These are various associations that help to understand the Centuries. The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords.
Familiar talk
Nostradamus uses the familiar form in a few circumstances, as if he was talking to a precise person.
3.24 France, Treasure, familiar form of you ("Tu" in French)
"Great confusion in the enterprise,"
"Loss of people, countless treasure:"
You ought not to extend further there.
"France, let what I say be remembered."
Posted by: Raul Lence King
Advise of Nostradamus addressed to someone he seems to be giving instructions to.
A5509 "Tu" French familiar form
The sky to weep for him, made to do that!
The sea is being prepared, Hannibal to plan his ruse:
Denis [drops anchor], fleet delays, does not remain silent,
Has not known the secret, and by which you are amused!
3.87 "Tu" French familiar form, Gauls (Roman Gauls), Corsica
"Gallic fleet, do not approach Corsica,"
"Less Sardinia, you will rue it:"
Every one of you will die frustrated of the help of the cape:
"You will swim in blood, captive you will not believe me."
3.23 Islamic war in Adriatic and lygustic Seas
"If, France, you pass beyond the Ligurian Sea,"
You will see yourself shut up in islands and seas:
"Mahomet contrary, more so the Adriatic Sea:"
You will gnaw the bones of horses and asses.
3.49 "Tu" French familiar form, Revolution of morality
"Gallic realm, you will be much changed:"
To a foreign place is the empire transferred:
You will be set up amidst other customs and laws:
Rouen and Chartres will do much of the worst to you.
A5503 "Tu" French familiar form, Revolution of values
O cruel Mars, how you should be feared,
More is the scythe with the silver conjoined:
Fleet, forces, water, wind of shadow to fear,
Sea and land in a truce. The friends has joined L.V.
Background: Ottoman empire ceramics of the 16th Century: Louvre
