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tib. 3. Blazoning Armt.
nocency,and chastity ; among the Planets it holdeth
with Luna, among pretious ftones with the Margarite
or Pearle.
Gold signifieth to the bearer Riches, Honour, and
Preheminencej among Planets it holdeth with the Sun,
among Stones with the Papasion.
They are called Mettals, because they fall among
metallic a corpora which are numbred by Arijlotle}com-
pounded of the purest part of the earth, growing one
near to another, according to the Etymon of ths
word met alia, which is quasiV-*™ for one Vein or
Mine being sound, another is underneath it far off 5
or as some would have it from z^™***?, is to search
diligently, as those do that search for Mines; and be-
eause their fiiining not as colours, but as bright mec-
-tals, are mingled with the other colours, they might
the further be discerned either by day or night in the
field : for of themselves, either do confound the sighr,
and had need to be allayed with colour, which on the
other side without any of these colours, is as much dis-
pleasing andoffensive to the sighr, being as it were a
body without a soul : and take it for a general Rule,
there is no Coat without a mettal, or any without co-
lour, onely one excepted, which is the same of Godsrey
of Btilloigne, it being a crosse Jerusalem or in a field
silver, which you must not take as a president, it be-
ing given him as a Angular mark of Honour? as if some
one Atturney at the Common Law should be privi-
Icdged by both the Universities to speak false Latin,
and his to be held for most pure and good, that of the
rest most absurd and barbarous.
Cosm, But I pray you, what is the reason that I may
not, notwithstanding call them by the names of yel-
low, and white ?
Eud. Biecause those colours of the mettals are cer-
tain bright splendors begotten of a Angular and one
onely resse&ion srom an outtnost and continuate sit-
perficies,as in Lead, Tin, Quick-sibre*,&c. the white-
lii 3 ndse
nocency,and chastity ; among the Planets it holdeth
with Luna, among pretious ftones with the Margarite
or Pearle.
Gold signifieth to the bearer Riches, Honour, and
Preheminencej among Planets it holdeth with the Sun,
among Stones with the Papasion.
They are called Mettals, because they fall among
metallic a corpora which are numbred by Arijlotle}com-
pounded of the purest part of the earth, growing one
near to another, according to the Etymon of ths
word met alia, which is quasiV-*™ for one Vein or
Mine being sound, another is underneath it far off 5
or as some would have it from z^™***?, is to search
diligently, as those do that search for Mines; and be-
eause their fiiining not as colours, but as bright mec-
-tals, are mingled with the other colours, they might
the further be discerned either by day or night in the
field : for of themselves, either do confound the sighr,
and had need to be allayed with colour, which on the
other side without any of these colours, is as much dis-
pleasing andoffensive to the sighr, being as it were a
body without a soul : and take it for a general Rule,
there is no Coat without a mettal, or any without co-
lour, onely one excepted, which is the same of Godsrey
of Btilloigne, it being a crosse Jerusalem or in a field
silver, which you must not take as a president, it be-
ing given him as a Angular mark of Honour? as if some
one Atturney at the Common Law should be privi-
Icdged by both the Universities to speak false Latin,
and his to be held for most pure and good, that of the
rest most absurd and barbarous.
Cosm, But I pray you, what is the reason that I may
not, notwithstanding call them by the names of yel-
low, and white ?
Eud. Biecause those colours of the mettals are cer-
tain bright splendors begotten of a Angular and one
onely resse&ion srom an outtnost and continuate sit-
perficies,as in Lead, Tin, Quick-sibre*,&c. the white-
lii 3 ndse