III.

French.

Quand la littiere du tourbillon versée, Et seront faces de leurs Manteaux couvers, La Republique par gens nouveaux vexée, Lors blancs & rouges jugeront a l’envers.

English.

When the litter shall be overthrown by a gust of wind, And faces shall be covered with Cloaks, The Common-wealth shall be troubled with a new kind of men, Then white and red shall judge amiss.

ANNOT.

The two first Verses signifie that a great tempestuous wind was to happen, in which a litter should be overturned, and every one should muffle his face in his Cloak, for the fierceness of the wind.

And that presently after the Common-wealth should be troubled with new Sects and Opinions, which may be understood of the beginning of Reformation by _Luther_ and _Calvin_, which was about that time.

The last Verse by the white and red signifieth here (as it doth thorough all the Book) the _French_ and the _Spaniards_, because the _French_ wear white Scarfes, and the _Spaniards_ red ones: and consequently the troubles and jars that happened presently between those two Nations.