MoEML Mayoral Shows: The Device of the Pageant

The Device of the Pageant

The Device* of the Pageant:

set forth by the Worshipful Company of the Fishmongers* for

the right honourable John Allott*,

established Lord Mayor

of London

and Mayor

of the Staple* for this present year of our Lord 1590

By T. Nelson London, 1590

Sp1The speech spoken by him that rideth on the merman, viz.

Attend,*

my Lord, and mark the tale I tell,

Whose form you see is monstrous, strange,

and rare.

Before a manlike shape, behind a fish’s fell*,

This strange disguise doth make full many stare,

And since they press to know why I come here,

Let them be still:*

the cause shall soon appear.

Within this commonwealth

, my Lord, all those that

live in awe

Do seek each day for to perform and

keep the ’stablished law.

Yea,

such do keep the

Sabbath*

day in reverence as they ought

And fish days too,

as well as flesh, which many set at naught.

Yet if the same were well observed, flesh seldom would be dear

And fish abound at each man’s board, more plenty in each year.

Then England’s store would be increased with butter, cheese,

and

beef

And thousands set to work for fish, that now beg for relief

This shape,*

so strange, show they are strange and

do digress from

reason

That shun in eating fish and flesh

to keep both time and season,

Which fault reformed, our commonwealth

would flourish in such wise*

As never any did behold the like with mortal eyes.

Sp2The speech spoken by him that rideth on the unicorn:

Oh worthy City,

now rejoice in Christ,

For through His grace with Peace he hath thee blessed.

sends thee still such godly magistrates

As daily seeks to keep thee from unrest.

Muse not,

my Lord, to see the sun doth shine

On England’s Peace

* who sits in princely throne.

It doth presage her sunshine

still shall last

And

make her foes afeared at every blast.

So long

as Peace directed is by Truth

And God’s

pure word received as it ought,

So long the Lord will bless this little land

And make it flow with plenty in each place.

Rule now,

* my Lord, and keep this City well,

Reform abuses crept into the same.

So shall your Fame eternized

be for ay*

And London still preserved from decay.

And I that do support the Goldsmiths’*

arms,

Which long in love to you have been united,

Will do my best to shadow you from harms

And find the means your loves may be requited.

Sp3Fame, sounding a trumpet, saith:

The blessed Peace which England doth possess,

And so hath done this thirty-two

years’ space*,

I, Fame,

am sent and charged to do no less,

With trumpet’s

sound, but spread it in each place,

That all may wish,

with hearts which do not fain,

Our royal

Peace in England still may reign.

Sp4The Peace of England:

I represent your peace and chiefest good,

That every hour doth pray for your defence.

I sit as shadow for that royal

blood,

Whose life is pure

and still hath this pretence:*

That whilst she lives,

even with her heart and might,

She seeks in Peace for to defend your right.

Sp5Wisdom,

on one side supporting the state, saith:

Wisdom supporteth still the public state.

Wisdom foreseeth ere it be too late.

Sp6Policy, on the other side supporting the state, saith:

Yea,

Policy prevents each traitorous fact

And doth perform full many a famous act.

Both Policy and Wisdom will not cease

Each night and day for to preserve this Peace*

Sp7God’s Truth:

God’s

sacred truth, lo,

here I represent,

Whom England’s Peace

* doth still maintain in place.

I bring you comfort for your soul’s

content,

Which England’s

Peace doth willingly embrace.

And for her sake,

by whom God’s Truth doth stand,

The god of heaven doth bless this little land.

Prudence and virtue* shades our Peace each day,

Chaste is her life

and therewith rests content.

In vain delights she shuns to run astray,

Her virtues are most rare and excellent.

Long may she live still to preserve this Peace*

Lord,

still I pray her health and joys increase*.

Sp8Plenty:

This famous fleece doth so adorn our land,

Which daily doth with milk and honey flow,

That Fame doth make all nations understand

Like Peace and Plenty never man did know,

For

wool and lead, for tin, corn, beer,

and beef,

Of Christian nations England is the chief.

Muse not to see this famous fleece doth stand

Upon

a wool pack

, fixed at Peace’s

feet*.

The reason is, as you may understand,

Worthy John Allott,

for his place most meet,

Is mayor

of London and the Staple too

And will perform in both what he should do.

Sp9Loyalty and Concord:

Faithful and loyal are her subjects seen,

Concord unites them still in loyal bands.

Their tender hearts is linked to

our queen

And Concord craves no other at their hands.

Thus Loyalty and Concord doth agree

That London still therein shall famous be.

