NOTE.
This 'Entertainment' has the additional interest of having been that wherein "The Lottery" (pp. 87-95), was introduced. The reasons for our giving the whole to Davies, we have stated in the Memorial-Introduction (II. Critical: Minor Poems). Our text is from Nichols' Progresses of Q. Elizabeth, Vol. III., pp. 586-94. G.
[Entertainment of Q. Elizabeth at Harefield by Countesse of Derby.]
After the Queene entered (out of the high way) into the Deamesne grounde of Harefielde, near the Dayrie howse, she was mett with 2 persons, the one representing a Bayliffe, the other a Dayrie-Maide, with the Speech. Her Majesty, being on horsebacke, stayed under a tree (because it rayned) to heare it.
B. Why, how now, Joane! are you heere? Gods my life, what make you heere, gaddinge and gazinge after this manner? You come to buy gape-seede,[277] doe you? Wherefore come you abroade now I' faith can you tell?
Joa. I come abroade to welcome these Strangers.
B. Strangers? how knew you there would come Strangers?