CENTURY IX. (continued 2)
Theophilus Garencières translation
XCII.
French. Le Roy voudra dans Cité neufve entrer, Par ennemis expugner l’on viendra, Captif libere, faulx dire & perpetrer, Roy dehors estre, loin d’ennemis tiendra. English. The King shall desire to enter into the new City, With foes they shall come to overcome it, The Prisoner being free, shall speak and act falsly, The King being gotten out, shall keep far from enemies.
ANNOT.
The sense of all these words so ill jointed, is no more but that a certain King shall desire to enter into a new City, and there they shall come and Besiege him, where he shall both act and speak deceitfully to get his liberty, which having obtained, shall keep far from his foes.
XCIII.
French. Les ennemis du Fort bien esloignez, Par Chariots conduits le Bastion, Par sur les Murs de Bourges esgrongnez, Quand Hercules battra l’Hæmathion. English. The enemies being a good way from the Fort, Shall upon Wagons be conducted to the Bulwark, From the top of Bourges Walls they shall be cut less, When Hercules shall beat the Hæmathion.
ANNOT.
Bourges is the chief City of a Province in France called Berry.
There is nothing difficult in this, but onely what he meaneth by Hercules beating the Æmathion, unless by Hercules he meaneth the French, and by Æmathion the Spaniard.
XCIV.
French. Foibles Galeres seront unis ensemble, Ennemis faux, le plus fort en rempart, Foible assailies Wratislavie tremble; Lubeck & Mysne tiendront Barbare part. English. Weak Galleys shall be united together, False enemies, the strongest shall be fortified, Weak assaults, and yet Breslaw quaketh for fear, Lubeck and Misne shall take the part of the Barbarians.
ANNOT.
Breslaw, Lubeck and Misne, are three Cities of Germany; the rest is plain.
XCV.
French. Le nouveau fait conduira l’exercite, Proche apamé jusque aupres du Rivage, Tendant secours de Melanoise eslite, Duc yeux privé, a Milan fer de Cage. English. The new man shall lead up the Army, Near Apamé, till near the Bank, Carrying succours of choice Forces from Milan, The Duke deprived of his eyes, and an Iron Cage at Milan.
ANNOT.
Apamé is a barbarous word, at least I cannot tell what language it is, the rest is plain enough, and signifieth that a Duke shall be deprived of his eyes, and shall be put in an Iron Cage at Milan.
XCVI.
French. Dans Cité entrer exercite desniée, Duc entrera par persuasion, Aux foibles portes clam Armée amenée, Mettront feu, mort, de sang effusion. English. The Army being denied the entrance of the City, The Duke shall enter by persuasion, To the weak Gates, clam the Army being brought, Shall put all to fire and sword.
ANNOT.
Clam here is in Latine præposition, signifying secretly; the rest is easie.
XCVII.
French. De Mer Copies en trois parts divisées, A la seconde les Vivres failliront, Desesperez cherchant Champs Elisées, Premiers en breche entrez victoire auront. English. A Fleet being divided into three parts, The victuals will fail the second part, Being in despaire they’l seek the Elysian Fields, And entring the breach first, shall obtain victory.
ANNOT.
A Fleet being divided into three parts, the second division shall fall into want of victuals, for which being desperate, they shall attempt the Town of the enemy, and shall enter it by the breach, and get the victory.
XCVIII.
French. Les affligez par faute d’un seul taint, Contremenant a partie opposite, Aux Lygonois mandera que contraint, Seront de rendre le grand chef de Molite. English. The afflicted want of one only died, Carrying against the opposite part, Shall send word to those of Lyon, they shall be compelled, To surrender the great chief of Molite.
ANNOT.
This is the most nonsensical thing that is in all the Book, for neither the words nor the connexion is intelligible, therefore it being so much out of the common road of our Author, I am apt to believe that it was at first very falsly printed, and that those that came after, were loth to alter it for the respect of antiquity.
XCIX.
French. Vent Aquilon fera partir le Siege, Par murs jetter cendres, chaulx, & poussiere, Par pluye apres qui leur sera bien piege, Dernier secours encontre leur Frontiere. English. The North wind shall cause the Siege to be raised, They shall throw ashes, lime, and dust, By a rain after that shall be a trap to them, It shall be the last succours against their Frontiere.
ANNOT.
Here is described a notable stratagem of a Besieged Town, who against rainy weather cast so much ashes, lime and dust, that the rain coming thereupon, it made such a mire, as the Besiegers were not able to assault it.
C.
French. Navale pugne nuict sera superée, Le feu, aux Naves a l’Occident ruine, Rubriche neuve, la grand néf colorée, Ire a vaincu, & victoire en bruine. English. In a Sea-fight, night shall be overcome, By fire, to the Ships of the West ruine shall happen, A new stratagem, the great Ship coloured, Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a Mist.
ANNOT.
He foretelleth of a Sea-fight in the night, wherein by the light of the burning Ships night shall be overcome, the Ships that came from the West shall be worsted, and by a stratagem of a great Ship painted in colours, anger shall remain to the vanquished, and the victory shall be got in a Mist.
