particularities of that rich Mountain, and observed that the top of it
was almost all Azur, which tokens are the beams of that golden Sun and
are the hairs of that fair goodness, under whose feet all things submit;
in a word, are the true and infallible signs that underneath are Mines
of Gold and Silver. And as I have directed all my thoughts many times to
find out the means to compass so excellent a work, whose profit would
surpass all what the _Indies_ furnish unto strangers, and that with so
much less charges and danger, that there is no heed of Ships or Fleet to
cross over the Sea, from one Pole to the other, nor fight against any
enemies: at last I have attained to a certain knowledge, which putteth me
in hope, and makes me promise and engage my word, that at least I shall
find a thred of that golden Mine, which may chance to lead us to the
Centre of all these Treasures, but the Royal Authority being necessary
to prop up this design, it belongeth to his Majesty to take what course
he thinketh best for this, and to me to obey, execute his will. This
digression which is an assured experiment, (that is a certain truth),
is not come into this discourse, but only to prove that Mines grow by
augmentation, in converting into their own nature the more subtle parts
of the Neighbouring Earth. Thus far Doctor _de Rochas_.
XIII.
French.
Les Exilez autour de la _Sologne_,
Conduits de nuict pour marcher en l’_Auxois_,
Deux de _Modene_ truculent de _Bologne_,
Mis discouverts par feu de _Burancois_.
English.
The banished about _Sologne_,
Being conducted by night to go into _Auxois_,
Two of _Modena_, the cruel of _Bolonia_,
Shall be discovered by the fire of _Burancois_.
ANNOT.
_Sologne_ is a Province in _France_, between the _Perche_ and the _Main_.
_Auxois_ is a Countrey in the South of _France_, so called of its chief
Town called _Auch_, the seat of an Archbishop. _Modena_ is a Town in
_Italy_, and _Bolonia_ another not far from it. _Burancois_ is a part of
the Province of _Dauphiné_. The meaning then of this Prophecy is, this
being known, the Reader may easily find out the rest of the sense.
XIV.
French.
Mis en planure chauderon d’Infecteurs,
Vin miel en huile & bastis sur Fourneaux,
Seront plongez sans mal dit malfacteurs,
Sept. fum. extaint au Canon des _Borneaux_.
English.
A Dyers Kettle being put an a Plein,
With Wine, Honey and Oil, and built upon Furnace,
Shall be dipt, without evil, called Malefactors,
Seven. fum. put out at the Canon of _Borneaux_.
ANNOT.
This hath a relation to the punishment, which in some parts of _France_
and _Flanders_ is inflicted upon false Coiners, which are commonly boiled
in Oil, in a great Kettle, such as our Author here saith belong to Dyers.
The Author then will have that the time shall come, when seven of that
gang shall be so punished together in a Plain, where a great Kettle shall
be set for that purpose upon a Furnace.
XV.
French.
Pres de _Parpan_ les rouges detenus,
Ceux du milieu parfondrez menez loing,
Trois mis en pieces, & cinq mal soustenus,
Pour le Seigneur & Prelat de _Bourgoing_.
English.
Near unto _Parpan_ the red ones detained,
Those of the middle sunk and carried far off,
Three cut in pieces, and five ill backed,
For the Lord and Prelate of _Burgoing_.
ANNOT.
_Parpan_ is either a barbarous or fained name, by the _red ones_, he
hath hitherto understood some Cardinals, the Reader may expound the rest
according to his fancy.
XVI.
French.
De _Castel Franco_ sortira l’assemblée,
L’Ambassadeur non plaisant fera Schisme,
Ceux de _Riviere_ seront en la meslée,
Et au grand Goulphre desnieront l’entrée.
English.
Out of _Castel Franco_ shall come the Assembly,
The Embassador not pleased, shall make a Schisme,
Those of _Riviere_ shall be in the medley,
And shall deny the entry of the great Gulf.
ANNOT.
_Castel Franco_ is a Town in _Piemont_; _Riviere_ is a strong Castle in
_Burgundy_, but what he meaneth by the great Gulfe, is more then I can
tell.
XVII.
French.
Le tiers premier, pis que ne fit _Neron_,
Vuidez vaillant que sang humain respandre,
Redifier fera le Forneron,
Siecle d’or mort, nouveau Roy grand esclandre.
English.
The third first, worse than ever did _Nero_,
Go out valliant, he shall spill much humane blood,
He shall cause the Forneron to be builded again,
Golden Age dead, new King great troubles.
ANNOT.
