Chapter XXXVI: French

Un grand Roy prins entre les mains d’un jeune,
Non loin de Palques confusion, coup cultre:
Perpet. cattif temps que foudre en la Hune,
Trois Freres lors se blesseront & meurtre.

English.

A great King taken in the hands of a young one,
Not far from Easter, confusion, stroke of a knife,
Shall commit, pittiful time, the fire at the top of the Mast,
Three Brothers then shall wound one another, and murder done.

ANNOT.

This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1560. when _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ King of _Navarre_, and his Brother _Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of _Condé_, coming to King _Francis_ II. at _Orleans_, upon the 29. of _October_, the Prince of _Condé_ was put in prison, and the King of _Navarre_ arrested. The Lord _Andrew Fauyn_ in his History of _Navarre_, saith, that the opinion of the Councel was, that the Prince of _Condé_ should be beheaded, for having been the chief of the conspiracy at _Amboise_, and the King of _Navarre_ should be stabbed in the Kings Chamber by the King himself, assisted by others for that purpose. The Lady of _Montpensier_ gave notice of it to the King of _Navarre_, who being sent for by the King, charged expresly _Cattin_ his waiting man and an old servant of his Father take a care and preserve his bloody shirt after his death till his son came to Age, to revenge it upon the murderers. God be thanked this came not to pass, for the King having called him, and going about to provoke him with foul words, he answered so meekly and humbly, that the Kings anger was appeased, where upon the Duke of _Guise_ going out of the room said, _O what a cowardly Prince is this_. These things are expressed in the first and second Verse, when he saith that a great King should be put in Prison by a young one, because _Antony_ of _Bourbon_, though he was not a great King in Lands, yet he was a great one in courage and prudence. And it was _not far from Easter_, sith it was but five months before, _viz._ from the beginning of _November_, to the sixth of _April_ 1591 which was Easterday; the Author putteth in this circumstance, because the next Easter after, the King of _Navarre_ was made General of _France_ under the Queen Regent.

He addeth _the blow of a Knife_, as we have shewed; he also saith _a lasting bad time_, which proved very true; moreover, he saith, _what lightning in the Hunt_ or Topmast, because King _Francis_ died presently after. In the fourth Verse he saith, _that three Brothers shall be hurt and killed_, those three Brothers were _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ King of _Navarre_, killed at the Siege at _Rouen_, the Cardinal of _Bourbon_, and _Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of _Condé_, killed at the Battle of _Jarnac_.

XXXVII.

French.

Pont & Molins en _December_ versez,
En si haut lieu montera la _Garonne_:
Murs, Edifice, _Thoulouse_ renversez,
Qu’on ne scaura son lieu coutant matrone.

English.

Bridges and Mills in _December_ overturned,
In so high a place the _Garonne_ shall come,
Walls, Building, _Thoulose_ overturned,
So that none shall know its place, so much Matrone.

ANNOT.

Here is foretold a prodigious inundation of the River _Garonne_, in the month of _December_, by which the Walls, Building, and the City of _Thoulouse_ is threatned to be overturned. The last word of all is barbarous, and added to make up the rhime.