Chapter LXXIX: French

Le grand criard sans honte audacieux,
Sera esleu Governeur le d’Armée,
La hardiesse de son contentieux,
Le pont rompu, Cité de peur pasmée.

English.

The great bawler proud without shame,
Shall be elected Governour of the Army,
The stoutness of his Competitor,
The Bridge being broken, the City shall faint for fear.

ANNOT.

_Paradin_ saith, that in the year 1558. the Lord of _Bonnivet_ being dead, the King of _France_ did chuse _Francis_ of _Vendosme_, _Vidame_ of _Amiens_, to succeed the said _Bonnivet_, in the Office of Colonel of the _French_ Foot. This _Vidame_ is noted by all Historians, for a rash proud man, that had a good opinion of himself, and found fault with all the commands of the Marshal of _Brissac_, then General of the Army.

The King in consideration of his Birth, and that he was a good Souldier, gave him the place of the Lord _Bonnivet_, according to what the Author saith, _The great Bawler, ~&c.~ shall be elected Governour in the Army_. If you ask in what Army he was elected Governour, the third Verse answereth, _in the Army of his Competitor_, that is, the Marshal of _Brissac_, who did chide him severely for disobeying his commands, and was like once to have killed him.

The fourth Verse proved true at the taking of _Queiras_, where the Bridge, through which the succours came to relieve the Town, being broken, the Town grew so fearful, that it surrendred it self to the Marshal of _Brissac_.

LXXX.

French.

_Erins_, _Antibe_, villes auteur de _Nice_,
Seront vastées fort par Mer & par Terre,
Les Sauterelles Terre & Mer vent propice,
Prins, morts, troussez, pillez, sans loy de guerre.

English.

_Erins_, _Antibe_, and the Towns about _Nices_,
Shall be destroyed by Sea and Land,
The Grashopers shall have the Land, the Sea, and Wind favourable,
They shall be taken, killed, thrust up, plundered, without Law of War.

ANNOT.

_Erins_ and _Antibe_ are Towns of _Provence_, bordering upon _Nice_, which is a Town of _Piemont_, all that Coast is threatned here to be ruined by the Grashopers, that is, the _Turks_, which fell out about the year 1558. for the King of _France_ having called the _Turks_ to his succours against _Charles_ V. Emperour, they came and took _Nice_ in the behalf of the _French_, where they committed unheard cruelties, as also upon all that Coast.

LXXXI.

French.

L’Ordre fatal sempiternal par chaisne,
Viendra tourner par ordre consequent,
Du Port _Phocen_ sera rompue la chaine,
La Cité prinse, l’ennemy quant & quant.

English.

The fatal and eternal order by chain,
Shall come to turn by consequent order,
Of Port _Phocen_ the chain shall be broken,
The City taken, and the enemy presently after

ANNOT.

This Prophecy regardeth onely the City of _Marseilles_, which is the most famous Port Town that the _French_ have upon the _Mediterranean_ Sea, and which was anciently a _Greek_ Colony, peopled by the _Phocen_ Seas. This City is threatned here to have the chain of her Port broken, and to be taken by her enemies, and the said enemies to be a little while after taken in it.