Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Works of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, wife of James VI > Volume 2, 1936

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A TRVE REPORTARIE OF THE
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gorgeouslie attyred : and these wer the Duke of Lennox, the
Lord Home, and Sir Robert Ker of Cesfurde Knight.
Last of all, came in three Amazones in womens attyre, verie
sumptuouslie clad, and these were, the Lord of Lendores, the
Laird of Barclewch, and the Abbote of Holie-rood-house.
So all these persons beeing present, and at their entrie, making
their reverence to the Queenes Maiesty, Ambassadors and
Ladies, having their Pages ryding vpon their led Horse, and
on their left armes, bearing their maisters imprese or deuice.
The Kings Maiesties, was a Lyons heade with open eyes, 10
which signifieth after a mistique & Hierogliphique sence.
Fortitude and Uigilancie : the wordes were, Timeat & primus
& vltimus or bis. The second was a Dogs collar, al beset with
iron pykes, the wordes were these, Offendit, & defendit. The
third of that Christian armie, was a Windemil, with her spoakes
vnmouing, and windes vnblowing on euerie side, with these
words, Ni sperat immeta.
The second faction did cade these : A Hart half in fire,
& half in frost: on the one part Cupids torch, & on the
other lupiters thunder, with these words, Hinc amor, inde 20
fP. 7.] metus. The other Page a Zodiack, / and in the same, the
B- t1-] Moone farre opposite to the Sunne, with these wordes, Quo re-
motior, lucidior. That is to say, the farther, the fairer. The
third of this pairtie, caried painted, four coach wheeles, the
hindmost following the formost, & yet never ouertaking
them, with these words, Quo magis insequor.
The last three Pages, bare in their Targes, these impreses
following, A Crown, an eye, and a Portcullis : the Crowne
betokening the power of God, the Eye his Prouidence, and the
Portcullis his protection, with these wordes, which were 3°
composed in Anagrame, of Walterus Scotus, the Laird of
Bacleughs name, Clausus tutus ero. The second Page of this
pairtie, caried on his targe, the Portraiture of an hand, holding
an Eill by the tail, alluding to the vncertainty of persons, or
of times, with these wordes : Vt frustrd, sic patienter. The
last was this, a fire in sight of the Sunne, burning and not
perceaued, with this sentence, Oblector lumine victus. 37