside,
the chief ready to surrender.
The wind shall be [turn]
strongly against the [enemy] troops:
they shall be driven away
with quicklime, dust and ashes.
IIII.53
[source unidentified]
The fugitives and exiles
recalled,
noble fathers and sons shall
fortify the high places,
the cruel father and his
men choked,
his son, even worse, thrown
down the well.
IIII.54
[after the life of King François
I]
Of a name that no Gallic
[French] King ever had,
never was there so fearful
a thunderbolt,
Italy, Spain and the English
quaking,
most attentive to foreign
women.
IIII.55
[apparently after Suetonius’s
The Twelve Caesars, describing the omens accompanying the death of the
Emperor Domitian (xii.15, 23)]
When the crow attached to
[sitting on] the tower of brick
for seven hours shall do
nothing but caw,
death foretold, the statue
stained with blood,
the tyrant murdered. The
people shall pray to the gods.
IIII.56
[source unidentified]
After the victory of the
Rabid Tongue,
the spirit [shall be] tempted
by tranquillity and repose:
the bloody victor throughout
the conflict gives speeches
[enough] to roast the tongue
and the flesh and the bones.
IIII.57
[after Suetonius’s Twelve
Caesars on the Emperor Domitian (xii.1, 10)]
Ignorant envy [being] encouraged
by the great King,
he shall propose to ban
the writings:
his wife (not his wife)
tempted by another.
More than twice two [shall
utter] neither sound nor screams.
IIII.58
[after the landing on the
Italian coast of the Turkish pirate Barbarossa in 1543 in search of water,
when he married the daughter of the governor of Gaeta]
The burning sun shall stick
in the throat,
the Etruscan land sprinkled
with human blood:
the chief [with a] pail
of water shall lead his son away,
the captive lady taken to
Turkish territory.
IIII.59
[after the attack on Nice
by the Turkish pirate Barbarossa (then 80) in 1544]
Two [towns], besieged in
burning heat,
by thirst extinguished for
a couple of cupfuls [of water]:
the fort stripped down by
an old dreamer
shall show the Genevans
the way to Nice.
IIII.60
[source unidentified]
The seven children [having
been] left behind as hostage,
the third shall slaughter
his child:
two by his son shall be
stabbed with a dagger.
Genoa, Florence he shall
then transfix.
IIII.61
[possibly after the deposition
from power of High Constable Anne de Montmorency in 1541 in favour of the
Guises of Lorraine]
The old one [shall be] mocked
and deprived of his place
by the foreigner who shall
suborn him:
his son’s hands eaten before
his face,
the brother at Chartres
shall betray Orléans, Rouen.
IIII.62
[after the baronial ambitions
of Gaspard de Coligny, appointed first Colonel General of the French Infantry
in the late 1540s and later a prominent Protestant]
A colonel with an ambitious
plot
shall seize control of the
greater army:
against his Prince [he shall
create] a false invention,
and he [himself] shall be
discovered beneath the whole tangle.
IIII.63
[after an unidentified military
campaign]
The Celtic army [shall move]
against the mountain folk
who shall be spotted and
captured in the middle of a meal:
fresh people from the area
shall soon repulse the grape-treaders,
all cut down by the edge
of the sword.
IIII.64
[source unidentified]
The deserter in the garb
of a citizen
shall try the King for his
offence:
[of] fifteen soldiers, for
the most part outlaws,
a final life as head of
his estate.
IIII.65
[source unidentified]
Against the deserter of the
great fortress,
after he shall have abandoned
his post,
his adversary shall show
such great prowess.
[By] the Emperor he shall
soon be condemned to death.
IIII.66
[source unidentified]
Under the feigned colour
[the disguise] of seven shaven heads [monks]
various spies shall be scattered
[sent forth],
wells and fountains sprinkled
with poison.
At the fort[ress] of Genoa,
devourers of men [cannibalism].
IIII.67
[after the various natural
phenomena of 1556 and François de Guise’s attack on Naples of May
1557]
[In] The year when Saturn
and Mars are equally close to the sun,
the air very dry, a long-tailed
meteor:
through secret fires a large
area [shall be] burnt up by the heat.
Little rain, hot wind, wars,
raids.
IIII.68
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
One year quite soon, not
far from Venus [Venice],
the two supreme lords of
Asia Minor [Turkey] and of [North] Africa,
from the Rhine and Lower
Danube [i.e.. the borders of the Empire] shall be said to have come [i.e.
like the former ‘Barbarians at the gates’].
Screams, tears at Malta
and on the Ligurian coast.
IIII.69
[source unidentified]
The exiles shall hold the
great city,
the citizens dead, murdered
or expelled:
those of Aquileia shall
promise Parma
to show them the way in
via unmarked paths.
