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.