On Saturday, about eight o'clock, her Majesty reached the house, travelling from Farnham, where she had dined.

Upon sight of her loud music sounded.

It stopped when she set foot upon the bridge, and a real man, standing between two wooden dummies whom he exactly resembled, began to flatter her exceedingly.
Until she came, he said, the walls shook and the roof tottered, but one glance from her eyes had steadied the turret for ever.

He went on to call her virtue immortal and herself the Miracle of Time, Nature's Glory, Fortune's Empress, and the World's Wonder.

Elizabeth, when he had made an end, took the key from him and embraced Lady Montagu and her daughter, the Lady Dormir; whereupon "the mistress of the house (as it were weeping in the bosome) said, 'O happie time! O joyfull daie!'" [Sidenote: A QUEEN'S DIVERSIONS] These preliminaries over, the fun began.