Century 1 - Quatrain 1
Being seated by night in secret study,
alone resting on the brass stool:
A slight flame coming forth from the solitude,
that which is not believed in vain is made to succeed.
Century 1 - Quatrain 2
With rod in hand set in the midst of Branchus,
with the water he wets both limb and foot:
Fearful, voice trembling through his sleeves:
Divine splendor. The divine seats himself near by.
Century 1 - Quatrain 3
When the litter is overturned by the whirlwind,
and faces shall be covered by their cloaks,
the republic shall be vexed by new people,
then whites and reds shall judge in contrary ways.
Century 1 - Quatrain 4
In the world there shall be one Monarch
who shall not long be in peace or alive:
Then the fishing bark shall be lost,
it shall be ruled to its greater detriment.
Century 1 - Quatrain 5
They shall be driven away without much fighting,
they shall be very much harried in the country:
Town and city shall have a greater debate:
Carcassonne and Narbonne shall have their hearts tried.
Century 1 - Quatrain 6
The eye of Ravenna shall be forsaken,
when the wings give way at its feet:
The two of Bresse shall have made arrangements in
Turin and Vercelli, which the Gauls shall trample.
Century 1 - Quatrain 7
The arrival late, the execution completed,
the wind contrary, the letters seized en route:
The conspirators fourteen of a sect,
the enterprises by the wise Red-haired One.
Century 1 - Quatrain 8
How many times shall you be taken, solar city,
changing the barbarian and vain laws:
Your evil approaches: You shall be more tributary,
the great Adria shall re-cover your veins.
Century 1 - Quatrain 9
From the Orient shall come the Punic heart
to vex Adria and the heirs of Romulus,
accompanied by the Libyan fleet,
Malta trembling and the neighboring isles empty.
Century 1 - Quatrain 10
The serpent conveyed in the iron cage
where the seven children of the King are taken:
Their progenitors shall come out from their underworld below,
before dying seeing of their offspring death and cries.
Century 1 - Quatrain 11
The motion of sense, heart, feet and hands
will be in accord. Naples, Leon, Sicily:
Swords, fires, waters, then the noble Romans
submerged, killed, dead because of weak brain.
Century 1 - Quatrain 12
In a short time a false, frail brute shall lead,
elevated quickly from low to high:
Then in an instant disloyal and labile,
he who shall have the government of Verona.
Century 1 - Quatrain 13
The exiles because of anger and intestine hatred
will bring a great conspiracy to bear against the King:
Secretly they shall place enemies as a threat,
and his own old ones against them sedition.
Century 1 - Quatrain 14
From the slavish people songs, chants and requests,
for Princes and Lords captives in the prisons:
In the future such by headless idiots
will be received as divine utterances.
Century 1 - Quatrain 15
Mars menaces us with his warlike force,
seventy times shall he cause blood to flow:
Rise and fall for the clergy and more for
those who shall want to hear nothing from them.
Century 1 - Quatrain 16
The scythe joined with the pond towards Sagittarius
at the high point of its ascendant,
Plague, famine, death by military hand,
the century approaches its renewal.
Century 1 - Quatrain 17
For forty years the rainbow shall not appear,
for forty years it shall be seen every day:
The parched earth shall wax more dry,
and great floods shall accompany its appearance.
Century 1 - Quatrain 18
Because of the Gallic discord and negligence
a passage shall be opened to Mahomet:
The land and sea of Siena soaked in blood,
the Phocaean port covered with sails and ships.
Century 1 - Quatrain 19
When the serpents shall come to encompass the altar,
the Trojan blood shall be vexed by the Spaniards:
Because of them a great number shall be made to suffer for it,
the chief flees, hidden in the marshes.
Century 1 - Quatrain 20
Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes,
cities vexed through sudden change:
Tents shall be pitched by those of foreign tongues,
rivers, darts at Rennes trembling of the land and sea.
