of Acrense from siege and remouing all feare both of danger and tyranny he brought great ioy and libertie to the Rhodians Therefore he caused himselfe to be named the first in the catelogue of Knights constituting foureteene moe all which he dignified with the same chaine of gold The names of them that he knighted were these The said Earle Vert. Amé Earle of Geneua Antonie Lord of Belauieu Hugh Challon Lord of Arlay Amé of Geneua Iohn of Vienne admiral of France William of Grandzon William of Chalamon Rowland Veyssy of Burbon Stephen the bastard son of Baume Iasper of Monmeur Barlus of Foras Thennard of Menthon Amé Bonnard Richard Musard an Englishman Non inferiora secutus Following no meane things Margaret Queene of Nauarre vsed a most solemne signe namely the marigold whose colour resembleth so neere the colour of the sonne as almost nothing more For what way so euer the sunne goeth it followeth it it opeâ—eth and shutteth it selfe at the rising and falling of the sunne according to his ascending or descending This godly Queene chose this kind of simbole that she might euidently expresse how that she referred all her cogitations affections vowes words deedes to almightie God onely wise and euerlasting as one that meditated vpon heauenly things with all her heart Antè ferit quam flamma micet The flint is sent before to yeeld fire Philip duke of Burgundie vsed this ensigâ—â— of a flint stone striking fire which signifie the difficultie of warres amongst Kings anâ— Princes whereby it commeth to passe ofteâ— times that the one is consumed ouerthrown and vanquished of the other whereupon foâ—loweth calamitie great losses and a heape dangers on euerie side Pretium non vile laborum He reaped no small reward of his labors In the yeare after the birth of Christ 1429. Paul Aemil. the companie of the order of the knights of the Garter began by the same Philip duke of Burgundy hauing purchased a most maiesticall name by the donation of the golden fleece After this he chose foure and twentie noble men of tried fidelitie to be of the number of this honorable societie adorning them with a chaine of gold wherein was the flint stone burning thoroughout the whole chain and the golden fleece hanging before the breast imitating herein as may be supposed the marinal expedition of Iason into Colchos by diligent obseruation as it were of his vertue and godlines whereof he was said to be so desirous that he deserued the name of good and the praise of an excellent wit the order wherof his Epitaph which also sheweth the inuention of the golden fleece doth declare in these words I to thintent the church might be both safe and sure likewise From tyrants rage inuented haue the goodly golden fleese There were admitted into the number or societie of these knights next after the Duke himselfe William of Vienna Lord of saint George Renatus Pottius Lord of Roch. Lord Remblai Lord of Montague Roland Huquerquius Antonie Virgius Earle of Dammartine Dauid Brimeus Lord of Lignie Hugo Launoy Lord of Santes Iohn Earle of Cominie Antonie Thoulongeon marshall of Burgundie Peter Luxenburg Earle of Conuersan Iohn Trimoille Lord of Ionuelle Iohn Luxenburg Lord of Beaureuoir Gilbert Launoy Lord of Villeruall Iohn Villiers Lord of Isleadam Antonic Lord of Croy and Renty Florimundus Brimeus Lord of Massincourt Robert Lord of Mamines Iames Brimeu Lord of Grignie Baldwin Launey Lord of Molembaesius Peter Baufremontanus Lord of Chargny Philip Lord of Teruant Iohn Crequius Iohn Croy Lord of Tours on Marne Flammescit vterque Both of them do burne Two Lawrell boughes rubbed hard togither if we shal credite what Plinie hath recorded yeeld fire forth by long and continuall chaâ—â—ing Manie are of opinion also that the bone of a Lion do the same So likewise most certaine it is that no little danger falleth our when mightie men meete togither that the old prouerbe may be verified which saith Dura duris non quadrare in plowing or tilling of the ground hard things agree not togither The description of this sinibole or figure appertaineth to the crosse of saint Andrew as they terme it and the house of Burgundie were wont to vse the same in their martiall ensignes when they marched forward and were now come to encounter with their enimies albeit in euery point they admitted not the like signification Sara à chi tocca Whom it happeneth vnto The ire of a Prince is ful of present danger as a man may learne by the example of an earthen pot being now burning on the fire which if it should chance to