Priest from whose breasts oftentimes honey flowed in the mouth of the Infant after which in the night he is said to have utred nine several Notes of voices of fowles viz. of a Swallow a Peacock a Dove a Crow a Partrich a Red-Shanks a Staire a Blackbird and a Nightingal and being a little Boy was found playing in his bed with nine Doves the Moral whereof may be this By the Swallow was signified his Industry and Promptness and readiness and such is the nobleness of this birds mind Vâ— VITAM POTIUS QUAM LIBERTATEM Speed beareth two Swallows in Chiefe as a note of his mind and industry in his Chronicle and why it is borne in the Coat of Arundell is declared at large in my Sphear of Gentry by the Swallow also is signified his noble Muse TENDAM PAULUM MODO TOLLAR IN ALTUM Poesy like the Swallow must be free AMICA NON SERVA it brings tidings of the Spring By the Peacock is denoted the property of proper valour SIBI MET PULCHERRIMA MERCES and spreads the Tayle of Troy UT SIC PULCHRIOR and so admires himself TRAHIT MUTATQUE VICISSIM Homer tells both their glory and their woe together ET CANTU MAEROR Though indeed the Grecians had this property of the Peacock to be admirers of themselves being encouraged by Junâ— they are borne by Smith perhaps because Vulcan was an enemy to the Trojans Mulciber in Trojam pro Troja stabat Apollo Two Doves from Heav'ns ethereal round Stooping light gently on the verdant Ground The Elysian Fields having a Wood neer for none but pure and pious Birds from which all Ravenous and Obscoen ones were driven away so that what is signified by the Dove is plain and though it be true that Aquila non generat c. Yet when an Eagle brought a young Stock-Dove and laid it in the Cradle of Diadumenus the Son of Macrinus it signified that he should be Emperour because that day he was born an old Woman brought his Mother a Present of Pigeons Sir John Frederick bears three of these Birds in a Chiefe and the field of the same Metall of Aeneas his branch and how farr the Symbole of his Name hath suited with his Moderation in Government when he was Lord Major let even his enemies speak Where one desired Boughes they pearch when Rayes Through Branches of discolour'd Gold displayes The Crow is a contrary colour to the Dove Crow and was placed on the fist of Minerva for the Ingenuity thereof LABORE ET INDUSTRIA Even as the Geese were placed on the Shield of Aeneas for their vigilancy when time should come giving notice of the approach of the Gaules enemies to the Romans in memory whereof the Picture of a Goose was kept in the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus And why Corbet beareth a Raven in a field Or is as Camden saith because the name signifieth a Raven it is a very fair Coat seeing every Crow thinks his own Bird fairest it is the Symbole of Garulity and the Hierroglyphick of Long life and so Homer hath perpetuised the honour of his Countrey-men And though Birds of a chattering nature do much interrupt the Meditation of the Mind yet the Crow was never discharged from the service of Minerva till her unacceptable intelligence Truth not seldome being obnoxious to danger and a Raven of all other birds is sacred to Apollo being its voice is articulate and significant By the voice of the Partridg which Homer imitated Partridge was signified one of excellent invention whence the Fable that Perdix rejoycing at the miseries of Dedalus while he buried his Son Dedalus envying the Boyes invention of the Saw and Compasses at twelve years of Age threw him from the top of Minervaes Tower he was supported by the Goddess and by her converted into a bird of that Name There being no envy so great and deadly as is betwixt Men of the same Profession This the Author hath experience of as well from those who have formerly writ of this Science as those who were his licensers for to remove the rivall of their Praises and ever since the Partridg never flyes high INTER CURAS TRANQUILLE DEGENTEM Great height great downfalls ballance still Be Great and Glorious they that will MANUS SUB PENNIS was the Animals of Ezechiel to shew that the Works of the hand and the desires of the Mind ought to go together this made Handcock beare three Cocks in Chief and a Hand beneath to shew the vigilancy and the labour of the bearer for one that is agitated by generous thoughts had rather by himself trace out a way to Heaven than to tread in others Tracts on Earth Plurimum enim ad inveniendum contulit qui speravâ—t posse reperire The Crane what does it signifie but Pietas erga parentes venenatoribus gratae Hearne So also is the Hearne He that beareth the Redshank hath overcome incendiaries QUOD SIS ESSE VELIS is proper to the Cornish Chough and they that bear them are such who like Aeneas have overcome many dangers of the Harpyes Virgill gives you this account No Monster like to these no Plague more sell Nor sharper vengeance Heaven ere call'd from Hell The Fowle have Virgin faces and hooked Clawes Still purging bellies alwayes greedy Mawes Choughe The Cornish Chough amongst us denoteth more especially West-Countrey Gentlemen where these birds are more frequent Cornwallis bearing three on a Fesse as being originally of Cornwall whence they have their Denomination as well as the Bird which is black of Body but with red legs By the mystical conjunction of Hawk and Lion in the Griffin the Aegyptians did signifie the genial or syderious Sun the great celerity thereof and the strength and vigour of it in its operations and its activity in Leo. By it also the Genius of Nilus was understood according to Kercher and to bear Birds of prey or Monstruosities is but with Hercules to overcome Centaurs or the unclean Birds of the Stymphanian lake Harpyes in the one Carnales affectus virtute animi mortificat in the other Libidinem velut pestem fugit So that to bear a Bird with a Womans face as the Earl of Oxford doth and likewise the Families of Astley and Moodys doth denote men of subtile and aenigmatical Wits who prevail more in their minds then bodies according to that of Ovid Met. lib. 11. Virtutem antiquam majores corpore vires The Parrot Avis argutula atque etiam humanitus garriens Parrots How many younger Brothers shall we find who with the Martlet have raised themselves by the wing Martlets Difference of the fourth Brother These are attributed to these Princes by Speed and others rather then by the help of their legs that is by sailing and becoming Merchant men Quin longas peregrinationes edocet soris vel equo vel industria victum honoremque quaeritat And therefore it was born in the Shields of Edgar sirnamed Pacificus
