All Prophecies of Nostradamus
Century 6
VI.1
[after Plutarch’s account
in his Parallel Lives of the flight of the old Roman general Gaius Marius
from the pursuing forces of Sulla]
Around the Pyrenees mountains
a great throng
of foreigners shall aid
the new King:
by the Garonne near the
great temple of Le Mas [d’Agenais],
a Roman chief shall trap
him in the water.
VI.2
[after Richard Roussat’s
Livre de l’estat et mutations des temps of 1549/50]
In the year five hundred
and eighty, more or less,
we should expect a very
strange age:
in the year seven hundred,
heaven be my witness,
many kingdoms (from one
to five) shall change.
VI.3
[after the religious problems
that beset the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V from his coronation in 1520]
The river [the Rhine] that
tests the new Celtic heir
shall be [placed] in great
discord by the Empire:
the young prince through
the ecclesiastical folk
shall remove the regal sceptre
of concord.
VI.4
[after the invasion of France
across the Rhine by the Emperor Charles V in July 1536]
The Celtic river [the Rhine]
shall exchange its shore:
no longer shall it include
the city of Agrippina [Cologne].
All [shall be] transformed
except the old language.
Saturn, Leo, Mars, shall
plunder Cancer.
VI.5
[after the new situation
of Amiens (the Gallic Samarobriva) after the Imperial invasion mentioned
in the previous verse, standing in no-man’s-land between the Holy Roman
Empire to the east and France to the west, instead of some 91 French leagues
as the crow flies from the former border with the Empire on the Rhine]
Such great famine [there
shall be] through a pestiferous wave
through long rains along
the arctic pole [the northern hemisphere]:
Samarobriva, a hundred leagues
from the [Eastern] hemisphere,
shall live without law [any
particular government], exempt from politics.
VI.6
[possibly after reports of
the comet of 1530]
There shall appear towards
the north,
not far from Cancer, the
bearded star [comet]:
[then over] Susa, Siena,
Boeotia, Eretria.
The lord of Rome shall die
the night it disappears.
VI.7
[after Tacitus’s Annals of
Imperial Rome concerning the forced withdrawal of the Emperor Claudius’s
brother Germanicus Caesar from the German forests]
Norway and Dacia and the
British Isle
shall be harried by the
united brothers:
the Roman leader [who has]
sprung from Gallic blood
and his forces [shall be]
driven back in the forests.
VI.8
[after the relative undervaluing
of scholars and scholarship under the new Henry II]
Those whose knowledge once
counted in the kingdom
shall become impoverished
on the change of King:
some, exiled without support,
shall have no gold [money].
The lettered and letters
shall not be greatly prized.
VI.9
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3 and the grisly fate of the money-laundering Chancellor Antoine
Duprat, as per IV.88 above]
In the sacred temples [churches]
scandals shall be perpetrated:
they shall be counted as
honours and commendations.
Of one, of whom they [shall]
engrave medals of silver and gold,
the end shall be in truly
strange torments.
VI.10
[after the Journal of Louise
de Savoie]
For a short time the temples
[churches shall be] with colours
of both white and black
intermingled:
reds and yellows shall steal
away their people from them.
Blood on the land: plague,
famine, fire: sent mad by water.
VI.11
[evidently after the contemporary
French royal family]
Of seven offspring shall
be reduced to three
the eldest ones: [they]
shall be overtaken by death.
The two [The leaders] shall
be seduced by fratricide:
the plotters while sleeping
shall be [found] dead.
VI.12
[after unidentified political
and military events involving King Henry II of France]
He shall raise forces to
rise against the Empire:
against the Vatican the
blood royal shall hold fast.
Flemings, English, Spain
shall with him strive:
against Italy [and] France
[they] shall contend.
VI.13
[after the Great Western
Church Schism involving the mentally ill Pope Urban VI, elected in 1378,
but then reneged on by the formerly supportive cardinals in favour of Pope
Clement VII]
A dubious one shall come
not far from power:
the greater part shall be
willing to uphold him.
A Capitol shall not want
him to reign at all:
his great burden he shall
be unable to bear.
VI.14
[after the capture and imprisonment
of King Richard I of England in Vienna in 1192]
Far from his land a King
shall lose the battle:
having quickly escaped,
pursued, then captured.
