Quatrains - Century X

1
To the enemy, the enemy faith promised
Will not be kept, the captives retained:
One near death captured, and the remainder in their shirts,
The remainder damned for being supported.

2
The ship's veil will hide the sail galley,
The great fleet will come the lesser one to go out:
Ten ships near will turn to drive it back,
The great one conquered the united ones to join to itself.

3
After that five will not put out the flock,
A fugitive for Penelon he will turn loose:
To murmur falsely then help to come,
The chief will then abandon the siege.

4
At midnight the leader of the army
Will save himself, suddenly vanished:
Seven years later his reputation unblemished,
To his return they will never say yes.

5
Albi and Castres will form a new league,
Nine Arians Lisbon and the Portuguese:
Carcassonne and Toulouse will end their intrigue,
When the chief new monster from the Lauraguais.

6
The Gardon will flood Nîmes so high
That they will believe Deucalion reborn:
Into the colossus the greater part will flee,
Vesta tomb fire to appear extinguished.

7
The great conflict that they are preparing for Nancy,
The Macedonian will say I subjugate all:
The British Isle in anxiety over wine and salt,
"Hem. mi." Philip two Metz will not hold for long.

8
With forefinger and thumb he will moisten the forehead,
The Count of Senigallia to his own son:
The Venus through several of thin forehead,
Three in seven days wounded dead.

9
In the Castle of Figueras on a misty day
A sovereign prince will be born of an infamous woman:
Surname of breeches on the ground will make him posthumous,
Never was there a King so very bad in his province.

10
Stained with murder and enormous adulteries,
Great enemy of the entire human race:
One who will be worse than his grandfathers, uncles or fathers,
In steel, fire, waters, bloody and inhuman.

11
At the dangerous passage below Junquera,
The posthumous one will have his band cross:
To pass the Pyrenees mountains without his baggage,
From Perpignan the duke will hasten to Tende.

12
Elected Pope, as elected he will be mocked,
Suddenly unexpectedly moved prompt and timid:
Through too much goodness and kindness provoked to die,
Fear extinguished guides the night of his death.

13
Beneath the food of ruminating animals,
led by them to the belly of the fodder city:
Soldiers hidden, their arms making a noise,
Tried not far from the city of Antibes.

14
Urnel Vaucile without a purpose on his own,
Bold, timid, through fear overcome and captured:
Accompanied by several pale whores,
Convinced in the Carthusian convent at Barcelona.

15
Father duke old in years and choked by thirst,
On his last day his don denying him the jug:
Into the well plunged alive he will come up dead,
Senate to the thread death long and light.

16
Happy in the realm of France, happy in life,
Ignorant of blood, death, fury and plunder:
For a flattering name he will be envied,
A concealed King, too much faith in the kitchen.

17
The convict Queen seeing her daughter pale,
Because of a sorrow locked up in her breast:
Lamentable cries will come then from Angouleme,
And the marriage of the first cousin impeded.

18
The house of Lorraine will make way for Vendome,
The high put low, and the low put high:
The son of Mammon will be elected in Rome,
And the two great ones will be put at a loss.

19
The day that she will be hailed as Queen,
The day after the benediction the prayer:
The reckoning is right and valid,
Once humble never was one so proud.

20
All the friend who will have belonged to the party,
For the rude in letters put to death and plundered:
Property up for sale at fixed price the great one annihilated.
Never were the Roman people so wronged.

21
Through the spite of the King supporting the lesser one,
He will be murdered presenting the jewels to him:
The father wishing to impress nobility on the son
Does as the Magi did of yore in Persia.

22 For not wishing to consent to the divorce,
Which then afterwards will be recognized as unworthy:
The King of the Isles will be driven out by force,
In his place put one who will have no mark of a king.

23 The remonstrances made to the ungrateful people,
Thereupon the army will seize Antibes:
The complaints will place Monace in the arch,
And at Fréjus the one will take the shore from the other

24
The captive prince conquered in Italy
Will pass Genoa by sea as far as Marseilles:
Through great exertion by the foreigners overcome,
Safe from gunshot, barrel of bee's liquor.

25 Through the Ebro to open the passage of Bisanne,
Very far away will the Tagus make a demonstration:
In Pelligouxe will the outrage be committed,
By the great lady seated in the orchestra.

26 The successor will avenge his brother-in-law,
To occupy the realm under the shadow of vengeance:
Obstacle slain his blood for the death blame,
For a long time will Brittany hold with France.

27
Through the fifth one and a great Hercules
They will come to open the temple by hand of war:
One Clement, Julius and Ascanius set back,
The sword, key, eagle, never was there such a great animosity.

28
Second and third which make prime music
By the King to be sublimated in honor:
Through the fat and the thin almost emaciated,
By the false report of Venus to be debased.

29
In a cave of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole a goat
Hidden and seized pulled out by the beard:
Led captive like a mastiff beast
By the Bigorre people brought to near Tarbes.

30
Nephew and blood of the new saint come,
Through the surname he will sustain arches and roof:
They will be driven out put to death chased nude,
Into red and black will they convert their green.

31
The Holy Empire will come into Germany,
The Ishmaelites will find open places:
The asses will want also Carmania,
The supporters all covered by earth.

32
The great empire, everyone would be of it,
One will come to obtain it over the others:
But his realm and state will be of short duration,
Two years will he be able to maintain himself on the sea.

33
The cruel faction in the long robe
Will come to hide under the sharp daggers:
The Duke to seize Florence and the diphthong place,
Its discovery by immature ones and sycophants.

34
The Gaul who will hold the empire through war,
He will be betrayed by his minor brother-in-law:
He will be drawn by a fierce, prancing horse,
The brother will be hated for the deed for a long time

35
The younger son of the king flagrant in burning lust
To enjoy his first cousin:
Female attire in the Temple of Artemis,
Going to be murdered by the unknown one of Maine.

36
Upon the King of the stump speaking of wars,
The United Isle will hold him in contempt:
For several good years one gnawing and pillaging,
Through tyranny in the isle esteem changing.

37
The great assembly near the Lake of Bourget,
They will meet near Montmelian:
Going beyond the thoughtful ones will draw up a plan,
Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Saint-Julien combat.

38
Sprightly love lays the siege not far,
The garrisons will be at the barbarian saint:
The Orsini and Adria will provide a guarantee for the Gauls,
For fear delivered by the army to the Grisons.

39
First son, widow, unfortunate marriage,
Without any children two Isles in discord:
Before eighteen, incompetent age,
For the other one the betrothal will take place while younger.

40
The young heir to the British realm,
Whom his dying father will have recommended:
The latter dead Lonole will dispute with him,
And from the son the realm demanded.

41
On the boundary of Caussade and Caylus,
Not at all far from the bottom of the valley:
Music from Villefranche to the sound of lutes,
Encompassed by cymbals and great stringing.

42
The humane realm of Anglican offspring,
It will cause its realm to hold to peace and union:
War half-captive in its enclosure,
For long will it cause them to maintain peace.

43
Too much good times, too much of royal goodness,
Ones made and unmade, quick, sudden, neglectful:
Lightly will he believe falsely of his loyal wife,
He put to death through his benevolence.

44
When a King will be against his people,
A native of Blois will subjugate the Ligurians,
Memel, Cordoba and the Dalmatians,
Of the seven then the shadow to the King, New Year's money and ghosts.

45
The shadow of the realm of Navarre untrue,
It will make his life one of fate unlawful:
The vow made in Cambrai wavering,
King Orléans will give a lawful wall.

46
In life, fate and death a sordid, unworthy man of gold,
He will not be a new Elector of Saxony:
From Brunswick he will send for a sign of love,
The false seducer delivering it to the people.

47
At the Garland lady of the town of Burgos,
They will impose for the treason committed:
The great prelate of Leon through Formande,
Undone by false pilgrims and ravishers.

48
Banners of the deepest part of Spain,
Coming out from the tip and ends of Europe:
Troubles passing near the bridge of Laigne,
Its great army will be routed by a band.

49
Garden of the world near the new city,
In the path of the hollow mountains:
It will be seized and plunged into the Tub,
Forced to drink waters poisoned by sulfur.

50
The Meuse by day in the land of Luxembourg,
It will find Saturn and three in the urn:
Mountain and plain, town, city and borough,
Flood in Lorraine, betrayed by the great urn.

51
Some of the lowest places of the land of Lorraine
Will be united with the Low Germans:
Through those of the see Picards, Normans, those of Main,
And they will be joined to the cantons.

52
At the place where the Lys and the Scheldt unite,
The nuptials will be arranged for a long time:
At the place in Antwerp where they carry the chaff,
Young old age wife undefiled.

53
The three concubines will fight each other for a long time,
The greatest one the least will remain to watch:
The great Selin will no longer be her patron,
She will call him fire shield white route.

54
She born in this world of a furtive concubine,
At two raised high by the sad news:
She will be taken captive by her enemies,
And brought to Malines and Brussels.

55
The unfortunate nuptials will be celebrated
In great joy but the end unhappy:
Husband and mother will slight the daughter-in-law,
The Apollo dead and the daughter-in-law more pitiful.

