1600. THE EARL OF ESSEX’ APOLOGY _Carew MSS._ 91 1601. ELIZABETH’S SPEECH TO HER LAST PARLIAMENT _Somers’_ “_Tracts_” 93 1603. ELIZABETH’S DEATH _Somers’_ “_Tracts_” 97 APPENDIX THE ENTERTAINMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH _Nichols’_ “_Progresses_” 99 LONDON IN THE PLAGUE _Lansdowne MSS._ 104 A PESSIMIST ON THE AGE _Ascham_, “_Scholemaster_” 108 PURITANISM ON DRESS _Stubbes_, “_Anatomy_” 111 PURITANISM ON SPORT _Stubbes_, “_Anatomy_” 113 PURITANISM AND THE STAGE “_Remembrancia_” 114 EUPHUISM: A FASHION OF 1580 117 AN ELIZABETHAN MAN OF LETTERS (GREENE) _Nashe_, “_Strange Newes_” 120 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 1547-1603 A BALLAD SUNG TO KING EDWARD IN CHEAPSIDE, AS HE PASSED THROUGH LONDON TO HIS CORONATION (1547). =Source.=--Strype: _Ecclesiastical Memorials_. Ed. 1822. Vol. ii., part ii., p. 329. Sing, up heart, sing, up heart, and sing no more downe, But joy in King Edward that weareth the crowne. Sir, song in time past hath been downe a downe, And long it hath lasted in tower and towne, To have it much meeter, _downe_ hath been added: But _up_ is more sweeter to make our hearts gladded. _Sing, up heart, &c._ King Edward up springeth from puerilitie, And toward us bringeth joy and tranquilitie; Our hearts may be light and merry chere, He shal be of such might, that al the world may him fear. _Sing, up heart, &c._ His father late our sovereign both day and also houre, That in joy he might reign like a prince of high power, By sea and land hath provided for him eke, That never King of England had ever the leke. _Sing, up heart, &c._ 1547-1603 He hath gotten already Boleign, that goodly town, And biddeth sing speedily up, up, and not downe. When he waxeth wight, and to manhood doth spring, He shal be strait then of four realms the King. _Sing, up heart, &c._ Yee children of England, for the honour of the same, Take bow and shaft in hand, learn shootage to frame. That you another day may so do your parts, To serve your King as wel with hands as with hearts. _Sing, up heart, &c._ Yee children that be towards, sing up and not downe, And never play the cowards to him that weareth the crowne: But always be your care his plesure to fulfil, Then shal you keep right sure the honour of England stil. _Sing, up heart, &c._ EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD VI. (1547-1551). =Source.=--Cotton MS. Ed. Clarendon Historical Society. Series II., Nos. 1-3, 1884.