Note 261 — APPENDIX A A COURT CALENDAR
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Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’; Sp. P. ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many inventions’. In the previous August (Sp. P. ii. 607) Oxford had declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’.