fall it is vnpossible but that it should do some great harme to the standers by This portraiture or figure did Iohn duke of Burbon vse as by obseruation we may see in most places of his countrey of Burbon of Elentheropola or of a village that the frenchmen inhabited called Beauiolois Nil pennased vsus The fethers are of no force but vse If you marke well the monstrous bird called an Ostrich S. Georg. you see how with great preparation and ostentation of her feathers she endeuours to take a great flight and yet for al that is not an inch higher from the ground when shee hath done all that shee can The verie like propertie the hypocrites haue which outwardly make a gay glistering shew of a zealous holines of religion but let them once lay away their dissembling and then search them thorowly and you shall finde them euen stone cold within all the oftentation that they made outwardly to be lies Humentia siccis Moist things and drie agree not togither The Ensigne that Galeaz vicechanceler the second Duke of Millan was wont to vse may be verified of those which according to the prouerbe are said to carrie fire in the one hand and water in the other It was a burning firebrand or a staffe hardned in the fire with two vessels ful of water aboue and beneath It may haue also an other signification if we more deepely waigh it namely that the passions of a mans minde are by Gods goodnesse extinguished by the direction of reason Moreouer by it the same dukes magnanimitie is signified for he in a foughten combat most renowmedly vanquished a Dutch Lord that at that time bore no smal countenance who was the first man that vsed the same embleme or picture and chalenged this his Ensigne to himselfe for a monument of victorie and for a token of triumph that he got ouer his enimie who then was put to the worst Sola viteit in illo She onely liued in him The goddesse called Diana Pictaniensis a noble woman of verie great godlines and the most famous Dutchesse of the citie of Valentia conceiued a verie constant hope touching the resurrection of the dead which commeth by death in our remouing into an other life who also by consideration of the saints in heauen oftentimes comforted her selfe Therefore it is most like that by this picture
est nec posse reor It is neither law nor can be I suppose Not whosoeuer is in bands or prison Actes 12. but he that is intangled in vices and sinne is to be iudged a bondslaue For albeit Peter the Apostle was kept in Herod his prison bound with two chaines yet by the ministerie of an Angel his chaines fell from his hands and he escaped passing thorow the iron gates which by the wil of God which by no mans deuise neither can nor ought to be impugned opened of their owne accord and gaue him passage Semine ab aethereo From the heauenly seede The same earth which swallowed vp Core Dathan Abiron with the rest of the troublers of the priesthood ministery of AaroÌ„ approued the same thing in the Leuitical tribe Numb 16. and 17. and that not without a misterie whilest that amongst the rods of the Israelites erected in the tabernacle of the Lord the second day the rod of Aaron onely budded bare fruit or Almons Ventura desuper vrbi To fall vpon the crue The miserable destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes after the passion of Christ Ioseph Egesipp was foreshewed before by manie wonders signes especially by a firie commet appearing in forme of a sword and hanging ouer the steeple for the space of a whole yeare togither shewing as it were by this signe that the iustice of God would take punishment of the wicked nation of the Iewes by fire and blood for their great impietie and wickednesse which thing not onely came to passe but also most raging famine tormenting them there was found one who killed and cate her owne child In vtrumque paratus Readie to both The Israelites after their returne from the captiuitie of Babilon 2. Esd 4. taking in the one hand a trowell in the other a sword such were the continuall troubles of their enimies built vp the wals of Ierusalem Which thing in a misterie did represeÌ„t the ministers of the church of Christ who are bound to instruct the ignorant and to bring againe those that do erre in the faith which are very ruines in deed to fight manfully with the sword of Gods word against the enimies thereof which are vices and sinne Vindice fato Destenie being reuenger Dauid being a little child but armed with grace from aboue 2. King 17 feared not to enter combate with the great and fearefull