Chapter XLVII: French

De _Bourze_ Ville a la Dame _Guyrlande_,
L’on mettra sus par la trahison faite,
Le grand Prelat de _Leon_ par _Formande_,
Faux Pellerins & Rauisseurs deffaite.

English.

From _Bourze_ City belonging to the Lady _Garlant_,
They shall impose by a set treason,
The great Prelate of _Leon_ by _Formande_,
False Pilgrims and Ravishers destroyed.

ANNOT.

I believe that there is a fault here in the impression, and that instead of _Bourze_ it must be _Bourges_, which is a famous City in _France_, and Capitol of the Province of _Berry_, for I do not know any Town in _Europe_ called _Bourze_. What he meaneth by the Lady _Garlant_ is unknown. I believe also that instead of _Leon_ it should be _Lyon_, which is another famous City, and the first Archbishoprick of the said Kingdom. _Formande_ is a barbarous word, and I believe put in only to make up the Rime, as he hath done in several other places, as much then as can be gathered out of the sense is this, that from that City _Bourges_, which usually is a Dowry for a Queen of _France_, which is called here _Garlant_, shall a treason be hatched against the Archbishop of _Lion_, which I suppose came to pass in the time of _Henry_ the III. when _Peter_ of _Pinac_ Archbishop of the said _Lion_, being accused by the Deputies of _Bourges_ for siding with the League, escaped narrowly to be killed, when the Duke of _Guise_ and the Cardinal his brother were. Queen _Catherine_ of _Medicis_ the Kings Mother having then the said Province and Town of _Bourges_ for her jointure.

The last Verse hath no relation to the three foremost, and hath its interpretation by it self, which is plain enough.

XLVIII.

French.

Du plus profond de l’_Espagne_ ancienne,
Sortants du bout & des fins de l’_Europe_,
Trouble passant aupres du Pont de _Laigne_,
Sera deffaits par bande sa grand troppe.

English.

From the utmost part of old _Spain_,
Going out of the extremities of _Europe_,
He that troubled the travellers by the Bridge of _Laigne_,
Shall have his great Troop defeated by another.

ANNOT.

Every Traveller knoweth that _Castille_ (which is taken here for _Spain_) is divided into two parts _viz._ _Castilia la Vecchia_, and _Castilia la Nuova_, our Author then saith that out of _Castilia la Vecchia_, which is situated at the further end of _Europe_ on that side, shall come a band of men, who shall destroy the Thieves that robbed and vexed the Travellers by the Bridge of _Laigne_, which it seemeth was an infamous place for robbing.