[1] [2] [3] [4] From their seat also procéeded vpwards one branch, directed to the third and vppermost stage or degrée, wherein likewise was planted a seat roiall, in the which was set one representing the quéenes most excellent maiestie Elizabeth, now our most dread souereigne ladie, crowned and apparelled as the other princes were. Out of the fore part of this pageant was made a standing for a child, which at the queens maiesties comming declared vnto hir the whole meaning of the said pageant. The two sides of the same were filled with lowd noises of mu|sicke. And all emptie places thereof were furnished with sentences concerning vnitie, and the whole pageant garnished wich red roses and white. And in the fore front of the same pageant,The posie [...] planing the shew set [...]or [...]h in color [...]. in a faire wreath, was written the name and title of the same, which was; The vniting of the two houses of Lan|caster and Yorke. This pageant was grounded vpon the quéens maiesties name. For like as the long warre betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster then ended, when Elizabeth daughter to Edward the fourth matched in mariage with Hen|rie the seuenth, heire to the house of Lancaster: so sith that the quéenes maiesties name was Eliza|beth, & for somuch as she is the onelie heire of Hen|rie the eight, which came of both the houses, as the knitting vp of concord: it was deuised, that like as Elizabeth was the first occasion of concord,Unitie the [...] whereat the deuise of the pageant was directed. so she another Elizabeth, might mainteine the same a|mong hir subiects, so that vnitie was the end where|at the whole deuise shot, as the quéenes maiesties name moued the first ground.