Wyvern

The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons.

Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.

Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).