[544] Feuillerat, Eliz. 116, 'Cristmas ... canvas to couer diuers townes and howsses and other devisses and clowds for a maske and a showe and a play by the childerne of the chaple.... The xviijᵗʰ of Fabruarie ... provicions for a play maid by Sir Percivall Hartts sones with a mask of huntars and diuers devisses and a rocke, or hill for the ix musses to singe vppone with a vayne of sarsnett dravven vpp and downe before them.... Shroftid ... foure maskes too of them nott occupied nor sene with thare hole furniture which be verie fayr and riche of old stuf butt new garnished with frenge and tassells to seme new'; cf. De Silva to Philip of the revel after a tilt on 5 March (Sp. P. i. 404). It began after supper with 'a comedy in English of which I understood just as much as the Queen told me. The plot was founded on the question of marriage, discussed between Juno and Diana, Juno advocating marriage and Diana chastity. Jupiter gave a verdict in favour of matrimony, after many things had passed on both sides in defence of the respective arguments. The Queen turned to me and said, "This is all against me". After the comedy there was a masquerade of Satyrs, or wild gods, who danced with the ladies, and when this was finished there entered 10 parties of 12 gentlemen each, the same who fought in the foot tourney, and these, all armed as they were, danced with the ladies; a very novel ball, surely.'
[545] Hume, Year after Armada, 283; De Silva to Philip (Sp. P. i. 452), 'a ball, a tourney, and two masks'. These were after supper and ended at 1.30 a.m.
[546] Pound's speeches are in Rawl. Poet. MS. 108 (Bodl. MS. 14601), f. 24; De Silva to Philip (July 1566, Sp. P. i. 565), 'a masquerade and a long ball, after which they entered in new disguises for a foot tournament'. The chief challenger was Ormond. On Pound's career as a masker and its strange end, cf. ch. xxiii.
[547] Feuillerat, Eliz. 119, 'the altering and newe makinge of sixe maskes out of ould stuff with torche bearers thervnto wherof iiijᵒʳ hathe byne shewene before vs, and two remayne vnshewen', 124, 125, 126.
[548] Ibid. 129, 134, 139, 146.
[549] Fleay, 19; Brotanek, 25. But the resemblances are only partial, cf. M. S. C. i. 144.
[550] Feuillerat, Eliz. 153.
[551] G. Gascoigne, A devise of a Maske for the right honorable Viscount Mountacute (Works, i. 75, from The Posies of 1575). The date is fixed by Thomas Giles's letter.
[552] The reproductions in Strutt, Manners and Customs, iii, pl. xi, and Withington, i. 208, omit the wedding table. The pictures must be later than Sir H. Unton's death in 1596. Ashmole, Berks, iii. 313, dates his wedding with Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Wroughton of Broad Hinton, Wilts, in 1580.
[553] Feuillerat, Eliz. 409.