The fragment ends here; the queen alluded to is deemed to be the wife of Diocletian Alexandra, who has been canonized by the Romish Church. She is said to have been converted to Christianity, and suffered martyrdom with her teacher. We now beg to take leave of St. George and St. Margaret; Mr. Snap or the Dragon in his coat of green and gold, at this present surmounted by an outer coat of considerable thickness of dust, must permit us to make our obeisance—trusting that the gleanings we have made of all these little facts of history that contributed to his importance in the day of his sovereignty and splendour, may have gained for us a parting good will. His days of pomp and majesty are ended—with the banishment of fun and frolic, and folly, with the reformation of councils and committees, of manners and municipalities—his glory has departed, and but for the chronicles of the past, his presence slumbering in oblivion, or in drooping despondency, hanging his head in attitude of grief, might be a mystery insoluble, as also might be the annual exhibition of the shabby counterfeit presentment of his person in the shape of a cumbrous imitation of himself, that is paraded once a year through street and suburb, to keep alive the shadow of the memory of “good old times,” in the hearts of the populace of a pleasure-loving city—but a sorrowful and piteous spectacle is this walking ghost of the _Snap_ of the glorious guild of St. George. CHAPTER VI. PAGEANTRY. _Pageantries_.—_Ancient_ “_Mysteries_.”—_Origin of the religious drama_.—_Moralities_.—_Oratorios_.—_Allegorical plays of Queen Elizabeth’s time_.—_The Pageants got up to do honour to her visit_.—_Will Kempe_, _Morris dancer_, _his_ “_nine days wonder_.”—“_Hobby-horses_.”—_Festivals_.—_St. Nicholas or Boy Bishop_.—_Bishop Blaize_.—_Woolcombers’ jubilee_.—_Southland fair_.—_St. Valentine_.—_Mode of celebrating the festival_.—“_Chairing the members_.”—_Origin of the custom_.