T enant au bec vn verdoyant rameau,
M ourra tost grand, & finera la guerre.
2-1 V E RSA quitaine par insults Britaniques,
D e par eux mesmes grandes incursions:
Pluies, gelees feront terroirs iniques,
Port S elyn fortes fera inuasions.
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It is probably already clear – "Prophecies" is a unique book. In it, all words are counted, and each word has its own numerical value, that is, a rank. In quatrain 1-15, for example, the first blood, in 1-18 – the second, in 1-19 – the third, etc. Surprisingly, Nostradamus himself almost shouts about this publicly:
2-10 Auant long temps le tout sera range',
Nous esperons vn siecle bien senestre:
L'estat des masques & des seulz bien change',
Peu trouueront qu'a son rang vueille estre.
Soon everything will be ranked,
We expect a very ominous age:
The state of masks and loners is changing a lot,
Few will find those who wish to be in their rank.
With each new quatrain, the dictionary base of the world of "Prophecies" is more and more replenished. Indeed, few words will remain in their current rank. How far the Author will go with such a ranking will be clear from this book.
It seems to me that by “masks” the Author meant such cases, for example: “ est range ”, when another is hidden under one word. With "loners" it is clear, these are words without such "masks.
Despite the fact that this quatrain is very open and straightforward, it also has its own secret:
6-1 AVtour des monts Pyrenees grand a mas
De gent est range, secourir roy nouueau:
Pres de Garonne du grand temple du Mas ,
Vn R omain chef le craindra dedans l'eau.
6.2 En l'an cinq cens octante plus & moi ns ,
On at tendra le siecle bien est range :
E n l'an se pt cens, & trois cie ul x en tesmoings,
Que plusieurs regnes vn a` cinq fero nt change .
6.3 Fleuue qu' esp roue le nouueau nay Celti que
S era en grande de l' Empire discorde:
Le ieune prince par gent ecclesiasti que ,
Ostera le sceptre coronal de concorde.
6.4 La Celtiq fleuue change ra de riuaige,
Plus ne tiendra la cite' d'Agripine:
T out transmue' ormis le vieil langaige,
Sturne , Leo, Mars, Cancer en rapine.
The very beginning of the sixth Centuria, that's where it opens up. It doesn't hurt that much, in fact, Nostradamus wished and expected a sinister century. The word " senestre " is not fully realized perfectly: SEnESTRE , but two " Mas + que ", " se + ul ", " change ", " range ", " esp + ero + ns ", " est + at " at once, of course and century – " siecle " – everything is here, on this site, far from the beginning of the second Centuria.