Note 671 — VI THE MASK (continued)

Newcastle, On Government (S. A. Strong, Cat. of Documents at Welbeck, 223). The direct reference is to tilts, but an earlier passage runs, 'Well Sʳ Then your Maᵗᶦᵉ is well returned to White-Halle & ther prepare a maske for twelve-tyde,—Etaliens makes the Seanes beste,—& all butt your Maᵗᶦᵉ maye have their Glorius Atier off Coper which will doe as well for two or three nightes as Silver or Golde & much less charge, which otherwise will bee much founde falte withall by those thatt attendes your Maᵗᶦᵉ in the maske'.