with him whose good and bad fortune depended from an answer pleasing his Majesty who bid him once for all to tell what he had done with the Duke of Savoy and the Earl of Fuentes assuring him that his clemency should be greater than his fault The Duke of Biron answered the King more proudly than eyer that it was to pross an honest man too much that he never had any other design but what he had told him already Would to God it were so said the King You will not tell me Farewell good night As he went out of the Closet and had passed the Chamber door he met Vitry who with his right hand seized upon the Hilt of his Sword and with his left upon his right Arm saying The King â—ath commanded me to give him an account of your Person give up your Sword You jeer said the Duke No my Lord he hath so commanded me The Duke of Biron answered I pray thee let me speak to the King No my Lord the King is gone to Bed He saw the Duke of Monbazon and desired him to intreat the King that he might surrender it into his own Hands The King sent word to Vitry to obey his commands The Duke was fained to suffer his Sword to be taken from him saying My Sword that hath done so many good services Yes my Lord give me your Sword said Vitry To me said the Duke that have served the King so well that my Sword should be taken from me my Sword that hath made an end of the War and given Peace to France that my Sword which could not be taken by my Enemies should be taken away by my Friends All these complaints availed nothing he ungirted his Sword with his left hand and gave it to Vitry looking about if he could seize upon any other out care was taken for that When he saw all the Guards in order in the Gallery he thought he should have been Massacred upon the place and cryed to them fellow Souldiers give me a little time to pray to God and let me have some Firebrand or Candlestick in my hand that I may have the Honour to die desending my self He was answered that no Body would offend him that his best defence was to obey the King who commanded to lead him to Bed you see said he how the good Catholicks are used He was carryed into the Arms Closet where he neither slept nor lay down but past the night in blasphemies against God and reviling words against the King Pralin was staying for the Earl of Auvergne at the Castle Gate and when he offered to go out to his lodging stay my Lord you are the Kings Prisoner The Earl astonished answered I I and Pralin answered yes my Lord you I Arrest you by the King and make you his Prisoner give up your Sword take it said the Earl it never killed any thing but Boars if you had given me notice of this I should have been in Bed and asleep two hours ago The next day about dinner time the Duke of Biron sent word to the King that if he did not take care of the Province of Burgundy it would be lost because the Baron of Lux would let in the Spaniards as soon as he should have notice of his detention The King was very much offended at this message and said see the impudence and boldness of the Duke of Biron who sendeth me word that Burgundy is lost if I do not look to it His obstinacy hath undone him if he would have confessed the truth of a thing that I have under his hand he should not be where he is I wish I had paid 200000. Crowns and he had given me the means to forgive him I never loved any man so much I would have trusted him with my Son and my Kingdom 'T is true he hath served me well but he cannot deny but that I have saved his life three times I rescued him once from the hands of the Enemy at Fontain Francoise so wounded and astonished with blows that as I plaid the part of a Souldier to save him I was also fained to make that of a Captain to make the retreat for he told me he was not in a case to do it The Saturday next the prisoners were carryed to Paris by water and put into the Bastille in several Chambers The Duke of Biron was put into that called of the Saints famous for the Prison of the Constable of Saint Paul executed in the time of Lewis the XI and the Earl in the Chamber above him The care the order and vigilancy with which he was guarded did put him in some amazement for his Guards waited on him without Arms and served him with a Knife without a point which made him say that it was the way to the Grave the place of Execution But when he knew that the Hangman of Paris was a Burgundian he remembred that La Brosse an Astrologer had foretold him sometimes seeing his Horoscope which he fained to be that of one of his friends that he should be beheaded and Caesar a Magician that a blow of a Burgundian given behind should hinder him to attain the Kingdom The Arch-Bishop of Bourges went to see him and endeavoured to settle his Conscience and to disswade him from some Atheistical opinions that he had Villeroy and Sillery went also to see him and by the Kings Command and at his request Few days after the King being at St. Mourder Fossez the Lords la Force the Earl of Roussy Brother in Law to the Duke of Biron Saint Blancard his Brother Chasteau-neuf Themines Salignac St. Angel Longuac Friends and Kinsmen of the Duke of Biron went and cast themselves at the Kings feet to implore his Mercy and that he would be pleased to moderate the severity of his Justice requesting that the same clemency which he had shewed to many others that had as grievously offended him would at least save his life and confine him into such a place where he might do no harm that their whole Kindred might not be branded with Insamy and have a regard to his Fathers service and his which though they were not equal to his offence yet at least to consider that he was only guilty for his intention The King bid them rise and told them that their requests were not displeasing to him That he would not be like his Predecessors who would not suffer any body to intercede for those that were guilty o high Treason The King Francis II. would never give a hearing to the Wife of the Prince of Condé my Uncle Concerning the clemency you would have me shew to the Duke of Biron it should not be clemency but cruelty if it were only my particular Interest I would forgive him as I do now with all my heart but my Kingdom and my Children to whom I owe much are concerned in it or they might reproach me hence forwards that I have tollerated an evil which I might have
of Mind when he saith Sitting by night Because a troubled Mind cannot see clearly the Things it is busie about no more than tossed Waters can distinctly represent the Objects that are opposed to them Thus we read in the Scripture that the Prophet Elishah being transported with Zeal against Joram King of Israel and nevertheless willing to consult God concerning the event of the Warr against the Moabites called for a Minstrel that the Harmony of the Instrument might quiet his Mind as it did happen And it came to pass when the Minstrel played that the Hand of the Lord came upon him 2 Kings chap. 3. ver 15. The Author in his Dedicatory Epistle to his Son Caesar calleth this Tranquility of Mind A long Melancholick Inspiration because the Melancholick Humour and Mind sequestreth a Man from the concerns of worldly things and maketh him present to himself so that his Understanding is not darkned by a multitude of Species that troubles its Operation The Second Disposition was the Silence of the Night For Man who is compounded of Body and Soul doth notably intricate himself in External things by the commerce of the Senses with the Objects which obligeth him to withdraw himself from visible things when he intends to apply himself to some serious Study And as the silence of the Night causeth in the Universe a cessation of noises and clashings in Business Visits and Colloquies the Mind is then more at rest Besides that Night covering with her Darkness our Hemisphere our Senses are less distracted and our Internal Faculties are more united to serve the Operations of the Understanding Therefore the Author in his two Liminary Epistles makes often mention of his continual Nocturnal Watchings of his Sweet-smelling nocturnal Studies and of his Nocturnal and Prophetical Calculations The Third Disposition was Solitariness that is having no other Conversation then that of his Books being retired in his Study Alone For it seemeth that God commonly maketh use of Solitariness when he doth impart himself to Men and revealeth them his Oracles And the Sybils were chosen to be Prophets as much for their Solitariness as for their Chastity The Author saith that with those three Dispositions he raised himself to the knowledge of future things which is signified by those words Resting upon the Brazen Stool Servius in his Commentaries upon Virgil speaking of this Brazen Stool saith two things of it The First that this Stool was a Table set upon a Trevet called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the Latines Tripus The Second is that the Sybils or the Priests of the Delphick Temple of Apollo got upon that Table when they went about to pronounce their Oracles Pliny in his 33. Book Chap. 3. saith that they called those Tables Cortinas and that some were made of Brass for the use aforesaid From the use of that Brazen Trevet is come the Proverb Ex tripode loqui When one speaketh like an Oracle Thus the Author willing to express that being in his Stuâ—y in the solitariness of the Night he raised himself to the Knowledge of Future things to write them and transmit them to Posterity he saith He was sitting or resting upon the Brazen Stool Thus raising himself and taking his Pen in hand to write what he should learn he saith in the Third Verse that A slight Flame or small Light did insinuate it self in his understanding by whose splendor and brightness he saw future things The Author in his Epistle to Caesar his Son expoundeth always this Prophetical Light by the comparison of a shining Flame and calleth it rather a Flame than a pure Light because this Light doth not only discover the Mysteries but more-over it lightens in us a certain Heat and Prophetical Power as himself terms it as if we should say a Sacred Enthusiasm even saith he as the Sun coming near us with his Light not only darteth upon all Elementary things the brightness of his Beams but withal infuseth in them a certain quickning heat which causeth the Vegetables to grow and upholdeth the Being of all other natural things Even so saith he this good Genius as the Ancients term it or as we Christians say that Divine Spirit of Prophecy coming near our understandings not only importeth a Light to them but moreover a certain heat and Prophetical Power