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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The pageant now against the quéenes maiesties comming was addressed with children, representing the forenamed personages, with all furniture due vnto the setting forth of such a matter well meant, as the argument declared costlie and sumptuouslie set foorth, as the beholders can beare witnesse. Now the quéenes maiestie drew néere vnto the said page|ant. And for so much as the noise was great,The quéene is desirous [...] know the meaning of euerie repr [...]|sentation. by rea|son of the prease of people, so that she could scarse heare the child which did interpret the said pageant, and hir chariot was passed so far forwards, that she could not well view the personages representing the kings & quéenes aboue named: she required to haue the matter opened vnto hir, and what they signified, with the end of vnitie and ground of hir name, accor|ding as is before expressed. For the sight whereof hir grace caused hir chariot to be remooued backe, and yet hardlie could she sée, because the children were set somewhat with the furthest in. But after that hir grace had vnderstood the meaning thereof, she thanked the citie, praised the fairenesse of the worke, and promised that she would doo hir whole in|deuor for the continuall preseruation of concord, as the pageant did import. The child appointed in the standing aboue named, to open the meaning of the said pageant, spake these words vnto hir grace:

The two princes that sit,The meaning of the pageant opened by th [...] spéech of [...] child.
vnder one cloth of state,
The man in the red rose,
the woman in the white:
Henrie the seauenth, and
queene Elizabeth his mate,
By ring of marriage,
as man and wife vnite.
Both heires to both their blouds,
to Lancaster the king,
The queene to Yorke, in one
the two houses did knit:
Of whome as heire to both,
Henrie the eight did spring,
In whose seate his true heire
thou queene Elizabeth doost sit.
Therefore as ciuill warre,
and shead of bloud did cease,
When these two houses were
vnited into one;
So now that iarre shall stint,
EEBO page image 1174and quietnesse increase,
We trust, ô noble queene,
thou wilt be cause alone.

The which also were written in Latine verses, and both drawen in two tables vpon the fore front of the foresaid pageant, as hereafter orderlie followeth:

Hij quos iungit idem solium, quos annulus idem:
Hac albente nitens, ille rubente rosa:
The same verses in La|tine. Septimus Henricus rex, regina Elizabetha,
Scilicet h [...]redes gentis vterque suae.
Haec Eboracensis, Lancastrius ille dederunt
Connubio, è geminis quo foret vna domus.
Excipit hos haeres Henricus copula regum
Octauus, magni regis imago potens,
Regibus hinc succedis auis regíque parenti,
Patris iusta haeres Elizabetha tui.
Sentences placed therein concerning vnitie.
Nullae concordes animos virer doniant.
These verses [...].
Qui iuncti terrent, deiuncti timent.
Discordes animi soluunt, concordes ligant.
Augentur parua pace, magna bello cadunt.
Coniunctae manus fortius tollunt onus.
Regno pro moenibus aeneis ciuium concordia.
Qui diu pugnant diutius lugent.
Dissidentes principes subditorum lues
Princeps ad pacem natus non ad arma datus.
Filia concordiae copia, neptis quies.
Dissentiens respublica hostibus patet.
Qui idem tenent, duitius tenent.
Regnum diuisum facilè dissoluitur.
Ciuitas concors armis frustrà tentatur.
Omnium gèntium consensus firmat fidem, &c.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These verses and other pretie sentences were drawen in void places of this pageant, all tending to one end, that quietnes might be mainteined, and all dissention displaced: and that by the quéenes ma|iestie heire to agreement, and agreeing in name with hir, which to fore had ioined those houses, which had béene the occasion of much debate and ciuill war within this realme, as maie appéere to such as will search chronicles, but be not to be touched herein: onelie declaring hir graces passage through the ci|tie, and what prouision the citie made therefore. And yer the quéenes maiestie came within hearing of this pageant, she sent certeine as also at all the o|ther pageants, to require the people to be silent. For hir maiestie was disposed to heare all that should be said vnto hir.

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