Q1 - Q5

CENTURY I Q1

ESTANT assis de nuict secret estude

Seul repose sur la selle d'aerain:

Flambe exigue sortant de solitude

Fait prosperer qui n'est a croire vain.

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Sitting at night in secret study

Resting alone on the brass tripod:

A slight flame comes out of the solitude

Making successful that which should not be believed in vain.

I Q2

La verge en main mise au milieu de Branches

De l'onde il moulle & le limbe & le pied:

Un peur & voix fremissent par les manches:

Splendeur diuine. Le diuin pres s'assied.

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Wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripod's legs.

With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot:

Fear, a voice he trembles in his robes.

Divine splendour. The divine sits nearby.

I Q3

Quand la lictiere du tourbillon versee,

Et seront faces de leurs manteaux couuers,

La republique par gens nouueaux vexee,

Lors blancs & rouges iureront a l'enuers.

*****

When the litter overturned by a whirlwind,

And faces are covered by their cloaks:

The republic will be troubled by new people,

At this time the whites and the reds will rule wrongly.

I Q4

Par l'vniuers sera faict vn monarque,

Qu'en paix & vie ne sera longuement,

Lors se perdra la piscature barque,

Sera regie en plus grand detriment.

*****

In the world there will be made a monarch,

Whose peace and life will not be long,

At this time the ship will be lost,

It will be ruled to greater detriment.

I Q5

Chasses seront pour faire long combat,

Par le pays seront plus fort greues:

Bourg & cite auront plus grand debat,

Carcas. Narbonne auront coeur esprouuez.

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They will be driven away by a long fight,

In the countryside they will be overpowered:

Town and city will have greater struggle,

Carcassonne and Narbonne will have their hearts tested.

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