Note 115 — THE PROLOGUE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Whose mule if it should be sold So gayly trapped with velvet and gold And given to us for our schare, I durst ensure the one thing As for a competent lyvynge This seven yeare we should not care.
Roy’s Satire.
In the picture of the Champs de drap d’or, which has been engraved by the Society of Antiquaries, the cardinal appears mounted on a richly caparisoned mule.