I whom thou seest with horologe in hand
Am named Time, the lord of every hour:
I shall in space destroy both sea and land.
O simple Fame, how darest thou man honour,
Promising of his name an endless flower!
Who may in the world have a name eternal,
When I shall in process destroy the world and all?
In the eighth pageant was pictured the image of Lady Eternity, sitting
in a chair under a sumptuous cloth of state, crowned with an imperial
crown. And under her feet lay the picture of Time that was in the
seventh pageant. And above this eighth pageant was written as follows: