SECOND GENTLEMAN.
Alas, good lady!
[Trumpets.]
The trumpets sound. Stand close. The Queen is coming.
The order of the coronation.
1. A lively flourish of trumpets.
2. Then, two Judges.
3. Lord Chancellor, with purse and mace before him.
4. Choristers, singing. Music.
5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his head he wore a gilt copper crown.
6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With him, the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an earl’s coronet. Collars of S’s.
7. Duke of Suffolk, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head, bearing a long white wand, as High Steward. With him, the Duke of Norfolk, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of S’s.
8. A canopy, borne by four of the Cinque Ports; under it, the Queen in her robe, in her hair, richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side her, the Bishops of London and Winchester.
9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen’s train.
10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets of gold without flowers.
[Exeunt, first passing over the stage in order and state, and then a great flourish of trumpets.]
SECOND GENTLEMAN.
A royal train, believe me. These I know.
Who’s that that bears the sceptre?
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Marquess Dorset,
And that the Earl of Surrey with the rod.
SECOND GENTLEMAN.
A bold brave gentleman. That should be
The Duke of Suffolk.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
’Tis the same: High Steward.