LXXI.

French.

En lieu d’Espouse les Filles trucidées, Meurtre a grand faute, ne sera superstite, Dedans le puis vestues inondées, L’Espouse esteinte par haut d’Aconite.

English.

Instead of the Bride, the Maid shall be killed, The murder shall be a great fault, none shall be surviving, In the Well they shall be drowned with their Cloaths, The Bride shall be extinguished by an high Aconite.

ANNOT.

This is a Prophecie of a Tragical Nuptial, where all the Maids shall be drowned with their Cloaths in a Well, insomuch that none shall survive, and the Bride shall be poisoned, and die by _Aconite_, which is one of the most poisonous herbs that is, witness _Juvinal_: _Lurida terribiles miscent asonita novercæ._