Century VII

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Century VII, the seventh century by Nostradamus contains only 42 quatrains. The first 40 were first published in 1557, and the last 2 did not appear until 1568.
==Century VII==
;INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS
:Let those who read this verse consider it profoundly,
:Let the profane and the ignorant herd keep away:
:And far away all Astrologers, Idiots and Barbarians,
:May he who does otherwise be subject to the sacred rite.
;1
:The arc of the treasure deceived by Achilles,
:the quadrangle known to the procreators.
:The invention will be known by the Royal deed;
:a corpse seen hanging in the sight of the populace.
;2
:Opened by Mars Arles will not give war,
:the soldiers will be astonished by night.
:Black and white concealing indigo on land
:under the false shadow you will see traitors sounded.
;3
:After the naval victory of France,
:the people of Barcelona the Saillinons and those of Marseilles;
:the robber of gold, the anvil enclosed in the ball,
:the people of Ptolon will be party to the fraud.
;4
:The Duke of Langres besieged at Dôle
:accompanied by people from Autun and Lyons.
:Geneva, Augsburg allied to those of Mirandola,
:to cross the mountains against the people of Ancona.
;5
:Some of the wine on the table will be spilt,
:the third will not have that which he claimed.
:Twice descended from the black one of Parma,
:Perouse will do to Pisa that which he believed.
;6
:Naples, Palerma and all of Sicily
:will be uninhabited through Barbarian hands.
:Corsica, Salerno and the island of Sardinia,
:hunger, plague, war the end of extended evils.
;7
:Upon the struggle of the great light horses,
:it will be claimed that the great crescent is destroyed.
:To kill by night, in the mountains,
:dressed in shepherd’s' clothing, red gulfs in the deep ditch.
;8
:Florense, flee, flee the nearest Roman,
:at Fiesole will be conflict given:
:blood shed, the greatest one take by the hand,
:neither temple nor sex will be pardoned.
;9
:The lady in the absence of her great master
:will be begged for love by the Viceroy.
:Feigned promise and misfortune in love,
:in the hands of the great Prince of Bar.
;10
:By the great Prince bordering Le Mans,
:brave and valiant leader of the great army;
:by land and sea with Bretons and Normans,
:to pass Gibraltar and Barcelona to pillage the island.
;11
:eye, feet wounded rude disobedient;
:strange and very bitter news to the lady;
:more than five hundred of here people will be killed.
;12
:The great younger son will make an end of the war,
:he assembles the pardoned before the gods;
:Cahors and Moissac will go far from the prison,
:a refusal at Lectoure, the people of Agen shaved.
;13
:From the marine tributary city,
:the shaven head will take up the satrapy;
:to chase the sordid man who will the be against him.
:For fourteen years he will hold the tyranny.
;14
:He will come to expose the false topography,
:the urns of the tombs will be opened.
:Sect and holy philosophy to thrive,
:black for white and the new for the old.
;15
:Before the city of the Insubrian lands,
:for seven years the siege will be laid;
:a very great king enters it,
:the city is then free, away from its enemies.
;16
:The deep entry made by the great Queen
:will make the place powerful and inaccessible;
:the army of the three lions will be defeated
:causing within a thing hideous and terrible.
;17
:The prince who has little pity of mercy
:will come through death to change (and become) very knowledgeable.
:The kingdom will be attended with great tranquillity,
:when the great one will soon be fleeced.
;18
:The besieged will color their pacts,
:but seven days later they will make a cruel exit:
:thrown back inside, fire and blood, seven put to the ax
:the lady who had woven the peace is a captive.
;19
:The fort at Nice will not engage in combat,
:it will be overcome by shining metal.
:This deed will be debated for a long time,
:strange and fearful for the citizens.
;20
:Ambassadors of the Tuscan language
:will cross the Alps and the sea in April and May.
:The man of the calf will deliver an oration,
:not coming to wipe out the French way of life.
