“Sanguine vivificat Pelicanus pignora, sic rex
Pro populi vitæ est prodigus ipse suæ.”
“By blood the Pelican his young revives; and so a king
For his people’s sake himself of life is prodigal.”
Reusner (bk. ii. p. 73) gives the following device,—
Pro lege, & grege.
Emblema xiv.
Reusner, 1581.