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Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces hauriant for Lucy -- Percy.
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The 'three luces hauriant argent' were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist's prolonged reference in this scene to the 'dozen white luces' on Justice Shallow's 'old coat 'fully establishes Shallow's identity with Lucy.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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On an escutcheon a herring hauriant; the only instance of this bearing in connection with Yarmouth.
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Fish, represented swimming in fesse, are “_naiant_”; if they are in pale, they are “_hauriant_,” No. 164; but if their heads are to the base, the term “_urinant_” is said to apply, but I cannot say I have so far come across an authenticated instance of the use of this word; if their bodies are bent, as the Dolphin is generally represented, they are
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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& ad deleftationem animl; neeuUom arbU tror, nt apnd Platonem eft, majas aut me« lias a dlia datum munus homlni: fed meoa amicos, in quibus eft ftudlum, in Graeciam; mitto id efi, ad Grsecos ire jubeo, ut ea a fontlbus potias hauriant, quam rlvaloa confeftentur.
M. Tvllii Ciceronis Opera qvae svpersvnt omnia secvndvm optimae novissimasqve editiones ... 1786
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