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A collection of twenty-three prophecies and predictions of the famous Michael Nostrodamvs, the learned astrologer of France, as they concern and point at these times together with their explanations foretelling many strange and wonderful things about to happen in England, France, and Ireland : but more particularly the success of our arms in the later revolution and what we may farther expect with the miseries threatning the kingdom of France before the year one thousand six hundred ninety-one be over ...
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Nostradamus, 1503-1566.
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him as to secret Intrigues which frustrated his purposes and left him naked in a pitiful case when he was rejected by his people Pro. 9. Where all well is all good a Sun and Moon is Existent his Ruin draweth near The Heaven is making haste to change that fortune into the same case as the seventh Rock is Expl. This seems to hint at the too great Pride of France thinking to crave other Nations when it s own Ruin is near at hand Heaven in its Eternal decrees perhaps having designed to Infatuate their councels or devices which may be meant by the Rock signifying a thing insensible into which their projects and policies may be chang'd Pro. 10. In great Regret shall the French Nation be their vain and light Heart shall believe rashly they shall have neither Bread Salt Wine nor Beer Moreover they shall be Pâ—isoners and suffer hunger cold and need Expl. This no doubt threatens the French Nation with extraordinary calamity as appears by the plain words without the need of any Interpretation than what the sense may reasonably bear to understanding of the meanest capacity Pro. 11. Many shall come and take of Peace between Monarchs and Lords very powerful but it shall not be agreed too so soon if they do not shew themselves more obedient than others Expl. This may seem to point at the present affairs in publick discourses and perhaps some negotiations but the matter as to the Prophecy being plain there wants nothing but time to give a further Light into the fulfilling it and the Submission of those that stand out in Rebellion and Opposition to Render us a peaceful Nation and People Pro. 12. There shall be in Guynea an infinite number of English who shall occupy it by the name Angle Acquitaine of Languedock I. by the Land of Bourdeaux which afterwards they shall call Barboxitain Expl. This gives the English hopes of receiving the antient Rights of this Kingdom now wrongfully detained by the French Pro. 13. Against the Red Sex shall gather themselves Fire Water Iron Rape by peace it shall be destroy'd Those that shall conspire shall not be put to death except one who above all shall undo the work Expl. This demonstrates the Inveteracy of the Roman faction against the Protestants but that in the end signified here of their error in cruelty and turn their fury against the Disturber of Christendom who may be truly said to endeavour the ruin of the Christian world Pro. 14. Peace is coming on one side and War on the other There was never so great a pursuing Man Woman shall bewail the innocent blood that shall be spilt it shall be in France and on all sides Expl. This seems to promise happiness to come on one side and the miseries of war on the other as Armies in Rout c. signified by the great pursuing and the spilling of Blood in France which which shall be lamented but whether it shall be spilt in a Hostile way or by Execution the Author leaves doubtful Pro. 15. Foot and Horse upon the second watch shall come in destroying all by Sea they shall come into the harbour of Marseilles Tears Crys and Bloods never was so bitter a time Expl. This signifies some Invasion of France by Sea Marseilles being a chief Sea part of that Kingdom and perhaps we in a short time happen to leave this Prophecy fulfilled Pro. 16. Kidery against King and Duke against Prince hatred between them and horrid dissention rage and fury shall be in every Province great war in France and horrid changes Expl. This directly out points Wars Miseries and Alterations to France insomuch that there shall be rage and fury in every Province Pro. 17. Brooks and Rivers shall be a stopping to evil the old flame of Anger being not yet ceased shall run through France take this as an Oracle Houses Mannors Pallaces Sects shall be raced Expl. Here again are great calamities foretold to arise from the fury of the People by Civil war in France or by an in-aiding Enemy wherein great spoil and waste shall be made Pro. 18. He that the Principality Shall keep by great Cruelty At last shall see a great Army By Fire blow most dangerously He shall do better by Agreement strange Otherways he shall drink the juce of Orange Expl. What can be