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Flammescit uterque.
Both of them do burn.
Deus batons ou branches de Laurier, frapees rude-
ment l’une contre l’autre, font feu par leur concussion
(comme dit Pline) ce que font aussi les os du Lion, se-
[M]
lon plusieurs. Ainsi par le heurt de deus forces, ne peut
avenir que danger. Le commun proverbe suivant aussi
ce propos est veritable, que fort contre fort, n’est pas bon
ŕ faire doublure. Le pourtrait de cette Devise, retire
ŕ la Croix saint André, de laquelle se remerquoit d’an-
cienneté la devant nommee maison de Bourgongne, com
bien qu’il y ayt diference quant ŕ leurs sinificacions.[1]
1. The cross of St. Andrew (the saltire) was also, of course, one of the symbols of the Kingdom of Scotland (which had important ties with the dukes of Burgundy), and thus also of Nova Scotia in the New World, and possibly even an inspiration for the Confederate States in the American Civil War.
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