Chapter LXIV: French

Dedans les Isles les enfans transportez,
Les deux de sept seront en desespoir,
Ceux de terrouer en seront supportez,
_Nompelle_ prins, des ligues fuy l’espoir.

English.

In the Islands the Children shall be transported,
The two of seven shall be in despair,
Those of the Countrey shall be supported by,
_Nompelle_ taken, avoid the hope of the League.

ANNOT.

This seemeth to have a great relation to our late unhappy troubles in _England_, when the Princess _Elizabeth_ and the Duke of _Glocester_ were transported into the Isle of _Wight_, which are the two of the seven, (for the Queen hath had seven children) and the Kings Majesty and his Highness the Duke of _York_, were driven into the _Low-Countreis_, being in a manner in dispair of ever coming again, and those Countreys were much the better for the harbouring of them; in the last Verse by _Nompelle_ I understand Anagrammatically _Monpelier_, which being taken, there is no more hope in the League, as it did happen in the time of _Henry_ the IV. King of _France_, who never saw the League or Covenant quite routed, till that Town was taken; for it is familiar enough to those kind of Prophets to make an ὕστερον πρώτερον, and joyn things past, to those that are to come, to darken the Readers understanding, and as the Scripture saith, _Ut videntes non videant_.

LXV.

French.

Le vieux frustré du principal espoir,
Il parviendra au chef de son Empire,
Vingt mois tiendra le Regne a grand pouvoir,
Tyran, cruel en delaissant un pire.

English.

The old man frustrated of his chief hope,
He shall attain to the head of his Empire,
Twenty months he shall keep the Kingdom with great power,
Tyrant, cruel, and having a worse one.

ANNOT.

The words of this Prophecy are plain enough, and because I cannot learn in History that such things have come to pass yet, therefore I reckon it among those _de futuro_.