He further declared, that his knights were come to doo feats of armes, for the loue of ladies. Wherfore he besought hir grace, to licence those knights to prooue themselues against dame Pallas scholers: and that in case hir scholers brake more speares on the said knights, by the view of the iudges, and the report of the heralds, than the same knights should doo on them; then the said scholers of Pallas knights to haue the speare of gold for their prise. And if the knights brake more speares than dame Pallas scholers, the said knights to haue the christall shield. The which request to them granted, the iusts began, where euerie man did acquite himselfe well and va|liantlie: but who had the prise of other, I know not. The night cõming on, the iusts ended. The next daie approached the foresaid defenders, scholers to Pallas on horssebacke, armed From head [...]. cape a pie, the one side of their bases and bards of their horsses white veluet, embrodered with roses of gold and other embrode|ries; the other side gréene veluet embrodered with pomegranats of gold, euerie one of them on his head péece had an heare of flat gold of damaske, and so presented themselues before the king readie to tourneie.

Dimas knights.Then immediatlie on the other part came in the forenamed eight knights, readie armed, their bases and bards of their horsse gréene sattin, embrodered with fresh deuises of bramble branches, of fine gold curiouslie wrought, powdered all ouer. And after them a great number of hornes blowne, by men ap|parrelled in gréene cloth, with caps and hosen of like sute, as foresters or kéepers; & a pagent made like a parke,A conceipt or deuise of a p [...]rke with [...], &c. paled with pales of white and gréene, wherein were certeine fallow deare, and in the same parke curious trees made by cra [...], with bushes, fernes, and other things in likewise wrought, goodlie to behold. The which parke or deuise, being brought before the quéene, had certeine gates thereof opened, the deare ran out therof into the palace, the greiehounds were let slip and killed the deare: the which deare so killed, were presented to the quéene and the ladies by the foresaid knights.

Crocheman, which the daie before brought in the speare of gold, there declared, that the same knights were seruants to Diana, and being in their pastime of hunting, newes were brought vnto them, that dame Pallas knights were come into those parts, to doo déeds of armes: wherefore they had left their hunting and chase, and repaired also thither, to en|counter with the knights of Pallas, and so to fight with them for the loue of ladies, to the vtterance: saieng, that if Pallas knights vanquished the other, or made them to leaue the field, then they to haue the deare killed, and the greiehounds that slue them. And in case Dianas knights ouercame the other, they to haue their swords, and none other thing more. Wherevpon the queene and ladies sent to the king to haue his aduise and pleasure in this behalfe.The kings wisedome in preuenting an inconuenients His grace conceiuing that there was some grudge and displeasure betwéene them, thinking if such request were to them granted some inconuenience might insue, would not therevnto agrée: so that for the ap|peasing thereof it was awarded, that both parties should tourneie togither, giuing but some certeine strokes, which doone they departed: and so these iusts brake vp, and the prises giuen to euerie man after his deserts.]