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A05048	A letter: whearin, part of the entertainment vntoo the Queenz Maiesty, at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwick Sheér, in this soomerz progress 1575. iz signified: from a freend officer attendant in the coourt, vnto his freénd a citizen, and merchaunt of London	Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.; Laneham, Robert, 16th cent, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 15191; ESTC S108211	34,732	88

his napkin edged with a blu lace marked with a trulooue a hart and ●●a D. for Damian for he was but a bachelar yet Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge slit from the shooulder too the hand lined with white cotten Hiz doobled sleeuez of blak woorsted vpon them a a payr of poynets of tawny Chamblet laced a long the wreast wyth blu threeden points a wealt toward the hand of fustian anapes a payr of red neatherstocks a pair of pumps on hiz féet with a cross cut at the toze for cornz not nu indéede yet cleanly blakt with soot shining az a shoing horn Aboout hiz nek a red rebon dsutable too hiz girdl hiz harp in good grace dependaunt before him hiz wreast tyed to a gréen lace and hanging by vnder the gorget of hiz gooun a fair flagon cheyn pewcer for siluer az a squier minstrel of Middilsex that trauaild the cuntrée this soommer seazon vnto fairz worshipfull mens hoousez frō hiz chein hoong a Schoochion with mettall cooller resplendant vpon hiz breast of the auncient armez of Islington vpō a question whearof he az one that waz wel schoold coold hiz lesson parfit withoout booke too aunswear at full if question wear askt hym declared hoow the woorshipfull village of Istington in Middelsex well knooen too bee one of the most auncient and best toounz in England next London at thiz day for the feythfull fréendship of long time sheawed az well at Cookez feast in Aldersgate stréete yeerely vpon holly Rood day az allso at all solem bridalez in the citie of London all the yéer after in well seruing them of furmenty for porage not ouersod till it be too weak of mylk for theyr flawnez not pild nor chalked of cream for their custardes not frothed nor thykned with floour and of butter for theyr pastiez and pyepast not made of well curds nor gatherd of whey in soommer nor mingled in winter with salt butter watered or washt did obteyn long ago thez woorshipfull armez in cooler foorm az yee sée which are the armz a field argent as the field and groound in deed whearin the milkwiuez of thiz woorthy tooun and euery man els in hys faculty doth trade for hiz liuing on a Fess Tenny thrée platez betwéene thrée milke tankerds proper The thrée milk tankerds az the proper vessell whearin the substauns and matter of their trade iz too and fro transported The Fess Tenny which iz a cooler betokening dout suspitiō so az suspicion good heed taking az wel to their markets seruants az to their customers that they trust not too farre may bring vnto them platez that iz coynnd syluer thrée that iz sufficient and plentie for so that number in Armory may well signifie For Creast vpon a wad of ote strawe for a wreath a boll of furmenty Wheat az yee kno iz the most precious gyft of Ceres and in the midst of it sticking a The hornspoonz doozen ●● hornspoonz in a bunch az the instruments meetest too eate furmenty porage wythall a doozen az a number of plenty compleat for full cheere or a banket and of horn az of a substauns more estimabl then iz made for a great deel béeing nether so churlish in weight az iz mettall nor so froward and brittl to manure az stone nor yet so soily in vse nor roough to the lips az wood iz but lyght plyaunt and smooth that with a littl licking wooll allweiz be kept az clen az a dy With yoor paciens Gentlmen quoth the minstrel be it said wear it not in deede that hornz bee so plentie hornware I beleeue woold bee more set by than it iz and yet are thear in our parts that wyll not stick too auoow that many an honest man both in citée and cuntrée hath had hiz hoous by horning well vphollden and a daily fréend allso at néed And thiz with your fauoour may I further affirm a very ingenioous parson waz hée that for dignitée of the stuff coold thus by spooning deuise to a●uauns the horn so neer too the hed With great congruens also wear théez hornspoonz put too the wheat az a token and porcion of Cornucopiae the horn of