which strenghteneth them in the knowledge of the aforesaid things and causeth them to breath out as by a Sacred Enthusiasm some Prophetical Verses Which happeneth to them saith the Author coming out of Solitude that is to fay when their Spirit stoopeth down and by degrees cometh down from that sublime Region and high elevation taking the Pen to write down the future time Therefore he with his dispositions participating of that slight flame coming out of his solitude began to write and to utter What is not in vain to believe The things that the Author hath written shall not be unprofitable as we have proved already and the time will come when by the means of Divine Providence the Church shall receive the fruit thereof at which we ought not to wonder seeing that God saith of himself in Isaiah Chap. 48. Ver. 17. I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit The Author foretelleth many wonders of which we ought to be certain by the verification of those that are already past seeing that it is the same Spirit that shewed them all The same Prophecies are also profitable in that every where the Author condemneth Seditious and Rebellious persons and Prophecieth the Churches Victory over her Enemies They are also profitable for particular Men that understand the meaning of them for by it they may provide for their own business according to the storm undertaking nothing but upon sure grounds following always the best party and disposing themselves to patience when the calamities are general and involve together the guilty and guiltless Therefore our Author saith well A slight flame breaking forth out of that solitude makes me utter what is not in vain to believe II. French La Verge en main mise au milieu des Branches De l'Onde je moüille le Limbe le Pied En peur j'escris fremissant par les manches Splendeur Divine le Divine prez s'assied English With Rod in hand set in the middle of the Branches With water I wet the Limb and the Foot In fear I writ quaking in my sleeves Divine splendor the Divine sitteth by ANNOT. Amongst the customs the Ancients observed before they pronounced their Oracles one was to take a Tuffie Branch of Laurel and with it dipt in water to sprinkle the edges and Columns of the Table that was upon the Brazen Trevet by which ceremonies they procured credit to their Oracles The Author willing to let us know that his Verses were not only a simple writing ing but also Prophetical and full of Oracles doth represent them to us by this Metaphore of the Ancients when they did amuse
the people with their ambiguous and many times fallacious Oracles Being then sitting and quiet in his solitariness coming out of that great devotion of mind animated by the virtue of his good Genius he putteth first the Rod into his hand that is the Pen and putteth it in the middle of the Branches putting it between his Fingers Secondly he dippeth this Rod into Water dipping his Pen in his Ink with this Pen dipt in Ink he wetteth the Limb and the Foot writing upon his paper from one end to the other and from the top to the bottom Which we must understand by this word Lymbe which is a Latin word signifying the long and narrow pieces of stuffe which women wore at the bottom of their Petticoats therefore the Latins called them Lymbos from the Latin Verbe Lambo which in matter of cloths signifieth to leek or sweep and because those pieces of cloath were in the bottom of their Garments the word hath been afterwards employed to signifie the brims of some things so that the Lymbs of a sheet of paper are the two margines and the top and the bottom as if it were the four ends of a Quadrangular Figure The third Verse sheweth the internal disposition of the Author after he hath described his external one that disposition was a Sacred quaking which putting his heart into a palpitation caused his hands and arms to shake as if he had been taken with some fit of an Ague This quaking is the disposition which the good Genius causeth in Prophets that they may be humbled and not be puffed up with pride when they come near the Majesty of God as we read in Daniel St. John and the 4th of Esdras Therefore the Author saith In fear I write quaking in my sleeves And because the Divine spirit after he hath cast down those to whom he will impart himself doth afterwards quiet them the Author therefore addeth that a Divine splendor did sit by him III. French Quand la littiere du tourbillon versée Et seront faces de leurs Manteaux couvers La Republique par gens nouveaux vexée Lors blancs rouges jugeront a l'envers English When the litter shall be overthrown by a gust of wind And faces shall be covered with Cloaks The Common-wealth shall be troubled with a new kind of men Then white and red shall judge amiss ANNOT. The two first Verses signifie that a great tempestuous wind was to happen in which a litter should be overturned and every one should muffle his face in his Cloak for the sierceness of the wind And that presently after the Common-wealth should be troubled with new Sects and Opinions which may be understood of the beginning of Reformation by Luther and Calvin which was about that time The last Verse by the white and red signifieth here as it doth thorough all the Book the French and the Spaniards because the French wear white Scarfes and the Spaniards red ones and consequently the troubles and jars that happened presently between those two Nations IV. French Par l'Univers sera fait un Monarque Qu'en paix vie ne sera longuement Lors se perdra la Piscature Barque Sera regie en plus grand detriment English In the World shall be one Monarch Who shall be not long alive nor in peace Then shall be lost the Fishing Boat And be governed with worse detriment ANNOT. That Monarch was Henry the II. King of France who did not Reign long but was unfortunately slain running at Tilt against the Earl of Montgomery as we shall see hereafter and almost during all his Reign had Wars with Charles the V. Emperour and his Son Philip the II. King of Spain the said Emperour in that time did sack Rome took the Pope Clement the VII prisoner which is signified here as also in several other places by the loss of the Fishing Boat the Roman Church being often compared to a Ship or Boat V. French Chassez seront fans faire long combat Par le Païs seront plus fort grevez Bourg Cité auront plus grand debat Carcas Narbonne auront coeurs esprouvez English They shall be driven away without great fighting Those of the Countrey shall be more grieved Town and City shall have a greater debate Carcas Narbonne shall have their hearts tryed ANNOT. Herein is nothing mystical the meaning is that some of the Protestant party intending to take or vex the Cities of Carcassone and Narbonne in Languedoc shall be easily repulsed and shall afterward fall upon the Countrey round about which shall suffer for VI. French L'oeil de Ravenne sera destitué Quand a ses pieds les aisles sailliront Les deux de Bresse auront constitué Turin Verceil que Gaulois fouleront English The eye of Ravenna shall be forsaken When the wings shall rise at his feet The two of Brescia shall have constituted Turin Verceil which the French shall tread upon ANNOT. This is a confirmation of the fourth Stanza concerning the loss of the Pope Clement the VII who is called here the eye of Ravenna because he is Lord of that famous City which was once an Exarchat of the Empire The wings that shall rise at or against his feet shall be those of the Eagle which are the Arms of the Emperour The two of Brescia were the Governour and Proveditor of Venice in that place who would at that time have endeavoured to seize upon Turin and Verceil the two chiefest Towns of Piemont but were prevented by the French VII French Tard arrivé l'execution faite Le Vent contrare Lettres au chemin prinses Les Conjurez quatorze d'une Secte Parle Rousseau seront les entreprinses English One coming too late the execution shall be done The Wind being contrary and Letters intercepted by the way The Conspirators fourteen of a Sect By the Red-hair'd Man the undertaking shall be made ANNOT. The sense of the whole is this there shall be fourteen Conspirators of one mind and their Ring-leader a Red-haired man who shall be put to death because their Reprieve could not come timely enough being hindered by cross winds and Letters intercepted I could find no particular things in History concerning this VIII French Combien de fois prinse Cité Solaire Seras changeant les Loix barbares vaines Ton mal s'approche plus seras tributaire Le grand Adrie recouvrira tes veines English How often taken O solar City Shalt thou be changing the barbarian and vain Laws Thy evil groweth nigh thou shalt be more tributary The great Adria shall recover thy veins ANNOT. It is hard to judge what he meaneth by the Solar City that shall be so often taken As by Adria it is certain he meaneth Venice that was so called anciently because of its scituation in the Adriatick Sea IX French De l'Orient viendra le coeur punique Fascher Adrie les hoirs Romulides Accompagné de la classe Libique Trembler Melites proches Isles vuides English From