IIII.70
[possibly after Froissart’s
account in his Chroniques of Edward the Black Prince’s Spanish expedition
of 1357]
Quite adjacent to the great
Pyrenees mountains,
one [man] shall raise a
great army against the Eagle:
veins opened, forces wiped
out,
such that as far as Pau
he shall pursue the leader.
IIII.71
[source unidentified]
Instead of the wife the daughters
[shall be] slaughtered,
[yet] the foul murder she
shall not survive:
in the well the virgins
drowned,
the wife extinguished by
a potion of aconite.
IIII.72
[source unidentified]
The Narbonnais through Agen
and Lectoure
at Saint-Félix shall
hold their parliament:
those of Bazas shall promptly
seize the worst moment
to seize Condom and Marsan.
IIII.73
[possibly after Suetonius’s
Twelve Caesars (Augustus, 45)]
The noble nephew by force
shall put to the proof
the pact made with a grudging
heart:
Ferrara and Asti the leader
shall try,
one evening when the pantomime
is on.
IIII.74
[after contemporary religious
conflicts between northern Protestants and southern Catholics]
Those of lake Geneva and
of Eure and Sarthe
[shall be] all united against
those of Aquitaine:
many Germans, even more
Swiss.
They shall be defeated,
along with those of Maine.
IIII.75
[after the defeat of King’s
François I at the battle of Pavia in 1525]
Ready to fight, there shall
be a desertion:
the chief adversary shall
gain the victory.
The rearguard shall put
up a defence,
the injured [and] dead [left]
in no-man’s-land.
IIII.76
[after contemporary religious
conflicts in southwestern France]
The people of Agen by those
of Périgord
shall be harried all the
way to the Rhône:
a henchmen of the Gascons
and Bigorre
shall betray the church,
[even while] the priest is giving his sermon.
IIII.77
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3, applied to King Henri II]
Lunar the monarch, Italy
at peace,
kingdoms united by the Christian
King of the world:
dying, he shall want to
lie in the soil of Blois,
after chasing the pirates
from the sea.
IIII.78
[after the contemporary wars
in Italy]
The great army in the civil
war
[shall be] found abroad
around Parma by night:
seventy-nine murdered within
the town,
the foreigners all put to
the sword.
IIII.79
[after contemporary conflicts
in southwestern France]
Blood Royal, flee Monheurt,
Mas, Aiguillon!
The Landes shall be filled
with Bordelais.
[In] Navarre, Bigorre, sword-points
and spurs:
The deeply famished shall
devour cork oak acorns.
IIII.80
[after contemporary battles
in southern France around Nîmes and the famous Pont du Gard aqueduct]
Near the great river by a
great conduit watering the land,
into fifteen parts shall
the water be divided:
the city captured, fire,
blood, screams, a conflict inflicted,
and most of them gathered
together in the coliseum [amphitheatre].
IIII.81
[after the contemporary wars
between France and the Holy Roman Empire, notably around the river Scheldt]
A bridge shall at once be
built of pontoons
to carry across the army
of the great Prince of Belgium:
in they shall fall, and
not far from Brussels.
Of those who shall cross,
seven shall be cut up with halberds.
IIII.82
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
A horde approaches, coming
from Slavonia:
the Old Destroyer the City
shall ruin.
He shall see his Romania
[Rome and its possessions] quite desolated,
then he shall not know how
to put out the great flame.
IIII.83
[source unidentified]
[In] combat by night the
valiant captain,
vanquished, shall flee:
few people slaughtered.
His people stirred up, [there
shall be] a serious sedition:
his own son shall hold him
besieged.
IIII.84
[after the miserable death
of Pierre II de Courtenay, Count of Auxerre, while on his way to claim
the throne of Constantinople in 1217]
A noble of Auxerre shall
die most wretchedly,
driven out by those who
had been under him,
bound in chains, and then
[tethered] by a crude cable,
in the year when Mars, Venus
and Sun are together in summer.
IIII.85
[after the events of 1546-7
involving the pestilence of Naples, the banning of Protestant heretics,
the withdrawal of the Dauphin Henri from court and the bequest to him by
his father of a camel, a lion and a panther acquired from Africa in 1533]
The white Plague shall be
followed by the black one,
one made prisoner shall
be dragged in an execution-cart,
a Moorish camel on hobbled
Feet.
Then the younger son shall
hood the hawk.
IIII.86
[after the coronation of
Charles VIII of France in 1483]
The year when Saturn shall
be in conjunction in Aquarius
with the Sun, the most puissant
King
shall be received and anointed
at Reims and Aix.
