Century I

Century I is the first Centurie by Nostradamus, first printed on May 4, 1555 in Lyons by Macé Bonhomme. This first edition contained the Preface to his on César and 353 quatrains. A reprint was done by Bareste in 1840, unfortunately the original was lost.
==Century I==
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:Sitting alone at night in secret study;
:it is placed on the brass tripod.
:A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and
:makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.
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:The wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripod's legs.
:With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot.
:A voice, fear: he trembles in his robes.
:Divine splendor; the God sits nearby.
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:When the litters are overturned by the whirlwind
:and faces are covered by cloaks,
:the new republic will be troubled by its people.
:At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.
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:In the world there will be made a king
:who will have little peace and a short life.
:At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,
:governed to its greatest detriment.
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:They will be driven away for a long drawn out fight.
:The countryside will be most grievously troubled.
:Town and country will have greater struggle.
:Carcassonne and Narbonne will have their hearts tried.
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:The eye of Ravenna will be forsaken,
:when his wings will fail at his feet.
:The two of Bresse will have made a constitution
:for Turin and Vercelli, which the French will trample underfoot
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:Arrived too late, the act has been done.
:The wind was against them, letters intercepted on their way.
:The conspirators were fourteen of a party.
:By Rousseau shall these enterprises be undertaken.
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:How often will you be captured, O city of the sun ?
:Changing laws that are barbaric and vain.
:Bad times approach you. No longer will you be enslaved.
:Great Hadrie will revive your veins.
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:From the Orient will come the African heart
:to trouble Hadrie and the heirs of Romulus.
:Accompanied by the Libyan fleet
:the temples of Malta and nearby islands shall be deserted.
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:A coffin is put into the vault of iron,
:where seven children of the king are held.
:The ancestors and forebears will come forth from the depths of hell,
:lamenting to see thus dead the fruit of their line.
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:The motion of senses, heart, feet and hands
:will be in agreement between Naples, Lyon and Sicily.
:Swords fire, floods, then the noble Romans drowned,
:killed or dead because of a weak brain.
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:There will soon be talk of a treacherous man, who rules a short time,
:quickly raised from low to high estate.
:He will suddenly turn disloyal and volatile.
:This man will govern Verona.
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:Through anger and internal hatreds, the exiles
:will hatch a great plot against the king.
:Secretly they will place enemies as a threat,
:and his own old (adherents) will find sedition against them.
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:From the enslaved populace, songs, chants and demands,
:while Princes and Lords are held captive in prisons.
:These will in the future by headless idiots
:be received as divine prayers.
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:Mars threatens us with the force of war
:and will cause blood to be spilt seventy times.
:The clergy will be both exalted and reviled moreover,
:by those who wish to learn nothing of them.
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:A scythe joined with a pond in Sagittarius
:at its highest ascendant.
:Plague, famine, death from military hands;
:the century approaches its renewal.
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:For forty years the rainbow will not be seen.
:For forty years it will be seen every day.
:The dry earth will grow more parched,
:and there will be great floods when it is seen.
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:Because of French discord and negligence
:an opening shall be given to the Mohammedans.
:The land and sea of Siena will be soaked in blood,
:and the port of Marseilles covered with ships and sails.
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:When the snakes surround the altar,
:and the Trojan blood is troubled by the Spanish.
:Because of them, a great number will be lessened.
:The leader flees, hidden in the swampy marshes.
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:The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes
:are troubled by sudden change.
:Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;
:rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.
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:The rock holds in its depths white clay
:which will come out milk-white from a cleft
:Needlessly troubled people will not dare touch it,
:unaware that the foundation of the earth is of clay.
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:A thing existing without any senses
:will cause its own end to happen through artifice.
:At Autun, Chalan, Langres and the two Sens
:there will be great damage from hail and ice.
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:In the third month, at sunrise,
:the Boar and the Leopard meet on the battlefield.
:The fatigued Leopard looks up to heaven
:and sees an eagle playing around the sun.
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:At the New City he is thoughtful to condemn;
:the bird of prey offers himself to the Gods.
:After victory he pardons his captives.
:At Cremona and Mantua great hardships will be suffered.