;21
:By the pestilential enmity of Languedoc,
:the tyrant dissimulated will be driven out.
:The bargain will be made on the bridge at Sorgues
:to put to death both him and his follower
;22
:The citizens of Mesopotamia
:angry with their friends from Tarraconne;
:games, rites, banquets, every person asleep,
:the vicar at Rhône, the city taken and those of Ausonia.
;23
:The Royal scepter will be forced to take
:that which his predecessors had pledged.
:Because they do not understand about the ring
:when they come to sack the palace.
;24
:He who was buried will come out of the tomb,
:He will cause the fort of the bridge to be tied in chains:
:Poisoned with the spawn of a pimp,
:the great one from Lorraine by the Marquis du Pont.
;25
:Through long war all the army exhausted,
:so that they do not find money for the soldiers;
:instead of gold or silver, they will come to coin leather,
:Gallic brass, and the crescent sign of the Moon.
;26
:Foists and galleys around seven ships,
:a mortal war will be let loose.
:The leader from Madrid will receive a wound from arrows,
:two escaped and five brought to land.
;27
:At the wall of Vasto the great cavalry
:are impeded by the baggage near Ferrara.
:At Turin they will speedily commit such robbery
:that in the fort they will ravish their hostage.
;28
:The captain will lead a great herd
:on the mountain closest to the enemy.
:Surrounded by fire he makes such a way,
:all escape except for thirty put on the spit.
;29
:The great one of Alba will come to rebel,
:he will betray his great forebears.
:The great man of Guise will come to vanquish him,
:led captive with a monument erected.
;30
:The sack approaches, fire and great bloodshed.
:Po the great rivers, the enterprise for the clowns;
:after a long wait from Genoa and Nice,
:Fossano, Turin the capture at Savigliano.
;31
:From Languedoc and Guienne more than ten
:thousand will want to cross the Alps again.
:The great Savoyards march against Brindisi,
:Aquino and Bresse will come to drive them back.
;32
:From the bank of Montereale will be born one
:who bores and calculates becoming a tyrant.
:To raise a force in the marches of Milan,
:to drain Faenza and Florence of gold and men
;33
:The kingdom stripped of its forces by fraud,
:the fleet blockaded, passages for the spy;
:two false friends will come to rally
:to awaken hatred for a long time dormant.
;34
:The French nation will be in great grief,
:vain and lighthearted, they will believe rash things.
:No bread, salt, wine nor water, venom nor ale,
:the greater one captured, hunger, cold and want.
;35
:The great fish will come to complain and weep
:for having chosen, deceived concerning his age:
:he will hardly want to remain with them,
:he will be deceived by those (speaking) his own tongue.
;36
:God, the heavens, all the divine words in the waves,
:carried by seven red-shaven heads to Byzantium:
:against the anointed three hundred from Trebizond,
:will make two laws, first horror then trust.
;37
:Ten sent to put the captain of the ship to death,
:are altered by one that there is open revolt in the fleet.
:Confusion, the leader and another stab and bite each other
:at Lerins and the Hyerès, ships, prow into the darkness.
;38
:The elder royal one on a frisky horse
:will spur so fiercely that it will bolt.
:Mouth, mouthful, foot complaining in the embrace;
:dragged, pulled, to die horribly.
;39
:The leader of the French army
:will expect to lose the main phalanx.
:Upon the pavement of oats and slate
:the foreign nation will be undermined through Genoa.
;40
:Within casks anointed outside with oil and grease
:twenty-one will be shut before the harbor,
:at second watch; through death they will do great deeds;
:to win the gates and be killed by the watch.
;41
:The bones of the feet and the hands locked up,
:because of the noise the house is uninhabited for a long time.
:Digging in dreams they will be unearthed,
:the house healthy in inhabited without noise.
;42
:Two newly arrived have seized the poison,
:to pour it in the kitchen of the great Prince.
:By the scullion both are caught in the act,
:taken he who thought to trouble the elder with death.
fr:Centurie VII
Category:The Prophecies