Chapter IX: French

Quand Lampe ardente de feu inextinguible,
Sera trouvée au Temple des Vestales,
Enfant trouvée, feu, eau passant par crible,
_Nismes_ eau perir, _Tholouse_ cheoir les Halles.

English.

When a Lamp burning with unquenchable fire,
Shall be found in the Temple of the Vestals,
A Child shall be found, Water running through a Sieve,
_Nismes_ to perish by Water, the Market-hall shall fall at _Tholouse_.

ANNOT.

The ancient _Vestals_, were a Kind of Religious Virgins in the ancient _Romans_ time, who if they did forfeit their honour, were buried alive in a Cave, with a little Bread and Water, and a Lamp burning, our Author would have, that when a Lamp shall be found lighted with an unquenchable fire, in that place where then their Temple was, that then _Nismes_ (which is a City of _Languedoc_), shall perish by Water, and the Market-hall of _Tholouse_ shall fall, whether such a Lamp may be contrived as to burn with an unquenchable fire, is too long and tedious a discourse to be disputed here.

X.

French.

Moine, Moinesse d’Enfant mort exposé,
Mourir par Ourse & ravy par verrier,
Par _Foix_ & _Panniers_ le Camp sera posé,
Contre _Tholose_, _Carcas_, dresser forrier.

English.

Monk and Nun having exposed a dead Child,
To be killed by a she Bear, and snatcht away by a Glazier,
The Camp shall be set by _Foix_ and _Panniers_,
And against _Tholouse_, _Carcas_ shall raise a Harbinger.

ANNOT.

_Foix_ and _Panniers_ are two Towns in _Languedoc_, and so are _Tholouse_ and _Carcassonne_, called here _Carcas_, for the abbreviation of the Verse, the sense then of this prophecy is, that when the two first Verses shall come to pass, that then an Army shall lie about those Towns, and _Carcassonne_ shall be against _Thoulouse_.

XI.

French.

Le juste a tort a mort l’on viendra mettre,
Publiquement, & du milieu estaint,
Si grande Peste en ce lieu viendra naistre,
Que les Jugeans fouyr seront contraints.

English.

The just shall be put to death wrongfully,
Publickly, and being taken out of the midst,
So great a Plague shall break into that place,
That the Judges shall be compelled to run away.

ANNOT.

Many understand this of the late King, and last Plague.