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succinct and grave in their complements, » 
use to speak proverbs; if to pasge com-" 
plements on great holy-dayes, (as Christ- 
mas and Easter) they only say three 
words, Las buenas Pasquas: they are 
very carefull to send complements to 
those of their friends and acquaintances, 
who have been let blood, and ever ac- 
company their complement with a pre- 
sent, which they call /a Sangria. 
“ They endeavour as much: as they 
can, to send their present by a servant 
of their friend, to prevent presents which 
theim own servants might receive, where- 
by their present should become charge- 
able unto the friend, to whom its sent.” 
“The King of Spaine, (Philip II.) 
never heard Vos to him, save from the 
proud Duke a’ Alug, who being on his 
death-bed, visited by the King, said, 
I gowhere thou wilt come; the King going 
out of the roome said no more, than “TI 
thought] should not escape without aVos.” 
The little work from which these in- 
teresting extracts have been made, is 
unnoticed in the account of Sir Balthazar 
Gerbier, in Lord Orford’s Anecdotes of 
Painting. Sir Balthazar was a native of 
Antwerp, and came to England in the 
reign of James I. He attended Charles I. 
says Mr. Granger, when Prince of Wales, 
and the Duke of Buckingham, into 
Spain; and was secretly an agent in the 
treaty of marriage with the I[nfanta, 
though he only appeared in the character 
of a painter. ' 
“ The joyful receyuing of the Queene’s 
most excellent majestie into hir High- 
nesse citie of Norwich: the things done 
in the time of her abode there; and the 
dolor of the citie at hir departure. 
Wherein are set downe divers orations 
an Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse 
by Sir Robert Wood, knight, now Muior 
of the same citie, and others: and cer- 
taine also delivered to hir Mayjestie in 
writing; every of them turned into 
English— Loudon: Imprinted by Henry 
Bynneman.” Ato. 
It was the observation of Bishop Percy, 
that the splendour and magnificence of 
Queen Elizabeth’s reign is no where more 
strongly painted, than in those little dia- 
ries of some of her summer excursions to 
the houses of her nobility, which were 
printed in a detached form, at various 
times during the long course of her reign. 
Among these, the present work is by no 
means, the least conspicuous. 
On Saturday the 16th of August, 1578, 
the Queen, in her Norfolk progress, it 
. Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
[Sept. 1, 
appears, set forward from Brakenashe, 
where she had dined with the Lady 
Style, about five miles from Norwich.— 
Sir Rokert Wood, the Mayor, then only 
an esquire, about the same time, set out 
from Norwich, preceded first by three 
score young men of the city, on horse= 
back, representing bachelors, apparelied 
in blacke satin doublets, blacke hose, 
blacke taffata hattes, and yellow bandes ; 
‘¢ and their universal liverye was a man-= 
dytion of purple taffata, layde about with 
silver lace.” After these, followed a 
man upon a fine courser, representing 
King Gurgunt, the supposed founder of 
the city; Ins body armed; with a black 
velvet hat, and a plume of white feathers 
on his head, attended by three French- 
men in white and green, one carrying his 
helmet, another his target, anid a third 
his staff. After King Gurgunt, came the 
gentlemen and more wealthy citizens, fol- 
lowed by the sword-bearer, mayor, al- 
dermen, and recorder, in scarlet gowns; 
with those who hae been sheriffs, but 
were not aldermen, in violet gowns and 
satin tippets. 
King Gurgunt, stopping at a place 
called Hartford-bridge, left the rest of 
the procession, to meet the Queen at the 
utmost limits of the city jurisdiction. 
The acclamations of the people having 
ceased, at her Majesty’s first meeting the 
procession, the mayor addressed her in. 
a Latin speech, at the conclusion of 
which he presented her Majesty with the 
city-sword, “ and a fayre standing cuppe 
of silver gilt, with a cover, and in the 
cup one hundred pounds in gold.” 
The Queen, thanking the mayor for 
these tokens of good-will, assured him, 
that ‘* Princes have no need of money.” 
‘¢ God hath endowed us,” she observed, 
“ abundantly; we come not therefore, 
but for that which, in right, is our owne, 
the heartes and true allegiance of our 
subjects, whiche are the greatest riches 
of oar kingdom.” | 
The cup and money, however, were 
delivered to a gentleman, one of her 
Majesty’s footmen, tocarry. The mayor 
said to her, Sunt hic centum libre pure 
auri; the cover of the cup lifted up.— 
Her Majesty Said to the footmen,— 
‘¢ Looke to it, there is a hundredth 
pound.” With that her Highness march- 
ed toward the city, near which, in the 
town-close, Gurgunt was prepared with 
a eomplimentary speech; but was pre- 
vented from delivering it by reason of 
the rain occasioning her Majesty te hasten 
away. ne 
