Folger Shakespeare Library,
MS X. d. 164 (1), fols. 1-1v
Letter from
Richard Sackville
,
Earl of
Dorset
, to Lady Temple, 3 January, 1620. The letter occurs fols. 1-1v of a single folded
sheet.
[fol. 1r]
They speake of three
maskes
maskes this Christmass, but two are certen the running maske and the Princes, the
first soe called because they meane to runn from one howse to another some few of
there selected frendes, where it shall be daunced, I humbly thanke them they wowlde
haue don me the Honor to haue brought it to my howse but my wiues being out of towne
is a
[fol. 1v]
lawfull impedimente, and I showlde be out of countenaunce to entertaine soe many
Ladyes alone as I know will come.
your most faithfull vowed frende to commaund
R: Dorset
Knowle this 3th of Januarie 1619
Bibliography
Bentley (1941-68), 5.1404