LADY OF QUALITY 22 2 . ...riv,v.^ etch their symbolical importance. those to whom heraldry is a sealed book. rr/hu4ssuiix,sedtob?u^ Azure in heraldry as m art, signifies Hon of SmeTatenly body, and to possess chastity ; it is the colour of the inviolate tion of f "^^^'^^r.;'^^^ '^J' the earth, a sky. Vert stands for abundance, for the a counterpart f;^"^ ^f ^^ ' lentiful fruits of the earth. Purpure typi- ^l^us whleordrni? heralds speak only fies temperance, the virtue of kings ; it is nfo^arcent gules azure, sable, vert, and the royal colour, and very rare in heraldry, our J;.re the grande and more elaborate way Even sable, which m every other symbohsm P. to nime them by the gold and silver, is an evil colour, consecrated, if the word rubTes sapph res an/so on. ^ When heraldry can be used in this connection, to the Prmce llMnto its decadence it became more and of Darkness, in heraldry means wisdom and more fantitt and blazoned with the sun prudence, the discretion which can keep and the moon, Mars, J upiter Saturn^ Venus, secrets. ^^^^^^^ Tt'mX?^he^^at:r°o;'LT^^^^^^ There are , two other heraldic colours, Lraldn crnf using to the poor student who • tine or tenne (whence our word tawny), "^ Conned |e plain^science. and sanguine or crirnson ; ^but^^they like ^^ .rolled- l^t^ 1 1 I 1 IHI III III I IIIIII ll lll Of rare occurrence. In was not troubled ^Mth ...._._... fact, under the names ^^l-TtlnHnrd It V' •■.•.•- • •./ / 11 of "tawny" and a high standard_ It V... / If "murrey" they are ^h^ITu^co^uTpossib/; %.../ V / If almost Ltirely^sso- ^SaVte"%st^f ^ M rf ^^^^^^^
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right and wrong, good- (Golcl.) (Sllv^r orW&L© (Red.) !,^ecrssarv To a^'ssi^n ness and evil, bv plain necessary to assign terms, and was not , , m, m ,, ,, KVmmNj dots and lines to the afraid of them. Thus it ^^^g [ | || l| | | ||||ll| |lf ^^^^ various colours m order is that the symbolism / || | ||i | | | | | | | |||| f K^^^M ^° ^^^^ ^^^"^ 3^" of heraldry 'is all of / | ||| || || | ||||^ ^ ^^^ telligible in a drawing a lofty nature. " He / | || ||| | || || 1/ ^^W ^^^^ ^^^ "°^ coloured, nothing common did, ^^ 'WW ^^ ^ suppose the earlier nor mean," might have ^ ^ ^^ heralds wrote on their been the motto of the A^,.^p c^L] x /f f- shields and charges the verie parfect gentil /^^^ / u f x ^r colour they were to be, ^fewigA/ as a pendant to (DLUe.) (iJla^cK.) iUTtev) if they had no colouring noblesse oblige. Nobility materials at hand, in meant all that was y///////M ittflflW™ K»«>&S§6J«J the primitive way that good. The beasts of ^^^^^ xM^mm ^^^^^ one draws a rough coat heraldry are all noble. '^^^^ ^&^^M ^^^^^ ^°^ reference. I have They are the eagle, the a///^ ^m^oM ^^^W always personally lion,' the stag ; not Z%/f ^^^^ ^^^^ found it easy to re- the rat, the toad, the ^^^y ^^^ ^^^ member that the hori- crecping thing on the ^^^-^ , ^^ zontal Unes mean blue, earth. And so with the Parf^Ure IcTppe SajOfeULPe because it is the colour colours. They all mean /-pyj-u-)_ (r^^-^t^r (T of the sky ; and that, something worthy. t-^rf)te) (Pxevp^e) (LrHpoOp) in contradistinction. Thus gold, which in ,„,„,,,,,,,j drawinss of heraldic shields the proper colours are ^^^ Vertical HnCS mean the symbolism OI art always represented by dots or lines. These dots and lines arc red. is yellow, and means flearly shown above Vertical lines indicate red , horizontal In the SamC way •' 1 ^i„ „ „. lines, blue, diagonal lines from left to right, green, and so on. i , , • „ , j. ^ ^^ several unpleasant - ' » s , s , black is easy to re- things, in heraldry typifies glory. It is the member because of the crossed lines which colour of the sun, the king of the world, darken the shield ; and the slanting lines, as silver is that of the moon. Silver is whenever we come across them, are sure to honour without stain ; and as a colour be green. All these methods of indicating may never stand upon a colour in a heraldic colours by means of lines or dots are clearly design, either glory or stainless honour, shown in the illustration on this page, and which is as good or better, must be typical the heraldic names for the colours are given. of every coat-of-arms. It is to be noticed that the language of heraldry is that langue d'oc which gave its Red for Courage name to a province of France, and which. Red stands for courage and magnanimity, in contradistinction to the langue d'oil, was not, as might be superficially supposed, for the tongue in which the troubadours loved cruelty and bloodshed. Indeed, the " red and sang, the idiom of Provence and the badge of courage " is a household word. sunny south. This does no more th n There must, by the way, be many allusions, locate the science of heraldry with the rest especially in the works of the older English of that great system we call feudal, authors, which are not very intelligible to 'Jo be continued.
