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In many cases mottoes, like the charges on the shield, are allusive, and 

 reproduce the family name with a sort of play upon the words. Such are 

 Achay, in the Franche-Comte, " Jamais las d'acher ; " Vaudray, " J'ai valu, 

 vaux et vaudray;" Grandson, "A petite cloche, grand son;" Lauras, in 

 Dauphiny, " Un jour 1'auras ; " Disemieux, " II est nul qui dise mieux." 



Several mottoes, also, contain allusions to the figures in the coats-of- 

 arms. Thus the Simian family, whose arms are or, seme with fleurs-de- 

 lis and turrets azure, has for motto, " Sustentant lilia turres " (The lilies 

 support the turrets). There are mottoes, too, which evoke the recollection 

 of a battle or of a proverb, or which enounce some indefinite and mys- 



Fig. 262. The Arms of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. An Ermine, pure and spotless, 

 attached to the Order of the Cordeliere, founded by the Queen for Ladies, with the Motto, 

 "A ma vie." The royal Shield is supported by an Angel, with the Motto, " Rogo pro te 

 Anna " (Anne, I pray for thee), and upon the other side a Lion rampant, with these words, in 

 allusion to the ermine of Brittany: " Libera earn de ore leonis" (Deliver it from the jaws 

 of the lion). Miniature from the " Funerailles d'Anne de Bretagne." Manuscript of the 

 Sixteenth Century. In the Library of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



terious allusion. For instance, Antoine de Croy, " Souvenance ; " Jean de 

 la Tremoille, " Ne m'oubliez ! " Johann Schenk, in Germany, " Plutot 

 rompre que flechir;" Philip of Burgundy, after his marriage with 

 Isabella of Portugal, "Autre n'auray," an alteration of the amorous 

 motto, " Autre n'auray dame Isabeau, tant que vivray." The proud mottoes 

 of the Rohans and the Coucys are very well known : " Roi ne puis, due ne 

 daigne, Rohan suis ; " " Je ne suis roy, ne due, ne comte aussi, je suis le sire de 

 Coucy." Sometimes the mottoes were merely represented by mute emblems, 

 such as the White Rose of the house of York, the Red Rose of Lancaster 