great neighbour that is the Empire shall follow his steps that is be put down too The two last Verses are plain LXIV French Le Chef de Perse remplira grand Olchade Classe trireme contre gent Mahometique De Parthe Mede piller les Cyclades Repos long temps au grand Port Jonique English The Head of Persia shall fill a great Olchade A Fleet of Galleys against the Mahometan Nation From Parthia and Media they shall come to plunder the Cyclades A long rest shall be on the Jonique Port. ANNOT. I could not find what he meaneth by Olchade The second Verse is plain Parthia and Media are two Kingdoms depending from that of Persia The Islands of Cyclades are in the Aegean Sea and are so called because they are like a Garment about the City of Delos for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifieth a round garment of a woman The Jonique Sea is that Sea in Grecia which is about Athens and Corinth c. LXV French Quand le Sepulchre du grand Romain trouvé Le jour apres sera esleu Pontife Du Senat gueres il ne sera prouvé Empoisonné son sang au Sacre Scyphe English When the Sepulcher of the great Roman shall be found The next day after a Pope shall be elected Who shall not be much approved by the Senate Poisoned his blood in the Sacred Scyphe ANNOT. This seemeth to foretel the finding out of the Sepulcher of some famous Roman and that the next day after a Pope shall be Elected who being not well approved of by the Conclave shall be poisoned in the Chalice which is the Communion Cup that the Roman Catholicks use at Mass signified here by the Latine word Soyphus LXVI French Le grand Baillif d' Orleans mis a mort Sera par un de sang vindicatif De mort merite ne mourra ne par sort De pieds mains mal le faisoit captif English The great Bailif of Orleans shall be put to death By one of a revengeful blood He shall not die of a deserved death nor by chance But the disease of being tied hand and foot hath made him prisoner ANNOT. The Bailif of Orleans is a great Officer for he is there Lord Chief Justice and of all the precincts It seemeth that this man shall be put to death by one of a revengeful blood not that he had deserved it or come to it by chance but because he shall be tied hand and foot and die in prison LXVII French Une nouvelle Secte de Philosophes Mesprisant mort or honneurs richesses Des Monts Germains seront fort limitrophes A les ensuivre auront appuy presses English A new Sect of Philosophers shall rise Despising Death Gold Honours and Riches They shall be near the Mountains of Germany They shall have abundance of others to support and follow them ANNOT. This is properly said of the Anabaptists in Germany in the time of John de Leyden and now of the Quakers in England and elsewhere LXVIII French Peuple sans Chef d' Espagne d'Italie Morts profligez dedans le Cheronese Leur dict trahy par legere folie Le sang nager per tout a la traverse English A people of Spain and Italy without a Head Shall die being overcome in the Cheronese Their saying shall be betrayed by a light folly The blood shall swim all over at random ANNOT. Cheronese is a Land or ground unmanured the rest is plain LXIX French Grand exercite conduit par jouvenceau Se viendra rendre aux mains des ennemis Mais le vieillard nay au demy pourceau Fera Chalon Mascon estre amis English A great Army led by a young man Shall yield it self in the hands of the enemies But the old man born at the sign of the halfe-Hog Shall cause Chalon and Mascon to be friends ANNOT. The two first Verses are plain as for the third Verse I could not find who that Old man should be that shall be born at the sign of the half-Hog Chalon and Mascon are two Cities in France the first in Champagne the last in Burgundy LXX French La grand Bretagne comprise d' Angleterre Viendra par eaux si haut a inondre La Ligue nevue d' Ausone fera gerre Que contre eux ils se viendront bander English Great Britany comprehended in England Shall suffer so great an Inundation by Waters The new League of Ausone shall make Wars So that they shall stand against them ANNOT. This Prophecie is divided in two parts The first two Verses foretel a great Innundation that was to happen in England The last two speak of a league and insurrection that shall be at Bordeaux which is here called Ausone from a famous Latine Poet named Ausonius who was born in that City As to the first part after much seeking and enquiry I found the truth of it in a Latine book called Rerum in Gallia Belgia Hispania Anglia c. gestarum anno 1607. Tomi septimi Liber secundus conscriptus a Nicolao Gotardo Artus Dantiscano where the History is related thus About the end of January 1607. the Sea-broke out so violently in England that after the breaking of Fences and Dikes it caused very great damages to the Inhabitants The greatest mischief was done in Somersetshire where the water did overflow ten Leagues in length and two in breadth twelve foot high in the most eminent places This sudden Innundation brought a fearful alarm to the Countrey people some of them going to their Plough were fained to run back to their houses where they found their enemies at their doors viz. Death and Water who without distinction swept them away In a little time the Towns appeared like Islands encompassed on all sides and presently after were swallowed up so that the tops of the Trees were scarce seen This new Flood covered so the Towns of Hansfield in the same County those of Grantham Kenbus Kingston and Briandon with several Farms built in the Champion Countrey that none of the Buildings could be seen If you add to this the devastation of the places the quantity of Corn Fruit and Grass that was lost the misery shall be so great as not to be expressed During this fearful quarrel between the Water and the Land an exceeding great number of people died of all Ages and Sexes it would avail them nothing to get into the upper Stories and Roofs of houses nor upon the highest Trees for the imperious Waters did so swell and rage that the Foundations of the houses and roots of the Trees were loosened so that both fell to the Ground or rather into the Water The people seeing no way to escape resolved to die patiently No body could without great grief see the Oxen and Sheep drowning for there was such a numerous quantity of them that a far off one would have thought them to be Rocks in the Sea but seeing them swiming and hearing them bleating
Conquestes meurtrira innocens English In the year that Saturn in Aquarius shall be in conjunction With Sol the King being strong and powerful Shall be received and Anointed at Rheines and Aix After Conquest he shall murder innocent persons ANNOT. This Prophecy is remarkable for the things that it foretelleth viz. that in the year that Saturn shall be in conjunction with sol in the Sign of Aquarius a King of France shall be annointed both at Rhemes and Aix for Rheme◠is a City in France where the Kings use to be Annointed and Crowned and Aix is another in Germany where the Emperours use to be so But the last Verse is ominous where he saith that after his Conquests he shall murder innocent persons LXXXVII French Un fils de Roy tant de Langues apprins A son Aisné au Regne different Son Pere beau au plus grand fils comprins Fera perir principal adherent English A son of a King having learned divers Languages Shall fall out with his elder Brother for the Kingdom His father in Law being more concerned with his elder son Shall cause the principal adherent to perish ANNOT. One King shall have two Sons the eldest shall succeed him in the Kingdom the youngest having been well brought up and educated shall raise troubles against the King his Brother but he shall be destroyed by the means of his own Father in Law LXXXVIII French La grand Antoine du nom de fait sordide De Phtyriase a son dernier rongé Un qui de plomb voudra este cupide Passant le port d'Esleu sera plongé English The great Antony by name but in effect sordid Of Phtyriasis shall at last be eaten up One that shall be covetous of Lead Going upon Port d'Esleu shall fall into the Water ANNOT. Phtyriasis in Greek is the disease called by the Latines Morbus pedicularis when one is devour 〈…〉 by Lice as were Herodes Sylla Pherecydes and Philip II. King of Spain c. As for Port d'Esleu the question is whether it be the proper name of a place or the name of a man that shall throw another in the water LXXXIX French Trente de Londres secret conjureront Contre Leur Roy sur le pont l'Entreprise Les Satellites la mort desgouteront Uu Roy esseu blond natif de Frize English Thirty of London shall secretly conspire Against their King upon the Bridge the Plot shall be made These Satellites shall taste of death A King shall be elected fair and born in Friezeland ANNOT. Here may be alleadged that passage of Scripture There is nothing so secret but shall be revealed for here is plainly told the number of those wicked persons who conspired against their lawful Sovereign King Charles I. of blessed memory as also the place where the Plot was first laid for it is well known that they used to assemble at the Bear at the Bridge foot XC French Les deux copies au murs ne pourront joindre Dans cet instant trembler Milan Thesin Faim soif doutance si fort les viendront prendre Chair pain ne vivres nauront un seul boucin English The two Armies shall not be able to joyn by the Walls At that instant Milan and Thesin shall tremble Hunger thirst and fear shall so seize upon them They shall not have a bit of meat bread nor victuals ANNOT. Milan is a City in Italy and Thesin is the River that passeth by it XCI French Au Duc Gaulois contraint battre au Duelle La nef de Mole Monech naprochera Tort accuse prison perpetuelle Son Fils regner a vant mort taschera English A French Duke compelled to fight a Ducl The Ship of Mole shall not come near Monaco Wrongfully accused shall have a perpetual Prison His son shall endeavour to Reign before his death ANNOT. To understand this Stanza we must suppose four Histories Paradin relateth the first which is that the French and Spanish Armies having their Winter quarters in the Dukedome of Milan Anno 1555. The Marquess of Pescaire sent word to the Duke of Nemours by a French Gentleman that he and three more desired to break a Lance with him upon the borders of Ast The Duke accepted the challenge without giving notice to the Marquess of Brissac then General of the French Army who was very angry at it nevertheless he advised the Duke to go but not with a Guilt and light Armour but with a wrong one such as became a Cavaliero which he did not do nor the other three that went with him whence it came that the Lord Classe a French man running against Malespine was wounded to death in the shoulder nevertheless one of the seconds to the Duke of Nemours the Lord Moncha killed upon the place Caraffa Nephew to Pope Marcel II. and the Lord Manoa one of the Duke of Nemours party falling from his Horse a little wounded broke his neck As for the Duke of Nemours he ran twice against the said Marquess without hiting one another but at the third time they both brake their Lances without doing any harm Thus the French Duke was compelled to fight a Duel We have the second History from Turpin and many others which is that the Marquess of Masseran having put himself into the King of France's service in hopes to have the Government of Bielais and proving a Traitor the Marshal of Brissac who had discovered his perfidiousness resolved to take him in his house of Gaillany which he had fortified to secure his retreat after his Treason The Lord de Termes was commanded to do it which he did so dexterously that he took him into his house after dinner and then compelled him presently to surrender the Castle of Jamaglia the Marquess obeying sent thither presently his son Claudius to put it into the hands of the Lords de la Mante and of Villars These two viewing the Castle to observe the places that might be fortified and going from room to room heard a lamentable voice crying Have mercy upon me They caused presently the Prison doors to be opened and found a poor Gentleman of Vercelle whom the Marquess had detained there 18 years for endeavouring to serve an execution against him in the Duke of Savoy's behalf And it is remarkable that his Imprisonment was all this while concealed so that no body ever heard of it in so much that his friends suspecting he had been killed by one of his enemies they prosecuted him so hard that after much tortering he confessed what he had not done and was consequently put to death in the presence of the said Marquess of Masseran who knew the Countrey Thus we see one wrongfully accused that was executed and this Gentlemans Imprisonment which was to be perpetual After this they carryed the poor Gentleman almost all naked and being nothing but skin and bones to the Lord of Termes who caused him to be clothed and gave him Money to go back to his friends The third