as Tau among the Hebrews Letters in Arms signifying men of much Judgement the Arms of Toft being a Cheveron between three Text Tees perhaps no otherwise then that of Thoth to signifie his Name and Quality the Alphabet of the Hebrews ending with the Letter Tau signifying full Perfection it is advanced in chief in the Coat of Drury In the holy Tongue it signifieth a Mark and three of them are borne by the Name of Grymes Nullis praesentior aether It is a special Note of Gods Favour Apud Aegyptios singulae Litetae singulis verbis serviebunt and an especial Ensign in the Coat of Talke of Sussex who beareth the same Cross with three Crowns of Thorn in chief denoting therein Compassi ut conregnabimuâ— and the whole Alphabet doth afford fit Bearings for the Judicious and Learned and among Military Signes Letters were Notes of their Order as H Hastatorum P Principium T Triariorum And among the Hebrews Hermanus Hugo de Origine Scribend Aleph signifieth a prince Beth id est Domus Gimel id est Camelus Daleth id est Porta Zain as Zen id est Arma He and Teth and Cheth being so denominated from their sound Jod Manus as Caninus Caph Palmam interpretat Lamed id est Stimulo Mem Macula and Nun Piscem interpretatur Samech Basis as Caninus saith Aâ—jn Fons Pe Os seu vultus Tsade Hamus Coph Simium Resch quasi Ros that is a Head Schin quasi Scen id est Deus Letters being the first Signes of Bodies Bodies being the first Ensignes of Spirits by which outward Signes the minds of men became understood Signature being the onely universal Character and Colour the Paper on which they are written and because Lucis proprium est Color ejusque perpetuus comes cui cum nulla sit Materia neque Colori erit Therefore the Field of Metal as it representeth Light is to be preferred before that of Colour because that every man is to preferre his own Countrey as the Common Good nevertheless as the Metal is the Spirit without which the Shield iâ— as a dead Letter Where it is superiour on the Field it hath an Exaltation because that Light overcame Darkness and whereever there is an Exaltation we shall allow our Dignity more then its proper place hence it is that Metal is named before Colour Argent and Sable being most Fair Or and Sable most Rich Or and Vert most Glittering and are preferred when they come nearest to the Unity of Matter in the perfect things of the Creation every thing having a nobility of Colour or when or where they come nearest to the Unity of Form as to bear things uniform and conspicuous by Metal now if you look back to the Scheme of Colours in this Chapter you shall find that we allow the first and chief Place to the Argent or Unity as the Form Why Metal upon Mâ—tal is false Heâ—aldry and the next to the OR corporeal Matter being understood by the number two but because both Metals are allowed in Arms we will admit them to be both Unites the one of the Form and the other of the Matter now as from one issueth two so from the first an Aethereal Metal Argent issueth OR making two Unites and if you take one of those Unites for the Beginning and another for the Middle then there wants an end making Metal upon Metal Again if you put a Unite in the Beginning and another for the End then you have rwo Extremes but no Mean or Middle for seeing Gules is the first Unity of Colours and Azure next this is imperfect also because then 't is Colour upon Colour Again if you place one Unite for a Mean and the other for the End here also is imperfection because it wants a Beginning The formal fountain of Light begins with God and terminates with Man who is in the Sphere of Equality or Honour Point in the mid Heaven viz. Gules penetrating to the Centre of the Earth or Abyss whose Basis is in the Earth or Centre of Darkness whereby Black and White become most ancient and I have set all down from the Square of three by adding one which in all is ten Chapters beyond the which as Aristotle affirmeth no man hath found out any number this first is of Colours which in consideration of the Painters Art is no incroachment in me to write of in which you may principally observe with the Honourable Robert Boyle Boyl's Experiments that there are but few Simple and Primary Colours from whose various Compositions all the rest do as it were result being sufficient to exhibit a variety and number of Colours Such as those that are altogether strangers to the Painters pallets can hardly imagine Thus for instance Black and White differingly mix'd make a vast company of Darker Grayes Blue and Yellow make a huge variety of Greens Red and Yellow make Orange Tawny Red with a little White makes a Carnation Red with an Eye of Blue make a Purple and as by these simple Compositions again compounded among themselves the skilfull Painter can compound a great many more then there are yet names for so by the Composition of Colour and Metal Lines and Charges are produced infinite