"Fourteen": (game Picket( Jeu de Piquet )) – a combination consisting of four aces, or four kings, queens, jacks, or tens. The presence of such four cards together is worth fourteen points. It remained, based on the meaning of quatrain 1-7, to find such a combination in the texts of even earlier quatrains. And she was found! A combination of four aces ( as ) was found: 1-1 ( as sis ), 1-2 ( as sied ), 1-5 ( Ch as ses and Carc as ).
For reference: Piquet is one of the oldest card games. François Rabelais mentions her in Gargantua (1532). Then they played with a deck of 36 cards, since the end of the 17th century, sixes have been removed from the deck. The cards become 32. This is how Nostradamus, the gambler, revealed himself.
Another interesting observation: literally in the next quatrain 1-8, two more aces are found at once – “ as ” in a nutshell “ Ser as ”, extremely rare in the “Prophecies”. They are only twice further found in seven Centuries, which is a clear confirmation of the correctness of all of the above.
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It's time to move on. The fish day has come, as indicated by the "culinary" quatrain 2-3.
2-3 Pour la chaleur solaire sus la mer,
De Negrepont les poissons demis cuits:
Les habitans les viendront entamer,
Quand Rod. & Gennes leur faudra le biscuit .
Because of the heat of the sun over the sea,
At Negrepont, the fish are half cooked:
The inhabitants will gut them
When Rod. and Genoa they will have to be re-cooked.
In my version of the translation, the word " biscuit " is not a familiar biscuit to everyone. I think that in this case, based on the meaning of the quatrain, Nostradamus is playing with the fact that “ bis ” + “ cuit ” is “re-cooked”.
Now about the fish – " poissons ". In the first seven centuries they appear eight times: in 1-29, 2-3, 2-5, 2-48, 3-21, 4-17, 4-32, and 5-98.
" Cuit ", as an independent word, or as part of other words – four times. Twice at 2-3, at 2-88, and at 5-98.
Thus, " poissons demis "– half of the fish – is equal to" cuit ". You should probably also pay attention to the fact that in the last indicated quatrain with fish – 5-98 – there is also the word " cuit ", and something else:
5-97 … Da ns la cite' du grand Roy