Combien de fois prinse cité solitaire
Seras changeant ses loix barbares & vaines:
Ton mal s'aproche. Plus seras tributaires
Le grand Hardie recouurira tes veines.
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.
Nostradamus 5
Chassez seront pour faire long combat,
Par les pays seront plus fort greuez:
Bourg & cité auront plus grand debat.
Carcas. Narbonne auront coeur esprouuez.
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.
Nostradamus 4
Par l'vnivers sera faict vn monarque,
Qu'en paix & vie ne sera longuement:
Lors se perdra la piscature barque,
Sera regie en plus grand detriment.
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.
Nostradamus 4
Nostradamus 4
Par l'vnivers sera faict vn monarque,
Qu'en paix & vie ne sera longuement:
Lors se perdra la piscature barque,
Sera regie en plus grand detriment.
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.
Nostradamus 1.3
When the litters are overturned by the whirlwind: When the convoy reaches the capital.
And faces are covered by cloaks: When the world announced its slavery by wearing masks.
The new republic will be troubled by its people: People will protest against the mandates.
At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly: The government will seize their bank accounts, arrest them and become tyrants.
3. Quand la lictiere du tourbillon versee,
Et seront faces de leurs manteaux couuers, La republique par gens nouveaux vexee,
Lors blancs & rouges iureront à l'enuers.
3. 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.
La vierge en main mise au milieu de Branches
De l'onde il moulle & le l'imbe & le pied:
Vn peur & voix fremissent par les manches:
Splendeur diuine. Le diuin pres s'assied.
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 splendour; the god sits nearby.
Nostradamus 1
ESTANT assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul reposé sur la selle d'ærain:
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,
Fait prosperer qui n'est à croire vain.
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.
Nastradamus Century 1 Quatrain 1
1.1 ESTANT assis de nuict secret estude, Seul reposé sur la selle d'ærain: Flambe exigue sortant de solitude, Fait prosperer qui n'est à croire vain.
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 beleived in vain.
Commentary:
In this quatrain, Nastradamus talks about his method of divining. You could have seen a crystal ball into which the seer sees your future or some unknown secret.
Nastradamus uses a brass tripod on which a brass vessel is placed. It is filled with water. He touches one of its legs with his wand and the water trembles.
In that trembling water he sees the future of France, London, Hitler, Anti-christ, and a messiah from Asia.