The Prophecies
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9.82
Par le deluge & pestilence forte
La cité grande de long temps assiegee,
La sentinelle & garde de main morte,
Subite prinse, mais de nul oultragee.
9.83
Sol vingt de taurus si fort terre trembler,
Le grand theatre rempli ruinera,
L’air, ciel & terre obscurcir & troubler,
Lors l’infidelle Dieu & sainctz voguera.
9.84
Roy exposé parfaira l’hecatombe,
Apres avoir trouvé son origine,
Torrent ouvrir de marbre & plomb la tombe
D’un grand Romain d’enseigne Medusine.
9.85
Passer Guienne, Languedoc & le Rosne,
D’Agen tenens de Marmande & la Roole
D’ouvrir par foy par roy Phocen tiendra son trosne
Conflit aupres saint Pol de Manseole.
9.86
Du bourg Lareyne parviendront droit à Chartres
Et feront pres du pont Authoni panse,
Sept pour la paix cautelleux comme martres
Feront entree d’armee à Paris clause.
9.87
Par la forest du Touphon essartee,
Par hermitage sera posé le temple,
Le duc d’Estampes par sa ruse inventee,
Du Mont Lehori prelat donra exemple.
9.88
Calais, Arras secours à Theroanne,
Paix & semblant simulera lescoutte,
Soulde d’Alabrox descendre par Roanne
Destornay peuple qui deffera la routte.
9.89
Sept ans sera Philip. fortune prospere,
Rabaissera des Arabes l’effaict,
Puis son mydi perplex rebors affaire
Jeusne ognyon abysmera son fort.
9.90
Un capitaine de la grand Germanie
Se viendra rendre par simulé secours
Un Roy des roys ayde de Pannonie,
Que sa revolte fera de sang grand cours.
9.91
L’horrible peste Perynte & Nicopolle,
Le Chersonnez tiendra & Marceloyne,
La Thessalie vastera l’Amphipolle,
Mal incogneu & le refus d’Anthoine.
9.92
Le Roy vouldra dans cité neufve entrer
Par ennemys expunger lon viendra
Captif libere faulx dire & perpetrer,
Roy dehors estre, loin d’ennemys tiendra.
9.93
Les ennemis du fort bien eslongnez,
Par chariots conduict le bastion,
Par sur les murs de Bourges esgrongnez,
Quand Hercules battra l’Haemathion.
9.94
Faibles galleres seront unies ensemble,
Ennemis faux le plus fort en rampart :
Faible assaillies Vratislave tremble,
Lubecq & Mysne tiendront barbare part.
9.95
Le nouveau faict conduyra l’exercite,
Proche apamé jusques au pres du rivage,
Tendant secour de Milannoile eslite,
Duc yeux privé à Milan fer de cage.
9.96
Dans cité entrer exercit desniee,
Duc entrera par persuasion,
Aux foibles portes clam armee amenee,
Mettront feu, mort de sang effusion.
9.97
De mer copies en trois parts divisees,
A la seconde de vivres failleront,
Desesperez cherchant champs Helisees,
Premiers en breche entrez victoire auront.
9.98
Les affligez par faute d’un seul taint,
Contremenant à partie opposite,
Aux Lygonnois mandera que contraint
Seront de rendre le grand chef de Molite.
9.99
Vent Aquilon fera partir le siege,
Par murs geter cendres, chauls, & pousiere,
Par pluye apres qui leur fera bien piege,
Dernier secours encontre leur frontiere.
9.100
Navalle pugne nuit sera superee,
Le feu aux naves à l’Occident ruine :
Rubriche neufve la grand nef coloree,
Ire a vaincu, & victoire en bruine.
CENTURY X
10.1
The promise made enemy to enemy
Shall not hold, the prisoners not exchanged :
One captive near death, the rest in chemise,
All the others damned for being sustained.
10.2
The galley’s sails shall hide the ship from sight,
The mighty fleet shall be revealed as weak :
Some ten nearby ships shall put it to flight,
Allies absorbing the great vanquished fleet.
10.3
He’ll not lead forth his flock for the next five :
A fugitive for all his pains he’ll free :
False rumors of help to come shall soon thrive :
The mighty chief shall then forsake the see.
10.4
At midnight the leader of the army
Shall save his skin, vanishing suddenly :
Seven years later, his fame still intact,
He’ll deny all knowledge of it, once back.
10.5
Albi & Castres shall form a new league
With the new Arrianus, Portuguese :
Carcas., Toulouse shall perfect their intrigue :
The new chief, a monster from Lauraguès.