56
The royal prelate his bowing too low,
A great flow of blood will come out of his mouth:
The Anglican realm a realm pulled out of danger,
For long dead as a stump alive in Tunis.

57
The uplifted one will not know his scepter,
He will disgrace the young children of the greatest ones:
Never was there a more filthy and cruel being,
For their wives the king will banish them to death.

58
In the time of mourning the feline monarch
Will make war upon the young Macedonian:
Gaul to shake, the bark to be in jeopardy,
Marseilles to be tried in the West a talk.

59 Within Lyons twenty-five of one mind,
Five citizens, Germans, Bressans, Latins:
Under a noble one they will lead a long train,
And discovered by barks of mastiffs.

60
I weep for Nice, Monaco, Pisa, Genoa,
Savona, Siena, Capua, Modena, Malta:
For the above blood and sword for a New Year's gift,
Fire, the earth will tremble, water an unhappy reluctance.

61
Betta, Vienna, Emorte, Sopron,
They will want to deliver Pannonia to the Barbarians:
Enormous violence through pike and fire,
The conspirators discovered by a matron.

62
Near "Sorbia" to assail Hungary,
The herald of "Brudes" will come to warn them:
Byzantine chief, Salona of Slavonia,
He will come to convert them to the law of the Arabs.

63
Cydonia, Ragusa, the city of St. Jerome,
With healing help to grow green again:
The King's son dead because of the death of two heroes,
Araby and Hungary will take the same course.

64
Weep Milan, weep Lucca and Florence,
As your great Duke climbs into the chariot:
The see to change it advances to near Venice,
When at Rome the Colonna will change.

65
O vast Rome, thy ruin approaches,
Not of thy walls, of thy blood and substance:
The one harsh in letters will make a very horrible notch,
Pointed steel driven into all up to the hilt.

66
The chief of London through the realm of America,
The Isle of Scotland will be tried by frost:
King and Reb will face an Antichrist so false,
That he will place them in the conflict all together.

67
A very mighty trembling in the month of May,
Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter and Mercury in Taurus:
Venus also, Cancer, Mars in Virgo,
Hail will fall larger than an egg.

68
The army of the sea will stand before the city,
Then it will leave without making a long passage:
A great flock of citizens will be seized on land,
Fleet to return to seize it great robbery.

69
The shining deed of the old one exalted anew,
Through the South and Aquilon they will be very great:
Raised by his own sister great crowds,
Fleeing, murdered in the thicket of Ambellon.

70
Through an object the eye will swell very much,
Burning so much that the snow will fall:
The fields watered will come to shrink,
As the primate succumbs at Reggio.

71
The earth and air will freeze a very great sea,
When they will come to venerate Thursday:
That which will be never was it so fair,
From the four parts they will come to honor it.

72
The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

73
The present time together with the past
Will be judged by the great Joker:
The world too late will be tired of him,
And through the clergy oath-taker disloyal.

74
The year of the great seventh number accomplished,
It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter:
Not far from the great millennial age,
When the buried will go out from their tombs.

75
Long awaited he will never return
In Europe, he will appear in Asia:
One of the league issued from the great Hermes,
And he will grow over all the Kings of the East.

76
The great Senate will ordain the triumph
For one who afterwards will be vanquished, driven out:
At the sound of the trumpet of his adherents there will be
Put up for sale their possessions, enemies expelled.

77
Thirty adherents of the order of Quirites
Banished, their possessions given their adversaries:
All their benefits will be taken as misdeeds,
Fleet dispersed, delivered to the Corsairs.

78
Sudden joy to sudden sadness,
It will occur at Rome for the graces embraced:
Grief, cries, tears, weeping, blood, excellent mirth,
Contrary bands surprised and trussed up.

79
The old roads will all be improved,
One will proceed on them to the modern Memphis:
The great Mercury of Hercules fleur-de-lis,
Causing to tremble lands, sea and country.

80
In the realm the great one of the great realm reigning,
Through force of arms the great gates of brass
He will cause to open, the King and Duke joining,
Fort demolished, ship to the bottom, day serene.

81
A treasure placed in a temple by Hesperian citizens,
Therein withdrawn to a secret place:
The hungry bonds to open the temple,
Retaken, ravished, a horrible prey in the midst.

82
Cries, weeping, tears will come with knives,
Seeming to flee, they will deliver a final attack,
Parks around to set up high platforms,
The living pushed back and murdered instantly.

83
The signal to give battle will not be given,
They will be obliged to go out of the park:
The banner around Ghent will be recognized,
Of him who will cause all his followers to be put to death.

84
The illegitimate girl so high, high, not low,
The late return will make the grieved ones contended:
The Reconciled One will not be without debates,
In employing and losing all his time.

85
The old tribune on the point of trembling,
He will be pressed not to deliver the captive:
The will, non-will, speaking the timid evil,
To deliver to his friends lawfully.

86
Like a griffin will come the King of Europe,
Accompanied by those of Aquilon:
He will lead a great troop of red ones and white ones,
And they will go against the King of Babylon.

87
A Great King will come to take port near Nice,
Thus the death of the great empire will be completed:
In Antibes will he place his heifer,
The plunder by sea all will vanish.

88
Foot and Horse at the second watch,
They will make an entry devastating all by sea:
Within the port of Marseilles he will enter,
Tears, cries, and blood, never times so bitter.

89
The walls will be converted from brick to marble,
Seven and fifty pacific years:
Joy to mortals, the aqueduct renewed,
Health, abundance of fruits, joy and mellifluous times.

90
A hundred times will the inhuman tyrant die,
In his place put one learned and mild,
The entire Senate will be under his hand,
He will be vexed by a rash scoundrel.

91
In the year 1609, Roman clergy,
At the beginning of the year you will hold an election:
Of one gray and black issued from Campania,
Never was there one so wicked as he.

92
Before his father the child will be killed,
The father afterwards between ropes of rushes:
The people of Geneva will have exerted themselves,
The chief lying in the middle like a log.

93
The new bark will take trips,
There and near by they will transfer the Empire:
Beaucaire, Arles will retain the hostages,
Near by, two columns of Porphyry found.

94
Scorn from Nîmes, from Arles and Vienne,
Not to obey the Hesperian edict:
To the tormented to condemn the great one,
Six escaped in seraphic garb.

95
To the Spains will come a very powerful King,
By land and sea subjugating the South:
This evil will cause, lowering again the crescent,
Clipping the wings of those of Friday.

96
The Religion of the name of the seas will win out
Against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif:
The stubborn, lamented sect will be afraid
Of the two wounded by A and A.

97
Triremes full of captives of every age,
Good time for bad, the sweet for the bitter:
Prey to the Barbarians hasty they will be too soon,
Anxious to see the feather wail in the wind.

98
For the merry maid the bright splendor
Will shine no longer, for long will she be without salt:
With merchants, bullies, wolves odious,
All confusion universal monster.

99
The end of wolf, lion, ox and ass,
Timid deer they will be with mastiffs:
No longer will the sweet manna fall upon them,
More vigilance and watch for the mastiffs.

100
The great empire will be for England,
The all-powerful one for more than three hundred years:
Great forces to pass by sea and land,
The Lusitanians will not be satisfied thereby.

Quatrains - Century IX

1

In the house of the translator of Bourg,

The letters will be found on the table,

One-eyed, red-haired, white, hoary-headed will hold the course,

Which will change for the new Constable.

2

From the top of the Aventine hill a voice heard,

Be gone, be gone all of you on both sides:

The anger will be appeased by the blood of the red ones,

From Rimini and Prato, the Colonna expelled.

3

The "great cow" at Racenna in great trouble,

Led by fifteen shut up at Fornase:

At Rome there will be born two double-headed monsters,

Blood, fire, flood, the greatest ones in space.

4

The following year discoveries through flood,

Two chiefs elected, the first one will not hold:

The refuge for the one of them fleeing a shadow,

The house of which will maintain the first one plundered.

5

The third toe will seem first

To a new monarch from low high,

He who will possess himself as a Tyrant of Pisa and Lucca,

To correct the fault of his predecessor.

6

An infinity of Englishmen in Guienne

Will settle under the name of Anglaquitaine:

In Languedoc, Ispalme, Bordelais,

Which they will name after Barboxitaine.

7

He who will open the tomb found,

And will come to close it promptly,

Evil will come to him, and one will be unable to prove,

If it would be better to be a Breton or Norman King.

8

The younger son made King will put his father to death,

After the conflict very dishonest death:

Inscription found, suspicion will bring remorse,

When the wolf driven out lies down ion the bedstead.

9

When the lamp burning with inextinguishable fire

Will be found in the temple of the Vestals:

Child found in fire, water passing through the sieve:

To perish in water Nîmes, Toulouse the markets to fall.

10

The child of a monk and nun exposed to death,

To die through a she-bear, and carried off by a boar,

The army will be camped by Foix and Pamiers,

Against Toulouse Carcassonne the harbinger to form.

