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More Rapid Than Eagles

Now, Dasher! 1

Now, Dancer! 2

Now, Prancer 3

And Vixen! 4

On, Comet! 5

On, Cupid! 6

On, Donder 7

And Blitzen! 8

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!

  1. Crest showing man holding a dasher-staff, part of a butter churn, 1591. Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 293.9
  2. Dancers in the fanciful canting arms of Danzig, c. 1530. Sammelband mehrerer Wappenbücher (BSB Cod.icon. 391), f. 173r
  3. Winged horse, c. 1600. Eberhardt Kößler vnnd seine Nachkummen (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stb 224b) f. 103v
  4. Fox in the canting arms of Fuchsen, 1599. Stammbuch Christoph Donauer, p. 586
  5. Comet. 1615, Zazzera, Francesco: Della nobilità dell’Italia. 1. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek — 2 Herald. 79-1, p. 220
  6. Cherub, 1583. Stammbuch Leonhard Bininger (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.hist.oct.264), f. 204r
  7. Thunderbolt in the canting arms of Tonner, 1595. Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 427.17
  8. Lightning in the canting arms of Donnersperg, 1594. Stammbuch Bernhard Stiber (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stb 460), f. 54r

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