Not realising [that a prince
is] beneath the golden mail,
under false clothing, [and]
the enemy [shall be] surprised.
VI.15
[possibly after the exile
of Martin Luther in Wartburg castle after the Diet of Worms of 1521]
Under the tombstone shall
be found the prince
who shall have gained the
prize over Nuremberg:
the Spanish king, just within
Capricorn,
[Shall be] Deceived and
betrayed by the Lord of Wittenberg.
VI.16
[after the expulsion of the
Emperor Frederick Barbarossa from northern Italy by the Norman rulers of
Sicily in 1176, leaving only his Benedictine entourage behind]
That which shall be snatched
from the young Hawk
by the Normans from France
and Picardy
the Black Ones of the Church
[Benedictines] of the Black Forest area
shall make an inn and hearth
of Lombardy.
VI.17
[after the history of Nostradamus’s
own Jewish forebears]
After the files [books],
the ass-drivers [indicted] [shall be] burned [as well]:
they shall be forced to
change into a range of clothing.
The Saturnians [Jews] burned
by the millers [monks],
apart from most of those
who shall not have converted.
VI.18
[after the story of a contemporary
Jewish doctor at the Court in Paris, if not of Nostradamus himself]
By the physicians the great
King given up,
by fate, not the Jew’s art,
he stays alive:
he and his ilk raised high
in the kingdom,
pardon granted to the race
that denies Christ.
VI.19
[after events involving an
unidentified omen]
The real flame shall consume
the lady
who shall want to put the
innocents in the fire:
before the assault the army
is inflamed
when in Seville a monstrous
bull shall be seen.
VI.20
[after the Holy League of
1537, drawn up between Pope Paul III, the Emperor Charles V and the republic
of Venice to oppose the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent]
The Holy League shall be
of short duration:
of those who have changed
most shall change their minds.
In the vessels men shall
be a long time:
then shall Rome have a new
Leopard [Pope].
VI.21
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3 and its predictions of a future ‘Angelic Pastor’]
When those of the arctic
pole [the northern hemisphere] are allied together,
in the East [there shall
be] great terror and fear:
[with] the newly elected
[Pope] supporting the mighty Church,
Rhodes, Byzantium [shall
be] stained with Barbarian blood.
VI.22
[after an unidentified incident
in England, taken as an omen for the rise of Protestantism]
Within the land [diocese?]
of the great holy church
a nephew/grandson [shall
be] murdered at London during a sham truce.
The Bark [of the Fisherman,
i.e. the Church] shall then become schismatic:
fake liberty shall be proclaimed
everywhere.
VI.23
[after the alleged money-laundering
activities of the rascally Chancellor, Papal Legate, quintuple bishop and
Cardinal Archbishop of Sens, Antoine Duprat, and the contemporary decay
of the Church]
By one power-obsessed the
coinage [shall be] depreciated,
and people shall be stirred
up against their King:
[by] high office [and religious]
novelties holy laws debased.
Never was Rapis [Paris]
in so dire a plight.
VI.24
[after the Mirabilis Liber’s
predictions of the advent of a future Grand Monarque, timed astrologically
to follow a summer war as per the Roman civil war of 50 BC]
Mars and the Sceptre [Jupiter]
shall find themselves in conjunction:
under Cancer [in the summer]
calamitous war.
Shortly afterwards a new
King shall be anointed
who for a long time shall
pacify the land.
VI.25
[source unidentified]
Through a hostile war shall
the monarchy
of the great Fisherman be
in ruinous trouble:
a new, black red [dark Cardinal]
shall take control.
The traitors shall act on
a day of drizzle.
VI.26
[apparently after Popes Julius
III and Gregory VIII]
For four years the see shall
hold together fairly well,
[but then] one libidinous
in lifestyle shall succeed to it:
Ravenna, Pisa and Verona
shall support
the Pope’s desire to take
up the Cross [to mount a Crusade].
VI.27
[after Plutarch’s account,
in his Parallel Lives, of Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Punjab
(which literally means ‘five rivers’)]
[From] within the isles where
five rivers join in one [the Punjab],
for the Crescent of [against?]
the great lunar Chyren [Henri]
in the drizzles/mists of
the air the fury of one:
six escaped, hidden [in]
bundles of flax.
