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to the poor, and prospereth best in a hot sandy ground, and 
may signifie a person of good disposition, whose vertuous 
demeanour flourished! most prosperously, even in that soil, 
where the searching heat of envy most aboundeth. This 
diflereth much in nature from that whereof it is said, ‘And 
that there should not be among you any root that bringeth 
forth gall and wormwood.’”— Gwillim’s Heraldry , iii. 11, 