variety of Arms the Corpuscles whereof they consist must be such as do not destroy one anothers Texture but remains as plain as may be Tin calcin'd by fire affords a White and Lead calcin'd a Red and Copper a very Black or dark Powder and Iron may be by the action of reverberated flames be turned into a Colour almost like that of Saffron Gold is preferred before all Metals being the Symbole of Peace which nourisheth Love Sands Coment Meâ—am l. 1. and Lead of Poverty which starves it Forthwith up sprang the quick and weightless fire Met. l. 1. Whose flames unto the highest Arch aspire The next in levity and place is Aire Gross Elements to th cker Earth repair Self clâ—gg'd with weight the waters flowing round Possess the last and solid Tellus bound In our Disquisition into the formal Causes of any thing the knowledge of the nature of Colours is necessary to compleat the science in which sense Colour is as much formal as the Line which distinguisheth the Form and Matter as it ariseth from Unity is said to have Magnitude and Magnitude is no other then that which ariseth from a Point which is said to have no parts and in Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Signum a Sign externally made to signifie that which is conceived in the mind being the same as Unity in Number an Instant in Time or a Sound in Musick and Armorial Marks so much in use with us at this Day are called Insignia under which word is comprised all Signs Marks and Tokens of Honour being externally made to signifie that which was conceived in the mind of the Bearer and that I may proceed to this ARMILOGIA or universal Signature which
with a hundred iron and brass Bands There in the Porch bifronted Janus stands So that by Barrs counterchanged is signified Prudence to provide against and to kill Monsters to whom must be exposed the Chrystal Shield of Minerva against the many-headed Monster of Treason War Jealousies and Fears and the strong Barrs of Fortitude is to be not onely shut but Barred against such Hydra's as is born in Barret's Creasts The Devil himself at this Hag shuts his Gate This Monster the infernal Furies hate Lastly by Barrs are signified Metam Limites uon transiliendos therein imitating the good General acknowledging God the Generalissimo of all Armies not exceeding his Barrs of reason and though he find opportunity yet will make a Bridge of Gold for his flying Enemy wherein eminent is the President of T. Manlius Son to the Consul his Father who exceeding his Bounds though he gained a considerable Victory and presented his Father the Consul with the spoils of his Enemies in these words That all may know Sir that I am the Son of so worthy a Father I present you with these spoils which when challenged I took from the slain Enemies Yet the Son was condemned to death by the Father for exceeding his Bars in these words I think saith he that even though thy self if thou hast any of my blood running in thy veins wilt not refuse to restore by thy Punition that Military Discipline which by thy fault thou hast destroyed Go Lictor do thy Office saevumque securi Aspice Torquatum Behold Torquatus that bears the bloody Axe to admonish the Bearers to be good in their Office the Girdle keeping men from running from one extreme to another the late Cardinal of France Mazarine bearing the Axe and Bundle of Rods over all a Military Girdle charged with Mullets as a Note of his high Administrations Militiae decus hoc est grati nomen honoris Symbola Ausoniacum cingere digna Latus Ovid speaking of the Girdle of Venus saith Sume Cytheriaco mediatum Nectare Ceston Ussit amatorum Balthaeis ille Jovem But methinks I hear the Man at Arms all this while but boasting like one that puts on his Armour and like Agamemnon's Vision is called upon Grantham's Translat of Hom. Il. lib. 2. Sleeps Agamemnon who doth the War-horse tame 'T is far unfit a General of thy fame Should sleep all night how canst thou carefull be Of those great Armies that are under thee So now to raise the Fesse to the Bend is to lift up the Souldiers head to the Battail with Victory which is to bring him off as well as I brought him on When on his shoulders that unhappy Belt Aen. l. 12. With golden Studs most glorious he beheld Which Pallas had when him first Turnus kill'd Zona suspensa ad humeros Victoria est argumentum Pugnaturi enim ad lumbos adaptant ensem per Zonam post Victoriam autem ad humeros religatur The manner of a Victor being such that first disarming of his Foe throws it over his own shoulder in a more propense manner His dying body which the foot of his triumphant foe Opened and stood upon his breast and off his arms did go The Bend by Sir Henry Spelman is called Baltheum triumphale and is the Belt of Phoebus who is said to rejoyce as a Giant to run his course this Ordinary representing the Zodiack OBLIQUE ET UBIQUE containing the third part of the Field It is the Symbole of Perseverance INDECLINABILI GRESSU it never swerves though it be to the right and left it is as it were a scaling Ladder in the Coats of Ratcliffe and Culpepper prepared for assault in the ingrailing thereof When Jacob had seen this Vision he Scaled Heaven and covenanted with God HINC NON RECEDAM It is the Ecliptick Line of the Sons of Honour it signifies an old Souldier Senex ita cingebatur And though it seem to incline yet 't is as constant as the Zodiack RECEDO NON DECEDO. The old Souldier may repose but not deviate If it appear cottised it s like the Sun between the Tropicks and TEMPERAT AESTUE It is rewarded by Sovereign Ensignes most eminently in the Coat of Thâ—mas Howard Duke of Norfolk who gave the overthrow to James King of Scots at Plâ—dden Field in memory of which so signal service the King gave the Addition to his Arms