The Prophecies
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Corruer regnes, grande infelicité.
6.68
Lors que souldartz fureur seditieuse,
Contre leur chef feront de nuict fer luire :
Ennemy d’Albe soit par main furieuse,
Lors vexer Rome & principaux seduire.
6.69
La pitié grande sera sans loing tarder,
Ceux qui donnoient seront contrains de prendre,
Nudz, affamez, de froit, soif, soy bander,
Les monts passer commettant grand esclandre.
6.70
Au chef du monde le grand Chyren sera,
Plus oultre après aymé, craint, redoubté:
Son bruit & loz les cieux surpassera,
Et du seul tiltre victeur fort contenté.
6.71
Quand on viendra le grand roy parenter
Avant qu’il ait du tout l’ame rendue :
Celuy qui moins le viendra lamenter,
Par lyons, d’aigles, croix, couronne vendue.
6.72
Par fureur faincte d’esmotion divine,
Sera la femme de grand fort violée :
Juges voulans damner telle doctrine,
Victime au peuple ignorant imolée.
6.73
En cité grande un moyne & artisan,
Près de la porte logés & aux murailles :
Contre Modène secret, caue disant,
Trahis pour faire souz couleur d’espousailles.
6.74
La deschassée au regne tournera,
Ses ennemis trouvés des conjurés :
Plus que jamais son temps triomphera,
Trois & septante à mort trop asseurés.
6.75
Le grand pilot par Roy sera mandé,
Laisser la classe pour plus haut lieu attaindre :
Sept ans après sera contrebandé.
Barbare armée viendra Venise craindre.
6.76
La cité antique d’antenorée forge,
Plus ne pouvant le tyran supporter :
Le manchet sainct au temple couper gorge,
Les siens le peuple à mort viendra bouter.
6.77
Par la victoire du deceu faudulente,
Deux classes une, la revolte Germaine :
Le chef meurtry, & son filz dans la tente,
Florence, Imole pourchassés dans Romaine.
6.78
Crier victoire du grand Selin croissant,
Par les Romains sera l’Aigle clamé,
Ticcin, Milan, & Gennes n’y consent,
Puis par eux mesmes Basil grand reclamé.
6.79
Près du Tesin les habitans de Loyre,
Garonne & Saonne, Seine, Tarn, & Gironde :
Outre les monts dresseront promontoire,
Conflict donné Po granci, submergé onde.
6.80
De Fez le regne parviendra à ceux d’Europe.
Feu leur cité, & lame trenchera :
Le grand d’Asie terre & mer à grand troupe,
Que bleux pers, croix, à mort dechassera.
6.81
Pleurs, crys & plaincts, hurlement, effraieur,
Cœur inhumain, cruel, noir, & transy :
Leman, les isles de Gennes les majeurs,
Sang espancher, frofaim, à nul mercy.
6.82
Par les desers de lieu, libre, & farouche,
Viendra errer nepveu du grand Pontife :
Assommé à sept avecques lourde souche,
Par ceux qu’après occuperont le cyphe.
6.83
Celuy qu’aura tant d’honneur & caresses,
A son entrée de la Gaule Belgique :
Un temps après fera tant de rudesses,
Et sera contre à la fleur tant bellique.
6.84
Celuy qu’en Sparte Claude ne peut regner,
Il fera tant par voye seductive :
Que du court l’on le fera araigner,
Que contre Roy fera sa perspective.
6.85
La grand cité de Tharse par Gaulois
Sera destruite, captifz tous à Turban :
Secours par mer du grand Portugalois,
Premier d’esté le jour du sacre Urban.
6.86
Le grand Prelat un jour après son songe,
Interpreté au rebours de son sens :
De la Gascoigne luy surviendra un monge,
Qui fera eslire le grand Prelat de Sens.
6.87
L’election faicte dedans Frankfort,
N’aura nul lieu Milan s’opposera :
Le sien plus proche semblera si grand fort
Que outre le Rhyn es mareschz chassera.
6.88
Un regne grand demourra desolé,
Auprès del Hebro se feront assemblées :
Monts Pyrennées le rendront consolé,
Lors que dans May feront terres tremblées.
6.89
Entre deux cymbes piedz & mains estachés,
De miel face oingt & de laict substanté:
Guespes & mouches, fitine amour fachés.
Poccilateur faucer, Cyphe tempté.
6.90
L’honnissement puant abhominable
Après le faict sera felicité,
Grand excusé pour n’estre favorable,
Qu’à paix Neptune ne sera incité.
6.91
Du conducteur de la guerre navale,
Rouge effrené, severe horrible grippe,
Captif eschappe de l’aisné dans la basle :
Quand il naistra du grand un filz Agrippe.