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:The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries.
:Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure.
:This is when the moon completes her great cycle,
:but by other rumors he shall be dishonored.
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:The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt.
:An evil deed, foretold by the bearer of a petition.
:According to the prediction another falls at night time.
:Conflict at Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.
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:Beneath the oak tree of Gienne, struck by lightning,
:the treasure is hidden not far from there.
:That which for many centuries had been gathered,
:when found, a man will die, his eye pierced by a spring.
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:Tobruk will fear the barbarian fleet for a time,
:then much later the Western fleet.
:Cattle, people, possessions, all will be quite lost.
:What a deadly combat in Taurus and Libra.
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:When the fish that travels over both land and sea
:is cast up on to the shore by a great wave,
:its shape foreign, smooth and frightful.
:From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.
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:Because of the storm at sea the foreign ship
:will approach an unknown port.
:Notwithstanding the signs of the palm branches,
:afterwards there is death and pillage. Good advice comes too late.
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:The wars in France will last for so many years
:beyond the reign of the Castulon kings.
:An uncertain victory will crown three great ones,
:the Eagle, the Cock, the Moon, the Lion, the Sun in its house.
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:The great Empire will soon be exchanged
:for a small place, which soon will begin to grow.
:A small place of tiny area
:in the middle of which he will come to lay down his scepter.
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:Near a great bridge near a spacious plain
:the great lion with the Imperial forces
:will cause a falling outside the austere city.
:Through fear the gates will be unlocked for him.
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:The bird of prey flying to the left,
:before battle is joined with the French, he makes preparations.
:Some will regard him as good, others bad or uncertain.
:The weaker party will regard him as a good omen.
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:The young lion will overcome the older one,
:in a field of combat in single fight:
:He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage;
:two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.
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:Too late the king will repent
:that he did not put his adversary to death.
:But he will soon come to agree to far greater things
:which will cause all his line to die.
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:Shortly before sun set, battle is engaged.
:A great nation is uncertain.
:Overcome, the sea port makes no answer,
:the bridge and the grave both in foreign places.
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:The Sun and the Eagle will appear to the victor.
:An empty answer assured to the defeated.
:Neither bugle nor shouts will stop the soldiers.
:Liberty and peace, if achieved in time through death.
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:At night the last one will be strangled in his bed
:because he became too involved with the blond heir elect.
:The Empire is enslaved and three men substituted.
:He is put to death with neither letter nor packet read.
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:The false trumpet concealing madness
:will cause Byzantium to change its laws.
:From Egypt there will go forth a man who wants
:the edict withdrawn, changing money and standards.
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:The city is besieged and assaulted by night;
:few have escaped; a battle not far from the sea.
:A woman faints with joy at the return of her son,
:poison in the folds of the hidden letters.
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:The tenth day of the April Calends, calculated in Gothic fashion
:is revived again by wicked people.
:The fire is put out and the diabolic gathering
:seek the bones of the demon of Psellus.
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:Before the Empire changes
:a very wonderful event will take place.
:The field moved, the pillar of porphyry
:put in place, changed on the gnarled rock.
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:In a short time sacrifices will be resumed,
:those opposed will be put (to death) like martyrs.
:The will no longer be monks, abbots or novices.
:Honey shall be far more expensive than wax.
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:A founder of sects, much trouble for the accuser:
:A beast in the theater prepares the scene and plot.
:The author ennobled by acts of older times;
:the world is confused by schismatic sects.
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:Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande
:a great fire will fall from the sky for three nights.
:The cause will appear both stupefying and marvelous;
:shortly afterwards there will be an earthquake.
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:The speeches of Lake Leman will become angered,
:the days will drag out into weeks,
:then months, then years, then all will fail.
:The authorities will condemn their useless powers.
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:When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed
:another will take up his reign for seven thousand years.
:When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle
:then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
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:Long before these happenings
:the people of the East, influenced by the Moon,
:in the year 1700 will cause many to be carried away,
:and will almost subdue the Northern area.
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:From the three water signs will be born a man
:who will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.
:His renown, praise, rule and power will grow
:on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.