Sp10Ambition:

Ambition,

still puffed up with hate and pride,

Doth daily seek to work sweet England’s fall.

He never rests

but seeks each time and tide

How England’s peace might soon be brought in thrall

And commonwealth

plunged into civil broils

That foreign foes might triumph in our spoils.

Sp11Commonwealth:

Our senate’s*

grave and worthy magistrates

Shall still endeavor to maintain our Peace

By banishing Ambition from our gates

And seeking means this Peace* may never cease.

Yea,

virtue so by him advanced

shall be

That vice shall fly and not be seen in me.

Sp12Science and Labour:

Science

still seeks those things we daily wish,

And Labour toils to bring us flesh and fish.

Yea,

Science sure doth practise every day

That Labour might keep England from decay.

Science and Labour still preserves man’s

health

And are chief props of this our Commonwealth.

Sp13Richard the Second:*

Help, Walworth, now,*

to daunt this rebel’s

pride.

Ask what thou wilt,

thou shalt not be denied.

Sp14Jack Straw:

Jack Straw

the rebel

I present, Wat Tyler was my aide,

Hob Carter and Tom Miller too*;

we all were not afraid

For to deprive our sovereign

king, Richard the Second named,

Yet for our bad ambitious minds by Walworth we were tamed.

He being mayor*

of London then, soon daunted all our pride.

He slew me first, the rest soon fled, and then like traitors died.

Sp15Commonwealth:

I represent

Sir

William Walworth’s place*,

A Fishmonger*

and Mayor

of London twice.

I slew Jack Straw

, who sought my king’s

disgrace,

And for my act reaped honours of great price.

First knight was I of London,

you may read,

And since each mayor

gains knighthood by my deed.

Yea,

for that deed to London I did gain

This dagger* here in arms given,

as you see.

I won my company this crest which doth remain,

This to myself

and my posterity.

Thus did the king with honours me adore*

And Fame herself

still laudeth me therefore.

It* is to be understood that Sir

William Walworth pointeth to the honours wherewith the king

did endow him, which were placed

near about

him* in the pageant. The first was the dagger given in the shield to the City of London*

, the second was the crest given to the company, namely two arms bearing up a crown

, and the third was to the said Walworth

and his posterity forever

, two arms bearing up a millstone, showing thereby that the said Sir

William Walworth performed a matter so impossible*

as it is for a man to hold up a millstone between

both his arms.

Sp16Time:*

Time serves for all things;

Time runneth fast.

We crave your patience,

For the time is past.

FINIS

Annotations

Device

Something artistically devised or framed; a fancifully conceived design or figure (OED, device n.8).

Device also meant an emblematic figure or design, esp. one borne or adopted by a particular person, family, etc. (OED n.9.a), such as the coats of arms that appear near the end of this show. George Peele’s 1585 and 1591 title pages contain with the same phrase (The Device of the Pageant and The Device of a Pageant) suggesting that show writers used device to reference the shows themselves as well as the emblems appearing within them.

Fishmongers

See Para8.

Allot

See Para8 and MoEML.

Staple

See Para8.

fell

The skin or hide of an animal along with the hair, wool, etc. (OED n.1.a).

Nelson is indicating a fish’s skin behind the figure.

Sabbath

Sabbath and its variants are capitalized irregularly throughout the period; the BL copy has it in lowercase (sabboth). I capitalize it here to signify a day of religious observation (OED n.1) rather than a general period of rest (OED n.2).

shape,

Comma added to emphasize the phrase so strange and thus highlight the merman’s shape, important to the speaker’s larger point about strange individuals who disregard fish days.

godly magistrates

The godly magistrates here are the worthy City’s aldermen, over which the lord mayor presides.

England’s Peace

England’s Peace stands for Queen Elizabeth I, regnant from 1558 until her death in 1603.

thirty-two years’ space

The length of Elizabeth’s reign from her accession in 1558 to the date of the performance (1590).

pretence:

an expressed aim or object; an intention, purpose, or design (OED, n.6).

Q comma changed to colon to introduce the intention immediately following.

Both … Peace.

Here the word Both, according to Meagher, may be a misinterpreted speech heading that directs the final two lines to be spoken in unison (99, n. 57-66). Because treating this word as part of the speech keeps that line and the following line at ten syllables apiece (no other line in the Wisdom/Policy passage has fewer than ten), I am treating it as part of the speech. The figures may speak the last two lines in unison; for more on this possibility, see Performance.

Peace

I capitalize Peace here as Wisdom and Policy stand on either side and may gesture toward the figure. Both speaking in unison may draw further attention to Peace as well.

