Chapter XXXIII: French

En la Cité ou le loup entrera,
Bien pres de la les ennemis seront,
Copie estrange grand pais gastera,
Aux Monts des _Alpes_ les amis passeront.

English.

In the City wherein the Wolf shall go,
Near that place the enemies shall be,
An Army of strangers shall spoil a great Countrey,
The friends shall go over the Mountains of the _Alpes_.

ANNOT.

The two last Verses make me think that this Prophesie was fulfilled in the time of _Henry_ II. King of _France_, because the _French_ being then friends to the Pope, went over the _Alpes_ to serve him.

This Stanza might also be applyed to _Lewis_ 13, who caused his Army to go beyond the _Alpes_, but that word _Friends_ is more convenient to the time of _Henry_ II. because the _French_ went then over the _Alpes_ in quality of friends to serve the Pope.

According to this conjecture, the _wolf_ which signifieth the _Spaniard_, came _anno_ 1556. into many Towns, which the Duke of _Alba_ took, as we have said in another place, and because among those Towns _Neptune_ was one of the most considerable, being seated by the Sea side near _Rome_: I believe that by this word _City_ he meaneth that Town which belonged to the _Colonese_.

And to say truth, the _French_ were then very near it, to endeavour the relief of it.

Afterwards came the Duke of _Guise_’s Army, which is named by the Author, _an Army of strangers_, because the _French_ and _Germans_ are strangers to _Italy_. _This Army shall spoil a great Countrey_; for in that year it went through all _Italy_, and where an Army passeth, nothing but ruine can be expected.

XXXIV.

French.

Quand le defaut du Soleil lors sera,
Sur le plein jour le Monstre sera veu,
Tout autrement on l’Interpretera,
Cherté na garde, nul ny aura pourveu.

English.

When the Ecclipse of the Sun shall be
At noon day, the Monster shall be seen,
It shall be interperted otherways,
Then for a dearth, because no body hath provided against it.

ANNOT.

The sense of this is, that when the Sun shall be Eclipsed at noon, a Monster shall be born, which shall presage a dearth, though no body will believe it, because they were unprovided against it.

XXXV.

French.

Du plus profond de l’Occident d’_Europe_,
De pauvre gens un jeune enfant naistra,
Qui par sa langue seduira grande troupe,
Son bruit au Regne d’Orient plus croistra.

English.

Out of the deepest part of the West of _Europe_,
From poor people a young child shall be born,
Who with his tongue shall seduce many people,
His fame shall increase in the Eastern Kingdom.

ANNOT.

This needeth no explication.

XXXVI.

French.

Ensevely non mort Apoplectique,
Sera trouvé avoir les mains mangees,
Quand la Cité damnera l’Heretique,
Qu’avoit leur Loix ce leur sembloit changees.

English.

One buried, not dead, but Apoplectical,
Shall be found to have eaten up his hands,
When the City shall blame the heretical man,
Who as they thought had changed their Laws.

ANNOT.

Many persons (according to Histories being only in a fit of Apoplexy) have been buried for dead, and being afterwards taken out of the ground, have been found to have eaten up their hands, as I my self have seen one digged out of Saint _Bartholomews_ Church-yard, about the time that the City of _London_ began to be weary of _Cromwels_ devices and Tyranny, yet I would not here definitively assert, he was the man here pointed at by the Title and Epithete of Heretical man, unless it were in the point of government.

XXXVII.

French.

Avant l’assault l’Oraison pronouncée,
_Milan_ prins l’Aigle, par embusche deceus,
Muraille antique par Canons enfonsée,
Par feu & sang a mercy peu receus.

English.

Before the assault the Prayer shall be said,
An Eagle shall take a Kite, they shall be deceived by an Embuscado.
The ancient wall shall be beaten down with Canons,
By fire and blood, few shall have quarter.

ANNOT.

The sense of this is easie.