English Pageantry: An Historical Outline, Volume 1Harvard University Press, 1918 - Pageants |
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Page 98 - no longer chivalrous. Pageant and masque drew 1 Cf. Milton, L'Allegro; " Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence . . .
Page 228 - The king received a gift of five hundred double angels, and heard a sermon preached by the Archbishop of St. Andrews; he also knighted the Provost. (See on this visit, Documents relative to the Reception at Edinburgh of the Kings and Queens of Scotland
Page 92 - a very elaborate tournament was given, in which castles, running wine, and such characters as Pallas with her " scholars " and the knights who were servants to Diana, all show how the mimetic side had Papers, either republished from scarce tracts, or now first printed from original
Page 75 - Entrée Magnifique de Bacchus avec Madame Dimanche Grasse, sa femme, faicte en la Ville de Lyon, le 14 februrier 1627." (Described in a book with the above title, now in the Fairholt collection in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.) Here we find les Trois Roys, les trois Mores, les quatre fils Aymon,
Page 209 - a musicke so sweete and secret, as euery one thereat greatly marueiled. And hearkening to that excellent melodie, the earth as it were opening, there appeared a Pauilion, made of white Taffata, containing eight score elles, being in proportion like vnto the sacred Temple of the Virgins Vestali
Page 107 - the decysse of my lord, her husbond; and sehe seyd that ther wer non dysgysyngs, ner harpyng, ner lutyng, ner syngyn, ner non lowde dysports, but pleyng at the tabyllys, and schesse, and cards. Sweche dysports sehe gave her folkys leve to play and non odyr.
Page 109 - When the king and queen were seated in the hall, " then began and entered this most goodly and pleasant disguising, convayed and showed in pageants proper and subtile, of whom the first was a Castle right cunningly devised, sett upon certaine wheeles and drawne into the said great hall of fower great beasts with chaînes of gold
Page 89 - renovari," cited by Schenck; and Chambers, i, pp. 221 f.: " St. George was the patron saint of England, and his day was honoured as one of the greater feasts, notably at Court, where the chivalric order of the Garter was under his protection." (Chambers refers to Dyer, p. 193; Anstis, Register of the Garter,
Page 62 - Those two terrible original giants had the honour yearly to grace my Lord Mayor's shew, being carried in great triumph in the time of the pageants; and when that eminent annual service was over, remounted in their old stations in Guildhall, which
Page 193 - barge of the Lord Maiors companie, to wit the Mercers, had their barge, with a foist trimmed with three tops, and artillery aboord, gallantlie appointed to wait upon them, shooting of lustilie as they went, with great and pleasant melodie of instruments, which plaied in most sweet and heavenlie maner.