Churches and other barbarous actions it hath been seen so often in France in the time of the Civil VVars for Religion that it needeth no confirmation The last Verse concerning a peace between the Turks and the Polonians was fulfilled in the year 1623. when Sigismundus King of Poland by his Embassador the Duke Sbarasky and by the mediation of the English Embassador concluded a Peace with the great Turk Mustapha the Articles of which you may read at large in the Turkish History LXXIV French De sang Trojen naistra coeur Germanique Qui deviendra en si haute puissance Hors chassera gent estrange Arabique Tonrnant l'Eglise en pristine préeminence English Of Trojan blood shall be born a German heart Who shall attain to so high a power That he shall drive away the strange Arrabian Nation Restoring the Church to her former splendor ANNOT. It seemeth to signifie that by Alliance made between a German Emperour and a Daughter of France which derive their Pedigree from the Trojans a Prince shall be born of so stout and valiant a heart as shall drive away all the Turkish power out of Germany and shall restore the Church to her former splendor LXXV French Montera haut sur le bien plus a dextre Demourra assis sur la pierre carrée Vers le midy posé a la senestre Baston tortu en main bouche serrée English He shall go up upon the good more on the right hand He shall stay sitting upon the square stone Towards the South being set on the left hand A crooked stick in his hand and his mouth shut ANNOT. I do acknowledge my Ignorance in this LXXVI French En lieu libere tendra son Pavillon Et ne voudra en Citez prendre place Aix Carpentras Lisle Volce Mont Cavaillon Par tous ces lieux abolira sa trace English He shall pitch his Tent in the open air Refusing to lodge in the City Aix Carpentras Lisle Volce Mont Cavaillon In all those places he shall abolish his trace ANNOT. Aix Carpentras Lisle Volce Mont Cavaillon are Cities of Provence LXXVII French Tous les degres d'honneur Ecclesiastique Seront changez en Dial Quirinal En Martial quirinal Flaminique Puis un Roy de France le rendra Vulcanal English All the degrees of Ecclesiastical honour Shall be changed into a Dial Quirinal Into Martial Quirinal Flaminick After that a King of France shall make it Vulcanal ANNOT. All what I can say upon this is that Dialis in Latine is a Priest of Jupiter and Quirinal is a Priest of Romulus Martial Flamen is a Priest of Mars Vulcanal is a Priest of Vulcan let the ingenious Reader make of all these the best construction he can LXXVIII French Les deux unis ne tiendront longuement Et dans treize ans au Barbare Satrape Aux deux costez feront tel perdement Qu'un benira la Barque sa cappe English The two united shall not hold long Within thirteen years to the Barbarian Satrape They shall cause such loss on both sides That one shall bless the Boat and its covering ANNOT. The word Satrape is a Persian word signifying one of the Grandees at Court. By the last Verse is meant one that shall save his life and make his escape by the means of a covered Boat or Barge LXXIX French La sacree Pompe viendra baisser les aisles Par la venue de grand Legislateur Humble haussera vexera les rebelles Naistra sur Terre aucun Aemulateur English The sacred Pomp shall bow down her wings At the coming of the great Lawgiver He shall raise the humble and vex the rebellious No Emulator of his shall be born ANNOT. This seemeth to have a relation to the birth of Christ or Christmas-day LXXX French L' Ogmion grande Bizance approchera Chassée sera la Barbarique ligue Des deux Loix l'une unique lachera Barbare France en perpetuelle brigue English The Ogmion shall come near great Bizance And shall expel the Barbarian League Of the two Laws the wicked one shall yeild The Barbarian and the French shall be in perpetual jar ANNOT. By the word Ogmion every where in his Book the Author meaneth the King of France who according to his words shall come near Constantinople and shall break the Barbarian League and of the two Laws that is the Christian and the Mahometan the Mohometan shall yield to the other LXXXI French L'Oyseau Royal sur la Cité solaire Sept mois devant fera nocturne augure Mur d'Orient cherra Tonnerre esclaire Sept jours aux Portes les ennemies a l'heure English The Royal Bird upon the solar City Seven Months together shall make a nocturn angury The Eastern Wall shall fall the Lightning shall shine Then the enemies shall be at the Gate for seven days ANNOT. By the Royal Bird is meant an Eagle which for seven days together shall be observed upon some Eastern City and shall be taken for a presage that the Eastern Wall of that City shall fall by Lightning at which time the enemies shall be at the Gate for seven days together LXXXII French Au conclud pache hors de la Forteresse Ne sortira celuy en desespoir mis Quand ceux d' Arbois de Langres contre Bresse Auront mis Dolle bouscade d'ennemis English Upon the agreement made out of the Fort Shall not come he that was in despair When those of Arbois of Langres against Bresse Shall have put in Dolle an Ambuscado of foes ANNOT. The sense is that according to the Articles or agreement made between the Besieger of a Fort and the Governour of it the said Governour by despair will not come out and this shall happen when those of Arbois and Langres shall be against those of Bressia and shall have put an Ambuscado in the City of Dolle LXXXIII French Ceux qui auront entreprins subvertir Nompareil Regne puissant invincible Feront par fraude nuicts trois advertir Quand le plus grand a Table lira Bible English Those that shall have undertaken to subvert The Kingdom that hath no equal in power and victories Shall cause by fraud notice to be given for three nights together When the greatest shall be reading a Bible at the Table ANNOT. What place is meant by the unparalell'd Kingdom the Author hath hid as well from me as the Reader LXXXIV French Naistre du Gouphre Cité immesurée Nay de parens obscurs tenebreux Qui la puissance du grand Roy reverée Voudra destruire par Rouen Eureux English One shall be born out of the Gulf and the unmeasurable City Born of Parents obscure and dark Who by the means of Rouen and Eureux Will go about to destroy the power of the great King ANNOT. VVithout doubt by this Gulf and unmeasured City the Author means Paris by reason of its greatness and the multitude of its Inhabitants LXXXV French Par les Sueves lieux circonvoisins Seront en
Contre leur Chef seront denuit fer livre Ennemy d' Albe doibt par main furieuse Lors vexer Rome principaux seduire English When the seditious fury of the Souldiers Against their Chief shall make the Iron shine by night The enemy d'Albe shall by a furious hand Then vex Rome and seduce the principal one ANNOT. The Lord de Thou doth judiciously observe that the Pope being unacquainted with things belonging to War as to Money Victuals and Ammunition was easily persuaded by Cardinal caraffa to make war against Spain for without being provided oâ— all these things he put his Armies into the Field nec satis perpendens quám a pecuniâ milite ac caeteris rebus ad bellum necessariis imparatus intempestive arma sumeret In the 15. Book of his History the Duke of Urbin had commission to raise 6000 Foot and 300. Horses in the Dukedom of Spoleto and in Mark of Ancona John Caraffe the Popes Nephew was made General of the Army and being but Earl of Mortor was Created Duke of Palliano by the confiscation of the goods of Mark Anâ—ony Colonna Camillo Ursini was made General of the Forces in Rome and in the Territory thereof Blasius of Monluc the Mars of his time and by birth a Gascon was sent by the King to help with his advice and courage the Romans who are always fitter for the Breviary then for the Sword Besides these Forces raised within the Church Dominions Charles Caraffa gathered all the Bandittes of Naples and Florence and raised some Regiments of Switzers that came to succour the Pope With these Troops the Pope seized upon the most important places and persons belonging to the Spanish party as the Coloneses and the Vitelly These asked succours of the Emperour Charles the V. who presently commanded Ferdinand of Toledo Duke of Alba to succour them He was then tasked in the Piemont and Milanes to resist the French that were then under the conduct of the Marshal of Brissac To conclude his design the better he wrote many Letters to the Pope and the Colledge of Cardinals full of respect and submission desiring them to moderate their passion against the Spanish party but the Pope being angry by several reports answered him complaining of many things which made the Duke resolve to the war and to be there in person He took his occasion as a prudent Captain when the news was brought to him that the Popes Forces were in mutiny against their General for want of pay and made a great tumult in the night hearing that he was approaching with a great train of Artillery Bzovius saith that the Earl of Montor regarded more his profit then the Popes Interest and kept back a great part of the money that was to pay the Souldiers whence proceeded this tumult which helped much the Duke of Alva's business This is the explanation of the two first Verses of this Stanza concerning the mutiny of the Souldiers that were in the Popes service during which mutiny the enemy d' Alba did not fail to vex Rome this word the enemy d' Alba doth not signifie the enemy of the Duke of Alba as if one should say in Latine Hostis Albanus He did then vex Rome for in a short time he took Ponte Corvino Frusino Anagnia Marino Lavaci Prâ—â—neste Tivoli Ostia Neptuno Alba Vico-Varro Monte Fortino and almost all the places of the Roman Territory This did streighten Rome so much that the