Note 462 — IV PAGEANTRY
Reading edition
W. Smythe, A breffe description of London (1575); cf. Mediaeval Stage, ii. 165. Dramatic allusions are 2 Promos and Cassandra, i. 6, '[Enter] Two men, apparrelled lyke greene men at the Mayor feast, with clubbes of fyreworke'; Cobbler's Prophecy, 469, 'comes there a Pageant by, Ile stand out of the green mens way for burning my vestment'; Dutch Courtesan, iii. 1, 117, 'all will scarce make me so high as one of the giants' stilts that stalks before my Lord Mayor's pageant'; Northward Hoe, ii. 1, p. 195, 'Simon and Jude's gentlemen ushers'.