PAGEANT.
Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
There where your argosies of portly sail,
Like Signors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or as it were, the pageants of the sea.
An allusion to those enormous machines that were drawn about the streets in the ancient shows or pageants. These machines were in the shape of castle dragons, ships, giants, and were regarded as the most important part of the show.
DUMB-SHOW.
What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron of England?
PORTIA.
He is a proper man’s picture, but, alas! who can converse with a dumb-show?