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Princes, noble men, rich men, and finallie all men of what authoritie or condition so e- uer they be, ought diligently to looke into this picture of a Kings scepter, ioyned with a poore mans mattocke with a deaths heade betwixt them both, with these wordes: Mors sceptra ligonibus aequans, Death maketh Kings scepters equall to pore mens mattocks.

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Mors sceptra ligonibus aequans. Death maketh Kings Scepters equall to poore mens mattocks

HIM MNE ; MNE_EMB IC 11R5 ; 11R7 ; 25G13 ; 31F11 ; 44B192 ; 46A1 ; 46A122(...)3 ; 47I15(HOE) ; 51B3(+4):31E0 ; 86(MORS SCEPTRA LIGONIBUS AEQUANS) MOTTO_EN Death makes Kings Scepters equall to poore mens mattockes URL_IMAGE embmne_pae1591_pic373.jpg ID embmne_pae1591_emblem216 MOTTO_LA_NORM Mors sceptra ligonibus aequans CHILDREN CHILDREN_SQRT 0