INSCRIPTIONS ON SWORDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 25 February 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

INSCRIPTIONS ON SWORDS.

: In the Dresden Museum a syvord bears, in antiquated German, the swaggering adv.ce f' C.onrad t idear Schenk, rememper' me, Du'notjlet. Winterstetteri tlie" Brave one: helm uncleft," The sword.of Eugijes.de Chateaubriand flashed in the stinlig]it the noble motto won by his ancestor fight',at" Bouvines, "Mon sang terienc ,105 ( ,ba niiierp s, de France." In the Erbaca..iqllecttpn-is an' old Ferrara blade, with the sagi' device', "'My .value varied with the hand'thikt;hp{tl4,iii','A : swordiii the Paris Cabihet'Me'Medailles.'is. reverently inscribed, " THere [ is nd'ioriguejror,! but God." The rapiers of ! Toleio' w«'e engraved in hundreds with the wise'cotittsel,. «<Do.' not draff me without me without honour,'.' Thejnvoiidtitihs of saints are very •' frequent, : and' 'so are 1 ptiyerS,| like ''Do nqt abandon me, 0 faithful Gijdy' r shjch ison a- Gerfaafi sword iri'the'lAycoilectlon at Linz—and ejaculations like the' "With -the help of Allah I hope! to' kill myenemy!" There are yaunting mottolike tlie Spanish, . "/When this stirigsj thereis .no cure.iii; :any doctor's' shopand pompous'ahpouncements,' like'tlie Sicilian, ('j'come j!l atifl criit cal observations,' 1 lik'e 'tlie. Hungarian,;''" He ith'at tUinks'n'ot' as'l do'thinkTfalselfV', and, -V il ,! .pc-?r; wis«• J »nw'W

matter-of-fact tfeolar'atibns, like." When Igo ' -UP T VPH.g9 ,doffii," (only that is on an axe). .; TTms - " I 'c utier-paetry, s^Snakespeare-callecT if, presents itself all over' Europe, in all--languages, mixed up'with the maker's address Toledo now and buy a dozen blades foi j)resfcntitittn'to y6MI fliendaat' Worn?, 1 ' tliiirhaW^feSretaßh , \KKIiSoM' 1 s9n'oi6#(fali4fi! jiltfase' of ,i metidiiii' ) I 'i(il"4 l gifuoffering, t\ yyt-K't io v:rir.;[v •:n.l '• *