The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . e whose attiresufficiently corresponds with that described byHall in his account of a Eussian masque atWestminster, in the reign of Henry VHL,quoted by Ritson in illustration of this play. In the first year of King Henry VHL, saysthe chronicler, at a banquet made for theforeign ambassadors in the Parliament-chamberat Westminster, came the Lord Henry earl ofWiltshire, and the Lord Fitzwalter, in two longgowns of yellow satin traversed with white ILLUSTRATIONS. [ACT V. satin, and in every bend of white was a bend ofcrimson sati
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . e whose attiresufficiently corresponds with that described byHall in his account of a Eussian masque atWestminster, in the reign of Henry VHL,quoted by Ritson in illustration of this play. In the first year of King Henry VHL, saysthe chronicler, at a banquet made for theforeign ambassadors in the Parliament-chamberat Westminster, came the Lord Henry earl ofWiltshire, and the Lord Fitzwalter, in two longgowns of yellow satin traversed with white ILLUSTRATIONS. [ACT V. satin, and in every bend of white was a bend ofcrimson satin, after the fashion of Russia orRussland, with furred hats of gray on theirheads, either of them having an hatchet in theirhands, and boots with pikes turned up. Theboots in VeccUios print have no pikes turnedup, but we perceive the long gown of figuredsatin or damask, and the furred hat. Atpage 283 of the same work we are presentedalso with the habit of the Grand Duke of Mus-covy, a rich and imposing costume, which mightbe worn by his majesty of Navarre ^ Scene H.— To tread a measure with her onthe grass. The measure was the courtly dance of thedays of Elizabeth: not so solemn as thepa van—the doleful pavan, as DAvenant callsit, in which princes in their mantles, andlawyers in their long robes, and courtly dameswith enormous trains, swept the rushes like thetails of peacocks. From this circumstance cameits name, the pavan—the dance of the measure may be best described inShaksperes owti words, in the mouth of thelively Beatrice, in Much Ado about Nothing :—The fault Avill be in the music, cousin,if you be not wood in good time; if the princebe too important, tell him there is measure ineverything, and so dance out the answer. Forhear me. Hero : wooing, wedding, and repent-ing, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque- pace : the first suit is hot and hasty, like aScotch jig, and full as fantastical: the wedding,mannerly-modest, as a measure ful
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