Idolatry as that they esteemed beasts for gods as appeareth Wisd. 12. 24. For they went astray far in the ways of errour and esteemed the beasts which their enemies despised for gods being abused after the manner of children that have no understanding So long is any Animal or living Creature said to have life as he hath breath and the exercise thereof And this Rule holdeth not only in fourfooted Animals but also in those that we call Insecta and in gliding Animals also as both Galen and Pliny do teach though Aristotle denieth these latter to have breath but therein he speaketh comparatively viz. in respect of other Animals that do attract and deliver their breath more strongly and more sensibly they seem to have no breath at all One Example more I will propose which shall be of the Emmet as in this next Escocheon The Examples hitherto produced are taken oâ—ly from Reptiles gressible and though of that kind which hath more than four feet I have alledged only the two last Examples of Insecta yet there are some other of many feet which are not Insecta as the Palmer-worm Cheeslip Kitchinbobs which being touched gather themselves round like a Ball and such like which must be referred to the same head And besides all these there are yet othersome which be both gressible and volant such are those that having their livelyhood only upon the earth by the help of a kind of wings they oftentimes change their place for the acquiring of their sustenance as in Example There are other of this kind whose wings are less manifest than the Grashoppers because they are closed in a kind of case that can hardly be discerned but when they are preparing to fly for which respect they are called Vagipennae saith Calepine Quia alas vaginis quibusdam inclusas habent for carrying their wings sheathed as the Hartâ—ly Beetle Lady-cow c. which together with Locusts and such other as are both gressible and volant and many-legged are to be reduced to this head as to their proper and natural place I will close up all these with one Example of the Scorpion which Aelianus and others report to be winged in Aegypt and India though he doubts whether they are not rather bred by the heat of the Sun than by copulation and if by this latter whether they come of Eggs or come forth living CHAP. XVIII NOW touching such Creatures as we termed Gliding Those may properly be said to be such which having no feet at all do yet move and as it were slide from place to place some more slowly but othersome with a certain volubility and flexible agitation of the body do make their speedy way upon the earth with many pliant bowings and of these also some have for coverture their skin only some both skin and shell also Of the former sort are those now following with their like To the four-footed Egg-bearing Animals do the Serpents come very nigh as also other Reptiles For all Serpents have blood flesh sinews and other like parts as four-footed Animals have although not in that perfection that they have them They are indowed also with head nostrils eyes tongue teeth and with lights and spleen and other inward parts and bowels of the body but much discrepant from the members and bowels of all others Notwithstanding that Serpents are far unequal to four-footed Animals both in shape and strength yet will they not give place to many of them for sharpness of wit It is a Creature full of subtilty as Moses testifieth Gen. 3. And the Serpent was more subtile than any Beast of the field For besides his exterior senses he is crafty and subtile in preserving his life in making choice of his lurking dens in acquiring his food in hatching up his brood in expelling from him and putting off his old slough So that for good cause did our Saviour exhort us in goodness to imitate the wisdome of the Serpent These few Examples may serve instead of many which might be brought of Serpents of sundry other names and natures which all are hither to be referred Now let us see one Example of such gliding or sliding Animals as are more slow-paced and have both skin and shell to cover them of which number is the Snail reckoned of all other that are born in Coat-Armour the slowest And no marvel since it carrieth on her back no less a burden than her whole house for which cause she is called Tardigrada Domiporta the slow-going House-bearer CHAP. XIX A Second general Member of our Division of living Creatures concerning such as live above the Earth in the Air as are the Fowls and Birds of all sorts and as we distinguished the former by their feet so the same Method we will follow in these Their feet therefore are in some whole or conjoyned in others divided The whole-footed do in a sort resemble the palm of a mans hand and are therefore in Latin called Palmipedes such as the Swan Goose Duck and for the most part all River Fowls as partly shall appear hereafter by Examples But here I hold it necessary entring into this Discourse to set down some general Rules or Notes concerning the bearing of Birds or Fowls that the Reader may know whither to resort for a resolution of such doubts as may arise touching their bearing Fowls or Birds are of more worthy bearing in Coat-Armour than Fishes because they do more participate of air and fire the two noblest and highest Elements than of water or earth All fowls of whatsoever kind must be born in Coat-Armour as is best fitting the propriety of their natural actions of going sitting standing flying c. Otherwise such Armory shall be said to be false because Ars imitatur naturam in quantum potest Art as much as possible it can doth imitate Nature All Birds are