Archbishop of Canterbury, meets the King.
PRIORESS
[To Squire.]
Chaucer, you say?
SQUIRE
A little patience more.
[A silence falls on the pilgrims as, within the Cathedral, choir-boys begin to chant a hymn. Issuing from the door and forming against one side of the massed, kneeling pilgrims, enters a procession, headed by splendid-vested priests, carrying pictured banners of St. Thomas and his shrine, followed by choir-boys, and lastly, by the Archbishop of Canterbury with regalia.]
THE PROCESSION
[Sings.]
“Tu, per Thomæ sanguinem