giant Goliah neither would he put on the armor of Saul but contenting himselfe with a sling and fiue flint stones ouerthrew this monster and triumphed ouer him In like manner that we may ouercome that fearefull and dangerous enimie of mankind the diuell the onely weapons of a stable faith firme hope and constant affiance in the merites of Christs passion and death are enough Nil solidum Nothing is firme or continuall in this life At the time of the creation of the bishops of Rome when according to the custome he that is nominate Pope entreth into S. Gregories church wherein many of the Romish bishops are buried the master of the ceremonies goeth before him carrying in his hands two reedes tying to the top of the one a burning candle which flaming he putteth to the other whereto are tyed hurds or flaxe and so burneth them both saying these words three times togither Oh holy fathers so passeth the glorie of this world Vtrum lubet Whether pleaseth him Clubbes or battes compassed about with Oliue branches being a signe as wel of peace A. Gelliuâ— as of warre may be giuen to those to whom we giue the choise as well of the one as of the other Which thing our ancesters portrayed with a white wand such as Ambassadors vse to carrie that intreat for peace and a speare adioyned as the Romanes did to the Carthaginians or else with two speares the one whereof had his point tipped with steele the other blunted with a knobbe of wood on the end Agere pati fortiae To do and suffer great things C. Mutius when in steede of Porsena King of the Hetruscans who had besieged Rome Liuius lib. 2. Valerius he had slaine the kings secretarie was so angrie with himselfe that he thrust his right hand into the fire which he had made to sacrifice withall Lex exlex The law or ouâ— law Anacharsis the Philosopher compared lawes to cobwebbes Valerius the great because they troubled oppressed the little flies and such small volatiles but neuer touched the great ones Which thing we see to be too true in iudgements now adayes whilest the mightie are sauoured and the poore and meaner sort taxed and seuerely handled Tutus ab igne sacer Being holy I was safe from the violence of the fire Plutarch Valerius the great Lituns being a crooked staffe whereupon the southsayers sate when they deuined of things to come which Romulus vsed insteede of an Iuorie scepter perished not in the middest of the flame at Rome but was found safe and sound in the middest of the same Parce Imperator Pardon me most noble Emperor M. Sceua a most valiant knight of Iulius Caesats Appian in that battaile which he fought against Pompey lost one of his eyes and had his body thrust thorow seuen times his shield was found also to be pearced with a hundred and twentie darts Caesar And as Caesar himselfe reporteth notwithstanding that his shield was strooke thorow 230. places Sueton. Valerius yet he kept the gate still and the entrance which he had taken vpon him to defend And whilest he went in the foreward of the battell in France and fought hand to hand with his enimies his hippe being sore hurt and his face brused with great stones his helmet and his shield broken and fallen out of his hand and his sword shiuered in diuerse peeces and being armed with a double brest plate with great holdnesse cast himselfe into the sea and by swimming thorow the waters which he had made redde with the bloud of his enimies he came to his owne men Whither when he was come as soone as he perceiued himselfe to be vnarmed which by the law of armes was forbidden he cried out to the Prince for he trusted not yet to so many dangers which he had ouercome Oh noble Emperour forgiue me I come to thee vnarmed This was the vertue and manly prowesse of Sceua wherefore for a reward he was preferred to the dignitie of a Centurion Euertit aequat It breaketh in peeces and maketh euen or smooth things that be rough William of Heâ—ant Earle of Ostreueant Frossard sonne of Albert duke Rauaâ—iâ— Earle of Haâ—auâ— Holland and Zelâ—nâ— about the yeare of our Lord 1390 carried in his frandart the picture of a harrow of golde which he shewed in the warres and host of the christians to the city of Barbarie called Aphrodisin For euen as the harrow doth breake in sunder the hard clods of the fieldes so doth a good prince with the