General Camillo ursini made several Trenches within the VValls of Rome instead of preserving the outworks as Montluâ— would have persuaded him to do the alarums were so great at Rome that Montluâ— was fain to encourage the Romans and to make a VVarlike Speech to them which is inserted in his VVorks Moreover the same Duke began to seduce the Principals of Rome by his friends that he had in it but particularly by the cheat that he put upon the Pope for his design being to prevent the French Forces and to surprize the Pope he resolved to go streight to Rome and to bring his design the better to pass he sent Pyrrbus Coffrede to the Pope to see if there was any way of agreement to the end that upon this porposition the Pope should mistrust nothing In the mean time the Duke of Alba was coming near Rome at which the Pope was so angry that he put this Embassadour in Prison where he was kept till the conclusion of the Peace in this sort were the principal men of Rome seduced having no thought of the Spaniards approaches this is the relation of the Lord de Thou Lib. 16. LXIX French La grand pitie sera sans long tarder Ceux qui donnoient seront contraints de prendre Nuds affamez de froid soif soy bander Passer les Monts en saisant grand esclandre English What a great pitty will it be t' re-long Those that did give shall be constrained to receive Naked famished with cold thirst to mutiny To go over the Mountains making great disorders ANNOT. The words of the first Verse before it be long is the Key of the Stanza because we infer from thence it was shortly to happen as in truth it did at the latter end of the year 1556. when the Duke of Guise came into Piemont to joyn with the Marshal of Brissac Then the troops of the Marshal seeing those of the Duke better paid then they were forsook the Marshal the History saith there was above 1500. of them and that the Marshal paid the Souldiers of his own money to stay them The great pitty was when he had no more to give he was compelled by the Kings order it self and against his own inclination to raise some moneys upon the Countreys Secondly to take some Towns and give the plunder to the Souldiers Thirdly to permit the Souldiers to pillage the Countrey The Author was willing to foretell this because there was never a man more strict in keeping the Martial discipline then this General was The Marshal of Brissac being thus abused some of his troops forsook him to follow the Duke of Guise being for the most part naked and starved with cold hunger and thirst which makes the Author to specifie hunger cold and thirst want having compelled them to disband they went over the Mountains not of Piemont but the Apennines of Montferrdt and whatsoever thing they found was a Fish for their Net LXX French Un Chef du Monde le grand Cheiâ—en sera Plus outre apres aime craint redoute Son bruit los les Cieux surpassera Et du seul titre Victeur fort contente English A Chief of the World the great Cheiren shall be Moreover beloved afterwards feared dreaded His same and praise shall go beyond the Heavens And shall be contented with the only title of Victor ANNOT. VVe have said already before that the Author by the word Cheyren meaneth Henry the II. his Master by transposition of Letters who as he saith was contented with
shut up in a pack Those of Toulon to the fraud shall consent ANNOT. This foretelleth a Naval victory to the French against the Turks by the means of a Granado called Anvil that shall be shut up in a Barrel by a plot to which those of Toulou shall be privy IV. French Le Duc de Langres assiegé dedans Dole Accompagné d' Authun Lionnois Geneve Auspourg ceux de la Mirandole Passer les Monts contre les Anconois English The Duke of Langres shall be besieged in Dole Being in company with those of Autun and Lion Geneva Auspourg those of Mirandola Shall go over the Mountains against those of Ancona ANNOT. Langres is a City in France whose Bishop is a Duke and a Peer of the Kingdom Dole is a City in Burgundy so is Autun and Lion Geneva is a City by Savoy Auspourg another in Germany Mirandola is a Countrey in Italy so is Ancona V. French Vin sur la Table en sera respandu Le tiers naura celle quil pretendoit Deux sois du noir de Parme descendu Perouse Pise fera ce quil cuidoit English Wine shall be spilt upon the Table By reason that a third man shall not have her whom he intended Twice the black one descended from Parma Shall do to Perusa and Pisa what be intended ANNOT. Perusa Pisa and Parma are three Cities in Italy VI. French Naples Palerme toute la Sicile Par main Barbare sera inhabitée Corsique Salerne de Sardaigne l'Isle Faim peste guerre fin de maux intemptée English Naples Palermo and all Sicily By barbarous hands shall be depopulated Corsica Salerno and the Island of Sardania In them shall be famine plague war and endless evils ANNOT. Naples is a City in Italy Palermo is a City in the Island of Sicily Corsica an Island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to the Genoese Salerno is a Town in Italy Sardinia an Island in the Mediterranean The Reader may easily make an interpretation of the rest VII French Sur le combat des grands chevaux legers On criera le grand croissant confond De nuit tuer Moutons Brebis Bergers Abysmes rouges dans le fossé profond English At the fight of the great light Horsmen They shall cry out confound the great half Moon By night they shall kill Sheep Ewes and Shepherds Red pits shall be in the deep ditch ANNOT. By the great half Moon is understood the Turk VIII French Flora fuis fuis le plus proche Romain Au Fesulan sera conflict donné Sang espandu les plus grands pris en main Temple ne Sexe ne sera pardonné English Flora fly fly from the next Roman In the Fesulan shall be the fight Blood shall be spilt the greatest shall be taken Temple nor Sex shall be spared ANNOT. Fesulan is a Countrey in Italy Flora is the Goddess of Flowers the rest is easie IX French Dame en l'absence de son grand Capitaine Sera priée d'amour du Viceroy Feinte promesse malheureuse estreine Entre les mains du grand Prince Barroy English A Lady in the absence of her great Captain Shall be intreated of love by the Viceroy Aâ—fained promise and unhappy new years gift In the hand of the great Prince of Bar. ANNOT. Bar is a principality joyning to Lorrain which Henry IV. King of France gave for a Portion to his Sister Catharine when she married the Duke of Lorrains Son The rest is plain X. French Par le grand Prince limitrophe du Mans Preux vaillant chef de grand exercite Par Mer Terre de Galois Normans Cap passer Barcelonne pillé l'Isle English The great Prince dwelling near the Mans Stout and valiant General of a great Army Of Welchmen and Normans by Sea and Land Shall pass the Cape Barcelone and plunder the Island ANNOT. Mans is a City in France chief of the Province called le Main The rest is plain XI French L'Enfant Roial contemnera la Mere Oeil pieds blessez rude inobeissant Nouvelle a Dame estrange bien amere Seront tuez des siens plus de cinq cens English The Royal Child shall despise his Mother Eye feet wounded rude disobedient News to a Lady very strange and bitter There shall be killed of hers above five hundred ANNOT. This was fulfilled about the year 1615. when Lewis XIII King of France being then about 15 years of age by the perswasion of some Grandees about him made VVar against his own Mother Mary of Medicis then Regent of the Kingdom whereupon was fought between them the Battle du pont de say where above five hundred on the Queens side were slain whereupon it was a good Jest of the Prince of Guimena who being required by the Queen Anna of Austria to lay his hand upon her side and to feel her Child now Lewis XIV stirring after he had felt now I know said he he is a true Son of Bourbon for he beginneth to kick his Mother XII French Le grand puisnay fera fin de la guerre En deux lieux assemble les excusez Cahors Moissac iront loing de la serre Rufec Lectoure les Agenois rasez English The great younger Brother shall make an end of the War It two places he shall gather the excused Cahors Moissac shall go out of his clutches Ruffec Lectoure and those of Agen shall be cut off ANNOT. Cahors Moissac Ruffec Lectonre Agen are all Cities of the Province of Guyenne in France XIII French De la Cité Marine tributaire La testâ— rase prendra la Satrapie Chasser sordide qui puis sera contraire Par quatorze and tiendra la Tyrannie English Of the City Maritine and tributary The shaven head shall take the Government He shall turn out a base man who shall be against him During fourteen years he will keep the tyranny ANNOT. This is positive concerning the Cardinal of Richelieu who made himself Governor of Havre de Grace called here the Maritine City and there kept his Treasure and tyrannised for the space of about fourteen years XIV French Faux exposer viendra Topographie Seront les Urnes des Monuments ouvertes Pulluler Sectes sainte Philosophie Pour blanches noires pour antiques vertes English They shall expound Topography falsly The Urnes of the Monuments shall be open Sects shall multiply and holy Philosophy Shall give black for white and green for old ANNOT. This is a perfect description of our late miserable estate in England when there was such multiplicity of Sects and such a Prophanation of sacred things XV. French Devant Cité de l' Insubre Countrée Sept ans sera le Siege devant mis Le tres-grand Roy fera son entrée Cité puis libre hors de ses ennemis English Before a City of Piemont Seven years the Siege shall be laid The most great King shall make his entry into it Then the City shall be free being out of the enemies hand ANNOT. This needeth no