11

Wrongly will they come to put the just one to death,

In public and in the middle extinguished:

So great a pestilence will come to arise in this place,

That the judges will be forced to flee.

12

So much silver of Diana and Mercury,

The images will be found in the lake:

The sculptor looking for new clay,

He and his followers will be steeped in gold.

13

The exiles around Sologne,

Led by night to march into Auxois,

Two of Modena for Bologna cruel,

Placed discovered by the fire of Buzanais.

14

Dyers' caldrons put on the flat surface,

Wine, honey and oil, and built over furnaces:

They will be immersed, innocent, pronounced malefactors,

Seven of Bordeaux smoke still in the cannon.

15

Near Perpignan the red ones detained,

Those of the middle completely ruined led far off:

Three cut in pieces, and five badly supported,

For the Lord and Prelate of Burgundy.

16

Out of Castelfranco will come the assembly,

The ambassador not agreeable will cause a schism:

Those of Riviera will be in the squabble,

And they will refuse entry to the great gulf.

17

The third one first does worse than Nero,

How much human blood to flow, valiant, be gone:

He will cause the furnace to be rebuilt,

Golden Age dead, new King great scandal.

18

The lily of the Dauphin will reach into Nancy,

As far as Flanders the Elector of the Empire:

New confinement for the great Montmorency,

Outside proven places delivered to celebrated punishment.

19

In the middle of the forest of Mayenne,

Lightning will fall, the Sun in Leo:

The great bastard issued from the great one Maine,

On this day a point will enter the blood of Fougères.

20

By night will come through the forest of Reines,

Two couples roundabout route Queen the white stone,

The monk king in gray in Varennes:

Elected Capet causes tempest, fire, blood, slice.

21

At the tall temple of Saint-Solenne at Blois,

Night Loire bridge, Prelate, King killing outright:

Crushing victory in the marshes of the pond,

Whence prelacy of whites miscarrying.

22

The King and his court in the place of cunning tongue,

Within the temple facing the palace:

In the garden the Duke of Mantua and Alba,

Alba and Mantua dagger tongue and palace.

23

The younger son playing outdoors under the arbor,

The top of the roof in the middle on his head,

The father King in the temple of Saint-Solonne,

Sacrificing he will consecrate festival smoke.

24

Upon the palace at the balcony of the windows,

The two little royal ones will be carried off:

To pass Orléans, Paris, abbey of Saint-Denis,

Nun, wicked ones to swallow green pits.

25

Crossing the bridges to come near the Roisiers,

Sooner than he thought, he arrived late.

The new Spaniards will come to Béziers, 

So that this chase will break the enterprise.

26

Departed by the bitter letters the surname of Nice,

The great Cappe will present something, not his own;

Near Voltai at the wall of the green columns,

After Piombino the wind in good earnest.

27

The forester, the wind will be close around the bridge,

Received highly, he will strike the Dauphin.

The old craftsman will pass through the woods in a company,

Going far beyond the right borders of the Duke.

28

The Allied fleet from the port of Marseilles,

In Venice harbor to march against Hungary.

To leave from the gulf and the bay of Illyria,

Devastation in Sicily, for the Ligurians, cannon shot.

29

When the man will give way to none,

Will wish to abandon a place taken, yet not taken;

Ship afire through the swamps, bitumen at Charlieu,

St. Quintin and Calais will be recaptured.

30

At the port of Pola and of San Nicolo,

A Normand will punish in the Gulf of Quarnero:

Capet to cry alas in the streets of Byzantium,

Help from Cadiz and the great Philip.

31

The tin island of St. George half sunk;

Drowsy with peace, war will arise,

At Easter in the temple abysses opened.

32

A deep column of fine porphyry is found,

Inscriptions of the Capitol under the base;

Bones, twisted hair, the Roman strength tried,

The fleet is stirred at the harbor of Mitylene.

33

Hercules King of Rome and of "Annemark,"

With the surname of the chief of triple Gaul,

Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble,

First monarch renowned above all.

34

The single part afflicted will be mitered,

Return conflict to pass over the tile:

For five hundred one to betray will be titled

Narbonne and Salces we have oil for knives.

35

And fair Ferdinand will be detached,

To abandon the flower, to follow the Macedonian:

In the great pinch his course will fail,

And he will march against the Myrmidons.

36

A great King taken by the hands of a young man,

Not far from Easter confusion knife thrust:

Everlasting captive times what lightning on the top,

When three brothers will wound each other and murder.

37

Bridge and mills overturned in December,

The Garonne will rise to a very high place:

Walls, edifices, Toulouse overturned,

So that none will know his place like a matron.

38

The entry at Blaye for La Rochelle and the English,

The great Macedonian will pass beyond:

Not far from Agen will wait the Gaul,

Narbonne help beguiled through conversation.

39

In Albisola to Veront and Carcara,

Led by night to seize Savona:

The quick Gascon La Turbie and L'Escarène:

Behind the wall old and new palace to seize.

40

Near Saint-Quintin in the forest deceived,

In the Abbey the Flemish will be cut up:

The two younger sons half-stunned by blows,

The rest crushed and the guard all cut to pieces.

41

The great "Chyren" will seize Avignon,

From Rome letters in honey full of bitterness:

Letter and embassy to leave from Chanignon,

Carpentras taken by a black duke with a red feather.

42

From Barcelona, from Genoa and Venice,

From Sicily pestilence Monaco joined:

They will take their aim against the Barbarian fleet,

Barbarian driven 'way back as far as Tunis.

43

On the point of landing the Crusader army

Will be ambushed by the Ishmaelites,

Struck from all sides by the ship Impetuosity,

Rapidly attacked by ten elite galleys.

44

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,

Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,

Raypoz will exterminate all who oppose him,

Before the coming the sky will show signs.

45

None will remain to ask,

Great Mendosus will obtain his dominion:

Far from the court he will cause to be countermanded

Piedmont, Picardy, Paris, Tuscany the worst.

46

Be gone, flee from Toulouse ye red ones,

For the sacrifice to make expiation:

The chief cause of the evil under the shade of pumpkins:

Dead to strangle carnal prognostication.

47

The undersigned to an infamous deliverance,

And having contrary advice from the multitude:

Monarch changes put in danger over thought,

Shut up in a cage they will see each other face to face.

48

The great city of the maritime Ocean,

Surrounded by a crystalline swamp:

In the winter solstice and the spring,

It will be tried by frightful wind.

49

Ghent and Brussels will march against Antwerp,

The Senate of London will put to death their King:

Salt and wine will overthrow him,

To have them the realm turned upside down.

50

Mendosus will soon come to his high realm,

Putting behind a little the Lorrainers:

The pale red one, the male in the interregnum,

The fearful youth and Barbaric terror.

51

Against the red ones sects will conspire,

Fire, water, steel, rope through peace will weaken:

On the point of dying those who will plot,

Except one who above all the world will ruin.

52

Peace is nigh on one side, and war,

Never was the pursuit of it so great:

To bemoan men, women innocent blood on the land,

And this will be throughout all France.

53

The young Nero in the three chimneys

Will cause live pages to be thrown to burn:

Happy those who will be far away from such practices,

Three of his blood will have him ambushed to death.

54

There will arrive at Porto Corsini,

Near Ravenna, he who will plunder the lady:

In the deep sea legate from Lisbon,

Hidden under a rock they will carry off seventy souls.

55

The horrible war which is being prepared in the West,

The following year will come the pestilence

So very horrible that young, old, nor beast,

Blood, fire Mercury, Mars, Jupiter in France.

56

The army near Houdan will pass Goussainville,

And at Maiotes it will leave its mark:

In an instant more than a thousand will be converted,

Looking for the two to put them back in chain and firewood.

57

In the place of Drux a King will rest,

And will look for a law changing Anathema:

While the sky will thunder so very loudly,

New entry the King will kill himself.

58

On the left side at the spot of Vitry,

The three red ones of France will be awaited:

All felled red, black one not murdered,

By the Bretons restored to safety.

59

At La Ferté-Vidame he will seize,

Nicholas held red who had produced his life:

The great Louise who will act secretly one will be born,

Giving Burgundy to the Bretons through envy.

60

Conflict Barbarian in the black Headdress,

Blood shed, Dalmatia to tremble:

Great Ishmael will set up his promontory,

Frogs to tremble Lusitania aid.

61

The plunder made upon the marine coast,

In Cittanova and relatives brought forward:

Several of Malta through the deed of Messina

Will be closely confined poorly rewarded.

62

To the great one of Ceramon-agora,

The crusaders will all be attached by rank,

The long-lasting Opium and Mandrake,

The Raugon will be released on the third of October.

63

Complaints and tears, cries and great howls,

Near Narbonne at Bayonne and in Foix:

Oh, what horrible calamities and changes,

Before Mars has made several revolutions.

64

The Macedonian to pass the Pyrenees mountains,

In March Narbonne will not offer resistance:

By land and sea he will carry on very great intrigue,

Capetian having no land safe for residence.