Achelous which the Naiades did fil with Ouid. met lib. 9. all good frutez corn grain after did consecrate vnto abooundauns and plenty This skoochion with beastz very aptly agréeing both to the armz and to the trade of the bearerz glorioously supported Betwéen a gray Mare a beast meetest for carying of mylktankards her pannell on her bak az alwayz reddy for seruis at euery feast and brydale at neede her tail splayd at most eaz and her filly fole fallo and a flaxen mane after the syre In the skro vndergrauen quoth hee iz thear a proper woord an hemistichi well squaring with al the rest taken out of Salerns Salern ca. chapter of things that most noorish mans body Lac Caseus infans That iz good milke and yoong chéez And thus mooch Gintlmen and pleaz you quoth he for the armz of oour woorshipfull tooun And thearwithal made a manerly leg and so held his peas Az the cumpany pawzed and the minstrell sémde to gape after a praiz for hiz Beauparlar and bicauz he had renderd hiz lesson so well Saiz a good fello of the cūpany I am sory to see hoow mooch the poore minstrell mistakez the matter for indeed the armez are thus with a 〈◊〉 ●●…king with her 〈◊〉 for flyez and her 〈…〉 n●ying after the dam for suk This woord La● Caseus infans That is a fresh cheez and cream the cōmon cry that theez milkwiuez make in London stréetes yéerly betwixt Easter and whitsontide and this iz the very matter I kno it well inough and so ended hiz tale and sate him dooun again Héerat euery man laught a good saue the minstrell that thoogh the fooll wear made priuy all waz but for sport yet too see him self thus crost with a contrary ku that hee lookt not for woold straight haue geen ouer all waxt very wayward eager and soour hoow be it last by sum entreaty many fayr woords with sak suger we sweetned him againe and after becam az mery az a py Appeerez then a fresh in hiz ful formalitée with a louely loo●k after thrée loly cooursiez cleered his vois with a hem and a reach and spat oout withal wiped hiz lips with the hollo of his hand for fyling hiz napkin temperd a string or too with hiz wreast and after a littl warhling on hiz harp for a prelude came foorth with a sollem song warraunted for story oout of king Aurthurz acts the first booke King Arthurs book and 26. chapter whearof I gate a copy and that iz this SO it befell vpon a Penticost day When king Arthur at Camelot kept coourt rial With hiz cumly Quéen dame Gaynoour the gay And many

fo rs experiens of the bear agayn to auoyd the assauts if he wear bitten in one place hoow he woold pynch in an oother too get frée that if he wear taken onez then what shyft with byting with clawyng with roring tossing tumbling he woold woork too wynde hym self from them and when he waz lose to shake hiz earz twyse or thryse wyth the blud the slauer aboout hiz fiznamy waz a matter of a goodly reléef Az this sport waz had a day time in the Gunshot fyrework Castl so waz thear abrode at night very straunge and sundry kindez of fier works compeld by cunning too fly too and fro and too moount very hy intoo the ay● vpward and allso too burn vnquenshabl in the water beneath contrary yee wot too fyerz kinde This intermingld with a great peal of guns which all gaue both too the ear and to the ey the greater grace and delight for that with such order and art they wear tempered toouching time and continuauns that waz about too houres space Noow within allso in the mean time Tumbling of the Italian waz thear sheawed before her highnes by an Italian such feats of agilitice in goinges turninges tumblinges castinges hops iumps leaps skips springs gamband soomersauts caprettiez and flights forward backward syde wize ● doownward vpward and with sundry windings gyrings and circumflexions allso lightly and with such easines az by mee in feaw words it iz not expressibl by pen or speech I tell yoo plain I bleast me by my faith to behold him and began to doout whither a waz a man or a sp●rite and I wéen had doouted mée till this day had it not been that anon I bethought me of men that can reazon talk with too toongs and with too parsons at onez sing like burds curteiz of behauiour of body strong and in ioynts so nymbl withall that their bonez séem az lythie and plyaunt az syneuz They dwel in a happy Iland az the booke tearmz it four moonths sayling Southward beyond Ethiop Nay Master Martin I tell you no iest Diodor. Sicul De anti