The Prophecies of Nostradamus: Century XI

XI 1
New century, new alliance,
A Marquisate put in the bark,
To him who the stronger of the two will carry it off,
Of a Duke and of a King, falley of Florence,
Port at Marseilles, the Damsel in France,
The chief fort of Catherine will be razed.

XI 2
How much gold and silver will have to be spent
When the Count will desire to take the town,
Many thousands and thousands of soldiers,
Drowned, killed, without doing anything there,
In stronger land will he set foot,
Pygmy aid by the Copy-holders.

XI 3
The Town without above below,
Overturned by a thousand shots
From cannons: and fortifications underground:
Five years will it hold: everything delivered up,
And left for its enemies,
The water will make war upon them afterwards.

XI 4
Of a circle, of a lily, there will be born a very great Prince,
Very soon, and late come into his Province,
Saturn in Libra in exaltation:
The House of Venus in decreasing force,
The Lady thereafter masculine under the bark,
In order to maintain the happy Bourbon blood.

XI 5
He who the Principality
Will hold through great cruelty,
He will see his great phalanx at its end:
By very dangerous gunshot,
By agreement he could do better,
Otherwise he will drink Orange juice.

XI 6
When the treacherous enterprise of Robin
Will cause Lords and a great Prince trouble,
Known by Lafin, his head will be cut off:
The feather in the wind, female friend to Spain,
The messenger trapped while in the country,
And the scribe will throw himself into the water.

XI 7
The leech will attach itself to the wolf,
When the grain will sink into the sea,
But the great Prince without envy,
Through his embassy he will give him
Of his own grain to give him life,
He will provide himself with it for time of need.

XI 8
Shortly before the opening of commerce,
An ambassador will come from Persia,
To bring news to the Frank land:
But unreceived, vain hope,
It will be an offense to his great God,
Pretending to desire to abandom him.

XI 9
Two standards from the direction of Auvergne,
The left one taken, for a time prison rule,
And a Lady will want to lead her child
To the Copy-holder but the affair is discovered,
Danger of death and murmur throughout the land,
German, brother and sister prisoner in the Bastille.

XI 10
The Ambassador for a Lady
To his vessel will put the oar,
To beseech the great physician
That he relieve her of such pain,
But to this a Queen will be opposed,
Great pain before seeing the end of it.

XI 11
During the century one will see two streams
Flood an entire land with their waters,
And to be submerged by streams and fountains:
Shots at Montfrin Bouçoiron and Alais,
Very often troubled by the Gardon,
Six hundred and four, and thirty monks.

XI 12
Six hundred and five very great news,
The great quarrel of the two Lords,
It will take place near Gevaudan,
At a church after the offering
Murder committed, the priest begs
Trembling with fear he will flee.

XI 13
Six hundred and six or nine, the adventurer
Will be surprised by gall put in an egg,
And shortly afterwards he will be out of power
Through the powerful Emperor-General
To whom the world has not an equal,
Of which each iwll render him obedience.

XI 14
At the great siege great crimes again,
Starting again worse than ever
Six hundred and five in the spring,
There will take place the capture and recapture,
Soldiers in the fields until winter
Then afterwards it will begin again.

XI 15
The newly elected master of the great vessel,
He will see shining for a long time the clear flame
Which serves this great territory as a lamp,
And at which time armed under his name,
Joined with the happy ones of Bourbon
East, West and West his memory.

XI 16
In October six hundred and five,
The purveyor of the marine monster
Will take the unction from the sovereign,
Or in six hundred and six, in June,
Great joy for the common and the great ones alike,
Great deeds after this great baptism.

XI 17
At the same time a great one will suffer,
Merry, poor health, he will not see the completion of the year,
And several who will be at the feast,
Feast for one only, on this day,
But shortly afterwards without delaying long,
Two will knock their heads together.

XI 18
Considering the sad Nightingale
Who with tears and laments renews her anguish,
By such means making her days shorter,
Six hundred and five, she will see the end of it,
Of her torment, the cloth already woven,
By means of it sinister aid will she have.