65

He will come to go into the corner of Luna,

Where he will be captured and put in a strange land:

The unripe fruits will be the subject of great scandal,

Great blame, to one great praise.

66

There will be peace, union and change,

Estates, offices, low high and high very low:

To prepare a trip, the first offspring torment,

War to cease, civil process, debates.

67

From the height of the mountains around the Isère,

One hundred assembled at the haven in the rock Valence:

From Châteauneuf, Pierrelatte, in Donzère,

Against Crest, Romans, faith assembled.

68

The noble of Mount Aymar will be made obscure,

The evil will come at the junction of the Saône and Rhône:

Soldiers hidden in the woods on Lucy's day,

Never was there so horrible a throne.

69

One the mountain of Saint-Bel and L'Arbresle

The proud one of Grenoble will be hidden:

Beyond Lyons and Vienne on them a very great hail,

Lobster on the land not a third thereof will remain.

70

Sharp weapons hidden in the torches.

In Lyons, the day of the Sacrament,

Those of Vienne will all be cut to pieces,

By the Latin Cantons Mâcon does not lie.

71

At the holy places animals seen with hair,

With him who will not dare the day:

At Carcassonne propitious for disgrace,

He will be set for a more ample stay.

72

Again will the holy temples be polluted,

And plundered by the Senate of Toulouse:

Saturn two three cycles completed,

In April, May, people of new leaven.

73

The Blue Turban King entered into Foix,

And he will reign less than an evolution of Saturn:

The White Turban King Byzantium heart banished,

Sun, Mars and Mercury near Aquarius.

74

In the city of Fertsod homicide,

Deed, and deed many oxen plowing no sacrifice:

Return again to the honors of Artemis,

And to Vulcan bodies dead ones to bury.

75

From Ambracia and the country of Thrace

People by sea, evil and help from the Gauls:

In Provence the perpetual trace,

With vestiges of their custom and laws.

76

With the rapacious and blood-thirsty king,

Issued from the pallet of the inhuman Nero:

Between two rivers military hand left,

He will be murdered by Young Baldy.

77

The realm taken the King will conspire,

The lady taken to death ones sworn by lot:

They will refuse life to the Queen and son,

And the mistress at the fort of the wife.

78

The Greek lady of ugly beauty,

Made happy by countless suitors:

Transferred out to the Spanish realm,

Taken captive to die a miserable death.

79

The chief of the fleet through deceit and trickery

Will make the timid ones come out of their galleys:

Come out, murdered, the chief renouncer of chrism,

Then through ambush they will pay him his wages.

80

The Duke will want to exterminate his followers,

He will send the strongest ones to strange places:

Through tyranny to ruin Pisa and Lucca,

Then the Barbarians will gather the grapes without vine.

81

The crafty King will understand his snares,

Enemies to assail from three sides:

A strange number tears from hoods,

The grandeur of the translator will come to fail.

82

By the flood and fierce pestilence,

The great city for long besieged:

The sentry and guard dead by hand,

Sudden capture but none wronged.

83

Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth will tremble very mightily,

It will ruin the great theater filled:

To darken and trouble air, sky and land,

Then the infidel will call upon God and saints.

84

The King exposed will complete the slaughter,

After having discovered his origin:

Torrent to open the tomb of marble and lead,

Of a great Roman with Medusine device.

85

To pass Guienne, Languedoc and the Rhône,

From Agen holding Marmande and La Réole:

To open through faith the wall, Marseilles will hold its throne,

Conflict near Saint-Paul-de-Mausole.

86

From Bourg-la-Reine they will come straight to Chartres,

And near Pont d'Antony they will pause:

Seven crafty as Martens for peace,

Paris closed by an army they will enter.

87

In the forest cleared of the Tuft,

By the hermitage will be placed the temple:

The Duke of Étampes through the ruse he invented

Will teach a lesson to the prelate of Montlhéry.

88

Calais, Arras, help to Thérouanne,

Peace and semblance the spy will simulate:

The soldiery of Savoy to descend by Roanne,

People who would end the rout deterred.

89

For seven years fortune will favor Philip,

He will beat down again the exertions of the Arabs:

Then at his noon perplexing contrary affair,

Young Ogmios will destroy his stronghold.

90

A captain of Great Germany

Will come to deliver through false help

To the King of Kings the support of Pannonia,

So that his revolt will cause a great flow of blood.

91

The horrible plague Perinthus and Nicopolis,

The Peninsula and Macedonia will it fall upon:

It will devastate Thessaly and Amphipolis,

An unknown evil, and from Anthony refusal.

92

The King will want to enter the new city,

Through its enemies they will come to subdue it:

Captive free falsely to speak and act,

King to be outside, he will keep far from the enemy.

93

The enemies very far from the fort,

The bastion brought by wagons:

Above the walls of Bourges crumbled,

When Hercules the Macedonian will strike.

94

Weak galleys will be joined together,

False enemies the strongest on the rampart:

Weak ones assailed Bratislava trembles,

Lübeck and Meissen will take the barbarian side.

95

The newly made one will lead the army,

Almost cut off up to near the bank:

Help from the Milanais elite straining,

The Duke deprived of his eyes in Milan in an iron cage.

96

The army denied entry to the city,

The Duke will enter through persuasion:

The army led secretly to the weak gates,

They will put it to fire and sword, effusion of blood.

97

The forces of the sea divided into three parts,

The second one will run out of supplies,

In despair looking for the Elysian Fields,

The first ones to enter the breach will obtain the victory.

98

Those afflicted through the fault of a single one stained,

The transgressor in the opposite party:

He will send word to those of Lyons that compelled

They be to deliver the great chief of Molite.

99

The "Aquilon" Wind will cause the siege to be raised,

Over the walls to throw ashes, lime and dust:

Through rain afterwards, which will do them much worse,

Last help against their frontier.

100

Naval battle night will be overcome, 

Fire in the ships to the West ruin:

New trick, the great ship colored,

Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a drizzle.

Quatrains - Century VIII

1

Pau, Nay, Loron will be more of fire than blood,

to swim in praise, the great one to flee to the confluence (of rivers).

He will refuse entry to the magpies

Pampon and the Durance will keep them confined.

2

Condom and Auch and around Mirande,

I see fire from the sky which encompasses them.

Sun and Mars conjoined in Leo, then at Marmande,

lightning, great hail, a wall falls into the Garonne.

3

Within the strong castle of Vigilance and Resviers

the younger born of Nancy will be shut up.

In Turin the first ones will be burned,

when Lyons will be transported with grief.

4

The cock will be received into Monace, 

the Cardinal of France will appear;

He will be deceived by the Roman legation;

weakness to the eagle, strength will be born to the cock.

5

There will appear a shining ornate temple,

the lamp and the candle at Borne and Breteuil.

For the canton of Lucerne turned aside,

when one will see the great cock in his shroud.

6

Lighting and brightness are seen at Lyons shining,

Malta is taken, suddenly it will be extinguished.

Sardon, Maurice will act deceitfully,

Geneva to London, feigning treason towards the cock.

7

Vercelli, Milan will give the news,

the wound will be given at Pavia.

To run in the Seine, water, blood and fire through Florence,

the unique one falling from high to low calling for help.

8

Near Focia enclosed in some tuns

Chivasso will plot for the eagle.

The elected one driven out, he and his people shut up,

rape with Turin, the bride led away.

9

While the eagle is united with the cock at Savonna,

the Eastern Sea and Hungary.

The army at Naples, Palermo, the marches of Ancona,

Rome and Venice a great outcry by the Barbarian.

10

A great stench will come from Lausanne,

but they will not know its origin,

they will put out all people from distant places,

fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

11

A multitude of people will appear at Vicenza

without force, fire to burn the Basilica.

Near Lunage the great one of Valenza defeated:

at a time when Venice takes up the quarrel through custom.

12

He will appear near to Buffalora

the highly born and tall one entered into Milan.

The Abbe of Foix with those of Saint-Meur 

will cause damage dressed up as serfs.

13

The crusader brother through impassioned love

will cause Bellerophon to die through Proteus;

the fleet for a thousand years, the maddened woman,

the potion drunk, both of them then die.

14

The great credit of gold and abundance of silver

will cause honor to be blinded by lust;

the offense of the adulterer will become known,

which will occur to his great dishonor.

15

Great exertions towards the North by a man-woman

to vex Europe and almost all the Universe.

The two eclipses will be put into such a rout

that they will reinforce life or death for the Hungarians.

16

At the place where HIERON has his ship built,

there will be such a great sudden flood,

that one will not have a place nor land to fall upon,

the waters mount to the Olympic Fesulan.

17

Those at ease will suddenly be cast down,

the world put into trouble by three brothers;

their enemies will seize the marine city,

hunger, fire, blood, plague, all evils doubled.

18

The cause of her death will be issued from Florence,

one time before drunk by young and old;

by the three lilies they will give her a great pause.

Save through her offspring as raw meat is dampened.

19

To support the great troubled Cappe;

the reds will march in order to clarify it;

a family will be almost overcome by death,

the red, red ones will knock down the red one.

