Note 644 — VI THE MASK (continued)

Dekker His Dream (1620, Works, iii. 7), 'I herein imitate the most courtly revellings; for if Lords be in the grand masque, in the antimasque are players'; Jonson, Love Restored (Works, iii. 83). 'The rogue play-boy, that acts Cupid, is got so hoarse, your majesty cannot hear him half the breadth of your chair'. The accounts for Oberon include £10 to 'xiijⁿ Holt boyes' and £15 to 'players imployed in the maske'; those for Love Freed £10 to '5 boyes, that is 3 Graces Sphynx and Cupid', and £12 to 'the 12 fooles that danced', and those for the Lords' Mask £1 each to '12 madfolkes' and '5 speakers' (Reyher, 508).