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.

Quatrain 2.36 The letters seized

Du grand Prophete les lettres seront prinses

Entre les mains du tyran deuiendront,

Frauder son Roy seront les entreprinses,

Mais ses rapines bien tost le troubleront.

The letters of the great Prophet will be seized,

They will come to fall into the hands of the tyrant:

His enterprise will be to deceive his King,

But his thefts will soon confuse him.

In 1781 Pope Pius VI betrayed anathema all the works of the great astrologer and forbade their distribution. The revolution broke out in France after 10 years. Robespierre stood up for the prophet. He found a prediction about the renewal of the century – in 1792 a new chronology was introduced.

Quatrain 1.42 The desecration of grave

Les dix Kalendes d'Auril de fait Gotique

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