20

The false message about the rigged election 

to run through the city stopping the broken pact;

voices bought, chapel stained with blood,

the empire contracted to another one.

21

Three foists will enter the port of Agde 

carrying the infection and pestilence, not the faith.

Passing the bridge they will carry off a million,

the bridge is broken by the resistance of a third.

22

Coursan, Narbonne through the salt to warn

Tuchan, the grace of Perpignan betrayed;

the red town will not wish to consent to it,

in a high flight, a copy flag and a life ended.

23

Letters are found in the queen's chests,

no signature and no name of the author.

The ruse will conceal the offers;

so that they do not know who the lover is.

24

The lieutenant at the door of the house,

will knock down the great man of Perpignan.

Thinking to save himself at Montpertuis,

the bastard of Lusignan will be deceived.

25

The heart of the lover, awakened by furtive love

will ravish the lady in the stream.

She will pretend bashfully to be half injured,

the father of each will deprive the body of its soul.

26

The bones of Cato found in Barcelona, 

placed, discovered, the site found again and ruined.

The great one who holds, but does not hold,

wants Pamplona, drizzle at the abbey of Montserrat.

27

The auxiliary way, one arch upon the other,

Le Muy deserted except for the brave one and his genet.

The writing of the Phoenix Emperor,

seen by him which is (shown) to no other.

28

The copies of gold and silver inflated,

which after the theft were thrown into the lake,

at the discovery that all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt.

All scrips and bonds will be wiped out.

29

At the fourth pillar which they dedicate to Saturn

split by earthquake and by flood;

under Saturn's building an urn is found

gold carried off by Caepio and then restored.

30

In Toulouse, not far from Beluzer 

making a deep pit a palace of spectacle,

the treasure found will come to vex everyone

in two places and near the Basacle.

31

The first great fruit of the prince of Perchiera,

then will come a cruel and wicked man.

In Venice he will lose his proud glory,

and is led into evil by then younger Selin.

32

French king, beware of your nephew

who will do so much that your only son

will be murdered while making his vows to Venus;

accompanied at night by three and six.

33

The great one who will be born of Verona and Vincenza

who carries a very unworthy surname;

he who at Venice will wish to take vengeance,

himself taken by a man of the watch and sign.

34

After the victory of the Lion over the Lion,

there will be great slaughter on the mountain of Jura;

floods and dark-colored people of the seventh ( of a million ),

Lyons, Ulm at the mausoleum death and the tomb.

35

At the entrance to Garonne and Baise 

and the forest not far from Damazan,

discoveries of the frozen sea, then hail and north winds.

Frost in the Dardonnais through the mistake of the month.

36

It will be committed against the anointed brought

from Lons le Saulnier, Saint Aubin and Bell'oeuvre.

To pave with marble taken from distant towers,

not to resist Bletteram and his masterpiece.

37

The fortress near the Thames 

will fall when the king is locked up inside.

He will be seen in his shirt near the bridge,

one facing death then barred inside the fortress.

38

The King of Blois will reign in Avignon,

once again the people covered in blood.

In the Rhône he will make swim 

near the walls up to five, the last one near Nolle.

39

He who will have been for the Byzantine prince

will be taken away by the prince of Toulouse.

The faith of Foix through the leader of Tolentino

will fail him, not refusing the bride.

40

The blood of the Just for Taur and La Duarade

in order to avenge itself against the Saturnines.

They will immerse the band in the new lake,

then they will march against Alba.

41

a fox will be elected without speaking one word,

appearing saintly in public living on barley bread,

afterwards he will suddenly become a tyrant

putting his foot on the throats of the greatest men.

42

Through avarice, through force and violence

the chief of Orléans will come to vex his supporters.

Near St. Memire, assault and resistance.

Dead in his tent they will say he is asleep inside.

43

Through the fall of two bastard creatures

the nephew of the blood will occupy the throne.

Within Lectoure there will be blows of lances,

the nephew through fear will fold up his standard.

44

The natural offspring off Ogmios

will turn off the road from seven to nine.

To the king long friend of the half man,

Navarre must destroy the fort at Pau.

45

With his hand in a sling and his leg bandaged,

the younger brother of Calais will reach far.

At the word of the watch, the death will be delayed,

then he will bleed at Easter in the Temple.

46

Paul the celibate will die three leagues from Rome,

the two nearest flee the oppressed monster.

When Mars will take up his horrible throne,

the Cock and the Eagle, France and the three brothers.

47

Lake Trasimene will bear witness 

of the conspirators locked up inside Perugia.

A fool will imitate the wise one,

killing the Teutons, destroying and cutting to pieces.

48.

Saturn in Cancer, Jupiter with Mars

in February Chaldondon'salva tierra.

Sierra Morena besieged on three sides

near Verbiesque, war and mortal conflict.

49

Saturn in Taurus, Jupiter in Aquarius. Mars in Sagittarius,

the sixth of February brings death.

Those of Tardaigne so great a breach at Bruges,

that the barbarian chief will die at Ponteroso.

50

The plague around Capellades,

another famine is near to Sagunto;

the knightly bastard of the good old man

will cause the great one of Tunis to lose his head.

51

The Byzantine makes an oblation 

after having taken back Cordoba.

A long rest on his road, the vines cut down,

at sea the passing prey captured by the Pillar.

52 ---- Unfinished/Censored ----

The king of Blois to reign in Avignon,

from Amboise and Seme the length of the Indre:

claws at Poitiers holy wings ruined 

before Boni. . . .

53

Within Boulogne he will want to wash away his misdeeds,

he cannot at the temple of the Sun.

He will fly away, doing very great things:

In the hierarchy he had never an equal.

54

Under the color of the marriage treaty,

a magnanimous act by the Chyren Selin:

St. Quintin and Arras recovered on the journey;

By the Spanish a second butcher's bench is made.

55

He will find himself shut in between two rivers,

casks and barrels joined to cross beyond:

eight bridges broken, their chief run through so many times,

perfect children's throats slit by the knife.

56

The weak band will occupy the land,

those of high places will make dreadful cries.

The large herd of the outer corner troubled,

near Edinburgh it falls discovered by the writings.

57

From simple soldier he will attain to Empire,

from the short robe he will grow into the long.

Brave in arms, much worse towards the Church,

he vexes the priests as water fills a sponge.

58

A kingdom divided by two quarreling brothers

to take the arms and the name of Britain.

The Anglican title will be advised to watch out,

surprised by night ( the other is ), led to the French air.

59

Twice put up and twice cast down,

the East will also weaken the West.

Its adversary after several battles 

chased by sea will fail at time of need.

60

First in Gaul, first in Romania,

over land and sea against the English and Paris.

Marvelous deeds by that great troop,

violent, the wild beast will lose Lorraine.

61

Never by the revelation of daylight 

will he attain the mark of the scepter bearer.

Until all his sieges are at rest,

bringing to the Cock the gift of the armed legion.

62

When one sees the holy temple plundered,

the greatest of the Rhône profaning their sacred things;

because of them a very great pestilence will appear,

the king, unjust, will not condemn them.

63

When the adulterer wounded without a blow

will have murdered his wife and son out of spite;

his wife knocked down, he will strangle the child;

eight captives taken, choked beyond help.

64

The infants transported into the islands,

two out of seven will be in despair.

Those of the soil will be supported by it,

the name 'shovel' taken, the hope of the leagues fails.

65

The old man disappointed in his main hope,

will attain to the leadership of his Empire.

Twenty months he will hold rule with great force,

a tyrant, cruel, giving way to one worse.

66

When the inscription D.M. is found

in the ancient cave, revealed by a lamp.

Law, the King and Prince Ulpian tried,

the Queen and Duke in the pavilion under cover.

67

Paris, Carcassone, France to ruin in great disharmony,

neither one nor the other will be elected.

France will have the love and good will of the people,

Ferara, Colonna great protection.

68

The old Cardinal is deceived by the young one,

he will find himself disarmed, out of his position:

Do not show, Arles, that the double is perceived,

both Liqueduct and the Prince embalmed.

69

Beside the young one the old angel falls,

and will come to rise above him at the end;

ten years equal to most the old one falls again,

of three two and one, the eighth seraphim.

70

He will enter, wicked, unpleasant, infamous,

tyrannizing over Mesopotamia.

All friends made by the adulterous lady,

the land dreadful and black of aspect.

71

The number of astrologers will grow so great,

that they will be driven out, banned and their books censored.

In the year 1607 by sacred assemblies

so that none will be safe from the holy ones.

72

Oh what a huge defeat on the Perugian battlefield 

and the conflict very close to Ravenna.

A holy passage when they will celebrate the feast,

the conqueror banished to eat horse meat.

73

The king is struck by a barbarian soldier,

unjustly, not far from death.

The greedy will be the cause of the deed,

conspirator and realm in great remorse.

74

A king entered very far into the new land

while the subjects will come to bid him welcome;

his treachery will have such a result

that to the citizens it is a reception instead of a festival.

75

The father and son will be murdered together,

the leader within his pavilion.

