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A King will be angry with the see-breakers,
When arms of war will be prohibited:
The poison tainted in the sugar for the strawberries,
Murdered by waters, dead, saying land, land.
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Calumny against the cadet by the detractor,
When enormous and warlike deeds will take place:
The least part doubtful for the elder one,
And soon in the realm there will be partisan deeds.
96
Great city abandoned to the soldiers,
Never was mortal tumult so close to it:
Oh, what a hideous calamity draws near,
Except one offense nothing will be spared it.
97
At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,
Fire to approach the great new city:
In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,
When one will want to demand proof of the Normans.
98
Ruin for the Volcae so very terrible with fear,
Their great city stained, pestilential deed:
To plunder Sun and Moon and to violate their temples:
And to redden the two rivers flowing with blood.
99
The learned enemy will find himself confused,
His great army sick, and defeated by ambushes,
The Pyrenees and Pennine Alps will be denied him,
Discovering near the river ancient jugs.
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INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS
Let those who read this verse consider it profoundly,
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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.
Epistle to Henry II
EPISTLE TO HENRY II
TO THE MOST INVINCIBLE
MOST POWERFUL AND MOST CHRISTIAN
HENRY, KING OF FRANCE THE SECOND:
MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS,
HIS VERY HUMBLE AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT AND SUBJECT,
WISHES VICTORY AND HAPPINESS
Ever since my long-beclouded face first presented itself before the immeasurable deity of your Majesty, O
Most Christian and Most Victorious King, I have remained perpetually dazzled by that sovereign sight. I have
never ceased to honor and venerate properly that date when I presented myself before a Majesty so singular
and so humane. I have searched for some occasion on which to manifest high heart and stout courage, and
thereby obtain even greater recognition of Your Most Serene Majesty. But I saw how obviously impossible it
was for me to declare myself.
While I was seized with this singular desire to be transported suddenly from my long-beclouded obscurity to
the illuminating presence of the first monarch of the universe, I was also long in doubt as to whom I would
dedicate these last three Centuries of my prophecies, making up the thousand. After having meditated for a
long time on an act of such rash audacity, I have ventured to address Your Majesty. I have not been daunted
like those mentioned by that most grave author Plutarch, in his Life of Lycurgus, who were so astounded at
the expense of the offerings and gifts brought as sacrifices to the temples of the immortal gods of that age,
that they did not dare to present anything at all. Seeing your royal splendor to be accompanied by such an
incomparable humanity, I have paid my address to it and not as those Kings of Persia whom one could
neither stand before nor approach.
It is to a most prudent and most wise Prince that I have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetic calculations,
which are composed rather out of a natural instinct, accompanied by a poetic furor, than according to the
strict rules of poetry. Most of them have been integrated with astronomical calculations corresponding to the
years, months and weeks of the regions, countries and most of the towns and cities of all Europe, including
Africa and part of Asia, where most of all these coming events are to transpire. They are composed in a
natural manner.
Indeed, someone, who would do well to blow his nose, may reply that the rhythm is as easy as the sense is
difficult. That, O Most Humane king, is because most of the prophetic quatrains are so ticklish that there is no
making way through them, nor is there any interpreting of them.
Nevertheless, I wanted to leave a record in writing of the years, towns, cities and regions in which most of the
events will come to pass, even those of the year 1585 and of the year 1606, reckoning from the present time,
which is March 14, 1557, and going far beyond to the events which will take place at the beginning of the
seventh millenary, when, so far as my profound astronomical calculations and other knowledge have been
able to make out, the adversaries of Jesus Christ and his Church will begin to multiply greatly.
I have calculated and composed all during choice hours of well-disposed days, and as accurately as I could,
all when Minerva was free and not unfavorable. I have made computations for events over almost as long a
period to come as that which has already passed, and by these they will know in all regions what is to happen
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in the course of time, just as it is written, with nothing superfluous added, although some may say, There can
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