XI 19
Six hundred and five, six hundred and six and seven,
It will show us up to the year seventeen,
The anger, hatred and jealousy of the incendiary,
For a long enough time hidden under the olive tree,
The Crocodile has hidden on the land,
That which was dead will then be alive.

XI 20
He who several times has
Held the cage and then the woods,
He will return to the first state
His life safe shortly afterwards to depart,
Still not knowing how to know,
He will look for a subject in order to die.

XI 21
The author of the evils will begin to reign
In the year six hundred and seven without sparing
All her subjects who belong to the leach,
And then afterwards she will come little by little
To the Frank country to relight her fire,
Returning whence whe has come.

XI 22
He who will tell, revealing the affair,
As with death, death will be able to do well
Blows of daggers which will have been incited by one,
His end will be worse than he will have devised to make
The end leads the men on land,
Watched for everywhere, as much by day as by night.

XI 23
When the great ship, the prow and rudder
Of the Frank land and its vital spirit,
By the sea shaken over reef and billow,
Six hundred and seven and ten, heart besieged
And afflicted by the ebbings of its body,
Upon this evil its life being renewed.

XI 24
The Mercurial not of too long a life,
Six hundred and eight and twenty, great sickness,
And yet worse danger from fire and water,
His great friend will the be against him,
With such hazards he could divert himself well enough,
But in brief, the sword will cause his death.

XI 25
Six hundred and six, six hundred and nine,
A Chancellor large as an ox,
Old as the Phoenix of the world,
In this world will shine no more,
He will pass with the ship of oblivion,
To the Elysian Fields to make his round.

XI 26
Two brothers are of the Ecclesiastical order,
One of them will take up the pike for France,
Another blow if in the year six hundred and six
He is not afflicted with a great malady,
Arms in his hand up to six hundred and ten,
Scarcely much further does his life extend.

XI 27
Celestial fire from the Western side,
And from the South, running up to the East,
Worms half dead without finding even a root.
Third age, for Mars the Warlike,
One will see fires shing from the Carbuncles.
Age a Carbuncle, and in the end famine.

XI 28
The year one thousand six hundred and nine or fourteen,
The old Charon will celebrate Easter in Lent,
Six hundred and six, in writing he will place it
The Physician, by all this is astonished,
At the same time summoned in person
But for certain one of them will appear.

XI 29
The Griffon is able to prepare himself
For resisting the enemy,
And to reinforce will his army,
Otherwise the Elephant will come
He who will suddenly surprise him,
Six hundred and eight, the sea aflame.

XI 30
In a short while the Physician of the great disease,
And the leech of the unequal rank and order,
They will set fire to the Olive branch,
Post running, from one side and another,
And by means of such fire their Empire approached,
Being rekindled by the Frank saliva finished.

XI 31
He who has overcome the hazards,
Who has ne'er dreaded sword, fire, water,
And of the country very close to Toulouse,
By a blow of steel the entire world astonished,
Strangely given by the Crocodile,
People delighted to see such a spectacle.

XI 32
Wine in abundance, cery good for the troops,
Tears and sighs, complaints, groans and alarm
The Sky will cause its thunderbolts to rain
Fire, water and blood, all mixed together,
Sun's heaven, shaking and trembling from it,
That which can be seen clearly no living person has e'er seen.

XI 33
Very soon after there will be very great misery,
From the scarcity of grain, which will be on the land
Of Dauphiny, Provence and Vivarais,
To Vivarais it is a poor prediction,
Father will eat his own son,
And from the woods they will eat root and acorn.

XI 34
Princes & Seigneurs tous ƒe feront la guerre,
Couƒin germain le frere auec le frere,
Tiny l'Arby de l'heureux de Bourbon,
De Hieruƒalem les Princes tant aimables,
Du fait commis enorme & execrables,
Se reƒƒentiront ƒur la bourƒe ƒans fond.

XI 35
Dame par mort grandement attriƒtée,
Mere & tutrice au ƒang qui l'a quittée.
Dame & Seigneurs, faits enfans orphelins,
Par les Aƒpics & par les Crocodilles,
Seront ƒurpris forts bourgs, chaƒteaux & villes,
Dieu Tout-puiƒƒant les garde de malins.