6.92
Prince de beauté tant venuste,
Au chef menée, le second faict trahy :
La cité au glaive de poudre, face aduste,
Par trop grand meurtre le chef du roy hay.
6.93
Prelat avare d’ambition trompé,
Rien ne sera que trop viendra cuider :
Ses messagiers, & luy bien attrapé,
Tout au rebours voir qui le bois fendroit.
6.94
Un Roy iré sera aux sedifragues,
Quant interdicts seront harnois de guerre :
La poison taincte au succre par les fragues
Par eaux meurtris mors, disant serre, serre.
6.95
Par detracteur calumnie à puynay,
Quant istront faicts enormes & martiaux :
La moindre part dubieuse à l’aisnay,
Et tost au regne seront faicts partiaux.
6.96
Grande cité à soldartz abandonnée,
Onques ny eust mortel tumult si proche :
O quelle hideuse calamité s’approche,
Fors une offence n’y sera pardonnée.
6.97
Cinq & quarante degrés ciel bruslera,
Feu approcher de la grand cité neufve,
Instant grand flamme esparse sautera,
Quant on voudra des Normans faire preuve.
6.98
Ruyné aux Volques de peur si fort terribles,
Leur grand cité taincte, faict pestilent :
Piller Sol, Lune & violer leurs temples :
Et les deux fleuves rougir de sang coulant.
6.99
L’ennemy docte se tournera confus,
Grand camp malade, & defaict par embusches,
Monts Pyrennées & Pœnus luy seront faicts refus,
Proche du fleuve descouvrant antiques oruches.
6.100
Legis Cantio Contra Ineptos Criticos.
Quos legent hosce versus mature censunto,
Profanum vulgus, et inscium ne attrestato :
Omnesque Astrologi, Blenni, Barbari procul sunto,
Qui aliter facit is rite, sacer esto.
CENTURY VII
7.1
The treasure arch by Achilles concealed,
Descendants shall the panel recognize :
The how & why of the royal decree,
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Corpses hanging before the public’s eyes.
7.2
War once declared, Arles shall refuse to fight,
The soldiers shall all be surprised at night :
Black, white, hid in the ground Indian-style,
Out of the faint dark, traitors in profile.
7.3
After the victory of France at sea,
The Barchinons, Salians, Phocaeans :
Golden ivy, anvil wrapped in a bale,
Those of Ptolon shall aid in the deceit.
7.4
The duke of Langres besieged at Dole,
With those from Ostun & the Lyon region :
Geneva, Augsburg, those of Mirandole
Shall cross the mounts against Ancona’s legion.
7.5
Over the table the wine shall be spilled,
The third shall not have the lady he desired :
From the black of Parma descended twice,
Perugia shall do to Pisa what it wills.
7.6
Naples, Palermo & all Sicily
Shall be occupied by Barbarian hand :
Salerno, Corsica & Sardinia,
Famine, plague, endless ills throughout the land.
7.7
After the light cavalry’s swift success,
They shall proclaim the great crescent vanquished :
Night combat, mountains, & as shepherds dressed,
Red abysses in the depths of the ditch.
7.8
Flee Flora, flee the nearest one from Rome,
At Fiesole shall the war be declared :
Blood shall be shed, the mighty overcome,
Neither church nor sect shall from this be spared.
7.9
A lady, her great captain now absent,
Shall be loved by the Viceroy from afar :
A promise feigned, an unlucky present,
In the grasp of the great prince from Bar.
7.10
For the great prince who rules nearby Le Mans,
Leading his army with courage & style :
On land & sea of the French & Normans,
Pass Gibraltar, loot Barcelona’s isle.
7.11
His mother shall despise the royal child,
Coarse, disobedient, bad feet, bad eye :
For the lady a sad & strange surprise :
More than five hundred of her men shall die.
7.12
The younger born shall put an end to war,
And recommend the pardoned to the gods :
Moissac shall flee his clutches, & Cahors :
Lectoure repulsed, Agen reduced to sod.
7.13
Of the maritime tributary city
The shaved head shall seize the satrapy,
Expel the rat, his future enemy,
For fourteen years exercise tyranny.
7.14
The scythe shall expose the topography,
Earthen pots revealed at the ancient sites :
Sects pullulate, & sham philosophy :
New mistaken for old, & black for white.
7.15
To the city of the Insubrian plain
For seven long years a siege they shall lay :
The mighty King shall enter it one day,
Free the city, chase its enemies away.
7.16
The mighty gate erected by the Queen,
The site impregnable, thus fortified :
The army of three lions shall know defeat :
Hideous & horrific scene inside.
