The Prophecies
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France à cinq pars par neglect assaillie,
Tunys, Argel esmeuz par Persiens :
Leon., Secille, Barcelonne faillie,
N’aura la classe par les Venitiens.
1.74
Aprés sejour vogueront en Épire,
Le grand secours viendra vers Antioche :
Le noir poil crespe tendra fort à l’Empire,
Barbe d’ærain le roustira en broche.
1.75
Le tyran Sienne occupera Savone :
Le fort gaigné tiendra classe marine :
Les deux armées par la marque d’Anconne :
Par effrayeur le chef s’en examine.
1.76
D’un nom farouche tel proferé sera,
Que les trois seurs auront fato le nom :
Puis grand peuple par langue & fait duira,
Plus que nul autre aura bruit & renom.
1.77
Entre deux mers dressera promontoire,
Que puis mourra par le mords du cheval :
Le sien Neptune pliera voille noire,
Par Calpre & classe auprès de Rocheval.
1.78
D’un chef vieillard naistra sens hebeté
Degenerant par savoir & par armes :
Le chef de France par sa sœur redouté:
Champs divisés, concedés aux gendarmes.
1.79
Bazaz, Lectore, Condon, Ausch, & Agine,
Esmeus par loix, querelle & monopole,
Car., Bourd., Toulouze, Bay. mettra en ruine,
Renouveller voulant leur tauropole.
1.80
De la sixiesme claire splendeur celeste
Viendra tonner si fort en la Bourgongne :
Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste :
Mars, Avril, May, Juin grand charpin & rongne.
1.81
D’humain trouppeau neuf seront mis à part,
De jugement & conseil separés :
Leur sort sera divisé en depart :
Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors, bannis, esgarés.
1.82
Quand les colomnes de bois grande tremblée
D’Auster conduicte couvertes de rubriche,
Tant vuidera dehors grande assemblée :
Tembler Vienne & le Pays d’Autriche.
1.83
La gent estrange divisera butins,
Saturne en Mars son regard furieux :
Horrible strage aux Tosquans & Latins,
Grecs qui seront à frapper curieux.
1.84
Lune obscurcie aux profondes tenebres,
Son frere pasle de couleur ferrugine :
Le grand caché long temps soubz les latebres,
Tiedera fer dans la plaie sanguine.
1.85
Par la responce de dame roy troublé,
Ambassadeurs mespriseront leur vie :
Le grand ses freres contrefera doublé:
Par deux mourront ire : haine, envie.
1.86
La grande royne quand se verra vaincue,
Fera excès de masculin courage :
Sus cheval, fleuve passera toute nue :
Suite par fer : à soy fera outrage.
1.87
Ennosigée, feu du centre de terre,
Fera trembler au tour de cité neufve :
Deux grands rochiers long temps feront la guerre,
Puis Arethuse rougira nouveau fleuve.
1.88
Le divin mal surprendra le grand prince :
Un peu devant aura femme espousée :
Son bruict, credit à un coup viendra mince,
Conseil mourra pour la teste rasée.
1.89
Tous ceux de Ilerde seront dedans Moselle,
Mettant à mort tous ceux de Loire & Seine :
Secours marin viendra pres d’haute velle,
Quant Hespagnol ouvrira toute veine.
1.90
Bourdeaux, Poitiers au son de la campane,
A grande classe ira jusques à l’Angon :
Contre Gauloys sera leur tramontane,
Quand monstre hydeux naistra près de Orgon.
1.91
Les dieux feront aux humains apparence,
Ce qu’ilz seront auteurs de grand conflict :
Avant ciel veu serain espée & lance,
Que vers main gauche sera plus grand aflict.
1.92
Souz un la paix par tout sera clamée,
Mais non long temps pille & rebellion :
Par refus ville, terre, & mer entamée :
Mors & captifz le tiers d’un million.
1.93
Terre Italique près des monts tremblera :
Lyon & coq non trop confederés
En lieu de peur l’un l’autre s’aidera :
Sault Castulon & Celtes moderés.
1.94
Au port Selin le tyran mis à mort,
La liberté non pourtant recouvrée :
Le nouveau Mars par vindicte & remort :
Dame par force de frayeur honnorée.
1.95
Devant moustier trouvé enfant besson,
D’heroic sang de moine & vetustisque :
Son bruit par secte, langue & puissance son,
Qu’on dira fort eslevé le vopisque.
1.96
Celuy qu’aura la charge de destruire,
Temples, & sectes, changés par fantasie :
Plus aux rochiers qu’aux vivans viendra nuire,
Par langue ornée d’oreilles ressaisie.