XI 36
La grand Rumene qui ƒera par la France,
Les impuiƒƒans voudront auoir puiƒƒance,
Langue emmielée & vrays Cameleons,
Deboute-feux, allumeurs de chandelles,
Pies & geys, rapporteurs de nouuelles,
Dont la morƒure ƒemblera Scorpions.

XI 37
Foible & puiƒƒant ƒeront en grand diƒcord,
Pluƒieurs mourront auant faire l'accord,
Foible au puiƒƒant vainqueur ƒe fera dire,
Le plus puiƒƒant au ieune cedera,
Et le plus vieux des deux decedera,
Lors que l'vn d'eux enuahira l'Empire.

XI 38
Par eau, & par fer, & par grand maladie
Le pouruoyeur à l'hazard de ƒa vie
Sçaura combien vaut le quintal du bois,
Six cents & quinze, ou le dix-neufieme
On grauera d'vn grand Prince cinquieme
L'immortel nom ƒur le pied de la Croix.

XI 39
Le pouruoyeur du monƒtre ƒans pareil
Se fera voir ainƒi que le Soleil
Montant le long la ligne Meridienne,
En pourƒuiuant l'Elephant & le Loup,
Nul Empereur ne fit iamais tel coup,
Et rien plus pis à ce Prince n'aduienne.

XI 40
Ce qu'en viuant le pere n'auoit ƒceu,
Il acquerra ou par guerre ou par feu,
Et combattra la ƒanƒuë is ritée,
Ou iouyra de ƒon bien paternel,
Et fauory du grand Dieu Eternel,
Aura bien toƒt ƒa prouince heritée.

XI 41
Vaiƒƒeaux, galleres auec leur eƒtendar
S'entrebattront pres du mont Gilbartar,
Et lors ƒera fort fait à Pampelonne,
Qui pour ƒon bien ƒouƒƒrira mile maux,
Par pluƒieurs fois ƒouƒtiendra les aƒƒaux,
Mais a la fin vny à la Couronne.

XI 42
La grand cité où eƒt le premier homme,
Bien amplement la Ville ie vous nomme,
Tout en allarme, & le ƒoldat és champs
Par fer & eau, gran dement aƒƒligée,
Et à la fin des François ƒoulagée,
Mais ce ƒera des ƒix cents & dix ans.

XI 43
Le petit coin, Prouinces mutinées,
Par forts chaƒte aux ƒe verront dominées,
Encor vn coup par la gent militaire
Dans breƒ ƒeront ƒortement aƒƒiegez,
Mais ils ƒeront d'vn tres-grand ƒoulagez,
Qui aura fait entrée dans Beaucaire..

XI 44
La belle roze en la France admirée,
D'vn tres-grand Prince à la fin deƒirée,
Six cents & dix, lors naiƒtront ƒes amours,
Cinq ans apres ƒera d'vn grand bleƒƒee,
De trai¢t d'Amour elle ƒera enlaƒƒée,
Si à quinze ans du Ciel reçoit ƒecours.

XI 45
De coup de fer, tout le monde eƒtonné,
Par Crocodil eƒtrangement donné,
A vn bien grand parent de la ƒangƒuë,
Et peu aupres ƒera vn autre coup
De guet a pend, commis contre le loup,
Et de tels ƒaits on verra l'iƒƒuë.

XI 46
Le pouruoyeur mettra tout en deƒroute,
Sangluë, & loup en mon dir n'eƒcoute,
Quand Mars ƒera au ƒigne du Mouton,
Ioint à Saturne, & Saturne à la Lune,
Alors ƒera ta plus grande infortune,
Le Soleil lors en exaltation.

XI 47
Le grand d'Hongrie ira dans la nacelle,
Le nouueau né fera guerre nouuelle
A ƒon voiƒin, qu'il tiendra aƒƒiegé,
Et le noireau auecque ƒon Alteƒƒe
Ne ƒouƒƒrira que par trop on le preƒƒe,
Durant trois ans ƒes gens tiendra rangé.

XI 48
De vieux Charon on verra le phœnix,
Eƒtre premier & dernier de ƒes fils,
Reluire en France, & d'vn chacun aimable,
Regner long-temps, auec tous les honneurs
Qu' aurontiamais eu ƒes predeceƒƒeurs,
Dont il rendra ƒa gloire memorable.

