es amonge y{e} mountaynes syttyng on y{e} mount of
Pernasus and euery of them hauynge theyr instruments and apparayle
acordyng to the descryption of poets and namely of Uirgyll with many
goodly verses to her great prayse and honour. And so she passed forth
through gracyous[33] strete unto leaden hall where was buylded a
sumptuous and a costly pagent in maner of a castell wherein was
fasshyoned an heuenly roufe and under it vpon a grene was a roote or a
stocke whereout spronge a multytude of whyte roses and reed curyously
wrought so from the heuenly roufe descended a whyte faucon and lighted
upon y{e} said stocke and roote and incontynent descended an angell w{h}
goodly armony hauynge a close crowne bytwene his handes and set it on the
faucons heed: and on the said flour sate saynt Anne in y{e} hyest place on
that one syde her progeny w{h} scripture that is to wete the thre Marys
w{h} theyr issue y{t} is to vnderstande: Mary the mother of Christ Mary
Solome y{e} mother[34] of Zebedee with the two chyldren of them also Mary
Cleophe with her husbande Alphee with their four chyldren on y{e} other
syde with other poetycall verses sayd and songe w{h} a balade in englisshe
to her great prayse (and)[35] honour and to al her progeny also. And so
she passed (for)th[36] from thence through cornehill and at y{e} condyt
was a sumptuous pagent of the thre graces: and at the comynge of the
quenes grace a poete declared the nature of all those thre ladyes and gave
hye prayses vnto the quene. And after his preamble fynysshed every lady
partyculer spake great honour and hye prayse of the quenes grace: And so
she passed forth with all her nobles tyll she came in chepe and at the
great condyt was made a costly fountayne whereout ranne whyte wyne claret
and reed great plenty all that after noone: and ther was great melody w{h}
speches. And so passed forthe through chepe to the standarde whiche was
costly and sumptuously garnisshed with gold and asure with armes and
stories wher was great armony and melody: and so passed she forth by the
crosse in chepe whiche was newe garnisshed and so through chepe towarde
the lesser condyt. And in the mydwaye bytwene the recorder of London
receyved her afore the Aldermen with great reuerence and honour salutynge
her grace with a louyng and humble preposycion presentynge her grace with
a ryche and costly purse of golde and in it a thousande marke in golde
coyne gyuen vnto her as a free gyfte of honour: to who