mustered under the name of Fowls as under their Genus or General and so may seem after a sort to be one Nevertheless in their Species or several kinds they differ much touching their particular qualities for some of them are simple some others subtile some solitary some sociable some melodious some articulate some docible some doltish and indocible some of long continuance and some only of a few months lasting Leigh saith That Birds in an Escocheon shall be numbred unto Ten and if they exceed that number then they shall be said to be sans number and shall be so blazoned But Chassaneus saith that they shall be numbred unto sixteen and of such bearing and blazoning he giveth instances of Monsieur Montmorancie and of the Lord Lovale Concerning the beaks or bills and feet of Birds most Armorists finding them to be of a different colour from the rest of the body do term them all generally membred But under reformation of the skill I hold that as there is a difference in the Nobility of Birds so ought they to have distinct terms of blazon So that all those that either are
in things of being or annexed to them As the same Author further noteth Metaph. 7. Accidentia non sunt entia nisi quia sunt entis Accidents and Forms do agree in this point that both the one and the other of them being separated from the Substance yet is not the Substance thereby altered from that it was but remaineth still the same which occasioned many men to think that Forms were Accidents These cannot alter the matter or substance because they are not of the main but come upon the by as it were Nihil enim transmutat materiam nisi sit in materia Accidents are in the subject as passio in patiente according to that saying Accidens ut est in subjecto non idem est in subjecto sed ut est passio ejus est sibi idem Such Accidents as are here meant are these viz. Tincture and Differences Tincture is a variable hue of Arms and is common as well to Differences of Arms as to the Arms themselves And the same is distributed into Colours and Furrs Colour may be said to be an external die wherewith any thing is coloured or stained or else it may be said to be the gloss of a Body beautified with light And the Colour here mentioned is both General and Special By general Colour I understand the proper and natural colour of each particular thing whether the same be Natural or Artificial of what kind soever that are depicted and set forth in their external and proper beauty In this respect all colours whatsoever without exception may seem to pertain to this Art for so much as there is nothing in this world subjected to the sight of man but either is or aptly may be born in Arms so spacious and general is the scope of Armory In blazoning of things born in their natural or proper colour you shall only term them to be born proper which is a blazon sufficient for things of that kind and well fitting their property or nature for there are no terms of blazon allowed to things born after that sort By special Colours I mean such colours as by a certain peculiar propriety as it were do belong to this Art of Armory These are both Simple and Mixt. Simple Colours are those whose existence is of such absolute perfection in their kind as that they need not the participation of any other colour to make them absolute but do communicate their natural qualities to all other colours to make them perfect in which respect they are called elementa coloris as shall be shewed hereafter And those are White and Black To these in right belongeth the first place amongst colours because in the order of nature they were before all other colours Priora enim sunt compositis incomposita and are of Aristotle called Elementa colorum saying Albus niger sunt elementa colorum mediorum Only White and Black are accounted simple Colours because all other colours whatsoever are raised either of an equal or unequal mixture or composition of these two which are as I may term them their common parents These are said to be the common parents of all other colours in respect they have their original being from these either in an equal or disproportionable mixture Therefore I will begin with them and so proceed to the rest that we call colores medii in respect of their participation of both Now for as much as practise is the scope of Doctrines to the end those things that are or shall be delivered may be the better conceived or born in memory I have thought good to manifest them by particular examples of ocular demonstration in the plainest manner that I can devise Quia qualis est rerum demonstratio talis futura est hominum scientia Examples and Demonstrations are of great power and efficacy to illustrate and bring things to light wherein brevity the prop and aid of memory and sweet companion of facility is highly commended as Farnesius noteth saying Nihil est ad res illuminandas illustrius exemplis in quibus brevitas adjutrix memoriae facilitatis socia semper est commendata The colour White is resembled to the light and the dignity thereof reckoned more worthy than the Black by how much the light and the day is of more esteem than darkness and the night whereunto black is likened Furthermore white is accounted more worthy than black in respect of the more worthy use thereof For men in ancient time were accustomed to note things well and laudably performed and esteemed worthy to be kept in memory with white and contrariwise whatsoever was holden reproachful or dishonourable was noted with black as the Poet noteth saying Quae laudanda forent quae culpanda vicissim Illa prius cretâ mox haec carbone notasti Moreover