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...to fear or apprehend his own enemies.

Which clearly demonstrates that this Emblem An "emblem" was a popular 17th-century artistic form combining a symbolic picture with a moralizing motto and poem. is most true, by which a girl is represented rashly cutting the mane of a lion, to mark such a bold action with this clever word, and to serve as an example to the most ill-advised and daring:

He puts himself in such danger, who takes on his Prince. For it can be said that this arrogant assembly of Rebels, which gave start to these recent movements, is that rash girl, who, thinking to take advantage of the youth of her Prince, without weighing well the outcome of such a foolish undertaking, instead of coming to the mane original: "iube"; here used as a pun on submission or following the "lead" of the lion. and following his commands, has rashly attempted to cut his mane, and curtail his Royal authority, which extends equally throughout all his Kingdom.

But it has happened quite to the contrary, for he has more than half-cut her own mane; so much so that having already sheared her quite close, as appears by this miraculous defeat at the Isle of Riez Refers to the Battle of Saint-Barthélemy-de-Bélesta or the Rié island expedition (1622) where Louis XIII's forces defeated the Huguenot insurgents., and by the demolition of her towns, she is now like a wanderer and vagabond in this great Ocean, where she goes seeking her final retreat.

Unless one prefers to say that she seeks there in vain some Remora term: Remora (a "suckerfish" believed in antiquity to be able to stop large ships by attaching to them), to attach herself so firmly to this powerful naval army of the King, which is about to fall upon her, that his galleys and other vessels remain at a standstill as if useless: But the King has other divers original: "plongeons"; likely referring to specialized sailors or a metaphor for strategic depth. than those possessed by either Mark Antony or the Emperor Caligula, to tear her ignominiously out of there, and to bring and pull her inside as if into a prison, holding her under lock and chain, until after having been led throughout the Kingdom in triumph, she is finally punished for her insolence and presumption as she deserves.