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This is by Vertue wrought, all other must nedes dye.’

ROYAL PROCESSION TO ST. PAUL’S

From a picture painted in 1616, in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. E. Gardner’s Collection.

W. A. Mansell & Co.

QUEEN ELIZABETH GOING IN PROCESSION FROM SOMERSET HOUSE TO ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, TO RETURN THANKS FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, NOVEMBER 24, 1588

From an engraving in British Museum.

On the South side was appoynted by the Citie a noyse of singing children: and one childe richely attyred as a poet, which gave the Quenes Majestie her farewell, in the name of the hole Citie, by these wordes:—

‘As at thyne entraunce first, O Prince of high renown,

Thou wast presented with tonges and heartes for thy fayre;

So now, sith thou must nedes depart out of this towne,

This citie sendeth thee firme hope and earnest prayer.

For all men hope in thee, that all vertues shall reygne,

For all men hope that thou none errour wilt support,

For all men hope that thou wilt trueth restore agayne,