THE POPE. De Paus.  
The French King shallbe driven out of his land by his own Subjects/ for he shall excercise tyranny against the Professors of the Gospel of Christ/ thereto stirred up/ & sporred forwards by the Priests and bishops. Who being with money bought treacherously to betray him/ shall misled and deliver him/ yet he shall seem to do the same in respect of his Friends/ and being thrust out and deceived/ he shallbe left and forsaken of those whom he most trusted to/ this shall happen in the end of the second course of time/ then the Arms hang on a dry or witherdstock. Now this is understood as passed, in the time of H. de valois.  
The Lion prepares for his young a strong and everlasting nest/ but none of the same shall possess it/ though they were set in it/ but when the Lion shall fall into the third course of time/ then shall there forthwith be elected in his place a zealous resolute person/ by name Frederick on the Rhine/ by Aken/ whose offspring shall stretch itself to the end of World/ for the end is at hand.  
The King of France after being a weary of banishment/ and Crosses turning/ about shall join himself to the assembly of the Christians/ striving against the enemies of the Word/ and be received again of his own/ for in those times shall the Christian Church there have no other Antistes nor head.  
The Pope showeth the declining and help-seeking Emperor the Balance/ saying: ponder with yourself and consider whither I have any place at Rome or not/ for I am quite of all except your help/ otherwise I should hold my oath/ but the R. C. shallbe removed to Ments.  
Their Bishoprics shall get others/ who shall with more fruit of Godliness and less pride reign then the other have done.  
In the years 67. and 68 shall these things come to pass/ and he that shall then live shall much admire the peace/ unity/ rest/ and ease among men. For there shallbe so great Slaughters and Bloodshed that those very few/ which remain over/ shall see and have God and the old Peace to dwell with them/ and that for a certain space of tyme.  
At the same time shall the Pope Cardinals Archbishop's/ and all Spiritual states by diverse punishments and suffering be driv'n unto the former life of the Apostles  
I Capis: Serv: of Ies; Chr: after this have seen in a vision 4. streams/ from the 4. corners of the World/ in strife with the great Seo/ who when they could not get the victory came Oceanus/ but Oceanus & the 4. streams overmaysterd the great Sea.  
By Oceanus compared with the great Sea, the interpreters understand the Island of Britain.  
O Pope, o Duke of Millyane, how feminine is thy war, how woman like are they that depend on thee, whereas all war bends itself against thee, to the end that thou mayst fall.  
The Hellish Dragon his Counsel giver.  
All the Empires of the world shallbe cast under our feet.  
This Lion is Borgondie.  
The Christian Church.  
The Scrues that do guide the Ship.  
These are only the trusty ●●rs of the Ship.  
The cockboat  
The Antichr: Beast, sprung up anno: 313: who should have power for 42 weeks, which make 1260. days, or years, from which abstract 18. whereby it agrees with the Prophetical time, the remainder joined to the former make 1555. the time that C: V. must give liberty of conscience, adding thereto 67 or 68 according to Capistranus so have we 1622. 1623.  
This strange Figure hath been thus drawn/ and painted out two hundred Years afore the birth of Carolus M: and found in a stone Wall/ but then alltogeither without any interpretation thereby/ only that by the one person was written the name of Carolus/ by the other the Pope; neither did any man presume to foretell or prognosticate any thing thereout/ save only Mr. john Carion, who foretold the death of some/ although not wholly so well as this figure/ for he failed 10 years in his account. But there hath lived in our times a Moonk in a Cloister in Slesia/ named Capistranus, who was highly esteemed/ and of great account among the Mathematicians/ and in many things (as it is said) a Prognosticatour and a Prophet. Who as he chanced to get this Figure/ which was of itself without any explication thereof thereby/ he laboured very diligently/ to discover the mysteries thereof/ and by all means to make known the secrets of the same/ but when he saw his labour lost and all in vain/ he committed therefore the revelation thereof wholly unto God/ not long after which time appeared a very fearful Commeet in the Firmament/ by means whereof began the revolution of the same/ and by Calculating upon that Celestial Figure/ with examining and curious looking thereinto/ he found that it threatened all Germany/ and the Roman Empire/ with great destruction and ruin/ then caused he this Figure to be drawn upon a Francine or Parchment/ and carefully shutting the same into a cleft of a wall/ leaving their a marckable sign/ whereby it might after his death be found out dispersed and divulged/ it was in Anno 1548. when I got the same of 'em that found it.  
I Capistranus a Servant of God have seen by the revelation of the most High/ the signification of this Figure/ even through Calculating upon the fearful Commeet/ the variation of times and Empires. Namely that in the year 1547. shall arise a very bitter enemy of the word of God/ while he shall give himself out for a defender of the same/ then by falsehood and deceit pretending to join with the Duitch Princes/ he shall seem to set before them the disobedience of some particular men/ as also a pretence for the reformation of the Church/ this shall from North and south bring great destruction with it/ all these things notwithstanding he shall chastise the foolish bewitched germans with their own weapons/ and oppress the heads of the Empire/ in the first course of time he shall without bloodshed have all to his own will/ he shall enlarge the corners of/ or between his Columns or Pillars/ in those 3. years shall he deprive them of their might and Privilege. In the second course shall he privilege and make free all those of his belief labour to break down and destroy God's building/ & to curb those that withstand him: than shall the desolate Dukes and Princes see that they are deceived/ and shallbe possessed with terror and fear on every side. In these 3. years shall he attempt to do many things/ but in respect of the manifold troubles that shall come/ he shallbe hindered from his designs/ yet he shall give no credit unto the traitors/ and he shall in all quarters shed much Christian blood. In the thyrd course he shall in a kind of a Frenzy bring a number less multitude of all sorts of people/ for to root out and displant both the word of God and the Christian Princes/ and so shall there be every where madness and bloodshed/ then shall there be elected a King/ who notwithstanding his being a King/ he shall not be honoured with Kingly honour/ yet many shall depend upon him. In these 3. years shall they bring Carolus his offspring and posterity/ with all his Confederates and adherentes under subjection and obedience.   

Translated out of the old Dutch copy, in Print all most 50. Years since. And now reprinted, 1621.