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XXVI.

French.

Le grand du Foudre tombe d’heure diurne, Mal & predit par Porteur populaire, Suivant presage tombe d’heure nocturne, Conflit _Rheims_, _Londres_, _Etrusque_ Pestifere.

English.

The great Man falleth by the Lightning in the day time, An evil foretold by a common Porter; According to this foretelling another falleth in the night, A fight at _Rhemes_, and the Plague at _London_ and _Tuscany_.

ANNOT.

This is concerning some great man, who being premonished by a common Carrier not to travel upon a certain day, did slight the advice, and was strucken by Lightning in the day time, and another in the night; at the same time there was a fight at _Rhemes_, and the Plague at _London_ and in _Tuscany_, which in Latin is called _Etruria_.