[1] [2] [3] When hir grace had thus answered the recorder, she marched toward the little conduit,A pageant of a square pro|portion, and what things the same had represented in it. where was e|rected a pageant with square proportion, standing di|rectlie before the same conduit, with battlements ac|cordinglie. And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height. The one of them being on the north side of the same page|ant, was made [...]ragged, barren, and stonie, in the which was erected one trée, artificiallie made, all wi|thered and dead, with branches accordinglie. And vn|der the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in home|lie and rude apparrell crookedlie, and in mourning maner, hauing ouer his head in a table, written in Latine and English, his name which was Ruinosa res|publica, [...]publica [...]. A decaied commonweale. And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables, wherein were written proper sentences, expressing the causes of the decaie of a commonweale. The other hill on the south side was made faire, fresh, greene and beau|tifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie, and on the same was erected also one tree, verie fresh and faire, vnder the which stood vpright one fresh per|sonage well apparelled and appointed, whose name also was written both in English and Latine, which was, [...]publica bene [...]. Respublica bene instituta, A flourishing common|weale.