VI.28
[possibly after the Italian
campaign of Duke François de Guise in May 1557]
The great Celt shall enter
Rome,
leading a throng of exiles
and banished:
the mighty Pastor shall
put to death [shelter?] every man
who joined up in the Alps
for the Cock.
VI.29
[after an unidentified case
of a mother saving her sons from the Inquisition]
The holy widow, hearing the
news
of her offspring placed
in perplexity and trouble,
who shall be induced to
calm the disputes,
through her legal action
shall triumph over the monks.
VI.30
[source unidentified]
Through the appearance of
fake holiness,
the see shall be betrayed
to the enemies:
in the night when they thought
to sleep safely,
near Brabant those of Liège
shall be on the march.
VI.31
[source unidentified]
The King shall find what
he desired so much
when the Prelate shall be
mistakenly recaptured:
his reply to the Duke shall
make him displeased
who in Milan shall put many
to death.
VI.32
[source unidentified, but
possibly connected with the troubles of Charles V in the Low Countries]
For treason people [having
been] beaten to death with sticks,
captured and overtaken he
shall be by his own [the resulting] disorder:
frivolous counsel [shall
be] offered to the captive lord
when Begich [Belgium?] shall
quarrel furiously with itself.
VI.33
[after Tacitus’s account,
in his Annals of Imperial Rome (VI.41-4), of the deposing of the Roman
puppet Tiridates III by the Scythian Artabanus III in Mesopotamia, the
‘land between two rivers’, in AD 37, after he had occupied Halus and Artemita]
His remaining force bloody
as a result of Alus [Halus],
he shall be unable to guarantee
his safety by sea:
between two rivers a military
force shall encircle him.
The black and angry one
shall make him sorry.
VI.34
[after an unidentified use
of a military catapult]
Of flying fire the machine
shall trouble the great
besieged leader:
within, there shall be such
sedition
that the defeated shall
be in despair.
VI.35
[after unidentified drought
and fires of spring and early summer]
Near Orion and close to the
white wool [Aries],
the Sun [in] Aries, Taurus,
Cancer, Leo, Virgo,
Mars, Jupiter, [there] shall
burn great plains,
forests and cities. Letters
sealed with a candle [candlewax].
VI.36
[after Plutarch’s account
in his Parallel Lives of the flight of the aged consul Marius from the
pursuing troops of Sulla in around 80 BC]
Neither good nor evil through
the land-battle
shall reach the confines
of Perugia:
Pisa shall rebel, Florence
shall see much woe.
The King wounded by night
on a mule, covered with black mud.
VI.37
[source unidentified]
The ancient work shall be
fulfilled:
from the roof shall evil
ruin drop upon the lord.
An innocent they shall accuse
of the mortal act,
the guilty one hidden in
a copse under [the cover of] drizzle/mist.
VI.38
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
To the beaten ones of peace
[on behalf of] the enemies
after conquering Italy,
the bloodthirsty black one
[Moor] and red shall be determined
fire, blood to shed: water
stained with blood.
VI.39
[source unidentified]
The Royal prince, on the
capture of his father,
shall be exposed to deliver
[ransom] him:
near the azure Lake of Perugia
captured,
the troop [of abductors]
taken hostage through having become much too drunk.
VI.40
[source unidentified]
For slaking his great thirst,
the Lord of Mainz
shall be deprived of his
great dignity:
those of Cologne shall complain
so loudly about it
that the whole crew shall
be thrown into the Rhine.
VI.41
[after the 11th-century Gesta
Cnutonis Regis, part of the Annales Bertiani, or Annals of St Bertin, describing
the pilgrimage of the lavishly generous King Canute (Knut II of Denmark)
to Rome in 1027 for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II]
The second head of the kingdom
of Denmark
for those of Frisia and
of the British Isle
shall spend more than a
hundred thousand marks
[in his] vain [efforts]
to fulfil a journey to Italy.
VI.42
[after the Mirabilis Liber’s
predictions of the advent of a future Grand Monarque]
To Ogmios [the Gallic Hercules
(Henri II)] shall be left the realm
of the great Lunar One [Muslim],
who shall also be defeated.
Throughout Italy he shall
extend his banner:
he shall be governed by
prudent guile.
VI.43
[after the Hundred Years’
War between France and England between 1337 and 1453]
For a long time it shall
be without inhabitants
around where the Seine and
the Marne water,
assailed by the Thames and
its warriors [the English].