Peace

I capitalize Peace here because God’s Truth may be speaking of Peace of England who spoke previously; Peace of England also may still be present in the continuing pageant.

Prudence and virtue

Meagher states that Prudence and Virtue are simply alternative names for Policy and Wisdom who here, like Wisdom and Policy, shade an enthroned Peace with a cloth-of-state canopy (99, n. 57-66 and 100, n. 67-79). Although there indeed may be two figures here who literally shade Peace, the lack of speaking roles makes their existence as characters, rather than abstract qualities, uncertain; therefore I leave them in lowercase, as does Meagher.

Peace

At this point, Nelson has separated Peace from Elizabeth, as the latter is now she who will hopefully live to maintain the former. I capitalize peace here to emphasize the distinction.

Lord … increase

Elizabeth never married nor did she have children. For more on the implications of Elizabeth’s chastity for continued peace and prosperity at the end of her reign, see Historical Context.

Upon … feet

Plenty may gesture here to a bundle of wool, situated at the feet of Peace, signifying the fleece. For more on what the wool may signify, see Historical Context.

senate’s

Senate could refer to an assembly or counsel of citizens charged with governance (OED, n.1); Meagher comments that Senate is a not infrequent affectation for the City Council during this period (102, n. 107-13). Since London had no body officially titled Senate, I have changed the word to lowercase as a general reference to the body of civic magistrates.

means this Peace

i.e., means by which this peace.

Help, Walworth, now,

Commas are added here to emphasize the king’s direct request to Walworth. The king may also have made this exclamation in response to a threatening advance from Straw (Meagher 103, n. 121-3).

Hob … Miller too

Two other rebels who also will appear in the anonymous history play The Life and Death of Jack Straw (c. 1593-4).

Richard the Second:

King Richard II, regnant from 1377 until his deposition in 1399.

mayor

Mayor means lord mayor here.

place

Commonwealth has assumed Walworth’s place with this speech. See Lancashire, Comedy 17 and Meagher 103, n. 124-43.

Fishmonger

Although the BL copy has this word in lowercase, I capitalize it to emphasize Walworth’s civic identity and kinship with the sponsoring company.

dagger

The dagger Walworth used to kill Tyler.

adore

To display profound reverence or respect (OED, v.2).

No space exists between this passage and the previous speech in Nelson’s pageant book. I have separated this portion to distinguish it as a stage direction or prose account. I have preserved Q’s line breaks except in cases footnoted below.

near about him

Meagher observes that notable personages in lord mayor’s shows often stood surrounded by identifying furniture (104, n. 144-6).

dagger given … London

The London seal of 1381 features a dagger in the upper quadrant of a cross. By popular belief, this is the dagger with which Walworth killed Tyler. However, the seal was executed prior to that event and the sword likely represents the sword of St. Paul instead (Fairholt 117).

impossible

The BL copy uses unpossible, a word that the OED treats as synonymous with impossible. Uses of each word as recorded in LEME also appear interchangeable in meaning, thus the modernization here.

Time:

I have treated this line as a heading introducing a personified figure named Time. For more on the epilogue as it appears in the original text, see The Pageant Book.

Attend,

Comma added to suggest direct address to Allott, as the shows’ pageantry conventionally addressed the lord mayor as both the show’s subject and its ideal audience (Lobanov-Rostovsky 881).

in such wise

I.e., in a such a way.

now,

Comma added to emphasize direct exhortation to Allott.

A variant on ay, with both pronounced similarly to the modern may or day. For ay: for ever, to all eternity (OED, n.3.a).

Goldsmiths’

I place the apostrophe after the s to indicate the plural possessive.

state

Bullough capitalizes State here, presumably in keeping with the above speech prefix as it appears in Q. Q leaves it in lowercase, as have I given that there is no speaking character named State.

Policy, … state, saith:

Typically Bullough does not punctuate the end of the speech prefixes; here, however, he adds a period.

Let them be still:

I have substituted a colon for the comma in Q so that the first clause in the line serves to dramatically introduce the second clause.

Collations

Ellinghausen:

Fishmongers for

Fishmongers, for

Ellinghausen:

Sabbath

sabboth

Ellinghausen:

shape,

shape

Ellinghausen:

Allott,

Allott:

Ellinghausen:

Mayor

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior

Although Bullough appears to replicate old spelling, here he offers Mayor whereas Q reads Maior.

Ellinghausen:

London

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior

Ellinghausen:

1590

1590.

Ellinghausen:

Nelson

Nelson.

Ellinghausen:

London, 1590

London. 1590.

