. London . f the type used in theprinting. Tournaments were maintaineduntil the end of Elizabeths we hear little of them, and itis not likely that they retainedmuch of their old popularity. OneSir Henry Lee entered the tilt-yard every year until age preventedhim. They always kept up thesport of tilting at the Quintain inthe water. But their favouriteamusements were the pageant andthe play. The pageant came be-fore the play ; and while the latter was performed on a rough scaffold in an inn-yard, the formerwas provided with splendid dresses, music, songs, and pro-perties of every kind.
. London . f the type used in theprinting. Tournaments were maintaineduntil the end of Elizabeths we hear little of them, and itis not likely that they retainedmuch of their old popularity. OneSir Henry Lee entered the tilt-yard every year until age preventedhim. They always kept up thesport of tilting at the Quintain inthe water. But their favouriteamusements were the pageant andthe play. The pageant came be-fore the play ; and while the latter was performed on a rough scaffold in an inn-yard, the formerwas provided with splendid dresses, music, songs, and pro-perties of every kind. There were pageants for the recep-tion of the King when he made a procession into the city ;there were court pageants ; there were private pageants ingreat mens houses ; there were pageants got up by com-panies. The reception pageants, for instance, are very wellillustrated by that invented for Queen Elizabeth on hervisit to the city in the year 1558. It was in January, but I think people felt cold weather. CURIOUS PUMP 236 LONDON less in those days. The Queen came by water, attended bythe city barges, which were trimmed with targets andbanners of their mysteries, from Westminster to the Tower,where she lay for two days. She then rode through thecity, starting at two in the afternoon, when everybody hadhad dinner. In Fenchurch Street there was a scaffold, where was aband of music, and a child who presented the Queen with apoetical address. At the upper end of Graccchurch Street a noble arch hadbeen erected, with a triple stage. On the lowest stood twochildren, representing Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York;on the second, two more, for Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn ;and on the third, Queen Elizabeth herself. Music and apoetical address. At Cornhill there was another pageant, representing theQueen placed on a seat supported by four figures, viz.,Religion, Wisdom, Justice, and Love, each of which wastreading under foot the opposite vice. Music and a poeticaladdress. At the entrance
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