Arcades
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- Arcades, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times (1645)
- Arcades, an extract in Comus and other poems (1906)
Arcades is a masque written by John Milton and performed on 4 May 1634. The piece was written to celebrate the character of Alice Spencer, the Countess Dowager of Derby, widow of Ferdinando Stanley, during her 75th birthday. The piece served as a basis for Milton's later masque, Comus.