white challengeth the precedency of black according to Vpton in respect of the priority of time for that it was in nature before black which is a deprivation thereof Like as darkness whereunto black is resembled is an exemption of light Omnis enim privatio praesupponit habitum Finally Vpton preferreth white before black in regard that white is more easily discerned and further seen in the Field This colour is most commonly taken in Blazon for the metal Silver and is termed Argent wheresoever the same is found either in Field or Charge This metal representeth Water which next to the Air is the noblest of all the Elements and in Armory it is termed Argent for that it approacheth near to the Luminary Bodies To this metal is given the second place next to Gold in regard that the Armory cannot be good that hath not in it either Gold or Silver It also for another cause bare the resemblance of Water which scoureth cleanseth and putteth away all filth and uncleanness For in Blazon it betokeneth innocency cleanness of life and chastity amongst Complexions it is likened to flegm As for the esteem of this metal Silver we may observe in all Ages that Emperours Kings and Princes had and yet have their Vessels of chief use of Silver As for the abundance of this metal you may read 2 Chron. 9. how every man brought unto Solomon presents being Vessels of Silver and Vessels of Gold and Rayment and Armour and sweet Odors Horses and Mules from year to year And the King gave Silver in Ierusalem as Stones c. Such was the plentiful abundance of this metal in the days of Solomon In composition of Arms it is accounted a fault worthy blame to Blazon this otherwise than Argent but in doubling of Mantles it is not so taken for therein it is not understood to be a metal but the skin or furr of a little Beast called a Lituite so named as I conceive of Lithuania now called Luten a part of Sarmatia confining upon Polonia This Furr hath been heretofore much used by the ancient Matrons of the honourable City of London even by those that were of the chiefest account who ware
Meteors as are of mixt kind according to the distribution before delivered in the next president These are firy Meteors bred of an Exhalation somewhat more gross and impure than those before specified by reason of a more thick and slimy vapour whereof they be ingendred Meteors of this kind are Thunder Lightning Thunder is an inflamed Exhalation which by his powerful force breaketh thorow the Clouds violently with great noise and terror The forcible power thereof is rather apprehended by the ear than subjected to the sight nevertheless the ancient times have devised a certain imaginary form whereby they would express the forcible power thereof as also of the Lightning Thunder is supposed to be ingendred two manner of ways viz. when either a hot or dry vapour is inclosed in a cold and moist Cloud and being unable to contain it self therein by reason of the contrariety it laboureth by all means to find a vent and so striving by all means to get passage it maketh way with great vehemency and horror of sound such as a glowing Gad of Iron or any other firy matter maketh when water is infused thereupon in abundance or that it is therein drenched it maketh a furious and murmuring sound Such is that weak and feeble sort of Thunder that seemeth to be ingendred in some Region of the Air far remote from us yielding only for a small time a kind of turbulent noise or murmuring Or else it is ingendred in a more violent manner to wit when this inclosed dry and combustible matter being inâ—lamed in the Clouds of contrary qualities doth break out with vehemency then doth it yield a terrible and forcible sound not unlike a great piece of Ordnance when it is overcharged And this sound thus ingendred is called Thunder This sort of sound is used oftentimes Metaphorically as when God threatneth his Judgments against Sin he is said to thunder them out In this sense doth Petrarch use the same saying Deus ideo tonat in Coelis ut tu in terras bene vivas quodque amoxe debueras saltem metu facias For unless God loved man he would never threaten him but rather punish him forasmuch as man doth evermore minister many and those grievous occasions of execution of Gods Judgments Lightning is a vehement â—ruption of an inflamed Exhalation proceeding from Thunder which though it is in time after the Thunder yet is first represented to our senses by reason that our sight is far more subtil and apprehensive than is our hearing And in regard that Thunder and Lightning do both proceed from one self cause they have in such their imaginary fiction conjoyned them both under one form after this manner His Inference had been truer thus If God should Thunder-strike still when he sin doth see All men would soon be spent yet God still arm'd should be Hitherto of Firy Meteors now of such as be watry Watry Meteors are certain cold and moist Vapours copiously attracted by the powerful operation of the Heavenly Bodies into the Air and there transmutated into their several forms Of these there are divers sorts whereof Clouds are most usually born in Coat-Armour A Cloud is a gross Vapour attracted into the middle Region of the Air and there thickned by reason of the coldness of the place having in it store of matter apt to ingender water A Cloud according to Zanchius is a moist thick Vapour attracted from the waters by the heat of the Sun unto the middle Region of the Air and there thickned by the coldness thereof and so continueth until it be again dissolved by the Suns heat and so converted into rain and doth distill down in drops Zanch. de Meteoris aqueis 483. The Clouds are said to be Gods Chariots as we may see Psalmâ— 104. He layeth the beams of his Chambers in the waters and maketh the Clouds his Chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winds The Clouds are Gods Instruments wherein he containeth and retaineth at his pleasure the shours of Rain as in Bottles as we may see Iob 38. 