La gresle & glace fera grand malefice.
Since they will live and to have no meaning,
Death will come to strike with its explosion.
At Autun, Chalons, Langres and the two Sens
There will be great damage from hail and ice.
Quatrain 1.62 Before a cycle of Latone
La grande perte laslque feront les lettres
Auant /avant/ le cycle de Latone parfait,
Feu, grand deluge, plus par ignares sceptres:
Que de long siecle ne verra refait.
Alas! what a great loss there will be because letters,
Before the cycle of the Latone perfect,
Fire, great floods, by more ignorant rulers;
Which for long centuries until it is seen to be restored.
Latone (Leto), in ancient Greek mythology, is the mother of Apollo and Artemis. This line can be interpreted in two ways: 1) as events that occurred in the spring, before the start of summer; 2) fire and flood are the apocalypse, then the cycle of the perfect, golden millennium.
Connection with other quatrains: 2.5. "lettre".
Quatrain 2.5 Submarine
Quand dans poisson fer & lettre enfermee
Hors sortira qui pis fera la guerre,
Aura par mer sa classe bien ramee