EPITRE DEDICATOIRE DE VINCENT SEVE, PRÈSENTÈE A HENRY IV, LE 19 MARS 1605   AU ROY. SIRE, Ayant (il y a quelques années) recouvert certaines Propheties ou Pronostications faictes par feu Michel Nostradamus, des mains d'un nommé Henry Nostradamus neveu dudit Michel, qu'il me donna avant mourir, & par moy tenues en secret jusques à present, & veu qu'elles traictoient des affaires de vostre Estat, & particulierement de vostre personne, & de vos successeurs, recogneu que j'ay la verité de plusieurs sixains advenus de point en point, comme vous pourrez voir, SIRE, si vostre Majesté y ouvre tant soit peu ses yeux, & y trouveront des choses dignes d'admiration, j'ay pris la hardiesse (moy indigne) de vous les presenter transcrits en ce petit Livret, non moins digne & admirable que les autres deux Livres qu'il fit, dont le dernier finit en l'an mil cinq cens nonante sept, traictant de ce qui adviendra en ce siecle, non si obscurement comme il avoit fait les premiers; mais par aenigmes, & les choses si specifiées & claires, qu'on peut seurement juger de quelque chose estant advenue. Desireux que vostre Majesté en eust la cognoissance premier que nul autre, m'acquittant par ce moyen de mon devoir comme l'un de vos tres-obeyssant & fidele subject, qu'il vous plaira aggréer, SIRE, consideré que ce m'estoit le plus grand bien qui me sçauroit jamais arriver, esperant avec l'ayde du tout Puissant me ressentir de vostre debonnaire clemence, comme vostre bonté a accoustumé faire, obligeant par tel moyen, non le corps d'un vostre fidele subject jà destiné à vostre service, SIRE, mais bien l'âme qui continuera de prier pour la santé & prosperité de vostre digne Majesté, & des dependans d'icelle, comme celuy qui vous est & sera à jamais, SIRE, Vostre tres-humble, tres-obeyssant & fidele serviteur & subject, De vostre ville de Beaucaire en Languedoc. SEVE.

Dedicatory letter from Vincent Seve, presented to Henry IV on 9th March 1605     TO THE KING, Having some years ago recovered certain Prophecies or Prognostications by the late Michel Nostradamus from the hands of one by the name of Henry Nostradamus, a nephew [grandson] of the said Michel, which he gave me before he died, and that have been kept secret by me up until now, and seeing that they were about matters concerning your State, and particularly your person and your successors, and recognizing that I have the truth of many sixains that have happened point by point, as you yourself can see, Sire, if Your Majesty but open his eyes, be it much or little, and will find therein things worthy of wonder, I have taken the liberty, unworthy as I am, to present them to you transcribed in this little booklet, no less wordy and admirable than the two other Books that he wrote, of which the latter finishes in 1597, treating of what shall befall during this century, not so obscurely as he did in the first; but by riddles, and things so clear and specific that one can surely judge what has come to pass. Desiring that Your Majesty should come to hear of them before anybody else, and acquitting myself in this way of my duty as one of your most obedient and faithful subjects, may it please you, SIRE, to accept them, considering that it would be for me the greatest good that has ever [known!] befallen me, hoping with the aid of the Omnipotent to experience your benevolent mercy, as your Goodness is accustomed to do, and oblige in this way not  the body of a faithful subject of yours already devoted to your service, but indeed the soul who shall continue to pray for the safety and prosperity of your worthy Majesty and of its dependents, as one who to you is and shall ever be, SIRE, Your most humble, most obedient and faithful servant and subject, from your town of Beaucaire in Languedoc, SEVE

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