1 | 2 | 3 | 4 >>    II^ NIGHT : THE MASQUE   (…)         By a secret foreknowledge of a Maske , with which Soranso, Bargetto, Ismarito, and others purposed to honour Segnioe philoxenus and his companie, supper wae hastened and soone ended: and after the one had salutated the other with an accustomed reverence, while the rest of the Gntlemen entertained Time, with dauncing or deuising with their mistresses, the Maskers withdrew themselves, and about nineof the clock n this disguise peresentes themselves agayne.         A consort of swéete Musicke, sounded the knowledge of their comming: the Musicians, in Gyppons and Venetians of Russet and Black Taffata, bended with Murrey, and thereon imbrodered this Poesie. Spero, Timeo, Taceo: expressing thereby the sundry passions of Loue: and before them, two torchbearers, apparelled in yellow taffata Sarcenet: the generall apparell of the maskers was shorte Millaine Clokes, Dublet Hose of Gréene Satten bordered with Silue Gréene silke stockes, White Scarpines, White Feathers. Thei agreed to be thus attired, to showe themselves free in the eye of the world, and covertly bound unto their mistresses.         Ismarito for courtesie sake, because he was a straunger, and withal, in that his Mistres was the most honourable, had the elading of his Maske, who lighted with a torch, by his Page, apparelled in Blew, Carnation and White Taffata, the colours of his Mistres, entered with a Ventoy in his hand, made like an Ashe tree: wrethed about with iuy: expressing this poesie The stante virebo: with which, ipon sit oppotunitie, he presented Quéene Aurelia, hid Mistresse: within which were (covertly hid) these verses in English Italian    1 | 2 | 3 | 4 >>