“_P.S._—As I was sending you enclosed, yours of 5th July reached me. Thank God, this way of communication is so well established that from henceforth you can write to me when you please. May God give help to the king my good brother, preserve his children, and give him all the honour, contentment, and prosperity that his piety and care for the good of Christianity merit; in respect of which he will have my daily prayers, since I cannot serve him otherwise. I thank you for your diligence in having imparted to him what I committed to you in my letter of May as much for what concerns myself as for those poor English gentlemen whom I cannot abstain from recommending to you, especially the liberty of Morgan, and some pension, if by any means you can help him. I have already answered you about the money that you obtained for me, and I shall put myself in communication with my ambassador concerning what more has to come.” QUEEN MARY'S DEVICES AND MOTTOES In Queen Mary's apartments the following devices and mottoes were discovered,—in Latin and French,[22]—and have fortunately been preserved. QUEEN MARY'S DEVICES _Adorning the walls of her bedchamber_ 1. A vine root, to the east a hand pouring out a flagon of wine upon the root. Motto— “Mea sic mihi prosunt.” “Thus do mine help me.” 2. A lion snared and held in nets (pris et tenu), five or six beasts more like hares than rabbits (cinq ou six bêtes plutôt lievres, etc.): beneath is written this saying— “Et lepores devicto insultant leoni.” “Even hares mock a captive lion.” 3. A lioness and cub by her side. “Unum quidem sed leone.” “It is indeed but one, but by a lion.” 4. A leopard holding in mouth a hedgehog. “Premit et heret.” “It grips, and holds.” 5. Two globes, and a naked sword between them (une espée decouverte), at whose point there is a moon. “Luna non subjacet orbi.” “The moon is not subject to the earth” (or “world”). (_N.B._—I prefer to read “subj_a_cet,” not “subj_i_cit,” for this latter would require _orbem_.) 6. A lofty pyramid surmounted by a branch of laurel. (“Lubie” I can't find, but conjecture it to be laurel or some branch of victory.) “Te stante florebo.” “While thou standest I shall flourish.” 7. A crescent beneath a sword. “Donec totum impleat orbem.” “Until it fill the whole world.” (The French is “au bout de l'espée il y a.”) 8. Un port de mer et une (main) a (droite) fectant une pierre dedans. A seaport and a (hand) (feminine to agree with “une”), whereas “navire” in the original is masculine. A seaport, and a hand to the right casting in a stone. “Donec emerserit undis.” “Until it come forth (emerge) from the waves.” 9. A hedgehog in a half-stormy sea, the hedgehog fairly laden (or covered) with pebbles. “Ne volutetur.” “Let it be tossed about.” 9A. Une roue de moulin dans l'eau. A mill-wheel in water. Spanish motto— “Llena de dolore non da de speranza.” “It soothes sorrow, but does not supply hope.”