Historical notes on the Lennox or Darnley jewel, the property of the Queen

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source from which his best hght and glory must be de--
rived, and the type of perfection. As to the minute
creature hke a lizard in the branches of the Sun-flower
I must confess myself much at a loss.'
There remain still the devices in the interior of the
Heart ; a third class of emblems, which from the place
where we find them, in the inmost recess of the Jewel,
in its " heart of hearts," may be concluded to belong
to the more secret parts of this biography.
Here then it is only natural to expect some obscu-
rity — and yet a key to these devices may, I think, be
found in some of the incidents in the lives of the
Regent Lennox and his Countess.
The group of the two Warriors, the one lying at
the mercy of the other, seems to allude to that anec-
dote connected with the death of Lennox, which has
been already noticed. Lennox is seen lying on the
ground, mortally wounded by his enemy, but pointing
' Another emblem, the Hunting Horn, is equally dark. I cannot
find it either in the arms of Lennox or Douglas, or used in any book
of Imprese, in a sense applicable to the Jewel.