Diana holding a spear with a stag at right and holding a bear on a leash by Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia), c. 1580

Iam sibi Lusyadum cupiunt caput, astra, Draconem; Quod decreverunt Numina sacra Poli. Illustration to page 708 of Antonio de Sousa de Macedo, 'Lusitania Liberata' (London, Richard Heron, 1645).

“Now the stars themselves desire the Lusyadum head of the Dragon; What the sacred deities of the Pole have decreed.”

“He will rule over the stars.”

"He attains what he seeks, like Diana’s arrow; And my mind attains whatever it piously seeks."

Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, c. 1611 by Gabriel Rollenhagen

"The sixth secret sign is the fish, which stands in the middle of the hand and signifies Mercury. Without the fish, nothing can be done; it is the beginning, middle, and end, and it is the priest who must spiritualize everything. It is also the man and the seed; it is the water from which all metals have originated and is the principle of all arts and the highest of all secrets."

Hollandus, Johan Isaac: Sammlung unterschiedlicher bewährter Chymischer Schriften, c. 1746