A place in the palace was prepared for the king and queene, richlie hanged, the inner part with cloth of gold, & the vtter with rich cloth of arras. These iusts began the thirtéenth daie of Februarie. Now after that the quéene with hir traine of ladies had taken their places, [...] pageant [...] like a [...] forrest [...] into the palace was conueied a pageant of a great quantitie, made like a forrest with rockes, hils, and dales, with diuerse sundrie trées, floures, ha|thornes, ferne, and grasse, with six foresters standing within the same forrest, garnished in cotes and hoods of gréene veluet, by whome laie a great number of speares; all the trées, hearbs, and floures of the same forrest were made of gréene veluet, greene damaske, & silke of diuerse colours, as sattin & sarcenet. In the middest of this forrest was a castell standing made of gold, and before the castell gate sat a gentleman freshlie apparelled, making a garland of roses for the prise. This forrest was drawen as it were by strength of two great beasts, a lion and an ante|lop; the lion florished all ouer with damaske gold, the antelop was wrought all ouer with siluer of da|maske, his beames or hornes and tuskes of gold.

These beasts were led with certeine men apparel|led like wild men, or woodhouses, their bodies, heads, faces, hands, and legs couered with gréene silke flos|shed: on either of the said antelop and lion sat a la|die richlie apparelled, the beasts were tied to the pa|geant with great chaines of gold, as horsses be in the cart. When the pageant rested before the quéene,The foure knights issue out of the pa|geant all ar|med. the forenamed foresters blew their horns, then the deuise or pageant opened on all sides, and out issued the foresaid foure knights armed at all peeces, euerie of them a speare in his hand on horssebacke with great plumes on their heads, their bases and trappers of cloth of gold, euerie of them his name embrodered on his base and trapper. On the other part with great noise aswell of trumpets as of drums entered into the field, the erle of Essex, the lord Thomas Howard with manie other cleane armed, their trappers and bases all of crimsin satin embrodered with branches of pomegranats of gold and posies; with manie a fresh gentleman riding before them, their footmen well apparelled: and so the iusts began and endured all that daie.

The morrow, being the thirtéenth of Februarie af|ter dinner, at time conuenient, the queene with the ladies repaired to sée the iusts, the trumpets soun|ded,Gorgeous shewes in apparell. and in came manie a noble man and gentleman richlie apparelled, taking vp their horsses; after whom followed certeine lords apparelled, they and their horsses in cloth of gold and russet tinsell: knights in cloth of gold and russet veluet; and a great number of gentlemen on foot in russet sattin and yellow, and yeomen in russet damaske and yellow, all the nether part of euerie mans hosen scarlet and yellow caps. Then came the king vnder a pauilion of cloth of gold and purple veluet embrodered,The king vn|der a pauilion of cloth of gold and purple veluet, &c. and powdered with H. and K. of fine gold, the compasse of the pauilion a|boue embrodered richlie, and valansed with flat gold, beaten in wire, with an imperiall crowne in the top of fine gold, his bases and trappers of cloth of gold, fretted with damaske gold, the trapper pendant to the taile. A crane and chafron of stéele, in the front of the chafron was a goodlie plume set full of musers or trembling spangles of gold. After followed his three aids, euerie of them vnder a pauilion of crimsin da|maske and purple, powdered with H. and K. of fine gold, valansed and fringed with gold of damaske: on the top of euerie pauilion a great K. of goldsmiths worke.