Egyptiorū gest●a lib. 3. for both Diodorus Siculus an auncient Greeke historiographer in his third book of the acts of the olld Egypcians and also from him Conrad Gesnerus a great learned man and a very diligent writer in all good arguments of oour time but deceased in the first Chapter of hiz Mithridates Mithrid Gesneri reporteth the same Az for thiz fellow I cannot tell what too make of him saue that I may gesse hiz bak be metalld like a Lamprey that haz no bone but a lyne like to a Lute string Wel syr let him passe and hiz featz and this dayz pastime withall for héer iz az mooch az I can remember mee for Thursdaiz entertainment Friday and Saterday wear thear no open Friday sheawz abrode becauz the weather Saterday 8. enclynde too sum moyster wynde that very seazonably temperd the drought and the heat cauzed by the continuans of fayr weather sunshyne afore all the whyle syns her Maiestiez thither cumming A Sunday opportunely the weather Sunday 9. brake vp again and after diuine seruis in the parish church for the sabot day and a frutefull sermon thear in the forenoon at after noon in woorship of this kenelwoorth Castl and of God saint kenelm whooz day forsooth by the calendar this waz a solem brydeale of a proper coopl Brideale waz appointed set in order in the tyltyard too cum and make thear sheaw before the Castl in the great coourt whear az waz pight a cumly quintine for featz at armz which when they had don too march oout at the northgate of the Castl homeward againe intoo the tooun And thus were they marshalld Fyrst all the lustie lads and bolld bachelarz of the parish sutablie euery wight with hiz blu buckeram bridelace vpon a braunch of green broom cauz rozemary iz skant thear tyed on hiz leaft arme for a that syde lyez the h●art and hiz allder poll for a spear in hiz right hand in marciall order raunged on a fore too too in a rank sum with a hat sum in a cap sum a cote sum a ierken sum for lightnes in hiz dooblet hiz hoze clean trust with a point afore sum botes no spurz he spurz no boots and he neyther nother one a sadel anoother a pad or a pannell fastened with a cord for gyrts wear geazon and théez too the number of a sixtéen wight riding men and well beséen but the bridegroom formost in hiz fatherz tawny worsted iacket for his fréends wear fayn that he shoold be a brydegroom before the Quéen a fayr strawn hat with a capitall crooun stéepl wyze on hiz hed a payr of haruest glouez on hiz hands az a sign of good husbandry a pen inkorn at his bak for he woold be knowen to be bookish lame of a leg that in his yooth was broken at football well beloued yet of hiz mother that lent him a nu mufflar for a napkin that was tyed too hiz gyrdl for lozyng It was no small sport too marke this miniō in hiz full apointment that throogh good ●coolation becam az formall in his action az had he béen a bridegroom indéed with this speciall grace by the wey that euer az he woold haue framed him the better countenauns with the woors face he looke Well syr after théez horsmen a liuely morisoauns according too the auncient manner six daunserz Mawdmarion and the fool Then thrée prety puzels az bright az a breast of bacon of a thirtie yéere old a pées that carried thrée speciall spisecakes of a bushell of wheat they had it by meazure oout of my Lords backhouse before the Bryde Syzely with set countenauns and lips so demurely simpring az it had béen a Mare cropping of a thistl After théez a loouely loober woorts freklfaced red headed cléen trust in his dooblet hiz hoze taken vp now in déed by commission for that hee waz so loth to cum forward for reuerens belike of hiz nu cut canuas dooblet woold by hiz good will haue been but a gazer but found too bée a meet actor for hiz offis that waz to beare the bridecup foormed of a sweet sucket barrell a faire turnd foot set too it all seemly be syluerd and parcell gilt adourned with a beatiful braunch of broom gayly begilded for rosemary from which too brode brydelaces of red and yelloo buckeram begilded and galauntly streaming by such wind az thear waz for hée carried it aloft This genet cupbearer yet had hiz freckld fiznemy sumwhat vnhappily infested az hee went by the byzy flyez that floct about the bride cup for the swéetnes of the sucket that it sauored on but hée like a tall fello withstood their mallis stoutly sée what manhood may do bet them away kild them by scores stood to hiz