This Prophecy pointeth directly at our Authors Master _Charles_ the IX.
King of _France_, whom he calleth he _the third first_, because he was
the third son to _Henry_ II. and came to be King, using more cruelties
then ever _Nero_ did, for he was the cause of the Massacre of the
Protestants in _France_ in the year 1572. where above a hundred thousand
people were murdered. _Forneron_ is a barbarous word, put here to make a
Verse, and to rhime with _Neron_. At that time he saith the _Golden Age
was dead_, and upon the coming of a new King, who was _Henry_ III. great
tumults did happen, and great Wars, as is to be seen in the _French_
History.
XVIII.
French.
Le Lys _Dauffois_ portera dans _Nancy_,
Jusques en _Flanders_ Electeur de l’Empire,
Neusve obturée au grand _Montmorency_,
Hors lieux pronez delivre a clere peyne.
English.
_Dauffois_ shall carry the Lillie into _Nancy_,
As far as _Flanders_ the Elector of the Empire,
New hinderance to great _Montmorency_,
Out of proved places, delivered to a clear pain.
ANNOT.
Although the words and sense of this Prophecy be most obscure,
nevertheless we shall endeavour as much as we can to render them
something intelligible to the Reader.
By the first Verse is to be understood that _Dauffois_, or rather
_Dauphinois_, which is the Title of the Kings of _France_ eldest Son
shall carry the Lillie, which is the Arms of _France_ into _Nancy_, the
chief Town in _Lorrain_, which came to pass in the time of the last King
_Lewis_ the XIII.
By the second Verse is understood the Elector of _Triers_, who was taken
by the _Spaniards_ in his own Town, and carried prisoner to _Bruxelles_.
By the third and fourth is expressed the ill luck of the Duke of
_Montmorency_, who having taken part with the Duke of _Lorrain_, and
the Duke of _Orleans_ the Kings Brother, was routed in a Battle, taken
prisoner, and afterwards beheaded at _Thoulouse_.
XIX.
French.
Dans le milieu de la Forest _Mayenne_,
_Sol_ au _Lion_ la Foudre tombera,
Le grand Bastard issu du grand _du Maine_,
Ce jour _Fougeres_ pointe en sang entrera.
English.
In the middle of the Forrest of _Mayenne_,
_Sol_ being in _Leo_ the Lightning shall fall,
The great Bastard begot by the great _du Main_,
That day _Fougeres_ shall enter its point into blood.
ANNOT.
_Fougeres_ is either the name of a Town in little _Britanny_, or that of
a Noble House, the words are very plain, therefore I leave the sense to
every ones capacity.
XX.
French.
De nuit viendra par la Forest de _Rennes_,
Deux parts _Voltorte Herne_, la pierre blanche,
Le Moine noir en gris dedans _Varennes_,
Esleu Cap. cause tempeste, feu, sang tranche.
English.
By night shall come through the Forrest of _Rennis_,
Two parts _Voltorte Herne_, the white stone,
The black Monk in gray within _Varennes_,
Elected Cap. causeth tempest, fire, blood cutteth.
ANNOT.
_Rennes_ is the chief Town of little _Britanny_; the second Verse being
made of barbarous words, is impossible to be understood. The third
and fourth Verse signifieth, that when a black Monk in that Town of
_Varennes_ shall put on a gray sute, he shall be elected Captain, and
cause a great tempest or broils by fire and blood.
XXI.
French.
Au Temple hault de _Blois_ sacre _Salonne_,
Nuict Pont de _Loire_, Prelat, Roy pernicant,
Cuiseur victoire aux marests de la _Lone_,
D’ou Prelature de blancs abormeant?
English.
At the high Temple of _Blois_ sacred _Salonne_,
In the night the Bridge of _Loire_, Prelat, King mischievous,
A smarting Victory in the Marsh of _Lone_,
Whence Prelature of white ones shall be abortive.
ANNOT.
There is a mistake in the first Verse, for instead of _Salonne_, it must
be written _Soulaire_, which is a _Priory_ and Church at the top of
_Blois_, all the rest signifieth that in one night these shall happen,
_viz._ that the Bridge, the Prelat, and a pernicious King with a smart
victory shall perish, whence the Prelature, that is the place of Command
upon the white ones, _viz._ Canons and Prebends in their Surplices, shall
be void and empty.
XXII.
French.
Roy & sa Cour au lieu de la _langue halbe_,
Dedans le Temple vis a vis du Palais,
Dans le Jardin Duc de _Montor_ & d’_Albe_,
_Albe_ & _Mantor_, poignard, langue, en Palais.