Ellinghausen:

merman:

Merman, viz.

Ellinghausen:

Attend,

Attend

Ellinghausen:

strange,

strange

Ellinghausen:

commonwealth

cōmon wealth

Commonwealth

that

and

law.

law:

Ellinghausen:

Yea,

Yea

Bullough:

the

Ellinghausen:

too,

too

Bullough:

naught.

naught

Ellinghausen:

dear

dear,

Bullough:

year.

year,

Ellinghausen:

cheese,

cheese

Bullough:

and

Ellinghausen:

relief

Bullough:

reliefe

releef

Bullough:

and

Bullough:

from

fro

Ellinghausen:

flesh

flesh,

Bullough:

commonwealth

cōmon wealth

Ellinghausen:

in such wise

in such wise,

Ellinghausen:

unicorn:

unicorn.

Ellinghausen:

City,

City

Ellinghausen:

blessed.

blessed

Ellinghausen:

Hee

Ellinghausen:

magistrates

magistrate,

Ellinghausen:

not,

not

Ellinghausen:

England’s Peace

England’s Peace,

Ellinghausen:

throne.

throne,

Ellinghausen:

sunshine

Sunne shine

Ellinghausen:

last

last,

Bullough:

And

and

Ellinghausen:

long

lo ng

Ellinghausen:

Truth

Truth,

Ellinghausen:

God’s

Gods

Ellinghausen:

land

land,

Ellinghausen:

now,

now

Ellinghausen:

same.

same,

Bullough:

eternized

eternizde

Ellinghausen:

ay,

Ellinghausen:

Goldsmiths’

Bullough:

Goldsmith’s

Goldsmiths

Ellinghausen:

harms

harms,

Ellinghausen:

Fame, sounding a trumpet, saith:

Fame sounding a trumpet saith.

Ellinghausen:

thirty-two

thirtie two

Ellinghausen:

space,

space.

Ellinghausen:

I, Fame,

I Fame

Ellinghausen:

trumpet’s

trumpets

Ellinghausen:

place,

place.

Ellinghausen:

wish,

wish

Ellinghausen:

royal

Bullough:

royall

roiall

Ellinghausen:

England:

England.

Ellinghausen:

defence.

defence,

Ellinghausen:

royal

Bullough:

royall

roiall

Ellinghausen:

pure

pure,

Ellinghausen:

pretence:

pretence,

Ellinghausen:

lives,

lives

Ellinghausen:

Wisdom,

Wisedome

Ellinghausen:

saith:

saith.

Ellinghausen:

state.

Bullough:

State.

state,

Ellinghausen:

Policy, … state, saith:

Bullough:

Policy, … state, saith:

Pollicie … State, saith.

Bullough:

Yea,

Yea

Ellinghausen:

fact

fact,

Ellinghausen:

act.

act,

Ellinghausen:

cease

cease,

Ellinghausen:

Peace

peace

Ellinghausen:

God’s Truth:

Gods Truth,

Bullough:

God’s Truth.

Ellinghausen:

God’s

GOds

Bullough:

Gods

Ellinghausen:

truth, lo,

truth loe here

Ellinghausen:

Peace

peace

Ellinghausen:

place.

place,

Ellinghausen:

soul’s

soules

content,

Bullough:

content.

Ellinghausen:

England’s

Englands

Bullough:

embrace.

embrace:

Ellinghausen:

sake,

sake

Ellinghausen:

life

life,

Ellinghausen:

content.

content,

Ellinghausen:

Peace

peace

Ellinghausen:

Lord,

Lord

Ellinghausen:

Plenty:

Plentie.

Ellinghausen:

understand

understand,

For

Bullough:

for

Ellinghausen:

beer,

beer

Bullough:

Upon

upon

Ellinghausen:

wool pack

wooll packe

Bullough:

wooll-packe

Ellinghausen:

Peace’s

Peaces

Ellinghausen:

feet.

feet,

Ellinghausen:

Allott,

Allott

Ellinghausen:

meet,

meet.

Bullough:

meet:

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior.

Ellinghausen:

too

too,

Ellinghausen:

Concord:

Concord.

Bullough:

Concord.

Ellinghausen:

bands.

bands,

Bullough:

Ellinghausen:

queen

queen,

Ellinghausen:

hands.

hands,

Ellinghausen:

agree

agree,

Bullough:

be.

be,

Ellinghausen:

Ambition,

Ambition

Ellinghausen:

fall.

fall,

Ellinghausen:

rests

rests,

Ellinghausen:

tide

tide,

Ellinghausen:

thrall

thrall.

