Chapter XXXVIII: French

L’Entrée de _Blaye_ par _Rochelle_ & l’_Anglios_,
Passera outre le grand _Æmathien_:
Non loing d’_Agen_ attendra le _Gaulois_,
Secours _Narbonne_ deceu par entretien.

English.

The coming in at _Blaye_ by _Rochel_ and the _English_,
Shall go beyond the great _Æmathien_,
Not far from _Agen_ shall expect the _French_,
Help from _Narbonne_ deceived by entertainment.

ANNOT.

For the better understanding of this, the hard words must first be made plain; _Blaye_ is a City upon the River _Garonne_, and the Port-Town to _Bourdeaux_; _Rochel_ is a City upon the same Coast; _Agen_ is a City in _Gascony_ not far from _Bourdeaux_, and _Narbonne_ is a City in _Languedoc_, by the Mediterranean Sea; _Æmathian_ was formerly the Countrey of _Macedonia_, wherein _Julius Cæsar_ and _C. Pompeius_ fought their last Battle in the _Pharsalian_ Fields, and therefore saith the Latine Poet _Lucanus_:

_Bella per Æmathios plusquam civilia campos._

These things being considered the sense is, that there shall be an Invasion made by the _English_, to whom those of _Rochel_ shall joyn, upon the Town of _Blaye_, which shall proceed as far as _Agen_, and that thereabout will be a bloody Encounter between the _English_ and _French_, beyond that which was fought in the _Æmathian_ Fields, and that the succours that should come from _Narbonne_ to the _French_, shall be deluded and hindered by the speech and discourse of some.