might never see the sun set on his crown or dignity. The camel,
it my be noticed, bore panniers filled with pearls, spices, and
silks, destined to be scattered among the spectators. At
Cornhill was a conduit, surmounted by eight wenches representing
nymphs--a sight which must have rejoiced the king's heart; and on
the tower of this same fountain sounded "a noise of seven
trumpets." Another fountain flowed with wine and water; and on
his way the king heard several speeches delivered by various
symbolic figures. One of these, who made a particularly fine
harangue, represented the River Thames, as a gentleman whose
"garment loose and flowing, coloured blue and white, waved like
water, flags and ozier-like long hair falling o'er his shoulders;
his beard long, sea-green, and white." And so by slow degrees
the king came to Temple Bar, where he was entertained by "a view
of a delightful boscage, full of several beasts, both tame and
savage, as also several living figures and music of eight waits."
And having passed through Temple Bar into his ancient and native
city of Westminster, the head bailiff in a scarlet robe and the
high constable, likewise in scarlet, on behalf of the dean,
chapter, city, and liberty, received his majesty with great
expressions of joy.

Never had there been so goodly a show so grand a procession; the
citizens, still delighted with their young king, had certainly
excelled in doing him honour, and some foreigners, Heaton says,
"acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great
magnificences of the world any to come near or equal this: even
the vaunting French confessed their pomps of the late marriage
with the Infanta of Spain, at their majesties' entrance into
Paris, to be inferior in its state, gallantry, and riches unto