Century I Q31-Q35

C1:Q31

Tant d'ans les guerres en Gaule dureront,
Outre la course du Castulon monarque:
Victoire incerte trois grands couronneront,
Aigle, coq, lune, lyon, soleil en marque.

For too many years the wars in France, will last,
Beyond the reign of the Castulon monarch:
Uncertain victory will three great ones crown,
The eagle, cock, moon, lion, sun in its mark.

C1:Q32

Le grand Empire sera tost translaté
En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre :
Lieu bien infime d'exigue comté,
Ou au milieu viendra poser son sceptre.

The great Empire will soon be exchanged
For a little place, which will soon begin to grow:
A very pretty small place for a county,
In the middle of which he will come to lay down his sceptre.

C1:Q33

Prés d'vn grand pont de plaine spatieuse,
Le grand lyon par forces Cesarées :
Fera abbatre hors cité rigoureuse,
Par effroy portes luy seront reserées.

Near a great bridge of a spacious plain,
The great lion with Imperial forces:
Will cause a felling outside the austere city,
Because of fear the gates will be opened to him.

C1:Q34

L'oyseau de proye volant à la senestre,
Auant conflict faict aux Françoys pareure:
L'vn bon prendra l'vn ambigue sinistre,
La partie foyole tiendra par bon augure.

The bird of prey flying to the left,
Before conflict is prepared by the French:
One will take it as good, another for a sinister mixed bag,
The weak country will hold it as a good omen.

C1:Q35

Le lyon ieune le vieux surmontera,
En champ bellique par singulier duelle:
Dans caige d'or les yeux luy creuera,
Deux classes vne, puis mourir, mort cruelle.

The young lion will overcome the older one,
In a field of combat in single battle:
He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,
Two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.

IAN HARVEY.