by Nostradamus
Son propre filz le tiendra assiegé.
4.84
Un grand d’Auxerre mourra bien miserable,
Chassé de ceux qui soubz luy ont esté:
Serré de chaines, auprès d’un rude cable,
En l’an que Mars, Venus, & Sol mis en esté.
4.85
Le charbon blanc du noir sera chassé,
Prisonnier faict mené au tombereau :
More Chameau sus piedz entrelassez,
Lors le puisné sillera l’aubereau.
4.86
L’an que Saturne en eau sera conjoinct,
Avecques Sol, le Roy fort & puissant :
A Reims & Aix sera receu & oingt,
Après conquestes meurtrira innocens.
4.87
Un filz du Roy tant de langues aprins,
A son aisné au regne different :
Son pere beau au plus grand filz comprins
Fera perir principal adherant.
4.88
Le grand Antoine du nom de faict sordide
De Phthyriase à son dernier rongé:
Un qui de plomb voudra estre cupide,
Passant le port d’esleu sera plongé.
4.89
Trente de Londres secret conjureront,
Contre leur Roy sur le pont l’entreprinse :
Luy, satalites la mort degousteront,
Un Roy esleu blonde, natif de Frize.
4.90
Les deux copies aux murs ne pourront joindre,
Dans cest instant trembler Milan, Ticin :
Faim, soif, doubtance si fort les viendra poindre,
Chair, pain, ne vivres n’auront un seul boucin.
4.91
Au duc Gaulois contrainct battre au duelle,
La nef Mellele Monech n’approchera :
Tort accusé, prison perpetuelle,
Son fils regner avant mort taschera.
4.92
Teste tranchée du vaillant capitaine,
Sera gettée devant son adversaire :
Son corps pendu de sa classe à l’antenne,
Confus fuira par rames à vent contraire.
4.93
Un serpent veu proche du lict royal,
Sera par dame, nuict chiens n’abayeront :
Lors naistre en France un prince tant royal,
Du ciel venu tous les princes verront.
4.94
Les deux grans freres seront chassez d’Espaigne,
L’aisné vaincu sous les monts Pyrenées :
Rougir mer, Rosne sang Leman d’Alemaigne,
Narbon., Blyterre, d’Agath. contaminées.
4.95
Le regne à deux laissé bien peu tiendront,
Trois ans sept moys passés feront la guerre :
Les deux vestales contre rebelleront,
Victor puis nay en Armonique terre.
4.96
La sœur aisnée de l’isle Britannique,
Quinze ans devant le frere aura naissance :
Par son promis moyennant verrifique,
Succedera au regne de balance.
4.97
L’an que Mercure, Mars, Venus, retrograde,
Du grand Monarque la ligne ne faillit :
Esleu du peuple Lusitan près d’Almade,
Qu’en paix & regne viendra fort envieillir.
4.98
Les Albanois passeront dedans Rome,
Moyennant Langres de miples affublés :
Marquis & Duc ne pardonner à homme,
Feu, sang, morbilles, point d’eau, faillir les bledz.
4.99
L’aisné vaillant de la fille du Roy,
Repoussera si profond les Celtiques :
Qu’il mettra foudres, combien en tel arroy,
Peu & loing puis profond és Hesperiques.
4.100
De feu celeste au Royal edifice,
Quand la lumiere de Mars defaillira :
Sept mois grand guerre, mort gent de malefice,
Rouen, Evreux au Roy ne faillira.
CENTURY V
5.1
Before the ruin of the Celts does start,
Two shall come to terms within the church :
Horseman stabs pike & dagger in the heart,
The great one buried, not a sound is heard.
5.2
Seven plotters at the banquet, their swords
Shall flash against three who have come ashore :
Two fleets to lead shall be given the lord,
Who for a pittance gets shot in the gourd.
5.3
The Duchy’s next successor shall advance
Well beyond the shores of the Tuscan sea :
The Gallic branch shall firmly land Florence
In its lap, to which Sea-Frog shall agree.
5.4
Chased away from the city, the great cur
Shall snarl & bark at the strange alliance :
Having hunted the stag across the fields,
Wolf & bear shall face off in defiance.
5.5
Pretending to reduce their servitude,
He shall usurp the city & its folk :
What’s worse, lying like a young prostitute,
He’ll read a false proem, imposing his yoke.
5.6
Laying his hand on the head of the King,
The Augur shall pray for Italic peace :
He’ll transfer the scepter to his left hand,
Transformed from King to Emperor of Peace.
