CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

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ASQUES AT COURT:-

:-

THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS

THE MASQUE OF BEAUTY

HYMENEI; 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

A CHALLENGE AT TILT. AT A MARRIAGE

THE IRISH MASQUE AT Court

.

MERCURY VINDICATED FROM THE ALCHEMISTS

THE GOLDEN AGE RESTORED

3

21

41

85

103

147

165

183

197

211

221

231

245

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

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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.

B

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.