Chapter XCVII: French

Par _Ville Franche_, _Mascon_ en desarroy,
Dans les Fagots seront Soldats cachez,
Changer de temps en prime pour le Roy,
Par de _Chalon_ & _Moulins_ tous hachez.

English.

By _Ville Franche_, _Mascon_ shall be put in disorder,
In the Faggots shall Souldiers be hidden,
The time shall change in prime for the King,
By _Chalon_ and _Moulins_ they shall be all hewed to pieces.

ANNOT.

_Ville Franche_ is a Town five Leagues from _Lion_; and _Mascon_ another about the same distance from _Ville Franche_, and _Chalon_ from _Mascon_, and _Moulins_ from _Chalon_.

The meaning of it is this, that there shall be an attempt from _Ville Franche_ upon _Mascon_, by Souldiers hidden in Faggots, that shall be cut off by the succours of those _Chalons_ and _Moulins_; which like did happen in the time of the Civil Wars in _France_, between the King and the League, when the Towns stood one against another, but because I can find nothing of it in the History, I suspend my further judgement therein.

THE PROPHECIES OF Michael Nostradamus.

_CENTURY_ XII.

V.

French.

Feu, flamme, faim, furt, farouche fumée,
Fera faillir, froissant fort, soy faucher,
Fils de Deité! toute _Provence_ humée,
Chasse de Regne, enragé sans crocher.

English.

Fire, flame, hunger, theft, wild smoak,
Shall cause to fail, brusing hard, to move Faith,
Son of God! all _Provence_ swallowed up?
Driven from the Kingdom, raging mad without spitting.

ANNOT.

The curiosity of the Author in striving to begin all his words, in the two first Verses hath made the tense of this Stanza so obscure, that I believe no body ever did or shall truely understand it, all what can be gathered out of it, is great threatning of several calamities, that were to happen upon _Provence_ his native Countrey, as it did a little while after his death, by the Civil Wars for Religion.

XXIV.

French.

Le grand secours venu de la _Guyenne_,
S’arrestera tout aupres de _Poitiers_,
_Lion_ rendu par _Montluel_ en _Vienne_,
Et saccagez par tous gens de Mestiers.

English.

The great succours that came from _Gascony_,
Shall stop hard by _Poitiers_,
_Lion_ surrendred by _Montluel_ and _Vienna_,
And ransacked by all kinds of Tradesmen.

ANNOT.

The words and sense of this are plain.