English.
King and his Court in the place of _langue halbe_,
Within the Church over against the _Pallace_,
In the Garden Duke of _Montor_ and _Albe_,
_Albe_ and _Mantor_, dagger, tongue and Pallate.
ANNOT.
This Stanza is very obscure, for, first no body can tell what he meaneth
by _langue halbe_, which is the foundation of all the rest of the sense;
Secondly, what this Duke of _Montor_ and _Mantor_ should be, which has
been unknown in the Histories hitherto; and thirdly, what construction
and sense can be made of these disjunctives: _Albe_, _Mantor_, _Dagger_,
_Tongue_, _Palate_. Therefore i’le leave it free to every bodies opinion
to make his construction.
XXIII.
French.
Puisnay jouant au fresch dessous la tonne,
Le haut du toit du milieu sur la teste,
Le Pere Roy au Temple Saint _Solonne_,
Sacrifiant sacrera sum de feste.
English.
The youngest Son playing under the tun,
The top of the House shall fall upon his head,
The King his Father in the Temple of Saint _Soulaine_,
Sacrificing shall make festival smoak.
ANNOT.
By this is meant, that the youngest Son of a King, shall be knocked in
the head, while he is a playing under a tun; his Father being at the same
time in the Temple of Saint _Soulaine_ at Mass.
XXIV.
French.
Sur le Palais au Rocher des Fenestres,
Seront ravis les deux petits Roiaux,
Passer _Aurelle_, _Lutece_, _Denis_ cloistres,
_Nonnain_, _Mollods_ avaler verts noiaux.
English.
Upon the Pallace at the Rock of the Windows;
Shall be carried the two little Royal ones,
To pass _Aurele_, _Lutece_, _Denis_ Cloisters,
_Nonnain_, _Mollods_ to swallow green stones of fruit.
ANNOT.
These two or three last Stanzas have been concerning the City of _Blois_,
to which it seemeth that this hath also relation, for he saith that
two little Royal Children shall be carried at the top of the Castle,
and shall be conveyed beyond _Aurelle_ (which is _Orleans_ in Latine
_Aurelianum_) _Lutece_, which is _Paris_; S. _Denis_ Cloisters, which is
beyond _Paris_, and a Nunnery besides, where it is like they shall be
left to eat green stones of fruit, which is not easie to be understood,
no more then the word _Mollods_.
XXV.
French.
Passant les Ponts, venir prez de Roziers,
Tard arrivé plustost quil cuidera,
Viendront les noves _Espagnols_ a _Beziers_,
Qui icelle chasse emprinse cassera.
English.
Going over the Bridge to come near the Rose-trees,
Come late, and sooner then he thought,
The new _Spaniards_ shall come to _Beziers_,
Who shall cashiere this new undertaken hunting.
ANNOT.
_Beziers_ is a City in _Languedoc_; the rest may be construed by the
meanest capacity.
XXVI.
French.
Nise sortie sur nom des Lettres aspres,
La grande Cappe fera present non sien,
Proche de _Vultry_ aux murs des vertes capres,
Apres _Plombin_ le vent a bon escient.
English.
A silly going out, caused by sharp Letters
The great Cap shall give what is not his,
Near _Vultry_ by the Walls of green Capers,
About _Piombino_ the wind shall be in good earnest.
ANNOT.
This signifieth that there shall be a silly surrendring of a Town, caused
by sharp and threatning Letters that shall be sent into it. By the great
_Cap_ he useth to understand the _Pope_, who he saith shall give what
is not it, as he hath done many times; _Vultry_, in Latine _Velitrum_,
and _Piombino_ are two Cities in _Italy_, which are threatned here with
mighty winds.
XXVII.
French.
De bois la garde vent clos ront Pont sera,
Haut le receu frappera le _Dauphin_,
Le vieux _Teccon_ bois unis passera,
Passant plus outre du Duc le droit confin.
English.
The Fence being of Wood, close Wind, Bridge shall be broken,
He that’s received high, shall strike at the _Dolphin_,
The old _Teccon_ shall pass over smooth Wood,
Going over the right confines of the Duke.
ANNOT.
The first Verse signifieth that a woodden Bridge shall be broken by a
close wind, as did happen to the Millers Bridge, and the Birds Bridge in
_Paris_.
The second Verse seemeth to foretel the conspiracy of the Mareshal of
_Biron_, against _Henry_ IV. his Dolphin and Estate.
