Chapter LII: French

Le deux malins de _Scorpion_ conjoint,
Le grand Seigneur meurtry dedans sa salle,
Peste a l’Eglise par le nouveau Roy joint,
L’_Europe_ basse, & Septentrionale.

English.

The two malignants of _Scorpion_ being joyned,
The grand Seignor murdered in his Hall,
Plague to the Church by a King newly joyned to it,
_Europe_ low, and Septentrional.

ANNOT.

This third position of the Celestial bodies foretelleth the death of the great _Turk_, who should be murdered in his own Chamber, as happened to Sultan _Osman_, who was strangled in his Chamber, by the command of _Daout Bassa_ great Vizeir, about the year 1622. _vide_ the Turkish History.

The rest of the Prophecy is concerning a King, who being newly joyned to the Church, (I suppose of _Rome_) shall bring much mischief to it, and in his time _Europe_ shall be brought very low, and in a manner confined to a corner of the North, which hath relation to the foregoing 49. Stanza, which see in its place.

LIII.

French.

Las, qu’on verra grand peuple tourmenté,
Et la Loy Sainte en totale ruine,
Par autres Loix toute la Chrestienté,
Quand d’Or, d’Argent trouve nouvelle Mine.

English.

Alas, how a great people shall be tormented,
And the Holy Law in an utter ruine;
By other Laws, all Christendom troubled,
When new Mines of Gold and Silver shall be found.

ANNOT.

This is a true Prophecy of the mischiefs that have happened in the World by the finding of the Mines in _America_; first to the _Indians_ themselves, called here a great People, by the cruelty of the _Spaniards_, and then to all Christendom besides, by the evils that this Idol _Mammon_ hath brought into it.