Century 1 - Quatrain 21
Deep white clay nourishes the rock,
which from an abyss shall go forth milky,
needlessly troubled they shall not dare touch it,
unaware that the earth at the bottom is clayish.
Century 1 - Quatrain 22
That which shall live without having any sense,
its artifice shall come to be fatally injured:
For Autun, Chalon, Langres and the two Sens,
hail and ice shall cause much evil.
Century 1 - Quatrain 23
In the third month the Sun rising,
the Boar and Leopard on the field of Mars to fight:
The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens,
sees an Eagle playing around the Sun.
Century 1 - Quatrain 24
At the new city contemplating a condemnation,
the bird of prey comes to offer itself to the heavens:
after victory pardon to captives,
Cremona and Mantua shall have suffered great evils.
Century 1 - Quatrain 25
Lost, found, hidden for so long a time,
the pastor shall be honored as a demigod:
Before the Moon finishes its full period
he shall be dishonored by other winds.
Century 1 - Quatrain 26
The great one of the lighting falls in the daytime,
evil predicted by the bearer of demands:
According to the prediction he falls in the nighttime.
Conflict at Reims, London, Tuscan plague.
Century 1 - Quatrain 27
Under the oak tree of Guienne struck from the sky,
not far from there is the treasure hidden:
He who for long centuries had been gathered,
found he shall perish, his eye put out by a spring.
Century 1 - Quatrain 28
The tower of Bouc shall fear the Barbarian foist,
then much later, the Hesperian bark:
Cattle, people, chattels, both cause great waste,
bull and balance, what a mortal quarrel!
Century 1 - Quatrain 29
When the terrestrial and aquatic fish
will be put upon the beach by a strong wave,
its form strange, attractive and frightful,
by sea the enemies very soon at the walls.
Century 1 - Quatrain 30
Because of the stormy seas the strange ship
will approach an unknown port,
notwithstanding the signals from the branch of palm,
after death, pillage: good advice given late.
Century 1 - Quatrain 31
The wars in Gaul shall last for many years,
beyond the course of the monarch of Castulo:
uncertain victory shall crown three great ones,
the Eagle, Cock, Moon, Lion, Sun engraved.
Century 1 - Quatrain 32
The great empire shall soon be transferred
to a little place which shall very soon come to grow:
a very lowly place in a petty country
in the middle of which he shall come to lay down his sceptre.
Century 1 - Quatrain 33
Near a great bridge of a spacious plain,
the great Lion with Imperial forces,
he shall cause a felling outside the austere city,
because of fear the gates shall be opened to him.
Century 1 - Quatrain 34
The bird of prey flying to the left side,
before the conflict preparation made by the French:
One shall take it for good, another for ambiguous,
the weak party shall hold it as a good omen.
Century 1 - Quatrain 35
The young lion shall overcome the old one
on the field of battle in single combat:
He shall put out his eyes in a cage of gold:
Two forces one, then to die a cruel death.
Century 1 - Quatrain 36
Too late the monarch shall repent
of not having put to death his adversary:
but he shall come to consent to a much greater thing,
that of killing off all his blood.
Century 1 - Quatrain 37
Shortly before the Sun sets,
battle is given a great people in doubt:
Ruined, the marine port makes no reply,
bridge and sepulchre in two strange places.
Century 1 - Quatrain 38
The Sun and the Eagle shall appear as victor,
the vanquished is reassured with a vain reply:
with hue and cry they shall not cease arming,
revenge, because of death peace made right on schedule.
Century 1 - Quatrain 39
By night the highest one strangled in bed
because the blond elect had tarried to long.
the Empire enslaved by three in substitution,
put to death with document and packet unread.
Century 1 - Quatrain 40
The false trumpet concealing madness
will bear Byzantium a change of laws:
from Egypt there shall go forth one who wants withdrawl of
Edicts debasing the quality of coins.