think that the Mine is all of the same perfection but it purifieth it self according as nature thrusteth it out of the Rock as we see that Rubies and Emeralds are purer then the Rock from whence they come This Gold-smith having found such fortune and being resolved to make the best use of it went to the Lord Scaravaque then Governour of the Town and imparted unto him this new discovery that he might have his afsistance and favour in it and that under his power and authority he might follow and wait upon this precious business without being disturbed by any body to which the Governour did so much the easier consent that this Tradesman did obliâ—ge himself to give him the best part of the profit that should arise from thence and that should exceed any Travels into the Indies or Peru. In the mean time the Potter was not asleep the Gold-smiths money had stirred his appetite and the charm of this witchcraft that worketh generally upon all spirits did put him upon new hopes He went into the Mountain with his wife and with the help of a rope Ladder which he had provided and some Iron tools wherewith he had loaded his Mule he went down into the Caves and with much endeavour did at last break that piece that came out of the Rock like a mans arm because all the other that were tumbled upon the ground were so big and heavy that he could not remove them when he had broken it down though it were about fourscore and two pounds weight nevertheless with the help of his wife and of his Ropes and Ladder he got out again and stopt the hole with a large stone and some Earth upon which he planted some small Bushes so ingeniously that this hole could never be found out again The Lord Scaravaque who was most imptaient to conquer like another Jason this Golden Fleece and who was set on by the persuasions of the Gold-smith sent for the Potter under pretence to employ him in the making and furnishing of some Tiles and other small commoditeis that depended on his art The Potter obeyed presently drawn by the hopes to sell his wares well and mistrusting nothing at all what they would ask him As soon as he came the Governour asked him and perswaded him with the best and most flattering words he could to tell where he had the yellow stone that he sold to the Gold smith The Potter who more and more began to know the value of this rare Treasure invented presently a lie to free himself of the importunity of them that would have deceived him therefore with an ingenuity as simple as artificial he answered he had found it upon the brim of the Sea where may be some Ship had been cast away or the Waves had cast it upon the shore The Governour answered that this could not be and therefore threatned him of violence and to send for all that he had in his House which put the fellow into a great perplexity because of the other stone that should be found there therefore he chose rather to give it them out of his good will then to put himself in danger of loosing all and perchance of being abused to boot without any more ado he ingenuously confessed he had another piece of the same stuff as the former in his House which he had likewise found in the same place which he was ready to put into their hands provided he might have his share of it and be suffered to get his livelihood peaceably The Lord Scaravaque did promise him all what he desired and gave him some men to keep him company with command to bring him back again and to take special care he should not make an escape At last this poor man came back again with that piece which did more inflame the passion that the Governour had to know the place whence came that rich treasure but neither for prayers promises or threats he would never reveal it which did oblige the Governour to shut him up close in a Chamber where nevertheless they gave him Victuals and made ready a Bed but he refused both and by an extraordinary sadness gave shew that some notorious mischance was waiting on him which proved true for he was found dead in the Morning which did put the Lord Scaravaque in a grief unexpressible to see himself deprived by this accident of the fruit that his hopes had made him conceive He had recourse to the Potters wise for this discovery but she could never attain to it whatsoever exact searches she could make yea and after she was married again with a young man who had spent in that search most of his time The Lord Scaravaque and other persons of quality have employed all their skills and endeavours but all their industry and charges have been without effect as well as of many others who attempted the same about that time my Father who was overseer of the Mines in Provence having received the news of a business of such consequence that did concern his place went presently unto that Mountain to see if he could discover those wonders I was then in his company as also that woman viz. the Potters wife who carried us in several places for many days without any success at all although she gave notiâ—e that she could here the Waves of the Sea when she was in the Cave with her first Husband so that all our endeavours proved fruitless and unprofitable because my Father fell sick which made us forsake our quest which is of such a consequence as not to be neglected During the time of our painful visiting that Mountain I did consider the particularities of that rich Mountain and observed that the top of it was almost all Azâ—r which tokens are the beams of that golden Sun and are the hairs of that fair goodness under whose feet all things submit in a word are the true and infallible signs that underneath are Mines of Gold and Silver And as I have directed all my thoughts many times to find out the means to compass so excellent a work whose profit would surpass all what the Indies furnish unto strangers and that with so much less charges and danger that there is no need of Ships or Fleet to cross over the Sea from one Pole to the other nor fight against any enemies at last I have attained to a certain knowledge which putteth me in hope and makes me promise and engage my word that at least I shall find a thred of that golden Mine which may chance to lead us to the Centre of all these Treasures but the Royal Authority being necessary to prop up this design it belongeth to his Majesty to take what course he thinketh best for this and to me to obey execute his will This digression which is an assured experiment that is a certain truth is not come into this discourse but only to prove that Mines grow by augmentation in converting into their own
City of Italy whereby the Fields shall be drowned and fall to decay insomuch that the chief men called here Primate shall fall to poverty LXXI French La Terre l'Air geleront si grand eau Lors qu'on viendra pour Jendy venerer Ce qui sera jamais ne fut si beau Des quattre parts le viendront honorer English The Earth and the Air shall freeze with so much water When they shall come to worship Thursday That which shall be never was so fair From the four parts they shall come to honour him ANNOT. This signifieth an exceeding great frost which shall happen on a Holy Thursday where the ground and sky shall be so clear that men may come from the four parts viz. of the Earth without trouble for to worship LXXII French L'an mil neuf cent nonante neuf sept mois Du Ciel viendra un grand Roy d'effrayeur Resusciter le grand Roy d' Angoumois Avant apres Mars Regner par bonheur English In the year a thousand nine hundred ninety nine and seven months Frem Heaven a great terrible King To raise again the great King of Angoulesme Before and after Mars shall Reign luckily ANNOT. He that is called here King of Angoulesme was Francis the I. as gallant a Prince as ever France had who before he was King went by the title of Duke of Angoulesme the rest is easie LXXIII French Le temps present avecque le passé Sera jugé par grand Jomaliste Le Monde tard de luy sera lassé Et desloial par le Clergé juriste English The time present together with the past Shall be judged by a great Jovialiste The World shall at last be weary of him And he shall be thought unfaithful by the Canon-Law Clergy ANNOT. This Prophecy concerneth meerly Francis Rabelais who was the greatest Jovialist that is Merry-man that ever was and did so lash and censure the abuses of every profession and chiefly of the Clergy that to this very day he goeth among them for an Atheist and a Prophaner of Sacred and Civil things LXXIV French An revolu du grand nombre septiesme Apparoistra au temps jeux d' Hecatombe Non esloignez du grand age milliesme Que les entrez sortiront de leur Tombe English The year of the great number seven being past Shall be seen at that time the sports of Hecatombe Not far from the great age thousand That the Buried shall come out of their Graves ANNOT. Hecatombe signifieth a Sacrifice wherein a hundred beasts were killed The sense therefore is this that when the year a thousand seven hundred is past that such sport of Hecatombe shall be seen again not far from the sixth Millenary when the day shall rise for it is a common opinion among the Learned that as God Created the VVorld in six days and rested the seventh so when the VVorld hath lasted six thousand years for a thousand years before God are as one day there shall be an Eternal Sabbath and a Resurrection both of the just and unjust LXXV French Tant attendu ne reviendra jamais Dedans l' Europe en Asia apparoistra Un de la ligne yssu du grand Hermes Et sur tous Rois de Orient croistra English So long expected shall never come Into Europe in Asia shall appear One come forth of the line of the great Hermes And shall grow above all the Kings in the East ANNOT. All is plain but only this whether he taketh Hermes as a King of Aegypt or as the Father of the Hermetick Philosophers LXXVI French Le grand Senat decernera la Pompe A un qu'apres sera vaincu chassè Des adhaerans seront a son de trompe Biens publiez ennemy dechassé English The great Senate will decree a Pomp To one who after shall be vanquished and expelled The goods of his partners shall be Publickly sold and the enemy shall be driven away ANNOT. What Senate and particular man he meaneth is the only difficulty in this LXXVII French Trente adhaerans de l'Ordre des Quirettes Bannis leurs biens donnez ses adversaires Tous leurs bienfaits seront pour demerites Classe espargie delivrez aux corsaires English Thirty associated of the Order of Quirettes Banished their goods shall be given to their adversaries All their good deeds shall be imputed to them as crimes The Fleet scattered they shall fall into the hands of Pyrates ANNOT. I could not find any man or Author that knew what is meant here by Quirettes which is only the difficulty of this Stanza LXXVIII French Subite joye en subite tristessé Sera a Rome aux graces embrassées Dueil cris pleurs larm sang excellent liesse Contraires bandes surprises troulsées English Sudden joy shall turn into a sudden sadness At Rome to the embraced graces Mourning cries weeping tears blood excellent joy Contrary Troops surprized and carryed away ANNOT. There is nothing difficult here but what he meaneth by Embraced graces for my part I believe them some new married Couples who in the middle of their jollity shall fall into these disasters LXXIX French Les vieux chemins seront tous embellis L'on passera a Memphis somentrées Le grand Mercure d' Hercule fleur de lys Faisant trembler Terre Mer Contrées English The old ways shall be made all fair There shall be a passage to Memphis Somentrées The great Mercury of Hercules Flower de luce Making the Earth the Sea and the Countreys to quake ANNOT. This word Somentress being altogether barbarous is the reason that neither sense nor construction can be made of all these words LXXX French Au Regne grand du grand Regne Regnant Par force d'armes les grands Portes d'airain Fera ouvrir le Roy Duc joignant Port demoly nef a fonds jour serain English In the great Reign of the great Reign Reigning By force of Arms the great Brass Gates He shall cause to be open the King being joyned with the Duke Haven demolish'd Ship sunk on a fair day ANNOT. The words and the sense are plain though the parties be unknown LXXXI French Mis Tresor Temple Citadins Hesperiques Dans iceluy retire en secret lieu Le Temple ouvrir les liens fameliques Repris ravis proye horrible au milieu English A Treasure put in a Temple by Hesperian Citizens In the same hid in a secret place The hungry bonds shall cause the Temple to be open And take again and ravish a fearful prey in the middle ANNOT. This is concerning a Treasure hid by Spaniards called here Hesperian Citizens in a Church which the people of a Town being poor and almost starved caused to be open and did ransack it but in the middle of it they found a strange prey but what it was God knows LXXXII French Cris pleurs larmes viendront avec couteaux Semblant faux donront dernier assaut L'entour parques planter profons plateaux Vifs repoussez meurdris
