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Morall:

How each Countrey is habbitted Togeather with their Emblemmaticall Scutchons.

Europe—
English

—In a slasht french doublett, Great Band, strayght Spanish hose, duch felt hatt, short Italian Cloake, Long black Gretian haire—In Scutchion a Shepheard Swaine asleepe Whilest his flockes are feeding about him representing Security with this word—

ffœlices Nimium
Bona si sua Norint
French:

—In Querpo unbuttoned and untruss'd, Long hose with Points, Great Bootes and spurrs, rugg'd hatt and feather, A Locke, A Great ffalling Band or else Pickadille, In Scutchion a feather wau'd with the winde with this word—

Mouemur vento

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Duch:

In a Great Bellyed fustian doublett with Mettall Buttons, A paire of Skippers hose Loose att knee, A Little pinch't round Robbin Band starcht uery Blewe, Noe Cuffes, his hands in his pocketts, A high narrow Crown'd hatt with Brimms Suteable, And a Cypres torse for Band, Mustachioes yow would thinke might reach to either Pole they had out-Growne his eares though the haire of his round head was shorter—In sheild he Beares a Cabbage Leafe, A Turnipp And a Bunch of Carretts with this word.

Corruptio vnius est generatio alterius.
Italian

—In a Cassock and hose, plaine black high Narrow Crownd hatt broad Brimm'd, a Little Band, playeing uppon a Gittar under his short Cloake— In Scutchion on pistolling another att his Backe with this—

Morte Nihil Certius.
Gretian

—In a long black Philosophers thred bare Gowne, Noe Band att all, uery Long blacke haire, Beares in Scutchion Athens reuers't, And Melpomene sitting by Lamenting for all the other sisters whoe now are drownd Not in Oceano But in Otio, wherefore this word serues—

Otium Ingenij Rubigo
Spaniard

—In a Great Sett Ruffe starcht Blewe; doublett with a Cropp And sleeues with pocketts, strayght hose, high Narrow Crownd hatt with Broad Brimms, a Long Cloake with round Cape, a Long spitt Rapier, in sheild the Gloabe of the earth with this—

Paucis Contentus
Asia:
Indian

—In a Light thinne skarlett Coulour'd Iacckett, his Armes and thyes Naked and Black as Iett, Braceletts of Pearle and eare Iewells of Pearle—In one hand a dart headed with a ffish bone, in the other A Conoöe in a Scutchion with this worde—

ffrustra Lauamur aquis
Persian

—In a Light watchett Coat to the Ancles girt about him with a white Skarffe, A Cemiter by his syde —A pyde Turbant, in Scutchion the Picture of Mydas with this word

O quam sapientius optes.

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Turke

—In a Crimson weed to the Midd Legg—A white Turbant, A Cemiter drawne in one hand, in the other a Croissant or halfe Moone in a Targett with this worde.

Cresco ut diminuam
Affrica—
Egiptian

—Swarty in A Tawney Iunk, A Capp of Snake skinns on his head, houlding in Scutchion the ffiggure of Memphis inuyron'd with Pyramids with this word—

Crescit post funera virtus.
A Wilde Arab:

In A Mantle of Pladd of diuers Coulours, his Armes and Thyes bare, Complexion Moore, A Linnen Cloth on his head hanging downe behinde, holding A Iauelin in one hande and A sheild with A Lyons head drawne bleeding in the other with this word—

Immites hasta Capescit
America:
Guianian

A Tawney Moore, A Skarfe of white Athwart his Midle girt by Bases of seuerall Couloured feathers and a Cap suteable, A sheafe of Arrowes att his Backe, A Bowe in one hand, Sheild in the other, with Mountaines drawne in it, and this word—

Thesaurum Conditum sibi Scutum.
Amazon:

A Woaman with but one breast, her Bases purple Taffatey and Mantle suitable, An Arrow att her syde, bow in hand, A Scutchion in the other, wherein drawne a Whole quiuer of Arrowes with this word

Addit Concordia vires.
Brasilian

In Mantle and Bases of Redd, an Arrow Bloody att his syde, a bowe in his hand, a sheild in the other wherein the picture of one man eateing and deuouring another and this word

In se Natura Luxuriosa ruit