Dated the first of Feb. An. 5. H. 8 viz. On an Escoutcheon O. R a Demilion in a double Tressure Counterflory with an arrow in the mouth Gules which was part of the Regal Arms of Scotland their Lion having been wounded in the mouth with the English Archery all which was born upon the Triumphal Belt sometimes the Bend is adorned with Golden Buckles like that of Aeneas in Virgil Eurialus Phalaris Rhamnetis aurea bullis Cingula Buckles being also Symbols of Triumph and Victory and in memory of the signal Fidelity of the City of Hereford to his Late Majesty King Charls the First when David Lesley the General of the Scots lay before it with all his Force after a long Siege his Majesty disarmed his Belt which was charged with three Buckles Hereford Armes and bestowed them as a reward for their invincible fidelity on the necks of the Lions Gardant as supporter to the Arms of that City and compassing the said Coat which was Gules three Lions passant Gardant Argent with a Border Azure charged with Scotch Crosses Reason of bearing Mother coats on a Bend. To bear the Mothers Coat upon the Fathers by the Heir on Bend is commendable by Vpton an example whereof is instanced by Guilime in the Coat of Latime and where there is a reason to be given though the Coat be more charged yet 't is a Philosophical Tenet Quod facit tale est magis tale so that if the Bearer of this Shield claim Nobility from Ancestry on his Mothers Side he hath a President of it in Antiquity Achilles retteats to his Grandfather Aeacus and his Father Peleus and his Mother Thetis which Aeneas testifieth though he had never seen the Shield before Fame sounds thy worthiness From famous Peleus the Sea Nymph that hath the lovely Tress Thetis thy Mother Knowing at the very sight of the Shield which had so much of his Silver-footed Mother and infernal A acus as plainly did declare by the Metal and Colour of the same that he was no less then the great Grandchild of Jove If the Bend be subdivided into smaller pieces it is called a Scarp or Scarffe which are said to be Ornamentum quoddam muliebâ—e which saith the Commentator on the Iliads were no unusual wear for Souldiers he translates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scarffe and not Funda a Sling which was not so much as named in all the Iliads When Helenus was wounded through the hand 't is said The wounded hand within a Scarf he bore it which the Squire Had ready for him yet the wound would needs he
slain Sarracens and with it drawing upon the Sheild those bloody marks which now it hath Pales waved represent Securitas Augusti and he that beareth them may be thought to have done service on the narrow Seas Pales ingrailed and indented seem to denote him who first assaults the Pallâ—sado so gaining Corona valaris sive Palaris the Pale is placed about the Castle and ditch to secure the place and in that sence the bearers are taken for Patrones and Protectors Hunc cingit Muralis honos hunc Civica quercus Nexuit hunc dâ—mitis ambit Rostrata Carinis Thus Englished by Ogleby This Murall honour crowns that Civick Boughs This wreathes his head with conquered Gally prowes Is the Field Checky between two Flanches Ermine it signifies a wise man who though he be crushed on all sides with the uncertain Game of the World yet keeps himself upright Statum servare is to keep one standing And among the Romans Stare in Senatu was to prevail in the Senate whose distinctions were into Senatores Majorum like unto the Pale and Senators minorum Gentium like the Pallets Checky between two Flanches signifies a wise prudent Magistrate who keeps the multitude in as the Flanks of a man do the small Guts 'T is so born by Sherington is the Flanches Ermine with a Star in the Black Field It signifies a wise Clerk and is born by Hâ—bart 'T is a reward saith Leigh for Virtue and Learning a Bearing fit for Nicodemus one that came by night or if you will rather allow it the same sence our former Herald doth it is an especial reward for Service in an Ambassage and so with the former Field and Star it might represent those wise men who had seen the Star in the East Neither must I forget that learned man Sir Henry Spelman whose Aspilâ—gia is nothing else then the Language of Arms wherein his Shield speaks for it self Clypeique insigne decorum as Virgil saith he bearing Sable Plates 123 from the centre to the front and rear between two Flanches Argent the Flanches denoting Virtue and Learning and the Plates the reward thereof for what more durable inheritance can we leave then the endowments of the Mind and the pure Silver Balls whose melody sounds like the Bells of Aaron and how are they better commemorated then in Arms which hath the same property of Poesie Notitiam serae posteritatis habet Some indeed make a difference between the Flasks and the Flank implying that the first is a Degree above the other deriving the word from the French Fleschier to bend or bow albeit there is but an Anagrammatical difference between Tende and Bende onely it seems the one is bowed more and so is proved by the Stress Arcus arma tuae tibi sint imitanda Dianae Si nunquam cesses tendere mollis erit The Voider saith my Authour consisteth of an Arch line of a Bow unbent and is a reward for service by a Gentlewoman So that it seems Custome will not allow the Feminine Gender to bow the Bowe to the heighth though she be a Virago and the repose of a Military man is a Bow unbent which as the Italian saith MI REPOSO NO ES FLAQUEZZ according to Plutarch's Morals Lyram arcum remittimus quo melius possit tendi and if we give way to ease 't is but to return with more vigour If you do allow the Voider to the Lady though she be obstinate Lentescunt tempore Clark of Derbyshire beareth the Flanches perhaps