Chapter LXXXVI: French

Comme un Gryphon viendra le Roy d’_Europe_,
Accompagne de ceux d’Aquilon,
De rouges & blancs conduira grande Troupe,
Et Iront contre le Roy de _Babylon_.

English.

As a Griffin shall come the King of _Europe_,
Accompanied with those of the North,
Of red and white shall conduct a great Troop,
And they shall go against the King of _Babylon_.

ANNOT.

This is concerning the King of _Swedeland_, _Gustavus Adolphus_, who is called here the King of _Europe_; because he lived in a part of it, and because he was one, if not the most gallant Prince of his time, who with a great Army of his Subjects, named here those of _Aquilon_, invaded _Germany_, and made War against the Emperour, whom he calleth here the King of _Babylon_, either because he is a great favourer of the _Roman_ Church, or because the Empire, by reason of so many sovereign Princes in it is like a _Babel_ and confusion.

_The great Troop of Red and White_, were his own Souldiers, whom he distinguished by their several habits. Clothing them with several Colours, to breed an emulation among them, there being the Red Regiment, the White, the Blew, the Yellow, the Green, _&c._