Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When these words were spoken, all the people wi|shed, that as the child had vttered,A consent on all sides of prince, people and children. so God would strengthen hir grace against all hir aduersaries, whome the queenes maiestie did most gentlie thanke for their so louing wish. These verses were painted on the left side of the said pageant, and other in La|tine on the other side, which were these héere insuing:

Qui lugent hilares sient, qui mitia gestant

Pectora, multa soli iugera culta metent:

Iustitiam esuriens fitiénsue replebitur: ipsum

Fas homini puro corde videre Deum:

Quem alterius miseret, Dominus miserebitur huius:

Pacificus quisquis, filius ille Dei est:

Propter iustiti am quisquis patietur habétque

Demissam mentem coelica regna capit.

Huit hominum generi terram, mare, fidera, vouit

O [...]mipotens, horum quisque beatus erit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Besides these, euerie void place in the pageant was furnished with sentences touching the matter and ground of the said pageant. When all that was to be said in this pageant was ended, the queenes maiestie passed on forwards in Cheapside.The standard and crosse in Cheape ador|ned and tri [...]|med. At the standard in Cheape, which was dressed faire against the time was placed a noise of trumpets, with ban|ners and other furniture. The crosse likewise was also made faire, and well trimmed. And néere vnto the same, vpon the porch of saint Peters church doore, stood the waits of the citie, which did giue a pleasant noise with their instruments, as the quéenes maie|stie did passe by, which on euerie side cast hir counte|nance, and wished well to all hir most louing people. Soone after that hir grace passed the crosse,A pageant e|rected at the little conduct in Cheape. she had e|spied the pageant erected at the little conduit in Cheape, and incontinent required to know what it might signifie. And it was told hir grace, that there was placed Time. Time, quoth she? And time hath brought me hither. And so foorth the whole matter was opened to hir grace, as hereafter shall [...]e decla|red in the description of the pageant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But in the opening, when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth,The quéene promiseth the citie often to read ouer the bible. which was therein represented by a child: she thanked the citie for that gift, and said, that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke, com|manding sir Iohn Parrat, one of the knights which held vp hir canopie, to go before, and to receiue the booke. But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace, she caused him to staie, and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit, where the companies of the citie ended, which began at Fanchurch, & stood along the stréets, one by an other inclosed with railes, hanged with cloths, and themselues well apparelled with manie EEBO page image 1176 rich furres, and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoul|ders in comelie and seemelie maner, hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold:The seuerall companies of the citie shew [...] ioifull [...] at the queenes com|ming. as wiflers and garders of the said companies, besides a number of rich hangings, as well of tapistrie, arras, cloths of gold, siluer, veluet, damaske, sattin, and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie, as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie.