Century IV

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Century IV is the fourth century by Nostradamus. The first 53 quatrains were first published in 1555. The complete century appeared for the first time in 1557. 
==Century IV==
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:That of the remainder of blood unshed:
:Venice demands that relief be given:
:After having waited a very long time,
:City delivered up at the first sound of the horn.
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:Because of death France will take to making a journey,
:Fleet by sea, marching over the Pyrenees Mountains,
:Spain in trouble, military people marching:
:Some of the greatest Ladies carried off to France.
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:From Arras and Bourges many banners of Dusky Ones,
:A greater number of Gascons to fight on foot,
:Those along the Rhône will bleed the Spanish:
:Near the mountain where Sagunto sits.
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:The impotent Prince angry, complaints and quarrels,
:Rape and pillage, by cocks and Africans:
:Great it is by land, by sea infinite sails,
:Italy alone will be chasing Celts.
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:Cross, peace, under one the divine word accomplished,
:Spain and Gaul will be united together:
:Great disaster near, and combat very bitter:
:No heart will be so hardy as not to tremble.
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:By the new clothes after the find is made,
:Malicious plot and machination:
:First will die he who will prove it,
:Color Venetian trap.
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:The minor son of the great and hated Prince,
:He will have a great touch of leprosy at the age of twenty:
:Of grief his mother will die very sad and emaciated,
:And he will die where the loose flesh falls.
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:The great city by prompt and sudden assault
:Surprised at night, guards interrupted:
:The guards and watches of Saint-Quentin
:Slaughtered, guards and the portals broken.
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:The chief of the army in the middle of the crowd
:Will be wounded by an arrow shot in the thighs,
:When Geneva in tears and distress
:Will be betrayed by Lausanne and the Swiss.
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:The young Prince falsely accused
:Will plunge the army into trouble and quarrels:
:The chief murdered for his support,
:Scepter to pacify: then to cure scrofula.
;11.
:He who will have the government of the great cope
:Will be prevailed upon to perform several deeds:
:The twelve red one who will come to soil the cloth,
:Under murder, murder will come to be perpetrated.
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:The greater army put to flight in disorder,
:Scarcely further will it be pursued:
:Army reassembled and the legion reduced,
:Then it will be chased out completely from the Gauls.
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:News of the greater loss reported,
:The report will astonish the army:
:Troops united against the revolted:
:The double phalanx will abandon the great one.
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:The sudden death of the first personage
:Will have caused a change and put another in the sovereignty:
:Soon, late come so high and of low age,
:Such by land and sea that it will be necessary to fear him.
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:From where they will think to make famine come,
:From there will come the surfeit:
:The eye of the sea through canine greed
:For the one the other will give oil and wheat.
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:The city of liberty made servile:
:Made the asylum of profligates and dreamers.
:The King changed to them not so violent:
:From one hundred become more than a thousand.
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:To change at Beaune, Nuits, Châlon and Dijon,
:The duke wishing to improve the Carmelite [nun]
:Marching near the river, fish, diver's beak
:Will see the tail: the gate will be locked.
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:Some of those most lettered in the celestial facts
:Will be condemned by illiterate princes:
:Punished by Edict, hunted, like criminals,
:And put to death wherever they will be found.
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:Before Rouen the siege laid by the Insubrians,
:By land and sea the passages shut up:
:By Hainaut and Flanders, by Ghent and those of Liége
:Through cloaked gifts they will ravage the shores.
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:Peace and plenty for a long time the place will praise:
:Throughout his realm the fleur-de-lis deserted:
:Bodies dead by water, land one will bring there,
:Vainly awaiting the good fortune to be buried there.
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:The change will be very difficult:
:City and province will gain by the change:
:Heart high, prudent established, chased out one cunning,
:Sea, land, people will change their state.
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:The great army will be chased out,
:In one moment it will be needed by the King:
:The faith promised from afar will be broken,
:He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
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:The legion in the marine fleet
:Will burn lime, lodestone sulfur and pitch:
:The long rest in the secure place:
:Port Selyn and Monaco, fire will consume them.
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:Beneath the holy earth of a soul the faint voice heard,
:Human flame seen to shine as divine:
:It will cause the earth to be stained with the blood of the monks,
:And to destroy the holy temples for the impure ones.
