Prophetic text
The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus
Nostradamus; translated and annotated by Theophilus de Garencières
The prophetic quatrains of Nostradamus with French text, English translation and commentary by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672).
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Edition and location
The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672), Century X, quatrain LXXII with its French text, English translation and annotation, p. 433 (Internet Archive b30334494, Wellcome Collection copy, leaf n520). French and English printed as verse; line breaks retained. “nonante” is partly smudged in this copy (OCR “nonarite”); the reading is confirmed by the English “ninety”. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer.
Century X, quatrain 72, p. 433