killed The Order is such at Geneva that in all extraordinary accidents every Citizen knoweth the place of his Randezvous and there goeth with his Arms and the Town House is never destitute of Souldiers In the mean time the Magistrate cryeth He that loveth me let him follow me Some Countrey Fellows of the Neighbouring Towns who kept their Watch by turns being led by some Captains and Citizens did present themselves at the New Gate where they were stoutly received and beaten back and yet the first shot of theirs killed the Petard-Master who was much troubled with his Tools This first Charge would not have driven them back if the body of the Citizens had not come and Charged them so furiously that they lost all their Courage Necessity which strengthens even those that want Courage did so animate the Citizens to their defence that the undertakers were fained to give back The more nimble went again to their Ladders which proved useless because the Canon that was Planted in the Fort of Loye near the Ditch had broken them so that they left four and fifty dead upon the place and upon the Curtain of the Corraterie and thirteen that were taken alive If the Town had had Souldiers in readiness to make a Sally in that Andâ—bâ—tism the night being sometimes favourable to such expeditions those that were at Plain Palais would not have retreated in so good an Order There were thirteen taken alive among whom were the Baron of Attignac the Lord Sonas the Lord Chaffardon upon promise of their Lives and to be Prisoners of War or else they had preserved an Honourable death to all the promises to be spared in laying down their Arms among them was d'Attignac who fought valiantly and gave his Order of St. Maurice to his man bidding him save himself being resolved to die with his Sword in his hand The Lords of Geneva would not use them as Prisoners of War but as Thieves and Robbers come into the City over the Walls They said that the Duke was too generous a Prince for so wicked and perfidious an action there was several Opinions concerning their Sentence of Death the more moderate would have them be put to Ransom others would have them be kept Prisoners that they might serve for exchange if some of the Town were taken in the continuation of the War but the more violent did stir the people in representing unto them the loss of their Religion the ravishing of their Wives and Maids the Massacre the Sack and Plunder of the Town and their perpetual slavery and the complaints of the Widows and Children of those that had been killed were so much considered that the more moderate Opinions did not appear injust but in how much they tended to Death They were Condemned to be Hanged which is thought the most Ignominious Death they desired to have their Heads cut off as Gentlemen which was granted but it was after they were Hanged Fifty nine were found killed and wounded who had all their Heads cut off In the Ditch there were some Arms found thirty dead and four wounded all their Heads were cut off and set with the rest upon the Gallows Of the Citizens of the Town there were seventeen found dead most of them killed by their Companions in the dark Their Names were John Canal one of the Lords of the Councel Lewis Baudiere John Vandel Lewis Galatin Peter Cabriol Mark Cambiagua Nicolas Baâ—gueret James Mercier Abraham de Baptista Daniel Humbert Martin de Bolo Michael Monard Philip Potier Francis Bouzesel John Buignet James Petit Gerrard Muzy and about twenty wounded The Sunday after Dinner about two of the Clock 67 Heads as well of those that were killed as of those that were Hanged were fastened upon the Gallows and the Bodies thrown into the Rhosne The next Tuesday there was a solemn Fasting day kept and they began to publish every where the wonders of this Deliverance Here followeth the Copy of their Letter to the Governour of Lion My Lord You have known before this by many of your Letters how his Highness of Savoy notwithstanding he knew and had confessed that we were included in the Peace made in the year 1600 between his Royal Majesty of France and him hath neverthless divers times oppressed us by detaining our Rents prohibiting of Trade other violences and extorsions refusing to hearken to the just and pressing remanstrances which his Majesty hath made him several times in our behalf but hath also contrived many defigns to surprise us in time of Peace Now it is so that for the encompasing his pernicious design the Lord d'Albigny Saturday last the Eleventh of this Month did bring before our Town on the side of Plain Palais about two Thousand men Horse and Foot all choice men and hath caused to pass about 200. of them over our Ditch by the Corraterie and having set up Ladders one within another hatb caused them to come into our Town about three of the Clock in the Morning upon Sunday the Twelfth of this Month encouraging them himself bâ—ing in the Ditch so that being come down into the Town some went towards our New Gate to force it open and give entrance to their Companions who were in the â—lain of Plain Palais others went towards the Mint Gate that they might by this means come into the middle of the Town But iâ— hath pleased God to look upon us with his favourable Eye and to give such a Heart to the Citizens that they beat them back and killed the best part of them taken upon the place the rest hath been taken and since that Hanged by our Order the rest threw themselves down from the wall so that we hear many of them are either dead or grievously wounded It is a wonderfull deliverance of our God for which we are particularly bound to Praise him But as it is probable that the said Lord d'Albigny will continue his ill designs by so much the more that we hear his Highness is not far from us we do intreat and request by all our affection that you would be pleased to consider what prejudice the taking of this place would be to his Majesty and to continue us your favour and assist us with our wise and prudent advise c. Many did judge of the success of this enterprise by the beginning and were more forward to write than to perform well The King had notice that the Duke was Master of the Town and the manner of doing was represented with so much felicity and facility that there was less reason to doubt of it than believe it The Truth was not known but by the advise of the Governour of Lion which came before any discourse that the Town did publish after its deliverance The Duke went Post back again over the Mountains and left his Troops within three miles of Geneva in three places at Tournon Fossigny and Ternier he caused his Embassadours to say to the Lords of Beâ—ne that he
beseeching the King to do him justice of those who went about to oppress him with unsufferable calumnies or to permit him to do himself reason The King carried him to the Tennis-court where the Duke took upon him to order the match and said that the Duke of Espernon and himself would hold it against the King and the Earl of Soisson the Duke of Espernon answered presently you play well but you do not make your matches well which was observed by the King and the standers by Supper time being come he did sup at the Table of the great Master to repare the fault he had done in the morning Every one did perceive that he was not contented for he eat little or nothing and no body spoke to him every one holding him already for a cast-away The King in the mean while was walking in his Chamber meditating some great resolution and he was heard to say these words be must either bow or break That evening past away so quietly that many thought it would be a Thunder with much noise and little hurt The King commanded the Earl of Soissons to go to the Duke of Biron and to do his best to break the hardness of his heart and to draw the truth out of him he went and intreated him to satisfie the King in what he desired to know from him and to be afraid of the Kings displeasure and indignation The Duke of Biron for answer told him that the King could not complain but of the good services he had done to him and that he himself had great occasion to complain of the King who mistrusted him after so many trials and experiments of his faithfulness and that he should never have more of him then he had at his first coming the Earl of Soissons seeing his obstinacy left him The next day early the King walking in the little Garden sent for the Duke of Biron and spoke to him a great while thinking to overcome his obstinacy and to give him means to escape the danger he was running into he was seen a great while with his Hat off his eyes lifted up to Heaven smiting his breast and making great protestations to uphold his innocency there appeared then in the Kings face a great deal of anger and in that of the Duke of Biron a great deal of fire and violence all his words were nothing but threatnings lightnings ruines and Hell against those that had spoken ill of him from thence he went to dinner and met with a man who brought him a Letter to advise him to look to himself he shewed it to the Captain of his Guards and made slight of it and said he would be beholding to his