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:Lofty bodies endlessly visible to the eye,
:Through these reasons they will come to obscure:
:Body, forehead included, sense and head invisible,
:Diminishing the sacred prayers.
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:The great swarm of bees will arise,
:Such that one will not know whence they have come;
:By night the ambush, the sentinel under the vines
:City delivered by five babblers not naked.
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:Salon, Tarascon, Mausol, the arch of SEX.,
:Where the pyramid is still standing:
:They will come to deliver the Prince of Annemark,
:Redemption reviled in the temple of Artemis.
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:When Venus will be covered by the Sun,
:Under the splendor will be a hidden form:
:Mercury will have exposed them to the fire,
:Through warlike noise it will be insulted.
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:The Sun hidden eclipsed by Mercury
:Will be placed only second in the sky:
:Of Vulcan Hermes will be made into food,
:The Sun will be seen pure, glowing red and golden.
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:Eleven more times the Moon the Sun will not want,
:All raised and lowered by degree:
:And put so low that one will stitch little gold:
:Such that after famine plague, the secret uncovered.
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:The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain,
:The new sage with a lone brain sees it:
:By his disciples invited to be immortal,
:Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.
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:In the places and times of flesh giving way to fish,
:The communal law will be made in opposition:
:It will hold strongly the old ones, then removed from the midst,
:Loving of Everything in Common put far behind.
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:Jupiter joined more to Venus than to the Moon
:Appearing with white fullness:
:Venus hidden under the whiteness of Neptune
:Struck by Mars through the white stew.
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:The great one of the foreign land led captive,
:Chained in gold offered to King Chyren:
:He who in Ausonia, Milan will lose the war,
:And all his army put to fire and sword.
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:The fire put out the virgins will betray
:The greater part of the new band:
:Lightning in sword and lance the lone Kings will guard
:Etruria and Corsica, by night throat cut.
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:The new sports set up again in Gaul,
:After victory in the Insubrian campaign:
:Mountains of Hesperia, the great ones tied and trussed up:
:Romania and Spain to tremble with fear.
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:The Gaul will come to penetrate the mountains by leaps:
:He will occupy the great place of Insubria:
:His army to enter to the greatest depth,
:Genoa and Monaco will drive back the red fleet.
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:While he will engross the Duke, King and Queen
:With the captive Byzantine chief in Samothrace:
:Before the assault one will eat the order:
:Reverse side metaled will follow the trail of the blood.
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:The Rhodians will demand relief,
:Through the neglect of its heirs abandoned.
:The Arab empire will reveal its course,
:The cause set right again by Hesperia.
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:The fortresses of the besieged shut up,
:Through gunpowder sunk into the abyss:
:The traitors will all be stowed away alive,
:Never did such a pitiful schism happen to the sextons.
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:Female sex captive as a hostage
:Will come by night to deceive the guards:
:The chief of the army deceived by her language
:Will abandon her to the people, it will be pitiful to see.
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:Geneva and Langres through those of Chartres and Dôle
:And through Grenoble captive at Montélimar
:Seyssel, Lausanne, through fraudulent deceit,
:They will betray them for sixty marks of gold.
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:Arms will be heard clashing in the sky:
:That very same year the divine ones enemies:
:They will want unjustly to discuss the holy laws:
:Through lightning and war the complacent one put to death.
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:Two large ones of Mende, of Rodez and Milhau
:Cahors, Limoges, Castres bad week
:By night the entry, from Bordeaux an insult
:Through Périgord at the peal of the bell.
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:Through conflict a King will abandon his realm:
:The greatest chief will fail in time of need:
:Dead, ruined few will escape it,
:All cut up, one will be a witness to it.
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:The fact well defended by excellence,
:Guard yourself Tours from your near ruin:
:London and Nantes will make a defense through Reims
:Not passing further in the time of the drizzle.
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:The savage black one when he will have tried
:His bloody hand at fire, sword and drawn bows:
:All of his people will be terribly frightened,
:Seeing the greatest ones hung by neck and feet.
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:The fertile, spacious Ausonian plain
:Will produce so many gadflies and locusts,
:The solar brightness will become clouded,
:All devoured, great plague to come from them.
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:Before the people blood will be shed,
:Only from the high heavens will it come far:
:But for a long time of one nothing will be heard,
:The spirit of a lone one will come to bear witness against it.
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:Libra will see the Hesperias govern,
:Holding the monarchy of heaven and earth:
:No one will see the forces of Asia perished,
:Only seven hold the hierarchy in order.
