Chapter LV: French

Les malheureuses Nopces celebreront,
En grande joye mais la fin malheureuse,
Mary & Mere _Nore_ desdaigneront,
Le _Phibe_ mort, & _Nore_ plus piteuse.

English.

The unhappy Nuptials shall be celebrated,
With great joy, but the end shall be unhappy,
Husband and Mother shall scorn _Nore_,
The _Phybe_ dead, and _Nore_ more pitifull.

ANNOT.

If by _Phybe_ we understand the Admiral of _Chastillon_, and by _Nore_, Queen _Margaret_ of _Valois_, the rest will be easie. For in the year 1572. a Match was made between _Henry_ the IV. then King of _Navarre_, chief of the Protestant party, and _Margaret_ of _Valois_, Sister to _Charles_ the IX. to this Wedding were the chief of the Protestant party invited, who were there Massacred, and among the rest _Gaspard_ of _Coligny_, Lord of _Chastillon_, and Admiral of _France_, whom he calleth here _Phybe_. And when he saith, that _Husband and Mother shall scorn ~Nore~_, he sheweth the slight Opinion and regard that the Queen Mother had for her Daughter, and _Henry_ the IV. for his Wife, whom he after repudiated.

LVI.

French.

Prelat Roial soy baissant trop tiré,
Grand Flux de Sang sortira par sa bouche,
Le Regne _Anglicque_ par Regne respiré,
Long temps mort vif en _Tunis_ comme souche.

English.

Royal Prelate bowing himself too much,
A great flood of Blood shall come out of his mouth,
The _English_ Reign by Reign respited,
A great while dead, alive in _Tunis_ like a Log.

ANNOT.

A Prelate, is a man of eminent dignity in the Church, the Royal prelate must be a Churchman of the Royal Blood, who bowing himself too much, shall fall into an Hæmorhagie or Flux of Blood at his Mouth. The third Verse signifieth, that the Kingdom of _England_ shall be relieved from some distress by another Kingdom or Prince that had been a Slave a great while at _Tunis_, and lyen there, _dead alive like a Log of Wood_.

LVII.

French.

Le sublevé ne cognoistra son Sceptre,
Les enfans jeunes des plus grands honnira,
Oncques ne fut un plus ord cruel estre,
Pour leur Espouses a mort noir bannera.

English.

The exalted shall not know his Scepter
He shall put to shame the young Children of the greatest,
Never was one more dirty and cruel,
He shall banish to Black death their Spouses.

ANNOT.

This is concerning a great Tyrant, who being exalted to the dignity of a King, shall not know how to govern; but shall slight and put to shame the Children of the greatest Nobility, and shall banish their Wives out of the Land; this hath a relation to the late Tyrant _Cromwell_.

LVIII.

French.

Au temps du dueil que le _Selin_ Monarque,
Guerroiera le jeune _Æmathien_,
_Gaule_ bransler, pericliter la barque,
Tenter _Phocens_ au ponant entretien.

English.

In the time of mourning, when the Monarch _Selin_,
Shall make War against the young _Æmathien_,
_France_ shall quake, the Ship shall be in danger,
_Phocens_ shall be attempted, the business shall be in the West.

ANNOT.

You must observe here, that by _Æmathien_ the Author meaneth the King of _France_, as he doth in many other places; and by _Selin_, he meaneth the great _Turk_, because such was the name of him that lived in his time, this being presupposed the meaning of this is, that the great _Turk_ shall fight against the King of _France_, and shall attempt _Phocens_, which is _Marseilles_, as being a Colony of the old _Phocenses_ in _Græcia_, which shall cause all _France_ to quake, and the Ship to be in danger, which is _Paris_, who beareth a Ship for its Arms.