37. Who can number the Clouds by wisdom Or who can cease the Bottles of Heaven The Clouds are resembled to a Spunge replenished with water and God with the hand of his Providence wringeth the Spunge moderately not pressing out all the moisture thereof at once but leasurely and by little and little after a gentle and soaking manner No Pencil can make a true representation of Clouds because every instant and moment of time doth add unto them some kind of alteration whereby it differeth from that it was late before nevertheless former times have coyned of these also a conceited form as in these next Escocheons may be seen This Coat is also born by Sir Henry Blount of Tittonhanger in Hartfordshire Knight In the Clouds hath the Rain-bow his temporary Residence and therefore next let us cast our eyes on it CHAP. VI. HItherto have we prosecuted our intendment touching things of mixt nature which are brute or liveless Now proceed we to the consideration of things of mixt Nature having life Mixt Natures that are living are Corporeal Essences endued with a Vegetable Soul for here we use this word Soul as also the word Life in his largest signification A Vegetable Soul is a faculty or power that giveth life unto Bodies Whereby they do live After a sort or Perfectly Such as do live after a sort or less perfectly are all sorts of Mettals which because they are supposed to grow and increase in the Earth we will for our present use ascribe life unto them Mettals are Bodies imperfectly living and are decocted in the Veins of the Earth Of these some are naturally Liquefiable Not Liquefiable or less Liquefiable The Liquefiable are Gold Silver Copper Tin Lead and other of like kind The not or hardly Liquefiable are Precious Brittle Those that are altogether hard are Stones of all sorts Stones are bred of a waterish moisture and of an oily kind of Earth firmly compacted together Of Stones some are Precious Base Stones precious are of that sort that we call in Latin Gemmae which are of estimation either for that they are rarely to be gotten or for some vertue phansied to be in them or for that they are such as wherewith mans Eye is wonderfully delighted by reason of their pureness and beautiful transparent substance Of which kind are the Diamond Topaz Escarbuncle Emerald Ruby and such like Of which sorts twelve of chiefest note were appointed by God himself to be used in the principal Ornament of the High Priest when he appeared before the Lord presenting therein the Names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel to shew how precious in his sight is the People and Nation which serveth him as himself prescribeth But of all these several kinds the Escarbuncle is of most use in Arms and is born as in these next Escocheons appeareth So much of precious Stones now of those which are Base such we esteem all those to be
under the said King Edward until he was restored to his Estate in Gascoign by the Peace made betwixt the two Crowns Ruby a Lion rampant Pearl was the Coat-Armour of Roger Mowbray a Norman who was made Earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror He flew in Battel Malcombe King of Scots and his eldest Son but after rebelling against William Rufus was taken prisoner in Northumberland and kept in Winchester prison till the reign of Henry the First and then died without issue after whose decease King Henry the First gave all his Lands and Arms to the Lord Nigell de Albaine whose Son was called Mowbray of whom descended the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk And this Coat is now quartered by the honourable and flourishing Family of the Howards Ruby a Lion rampant Topaz is the Coat-Armour of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Carbery Baron Vaughan of Emblin and Molingar and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council Saphire a Lion rampant Pearl is the Coat of the Right Honourable Iohn Lord Crew Baron of Stean descended from Eustace Crew who came into England with William the Conqueror and was made Baron of Monthalte Argent a Lion rampant Sable is the Coat-Armour of the Stapletons of Yorkshire Sable a Lion rampant Argent is born by Edmond Lewis Carn-Lloyd in Glamorganshire Esquire and by Edward Lewis of the Van in the said County Esquire As touching the bearing of the Lion after this manner I hold that then he may be truly said to be rampant when he standeth so directly upright as that the crown of his head doth answer to the plant of his foot whereupon he standeth in a perpendicular line and not by placing of the left foot in the dexter corner of the Escocheon as Leigh would have it As the former Example sheweth the gesture of the Lion pursuing his prey so this sheweth his gesture in seizing on it when he hath attained it Ruby a Lion rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl is born by the Right Honourable Ralph Lord Grey Baron of Warke of whose Family was Sir Iohn Grey who for his good Service in France was by King Henry the Fifth created Earl of Tanquerville in the said Kingdom This Coat is also born by Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn in Flintshire Knight and Baronet and by William Mostyn of Rhyd in the said County Esquire