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Clubbes, or battes compassed about with Oliue branches, being a signe as wel of peace, 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 Car- thaginians, 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.
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