[27] The Pantomime is adapted from a Roman Interlude by the author in his drama “Sappho and Phaon.”
[28] This Theme inheres in an excerpt from Shakespeare’s “King Henry VIII,” Act I, Scene I, quoted by Ariel as Prologue to the Sixth Inner Scene of the Masque, for which the actual dialogue of no Shakespeare Scene dealing with France appears so appropriate for the Masque’s uses as a pantomime based on this excerpt from Henry VIII.
[29] The words Winter and Spring refer to the respective Groups.
[30] The water is represented by the blue ground, beyond the verge of the Yellow Sands.
[31] Here the play-actors enact a scene from the old play of “Noah’s Flood.”
[32] The Action here described, like that of all the preceding Interludes, is simply a preliminary outline, subject to modification and development at rehearsals.
[33] With this number several hundred of the Interlude participants and Masque figurants are to be correlated in the final ensemble.
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