10.6
At Nîmes the Gardon’s waters shall so rise
They’ll think Deucalion’s returning :
Into the coliseum most shall fly,
Extinct flame in Vesta’s tomb now burning.
10.7
When at Nancy the great war gets under way,
Macedon shall say, “All under my sway”:
While Britain worries about salt & wine,
Twixt two Phi. Metz shan’t resist a long time.
10.8
With his index finger & thumb the Count
Of Senigallia shall moisten his son’s brow :
Many slay his Myrmidons right away,
Three wounded to death in seven days.
10.9
Of a Castile carter, one misty night,
A wanton whore shall bear a sovereign prince :
Dropped trou shall be his nickname when he dies :
No King this bad ever ruled his province.
10.10
With murder stained & vast fornications,
A great enemy of the human race,
Worse than all previous generations,
By sword, fire, flood, bloody & inhumane.
10.11
Below Junquera’s perilous passage
The posthumous one shall direct his band :
He’ll cross the Pyrenees without baggage,
From Perpignan the duke hastens to Tende.
10.12
Elected Pope, soon mocked as Pope-elect,
Suddenly tense, suddenly full of fear :
Too sweet-tempered & thus provoked to death,
But quite fearless the night his end draws near.
10.13
Beneath the fodder of all the cattle
They brought to overgraze this grassy town,
The soldiers hide, bringing sound of battle,
Tempted by Antipolis further down.
10.14
Urnel Vaucile, humble vacillator,
Bold, timid, overcome by fear, captured :
Accompanied by several painted whores,
He converts at Barcelona’s Chartreux.
10.15
To the agèd duke so consumed with thirst,
About to die, the son denies a single drop,
Hangs him on a rope, half-alive, head first,
In a pit where death takes too long to stop.
10.16
Happy to reign over France, happy to live
Ignorant of blood, death, frenzy, rapine,
Envied by those with no flattery to give,
A King withdrawn, food his favorite pastime.
10.17
The scheming queen who sees her daughter wan,
Gnawed by a regret that in her belly grows,
Shall hear loud laments come from Angoulême,
But shall a German marriage most oppose.
10.18
The house of Lorraine shall give way to Vendôme,
The low are raised high, the high are cast low :
Hamon’s son shall be elected in Rome,
The two lords finding the going quite slow.
10.19
One day she’s warmly greeted by the queen,
The next day it’s about salvation, prayer :
A reasonable summary of the scene :
She who was once humble now puts on airs.
10.20
All the friends belonging to his crowd
Killed & sacked for his rude-lettered sake :
Beautiful public works razed to the ground,
The Roman people never this outraged.
10.21
The spiteful King, partial to the lesser one,
Shall have him murdered who offers him rings :
Father, to impress nobility on son,
Acts like those ancient Persian Magi kings.
10.22
Unwilling to consent to a divorce
Which afterward might be deemed unseemly,
The king of the Isles shall be forced to flee :
Instead, a king whom no mark does endorse.
10.23
Having much harangued its ungrateful plebs,
The army shall proceed to seize Antibes :
Further grievances at Monaco’s fort,
At Fréjus they’ll squabble over the shore.
10.24
The captive prince, vanquished in Italy,
Via Genoa to Marseille shall flee :
To foreign might he shall lose the battle,
Save an explosion in a honey barrel.
10.25
From Ebro, passage opened to Pézenas,
Far from where el Tago fara muestra :
From Pelligouxe, an insult against a
Grand lady seated on the orchestra.
10.26
The heir avenges his brother-in-law,
Grabbing power in the dark of vengeance :
The hostage blames his death on his in-laws :
Brittany shall remain loyal to France.
10.27
By him, the fifth & mighty Hercules,
The hand of war the church shall open wide :
Never such strife twixt eagle, sword, & keys :
Clement, Julius Ascanius, steps aside.
10.28
The second & third who prime music make
Shall be most honored by the King’s largesse :
Through thick & thin, half-emaciated,
False talk of Love making him most depressed.
10.29
In a goat cave near Saint-Paul-de-MAUSOLE,
Hidden & then caught, hauled out by his beard,
Then dragged off like an old dog on a rope
Toward Tarbes by some people from Bigorre.
10.30
Blood nephew of the newly proclaimed saint,
His surname shall support arches & beams :
They’ll be expelled, killed, chased away naked :
Into red & black they’ll convert their green.
10.31
Holy Empire shall come to Germania,
Ishmaelites shall find the world an open place :
Asses have high hopes too for Carmania,
But their supporters are all in the grave.
