$
TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When thou behold'st, upon a Day of State,<lb/>
                                The King (or, some inferiour Magistrate )<lb/>
                                Walke forth in publicke, and the royall Mace,<lb/>
                                The Sword, or Scepter borne before his face:<lb/>
                                Suppose thou not, that those are carried, so,<lb/>
                                In ostentation, or for idle show.<lb/>
                                These vulgar Emblems, are significant;<lb/>
                                And, that authority, which Princes grant<lb/>
                                To Bodies politicke, was, heretofore<lb/>
                                Declared, by those Ensignes, which they bore.<lb/>
                                The bruzing Mace (although, perhaps, with us,<lb/>
                                It be not in these times, restrained thus)<lb/>
                                That branch of Royall-power did signifie,<lb/>
                                Which doth by Fines, or losse of liberty,<lb/>
                                Correct Offenders. By the Sword, they meant,<lb/>
                                That larger branch of pow'r, to represent,<lb/>
                                Which takes the Malefactors life away;<lb/>
                                And, armes it selfe, when Rebells disobay.<lb/>
                                As often, therefore, as thou shalt espie<lb/>
                                Such Hieroglyphickes of Authority ;<lb/>
                                Be mindefull, and advis'd (how meane soere<lb/>
                                The Persons, or the Places may appeare,<lb/>
                                Who get this pow'r ) that still thou honour them:<lb/>
                                Left, thou in those, the pow'r of God contemne.<lb/>
                                If not for theirs, yet for thy Sov'raignes cause,<lb/>
                                Whom these doe personate; Or, for the Lawes,<lb/>
                                (Which threaten punishment) thy selfe submit;<lb/>
                                And, suffer what Authority thinkes fit:<lb/>
                                For, whatsoere they be that guide the Reyne,<lb/>
                                He, gave the pow'r, who gave it, not, in vaine.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem102
SEQ 103
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem104
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A hand from the clouds holds a scepter that ends in a hand holding a sword; in the background officials (ruler?) watch how a man is about to be beheaded
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac139
MOTTO_LA <p>NON SINE CAUSA.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11Q21
; 25H114
; 25I1
; 31A2331
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31A25221
; 31E23621
; 44B:11A23
; 44B1
; 44B192
; 44G32
; 44G321(GALLOWS)
; 44G321(SWORD)
; 44G342
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 46C1213
; 46C131
; 53C11(+4)
; 86(NON SINE CAUSA)
MOTTO_EN <p>To Kings, both Sword and Mace pertaine;<lb/>
                                And, these they doe not beare in vaine.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic139.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem103
MOTTO_LA_NORM Non sine causa
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0