CENTURIA IV · QUATRAIN VI
The Poisoned Truce
D'habits nouveaux apres faicte la treuve,
Malice tramme & machination:
Premier mourra qui en fera la preuve,
Couleur Venise insidation.
Of new garments after the truce is made,
malice plotted and machination:
the first to die will be he who proves it,
the color of Venice, instigation.
THE MASTER SAYS…
He shows me the Kaiser during World War I and says that this quatrain relates to the outbreak of war and German militarism at that time. The powder keg of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. The man who killed him lived for some time in Venice. Hence the mention of Venice. This is already our past.