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our most Gracious Queene, Queene Anne, in her Progresse towards the 
Bathe, upon the seven and eight and twentie dayes of Aprill 1613. 
First on entering the grounds she was received by some “ wild 
men ;” then passing on through the gardens she was met by a 
gardener who addressing her as, most magnificent and peerless 
deity, loe I the surveyor of Lady Flora’s workes welcome your 
grace with fragrant phrases into her bowers,” &c., &c., then 
turning to some musicians, he ordered them, ‘“ Come, sirs, prune 
your pipes and tune your strings, and agree together like birds of 
a feather.” A song followed, the voices being a treble and a bass ; 
Welcome to this flowrie place 
Fairie Goddess and sole Queene of grace 
All eyes triumph in your sight 
Which through all this emptie.space 
Casts such glorious beams of light. ° 
Paradise were meeter farre 
To entertaine so bright a starre. 
But ; why erres my folly so ? 
Paradise is where you are 
Heaven above and heaven below. 
From Caversham the Queen passed on by Littlecot, Abury, 
and Laycock to Bath. She had been preceded as usual by a 
Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter, who charged as for him- 
self, for one Yeoman Usher, two Yeomen of the Chamber, 
two Grooms of the Chamber, two Grooms of the Wardrobe, 
and one Groom Porter, making ready divers houses 
between London and Bath, thirty days, in April and May, 
£26 10s., and for sundry alterations about Her Majesties lodgings 
at Bathe, and making ready the church at divers times, and the 
King and Queen’s bath, twenty days, £17 13s. 4d.* At the 
time of starting the Queen “took account” to stay at Bath not 
more than ten days, yet the journey, it was thought, would cost 
* Accounts, Treasurer of Chamber, fol. 8 dors. 
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