Century 1 - Quatrain 41
City besieged, and assaulted by night,
few escaped: conflict not far from the sea:
on the return of her son a woman fainting from joy,
poison and letters hidden in the fold.
Century 1 - Quatrain 42
The tenth of the Calends of April of Gothic count
revived again by wicked folk:
the fire put out, diabolic assembly
searching for the bones of the Demon of Psellus.
Century 1 - Quatrain 43
Before the change of Empire occurs,
a very marvelous event shall take place:
the field moved, the pillar of porphyry
placed, transferred onto the knotty rock.
Century 1 - Quatrain 44
In short sacrifices shall be resumed,
transgressors shall be put to martyrdom:
no longer shall there be monks, abbots or novices:
honey shall be much more expensive than wax.
Century 1 - Quatrain 45
Founder of sects much grief to the accuser:
Beast in the theater, the pantomine prepared:
the inventor exalted by the ancient fact,
the world confused and schismatic because of sects.
Century 1 - Quatrain 46
Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande
great fire shall fall from the sky for three nights:
a very stupendous and marvelous event shall occur:
very soon after the earth shall tremble.
Century 1 - Quatrain 47
The sermons from the Lake of Geneva annoying,
from days they shall grow into weeks,
then months, then years, then all shall fail,
the Magistrates shall damn their useless laws.
Century 1 - Quatrain 48
Twenty years of the reign of the Moon passed,
Seven thousand years another shall hold its monarchy:
when the Sun shall take its tired days
then is accomplished and finished my prophecy.
Century 1 - Quatrain 49
Very much before such intrigues
those of the East by virtue of the Moon:
the year 1700 they shall cause great ones to be carried off,
almost subjugating the Aquilon corner.
Century 1 - Quatrain 50
Of the aquatic triplicity there shall be born
one who shall make of Thursday his holiday:
his fame, praise, rule and power shall grow,
by land and sea a tempest to the East.
Century 1 - Quatrain 51
Jupiter and Saturn in the head of Aries,
Eternal God, what changes!
Then for a long age his wicked time returns,
Gaul and Italy, what disturbance.
Century 1 - Quatrain 52
The two wicked ones conjoined in Scorpio,
the Grand Seignior murdered in his hall:
Plague to the Church by the King newly joined,
Europe low and northerly.
Century 1 - Quatrain 53
Alas! a great people shall one see tormented
and the holy law in utter ruin,
other laws throughout all Christendom,
when a new mine of gold and silver is discovered.
Century 1 - Quatrain 54
Two revolutions made by the wicked scythe-bearer,
change made in realm and centuries:
the movable sign so intrusive in its place
to the two equal and like-minded.
Century 1 - Quatrain 55
Under the climate opposite to the Babylonian
their shall be great effusion of blood,
the unrighteous shall be on land and sea, in air and sky,
Sects, famine, realms, plagues, confusion.
Century 1 - Quatrain 56
You shall see great change made soon and late,
extreme horrors and vengeances.
Because as the Moon is conducted by its angel,
the Sun is approaching its inclinations.
Century 1 - Quatrain 57
Through great dissension the earth shall tremble,
harmony broken lifting its head to heaven:
the bloody mouth shall swim in the blood,
on the ground the face anointed with milk and honey.
Century 1 - Quatrain 58
The belly cut, it shall be born with two heads
and four arms: several years it shall live intact:
the day on which Aquileia shall celebrate its feasts,
Fossano, Turin, the chief of Ferrara shall follow.
Century 1 - Quatrain 59
The exiles transported to the isles,
at the advent of a more cruel monarch,
will be murdered, and burnt two
who had not been sparing with their speech.
Century 1 - Quatrain 60
An Emperor shall be born near Italy,
one who shall cost his Empire a high price:
they shall say that from the sort of people who surround him
he is to be found less prince than butcher.
Century 1 - Quatrain 61
The miserable unhappy republic
will be ruined by the new magistrate:
their great accumulation in wicked exile
will cause the Suevi to tear up their great contract.
