XXXII.

French.

La grand Empire sera tost translaté, En lieu petit qui bien tost viendra croistre, Lieu bien infime d’exigue Comté, Ou au milieu viendra poser son Scepter.

English.

The great Empire shall soon be translated, Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards. An inferiour place of a small County, In the middle of which he shall come to lay down his Scepter.

ANNOT.

This is concerning the same _Charles_ the V. Emperour, who about three years before his death, being weary of the World, resigned his Dominions of _Spain_ and of the _Low-Countries_, to his Son _Philip_ the II. and his Empire to his Brother _Ferdinand_, and retired himself into a Monastery of _Castile_, called l’_Escurial_, which after his death, was much enlarged and beautified by his Son _Philip_: and that is the meaning of our Author when he saith:

_Into a little place which shall soon grow afterwards,_ _An inferiour place of a small County,_

For this _Escurial_ being seated in a Desert place of a County of _Spain_, called _Castilia_, which the _Spanish_ vanity calleth a Kingdom, (whose Use, Fruit, or Revenues, the said _Charles_ only reserved for his maintenance) is now by the _Spaniards_ accounted to be the eighth wonder of the World.