[1] [page 815] [...] This yeare also in Iune, the king kept a solemne iustes at Gréenewich, the king & sir Charles Bran|don taking vpon them to abide all commers. ¶ First came the ladies all in white and red silke,

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set vpon coursers trapped in the same sute, freated ouer with gold; after whom followed a founteine curiouslie made of russet sattin, with eight gargils spowting water: within the founteine sat a knight armed at all peeces. After this founteine followed a ladie all in blacke silke dropped with fine siluer, on a courser trapped in the same. Then followed a knight in a horsselitter, the coursers & litter apparelled in blacke with siluer drops. When the fountein came to the tilt, the ladies rode round about, and so did the foun|teine, and the knight within the litter. And after them were brought two goodlie coursers apparelled for the iusts: and when they came to the tilts end, the two knights mounted on the two coursers abiding all commers. The king was in the founteine, and sir Charles Brandon was in the litter. Then sudden|lie with great noise of trumpets entred sir Thomas [...]euet in a castell of cole blacke, and ouer the ca|stell was written, The dolorous castell, and so he and the earle of Essex, the lord Howard, and other ran their courses with the king and sir Charles Bran|don, and euer the king brake most speares, and like|lie was so to doo yer he began as in former time; the prise fell to his lot: so luckie was he and fortunat in the proofe of his prowes in martiall actiuitie, whereto from his yong yéers he was giuen, as the poet saith:

Huic erat à teneris annis ars bellica cordi.]