Chapter XXXI: French

Celuy qui a les hazards surmouté,
Qui fer, feu, eau, na jamais redouté,
Et du Pais bien proche du _Basacle_,
D’un coup de fer tout le Monde eftonné,
Par Crocodil estrangement donné,
Peuple ravy de voir un tel spectacle.

English.

He that hath overcome the dangers,
That hath never feared Iron, Fire nor Water,
And of the Countrey near the _Basacle_,
By a stroke of Iron (all the World being astonished),
By a Crocodile strangely given,
People will wonder to see such a spectacle.

ANNOT.

This Prophecy may admit of two Interpretations; the first, that _Henry_ the IV. who was born in the Province of _Bearn_, not far from _Thoulouze_, the chief City of _Languedoc_, wherein there is a place upon the River called _Basacle_, where the Mills are, who was stobbed with a knife by _Francis Ravillac_ in the year 1610.

The other is of the last Duke of _Montmorency_, who being Governour of _Languedoc_, took up Arms against the King, in the behalf of the Duke of _Orleans_, for which he was beheaded at _Thoulouse_ at the solicitation of Cardinal _Richelieu_, which happened about the year 1632.