
Nutrisco & extinguo.
I nourish, and I extinguish.
La Salemandre avec des flammes de feu, estoit la
Devise du feu noble & manifique Roy François, &
aussi au paravant de Charles Conte d’Angoulesme son
pere. Pline dit que telle beste par sa froidure esteint le
[M]
feu comme glace, autres disent qu’elle peut vivre en
icelui: & la commune voix qu’elle s’en paist. Tant y
ha qu’il me souvient avoir vù une Medaille en bronze
dudit feu Roy, peint en jeune adolescent, au revers de
laquelle estoit cette Devise de la Salemandre enflammee,
avec ce mot Italien: Nudrisco il buono, & spen-
go il reo. Et davantage outre tant de lieus & Pa- Link to an image of this page [b1r p17]lais Royaus, ou pour le jourdhui elle est enlevee, je l’ay
vuë aussi en riche tapisserie à Fonteinebleau, acompa-
gnee de tel Distique:
Ursus atrox, Aquilaeque leves, & tortilis Anguis:
Cesserunt flammae iam Salamandrae tuae.
[Marginalia - link to text]Pline.
The cruel bear, the eagle swift, and snake that bites by day: O Salamander to your flame, give place without delay.
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