The mother at Tours will have her belly swollen with a son,

a verdure chest with little pieces of paper.

76

More of a butcher than a king in England,

born of obscure rank will gain empire through force.

Coward without faith, without law he will bleed the land;

His time approaches so close that I sigh.

77

The antichrist very soon annihilates the three,

twenty-seven years his war will last.

The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled;

with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.

78

A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue

will come to the sanctuary of the gods.

He will open the door to heretics

and raise up the Church militant.

79

He who loses his father by the sword, born in a Nunnery,

upon this Gorgon's blood will conceive anew;

in a strange land he will do everything to be silent,

he who will burn both himself and his child.

80

The blood of innocents, widow and virgin, 

so many evils committed by means of the Great Red One,

holy images placed over burning candles,

terrified by fear, none will be seen to move.

81

The new empire in desolation

will be changed from the Northern Pole.

From Sicily will come such trouble that

it will bother the enterprise tributary to Philip.

82

Thin tall and dry, playing the good valet

in the end will have nothing but his dismissal;

sharp poison and letters in his collar,

he will be seized escaping into danger.

83

The largest sail set out of the port of Zara,

near Byzantium will carry out its enterprise.

Loss of enemy and friend will not be,

a third will turn on both with great pillage and capture.

84

Paterno will hear the cry from Sicily,

all the preparations in the Gulf of Trieste;

it will be heard as far as Sicily

flee oh, flee, so may sails, the dreaded pestilence !

85

Between Bayonne and St. Jean de Luz

will be placed the promontory of Mars.

To the Hanix of the North, Nanar will remove the light,

then suffocate in bed without assistance.

86

Through Emani, Tolosa and Villefranche,

an infinite band through the mountains of Adrian.

Passes the river, Cambat over the plank for a bridge,

Bayonne will be entered all crying Bigoree.

87

A death conspired will come to its full effect,

the charge given and the voyage of death.

Elected, created, received ( then ) defeated by its followers,

in remorse the blood of innocence in front of him.

88

A noble king will come to Sardinia,

who will only rule for three years in the kingdom.

He will join with himself several colors;

he himself, after taunts, care spoils slumber.

89

In order not to fall into the hands of his uncle 

who slaughtered his children in order to reign.

Pleasing with the people, putting his foot on Peloncle,

dead and dragged between armored horses.

90

When those of the cross are found their senses troubled,

in place of sacred things he will see a horned bull,

through the virgin the pig's place will then be filled,

order will no longer be maintained by the king.

91

Entered among the field of the Rhône

where those of the cross are almost united,

the two lands meeting in Pisces 

and a great number punished by the flood.

92

Far distant from his kingdom, sent on a dangerous journey,

he will lead a great army and keep it for himself.

The king will hold his people captive and hostage,

he will plunder the whole country on his return.

93

For seven months, no longer, will he hold the office of prelate,

through his death a great schism will arise;

for seven months another acts as prelate near Venice,

peace and union are reborn.

94

In front of the lake where the dearest one was destroyed

for seven months and his army routed;

Spaniards will be devastating by means of Alba,

through delay in giving battle, loss.

95

The seducer will be placed in a ditch

and will be tied up for some time.

The scholar joins the chief with his cross.

The sharp right will draw the contented ones.

96

The sterile synagogue without any fruit,

will be received by the infidels,

the daughter of the persecuted (man) of Babylon,

miserable and sad, they will clip her wings.

97

At the end of the Var the great powers change;

near the bank three beautiful children are born.

Ruin to the people when they are of age;

in the country the kingdom is seen to grow and change more.

98

Of the church men the blood will be poured forth

as abundant as water in (amount);

for a long time it will not be restrained,

woe, woe, for the clergy ruin and grief.

99

Through the power of three temporal kings,

the sacred seat will be put in another place,

where the substance of the body and the spirit

will be restored and received as the true seat.

100

By the great number of tears shed,

from top to bottom and from the bottom to the very top,

a life is lost through a game with too much faith,

to die of thirst through a great deficiency.

Quatrains - Century VII

1

The arc of the treasure deceived by Achilles,

the quadrangle known to the procreators.

The invention will be known by the Royal deed;

a corpse seen hanging in the sight of the populace.

2

Opened by Mars Arles will not give war,

the soldiers will be astonished by night.

Black and white concealing indigo on land

under the false shadow you will see traitors sounded.

3

After the naval victory of France,

the people of Barcelona the Saillinons and those of Marseilles;

the robber of gold, the anvil enclosed in the ball,

the people of Ptolon will be party to the fraud.

4

The Duke of Langres besieged at Dôle

accompanied by people from Autun and Lyons.

Geneva, Augsburg allied to those of Mirandola,

to cross the mountains against the people of Ancona.

5

Some of the wine on the table will be spilt,

the third will not have that which he claimed.

Twice descended from the black one of Parma,

Perouse will do to Pisa that which he believed.

6

Naples, Palerma and all of Sicily

will be uninhabited through Barbarian hands.

Corsica, Salerno and the island of Sardinia,

hunger, plague, war the end of extended evils.

7

Upon the struggle of the great light horses,

it will be claimed that the great crescent is destroyed.

To kill by night, in the mountains, 

dressed in shepherd¹s' clothing, red gulfs in the deep ditch.

8

Florense, flee, flee the nearest Roman,

at Fiesole will be conflict given:

blood shed, the greatest one take by the hand,

neither temple nor sex will be pardoned.

9

The lady in the absence of her great master

will be begged for love by the Viceroy.

Feigned promise and misfortune in love,

in the hands of the great Prince of Bar.

10

By the great Prince bordering Le Mans,

brave and valiant leader of the great army;

by land and sea with Bretons and Normans,

to pass Gibraltar and Barcelona to pillage the island.

11

eye, feet wounded rude disobedient;

strange and very bitter news to the lady;

more than five hundred of here people will be killed.

12

The great younger son will make an end of the war,

he assembles the pardoned before the gods;

Cahors and Moissac will go far from the prison,

a refusal at Lectoure, the people of Agen shaved.

13

From the marine tributary city,

the shaven head will take up the satrapy;

to chase the sordid man who will the be against him.

For fourteen years he will hold the tyranny.

14

He will come to expose the false topography,

the urns of the tombs will be opened.

Sect and holy philosophy to thrive,

black for white and the new for the old.

15

Before the city of the Insubrian lands,

for seven years the siege will be laid;

a very great king enters it,

the city is then free, away from its enemies.

16

The deep entry made by the great Queen 

will make the place powerful and inaccessible;

the army of the three lions will be defeated

causing within a thing hideous and terrible.

17

The prince who has little pity of mercy

will come through death to change (and become) very knowledgeable.

The kingdom will be attended with great tranquillity,

when the great one will soon be fleeced.

18

The besieged will color their pacts,

but seven days later they will make a cruel exit:

thrown back inside, fire and blood, seven put to the ax

the lady who had woven the peace is a captive.

19

The fort at Nice will not engage in combat,

it will be overcome by shining metal.

This deed will be debated for a long time,

strange and fearful for the citizens.

20

Ambassadors of the Tuscan language 

will cross the Alps and the sea in April and May.

The man of the calf will deliver an oration, 

not coming to wipe out the French way of life.

21

By the pestilential enmity of Languedoc,

the tyrant dissimulated will be driven out.

The bargain will be made on the bridge at Sorgues

to put to death both him and his follower

22

The citizens of Mesopotamia

angry with their friends from Tarraconne;

games, rites, banquets, every person asleep,

the vicar at Rhône, the city taken and those of Ausonia.

23

The Royal scepter will be forced to take

that which his predecessors had pledged.

Because they do not understand about the ring

when they come to sack the palace.

24

He who was buried will come out of the tomb,

He will cause the fort of the bridge to be tied in chains:

Poisoned with the spawn of a pimp,

the great one from Lorraine by the Marquis du Pont.

25

Through long war all the army exhausted,

so that they do not find money for the soldiers;

instead of gold or silver, they will come to coin leather,

Gallic brass, and the crescent sign of the Moon.

26

Foists and galleys around seven ships,

a mortal war will be let loose.

The leader from Madrid will receive a wound from arrows,

two escaped and five brought to land.

27

At the wall of Vasto the great cavalry

are impeded by the baggage near Ferrara.

At Turin they will speedily commit such robbery 

that in the fort they will ravish their hostage.

28

The captain will lead a great herd

on the mountain closest to the enemy.

Surrounded by fire he makes such a way,

all escape except for thirty put on the spit.

29

The great one of Alba will come to rebel,

he will betray his great forebears.

The great man of Guise will come to vanquish him,

led captive with a monument erected.

30

The sack approaches, fire and great bloodshed.

Po the great rivers, the enterprise for the clowns;

after a long wait from Genoa and Nice,

Fossano, Turin the capture at Savigliano.

31

From Languedoc and Guienne more than ten

thousand will want to cross the Alps again.

The great Savoyards march against Brindisi,

Aquino and Bresse will come to drive them back.

32

From the bank of Montereale will be born one 

who bores and calculates becoming a tyrant.

