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4o<br />

HAMPTON COURT<br />

should be even he.' And <strong>with</strong> that he arose out of<br />

his chair, and offered the same to the same gentleman<br />

in the black beard, <strong>with</strong> his cap in his hand. The<br />

person to whom he offered then his chair was Sir Edward<br />

Neville, a comely knight of a goodly personage, that<br />

much more resembled the King's person in that mask<br />

thananyother. The King,hearing and perceiving the<br />

Cardinal so deceived in his estimation and choice,<br />

could not forbear laughing ; but pulled down his<br />

visor, and Master Neville's also, and dashed out such<br />

a pleasant countenanceand cheer, that all noble estates<br />

there assembled,perceivingtheKingtobe thereamongst<br />

them, rejoiced very much. The Cardinal eftsoons<br />

desired his Highness to take the place of estate, to<br />

whom the King answered, that he would go first and<br />

shift his apparel; and so departed, and went straight<br />

into my Lord Cardinal's bedchamber, where was a<br />

great fire prepared for him; and there new apparelled<br />

him <strong>with</strong> rich and princely garments. And in the<br />

time of the King's absence, the dishes of the banquet<br />

were clean taken up, and the table spread again <strong>with</strong><br />

new and sweet perfumed cloths; every man sitting<br />

still until the King's Majesty, <strong>with</strong> all his maskers,<br />

came in among them again, every man new apparelled.<br />

Then the King took his seat under the cloth of estate,<br />

commanding every person to sit still, as they did<br />

before. In came a new banquet before the King's<br />

Majesty, and to all the rest throughout the tables,<br />

wherein,Isuppose, were served two hundred divers<br />

dishes of wondrous costly devices and subtilties. Thus

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