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:The head of Aries, Jupiter and Saturn.
:Eternal God, what changes !
:Then the bad times will return again after a long century;
:what turmoil in France and Italy.
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:Two evil influences in conjunction in Scorpio.
:The great lord is murdered in his room.
:A newly appointed king persecutes the Church,
:the lower (parts of) Europe and in the North.
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:Alas, how we will see a great nation sorely troubled
:and the holy law in utter ruin.
:Christianity (governed) throughout by other laws,
:when a new source of gold and silver is discovered.
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:Two revolutions will be caused by the evil scythe bearer
:making a change of reign and centuries.
:The mobile sign thus moves into its house:
:Equal in favor to both sides.
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:In the land with a climate opposite to Babylon
:there will be great shedding of blood.
:Heaven will seem unjust both on land and sea and in the air.
:Sects, famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.
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:Sooner and later you will see great changes made,
:dreadful horrors and vengeances.
:For as the moon is thus led by its angel
:the heavens draw near to the Balance.
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:The trumpet shakes with great discord.
:An agreement broken: lifting the face to heaven:
:the bloody mouth will swim with blood;
:the face anointed with milk and honey lies on the ground.
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:Through a slit in the belly a creature will be born with two heads
:and four arms: it will survive for some few years.
:The day that Alquiloie celebrates his festivals
:Fossana, Turin and the ruler of Ferrara will follow.
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:The exiles deported to the islands
:at the advent of an even more cruel king
:will be murdered. Two will be burnt
:who were not sparing in their speech.
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:An Emperor will be born near Italy,
:who will cost the Empire very dearly.
:They will say, when they see his allies,
:that he is less a prince than a butcher.
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:The wretched, unfortunate republic
:will again be ruined by a new authority.
:The great amount of ill will accumulated in exile
:will make the Swiss break their important agreement.
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:Alas! what a great loss there will be to learning
:before the cycle of the Moon is completed.
:Fire, great floods, by more ignorant rulers;
:how long the centuries until it is seen to be restored.
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:Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
:for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully.
:People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:
:then wars will start up again.
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:At night they will think they have seen the sun,
:when the see the half pig man:
:Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies.
:The brute beasts will be heard to speak.
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:A child without hands, never so great a thunderbolt seen,
:the royal child wounded at a game of tennis.
:At the well lightning strikes, joining together
:three trussed up in the middle under the oaks.
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:He who then carries the news,
:after a short while will (stop) to breathe:
:Viviers, Tournon, Montferrand and Praddelles;
:hail and storms will make them grieve.
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:The great famine which I sense approaching
:will often turn (in various areas) then become worldwide.
:It will be so vast and long lasting that (they) will grab
:roots from the trees and children from the breast.
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:O to what a dreadful and wretched torment
:are three innocent people going to be delivered.
:Poison suggested, badly guarded, betrayal.
:Delivered up to horror by drunken executioners.
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:The great mountain, seven stadia round,
:after peace, war, famine, flooding.
:It will spread far, drowning great countries,
:even antiquities and their mighty foundations.
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:Rain, famine and war will not cease in Persia;
:too great a faith will betray the monarch.
:Those (actions) started in France will end there,
:a secret sign for on to be sparing.
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:The marine tower will be captured and retaken three times
:by Spaniards, Barbarians and Ligurians.
:Marseilles and Aix, Ales by men of Pisa,
:devastation, fire, sword, pillage at Avignon by the Turinese.
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:The inhabitants of Marseilles completely changed,
:fleeing and pursued as far as Lyons.
:Narbonne, Toulouse angered by Bordeaux;
:the killed and captive are almost one million.
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:France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners.
:Tunis, Algiers stirred up by the Persians.
:Leon, Seville and Barcelona having failed,
:they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians.
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:After a rest they will travel to Epirus,
:great help coming from around Antioch.
:The curly haired king will strive greatly for the Empire,
:the brazen beard will be roasted on a spit.
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:The tyrant of Siena will occupy Savona,
:having won the fort he will restrain the marine fleet.
:Two armies under the standard of Ancona:
:the leader will examine them in fear.
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:The man will be called by a barbaric name
:that three sisters will receive from destiny.
