Whitney, in his Emblem, dedicated to “I. I. esquier,” says:—
Not for our selues alone wee are create,
But for our frendes, and for our countries good.
Mr. Egerton-Warburton composed these verse-mottoes for the shields that decorate the two fireplaces in the dining-room at Arley Hall.
Under the Egerton shield:—
Since days of olden chivalry bequeathed from sire to son,
May honour keep untarnished still the shield which valour won.
Under the Warburton shield:—
If proud thou be of ancestors for worth and wisdom famed,
So live that they, if now alive, would not of thee be shamed.