Chapter XLVIII: French

La grand Cité d’Occean Maritime,
Environnée de Marests en Crystal,
Dans le _Solstice_ hyemal & la prime,
Sera tentée de vent espouvental.

English.

The great Maritime City of the Ocean,
Encompassed with Chrystaline Fens,
In the Winter _Solstice_ and in the spring,
Shall be tempted with fearful wind.

ANNOT.

By _the great Maritime City of the Ocean, Encompassed with Crystaline Fens_, is to be understood the City of _London_, for as for that of _Venice_, it is situated upon the _Mediterranean_ or rather _Adriatick_ Sea: _London_ then is threatned here of a fearful wind, which whether the Author meaneth for the time that is past now, and that shall come hereafter I know not, sure I am, that I have within this fifteen years seen two such winds in _London_, as I never saw the like any where else; the first was that day that _Olivier_ the Usurpator died, the other was about six or seven years ago, caused by the lightning that fell in _Hereford-shire_, and did mix with a Western wind and came as far as _London_, carrying the tops of houses, and doing then for above 10000. pounds dammage.