as a reward of Clerkship whence they took their Name and Arrow heads in the Field because Oratio humilitantis se nubes penetrabit And so Davids tongue became as the Pen of a ready Writer Dakyns of Yorkshire beareth the same perhaps as a reward of Ambassage being augmented with a Lion of England 't is born by Tho. Dochen in a field Ermine between two Flanches rewarded with two Cottisses as a reward of his Learning he being a Doctor of Physick and Student of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford whose Ensign is Loxengy Ermine and Sable in a Chief of the second three Lillies of the first and Jupiter three flower-de-liz in Pale Sol between two Flanchs Ermine charged with a Rose Mars was as an augmentation of especial favour to the Lady Katherine Howard Wife to Henry the Eighth which was done by the Advice of the Heralds He knew for what they came Heralds said he Of Gods and Men come nearer unto me Made English by Mr. Stephens The Theban was the taller and had told More Suns then he but Tydeus was as bold And equal'd him in courage gives him merit In a less room there reign'd a greater Spirit The Aediles curales were the Masters of the Works among the Romans And by a Cheveron it signifieth the Top-raster of an established House denoting the Bearer thereof to have accomplished some memorable work and if it be attended with Couple Closes 't is like St. George that by the good help of his Horse kill'd the Dragon that is by the assistance of Sciences And so it denoteth one who is a good Architect so that to finish a difficult Structure is said Fastigium addere And the Cheveron charged with Bezants denoteth Treasurers Masters of the works which among the Romans sate in Chairs of State Neither is it any disparagement to bear any thing in Arms which may seem Mechanick for the Romans flourishing in Military prowess in great wisdome exercised both their Legions and Coherts in time of Peace to withstand idleness by casting of Dikes making of High ways baking of Bricks building of Bridges saith Cambden answering to which works are Borders Pales and Cheverons For there is no Legion that went on any Expedition without their Harpigoes which they called Lupi and instruments with double teeth Axes and Saws with which the wood and Pales were smoothed and sawed so that Cheverons are Military Ensigns as well as Civil Implements and may signifie either Bridges erected or dissected according to Military necessity It denoteth also Great Name and Estimation Ut Fastigium attollere pro augere nomen existimationem in which sence the great and noble Name of Stafford beareth in a Field OR a Cheveron Gules It is called by Pliny and Columel Cantherium Jugum by Caesar Fastigium by Uptâ—n Signum capitale as Sir Henry Spelman noteth in his Aspilogia And in the moneys of M. Platorii Hoc ipsum Signum bellissime habetur aedes significans quas ipse sacras condiderat It denoteth a House and Family of an Ancient Patrimony It denoteth saith Aspilogia the first Bearer thereof to have been a Laical Person which if his Son had increased his Patrimony he took another Cheveron for by Novus Homo among the Romans was understood he who had been dignified with any of the greater Magistracies who had the right of Images equivalent with Arms as evident demonstration of Virtue The French Tresor saith A Cheveron is the Spur of the Chevaleir and
NON VERBERA GAVDET The whole Wood of Trees EXVLAT AESTVS Woods and being cut down CEDENDO VINCIT The Trunk ALIENIS SPOLIIS is proper Valour Aaron's rod budded Trunk INSPERATA FLORET and is born on the Shekel of the Sanctuary and VNO AVULSO NON DEFICIT ALTER Stock and every young Siens of a noble Stock hath HVMOR AB ALIO Thus having done with lofty Trees if we turn our eyes to the lowest Shrubs amongst Herbs we shall find the Bears foot DEPRESSA RESVRGIT The Jerusalem Rose VIRTUS HINC MAJOR Herbs The Basil QVO MOLLIUS EO SVAVIVS The Borage FERT GAVDIA CORDI The Maiden hair NVNQVAM MARCESCIT Capers IN ARIDO VIRET The Thistle that Badge of Scotland saith NEMO ME IMPVNE LACESSIT The Colwort FRIGORE PERFICITVR Onions NON TEGMINA DFSVNT Fenecreke FRVCTVM AFFERT IN PATIENTIA Corn representeth Gratitude PLVS QVAM ACCEPERIT and by Gods Blessing CRESCIT IN CENTVPLVM A Mushrom represents humane Life CITO VANESCIT The Flax ASPERITATE POLITVM And Hampson bears three Hemp Breks as the Emblem of indefatigable labour and travel in bringing to pass things necessary which FRACTA PERFICITVR Turnips are sometimes born in Arms as Guilium noteth and its virtue is DANT OMNIBVS ESCAM The Housleek though it hath no ground to grow on NON DEFICIT HUMOR and the Saffron CALCATA VIRESCIT The Goar ET CORTEX AD USUM Pirton beareth three Pears and so doth Perry and they that understand English know the reason why So also doth Abbot but to shew as before how they spent their time in a Cloister Some were Husbandmen and some were Gardners And thus I have brought you safe through the Woods into the open Field and from thence into the Garden where APES EXPECTANT Flowers and the Flowers therein VIRTUTEM ET ODORES EMITTUNT Where also you may see their use Raro dentur flores nigri virides Chromotism of Flowers quid primum in vegetativa gradum obtinent folia secundum flores Hence it is that Green is the first Colour among Plants and Flowers in the Garden of all Colours DECORANT ET PROSUNT Some are of that nature that NUNQUAM LANGUESCUNT and so represents Perseverance NEC GELV NEC AESTV so the Aramanthus There are other LANGVESCVNT IN VMBRA So the Tulip The Gilly-flower IN QUOSCVNQVE COLORES and the Gesemine VESPERE FLORET The Hyacinth ET PALLET ET PLACET The Flowerdeliz and Rose contend for both COELESTI SEMINE NATA the one PRESIOSIOR INTVS the other INTIMIS AVRVM the one SERVABIT