more plain than this Relation to the late K. who shed so much Blood of his Subjects in the West and other places by the hands of Hang-men who at last had a great Army come against him and not making any timely Agreement he fled to France and being Abdicated by his people the Prince of Orange our present Soveraign was first invested by the Government by the way of Administration and soon after proclaimed King Pro. 19. The Purveyor shall put all in disorder Leech and Wolf do the burthen to me when Mars shall be in the sign of Aries joyned with Saturn and Saturnith the Moon then shall be thy greatest Misfortune the Sun being then in its Exaltation Expl. By the Purveyor our Author has all along meant the French King by the Leech the Spaniard and by the Wolf the Savoyard which are threatned with some Burnings or Ranagements by the French when Mars shall be in the sign of Aries c. but when this will happen we must leave to the event of time Pro. 20. The Fleet shall stand before the City then shall go away for a little while and then take a great troop of Citizens on Land the Fleet shall come back again and recover a great deal Expl. This points at the last Expedition to Ireland whereby the help of our Fleet the City of Cork and Town of Kingsale were reduced and promises a further Success and perhaps the Reducing of Limerick by such another undertaking Pro. 21. O great Rome thy Ruin draweth near not of thy Walls of thy Blood and Substance The sharp by Letters shall make so horrid a Notch sharp Iron thrust in all to the haft Expl. This threatens the confounding of the Romish Superstition by the ingenious and convincing Writings of some eminent Man who shall press it so far that the Papists themselves shall be convinced and fall off which may be signified by the Notch and the sharp Iron thrust in to the haft Pro. 22. Leutitia in Mars Senators shall be in Credit In a Night France shall be troubled The Horoscope of the great Craesus foretelleth That by Saturn his Power shall be put down Explan This seems to threaten Lewis the XIV with sudden Trouble in the Kingdom and that in the end his Power shall be put down by which he has so long Tyranniz'd over his own and the Subjects of other Princes where he has made Inroads and Invasions Pro. 23. In the Year when the Figures turn'd shall be the same Then bloody France look to 't beware your Fame For all your Cruelties you then shall pay And now Approaches fast the Reckoning day Expl. This is an ancient Prophecy by another hand and points directly at the year 1691. which if you observe to turn the 6 downward it is a 9 if the 9 upward it is a 6 and for the two ones turn them which way you please they are the same the like not to be done in many years before and thus much for these famous Prophesies FINIS
A COLLECTION OF Twenty-Three PROPHECIES AND Predictions Of the Famous MICHAEL NOSTRODAMVS the Learned Astrologer of France as they Concern and Point at these Times TOGETHER With their Explanations foretelling many Strange and Wonderful Things about to happen in England France and Ireland but more particularly the Success of Our Arms in the Later Revolution and what we may farther expect with the Miseries Threatning the Kingdom of France Before the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety One be Over This following Prophecy was writ by an English Bard. above One hundred Years since 1691 In the year when the Figures turn'd shall be the same Then bloody France look to 't beware your fame For all your Cruelties you then shall pay And now Approaches fast the Reckoning Day LONDON Printed and Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCXC ADVERTISEMENT WHereas the Book of Songs in Folio set by Signior Pietro Reggio consisting of One hundred fourty and four Copper Plates curiously Printed upon Imperial Paper was formerly sold for 16 s. it is now proposed to be sold for 7 s. by W. Whitwood in Duck-lane and Mrs Feltham in Westminster-hall And at the same Places this Book following The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty Books of Trogus Pompeius containing the Affairs of all Ages and Countreys in Peace and War from the beginning of the World until the time of the Roman Emperours treating of the abderites forced from their Countrey by Frogs and Mice of the Aborigines the Abrogation of the Law for Sacrificing Men Alive the Wars and Policies of Alexander the Great with the Account of his Death of Hanibal Antigonus Cambyses Scipio and other Kings Princes and Captains Aristotle Tutor to Alexander the Great Artaxerxes had 115 Sons the Athenians the Inventers of Oil Wine and the Manufacture of Wool Babylon builded by Semiramis the holy Misteries of Caeres Cleopatria married her own Brother Ptolomy and the Execrable Murthers committed by him The Cyprian Virgins provide themselves Dowries by