passed they forth the night with banqueting, dancing, and other triumphant devices, to the great comfort of the King, and pleasant regard of the nobility there assembled.
"All this matter I have declared largely, because ye shall understand what joy and delight the Cardinal had to see his Prince and Sovereign Lord in his house so nobly entertained and placed, which was always his only study, to devise things to his comfort, not passing upon the charges or expenses. It delighted him so much to have the King's pleasant and princely presence, that nothing was to him more delectable than to cheer his Sovereign Lord, to whom he owed so much obedience and loyalty; as reason required no less, all things well considered."
"This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
To many lords and ladies:there will be
The beauty of this kingdom.
This Churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us.
His deeds fall everywhere."
How pleasantly the dramatist uses the description we well remember, with the "Shepherds' Dance" sounding in our ears as we think of it. He brings Anne Bullen so happily into it—
"By heaven, she is a dainty one "—
though Cavendish tells the tale of the masque as though it happened some while before the King fell before "Venus, the insatiate goddess," that we may