THE HEROICALL DEVISES OF M. CLAVDIVS PARADIN Canon of Beauicu Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others Translated out of Latin into English by P. S. LONDON Imprinted by William Kearney dwelling in Adlingstreete 1591. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THE RENOWMED CAPTEINE Christopher Carleill Esquier chiefe Commander of her Maiesties forces in the Prouince of Vlder in the Realme of Ireland and Seneshall there of the Countries of Clandeboy the Rowte the Glins the Duffre and Kylultaugh RIGHT Worshipfull being mindfull of the saying which the auncient poet Hesiod vseth whereby he doth iustly admonish as imitating the earth to recompence benefites with increase though I dispaire to requite your manie curtesies affoorded me so must be checked of that dumbe creature yet I intende to imitate the the rockes and answer so loud a voice with a resounding Echo and though in comparison of the voice I speake but the last sillable yet I hope your Worship regarding rather my good meaning than my gift will affoord your patronage to this little booke shrowd it vnder the protection of your Heroicall spirit where I doubt not it shall obtaine fauour and thereby find passage without repulse seeing also it containeth in it that which most men desire both delight to the eye and harmonie to the eare pleasure to both and offence to none I haue the rather presumed to hope of your Worships good acceptance for two causes the one for that I see the like to haue ben done in the same booke being in French and Latin by verie honorable and vertuous personages to whom in mine account your Worship is nothing inferior For to omit al discourse and to touch only the bare names of some things managed by your selfe Let the sundrie great proofes of your martiall seruices and worthie aduentures as well by land as by sea witnes what your deserts haue bene which the Spanish west India with losse and griefe Muscouia or Russia with worthy commendation France the Low Countries and Ireland with renowmed fame haue with generall voice and consenting occurrencie euen from them all to both farre and neere sounded emblased wherein can not be forgotten your zeale alwaies shewed towards Christs Gospell besides manie other your rare vertues accōpanied with a cherefull liberalitie and a most curteous affabilitie towards all men whereof my selfe among the rest haue sufficiently tasted from time to time The other for that sometimes I haue noted your Worship to be well delighted with the substance nature of this worke as well in your beholding of some other mens Emblemes which haue bin worthie personages as also in your deuising setting downe some from your owne conceit which if I coulde haue recouered as once I was promised and shewed some of them by one of your seruantes who is now in Irelande I had here adioined them vnto the others And so fearing I haue ben somewhat too tedious I humbly take my leaue in recommending my labor to your good fauour and my selfe to do you seruice in any thing I may be able London the third of Ianuarie 1591. Your Worships most humble to command William Kearney To the most worthie knight Theodot of Marze Lord of Belleroche Lassenaz c. Claudius Paradin sendeth greeting AS varietie of pictures yeeldeth great pleasure and recreation vnto man so likevvise the profit and commoditie that is reaped from them is not to be had in little regard or estimation forasmuch as by the vse of them vexations both of bodie and minde vvhich are othervvise intollerable are easily mollified and assvvaged The truth hereof hath beene at all times vvell knovvne to our auncestors and amongst them especially to great kings princes and potentates vvhich carrying at all seasons in their hautie and heroicall minds an expresse patterne image of vertue haue hereby continued a perpetuall memorie of the same being verie apt in his ovvne nature to decay and be forgotten The first and originall cause of this practise vvas this that diuerse men according to the diuersitie of their speciall conceites and inuentions vvere giuen to represent and expresse the same vvith sundrie formes and pictures as it stood most vvith ech mans fansie good liking These their deuises being thus set dovvne in picture are tearmed their armes for that they vvere painted in their armes and in their bucklers targets or other militarie furnitures for they tooke great pleasure to commende and beautifie in any sort that thing in the vvhich they reposed a great hope of their securitie and in their vvarres vvhere death vvas alvvaies present before their eyes they desired continually to carrie about them these deuises vovving as it vvere therby as vvel to die as liue vvith these monuments and memorials of vertue This