While that Religion True shall Ignorance suppress, And with her weighty foot, break Superstition's head; While Love of Subjects shall Rebellion distress, And with Zeal to the Prince, Insolency down tread; While Justice can Flattering tongues and Bribery deface; While Folly and Vainglory, to Wisdom yield their hands: So long, shall Government not swerve from her right race, But Wrong decayeth still, and Righteousness upstands. Now all thy subjects' hearts, O Prince of peerless fame! Do trust these virtues shall maintain up thy throne! And Vice be kept down still, the wicked put to shame; That good with good may joy, and naught with naught may moan! Which Verses were painted upon the right side of the same pageant; and in Latin thereof, on the left side, in another table, which were these. _Quæ subnixa alte solio regina superbo est,_ _Effigiem sanctæ Principis alma refert,_ _Quam Civilis Amor fulcit, Sapientia firmat,_ _Justicia illustrat, Religioque beat_ _Vana Superstitio et crassæ Ignorantia frontis_ _Pressæ sub Pura Religione jacent._ _Regis Amor domat Effrænos, animosque rebelles_ _Justus Adulantes, Donivorosque terit._ _Cum regit Imperium sapiens, sine luce sedebunt_ _Stultitia, atque hujus numen inanis honor._ Beside these Verses, there were placed in every void room of the pageant, both in English and Latin, such Sentences as advanced the Seat of Governance up-holden by Virtue. The ground of this pageant was that, like as by Virtues (which do abundantly appear in Her Grace), the Queen's Majesty was established in the Seat of Government; so she should sit fast in the same, so long as she embraced Virtue, and held Vice under foot. For if Vice once got up the head, it would put the Seat of Government in peril of falling. * * * * * The Queen's Majesty, when she had heard the child, and understood the pageant at full, gave the City also thanks there; and most graciously promised her good endeavour for the maintenance of the said virtues, and suppression of vices. * * * * * And so marched on, till she came against the Great Conduit in Cheap; which was beautified with pictures and sentences accordingly, against Her Grace's coming thither. * * * * * Against Soper Lane's end was extended from the one side of the street to the other, a pageant which had three gates, all open. Over the middlemost whereof, were erected three several stages, whereon sat eight children, as hereafter followeth. On the uppermost, one child; on the middle, three; on the lowest, four; each having the proper name of the Blessing that he did represent, written in a table, and placed above his head.