Century 1 - Quatrain 62
Alas! What a great loss shall letters suffer,
before the cycle of Latona is completed:
fire, great deluge more through ignorant rulers
than shall be seen made up for a long time.
Century 1 - Quatrain 63
The scourges passed the world shrinks,
for a long time peace and populated lands:
one shall travel safely by air, land, sea and wave,
then the wars stirred up anew.
Century 1 - Quatrain 64
They shall think they have seen the Sun at night
when they shall see the pig half-man:
noise, song, battle, fighting in the sky perceived,
and one shall hear brute beasts talking.
Century 1 - Quatrain 65
Child without hands never was so great a thunderbolt seen:
the royal child wounded at the game of tennis.
On the hill fractures: lightning going to grind:
Three under the oaks trussed up in the middle.
Century 1 - Quatrain 66
He who then shall bear the news,
he shall shortly after come to rest.
Viviers, Tournon, Montferrand and Pradelles,
hail and storms shall make them sigh.
Century 1 - Quatrain 67
The great famine that I sense approaching,
often turning, then becoming universal,
so great and long that one shall come to pull out
roots from woods, and babe from breast.
Century 1 - Quatrain 68
Oh, what a horrible and miserable torment,
three innocent ones whom one shall come to deliver.
Poison suspected, poorly guarded betrayal:
delivered to horror by drunken executioners.
Century 1 - Quatrain 69
The great round mountain of seven stades,
after peace, war, famine, flood,
it shall roll far sinking great countries,
even the ancient ones, and of great foundation.
Century 1 - Quatrain 70
Rain, famine, war in Persia not over,
the too great faith shall betray the monarch,
finished there begun in Gaul:
secret sign for one to be moderate.
Century 1 - Quatrain 71
The marine tower thrice taken and retaken
by Spaniards, Barbarians and Ligurians:
Marseilles and Aix, Arles by those of Pisa.
Devastation, fire, swords, Avignon pillaged by Turinese.
Century 1 - Quatrain 72
The inhabitants of Marseilles completely changed,
flight and pursuit up to near Lyons.
Narbonne, Toulouse wronged by Bordeaux:
Killed and captives nearly a million.
Century 1 - Quatrain 73
France because of negligence assailed on five sides,
Tunis, Algiers stirred up by Persians:
Leon, Seville, Barcelona having failed,
for the Venetians there shall be no fleet.
Century 1 - Quatrain 74
After having tarried they shall wander into Epirus:
The great relief shall come towards Antioch,
the black frizzled hair shall strive strongly for the Empire:
Bronzebeard shall roast him on a spit.
Century 1 - Quatrain 75
The tyrant of Siena shall occupy Savona:
The fort won he shall hold the marine fleet:
The two armies for the march of Ancona,
because of terror the chief examines his conscience about it.
Century 1 - Quatrain 76
With a name so wild shall he be brought forth
that the three sisters shall have the name for destiny:
Then he shall lead a great people by tongue and deed,
more than any other shall he have fame and renown.
Century 1 - Quatrain 77
Between two seas he shall erect a promontory
he who shall then die by the bite of a horse:
The proud Neptune shall fold the black sail,
through Gibraltar and the fleet near Rocheval.
Century 1 - Quatrain 78
He shall be born of an old chief with dulled senses,
degenerating in knowledge and in arms:
The chief of France feared by his sister,
fields divided, granted to the troops.
Century 1 - Quatrain 79
Bazas, Lectoure, Condom, Auch, Agen
moved by laws, quarrel and monopoly:
For Bordeaux Toulous Bayonne shall ruin:
Wishing to renew their bull-sacrifice.
Century 1 - Quatrain 80
From the sixth bright celestial splendor
it shall come to thunder very fiercely in Burgundy:
Then of a very hideous beast shall be born a monster.
March, April, May, June great tearing and clipping.
