An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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_Qui lugent hilares fient, qui mitia gestant_
_Pectora, multa soli jugera culta metent._
_Justitiam esuriens sitiensve replebitur, ipsum_
_Fas homini puro corde videre DEUM._
_Quem alterius miseret Dominus miserebitur hujus,_
_Pacificus quisquis, filius ille DEI est._
_Propter justitiam quisquis patietur habetque_
_Demissam mentem, cælica regna capit._
_Huic hominum generi terram, mare, sidera vovit_
_Omnipotens, horum quisque beatus erit_.
Besides these, every void place in the pageant was furnished with
Sentences touching the matter and ground of the said pageant.
* * * * *
When all that was to be said in this pageant was ended; the Queen's
Majesty passed on forward in Cheap side.
At the Standard in Cheap, which was dressed fair against the time, was
placed a noise of trumpets, with banners and other furniture.
The Cross, likewise, was also made fair and well trimmed. And near unto
the same, upon the porch of Saint Peter's Church door, stood the Waits
of the City; which did give a pleasant noise with their instruments,
as the Queen's Majesty did pass by. Who, on every side, cast her
countenance, and wished well to all her most loving people.
Soon after that Her Grace passed the Cross, she had espied the pageant
erected at the Little Conduit in Cheap; and incontinent required to
know what it might signify. And it was told Her Grace, that there was
placed TIME.
"TIME!" quoth she, "and Time hath brought me hither!" And so forth the
whole matter was opened to Her Grace, as hereafter shall be declared
in the description of the pageant. But when in the opening, Her Grace
understood that the _Bible_ in English, should be delivered unto her
by TRUTH (which was therein represented by a child), she thanked the
City for that gift, and said that she would oftentimes read over that
book; commanding Sir JOHN PARRAT, one of the knights which held up her
canopy, to go before, and to receive it: but learning that it should be
delivered unto Her Grace, down by a silken lace, she caused him to stay.
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