Oracles of Nostradamus by Ward Charles A. (Charles Alexander) 1942-

Author:Ward, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1942- [Ward, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1942-]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Nostradamus, 1503-1566
Publisher: London : Leadenhall Press ; New York : Scribner & Welford
Published: 2012-08-24T17:48:42+00:00

* Tiers = third.

t Vuidez = Latin, videte, see.

X Que = how much.

§ Forneron = La.Un, for/tax, furnace.

Century VIII. — Quatrain 19. [l. 192 ]

A* soustenir la grand' cappe t troublee, Pour I'esclaircir les rouges marcheront: De mort famille sera presque accablee, Les rouges rouges la rouge assommeront.

Translation.

They will not sustain the great but troubled Capets, The reds will take steps to purge their number, They will almost exterminate the family with death. The red of reds will overwhelm the red.

This very forcibly announces the Reign of Terror to have set in. The reds will do what in them lies to crush the Capets, till they have almost annihilated the family in death; and, then the reddest reds will guillotine the reds,—the Montagnards the Girondists.. Bouys does not allude to this, though one would have thought it must strike every reader as far as what is said relating to the conduct of the double-dyed reds against the moderate reds. Garenci^res' mistakes serve to show how impossible it was to guess at the meaning of a quatrain in the seventeenth century. He fancies this to refer to some conspiracy of red Cardinals against a Pope, to be designated the Red one.

Century VI. — Quatrain 69. [l. 193.]

La pitid grand' sera sans loing tarder,

Ceux qui donoyent seront contraints de prendre :

Nuds, affamds, de froid, soif, soy bander,

Les nionts passer commettant grand esclandre.

* ^ is the Latin a, privative, t Cappe, is put for Capet.

Translation.

A sight of pity will not long delay, The almoners will soon be forced to beg : Hungered, athirst, naked, proscribed, and cold. In bands they cross the Alps, a scandal to be seen.

This conveys a forcible picture of the calamitous emigration the clergy of France would undergo between 1792 and 1801. Once the clue is supplied, it leads so naturally, that one almost finds insight from it into the manner in which these representations presented themselves to Nostradamus. One feels, that he must have seen the events passing before the field of sight as visions, sometimes accompanied with uttered words ; otherwise how could he get intimation of names ? But, if it was thus that intuition came to him, the quatrains, that he now scattered up and down throughout the Centuries in utter disorder and disconnection, must have come to him in a sequence, rendering them comprehensible ; more or less, indeed, in the very order probably into which the chronology of historical record enables the careful student to replace them now, as soon as they are understood by him. If this be so, a rather curious fact presents itself, in a form approaching to something like a certainty, which is this: disorder must have been the method of the book. We know that generally his practice was to write down the matter in prose, and at leisure convert this into separate quatrains rhymed ; these he must afterwards have shaken up in a bag or hat, and when inextricably mixed have counted them out into hundreds.

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