:He will speak then to a great people in words and deeds,
:more than any other man will have fame and renown.
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:A promontory stands between two seas:
:A man who will die later by the bit of a horse;
:Neptune unfurls a black sail for his man;
:the fleet near Gibraltar and Rocheval.
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:To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
:weak both in knowledge and in war.
:The leader of France is feared by his sister,
:battlefields divided, conceded to the soldiers.
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:Bazas, Lectoure, Condom, Auch and Agen
:are troubled by laws, disputes and monopolies.
:Carcassone, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Bayonne will be ruined
:when they wish to renew the massacre.
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:From the sixth bright celestial light
:it will come to thunder very strongly in Burgundy.
:Then a monster will be born of a very hideous beast:
:In March, April, May and June great wounding and worrying.
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:Nine will be set apart from the human flock,
:separated from judgment and advise.
:Their fate is to be divided as they depart.
:K. Th. L. dead, banished and scattered.
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:When the great wooden columns tremble
:in the south wind, covered with blood.
:Such a great assembly then pours forth
:that Vienna and the land of Austria will tremble.
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:The alien nation will divide the spoils.
:Saturn in dreadful aspect in Mars.
:Dreadful and foreign to the Tuscans and Latins,
:Greeks who will wish to strike.
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:The moon is obscured in deep gloom,
:his brother becomes bright red in color.
:The great one hidden for a long time in the shadows
:will hold the blade in the bloody wound.
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:The king is troubled by the queen's reply.
:Ambassadors will fear for their lives.
:The greater of his brothers will doubly disguise his action,
:two of them will die through anger, hatred and envy.
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:When the great queen sees herself conquered,
:she will show an excess of masculine courage.
:Naked, on horseback, she will pass over the river
:pursued by the sword: she will have outraged her faith
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:Earthshaking fire from the center of the earth
:will cause tremors around the New City.
:Two great rocks will war for a long time,
:then Arethusa will redden a new river.
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:The divine wrath overtakes the great Prince,
:a short while before he will marry.
:Both supporters and credit will suddenly diminish.
:Counsel, he will die because of the shaven heads.
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:Those of Lerida will be in the Moselle,
:kill all those from the Loire and Seine.
:The seaside track will come near the high valley,
:when the Spanish open every route.
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:Bordeaux and Poitiers at the sound of the bell
:will go with a great fleet as fast as Langon.
:A great rage will surge up against the French,
:when a hideous monster is born near Orgon.
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:The Gods will make it appear to mankind
:that they are the authors of a great war.
:Before the sky was seen to bee free of weapons and rockets:
:the greatest damage will be inflicted on the left.
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:Under one man peace will be proclaimed everywhere,
:but not long after will be looting and rebellion.
:Because of a refusal, town, land and see will be broached.
:About a third of a million dead or captured.
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:The Italian lands near the mountains will tremble.
:The Cock and the Lion not strongly united.
:In place of fear they will help each other.
:Freedom alone moderates the French.
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:The tyrant Selim will be put to death at the harbor
:but Liberty will not be regained, however.
:A new war arises from vengeance and remorse.
:A lady is honored through force of terror.
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:In front of a monastery will be found a twin infant
:from the illustrious and ancient line of a monk.
:His fame, renown and power through sects and speech
:is such that they will say the living twin is deservedly chosen.
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:A man will be charged with the destruction
:of temples and sects, altered by fantasy.
:He will harm the rocks rather than the living,
:ears filled with ornate speeches.
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:That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish
:will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.
:Sleeping, in a dream, the king will see
:the enemy not in war or of military blood.
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:The leader who will conduct great numbers of people
:far from their skies, to foreign customs and language.
:Five thousand will die in Crete and Thessaly,
:the leader fleeing in a sea going supply ship.
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:The great king will join
:with two kings, united in friendship.
:How the great household will sigh:
:around Narbon what pity for the children.
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:For a long time a gray bird will be seen in the sky
:near Dôle and the lands of Tuscany.
:He holds a flowering branch in his beak,
:but he dies too soon and the war ends.
fr:Centurie II
Category:The Prophecies