ODOREM and the other ETIAM RECISA REDOLET and both representing Perseverance The Sun-flowers FLECTENTES ADORANT and is a Bearing for a Divine VBI AMOR IBI OCVLI The Indian Flower representeth pious Youth FLAGRATORIENTE and the Spanish LVX OBVIA CLAVDET The Popge PONDERE VICTVS and the Pyony MVLTIPLEX MOX NVLLA Spring cloath the Woods with Leaves and Groves attires Earth swells with Spring and Genital seed requires In fruitful showres the Almighty from above Descends i' th' lap of his delighted Love Blazon by precious Stones The blazon by precious stones began on this Day wherein the Amber represented a painful Preacher TRAHAM SI CALEAM the Asbestos that indures the fire UNICE ET SEMPER The Loadstone represents Constancy UNDEQUAQUE ADIDEM Many Waters cannot quench Love which is of the nature of Camphire NEC EXTINGVITVR The Carbunckle that hath many Rayes CVNCTIS SPLENDIDIOR and is the Emblem of Charity The Thunderstone GRANDINE CREVIT and the Coral representeth Modesty ELATA RVBESCIT The Whetstone HEBETAT ET ACVIT to blazon by Crystal what doth it signifie but OCCVLTA APPARENTIBVS RESPONDENT by Diamond but SEMPER CONSTANS By Pearl but VIRTVS EXPOSITA PROBATVR The Emrald represents the State of the Blessed NON SATIANS OCVLOS IMPLET and the Saphire a heavenly Reward PIVM REDDIT the Jasper represents the Sacred Trinity VNVS SED TRICOLOR and the Saints are Gods Jewels and their estimation in PVRITATE PRETIVM Stone beareth to his Arms three flints ARTE POLITVR and Dymon bears five Diamonds between three Annulets RADIIS ADVERSA REFULGET IN AVRO NITIDIOR Some bear Carbunckles representing Sceptres INTER TENEBROSOS MAGIS LVCETIS 'T is the Sceptre of Pluto or the God of Riches for so signifies Lozengies Mascles Buckles Rings Carbunckles being Symbols of outward Blessings and Nobleness God having given the fairest tincture to the Ruby and the quickest light to the Diamond Chaplet Lozenge Mascle Buckles Ring Escarbuncle And in infinite Wisdome hath distinguished his Angels by degrees hath given greater and lesser Lights to Heavenly Bodies hath made a difference between Beasts and Birds the Eagle and the Fly the Cedar and the Shrub hath also ordained Kings Dukes and Leaders of the people Magistrates Judges and other Degrees among men and as Honour is left to posterity for a mark and Ensign of the virtue and understanding of their Ancestours so these Notes are as Symbols of their Nobility Plato preferring first Bodily Health Secondly Form and Beauty And lastly Riches which is not to raise our Buildings out of other mens Ruins but by our own Atchievements Chaplets were rewards to the Muses and Gems to the Graces The Aâ—gyptians when they erected their Obelisks made them of several sorts of stones Et per Pyrei quidem Coloris particulas ignem per Crystallinas Amethystinas Pellucidas aerem Coeruleam Lympham per Coeruleas per nigras denique particulas terram Thus you may see that as Plants apt to grow wild c. may be by Husbandry and cultivating become Noble So the Seeds of Virtue may by the Art and Husbandry of good Counsel produce better and more beautiful fruit then the strength of nature and kind could have done and the water and the air are the two Elements whence all Plants do derive their variety of Colour Short is mans life irreparable time But men by virtue to high honour climb Conclusion of this Chapter To Sir John Berkenhead Knight Master of the Faculties and one of the Masters of Requests SIR IN this as in the Story of other Nations Armis militaribus donare or Cingulo militari and such Phrases are the same with Militem facere or to make a Knight as the learned Selden observeth and was a Courtly Ceremony whereas Consecrare militem was a Sacred Ceremony which was all one as to make a Knight also the one was by giving of Robes Arms Spurs and the like and the other was performed with holy Devotions and what else was used in the Church at or before the receiving of the Dignities Sunt Belli sicut Pacis Jura For as Dr. Wiseman observeth of the Civilians Work that it is to draw into one Body and Systeme the Testimonies of the ancient Philosophers Historians Poets and Orators in what they are all as it were by the light of Nature consenting in one and the same judgement
teacheth the Discipline of War JUS ARMORUM DOCERE The Bear is a wild beast which NATURA POTENTIOR ARTE It is not found in any of the Imperial Ensigns Bear notwithstanding it is an apt Ensign of the sury of War being born bridled as in the Coat of Sir James Langham represents the effects of true Philosophy NEC SINET ESSE FEROS It is a sign in Heaven divided into two Constellations the great and the less and why placed there see my Sphere of Gentry It representeth also Persons who by maturity and deliberation do form the Embrio ABARTE PERFECTIO and its Nobility is tried more by baiting GENEROSIOR ABICTU and it hath one alone virtue proper to true love that is CRESCET DUM VIVET The name of Mills beareth Bears to his Arms Bears that never yet Durst in the Ocean bathe their silver feâ—t By reason that they are said nor observed to set below the Horizon in our Northern Hemisphere a property that it hath from its near situation to the Axis admonishing the Bearers thereof that true Honour binds them to the Honour point IPSA ALIMENTA SIBI The Bull saith the Aspilogian is robustum Animal aptum pugnae and by it was signified labour Bullâ— According to Plutarch it beareth the yoke SVAVIT ATE NON VI and being gelded MUTATUS ABILLO and is said to signifie a man of Arms wounded by a Lance in the Genitals notwithstanding painted heads or horns are not to be feared as Perillus his Bull whose terrour was so great that there was none to try the experiment on but the Inventor thereof VENTER NON CORNVTIMENDVM denoting