7.17
The rare pity & mercy of this king
Whose death shall transform simply everything :
In times of great peace, the realm at ill ease,
When the lord goes down to major defeat.
7.18
The besieged shall paint the truce their own hue,
Seven days later they’ll counterattack :
Fire, blood, seven hacked to death, driven back :
The lady captured who had wove the truce.
7.19
There shall be no fight for the fort of Nice,
It shall fall to the dazzling gleam of gold :
Its fate shall long be open to surmise,
Citizens thinking it a strange scarecrow.
7.20
Ambassadors of the tongue of Tuscany
Shall pass the Alps & sea in April, May :
He of Vaud shall expose the colloquy,
Lest life in Gaul be completely erased.
7.21
Dissimulated pestilential hate
Shall chase the tyrant from the Volcae land :
At the bridge of Sorgues the pact shall be made
To put the man to death & his henchman.
7.22
The citizens of Mesopotamia,
Incensed at their friends in Tarragona :
Games, rituals, feasts, one & all asleep :
Vicar at Rhône, city seized, Ausonia.
7.23
The royal scepter he’ll be forced to take,
Like his predecessors changing status :
Then with the ring they shall prevaricate,
When they proceed to plunder the palace.
7.24
He who was buried shall step from the tomb
And wrap the strongman of the bridge in chains :
Marquis du Pont shall proceed to poison
With barbel roe the great lord of Lorraine.
7.25
By endless warring the army is spent,
No money to pay the various platoons :
Instead of gold, silver, leather they’ll mint :
Gallic bronze, the sign of the crescent Moon.
7.26
Caravels & galleons out to thrash
Seven ships, fighting them to the last man :
The Madrid chief receiving several shafts :
Two shall escape & five be towed to land.
7.27
The immense cavalry near Vasto’s fort
By Ferrajo shall cut off the supplies :
At Turino they’ll plunder with such sport
That from the fort their hostage they shall hie.
7.28
The captain shall capture many a prey
In the mountains, the enemy in sight :
Surrounded, by fire he shall make his way :
All shall escape, save thirty burned alive.
7.29
Duke of Alba shall rise in rebellion,
Betraying his forefathers before him :
The great duke of Guise shall overwhelm him,
Take him prisoner & set up his tomb.
7.30
The sack at hand, fire everywhere, bloodshed,
Po, waters rising, & herdsman displeased :
From Genoa, Nice, waiting without end,
Fossano, Turin, at Savigliano seized.
7.31
From Languedoc & Guyenne more than ten
Thousand shall want to cross over the Alps :
Against Brindisi Allobrogian men
Shall march, repulsed by Aquino, Brescia.
7.32
From Mount Royal shall be born on a farm
One who shall tyrannize vault & account :
He’ll raise an army from the Milanese march,
Drain men & gold from Fayence & Florence.
7.33
The forces of the kingdom sapped by fraud,
The army besieged, under surveillance :
Two pretend friends shall form themselves a squad
To awaken hatreds long in abeyance.
7.34
The French shall be bereft of all good cheer,
Lightheartedness shall be held to be foolish :
No bread, salt, wine, water, medicines, beer :
Their noblest captive : hunger, cold, anguish.
7.35
The great fishery shall protest & lament
The election : time shall prove them wrong :
He shall not choose to remain among them,
Disappointed by those who speak his tongue.
7.36
Good lord, the Divine Word is out at sea,
Borne by seven tonsured reds to Byzance :
Against Trebizond’s three hundred devotees,
Shall pass two laws: horror, then faith at last.
7.37
Ten sent to put the ship captain to death,
The fleet at war, one shall give him warning :
Confusion, captain : one then stabbed to death :
Off Lérins, Hyères : ships, cape in the gloaming.
7.38
The eldest prince on his galloping steed,
Spurring it on until it pants for breath :
Mouth swollen by bit, his foot coming free
From stirrup, dragged to a horrible death.
7.39
The leader of the fighting force of France,
Fearing the loss of his main formation :
Advancing over the pavement of slate,
Through Genoa shall pour the alien nation.
7.40
Hidden in casks smeared tight with grease & oil,
Before the port twenty-one shall be sealed :
At second watch unto the death they’ll toil,
Gaining the gates & by the watch be killed.
7.41
Hand and foot bones clapped into creaking chains,
House long abandoned because of these sounds :
Dug out by dreams, they shall all flit away :
House now healthful again, its loud guests gone.
7.42
Two unknowns seized in the prince’s kitchen
In the act of pouring out some poison :
The scullion shall catch them in their deed :
The one who thought to kill the prince is seized.
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CENTURIE VII
7.1
L’arc du thresor par Achilles deceu,