After [his] conquests, he
shall murder the innocent.
IIII.87
[source unidentified]
A King’s son, learned in
so many languages,
shall quarrel with his senior
in the kingdom:
his father-in-law, commandeered
by the elder son,
shall cause his main henchman
to perish.
IIII.88
[after the demise, and death
from phtyriasis (lice) and gangrene in 1535, of Chancellor Antoine Duprat,
Cardinal Archbishop of Sens and papal legate, suspected in 1530 of having
debased and misappropriated gold from the huge ransom collected for the
release of François I from Spain]
Great Anthony, by that filthy
thing called
phtyriasis [lice] eaten
up to his end,
one who would be covetous
[even] of lead,
passing the port [Losing
his post], shall be deposed from his appointed position.
IIII.89
[apparently after the 11th-century
Gesta Cnutonis Regis, describing the accession to the English throne of
King Canute of Denmark in 1016 following the death of Edmund Ironside]
Thirty from London shall
secretly conspire
against their king, the
enterprise [being] on the deck [by sea]:
he and his supporters shall
taste death.
A blond king appointed,
a native of Frisia.
IIII.90
[after accounts of an unidentified
contemporary siege in northern Italy]
The two armies shall be unable
to get to grips with each other on the walls,
[because] in that instant
Milan and Pavia shall quake.
Hunger, thirst, doubt shall
penetrate them so strongly,
[since] they shall have
not a single scrap of meat, bread or provisions.
IIII.91
[source unidentified]
Of the Gallic [French] duke
compelled to fight a duel
the ship from Melilla shall
not approach Monaco:
falsely accused, perpetual
prison.
His son shall attempt to
reign before his death.
IIII.92
[source unidentified]
The head cut off of the valiant
captain
shall be thrown at the feet
of his adversary,
his body hanged from the
yard-arm of the fleet.
Confused, it shall flee
under oars against the wind.
IIII.93
[after Plutarch’s account
in his Parallel Lives (Alexander, 2) of an omen preceding the birth of
Alexander the Great]
A serpent seen near the royal
bed
shall be by the lady at
night: the dogs shall not bark.
Then shall be born in France
a prince so royal
that all princes shall regard
him as heaven-sent.
IIII.94
[source unidentified, but
with a reference in the last line to the arrival in France of the Plague
in 1347/8]
Two brother-nobles shall
be chased out of Spain,
the elder defeated under
the Pyrenees mountains.
The sea shall redden, the
Rhône, Lake Geneva bloody from Germany:
Narbonne, Béziers
contaminated via Agde.
IIII.95
[an injudicious prophecy
based on the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V’s division of his empire between
his son Philip and his brother Ferdinand in 1555/6]
The kingdom left to two,
they shall hold it [only] very briefly:
after three years and seven
months they shall be at war [with each other].
The two Vestals [The vassal
leaders] shall rebel against them:
the elder shall be the victor
in the land of Brittany.
IIII.96
[another injudicious prophecy
based on confused data, this time after contemporary English dynastic politics,
apparently referring to Queen Mary, Philip II of Spain and Mary’s half-brother
Edward]
The elder sister of the British
Isle
fifteen years before her
brother shall take her birth.
Through her fiancé,
pending verification,
she shall succeed to the
Kingdom of Libra [Spain].
IIII.97
[presumably a prophecy for
the contemporary John III of Portugal, born in 1502, who would in fact
die in 1557 at the age of 55]
[In] the year when Mercury,
Mars, Venus [shall be] retrograde,
the line of the great Monarch
shall not die out:
chosen by the Portuguese
people near Cadiz,
he shall grow very old in
peace and power.
IIII.98
[after unidentified contemporary
Italian regional squabbles]
Those of Alba shall make
their way into Rome,
in view of Langres flags
flying at half-mast:
Marquis and Duke shall pardon
no man.
Fire, blood, smallpox, no
water, crops shall fail.
IIII.99
[after Froissart’s account
in his Chroniques of the victories of Edward the Black Prince, grandson
of Edward I of England and eldest son of the effeminate Edward II]
The valiant elder son of
the King’s ‘daughter’
shall push back the Celts
so far
that he shall send thunderbolts,
so many and in such array,
near and far, then deep
into Spain.
IIII.100
[after Julius Obsequens’s
On Omens for 163 BC, combined with Richard Roussat’s hint in his Livre
de l’estat et mutations des temps that the ‘Age of Mars’ allegedly just
ended (in 1533) might be repeated again in the future]
Fire [shall fall from] from
the sky on the Royal edifice
when the light of Mars shall
fade:
seen months’ great war,
the people dead through malignant acts.
Rouen, Evreux shall not
fail the King.
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