The guards [shall] deceive
themselves in thinking to repulse them.
VI.44
[after an unidentified rash
of contemporary omens]
By night the rainbow shall
appear near Nantes:
naval technologies shall
stir up rain.
In the Gulf of Arabia a
great fleet shall sink:
in Saxony a monster shall
be born of a bear and a sow.
VI.45
[source unidentified]
The most learned governor
of the kingdom,
not wishing to consent to
the royal edict,
the fleet at Melilla through
contrary wind
shall reduce him to his
most disloyal.
VI.46
[source unidentified, but
with some of the imagery presumably based on the Latin Epigrams of Ulrich
von Hutten (1488-1523)]
A just one shall be sent
into exile
through [at a time of] pestilence
to the confines of the Market of the Sigils [at Rome].
His reply to the Red one
shall cause him to be banished,
the King retreating before
the Frog [Sea-Fish] and the Eagle.
VI.47
[after an unidentified incident
in the contemporary wars in the Netherlands]
Between two mountains the
two lords assembled
shall abandon their secret
quarrel:
Brussels and Dôle,
overcome by Langres,
shall inflict their plague
at Malines.
VI.48
[after an unidentified incident
in the contemporary Italian wars]
The too false and seductive
sanctity
[shall be] accompanied by
a ready tongue:
the old city, and Parma
too hasty,
shall lay waste Florence
and Siena.
VI.49
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
On behalf of Mars [war],
the great Pontiff
shall subjugate the confines
of the Danube:
he shall put Christians
to the sword by hook or crook.
Captives, gold rings, more
than a hundred thousand rubies.
VI.50
[after the recovery from
the Tiber of the body of the Duke of Gandia, murdered on the orders of
Cesare Borgia in 1497, plus the activities of the latter’s sister Lucretia
and his own translation from Cardinal to soldier]
Within the pit shall be found
the bones:
incest shall be committed
by the stepmother.
Her/his state changed [for
the worst], they shall demand fame and praise,
and he shall have Mars rising
as his star.
VI.51
[after the coronation of
Pope Clement V at Lyon on 14 November 1305, attended by various kings and
nobles, during which a collapsing wall killed many spectators]
The people assembled to see
a new spectacle,
princes and kings [being]
among many present,
pillars, walls shall fall,
but as by a miracle
the King [shall be] saved
and thirty of the bystanders.
VI.52
[possibly after one of Queen
Catherine de Médicis’s miscarriages]
In place of the lord who
shall be condemned,
out from prison [shall come]
his friend in his place:
the Trojan [Royal] hope
after six months on end [shall be] stillborn.
Sun in Aquarius: rivers
shall be gripped by ice.
VI.53
[source unidentified]
The great Celtic prelate
suspected by the King
in the course of the night
shall quit the kingdom
through a duke useful to
his great British King.
Byzantium by Cyprus and
Tunis [shall be] unsuspected.
VI.54
[apparently after the assassination
of King Mohammed al-Mahdi by the Pasha of Algiers in 1557, following raids
by the Turks on Fez and Bougie]
At daybreak at the second
cockcrow
[by] those of Tunis, of
Fez and of Bougie
through the Arabs the King
of Morocco [shall be] captured:
the year sixteen hundred
and seven of the Liturgy.
VI.55
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
In the noonday heat the duke,
while diving for sponges,
shall see an Arab sail [fleet],
suddenly noticed:
Tripolis, Chios [overrun
by] those from Trebizond,
the duke captured by the
Black Sea, the city deserted.
VI.56
[after the Rozier historial
de France of 1522 or d’Auton’s Chroniques de Louis XII, describing the
1503 confrontation between Louis XII of France and the Spaniards in which
the Spanish King blinded his own troops with money]
The dread army of the Narbonnese
enemy
shall frighten the Hesperians
[Spaniards] so much
[that] Perpignan [shall
be] evacuated by the ‘Blind Mole’.
Then Barcelona by sea shall
take up the quarrel.
VI.57
[after the enthronement in
1503 of Pope Julius II, known as Uomo terribile]
He who was high up in the
kingdom,
having a Red Hat [being
a cardinal], close to the hierarchy,
harsh and cruel, [and he]
shall make himself so feared.
He shall succeed to the
sacred monarchy.