To raise a force in the marches of Milan,

to drain Faenza and Florence of gold and men

33

The kingdom stripped of its forces by fraud,

the fleet blockaded, passages for the spy;

two false friends will come to rally 

to awaken hatred for a long time dormant.

34

The French nation will be in great grief,

vain and lighthearted, they will believe rash things.

No bread, salt, wine nor water, venom nor ale,

the greater one captured, hunger, cold and want.

35

The great fish will come to complain and weep

for having chosen, deceived concerning his age:

he will hardly want to remain with them,

he will be deceived by those (speaking) his own tongue.

36

God, the heavens, all the divine words in the waves,

carried by seven red-shaven heads to Byzantium:

against the anointed three hundred from Trebizond,

will make two laws, first horror then trust.

37

Ten sent to put the captain of the ship to death,

are altered by one that there is open revolt in the fleet.

Confusion, the leader and another stab and bite each other

at Lerins and the Hyerès, ships, prow into the darkness.

38

The elder royal one on a frisky horse

will spur so fiercely that it will bolt.

Mouth, mouthful, foot complaining in the embrace;

dragged, pulled, to die horribly.

39

The leader of the French army

will expect to lose the main phalanx.

Upon the pavement of oats and slate

the foreign nation will be undermined through Genoa.

40

Within casks anointed outside with oil and grease

twenty-one will be shut before the harbor,

at second watch; through death they will do great deeds;

to win the gates and be killed by the watch.

41

The bones of the feet and the hands locked up,

because of the noise the house is uninhabited for a long time.

Digging in dreams they will be unearthed,

the house healthy in inhabited without noise.

42

Two newly arrived have seized the poison,

to pour it in the kitchen of the great Prince.

By the scullion both are caught in the act,

taken he who thought to trouble the elder with death.

Quatrains - Century VI

1

Around the Pyrenees mountains a great throng

Of foreign people to aid the new King:

Near the great temple of Le Mas by the Garonne,

A Roman chief will fear him in the water.

2

In the year five hundred eighty more or less,

One will await a very strange century:

In the year seven hundred and three the heavens witness thereof,

That several kingdoms one to five will make a change.

3

The river that tries the new Celtic heir

Will be in great discord with the Empire:

The young Prince through the ecclesiastical people

Will remove the scepter of the crown of concord.

4

The Celtic river will change its course,

No longer will it include the city of Agrippina:

All changed except the old language,

Saturn, Leo, Mars, Cancer in plunder.

5

Very great famine through pestiferous wave,

Through long rain the length of the arctic pole:

Samarobryn one hundred leagues from the hemisphere,

The will live without law exempt from politics.

6

There will appear towards the North

Not far from Cancer the bearded star:

Susa, Siena, Boeotia, Eretria,

The great one of Rome will die, the night over.

7

Norway and Dacia and the British Isle

Will be vexed by the united brothers:

The Roman chief sprung from Gallic blood

And his forces hurled back into the forests.

8

Those who were in the realm for knowledge

Will become impoverished at the change of King:

Some exiled without support, having no gold,

The lettered and letters will not be at a high premium.

9

In the sacred temples scandals will be perpetrated,

They will be reckoned as honors and commendations:

Of one of whom they engrave medals of silver and of gold,

The end will be in very strange torments.

10

In a short time the temples with colors

Of white and black of the two intermixed:

Red and yellow ones will carry off theirs from them,

Blood, land, plague, famine, fire extinguished by water.

11

The seven branches will be reduced to three,

The elder ones will be surprised by death,

The two will be seduced to fratricide,

The conspirators will be dead while sleeping.

12

To raise forces to ascend to the empire

In the Vatican the Royal blood will hold fast:

Flemings, English, Spain with Aspire

Against Italy and France will he contend.

13

A doubtful one will not come far from the realm,

The greater part will want to uphold him:

A Capitol will not want him to reign at all,

He will be unable to bear his great burden.

14

Far from his land a King will lose the battle,

At once escaped, pursued, then captured,

Ignorant one taken under the golden mail,

Under false garb, and the enemy surprised.

15

Under the tomb will be found a Prince

Who will be valued above Nuremberg:

The Spanish King in Capricorn thin,

Deceived and betrayed by the great Wittenberg.

16

That which will be carried off by the young Hawk,

By the Normans of France and Picardy:

The black ones of the temple of the Black Forest place

Will make an inn and fire of Lombardy.

17

After the files the ass-drivers burned,

They will be obliged to change diverse garbs:

Those of Saturn burned by the millers,

Except the greater part which will not be covered.

18

The great King abandoned by the Physicians,

By fate not the Jew's art he remains alive,

He and his kindred pushed high in the realm,

Pardon given to the race which denies Christ.

19

The true flame will devour the lady

Who will want to put the Innocent Ones to the fire:

Before the assault the army is inflamed,

When in Seville a monster in beef will be seen.

20

The feigned union will be of short duration,

Some changed most reformed:

In the vessels people will be in suffering,

Then Rome will have a new Leopard.

21

When those of the arctic pole are united together,

Great terror and fear in the East:

Newly elected, the great trembling supported,

Rhodes, Byzantium stained with Barbarian blood.

22

Within the land of the great heavenly temple,

Nephew murdered at London through feigned peace:

The bark will then become schismatic,

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

23

Coins depreciated by the spirit of the realm,

And people will be stirred up against their King:

New peace made, holy laws become worse,

Paris was never in so severe an array.

24

Mars and the scepter will be found conjoined

Under Cancer calamitous war:

Shortly afterwards a new King will be anointed,

One who for a long time will pacify the earth.

25

Through adverse Mars will the monarchy

Of the great fisherman be in ruinous trouble:

The young red black one will seize the hierarchy,

The traitors will act on a day of drizzle.

26

For four years the see will be held with some little good,

One libidinous in life will succeed to it:

Ravenna, Pisa and Verona will give support,

Longing to elevate the Papal cross.

27

Within the Isles of five rivers to one,

Through the expansion of the great Chyren Selin:

Through the drizzles in the air the fury of one,

Six escaped, hidden bundles of flax.

28

The great Celt will enter Rome,

Leading a throng of the exiled and banished:

The great Pastor will put to death every man

Who was united at the Alps for the cock.

29

The saintly widow hearing the news,

Of her offspring placed in perplexity and trouble:

He who will be instructed to appease the quarrels,

He will pile them up by his pursuit of the shaven heads.

30

Through the appearance of the feigned sanctity,

The siege will be betrayed to the enemies:

In the night when they trusted to sleep in safety,

Near Brabant will march those of Liège.

31

The King will find that which he desired so much

When the Prelate will be blamed unjustly:

His reply to the Duke will leave him dissatisfied,

He who in Milan will put several to death.

32

Beaten to death by rods for treason,

Captured he will be overcome through his disorder:

Frivolous counsel held out to the great captive,

When Berich will come to bite his nose in fury.

33

His last hand through  sanguinary,

He will be unable to protect himself by sea:

Between two rivers he will fear the military hand,

The black and irate one will make him rue it.

34

The device of flying fire

Will come to trouble the great besieged chief:

Within there will be such sedition

That the profligate ones will be in despair.

35

Near the Bear and close to the white wool,

Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,

Mars, Jupiter, the Sun will burn a great plain,

Woods and cities letters hidden in the candle.

36

Neither good nor evil through terrestrial battle

Will reach the confines of Perugia,

Pisa to rebel, Florence to see an evil existence,

King by night wounded on a mule with black housing.

37

The ancient work will be finished,

Evil ruin will fall upon the great one from the roof:

Dead they will accuse an innocent one of the deed,

The guilty one hidden in the copse in the drizzle.

38

The enemies of peace to the profligates,

After having conquered Italy:

The bloodthirsty black one, red, will be exposed,

Fire, blood shed, water colored by blood.

39

The child of the realm through the capture of his father

Will be plundered to deliver him:

Near the Lake of Perugia the azure captive,

The hostage troop to become far too drunk.

40

To quench the great thirst the great one of Mainz

Will be deprived of his great dignity:

Those of Cologne will come to complain so loudly

That the great rump will be thrown into the Rhine.

41

The second chief of the realm of Annemark,

Through those of Frisia and of the British Isle,

Will spend more than one hundred thousand marks,

Exploiting in vain the voyage to Italy.

42

To Ogmios will be left the realm

Of the great Selin, who will in fact do more:

Throughout Italy will he extend his banner,

He will be ruled by a prudent deformed one.

43

For a long time will she remain uninhabited,

Around where the Seine and the Marne she comes to water:

Tried by the Thames and warriors,

The guards deceived in trusting in the repulse.

44

By night the Rainbow will appear for Nantes,

By marine arts they will stir up rain:

In the Gulf of Arabia a great fleet will plunge to the bottom,

In Saxony a monster will be born of a bear and a sow.

45

The very learned governor of the realm,

Not wishing to consent to the royal deed:

The fleet at Melilla through contrary wind

Will deliver him to his most disloyal one.

