HYMENÆI; or the Solemnities of Masque

and Barriers at a Marriage

THE HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID

THE MASQUE OF QUEENS

THE SPEECHES AT PRINCE HENRY'S BARRIERS

OBERON, THE FAIRY PRINCE

3

21

41

85

103

147

165

A CHALLENGE AT TILT. AT A MARRIAGE

THE IRISH MASQUE AT Court

211

221

The "Masque of Lethe" is Gifford's name. He was not aware that
Jonson had himself given it a title, LOVERS MAde Men.

MASQUES AT COURT.

Up springs the dance, along the lighted dome,
Mix'd and involv'd a thousand sprightly ways,
The glittering court effuses every pomp,
The circle deepens; beam'd from gaudy robes
Tapers and sparkling gems, and radiant eyes,
A soft effulgence o'er the palace waves.

THOMPSON.

THE QUEEN'S MASQUES.

THE FIRST, OF

BLACKNESS.

PERSONATED AT THE COURT AT WHITEHALL, ON THE TWELFTH-NIGHT, 1605.

Salve festa dies, meliorque revertere semper. OVID.