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The scucheon, twoe windmilles crosse sailed, and all the verge of the scucheon poudred with crosses crosselets, the word Vndique cruciatus. Vnder written these verses:

When most I rest behold howe I stand crost,

When most I moue I toyle for others gayne,

The one declares my labour to be lost,

The other shewes my quiet is but payne.

Vnhappy then whose destiny are crosses,

When standinge still and moveing breedes but losses.

The devise manie small tapers neere about a great burning, the word, Nec tibi minus erit.

The devise a taper newe blowen out, with a fayre blast from a cloude, the word, Te flante relucet.

The scucheon argent with a hand and a pen in it, the word, Solus amor depinget.

Two garlandes in a shield, one of lawrell, the other of cypresse, the word, Manet vna cupressi.

A ship in the sea, the word, Meus error ab alto.

A man falling from the top of a ladder, the word, Non quo, sed unde cado.

A scrole of paper full of cypheres, the word, Adde unum.

A sunne with sweete face in it averted from an armed knight, shaddowed in a cloud all but his handes and knees, which were bended; the word, Quousque auertes?

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The scucheon, a grayhound coursing, with a word, In libertate labor; and another grayhound tyed to a tree and chafinge that he cannot be loosed to followe the game he sawe; the word, In servitute dolor.

A fayre sunne, the word, Occidens occidens.

A glorious lady in a cloud in the one syde, and a sunne in the other; beneath a sacrifice of hands, hartes, armes, pennes, &c. the word, Soli, non soli.

A kingfisher bird, sitting against the winde, the word, Constans contrariæ spernit.

A palme tree laden with armor upon the bowes, the word, Fero at patior.

An empty bagpipe, the word, Si impleueris.

An angle with the line and hooke, Semper tibi pendent.

A viall well strunge, the word, Adhibe dextram.

A sable field, the word, Par nulla figura dolori.

A partridge with a spaniell before hir, and a hauke over hir; the word, Quo me vertam.

The man in the moone with thornes on his backe looking downwarde; the word, At infra se videt omnia.

A large diamond well squared, the word, Dum formas minuis.

A pyramis standinge, with the mott Ubi upon it, and the same fallen, with the word Ibi upon it.

A burning glas betwixt the sunne, and a lawne which it had sett on fire; the word, Nec tamen cales.

A flame, the word, Tremet et ardet.

A torch light in the sunne, the word, Quis furor.

A stag having cast his head and standing amazedly, weeping over them; the word over, Inermis et deformis; under, Cur dolent habentes.

A torche ready to be lighted, the word, Spero lucem.

A man attyred in greene, shoting at a byrd in the clowdes; the one arrowe over, the other under; the 3. in his bowe drawne to the heade, with this word upon it, Spero vltimam.

A foote treading on a worme, Leviter ne peream.

A dyall in the sunne, In occasu desinit esse.

A ballance in a hand, Ponderare est errare.

A fly in a hors eye, Sic ultus peream.

A scucheon argent, Sic cum forma nulla placet.

A ship sayling in the sea, Portus in ignoto est.

An eagle looking on the sunne, Reliqua sordent.

A branche sprung forth of an oake couped, the word, Planta fuit quercus.