LI.

French.

Le sang du juste a _Londres_ fera faute, Bruslez par feu de vingt & trois les Six, La Dame antique cherra de place haute, De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.

English.

The blood of the just shall be wanting in _London_, Burnt by fire of three and twenty, the Six, The antient Dame shall fall from her high place, Of the same Sect many shall be killed.

ANNOT.

Leaving unto the impartial Reader his liberty to judge of this Prophecy, we for our part understand by it the impious and execrable murder, committed upon the person of our last most gracious Sovereign King _Charles_ I. of blessed memory, to whose expiation it seemeth our Author attributeth the conflagration of _London_. By that proportion _of three and twenty, the Six_, is to be understood the number of Houses and Buildings that were burnt, which is about the proportion of three in four, and cometh near to the computation, as also by that _three twenties and Six_, may be understood the year 66. _By the antient Dame that shall fall from the high place_, is understood the Cathedral Church of St. _Paul_, which in the time of Paganism was dedicated to _Diana_, meant here by the title of an antient Dame, the _fall from her high place_, hath relation both to the sumptuousness and height of her building, as also to her situation, which is in the most eminent place of the City.

By this Verse, _Of the same Sect many shall be killed_, is signified the great number of other Churches even the number of 87 (which he intimateth here by the name of the same Sect), that should be involved in the same woful conflagration.