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1559 Almanake

ALMANACKE 1559

From the book by Bernard Chevignard "Presages de Nostradamus"

Cette traduction anglaise (in-8° de 8 folios) n'a gardé de l'Almanach pour 1559
que les présages en vers et le calendrier de chaque mois, mais, même tronquée
et fautive, elle constitue un document d'autant plus important que les originaux
français ont aujourd'hui disparu. Les quatrains qui suivent (p 38 [34] 350 [46])
proviennent de l'exemplaire conservé à la Huntington Library de San Marino,
Californie (RB 59428) : je tiens à remercier ici Lisa Ann Libby de son aimable
coopération. Ni l'orthographe ni la ponctuation n'ont été modifiées, mais des points
manquants ont été ajoutés à la fin des quatrains de juin et de septembre.

AN ALMANACKE FOR THE YEARE OF
OURE LORDE GOD, 1559.

Composed by Mayster Mychael Nostradamus,
Doctour of Phisike.

Imprinted at London by Henry Sutton,

for Lucas Haryson,
dwellyng in Poules churchyarde,

the xx. of February,

in the yeare of our Lorde,

M.D.LIX.

FOURE LYNES UPON ALL THE YEARE.

Feare, yce, greate pillynge, to passe the sea, to encrease
[the raygne.

Sectes, holy thinges beyond the sea more polished
Pestylence, heat, fyer, the enseygne of the Kyng of Aquilon.
To erect a signe of victory, the cyty Henripolis.

JANUARY.

The great to be no more, rayne in the christall
Tumult moved, of all goodes abundaunce.
Cut up, halowed, olde shippes, fearefull
Chosen unthankmll, death bewayled, joy, alliance.

FEBRUARY.

Grayne corrupted, pestilentiall ayre, locustes.
Sodayn fall, newes, newes shall rise,
Captives yroned, swift, high, lowe, heavy,
By his bones, evil which wold not be to the King.

MARCHE.

Attached in the temple, long purchasing by sectes
Chosen, ravyshed, in the woodes forme quarell
Seventy partes shall sprynge up newe allyance
The newes appeased of theyr dead Kyng.

APRILL.

The Kynge saluted with Victor imperator.
The trouth broken, the kyngly deed knowen,
Learned bloud, the Kyng made governour.
The proude people, through teares to becom humble.

MAIE.

By the despite, manages, weddynge songes
By the thre, by redde partly razed.
To the yong black, the soule put agayne by the flame
Ogminus converted to the great Neptunus.

JUNE.

From the house seven by the pursuit of mortali deth.
Hayle, tempest, pestilentiall sicknesse, furies.
The Kyng of the East, al the west men beyng in flight,
Shal subdue his conquerors that have ben heretofore.

JULY.

Robberyes, pyllynges, heat, great drought
Not to be to much : a thinge not seen nor heard.
To the straunger too great flattery
nyne, contryes, the Kyng of the east to be daseled.

AUGUST.

The earthen potte founde, the citie tributary,
Fieldes divided, newe begylynges,
The Spanyard hurt, hunger, warly pestilence
Obstinate mockery, confusednes, evyll, ravyng.

SEPTEMBER.

Virgins and widowes your good tyme doth approdi
He shall not doo that which was pretended
It shall lacke farre, that there shall be a newe brach
the wel at ese taken, wel put in again, ye worst shal hold.

OCTOBER.

Here in this moneth shall fully be ended
The thre greats without, the good burrow shal be far of
Against those one of them shall conspire.
At the ende of the moneth shall the worke be sene.

NOVEMBER.

Matters propouned, manages begon agayne
The great great shall go out of Fraunce
A voyce to Romana, to crye not weried.
Reccyve the peace by to deceytfull assuraunce.

DECEMBER.

The joye in teares shall subdue Mars,
Before the great shall divines be moved.
Without seking any word shal enter on thre partes.
Mars beyng appeased upon the yce all wynes.

Updated Monday, 02 November 2009