. The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus . nLmiins cit,mc hi d \aiuim amicorum connlwm. /nuam M iaici mcam^x/wm^ volunlalcm c^cjui. nanim ciimuiu per Lhicnminu <:ihrdc<.lcconnu ucltiqict LIBRARY OF THE ^^ ILLIS^OiS for Devifes. 45 Nor doe I think that thefe rules be altogether rieceflkry in theDevifes of Coinej, in rerpe(ftof the refemblance they have withMed jUs,for we fee many wherein the illuftrious Ads of Kings aregraven, and many othe r$ wheri
. The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus . nLmiins cit,mc hi d \aiuim amicorum connlwm. /nuam M iaici mcam^x/wm^ volunlalcm c^cjui. nanim ciimuiu per Lhicnminu <:ihrdc<.lcconnu ucltiqict LIBRARY OF THE ^^ ILLIS^OiS for Devifes. 45 Nor doe I think that thefe rules be altogether rieceflkry in theDevifes of Coinej, in rerpe(ftof the refemblance they have withMed jUs,for we fee many wherein the illuftrious Ads of Kings aregraven, and many othe r$ wherin ih^ figures of falfe gods are madeufeohogoedpurpofc; as thsDffZ*^ which my deccafcd Unclemade, after thclate King Hf^r^ the Great of i^r<«w?, had reducedthe Duke of Savoy to reafon: The Duke (who thougiit he hadlaid hold of a good opportunity to qutrrell with the faid King du-ring the trcublts of France^ thereby topoflcfie himfeUe o\ theMarquifate of Sa/ujfej) caufcd Coynes or money to beflamped,where there was a Centattre trampling a CrowBcRoyall underhisfcrcf,with thisWcrd, Opportune, but foone after,thatinvincible Monarch made him repent himf Ife of his enterprize,and derided his foolifh prtfumption, when he poured his iS Country, and i
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