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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.
PREV embmne_pae1591_emblem215 SEQ 216 PARENT embmne_pae1591 INTERP_HEN Gleichheit im Tode TYPE emblem pictura TIPE emblempictura MOTTO_EN_NORM Death makes King's Sceptres equal to poor men's mattocks NEXT embmne_pae1591_emblem217 IIHIM MNE ; MNE_EMB CAPTION_EN A crossed hoe and sceptre, a skull above them SOURCE_FILE embmne_pae1591.xml LINK embmne_sym1574_030 LINK_FACSIMILE embmne_pae1591_fac373 MOTTO_LAMors sceptra ligonibus aequans.