Argent three Lions rampant and a Chief Gules is the Coat-Armour of Sir Henry Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire Baronet The Lion saith Farnesius is a lively Image of a good Souldier who must be valiant of Courage strong of Body politick in Counsel and a foe to fear Such a one was the most valiant Prince Richard the Second surnamed Cour de Lion whose renowned Adventures suited with all courage and politick care gave him the eternal Name of the Lion-heart This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Herbert Earl and Baron of Powis and by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island This Coat is also born by the Family of the Progers amongst whom is Charles Proger Herbert of Gwerndy in Monmouthshire Esq one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Privy chamber By Edward Proger Herbert Esq one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber And by Henry Proger Herbert Esq one of his Majesties Ecqueties Ermyn on a Chief Azure three Lions rampant Or by the Name of Aucher and is the Coat-Armour of Sir Anthony Aucher of Bishops-bourn in the County of Kent Knight and Baronet Sable two Lions rampant combatant Or is born by Nicholas Carter of London Dr. in Physick Leigh saith That these were two Lions of sundry Regions which of manhood must combate only for Government For the Lion is as desirous of mastery as a couragious Prince is ambitious of Honour which if it be in a just Title and Claim is a vertue in a King and no way to be disliked For it was a Royal Apothegm worthy that great King Nemo me major nisi qui justior I acknowledge no King greater than my self but he that is juster There are yet other forms of bearing the Lion than are hitherto expressed as in these next Escocheons may be seen This Coat is also born by Thomas Wyndham of Tale in Devonshire Esq one of the Grooms of his now Majesties Bedchamber third Son of Sir Edmond Wyndham of Cathanger in Somersetshire Knight Marshal of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold and lineally descended of the ancient Family of the Wyndhams of Crown-Thorp in Norfolk The Lion beareth his tail after a diverse manner insomuch as we may thereby if not certainly know yet give a near ghess what a mood he is in for the present viz. whether he be furiously bent or peaceable or majestically affected And these qualities are manifestly discerned by the Inversion Eversion or Extension c. of his tail Here may rise a Question Whether the bearing of the tail of the Lion in any of these several manners be a sufficient difference to prevent all causes of challenge For my own part albeit I have not read or seen in Gerard Leigh Boswell Ferne or any other Armorial Writers the state of this Question handled I hold that they be differences sufficient to debarr all challenge My Reasons are these first Sufficit quod inter arma mea tua talis sit differentia qua detur diversitas And again Nova forma dat novum esse rei I hold them not only to be differences secundum quid but simpliciter that is to say absolute and essential differences Furthermore Data una dissimilitudine etiam paria judicabuntur diversa Moreover experience sheweth us That the least addition or subtraction in Armorial signs maketh them cease to be the same that they were Omnia Arma Arithmeticis figuris sunt simillima quibus si quid addas vel subtrahas non remanet eadem species as I have formerly shewed Finally for approbation of these my Opinions I will add this infallible Assertion Ea differunt quorum definitiones differunt These are my Reasons that induce me to be of this Opinion that the diverse manner of bearing of the tail of the Lion as aforesaid are or may be without exception essential differences which nevertheless I referr to the judicious censure of the Learned in this Profession who perhaps may convince me with more forceable grounds But because Demonstration is the best of Arguments to convince the incredulous it is apparent that Buxton's Coat before mentioned differs not from that of Smeres but only in the manner of the bearing of the tail both of them being Argent a Lion rampant Sable only in Buxton's Coat the tail is elevated and turned over the head of the Lion as it more plainly appears before in this present Chapter Now as touching particularizing of the beforementioned assertion I say that the Eversion of the tail of the Lion is an express token of his placability or tractableness as
hindmost part thereof and into Verticem which is the Crown or middle part of the same seated between the fore and hinder part aforenamed Under these three partitions are placed three several faculties In the forepart is the Phantasie or Sensus Communis scil the Judgment of the Senses or universal notion of things in the middle the Imagination and Memory in the hinder part of the head Within the concavity of the skull the brain hath his being distinguished with 3 little Ventricles or Cells one in the forepart another in the midst and the last in the hinder part In which three Ventricles the forms and ideas of things apprehended by the exterior senses are severally and distinctly imprinted Therefore to the end the same might be more effectually performed God made not the brain fluent like water for then would it not apprehend or retain those conceited forms nor yet of solid substance like bones for then could it not easily admit the impressions of such imaginary forms but he made the brain of an indifferent temper viz. moderately soft and moderately hard to wit of a soft and temperate nature Furthermore God hath made in the brains of man certain concavities