VI.58
[after the solar eclipse
of the summer of 1551, marking the beginning of a new conflict between
King Henri II and the Emperor Charles V, the French-inspired rebellion
of Siena of 1552 and the liberation of Corsica from the Genoans]
Between the two estranged
monarchs,
when the sun’s light is
obscured by the moon,
great enmity between the
two affronted ones,
so that liberty is restored
to the Isles and Siena.
VI.59
[after the discovery en flagrant
délit of Henri II with his lover Lady Fleming by his mistress Diane
de Poitiers and the subsequent Edict of Châteaubriant, which prescribed
burning at the stake as the punishment for heresy]
The Lady in fury through
[her] rage at the adultery
shall beseech her Prince
to deny it:
but shortly afterwards the
slanging match shall become known,
such that seventeen shall
be put to martyrdom.
VI.60
[after the recriminations
between Charles V and Philip of Hesse in 1547 that resulted from a bad
translation of a communiqué, plus an apparent incident during the
Aquitaine salt-tax revolt of 1548]
The Prince beyond his Celtic
territory
shall be betrayed, deceived
by an interpreter:
Rouen, La Rochelle through
those of Brittany
at the port of Blaye [shall
be] deceived by monk and priest.
VI.61
[after the abandonment by
the Emperor Charles V of the siege of Metz in 1552, leaving his tent and
its incompletely-displayed tapestry behind]
The great tapestry, folded,
shall show
only by halves most of the
story:
chased out of the kingdom,
he shall seem fierce from afar
so that everyone shall believe
in his bellicose achievements.
VI.62
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Both being too late, the
Flowers [Florence and Firenzuela?] shall be lost:
against the law [of the
Church?] the Snake shall be unwilling to act.
The forces of the Leaguers
[shall be] confounded by the French.
[In] Savona, Albenga through
Monaco [there shall be] great martyrdom.
VI.63
[apparently a particularly
fortunate prophecy for the contemporary Queen Catherine de Médicis,
following the death of her husband Henri II in 1559]
The lady left alone in power,
the first one in the bed
of honour having been extinguished,
for seven years shall be
racked with grief,
then long life in power
with great good fortune.
VI.64
[source unidentified]
They shall not observe any
truce agreed upon:
all shall act with deceit
who subscribe to
pacts and truces declared
by land and sea.
By Barcelona a fleet [shall
be] seized by guile.
VI.65
[after an unidentified religious
quarrel between Franciscans, possibly settled by Dominican Inquisitors]
Grey and brown, at half-declared
war,
by night shall be assailed
and pillaged:
the captured brown shall
be cast into prison,
his church thrown open to
two plaster saints.
VI.66
[after the discovery of the
half-buried obelisk of Augustus Caesar in 1502, when Pietro Bernadino was
burned alive for founding a new sect of primitive Christians called the
unti]
Upon the foundation of the
new sect
the bones of the Roman lord
shall be found:
a sepulchre covered by marble
shall appear,
[when] earth shall quake
in April, poorly buried.
VI.67
[probably after the Mirabilis
Liber’s prophecies of the Antichrist]
To great power shall quite
another one attain,
further from goodness than
from happiness:
ruled by one [who has] sprung
not far from the brothel,
he shall corrupt kingdoms
to mighty misery.
VI.68
[source unidentified]
When soldiers with seditious
fury
shall cause steel [blades]
to flash by night against their chief,
the enemy from Alba acts
with its furious army
then to vex Rome and seduce
the princely ones.
VI.69
[possibly after the desertion
of Marshal Brissac by his troops in 1556 in favour of the more generous
Duke of Guise]
The piteousness shall be
great before long:
those who gave shall be
obliged to take.
Naked, starving, they shall
band together for cold and thirst,
and cross the mountains
committing great scandals.
VI.70
[after the Emperor Charles
V’s triumphant raid on the pirate Barbarossa’s headquarters at Tunis in
June 1535 – even quoting part of his Latin motto PLUS ULTRA]
At the head of the world
shall the great Chyren [Henri] be,
Plus ultra [further beyond]
thereafter loved, feared, dreaded:
his fame and praise shall
exceed the heavens [themselves],
and with the sole title
of Victor he shall be well pleased.
VI.71
[after the abdication of
the ailing Emperor Charles V in 1555]
When they shall solemnly
celebrate the death of the great King
even before he has given
up the ghost at all,
[by] him who shall grieve
over him the least
for the Christian Lions
and Eagles the crown [shall be] sold.
