Cuando las personas no podían honrar a un rey en persona porque vivía lejos, tomaban el parecido de su rostro desde la distancia y hacían una imagen fiel del rey al que honraban, para que con esta exhibición entusiasta pudieran halagar al gobernante ausente como si estuviera presente.
Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
