Chapter LIII: French

Dedans _Boulogne_ voudra laver ses fautes,
Il ne poura au Temple du Soleil,
Il volera faisant choses si hautes,
En _Hierarchie_ n’en fut onc un pareil.

English.

He shall desire to wash his faultes in _Bulloin_,
In the Church of the Sun, but he shall not be able,
He shall fly doing so high things,
That the like was never in _Hierarchy_.

ANNOT.

There is two Towns called _Bolloin_, one is in _Italy_, the other in _France_, the last is that which is meant here; for Cardinal _Richelieu_ who is the man that did so high things, and the like of which was never in _Hierarchy_ (that is in the Clergy) a little afore his death had vowed if he recovered his health to go in Pilgrimage to _Bulloin_, where there is a famous Temple for Miracles, (as they say) dedicated to our Lady, which is called here the Sun, by an allusion to that passage of the Revelation: _And there appeared a Woman cloathed with the Sun_; but the said Cardinal was prevented by death.

LIV.

French.

Soubs la couleur du traité mariage,
Fait magnanime par grand _Chiren Selin_,
_Quintin_, _Arras_, recouvrez au voiage,
D’_Espagnols_ fait second banc _Macelin_.

English.

Under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage,
A Magnanimous act shall be done by the great _Cheiren Selin_,
_Quintin_, _Arras_ recovered in the journey,
Of _Spaniards_ shall be made a second _Macelin_ Bench.

ANNOT.

This is a Prognostication concerning a King of _France_, meant here by the great _Cheiren Selin_, who under pretence of a Treaty of Marriage, shall recover in his journey these two Towns Saint _Quintin_ and _Arras_, for the Shambles are called in Latine _Macellum_. _Quod ibi mactentur pectora quæ mercatoribus venundantur._