XXXV.

French.

Par Cité franche de la grand Mer _Seline_, Qui porte encor l’estomach la pierre, _Angloise_ classe viendra soubs la bruine, Prendre un rameau de grand ouverte guerre.

English.

By a free City of the _Selyne_ Sea, Which carrieth yet the stone in the Stomach, An _English_ Fleet shall come under a fog, To take a branch of great open War.

ANNOT.

What should the Author mean by the free City of the great _Seline_ Sea that carryeth yet the stone in the Stomach, is hard to guess; for my part I believe it to be _Venice_. First, because by the _Seline_ Sea, he always understands the _Mediterranean_; because the great _Turks_ name in our Authors time was _Selyn_, who was Master of the greatest part of it. Secondly, there is no other free City so considerable as this. Thirdly, by the stone in the Stomach, may be understood, the Pillars that are in the _Piazza_ of St. _Mark_, and as it were in the Centre of _Venice_, as the Stomach is in the Body. The sense therefore is this, as I take it, that a considerable _Fleet_ shall come to _Venice_, or rather to _Molamocco_, which is the Harbour, and there take a branch of great open War, that is, to be either against the _Venetians_, or against the _Turk_ in their behalf.