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Rh trencher-caps, black breeches with knee-ties, and slashed doublets with lace ruffles, and recited a pastoral dialogue.

It is impossible to say whether the beginning or the end of the beautiful banquet of this Day pleased the most; for if the one was relished greatly by all present, the other penetrated to the very tips of their fingers. And the Prince was in such delight that, to show himself generous and like a great lord, he called the master of the wardrobe, and commanded him to give the reciters of the dialogue the lining of an old cap which had belonged to his grandfather. But the Sun having been now called in haste to the other pole, to give succour to his dominions which were usurped by Darkness, they all rose from their seats and went their way home, after receiving the injunction to return on the morrow to the same spot.