10.32
Everyone member of the great empire,
But one shall obtain power over his peers :
His life & reign shall last but a brief while,
His ships sustaining him for two short years.
10.33
The cruel faction in its trailing gowns
Disguises sharp daggers hid in breeches :
Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town,
Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.
10.34
The Frenchman who the empire shall invade
By his young brother-in-law is betrayed :
Dragged along by a wild curveting horse,
For which the brother shall be long abhorred.
10.35
The younger prince, fired by flagrant desire,
Lusting for the joys of his first cousin,
At Diana’s temple in female attire
Is murdered by an unknown girl from Maine.
10.36
When the King of Souks starts talking of war,
The Harmotic Isle shall hold him in contempt,
A good few years of predation & plunder
Having revised the Isle’s esteem for tyrants.
10.37
They shall gather in force near Lake Bourget
In a great assembly toward Montmélian :
Pondering their plan, war they’ll undertake
On Chambéry, Maurienne, Saint-Julien.
10.38
Easy love lays his siege on them not far,
Garrisons encamped at Santa Barbara :
Orsini & Adria shall pledge for the Gauls,
Lest they be delivered to the Swiss guards.
10.39
First son, widower of luckless marriage,
Without issue, the two Isles in discord :
Before he turns eighteen, not yet of age,
They’ll marry off the next & younger lord.
10.40
The young prince born to the British throne,
Whom his dying father did recommend :
At the latter’s death, quarrels in LONOLE,
Bringing the young son’s kingdom to its end.
10.41
At the frontier of Caussade & Caylus
Not all that distant from the valley floor :
From Villefranche the music of the lute,
Enveloped by cymbals & grand viol.
10.42
The humane reign of English descent
Shall keep the realm in calm & unity :
War half-captive, shut well within the fence,
He’ll maintain peace in perpetuity.
10.43
Too many good times, too much royal bounty
Promptly granted & withdrawn, negligence :
Too quick to doubt his wife’s integrity,
Put to death for his very benevolence.
10.44
A King having gone against his own folk,
A native of Blois conquers the Ligurians,
Memel, Cordoba & the Dalmatians :
Seven seized, King shadowed by omens & ghosts.
10.45
The Kingdom of Navarre’s false shadow
Shall make of his life a fate unlawful :
The vow made in Cambrai fallen fallow,
Orléans King erects a wall most lawful.
10.46
His life, death, fate owed to GOLD, that low slut,
He’ll not be new Elector of Saxony :
From Brunswick he shall send false signs of love,
Making himself popular by perfidy.
10.47
At Burgos, at Our Lady of Garlands,
They’ll deal harshly with the acts of treason :
The great prelate of León at Formande,
Undone by ravishers & fake pilgrims.
10.48
Banners from the most far-flung parts of Spain,
From Europe’s furthest reaches they shall stream :
Troubles crossing near the bridge of Laigne,
A small band its mighty army shall defeat.
10.49
Near the new city, garden to the world,
On the road to mountains filled with hollows,
; He’ll be seized & into the Vat be hurled,
Sulfur-poisoned waters forced to swallow.
10.50
The Meuse around the lands of Luxembourg
Shall find Saturn & three more in the urn :
Mountain & plain, town, city & burg,
Flood in Lorraine, betrayed by the great urn.
10.51
Some of the most nether lands of Lorraine
Shall be united with the low Germans :
The sees of Picardy, Normandy, Maine,
All joined together with the Swiss cantons.
10.52
Where the LEIE & Schelde come to marry,
The nuptial rites shall have long been arranged :
At the place in Antwerp where chaff is carried,
The old man leaves his young wife undebased.
10.53
The three mistresses shall squabble from afar,
The first keeping an ear out for the last :
The great Selin shall no longer rule her heart,
Lame buckler she’ll call him, shooter of blanks.
10.54
Born to this world by a furtive concubine,
Raised high at age two by all the sad news,
She shall be taken captive by her foes,
And led away to Brussels & Malines.
10.55
They’ll celebrate the ill-starred wedding vows
With great joy, but the end is unforeseen :
Husband & mother scorn the daughter-in-law,
Her Phoebus dead, all the more to be pitied.
10.56
The royal prelate bowing down too deep,
From his mouth a gush of blood shall stream :
The kingdom of England saved by a queen :
Long dead in Tunis, now alive to breed.
10.57
The upstart shall be ignorant of rule,
He’ll shame the children of the noblest men :
Never was there one more filthy & cruel :
As for the wives, he’ll send them to black death.