[ [60] These passages do not prove that the historian was disgusted with the pageantry, abstractedly considered, but rather with the occasion of its exhibition; for, he speaks of the same kind of spectacles, with commendation, both anterior and subsequent to the present show, which do not appear to have had the least claim for superiority in point of reason or consistency.
[ [61] Armour.
[ [62] "The Word of God;" meaning the Bible published in English by his authority, which was prohibited in the sanguinary reign of his fanatic daughter.
[ [63] Holinshed, vol. iii. pp. 1091, 1120, &c.
[ [64] Called below a flower-de-luce, an animal I am not in the least acquainted with.
[ [65] No. 1968.
[ [66] Harl. MS. 2125.
[ [67] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays.
[ [68] Cotton MS. Titus, B. i.
[ [69] See the account of the court ludi in the chapter on Theatrical Exhibitions.