LXXVII.

French.

Entre deux Mers dressera promontoire, Qui puis mourra par le mors du Cheval, Le fier _Neptune_ pliera Voile noire, Par _Calpre_, & Classe aupres de _Rocheval_.

English.

Between two Seas shall a Promontory be raised, By him, who shall die by the biting of a Horse, The proud _Neptune_ shall fold the black Sail. Through _Calpre_, and a fleet shall be near _Rocheval_.

ANNOT.

I could not find what he meaneth by _Calpre_, nor by _Rocheval_, which I suppose to be the proper names of places, when he saith, that proud _Neptune_ shall fold the black Sail; he maketh an allusion to the History of _Theseus_, Son of _Ægeus_ King of _Athens_, who being sent with other Children into _Candia_, to become a prey to the _Minotaure_, his Father sent the Ship with black _Sails_, as in a case of Mourning, charging _Theseus_, that if he came back again safe he should put on white Sails, but coming in sight of _Athens_, _Theseus_ for joy forgot to put on the white Sails, so that his Father _Ægeus_ thinking he had miscarried, cast himself from a Rock into the Sea, so that he saying that _Neptune_ shall fold the black Sail, he meaneth, that there shall be joyful news.