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"Apropos of melancholy subjects," said Etherege, "your masque of the Dance of Death has caused great consternation at court. Mistress Stewart declares she cannot get that strange fellow who performed such fantastic tricks in the skeleton-dance out of her head." "You mean Chowles," replied the earl. "He is a singular being, certainly once a coffin-maker, and now, I believe, a burier of the dead.
With what feelings that young person had listened to the neat and appropriate dialogue I have just had the pleasure of immortalizing, may be to use a phrase you may have heard before, once or twice better imagined than described. He knew very well who Leoline was, and how she had been saved from the plague-pit; but where in the world had La Masque found it out.
Then, as if with a determination of the spirit, they smiled up at him. "Monsieur the American," said the black domino, "you have been most kind to an an incognita of a masque. I hope that you dig out of your sands all the secrets that you most desire." "You sound as if you were saying good-bye," said Jack Ryder with quick denial in his blood. The smile in her eyes flickered.
"I would fain know who thus sues for a woman's love; 'tis possible " He lowered his masque. "Ah, his Grace of Monmouth!" She well-nigh prostrated herself upon the saddle, in lieu of the fine courtesy she would have swept had her position been more favourable. His words such gloriously sweet words when uttered by the lips of a Duke fed her vanity.
Meantime another branch, not unlearned, but caring less for scholastic perfection than for perfect expression of poetic sentiment, was fast growing. The history of the masque is a stale matter, so I will merely mention that Campion, and many another with, before, and after him, engaged during a great part of their lives in what can only be called the manufacture of these entertainments.
On the morning of the fifth day, however, the Queen returned, and although she knew what had happened she summoned me before her to hear the story from my lips. I found her in her study with three or four of her ladies. Catherine looked pale and heavy-eyed, and there were hard lines about her mouth. It was said she had never smiled since the day of the masque.
These it will for our present purpose be convenient to consider in connexion with each other, and without troubling ourselves too much concerning such nice differences of form as may be found to exist among them. Masques and General Influence The history of the English masque offers a very interesting study in what may be called literary morphology.
The reason thereof is sufficiently obvious; and the following section will endeavour to repair it. In Milton's contribution to the fashionable masque literature of his day we approach work the poetic supremacy of which has never been called in question, and whose other qualities, lying properly beyond the strict application of that term, critics have habitually vied with one another to extol.
I know we were not together; and therefore I ask you whom you were with?" "Nay, but, my dear," said she, "can I tell people in masques?" "I say again, madam," said he, "would you converse two hours or more with a masque whom you did not know?" "Indeed, child," says she, "I know nothing of the methods of a masquerade; for I never was at one in my life."
And you will find it as sweet to look back upon as you have to look forward to," said La Masque, derisively. "If you are wise for yourself, Mr. Ormiston, you will pause here, and give me back that fatal word." "Never, madame! And surely you will not be so pitilessly cruel as to draw back, now?"
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