prostitution of their Bodies Darius bound by his own Men in Golden Chains Naero defiles his own Mother Joseph preserved in Aegypt from Famine his Interpretation of Dreams Micheus Crucified by his own Father a Phaenix seen in Aegypt and in what Place the Giants made War against Heaven with variety of other Histories Translated into English by Rob. Codrington Master of Arts. Sold by W. Whitwood in Duck-lane Mrs. Feltham in Westminster-Hall TO THE READERVPON THESE PROPHECIES Reader AT first view of the Title Page you may ask why we bring upon the Stage at this time the Predictions or Prophecies of one of an Ancient Date to which for your better satisfaction we Answer that this famous Astrologer esteemed the wisest and most experienced did not limit them to the scanty space of a Year nor to an Age but gave his Judgment as to what would in all probability fall out in succeeding Ages and perhaps to the end of the World wherefore we have collected what may be most suitable to the present times with an explanation as free as is reasonable or conjectural in matters so dark and devious the which for the better inlightning the understanding of Mankind we have set down Prophecy 1. TOurs Orleance Blois Anger 's Reus and Nants City vexed by suddain change by strange Languages Tents shall be set up Rivers Darts Revenues Land and Seas shall quake Annotation This seems to threaten the Provinces of France with some extraordinary change perhaps a Revolt or the prevailing Arms of those that are at present in a War against it the latter being most conjectural by the hint of the two last Verses or lines of the Prophecy Pro. 2. Towars Gascony by English Assaults by the same shall be mâ—de great Incursions Rains Frosts shall Mazz the Ground Port Selyn shall make strong Invasions Explanation Here the English are promised to make Incursions into the Province of Gascony part of the French King's Territories but the weather in those Parts shall not be favourable as also that the Turks about shall be flushed by Inroad or Invasion of some Place or Countrey Pro. 3. Bourdeaux Rovan and La-Rochelle Joints will Range About upon the Great Ocean English Britains and Flemings joyn together shall drive them away as far as Rouana Explanation This seems to hint at the present times that the Dutch and English shall be successful and obstruct the French by overpowering them by Sea and forcing them into the Rouana or Rhoan a City in Normaady a City formerly subject to the Crown of England and may in success of time be happily regained as it was wrongfully taken from us during the York and Lancasterian War together with the whole Province in the Reign of Henry the sixth Pro. 4. The English Prince Mars hath his heart from Heaven will follow his prosperous fortune Explanation This without doubt points at the present Providence in our Miraculous Deliverance wherein God turned the hearts of the People as of one Man to his present Majesty making him successful against our devoted Enemies to establish him in the Throne and forward his Undertakings in Victory and Renown Pro. 5. The Roman power shall be quite put down his great Neighbour shall follow his steps Secret and Civil hatred and quarrels shall stoop the Buffoon folly Explanation This denotes the Popish power in England to be overthrown and that the same shall happen in a neighbouring Kingdom perhaps in France and that those who keep up fudes and animosities may see their Errors and stop the Buffoons folly that is by joyning against the common Enemy and Uniting with the Interest of the Government Pro. 6. The Change shall be very hard The City and Country shall gain by the Change A high prudent heart shall be put in the unworthy expelled Sea Land and People shall change its conditions Explanation This may be thought plainly to hint at our Late Revolution but we leave further the Issue of Providence and the Event of our Succeedings good for time to time which we cordially wish may ever be prosperous Pro. 7. Peace and Plenty shall not be long praised in his Reign the Flower-de-luce shall be deserted Bodies shall dye Death shall be brought hoping there vanity to be buried Expl. This may denote the shaking of the Kingdom of France in this King's Reign by some Insurrections occasioned by Famine or Discontent as likewise Inundations which by a Rappid overflowing shall carry and hinder some of the opportunity of being buried in the Earth though the contrary be desired by their Friends Pro. 8. The great Army shall be rejected in a moment shall be wanted by the King the faith promised a far off shall be broken so that he shall be left naked in a pitiful case Expl. This may seem to hint at the late King 's brave promise with the Church of England that rais'd him to the Throne as to the first past and the French King 's not keeping his promise with