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Century X

100. ☞ When the fork will be supported by two stakes,
With six half-bodies and six open scissors ^[1]
The very powerful Lord, heir of the toads, ^[2]
Then he will subject the entire world to himself.

Century XI

91. “Meysnier, Manthi”^[3] and the third one that will come,
Plague and new affront, to trouble the enclosure:
The fury will bite in Aix and the places thereabout,
Then those of Marseilles will want to double their evil.

97. Through Villefranche, Macon in disorder,
Soldiers will be hidden in the bundles:
In the spring times to change for the King,
In Chalon and Moulins all cut to pieces.

Century XII

4. Fire, flame, hunger, robber,^[4] wild smoke,
It will cause to fail, striking hard, to destroy faith:
Arrow^[5] of “Denté”^[6] all Provence sucked up,
Driven out of the realm, enraged without spitting.^[7]

24. The great relief come from Guienne,
It will halt quite near Poitiers:
Lyons^[8] surrendered through Montluel and Vienne,
And tradesmen will be plundered everywhere.

36. A ferocious attack is being prepared in Cyprus,
Tear in my eye, for your imminent ruin:
Byzantine and Moorish fleet very great loss,
Two different ones, the great devastation by the rock.

1. Le., MCCCCCCXXXXXxX, or 1660.
2. Presumably a reference to the device used by the Merovingians.
3. Dubious. Possibly “Meusnes, Manthelan.”
4. “Or “secret” ( “secret, wild smoke”).
5. Or possibly “Son.”
6. Unsolved enigmatic name.
7. Or possibly “enraged blood to spurt.”
8. Or possibly “The Lion”