VI.72
[source unidentified]
Through feigned frenzy of
divine inspiration
the woman shall be severely
violated by the lord:
by judges wishing to condemn
such a doctrine
the victim shall be sacrificed
to the ignorant people.
VI.73
[source unidentified]
In a great city a monk and
artisan,
[shall be] lodged near the
gate and in the walls
against Modena in secret,
saying ‘Beware!’,
[but shall be] betrayed
for acting under the guise of a betrothal.
VI.74
[source unidentified]
The banished woman shall
return to power,
her enemies found to be
conspirators:
more than ever she shall
triumph over her time,
three-and-seventy [condemned]
to only too certain death.
VI.75
[after the promotion of Gaspard
de Coligny to the post of Admiral of France in 1552, before defecting to
the Protestant cause]
‘Lord Pillar’ [‘column’ =
Coligny ] shall be commissioned by the King
to leave the army for a
higher position:
seven years later he shall
be in rebellion.
A Barbarian army shall encircle
Venice.
VI.76
[probably after the removal
of an unidentified Venetian tyrant of Padua]
The ancient city founded
by Antenor [Padua]
being no longer able to
tolerate the tyrant,
by a sham one-armed one
he shall have his throat cut in church.
The people shall put his
henchmen to death.
VI.77
[source unidentified]
Through the fraudulent victory
of the deceived,
two armies joined, the German
revolt:
one chief and his son murdered
in their tent.
Florence and Imola [shall
be] pursued into Romagna.
VI.78
[after the triumphant return
of the Emperor Charles V in 1536 first to Rome, then to northern Italy,
after his victory over the pirate Barbarossa at Tunis the previous year,
when he was acclaimed as the hero of all Europe]
To vaunt the victory over
the great Crescent Moon [Islam]
by the Romans shall the
Eagle be acclaimed:
Pavia, Milan and Genoa shall
not consent to it,
[but] then even by them
the King shall be acclaimed as lord.
VI.79
[after the contemporary wars
between France and the Empire in northern Italy]
Near the Ticino the inhabitants
of the Loire,
Garonne and Saône,
the Seine, Tain and Gironde
shall gain a bridgehead
beyond the mountains:
battle joined, the Po swollen,
flooded with water.
VI.80
[after the Mirabilis Liber’s
constant predictions of Muslim invasion]
From Fez power shall spread
to those of Europe,
fire to their cities, and
the sword shall cleave:
the lord from Asia Minor
[Turkey] by land and sea with a mighty horde,
blue-green, shall hound
Christians to death.
VI.81
[possibly after the Mirabilis
Liber’s constant predictions of Muslim invasion]
Tears, screams and laments,
howls [of] terror,
heart[s] inhuman, cruel,
black and cold as ice:
by Lake Geneva, the greater
Isles of Genoa,
they shall spill blood.
Cold, famine, to none mercy.
VI.82
[after an unidentified Pope]
Across the deserts of open,
wild place[s]
shall wander the nephew
of the great Pontiff:
[he shall be] felled by
seven with heavy clubs
by those who shall afterwards
seize the Chalice [the Vatican] .
VI.83
[after the actions of Philip
II in the Spanish Netherlands after his accession in 1556]
He who shall have so many
honours and tendernesses
on his entry into Belgian
Gaul
shortly thereafter shall
commit so many gross acts
and shall be so warlike
against the fleur-de-lys.
VI.84
[apparently after the story
of Oedipus of Thebes]
He who, being lame, cannot
reign in Sparta
shall do so much by seductive
means
that the long and short
of it is that he shall be arraigned
for targeting the King.
VI.85
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
The great city of Tarsus
by the Gauls
shall be destroyed, all
those in Turbans captives:
help [shall arrive] by sea
from the Portuguese lord,
on the first day of summer,
the feast-day of Saint Urban.
VI.86
[source unidentified]
The great Prelate, one day
after his dream
interpreted as meaning the
opposite,
from Gascony a monk shall
happen to come,
who have the great prelate
of Sens elected.