commendable practise grovving by little little vvas at length augmented vvith the addition of certaine short and pithie sentences for the better information of such as vvere learned vvhich being ioyned vvith the former deuises are vsed by certaine noble personages vntill this present age as it appeareth manifestly in the sumptuous buildings and stately Courtes of great kings and princes vvhich are so copiously enriched vvith such Emblemes and monuments that this practise seemeth to be more esteemed in these our daies than in anie former ages Wherefore vvhen I considered all these things vvith my selfe and vvithall at the vnestimable benefit commoditie of these pictures I thoght it not altogither vnprofitable to bestowe sometime in coupling and gathering together of such amongst the rest as either were chiefely commended vnto vs by our ancestors or are specially vsed amongest great men at this day or else are founde in the olde histories to be most memorarable of principal note regard And in so doing as the olde Aegiptians vvere wont to expresse their intentes and meanings by their Hierographicall letters so hope I by this meanes to stirre vp diuerse men to the apprehension and loue of vertue and for that cause I haue hereunto the rather added certaine scholies or briefe notes for the better vnderstanding of such matters vvhich othervvise seme to containe some difficultie And vvhereas right Noble Sir you are alvvaies giuen according to the naturall disposition of your ancestors to al good knowledge vertuous exercise I am emboldned to offer vnto you this small packet of Deuises as a pledge of the good vvill and affection that I haue to do you seruice assuring my selfe that you vvill take no lesse pleasure in perusing of them than you haue alvvaies had delight to see vertue in any sort reuerenced or exalted DEVISES Nullis praesentior aether God is more fauourable to none The letter TAV saith Hierome vpon Marke being one of the Hebrew Alphaber Hierome in Eze. 9. is a most healthfull and sacred letter and also a true note or type of the crosse it selfe because that this letter in the holie tongue signifieth a marke Some partly who mourned ouer the abhomination of Ierusalem to bee
dedicate by Virgill the sonne of Pollio to Iulius Caesar concerning the commet which appeared after his death Behold the starre of Dioneus Caesar the star wherin the corns reioice their fils And whereby eke the Grapes do take their die on shadie hils Donec totum impleat orbem Till he replenish the whole world The increase of the moone in the daies of the most famous king Henry the second king of France was most strange and prodigious In the holy scriptures the moone many times doth signifie the Church wherto may be added the consent of Paulus Aemilius in the histonie of Pope Calixtus the second whose name before was Guido the sonne of William Earle of the Heduans or Burgundians who the day before his pontificall creation saw in a vision a Starre carried by a childe from the side of the Moone Furthermore the Moone is alwaies subâ—ect to alteration 〈◊〉 both increaseth and decreaseth at certcine houres and times In like maner may wee see the Church of God militant and neuer continuing in one and the same state but one while mainteined and defended of Christian Princes an other-while tyrannized put to flight and sent in funder with factions of heretiques whereby it commeth to passe that it is neuer free from vexation and trouble in this life Wherto notwithstanding the Maiestie of God the King himselfe and his sonne Iesus Christ haue promised certeine helpe and defence vntill it being gathered vnder one God one King and one law the most louing vnitie immensitie of the whole flocke acknowledging one onely pastor may appeare Immensi tremor Oceani The trembling feare of the Ocean Sea Lodouicus the eleuenth King of France when he was about to institute the order of Saint Michaell as they call it in the yeare of our Lord 1469. for a Cognizance or Simbole he ensigned them with a golden chaine lineked togither with cockle-stones and double knots with circles of gold in the midst whereof was a knob or mushrome as it were a promontorie with the golden image of Saint Michael hanging downe vppon their brestes Which last he did being prouoked thereto by the example of king Charles the seuenth his father who vsed the same image for his ensign in wars taking the beginning of his manguration at Rothomage Which custome was begun afterwardes confirmed amongst many kings through a notable