Ellinghausen:

commonwealth

Bullough:

Common wealth

common wealth

Ellinghausen:

broils

broils,

spoils.

Bullough:

spoils

Bullough:

Commonwealth:

Common wealth.

Ellinghausen:

senateʼs

Senates

Ellinghausen:

magistrates

magistrates,

Ellinghausen:

Peace

Peace,

Ellinghausen:

gates

gates,

Ellinghausen:

cease.

cease:

Ellinghausen:

Yea,

Yea

Ellinghausen:

advanced

advanst

Ellinghausen:

be,

me.

Bullough:

Ellinghausen:

Labour:

Labour.

Bullough:

Science

SCience

Ellinghausen:

fish.

fish,

Ellinghausen:

Yea,

Yea

Ellinghausen:

day

day,

Ellinghausen:

decay.

decay,

Ellinghausen:

manʼs

mans

Ellinghausen:

health

health,

Ellinghausen:

Commonwealth.

common wealth.

Bullough:

commonwealth

Bullough:

Richard the Second:

Richard the second.

Ellinghausen:

Help, Walworth, now,

Help Walworth now

Ellinghausen:

rebelʼs

rebels

Ellinghausen:

pride.

pride,

Ellinghausen:

wilt,

wilt

Ellinghausen:

Jack Straw:

Jacke Straw.

Bullough:

Jacke Strawe:

Bullough:

Jack Straw

JAcke Straw

rebel

Bullough:

rebel,

Ellinghausen:

too;

too,

Bullough:

too

Ellinghausen:

afraid

afraid,

sovereign

Bullough:

Sovereign

Ellinghausen:

tamed.

tamed,

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior

Ellinghausen:

pride.

pride,

Bullough:

Commonwealth:

Common wealth.

Bullough:

represent

Represent

Bullough:

Sir

sir

Ellinghausen:

Fishmonger

fishmonger,

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior

Ellinghausen:

twice.

twice,

Ellinghausen:

Jack Straw

Bullough:

Jacke Strawe

Jacke Straw

Ellinghausen:

kingʼs

Bullough:

Kingʼs

kings

Ellinghausen:

price.

price,

Ellinghausen:

London,

London

Bullough:

Mayor

Maior

Ellinghausen:

Yea,

Yea

Ellinghausen:

gain

gain,

Ellinghausen:

given,

given

Ellinghausen:

see.

see,

Ellinghausen:

myself

my selfe

Ellinghausen:

adore

adore,

Ellinghausen:

herself

her selfe

Ellinghausen:

Sir

sir

Meagher:

sir

king

Bullough:

King

Ellinghausen:

placed

pla-ced

about

Bullough:

above

Ellinghausen:

London

Lon-don

crown

Bullough:

Crown

Ellinghausen:

Walworth

Wal-worth

Ellinghausen:

forever

for ever

Bullough:

Sir

sir

Ellinghausen:

impossible

unpossible,

Ellinghausen:

between

be-tweene

Ellinghausen:

Time:

Time.

Ellinghausen:

things;

things,

Ellinghausen:

fast.

fast,

Ellinghausen:

FINIS

FINIS.

Ellinghausen:

Let them be still:

Let them be still,

Characters

Speaking Characters in the Pageants

Him that Rideth on the Merman

Him that Rideth on the Unicorn

Fame

Peace of England

Wisdom

Policy

God’s Truth

Plenty

Loyalty

Concord

Ambition

Commonwealth

Science

Labour

Richard the Second

Jack Straw

Time

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Laurie Ellinghausen

Laurie Ellinghausen is Professor of English at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, where she teaches courses on early modern English literature and drama. She is the author of Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates: Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing (U of Toronto P, 2018) and Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 (Ashgate, 2008). She is also the editor of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeareʼs Early Modern English History Plays (MLA Publications, 2017). Her current project is a monograph on representations of seafaring labour in proto-imperial British writing.

Mark Kaethler

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include early modern literature’s intersections with politics; digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; cognitive science; and ecocriticism.

Molly Rothwell

MoEML Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at LEMDO, Molly primarily worked on encoding the MoEML Mayoral Shows.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Rylyn Christensen

Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.

Thomas Nelson

Bookseller and ballad-writer. See ODNB.

Bibliography

Anonymous. The Life and Death of Iacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England: Who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London. London. 1593. STC 23356. DEEP 166. ESTC S111285.

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1590 quarto.

Meagher, John C. The London Lord Mayor’s Show of 1590. English Literary Renaissance 3.1 (1973): 94-104.

This edition, edited by Laurie Ellinghausen.

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