Two times put high, two times put low A horrible slaughter of people and animals And the lady in the hot coals will no longer be in sight Driven out by sea will fail at the time of need That's an actual Nostradamus quatrain. Sooky
The one that comes up most often is this one, which is commonly assumed to refer to Hitler "Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers, The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister. Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn, When the child of Germany observes nothing."
And Hitler was happy to have it believed that Nosty was talking about him when in actual fact he was talking about the river Hister.
Nostradamus foresaw this. He made reference to a lazy man born out of wedlock failing to seduce a saint from his base in the land of the angry drunken mob