Century 1 - Quatrain 81
Nine shall be set aside from the human flock,
removed from judgment and counsel:
Their fate shall be determined on departure,
Kappa, Thita, Lambda, dead, banished, astray.
Century 1 - Quatrain 82
When the columns of wood trembling greatly,
led by the South Wind, covered with red ochre:
A very great assembly shall empty outside,
Vienna and the land of Austria shall tremble.
Century 1 - Quatrain 83
The strange nation shall divide spoils,
Saturn in Mars his aspect furious:
Horrible slaughter of the Tuscans and Latins,
Greeks, who shall desire to strike.
Century 1 - Quatrain 84
The Moon hidden in deep shadows,
her brother passes with rusty color:
The great one hidden for a long time under the eclipses,
iron shall cool in the bloody wound.
Century 1 - Quatrain 85
Because of the lady's reply, the King troubled:
Ambassadors shall take their lives in their hands:
The great one doubly shall imitate his brothers,
two who shall die through anger, hatred and envy.
Century 1 - Quatrain 86
The great Queen when she shall see herself vanquished
will act with an excess of masculine courage:
On horseback, she shall pass over the river entirely naked,
pursued by the sword: it shall mark an outrage to faith.
Century 1 - Quatrain 87
Volcanic fire from the center of the earth
will cause trembling around the new city:
Two great rocks shall make war for a long time.
Then Arethusa shall redden a new river.
Century 1 - Quatrain 88
The divine sickness shall surprise the great Prince
shortly before he shall have married a woman,
his support and credit shall suddenly become slim,
counsel shall perish for the shaven head.
Century 1 - Quatrain 89
All those from Lerida shall be in Moselle,
putting to death all those from the Loire and Seine:
Marine relief shall come near the high wall
when the Spaniards open every vein.
Century 1 - Quatrain 90
Bordeaux, Poitiers at the sound of the tocsin,
with a great fleet one shall go as far as Langon,
their north wind shall be against the Gauls,
when a hideous monster shall be born near Orgon.
Century 1 - Quatrain 91
The Gods shall make it appear to the mortals
that they shall be the authors of the great conflict:
Sword and lance before the sky is seen serene,
so that there shall be a greater affliction to the left hand.
Century 1 - Quatrain 92
Under one peace shall be proclaimed everywhere,
but not long after pillage and rebellion,
because of a refusal town, land and sea encroached upon,
dead and captives one third of a million.
Century 1 - Quatrain 93
The land of Italy shall tremble near the mountains,
Lion and Cock not too well confederated,
in place of fear they shall help each other,
only Castulo and the Celts moderate.
Century 1 - Quatrain 94
At Port Selin the tyrant put to death
liberty nevertheless not recovered:
The new Mars because of vengeance and remorse,
the Lady honored through force of terror.
Century 1 - Quatrain 95
A twin child found before the monastery
one of the ancient and heroic blood of a monk:
His fame, renown and power through sect and tongue
Such that one shall say the perfect twin has been well raised.
Century 1 - Quatrain 96
He who shall have charge of destroying
temples and sects, changed through fantasy:
He shall come to do more harm to rocks than to living people
because of the din in his ears of a polished tongue.
Century 1 - Quatrain 97
That which fire and sword did not know how to accomplish,
the smooth tongue in council shall come to achieve:
Through repose, a dream, the King shall be made to meditate,
the enemy more in fire and military blood.
Century 1 - Quatrain 98
The chief who shall have led an infinite people
far from skies of their own, of customs and tongue strange:
Five thousand finished in Crete and Thessaly,
the chief fleeing saved in a marine barn.
Century 1 - Quatrain 99
The great monarch who shall make company
with two Kings united by friendship:
Oh, what a sigh shall the great host make,
children around Narbonne, what a pity.
Century 1 - Quatrain 100
For a long time a gray bird shall be seen in the sky
near Dole and Tuscan land:
Holding in its beak a verdant sprig,
soon the great one shall die and the war shall end.
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