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Its History, Festivities And Carols

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	CHAPTER VI. LAYS and other Christmas festivities continued throughout the reign of James the First; and amongst others we find 'Measure for Measure,' and the ' Plaie of Errors,' by Shaxberd—a new reading as to the spelling of the name of our glorious bard— also 'King Lear,' and 'Love's Labour's Lost.' Many of Fletcher's plays likewise were first acted before the court at Christmas. Masks were performed almost yearly; and in one of them, the ' Queen's Mask of Moors,' the queen with eleven ladies of honour took parts. Ben Jonson himself^ wrote several for the court, and Inigo Jones assisted in the scenery