Quatrain 1.1 Secret cabinet
Estant assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul repose fus la selle d"airain;
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude
Feit proferer qui n"est a croire en (vain.
I seated at night in secret cabinet,
Only resting on the copper saddle:
Tiny flame leaving the solitude
Make prosper what is not vain to believe.
I think that the first quatrain does not contain any prophecy but describes the environment in which the prophet used to live and work. Nostradamus lived in a small town Salon in France. It is known that he had a secret room on the second floor of his house where he wrote his prophecies at night (the quatrain number 1.1 probably means that the prophet talked one on one with God).
Quatrain 1.2 Divine shine
La verge en main mise au milieu des (branches,
De l"onde il moulle le limbe & le pied,
Vn peur & voix fremissent par les manches,
Splendeur diuine, le diuin pres s"assied
The rod in the hands placed in the middle of branches.
With the wave he moistens and the hem and the foot:
A fear and voice trembling of the handles: Divine splendour.
The divine is seated nearby.
Judging by the content, the second quatrain like the first, is not a prediction. The first line can be the key for decryption. The branches may mean the digits of quatrain, and "rod" – the digit 1, which must be placed between the digits of the numbers to get the answer. The last 2 lines, perhaps, say that the prophecy was given to him from Heaven. If to believe in this Nostradamus revelation it means he heard "the voice" and saw "divinity", and then the trembling of the handles is understood.