appes.

Then came the kynge vnder a Pauilion of golde, and purpul Veluet
embroudered, the compass of the Pauilion about, and valenced with
a flat, gold beaten in wyre, with an Imperiall croune in the top,
of fyne Golde, his bases and trapper of cloth of Golde, fretted
with Damask Golde, the trapper pedant to the tail. A crane and
chafron of stele, in the front of the chafro was a goodly plume
set full of musers or trimbling spangles of golde. After folowed
his three aydes, euery of them vnder a Pauilion of Crymosyn
Damaske & purple. The nomber of Gentlemen and yomen a fote,
appareiled in russet and yealow was clxviii. Then next these
Pauilions came xii chyldren of honor, sitting euery one of them on
a greate courser, rychely trapped, and embroudered in seuerall
deuises and facions, where lacked neither brouderie nor
goldsmythes work, so that euery chyld and horse in deuice and
fascion was contrary to the other, which was goodly to beholde.

Then on the counter parte, entered a Straunger, fyrst on
horsebacke in a long robe of Russet satyne, like a recluse or a
religious, and his horse trapped in the same sewte, without dromme
or noyse of mynstrelsye, puttinge a byll of peticion to the Quene,
the effect whereof was, that if it would please her to license hym
to runne in her presence, he would do it gladly, and if not, then
he would departe as he came. After his request was graunted, then
he put off hys sayd habyte and was armed at all peces with ryche
bases & horse, also rychely trapped, and so did runne his horse to
the tylte end, where dieurs men on fote appareiled in Russet satyn
awaited on him. Thereupon the Heraulds cryed an Oyez! and the
grownd shoke with the trompe of rushynge stedes. Wonder it were to
write of the dedes of Armes which that day toke place, where a man
might haue seen many a horse raysed on highe with galop, turne and
stoppe, maruaylous to behold. C.xiv staves were broke and the
kynge being lusty, he and the straunger toke the prices.

When the queen had given the stranger permission to run, and as he
moved away, there was a great clapping of hands and waving of
trophies among the ladies, for he was of such noble mien and comely
face as to attract the gaze of every one away from even the glittering
person of his majesty the king.

His hair, worn in its natural length, fell in brown curls back from
his forehead almost to the shoulder,