VI.87
[after the election in 1531
of Ferdinand of Hapsburg as successor to his brother Charles V, with his
Imperial coronation planned for 1558 in Frankfurt, but expected to be opposed
by Philip II]
The election made in Frankfurt
shall not take place, [since
the lord of] Milan [Philip II] shall be against it:
his nearest kin shall seem
so very strong
that he shall drive him
out into the marshes beyond the Rhine.
VI.88
[probably after Froissart’s
account in his Chroniques of the rescue and reinstatement of Don Pedro
the Cruel of Castile to his throne by the Black Prince at the battle of
Navarrette in 1367]
A great kingdom shall remain
desolated:
by the Ebro troops shall
be gathered.
The Pyrenees mountains shall
give him consolation
when in May the lands shall
be shaken.
VI.89
[mostly after Plutarch’s
Life of Artaxerxes, II]
Bound hand and foot between
two boats,
his face smeared with honey,
and sustained with milk:
wasps and flies, [with]
paternal love severely tried,
shall corrupt the Cup-bearer
tempted by the Chalice.
VI.90
[source unidentified]
The stinking abominable disgrace
after the fact shall be
congratulated,
the lord excused for not
being favourable,
with the result that [the]
Neptune [the Admiral] shall not be moved to make peace.
VI.91
[source unidentified]
By the one leading the naval
war –
a frantic Red One [Cardinal?]
– a severe, horrible dispute:
a captive [shall have] escaped
from the elder one in the bale,
when a son shall be born
to Lord Agrippa.
VI.92
[source unidentified]
The prince of such gracious
beauty,
brought to the chief for
the second time, [shall be] betrayed:
the city [having been put]
to the sword, his face shall be burnt by powder.
Through too much killing
the chief [shall be] hated by the King.
VI.93
[source unidentified]
The greedy prelate deceived
by ambition,
nothing shall happen but
he shall think too much of it.
He and his messengers shall
be truly caught out:
a woodcutter would see it
quite otherwise.
VI.94
[after the covert efforts
of King François I to suppress Protestants while persecution of
them was officially banned]
A King shall be angered by
the See-breakers
when arms and armour shall
be forbidden:
sugared poison [having been
sprinkled] on the strawberries,
[they shall be] drowned
and killed while saying ‘More land! More land!’
VI.95
[source unidentified]
[There shall be] Calumny
against the younger son by a detractor
when dreadful warlike events
shall occur,
the lesser party [being]
doubtful to the elder one:
and soon in the kingdom
there shall be partisan deeds.
VI.96
[after the sack of Rome by
Charles V’s troops in 1527]
The Great City abandoned
to the soldiers,
never was mortal tumult
so nigh.
Oh, what a hideous calamity
draws near!
But for one offence, nothing
shall be pardoned it.
VI.97
[after the Annales Cassini
for 1000 to 1212, with the last line of the verse referring (despite a
slightly confused latitude) to the Norman capture of Naples (Greek Neapolis
= ‘New City’) in 1139, when the Annals also record an explosive eruption
of nearby Vesuvius for 1-8 June]
At five-and-forty degrees
[fifty minutes and forty degrees?] the sky shall burn:
fire shall approach the
great New City.
Violently a great scattered
flame shall burst forth
when they shall attempt
to try conclusions with the Normans.
VI.98
[after Strabo’s account of
the sacking of Toulouse, sacred city of the Volcae, by the Roman consul
Quintus Servilius Caepio in 106 BC, and his looting of the sacred treasures
as per I.27]
Ruin for the Volcae, terrified
with such fear:
their great city stained
[with blood], a pestilential deed:
they shall plunder Sun [gold]
and Moon [silver] and violate their temples
and the two rivers shall
redden with flowing blood.
VI.99
[possibly after Livy’s account
in his History of Rome (books XXI-XXX) of the invasion of Italy by Hannibal
between 218 and 203 BC]
The skilled enemy shall turn
about, confused,
his great army sick, and
defeated by ambushes:
the Pyrenees and Pennine
Alps shall be denied him,
while near the river discovering
ancient amphorae.
[VI.100]
[plagiarised virtually word
for word from Petrus Crinitus’s Latin warning to lawyers in his De honesta
disciplina of 1504, as reprinted by Gryphius of Lyon in 1543]
Let those who read these
verses consider them maturely!
Let the profane and ignorant
mob keep away!
Away with you, all Astrologers,
Idiots and Barbarians!
May he who does otherwise
be subject to the sacred rite [i.e. go to hell].
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