XI 49
Venus & Sol, Iupiter & Mercure
Augmenteront le genre de nature,
Grande alliance en France ƒe fera,
Et du Midy la ƒangƒnë de meƒme,
Le feu eƒteint par ce remede extreme
En terre ferme Oliuier plantera.

XI 50
Vn peu deuant ou apres l'Angleterre
Par mort de Loup miƒe auƒƒi bas que terre,
Verra le feu reƒiƒter contre l'eau,
Le r'allumant auecque telle force
Du ƒang humain, deƒƒus l'humaine eƒcorce
Faite de pain, bondance de couƒteau.

XI 51
La Ville qu'auoit en ƒes ans
Combatu l'iniure du temps,
Qui de ƒon vainquer tient la vie,
Celuy qui premier l'a ƒurpriƒt,
Que peu apres François repriƒt,
Par combats encor aƒƒoiblie.

XI 52
La grand Cité qui n'a pain à demy,
Encor vn coup la ƒain¢t Barthelemy
Engrauera au profond de ƒon ame,
Niƒmes, Rochelle, Geneue & Montpellier,
Caƒtre, Lyon, Mars entrant au Belier,
S'entrebattront le tout pour vne Dame.

XI 53
Pluƒieurs mourront auant que Phœnix meure,
Iuƒques ƒix cents ƒeptante eƒt ƒa demeure,
Paƒƒé quinze ans, vingt & vn, trente-neuf,
Le premier eƒt ƒuiet à maladie,
Et le ƒecond au fer, danger de vie,
Au feu à l'eau eƒt ƒuiet trente-neuf.

XI 54
Six cens & quinze, vingt, grand Dame mourra,
Et peu apres vn fort long temps plouura,
Pluƒieurs pays, Flandres & l'Angleterre
Seront par feu & par fer aƒƒligez,
De lours voiƒins longuement aƒƒiegez,
Contraints ƒeront de leur faire la guerre.

XI 55
Vn peu deuans ou apres tres-grand Dame
Son ame au Ciel & ƒon corps ƒous la lame,
De pluƒieurs gens regrettée ƒera,
Tous ƒes parens ƒeront en grand triƒteƒƒe,
Pleurs & ƒouƒpirs d'vne Dame en ieuneƒƒe,
Et à deux grands le dueil delaiƒƒera.

XI 56
Toƒt l'Elephant de toutes parts verra
Quand pourvoyeur au Griƒƒon ƒe ioindra,
Sa ruine proche, & Mars, qui touƒiours gronde,
Fera grands faits aupres de terre ƒain¢te,
Grands eƒtendars ƒur la terre & l'onde,
Si la nef a eƒté de deux freres enceinte.

XI 57
Peu apres l'alliance faite,
Auant ƒolemniƒer la feƒte,
L'Empereur le tout troublera,
Et la nouuelle mariée
Au franc pays par ƒort liée.
Dans peu de temps apres mourra.

XI 58
Sangƒuë eu peu de temps mourra,
Sa mort bon ƒigne nous donra
Pour l'accroiƒƒement de la France,
Alliances ƒe trouueront,
Deux grands Royaumes ƒe ioindront,
François aura ƒur eux puiƒƒance.

XI 91
MEysinier, Manthi & le tiers qui viendra
Peste & nouueau insult, enclos troubler :
Aix & les lieux fureur dedans mordra
Puis les Phocens viendrôt luer mal doubler.

XI 91
"Meysnier, Manthi" and the third one that will come,
Plague and new affront, to tourble the enclosure:
The fury will bite in Aix and the places thereabout,
Then those of Marseilles will want to double their evil.

XI 97
Par Villefranche Maƒcon en deƒarroy :
Dans les fagots ƒeront ƒoldats cachez.
Changer de temps en prime pour le Roy.
Par de Chalon & Moulins tous hachez.

XI 97
Through Villefranche, MÁcon in disorder,
Soldiers will be hidden in the bundles:
In the spring times to change for the King,
In ChÁlon and Moulins all cut to pieces.

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