emptie places thereof were furnished with sentences concerning unitie. And the hole Pageant garnished with Redde Roses and White, and in the forefront of the same Pageant in a faire Wreathe, was written the name and title of the same, which was, ‘The uniting of the two Howses of Lancastre and Yorke.’ Thys Pageant was grounded upon the Quenes Majesties name. For like as the long warre between the two Houses of Yorke and Lancastre then ended, when Elizabeth doughter to Edward the Fourth matched in marriage with Henry the Seventhe, heyre to the Howse of Lancastre: so since that the Quenes Majesties name was Elizabeth, and forsomuch as she is the onelye heire of Henrye the Eighth, which came of bowthe the howses, as the knitting up of concorde, it was devised, that like as Elizabeth was the first occasion of concorde, so she, another Elizabeth, myght maintaine the same among her subjectes, so that unitie was the ende whereat the whole devise shotte as the Ouenes Majesties name moved the first grounde. The childe appoynted in the standing above named to open the meaning of the said Pageant, spake these wordes unto her Grace:— ‘The two Princes that sit under one cloth of state, The Man in the Redde Rose, the Whoman in the White, Henry the VII. and Quene Elizabeth his Mate, By ring of marriage as Man and Wife unite. Both heires to both their bloodes, to Lancastre the Kyng, The Queene to Yorke, in one the two Howses did knit: Of whom as heire to both, Henry the Eighth did spring, In whose seat, his true heire, thou, Quene Elizabeth doth sit. Therefore as civill warre, and fuede of blood did cease When these two Houses were united into one, So now that jarrs shall stint, and quietnes encrease, We trust, O noble Quene, thou wilt be cause alone.’ The which also were written in Latin verse, and both drawn in two tables upon the forefront of the saide Pageant. [Illustration: NONSUCH HOUSE From an old print.]