The third and fourth, the Wars and Conquest which the said King (whom he
called old _Teccon_), made upon the Duke of _Savoy_, who had corrupted
the said Marshal of _Biron_.
XXVIII.
French.
Voile _Symacle_, Port _Massiliolique_,
Dans _Venise_ Port marcher aux _Pannons_,
Partir du Goulfre & sinus _Illirique_,
Vast a _Sicile_, _Ligurs_ coups de Canon.
English.
_Symaclian_ Sail, _Massilian_ Port,
In _Venice_ to march towards the _Hungarians_,
To go away from the Gulf and _Illirick_ Sea,
Toward _Sicily_, the _Genoeses_ with Cannon shots.
ANNOT.
What he meaneth by _Symaclian Sail_, is not easie to determine;
_Massilian Port_ is that of _Marseilles_ in _France_, called in Latine
_Massilia_, the sense of this Prophecy then if any be, is, that a
great Fleet shall go from thence to _Venice_, to carry succours to the
_Hungarians_, who it seemeth shall be much distressed at that time by
the _Turks_, and that _Sicily_ and _Genoa_ shall add to this Fleet a
considerable succour of Men, and Warlike Munition.
XXIX.
French.
Lors que celuy qu’a nul ne donne lieu,
Abandonner voudra lieu prins non pris,
Feu, Nef, par faignes, bitument a _Charlieu_,
Seront _Quintin_, _Bales_ repris.
English.
When he that giveth place to no body,
Shall forsake the place taken, and not taken,
Fire, Ship, by bleeding bituminous at _Charlieu_,
Then _Quintin_ and _Bales_ shall be taken again.
ANNOT.
_He that giveth place to no body_ is the Pope; as for the last Verse, I
had rather read St. _Quintin_ and _Gales_, which are two considerable
Towns in _France_, then otherwise.
That place taken, not taken was the City of _Noyon_ in _Picardy_, which
was taken by the _Spanish_ Cavalry, cloathed after the _French_ Mode,
which stratagem deceived the Citizens and Soldiers that defended it: so
he saith taken, because it fell into the hands of the _Spaniards_, and
_not taken_, because it was by a stratagem or deceit.
XXX.
French.
Au Port de _Puola_ & de St. _Nicolas_,
Perir _Normande_ au Gouffre _Phanatique_,
Cap de _Bizance_ rues crier Helas!
Secours de _Gaddes_ & du grand _Philippique_.
English.
At the Harbour of _Puola_ and of St. _Nicolas_,
A _Norman_ Ship shall perish in the Phanatick Gulf,
At the Cape of _Byzantium_ the streets shall cry Alas!
Succours from _Cadis_ and from the great _Philippe_.
ANNOT.
_Puola_ is for _Paulo_ here, and by it is understood the port of _Malta_,
which being Besieged by the _Turks_, _Philip_ the II. King of _Spain_,
sent an Army to relieve it, which made those of _Byzantium_ (which is
_Constantinople_) cry alas, _&c._
XXXI.
French.
Le tremblement de Terre a _Mortara_,
_Cassich_, St. _George_ a demy perfondrez,
Paix assoupie la guerre esuaillera,
Dans Temple a Pasques abysmes enfondrez.
English.
There shall be an Earthquake at _Mortara_,
_Cassich_, St. _George_ shall be half swallowed up,
The War shall awake the sleeping pace,
Upon Easterday shall be a great hole sunk in the Church.
ANNOT.
_Mortara_ is a Town in _Italy_, by _Cassich_ and St. _George_ he meaneth
two other places.
XXXII.
French.
De fin _Porphire_ profond Collon trouvée
Dessoubs la laze escrits Capitolin,
Os, poil retors, _Romain_ force prouvée,
Classe agiter au Port de _Methelin_.
English.
A deep Column of fine _Porphyry_ shall be found,
Under whose Basis shall be _Roman_ writings,
Bones, haires twisted, _Roman_ force tried,
A Fleet a gathering about the Port of _Methelin_.
ANNOT.
_Porphiry_ is a kind of hard red Marble speckled with white spots, which
is very scarce, and chiefly in great pieces; our Author then saieth that
a great Colomn of that stuff shall be found, and about the Basis of it
some words in Roman Characters, and that about that time a great Fleet
shall be a gathering at the Port of _Methelin_, which is an Island in the
_Archipelago_, belonging now to the _Turks_, as for the third Verse, I
cannot tell what to make of it.
XXXIII.
French.
