La tour marine trois fois prise & reprise,
Par Hespagnols, Barbares, Ligurins:
Marseilles & Aix, Arles par ceux de Pise,
Vast, feu, fer, pill, Avignon des Thurins.
The marine tower will be captured and retaken three times
by Spaniards, barbarians and Ligurians.
Marseilles and Aix, Ales by men of Pisa,
devastation, fire, sword, pillage at Avignon by the Turinese.
Quatrain 1,72
De tout Marseille des habitants changee,
Course & poursuitte jusqu'au pres de Lyon,
Nalbon Tholoze par Bordeaux outragee,
Tuez captifs presque d'un million.
The inhabitants of Marseilles completely changed,
fleeing and pursued as far as Lyons.
Narbonne, Toulouse angered by Bordeaux;
the killed and captive are almost one million.
Quatrain 1,73
France . cinq pars par neglect assaillie,
Tunis, Argel esmuez par Persiens:
Leon, Seville, Barcelonne faillie
N'aura la classe par les Venetiens.
France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners.
Tunis, Algiers stirred up by the Persians.
Leon, Seville and Barcelona having failed,
they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians.
Quatrain 1,74
Apres sejourn, vogueront en Epire
Le grand secours viendra vers Antoche:
Le noir poil crespe tendra fort . l'Empire
Barbe d'aerain se roustira en broche
After a rest they will travel to Epirus,
great help coming from around Antioch.
The curly haired king will strive greatly for the Empire,
the brazen beard will be roasted on a spit.
Quatrain 1,75
Le tyran Sienne accupera Savone,
Le fort gaign, tiendra classe marine:
Les deux armees par la marque d'Ancomme,
Par effrayeur le chef s'en examine.
The tyrant of Siena will occupy Savona,
having won the fort he will restrain the marine fleet.
Two armies under the standard of Ancona:
the leader will examine them in fear.
Quatrain 1,76
D'un nom farouche tel profer, sera,
Que les trois soeurs auront fato le nom:
Puis grand peuple par langue & faict dira
Plus que nul autre bruit & renom.
The man will be called by a barbaric name
that three sisters will receive from destiny.
He will speak then to a great people in words and deeds,
more than any other man will have fame and renown.
Entre deux mers dressera promontaire,
Que plus mourra par le mords du cheval:
Le sien Neptune pliera voille noire,
Par Calpre & classe aupres de Rocheval.
A promontory stands between two seas:
A man who will die later by the bit of a horse;
Neptune unfurls a black sail for his man;
the fleet near Gibraltar and Rocheval.
Quatrain 1,78
D'un chef naistra sens hebet,
Degenerant par savoir & par armes:
Le chef de France par sa soeur redout,,
Champs divisez, concedez aux gendarmes.
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
weak both in knowledge and in war.
The leader of France is feared by his sister,
battlefields divided, conceded to the soldiers.
Quatrain 1,79
Bazaz, Lestore, Condon, Ausch, Agine,
Esmens par loix querelle & menopole:
Car Bourd, Toulouze Bay mettra en ruine.
Renouveller voulant leur tauropole.
Bazas, Lectoure, Condom, Auch and Agen
are troubled by laws, disputes and monopolies.
Carcassone, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Bayonne will be ruined
when they wish to renew the massacre.
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