valour for his life and not to a flight all the afternoon the King stayed in the Gallery and spoke four hours to the Lord of la Curée the Queen being present and speaking never a word the King was in a great perplexity of mind before he could resolve himself The Lords of Vileroy Sillery and Geure were seen often to go to and fro which made some suspect that it was to begin by the execution in so great a crime but the King was against that such proceedings had been blamed in his Predecessor he would have every body to know that he had authority and power enough to exterminate his enemies according to the Laws The resolution was taken to have him arrested and also the Earl of Auvergne the King would not have them to be taken in the Castle but in their own Lodgings the Duke of Biron who was in some suspicion of it and had prepared himself to what he could neither prevent nor hinder did imagine that there was no fear of any thing in the Kings Chamber and that all the danger should be at the going out and therefore by time had provided himself with a short Sword with which he promised to make himself room through all dangers They represented to the King that if he were Arrested any where but in the Castle it could not be done without bloodshed and that it was no matter where the Lyon was taken so that profit might arise of his prize It was perceived that in the same Gallery the King sent for Vitry and Pralin two Captains of his Guards and gave them the order he would have to be observed for the execution of his commands and then called for his Supper The Duke of Biron was at supper in the Lord Montignys Lodging where he spoke more highly and bravely then ever of his Deserts and of the friends he had made lately in Switzerland then began to fall upon the praises of the late King of Spain extolling his Piety Justice and liberality Montigny stopt him saying that the greatest commendation that could be given to his memory was that he had put his own Son to death for endeavouring to trouble his Estate this word stopt those of the Duke of Biron who answered only with his eyes and thought upon it with some amazement After supper the Earl of Auvergne and the Duke of Biron came to the King who was walking in the Garden the King making an end of his walk did invite the Duke of Biron to play at Cards they went into the Queens Chambâ—r the Earl of Auvergne passing by the Duke of Biron told him softly we are undone the Game begun at the primara the Queen was one of the Gamsters the Duke of Biron another and two more The King went into his Closet divided between two contrary passions the love he had formerly for the Duke of Biron the knowledge he had of his valour and the remembrance of his services excluded all thoughts of his Justice on the other side the fear of troubles in his Estate the horâ—id effects of so unnatural a conspiracy did accuse his Clemency of cruelty if he went about to prefer the particular good to the publick he prayed to God to assist him with his Holy Spirit to appease the troubles of his soul and to strengthten him with a Holy resolution that he might do what was for the good of his people upon whom he Reigned by his only Grace his prayer being ended all the difficulties that troubled his soul vanished away there remained only a firm resolution to put the Duke into the hands of Justice if he could not draw the truth out of him the Game went on still the King took sometimes the Queens Cards expecting the appointed time The Earl of Auvergne was gone to his Lodging the King sent for him and walked in the Chamber while the Duke thought upon nothing but his play De Varennes Lieutenant of his Troop faining to take up his Cloak whispered him softly that he was undone this word did trouble him so much that he neglected his play and oversaw himself the Queen gave him notice of it the King did bid them to give over playing and commanded every one to retire he went into his Closet and took the Duke of Biron
a little lower on the right hand a Bench covered with Carpets for the Prelates to sit among which were three Archbishops nine Bishops and three Abbots on the left hand were the Lords of the Councel and before the Altar was the Cardinal of Gondy encompassed with Almoners and Chaplains and a great multitude of Spectators seated upon Benches in form of a Theatre round about the Theatre were the guard of Switzers having every one a Torch in his hand The Dolphin and his Sisters were in their Chambers upon Beds of State with their Robes lined with Hermines and were brought to the quadrangle the waiting Gentlemen going before with Torches in their hands with the Bed Chamber men and Gentlemen of the Chamber five Drums Waits and Trumpeters Heralds and the Knights of the Holy Ghost with the three Honours in the first for the youngest Daughter the Ewer the Bason the Pillow the Wax Taper the Chrisme the Saltseller were carryed by the Baron Son to Marshal de la Chastre by the Lords Montigny la Rochepot Chemerand Liencourt Fervacques and the Lady was carryed by the Marshal of Bois Dauphin followed by Charles Duke of Lorrain Godfather and of Don Juan de Medicis Brother to the great Duke of Tuscaky representing Christian Daughter to the Duke of Lorrain and Wife of the great Duke After that followed the Dutches of Guise the Countesses of Guiche of Saulx the Marchioness Monlaur and other Ladies The Marshals of Laverdin and of la Chastre the Dukes of Silly of Monbazon of Espernon of Esguillon did the same office for the elder Lady The Lord of Ragny carryed her for Diana Dutchess of Angoulesme who did represent the Infanta Clara Eugenta Eusabella Archidutchess or Austria followed by the Dutchess of Rohan Montmorency Mayenne The third Honour for the Dolphin was carried by the Earl of Vaudemont the Knight of Vendosme his elder Brother the Duke of Mensier the Earl of Soissons and the Prince of County all three Princes of the Blood and the Dolphin was carryed by the Lord Souvray his Governour in the room of the Prince of Condé first Prince of the Blood who because of his sickness could do him no other service then to hold him by the hand The Duke of Guise carryed his Train and the Cardinal of Joyouse followed him representing the Pope Paul the V. then followed Eleonor Wife to Vincent Duke of Mantua and the Princess of the Blood all richly attired The Dolphin being brought upon the Table of the quadrangle the Cardinal of Gondy appointed for this Ceremony came near him and having heard him answer pertinently to the questions asked by the Almoner according to the usual forms and to say the Lords Prayer and the Creed in Latine he was exercised appointed and by the Cardinal of Joyouse Legat named Lewis The Ladies were afterwards brought upon the Table and the eldest named Elizabeth by the Dutchess of Angoulesme representing the Archidutchess her Godmother without any Godfather The youngest was named by Don Juan of Medicis representing the great Dutchess Christierne At Supper the King was waited upon by the Princess of his Blood the Prince of Condé served for Pantler the Prince of Compty for Cupbearer the Duke of Monpenfier for Squire Carver the Earl of Soissons for high Steward the Duke of Guise and the Earl of Vaudemont waited upon the Queen and the Duke of Sully waited upon the Legat. The Godfathers sat and after them the Princesses Ladies and Lords of high quality at the great Ball the Duke of Lorrain did precede by the Kings order for the only consideration that he was Godfather The next day there was a runing at the Ring and at night the Duke of Sully caused an artificial Castle to be assaulted with an innumerable quantity of Squibs Chambers Canon shots and other Fire Works but never any thing was seen more incredible or wonderful then the beauty ornament and lustre of the Princesses and Ladies of the Court The Eyes could not stedfastly behold the splendor of the Gold nor the brightness of the Silver nor the glittering of Jewels the Princes and Lords did out vie one another who should be most richly attired among the rest the Duke of Espernon had a Sword valued at 30000. Crowns and upon the Queens Gown were 32000. Pearls and 3000. Diamonds XVII French Au mesme temps un grand endurera Joyeux malsain l'an complet ne verra Et quelques uns qui seront de la feste Feste pour un seulement a ce jour Mais peuapres sans faire long sejour Deux se donront l'un l'autre de la teste English At the same time a great one shall suffer Joyful sickly shall not see the year compleat And some others who shall be of the feast A â—east for one only at that day But a little while after without long delay Two shall knock one another in the head ANNOT. This Stanza hath relation to the precedent for about the time of or a little before that famous Christning died Pope Leo the IX formerly called Cardinal of Florence who did not live a whole year in the Papacy and is called here Joyful Sickly because though infirm he did much rejoyce in the obtaining of it those others that were of the Feast were some Cardinals of his party who died also within the same year The two last Verses signifie the differences that happened between Paul V. his Successor and the Common-wealth of Venice presently after his death XVIII French Considerant la triste Philomele Qu'en pleurs cris sa plainte renouvelle Racourcissant par tel moyen ses jours Six cens cinq elle en verra l'yssue De son tourment ia la toile tissüe Por son moien senestre aura secours English Considering the sad Philomela Who in tears and cries reneweth her complaint Shortning by such means her days Six hundred and five shall see the end Of her torment then the Cloath Woven By her finister means shall have help ANNOT. This sad Philomela was Henrietta of Balzac Daughter to Francis of Balzac Marquess of Entragues and Mistress to Henry the IV. who being found guilty of a Conspiracy against the State was confined to the Abbey of the Nuns of Beaumont lez Tours where she was seven Months after which the King taking pitty of her passed a Declaration wherein in respect of his former Love and of the Children that he had by her he forgave her all what was past did abolish and suppress for ever the Memory of the Crime that she was accused off and did dispense her from appearing before the Parliament who in her absence did Register her Letters of Pardon the 6. of September 1605. Thus Reader you may see how punctual was our Author in his Prognostications XIX French Six cens cinq six cens six sept Nous monstrera jusques l'an dixsept Du boutefeu l'Ire haine envie Soubs l'Olivier d'assez long temps caché Le Crocodil