_Hercules_ Roy de _Rome_ & _Dannemark_,
De _Gaule_ trois _Gayon_ surnommé,
Trembler l’_Itale_ & l’un de Saint _Marc_,
Premier sur tous Monarque renommée.
English.
_Hercules_ King of _Rome_, and _Denmark_,
Of _France_ three _Guyon_ surnamed,
Shall cause _Italy_ to quake and one of St. _Marck_,
He shall be above all a famous Monarch.
ANNOT.
All these intricated words and sense foretell that, when a King of
_Danmarck_ named _Hercules_ shall be made King of the _Romans_, that
then _Italy_ and _Venice_ it self shall stand in great fear of him; and
that he shall be as great a Prince or Monarch as ever was in _Europe_;
and that very likely, for by his dignity of King of the _Romans_ he
consequently shall attain to the Empire.
XXXIV.
French.
Le part solus Mary sera Mitré;
Retour conflict passera sur la tuille,
Par cinq cens un trahir sera tultré,
_Narbon_ & _Saulce_ par coutaux avons d’huile.
English.
The separated Husband shall wear a Miter,
Returning, Battle he shall go over the Tyle,
By five hundred one dignified shall be betrayed,
_Narbon_ and _Salces_ shall have Oil by the Quintal.
ANNOT.
The first Verse signifieth, that some certain man who was married, shall
be parted from his wife, and shall attain to some great Ecclesiastical
Dignity.
The second Verse is, that in coming back from some place or entreprise,
he shall be met and fought with, and compelled to escape over the Tyles
of a House.
The third Verse is, that a man of great account shall be betrayed by five
hundred of his men.
And the last, that when these things shall come te pass, _Narbon_ and
_Salces_, which are two Cities of _Languedoc_, shall reap and make a
great deal of Oil.
XXXV.
French.
Et _Ferdinand_ blonde sera descorte,
Quitter la fleur suivre le _Macedon_,
Au grand besoing defaillira sa routte,
Et marchera contre le _Myrmidon_.
English.
And _Ferdinand_, having a Troop of faire men,
Shall leave the flower to follow the _Macedonian_,
At his great need his way shall fail him,
And he shall go against the _Myrmidon_.
ANNOT.
This Prophecy ought to be understood of an Emperour of _Germany_, whose
name shall be _Ferdinand_, who being accompanied with many _Germans_,
that for the most part are faire haired people shall come and War
against _Græcia_, which is expressed here by the names of _Macedon_ and
_Myrmidon_, the first of which is a Countrey, and the last a Nation, both
in _Græcia_.
XXXVI.
French.
Un grand Roy prins entre les mains d’un jeune,
Non loin de Palques confusion, coup cultre:
Perpet. cattif temps que foudre en la Hune,
Trois Freres lors se blesseront & meurtre.
English.
A great King taken in the hands of a young one,
Not far from Easter, confusion, stroke of a knife,
Shall commit, pittiful time, the fire at the top of the Mast,
Three Brothers then shall wound one another, and murder done.
ANNOT.
This Prophecy was fulfilled in the year 1560. when _Antony_ of _Bourbon_
King of _Navarre_, and his Brother _Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of
_Condé_, coming to King _Francis_ II. at _Orleans_, upon the 29. of
_October_, the Prince of _Condé_ was put in prison, and the King of
_Navarre_ arrested. The Lord _Andrew Fauyn_ in his History of _Navarre_,
saith, that the opinion of the Councel was, that the Prince of _Condé_
should be beheaded, for having been the chief of the conspiracy at
_Amboise_, and the King of _Navarre_ should be stabbed in the Kings
Chamber by the King himself, assisted by others for that purpose. The
Lady of _Montpensier_ gave notice of it to the King of _Navarre_, who
being sent for by the King, charged expresly _Cattin_ his waiting man
and an old servant of his Father take a care and preserve his bloody
shirt after his death till his son came to Age, to revenge it upon the
murderers. God be thanked this came not to pass, for the King having
called him, and going about to provoke him with foul words, he answered
so meekly and humbly, that the Kings anger was appeased, where upon the
Duke of _Guise_ going out of the room said, _O what a cowardly Prince
is this_. These things are expressed in the first and second Verse,
when he saith that a great King should be put in Prison by a young one,
because _Antony_ of _Bourbon_, though he was not a great King in Lands,
yet he was a great one in courage and prudence. And it was _not far from
Easter_, sith it was but five months before, _viz._ from the beginning of
_November_, to the sixth of _April_ 1591 which was Easterday; the Author
putteth in this circumstance, because the next Easter after, the King of
_Navarre_ was made General of _France_ under the Queen Regent.
