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The fortune of France from the prophetical predictions of Mr. Truswell, the recorder of Lincoln, and Michael Nostradamus.
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Truswell, Mr.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566. Prophéties. English. Selections.
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1678
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France Lewis the Fourteenth ever since which time France has enjoyed a constant current of Greatness and uninterrupted Prosperity which as it has infinitely augmented their Trade Navigation People and the Treasure of the Prince into the Sea of whose Coffers all the several Streams of Money in France do finally discharge themselves so it has elevated their minds to high Attempts Pride being the usual Companion of Prosperity and a vast Treasure the greatest spur to the thoughts of Ambitious Princes The Lilly standing in these terms shall be moved against the Seed of the Lyon that is as before we took notice against the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands who are altogether called the Leo Belgious and give the Lyon for their Ensigns This likewise needs no great matter of explaining it being so visible and fresh in remembrance how the French began to quarrel with the Dutch Though upon what real or solid grounds since they never yet told the world we are left to the liberty of our Conjectures and may therefore judge it was the Child of their Pride and Ambition Riches and Prosperity with which unbounded desire of Greatness and Soveraignty some of their late Ministers have travelled long and had they not strangely miscarried 't is more than probable they would have brought that Embrio of slavery which they had conceived in their brains to a perfect birth And he shall stand on one side amongst the Thorns of his Kingdom whose Kingdom is the Land of the Moon that is at the beginning of this War betwixt Lilly and the Lyon England shall stand upon the part of the Lilly against the Lion though not without Difficulties by reason of the Thorns of his Kingdom by which Thorns they understand the uneasiness of his People occasioned by this confederation with France by reason of their Apprehensions of whose growing Greatness and Power both at Sea and Land and his dangerous Vicinity they are said to stand upon Thorns according to our English Proverb of expressing any thing which gives us a trouble or which we cannot long endure And by his adding the Kingdom of the Moon may further be meant that this Confederation shall not be lasting but shall change as it has done from Friendship to a cold Neutrality from Neutrality to open and violent because necessary Hostility Then shall come the Eagle out of the East with his wings spread with the Beams of the Son of Man Here is plainly decipher'd his Imperial Majesty of Germany whose Ensign is the Eagle displaid and his wings being spread with the Beams of the Son of Man denotes the Confederation between England and the Empire which Confederation shall influence warm and revive the drooping Spirits of the Imperial Party adding new life to their endeavours and fresh vigour to their enterprises as the kind Beams of the Sun impregnates the Plants and Herbs with a new Life and Growth There shall be destrdyed Castles upon the Thames Whether this may not have reference to the action of Chattam or to the conflagration of London or to some other great Sea action in which the English may lose some Ships which he calls Castles upon the Thames and which may probably happen if there be Naval Engagements with the French I will not undertake to determine but as before was observed there is no method or exact order observed in these Prophetick Discourses and I am rather inclinable to believe it does relate to the Affair of Chattam in which the English Ships were destroyed with the great pleasure if not by the Instigation of France There shall be great Battles among many Kings This is not only already verified no so many Combats as during this War have happened between the Emperor the Crowns of France Spain England Sweeden and Denmark but in great probability that still there will be more and greater for the Power of France is too great to be the Trophie of one Day and there appears no safety to any Neighbouring Crowns but by abating the Luxury of the Lillies In that Day shall be the Bloody Field This is spoken exegetically as if one particular remarkable and Decissive Day wherein shall be a most Bloody Battle the end of which shall terminate in a most notable Victory in which the Lilly that is France shall be subdued wherewith the Son of Man shall be crowned In the fourth year many Battles shall be for the Faith This seems to intimate as if during this War and before the final conclusion of it by the great Battle which he calls the Bloody Day France finding her self straitned should excite the Grand Signior the Capital Enemy of the Christian Faith to enter into the Christian Territories according to the Example of Francis the first of France and the present Commotions in Hungary supported in a probability both by the French and Ottomans underhand render the conjecture not much void of the Mark. This War between the Christians and Turks shall continue some time after the Power of France is humbled and shall occasion many Battles for the Faith that is against the Mahometans but at last Victory shall declare her self for the Christians Caput mundierit ad terram I can easily make of this better sense than Latin The head of the World shall be brought to the Ground which may be meant either of the Pope or Turk who both pretend to that Title of Vniversal Head the one as Temporal and the other as Spiritual Monarch of the World and I leave it to the Opinion of the Reader and to Time the surest Interpreter of Predictions to declare upon which of these Heads this Vengeance shall fall so heavy as to lay them in the Dust After this The Son of Man and the Eagle that is the King of England and the Emperor shall be exalted that is they shall be in great Honour Dignity and Power upon which there shall succeed Universal Peace and as the Natural Effect of it all manner of Plenty As for the last Clause where 't is said The Son of Man shall receive a marvellous Sign and shall go to the Land of the Cross I confess I want an Oedipus to furnish me with a Conjecture and will not therefore undertake it in regard that Voyage has been out of fashion with all Princes since they understood that it was an Intrigue of Ambitious Popes to send Princes to the Holy War whilst they in the mean time made a Prey of their Prerogatives and Subjects at home Thus far Mr. Truswel's Prophesie which because it may be thought the work of an English-man and may therefore be supposed in favour of the Nation let us hear a Prophet of their own Nostradamus the great Favourite of three Kings Henry the 2. Francis the 2. and Charles the 9. and if he be a Prophet he will it may be confirm the Truth of the former Predictions applying his rugged Verses to the present Circumstances of the time Naples Palerme Sicile Syracuse Noveaux Tyrants