Chapter XVII: French

Au mesme temps un grand endurera,
Joyeux, malsain, l’an complet ne verra,
Et quelques uns qui Seront de la feste,
Feste pour un feulement, a ce jour,
Mais peuapres sans faire long sejour,
Deux se donront l’un l’autre de la teste.

English.

At the same time a great one shall suffer,
Joyful, sickly, shall not see the year compleat,
And some others who shall be of the feast,
A feast for one only at that day,
But a little while after without long delay,
Two shall knock one another in the head.

ANNOT.

This Stanza hath relation to the precedent, for about the time of, or a little before that famous Christning died Pope _Leo_ the IX. formerly called Cardinal of _Florence_, who did not live a whole year in the papacy; and is called here _Joyful_, _Sickly_, because though infirm, he did much rejoyce in the obtaining of it; those others that were of the Feast, were some Cardinals of his party, who died also within the same year.

The two last Verses signifie the differences that happened, between _Paul_ V. his Successor, and the Common-wealth of _Venice_ presently after his death.