1.97
Ce que fer, flamme n’a sceu parachever,
La douce langue au conseil viendra faire :
Par repos, songe, le Roy fera resver :
Plus l’ennemy en feu, sang militaire.
1.98
Le chef qu’aura conduit peuple infiny,
Loing de son ciel, de meurs & langue estrange :
Cinq mil en Crete et Thessalie finy,
Le chef fuyant sauvé en marine grange.
1.99
Le grand monarque qui fera compagnie,
Avec deux roys unis par amitié:
O quel souspir fera la grand mesgnie :
Enfans Narbon. à l’entour quel pitié!
1.100
Long temps au ciel sera veu gris oiseau,
Auprès de Dole & de Touscane terre,
Tenant au bec un verdoyant rameau :
Mourra tost grand & finera la guerre.
CENTURY II
2.1
Toward Aquitaine the assaults by Britain
On their behalf shall bring great incursions :
Rains & frosts shall render the lands barren,
Port Selin the site of great invasions.
2.2
Blue turban on white turban shall inflict
As much harm as France has done them good :
Dead man on yardarm, great lord hanged on sprit,
King telling how many of his men they took.
2.3
The fish half-cooked by the heat of the sun
Near Negrepont where the locals shall come
Partake of them when they have fully run
Out of hardtack from Genoa & Rhodes.
2.4
From Monaco almost to Sicily
The entire coast remains desolate :
There shall be no suburb, town, or city
The Barbarians shall not pillage & rape.
2.5
When clapped in prison by letter & sword,
He goes free, who shall proceed to wage war,
He shall sail the sea with many an oar,
Making his appearance near the Latin shore.
2.6
Nearby the gates & within two cities
Two scourges shall strike, such as never seen :
Famine, plague within: folk cast out by sword
Cry to the immortal Lord for relief.
2.7
Among all those deported to the isles
One shall be born with t
wo teeth in its throat :
Folk shall die of hunger, trees nibbled clean :
For them the new king issues a new decree.
2.8
The temples, like the early church of Rome,
Shall reject all uncouth foundations,
Making the first & humane laws their own,
Banning most if not all the cults of saints.
2.9
The thin one shall rule for nine years in peace,
Then fall into an immense thirst for blood :
For this lawless one a great people dies,
To be slain by a rival far more good.
2.10
Before too long all things shall be ordained :
We sense a sinister age on its way :
The state of marks & seals shall be most changed :
Few to be found content with their stations.
2.11
The next donkey-driver’s son shall succeed,
Having risen all the way to the helm :
One & all shall fear his glorious deeds,
Though his children be cast out of the realm.
2.12
Eyes shut, open as if in ancient trances,
The monks’ habits shall be reduced to naught :
The great monarch to chastise their madness,
Who once sacked the temple’s precious loot.
2.13
Body without soul shall suffer no more.
Reborn on its day of death, the soul
Shall be made joyous by the Holy Ghost,
Seeing the Word in its eternal whole.
2.14
The guards watchful in the Saint-Jean tower,
Espying his majesty from afar
As his retinue makes its way into port :
Halt quarrels : make way for sovereign power.
2.15
Shortly before the monarch killed shall be,
Bearded star, Castor & Pollux on ship :
Public treasury sacked by land & sea :
Pisa, Ast, Ferrara, Turin, off-limits.
2.16
Naples, Palermo, Sicily’s Syracusa,
New tyrants, divine fires, thunderbolts :
A force come from London, Ghent, Brussels, Susa,
Great hecatomb, triumph & feasts galore.
2.17
Across the plain of vestal virgin’s church,
Near Elne & the mountainous Pyrenees,
The great one is driven hid in a coach :
To the north, rivers & vines in deep freeze.
2.18
The new rain, so sudden, impetuous,
Suddenly stops two armies in their tracks :
Firestones from the sky pebbling the waters :
Land & sea seven struck by sudden death.
2.19
Newcomers undefended sites shall fill,
Occupy uninhabitable grounds :
Meadows, houses, fields, towns taken at will :
Famine, plague, war : the acres long to plow.
2.20
Brothers & sisters captured here & there
Shall find themselves paraded by the king :
His attentive heirs shall stand there & stare,
Shocked by all the marks on the brow, nose, chin.
2.21
The ambassador dispatched on biremes
Shall be turned back by unknowns halfway :
To his rescue shall come four triremes :
In Negrepont, captives in ropes & chains.
2.22
The Asop force shall leave from Eurotas :
Having arrived near the isle submerged,
The fleet shall furl its sails & call forth
The great voice at the navel of the earth.
