Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

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The TraUice os Blazonry*
w II the names of those Heroical Persons, who were
mol} treacherously and basely murdered by those who
thirsled for blood, more than the parched sun bu ru’d
earth does for rain 5 but both Earth and Heaven will
be avenged for that blood. ‘Duke & decorum eft pro
patrya was well sad by the Heathen; but holy
Scripture saith above that, Pretios* eft in conspeSu do-
mini mors santtorttm ejus : and in another place, Re-
quirens sangttinem eorum recordattts est, non eft
clamorii.
This form of bearing
is termed a Lozenge,
and is proper to women
never married,widdows,
or tosuch in courtesieas
are born Ladies; who
though they be marri-
ed to Knights, yet they
are commonly styled 8c
called after the hrname
of their Fathers, is he
be an Earl; for the grea-
ter Honour mull ever
extinguilh thelesse : for example, the bearer hereof
is the Lady <jMary Sidney, the late Wife of Sir Robert
ff oth Knight, and Daughter of the Right Honourable
Robert lord Sidney os Penjhnrst, Viscount Lists, Earl
of Leicesier, and companion os the most Noble Order
of the Garter, who seemeth by her late publilhed V-
rania inheritrix of the Divine wit of her Immortal
Uncle. This Coat you (hall blaze thus : she beareth
(on a Lozenge,) Or, a Pheon Azure± which is the head
©f a Dart (l'aith Leigh in his Accidence os Armory.)


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