5.7
The bones of the Triumvir shall be found
While seeking cryptic treasures of the dead :
No peace for those who lie in nearby ground
When they go digging for marble & lead.
5.8
The lately living hidden, dead, away
In heaps, a most unimaginable woe :
City reduced to ash at night, they say,
Its burned remains serving its former foe.
5.9
The mighty jail to the ground shall be razed
By the friend awaited by captive chief :
A child born with hair all over its face :
A trick then traps the Duke into his death.
5.10
A Celtic chief who was hurt in the war,
Seeing his own troops struck dead near the cave,
Hard pressed by foes, drowning in blood & gore,
By four who are unknown to him is saved.
5.11
No longer shall Solars safely cross the sea,
Those of Venus all Africa shall hold :
Saturn shall cease to occupy their seat,
And all Asia Minor shall be transformed.
5.12
The treasonous city shall be induced
To Lake Leman by a foreign maid :
Before her murder, a flight to Augsburg
Which the Rhinelanders shall then invade.
5.13
The Roman Belgian king in a passion
Shall wish to harry the Barbary host :
He’ll furiously hound the Libyans
From Pannonia to Gibraltar’s coast.
5.14
Saturn & Mars in Leo, captive Spain,
Seized by the Libyans in time of war,
Taken alive near to Malta & Rhodes,
The cock striking out at the Roman sword.
5.15
The pope made captive while on the high seas,
The priests up in arms, great plans gone awry :
The next-elect, absent from his damaged see,
His bastard favorite shall be doomed to die.
5.16
Tears of Saba shall no more soar in price
To reduce human flesh to ash at death :
Crusaders shall make raids on Pharos isle,
While a tough old ghost appears on Rhodes.
5.17
As the king winds down the alley at night,
The main ruler of Cyprus he’ll espy :
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p; The king mistaken, troops flee down the Rhône,
Conspirators then deciding he’ll die.
5.18
The wretch laid so low he shall die of grief,
His victrix shall then celebrate his fall :
Fresh set of laws, drawing up of decrees :
The seventh day both Prince & wall shall fall.
5.19
The great golden sovereign, debased by bronze,
The truce broken, a mere youth declares war :
The chief taking the people as his pawns,
The earth covered with barbarian gore.
5.20
A mighty army through the Alps shall march
Just before the ravening monster’s born :
Suddenly, miraculously the arch-
Tuscan shall withdraw to his nearby home.
5.21
Upon the passing of the Latin king,
Those for whom he provided in the realm :
The loot shall be divided, the fire singe,
Public death incurred by courageous men.
5.22
Before the lord of Rome gives up the ghost
Terror shall reign among the foreign host :
Near Parma his squadrons shall strike them dead,
The two red ones then meeting to break bread.
5.23
The two rivals shall then come to unite
When most of the stars with Mars are conjoined :
The African lord shall tremble with fright
When at sea the duumvirate’s disjoined.
5.24
When law & power ’neath Venus are raised,
Saturn over Jupiter shall hold sway :
When law & power by the Sun are raised,
The Saturnine shall greatly make them pay.
5.25
The Arab Prince, Mars, Sun, Venus, Lion :
By the sea shall all Christendom succumb :
Out there in Persia more than a million :
The snake shall invade Egypt, Byzantium.
5.26
The slavish race by the fortunes of war
Shall be raised up to an immense degree :
They shall change their king for one country-born
Who’ll lead his mountain troops across the sea.
5.27
By fire & arms not far from Mar Negro,
The Persians shall occupy Trebizond :
Pharos, Mytilene quake, Sol allegro :
The Adriatic swims with Arab blood.
5.28
Hung by the arms & with his legs in chains,
Face pale, hiding a dagger by his side :
Three shall swear allegiance to the scheme,
Genoa’s lord be run through by a blade.
5.29
Liberty shall be forever lost, stalled
By that unjust proud black lowborn menace :
When the matter of the bridge is resolved,
Ister shall vex the republic of Venice.
5.30
All around the great city there shall be
Troops billeted in every field & town :
Rome inciting them to strike at Paris,
Upon the sea great pillage shall abound.
5.31
That Attic land, first & foremost in science,
And the rose of the world to this very day :
The sea shall ruin its preeminence,
It shall be submerged & drowned in the waves.
5.32
Where all goes well, there go the Sun & Moon,
Things are booming : things are doomed to ruin :
Your fortune varies with the sky above,
In the same estate as the seventh stone.
