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Highgate Entertainment [The Penates]. 1604

1616. [Head-title] A Priuate Entertainment of the King and Queene, on May-day in the Morning, At Sir William Cornwalleis his house, at High-gate. 1604. [Part of F_{1}.]

Editions in Works and by Nichols, James (1828), i. 431. The host was Sir William Cornwallis, son of Sir Thomas, of Brome Hall, Suffolk. On arrival, in the morning (1 May), the King and Queen were received by the Penates, and led through the house into the garden, for speeches by Mercury and Maia, and a song by Aurora, Zephyrus, and Flora. In the afternoon was a dialogu in the garden by Mercury and Pan, who served wine from a fountain. ''Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606''

1616. [Head-title] The entertainment of the two Kings of Great Brittaine and Denmarke at Theobalds, Iuly 24, 1606. [Part of F_{1}.]

Editions in Works and by Nichols, James, ii. 70. This consists only of short speeches by the three Hours to James (in English) and Christian (in Latin) on their entry into the Inner Court at Lord Salisbury's house of Theobalds, Herts. (24 July), and some Latin inscriptions and epigrams hung on the walls. But the visit lasted until 28 July, and further details are given, not only in the well-known letter of Sir John Harington (cf. ch. vi) but also in The King of Denmarkes Welcome (1606; cf. ch. xxiv), whose author, while omitting to describe 'manie verie learned, delicate and significant showes and deuises', because 'there is no doubt but the author thereof who hath his place equall with the best in those Artes, will himselfe at his leasurable howers publish it in the best perfection', gives a Song of Welcome, sung under an artificial oak of silk at the gates. Probably this was not Jonson's, as he did not print it. Bond, i. 505, is hardly justified in reprinting it as Lyly's. ''Theobalds Entertainment. 1607''

1616. An Entertainment of King Iames and Queene Anne, at Theobalds, When the House was deliuered vp, with the posession, to the Queene, by the Earle of Salisburie, 22. of May, 1607. The Prince Ianvile, brother to the Duke of Guise, being then present. [Part of F_{1}.]

Editions in Works and by Nichols, James (1828), ii. 128.

The Genius of the house mourns the departure of his master, but is consoled by Mercury, Good Event, and the three Parcae, and yields the keys to Anne. The performance took place in a gallery, known later as the green gallery, 109 feet long by 12 wide. Boderie, ii. 253, notes the 'espéce de comedie', and the presence of Prince de Joinville.