Be proud, heralds!

Or maybe this is just a bit over the top.

I am translating a fifteenth-century set of treatises by a man who went under the title Sicily Herald.  He was big on the historic foundations of heraldry and armory.  This morning I was looking at his account of the history of heraldry and read this:

Concerning the seven ages of the world in which are comprised the commencement, the middle and the end of the noble office of arms,

Don't blush!