He addeth _the blow of a Knife_, as we have shewed; he also saith _a
lasting bad time_, which proved very true; moreover, he saith, _what
lightning in the Hunt_ or Topmast, because King _Francis_ died presently
after. In the fourth Verse he saith, _that three Brothers shall be hurt
and killed_, those three Brothers were _Antony_ of _Bourbon_ King of
_Navarre_, killed at the Siege at _Rouen_, the Cardinal of _Bourbon_, and
_Lewis_ of _Bourbon_ Prince of _Condé_, killed at the Battle of _Jarnac_.
XXXVII.
French.
Pont & Molins en _December_ versez,
En si haut lieu montera la _Garonne_:
Murs, Edifice, _Thoulouse_ renversez,
Qu’on ne scaura son lieu coutant matrone.
English.
Bridges and Mills in _December_ overturned,
In so high a place the _Garonne_ shall come,
Walls, Building, _Thoulose_ overturned,
So that none shall know its place, so much Matrone.
ANNOT.
Here is foretold a prodigious inundation of the River _Garonne_, in
the month of _December_, by which the Walls, Building, and the City
of _Thoulouse_ is threatned to be overturned. The last word of all is
barbarous, and added to make up the rhime.
XXXVIII.
French.
L’Entrée de _Blaye_ par _Rochelle_ & l’_Anglios_,
Passera outre le grand _Æmathien_:
Non loing d’_Agen_ attendra le _Gaulois_,
Secours _Narbonne_ deceu par entretien.
English.
The coming in at _Blaye_ by _Rochel_ and the _English_,
Shall go beyond the great _Æmathien_,
Not far from _Agen_ shall expect the _French_,
Help from _Narbonne_ deceived by entertainment.
ANNOT.
For the better understanding of this, the hard words must first be made
plain; _Blaye_ is a City upon the River _Garonne_, and the Port-Town
to _Bourdeaux_; _Rochel_ is a City upon the same Coast; _Agen_ is a
City in _Gascony_ not far from _Bourdeaux_, and _Narbonne_ is a City
in _Languedoc_, by the Mediterranean Sea; _Æmathian_ was formerly the
Countrey of _Macedonia_, wherein _Julius Cæsar_ and _C. Pompeius_ fought
their last Battle in the _Pharsalian_ Fields, and therefore saith the
Latine Poet _Lucanus_:
_Bella per Æmathios plusquam civilia campos._
These things being considered the sense is, that there shall be an
Invasion made by the _English_, to whom those of _Rochel_ shall joyn,
upon the Town of _Blaye_, which shall proceed as far as _Agen_, and
that thereabout will be a bloody Encounter between the _English_ and
_French_, beyond that which was fought in the _Æmathian_ Fields, and that
the succours that should come from _Narbonne_ to the _French_, shall be
deluded and hindered by the speech and discourse of some.
XXXIX.
French.
En _Arbissella_, _Vezema_ & _Crevari_,
De nuit conduits pour _Savonne_ atraper,
Le vif _Gascon_, _Giury_, & la _Charry_,
Derrier Mur vieux & neuf Palais grapper.
English.
In _Arbissella_, _Vezema_ and _Crevari_,
Being conducted by night to take _Savona_,
The quick _Gascon_, _Giury_ and the _Charry_,
Behind old Walls and new Pallace to graple.
ANNOT.
_Arbissella_ is a Town situated by the Sea-side above _Savona_, going
towards _Genoa_. _Vezema_ and _Crevari_ are in the Inland Countrey, and a
little further remoted from the Sea then _Arbissella_. _The quick Gascon_
was _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, one of the Valliantest men of his time, who
came from a single Souldier to be Marshal of _France_. _Guiry_ and _la
Charry_ were two of his Companions. This Stanza doth Prophetically
foretell two things, one is, the design that the Marshal of _Brissac_,
then Governour of _Piemont_ had upon _Savona_: the other, the taking of
_Pianca_ by _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, as to the first, the Lord of _Villars_
writeth in his Memorials, that the Lord _Damzay_ sent advice to the King,
that the taking of _Savona_ was more probable then any other design,
which signifieth that the Marshal of _Brissac_ had of a long time eyed
that Town, and therefore he sent by night some Troops into those three
little Towns, to see if they could surprise _Savona_, but the design did
not succeed. The Histories only mention that the Marshal of _Brissac_ went
from Court in the year 1557. with a design to take _Savona_; but this
stanza speaketh of the same design 1556.