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Excerpt from The Lord Mayor of London, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, City Life in the Last Century
Such is not the course I have pursued. Knowing the municipal authorities to be generally men of sterling character, of high intelligence and capacity, zealous in the discharge of their public duties, and energetic in the maintenance of the rights and privileges of the great city they represent - I have painted them as such. My picture may be incorrect, but it is nearer the truth than the caricatures I have referred to.
In the early part of this Tale occur some descriptions of the ancient and picturesque City pageants once attendant on the Lord Mayor's Procession to Westminster. From an address at one of these pageants in the reign of Good Queen Bess, "donne by George Peele, Maister of Artes in Oxford," I will cite the concluding lines.
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