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      For a long time this quatrain was impregnable. Despite the presence of a numeral in it, nothing in my head connected with it. As it turned out, it is useful to rustle with dictionaries sometimes quite simply. The word “ senez ” was very confusing , well, very straight. The modern verb " sener " – (to castrate) – clearly did not fit, it was out of place. In the end, I rustled this: " senes " – " double six ” – two sixes in card games. Next, I went over the definitions of the number fourteen.

      "Fourteen": (game Picket( Jeu de Piquet )) – a combination consisting of four aces, or four kings, queens, jacks, or tens. The presence of such four cards together is worth fourteen points. It remained, based on the meaning of quatrain 1-7, to find such a combination in the texts of even earlier quatrains. And she was found! A combination of four aces ( as ) was found: 1-1 ( as sis ), 1-2 ( as sied ), 1-5 ( Ch as ses and Carc as ).

      For reference: Piquet is one of the oldest card games. François Rabelais mentions her in Gargantua (1532). Then they played with a deck of 36 cards, since the end of the 17th century, sixes have been removed from the deck. The cards become 32. This is how Nostradamus, the gambler, revealed himself.

      Another interesting observation: literally in the next quatrain 1-8, two more aces are found at once – “ as ” in a nutshell “ Ser as ”, extremely rare in the “Prophecies”. They are only twice further found in seven Centuries, which is a clear confirmation of the correctness of all of the above.

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