Next after the quéene rode the lord Borough hir chamberleine, next after him William Coffin mai|ster of the horsses, leading a spare horsse with a side saddle trapped downe with cloth of tissue. After him rode seauen ladies in crimsin veluet turned vp with cloth of gold and of tissue, and their horsses trapped with cloth of gold,Thrée chari|ots with goodlie ladies and gentle|women. after them two chariots couered with red cloth of gold. In the first chariot were two ladies, which were the old dutchesse of Norffolke, and the old marchionesse Dorset. In the second chariot EEBO page image 932 were foure ladies all in crimsin veluet. Then rode seauen ladies in the same sute, their horsses trappers and all. Then came the third chariot all white, with six ladies in crimsin veluet; next after them came the fourth chariot all red with eight ladies also in crimsin veluet: after whom followed thirtie gentle|women all in veluet and silke in the liuerie of their ladies, on whom they gaue their attendance. After them followed the gard in cotes of goldsmiths worke.

Thus they rode foorth till they came to Fanchurch, where was made a pageant all with children,Sundrie pa|geants with the descripti|ons of their deuises. appa|relled like merchants, which welcommed hir to the citie, with two proper propositions both in French and English. And from thence she rode to Grati|ous church corner, where was a costlie and a mar|uelous cunning pageant made by the merchants of the Stilliard, for there was the mount Parnassus with the founteine of Helicon, which was of white marble, and foure streames without pipe did rise an ell high, and met togither in a little cup aboue the founteine, which founteine ran abundantlie racked Rhenish wine till night. On the mounteine sat Apol|lo, and at his feet sat Calliope, and on euerie side of the mounteine sat foure muses plaieng on seue|rall sweet instruments, and at their féet epigrams and poeses were written in golden letters, in the which euerie muse according to hir propertie praised the quéene.

The quéene from thence passed to Leaden hall, where was a goodlie pageant with a type and a hea|uenlie roofe, and vnder the type was a roote of gold set on a little mounteine inuironed with red roses and white: out of the type came downe a falcon all white & sat vpon the roote, and incontinent came downe an angell with great melodie, and set a close crowne of gold on the falcons head. And in the same pageant sat saint Anne with all hir issue beneath hir and vnder Marie Cleoph sat hir foure children, of the which children one made a goodlie oration to the queene of the fruitfulnes of saint Anne and of hir generation,An oration made to the quéene by one of the children in the page|geant. trusting that like fruit should come of hir. Then she passed to the conduit in Cornhill, where were thrée graces set in a throne, afore whom was the spring of grace continuallie running wine. Afore the founteine sat a poet declaring the properties of euerie grace: and that doone euerie ladie by hir selfe, according to hir propertie, gaue to the quéene a seuerall gift of grace.