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Chapter LXXXVI: French

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Du _Bourg la Reyne_ parviendront droit a _Chartres_,
Et feront pres du _Pont Antony_ pose,
Sept pour la paix cauteleux comme _Martres_,
Feront entrée d’Armée a _Paris_ clause.

English.

From _Bourg la Reyne_ they shall come straight to _Chartres_,
And shall make a stand near _Pont Antony_,
Seven for Peace as crafty as _Martres_,
They shall enter in _Paris_ besieged with an Army.

ANNOT.

_Bourg la Reyne_ is a little town within six Miles of _Paris_, _Chartres_ is the chief City of the Province _Beausse_, _Pont Antony_ is a little Town between them both, so that the sense of the whole is this, that seven men, crafty like _Martres_ (which are those _Russia_ Foxes that afford the richest Furres, called _Martres Zibellines_) shall go from _Bourg la Reyne_ to _Chartres_, making a little stay at _Pont Antony_, and then shall come with an Army into _Paris_, which shall be besieged at that time, I believe this Prophecy is come to pass already in the time of the Civil Wars of _France_; but for want of the History I could not quote the time.

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