
Non inferiora sequutus.
Following no inferior things
La feuë Royne de Navarre Marguerite de France,[1]
Princesse tresillustre: portoit la fleur du Souci en Devi-
se. Qui est la fleur ayant plus d’afinité avec le Soleil que
point d’autre, tant en similitude de ses rayons, es fueilles
de ladite fleur, que à raison de la compagnie qu’elle lui
fait ordinairement, se tournant de toutes pars là ou il
va: depuis Orient jusques en Occident, s’ouvrant aussi
Link to an image of this page [c5v p42]ou cloant, selon sa hauteur, ou basseur. Et avoit telle
Devise la tant vertueuse Princesse, en sine qu’elle diri-
geoit toutes ses actes, pensees, volontez, & afeccions,
au grand Soleil de Justice, qui est Dieu Tout-puissant
contemplant les choses hautes, celestes, & spirituelles.
1. Marguerite d’Angoulême (‘de France’ by courtesy, since she was not the daughter of a king): sister of King François I, married Henri II (d’Albret), King of Navarre, known for her patronage of the arts, new learning and new religion (d. 1549).
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