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“He paints with bezants five each ’scutcheon, the thirty silvers wherewith God was sold, and various tinctures make His mem’ory known, whose grace and favour did his cause uphold.

Painted on every cinque a cinque is shown; and, that the thirty may be fully told, counteth for two the one that central lies of the five azures painted crossy-wise.

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