Note 470 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS
Reading edition
The following is from an account of a continental Corpus Christi procession in Barnabe Googe’s translation of Naogeorgos’ Popish Kingdom (1553), iv. 699 (Stubbes, i. 337):
‘Christes passion here derided is, with sundrie maskes and playes; Faire Ursley with hir maydens all, doth passe amid the wayes: And valiant George, with speare thou killest the dreadfull dragon here; The deuil’s house is drawne about, wherein there doth appere A wondrous sort of damned sprites, with foule and fearefull looke; Great Christopher doth wade and passe with Christ amid the brooke: Sebastian full of feathred shaftes, the dint of dart doth feele; There walketh Kathren with hir sworde in hande, and cruell wheele: The Challis and the singing Cake, with Barbara is led, And sundrie other Pageants playde in worship of this bred, &c.’