VII.

French.

Le fils mineur du grand & hay Prince, De Lepre aura a vingt ans grande tache, De dueil mourra triste & mince, Et il mourra la ou tombe chair lache.

English.

The younger Son of the great and hated Prince, Being twenty years, old shall have a great touch of Leprosie, His mother shall die for grief, very sad and lean, And he shall die of the disease loose flesh.

ANNOT.

This is easie to be understood, if we remember that _Charles_ IX. King of _France_, younger son to _Henry_ II. died of a foul disease, and his Mother _Catharine_ of _Medicis_ died of grief.