or hollownesses and those hath he replenished with vital spirits without which the interiour senses could not consist and these spirits doth the soul use to understand by and to the performance of other actions which she produceth in the head Moreover in the brain hath he placed the fountain of the sinews which from thence are dispersedly conveyed throughout the body as well those nerves and sinews as are sensitive as also those that are motive viz. those that give motion to the body But who can express or conceive in mind the manifold instruments of the soul that God hath placed in the head of man In the head we may observe well-nigh all the uses of the soul. Behold the admirable composition of mans head which of all other parts of the body is the noblest and how all and singular the parts thereof are accommodated and applied by our most gracious Maker Conserver and Redeemer to serve for the uses of all the faculties of the soul If the framing of this one member I mean the head of a man be so admirable in it self how much more is the composition of the whole frame of the body being conjoyned and united together with sinews and arteries in a proportionable manner and furnished throughout with all the external and internal parts and their particular appurtenances to be admired The members of Animals are of Philosophers usually distinguished into external and internal and so be handled severally each one apart by it self but I labouring to be brief herein will handle those outward and inward parts only whose shapes and forms I find to be born in Coat-Armour leaving the more copious and exact handling of them to the consideration of Physicians Chirurgions and Anatomists professed to whose consideration they do more properly appertain The head in Latin is called Caput because it is the chief and principal beginning of the whole fabrick of the body and withal the noblest of all other the members thereof In the head do the two principal faculties of the sould rest viz. the Intelligent and Sentient and do there execute their functions albeit that the vegetable faculty also hath his operation there but the other two do reign and chiefly predominate therein therefore it is the seat and residence of all the senses as well internal as external placed in the head and that for good cause for since that the faculty Intelligent understandeth not in any other sort than by inspection of imagination and imaginary shapes which are engendred of external forms and are by the outward senses conveyed to the phantasie or image conceived in the mind Most wisely therefore hath God there placed the seat and wisdome of all the senses where the mind hath her being that so she need not go farr to seek those imaginary forms whereof she is to consider to understand and dispose of according to order Therefore inasmuch as the senses are become serviceable to the mind there the seat or residence of the senses is most fitly placed where the mind doth exercise her offices and operations From the same head do proceed all the nerves and sinews wherewith each bone and member as also the universal body is conjoyned and fastened together and consolidated and also receiveth increase and being In the head is placed the principal part of manly form the Visage whereby the differeth from all other Animals and doth far surpass them in favour and comliness whereof the Poet rightly wrote in these words Finxit in effigiem moderantûm cuncta deorum Pronaque cùm spectent animalia caetera terram Os homini sublime dedit coelumque tueri Iussit erectos ad sidera tollere vultus Ovid. Met. 1. fixt the form of all th'all-ruling Deities And whereas others see with down cast eyes He with a lofty look did man endue And bade him Heavens transcendent glories view Forasmuch as God would that the faculties both intelligent and sentient should predominate in the head therefore did he form and accommodate therein instruments well fitting for either use Of these instruments there are only two sorts whereof the first containeth the instruments of the inferiour senses and the other of the outward The instruments serving for the use of the external senses whereof there is use in Armory are not many therefore will I handle them as I shall find use of them in Coat-Armour the rest I will only name and so pass them over as impertinent to my purpose These instruments of the external senses are in number five that is to say the eyes nostrils ears mouth with the roof and palate thereof and the tongue Of these I find only the eyes born in Coat-Armour therefore of them only will I treat something in their due place as those that are best known to use Or 3 Moors heads couped Sable banded about the heads Argent is born by the Name of Mico of London Now I will shew you a rare yet an ancient bearing of Childrens heads couped enwrapped about the necks with Snakes God hath annexed those two nerves or sinews as the Wagons of the shapes and resemblances received into the eyes to be conveyed to the phantasie which sinews albeit there are two of them annexed to each eye nevertheless when they are protracted to the brain they do joyn together and end in one point for this end and purpose that the shapes that were twofold in the two eyes they should yet end in one forasmuch as the conceived shapes are simply of one colour and that so the Judge of the Sensus communis or the phantasie should not be deceived Furthermore he hath covered the eyes with lids as it were with folding doors both for a defence against harmful objects and more specially for sleep that these being shut man might take his rest