“Then there was a device or a pageant upon wheels brought in, out
of the which pageant issued out a gentleman richlie apparelled,
that shewed how in a garden of pleasure there was an arbor of gold
wherein were lords and ladies, much desirous to shew pastime to
the queene and ladies, if they might be licenced so to doo; who
was answered by the queene, how she and all other there were verie
desirous to see them and their pastime. Then a great cloth of arras
that did hang before the same pageant was taken away, and the
pageant brought more neere. It was curiouslie made and pleasant to
beholde, it was solemne and rich: for every post or piller thereof
was covered with frised gold, therein were trees of hawthorne,
eglantine, rosiers, vines, and other pleasant floures of diverse
colours, with gillofers, and other hearbs, all made of sattin,
damaske, silver and gold, accordinglie as the naturall trees,
hearbs, or floures ought to be. In this arbor were six ladies,
all apparelled in white satin and greene, set and embrodered full
of H. & K. of Gold, knit together with laces of gold of damaske,
and all their garments were replenished with glittering spangels
gilt over, on their heads are bonets all opened at the foure
quarters overfrised with flat gold of damaske, and orrellets were
of rolles, wreathed on lampas doucke holow, so that the gold shewed
through the lampas doucke: the fassis of their head set full of new
devised fashions. In this garden also was the king and five with
him apparelled in garments of purple sattin, all of cuts with H.
& K. everie edge garnished with frised gold, and everie garment
full of posies, made of letters of fine gold in bullion as thicke
as they might be, and everie person had his name in like letters
of massie gold. The first Cureloial, the second Bon Voloire, the
third Bon Espoir, the fourth Valiant Desire, the fifth Bon Foy,
the sixt Amour Loial, their hosen, cape, and coats were full of
posies, with H. & K. of fine gold in bullion, so that the ground
could scarse appeere, and yet was in everie void place spangles of
gold. When time was come, the said pageant was brought foorth into
presence, and then descended a lord and a ladie by couples, and
then the minstrels which were disguised also dansed, and the lords
and ladies dansed, that it was a pleasure to behold. In the meane
season the pageant was conveyed to the end of the palace, there to
tarie till the danses were finished, and so to have received the
lords and ladies againe: but suddenlie the rude people ran to the
pageant, and rent, tare, and spoiled the pageant so that the lord
steward nor the head officers could not cause them to absteine,
except that they should have foughten and drawen blood and so was
this pageant broken. Then the king with the queene and the ladies
returned to his chamber, where they had a great banket, and so this
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