2.23
Near palace, one bird chasing off another :
Soon after this, though forewarned by this sight,
And despite the foe’s retreat to the river,
The prince shall die surprised by arrow’s flight.
2.24
Beasts wild with hunger shall swim the rivers :
Most of the host shall move against Ister :
He’ll have the great one dragged in iron cage,
When the child the German Rhine surveys.
2.25
The foreign wench the fortress shall betray,
Hoping to rise in station through marriage :
Garrison tricked, fortress in disarray :
In Loire, Saône, Rhône, Garonne, mortal outrage.
2.26
For the favor the city shall bestow
On the lord who’s soon bound to lose the war,
Breaking ranks, Ticino overthrows Po :
A bloodbath, drowned by blows struck by sword.
2.27
The Divine Word shall be struck by lightning,
Bringing its procession to a full stop :
Who dares reveal this shall have his lips sealed,
So they shall just be marching on & off.
2.28
The next to last of the prophet’s name
Shall take Joveday as his day of relaxation :
He shall wander far with his frenetic brain,
Delivering a great nation from taxation.
2.29
Man from the East shall sally from his seat,
Crossing all the Apennines to see Gaul :
He shall pass through showers of rain & sleet,
And with his rod he shall strike one & all.
2.30
The one whom Hannibal’s infernal gods
Shall cause to be reborn, a bane to man :
Furnaces worse than ever burned this hot
Babylon shall inflict on the Romans.
2.31
In Campania the Cassiline shall so rise
One shall see water where the fields had been :
Before & after, rain without respite :
Save for the trees, nothing green to be seen.
2.32
Milk, blood, frogs showering Dalmatia,
Battle breaking out, plague near Balenna :
A great cry throughout all Slavonia,
Then monster born near & in Ravenna.
2.33
From the torrent that descends from Verona
The boat maneuvers its way to the Po :
A great shipwreck, as bad as in Garonne
When the Genoans march into their home.
2.34
The senseless fury of a feud leading
Brothers to flash their steel over a meal :
A rush to pull them apart, dead, bleeding :
These wanton duels shall harm France a great deal.
2.35
Fire shall break out in two lodgings at night,
Many shall suffocate & roast inside :
This shall occur near two rivers for sure :
Sun in Sag. & Capricorn, all shall die.
2.36
The mighty Prophet’s letters interception
Shall place them in the hands of the tyrant :
To defraud the king is his intention,
But his thefts shall soon come back to haunt him.
2.37
Of the great number of those sent away
To rescue those besieged within the fort,
All shall be devoured by famine & plague,
Save the seventy slaughtered for sport.
2.38
A great number shall be condemned to death
When the monarchs are reconciled,
But one of them shall encounter such rebuffs
That their alliance shall not long survive.
2.39
A year before the Italian war,
Germans, Gauls, Spaniards vying for the fort,
A schoolhouse of the republic shall fall,
All, save a few, suffocating to death.
2.40
Shortly thereafter, little time in fact,
On land & sea shall be great alarum :
The naval battle greater in impac
t,
Greek fire inflicting the greatest harm.
2.41
The mighty star shall blaze seven days straight,
Cloud shall cause two suns in the sky to stand :
The hefty mastiff shall howl the night late,
When the great pontiff moves from land to land.
2.42
The cocks, dogs & cats shall feast on the blood
And the wounds of the tyrant who’s found dead
In another’s bed, his arms & legs crushed,
Who had no fear of dying a cruel death.
2.43
At the appearance of the bearded star,
The three great princes shall turn mortal foes :
Lightning from on high : peace on earth scarred :
Po, Tiber overflow, snakes on the shore.
2.44
Perched here & there on the tents, the eagle
By another bird shall be chased away
When the clamor of cymbals, trumps & bells
Restores the senses of the senseless lady.
2.45
Heaven overweeps the Androgyne’s birth :
Much human blood shed near this place on earth :
Death overslow gives a great race new life :
Soon & late the awaited help arrives.
2.46
After major chaos, more on the way :
The mighty Mover renews the ages :
A rain of blood, milk, famine, war & plague,
Fire in the sky, trail of sparks in its wake.
2.47
The agèd foe grieves & dies of poison :
Sovereigns are subjugated by the plebs :
Stones rain down : people hide beneath the fleece :
At death, items cited for no good reason.
2.48
Mighty host making its way over mountains,
Saturn in Sag., Mars lapsed into Pisces :
Poisons hidden in the heads of psalmons,
Their chief hanged by a noose of wrapping twine.