miracle or vision as they superstitiously dreame of S. Michael appearing in the battell by the bridge of the citie of Orleance who expulsed droue away the English men and set the Citie free from their siege The chaine therefore is a type or figure of this order a signe of vertue concord and of a perpetuall league or couenant of amitie and friendship to be continued amongst them also a cognizance or badge of those that deserued well and of the victorie obteined By the gold he would haue to be vnderstood magnanimitie prowesse and honours By the cockles their mutuall equalitie or common condition of fortune imitating herein the order of the Romane Senators who vsed to weare cockles vpon their sleeues by the tying of them togither with a double knot he would represent the indissoluble couenant made betwixt him and the rest and that with no friuolous signification Last of all by the image he would shuld be declared the victorie and triumph which Michaell had ouer the diuell whom he ouercame The reason of which signe doth greatly appertaine as well to the regiment and maiestie of a kingdome as also to strike feare and terrour into the enemy And how many he thought good to be admitted into the societie of this order he himselfe declared to wit 36. as it were patrones of the kingdome amongst whome he would be counted the first or chiefest And therefore the same time that he ordeined this order to be celebrate he named fifteene lordes whom for honours sake and prerogatiue of their names it is not conuenient to omit with silence The first therefore were these Charles Duke of Guienne Iohn Duke of Burbon and Auergne Lewis of Luxenburg Earle of Saint Paul and Constable of France Andrew Lauallius lord of Loheac Marshall of France Iohn Earle Sanserre lord of Bueile Lewis Beaumont lord of Forest and Plessis Lewis Destouteuille lord of Torcy Lewis Lauall lord of Chastillon Lewis bastard of Burbon Earle Rosillon Admirall of France Anthonie Chaban Earle of Dammartin chief Steward to the King Iohn bastard of Armignia Earle of Comingies Marshall of France gouernour of Dolphine George Trimoille lord of Craon Gilbert Chaban lord of Curton Seneshall of Câ—â—cone Charles lord of Crussol Seneschal of Poicton Taneguius of Castell gouernor of the prouinces of Rossillon and Sardinia Vltus aâ—o 〈◊〉 He hath reuenged his 〈…〉 quarrell by the example of Tâ—o Lewis the 12. King of France as Duke of Orleance by discent and earle of Blofie gaue the Porcupine in his ensigne with which simbole togither with the image of a Wolfe the auncient Citie of Blofie was wont to blaze their ensignes This is to be seene grauen in many stones and walls Plinie Which beast nature hath so studiously furnished with weapons that she may resist al those that withstand her especially dogges against whom she throweth her prickes like violent arrowes The interpretation of which portraiture the stately houses of a certaine noble citizen in that citie doe declare at the entrance whereof vnder the Porcupine these verses are found ingrauen in stone These Dartes are peace to humble men but warre to proud indeed For why both life and death also from our woundes do proceed Non sine causa Not without cause The iust and vpright ad ministration of iustice with the due punishment of the wicked is a thing so necessarie to kingdomes people and Countries that if they should bee taken away the companies and societies of men would soone fall to decaie and bee destroyed Wherefore Rulers and Magistrates may righthe chalenge the sworde to themselues with publike and priuate honours as warranted by the word of God that they may bee not onclie a helpe and a comfort to the godlie and meeke but also a feare and terrour to the wicked Therefore is the moste wholesome dectrine of the Apostle Saint Paule to bee imbraced Rom. 13. Wilt not thouâ— saith hee feare the powers Doe well then and thou shalt haue praise thereby for hee is the minister of God for thy good But iâ— thou doest euill feare for hee carrieth not the sworde for naught for hee is the minister of God to reuenge in wrath to him that doth euill Therefore bee ye subiect of necessitie not onelie for feare of anger but also for conscience sake For this cause therefore doe ye paâ—e tribuâ—e they are the nâ—inisters of God sâ—â—uing for that purpose Giue therefore to all men that which is due tribute to whom tribute belongeth feare to whom feare apperteineth and honour to whom honour belongeth Plus oultre Hee conceiueth hope to proceed further Charles the fift