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Pressages
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October.
140. The Kings and Magistrates to place their hand through death,
Young girls sick, and of the Great Ones body swells:
All through languors and nuptials, enemies serfs for the master.
The public mourning, the Author all swelled up.

November.[1]
141. On his return from the Embassy, the King’s gift, put in place
He will do no more: he will be gone to God:
Close relatives, friends, brothers by blood,
Found entirely dead near the bed and bench.

  1. Presage, for November, 1567, predicts Nostradamus’ death, which actually took place seventeen months earlier.