Lambeth Palace Library,
Talbot Papers 3202, fols. 134r-v
Letter, Viscount Lisle to the
Earl of Shrewsbury
, dated 29 Jan. 1608,
London
. One folded sheet, two folios; 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, 10.459 (repeated on 10.482,
where the letter is attributed to Rowland Whyte).
HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, 2.250
Lodge (1791), [Extra
masque bib.] 3.223-4
Nichols (1828),
2.175