Note 1459 — Chapter XVII · MASKS AND MISRULE
Reading edition
Ben Jonson, iii. 162. Masque of Augurs (1623) ‘Disguise was the old English word for a masque, sir, before you were an implement belonging to the Revels’; ii. 476, A Tale of a Tub (1634), v. 2:
‘Pan. A masque! what’s that? Scriben. A mumming or a shew, With vizards and fine clothes. Clench. A disguise, neighbour, Is the true word.’