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:A Duke eager to follow his enemy
:Will enter within impeding the phalanx:
:Hurried on foot they will come to pursue so closely
:That the day will see a conflict near Ganges.
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:In the besieged city men and woman to the walls,
:Enemies outside the chief ready to surrender:
:The wind will be strongly against the troops,
:They will be driven away through lime, dust and ashes.
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:The fugitives and exiles recalled:
:Fathers and sons great garnishing of the deep wells:
:The cruel father and his people choked:
:His far worse son submerged in the well.
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:Of the name which no Gallic King ever had
:Never was there so fearful a thunderbolt,
:Italy, Spain and the English trembling,
:Very attentive to a woman and foreigners.
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:When the crow on the tower made of brick
:For seven hours will continue to scream:
:Death foretold, the statue stained with blood,
:Tyrant murdered, people praying to their Gods.
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:After the victory of the raving tongue,
:The spirit tempered in tranquillity and repose:
:Throughout the conflict the bloody victor makes orations,
:Roasting the tongue and the flesh and the bones.
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:Ignorant envy upheld before the great King,
:He will propose forbidding the writings:
:His wife not his wife tempted by another,
:Twice two more neither skill nor cries.
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:To swallow the burning Sun in the throat,
:The Etruscan land washed by human blood:
:The chief pail of water, to lead his son away,
:Captive lady conducted into Turkish land.
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:Two beset in burning fervor:
:By thirst for two full cups extinguished,
:The fort filed, and an old dreamer,
:To the Genevans he will show the track from Nira.
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:The seven children left in hostage,
:The third will come to slaughter his child:
:Because of his son two will be pierced by the point,
:Genoa, Florence, he will come to confuse them.
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:The old one mocked and deprived of his place,
:By the foreigner who will suborn him:
:Hands of his son eaten before his face,
:His brother to Chartres, Orléans Rouen will betray.
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:A colonel with ambition plots,
:He will seize the greatest army,
:Against his Prince false invention,
:And he will be discovered under his arbor.
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:The Celtic army against the mountaineers,
:Those who will be learned and able in bird-calling:
:Peasants will soon work fresh presses,
:All hurled on the sword's edge.
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:The transgressor in bourgeois garb,
:He will come to try the King with his offense:
:Fifteen soldiers for the most part bandits,
:Last of life and chief of his fortune.
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:Towards the deserter of the great fortress,
:After he will have abandoned his place,
:His adversary will exhibit very great prowess,
:The Emperor soon dead will be condemned.
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:Under the feigned color of seven shaven heads
:Diverse spies will be scattered:
:Wells and fountains sprinkled with poisons,
:At the fort of Genoa devourers of men.
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:The year that Saturn and Mars are equal fiery,
:The air very dry parched long meteor:
:Through secret fires a great place blazing from burning heat,
:Little rain, warm wind, wars, incursions.
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:The two greatest ones of Asia and of Africa,
:From the Rhine and Lower Danube they will be said to have come,
:Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian side.
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:The exiles will hold the great city,
:The citizens dead, murdered and driven out:
:Those of Aquileia will promise Parma
:To show them the entry through the untracked places.
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:Quite contiguous to the great Pyrenees mountains,
:One to direct a great army against the Eagle:
:Veins opened, forces exterminated,
:As far as Pau will he come to chase the chief.
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:In place of the bride the daughters slaughtered,
:Murder with great error no survivor to be:
:Within the well vestals inundated,
:The bride extinguished by a drink of Aconite.
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:Those of Nîmes through Agen and Lectoure
:At Saint-Félix will hold their parliament:
:Those of Bazas will come at the unhappy hour
:To seize Condom and Marsan promptly.
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:The great nephew by force will test
:The treaty made by the pusillanimous heart:
:The Duke will try Ferrara and Asti,
:When the pantomime will take place in the evening.
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:Those of lake Geneva and of Mâcon:
:All assembled against those of Aquitaine:
:Many Germans many more Swiss,
:They will be routed along with those of the Humane.
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:Ready to fight one will desert,
:The chief adversary will obtain the victory:
:The rear guard will make a defense,
:The faltering ones dead in the white territory.
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:The people of Agen by those of Périgord
:Will be vexed, holding as far as the Rhône:
:The union of Gascons and Bigorre
:To betray the temple, the priest giving his sermon.
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:Selin monarch Italy peaceful,
:Realms united by the Christian King of the World:
:Dying he will want to lie in Blois soil,
:After having chased the pirates from the sea.
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:The great army of the civil struggle,
:By night Parma to the foreign one discovered,
:Seventy-nine murdered in the town,
:The foreigners all put to the sword.
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:Blood Royal flee, Monheurt, Mas, Aiguillon,
:The Landes will be filled by Bordelais,
:Navarre, Bigorre points and spurs,
:Deep in hunger to devour acorns of the cork oak.
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:Near the great river, great ditch, earth drawn out,
:In fifteen parts will the water be divided:
:The city taken, fire, blood, cries, sad conflict,
:And the greatest part involving the coliseum.
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:Promptly will one build a bridge of boats,
:To pass the army of the great Belgian Prince:
:Poured forth inside and not far from Brussels,
:Passed beyond, seven cut up by pike.
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:A throng approaches coming from Slavonia,
:The old Destroyer the city will ruin:
:He will see his Romania quite desolated,
:Then he will not know how to put out the great flame.
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:Combat by night the valiant captain
:Conquered will flee few people conquered:
:His people stirred up, sedition not in vain,
:His own son will hold him besieged.
;84
:A great one of Auxerre will die very miserable,
:Driven out by those who had been under him:
:Put in chains, behind a strong cable,
:In the year that Mars, Venus and Sun are in conjunction in summer.
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:The white coal will be chased by the black one,
:Made prisoner led to the dung cart,
:Moor Camel on twisted feet,
:Then the younger one will blind the hobby falcon.
;86
:The year that Saturn will be conjoined in Aquarius
:With the Sun, the very powerful King
:Will be received and anointed at Reims and Aix,
:After conquests he will murder the innocent.
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:A King's son learned in many languages,
:Different from his senior in the realm:
:His handsome father understood by the greater son,
:He will cause his principal adherent to perish.
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:Anthony by name great by the filthy fact
:Of Lousiness wasted to his end:
:One who will want to be desirous of lead,
:Passing the port he will be immersed by the elected one.
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:Thirty of London will conspire secretly
:Against their King, the enterprise on the bridge:
:He and his satellites will have a distaste for death,
:A fair King elected, native of Frisia.
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:The two armies will be unable to unite at the walls,
:In that instant Milan and Pavia to tremble:
:Hunger, thirst, doubt will come to plague them very strongly
:They will not have a single morsel of meat, bread or victuals.
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:For the Gallic Duke compelled to fight in the duel,
:The ship of Melilla will not approach Monaco,
:Wrongly accused, perpetual prison,
:His son will strive to reign before his death.
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:The head of the valiant captain cut off,
:It will be thrown before his adversary:
:His body hung on the sail-yard of the ship,
:Confused it will flee by oars against the wind.
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:A serpent seen near the royal bed,
:It will be by the lady at night the dogs will not bark:
:Then to be born in France a Prince so royal,
:Come from heaven all the Princes will see him.
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:Two great brothers will be chased out of Spain,
:The elder conquered under the Pyrenees mountains:
:The sea to redden, Rhône, bloody Lake Geneva from Germany,
:Narbonne, Béziers contaminated by Agde.
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:The realm left to two they will hold it very briefly,
:Three years and seven months passed by they will make war:
:The two Vestals will rebel in opposition,
:Victor the younger in the land of Brittany.
;96
:The elder sister of the British Isle
:Will be born fifteen years before her brother,
:Because of her promise procuring verification,
:She will succeed to the kingdom of the balance.
;97
:The year that Mercury, Mars, Venus in retrogression,
:The line of the great Monarch will not fail:
:Elected by the Portuguese people near Cadiz,
:One who will come to grow very old in peace and reign.
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:Those of Alba will pass into Rome,
:By means of Langres the multitude muffled up,
:Marquis and Duke will pardon no man,
:Fire, blood, smallpox no water the crops to fail.
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:The valiant elder son of the King's daughter,
:He will hurl back the Celts very far,
:Such that he will cast thunderbolts, so many in such an array
:Few and distant, then deep into the Hesperias.
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:From the celestial fire on the Royal edifice,
:When the light of Mars will go out,
:Seven months great war, people dead through evil
:Rouen, Evreux the King will not fail.
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Category:The Prophecies