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XL.

French.

La tourbe fausse dissimilant folie, Fera _Bizance_ un changement de loix, Istra d’_Ægypt_ qui veus que l’on deslie, Edict, changant Monnoys & alloys.

English.

The false Troup dissembling their folly, Shall make in _Bizance_ an alteration of _Laws_. One shall come out of _Ægypt_ who will have untied The Edict, changing the Coin and allay.

ANNOT.

There is two things in this Prognostication, the first that in _Bizance_, which is _Constantinople_, a _Troop_ of tumultuous persons gathered together, and dissembling their folly, shall cause an alteration in the _Laws_.

The other, that some _Bassa_ come out of _Ægypt_, shall perswade them at _Constantinople_ to alter their _Coin_, and the allay of it.