Chapter XXXII: French

La grand Empire sera tost translaté,
En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre,
Lieu bien infime d’exigue Comté,
Ou au milieu viendra poser son Scepter.

English.

The great Empire shall soon be translated,
Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards.
An inferiour place of a small County,
In the middle of which he shall come to lay down his Scepter.

ANNOT.

This is concerning the same _Charles_ the V. Emperour, who about three years before his death, being weary of the World, resigned his Dominions of _Spain_ and of the _Low-Countries_, to his Son _Philip_ the II. and his Empire to his Brother _Ferdinand_, and retired himself into a Monastery of _Castile_, called l’_Escurial_, which after his death, was much enlarged and beautified by his Son _Philip_: and that is the meaning of our Author when he saith:

_Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards,_
_An inferiour place of a small County,_

For this _Escurial_ being seated in a Desert place of a County of _Spain_, called _Castilia_, which the _Spanish_ vanity calleth a Kingdom, (whose Use, Fruit, or Revenues, the said _Charles_ only reserved for his maintenance) is now by the _Spaniards_ accounted to be the eighth wonder of the World.

XXXIII.

French.

Pres d’un grand Pont de plaine spacieuse,
Le grand Lion par force, Cesarées,
Fera abatre hors Cité rigoureuse,
Par effroy portes luy seront reserrées.

English.

A great Bridge near a spacious Plain,
The great Lion by _Cæsarean_ Forces,
Shall cause to be pulled down, without the rigorous City,
For fear of which, the Gates shall be shut to him.

ANNOT.

The meaning of this is, that a great Captain, Commander of the Imperial Forces, shall cause a Bridge that was built near a spacious Plain to be thrown down. The City near the Bridge being terrified at it, shall shut up their Gates against him.

XXXIV.

French.

L’Oiseau de proye volant a la Fenestre,
Avant conflict, fait au _Francois_ parure,
L’un bon prendra, l’autre ambigue sinistre,
La partie foible tiendra pour bonne augure.

English.

The Bird of Prey flying to the Window,
Before Battle, shall appear to the _French_;
One shall take a good omen of it, the other a bad one,
The weaker part shall hold it for a good sign.

ANNOT.

It is a Hawk which in presence of two Armies ready to give Battle, shall fly to a window and perch upon it, in the presence of them all, one of the Armies shall take it for a good sign; and the other, for an ambiguous and sinister one. In Conclusion, the weaker party shall get the Victory.