. London . r members ofthe family. Ha!he said, there will be rare feasting to-day, withmasks and mumming and dancing. We marry but once inour lives. Twcre pity if we could not once rejoice. Yetthere are some who would turn every feast into a fast, andmake even a wedding the occasion for a sermon. See! aftera wedding a funeral. I am glad the bride met not this. Tisbad luck for a bride to meet a burying. Then there came slowly marching down the street, whilethe people stepped aside and took off their hats, a funeralprocession. Tl DOR 265 Who hath died ? asked Stow. This it is to be old andto liv
. London . r members ofthe family. Ha!he said, there will be rare feasting to-day, withmasks and mumming and dancing. We marry but once inour lives. Twcre pity if we could not once rejoice. Yetthere are some who would turn every feast into a fast, andmake even a wedding the occasion for a sermon. See! aftera wedding a funeral. I am glad the bride met not this. Tisbad luck for a bride to meet a burying. Then there came slowly marching down the street, whilethe people stepped aside and took off their hats, a funeralprocession. Tl DOR 265 Who hath died ? asked Stow. This it is to be old andto live retired. I have not heard. Yet, considering the lengthof the procession, one would say a prince in Israel. Neigh-bour, he asked a bystander, whose funeral is this ? Ha !So he is dead ! A worthy man ; a knight, once sheriff, citizen,and mercer. You will see, my friend, that we still know howto mourn our dead worthies, though we lack the singing clerksandpriests who formerly went first chanting all the r***Vfl^ OBSEOU1ES Ob SIR llIILIl SIDNEY The procession drew nearer. Now, he said, I take itthat you will not know the order of the march, wherefore Iwill interpret. First, therefore, walk the children of ChristsHospital, two by two ; he was, therefore, a benefactor orgovernor of the school. Then follow the yeomen conductors,two by two, in black coats with black staves. The poor menof the parish, two by two ; then the poor women in like order ;the choir of the church ; and the preacher—he has crape overhis cassock. Then a gentleman in hood and gown bearingthe standard. Next three gentlewomen in black gowns ; there 266 LONDON are the aldermen in violet. Those two grave persons are theexecutors of the deceased. There is the pennon borne by agentleman in hood and gown ; the helm and crest borne bya pursuivant ; the coat of arms borne by a herald, ClarenceKing at Arms. After this long procession came the coffin itself, borne bysix yeomen in black coats ; it was covered
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