5.33
The major actors in the town’s rebellion,
Who most want to have their liberty back :
The angry mob shall go after these men :
Shouts, screams at Nantes : one’s completely aghast.
5.34
From the furthest west of the British Isles,
There where the English king does reside :
At Blois’ behest, fleet shall invade Gironde :
Not wine & salt, but fires in casks do hide.
5.35
To the free city off the great Seline sea
Which still bears the name of rock at its core :
Under cover of fog an English fleet
Shall come seize the branch : the lord declares war.
5.36
Duping his sister the brother shall brew
The dew with a little dose of mineral :
She’ll die of the cake given to the slow
Old crone, to be tasted by some yokel.
5.37
Three hundred shall be of one mind & will
To achieve the object of their long wait :
Twenty months later they shall all recall
Betraying their king while hiding their hate.
5.38
This mighty king, successor to the throne,
Shall live a life illicit & lubricious,
Nonchalantly giving in to all & one :
Salic law in the end more judicious.
5.39
Born of the true branch of the fleur-de-lis,
Then set in place as heir to Tuscany :
Her ancient blood woven on ancient loom
Shall make the crest of Florence burst with blooms.
5.40
The royal blood shall much commingled be,
The Gauls be forced to quit Hesperides :
One shall wait until the term has passed
And that the voice vanish from memory.
5.41
Born in shadows & day as dark as night,
With sovereign benevolence he shall rule :
From the ancient urn he’ll refresh his line,
Remake the age of bronze an age of gold.
5.42
Mars now exalted to his apogee
Shall drive from France the Allobroges line :
Terrorized by the folk of Lombardy,
The Eagle’s troops there under Libra’s sign.
5.43
The clergy’s great ruin lies near ahead,
Provence, Naples, Sicily, Sées & Pons :
In Germany, at the Rhine & Cologne,
All those of Mainz shall hound them to death.
5.44
At sea the red one is seized by pirates,
The state of peace thereby greatly troubled :
The ploy shall provoke avarice & ire,
The great Pontiff shall his army double.
5.45
The mighty Empire shall be soon wrecked
And transferred to the woods of the Ardennes :
The elder shall cut off the two bastards’ heads
And the hawk-nosed Ahenobarbus reign.
5.46
Cardinals feuding, creating schisms
When the Sabine shall have been elected :
He shall be the victim of great sophisms,
And Rome by Alba be disrespected.
5.47
The mighty Arab shall make his way,
But be by the Byzantines betrayed :
Ancient Rhodes rushing to oppose him,
The Pannonian inflicting greater pain.
5.48
After the mighty king is overthrown,
They shall send down two foes into defeat :
Pannonians beset by the Afric fleet,
On land & sea what horrors to be seen.
5.49
Never from Spain but one from ancient France
Shall be elected the wavering barque to helm :
With the enemy they shall try their chances,
Who shall prove a most cruel plague to his realm.
5.50
The year the French brothers shall come of age,
One of them shall rule great Romania :
Hills shall quake the Latin road once engaged :
A pact to attack the chief of Armenia.
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5.51
Those of Dacia, England & Poland
And Bohemia shall join into league :
To pass beyond the Pillars of Hercules,
Those of Tyre & Barcino cruelly scheme.
5.52
There shall be a King who turns contrary,
Favoring exiles over his own regime :
Aswim in blood, the pure & ordinary :
Long shall he flourish under this sign.
5.53
The creeds of Sol & Venus shall disagree,
Each borrowing the spirit of prophecy,
Each deaf to what the other has begun :
The great Messiah shall rule through the Sun.
5.54
From beyond the Black Sea & great Tartary,
There shall come a King to look upon Gaul :
He shall pierce through Armenia & Alany,
And within Byzance plant his bloody rod.
5.55
In Arabia Felix, fair contrada,
Shall be born a strongman of Muslim creed :
To vex Spain & to conquer Grenada,
And invade Liguria from the sea.
5.56
When the Pope dies who was far too old,
They shall elect a Roman ripe of age :
Of him shall be said he tatters the throne,
So long and prickly shall be his reign.
5.57
Down from the Aventine & Mount Gaussier
He’ll warn the troops having spied through the hole :
Between two rocks they’ll fall upon their prey :
So fades the fame of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole.
5.58
By the aqueduct of Uzès, Gardon,
Over inaccessible woods & hills :
At midbridge he shall be punched in the throat,
That chief from Nîmes who would do them such ill.
5.59
English chief overstays his days at Nîmes
En route to help Ahenobarbus in Spain :
