Nostradamus Prophecies Book (Prophecies)

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.CENTURIE II.ESTANT assis de nuict secret estude,Seul reposé sur la selle d'ærain:Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,Fait prosperer qui n'est à croire vain.Sitting alone at night in secret study;it is placed on the brass tripod.A slight flame comes out of the emptiness andmakes successful that which should not be beleived in vain.II.La vierge en main mise au milieu de BranchesDe l'onde il moulle & le l'imbe & le pied:Vn peur & voix fremissent par les manches:Splendeur diuine. Le diuin pres s'assied.The wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripod's legs.With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot.A voice, fear: he trembles in his robes.Divine splendour; the god sits nearby.

III.Quand la lictiere du tourbillon versee,Et seront faces de leurs manteaux couuers,La republique par gens nouveaux vexee,Lors blancs & rouges iureront à l'enuers.When the litters are overturned by the whirlwindand faces are covered by cloaks,the new republic will be troubled by its people.At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.IV.Par l'vnivers sera faict vn monarque,Qu'en paix & vie ne sera longuement:Lors se perdra la piscature barque,Sera regie en plus grand detriment.In the world there will be made a kingwho will have little peace and a short life.At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,governed to its greatest detriment.V.Chassez seront pour faire long combat,Par les pays seront plus fort greuez:Bourg & cité auront plus grand debat.Carcas. Narbonne auront coeur esprouuez.They will be driven away for a long drawn out fight.The countryside will be most grievously troubled.Town and country will have greater struggle.Carcassonne and Narbonne will have their hearts tried.VII.Tard arriué l'execution faicte,Le vent contraire lettres au chemin prinses:Les coniurez XIIIJ. d'vne secte,Par le Rousseau senez les entreprinses.Arrived too late, the act has been done.The wind was against them, letters intercepted on their way.The conspirators were fourteen of a party.By Rousseau shall these enterprises be undertaken.

VIII.Combien de fois prinse cité solitaireSeras changeant ses loix barbares & vaines:Ton mal s'aproche. Plus seras tributairesLe grand Hardie recouurira tes veines.How often will you be captured, O city of the sun ?Changing laws that are barbaric and vain.Bad times approach you. No longer will you be enslaved.Great Hadrie will revive your veins.IX.De l'Orient viendra le coeur PuniqueFascher Hadrie, & les hoires Romulides,Acompagne de la classe Libique,emples Melites & proches Isles vuides.From the Orient will come the African heartto trouble Hadrie and the heirs of Romulus.Accompanied by the Libyan fleetthe temples of Malta and nearby islands shall be deserted.X.Serpens transmis en la cage de fer,Ou les enfans septains du Roy sont pris:Les vieux & peres sortirons bas de l'enfer,Ains mourir voir de fruict mort & cris.A coffin is put into the vault of iron,where seven children of the king are held.The ancestors and forebears will come forth from the depths of hell,lamenting to see thus dead the fruit of their line.XI.Le mouuement de sens, coeur pieds & mains,Seront d'accord. Naples, Lyon, Sicile.Glaiues, feux, eaux, puis aux nobles Romains,Plongez, tuez, morts par cerueau debileThe motion of senses, heart, feet and handswill be in agreement between Naples, Lyon and Sicily.Swords fire, floods, then the noble Romans drowned,killed or dead because of a weak brain.