“Magno animo fortis perferre pericula suevit,
Vllo nec facile frangitur ille metu.”
i.e.
“With mighty mind the brave grows accustomed to bear dangers,
Nor easily is that man broken by any fear.”
Shakespeare’s description of the ostrich, as given by Jack Cade, 2 Henry VI. (act iv. sc. 10, l. 23, vol. v. p. 206), is in close agreement with the ostrich device,—
“Here’s the lord of the soil,” he says, “come to seize me for a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand crowns of the king for carrying my head to him; but I’ll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.”
Note the iron pin in the ostrich’s mouth.
Sola facta ſolum Deum ſequor.