46

A just one will be sent back again into exile,

Through pestilence to the confines of Nonseggle,

His reply to the red one will cause him to be misled,

The King withdrawing to the Frog and the Eagle.

47

The two great ones assembled between two mountains

Will abandon their secret quarrel:

Brussels and Dôle overcome by Langres,

To execute their plague at Malines.

48

The too false and seductive sanctity,

Accompanied by an eloquent tongue:

The old city, and Parma too premature,

Florence and Siena they will render more desert.

49

The great Pontiff of the party of Mars

Will subjugate the confines of the Danube:

The cross to pursue, through sword hook or crook,

Captives, gold, jewels more than one hundred thousand rubies.

50

Within the pit will be found the bones,

Incest will be committed by the stepmother:

The state changed, they will demand fame and praise,

And they will have Mars attending as their star.

51

People assembled to see a new spectacle,

Princes and Kings amongst many bystanders,

Pillars walls to fall: but as by a miracle

The King saved and thirty of the ones present.

52

In place of the great one who will be condemned,

Outside the prison, his friend in his place:

The Trojan hope in six months joined, born dead,

The Sun in the urn rivers will be frozen.

53

The great Celtic Prelate suspected by the King,

By night in flight he will leave the realm:

Through a Duke fruitful for his great British King,

Byzantium to Cyprus and Tunis unsuspected.

54

At daybreak at the second crowing of the cock,

Those of Tunis, of Fez and of Bougie,

By the Arabs the King of Morocco captured,

The year sixteen hundred and seven, of the Liturgy.

55

By the appeased Duke in drawing up the contract,

Arabesque sail seen, sudden discovery:

Tripoli, Chios, and those of Trebizond,

Duke captured, the Black Sea and the city a desert.

56

The dreaded army of the Narbonne enemy

Will frighten very greatly the Hesperians:

Perpignan empty through the blind one of Arbon,

Then Barcelona by sea will take up the quarrel.

57

He who was well forward in the realm,

Having a red chief close to the hierarchy,

Harsh and cruel, and he will make himself much feared,

He will succeed to the sacred monarchy.

58

Between the two distant monarchs,

When the clear Sun is lost through Selin:

Great enmity between two indignant ones,

So that liberty is restored to the Isles and Siena.

59

The Lady in fury through rage of adultery,

She will come to conspire not to tell her Prince:

But soon will the blame be made known,

So that seventeen will be put to martyrdom.

60

The Prince outside his Celtic land

Will be betrayed, deceived by the interpreter:

Rouen, La Rochelle through those of Brittany

At the port of Blaye deceived by monk and priest.

61

The great carpet folded will not show

But by halved the greatest part of history:

Driven far out of the realm he will appear harsh,

So that everyone will come to believe in his warlike deed.

62

Too late both the flowers will be lost,

The serpent will not want to act against the law:

The forces of the Leaguers confounded by the French,

Savona, Albenga through Monaco great martyrdom.

63

The lady left alone in the realm

By the unique one extinguished first on the bed of honor:

Seven years will she be weeping in grief,

Then with great good fortune for the realm long life.

64

No peace agreed upon will be kept,

All the subscribers will act with deceit:

In peace and truce, land and sea in protest,

By Barcelona fleet seized with ingenuity.

65

Gray and brown in half-opened war,

By night they will be assaulted and pillaged:

The brown captured will pass through the lock,

His temple opened, two slipped in the plaster.

66

At the foundation of the new sect,

The bones of the great Roman will be found,

A sepulcher covered by marble will appear,

Earth to quake in April poorly buried.

67

Quite another one will attain to the great Empire,

Kindness distant more so happiness:

Ruled by one sprung not far from the brothel,

Realms to decay great bad luck.

68

When the soldiers in a seditious fury

Will cause steel to flash by night against their chief:

The enemy Alba acts with furious hand,

Then to vex Rome and seduce the principal ones.

69

The great pity will occur before long,

Those who gave will be obliged to take:

Naked, starving, withstanding cold and thirst,

To pass over the mountains committing a great scandal.

70

Chief of the world will the great Chyren be,

Plus Ultra behind, loved, feared, dreaded:

His fame and praise will go beyond the heavens,

And with the sole title of Victor will he be quite satisfied.

71

When they will come to give the last rites to the great King

Before he has entirely given up the ghost:

He who will come to grieve over him the least,

Through Lions, Eagles, cross crown sold.

72

Through feigned fury of divine emotion

The wife of the great one will be violated:

The judges wishing to condemn such a doctrine,

She is sacrificed a victim to the ignorant people.

73

In a great city a monk and artisan,

Lodged near the gate and walls,

Secret speaking emptily against Modena,

Betrayed for acting under the guise of nuptials.

74

She chased out will return to the realm,

Her enemies found to be conspirators:

More than ever her time will triumph,

Three and seventy to death very sure.

75

The great Pilot will be commissioned by the King,

To leave the fleet to fill a higher post:

Seven years after he will be in rebellion,

Venice will come to fear the Barbarian army.

76

The ancient city the creation of Antenor,

Being no longer able to bear the tyrant:

The feigned handle in the temple to cut a throat,

The people will come to put his followers to death.

77

Through the fraudulent victory of the deceived,

Two fleets one, German revolt:

The chief murdered and his son in the tent,

Florence and Imola pursued into Romania.

78

To proclaim the victory of the great expanding Selin:

By the Romans will the Eagle be demanded,

Pavia, Milan and Genoa will not consent thereto,

Then by themselves the great Lord claimed.

79

Near the Ticino the inhabitants of the Loire,

Garonne and Saône, the Seine, the Tain and Gironde:

They will erect a promontory beyond the mountains,

Conflict given, Po enlarged, submerged in the wave.

80

From Fez the realm will reach those of Europe,

Their city ablaze and the blade will cut:

The great one of Asia by land and sea with great troop,

So that blues and Pers[ians] the cross will pursue to death.

81

Tears, cries and laments, howls, terror,

Heart inhuman, cruel, black and chilly:

Lake of Geneva the Isles, of Genoa the notables,

Blood to pour out, wheat famine to none mercy.

82

Through the deserts of the free and wild place,

The nephew of the great Pontiff will come to wander:

Felled by seven with a heavy club,

By those who afterwards will occupy the Chalice.

83

He who will have so much honor and flattery

At his entry into Belgian Gaul:

A while after he will act very rudely,

And he will act very warlike against the flower.

84

The Lame One, he who lame could not reign in Sparta,

He will do much through seductive means:

So that by the short and long, he will be accused

Of making his perspective against the King.

85

The great city of Tarsus by the Gauls

Will be destroyed, all of the Turban captives:

Help by sea from the great one of Portugal,

First day of summer Urban's consecration.

86

The great Prelate one day after his dream,

Interpreted opposite to its meaning:

From Gascony a monk will come unexpectedly,

One who will cause the great prelate of Sens to be elected.

87

The election made in Frankfort

Will be voided, Milan will be opposed:

The follower closer will seem so very strong

That he will drive him out into the marshes beyond the Rhine.

88

A great realm will be left desolated,

Near the Ebro an assembly will be formed:

The Pyrenees mountains will console him,

When in May lands will be trembling.

89

Feet and hands bound between two boats,

Face anointed with honey, and sustained with milk:

Wasps and flies, paternal love vexed,

Cup-bearer to falsify, Chalice tried.

90

The stinking abominable disgrace,

After the deed he will be congratulated:

The great excuse for not being favorable,

That Neptune will not be persuaded to peace.

91

Of the leader of the naval war,

Red one unbridled, severe, horrible whim,

Captive escaped from the elder one in the bale,

When there will be born a son to the great Agrippa.

92

Prince of beauty so comely,

Around his head a plot, the second deed betrayed:

The city to the sword in dust the face burnt,

Through too great murder the head of the King hated.

93

The greedy prelate deceived by ambition,

He will come to reckon nothing too much for him:

He and his messengers completely trapped,

He who cut the wood sees all in reverse.

94

A King will be angry with the see-breakers,

When arms of war will be prohibited:

The poison tainted in the sugar for the strawberries,

Murdered by waters, dead, saying land, land.

95

Calumny against the cadet by the detractor,

When enormous and warlike deeds will take place:

The least part doubtful for the elder one,

And soon in the realm there will be partisan deeds.

96

Great city abandoned to the soldiers,

Never was mortal tumult so close to it:

Oh, what a hideous calamity draws near,

Except one offense nothing will be spared it.

97

At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,

Fire to approach the great new city:

In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,

When one will want to demand proof of the Normans.

98

Ruin for the Volcae so very terrible with fear,

Their great city stained, pestilential deed:

To plunder Sun and Moon and to violate their temples:

And to redden the two rivers flowing with blood.

99

The learned enemy will find himself confused,

His great army sick, and defeated by ambushes,

The Pyrenees and Pennine Alps will be denied him,

Discovering near the river ancient jugs.

100

INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS

Let those who read this verse consider it profoundly,

Let the profane and the ignorant herd keep away:

And far away all Astrologers, Idiots and Barbarians,

May he who does otherwise be subject to the sacred rite.