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The greater part of this Masque is borrowed, with some variation, from Ben Jonson. The same liberty has been taken with a few passages of Shakespeare, and a Chorus of the late Gilbert West, Esq. The final Chorus is from Dryden.

The Editor humbly submits the whole to the Publick; hoping that it will not appear unworthy of the occasion to which it is adapted; and that they will receive with their usual candour this effort to entertain them by the combined powers of the most eminent proficients in the Arts of Musick, Painting, and Poetry.