Page 1745 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Ye should do service. − Hark! The trumpets sound;
They’re come already from the christening. [80]
Go break among the press, and find a way out
To let the troop pass fairly, or I’ll find

A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.

PORTER
Make way there for the Princess!

MAN
You great fellow,
Stand close up, or I’ll make your head ache. [85]

PORTER
You i’th’camlet, get up o’th’rail;

I’ll peck you o’er the pales else.
Exeunt

Scene IV IT

Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter,

Cranmer, Duke of Norfolk with his marshal’s staff, Duke of Suffolk, two
Noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the christening gifts; then four
Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchess of Norfolk, godmother,
bearing the child richly habited in a mantle, etc., train borne by a Lady; then

follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other godmother, and Ladies. The troop
pass once about the stage, and Garter speaks

GARTER
Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and ever
happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth.

Flourish. Enter the King and Guard

CRANMER
And to your royal grace, and the good Queen.

My noble partners and myself thus pray [5]