Haddington Masque (and Masque of Beauty) 3

Lambeth Palace Library, Talbot Papers 3202, fols. 134-134v

Letter, Viscount Lisle to the Earl of Shrewsbury , dated 29 Jan. 1608, London . One folded sheet, two leaves; the letter appears on pp. 1-3; p. 4, subscription.


[fol. 134]
And seing your Lord takes my aduertisments so well, I will not bee weary of pleasing to you and to begin with what your ^ ⎡lord ⎤ desires about the Maske. Truly it was as well performed as euer any was: and for the deuise of it with all the speeches and verses I had sent it to your lordship ere this if I could haue gotten it of Ben: Iohnson. but no sooner had hee made an end of this, but that hee vndertooke a new charge for the maske that is to bee at the Vicount Hadingtons mariage onshroue Tuesdayat night so as till that bee
[fol. 134v]
past I cannot haue the first: but then for the interest and principal debt I will send yowr lordship both.

Bibliography
H&S, 10.482 (repeated from 10.459, and attributed to Rowland Whyte.)
HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, 2.250
Lodge (1791), 3.223-4
Nichols (1828), 2.175