Expositio vera harum imaginum olim Nurenbergae repertarum ex fundatissimo verae magiae Vaticinio deducta

A woodcut illustration depicts a Pope wearing a triple tiara and holding a cross-staff. He is feeding a lily, a fleur-de-lis the heraldic lily of France, to a crowned eagle.

This effigy depicts for us the Pope and all ecclesiastics under him in this sequence, so that we may consider the cross ending below in a lily and the eagle existing at his feet, into whose beak he thrusts this lily. The true meaning of this is that the flower and solace of all Popes lies in the Gallus Frenchman/Rooster of France. The Emperor, however, is the Lord of the Roman Pontiff and holds his authority over him; when he tries to use this against the Pope, the latter cannot bear it at all,