National Archives
SP 14/122/77, fol. 124
Letter,
John Chamberlain
to
Dudley Carleton
, 18 August 1621,
London
. Two separate sheets: the letter occupies pp. 1-2; p. 3 blank; p. 4 subscription.
Note: the verses survive in the Newcastle MS, fol. 1, 'Verses made by King
Iames
at Burlye in the hill. Aug. 1621'. See Masque Archive, Gypsies, 2
[fol. 124]
The king was so pleased and taken with his
entertainment at the Lord marques that he could not forbeare to expresse his contentment
in certain verses he made there, to this effect, that the ayre, the weather, (though
yt
were not so here) and euery thing els, euen the staggs and bucks in their fall did
seeme
to smile, so that there was hope of a smiling boy within a while, to
which end he concluded with a wish or votum for the
felicitie and fruitfulnes of that vertuous and blessed couple, and in way of Amen
caused
the bishop of
London
in his presence to geue them a ben^ ⎡e⎤ diction.
Bibliography
CSPD 1619-23, 283
H&S, 10.613
Chamberlain (1939), 2.396-8 (397)
Bentley (1941-68), 4.645 (quotes Chamberlain, 1939 )
Nichols (1828), 4.710 (from Birch's transcription, BL, Add.
MS 4174)