Century I Q26-Q30

C1:Q26

Le grand du fouldre tumbe d'heure diurne,

Mal & predict par porteur postulaire:

Suiuant presage tumbe d'heure nocturne,

Conslit Reims, Londres, Etrusque pestifere.

The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt,

Evil deed, predicted by the bearer of a petition:

According to the prediction another falls at night time.

Conflict in Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.

C1:Q27

Dessouz de chaine Guien du Ciel frappé,

Non loing de la est caché le tresor:

Qui par longs siecles auoit esté grappé,

Trouué mourra, l'oeil creué de ressort.

Beneath mountain chain of Guienne struck from the heavens,

Not far from there the treasure is hidden:

That which for many centuries has been gathered,

When found, it will perish, the eye pierced by a spring.

C1:Q28

La tour de Boucq craindra fuste Barbare,

Vn temps, long temps apres barque hesperique:

Bestail, gês, meubles, tous deux feront grad tare,

Taurus & Libra quelle mortelle picque?

Tobruk will fear the barbarian boat,

For a long time, much later the Western fleet:

Cattle, people, possessions, both will cause great waste,

What a deadly combat in Taurus and Libra!

C1:Q29

Quand le poisson terestre & aquatique,

Par force vague au grauier sera mis :

Sa forme estrange suaue & horrifique,

Par mer aux murs bien tost les ennemis.

When the fish that travels over both land and sea,

Is cast upon the beach by a strong wave:

Its form strange, smooth and horrific,

From the sea to the walls they soon reach the enemy.

C1:Q30

La nef estrange par le tourment marin,

Abourdera pres de port incongneu:

Nonobstant signes de rameau palmerin,

Apres mort pille bon auis tard venu.

Because of the tormented sea, the strange ship,

Will arrive at an unknown port:

Notwithstanding the signs of the palm branch,

After death, pillage: Good advice comes too late.

IAN HARVEY.