the just desert of the contrivers of evil INGENIO EXPERIOR FVNERA DIGNA MEO Horas The Horn is Fortitude HIS SECVRVS and was born on the Helmets of many worthy Captains as a peculiar cognizance And the Prince of Salerna having builded a sumptious Palace in Naples on a Pinnacle whereof in the forefront he erected a pair of horns with a Motto in Italian which in English is rendred I wear the horns which each man sees by view And some men wears them too yet scarce believe it true Implying thereby to quip a certain Nobleman who talked dishonourably of a Lady having himself a Wife suspected CONDIGNA MERCES Bugle horns As for the Bugle horn it is born by the Counts of Horn as an Emblem of Forestership and among us both by Forsters Huntleys Waits and many other as Guardians and as having free Warren of the Kings gift As for Oxen Oxen. they are born either whole as in Oxendens Coat as a note of men of great possessions In the Heroical times Homer not mentioning money but so many Beeves who says that the golden Armour of Glaucus was worth a hundred Beeves and the copper Armour of Diomedes worth nine and the incomparable Shield of Achilles Vulcan had framed A herd of Oxen then he carv'd with high rais'd heads forg'd all Of Gold and Tin for Colour mix'd and bellowing from their stalls Four Herdsmen followed after nine Mastiffs went in herd For all the herd upon a Bull that deadly bellowed The Oxe was the Ensign of the Carthaginians as well as Aegyptians and the Minotaur was among the Ensigns military of the Romans quia non minus inquit Festus occulta esse debent concilia ducum quam fuit domicilium ejus labyrinthus Hercules his dragging the Cretan Bull by the horns what is signified but CRETAE INFENSVM and in all his labours tended to Virtue by this was signified in particular literatam Virtutem summo studio amplectitur And by his cleansing of the Augean Stable that held the dung of three thousand Oxen for thirty years together he shewed how he malitiam voluntatis Virtutum studio in bono inflectit The heads of Bulls are born either caboched that is fore-right as in the Coat of Morgan of Tredeger and of Sanders in Surrey Bulls heads or else joyned with part of the Neck which is either Erased or Couped all which are Ensigns as well of Reward as Labour for in the digging the foundation of Carthage there was found the head of an Oxe which was a presage of a fruitful Soil and of a City laborious and always subjected both which qualities are implied in the Shield of Oxewick whose Cheveron as it yoketh the Ox heads it is between So by the benevolence of Jupiter it springs with Cinquefoils Bovis putrefacti sobolem esse apes And if thou Herds and Steers delightst to keep Or Goats that burn the Corn or fleecy Sheep Seek pleasant Groves The Golden Fleece is the Ensign of Jason and Lambert bears three Lambs Argent it being the signification of the name Lambs viz. fair Lamb would the last had been PARENTI SIMILLIMA PROLES Some will have the name to signifie famous the Captain of the flock wants not Arms for an an onset he makes a retreat UT VALIDIVS and many times leaves his Fleece behind VELLERA PRO DAPIBVS The Aegyptians worshipped Jupiter Hammon under the form of a Ram Rams denoting the first Bearer to be a man pious and humble Duxque gregis dixit sit Jupiter unde recurris Ovid. Me lib. 5. Nunc quoque formatus Lybis est cum cornibus Ammon And from the strength of the head of this Creature is taken the military Engine called a Ram three whereof are born by the Right Honourable the Earl of Lindsey and as the Ox is the Symbol of Agriculture and the Goat of Fecundity so this is of strength and the Lamb is of meekness and utility whose wooll is not the spoil but the reward they owe to man who causeth it to be died in the several Colours whereof he makes his Coat even from the Crown of the head to the sole of his feet making him esteemed as honourable even from the goodness of his Coat quicquid in eo reperitur Hunc homines decorant quem vestimenta decorant Which if it be adorned with Gold it shews him to be noble or some invincible Heroe Vni siquidem nil deperit auro Ignibus Even in this fiery Artizans Shield this Bearing was obvious as appears farther Then in a passing present Vail the famous Artsman fed Vpon a goodly pasture ground iich Flocks of white fleec'd sheep Built Stables Cottages and Coats that did the Shepherds keep Dove-coats being in the Coat of Sap-coats Dove-Coats but as an Ensign of an ancient Mansion-house And Yates beareth three field-gates as the preservers of their flocks from stray All his twelve Labours if he had not performed he could not have become immortal TV NE CEDE MALIS sed contra audentior ito It is called Verres among the Latines quod grandes habet vires it signifieth the Bearers to be subtile and strong Warriours whose property is rather to dye in Battail then to save its life by flight MORI POTIVS QVAM DESERERE and it is a numerous Bearing in the Shields of
