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LXII.

French.

_Mabus_ puis tost alors mourra, viendra, Des gens & bestes un horrible desfaite, Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra, Sang, Main, Soif, Faim, quand courra la Comete.

English.

_Mabus_ shall come, and soon after shall die, Of people and beasts shall be an horrible destruction, Then on a sudden the vengeance shall be seen, Blood, Hand, Thirst, Famine, when the Comet shall run.

ANNOT.

Here is nothing hard but who should be this _Mabus_, at last I found by transposition of Letters that he meaneth _Ambus_, which was the name of the Heades man that beheaded the Duke of _Montmorency_ at _Thoulouse_, how miraculous therefore appeareth our Author, who did not only foretell general things, but also particular accidents, even the names of the persons that were to be born a hundred years after.