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touch true Prince," and Fletcher's similar assertion " If she 

 be sprung from royal blood the lion will do her reverence ; 

 else he'll tear her." 



The legend of Una and the lion comes, no doubt, from 

 the Bestiary also, where night after night the lion lays its 

 head in the virgin's lap. 



The vision of Ezekiel gives us another form of lion-lore 

 in the " Four living creatures .... and every one had 

 four faces and four wings. . . . The face of a man and the 

 face of a lion on the right side . . . and the face of an ox 

 . . . and the face of an eagle ... on the left side — and 

 their wings were stretched upwards." 



This winged lion, sometimes with the face of a man, or 

 an ox, or an eagle, is found in very ancient sculptures, and 

 survives still as the lion of St. Mark. 



Endless indeed are the influences which the lion has had 

 and still has on the mind of man. 



How much of our patriotism is not irrevocably asso- 

 ciated with the lion, passant, gardant, which Edward 

 the Third adopted as the Great Seal of England ; the 

 lion which was one of the three by which Richard Coeur 

 de Lion had recorded his three Crusades on the arms of 

 England. 



How many times, in our day, has not the whole Anglo- 

 Saxon race been stirred to its depths by even a rough sketch 

 of a lion waiting and watching as the nation watches and 

 waits, triumphing as the nation triumphs, mourning as the 

 nation mourns. 



A Tenniel cartoon of a lion in Punch has ere this been 

 a patriotic power which has been felt throughout the whole 

 world, civilised and uncivilised. 



