XVI.

French.

A son haut prix plus la larme _Sabæe_, D’humaine chair par mort en cendre mettre, L’Isle _Pharos_ par _Croisars_ perturbée, Alors qua _Rhodes_ paroistra dur espectre.

English.

The _Sabæan_ Tear shall be no more at its high price, To turn humane flesh by death into ashes, The Island _Pharos_ shall be troubled by _Croisars_, When at _Rhodes_ shall a hard Phantasm appear.

ANNOT.

The _Sabæan Tear_, is Frankincense, so called; because it is the Gum of a Tree that groweth in that Countrey, whence the Poet saith,

_India mittit ebur, molles sua thura Sabæi._

The meaning therefore of the two first Verses, is, that Frankincense shall be no more so dear as it hath been; because it shall be no more used, in enbalming and burning of dead bodies.

The third verse saith, the Island _Pharos_ (which is that little Island that lyeth before the Harbour of _Alexandria_) shall be troubled by _Croisars_, that is, Christians, when there shall appear a Phantasme, or a Vision shall be seen at _Rhodes_.