At breakfast next morning three oxen and a hundred and forty geese were devoured.

On Monday, August 17th, Elizabeth rode to her bower in the park, took a crossbow from a nymph who sang a sweet song, and with it shot "three or four" deer, carefully brought within range.

After dinner, standing on one of the turrets she watched sixteen bucks "pulled down with greyhounds" in a lawn.

On Tuesday, the Queen was approached by a pilgrim, who first called her "Fairest of all creatures," and expressed the wish that the world might end with her life and then led her to an oak whereon were hanging escutcheons of her Majesty and all the neighbouring noblemen and gentlemen.

As she looked, a "wilde man" clad all in ivy appeared and delivered an address on the importance of loyalty.