Sword Helmet Gauntlets Shield and Crest and Mantles he becomes a man of Arms neither is the Tassels thereto appending to be slighted seeing it represents either his own military Girdle or else his Horses Bridle by which REGIT ET CORRIGIT Knightley beareth a Lance as a man of Arms IN FULCRUM PACIS And Penyman three broken Spears VULNUS OPEMQUE GERIT Crests are the onely Ensigns UT COGIT IN HOSTEM The Chimaera which Bellerophon conquered was ens Rationis Of the people of Solimi under three Generals Arius which signified a Lion Trosibis the head of a Serpent and Arsalus was a young Kid. And thus have we found out how these Signes came to be called Armes Jupiters stealing Europa in the forme of a Bull because the same word signifies a Ship the fetching of the Golden Fleece was nothing but the robbing of the Treasure of the Kings of Colchis and the Syriack signifieth both a Fleece and a Treasury and the Bulls and Dragons which keep it were nothing else but the Walls and Brass Gates the one Word signifying both a Bull and a Wall and the other Brass and a Dragon The Ensigne of Foot AUDENTES FORTUNA JVAT and the Standard is so called Ad rem stabilem every common Souldier is at Beat of Drum which PERCUSSUM RESONAT and the Trumpet ANIMAT EXANIMES the Great Artilerie SONITUS AB IGNE And if the Souldier lose his life in the Field he hath the Honour of a Roman Romans for Liberty their lives contemne each shook two Alpine Spears And for defence a mighty Target Beares The Sheild of Pallas and Helmet of Pluto are defensive Armes and the Fauchion of Mercury offensive by which we conquer And thus have I led you through the Fields of Mars where the Lanciers Burrs Arme the Wise mans Spear and the Spear heads are esteemed since borne by Price and now Venus gliding through aetherial Spheares The expected present to Aeneas beares The fatal Sword he drawing did Admire And Cask with direful Crests ejecting Fire His bloody Corslet of a wondrous Mould Pondrous he lifts glistering with Brass and Gold Aeneis lib. 8. Like a Dark Cloud gilt with bright Phoebus Rayes Which round about reflecting beames displayes Then his light Greves which purest Gold did Gild His Spear and wonders Graven on his Shield And what made me venter on such a Work as this who am not able to gather the Hyle or dross of all the Elements to such a Noble Art may be wondered at considering I am faine to lay by my other imployment with the Cyclops at the command of Vulcan Cyclops lay by your several Taskes he said Armes for a valiant Heroe must be made Whereupon understanding from the Captain of the * Aeneas Britains of A spacious Grove near Ceres sacred Flood With Hills surrounded and a shadie Wood The ancient Grecians may we Fame believe Did to the rural God Sylvanus Give And appointed him a Holy Day Whether I was overtaken with the Pleasantness of those Fields of Parnassus Tempe and Helicon or whether I was above my own Sphear I know not but I was supposed to be besides my self and talked as if I had Ants at Hipocrene and that Calliope was my Mother though the Poets say They were all Virgins and I said so too but they were Ravished by Homer and Virgil The first was the Herauld and the other Painted after his Copy and therefore I thought I might make use of my Faculties Whereupon I sent these Lines following to Calliope taxing Her for being a Goddess to the Heraulds and a Step-Mother to Me Ovid. Trist lib. 2. Inter tot populi tot scripti millia nostri Quem mea Calliope laeserit unus ero Craving thus for the free use of my Profession Seeing Scipio Ammeratus was allowed to Paint Genealogies in Parnassus where I now Live under the Protection of Apollo Ad Calliopen Carpenters Geography Lib. 2. p. 269. Ad Matrem Academiam UNkindest Mother hath my former yeares So much deserved your hate or these my teares Thus to divorce me from my right of Birth To be a stranger to my native Earth Will you expose me on the common Stage To strive and struggle in an Iron Age Was better taught your Office than my fate To make me yours yet most unfortunate And while I sate to hear Calliope sing My Winter suddenly o'retook my Spring Have I serv'd out three Prentiships yet find My Trade inferior to the most humble Mind Or am out-stript by Unthrifts which were sent Free with Indentures ere their yeares were spent Have I so played the Truant with my houres Or with base Ryot stained your sacred Bowers Or as a Viper did I ever strive To gnaw a passage through your Womb to Thrive That I am plucked from the Breast to try What I can do when as the Duggs are dry Had I incountred as I once did hope The God of Learning in the Horoscope My Phaebus would auspicious lookes incline On my hard fate and discontents to shine Now Lodged in a luckless House rejects My former Suites and frownes with sad aspects Had I been born when that eternal hand Wrapt the infant World in her first Swadling Band Before that Heraldry was taught the way To Rock the Cradle in which Honour lay My Learning had been Husbandry my Birth Had owed no Tole but to the Virgin Earth Nor had I courted almost thirty years The Court of Honour with officious Teares To Live had been my Industry no Tongue Had told your Honours suffer'd by my wrong The fowle aspersions on my Calling thrown They might in right acknowledge for their own Only this difference to Men wanting worth They Sell Preferments and I Paint them forth Your Honour can't be brib'd to Honour with a Kiss Their Guilded-Folly it deserves the Hiss Accuse not my Just Anger but the Cause Nature may urge but Fury scorns her Lawes O Pardon Mother something checks my spleen And from my Pen takes off my angry teene Revolted Nature by the same degrees Goes and returns begs Pardon on her knees You are a Mirrour I 'me by reflection taught To faigne defects You Guilty are of naught I in my Calling by your Indulgence Thrive Were they as just as you are free to give We all might share a portion of that Store Which now the Sons deserve the Slaves devour Whose Will is seldome measured by the Law But Power whose greatness your Edicts can awe Slights thy Decrees O would Imperial Jove But once descend from his high Court above To see the Innocent and Maiden-hands By his own Servants basely shut in Bands And hearing my harsh Bondage would set free And their unkindeness hate and pity me Then to your Bounties I will turne my sight From my dark confines to your Glorious Light Scarce had I shut up this tedious Discourse spent for the most part upon such Symbolical intimations which receive their efficacy from the fancy of the