The young queen, who had been crowned on the 16th, made her ceremonial entry into Edinburgh by the West Port, sitting in her chariot, which was drawn by eight splendidly caparisoned horses. She was attended by thirty-six Danes on horseback, each accompanied by some Scottish lord or knight. The citizens gave her welcome ‘with great triumph and joy, pageants being erected in every place, adorned with all things befitting. Young boys with artificial wings did fly towards her, and presented two silver keys of the city’[164]--‘as use is, under a veil.’ The Castle fired repeatedly in honour of the day, and forty-two young men of the town, dressed in white taffeta and cloth of silver, with gold chains, and disguised as Moors, danced before her along the streets. When she came to the Over Bow,[165] ‘Mr Hercules Rollock, master of the Grammar School, made his orison. Thereafter [she] came to a scaffold at the Butter Tron,[166] whilk was plenished with the fairest young women of the town, fitly apparelled, with organs playing and musicians singing; where ane bairn made ane Latin orison. At the Tolbooth was younkers on ane scaffold, in women’s claithing, representing Peace, Plenty, Policy, Justice, Liberality, and Temperance [who likewise made her an oration]. Thereafter, [they] passed to the kirk, where Mr Robert Bruce, minister, made the sermon.’[167] At the Cross, to which the party next came, there was ‘a covered table, whereon stood cups of gold and silver full of wine, with the goddess of corn and wine sitting thereat, and the corn in heaps by her, who, in Latin, cried that there should be plenty thereof in her time; and upon the side of the Cross sat the god Bacchus upon a puncheon of wine, winking, and casting it by cups full upon the people, besides other of the townsmen, that cast apples and nuts among them; and the Cross itself ran claret wine upon the causey for the loyalty of that day.’[168] [Sidenote: 1590.] ‘All curious pastimes and conceits Could be imaginat by man, Was to be seen on Edinburgh gaits, Frae time that bravity began: Ye micht have heard on every street Trim melody and music sweet. * * * * * ‘Organs and regals[169] there did carp, With their gay glittering golden strings; There was the hautboy and the harp, Playing maist sweet and pleasant springs: And some on lutes did play and sing, Of instruments the only king. ‘Viols and virginals were here, With gitterns maist jucundious; Trumpets and timbrels made great beir, With instruments melodious: The seistar and the sumphion, With clarche, pipe, and clarion.’[170] The variety of instruments here specified as in use in Edinburgh in 1590, will probably excite surprise.