<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>

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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

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<p>NON SINE CAUSA.</p>

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<p>To Kings, both Sword and Mace pertaine;<lb/> And, these they doe not beare in vaine.</p>

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Non sine causa