Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Inquiry Into the Genuineness of a Letter Dated February 3rd, 1613, and Signed Mary Magdaline Davers
Bacon, the Attorney-general, presented the newly-married pair with a fanciful Masque of Flowers, performed on Twelfth Night in Gray's Inn. Bacon's fe'te was attended by the King and Queen and the whole Court, and is said to have cost him somewhere about Other persons, no less anxious than Bacon to stand well in the esti mation of the sovereign, rivalled one another in the costly character of their marriage offerings, and from Christmas to Twelfth Night, the wedding, the accompanying pageants, and the Splendid gifts, were as much the town-talk as the lady's divorce-had been the general subject of discussion during the preceding summer.
Such were the gaieties which occurred at Court during the Christmas to which the transcript alluded to related, and it was much desired that the writer had commented upon them at greater length! She spoke only of one masque. Judging from her brief description, it was thought to be probably the one written by Cam pion, which was performed on the evening of the wedding day. In a few succeeding sentences she made known that even the enjoy ment of these brilliant festivities was alloyed by jealousies which made themselves felt even through all the bridal finery.
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