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A GRAND MASQUE AND ANTIMASQUE. 293
the same stuff and colour. In this chariot sat the four
grand masquers of Gray’s Inn, their habits, doublets,
trunk-hose and caps, of most rich cloth of tissue, and
wrought as thick with silver spangles as they could be
placed ; large white silk stockings up to their trunk-hose,
and rich sprigs in their caps, themselves proper and beau-
tiful young gentlemen. On each side of the chariot were
four footmen in liveries of the colour of the chariot, car-
rying huge flambeaux in their hands, with which the torches
gave such a lustre to the paintings, spangles, and. habits,
that hardly any thing could be invented to appear more
glorious. After this chariot came six more musicians, like
the former ; these were followed by the second chariot, as
the lot fell for the Middle Temple: this differed not in any
thing from the former, but in colours only, which were of
this chariot, silver and blue \ the chariot and horses were
covered and decked with cloth of tissue, of blue and silverT
as the former was with silver and crimson. In this second
chariot were the four grand masquers of the Middle Tem-
ple, in the same habits as the other masquers were, and
with the like attendance, torches and flambeaux, with the
former. After these followed the third and fourth chariots,
and six musicians between each chariot, habited as before ;
the chariots were all of the same make, and alike carved
and painted, differing only in the colours. In the third
chariot rode the grand masquers of the Inner Temple, and.
in the fourth chariot went those of Lincoln’s Inn.
They continued in their sports till it was almost morn-
ing, and then the King and Queen retiring, the masquers
and Inns of Court gentlemen .were brought to a stately
banquet.
The Queen, who was much delighted with these solem-
nities, was so taken with this show and masque, that she
desired to see it acted over again ; whereupon an intima-
tion being given to the Lord Mayor of London, he invited
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the same stuff and colour. In this chariot sat the four
grand masquers of Gray’s Inn, their habits, doublets,
trunk-hose and caps, of most rich cloth of tissue, and
wrought as thick with silver spangles as they could be
placed ; large white silk stockings up to their trunk-hose,
and rich sprigs in their caps, themselves proper and beau-
tiful young gentlemen. On each side of the chariot were
four footmen in liveries of the colour of the chariot, car-
rying huge flambeaux in their hands, with which the torches
gave such a lustre to the paintings, spangles, and. habits,
that hardly any thing could be invented to appear more
glorious. After this chariot came six more musicians, like
the former ; these were followed by the second chariot, as
the lot fell for the Middle Temple: this differed not in any
thing from the former, but in colours only, which were of
this chariot, silver and blue \ the chariot and horses were
covered and decked with cloth of tissue, of blue and silverT
as the former was with silver and crimson. In this second
chariot were the four grand masquers of the Middle Tem-
ple, in the same habits as the other masquers were, and
with the like attendance, torches and flambeaux, with the
former. After these followed the third and fourth chariots,
and six musicians between each chariot, habited as before ;
the chariots were all of the same make, and alike carved
and painted, differing only in the colours. In the third
chariot rode the grand masquers of the Inner Temple, and.
in the fourth chariot went those of Lincoln’s Inn.
They continued in their sports till it was almost morn-
ing, and then the King and Queen retiring, the masquers
and Inns of Court gentlemen .were brought to a stately
banquet.
The Queen, who was much delighted with these solem-
nities, was so taken with this show and masque, that she
desired to see it acted over again ; whereupon an intima-
tion being given to the Lord Mayor of London, he invited
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